Rock News 2025-12-27

• "It was the perfect tragedy. Heavy metal albums found in their rooms, antisocial behaviour." How Lemmy, Corey Taylor, Henry Rollins and the metal community united to save three teenagers at the heart of a murder case that shocked America
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• “It’s one of our few songs I listen to all the way through without cringing or wondering, ‘What were we thinking?’” Canadian band scored their biggest hit after being pushed out of their comfort zone
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• Top 12 Classic Rock Christmas Albums
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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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• Which Classic Rock Acts Played The Most Concerts in 2025?
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• “He’d never touched an instrument in his life. I gave him the cello and he made a sound. That was a moment – music is something to be part of, not just consumed”: Jo Quail’s music education was free. She believes yours should be too
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• The 15 Best Hard Rock and Metal Albums of 2025
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• Vinnie Vincent to Critics of His Song Prices: 'Grow the F--- Up'
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• The 10 best progressive metal albums of 2025
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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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• The 50 best metal songs of 2025
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• “I became obsessed with doing the perfect album. I even had them working on Christmas Day!” Producer was perfect for Marillion the first time, a disaster the second time – and didn’t get a third time
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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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• What to Expect From Steve Hackett's Upcoming World Tour
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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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• IQ to release new live performance of Frequency in January
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• Ghost's Mary On A Cross has officially just gone platinum in the UK
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• The Day Joe Strummer Died
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• Peter Criss Was Selling Downloads of His New Album for $1,000
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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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• "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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• The Cure’s Perry Bamonte dies aged 65: “He was a warm hearted and vital part of the Cure story”
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• Chicago's NSFW Response When Jimi Hendrix Invited Them on Tour
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• On This Day in 1955: Carl Perkins Records 'Blue Suede Shoes'
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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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• "One bloke was on Antiques Roadshow saying he was our first drummer. Absolute rubbish!" Steve Harris sets the record straight about Christmas Day, Paul Di'Anno and Iron Maiden's early years
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• The Orb announce live performance of Metallic Spheres with Saucerful Of Secrets musicians in August
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• “I’m fascinated to know what people think!” Brian May gifts Queen fans never-before-heard "work in progress" version of Christmas song Not For Sale (Polar Bear)
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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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• "Musicians, comedians, doctors, students and pensioners have all become targets." Bob Vylan call out the British government as police confirm the band will face no criminal charges following investigation of their Glastonbury festival set
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• "He was given 24 hours to live. It all came crumbling down in one day": The astonishing story of Slade: glamour, tragedy and beyond
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• “What came out of a tragedy gave birth to something that was hugely positive in my life.” How the legendary Chris Cornell channelled his grief over a dear friend's death into making one of the 90s' most underrated classics
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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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• AC/DC Has a Song About Donald Trump?
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• "I’m still confused." Zak Starkey still doesn't know why he was fired – then rehired and fired again – from The Who
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• What to Expect From Styx's Second Rockin' In Paradise in 2026
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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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• Bryan Adams’ Epic 2026 Tour Will Cross Five Continents
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• “We came on after the bingo but before the stripper. It freaked me out when this woman walked past us naked… it was enough to put you off sex for ever”: Jon Anderson before, during and after Yes
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• Original Jethro Tull Guitarist Mick Abrahams Dead at 82
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• Metal Hammer's albums of the year: 2025
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• After 50 years, Pink Floyd have released an official music video for one of their greatest and best-loved songs
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• Megadeth's Dave Mustaine reveals he's suffering from hand condition that makes it "really painful to play"
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• Megadeth Release New Video for 'Let There Be Shred'
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• Classic TV Shows With Only One Surviving Cast Member
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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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• "The drums were recorded on a massive concrete staircase in an old Victorian brewery": Out of step with Britpop, one of the Levellers' biggest hits was inspired by Led Zeppelin
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• How Musicians Embraced, Rejected and Utilized the Early Internet
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• See the First Ever Music Video for Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were'
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• The 10 best black metal albums of 2025
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• Jane’s Addiction Release Farewell Statements After Ending Feud
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• "I’m still grieving the loss of him. I can’t really accept it because, like a lot of people, I don’t want to think about him not being here." Judas Priest legend Rob Halford on his love for Ozzy Osbourne, touring with Alice Cooper and what comes next
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• Ian Gillan Didn’t Know of His ‘Stranger Things’ Soundtrack Spot
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• Singer-songwriter and guitarist Chris Rea dead at 74
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• Five Classic Rock Acts We'd Love to See Do an Eras Tour
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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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• Rock's Best Christmas Song Bracket Finals: Lennon vs. Bowie
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• Top 25 Rock Songs of 2025
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• Got a new turntable? Here are 9 essentials that'll make your listening and collecting journey more enjoyable
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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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• "We played it for our label and management and they told us it would end our career": The story of the glam metal classic inspired by an unfaithful exotic dancer
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• "The most important and influential British female singer-writer-musician ever": Nine Kate Bush albums you should definitely hear, and one to avoid
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• “I was on a mission to move away from the rave scene.” The story of The Prodigy's era-defining electro-punk classic inspired by Foo Fighters, Rage Against The Machine and The Breeders
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• Vote for Rock's Best Christmas Song: UCR's Holiday Bracket
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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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• "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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• Nazareth Announces New Singer Ahead of Busy Touring Year
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• Rock’s Biggest Christmas Haters: Ozzy Osbourne and Noel Gallagher
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• Zak Starkey ‘Still Confused’ Over Double Dismissal From the Who
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• The 10 best death metal albums of 2025
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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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• Peter Gabriel 'Delighted' About 'Marty Supreme' Feature
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• 10 Keith Richards Collaborations Outside of the Rolling Stones
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• Classic Rock Christmas Playlist: 42 Songs to Make the Season Loud
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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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• Revisiting When Brian Wilson 'Quit' the Beach Boys
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• Rock Christmas Songs Bracket Round 2: Only the Elite Eight Remain
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• Vinnie Vincent's New Single Can Be Yours for $225
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• Black Crowes Set 2026 Headlining Dates Before Guns N' Roses Tour
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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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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: December 22, 2025
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• Ozzy’s retirement, belly dancers, and whales flying around an arena: the best metal concerts of 2025, as picked by Metal Hammer’s writers
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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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• The Cure's Perry Bamonte Dead at 65
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• What to Expect From the Scorpions' 2026 Tour
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