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By STEVE MASCORD
AS it nears midnight on New Years Eve for a large chunk of our readership, we’d like to thank you for supporting us in 2025.
Without corporate ownership, our growth is organic and incremental. But in recent weeks we have seen something more than that, particularly on Facebook, as people reconnect with a cherished brand from their adolescence.
Here are our five most popular stories of 2025.
5. Inquest rules missing Mortal Sin drummer “most likely dead”
A TERRIBLY sad tale: Wayne Campbell has been missing since 2022. An inquest held in Wollongong ruled him legally deceased. His former band Mortal Sin reformed for a tour this year.
WITHOUT doubt the biggest metal event of 2025 was Back To The Beginning, the farewell to Sabbath and Ozzy in Birmingham. And it was there that most hard rock and metal fans got their first look at 28-year-old Yungblud. A weird feud with the Hawkins brothers ensued,
3. Revealed: Metric system prevented Yngwie Malmsteen joining KISS
THE story goes that KISS wanted to know how tall the Swedish shredder was. He only knew metres, not feet. And that didn’t sound too tall to the Americans. Strange but true.
2, Stevie Nicks once gave Richie Kotzen a tour of her house … “the tour ended in her bedroom”
THIS one came from our own interview, which makes it more satisfying. When guitar whiz Richie was young and new to Hollywood, the Fleetwood Mac chanteuse took a shine to him…
ALEX Van Halen told a Dutch newspaper guitarist Steve Lukather was helping him sift through the archives with a view to possibly releasing something. Luthaker quickly added he would not play on anything that might be released.
READ AND HEAR INTERVIEWS WITH DOZENS OF ARTISTS VIA OUR PATREON PAGE. EAVESDROP AS WE CHAT TO THE BIGGEST NAMES IN ROCK AND METAL – FROM 1987 TO THE PRESENT!
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Johnny Diesel and the Injectors
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