The UK pop-metal juggernauts shared their version of the 1995 Britpop classic today (January 29) as part of Spotify’s ongoing Singles Series. Have a listen below.
The surprise-released rendition, the artwork of which sees Bring Me The Horizon recreate a shot from Wonderwall’s original music video, arrives as Oasis prepare to reunite for a world tour in 2025.
Led by brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, the multi-Platinum-selling rockers split in 2009 but announced their comeback last year. Their Live ’25 run kicks off in the UK in July, with North American, South American, Asian and Australian dates confirmed for up until November.
See the full list of shows and try to grab any remaining tickets via the Oasis website.
Though Oasis’ reunion was much-anticipated, it proved controversial when tickets went on sale. The demand led to fans hanging about in online waiting rooms on Ticketmaster for hours, with the prices then often being inflated as a result of “dynamic pricing”. According to The Guardian, Ticketmaster pushed the cost for some tickets from £135 up to £350.
Both the UK government and the European Commission launched investigations into Ticketmaster as a result. The Gallaghers acknowledged the controversy in a statement and distanced themselves from the choice to use dynamic pricing.
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They said, “It needs to be made clear that Oasis leave decisions on ticketing and pricing entirely to their promoters and management, and at no time had any awareness that dynamic pricing was going to be used.”
As for Bring Me The Horizon, they released latest album Post-Human: Nex Gen last year. Singer Oli Sykes recently mentioned that the band were considering a hiatus, but they’re currently set to headline the UK’s Reading & Leeds festivals in August. Also topping the twin festivals’ lineups this year will be Chappell Roan, Hozier and Travis Scott.
“This song is a reminder of how we started but it’s also the first part of a new story we want to tell.” Ten years after they began work on it, Sleigh Bells release new single Wanna Start a Band?, and share North American tour dates
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Sleigh Bells, the American noise-pop duo featuring former Poison The Well guitarist Derek Miller and vocalist Alexis Krauss, have released a new single, Wanna Start a Band?, which they first began work on over a decade ago.
Talking about the band’s first new release in four years, Krauss says, “In 2008 while eating at a restaurant in Brooklyn with my mom, our server, Derek, wasted very little time asking me, essentially, ‘Wanna start a band?’ Hard to believe that almost 17 years later we are still hyped and obsessively making records together.
“Derek started messing with the riff for this song around 2014 – it needed a lot of work, but a spark was there. We had a band by then but didn’t know how long it would last. For us, this song is a reminder of how we started, but it’s also the first part of a new story we want to tell – more on that very soon! We hope you will come along for the ride.”
Listen to the single below:
The band have also announced North American tour dates, for May/June.
The duo will bring the noise to:
May 07: Phoenix Crescent Ballroom, AZ May 09: Santa Ana The Observatory, CA May 10: Solana Beach Belly Up, CA May 13: San Francisco August Hall Music Hall, CA May 16: Portland Hawthorne Theatre, OR May 17: Vancouver Hollywood Theatre, Canada May 19: Seattle Neptune Theatre, WA May 21: Denver Summit, CO May 23: Houston White Oak Music Hall, TX May 24: Dallas Granada Theater, TX May 25: Austin Mohawk, TX May 28: Tampa The Ritz Ybor, FL May 29: Orlando Plaza Live, FL May 30: Fort Lauderdale Culture Room, FL
Jun 01: Atlanta Terminal West, GA Jun 02: Asheville The Orange Peel, NC Jun 03: Philadelphia Union Transfer, PA Jun 05: Washington D.C. 9:30 Club Jun 06: Boston Paradise Rock Club, MA Jun 07: New York Webster Hall, NY Jun 10: Toronto Axis Club Theatre, Canada Jun 11: Detroit El Club, MI Jun 12: Chicago Metro, IL Jun 14: Minneapolis Fine Line, MN Jun 15: Madison Majestic Theatre, WI
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Nu gen duo Alt Blk Era are your nightmare upstairs neighbours. Following on from 2023’s Freak Show EP, sisters Nyrobi and Chaya Beckett-Messam continue to defy conventional expectations of metal, injecting thumping dark- pop, harmonious synths and chaotic EDM into their gritty breakdowns.
