Rock News 2025-09-02

• Watch: Bruce Dickinson talks leaving Iron Maiden in the 90s, making Balls To Picasso and THAT reggae moment
  Louder
• “The idea was to put a ‘fragile’ label on the album cover. I didn’t want to do anything so literal. I wanted to take the idea of fragility and wrap it round the world. Yes liked it and it worked”: The attitude behind Roger Dean’s album art
  Louder
• Cool new proggy sounds from Jonathan Hultén, Swallow The Sun, Mark Trueack and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
  Louder
• Watch: we asked people at Reading Festival to finish these iconic metal lyrics and it didn’t go well
  Louder
• Buckcherry’s album ‘Black Butterfly’ to be reissued with five bonus tracks on CD version
  Sleaze Roxx
• "A little more restraint in the number of extra notes would help let things shine": Camel break out the complexity but fail to enthral on Mirage
  Louder
• “They reveal clever nuances over repeat listens – but it’s enigmatic and unskippable from the offset”: Ihlo finally return with Legacy
  Louder
• “Life changed. Time healed wounds. No more feeling alone or depressed – it’s like, ‘Let’s do something positive. Let’s fight’”: When Mariusz Duda escaped the darkness on Lunatic Soul’s Through Shaded Woods
  Louder
• Helloween drop video for new single “A Little Is A Little Too Much”
  Sleaze Roxx
• "It's kind of a concept record, if the word ‘concept’ didn’t suck." Josh Homme and Dave Grohl spill the tea on Queens Of The Stone Age masterpiece Songs for the Deaf
  Louder
• New Peter Hammill biography to be published in November
  Louder
• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 1, 2025
  Louder
• “We were a punk band with Beatles melodies. We had no effects, barely any equipment, just loads of attitude, 12 cans of Red Stripe and ambition." Why Definitely Maybe will forever be Oasis' finest hour
  Louder
• Entire Genesis 1973 Bataclan show made available online
  Louder
• Alabama Shakes release first new song in a decade
  Louder
• UK stoner/doom champions Green Lung to headline Desertfest London 2026; four other bands also confirmed
  Louder
• GoFundMe campaign continues for Great White bassist Scott Snyder who is recovering from brain surgery
  Sleaze Roxx
• Watch System Of A Down cover Black Sabbath’s Snowblind for the first time since 2002 in tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
  Louder
• Norwegian proggers Gazpacho share video for 8-Ball, their first new music for five years
  Louder
• Evanescence’s Amy Lee, Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante and Poppy will release a collaborative single soon, and we could not be more hyped
  Louder
• "It's going to be an incredible night for all the fans!": Def Leppard announce 2026 European tour with brand new show
  Louder
• Billy Corgan joins My Chemical Romance for Smashing Pumpkins cover in Chicago
  Louder
• Heavy Pettin unveil video for title track from upcoming album ‘Rock Generation’
  Sleaze Roxx
• "Amid the chaos and violence, Beth strains with every fibre of her being to resist, and to refuse, and to fight for what she holds dear and true." A defiant Jehnny Beth confronts an ever-darkening world with the fierce, furious You Heartbreaker, You
  Louder
• Slipknot stream demo version of 1999 rager Me Inside, taken from 25th-anniversary reissue of debut album
  Louder
• "Nobody wanted to sign us, because we didn’t sound like Korn or Limp Bizkit." How Daron Malakian went from nu metal misfit to international metal star with System Of A Down and Scars On Broadway
  Louder
• WildHeart unleash video for new track “Sands of Time” from latest album ‘Wild ‘n Three’
  Sleaze Roxx
• Sometimes bands shouldn’t be trusted to revisit their own material, as the latest Smashing Pumpkins reissue set proves
  Louder
• Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres dismisses rumours that he is going to retire
  Sleaze Roxx
• Radar Ready share lyric video for power ballad “Modern World”
  Sleaze Roxx
• Lunatic Soul announce new studio album The World Under Unsun
  Louder
• Scott Dalhover reveals that Dangerous Toys will be releasing two new albums in 2026
  Sleaze Roxx
• Bon Jovi to release album ‘Forever (Legendary Edition)’ featuring various guest vocalists on October 24th
  Sleaze Roxx
