<![CDATA[ Latest from Louder ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/feeds.xml Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:01:45 +0000 en <![CDATA[ "It was like a little vacation." The Tool and Failure side project which dissolved before most people knew it had ever existed ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/tool-failure-side-project-replicants rekKVJe6MMTkSsohbxPmmb Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:01:45 +0000 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:10:37 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The people who I know who’ve been on this journey… we’d never go back”: Ex-Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley opens up about quitting alcohol ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/iron-maiden-blaze-bayley-opens-up-quitting-drinking-2026 cLxovdJkxfTV4CA9uVZpx8 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:07:08 +0000 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:09:30 +0000 <![CDATA[ "On his final performance, he wields words like a weapon." Following the death of their beloved frontman Tomas Lindberg, death metal legends At The Gates' produce one final triumph with The Ghost Of A Future Dead ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/at-the-gates-ghost-of-a-future-dead-album-review gpSNoe3hH9QprkLpFt8B9Z Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:49:28 +0000 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:57:13 +0000 <![CDATA[ Carl Palmer announces An Evening With Emerson, Lake & Palmer shows in England for February 2027 ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/concerts-shows/carl-palmer-announces-an-evening-with-emerson-lake-and-palmer-shows-for-england-for-february-2027 JEMXogdXtHYq9UCZTc54kG Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:10:16 +0000 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:18:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ "The toughest thing I've ever done." The trauma behind Otis Redding's tragic classic (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/tracks-singles/otis-redding-sittin-on-the-dock-of-the-bay ZcU8SUxKDPvwCLjxgWE68e Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:09:53 +0000 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:11:23 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Maybe they thought we wanted out of our contract, like when a band does a deliberately bad album”: Opeth gave their label two records for the price of one, and it nearly cost them their career ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/opeth-deiverance-damnation hKqSVUBvZ2bjXeaGXStVgg Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ Traffic founder Dave Mason dead at 79 ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/traffic-founder-dave-mason-dead-at-79 XdY65bux69vY8RBNLz6ujJ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:53:45 +0000 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:29:38 +0000 <![CDATA[ "We were just jamming, making stuff up. Our session went totally out of the window." The true story of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin's lost jam ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/interviews/black-sabbath-led-zeppelin-lost-jam-session WQuC79QDuJrGD9jThu4v4 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:45:24 +0000 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:13:20 +0000 <![CDATA[ "People turned on us. It was as if they resented their big secret band suddenly being the property of the mainstream." After a decade's hard slog, a sublime ballad made stars of REO Speedwagon - and their die-hard fans didn't like it one bit ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/reo-speedwagon-kevin-cronin-inteview-hi-infidelity U25secBy2hEXa3p78UWar6 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:08:39 +0000 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:44:43 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Basically all their songs are about loss and dying." Emo-loving pop star PinkPantheress on her favourite My Chemical Romance song ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/pinkpantheress-on-her-favourite-my-chemical-romance-song C8343om462JE7oESMUxdJ8 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:46:23 +0000 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:54:54 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I feel like a robot and I can’t believe a crowd can care about what we’re doing." The genre-smashing underground band who recorded one of the best metal albums of the 21st century - and then disappeared ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/the-story-of-oathbreaker-comeback-hiatus qEF33NsWLAAYjoK2WmtctH Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:12:32 +0000 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:15:32 +0000 <![CDATA[ Slayer to play two special US shows celebrating 40 years of Reign In Blood this autumn ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/slayer-announce-special-reign-in-blood-40th-anniversary-us-shows-2026 S4QdR4eUy4XgBZ3JuXza9F Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:33:38 +0000 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:15:32 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Discharge