Rock News 2025-09-16

• The Midnight Devils frontman Sam Spade feels there’s not a lot of party bands anymore
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• “It’s a homecoming! It’s going to be big, bad and beautiful”: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds announce huge Brighton show for summer 2026
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• 10 terrible early 00s movies with killer nu metal soundtracks
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• “There’s inevitably repeated songs from Asia, King Crimson and UK, but plenty of variations in arrangement – and he’s in fine voice throughout”: John Wetton’s Concentus II is 10 discs of sumptuous live performance
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• Aerosmith to release first new music in over a decade - with Yungblud
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• Soen announce new studio album, Reliance, will be released in January
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• Dirty Honey launch video for their cover of Bad Company’s track “Rock Steady”
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• "Songwriting pulls you out of whatever you're going through": Warren Haynes reveals how the blues can rescue you from misery
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• "We’re honoured to collaborate with Iggor & Max": Massive Attack team up with Sepultura co-founders Max and Iggor Cavalera for special South American show
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• "I started going to rituals when I was 13. My mother made me robes and I had my own staff." Midsommar metal is officially a thing: say hello to Forlorn
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• "We're probably the truest form of rock and roll there is." P.O.D.'s Marcos Curiel says the band are done trying to prove themselves
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• "He'd argue with me till six in the morning - he'd do whatever was needed": How Jeff Lynne built the Electric Light Orchestra
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• Scottish post-rockers Mogwai announce UK live dates for February
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• 13 absolute bangers from Status Quo's Frantic Four lineup
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• “I hoped we could go somewhere, with all of us making a living. I don’t have that hope any more”: Stubbornness, repurposed Kansas songs and letting a long-held ambition go helped Spock’s Beard make Noise Floor
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• Yes announce first English and Scottish live dates for two years
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• Gerard Way teases new project with US ska-punk band The Interrupters
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• The 10 best B-side albums
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 15, 2025
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• “It was an absolute honour to know him and carry his belts”: Liam Gallagher pays tribute to Ricky Hatton after the boxer’s death
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• Fernando von Arb provides some thoughts on Krokus’ albums in the ’90s without Marc Storace on vocals
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• “I remember looking up at this big billboard that said, ‘God loves you all.’ I thought, ‘He sure as hell doesn’t like me right now!’”: The prophetic Slayer song that marked the end of one of thrash metal’s greatest songwriting partnerships
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• The Who add one 'final' date to their North American farewell tour
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• “God? Maybe he’s gone senile”: Lemmy was once asked what he thought about God and religion, and he didn’t hold back
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• “Drug dealers and freaks and crazy people left over from the 60s – all defiant and distorted”: The story behind the Rolling Stones’ iconic Exile On Main Street album cover
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• Twisted Sister to play shows in 2026 to celebrate 50th Year Anniversary with Joe Franco back on drums
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• “Genuinely shocking, and uninterested in the post-rock status quo”: Jo Quail’s Notan proves yet again that there’s no one quite like her
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• Kiss’s Gene Simmons claims he learned humility from Ozzy Osbourne
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• “I was supposed to play guitar on Sweet Leaf, then it was Changes”: Wolfgang Van Halen remembers meeting Ozzy Osbourne and reveals his original plan for Back To The Beginning
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• “For the first time I was meeting resistance artistically. People were saying, ‘She’s gone mad now.’ I was a complete wreck – I’d wake up in the morning and I couldn’t move”: How Kate Bush answered her critics with Hounds Of Love
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• Jeff Keith and Miljenko Matijević team up to release cover of Foghat’s “I Just Wanna Make Love To You”
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• "I'm trying to put a little bit of love and just realness into rock music": De'Wayne's been working for 10 years, but people are finally paying attention
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• Highwire Saints share cover of Badlands’ classic track “Dreams In The Dark”
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• Foo Fighters return to stage for first time in a year with intimate last-minute show in California
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• All the essential new metal albums coming out in 2025 – and where to buy them
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• The Gems unleash video for new track “Year of The Snake”
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• Mammoth featuring Wolfgang Van Halen unveil video for new single “I Really Wanna”
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• Sideburn to release album ‘Loaded – The Best Of’ on September 12th
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• "More of a great thing is an even greater thing": Foreigner's 4 is absolutely deserving of the super-deluxe treatment
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• Mötley Crüe’s compilation album ‘From The Beginning’ now available
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• Livesay drop video for new single “The Unknown Soldier” with Ronny Munroe on lead vocals
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• "The band's interpretations of other writers' songs are so creative they're essentially new songs with the old lyrics and title": Manfred Mann’s Earth Band mix it up on Nightingales & Bombers
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• Cassidy Paris drops video for new single “Getting Better” from upcoming album ‘Bittersweet’
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• “At first it felt like a bit of a novelty song. It was a shock that it became so popular”: How an unknown American trio scored a huge hit with the greatest Neil Young song Neil Young never wrote
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• Bloodstock festival adds Saxon as first-ever Thursday main-stage headliner; 26 other bands also confirmed
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• “I thought, ‘What would people do if they only had five months to live?’ One song is called Shagathon…” Arjen Lucassen decided to be an egomaniac, and the result is Songs No One Will Hear
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• Nikki Sixx says Mick Mars' claims that Motley Crue don't play live are a "betrayal to the band who saved his life"
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• "I noticed a guy in a wheelchair swinging his prosthetic leg around in the air!" How Arch Enemy wrote a revolutionary anthem for the masses with Nemesis
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• "It was the four of us against the world." Behind the curtains of Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's historic farewell gig
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• At The Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg dies aged 52 following cancer battle
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• Fury unveil video for new single “On The Town”
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• Watch Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson sing the Star Spangled Banner for 66,000 NFL fans in Pittsburgh
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• Judas Priest recorded a cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs featuring Ozzy Osbourne – and they’re going to release it soon
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• Watch Foo Fighters return to the stage with their new drummer and a monster 25-song set
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• Dellacoma share video for track “Heroes” from upcoming album ‘Searching For You In The Darkness’
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• “None of it has gone unnoticed – it’s carried me through many nights”: Sharon Osbourne thanks fans for their “overwhelming” support following Ozzy’s death
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• Half the world away: what ex-members of Oasis are up to whilst their former group embarks on their triumphant comeback tour without them
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• Steve Hackett announces Best of Genesis And Solo Gems 2026 England and Scotland tour dates
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• “They took big swings, but knew when a lighter touch fitted. It’s like Pink Floyd played by 10cc”: Supertramp’s Crime Of The Century and Crisis? What Crisis? 50th anniversary editions
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• Iron Maiden sign up as ambassadors for National Album Day 2025
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• Watch members of Iron Maiden and Tool jam a Jeff Beck song at a wedding last week
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• “I’m not a massive fan of all things prog. But I must have listened to the Tarkus album a million times down the years”: Twisted Sister’s Jay Jay French wants Emerson, Lake and Palmer to be remembered for ever
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• "It's karaoke time and I understand that": Graham Bonnet on the "berserk" response to Rainbow's Since You've Been Gone
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• Mädhouse launch video for new single “Mad To The Bone”
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• Australian prog rockers Karnivool announce first new album for 13 years!
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