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From the Classic Rock archive: July 2005

Cover of July 2005 issue.

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• »  STYX SUMMER IN THE CITY
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• »  Ah, it's you. Welcome back you old wizard, and steady yourself for a bumper-...
• »  THE GREAT MISSING DRUMMERS Have you guys never heard of the great Aynsley...
• »  MEET CLASSIC ROCK Steven Rosen LA-based writer Steven Rosen doesn’t own those...
• »  PINHEAD
• »  THE CLASSIC ROCK GANG Writing (well, typing) to let you know that I have...
• »  DON’T MENTION THE BEATLES Congratulations on your recent 100 Reasons Why The...
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• »  UGLY KID JOE: THE COMEBACK STARTS HERE
• »  THE NEW SCHOOL OF ROCK I have been an avid reader of your fantastic magazine...
• »  THE CLASH GO GINGER Loved the Velvet Revolver editorial bits in the June...
• »  LETTER OF THE MONTH THE PUNK METAL LOVE-IN Thanks for your article on Punk Vs...
• »  TEXT CROCK!
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• »  Stones roll again
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• »  Ronnie James Dio is to appear in the forthcoming movie Tenacious D: In The...
• »  Rollins defends ‘murderers’
• »  Alice in warning land
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• »  STEVE HOGARTH MARILLION
• »  Uriah Heep are not holding their traditional Magician’s Birthday Party show...
• »  Get ready for DualDisc
• »  “Wank for peace”
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• »  ★JULIETTE & THE LICKS
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• »  FENDER
• »  Security guards interrupted Garbage’s recent Washington DC concert when...
• »  KING’S X
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• »  ROCK’N’ROLL SUICIDE
• »  The Dave Matthews Band have paid $20,000 to an environmental fund to settle...
• »  PETER MURPHY
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• »  WORLD TOUR ROCK’N’ROLL LANDMARKS
• »  Former Warrant singer Jani Lane has agreed to appear in the US version of...
• »  Don’t Quote Me
• »  HEAVEN AND HELL ★BLACK SABBATH
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• »  ★TOWERS OF LONDON
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• »  BRITAIN’S BEST TRIBUTE BANDS
• »  The man accused of stabbing former Grand Funk Railroad manager and producer...
• »  CANDLEMASS
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• »  ★WRATHCHILD
• »  Stryper’s reunion album (with three- quarters of the Christian rock band’s...
• »  PHIL COLLEN
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• »  ★METALLICA
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• »  ★SLUNT
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• »  EIGHT MILES HIGH
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• »  NODDY HOLDER
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• »  Monkey see, Mötley Crüe
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• »  PRIME MOVER ★ZODIAC MINDWARP AND THE LOVE REACTION
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• »  Heavy metal is the new classical
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• »  The band hated each other. Mötley Crüe were over. Finished.
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• »  In 1985, Deborah Frost took her life in her hands and sampled the madness of...
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• »  MOTLEY’S SIMPLE PLAN
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• »  Mötley Crüe is just the latest in a series of high-profile re-formations. The...
• Page 41
• »  Millions, schmillions. How to bring a US band to the UK for a few grand.
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• »  In the late 60s, Jeff Beck put Hi-Ho Silver Lining behind him and went into...
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• »  THE BIG TIME
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• »  WHEN THE MUSIC’S OVER
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• »  Drink, drugs, expectations, management problems: things haven’t been easy for...
• Page 50
• »  We know what happened when three members of Rage Against The Machine got...
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• »  Just how ‘super’ are/were some of the best-known supergroups? ‘Super’ is...
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• »  Udo Dirkschneider has dusted off his military fatigues for one last swansong...
• Page 55
• »  GET WITH IT
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• »  ACCEPT: THE AC/DC CONNECTION
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• »  CONNECTION
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• »  SPIRITUALISED?
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• »  ROLLING WITH IT
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• »  AFTER FINALLY ADMITTING TO HIMSELF THAT HE WAS IN THE MERCILESS GRIP OF...
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• »  the way
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• »  Under the
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• »  engineering
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• »  Slaves and masters
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• »  BIOMECHANICAL The Empires Of The Worlds
• »  THE UNSEEN State of Discontent Nice racket, boys, shame about the image.
• »  DAVID KNOPFLER Ship Of Dreams
• »  RY COODER Chávez Ravine Nonesuch/Perro Verde Elegiac concept album from this...
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• »  ALABAMA 3 Outlaw
• »  CHRIS HILLMAN The Other Side Cooking Vinyl Byrds man’s rootsy Americana.
• »  ROGER DALTREY Rocks In The Head Castle Music
• »  QUEEN ADREENA The Butcher And The Butterfly
• »  TURBONEGRO Party Animals Burning Heart The Village People of 21st- century rock.
