Rock News 2025-12-24

• "I landed up in the hospital with 11 staples in my head. It was a wild experience and pretty much an awakening for myself to pull my life together." How one of nu metal's biggest bands dropped the raps and wrote a power ballad instead
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• "They get back to me like, 'You know, there's going to be how many hundred million people watching this thing. You have to do it'" How Creed's 2001 half-time show went from unifying the nation to fuelling their resurgence
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• Bob Dylan introduced him to The Beatles, he married the girlfriend of a Rolling Stone, and he played with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page and meditated with David Lynch. Donovan looks back...
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• Surgeon defends video of Allen Collins playing guitar in hospital shortly after Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash
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• “He didn’t want to put his masterpiece on an album where the vibes were so bad. It’s probably the best thing he’s ever done”: Rick Davies’ greatest Supertramp songs – including Roger Hodgson’s favourite
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• “Gather ’round… it’s story time with Papa Het”: Metallica’s James Hetfield has just dropped a surprise spoken word version of one the most famous Christmas stories of all time
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• Nazareth Announces New Singer Ahead of Busy Touring Year
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• Classic Rock Christmas Playlist: 42 Songs to Make the Season Loud
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• "We almost got taken off air! Thanks Green Day!" The morning that Green Day took over a live TV show, used some very rude words, hijacked the house band's instruments and nearly got the show cancelled
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• Top 25 Rock Songs of 2025
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• Megadeth Release New Video for 'Let There Be Shred'
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• Cheap Trick Defends Kennedy Center Honors Performance for Kiss
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• How Musicians Embraced, Rejected and Utilized the Early Internet
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: December 22, 2025
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• "This was the whole infrastructure behind VOLA!" Danish/Swedish quartet launch crowdfunder after losing all their gear in storage facility fire
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• Original Jethro Tull guitarist Mick Abrahams dead at 82
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• Singer-songwriter and guitarist Chris Rea dead at 74
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• Bryan Adams’ Epic 2026 Tour Will Cross Five Continents
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• 10 Keith Richards Collaborations Outside of the Rolling Stones
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• The Orb announce live performance of Metallic Spheres with Saucerful Of Secrets musicians in August
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• "Yelling, fighting, drugs, alcohol… everything always went on. At the very end, he took me to his house and gave me a sword." Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, by those who knew him best
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• Peter Criss Was Selling Downloads of His New Album for $1,000
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• “We made a concerted effort to move away from the long thematic songs into something shorter”: Rush were one of the proggiest bands of the 70s. Then they discovered The Police and reggae and wrote the hit that reinvented them
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• “I’d said, ‘All that weird stuff is crap!’ When I came back I said, ‘Can you play me all that weird crap I was rude about?’” Alien Sex Fiend’s mushroom-powered path to prog appreciation
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• Vote for the best metal album of 2025
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• "When I see him in my dreams, he hasn't changed a bit. He is still my best friend." How Dave Grohl channelled his heartbreak over a devastating personal loss into one of Foo Fighters' most raw, emotional songs
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• “Other bands flirted with the dark side. Listeners just knew these people were living it”: Jane’s Addiction represented a new form of prog when they stopped traffic with Nothing’s Shocking
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• “I had a thought: ‘I wonder if she could foresee her own death?’ I went to Bruce and he said, ‘Yeah, it’s a great idea!’”: How a dead psychic and singer with a point to prove inspired Iron Maiden to make one of the maddest concept albums of the 80s
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• The Day Joe Strummer Died
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• Captain Beefheart Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• "Quite simply, one of the very best British bands of the past three decades." Every Biffy Clyro album ranked from worst to best
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• Chicago's NSFW Response When Jimi Hendrix Invited Them on Tour
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• Rock's Best Christmas Song Bracket: Only the Final Four Remain!
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• Alice Cooper Unveils Dates for 2026 U.S. and European Tour
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• The ultimate Goth quiz: How much do you know about music's spookiest genre?
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• Vote for Rock's Best Christmas Song: UCR's Holiday Bracket
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• Peter Gabriel 'Delighted' About 'Marty Supreme' Feature
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• "It's remarkable that you can have a culture that's shunted into the west side of England that has nothing to do with the English at all." Robert Plant on how the mystique of Wales and the magic of J.R.R. Tolkien influenced Led Zeppelin
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• “It was like a demonic, otherworldly séance going on in there with one person”: A Perfect Circle have made four albums. These are the stories behind them all
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• The 15 Best Hard Rock and Metal Albums of 2025
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• “Usually there would be a hero who destroys the asteroid. I didn’t want that. I wanted to end humanity!” Self-confessed egomaniac counts the ways of our deaths on his first solo release in 13 years
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• What to Expect From the Scorpions' 2026 Tour
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• “When we did Top Of The Pops we were introduced as being avant-garde. It would have been closer to call us ‘aven’t-a-clue!” Fired from his own band Blodwyn Pig, Jethro Tull co-founder Mick Abrahams could only regret the wasted potential
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• Prog's special Christmas Tracks Of The Week
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• Jon Anderson shares video for Time Has Come as he announces new reissues
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• AC/DC Has a Song About Donald Trump?
