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Ritchie Blackmore has returned to the stage with Deep Purple. The 81-year old guitarist, who co-founded the band in 1968, joined them onstage at the 15,000-capacity Northwell at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York.

Blackmore hadn’t played with the band since departing under acrimonious circumstances after a show in Helsinki, Finland, in November 1993, and his relationship with frontman Ian Gillan has remained frosty.

However, earlier this week, during an Instagram Live post, Blackmore revealed that he had reached out to Gillan to ask if he could appear at the show in Wantagh, a short drive from his home on Long Island.

“I sent my A.I. pigeon to Ian Gillan in Portugal, where he lives at the moment,” said Blackmore (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). And I said, How would you feel about if I got up just for an encore? Just one of the songs. I don’t want to intrude. And I said, No pressure – just kind of [for] old times’ sake.’ I’m 81 now. So he seemed to love the idea, put it to the band, got a thumbs up, and it looks like we might be doing that.”

And now they have. Blackmore joined Deep Purple onstage at the climax of a 100-minute set to perform Smoke On The Water, a song powered by his most famous riff. After the song, Gillan told the story of Blackmore reaching out before introducing him.

“It was an absolute pleasure to have back on stage the founder member, the great legend, the immortal… Ritchie Blackmore!“, says Gillan. “It was a great pleasure. I’ll see you in the bar.”

Meanwhile, Blackmore’s partner, Candice Night, shared a photo of the six musicians huddled backstage, saying, “Well, this warms my heart.”

The next show on Deep Purple’s Splat! tour, which arrives in Europe in late September, takes place August 13 at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, MA. Full dates below.

well, this warms my heart… pic.twitter.com/2nArOmSihzAugust 13, 2026

Deep Purple: Splat! Tour 2026

Aug 13: Mansfield Xfinity Center, MA
Aug 15: Halifax Scotiabank Centre, NS
Aug 17: Laval Place Bell, QC
Aug 18: Toronto RBC Amphitheatre, ON
Aug 19: Ottawa Canadian Tire Center, ON
Aug 21: Detroit Pine Knob, MI
Aug 22: Salamanca Seneca Allegany Casino, NY
Aug 24: Indianapolis Everwise Amphitheatre, IN
Aug 25: Highland Park Ravinia, IL
Aug 27: Prior Lake Mystic Lake Casino, MN
Aug 29: Winnipeg Canada Life Centre, MB
Aug 31: Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome, AB
Sep 02: Abbotsford Abbotsford Centre, BC
Sep 04: Lincoln Thunder Valley, CA
Sep 05: Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre, CA
Sep 06: Highland Yaamava Theatre, CA
Sep 08: Chula Vista North Island Credit Union Amp, CA
Sep 10: Las Vegas Planet Hollywood, NV
Sep 11: Long Beach Long Beach Amphitheater, CA
Sep 12: Sparks Nugget Event Center, NV

Sep 29: Sofia 8888 Arena, Bulgaria
Oct 01: Cluj BT Arena, Romania
Oct 02: Budapest Laszlo Papp Arena, Hungary
Oct 04: Bratislava Tipos Arena, Slovakia
Oct 05: Vienna Stadthalle, Austria
Oct 07: Prague O2 Arena, Czechia
Oct 08: Lodz Atlas Arena, Poland
Oct 10: Belgrade Stark Arena, Serbia
Oct 11: Skopje Boris Trajkovski Arena, Macedonia
Oct 13: Athens Telekom Centre Arena, Greece
Oct 16: Zurich Hallenstadion, Switzerland
Oct 17: Milan Unipol Forum, Italy
Oct 19: Barcelona Sant Jordi Club, Spain
Oct 22: Paris Adidas Arena, France
Oct 23: Antwerp Lotto Arena, Belgium
Oct 25: Copenhagen Royal Arena, Denmark
Oct 26: Stockholm Avicii Arena, Sweden
Oct 28: Oslo Spektrum Arena, Norway
Oct 29: Gothenburg Scandinavium, Sweden
Oct 31: Leipzig QI Arena, Germany
Nov 01: Hamburg Sporthalle, Germany
Nov 03: Dortmund Westfalenhalle, Germany
Nov 04: Berlin Uber Arena, Germany
Nov 06: Frankfurt Festhalle, Germany
Nov 07: Nuremberg Arena, Germany
Nov 09: Amsterdam Ziggodome, Netherlands
Nov 10: Strasbourg Zenith, France
Nov 12: Bordeaux Arkéa Arena, France
Nov 13: Nantes Zenith, France
Nov 15: Lyon LDLC Arena, France
Nov 18: Newcastle Utilita Arena, UK
Nov 19: Glasgow OVO Hydro, UK
Nov 21: Birmingham BP Pulse Arena, UK
Nov 22: Manchester AO Arena, UK
Nov 24: London Eventim Apollo, UK
Nov 25: London Royal Albert Hall, UK

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Queen drummer Roger Taylor has released a second single from his upcoming solo album Violence Insane In A Beautiful World. The album’s first single, Come On Summer (It’s Party Time), featuring The Ndlovu Youth Choir from Limpopo, South Africa, was released in June, and Taylor has followed that with the reflective I See You Now.

