Rock News 2025-07-18

• Steve Miller Band cancel all upcoming shows, citing "extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires"
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• "The one thing that stuck in this witness's mind when he shot someone at point blank range was that he was quoting one of our lyrics." How a thrash classic from Metallica's Kill 'Em All album got linked to a brutal murder in Texas in the 1980s
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• "You've been a rainbow in my life, and this song has a rainbow in it": Watch John Fogerty play Have You Ever Seen The Rain? at intimate London show
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• “Social media was aroused, then curious, then hooked on the rest of Sleep Token’s material”: How The Summoning turned a faceless cult into metal’s most surprising breakout band
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• Warrant legend Jani Lane’s voice returns with songs re-imagined by Chris Laney
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• Ghost will perform on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week
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• "With Grizzly, Slaughter To Prevail might complete the Mount Rushmore of great deathcore escapologists." Alex Terrible's mob stake a claim on the best deathcore album of 2025
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• “He told me how hard it is to live up to that innovation, year after year, tour after tour’: Former Live guitarist Chad Taylor has no regrets about meeting his hero Steve Howe
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• Stryper guitarist Oz Fox to no longer do “extended or intense touring” based on medical advice
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• "Adheres largely to the blueprint of its warmly received predecessor." Alan Parsons' From The New World
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• Listen to the first Nine Inch Nails single in five years, As Alive As You Need Me To Be, from the soundtrack to Tron: Ares
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• Nikki Foxx’s two demos packaged as album ‘If You Ain’t Been Foxxed…You Ain’t Been F**ked!’
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• Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are teasing something cryptic together and fans are getting very excited
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• “Great to have a chance to work with my old friend on something from our youth." Genesis confirm September release date for The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th Anniversary box
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• Fastride release new EP ‘Goes Like Hell’
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• Southbound Beretta launch video for new single “Motel Miami”
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• Bruce Springsteen’s latest world tour sold 4.9 million tickets and grossed $730 million, more than double the takings of any previous tour in his career
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• "I cracked my skull and was in the hospital. And nobody called me": How America's most dysfunctional band grew to hate each other but learned to love again
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• "In a world where we can’t have System Of A Down, this will more than do nicely." Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway make a brilliant, bonkers comeback with Addicted To The Violence
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• “Lyrics invoke rifles, scythes, sailors, saints, cowboys, floods, Mother Earth, Joan of Arc, and blazing infernos." The Last Dinner Party announce second album From The Pyre, share dark, dramatic new single This Is The Killer Speaking
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• Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst has the sexiest voice of any UK festival performer this year, according to new scientific study
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• No Bull’s new album ‘Rock N Roll Remains Forever’ now available
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• Halestorm to release new studio album ‘Everest’ on August 8th
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• What is the metal song in the Stranger Things season 5 trailer? The TV show has championed another pioneering rock band
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• “Is it really a three-bagpipe and mudguard version of a Swedish cycling song?” Anthony Phillips infuses nimble guitar work with surreal intros on Radio Clyde 1978
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• “Hardcore innovators, soulful rockers and, frankly, the best band in the world you’re not listening to”: Every Thrice album ranked from worst to best
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• “We were working on Oranges And Lemons. I was putting on a bass part. You don’t want Chris Squire walking in, do you?” XTC’s Colin Moulding on meeting his hero, declining to join Pink Floyd, and working on Billy Sherwood’s Dark Side tribute
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• Black Sabbath had no idea they were being "ripped off" in the 1970s until prog legends Gentle Giant exposed the truth
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• Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza is coming out in cinemas
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• "Appropriate dress is encouraged for this very special evening at the theatre": Queens Of The Stone Age announce UK and European shows
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• Salty Dog’s post-Geffen second album released as ‘Lost Treasure + 3 Golden Jewels’ via FnA Records
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• “A leopard doesn’t change its spots. There’s going to be certain levels of diva‑ness. It might be nice if there wasn’t, but there is”: Why Yes decided, after some doubts, to make Heaven & Earth
