Rock News 2025-10-01

• “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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• “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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• The Cure announce huge summer 2026 UK and Ireland shows with star-studded supporting cast
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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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• The David Bowie albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
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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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• “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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• “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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• "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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• Steve Harris explains it was drummer Nicko McBrain’s decision to step away from Iron Maiden
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• New singer announced for Rick Wakeman's upcoming English Rock Ensemble 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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• "I've got blisters on my fingers!" 12 songs that prove The Beatles really rocked
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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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• Sonic Youth are teasing fans with the promise of something coming in 2026
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• Zeppelin and Floyd hoped his magic would rub off on them. The Happy Mondays just wanted to kidnap him. Donovan just dropped the most epic, name-dropping answer to a question ever
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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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• Thrice – Horizons/West review: timeless elegance from one-time post-hardcore wonderkids
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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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• “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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• Lamb Of God seem to be teasing new music for later this week
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• Hot Topic’s site-wide sale has 30% off your favourite band’s tees - Sleep Token, Metallica, Maiden, Deftones, Ghost & more
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• “People were letting surfers fall hard into the crowd”: Fans at recent Sleep Token show reportedly dropped crowd-surfers, and now everyone is arguing about concert etiquette
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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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• Watch King Crimson 80s affiliate band Beat perform Elephant Talk live
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• Battle Beast launch video for new single “Angel of Midnight” from upcoming album ‘Steelbound’
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• Ghost announce 2026 North American tour
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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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• The Poodles with original member Pontus Norgren reunite to celebrate their 20th Anniversary in 2026
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• Temple Balls unleash video for new single “There Will Be Blood” from upcoming self-titled album
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• “It was like watching Muhammad Ali shadow box – that intense”: Metallica’s Robert Trujillo on watching Black Sabbath soundcheck at Back To The Beginning
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• Sleazy Sweet unveil video for title track from their debut album ‘Sleazy Party’
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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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• Watch the surviving members of REO Speedwagon's classic lineup reunite for the first time in 37 years
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• Accept and guitarist Uwe Lulis part ways as band returns to two player guitar line-up
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• "Smell this! It smells like my childhood!" Bombsites, buttocks, and two encounters with Ozzy Osbourne
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• The pride of New York City: A beginner's guide to White Lion in five essential albums
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• “If you persist in doing the things that you want to do to satisfy yourself, you can live your whole life that way”: watch a heartfelt message to a young musician from the late, great Steve Albini
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• Gyasi drops new single “Apple Tree”
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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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• Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne unite for charity version of Black Sabbath’s classic track “War Pigs”
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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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• Sick Of It All singer Lou Koller says his oesophageal cancer has returned
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 29, 2025
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• Walmart's Bricktember Lego sale is about to come tumbling down – with only hours left, here's 6 of my top picks, including Star Wars & Harry Potter - save up to 30%
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• "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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• "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've never talked about progressive rock, or thought that we were": David Gilmour says Pink Floyd were never progressive rock
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• Watch Slayer charge through Hell Awaits during the fieriest rehearsal video you’ll probably ever see
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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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• Watch Eddie Vedder join Tedeschi Trucks Band for blistering cover of The Seeker by The Who
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• Alcatrazz share re-recorded version of their song “Hiroshima Mon Amour”
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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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• "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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• Ozzy Osbourne's face appears on the side of New Zealand's tallest building
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• Chiller Theatre announces Vinnie Vincent no longer appearing at Expo on October 24th & 25th
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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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• Black Swan unveil visualizer video for new single “The Fire and The Flame”
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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 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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• Stryper to release Christmas album ‘The Greatest Gift of All’ on November 21st
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• From Taylor to Turnstile and more... Hayley Williams' seven best guest spots
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• An old skit of Ozzy Osbourne acting as Gandalf The Grey in The Lord Of The Rings is going viral, and it’s magical
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• "We had a decision to make as to whether we wanted to carry on or not": Steve Harris on Nicko McBrain's departure from Iron Maiden
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• The Gems share video for piano version of their track “Like A Phoenix”
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