meets GBH and Motörhead at an anti-Nazi demonstration after drinking cider all afternoon in a Hackney squat." Ten obscure and criminally under-rated UK punk albums ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/10-obscure-and-criminally-under-rated-uk-punk-albums VXgBf4gN6yzgAigXB9A7o8 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:22:50 +0000 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:26:01 +0000 <![CDATA[ Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Paul Weller, Massive Attack, Sigur Rós, Mogwai and more sign open letter asking the European Broadcasting Union to ban Israel from participating in Eurovision 2026 ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/peter-gabriel-brian-eno-and-more-sign-open-letter-asking-for-israel-eurovision-ban XsTgrGY7WkiZBnVxKuroLE Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:18:10 +0000 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:26:01 +0000 <![CDATA[ “With all the stuff surrounding his illness and eventually passing, I had a hard time listening to it”: At The Gates drummer couldn’t listen to new album until “recently”, due to late singer Tomas Lindberg’s cancer battle ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/at-the-gates-drummer-adrian-erlandsson-couldnt-listen-new-album-until-recently-tomas-lindberg-2026 DfRiwJDH4jwUB3zMuBJPDW Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:08:04 +0000 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:12:55 +0000 <![CDATA[ BBC's 2026 Proms season to feature a Prog Prom for the very first time! ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/concerts-shows/bbcs-2026-proms-season-to-feature-a-prog-prom-for-the-very-first-time 3dfALcScuyeDR5WfR8jPB5 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:21:55 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch former WWE World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk walk out to an AFI song and pay tribute to Harm’s Way’s Bo Lueders during his WrestleMania entrance last weekend ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/wwe-champion-cm-punk-afi-theme-song-entrance-wrestlemania-2026 xRXWeRUDEWpbUzvzwLWG7o Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:59:45 +0000 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:14:31 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Jaw-dropping from start to finish, Offering is a once-in-a-lifetime sort of album." A heartfelt salute to Axe's forgotten blue-collar gruntrock party classic ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/axes-offering-bobby-barth gENp5TwUse6B6a4rxWdcDg Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:31:03 +0000 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:31:44 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I think he is a genius. He's the master of the middle eight." Big Big Train's Gregory Spawton picks the soundtrack of his life ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/gregory-spawton-soundtrack-of-my-life DVXVM24StZFobEBWpEKyrT Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:00:01 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Professional pianists are the only ones who say, ‘I understand why he wanted to kill himself. I would think the same thing’”: Keith Emerson’s partner says his health issues were caused by his fear of letting people down ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/keith-emerson-remembered-partner-family WN5FEQEULxvuktJTZVhryP Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Only a couple of us saw that it was giving a glimpse of the future." How Aerosmith changed the internet as we know it ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/aerosmith-head-first-download CzUXmoBXLa8RbjQuAmhopS Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:30:21 +0000 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:33:37 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I won't stop until I'm able to actually sit down with Bob Seger, ideally playing darts, hopefully having a beer." Boston man goes viral for certifying bars as Bob Seger-friendly ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/culture/seger-bar-certification 4hDyDqNYxxsBRVaBnqFW37 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:23:33 +0000 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:30:34 +0000 <![CDATA[ Sammy Hagar downsizes Best Of All Worlds UK tour to more "intimate" venues ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/sammy-hagar-downsizes-best-of-all-worlds-uk-tour-to-more-intimate-venues EnQ8sDWnWgeeidZzQctKvV Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:23:22 +0000 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:14:07 +0000 <![CDATA[ "If there’s one thing that we hate, it’s being compared to Korn or Tool. We’re far better than that.” The mystery of the 90s band that almost gave the UK an answer to Limp Bizkit - then vanished without a trace ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/the-mystery-of-the-uks-answer-to-korn bVSRioWe2jZx6Zt8VAphAf Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:47:35 +0000 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:54:34 +0000 <![CDATA[ "It's been too long since we've been in the UK!" Joan Jett And The Blackhearts announce first UK headline tour in 16 years ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/joan-jett-and-the-blackhearts-uk-tour t4RdSUMkHxmm37xjRHcrua Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:49:18 +0000 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:30:34 +0000 <![CDATA[ "A masterpiece, and yet not the band's finest hour." Every Smashing Pumpkins album ranked from worst to best ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/smashing-pumpkins-albums-ranked-worst-to-best Qv44GcDWzNGyyxvVhJwESM Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: April 20, 2026 ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/tracks-singles/classic-rocks-tracks-of-the-week-april-20 Yz6iwBBgZGoRw5ZQzWmHBF Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:45:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The lyricists had been left to their own devices. I said, ‘For once, can we all get behind the concepts and the lyrics?’” How TesseracT’s fans helped them make fourth album Sonder ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/tesseract-sonder hjKq69vLHE4HqiVUZYtPPZ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:13:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I honestly wondered if this was the end for Metallica." Rehab, prison and the battle for the future of music: The story of the most divisive album in metal ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/the-story-behind-metallica-st-anger Ff5K7iEaqwoo88rZy92TYK Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:54:34 +0000 <![CDATA[ “You realise the hard way that it sucks when your passion is your job”: Periphery lost their way then found it again. That’s why they don’t care about how successful they could be ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/periphery-lost-their-way dmy4pQymZaoEZTHLy2sxue Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:37:21 +0000 <![CDATA[ "It was an embarrassment, but we were desperate for the cash."How Thin Lizzy saved their career by recording an album of Deep Purple covers ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/thin-lizzy-funky-junction Zm959E6AES9xLmWTvf7vvX Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:28:49 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Turn the lights down, put your feet up, whisky chaser in one hand, beer in the other." A grieving Gregg Allman slows things down on the late-night gospel-country-blues of Laid Back ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/gregg-allman-laid-back etZvCDHsQfgyMGGkqKBqw Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:55:58 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I've got a couple of ideas I've been working on for quite some time": Fred Durst wants to set up an alternative to Coachella for musicians who aren't invited to Coachella ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/fred-durst-alternative-to-coachella icExyEf5wyww76U7Vi25aZ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:23:43 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Your Favorite Toy is a ferocious reaffirmation of Foo Fighters' initial post-grunge power." Troubled times call for torrential measures on hard-rocking new album from Dave Grohl and Co ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/foo-fighters-your-favorite-toy HtxTby9HJNSEQMpchCG5g6 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:01:00 +0000 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:32:01 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Shannon’s sister and Axl Rose were in school together. Labels jumped all over us cos of his connection with Guns N’ Roses”: Blind Melon were more than just a grunge-era one-hit wonder – but tragedy cut their career short ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/blind-melon-shannon-hoon-history-of-the-90s-band XYi5XzHubkuHehVGRE9439 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:20:03 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I hear, ‘Look who’s preparing to face his public then!’ It was Mick Jagger with Bowie. I said, ‘Well, you’re not doin’ so bad yourself after ten years’”: How Mott The Hoople fell to earth - but left one of rock’s great farewell albums behind them ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/mott-the-hoople-final-album-interview-ian-hunter-ariel-bender-morgan-fisher uVuieZZ7CD2zBV5R2DmebL Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:18:13 +0000 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:22:07 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I’d just come offstage at Monsters Of Rock and someone went, ‘I hear you like the Marquis de Sade. It was Bruce Dickinson”: Therapy? were three noise-rock outsiders from Northern Ireland – but they made one of the greatest alt-metal albums of the 90s ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/therapy-troublegum-story-behind-album qXiJDzYaFhGYPWtnAf8r8F Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “She said, ‘Do you know anybody who plays keyboards?’ I lied and said, ‘Yeah – me!’” Hawkwind’s Magnus Martin isn’t actually a member of Hawkwind. He just never stopped turning up ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/magnus-martin-everything-is-singing-to-me kkACF46XEKr4H29ZYyTjUb Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “It became too much. It was like when Yoko came along to The Beatles and Paul said, ‘Oh no’”: The 70s rock classic inspired by a tragedy at sea which tore the band that wrote it apart ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/tracks-singles/mountain-nantucket-sleighride-story-behind-the-song QEmvJCqMGgJ9KGj9AMeNYb Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The Slipknot guys are totally aware of who were are, and System Of A Down opened for us before they even got signed”: The chaotic birth of Grindcore, the scene that changed metal forever ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/the-slipknot-guys-are-totally-aware-of-napalm-death-and-system-of-a-down-opened-for-us-before-they-even-got-signed-the-chaotic-birth-of-grindcore-the-scene-that-changed-metal-forever uMCd7j62g5uUpMp4nmZYcn Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to duet on Macca's new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/beatles-paul-mccartney-and-ringo-starr-to-duet-on-maccas-new-album-the-boys-of-dungeon-lane aavsaf3oX2rWyvQ6biyYGM Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Storm Thorgerson didn’t say the pig on the cover of Animals had been Roger Waters’ idea. Roger was very angry”: Why Pink Floyd didn’t go to their go-to artwork guys for The Wall, and what The Dark Side Of The Moon cover might have looked like ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/pink-floyd-hipgnosis-the-wall jjThBWBDYdzEvMN3PDv7Dn Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ Charity cuts ties with Sharon Osbourne after social media post in which she suggests she will attend Tommy Robinson's anti-immigration rally ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/charity-cuts-ties-with-sharon-osbourne-after-social-media-post-in-which-she-suggests-she-will-attend-tommy-robinsons-anti-immigration-rally QU7zLFBRtf2DMWBc5T9yU8 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:00:00 +0000 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:28:26 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I had fights with band members who told me I’d completely lost it. And they were right. It was a terrible time”: The cult band who gave the world members of Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath and Yes – but only blues rock connoisseurs know who they are ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/savoy-brown-band-history 3YsA8naw6rZzXgZSrZUYYb Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000 Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:14:12 +0000 <![CDATA[ “It was like Lord Of The Flies. You could vaguely hear music and there were giant mud puddles with naked people writhing around”: Metallica, Nine Inch Nails and 350,000 mud-caked people – the chaotic story of the biggest US music festival of the 1990s ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/music-festivals/woodstock-94-story-of-festival-nine-inch-nails-red-hot-chili-peppers LMpNWv9yS3oMK4ewRxYZFo Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:41:09 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Sometimes change is hard to take for some people, but we knew how far we could push things”: How Bo Diddley, beards and a Mexican battle song set one of the greatest blues trios of the 70s on the road to 80s superstardom ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/zz-top-deguello-story-behind-the-album KN25KzMhCivhaqQDSbE8GS Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:01:54 +0000 <![CDATA[ “In those days a gimmick was a big deal. Bowie’s was that he’d written a song about being in space when the first moonshot was taking place”: The weird connection between Neil Armstrong, a future British Prime Minister and one of rock’s greatest icons ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/david-bowie-space-oddity-story-behind-the-song GeSwcFrCjZbrMPZWNgPXT9 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:27:11 +0000 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:28:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ Ten albums that prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that 1980 was the greatest year ever for hard rock and heavy metal ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/why-1980-was-the-greatest-year-for-hard-rock-and-heavy-metal QimhBHNHDhyKkdh2fcm2qA Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:15:18 +0000 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:17:08 +0000 <![CDATA[ "We will miss you Prince!" As the 10th anniversary of his death nears, watch Bruce Springsteen, David Gilmour, Pearl Jam, Lenny Kravitz, Chris Cornell pay tribute to the legend that was Prince ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/bruce-springsteen-david-gilmour-pearl-jam-lenny-kravitz-chris-cornell-pay-tribute-to-prince LB3VB7mVtFC7AKZUHSJjW8 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:19:20 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Ever wondered what Trent Reznor would be like with a couple of glowsticks and a string vest?" Nine Inch Noize captures Coachella's most vibrant team-up in a rave-happy remix ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/nine-inch-noize-album-review 2FJboZM8evsW9iDpPTGiGk Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:45:06 +0000 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:49:14 +0000