Rave Immortal is the perfect soundtrack for the mosher who likes to party, a smorgasbord of blastbeats, bounding hip hop, razor-sharp riffs – anything to get people moving, basically. After months spent in bed before she was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, Nyrobi was desperate to express herself – and sprinkling emotive alt rock with rip-roaring electronics was the perfect way to go about it.
There’s a burning lust for life to Rave Immortal, an exhilarating yell of defiance. It’s the sound of celebration, whether it’s in the moshpit or on the dancefloor, or ideally both. The rip-roaring Run Rabbit plugs into the crossover mayhem of The Prodigy and Pendulum, My Drummer’s Girlfriend leans into devilishly cool electro- rock, and Catch Me If You Can is tinged with a haunting, gloomy hint of symphonic metal.
Throughout, tracks bristle with a desire to move. While Come On Outside’s grunge-tinted riffs capture the pain of isolation, Come Fight Me For It feels like a caged animal unleashed, bounding loose on a wave of frazzled electronics and confrontational screeching. Elsewhere, Upstairs Neighbours is a solid gold rager, each order to ‘JUMP!’ impossible to defy when paired with gloriously infectious breakbeats.
Alt Blk Era’s refusal to stick to one sonic lane will undoubtedly put some people off – that’s their loss. With Rave Immortal, the Beckett-Messam sisters have lived up to the promise of that album title, finding joy in release and forging new paths. This feels like the beginning of something special.
Full-time freelancer, part-time music festival gremlin, Emily first cut her journalistic teeth when she co-founded Bittersweet Press in 2019. After asserting herself as a home-grown, emo-loving, nu-metal apologist, Clash Magazine would eventually invite Emily to join their Editorial team in 2022. In the following year, she would pen her first piece for Metal Hammer – unfortunately for the team, Emily has since become a regular fixture. When she’s not blasting metal for Hammer, she also scribbles for Rock Sound, Why Now and Guitar and more.
“A lot of people came with their backs up… it was kind of scary.” Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones reflects on his band’s infamous, “chaotic” first US tour, and promises that the punk legends will be back this year
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Next month, the Sex Pistols will release the first of three live albums recorded on their first -and last – US tour. And while guitarist Steve Jones admits, with commendable honesty, that he’ll “probably never listen to ‘em”, his own memories of the January ’78 tour remain vivid.
The Pistols were originally scheduled to play eight shows in America at the close of 1977/beginning of 1978. But from the off, things went wrong.
Due to members of the group having criminal records, ranging from drug arrests to assaults on a police officer. the band were initially denied visas to enter the United States, and only managed to secure visas at the 11th hour when their label stumped up $1 million as a guarantee of their good behaviour. A Warners lawyer told The New York Times, “This is a group of youngsters who came up from slum areas and it sounds to me like a lot of small things involved with street kids growing up. Now that they’re on the threshold of being somebody, we shouldn’t deny them the right to really make it.”
“Betting on the Sex Pistols to keep the peace at that time was like betting on a three-legged chihuahua to win the Grand National – not the best investment they would ever make,” Jones wrote in one of the more amusing lines included in his autobiography Lonely Boy.
The delay in securing the visas meant that the first scheduled show on the tour, booked at the Leona Theatre in Pittsburgh on December 28, 1977, had to be cancelled, as did a proposed appearance on Saturday Night Live. And when the band rolled into Atlanta, Georgia for their opening gig at the Great South East Music Hall, their case was hardly helped by a local TV station gravely informing viewers that the English group would vomit and commit ‘sex acts’ with one another as part of their show. Perhaps understandably, the group would face hostile, and in some cases properly violent, audiences in every city they visited, on a tour Steve Jones recalls as “a fucking circus”, and “no fun”. Bassist Sid Vicious in particular was subjected to more than one assault during the run, not helped by his baiting the audience every night, and begging for heroin onstage.
