Rock News 2025-09-23

• "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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• The Gems unleash video for new track “Year of The Snake”
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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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• Debate: who are the greatest black metal band of all time?
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• Iron Maiden announce epic Knebworth show for 2026 - plus two huge festival dates
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud launch visualizer video for new single “My Only Angel”
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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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• "When people watch us, it's like somebody checks a box that says ‘anything is permissible’. We've had limbs thrown on stage, wheelchairs…" Five hilarious minutes with Gwar front-thing, Blöthar The Berserker
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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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• "This is the last time we’re going to get on a bus and tour all over North America." Shirley Manson blames record industry "thievery" for forcing Garbage to make a drastic decision on touring
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• Gotthard unleash lyric video for new single “Ride The Wave” from upcoming album ‘More Stereo Crush’
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• “You could never call us pretentious. We were a rock’n’roll band. A rock’n’roll band that liked to experiment”: The wild story of Family, the British hellraisers that John Lennon loved and Middle America hated
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• Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an I Prevail cover and t-shirt you won’t find in the shops
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• Massive Attack to remove their music from Spotify in protest against CEO’s AI military investments
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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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• “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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• “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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• "If you already liked Supertramp, Brother Where You Bound has everything you liked about them": Rick Davies takes control on Supertramp's first album without Roger Hodgson
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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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• “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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• Donnie Vie performs live with Enuff Z’Nuff as part of Illinois Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame induction
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• “Proof they can go for the heart as well as the head, encouraging thought and emotional commitment”: Marillion’s 20 best songs as chosen by Prog readers (the band can’t believe Number 7)
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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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• V-Twins are back after 24 year hiatus with new single “Hit Me In Overdrive”
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• Communication breakdown: Led Zeppelin announce Record Store Day release then delete announcement
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 22, 2025
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• Gary Hoey and Lita Ford release video for new track “You Know I Would”
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• Four-fifths of the Genesis Lamb line-up reunite at Atmos playback in London
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• “Huge, tattooed men were crying”: Joey Jordison’s sisters reveal how they helped one of the late Slipknot drummer’s unreleased albums see the light of day
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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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• Watch Nancy Wilson join Chappell Roan onstage for a rollicking cover of Heart classic Barracuda
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• US prog rockers Elder unveil 18-minute new work Liminality/Dream State Return
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• Chez Kane unveils video for title track from upcoming album ‘Reckless’
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• Rick Wakeman celebrated in new set of six stamps designed by Roger Dean
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• The Boston albums you need to hear - and one to avoid
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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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• “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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• Hear four classic Kittie songs re-recorded on new EP Spit XXV
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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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• “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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• Gyasi to embark on ‘The Good Part Tour’ throughout Europe and the UK in October
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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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• End of an era — Hannes Braun stepping down as Kissin’ Dynamite’s lead vocalist
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• President King Of Terrors review: Metal's most hyped newcomers show plenty of promise but still have a way to go
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• “Categorically false”: Fleetwood Mac deny reports that they will reunite to play at JK Rowling’s birthday bash
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• Kid Rock is banned from performing in California
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• “I’d had too much to drink and didn’t consider how inappropriate or hurtful it might be”: Emmy-nominated actor apologises for having picture taken with Marilyn Manson
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• Phish release statement after stabbing incident outside show leaves one dead and two injured
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• My Chemical Romance announce The Black Parade 2026 tour
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• Buckcherry share lyric video for new single “Hello Goodbye”
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• Thrice announce UK tour dates for 2026
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• "We met somewhere in the crossroads and learned a lot from each other": Rodney Crowell on country royalty, loving Southern rock again and new album Airline Highway
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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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• Video footage from Crashdïet’s ‘Rest In Sleaze 20th Anniversary’ show on September 19th
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• A Freddie Mercury Memorial Garden has opened in West London
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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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• Dirtbag Republic announce first ever vinyl reissues of their debut and sophomore albums
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• Dream Theater announce new 40th anniversary live album
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• "I need one!": Watch Wolfgang Van Halen shred through a fart pedal
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• “We were shocked it went so well! But this music has lived within us for a long time – it makes sense for it to be natural”: Auri have finally come to life with III: Candles & Beginnings
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Biffy Clyro Futique review: catchy, weird, often warm and occasionally crushingly sad, it's everything that makes Biffy one of the UK's greatest bands
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• “I was not expecting how open and honest Sharon Osbourne was”: From Randy Rhoads to Chuck Schuldiner, new docuseries Into The Void is bringing heavy metal’s human stories to the mainstream
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• “David Byron refused to be helped. On one occasion he slapped me round the face, kicked and screamed at me. We couldn’t take it any more”: The stellar rise and chaotic fall of Uriah Heep, the 70s rock giants who tore themselves apart
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• Extreme drop video for track “X Out” from their 2023 album ‘Six’
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