“It’s a love song, it’s really about my wife,” says Taylor. “We’ve been together for quite some time, and I think when you really get to know someone, at first you really don’t see everything about them, but when you really get to know someone, it’s ‘oh, I see you now, that’s it.”

The song is accompanied by Taylor’s longtime collaborator Simon Lupton, who also worked on the longorm Queen videos Greatest Video Hits 1 and 2, and The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story.

Taylor’s new album, his seventh solo release and his first since 2021’s Outsider, will be released on September 18 via Columbia, and finds Taylor pondering the state of the world.

“It’s in the title really,” he says. “What a beautiful world we live in, don’t fuck it up. There seems to be all this insanity at the moment. The violence in the world seems to be as bad as it ever was, at any point, and certainly in my lifetime. It’s just horrific, a lot of insane violence. And we do seem to be fucking up the world, plastics in the sea, and all these awful wars everywhere, and hatred born of different religions.

“It’s a beautiful world, you know. And kindness is very important, I think, it seems to be forgotten quite a lot.”

Roger Taylor: Violence Insane In A Beautiful World tracklist

1. A Beautiful World feat. The Ndlovu Youth Choir
2. Violence Insane
3. What Really Matters
4. Don’t Photograph Food
5. I See You Now
6. Chump
7. Spit In His Eye
8. Jealous Guy
9. Come On Summer (It’s Party Time) feat. The Ndlovu Youth Choir
10. A Great Big Beautiful World (reprise) feat. The Ndlovu Youth Choi

Roger Taylor: 2026 UK Tour

Sep 21: Newcastle O2 City Hall
Sep 22: Edinburgh Usher Hall
Sep 24: Birmingham The Alexandra
Sep 25: Manchester Opera House
Sep 28: London Roundhouse
Sep 29: Swansea Building Society Arena

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Mothership Management is proud to announce an all-ages Halloween metal show at The Cage in Port Macquarie on Friday, 30 October 2026, bringing together four of Australia’s heavy acts for an unforgettable night of live music.  Headlined by Volatile Ways, fresh from completing a successful European tour and preparing to embark on a major United States […]

Our Top 10 Steve Earle songs list looks back at the songs of a brilliant artist who has ridden the line between rock and country in such legendary artistic fashion. Raised in Texas, he has drawn on Southern country roots that have fueled much of his music, yet it has always been done with a rock-and-roll-meets-Americana sensibility. His first full-length album was released in 1986, entitled Guitar Town. Since then, Steve Earle has released more than twenty albums while winning three Grammy Awards. His most recent studio album remains Jerry Jeff, released in 2022, while Alone Again (Live) followed in

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Our Top 10 Joe Walsh Songs list looks at the musical career of one of the most exciting musicians in classic rock history. Hailed for decades by many famous musicians and fans as one of the best guitarists in rock, Joe Walsh has left his mark on classic rock in various ways. He has contributed to the story of classic rock as a member of bands such as the James Gang, Barnstorm, and, of course, the Eagles. Joe Walsh has also contributed his talents as a guitarist on many studio and live albums released by some of classic rock history’s

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Out of Los Angeles, Black Label Society emerged in 1998 as the brainchild of Zakk Wylde, a virtuoso guitarist and vocalist known for his work with Ozzy Osbourne. The band’s genesis was marked by a desire to meld the raw energy of heavy metal with the soulful undertones of Southern rock, a fusion first explored by Wylde in his earlier project, Pride & Glory, and further refined in his solo endeavor, Book of Shadows. Despite the latter’s lukewarm reception, it laid the groundwork for what would become Black Label Society. The band officially took shape with the recording of Sonic

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Any album that sounds as though everybody involved remembered to wipe their feet before entering the studio should probably be regarded with suspicion. Fortunately, Wailin Storms’ The Arsonist sounds more like four people discovered a door already hanging crooked from its hinges and decided the sensible course was to make the room less structurally sound.

