Weekly Music News 21.12.25
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The furious guitarist Tom Morello is releasing a new song called "Everything Burns", in collaboration with the band "Beartooth". Morello said the song was written and recorded quickly and with full intuition, without long planning or overthinking, a process he describes as "lightning in a bottle". According to him, the riffs and lyrics simply came naturally, from a sense of urgency and the right moment. The song is included in the new update of the game Final Fantasy XIV, but Morello stressed that it was not written from the start as a song dedicated to the game.
The band "Megadeth" has released a new single called "Let There Be Shred", a fast and aggressive song that continues the thrash line identified with the band since its earliest days. The single is taken from the band's final studio album, which is expected out on January 23, 2026. Dave Mustaine says the song was written in the original spirit of Megadeth to be "fast and furious". According to him, it is a song that takes the band back to its roots, with direct, uncompromising energy.
The guitarist Zacky Vengeance, of "Avenged Sevenfold", released this week the first solo song of his career, called "Dark Horse". The song came out under his real name, Zachary Baker, and presents a surprising direction with touches of dark country and a reflective atmosphere, while the lyrics deal with memories, ghosts of the past and personal struggle. On social media Zacky wrote that the song is dedicated "to those who don't give up, no matter what their story is".
Alongside the solo project, Zacky is expected to return this coming summer to touring with "Avenged Sevenfold", as part of a big joint tour with "Good Charlotte".
The former vocalist of "Pantera", Terry Glaze, is returning to activity with a new supergroup called "Axe Dragger", which is releasing this week its debut single, which carries the name of the band.
Alongside Glaze, the lineup includes Bob Balch of Fu Manchu, bassist Fredrik Isaksson of Dark Funeral and Pentagram's former drummer, Pete Campbell. The debut album of "Axe Dragger", which carries the band's name, is expected out on March 6.
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The first video for the song "Wish You Were Here" by the band "Pink Floyd"...
Surprisingly, the band never released an official video for the title song of its classic album "Wish You Were Here". Now, to mark 50 years since the album's release and on the occasion of the launch of a new celebratory box set, the band is presenting an official video for the song for the first time. The video combines animation with rare archive material of the band, and accompanies the album's return to the top spot of the UK sales chart. The new box set includes alternative versions, demos and live recordings from the period, and the excitement around the achievement was so great that David Gilmour even shared a festive photo of himself raising a glass of champagne in honor of the news (rareeeeeee).
The band "Metallica" surprised fans with an early holiday gift, when James Hetfield shared a spoken-word reading of the classic Christmas story "A Visit From St. Nicholas", also known from its opening line "'Twas the Night Before Christmas". The reading was first released on SiriusXM's Maximum Metallica channel, and was later accompanied by an animated video published online, in which Hetfield is heard reading the story in a deep, dark voice.
The musician Taylor Momsen, vocalist of "The Pretty Reckless", shared this week about her complicated relationship with Christmas and how she managed to turn something she tried to run away from for years into something she can finally embrace. After years of aversion to the holiday, in which she played as a child in the film "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" in 2000, Momsen embraced the Christmas spirit again with a festive EP called "Taylor Momsen's Pretty Reckless Christmas", which came out as early as Halloween. She celebrated the holiday itself big, with a special performance at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, where she performed the song "Where Are You Christmas?" in front of the iconic department store, surrounded by colorful scenery and holiday characters.
According to her, it is a personal and emotional closing of a circle, and proof that you can take memories from the past and turn them into something positive, powerful and embracing.
About two months after being released from captivity in Gaza, Guy Gilboa-Dalal met with M. Shadows, vocalist of "Avenged Sevenfold", as he promised him a few days after he returned. "In the hardest moments in Gaza, music was always with me in my head," he said, "Avenged Sevenfold have songs that saved me..."
"The sounds of the guitars, the lyrics, the voice of the vocalist and the sound of the drums - they are something else. In my hardest moments in Gaza, music was always with me, in my head. But Avenged have the kind of songs that saved me. The first night after I came back from captivity I turned on the speaker, and Evyatar and I listened to Avenged. I was so moved that I trembled from hearing this music again. When I was 17 I got to be at their first and only show in Israel. Today I met M. Shadows, the vocalist of the band, and I have no words to describe how crazy this meeting was for me."
A new documentary about Courtney Love called "Antiheroine" will premiere at the 2026 Sundance Festival, which will take place between January 22 and February 1. The film, produced by Dorothy St. Pictures, is described as an uncensored and unapologetic look at Love's life and path, at a time when she is sober and preparing to release new music for the first time in more than a decade.
The film will include appearances and interviews with key figures from the rock world, among them Michael Stipe, Melissa Auf der Maur and Billie Joe Armstrong, and will trace Love's lasting influence on rock and pop culture, beyond the public image that shaped her over the years.
The band "Jane's Addiction" announced that it has settled the internal disputes that arose following the well-publicized confrontation between Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro at a show in Boston in September 2024. In separate statements published by the band members, Farrell apologized for his behavior and admitted he lost his temper on stage, expressing regret toward everyone who was hurt by the incident. The other band members noted that in the aftermath, inaccurate statements were made on their part regarding Farrell's mental state, and made clear that everyone chose to put things behind them, out of a desire to preserve the shared musical legacy created over the years, even if each will now continue on his own separate creative path.
Ever since drummer Josh Freese left "Foo Fighters" last May, about two years after replacing the late Taylor Hawkins, both he and we have been asking one simple question: why??? In an interview held this week for the show Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM, he said he still doesn't know for sure why he was fired from the band. According to him he has a few guesses, but he chooses not to share them at this stage, for fear that anything he says would be quoted, interpreted and spread again because of the size and influence of the band.
Fans in the UK have launched a petition calling for July 22 to be officially declared "Ozzy Osbourne Day". The petition, published on change.org, asks to mark the day of Ozzy Osbourne's death as an official day of tribute to the "Prince of Darkness", arguing that his contribution to music went far beyond the band "Black Sabbath" and defined the entire Heavy Metal genre. According to the initiators, the date could become a day of shows, community events and charity fundraising activities, which would express Ozzy's spirit and his many years of commitment to music and philanthropy. The petition ends with a call to join forces and make this day a reality for his fans around the world, and so far more than 15,000 signatures have been collected.
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