• “They asked Kate Bush, ‘Why do you write about this stuff?’ She said, ‘Well, I’m not very interesting!’ It’s the same with us”: What Sylosis learned from prog stars including Opeth, Tool and Rush
  Louder
• Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp are back and they're more brightly-coloured than ever
  Louder
• "This record changed our lives forever." Fall Out Boy prepare 20th anniversary edition of breakthrough album From Under The Cork Tree
  Louder
• “There’s a lot of heaviness in the air, which Maiden doesn’t really take advantage of”: Bruce Dickinson explains why his solo music is heavier than Iron Maiden
  Louder
• "Got to get the fascists out, got to clean the White House out": Neil Young launches scathing attack on Donald Trump in new song Big Crime
  Louder
• "Now in his mid-60s, there's still something oddly teenage about Bryan Adams": Soft rock's Mr Nice Guy returns to familiar ground
  Louder
• “Mr Blue Sky is the song I always go back to. It’s such a feelgood track and it’s never aged”: The ELO classic led Crobot’s Brandon Yeagley to Frank Zappa, Protest The Hero and a whole world of prog
  Louder
• “Those two are really strong, powerful albums and people will appreciate them later”: Steve Harris defends The X Factor and Virtual XI, Iron Maiden’s most derided albums
  Louder
• Get the latest issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive glow-in-the-dark Nova Twins t-shirt, celebrating the release of new album Parasites & Butterflies
  Louder
• Marc Storace trying to get the publishing rights to the ‘Blue’ album that he did with Vic Vergeat
  Sleaze Roxx
• Michael Monroe recovering from ruptured meniscus so unable to join Buckcherry on upcoming US tour
  Sleaze Roxx
• "We dreamt of coming here for such a long time." How Bleed From Within went from British metalcore underdogs to Slipknot-endorsed international metal stars
  Louder
• “An old-fashioned, listen-in-one-sitting record – they’ve pair have done more than talk a good game”: Chimpan A battle the TikTokification of music on M.I.A. Vol 1
  Louder
• Hawklords announce twelfth studio album Faith will be released in October
  Louder
• "Vibrant, loud and sure to destroy dance floors worldwide": The Hives celebrate sweat and rock'n'roll glory on The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
  Louder
• Watch Brian May and superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli sing Queen's Who Wants To Live Forever
  Louder
• Watch Daron Malakian join stunned System Of A Down tribute band for cover of Cigaro in Chicago
  Louder
• 5 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
  Louder
• Deftones, Turnstile, Viagra Boys, Doechii and more announced for Lollapalooza shows in Brazil, Chile and Argentina
  Louder
• "There are no sprawling fantastical epics here, no dragons or orcs or magical pumpkins": Helloween's Giants & Monsters is a thoroughly modern melodic metal album
  Louder
• Listen to Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen's atmospheric Hollow Man collaboration
  Louder
• Debate: What's the greatest live album ever?
  Louder
• These are the Labor Day Lego Star Wars deals you’re looking for - save up to 20% on the Millennium Falcon, Star Destroyer, C-3PO, R2 & more
  Louder
• The 13 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
  Louder
• Bon Jovi launch video for new track “Red, White and Jersey”
  Sleaze Roxx
• "Hurt People Hurt People has probably been around since the beginning of man." Revived nu metallers Mudvayne release their first new song in 16 years
  Louder
• British metal has ruled the world this summer – just this once, I’m actually proud of my country
  Louder
• Rust N’ Rage launch video for new single “Just Like Brothers”
  Sleaze Roxx
• "The band were honoured to have two Knights grace them with their presence." Film director Rob Reiner reveals how he got Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John to appear in the new Spinal Tap movie
  Louder
• I just watched Metallica play in front of a few hundred people including Paul McCartney, Michael J. Fox and Sylvester Stallone - here's what it was like
  Louder
• Michael Kiske describes Andi Deris as a ‘natural leader’ and Kai Hansen being all about fun
  Sleaze Roxx
• Michael Schenker Group shares video for title track of upcoming album ‘Don’t Sell Your Soul’
  Sleaze Roxx