Rock News 2025-09-21

• Aerosmith and Yungblud share first track from their collaborative new EP
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• “My first instinct was shock at how much like Pink Floyd it sounded. But I can’t deny how important that record is”: Radiohead, Yes, Can and Peter Gabriel feature in Rock Hall boss Jason Hanley’s record collection
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• “We were the new outrageous band in town. We were dirty and nasty and had naked girls on stage”: The satirical 70s shock rock anthem that gave Kiss and Alice Cooper a run for their money
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• BBC announces rescheduled Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home documentary will be broadcast on October 2
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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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• Four-fifths of the Genesis Lamb line-up reunite at Atmos playback in London
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• “It reminded me of discovering Deep Purple when I was 15 years old, except updated. Everything was really pushing forwards”: Bruce Dickinson reveals the Pau Di’Anno song that convinced him to join Iron Maiden
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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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• “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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• “He just started drinking. We left his drunkenness in there, and it became a thing for us: drink and shred”: How a cult power metal band and an insanely successful video game brought shred guitar heroics to a new generation
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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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• Extreme drop video for track “X Out” from their 2023 album ‘Six’
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• Massive Attack to remove their music from Spotify in protest against CEO’s AI military investments
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• Debate: Who is the greatest guitarist of all time?
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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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• “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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• "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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• "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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• "You're surrendering your senses completely to this little fascist in your hand." Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson really hates mobile phones
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• Gary Hoey and Lita Ford release video for new track “You Know I Would”
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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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• Nine classic deep cuts Iron Maiden need to dust off for their 2026 Run For Your Lives shows
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• Gyasi to embark on ‘The Good Part Tour’ throughout Europe and the UK in October
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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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• Nine albums by The Doors you need to hear... and one to avoid
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• Debate: who are the big four of death metal?
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud launch visualizer video for new single “My Only Angel”
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• Chez Kane unveils video for title track from upcoming album ‘Reckless’
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• Buckcherry share lyric video for new single “Hello Goodbye”
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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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• Hear four classic Kittie songs re-recorded on new EP Spit XXV
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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 bad blood was there from the start. There was no cohesiveness and the atmosphere between certain people was very toxic”: Trevor Rabin was trapped in hell with Yes as they made Big Generator
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• End of an era — Hannes Braun stepping down as Kissin’ Dynamite’s lead vocalist
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• Dream Theater announce new 40th anniversary live album
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• “We want to inspire the next generation." From playing Glastonbury to get the sel of approval from Tom Morello Nova Twins are smashing barriers
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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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• Gotthard unleash lyric video for new single “Ride The Wave” from upcoming album ‘More Stereo Crush’
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• Queen detail 50th anniversary editions of A Night At The Opera and Bohemian Rhapsody
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• Fury unveil video for new single “On The Town”
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• The Gems unleash video for new track “Year of The Snake”
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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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• “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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• Warring REO Speedwagon members to reunite as grand marshals at University homecoming parade
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• The Darkness' Justin Hawkins responds to backlash over his criticism of Yungblud's Ozzy tribute
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• Dave Cousins 1994 album with Brian Willoughby, The Bridge, gets new makeover
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud confirm collaboration details
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• “Nine Inch Nails, man…”: Jeff Bridges speaks for all of us on the excellence of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s Tron: Ares soundtrack
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• “Hard rock needed a miracle and it found one in this masterpiece”: The best rock debut album from every year of the 1970s
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• The best metal albums of 2025 (so far)
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• Highwire Saints share cover of Badlands’ classic track “Dreams In The Dark”
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• Paradise Lost Ascension review: The godfathers of goth metal still find glee in gloom
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• Dirty Honey launch video for their cover of Bad Company’s track “Rock Steady”
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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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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Yes announce new reissue of Fly From Here: Return Trip with Atmos mix
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• Jay Jay French mum on why Mark Mendoza not part of Twisted Sister’s upcoming reunion shows
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• Lorna Shore don't want to be deathcore's biggest band - they want to be the biggest band in metal
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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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• Slash announces Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival live album and concert film
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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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• “To the DEATH and far beyond!”: This iconic black metal band have announced they’re splitting up – but not before one final 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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• "It's been a really amazing and bittersweet process." Matt Cameron on the emotion of making a new Soundgarden album using demo vocals recorded by the late Chris Cornell
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• Watch Slash and Steven Tyler guest with the Joe Perry Project in Hollywood
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