Rock News 2025-09-18

• End of an era — Hannes Braun stepping down as Kissin’ Dynamite’s lead vocalist
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• Scottish post-rockers Mogwai announce UK live dates for February
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• Iron Maiden sign up as ambassadors for National Album Day 2025
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• “Anyone encountering them afresh may wonder how success largely eluded them”: 60s psych rock duo Nirvana prove they were ahead of their time on The Show Must Go On
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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 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 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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• "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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• I Prevail Violent Nature review: the metalcore heavyweights' fourth album is a little hit and miss, but the hits go hard
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• Pre-order your exclusive Metal Hammer x Creeper bundle, featuring a magazine cover unavailable in shops and new album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death on purple vinyl
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• "There were loads of bands happy to make mediocre records. We never saw this as an option." The story of At The Gates' Slaughter Of The Soul - the album that revolutionised death metal
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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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• Livesay drop video for new single “The Unknown Soldier” with Ronny Munroe on lead vocals
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud confirm collaboration details
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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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• Heart add more dates to Royal Flush tour
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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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• Highwire Saints share cover of Badlands’ classic track “Dreams In The Dark”
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• "You only get one shot to do this correctly and I think we nailed it": Joe Bonamassa announces all-star tribute to B.B. King
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• Dellacoma share video for track “Heroes” from upcoming album ‘Searching For You In The Darkness’
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• Chrissie Hynde and k.d. lang hook up for smoky version of soul classic Me And Mrs Jones
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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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• At The Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg dies aged 52 following cancer battle
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• Watch Terrifier baddie Art The Clown ‘kill’ WWE wrestler Rhea Ripley during an Ice Nine Kills concert last weekend
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• Aerosmith to release first new music in over a decade - with Yungblud
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• “Often times, I’m motivated to write by some amount of melancholy”: revisiting Chris Cornell’s final album as it turns 10
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• Bloodstock festival adds Saxon as first-ever Thursday main-stage headliner; 26 other bands also confirmed
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• Steve Hackett announces Best of Genesis And Solo Gems 2026 England and Scotland tour dates
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• The Gems unleash video for new track “Year of The Snake”
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• System Of A Down add second UK date to European tour with Queens Of The Stone Age and Acid Bath
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• Dirty Honey launch video for their cover of Bad Company’s track “Rock Steady”
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• "To Carry The Weight might be one of the most gutwrenching songs that I’ve ever written." Killswitch Engage's Jesse Leach on buried projects, ska records and how he once met the cast of Friends
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 15, 2025
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• Depeche Mode release trailer for epic new concert film
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• Yes announce first English and Scottish live dates for two years
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• Rick and Oliver Wakeman to tour together for the first time ever
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• 13 absolute bangers from Status Quo's Frantic Four lineup
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• Kiss’s Gene Simmons claims he learned humility from Ozzy Osbourne
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• The world of metal pays tribute to At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg
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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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• “An aural record of an artist becoming himself”: Bob Dylan's early years explored in forthcoming Bootleg Series release
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• Fury unveil video for new single “On The Town”
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• Six reasons to get excited about music in 2026 from the Coachella line-up
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• Sleep Token kicked off their sold-out US tour and performed two never-before-played songs last night – see the setlist and watch videos here
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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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• Mötley Crüe’s compilation album ‘From The Beginning’ now available
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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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• Donnie Vie performs live with Enuff Z’Nuff as part of Illinois Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame induction
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• Gerard Way teases new project with US ska-punk band The Interrupters
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• Slash announces Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival live album and concert film
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• Soen announce new studio album, Reliance, will be released in January
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• Mädhouse launch video for new single “Mad To The Bone”
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• The Midnight Devils frontman Sam Spade feels there’s not a lot of party bands anymore
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• Extreme drop video for track “X Out” from their 2023 album ‘Six’
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• Colin Edwin and John Wesley announce new Porcupine Tree-focused band Voyage 35
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• "There are so many elements I never expected to see or hear!" New Van der Graaf Generator film shines light on only US gig from the 1970s
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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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• Australian prog rockers Karnivool announce first new album for 13 years!
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• “We’re definitely still a progressive band. Listen to the detail in what we do and the musicianship behind it – it all comes from that legacy”: When Soen’s songs got shorter but not shallower on Memorial
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• Mammoth featuring Wolfgang Van Halen unveil video for new single “I Really Wanna”
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• The new movie from Portishead’s Geoff Barrow features an unhinged turn from Sleaford Mod Jason Williamson
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• "It’s a massive family of geeks, freaks and weirdos." Satanic rituals, burlesque and cowbell - what it was like at Ghost Con, the world's only dedicated Ghost fan convention
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• Frank Turner announces new career compilation The Next Ten Years
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• Paramount Plus to stream feature-length documentary about Ozzy Osbourne’s final years next month – watch the trailer here
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• "This is what art is": Mike Patton returns to action with new project AVTT/PTTN with folk rock stars the Avett Brothers
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