Rock News 2025-11-24

• From Max levitating via Kate Bush to Eddie Munson shredding Metallica, a guide to the very best Stranger Things needle drops
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• Win a $1200 Steelheart Leather Jacket
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• The 50 Best Title Tracks That Define Iconic Albums
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• Tom Morello Has Bad News for Audioslave Fans
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• 45 Years Ago: REO Speedwagon Releases 'Hi Infidelity'
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• Why Peter Frampton Left Humble Pie Before 'Rockin' the Fillmore'
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• Watch Robert Plant perform Led Zeppelin's Gallows Pole during Tiny Desk Concert set
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• Where to See Neil Young on His 2026 Love Earth Tour
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• Lawsuit Seeking Millions from Eagles' Don Henley Dismissed
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• “They said, ‘You mean we’ve paid $12,500 for a piano player?’ My publisher said, ‘Yes, but he’s a good piano player’”: The label called it “unsellable”, the critics hated it, but this prog icon’s solo album went on to sell nearly 15 million copies
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• The Time Drummer Jellybean Johnson Dead at 69
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• Masked metal sensations President have written four songs for their debut album, with a lot more on the way: “It takes bits of the EP, and it’s pushing certain elements even further”
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• Top 25 Rock Myths: Chasing the Truth Behind the Music
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• Great White's Mark Kendall Has Stage Four Kidney Cancer
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• “An intense work of dark, progressive beauty staggered out of the wreckage”: Blending Pink Floyd and Kate Bush, this band sustained permanent damage as they tore themselves away from Britpop
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• “I thought no one’s gonna buy this because it’s too long. I thought our label would say, ‘Sorry boys, you’ll be hearing from our lawyers’”: How Genesis wrote one of prog’s wildest epics –with help from a rumoured exorcism
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• “In America you had guys in bed sheets and placards with prayers on picketing the gigs. I said: ‘Who are they here for?’ And they said: ‘You!’”: The unholy AC/DC classic that riled the religious right – and marked the tragic end of an era
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• "It's abundantly clear that this is some of Aerosmith's best work in nearly a quarter of a century." Aerosmith and Yungblud's One More Time EP is a surprising but welcome triumph
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• What do Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, extreme icons Napalm Death and the cold expanses of space have in common? A new documentary featuring music from some of metal’s finest
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• "We owed everybody money. We knew that if the next album didn't succeed, the ship would sink": The inside story of the album that saved Queen
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• "This girl walked up to me and stopped like she’d seen a ghost. She said, 'You’re not dead.' And I said, ‘No, you’re right.'" The sad, messy story of Alice In Chains’ final album with Layne Staley - and the beginning of the end of an era
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• Watch Tool play a bunch of rarities for the first time in 20 years, plus a Black Sabbath cover, during New Zealand shows over the weekend
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• Nikki Sixx Defends Vince Neil's Vocals After Fan Criticism
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• Quiz: How much do you know about Iron Maiden's breakthrough masterpiece The Number Of The Beast?
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• The Best Prog Song by 5 Hair Metal Bands
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• "If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I’ll eat meat - that’s how much I hate Morrissey." The story of the hugely-entertaining, long-running beef between Robert Smith and Morrissey
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• Guns N' Roses Announce First US Concert of 2026
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• ZZ Top Expands 2026 Tour With New Dates
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• Exclusive: Jon Anderson Shares His New Album Plans
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• "I started feeling the political wheels starting to turn toward conservatism a little bit" How a song on Green Day's most misunderstood album set the groundwork for one of their biggest acts of protest
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• “It was about the second coming of Jesus, except he’s in a spaceship”: Sammy Hagar on aliens, Jesus and the 70s sci-fi prog album he started then abandoned
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• Ritchie Blackmore Postpones 2025 Tour Due to 'Medical Reasons'
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• “The first minute confirms that their musical identity is intact – complex and multilayered without becoming bewildering”: Spock’s Beard reference their own past and future on The Archaeoptimist
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• According to Glenn Hughes and Slayer's Kerry King, the rock and metal talent pool is drying up
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• “The decision to omit early music lends credence to the idea that they’re embracing pop influences”: Leprous’ An Evening Of Atonement live extravaganza
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• "Like the best modern prog rock, The Archaeoptimist reveals more and more at every new sitting": Spock’s Beard are still pushing boundaries on first album in seven years
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• "I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure." Steve Harris had his doubts over Bruce Dickinson's 1999 return to Iron Maiden
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• Tool Kicks Off Overseas Tour With Three Big Rarities
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• Watch Robert Plant Perform 'Gallows Pole' on NPR's 'Tiny Desk'
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• How 'All Right Now' Became an 'Albatross' Around Free's Neck
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• “Wherever there is an end, there is also a beginning”: Arch Enemy split with singer Alissa White-Gluz
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• Tom Morello says it's just a matter of time before unreleased Audioslave album sees the light of day
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• “When you were in that taxi saying Pink Floyd are w*nkers, my brother was driving it!” How Bob Geldof ended up in The Wall despite everything
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• Guns N' Roses Announce First North American Tour Since 2023
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• Steve Vai Praises Coverdale and Reflects on Final Whitesnake Show
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• "Radio-ready songs without a hint of indulgence and a powerhouse lead singer at the fore": Foreigner arrive fully-formed and formidable on debut album
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• Revisiting Cher's Debut Performance on 'Saturday Night Live'
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• Our top-rated Loop earplugs are on sale for Black Friday - save 25% on the Loop range, including the brilliant Experience 2
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• “I get into arguments with fans all the time about this. Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, it’s just a leftover Stone Sour song.’ No, I wrote that for Slipknot!” How Slipknot made the greatest metal ballad of the 21st century
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• I'm a guitarist and metal obsessive. So why have I only wanted to listen to video game soundtracks this year?
