Rock News 2025-09-03

• "I'm outside of the mainstream, and that's how I like it": Blaze Bayley's debut solo album flopped 25 years ago - but now he's taking it on the road
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• Premiere of video for new single “We Got Rock n Roll” from Paul Lidel’s Scream Therapy
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• Watch: we asked people at Reading Festival to finish these iconic metal lyrics and it didn’t go well
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• “We were virtually given free rein. In fact, they spent so much money on studio time, there was very little left for promotion”: How Caravan’s In The Land Of Grey And Pink became an unheralded prog classic
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• Marc Storace trying to get the publishing rights to the ‘Blue’ album that he did with Vic Vergeat
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• Thrilling, unsettling and definitely NSFW: Witch Club Satan's first UK show proved they're the best thing to happen in black metal in years
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• UK stoner/doom champions Green Lung to headline Desertfest London 2026; four other bands also confirmed
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• “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
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• 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
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• Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres dismisses rumours that he is going to retire
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• “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
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• Evanescence’s Amy Lee, Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante and Poppy will release a collaborative single soon, and we could not be more hyped
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• Billy Corgan joins My Chemical Romance for Smashing Pumpkins cover in Chicago
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• New Peter Hammill biography to be published in November
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• Watch Brian May and superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli sing Queen's Who Wants To Live Forever
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• Alabama Shakes release first new song in a decade
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• Babylon A.D.’s new studio album ‘When The World Stops’ now available on CD
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• Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp are back and they're more brightly-coloured than ever
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• Watch Daron Malakian join stunned System Of A Down tribute band for cover of Cigaro in Chicago
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• 5 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• Watch: Bruce Dickinson talks leaving Iron Maiden in the 90s, making Balls To Picasso and THAT reggae moment
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• "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
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• British metal has ruled the world this summer – just this once, I’m actually proud of my country
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• "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
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• Bon Jovi to release album ‘Forever (Legendary Edition)’ featuring various guest vocalists on October 24th
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• Lunatic Soul announce new studio album The World Under Unsun
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• Sennheiser SoundProtex Plus earplugs review
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• The 13 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "One song took about seven weeks to do. It was insane": The Moody Blues on their best and worst albums, Charles Manson, and the mood-altering magic of Nights In White Satin
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• “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
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• Buckcherry’s album ‘Black Butterfly’ to be reissued with five bonus tracks on CD version
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• Helloween drop video for new single “A Little Is A Little Too Much”
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• "We want to appeal to everybody and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires": How AC/DC's plan to conquer the world began in the back of a squalid bus
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• "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
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• Michael Schenker Group shares video for title track of upcoming album ‘Don’t Sell Your Soul’
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• Hayley Williams is low-key taking over the world, and the misogynist music industry can't do a damned thing about it
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• “He said, ‘We can’t use this – people will think we’re a Christian rock band!’ I went and got myself a drink. There was no arguing with that kind of thinking”: Marillion’s battle over the cover for Afraid Of Sunlight
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• Hawklords announce twelfth studio album Faith will be released in October
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• "It's going to be an incredible night for all the fans!": Def Leppard announce 2026 European tour with brand new show
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 1, 2025
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• "The stench of success was horrible for a lot of people": Whipping boys of the music press in the 90s, Bush are still fighting back
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• Heavy Pettin unveil video for title track from upcoming album ‘Rock Generation’
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• Michael Monroe recovering from ruptured meniscus so unable to join Buckcherry on upcoming US tour
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• Former Tesla bandmates Brian Wheat and Tommy Skeoch form new band together
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• Two new Autograph albums consisting mainly of unreleased demos now available via FnA Records
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• Michael Kiske describes Andi Deris as a ‘natural leader’ and Kai Hansen being all about fun
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• "He was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense": Roger Waters takes media to task for Ozzy Osbourne coverage, Jack Osbourne responds
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• Mastodon members join The March Of Brent Hinds in Atlanta to celebrate life of late ex-guitarist
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• Bon Jovi launch video for new track “Red, White and Jersey”
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• 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
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• 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
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• "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
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• Pearl Jam albums ranked from worst to best
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• "There’s still plenty of Slipknot-style pummelling, but Tallah are spreading their wings." One of nu metal's best modern bands are evolving in style on Primeval: Obsession // Detachment
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• "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
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• “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
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• The Who announce super deluxe version of Who Are You including 71 unreleased tracks
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• Deftones, Turnstile, Viagra Boys, Doechii and more announced for Lollapalooza shows in Brazil, Chile and Argentina
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• “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
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• “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
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• Sometimes bands shouldn’t be trusted to revisit their own material, as the latest Smashing Pumpkins reissue set proves
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• WildHeart unleash video for new track “Sands of Time” from latest album ‘Wild ‘n Three’
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• The A-Z of Britpop Anthems
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• "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
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• “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
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