Rock News 2025-08-26

• Ghost are celebrating the 10th anniversary of Meliora by letting you exchange real money for fake money
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• "The apocalypse does not have to be the world going down in flames." How Dimmu Borgir reinvented black metal and broke Hollywood with Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse
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• "The band have enough experience and style of their own for it never to sound like a pastiche": Black Country Communion's debut album is a heartfelt homage to 1973
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• "I've been waiting seven years": Zak Starkey implores Axl Rose to return master tape he says could raise $2m for teenage cancer charity
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• Confess to release fourth studio album via Frontiers Music Srl
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• “I didn’t take Lemmy’s advice and I got a beer glass in my face”: The wild story of the spoof heavy metal band who beat Spinal Tap by a year
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• “They take the scenic route, never rushing to the destination. Keep an open mind”: Steve Rothery and Thorsten Quaeschning, as Bioscope, go on a journey with Gentō
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• We told Deftones singer Chino Moreno what ‘baddiecore’ is and this was his response: “There’s another genre that we have to escape at some point, right?”
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• How to watch Amyl & The Sniffers at Reading and Leeds - from anywhere
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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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• C'mon! Here's how to watch Limp Bizkit at Reading and Leeds festival - from anywhere in the world
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• Limp Bizkit pull the biggest crowd of the day at Reading Festival and, to the surprise of no one, absolutely smash it
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• “Some people were cynical – ‘The Yeggles have spoilt it all!’ We were doing a gig in Brighton and someone shouted, ‘Rick Wakeman!’ It was demoralising”: Geoff Downes’ life and times in and out of Yes
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• BlackRain unleash video for title track from upcoming studio album ‘Orphans of The Light’
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• Brent Hinds 1974 – 2025
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• The Lazys drop video for latest single “Hot Under The Collar”
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• "Korn stood side of stage looking scared but I didn't want to stop." Max Cavalera on his wildest gig, resurrecting Nailbomb and why he doesn't regret leaving Sepultura
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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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• Scott Dalhover reveals that Dangerous Toys will be releasing two new albums in 2026
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• Cradle of Filth keyboard player Zoë Federoff leaves the band mid tour
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• Radar Ready share lyric video for power ballad “Modern World”
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• “Nobody has ever played this song, apart from on the record”: Bruce Dickinson just played a 41-year-old Iron Maiden deep cut live for the first time ever
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• “There wasn’t any plan to make a certain kind of album. Everything was all created in the moment”: Steve Rothery and Thorsten Quaeschning found it easy to write Bioscope record Gentō, but less easy to finish it
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• Fans revel in downpour as Oasis kick off North American leg of world tour in Toronto
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• Suede announce 2026 UK headline tour in support of their forthcoming tenth album Antidepressants
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• Chino Moreno says that 'lost' Deftones album Eros "will most likely never see the light of day"
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• “I’ve got 30 years of albums and awards – but they say, ‘He’s just a one-trick pony making money off the back of Mike Oldfield’”: Robert Reed’s struggle to keep a form of music alive
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• "The worst misconception that people have about Indians is that we’re terrorists." Bloodywood's Karan Katiyar on India's best metal bands, smashing preconceptions and, er, giant ducks
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• "I'm an old man, I can do what I f***ing want!" Metal God Rob Halford considers recording an album of Tony Bennett covers
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• How to watch Chappell Roan at Reading and Leeds - from anywhere
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• “We were originally supposed to be doing the song with Axl Rose, but he never turned up to the session”: The crazed early 90s techno collaboration that saved a 70s rock icon’s career – and his life
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• Sammy Hagar & The Best of All Worlds Band to release live album ‘The Residency’ on October 10th
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• Love the song playing over the opening credits in the new season of Peacemaker? Here’s everything you need to know about Foxy Shazam, the band who made it that James Gunn is determined to make huge
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• "Just one more great album from the best rock band in the world": Cheap Trick announce new album All Washed Up
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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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• Attention fans of swoon-inducing West Coast melodic rock: it's time to meet your new favourite band
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• Höt Föxx share lyric video for new single “Hot Loader”
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• Bring Me The Horizon's Reading headline set is a mixed bag, but when they're good, they're incredible
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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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• Awesome new proggy sounds from Leprous, Iamthemorning, Jo Quail and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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• Rust N’ Rage launch video for new single “Just Like Brothers”
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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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• Ronnie Romero launches video for title track from upcoming album ‘Backbone’
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• Speed Queen to release full-length debut album ‘…With A Bang!’ on September 5th
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• How to watch Bring Me The Horizon at Reading and Leeds - no matter where you are
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• "This is the way rock stars die." The Who's Pete Townshend reveals recent addiction to painkillers
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• "Satan played, and then we played, and then Antichrist played straight after us": Christian Rockers Wytch Hazel on atheism, conservatives and organised religion
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• How to watch Hozier at Reading and Leeds this weekend - no matter where you are
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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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• Jet Jaguar share video for new single “Eternal Light” from upcoming album ‘Severance’
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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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• Former Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds dead at 51
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• "A support slot with Slipknot? We're working on it!" What do deathcore, nu metal and Switzerland have in common? One of the most exciting young bands in metal: Paleface Swiss
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• 10 Reunions That Went Wrong
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• “I listened to it with the solos turned down, replacing them with my own”: The “crazy” live album that blew shred guitar legend Yngwie Malmsteen’s mind
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• Debate: What's the greatest grunge album ever?
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• Brent Hinds RIP: The world of music pays tribute
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• "There was a point where people would come to see us because they hated us": The chaotic beginnings of The Stooges, America's first punk band
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• “We didn’t really talk to them. I don't think they liked us, and we didn't really like them that much either”: The time the Eagles opened for a legendary British prog rock band – and hated it
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• Autograph’s original singer Steve Plunkett unveils reworked version of hit single “Turn Up The Radio”
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• “Young musicians are lucky to live in this world of ideas and disruption. Humans have a dark attitude to the future. But if we were right, we wouldn’t be here”: Jean-Michel Jarre predicts music will follow video games into immersive universes
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 25, 2025
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• “I found a message from Ghost asking me if I would consider singing on their first album”: The doom metal legend who could have been Ghost’s original singer if it hadn’t been for a missed MySpace message
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• “We loved him so, so, so very much”: Mastodon pay tribute to late ex-bandmate Brent Hinds at their first show since his death
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• "It was such a poetic ending to a career that you just can’t take your eyes and ears off." Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme salutes the late Ozzy Osbourne
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