Rock News 2025-11-04

• The Grateful Dead's 'American Beauty': Retro Album Review
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• Enter Now: Here's How You Could Win a $500 Target Gift Card
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• “I’ve always been kind of an exhibitionist and it was an interesting experience. I took it very seriously”: Biohazard’s Evan Seinfeld on the NSFW side-hustle that made him more money than music – and why fans should get over it
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• Two Metallica fans have been arrested after climbing over part of the band's set at a show in Perth, Australia on Saturday
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• “It was those first two lines. I felt like it was speaking to my life. I knew I could deliver that song with conviction”: One day Sebastian Bach was playing to Jon Bon Jovi’s parents. The next he was singing one of hair metal’s greatest anthems
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• Are you the ultimate Bon Jovi fan? Take our quiz to find out
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• Nancy Wilson Pens Poignant Lyrics for Early Heart Associate
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• Todd Rundgren on How Jimi Hendrix Evolved With ‘Bold as Love'
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• What It Was Like to Be Home Sick From School in the 1980s
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• “I asked them, ‘What’s it like to be famous?’ and they all said, ‘We hate it’”: The story of the landmark grunge album that paved the way for Nirvana’s Nevermind but set the band that made it on the path to darkness
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• Megadeth's Final Album to Feature Cover of Classic Metallica Song
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• How Nirvana’s ‘MTV Unplugged’ Helped Fans Grieve Kurt Cobain
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• AC/DC Announces 2026 South and North American Tour
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• Pierre Robert, Philadelphia Radio Legend, Dead at 70
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• "How all deluxe releases should be done": The latest upmarket makeover of The Who's Who Are You is interesting and exhaustive
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• "I was in the hotel with Joni Mitchell, but then the helicopter pilots decided they wanted more money": The last interview with Terry Reid
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• Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses and Linkin Park to headline Download 2026: over 90 bands confirmed for next year's lineup
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• “60 years from now, I can look back and go, ‘I did a song with the dude from Slipknot! And it was good!’”: What it’s like collaborating with Corey Taylor, according to Ho99o9’s Yeti Bones
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• 11 Famous Halloween Rock Concerts
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• Iron Maiden Expands 2026 North American Tour
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• Sting Extends North American '3.0' Tour Into 2026
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• Devon Allman on Jimi Hendrix and His 'Triumph in Spirit'
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• Ace Frehley Was Working on a New Book
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• “As sprawling musically as it is thematically, closing an epic cycle in style”: Lunatic Soul’s The World Under Unsun is a triumphant journey’s end
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• Slayer’s Kerry King prefers Metallica over Megadeth because “Metallica has a singer”
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• Barrett, Buffett Among 2025's Highest-Earning Dead Celebrities
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• Bootsy Collins Explains Why Jimi Hendrix Was a ‘Magical Musician'
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• King Diamond given lifelong honorary award by Danish Arts Foundation
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• Campaign launched to posthumously award Ace Frehley honorary astronaut status
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• "I've always hated it. I sound like a little kid!" From label interference to an acrimonious split, the story behind the classic Evanescence song that Amy Lee (eventually) learned to love
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• What’s the greatest prog concept album of all time?
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• “He couldn’t stand up so I hit him over the head with my bass. He fell to the floor. I ran away… I didn’t know if he was still alive”: The bassist who survived Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull and believing he’d murdered his bandmate on stage
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• Paul Rodgers pulls out of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony
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• Ozzy Osbourne's Grandson Bites Head off 'Bat' in New Video
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• Savatage announce European headline shows and festival dates for 2026
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• Artists Recall Their Time on Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue
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• “We were never meant to be a professional band...it’s like, ‘Oh my God, what have I done?'" A politician's assassination, a motorbike ride and a gothic Western: the story of the song that crowned one of Europe's most unlikely star bands
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• Robert Plant and Saving Grace Shine at First US Show: Set List
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• James Taylor Announces 2026 UK and European Tour
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• AC/DC announce 2026 tour with 21 new dates confirmed
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 3, 2025
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• “I was with Ozzy nine months and it didn’t end in a good break-up”: Drum legend Carmine Appice on getting high with Jimi Hendrix, falling out with Ozzy Osbourne and the late guitar hero he spoke to just before he died
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• Peter Criss Announces New Self-Titled Album
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• Stevie Nicks Reveals She and Lindsey Buckingham Are Talking Again
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• Tom Petty's Awkward 'Spinal Tap' Moment
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• "Did you ever have one of those days when you want to go out, buy an enormous bag of coke and dive into it face-first?" Memories of a Hollywood night out with Ozzy Osbourne