“Most people came out of curiosity ‘cause of all the bad and good publicity that we were getting in the States,” the guitarist recalls in a new interview with NME. “It was all the old ‘We bite the heads off of chickens!’ routine. So a lot of people come with their backs up and was fucking throwing so much crap at us, it was kind of scary. It was such a mess. By the end of that, I’m like: I’ve had enough of this.”
The group’s final US show took place at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco on January 14. It ended, famously, with Johnny Rotten telling the audience “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
“We were awful,” Jones wrote in Lonely Boy. “My guitars were all out of tune as I’d bought this fucking Firebird that was shit, and Sid was being a complete clown. Looking at it from the audience’s point of view, maybe they thought, ‘Wow, this is wild, this is crazy’, but from my point of view we were just utterly fucked.”
“After the Winterland, that’s when me and Cookie went to Brazil and did The Great Rock’n’roll Swindle, which I wanted to do to get away from John and Sid and all that,” Jones admits to NME. “It was just too chaotic. In hindsight, we were young. I didn’t know what I was doing. I basically just wanted to run and get away from it.”
Jones also tells NME that the band will return to the US this year.
“I’m excited,” he says. “I know the dates, so I know it’s gonna be good…”
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“How the hell do you bang your head to this shit?!”
When I was a teenage progressive metal fan, these were the questions I heard ad nauseam. As much as heavy music was considered outsider art during my awkward school years, loving the bands who played 20-minute tracks in 9/8 time was fringe even beyond that. The kids who adored Ed Sheeran didn’t understand Metallica, then the kids who adored Metallica didn’t understand Between The Buried And Me.
It was a trickle-down economy of shitting on music tastes and mine was at the bottom of the U-bend.
Jump-cut to 2025 and, blimey, the world feels different now. The West is plummeting into neofascism to the sound of incels’ vindicated applause, while artificial intelligence threatens the very meaning of human creativity. But, more staggering and unprecedented than all of that, prog metal is in vogue now!
There’s a part of me that wants to be bitter about it. Maybe if I see yet a-fucking-nother TikTok trying to explain the mythology behind Sleep Token’s lyrics, I will be. Moreover, though, I’m grateful that prog metal has entered its golden age: an era where eclecticism and complexity aren’t things to be ashamed of, but which thrust its practitioners to mainstream goodwill and festival headline spots.
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JINJER – Green Serpent (Official Video) | Napalm Records – YouTube
For many, the explosion of prog metal to arena-scale success became tangible post-pandemic. Footage of Jinjer frontwoman Tatiana Shmayluk howling through Pisces wowed millions of people and quickly made the Ukrainians a big deal. In 2023, the aforementioned Sleep Token became the metal band, winning viral success with their masks, sensual sounds, and leaps from pop melodies to Meshuggah-ey riffs that many had never heard the likes of before. Gojira enjoyed their first tour through 10,000-plus capacity venues across Europe around the same time.
Although that may have been when mainstream metalheads took notice of these forward-minded bands, the truth is that your social media algorithm had long been teaching you to love sonic technicality – and you probably didn’t even know it!
Think about it: from the mid-2010s onwards, how many virtuoso guitarists and drummers popped up in your Youtube, Facebook and Instagram feeds? How many more inspired stunned news stories from magazines such as this one? And how many more still were further circulated by other content creators, who sat mouths agape as Rob Scallon defied physics with his left hand and buttered toast with his right or whatever.
Social media has been instilling a penchant for proggy chops in many people for quite some time. Meanwhile, the seemingly inevitable apocalypse caused by climate change has probably made you sad, angry or hopeless at at least one point. Then the pandemic made everyone sadder, angrier and hopeless-er. An appetite for music that’s jointly intricate and intense has been brewing for a while now. Combine that with the obvious mainstream dalliances of Sleep Token (frequently dubbed metal’s Bon Iver) and the hip-hop-indebted Polyphia, and the climate is perfect!
