Rock News 2025-12-14

• David Byrne Announces More 2026 'Who Is the Sky?' Tour Dates
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• “It was my first studio job. I wiped a Robert Fripp guitar section. He wasn’t happy”: A world-class producer recalls shaky start to his career
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• "This is worshipping Satan!" Country music superstar horrifies shocked fans with "demon ritual" at Las Vegas shows, amused metalheads suggest further listening for next steps into hell
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• Sharon Osbourne Shares the Last Words Ozzy Spoke to Her
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• 2025's Top 15 Reissues
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• What to Expect From Robert Plant's Upcoming Tour in 2026
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• "Some people think that the blues is 'my baby left me' and long guitar solos but it's a whole lot deeper than that": Blues prodigy Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram may channel the ghosts of the past but he's striving for something new
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• Eagles, Stevie Nicks, Rod Stewart and More to Play Jazz Fest 2026
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• "You’re playing for 5 or 6,000 men and women who all have M16s on their shoulders. And they’re trying to pit, and it’s pretty crazy" How Avenged Sevenfold and Call Of Duty forged one of music and gaming's greatest relationships
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• "It’s strange to be thinking, ‘Are we an arena band?’, but I guess we are. Thank you, Metallica!" From Art The Clown and Pinhead to Rose McGowan and Damien Leone, Ice Nine Kills are bringing their Silver Scream Convention to the UK this weekend
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• "To start with, we didn’t have an idea between us. There wasn’t a song, there wasn’t a tune." Pink Floyd's Nick Mason says that making Wish You Were Here was "like hitting a brick wall"
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• Cool new proggy sounds from Soen, Jazz Sabbath, Therion and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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• Gene Simmons Says Radio Treats Artists 'Worse Than Slaves'
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• How the Bee Gees Got Jim Carrey Through 'The Grinch'
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• Stryper's Michael Sweet Reveals Cancer Diagnosis
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• “I wanted to write the most ridiculous pop song I had ever written”: the Nirvana B-side that paved the way for Nevermind’s all-conquering success
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• Exclusive: How Triumph’s Reunion Tour Happened
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• "A veteran virtuoso who remains startlingly undimmed by the passage of time": Jan Akkerman celebrates four decades of My Focus – Live Under The Rainbow
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• "This is definitely the best we've ever been." Ghost's Skeletá has been named the album of the year by Metal Hammer - read Tobias Forge's reaction and see our top 50 albums of 2025
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• "Why on earth bands still sign multi-album contracts is beyond me": Neil Fallon on Clutch, corporations and Christmas
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• Gene Simmons Apologizes for Comments About Ace Frehley's Death
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• "It was weird just being in the same room as him": The story of the Ronnie James Dio classic assembled from other bands' spare parts
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• “An artist I have admired for such a long time”: Now that they’ve crossed everyone from Bloodywood to Five Finger Death Punch off the bucket list, Babymetal want to make a song with Amy Lee from Evanescence
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• "Just when you think you've seen everything, he torches a baby doll and swings it overhead." Chainsaws, meat cleavers and killer clowns: horror-obsessed metalcore mob Ice Nine Kills' first UK arena tour makes GWAR look like Sesame Street
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• How Online Impersonators Are Targeting Alan Parsons' Music
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• Joe Satriani and Steve Vai Announce 2026 North American Tour
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• "Christmas came early!" Queen's Brian May gifts best friend Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath a unique bespoke present, two years in the making
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• "His performance was so far out of time, out of tune": The shambolic story of The Rolling Stones' star-studded Rock And Roll Circus
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• "Now I'm walking through hell." The story behind tragic Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley's final recording, a movie soundtrack cover featuring some of the biggest names in '90s rock
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• Guns N' Roses Name Opening Acts For 2026 Tour
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• "I was like, ‘Stop the show! I’ve been stabbed!’ Our bassist’s poor wife had to nurse this wound at the top of my bum.” As they prepare to split, this is the full, chaotic story of one of Britain's most influential metal bands
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• Triumph Announces 2026 Reunion Tour Dates
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• Robert Plant announces US tour with Saving Grace
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• 55 Years Ago: John Lennon Redefines Himself on 'Plastic Ono Band'
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• Pelagic Records have announced they are bringing together some of metal's most beautiful and boundless bands for the 2026 edition of Pelagic Fest
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• "I was wrong for using the words I used. I humbly apologise": Gene Simmons says sorry for controversial comments about the late Ace Frehley
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• Jefferson Starship Hits the Road With 2026's Runaway Again Tour
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• Asia share live video of Heat Of The Moment as they announce new live album
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• “I decided I was going to sing it like Tom Jones”: how one of the greatest rock singers of the 90s channelled a crooning legend and reinvented himself on this epic Bond theme
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• Extended Fragile Tour Sets Up a Huge 2026 Slate for Yes Fans
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• From Sleep Token breaking records to Xenomorphs rocking out to Tool, these are the 11 metal songs that defined 2025
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• Everything We Know About the Beatles Biopic Casting So Far
