Rock News 2025-09-20

• Lorna Shore don't want to be deathcore's biggest band - they want to be the biggest band in metal
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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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• Paramount Plus to stream feature-length documentary about Ozzy Osbourne’s final years next month – watch the trailer here
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• Yes announce new reissue of Fly From Here: Return Trip with Atmos mix
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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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• “The sound universe that Soft Machine opened before me was almost unfathomable. It was a revelation, a musical epiphany”: Meet the Canterbury scene’s international next generation
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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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• Queen detail 50th anniversary editions of A Night At The Opera and Bohemian Rhapsody
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• Two years into the post-space age, Hawkwind continue to explore music's deeper reaches on Hall Of The Mountain Grill
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• Watch Slash and Steven Tyler guest with the Joe Perry Project in Hollywood
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• Dream Theater announce new 40th anniverary live album
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• “This is the kind of band all of us wanted to be in as we got older”: New supergroup bringing together members of R.E.M., Screaming Trees, QOTSA and more announce first UK shows
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• “Chances are your favourite musicians owe this band a debt of gratitude”: Your essential guide to every At The Gates album
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• Slash launches live video for track “Oh Well” from upcoming album ‘Live At The S.E.R.P.E.N.T Festival’
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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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• Aerosmith and Yungblud confirm collaboration details
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• Six reasons to get excited about music in 2026 from the Coachella line-up
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• “I said, ‘I’m not writing another song until you’ve written one.’ I find it hard to get him to do it. He’d rather wash the car”: Polly Samson on cajoling David Gilmour into work, Pink Floyd’s awkward silences, and the words she refused to write
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• Gotthard unleash lyric video for new single “Ride The Wave” from upcoming album ‘More Stereo Crush’
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• “This is the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world!”: Iron Maiden are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer. And it comes with three exclusive gifts!
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• "If we gave up now, it would destroy our scene." Botswana's death metal cowboys Overthrust are flying the flag for African metal
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud share first track from their collaborative new EP
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• Paradise Lost Ascension review: The godfathers of goth metal still find glee in gloom
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• "A superb album rescued from the dustbin of history at last": Buckingham Nicks' Fleetwood Mac-inspiring debut is finally available again
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• Dirty Honey launch video for their cover of Bad Company’s track “Rock Steady”
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud launch visualizer video for new single “My Only Angel”
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• The best metal albums of 2025 (so far)
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• Depeche Mode release trailer for epic new concert film
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• Gyasi to embark on ‘The Good Part Tour’ throughout Europe and the UK in October
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• Warring REO Speedwagon members to reunite as grand marshals at University homecoming parade
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• "Everything about this band rules hard." Fantasy doom metal heroes Castle Rat have made one of 2025's most epic metal albums in The Bestiary
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• Livesay drop video for new single “The Unknown Soldier” with Ronny Munroe on lead vocals
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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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• Mötley Crüe’s compilation album ‘From The Beginning’ now available
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• The Gems unleash video for new track “Year of The Snake”
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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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• Nine albums by The Doors you need to hear... and one to avoid
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• "There was just Ozzy and me at my own private show in the middle of a desert": I took photos of Ozzy Osbourne for decades – these are some of my favourite memories
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Frank Turner announces new career compilation The Next Ten Years
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• The Darkness' Justin Hawkins responds to backlash over his criticism of Yungblud's Ozzy tribute
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• Massive Attack to remove their music from Spotify in protest against CEO’s AI military investments
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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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• Hear four classic Kittie songs re-recorded on new EP Spit XXV
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• Debate: Who is the greatest guitarist of all time?
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• Highwire Saints share cover of Badlands’ classic track “Dreams In The Dark”
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• Debate: who are the big four of death metal?
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• Rick and Oliver Wakeman to tour together for the first time ever
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• Metallica may have ‘stolen’ Spinal Tap’s album art, but the comedy-metal legends aren’t bitter about it
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• Chez Kane unveils video for title track from upcoming album ‘Reckless’
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• BBC announces rescheduled Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home documentary will be broadcast on October 2
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• End of an era — Hannes Braun stepping down as Kissin’ Dynamite’s lead vocalist
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• Fury unveil video for new single “On The Town”
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• “The process was natural and easy, I could’ve kept on going forever”: Blink-182’s Travis Barker on turning producer for new Alkaline Trio recordings
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• Iron Maiden announce more European shows for 2026, including phone-free Paris concert and secret UK date
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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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• Buckcherry share lyric video for new single “Hello Goodbye”
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• Dave Cousins 1994 album with Brian Willoughby, The Bridge, gets new makeover
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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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• "Musical insanity comes in many forms. Igorrr are attempting them all at once." French experimentalists Igorrr go wild on new album Amen
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• Nine classic deep cuts Iron Maiden need to dust off for their 2026 Run For Your Lives shows
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• “Lemmy couldn’t compute the concept of ‘subtle.’ It adds to a multifaceted, if superficially flawed, gem”: Hawkwind’s Hall Of The Mountain Grill returns in 9-disc edition
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• Extreme drop video for track “X Out” from their 2023 album ‘Six’
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• "In some ways it's a miracle that we even had a career at all": With better timing, things might have turned out completely differently for Harem Scarem
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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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