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• Def Leppard Is Hitting the Road for an Epic World Tour
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• "Be it Eddie Van Halen, Mick Mars or anyone like that, I have such respect for the person that I'm stepping in for." Motley Crue guitarist John 5 reveals the secret to stepping into the shoes of some of the world's most respected guitarists
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• “I opened my guitar case and nearly fainted because I thought there was a human hand in there. It turned out, it was half a pig’s head”: Girlschool look back on their wild life with Mötorhead
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• “I said, ‘If nothing has changed, I might quit.’ But it was my baby from the start. I didn’t want to quit it”: How a sick and disillusioned guitarist turned his bitter resignation letter into one of metal’s greatest anthems
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• What to Expect From Steve Hackett's Upcoming World Tour
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• On This Day in 1955: Carl Perkins Records 'Blue Suede Shoes'
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• Slipknot tore Europe a new one during their tour this summer – this pro-shot footage from a Spanish festival proves it
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• IQ to release new live performance of Frequency in January
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• Vote in the 2025 Prog Magazine Readers' Poll
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• "I was 21 years old. I don’t think it matters how old you are – there’s no way to be prepared for it." The story of the one simple but devastating question that led to Evanescence writing their biggest hit
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• Which Classic Rock Acts Played The Most Concerts in 2025?
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• Vinnie Vincent's New Single Can Be Yours for $225
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• Watch fiery pro-shot footage of Gojira playing Olympic anthem Ah! Ça Ira! live at Bloodstock festival this summer
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• “Once people were talking about us as the No.1 band in the world, some people took that as the sign that they could do anything they wanted”: The apocalyptic 1969 hit that marked the beginning of the end for one of America’s greatest rock’n’roll bands
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• Jane’s Addiction Release Farewell Statements After Ending Feud
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• Sleep Token accused of copyright infringement by photographer who claims picture was used on merch without permission
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• Jethro Tull Schedules Massive 2026 Tour With 45 Stops
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• "Writing a line here and there doesn't make someone a songwriter, and singing my material doesn't make it theirs": Shred king Yngwie Malmsteen slams all the singers he's ever worked with
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• Ghost's Mary On A Cross has officially just gone platinum in the UK
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• “He was unable to write something with delight in it. Suffering battle fatigue, he wrote of asking what it’s like back home. It’s epic”: William Shatner’s surprising Christmas album with Jethro Tull, Yes and King Crimson alumni
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• "A blistering, molten metal masterpiece": Judas Priest revive themselves on Painkiller before Rob Halford's decade-long hiatus
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• Ghost team up with charity to deliver food packages in Los Angeles via branded robot
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• "We often felt like the strange duck on the festival bill because there was a woman in the band." How two modern metal icons united for a collaboration over a decade in the making
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• "He is no longer with the band": Nazareth part ways with Carl Sentance, announce new singer
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• The 10 best progressive metal albums of 2025
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• "Nothing's changed really apart from I can’t pole vault any more": Ian Gillan on getting older, losing his vision, and his unexpected new collaboration
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• "The Prime Ministers of Canada and France were there in the front row. It was pretty stressful": The Trews on their most significant gig, kitchen parties and Prince William
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• "Refused is dead. Long live Refused." Watch one of the greatest hardcore bands ever to do it close their final farewell show with game-changing anthem New Noise
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• Top 12 Classic Rock Christmas Albums
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• Classic TV Shows With Only One Surviving Cast Member
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• Original Jethro Tull Guitarist Mick Abrahams Dead at 82
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• Haters, look away now: Sleep Token’s Even In Arcadia has been certified Gold in the United Kingdom
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• The Impact of 'Hunky Dory' on David Bowie's Career
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• Rock Christmas Songs Bracket Round 2: Only the Elite Eight Remain
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• Rock’s Biggest Christmas Haters: Ozzy Osbourne and Noel Gallagher
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• Vinnie Vincent to Critics of His Song Prices: 'Grow the F--- Up'
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• What to Expect From Styx's Second Rockin' In Paradise in 2026
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• "He became a father figure to me at a time when I might have ended up in the morgue": Lemmy's personal assistant looks back at six years on the road with the Motörhead legend
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• Peter Wolf Announces Concert Return After Long Hiatus
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