Rock News 2025-08-22

• BBC explains why it pulled Ozzy Osbourne documentary
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• The new Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 trailer contains a weird industrial remix of Metallica’s Master Of Puppets
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• Confess to release fourth studio album via Frontiers Music Srl
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• Trump spokesman calls Jack White a "washed-up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media", White responds
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• "We can't wait to share some of these new songs with you!" Between The Buried And Me announce UK and European tour for early 2026
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• "I grossly underestimated what I was getting into." Noel Gallagher gives his first interview since Oasis returned to the stage, says he's "completely blown away" by the reaction, and is proud of his brother Liam for "smashing it" every night
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• Debate: What's the greatest grunge album ever?
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• “Utterly idiosyncratic and experimental, possessed of a frighteningly intense energy”: Throwing Muses’ debut album remains one of the proggiest and best albums of the 80s
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• “Brand X was great fun to play with – not so much fun to listen to”: Phil Collins’ adventures outside Genesis with Robert Plant, Eric Clapton and others made him so big he had to apologise
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• Deftones - Private Music review: the most complete and essential album Deftones have made in a very long time and the perfect record for their late-period career renaissance
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• “It’s pretty progressive, but it’s not Rush, is it? It’s not Dream Theater. The virtuosity comes in the details and subtlety”: When TesseracT introduced themselves and explained the djent movement
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• "A timeless record oozing with confidence." Wolf Alice serve up one of the essential albums of 2025 with brilliant, bold fourth album The Clearing
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• Babymetal become the first Japanese group to get a Top 10 in the US
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• “It was the greatest way he could say goodbye”: Ozzy Osbourne is on the cover of the new Metal Hammer
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• "The tempos might have slowed, but they make up for it in sheer bloody-minded forcefulness": Exodus break the habit of a lifetime on Force Of Habit
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• "He's up there with Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan": New York rock'n'roller Willie Nile on Vincent Van Gogh, Irish goodbyes and the greatest songwriter you've never heard of
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• "Rage Against The Machine was always sort of a volatile situation." Tom Morello addresses the future of Rage Against The Machine
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• More than 30 years into their career, one of the nastiest cult thrash metal bands you probably haven't heard of just made one of their best albums
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• "There's no way I'm gonna be involved with that": Ace Frehley says he turned down an invitation to play at Kiss's Las Vegas celebration
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• Biffy Clyro announce special intimate acoustic tour, in partnership with some of their favourite UK indie record shops
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• “I had a lot of issues”: Serj Tankian details how back surgery impacted System Of A Down touring schedule
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• Mike Tramp drops video for track “Fight To Survive” from upcoming album ‘Songs of White Lion — Vol. III’
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• Höt Föxx share lyric video for new single “Hot Loader”
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• "She needs to be a permanent crew member!" No-one was ever going to upstage Liam and Noel Gallagher on Oasis' return to their spiritual homeland, but the Sign Language interpreter at their Dublin shows has gone viral for her fabulous rock 'n' roll swagger
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• "I started crying when I came off-stage. It ****ing broke me!" An audience with President, metal's newest mysterious masked sensation
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• Ronnie Romero launches video for title track from upcoming album ‘Backbone’
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• "I could have gotten the elephants to stomp on their village, but I didn't": The wild story of Black Oak Arkansas, the band who had it all then gave it all away
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• Actress Zoe Kravitz has told Austin Butler what she reckons is the true meaning of Pearl Jam's name, and he looks pretty shocked
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• "I'm the one that created all this music, and I don't know that the world always understood that": John Fogerty on closure and reclaiming the Creedence legacy
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• Watch the video for Blackberry Smoke's cover of Bad Company's Run With The Pack with Paul Rodgers
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• "This is not negative whatsoever": Sammy Hagar insists David Lee Roth's recent comments about him were an "olive branch moment"
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• Awesome new proggy sounds from Leprous, Iamthemorning, Jo Quail and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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• Judas Priest’s Rob Halford reveals his reaction to Ozzy Osbourne’s death: “I curled up in a ball and bawled my eyes out for hours”
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• John Nymann reveals ex-Tesla members Troy Luccketta and Tommy Skeoch still get paid by the band
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• BlackRain unleash video for title track from upcoming studio album ‘Orphans of The Light’
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• How to watch Chappell Roan at Reading and Leeds - from anywhere
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• Debate: What's the best Black Sabbath album?
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• Iamthemorning share new live video of Chalk And Coal as they add another goal to their Live at St Matthias release
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• Former Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds dead at 51
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• "I'm gonna go find some people and we’re gonna rock": Why country star Brent Cobb revisited the music of his youth on new album Ain't Rocked In A While
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• Stryper to release album ‘Soldiers Under Command – Live At Spirithouse’ on August 23rd
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• Autograph’s original singer Steve Plunkett unveils reworked version of hit single “Turn Up The Radio”
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• "We know this story is more than just about me." 'Terrorism' court case against Kneecap's Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh adjourned until September 26
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• Jet Jaguar share video for new single “Eternal Light” from upcoming album ‘Severance’
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• Killer Hearts’ sophomore album ‘Unchained & Bloodstained’ available on October 24th
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• Ghost are celebrating the 10th anniversary of Meliora by letting you exchange real money for fake money
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• "It's huge over most of the world. I hear it everywhere I go": How a Steve Harley song that dissed his bandmates became an all-time classic
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• We need to talk about those heavy metal needle drops in Alien: Earth
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• Brent Hinds RIP: The world of music pays tribute
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• Shiraz Lane forced to cancel two shows due to Hannes Kett recovering from severe case of pneumonia
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• Speed Queen to release full-length debut album ‘…With A Bang!’ on September 5th
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• "They've earned the right to keep channelling the spirit of the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd": Robert Jon & The Wreck keep the southern vibes alive on Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes
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• “Was air-drumming even a thing before Tom Sawyer?”: Neil Peart’s greatest moments with Rush
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• Former Pixies, A Perfect Circle, Zwan bassist Paz Lenchantin announces debut solo album, Triste, shares first single Hang Tough
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• The Wishbone Ash albums you should definitely own... and one to avoid
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• Doro launches video for title track of upcoming album ‘Warriors of The Sea’
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• ‘No Life ‘Til Leather – A Tribute To Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All’ album to be released on November 14th
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• Kittie have re-recorded a nu metal classic to celebrate its 25th anniversary and make us feel ancient
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• Godspeed You! Black Emperor have removed their entire discography from all major streaming services, with Bandcamp now the only site where you can hear their music in a digital format
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• Wednesday star Jenna Ortega shares her love for heavyweight hip hop mavericks Death Grips
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• The Lazys drop video for latest single “Hot Under The Collar”
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• Not even Chino Moreno knows why Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter isn’t touring overseas anymore: “It’s still something that I feel he is figuring out”
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• "Time seemed to stand still to the unmistakable sound of fights breaking out": What happened when The Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd played Knebworth
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• "In terms of live hard rock and roll, this is as good as it gets." Metallica's Lars Ulrich salutes one of the greatest live albums ever, a record he says he's listened to "about 18,000 times"
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