Rock News 2025-09-04

• UK stoner/doom champions Green Lung to headline Desertfest London 2026; four other bands also confirmed
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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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• Bon Jovi launch video for new track “Red, White and Jersey”
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• “It was such a shame to leave A Secret Wish on its own. The band still had such great potential – it was unfinished business”: Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag couldn’t dump Propaganda and their prog roots in the past
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• Former Tesla bandmates Brian Wheat and Tommy Skeoch form new band together
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• “There are two types of bands. One is s**t. The other is The Hives”: 45 minutes with the world’s greatest band, The Hives
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• Bon Jovi to release album ‘Forever (Legendary Edition)’ featuring various guest vocalists on October 24th
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• Pearl Jam albums ranked from worst to best
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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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• WildHeart unleash video for new track “Sands of Time” from latest album ‘Wild ‘n Three’
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• "We’re not just into camels and palm trees." 20 years ago, Amine Hamma was arrested for playing death metal. Now he’s helping build Morocco’s metal scene
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• Watch the video for Robert Plant's new single Chevrolet, the opening track on the former Led Zeppelin frontman's forthcoming album Saving Grace
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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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• "Who knows where this will all lead?" Radiohead announce first live dates for seven years
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• Mike Oldfield announces double-vinyl, half-speed remaster of Amarok reissue for October
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• Rick Wakeman announces new album, Melancholia, will be released in October
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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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• The A-Z of Britpop Anthems
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• Sex Pistols forced to postpone North American and South American tours after Steve Jones breaks his wrist
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• “I once played with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. You can imagine how I was feeling… I got through YYZ. They told me I was playing too fast!” Taylor Hawkins’ love for prog stars Rush, Genesis, Yes and more
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• Solstice to reissue remastered version of 1984 debut album Silent Dance
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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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• "How pathetic and out of touch you've become." Jack Osbourne issues scathing response to Roger Waters after comments about his father Ozzy
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• Alter Bridge launch first new song in over two years, announce US tour
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• Two new Autograph albums consisting mainly of unreleased demos now available via FnA Records
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• “I felt the stage fright because the band just wasn’t good enough. I said, ‘This will be our last record.’ Then things began to take off”: Even lockdown couldn’t dampen The Pineapple Thief’s spirits when they released Versions Of The Truth
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• The Who announce super deluxe version of Who Are You including 71 unreleased tracks
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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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• "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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• 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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• “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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• 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 the antithesis of Britpop – we really hated all that kind of thing." Every Idlewild album in the band's own words
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• Babylon A.D.’s new studio album ‘When The World Stops’ now available on CD
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• Life on the precipice: How Audioslave gave Chris Cornell hope
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• Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson collaborates with Blackfeet Nation member Nicholas Rink on new ambient BardSpec song Eternity
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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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• Heavy Pettin unveil video for title track from upcoming album ‘Rock Generation’
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• "The entire world could burn and we would still absolutely love each other and love what we do." How Lzzy Hale beat her demons with a little help from her Halestorm bandmates on new album Everest
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• "I’m slowly building up towards a new album." David Gilmour hopes to have a new record out "within the next year or two."
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• "It's one of the best rock songs ever!" Queen's Brian May talks exclusively to Classic Rock about working with The Struts on their newly reimagined update of their debut single Could Have Been Me
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• Helloween drop video for new single “A Little Is A Little Too Much”
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• Michael Schenker Group shares video for title track of upcoming album ‘Don’t Sell Your Soul’
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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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• Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres dismisses rumours that he is going to retire
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• Beige Against The Machine: Grandson's Bob Vylan-assisted third album Inertia is well-meaning, angry, heartfelt and simplistic enough for pre-schoolers
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• Pre-order a gothic purple vinyl of new Creeper album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death with an exclusive signed art card – available via the Louder store
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• 25 complicated concept albums explained as simply as possible
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• The bloodsoaked trailer for Disney Plus series Marvel Zombies features Poppy and Babymetal collaboration From Me To U
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• "There's a vulnerability to the sound, but strength too, evoking a refusal to settle or submit." Slow Crush embark on an emotional journey with seductive third album Thirst
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• Sennheiser SoundProtex Plus earplugs review
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• "We are finally ready for Different Class to be heard in all its glory." Pulp announce 30th anniversary reissue of Britpop cornerstone Different Class, to include their never-before-released Glastonbury 1995 set
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• "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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• Michael Kiske describes Andi Deris as a ‘natural leader’ and Kai Hansen being all about fun
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• "I look round and there's puke all over the place, and I thought, this is not going well": How Rainbow's classic lineup came together then fell apart
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• Bring Me The Horizon have 12 songs left over from their latest album ready for release
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 1, 2025
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• Buckcherry’s album ‘Black Butterfly’ to be reissued with five bonus tracks on CD version
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• “I wanted to make a song I felt like a lot of women can relate to”: Scene Queen drops new single Platform Shoes one day before start of European tour
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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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• Mastodon members join The March Of Brent Hinds in Atlanta to celebrate life of late ex-guitarist
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• "It's so broad a concept that it's impossible to answer objectively": We asked who the 'big four' of classic rock were and you did not hold back
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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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• Michael Monroe recovering from ruptured meniscus so unable to join Buckcherry on upcoming US tour
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