• »  EVIL
• »  ROUND-UP: EXTREME METAL By Tommy Udo
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• »  HARTMANN Out In The Cold Frontiers
• »  IMAGIKA Devils On Both Sides Mausoleum Bay Area thrash lives – head for the...
• »  SUNSHINE Moonshower And Razorblades
• »  MENNEN Freakazoid Escapi European melodic rock with tricks up its sleeve.
• »  Friends reunited
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• »  Less is more
• »  JACOBS DREAM Drama Of The Ages Metal Blade
• »  EDGE OF FOREVER Let The Demon Rock ‘N’ Roll MTM/SPV Effortless retro-rock...
• »  MIKE WATT The Secondman’s Middle Stand Easy Action Why people sneer at the...
• »  AIMEE MANN The Forgotten Arm SuperEgo An affecting Mann-tra.
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• »  ARISE The Beautiful New World Spinefarm Records Is ‘trad thrash’ a genre? To...
• »  ZENO
• »  NIHILIST Nihilist
• »  BRAND NEW SIN Recipe For Disaster Century Media Blue-collar American hard...
• »  RAGING SPEEDHORN How The Great Have Fallen
• »  THE VOYEURS The Voyeurs Bang!
• »  ROUND-UP: PROG By Nick Shilton
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• »  IGGY & THE STOOGES Telluric Chaos Skydog/Jungle Bus-pass punks are still...
• »  LIMP BIZKIT The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) Flip/Geffen Rap metalheads get...
• »  MIOCENE A Perfect Life With A View Of The Swamp Corporate Risk 10/10 for...
• »  ALKALINE TRIO Crimson Vagrant Goth-punks grow up.
• »  THE JEFF HEALEY BAND Live At Montreux 1999
• »  VARIOUS This Is indie Rock Volume 2
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• »  LIZARD Tales From Artichoke Wood
• »  GIZMACHI The Imbuing
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• »  Dream weavers
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• »  GRAHAM PARKER Songs Of No Consequence
• »  MISS BLACK AMERICA Terminal
• »  Devilishly good
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• »  THE HURT PROCESS A Heartbeat Behind Golf British post-hardcore crew’s second...
• »  THE PEER GYNT BAND Ten Years On The Road – Alive!
• »  Punching their weight
• »  BETZEFER Down Low Roadrunner
• »  HEARTLAND Move On Escape Music Practice makes almost perfect for UK hard...
• »  VENEREA One Louder
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• »  ART BRUT Bang Bang Rock’n’Roll
• »  GENE LOVES JEZEBEL Exploding Girl
• »  CAESARS Paper Tigers
• »  THE SMACKDOWN Calling The Spots Goodfellow Recordings Post-hardcore goes...
• »  MIRADOR The Azrael Tales
• »  ROUND-UP: SLEAZE By Sleazegrinder
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• »  Corgan’s bluff?
• »  RYAN ADAMS AND THE CARDINALS Cold Roses Lost Highway Patchy double album from...
• »  MESHUGGAH Catch Thirty-Three
• »  DEATH BY STEREO Death For Life Epitaph In-your-face sound, emotions worn on...
• »  PONY Live At The Harlequin Copro Skilful Surrey rockers rock Surrey skilfully.
• »  MARIA MCKEE Peddlin’ Dreams Cooking Vinyl Great lo-fi singer, this time let...
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• »  SILVERSTEIN When Broken Is Easily Fixed Victory
• »  IAN MCNABB Before All Of This Townsend/Universal Ex-Icicle Works man delivers...
• »  10,000 THINGS 10,000 Things
• »  HOT HOT HEAT Elevator
• »  ZZZ Sound Of zZz Howler Records You know you want it.
• »  And other new releases out this month...
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• »  EAST OF EDEN Graffito
• »  THE GLITTERATI The Glitterati
• »  THE DUKE My Kung Fu Is Good Spitfire Records Nu-metal pioneer’s soundtrack to...
• »  THE MOANERS Dark Snack
• »  ALBERT HAMMOND Revolution Of The Heart
• »  THE LEVELLERS Truth & Lies Eagle All hail a Jethro Tull for the new millennium.
• »  INME
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• »  LIFE OF AGONY Broken Valley Epic Cult alt-rockers stage surprise comeback.
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• »  ROUND-UP: MELODIC ROCK By Dave Reynolds
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• »  TEENAGE CASKET COMPANY Dial It Up Trashpit Nottingham’s answer to Pretty Boy...
• »  SMOTHER Great White Hoax Global Warming Heaviocious debut by gigantic-...