The Durham band carries the American South around like a family curse, hauling blues, gothic rock, punk, doom, Baptist hymns and old folk dread into the same cramped quarters. Their fifth album, and first for Season of Mist, was recorded fully analogue by Matt Talbott of Hum, an appropriate choice for music that benefits from scraped edges and human error. Justin Storms wanted portions of the record to reconnect with the primitive four-track character of the band’s beginnings. “Some of these songs are more primitive and stripped down, hearkening back to the four-track recordings that the band started with,” says Storms. “The recordings contain flaws, but remain human in all the right ways. They could be a murder ballad or an old folk song that’s sung around the campfire.”

Standout track Dead End provides an appropriately diseased introduction. Ben Melton’s guitar worries at Steve Stanczyk’s bass while Mark Oates pounds out a rhythm that seems increasingly annoyed about being alive. There is some Radiohead in its queasy grandeur, the poetic ecstasy of The Doors’ Jim Morrison, and plenty of The Gun Club in its bloodshot blues logic. Then Storms sings “Calm night / Birds keep plucking out our eyes” with the casual authority of a man reporting local traffic conditions.

Fire has followed Storms since childhood, when his fascination with flames nearly resulted in the destruction of his family home. Here it becomes appetite, catastrophe, sex, faith and bad judgment sharing one cigarette. Flannery O’Connor would recognize the neighborhood immediately: everybody has dressed for church, salvation is theoretically available, and somebody somewhere has misplaced a can of gasoline.

You Never Answered turns the miserable modern habit of staring into a phone into a deafening plea for actual contact. Elsewhere, war and ordinary social machinery feed the record’s agitation before the title track slows everything into a bruised procession. Love suddenly becomes another uncontrollable force capable of rearranging a life without requesting permission. Never Rest swells into a crescendo of horror as it unfurls a wild torrent of haunting poetry set against apocalyptic guitars and thundering drums – landing somewhere between Type O Negative and The Doors.

The Arsonist finds Wailin Storms standing dangerously close to their oldest impulses: primitive rock & roll, folk horror, damaged romance and the suspicion that salvation and catastrophe may share an address.

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Modern life has become one long argument with a screen, a boss, a stranger, a lover, or the idiot currently screaming beneath a flag in a supermarket car park. Shaven Primates have mined the exhaustion and alchemized it into a new EP, Kill The Algorithm. The Oxford quartet turns private dependency, political resentment, male grievance, and algorithmic manipulation into four rough-and-tumble songs powered by post-punk tension, industrial abrasion, art-rock unease, and guitars that sound ready to put somebody through a wall.

Saviour starts from the most private wound. Its language treats affection as narcotic relief, the beloved transformed into medicine for absences that began much earlier, somewhere around the missing mother, missing father, and the suspicion that another person might finally close the hole. The 1990s references make sense: Placebo’s bruised glamour, Nine Inch Nails’ compulsive machinery, A Perfect Circle’s heavy-lidded grandeur. The emotional centre remains ugly enough to feel dangerous. Love becomes dosage, fantasy becomes diagnosis, and the repeated appeal to a saviour keeps curdling into evidence that salvation has been outsourced to somebody equally mortal.

Pioneer Way drags that anxiety into public, where the nervous breakdown has flags tied to the lamp posts. The track takes aim at a Britain of workplace exhaustion, tabloid conditioning, immigrant scapegoating, screen addiction, and everyday fury looking for a body to blame. There is something grimly comic about a man screaming at an indicator while the country around him rehearses imperial fantasies beside a roundabout. The Sex Pistols influence is less about imitation than permission: permission to sneer at the pageantry, to notice how easily personal failure gets repackaged as national grievance, and to turn the resulting disgust into a hook sharp enough to draw blood.

Then Feed goes after the salesmen. These are the grievance merchants who discover lonely young men, tell them tenderness is weakness, sell coercion as confidence, and monetize every insecurity they helped aggravate. The band brings in the clenched attack of Rage Against the Machine and Metallica, but the song’s ugliest idea is economic. Misery has become a business model. The customer is kept hungry because a satisfied customer might stop clicking.

That thought detonates fully in Kill The Algorithm, where social media becomes less a tool than a delivery system for appetite, paranoia, tribal identity, and manufactured certainty. Radiohead, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden hover in the architecture, while the repeated command at the song’s centre turns disgust into something nearly ecstatic. The target is the machine that keeps learning which wound to prod next.

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Shaven Primates have made four songs about dependence: on lovers, on screens, on enemies, on gurus, on systems that promise relief while feeding the sickness. The riffs grind, the drums hit with factory-floor force, and the vocals move from wounded croon to open-throated accusation. The EP is held together by the recognition that private desperation and public brutality are often roommates, splitting the rent while each insists the other started the fire.

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