Rock News 2025-10-29

• “It twists their carnival metal into a set of huge, sticky choruses”: Avatar’s Don’t Go In The Forest is the Halloween metal album for people who like their massive 80s tunes with a side order of creepiness
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• Slash Explains Axl Rose's Viral Mic Toss at Last Week's GN'R Show
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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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• Saxon, The Temperance Movement, The Wildhearts and more confirmed for 2026 Maid Of Stone festival
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• "That song had a primal power, like it was about to come off the rails": The story of the speed-freak anthem that was the most important song Lemmy ever wrote
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• Steve Vai Says Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Bold as Love’ Had a ‘Huge Impact'
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• “We were being told that we were going to be the new Nine Inch Nails, the new Nirvana, even though we don’t sound remotely like them”: The story of Godflesh – the cult metal duo worshipped by Metallica, Korn and Type O Negative
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• “For the few brave souls who invested, it was no easy listen. It was the most extreme music the young rock epoch had yet produced”: This 1969 album was a prog leap too far – and it wasn’t even by a prog band
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• Paul Rodgers Loves Jimi Hendrix’s Emotional ‘Bold as Love'
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• "There's loads of Hives in South America": The Hives on making their Back In Black, royal waves, and how the official franchise programme is going
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• "Even though he's dead, I believe that in a hundred years' time from now people will still be listening to him": Steve Vai on the wild genius of Frank Zappa – and the two words that made him want to join his band
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• Bruce Springsteen Movie Fails to 'Deliver' at the Box Office
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• "While there's still a possibility of Thunder coming back, I willkeep the door open": Luke Morley on his band, his other band, his solo career and wearing silver suits in the sun
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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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• Warren Haynes Reconnects With His Roots on New Album
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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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• Dweezil Zappa: Jimi Hendrix's 'Bold as Love' is an 'Audio Movie'
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• The Moment Ace Frehley Knew He Needed to Leave Kiss
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• Hear Kiss Go Country on Previously Unreleased Song 'Mistake'
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• We asked Metallica’s Kirk Hammett to name the best Motörhead song and this is what he told us
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• Porcupine Tree offshoot Voyage 35 announce European and UK tour dates
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• A new Tony Banks biography is to be published in February
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• “He heard it and had this massive smile on his face!”: Ozzy Osbourne was a big fan of Judas Priest’s War Pigs cover, according to Rob Halford
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• The Day Bill Berry Left R.E.M. to Become a Farmer
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• "The lyrics weren't a celebration of excess or debauchery, but a detached description of what was going on": The story of Ian Dury's biggest hit, a song that was never actually a hit at all
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• Paul Simon, 'The Rhythm of the Saints': Retro Album Review
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• "A naturally downbeat portrait of a breakdown, albeit one soundtracked by some terrific tunes": Jeremy Allen White shines in the Boss's breakdown biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
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• “People deserve to hear that music. And I wouldn’t play it if we didn’t do it justice”: Sammy Hagar announces a UK arena tour – and he’s bringing the Van Halen songs
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• The Biggest Rock Tours Announced for 2026 (So Far)
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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 have a history of reacting badly to music initially and developing a love later!” The singer who didn’t want to sing, and the change of approach that gave his band a second lease of life
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• “They can write an arena-ready anthem with their eyes closed”: Goth’n’roll vampires Creeper are dead and loving it on brilliantly bloody new album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death
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• Bon Jovi's 2026 Tour Announced: New Dates
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• "She was so ****ed off that she tried to get us chucked out of the hotel." The wild night Green Day trashed their hotel room, rang a Rolling Stone and did something unspeakable over an Oscar-winning actress' balcony
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• Mastodon’s Brent Hinds had an “entire album” of unreleased solo songs, according to former bandmate
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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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• Brian Setzer's Health Struggles Lead to Tour Cancellation
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• “We miss you. It’s been far too long. We found a solution.” A Perfect Circle announce first European tour for seven years
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• Sammy Hagar Laughs Off Viral Impersonator Arrest Hoax
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 27, 2025
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• U2 Shares Fresh Update on Larry Mullen Jr.’s Health
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• Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Pink Floyd commemorated in new poem from Poet Laureate Simon Armitage
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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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• Bryan Adams Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• 2005 is calling, and it wants you back: Why the return of the MP3 player is a mini vinyl revival in the making
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud team up with Steve Martin for banjo-boosted version of My Only Angel
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• On This Day in 1962: James Brown Records 'Live at the Apollo'
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• "Ace's is easily the best of the solo albums, although the bar is set pretty low": In which Ace Frehley annoys Gene and Paul by releasing the best and most successful of the Kiss solos
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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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• Ozzy Osbourne, 'Ozzmosis': Retro Album Review
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• “As anniversary editions go, this one is exhaustively thorough”: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s One Size Fits All, five decades on
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• The 35 Songs Rush Could Play on Their 2026 Reunion Tour
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• Pink Floyd Album Honored by British Poet Laureate
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• Is Peter Criss Announcing His New Album on Halloween?