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• Devo Announces 2026 Tour Dates
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• Tetsu Yamauchi, Bassist for Free and Faces, Dead at 79
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• Because nothing screams punk rock louder than millionaire rock stars performing for hedge fund bros, watch Eddie Vedder, Anthony Kiedis, Brandi Carlile, Slash and friends play Stooges, Motorhead, Dead Boys covers at billionaire's private corporate gig
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• Fleetwood Mac Still Dominated Billboard's 2025 Year End Charts
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• Big Big Train announce new Woodcut – The Making And The Meaning book
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• Elvis Costello Announces First 2026 Headlining Dates
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• Sebastian Bach Announces 2026 North American Tour Dates
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• "For a kid like me, achieving this, it’s a dream.” The Who's Roger Daltrey receives knighthood from Prince William at Windsor Castle
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• Iron Maiden, Ghost, Babymetal and more star in Metal Hammer’s blockbuster End Of Year issue, which comes with an exclusive Iron Maiden pin badge, Halestorm sticker and a 2026 heavy metal calendar
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• "We knew there was still a chapter left to write": Triumph announce first tour in more than three decades
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• “Everything was going up its own jacksie!" Lindisfarne's down-to-earth approach saw them not always aligned with prog's loftier ideals in 1973
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• "He suggested doing the interview on jet-skis": Excess, eyebrows, and an extremely erratic encounter with Ozzy Osbourne
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• Rainbow Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Rap superstars Public Enemy and Ice Cube to support Guns N' Roses on 2026 US tour
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• “There’s been a lot happening on Mars since I last visited. So there’s more than enough inspiration”: Rick Wakeman on his sequel to The Red Planet, and taking David Bowie along for the ride
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• 10 Years Ago: Prince Stitches Together a Final Triumph
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• "I’ve always dreamed about it." Turnstile vocalist Brendan Yates reveals his bucket list side-quest ambition
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• Marshall Tucker Band Launches While I'm Young Tour In 2026
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• "I wanted people to leave the concert saying, I expected them to be good, but I had no idea they could or would deliver like this." Jimmy Page looks back on Led Zeppelin's historic 2007 reunion
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• "He knew. He was ready" Sharon Osbourne has revealed the final words that her husband Ozzy said to her before he passed away
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• The 20 Best-Selling Classic Rock Albums of 2025
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• “The world is awful – refusing to have a boogie won’t make anything better, though”: Sleep Token-backed industrial champions Health dance in the face of despair on new album Conflict DLC
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• “We got back together after 25 years and people came from all around the world, saying how important that album had been”: The Dutch quartet inspired by just five minutes of Soft Machine music
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• "Her story, unfiltered and unapologetic." One of rock's most iconic, inspirational and provocative figures to share her life story in a "raw, complicated" new documentary film
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• "It's a fantastic creature...the evil, the energy and the destruction." How one of the UK's most influential bands bounced back with their best song in a decade to redefine heavy metal all over again
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• "We had a call saying, 'We just got a call from Jim Carrey. He’s making a movie and wants you to be in it.'" How one of the most violent songs in the history of metal ended up being championed by a Hollywood legend
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• Five Famous '60s Acts That Have Been Snubbed by the Hall of Fame
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• The 'Big 4' Classic Rock Acts of 2025
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• "These guys are simply timeless": Triumph's Rik Emmett picks five essential guitar albums
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• Best Christmas gifts for Iron Maiden fans: Rock the festive season with our pick of perfect presents
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• Vote for the best metal song of 2025
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• ZZ Top Adds 19 US Dates to 2026 Tour Schedule
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• Evanescence made a surprise appearance at The Game Awards last night, playing recent single Afterlife. Watch a video of their fiery performance and listen to a brand new remix of the song featuring Gunship
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• Watch Slash Play Private Show With Yungblud, Bruno Mars + More
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• “A vicious takedown of the record industry and the dreams it nurtures then exploits – in many ways a dry run for The Wall”: Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here remains mysterious at 50
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• “We’ll see”: We asked Steve Harris if Iron Maiden will do their own blockbuster retirement show like Black Sabbath, and he didn’t rule it out
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• "We had taken some mushrooms. We saw ghosts and all manner of things." Hallucinogenics, Tim Burton and The Battle Of Hastings: the story of the song that turned a British black metal band into household names
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• Paul Simon Returns With Extended Quiet Celebration Tour
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• Kansas Sets 2026 North American Tour Dates With Rebuilt Lineup
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• Iron Maiden Extends 2026's Run for Your Lives Tour Again
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• Watch The Pretty Reckless revisit Taylor Momsen's childhood by performing the song she sang 25 years ago in How The Grinch Stole Christmas
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• "Mick Jagger liked the mix but his management was just like, 'No, not even negotiable'." Superstar DJ Fatboy Slim finally releases fabled Rolling Stones mash-up
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• Triumph's Expanded Band is 'More Honest' Than Backing Tracks
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