Rock News 2025-10-26

• “I once had a flirtation with heavy metal, and I regretted it very much. It didn’t seem to have any sense”: The British hellraisers who put legendary Beatles producer George Martin off working with hard rock bands
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• “I told him, ‘This is only a small town, we don’t have the infrastructure for an artist like you!’”: Why Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris was turned down after asking to play power metal stars Sabaton’s hometown festival
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• Hear Steve Martin on Aerosmith + Yungblud's 'My Only Angel' Remix
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• Bon Jovi Announces Return to the Stage for 2026 Tour Dates
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• Trivium’s Matt Heafy thinks it’s “silly” that their co-headline tour with Bullet For My Valentine only lasted three months: “We had to completely uproot our entire year”
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• Hear Kiss Go Country on Previously Unreleased Song 'Mistake'
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• “A fascinating opportunity to look under the hood of the songs and reimagine the strangeness they could conjure”: King Crimson’s In The Wake Of Poseidon and Lizard ultimate editions
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• "A record was made to reward close listening": Elton John - Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (50th Anniversary Edition)
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• Rush Adds 18 More Stops to 2026 Reunion Tour
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• Dave Ball of Soft Cell Dies at 66
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• "I don't think it would be the right environment for a proper rock and roll show." Guns N' Roses man Slash on Las Vegas Sphere
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• Martin Barre announces UK book tour dates for November and December
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• The story of the terrible 90s horror film with the trailblazing soundtrack that mixed Metallica and Korn with Orbital, Moby and The Prodigy
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• Foo Fighters Announce 2026 Summer Stadium Tour
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• “I had no idea it would be such a catastrophic event in people’s lives!" How leaving Iron Maiden, A Nightmare On Elm Street and the acoustic album that never was led Bruce Dickinson to write Tears Of The Dragon
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• “I was just getting my sound when David shouted: ‘OK, done!’ I was like: ‘But I haven’t actually started yet!’”: The future Motörhead guitarist who recorded a last-minute guitar solo for David Bowie
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• Ozzy Osbourne, 'Ozzmosis': Retro Album Review
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• “There was a real sense of excitement. We had a point to prove: this is the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world." How Iron Maiden went from East End outcasts to the world's most loved heavy metal band
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• Mammoth, 'The End': Review
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• Dweezil Zappa: Jimi Hendrix's 'Bold as Love' is an 'Audio Movie'
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• Jon Bon Jovi hangs with fans on the tube as he prepares for long-awaited return to touring
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• "I was in a cosy thing that went on too long... and I made a great escape": Robert Plant on musical freedom, unfinished business, and getting confused with Robert Palmer
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• Al Jardine’s Long Journey to the Beach Boys and Perfect Harmony
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• “Completely spontaneously, I started yodelling. It came from nowhere”: How an eccentric Dutch progressive rock group made the strangest hit single of 1973
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• Kiss, 'Hotter Than Hell': Retro Album Review
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• Calling all moshers! Get the new Metal Hammer with an exclusive Malevolence cover and cross-body bag
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• A Spinal Tap Concert Film Is Coming to Theaters in 2026
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• Cool new proggy sounds you must hear from Charlotte Wessels, Leprous, Hällas and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
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• "It shouldn’t be a luxury to be able to afford to go and see live music." The Anchoress offers concessionary tickets to November London show
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• Disturbed’s David Draiman is beefing with John Cusack, after the Hollywood star called the singer “psychotic” for signing an IDF bomb
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• Listen to Foo Fighters' New Song 'Asking for a Friend'
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• “We thought, ‘Wow, that’s really cool – this was the guy that did all those crazy, terrible things’”: How Slayer made Angel Of Death – the fastest, freakiest and most controversial song in thrash metal history
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• Bon Jovi announce return to the road for 2026, with shows in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York confirmed
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• Foreigner and Lou Gramm Have More New Music in the Works
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• Ace Frehley Honored at Memorial Attended by Ex-Kiss Bandmates
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• Watch Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall drop out of a helicopter onto the Sydney Opera House, because he’s cooler than you in every way
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• "It certainly rubbed some people up the wrong way": The story of the sexually ambiguous anthem that got Placebo a tour with David Bowie
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• 15 Chad Smith Collaborations Outside the Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• The Moment Ace Frehley Knew He Needed to Leave Kiss
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• “Security will think that you’re either the wife or the girlfriendof someone, or a groupie”: Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia explains how women are “treated differently” in the heavy metal scene
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• Swedish prog rockers Wolverine announce first new album for a decade
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• Paul Rodgers Says Bad Company 'May Well' Perform at Rock Hall
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• Bon Jovi, 'Forever (Legendary Edition)': Review
