Rock News 2025-08-12

• “I never thought his music would be my bag. But he never plays the same thing twice and your mind is blown”: The Pretenders’ James Walbourne on discovering Richard Thompson (who happens to be his father-in-law)
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• Andi Deris feels that he and Michael Weikath helped managed to save a hit battered battleship from sinking
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• "A surprisingly vibrant, bright-side kind of album": The Black Keys sound euphoric on the dreamy 60s psych-soul sound of No Rain, No Flowers
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• Glenn Hughes shares visualizer video for new single “Into The Fade” from upcoming album ‘Chosen’
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• Southbound Beretta’s new album ‘Sun’s Out Guns Out’ available on August 8th
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• John Bush not sure that timing is right but looking forward to doing shows playing Anthrax songs
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• Watch Nine Inch Nails give live debut to new single As Alive As You Need Me To Be as they launch North American Peel it Back tour with Josh Freese back on drums
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• Notörious share last single “Live It Up” from new EP
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• “People are so passionate about it. It’s almost more important to some of them than watching the bands”: Bin Jousting is the insane heavy metal festival sport that the Olympics needs right now
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• "A perfect example of one great song overshadowing the rest of the record": Golden Earring sharpen their sound and score an MTV hit on Cut
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• "We headlined, but he kicked our ass": Joe Perry and Brad Whitford on the support act who blew Aerosmith off the stage
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• "The thing you’re getting on your phone sucks." Maynard James Keenan's ban on filming his live shows is here to stay
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• “The guy everyone is so serious about, it all started with ‘not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin’”: How a novelty 90s comedy song gave Tool’s Maynard James Keenan his first hit
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• "Machine Head live to defy expectations." Robb Flynn and co. conquer Bloodstock with an explosive, emotional headline set
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• Black ‘N Blue have recently recorded two songs written by Tommy Thayer & Jaime St. James back in 1984-85
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• Babylon A.D. unleash video for title track from upcoming album ‘When The World Stops’
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• Lamb Of God, Slaughter To Prevail and Judas Priest to headline Bloodstock festival 2026; Sepultura, Bleed From Within and 20 other acts also confirmed
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• Watch Bad Omens' atmospheric, arty video for emotional new single Specter
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• "I didn't plan on making music anymore." How Paradise Slaves gave Brock Lindow a new lease of life after 36 Crazyfists
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• "They have a fanbase so ardent that one fella has rocked up in a band-branded suit of armour." Heriot battle technical issues but eventually win big at Bloodstock
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• Crowded House deny Neil Finn has erectile dysfunction after fake AI news report hits Facebook
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• Was Ozzy Osbourne's death as globally significant as the passing of Queen Elizabeth? Ex Megadeth man thinks so
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• "We hit the trees at what seemed like 100 miles an hour": The story of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the plane that fell from the sky
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• Trevor Horn announces live UK dates for December
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• King Crimson affiliates Beat release live video for classic Frame By Frame
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• R.I.P. Junkyard frontman David Roach
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• “Any package shining further light on the their singular brilliance is to be welcomed”: Be-Bop Deluxe’s The Albums – 1974-1976
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• "Curious true metal fans who came to judge the 'pop punk' band have clearly been won over." Creeper's Bloodstock debut is a dramatic triumph
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• One of the most legendary cult metal projects ever finally came to the UK and put on a hell of a show...but one big thing stopped it being a classic
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• Roadkill unveil video for new single “Born To Be King” from forthcoming album ‘This Way To Hell’
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• A Sons Of Anarchy and The Walking Dead star has teamed up with Bad Omens for two weird, creepy teaser videos and the fandom are losing their minds
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• Linkin Park are returning to a country they haven't played for 12 years
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• One of British metal's most important bands just played their final ever UK festival show - and it was one hell of a goodbye
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• “I thought to myself that regardless of how long I have to live after this illness, I would spend it with my old band”: In praise of Nektar, the cult prog band who inspired Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris
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• “There was a very unpleasant atmosphere between all of us. George Martin said he’d do another album… Instead we drove the band off the cliff”: How Stackridge conspired to swerve the success they deserved
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• Sharon Osbourne says that reports that Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning farewell show raised $190 million for charity are "just ridiculous"
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• Derek And The Dominos keyboard player Bobby Whitlock dead at 77
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• Pendulum announce UK tour
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• "I've never met three people that were so full of themselves. It's disgusting." Ex-Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds hits out at his former bandmates in scathing social media post
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• The man who invented the 80s sound: Albums produced by Steve Lillywhite you need to know, and one to avoid
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• In/Vertigo launch video for new single “Weathervane” from latest EP ‘Prevail’
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• “Peaceful citizens of conscience have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian." Massive Attack hit out at the "moral vacuum" of Keir Starmer's government as musician Peter Perrett, 73, is arrested at London protest
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 11, 2025
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• My Chemical Romance announce two massive UK shows
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• “He transcends metal, he transcends rock, he transcends music”: Iconic metal drummer says Ozzy Osbourne’s death has made just as big an impact as John Lennon’s
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• This video of pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter, aged 10, cosplaying Axl Rose to cover Guns N' Roses classic Sweet Child O' Mine is the cutest thing you'll see online this week
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• “Astonishing and formidable music”: there’s more to British jazz rock than Soft Machine, Brand X, Bruford and Nucleus
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• "This is the moment to rediscover Chicago": Greatest Hits Expanded charts the band's evolution from a jazz-soul-psychedelic-brassy-hippy melange into accomplished balladeers
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• Sleep Token cameo, Black Sabbath jam, a surprise Robb Flynn...I think I might have just watched Trivium play their greatest festival set ever. Yep, even better than THAT Download one
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• A guide to every My Chemical Romance album
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• Steven Wilson and two former Marillion members walked into a band… What went wrong? The mystery of Pride Of Passion, back to try again after 40 years
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• "There is no justification for the brutality Benjamin Netanyahu and his far right government have inflicted on the Palestinian people. Our band stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine." U2 on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza
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• “The sound of post-war German culture rebuilding itself through the prism of the avant-garde”: Cluster’s noise terrorism revisited on Cluster II
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• Lacuna Coil's Bloodstock set shows they are a band operating at the peak of their powers
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• "It’s a good omen that, prior to the band coming on, the entire field joins in unison to sing Ozzy Osbourne." Gojira's majestic set rounds off the greatest Bloodstock ever
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• M.I.C. launch YouTube video for new single “Stay Away With Me” featuring clips from movie ‘The Substance’
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• “It really doesn't have much to do with us. We gave this guy a couple of riffs and told him to run with it”: The WTF hip hop collaboration that Metallica don’t talk about any more
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang drop video for new single “Dead Man’s Hand”
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• “Miles Davis is the scariest individual I’ve ever met. He makes Lou Reed look like a pussycat”: Steven Van Zandt’s wild tales of Paul McCartney, Keith Richards and Miles Davis
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• "There were a lot of tears." Metallica's Robert Trujillo shares his memories of Ozzy Osbourne's "very, very beautiful" private funeral service
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• One week left for Kickstarter campaign for Rocked Magazine co-created by photographer Mark Weiss
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• "I was only allowed to walk forwards if I had a particularly important guitar solo": Meet Star Circus, the missing link between ELO and Def Leppard
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• R.I.P. Kick Axe guitarist Larry Gillstrom (1955-2025)
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• Fury unleash video for new track “Don’t Lie To Me” from upcoming album ‘Interceptor’
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