Rock News 2025-09-30

• "Nobody liked the song when I put it in the cut!" Why Peacemaker showrunner James Gunn used a cult Swedish metal band to soundtrack that shocking episode six twist
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• “It’s damn near impossible to adequately explain the impact of this album. We didn’t know what hit us”: The best rock debut album from every year of the 1980s
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• “She builds songs like Roman roads. She won’t let the hills and rivers of convention or compromise get in the way. It’s a straight line from her heart to yours”: Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love, by some of the artists it inspired
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• Linkin Park just did a surprise set on Kai Cenat's record-breaking Mafiathon 3 livestream - watch videos here
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• Thrice – Horizons/West review: timeless elegance from one-time post-hardcore wonderkids
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• New singer announced for Rick Wakeman's upcoming English Rock Ensemble tour
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• Ghost announce 2026 North American tour
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• “I became more and more angry. Love is like a mental disease that everybody wants to catch… It can feel so damaging when you’re in the middle of it”: Opeth and the making of Sorceress
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• “He said, ‘Between you and I, I’ve written a Coronation Street script’”: Morrissey once accosted a Corrie star, asked to be taken to the set and revealed he’d pitched to write for the show
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 29, 2025
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• “Dismissed because it doesn’t sound anything like Yes, it’s best to dispense with prog expectations and enjoy the fun”: Alan White’s only solo album, Ramshackled, echoes his earlier times
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• V-Twins are back after 24 year hiatus with new single “Hit Me In Overdrive”
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• Watch Eddie Vedder join Tedeschi Trucks Band for blistering cover of The Seeker by The Who
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• “I’m old. I don’t give a **** what I do anymore!”: Bruce Springsteen has opened up on why he agreed to a film being made about his life
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• “This is it, folks. The start of a genuine phenomenon”: The best metal debut album from every year of the 1990s
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• You can now watch the epic metal doc, Into The Void: Life, Death & Heavy Metal on Hulu - here's the cheapest ways to watch it, starting from free...
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• "I always thought power metal is cheesy. We are not cheesy, **** that." Pumpkins, power metal and the mostunexpected reunion in metal: Helloween are better than ever
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• Sleazy Sweet unveil video for title track from their debut album ‘Sleazy Party’
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• Lamb Of God seem to be teasing new music for later this week
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• "It's incredible to see them back together. Paul McCartney was actually there!" Leonardo DiCaprio gives his review of the Oasis reunion show in Pasadena, California
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• Watch Slayer charge through Hell Awaits during the fieriest rehearsal video you’ll probably ever see
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• Gyasi drops new single “Apple Tree”
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• The Gems share video for piano version of their track “Like A Phoenix”
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• New book ‘American Song’ exploring the Untold Story of the Sunset Strip’s Hair Metal Zenith out on Oct. 1st
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• Watch the surviving members of REO Speedwagon's classic lineup reunite for the first time in 37 years
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• “The first thing I did in the morning was take a fix… I don’t know why I started. I suppose it was to overcome my insecurity”: He was a member of one of the most famous supergroups of the late 60s. But this forgotten great died in poverty aged just 43
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• “It was prophetic. Right after that exploded, Limp Bizkit, all of these groups, was doing what was being done on that record”: This 1993 action movie was a bomb. But it produced one of the most revolutionary soundtracks of the decade
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• Stryper to release Christmas album ‘The Greatest Gift of All’ on November 21st
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• Dirtbag Republic announce first ever vinyl reissues of their debut and sophomore albums
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• Sonic Youth are teasing fans with the promise of something coming in 2026
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• "I liked heavy metal because everyone hated it." Paradise Lost's Nick Holmes on dodging plant pots, nearly-severed fingers and why nu metal ruined metal
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• Jethro Tull announce newly remastered reissue of Aqualung Live
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• The Poodles with original member Pontus Norgren reunite to celebrate their 20th Anniversary in 2026
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• Sainted Sinners unveil video for new single “World’s On Fire” from upcoming album ‘High On Fire’
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• Accept and guitarist Uwe Lulis part ways as band returns to two player guitar line-up
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• Paul McCartney hadn’t played this Beatles classic in full since 1965. That changed last night
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne unite for charity version of Black Sabbath’s classic track “War Pigs”
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• “Two nights of heat, jumping, singing, passion, rawk, roll and filming”: Ghost delivered a blockbuster concert movie with Rite Here Rite Now. They’re going in a totally different direction with the follow up
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• "I've never talked about progressive rock, or thought that we were": David Gilmour says Pink Floyd were never progressive rock
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• “You cannot visit the scene. The scene is now in the bedroom. There isn’t a group of people forcing each other to improve”: Roy Harper wants to hear new ambitious music, but knows why he’s struggling
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• Video footage from Crashdïet’s ‘Rest In Sleaze 20th Anniversary’ show on September 19th
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• "It's Axl like you've never seen him before, on the front lines of a battle for humanity's future": Introducing Axl Rose: Half-human, half-robot comic book hero
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• Watch King Crimson 80s affiliate band Beat perform Elephant Talk live
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• “I don’t try to point out stupidity, and I don’t like to make people feel bad – unless they annoy me”: The Beatles-inspired 90s song that finally gave these thrash heavyweights the mainstream hit that had eluded them
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• Battle Beast launch video for new single “Angel of Midnight” from upcoming album ‘Steelbound’
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• 12 songs that prove The Beatles really rocked
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• The David Bowie albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
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• Sprints All That Is Over review: one of Ireland’s most thrilling bands are reborn with one of 2025's best records
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• Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine’s spat was blown out of proportion, says support act: “Whatever was going on, they were professional enough to keep it from affecting the tour”
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• "Ten publishers came after us immediately so we pulled it after a week": The story of the great lost Replacements album they never made
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• Creeper share new single Prey For The Night, another typically understated gem from the goth-punk giants
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• Rick Wakeman shares video for new single, the gently haunting Melancholia
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• Temple Balls unleash video for new single “There Will Be Blood” from upcoming self-titled album
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• "I watched Ozzy's last concert!" Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley on why he used Metallica, Sabbath, Pearl Jam and more to soundtrack season one
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• From Taylor to Turnstile and more... Hayley Williams' seven best guest spots
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• “Some people were crying”: Metallica’s Robert Trujillo remembers watching Black Sabbath soundcheck at Back To The Beginning
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• "There’s really no way you should be ignoring this band." If you're going to dive into one metal album this week, you should probably make it Orbit Culture's excellent Death Above Life
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• “I have to make the responsible decision – there’s just no way I can sing like this”: Avenged Sevenfold have postponed their 2025 South American tour at the last minute due to M Shadows’ vocal injury
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• "Smell this! It smells like my childhood!" Bombsites, buttocks, and two encounters with Ozzy Osbourne
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• “We opened with it and the crowd broke through the barrier. We had to stop midway because people were getting hurt”: The game-changing late 80s single that put an obscure band from San Francisco on the map and helped ignite the alt rock explosion
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• Alcatrazz share re-recorded version of their song “Hiroshima Mon Amour”
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• "If you wondered how Fleetwood Mac evolved into the Rumours-era juggernaut, look no further than Buckingham Nicks": Lindsey and Stevie invent the future on long-lost now-found album
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• “We stand for something more than a faded sticker on a skateboard”: Every Propagandhi album ranked from worst to best
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• Annie Haslam to team up with Renaissance founder Jim McCarty for US live shows
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