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• "My ambition is always to try to make the perfect album. I haven’t yet, but I’m still trying!” Jacob Holm-Lupo tells the story of Norwegian proggers White Willow
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• “No debate, no coaxing, no schmoozing, nothing – I put music on the page and they play it. Don’t tell Sting!” Stewart Copeland on making music after The Police, being outdone by Pink Floyd, Curved Air, Neil Peart and life in his 70s
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• Christian Shields shares video for new track “Fall Like Rain”
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• There's a horn-throwing Rob Halford action figure on the market and only 164 shopping days until Christmas
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• Six years after their first shows, Robert Plant's Saving Grace finally announce debut album
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• Reunited Original Alice Cooper Group shares single “Up All Night” & to attend event in London on July 24th
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• “I don’t set out to be the one everyone looks at. But when people are watching me, the others can get on with playing, away from the pressure”: Remembering Kansas’ Robby Steinhardt, one of the most important Americans in prog
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• If you haven't seen the best new band in the world live yet, you really, really, really should
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• "I would give my left arse cheek to be on a soundtrack for a movie like Resident Evil": Bury Tomorrow's Dani Winter-Bates picks the 10 songs that changed his life
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• Asomvel drop new single “Take You To Hell”
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• Masked metal enigmas President announce six-track debut EP, release new single Rage
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• “Pink Floyd was bigger than a band. It was more like church. They played A Momentary Lapse Of Reason in its entirety and I thought, ‘I want to be around this all the time’”: Why Billy Howerdel is glad he copied David Gilmour badly
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• Missing Black Sabbath? Here are 10 bands that will fill the Sabbath-shaped hole in your life
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• Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty on recriminations,revivals and reunions: Only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• Babylon A.D. to release new album ‘When The World Stops’ via Kivel Records by the end of 2025
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• Rust N’ Rage launch lyric video for title track of upcoming album ‘Songs of Yesterday’
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• Police confirm that their much-publicised investigation into Kneecap's Glastonbury set is closed, the band have no case to answer, and no further action will be taken
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• Big Big Train reveal special warm-up show ahead of Cruise To The Edge 2026
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• Peter Frampton does it again: More dates added to Let’s Do It Again! tour
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• "He was being very naughty under the piano with a woman at the same time he was singing": The epic story of the ‘stolen’ song that could be the next Stranger Things hit
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• "My main influences? Love, anger, depression and Led Zeppelin": Watch the trailer for the new documentary It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
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• "It’s an utterly visceral display of raw catharsis." The bands that defined 2000Trees festival 2025
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• Perry Farrell sues Jane's Addiction bandmates hours after they sued him, claims he's victim of a "years-long bullying campaign"
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• Uncompleted song by Jani Lane just finished by Warrant bassist Jerry Dixon & two Frontiers songwriters
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• “I’m quite allergic to people who talk too much!" How John Mitchell brought Lonely Robot back down to earth with Feelings Are Good
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• Alter Bridge announce new album and huge European tour
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• Apocalyptic Lovers unveil track list for forthcoming album ‘And The World Tomorrow’
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• Yungblud’s career-affirming cover of Black Sabbath’s Changes from Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show is now available to stream
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• "We are all fifteen-year-old boys. The fart jokes were rampant": Lzzy Hale reflects on touring with Skid Row
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• "A band reaching out to the listeners they know are already there": Bush toy with invention but ultimately lack ambition on I Beat Loneliness
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• “The band can no longer function as a result of the defendant’s conduct." Perry Farrell's Jane's Addiction bandmates are suing him for assault, battery, the intentional infliction of emotional distress, and more
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• "This album's really good, why wouldn't we do another one?": Reunited Alice Cooper Band release new single Up All Night
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• Say hello to the bright and breezy Gadhouse Brad Retro MKII turntable
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