Rock News 2025-08-02

• Bruce Dickinson reveals some things added but nothing replaced on reimagined ‘More Balls To Picasso’
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• Foo Fighters reportedly swap drummers with Nine Inch Nails
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• 4 brilliant new bands you need to hear this month
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• Elton John stars as Spinal Tap release new version of immortal classic Stonehenge
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• "What heavy music could become if it let go of outmoded notions of authenticity and genre loyalty." Babymetal's new album Metal Forth reaffirms their status as one of metal's most unique and exciting bands
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• A beginner's guide to Dire Straits in seven essential albums
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• “As well as delighting fans, it may surprise the curious with its accessibility and tunefulness”: Discipline’s Breadcrumbs, their first album in eight years
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• Vanity Insanity launch video for new track “Fake It ’til You Make It”
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• Watch My Chemical Romance perform unreleased anthem War Beneath The Rain for the very first time
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• “Every time you post a snippet or a clip or some kind of teaser, it makes people more mad”: Trivium to release much-hyped new song in early August
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• Steve Howe to release Portraits Of Bob Dylan and Natural Timbre on vinyl for the very first time
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• “Someone said, ‘This is what happens when the chess club kids don’t get their heads flushed down the loo enough!’ I liked that”: When Public Service Broadcasting’s geek chic took them all the way to the Moon
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• This video of US pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter covering Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train as a 12-year-old is a wholesome and welcome reminder that the Prince of Darkness' timeless music will live forever
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• Here's what happened at Ozzy Osbourne's emotional funeral procession in Birmingham
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• "I felt out of place. That group didn't have much musical merit and I thought it was crap": The oddball career of Kevin Ayers, quintessential English songwriter
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• The 9 new heavy metal songs you need to hear this week
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• Cardiacs announce that their final album, LSD, will be released in September
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• Toque unleash video for new single “Fighters”
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• "Half of my young fans were big Swifties, and now they’re doing goth make-up." Bambie Thug on converting Taylor Swift fans, leaving the Vatican "on read" and why they have a "doodle arm"
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• "The stage is set like a castle and we all ride out on horses": Six things you need to know about Battlesnake
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• I never listened to Black Sabbath growing up – this is why I got an Ozzy Osbourne tattoo the day after he died
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• "It's a rocket ship and you're just strapped to it, praying to God that you're going to survive": A Thousand Horses on their wild ride and a move back to "the southern rock thing"
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• Fundraiser launched to help pay for Terry Reid's medical treatment as he battles cancer
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• Peter Hammill to release 20-disc The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971 - 1986 box set in September
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• Big Big Train announce trumpeter Paul Mitchell joins the band on a full-time basis
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• Shiraz Lane launch visualizer video for new single “Come Alive” from upcoming album ‘In Vertigo’
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• Alice Cooper feels like the reunited Original Alice Cooper Group sounds exactly like it did back in 1974
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• Debate: what was metal's greatest decade?
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• "To be with them on that day, it was like a magical dream." Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan shares his memories of Black Sabbath's emotional farewell show, and his thoughts on the death of Ozzy Osbourne
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• Chris von Rohr reveals Krokus’ measure on making new music — ‘Is it as good as the best Krokus songs?”
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• It's in the trees. It's coming! We celebrate 40 years of Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now
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• "Bursting with heart and character": De'Wayne's June is the sound of a musician with grand ambitions
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• Animals As Leaderscancel Mexico, South America, and Australia tour dates due to "serious injury"
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• “People saw us setting up and thought we were a ska band. Then we’d start playing and they’d just get more confused”: How nerd septet Thank You Scientist made the Oops! … I Did It Again of prog rock
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• “I had to become the host of Headbanger’s Ball to get my video played!”: Hatebreed enlisted a Spider-Man director for a music video, then got banned from MTV
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• Burning Witches share video for new single “High Priestess of The Night” from upcoming album ‘Inquisition’
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• "Prince looked at me like I had five heads." Legendary US film director Spike Lee reveals what happened when he cheekily asked Prince to gift him one of his iconic bespoke guitars
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• “Various line-ups sprang into existence just because someone said, ‘I’ll be your guitarist – I’ve got money.’ They felt like drunken shags. I gave in, but I hated myself for it”: When Robert John Godfrey rebuilt The Enid after 21 wasted years
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• Order your exclusive Scars On Broadway t-shirt and Daron Malakian Metal Hammer cover now
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• “He does feel a bit like our saviour. It’s good to know he’s kind of protecting us”: How Mike Portnoy helped save Avenged Sevenfold after the The Rev died
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• "Paul was a lovely person and good mate." Iron Maiden pay tribute to their original vocalist Paul Mario Day following his death, aged 69
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• I have to stop fighting the overwhelming evidence: nu metal and metalcore are officially dad rock now
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• You can now get an exclusive Babymetal Metal Hammer issue with a limited edition variant cover
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• “This well-dressed man walked out on stage, reached inside of his jacket, pulled out a gun, and goes pop-pop-pop. I’m thinking: ‘Oh, I’m dead’”: The epic story of the rise, fall and resurrection of the original Alice Cooper band
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• Drummer Kenny Aronoff felt like he was in Van Halen when playing on ‘The Best of Both Worlds Tour’
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• Google ‘Ozzy Osbourne’. You won’t regret it.
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• Alcatrazz to release new album ‘Prior Convictions’ consisting of two new songs + nine re-recorded tracks
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• King Crimson announce In The Wake Of Poseidon and Lizard reissues to be released in October
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• Watch Doctor Who and The Thick Of It legend Peter Capaldi perform a surprise cover of one of The Cure's best-loved songs at his first ever solo show
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• “She encourages us to ask big questions: Is there a reason to believe in a god? Are art and death aspects of the same experience? Can we just enjoy sex and stop being hung up about it?” Prog stars choose the 40 greatest Kate Bush songs of all time
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• The 10 most important and interesting Iron Maiden shows ever, by manager Rod Smallwood
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• Mike Oldfield's The Orchestral Hergest Ridge to be released in September
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• "Ozzy goes, 'I thought it was some ***hole dressed as the guy from Kiss!'" Anthrax's Scott Ian reveals his most hilarious memory of the Prince Of Darkness
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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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• "I'm always looking for the rainbow I can't find": At the Classic Rock Awards in 2008, Ozzy Osbourne gave one of his most revealing interviews
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• David Gilmour announces Live At The Circus Maximus movie and The Luck And Strange Concerts live album
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• Babylon A.D.’s new studio album ‘When The World Stops’ to be released on September 1st
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• How to watch Ozzy Osbourne's funeral procession in Black Sabbath's hometown
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• McNulty’s Fire drop video for track “Gonna Get Crazy”
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• Stryper unveil lyric video for new single “Still The Light” from upcoming Christmas album
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• Dirty Skirty drop new single “Women & Whiskey” and third studio album ‘Aces In Your Faces’ now available
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• Public Service Broadcasting announce remix album, Night Flight (The Last Flight Remixes)
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• "First you get slapped in the face, then you get shoved, then you get punched." Legendary record producer Andy Wallace on working with Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine, Slayer and Jeff Buckley on some of the greatest rock albums ever made
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• Bangalore Choir release new single “Bullet Train”
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• John Mellencamp: Nine albums you should listen to, and one to avoid
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