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• “The bar owners pulled guns on us. It was over whisky and disrespect. We were 22 and hard as steel”: The incredible story of the forgotten Detroit hellraisers who blazed a trail for Alice Cooper, Bob Seger and The Stooges
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• Former ELO bassist Michael de Alberquerque to have second solo album, Stalking The Sleeper, reissued in January
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• "He walked through the airport wearing a soldier’s helmet, holding two massive boxes that said ‘GUNS’ on the side. The security said ‘What is in there?’ He said, ‘Guns! Can’t you read?!" Inside the top-secret HQ of Sabaton, power metal's biggest band
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• Rock's Most Famous Post-Breakup Album Battles
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• The first two albums recorded by what became their definitive line-up: Now a seven-CD countdown to Thin Lizzy's lift-off
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• Charlie Sheen remembers his “private concert” from Eddie Van Halen on the set of Two And A Half Men: “They did five takes of it, and I was like, ‘Are you sure we don’t need a sixth?’”
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• John Hiatt's 2026 Tour: Cities and Dates Revealed
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• The Marshall Black Friday sale is stacked with up to 46% off headphones and speakers – including our favourite AirPods rivals
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• Doc McGhee: 'I Don't Believe Bon Jovi Would Have Made It' Today
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• "It's definitely different. There's a lot of soul music in there." The story of Luke Machin's debut solo album, Living On The Edge
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• “I thought, ‘Enough. I don’t know that I need this kind of thing’”: In the early 90s, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor was at war with his label – so he did the most extreme thing he could
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 24, 2025
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• I'm shopping for an MP3 player this Black Friday and with 38% off, the stylish Activo P1 is high on my list
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• Rick Wakeman Reveals Recent Brain Surgery
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• “This tour is going to be a complete blast." Big Big Train announce Woodcut European and UK tour dates for Autumn 2026
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• Ritchie Blackmore Shares Health Struggles That Halted His Tour
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• "As a Beatles record, it is not very good, offering nothing exciting": Anthology 4 is more evidence of original reality turned distorted mythology
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• Stevie Nicks' Men: 16 Guys Linked With the Fleetwood Mac Singer
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• Iconic Rock Star Hotel Closing After Nearly 40 Years
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• Simon Kirke Says Singer Change 'Tarnished' Bad Company
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• Heart Honors Soundgarden's Rock Hall Induction With Live Cover
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• “Goths would get up for their songs, then glare when the punks’ tracks came on. No one really mixed”: Paradise Lost’s Gregor Mackintosh, who’s never liked a happy song in his life, escaped genre restrictions and embraced Dead Can Dance
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• How a Bottle of Vitamins Helped Save a Tom Petty Hit
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• Cheap Trick Announces 2026 ‘All Washed Up’ Tour Dates
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• "He's a legend but he’s also a great person. When I met him, he had a guitar in his hand, and we started playing right away." How a punk rock hero helped Jimmy Cliff spark a late career peak - and write a modern reggae classic
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• The story of Porcupine Tree's Deadwing is on the cover of the new gift-packed issue of Prog, which is on sale now
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• "I found myself at 52, going through my third divorce and fourth financial collapse – from ‘I’m a millionaire’ to ‘I live in my car.'" J.K. Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne, Limp Bizkit and the adult industry: the wild and unpredictable career of Evan Seinfeld
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• “It deals with the fact there’s no hope of escaping The Trump Show. But if Michael League isn’t getting much sleep, his loss is the world’s gain”: Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest reunite for Somni
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• "Their music was about us, about you, about the big wide world that waited": Every studio album by The Clash ranked from worst to best
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• Great new prog you need to hear from Einar Solberg, The Blackheart Orchestra, Blanket and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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• The Evolution Of Yacht Rock: Music's Smoothest Era Explained
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• "We thought we were going to get a Top 10 but we got smoked by Abba and Oasis." Following Bring Me The Horizon, viral mosh pit-starters Malevolence might be Sheffield's next breakout metal band
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• “I’d like to think that when you die death comes for you however you want, and I feel that it’s your strongest memory”: The bleak but uplifting story behind the emo Bohemian Rhapsody
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• Guns N' Roses Announce Release of First New Songs Since 2023
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