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• “This is a tip of a hat to Metallica for everything that they’ve done, and everything that we’ve done”: Dave Mustaine explains why Megadeth reimagined Ride The Lightning for their final album
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• Paul Rodgers Will Not Perform at Rock Hall of Fame Induction
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• “There’s no such thing as coincidence. It’s about being in a flow state. Joining the band I tripped to as a teenager… it all makes sense”: Gong may have lost some humour and older songs, but Kavus Torabi says they’re still supernatural
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• “Leonardo DiCaprio released a movie with the exact same storyline. It was as if he’d bugged the room! We scrapped the whole thing”: When fate intervened to destroy an art-rock record, its creators wrote an album about fate
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• Bob Dylan 'Bootleg Series' Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• “I’d love to play the battlefields where the song actually happened”: Sabaton’s singer wants to do a gig on the beaches of Normandy, on the anniversary of D-Day
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• "A vivid chronicle of Bob Dylan's rapid ascent and growth as an artist": The latest edition of The Bootleg Series tracks Dylan from Minnesota to Greenwich Village
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• 7 Dumbest Kiss Lyrics, as Chosen by My Wife
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• "John Lennon walked past me and said, 'Great record'": The story of the Alice Cooper song that began as a failed single on an album one critic called "a tragic waste of plastic" but finished as a worldwide smash hit
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• “Even my dental hygienist sent me something the other day to say they were all singing it at some wedding reception”: How a British boogie-rock band turned a minor John Fogerty hit into an all-time classic that kicked off the biggest gig in history
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• Scott Sorry, former bassist with The Wildhearts, dead at 47
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• “Learned from the greatest". Watch Ozzy Osbourne's toddler grandson bite the head off a toy bat
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• “Idiosyncrasies flow naturally; melodies hit hard, seamlessly twisting in unexpected ways”: Gazpacho’s Magic 8-Ball explores characters at breaking point
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• "I don't know if rock needs saving, but if Wolf and his crew can't do the job it's because we failed in getting the message out that the messiah is here": Wolfgang Van Halen finds his voice and sets a high bar on third Mammoth album
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• "We wanted Wayne Kramer from The MC5 to be our guitarist": Founding Motörhead drummer Lucas Fox looks back on the band's earliest days
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• “The edges were bound to fray – we were bound to take from each other. David Gilmour openly accused Roger Waters of copying me”: The influential folk singer-songwriter who never quite gained stardom, but gained massive respect instead
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• "Speaking to your own child about that is very personal, vulnerable and emotional." System Of A Down's Serj Tankian reveals why he covered a Chris De Burgh classic - and teamed up with an EDM legend
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• "I dug the record 'cause it was incorporating hip hop into rock. I was like, 'This is cool!'" How one rap legend joined the unlikeliest tour ever to help bring hip hop to the nu metal generation
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• On This Day in 1993: Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore Was Arrested
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• Liam Gallagher Slams Fan Who Launched Flare at Oasis Show
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• "These typical metalheads, long-haired with their jackets, they’re the ones standing there and singing Backstreet Boys and Cascada." Five minutes with Electric Callboy, the band "making metal accessible"
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• When I was 14, I thought Limp Bizkit were the coolest band in the world. At 38, I often still do
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• Why Kenny Wayne Shepherd Loves Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Bold as Love’
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• “Arnold saw me and went, ‘You! Out!’. He didn’t want anybody challenging him”: The incredible story of the 80s heavy metal bodybuilder who bent steel bars with his teeth and links Ozzy Osbourne, Jimmy Page and Arnold Schwarzenegger
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• "It was my first time hearing heavy metal – and I was terrified of it." Here are 8 spooky metal classics you need on your Halloween playlist this year
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• Donna Jean Godchaux, Grateful Dead Singer, Dies
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• Great new proggy sounds you must hear from Another Realm, Unprocessed, The Owl Service and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
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• “I loved working with bands like Opeth and Marillion. I was starting to get a name for myself. But my New Year resolution was to learn to say ‘no’”: In 2009 this notorious workaholic was trying to do less. His career suggests it didn’t go that way
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• Soundgarden Members Talk Final Album and RRHOF Performance Guests
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• Asia announce a low-key UK warm-up charity show ahead of next year's Japanese tour
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• “You’ll hear him say everything from, ‘I never wanted it to be a single’ to ‘I hated the song’”: The huge Linkin Park hit that Chester Bennington didn’t even want on Hybrid Theory
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• Elton John, 'Tumbleweed Connection': Retro Album Review
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• “The pitch was: ‘Kid plays record backwards to unleash revengeful ghost rocker’”: How Ozzy Osbourne, Gene Simmons and Eddie Munson’s “long lost cousin” helped make the greatest Halloween-friendly heavy metal horror movie of the 80s
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• Pupil Slicer have just made one of the most diverse, engrossing and essential heavy albums of 2025
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• George Thorogood Announces First 2026 Tour Dates
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• Paul McCartney Reflects on 1969 Death Rumor
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• Eagles Album Closing Songs Ranked Worst to Best
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