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• This folk metal band from Inner Mongolia have just made one of the most unique and effortlessly enjoyable albums of 2025
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• The Pineapple Thief's early years on Kscope celebrated with new box set
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• "Proud to call this infinitely modest and generous genius my friend": Brian May shares video of surprise Tony Iommi appearance at Black Sabbath ballet
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• Dion Praises Jimi Hendrix’s Playing on ‘Axis: Bold Is Love'
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• Wolfgang Van Halen comes of age on Mammoth's thundering third album The End
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• "He just couldn’t do it. He had asthma, then he got a throat infection. The whole thing was downhill for him." The bizarre story of how two beloved extreme metal bands suddenly swapped singers...only to swap them straight back again
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• "Part supernatural, part primal, part aggressive adolescent, he’s a super anti-hero." How Iron Maiden's Eddie went from a blood-spewing mask on a drumkit to metal's most iconic mascot
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• "Take cover." Foo Fighters announce 2026 stadium tour with Queens Of The Stone Age - listen to new Foos song Asking For A Friend now
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• “It doesn’t just begin and end; it unfolds, then folds in on itself, and reconfigures with every subsequent play”: The Utopia Strong’s Doperider is an epic psychonaut’s journey
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• “My wife brought the phone out and thought it was a prank call from Maynard from Tool! Nope – it was actually Lars!”: This is what it’s like to audition for Metallica –and not get the job
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Slash Explains Axl Rose's Viral Mic Toss at Last Week's GN'R Show
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• "They're really serious this time": Spinal Tap announce Stonehenge concert film of "final" show with Eric Clapton and Shania Twain
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• On This Day in 1962: James Brown Records 'Live at the Apollo'
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• Rush add even more dates to the tour they added more dates to earlier
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• Iron Maiden Announce 2026 North American Tour Dates
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• 14 Things That’ll Take You Back to a Wild '80s Halloween
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• U2 Shares Fresh Update on Larry Mullen Jr.’s Health
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• "Love Chant is a wonderful and surprisingly vital return to the fray": The Lemonheads' first album of original songs in 20 years is up there with their best
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• “Thumping remixes might test many listeners’ patience, but there are also treasures to be found”: Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds in Deluxe and Ultimate editions
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• "The source material may be way past prime Bon Jovi, but that's almost irrelevant": Jon Bon Jovi gets by with a little help from his friends on revised version of Forever album
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• Win: 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy' Reissue
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• "Oh good lord, we brought the banjo!" Larkin Poe bring southern sugar and smarts to London on their biggest ever UK headline show
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• “It was an additional, surprise, out-of-nowhere track and it went to No.1”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge on the Ozzy Osbourne-inspired anthem that turned his band from occult sensations into bona fide stars
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• Last Chance to Vote for Rock’s Spookiest Song: Maiden vs. Sabbath
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• "It got so blown out of proportion." Slash on Axl's latest outburst and "killer" new Guns N' Roses drummer Isaac Carpenter
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• Rush Thanks Fans for ‘Very Heartwarming’ Support of Anika Nilles
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• "Hearing them was like hearing Bowie for the first time…" The 10 best songs by AFI, as chosen by Creeper's Will Gould
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• The 35 Songs Rush Could Play on Their 2026 Reunion Tour
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• “She had scratches on the side of her face. I said, ‘What happened?’She said, ‘Oh nothing, Keith threw the cat at me’”: Bill Wyman on Jimi Hendrix’s brilliance, Keith Moon’s madness and Mick Jagger’s brutal reaction to him leaving the Rolling Stones,
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• How Bryan Adams Snagged the Reclusive Mutt Lange For His New LP
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• Jason Bonham's Sights Are Set on the Sphere: Interview
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• 10cc drummer Paul Burgess announces departure from the band
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• “I feel like I got jerked at the Grammys. I don’t understand how they get best new artist." From 50 Cent invading the stage to Eminem still grumbling about it years later, the story behind Evanescence's chaotic first big awards win
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• You’ve probably never heard of this band, but their new album is a devastating space-metal odyssey for fans of Pink Floyd, Tool and great music in general
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• Sammy Hagar Laughs Off Viral Impersonator Arrest Hoax
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• Iron Maiden announce Run For Your Lives North American tour for 2026 including Louder Than Life festival - and they'd like you to keep your phones away
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• The Surprising Text Springsteen Sent After His Movie Was Finished
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• Billy Gibbons: Jimi Hendrix Made a Hard Task Look Easy on 'Axis'
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• Jake E. Lee Says Time is Running Out to Save His 'Badlands' Album
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• "She was not a Rush fan." Geddy Lee on Anika Nilles, who will attempt to fill the very big shoes of Neil Peart
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• Deftones’ Chino Moreno once helped Max Cavalera bury Soulfly’s debut album on Native American ground to give it “Indigenous power”
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