Rock News 2025-08-27

• "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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• “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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• The Lazys drop video for latest single “Hot Under The Collar”
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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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• "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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• John Fogerty announces Legacy tour
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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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• Bring Me The Horizon's Reading headline set is a mixed bag, but when they're good, they're incredible
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 25, 2025
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• "He's the Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart of the riff": Gibson salutes Tony Iommi in star-studded new film series
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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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• 10 Reunions That Went Wrong
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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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• Debate: what was metal's most important year?
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• Suede announce 2026 UK headline tour in support of their forthcoming tenth album Antidepressants
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• Radar Ready share lyric video for power ballad “Modern World”
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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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• "The fans supported us through everything. That's why we kept on going": Helloween on career longevity and proving people wrong
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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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• Speed Queen to release full-length debut album ‘…With A Bang!’ on September 5th
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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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• How to watch Amyl & The Sniffers 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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• "I’m tripping my balls off and I’m going, 'Whoaaaa, this is the craziest **** I’ve ever heard!'" Will Ramos on the first time he heard Lorna Shore - the band he'd eventually front
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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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• 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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• "I will miss your crazy ass Manimal." Mastodon's Bill Kelliher pays tribute to former bandmate Brent Hinds
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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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• Jet Jaguar share video for new single “Eternal Light” from upcoming album ‘Severance’
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• Confess to release fourth studio album via Frontiers Music Srl
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• Cradle of Filth keyboard player Zoë Federoff leaves the band mid tour
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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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• “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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• "This film is our love letter to all of our favourite road trip movies, ’90s nostalgia, and chasing it all no matter how ridiculous it gets." Green Day's movie New Year's Rev will premiere next month
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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 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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• “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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• Every Jethro Tull album ranked from worst to best
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• "We’re not giving up as a band." Roger Daltrey suggests that The Who could still play shows after the conclusion of their farewell tour
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• Fans revel in downpour as Oasis kick off North American leg of world tour in Toronto
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• "I can’t imagine using that song as a political rallying theme, particularly when you seem to be the person who I’m screaming about." John Fogerty on the classic Creedence Clearwater Revival song that Donald Trump has completely misunderstood
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• We told Deftones singer Chino Moreno what ‘baddiecore’ is and this was his response
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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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• GoFundMe campaign continues for Great White bassist Scott Snyder who is recovering from brain surgery
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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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• Ronnie Romero launches video for title track from upcoming album ‘Backbone’
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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 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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• Shiraz Lane forced to cancel two shows due to Hannes Kett recovering from severe case of pneumonia
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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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• Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres dismisses rumours that he is going to retire
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• "I was like, 'I can't handle this.'" Deftones' Chino Moreno reveals why he gave up booze
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• Scott Dalhover reveals that Dangerous Toys will be releasing two new albums in 2026
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• “We were playing things like Chuck Berry. I was just horrified, because I’m a choirboy”: How Richard Sinclair helped build the Canterbury scene with Caravan, Hatfield And The North, Camel and more
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• "She pulls out these two long steel pins and I start screaming and she plunges them into her eyes": The acid-dazed adventures of the band that became Blue Öyster Cult
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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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• Big Big Train share 18-minute live version of Beneath The Masts
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• 10cc announce their 'And Another Bloody Greatest Hits Tour' for 2026
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• Brent Hinds 1974 – 2025
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• Radiohead have broken into the American charts with a single from OK Computer that was released 28 years ago
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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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• Rust N’ Rage launch video for new single “Just Like Brothers”
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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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• "You are a disrespectful dirtbag!" Kelly Osbourne furiously fires back at WWE and Becky Lynch following controversial Ozzy Osbourne promo line in Birmingham
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• Watch: we asked a bunch of metal artists to pick four classic metal albums
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