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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 18, 2025
By Polly Glass published
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Ricky Warwick, Deep Purple, Paradise Lost and more

Cormac Neeson on California Irish, his dreamy concoction of folk, bluesy rock and Americana
By Fraser Lewry published
The Answer frontman Cormac Neeson on California Irish, the new band inspired by his parents' cassette tapes

Steven Wilson is grateful for prog fans’ support. He just wishes others liked him too
By Michael Hann published
Arguing that pop isn’t as all-embracing as it used to be, he examines the nature of being a nerd with an ego, and wonders if the flawed musical gear his dad built him meant he was always going to make prog sounds

The time Ozzy Osbourne planned to beat up Frank Zappa
By Classic Rock published
The story of the unlikely love-in between Frank Zappa and Black Sabbath

We asked Bloodstock which metal singers would survive a zombie apocalypse
By Rich Hobson published
From hammer-wielding Swedes to gun-toting Motor City Madmen, these are the metal singers Bloodstock figured could weather a zombie apocalypse

All the essential new metal albums coming out in 2025 – and where to buy them
By Metal Hammer published
From the return of Sabaton and a Mastodon side-project to a blockbuster Slipknot reissue, these are the essential metal albums coming in the rest of 2025

Gentle Giant’s only live album, Playing The Fool, and its reinvention after five decades
By Stephen Lambe published
Presenting their concert experience on record was a steep challenge in 1976. Now they’ve reconstructed the tapes to make it feel like you’re there, complete with heckling

Tool’s Danny Carey managed to distract Mick Pointer from Rush
By Natasha Scharf published
The Marillion and Arena co-founder explains how the American prog metal band astonished him with a track from 1996 album Ænima
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