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• Kiss Fights Grunge to a Draw on 'Carnival of Souls': Retro Review
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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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• Hear Steve Martin on Aerosmith + Yungblud's 'My Only Angel' Remix
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• Stray Cats Cancel First 2 Shows of US Tour Over 'Serious Illness'
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• 15 Chad Smith Collaborations Outside the Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• “There’s no other band that drew me in like them. It was the mood and atmosphere – and the aggression”: Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti on the visionary extreme metal band who changed his life as a teenager – and got him fanboying out as an adult
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• Ace Frehley Honored at Memorial Attended by Ex-Kiss Bandmates
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• “What can we do to make people realise what a great soul we lost? We can turn that sad energy into this great album”: Tragedy lies behind most of Mastodon’s music. Hushed And Grim was no different
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• Last Chance to Vote for Rock’s Spookiest Song: Maiden vs. Sabbath
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• Radiohead Blames Grief and Depression for Not Touring
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• "I think the more metal people are, the nicer they are." Alter Bridge on the huge impact one wrestling star has had on their career - and why metalheads are the nicest people going
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• How Bryan Adams Snagged the Reclusive Mutt Lange For His New LP
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• Sammy Hagar Is Doing Something He Hasn’t Done for 30 Years
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• "For months and months, I was the only one who ever heard the song. I kept it in my back pocket": The true story of the Aerosmith classic built from a riff its writer almost didn't share
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• Tool, Bring Me The Horizon, My Chemical Romance, Shinedown, Halestorm, Megadeth, Alter Bridge and over 130 more bands will play next year's Sonic Temple festival in Ohio
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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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• Robert Fripp dons Satanic nun costume as Toyah sings an AC/DC classic and we may never sleep again
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• “When the band played, we sold out to 14,000 people a night. If I play, I’m not sure 14 people will turn up”: He's fought off a crisis of confidence, but the frontman of one of prog’s greatest groups still doesn’t know who he is
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• “There were three hundred people there, and two hundred of those sang along to it, even though they’d never heard it before”: How a pre-fame Whitesnake made an overlooked R&B song their own – and finally got the blessing of the cult soul icon who wrote it
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• Paul Rodgers Says Bad Company 'May Well' Perform at Rock Hall
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• ZZ Top Flies Too Close to the Sun on 'Afterburner': Retro Review
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• Gary Numan Returns to the North America With Dates Into 2026
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• "When we would align, it was powerful." Billy Corgan praises estranged bassist D’arcy Wretzky's contributions to the Smashing Pumpkins
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• "It was quite a dramatic scene": Brass bat attached to the birthplace of heavy metal in unauthorised Ozzy-themed guerrilla protest
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• “You can get to where you just want to keep your fanbase and make some money. We’re never going to compromise the art, and this is where it took us”: The former metalcore brats who astonished everyone with a prog concept album
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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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• Wolfgang Van Halen reacts to the term ‘nepo baby’: “I’m not going to name names, but in some cases it does apply”
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• Bob Dylan, 'Bootleg Series 18: Through the Open Window': Review
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• Watch Wolfgang Van Halen demonstrate finger-tapping on promising new music show Song Cake
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• Radiohead open up on "witch hunt" over their Israel stance
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