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Love Vinnie Vincent? Then you'll probably be OK with the two-million-dollar price tag for his new album
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James Hetfield proposes to partner Adriana Gillett underwater while swimming with whale sharks
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Sebastian Bach sorry for relationship with 17-year-old Christina Applegate
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Gary Holt has seen it all with Slayer and Exodus – and he's not ready for it to end
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Latest Classic Rock News

Love Vinnie Vincent? Then you'll probably be OK with the two-million-dollar price tag for his new album
By Fraser Lewry published
The launch of the Vinnie Vincent Invasion's new album comes just months after the former Kiss man received flak for charging $225 for his Ride The Serpent single

James Hetfield proposes to partner Adriana Gillett underwater while swimming with whale sharks
By Fraser Lewry published
She said yes!

Sebastian Bach sorry for relationship with 17-year-old Christina Applegate
By Stef Lach published
Skid Row and new Twisted Sister singer Sebastian Bach famously derailed Christina Applegate and Brad Pitt's union

Gary Holt has seen it all with Slayer and Exodus – and he's not ready for it to end
By Stef Lach published
Thrash guitar hero Gary Holt on life on the road with Slayer and Exodus

Motorhead guitarist Phil Campbell dead at 64
By Classic Rock last updated
Phil Campbell passed away away following “a complex and major operation”

Metal Up Your Bass! TransAtlantic duo remaster entire early Metallica catalogue with bass parts restored and made louder
By Paul Brannigan published
Good news for lovers of low end metallic grooves

"I'll see you all around." Ghost appear to have killed off another of their iconic frontmen in a hilarious new video that has everyone talking
By Simon Young published
Frater Imperator announces leave of absence in Chapter 25: The Portrait. Is this really the end?
Latest Classic Rock Features

How a punk legend helped resurrect the career of an American icon in less than half an hour
By Simon Young published
Glenn Danzig wrote Thirteen for Johnny Cash's 1994 album American Recordings

“We never really fitted in at all. Most heavy metal bands were riff-based. A thousand bands were copying Judas Priest and Iron Maiden”: The chaotic story of Spider, the unluckiest boogie rock band of the 80s
By Dave Ling published
They were touted as the new Status Quo but things never quite worked out

The turbulent story of Anvil, the band who claim to have brought heavy metal to North America
By Dom Lawson published
Anvil should have been huge, but fate had other plans

How the Marshall Tucker Band made Can’t You See, the southern rock that deserves to be up there with Sweet Home Alabama
By Dave Ling published
The Marshall Tucker Band made stone cold southern rock classic with Can’t You See

How Muddy Waters made a stunning return to form in the twllight of his career - with help from Johnny Winter
By Charles Shaar Murray published
Muddy Waters was 62 when he released 1977’s classic Hard Again

The story behind the weirdest track on Pearl Jam's album Vitalogy – and it's not Bugs
By Simon Young published
The story behind the weirdest track on their third album Vitalogy – and it's not Bugs

“He smashed the LP against the wall. It was the only one we had!” Prog pioneers’ doubts over the song that made their name
By Joe Banks published
With the help of The Who and Jimi Hendrix, and a helmet he found outside his hotel room, the bandleader acquired a nickname he’s now carried for nearly 60 years
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Latest Classic Rock Reviews

Powerwolf conquer Wembley Arena: Review
By Rich Hobson published
Powerwolf might have enough pyro to level a city, but they've got singalongs to unite the masses

The Black Crowes' blessed resurrection keeps rolling on A Pound Of Feathers
By Pat Carty published
More songs about rockin’ an’ rollin’

AC/DC are captured in their hungry prime on If You Want Blood You've Got It
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Recorded in front of a rabid Glasgow audience, If You Want Blood is AC/DC and Bon Scott at their live peak

Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio celebrated on Rainbow - The Temple Of The King 1975-76
By Paul Elliott published
Nine CDs of Ritchie, Ronnie and Rainbow

Japan's Flower Travellin' Band aren't for the faint-hearted on proto-prog-guitar-wigout Satori
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Bored with covering Western blues bands, the Flower Travellin' Band set out on their own sonic adventure

Foo Fighters return to their punk roots in Manchester
By Rich Hobson published
Dave Grohl winds back the clocks with a very sweaty, very intimate show in Manchester






