Rock News 2025-07-23

• "Everyone in Olivia’s band is a huge Turnstile fan. Olivia herself is a huge fan." Arianna Powell is the guitar hero bringing rock 'n' roll to Olivia Rodrigo's live shows, and Gen Z are loving her for it
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• We've introduced comment sections to our website so you can now comment directly on our stories
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• "An evolving creation to pay tribute to the voice of a generation": Listen to new supergroup King Ultramega's cover of Soundgarden's Rusty Cage
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• "The whole point was to put on a party with our mates and the music we loved." How Wacken became one of metal's biggest and most beloved festivals
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• "When gangsters hustled me, I showed no fear because I was unaware of what was going on": What happens when you buy one of the UK's most iconic venues for £1
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• “I can’t force other people to do something just because I wanted it”: Daron Malakian admits System Of A Down’s hiatus was “difficult”
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• Steeleye Span announce Winter tour dates in support of new album Conflict
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• Rust N’ Rage launch lyric video for title track of upcoming album ‘Songs of Yesterday’
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• "Mick Jagger needs Keith Richards as much as Keith Richards needs Mick Jagger": Keef goes solo on Talk Is Cheap
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• Sleazy Money unleash video for new single “It Ain’t EZ”
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Bush's I Beat Loneliness review: Gavin Rossdale casts his gaze inward after putting the world to rights on The Art Of Survival
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• If you're a fan of the music Nine Inch Nails were making in the '90s, you might just love the new single from former Savages vocalist Jehnny Beth
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• This is what it would sound like if The Cure were a death metal band – and it’s brilliantly bonkers
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• “It was loosely based on a character who’d rant at passers-by in the market square. I squidged a Polaroid, added running make-up and a cockade hat. Bish bosh, I had a jester!” How Mark Wilkinson’s artistic genius helped define Marillion’s image
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• "Being in this band is like home. I enjoy being a Doobie Brother": 50 years down the tracks, the Doobie Brothers remain friends - even when they argue
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• "I did all my research in his home in his record collection": A tribute to John Mayall, November 29, 1933 – July 22, 2024
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• Slipknot's 25th anniversary re-release of their game-changing debut album includes a box set with 'blood-filled' vinyl and 40 previously-unreleased songs
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• Pentagram tour shelved after online protests
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• "You were always filled with such a bright light, and we are grateful": The world reacts to the death of Ozzy Osbourne
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• "They said, ‘Can you get Rob off the bloody Teletubbies set, please?'" How Rob Halford's return to Judas Priest on Judas Rising rebuilt one of metal's greatest bands
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• People lashed out at Linkin Park's Emily Armstrong "because she wasn't a guy" says Mike Shinoda
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• “I’m in cricket gear and a duffle coat, side parting, being all spiritual. And people wonder why I’ve been stylistically challenged ever since!” Level 42’s Mark King saw the Mahavishnu Orchestra on colour TV and a fashion crime followed
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• Former Family multi-instrumentalist John 'Poli' Palmer has died, aged 82
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• "Las Vegas has always been such a main attraction for Def Leppard." Def Leppard announce 2026 Las Vegas residency
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• Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and heavy metal pioneer, has died at the age of 76
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• Halestorm to release new studio album ‘Everest’ on August 8th
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• Dirty Skirty to release third studio album ‘Aces In Your Faces’ on August 1st
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• “I said, ‘You won’t get anywhere with that name!’ Then they went on to be one of the biggest bands in the world”: The heavy metal veteran who talked smack to Snow Patrol
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• “They said that even if we sold out, we’d lose £5,000. We thought the label would cover the loss. In the end, the band paid”: Camel and a tale of two visits to the Royal Albert Hall, 43 years apart
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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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• No Bull’s new album ‘Rock N Roll Remains Forever’ now available
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• Damon Albarn says Oasis won the war, but here’s 10 songs that prove the Battle Of Britpop sent the Blur man in a more daring direction and changed the course of his career
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• Watch Alex Lifeson play Rush cover with Tom Morello and 15-year-old drumming prodigy
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 21, 2025
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• YouTube star shows just how easy it is to create a fake, but entirely convincing, new musical artist using AI
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• "It was a cracking night!" Solstice share video trailer for new live release Clann Live
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• Apocalyptic Lovers unveil track list for forthcoming album ‘And The World Tomorrow’
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• “It’s very Spinal Tap of us to have this many drummers”: With Matt Cameron now added to the list, here’s a reminder of all the drummers Pearl Jam have had and lost…
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• Fastride release new EP ‘Goes Like Hell’
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• Test your knowledge of The Beast with Metal Hammer’s ultimate Iron Maiden quiz
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• “They use notes out of sequence – they’re more experimental than bands like Dream Theater, who are very respectful of tonalities”: Novelists’ Florestan Durand is passionate about Periphery (or at least their early albums)
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• "Geezer, Bill and myself have lost our brother": Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
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• Fishbone are riding into the next dimension, but first they have a message for Donald Trump
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• Who do we contact about putting this photo of Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler with the Backstreet Boys up in the National Portrait Gallery?
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• Metallica save dance music festival from cancellation after fire destroys main stage
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• Starlight launch video for debut single “Into The Night”
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• “Nothing I do is ironic. Irony is the last refuge of the scoundrel”: When Julian Cope immersed himself in the prog-pop world of Syd Barrett, 13th Floor Elevators and Love
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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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• "It doesn't matter to us who you're mingling with, or tingling with." Oasis reference Coldplay's "kiss cam" controversy at their last-ever hometown show
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• Uncompleted song by Jani Lane just finished by Warrant bassist Jerry Dixon & two Frontiers songwriters
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• R.I.P. Black Sabbath frontman and solo artist Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025)
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• Ozzy Osbourne 1948 - 2025
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• Warrant legend Jani Lane’s voice returns with songs re-imagined by Chris Laney
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• Ellefson-Soto drop video for title track from upcoming album ‘Unbreakable’
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• John Payne unveils new Asia featuring John Payne line-up featuring Francis Dunnery and Ryo Okumoto
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• "It's okay to be a good-looking girl and to be able to sing your arse off": Lita Ford's upcoming shows might be a girl's night out, but boys are welcome too
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• It's now illegal in Russia to search for Pussy Riot videos - and culprits can be fined
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• "What a sad human being." Regardless of who won the Blur versus Oasis 'Battle Of Britpop' in the '90s, one musical superstar says that Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn are both awful people
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• "Fire it up and rage with us against the dying of the light." Ash share new single Give Me Back My World, announce ninth album Ad Astra, featuring assists from Blur's Graham Coxon
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• “These up-and-comers feel fully formed and vital”: Mawiza are endorsed by Gojira, Slipknot and King Diamond, and they’ve just put out one of 2025’s most important debut albums
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• Ghost’s Tobias Forge says Sleep Token are one of the bands proving rock isn’t dead: “You can form a band tomorrow and theoretically become a big band within a few years”
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• Mädhouse share video for latest single “It’s a Monster In My Head”
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• “There’s nobody to mentor us these days. People at the label encouraged us to write and record – those people have gone”: When John Lodge accepted there’d be no more Moody Blues music
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• 40 from 40 — Taking a Sleaze Roxx dive back into 1985
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