Rock News 2025-07-29

• “There was a sense that the record was the definitive music, and you were to reproduce that night after night. It became boring”: Wang Chung’s Jack Hues reinvented himself by revisiting prog influences Robert Wyatt, Radiohead and Talk Talk
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• Spike feels that the band led by Guy Griffin was never going to have The Quireboys’ name
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• “He was not doing well physically or psychologically with addiction. And when you hit a wall that hard you become disillusioned”: The tragic story of a late goth metal icon’s final album
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• "Ozzy had a chimney brush over his shoulder, a shoe on a dog leash and no shoes on his bare feet." Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler recalls his very first meeting with Ozzy Osbourne, and the start of "the most incredible journey of our lives"
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• "He was shooting up. He’d just lost his best friend. Who wouldn’t numb that blow if they could?" Actress Ione Skye recalls the night that her ex-boyfriend, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis, learned that RHCP guitarist Hillel Slovak had died
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• 40 from 40 — Taking a Sleaze Roxx dive back into 1985
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• Cool new proggy sounds from Jo Quail, Steeleye Span, Chimpan A and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
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• “All those nu metal copy bands, I don’t give a s*** about”: System Of A Down’s Daron Malakian has some thoughts on being lumped in with the 90s nu metal scene
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• "I would have quit wrestling in a heartbeat." The bizarre story of Hulk Hogan's phantom 'audition' for Metallica
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• "The whole album shimmers with a sonic gloss that's brought it to the 21st century with no loss of historic integrity..." XTC's third album Drums And Wires gets new Steven Wilson Atmos mix
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• "It's like the story continues, but goes way back in time": Sabaton's upcoming album Legends will tell the stories of 11 great historical figures
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• “You can do it, Ozzy! Bite his frickin’ head off!” A timeline of Ozzy Osbourne’s greatest film, TV and videogame cameos
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay share live version of Roxy Music's Out Of The Blue as they announce new AM PM Soho Live album
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• "Can we put pressure on these Dr. Evil tech bros to do better?" King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard become most high-profile band to pull music from Spotify over CEO’s investments in military technology
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• "I formed this band for God’s sake! And I helped Roger a hell of a lot because he wasn’t a musician when we started." The lost Richard Wright interview
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• “If you know me, you know I love Sleep Token”: Lorna Shore’s Will Ramos names the most inspirational singers in metal
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• “The oddest thing was the audience trying to enjoy themselves when the sound system was barely audible”: Sky covered Bach’s Tocatta on Top Of The Pops… is it the least likely musical moment ever?
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• All the essential new metal albums coming out in 2025 – and where to buy them
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• Mädhouse share video for latest single “It’s a Monster In My Head”
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 28, 2025
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• “Pop-punk and emo in the early 2000s was brutally misogynistic”: the story of Paramore's debut album and how it forced the scene to take a long, hard look at itself
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• "I want to lick you now!": Things are getting Extreme in the Fripp-Willcox household
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• R.I.P. Black Sabbath frontman and solo artist Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025)
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• “I saw pyramids while listening to 2112 and I rode my bike as the street moved like water to YYZ”: Joseph Arthur’s first acid trip turned him on to the majesty of Rush
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• “Ozzy had a couple beers and said to me, ‘Let’s nick a taxi!”: The incredible story of Bruce Dickinson and Ozzy Osbourne’s plan to commit grand theft auto
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• Helloween launch lyric video for new single “Universe (Gravity For Hearts)”
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• "She doesn't know the animal I am when I'm drinking and using": Why Josh Todd wrote Buckcherry's Sorry to apologise to his wife
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• Bangalore Choir release new single “Bullet Train”
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• Surge to release debut full-length album in fall of 2025
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• Debate: who is the greatest heavy metal singer of all time?
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• "As a transitional record, More Songs About Buildings And Food is extraordinary": Talking Heads' second album, expanded
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• “It’s for the ‘big spliff’ crowd, who frankly get terrified by Dogs or The Wall”: The Pink Floyd songs that influenced final Pink Floyd album The Endless River
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• Streaming of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath tracks skyrockets in wake of beloved icon's death
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• Watch Paul McCartney and Elton John (and Spinal Tap) in the trailer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
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• Wings of Steel drop video for anthemic new single “We Rise”
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• Burning Witches share video for new single “High Priestess of The Night” from upcoming album ‘Inquisition’
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• "We were sunbathing together outside of the dressing rooms": Thirty years ago, R.E.M. befriended a young British band and helped steer them on the path to greatness
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• "Iron Maiden's crew said, ‘We can't believe it. No middle fingers, no coins or shoes being thrown!'" Lzzy Hale on playing in front of one of metal's most stubborn fanbases
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• Michael Sweet feels that Robert Sweet would play circles around Tommy Lee in a drumming battle
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• "I was physically frightened: 'What danger does it pose to me and my family?!'" Tom Morello on how Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath changed his life
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• "Has there ever been a more important week to celebrate heavy metal?" Judas Priest and Alice Cooper team up for massive O2 Arena co-headline show in London
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• “We played to four people and one of them was a dog”: Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth remembers legendary 90s tour with Emperor
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• Watch Phil Rudd return to the stage – with several AC/DC classics and a full orchestra
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• Led Zeppelin announce details of new live EP and 50th anniversary edition of Physical Graffiti
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• "People thought we were Nazi sympathisers, and nothing could be further from the truth." The highs, lows, controversies and epic comebacks of Slayer
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• Tributes keep pouring in for deceased Ozzy Osbourne including from his Black Sabbath bandmates
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• "Ozzy would always tell me how he loved Ronnie." Vinny Appice says rumours of beef between Ozzy and Dio were untrue
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• “Ozzy used to come into our room to get away from his minders. He’d sit on the bed while having a sly puff of the magic Woodbine”: The epic story of Budgie, the cult heroes who inspired Metallica, Iron Maiden and Soundgarden
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• “I saw a woman I did not want to become”: Halestorm are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer, as they prepare to release new album Everest
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• "It's not too clever, it's not contrived - it's quite simply perfect": Electric Light Orchestra hit the right formula on A New World Record
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• The 50 best Ozzy Osbourne songs of all time
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• Ozzy Osbourne’s chaotic cameo on Late Night With Conan O’Brien is the funniest Prince Of Darkness moment nobody talks about
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• Long hair, tight pants and ripsaw sleaze guitars: Meet Ravagers, your new favourite glam-punk marauders
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• Vanity Insanity launch video for new track “Fake It ’til You Make It”
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• McNulty’s Fire drop video for track “Gonna Get Crazy”
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• Pure Reason Revolution announce The Dark Third 20th Anniversary UK shows with Chloë Alper
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• "A 12-banger cracker of a record": 51 years on, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper finds the original band in majestic form
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• Paramore's Hayley Williams has just released a new 17-song solo album, Ego, but you'll need to buy something from her haircare company to get it
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• Decibel Dogs unveil debut video for single “Everywhere You Look”
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• Toque unleash video for new single “Fighters”
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• Steve Rothery and Thorsten Quaeschning share new video for Bioscope's latest single Gentō
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• Slash, Halestorm, Blackberry Smoke and more line up for star-studded Bad Company tribute album
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• "Sabbath were there for me before punk." Duff Mckagan on recording with Ozzy, jamming with Tony Iommi and why Black Sabbath were true punks
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• “Grunge was taking off, and yet we were having our two biggest albums. It makes me wonder how well they’d have done had they been out in 1987”: The turbulent story of Lillian Axe, the 80s hard rock band who were too good for hair metal
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