• »  MUDVAYNE Lost & Found Epic Million-selling metallers ditch the masks. And the...
• »  And other new releases out this month...
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• »  The colour Purple
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• »  ANTHRAX Fistful Of Metal/ Armed & Dangerous Megaforce Classic thrash double...
• »  DAVID BOWIE The Collection
• »  CLUTCH Reissues Megaforce Retro rockers in top form.
• »  KEITH EMERSON
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• »  Pillow talk
• »  ELVIS PRESLEY The King Of Western Bop
• »  BUZZOV-EN Welcome To Violence Alternative Tentacles
• »  VARIOUS ARTISTS The Original Driving Rock Album Another compilation. Yawn.
• »  THE FAT LADY SINGS The Fat Lady Singles (& Opera Obscura)
• »  MALICE Reissues
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• »  GUSTER Keep It Together Fenway Recordings Guster sell-out with gusto.
• »  VARIOUS Empire Of Thunder
• »  DEFAULT Reissues
• »  BEECHER Breaking The Fourth Wall
• »  NEW MODEL ARMY Reissues
• »  REISSUES: THE CURE
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• »  SPIRIT Future Games/
• »  PAUL WELLER Stanley Road (Deluxe Edition)
• »  JIMMY EAT WORLD Futures Interscope Emo brilliance reissued with bonus disc.
• »  ORANGE JUICE The Glasgow School
• »  PETER GREEN Reissues
• »  KINRICK Sense Your Darkness Majestic Rock Hard and heavy, like metal should be.
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• »  VARIOUS ARTISTS Original Seeds Vols 1 & 2
• »  WITCHFYNME Stagefright
• »  CHRISTIE For All Mankind Repertoire Without a paddle.
• »  THE EASYBEATS The Singles As And Bs Repertoire Aussie pop with AC/DC and...
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• »  ROUND-UP: Lost and obscure Krautrock rediscovered
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• »  Calling cards
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• »  ’vnting high and low
• »  IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS Mr Love Pants Edsel
• »  TRIUMPH Livin’ For The Weekend – The Anthology Castle Music
• »  AUDIENCE Audience Repertoire Please remain seated throughout the performance.
• »  EPISODE SIX Love, Hate, Revenge
• »  STEVE GAINES One In The Sun Lemon
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• »  VARIOUS ARTISTS Indie Anthems
• »  NOTHINGFACE Skeletons
• »  CHILDREN OF BODOM Reissues
• »  PETER BARDENS Write My Name In Dust: The Anthology 1963-2002 Sanctuary One...
• »  THE ORIGINAL PUNK ALBUM Various Artists EMI
• »  It’s a right Scream
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• »  THE RASMUS Hell Of A Collection Warner
• »  KGB
• »  GENE LOVES JEZEBEL
• »  SON VOLT A Retrospective: 1995-2000 Rhino
• »  REFUGEE Affairs In Babylon
• »  IAN GOMM Hold On: The Very Best Of Ian Gomm Cherry Red Career highlights from...
• »  Pearly greats
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• »  DARKTHRONE Reissues
• »  LEGS DIAMOND Uncut Diamond Majestic Rock A gem from the vaults.
• »  CARDINAL Cardinal
• »  SAVOY BROWN Raw Sienna/
• »  Flag elation
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• »  *Roxy Music
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• »  Three into one does go
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• »  Strat’s the way I like it
• »  IGGY POP Live San Fran 1981 Music Video Disributors Just another night of the...
• »  DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Live At The 40 Watt New West
• »  MAGNUM Live In Birmingham
• »  ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS Club Date – Live In
• »  ALANIS MORISSETTE VH-1 Storytellers
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• »  PRONG The Vault
• »  ICED EARTH Gettysburg (1863)
• »  IAN HUNTER AND THE RANT BAND Just Another Night – Live At The Astoria Secret...
• »  VARIOUS Punk Rock Holocaust Springman Warped Tour disgraces itself.
• »  VAN HALEN Live Without A Net Warner Music Division Eddie VH runs the show.
• »  The Moogy blues
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• »  UNIVERSAL DISC PLAYERS
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• »  DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL
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• »  BLOODSTOCK OPEN-AIR
• »  WEEZER
• »  SNOWY WHITE & THE WHITE FLAMES
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• »  FIREFEST Town & Country Club, Bradford
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• »  ROBERT PLANT & THE STRANGE SENSATION Scala London
• »  TERRORVISION Academy, Manchester
• »  CREAM Royal Albert Hall, London
• »  VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR Royal Festival Hall, London
• »  WEDNESDAY 13 London Islington Carling Academy
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• »  PHUCT
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• »  16 ROCK’N’ROLL MYTHS