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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 1, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Cheap Trick, the Vintage Caravan, Foxy Shazam and more
The brilliant new metal bands you need to hear in September 2025
From Gates To Hell's Kentucky fried death metal, to the shimmering industrial metal of The Defect, riffy stoner rock'n'roll of King Kraken, crossover thrashers Inhuman Nature and nu gaze champions Split Chain, these are the metal bands you need to hear in September 2025
“Life changed. Time healed wounds. No more feeling alone or depressed – it’s like, ‘Let’s do something positive. Let’s fight’”: When Mariusz Duda escaped the darkness on Lunatic Soul’s Through Shaded Woods
The Riverside leader’s seventh side-project album, intended to be its penultimate release, continued his personal life-and-death story cycle
British metal has ruled the world this summer – just this once, I’m actually proud of my country
From Black Sabbath’s blockbuster farewell to Sleep Token’s first time as a Download festival headliner, all eyes have been on the British metal scene in recent months. Rightfully so.
The ELO classic that led Crobot’s Brandon Yeagley to a whole world of prog
From a box of his parents’ cassettes to voracious filesharing, the vocalist always wanted to be the one bringing strange new music to his friends
The forthright attitude behind Roger Dean’s album art for Yes
Inspired by real-life landscapes and knowing what he didn’t like, the forthright creator of remarkable worlds explains his partnership with Yes
Sometimes bands shouldn’t be trusted to revisit their own material, as the latest Smashing Pumpkins reissue set proves
Billy Corgan has made the band's 2000 Machina project even bigger and more bombastic when it needed toning down, not blowing up
What Sylosis learned from prog stars including Kate Bush, Opeth, Tool and Rush
Frontman of the British metal band and his colleagues accidentally discovered a breadth of influences after feeling uninspired by their peers