Sleep Token perform at Leeds festival in 2023 (Image credit: Katja Ogrin/Redferns)
This brings us to the present day. In 2025, the ascents of numerous prog metal superstars will be reaffirmed, while the release schedule looks full to bursting with new albums from the genre’s elite forces.
Let’s start with the most staggering achievement: in June, Sleep Token will headline the UK’s near-100,000-capacity Download festival alongside veteran rock icons Korn and Green Day. It’s also been heavily hinted that the masked pop-prog-metal sex cult will release their fourth album before they grace the stage in Donington, potentially giving not just their genre but all of heavy music its tentpole release for the next 12 months.
Djent-influenced metalcore frontrunners Spiritbox will enjoy a similar levelling up. Next month, the Canadians play their biggest-ever UK show at the 10,000-capacity Alexandra Palace. The gig will be followed by second album Tsunami Sea, set to surf in on a wave of hype strong enough to drown Godzilla.
Also happening next month is the release of the new Jinjer album, Duél. It will be their first studio project since Wallflowers in 2021, with the band having admitted that the Russian invasion of their home country slowed them down creatively. Something special this way comes nonetheless: bassist Eugene Abdukhanov recently told Metal Hammer that Tatiana’s vocals are so good they move him to tears.
February will herald Dream Theater’s Parasomnia too. The sleep-themed album will be the New Yorkers’ first in 16 years with founding drummer Mike Portnoy. The blue-bearded beast returned to the fold in 2023, after playing for almost every other rock band in existence.
More is expected from everybody’s favourite baying Frenchmen, Gojira, later down the line. Last September (a couple months after the band’s fire-spewing show at the Olympics’ opening ceremony), frontman Joe Duplantier said they were in the middle of making some “ambitious” new music. When that will materialise is TBA, but what’s certain is that the wildmen will decimate Derbyshire’s Bloodstock Open Air in August, alongside modern metal greats Trivium and Machine Head.
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Polyphia are set to make some bold musical moves as well. The genre-shredding instrumentalists have already buddied up with Deftones and Steve Vai, and, talking to Rock Sound last summer, guitarist Tim Henson revealed that they’ll team with Babymetal on their next album.
“We’ve been talking to Serj [Tankian] from System Of A Down,” he added. “We love all kinds of music, so it’s fun to reach into all these different things.”
Filling out the calendar will be new stuff from sludge/prog giants Mastodon, who are currently working on their first album since 2021: a “supernatural horror” concept piece. “I don’t see a world in which it does not come out in 2025,” drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor says in the new issue of Hammer.
And that’s just the big guns! Karnivool are set to make their debut atop the bill at Bristol’s Arctangent festival in August and deliver their first album in 12 years. Plus, Leprous are currently trekking across Europe on an Evening With run in some of the biggest venues they’ve ever played, whereas Animals As Leaders are about to celebrate 10 years of beloved album The Joy Of Motion on the road.
Naturally, there’s still way more to be announced over the coming months, but it’s already plain to see: 2025 will be a banner year for progressive metal. The genre will get catapulted to the apex of festivals, cram venues of all sizes, and offer landmark album after landmark album. Take that, other kids at school!
“If he hadn’t been around, we’d have had to get some fat old geezer who’d be telling us about how he played with Clapton in ’76.” Noel Gallagher on how Johnny Depp ended up playing on an Oasis album
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“It’s going to be weird how that’s perceived, having a Hollywood star on the album,” Noel Gallagher mused in 1997, discussing Johnny Depp’s appearance on Fade In-Out, the bluesy seventh track on Oasis‘ soon-to-be-released third album, Be Here Now.
Not that Gallagher really cared what anyone thought: having sold over 20 million copies of his band’s second album, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, he considered Oasis “bigger than fucking God” and was sufficiently confident about the success of its follow up that, during interviews promoting the record, he would admit that some of the songs were “fucking shit”.
Besides, by 1997, Depp’s credentials as a genuine music fan – and as a proficient guitarist – already were well established. In fact, he and Noel Gallagher had already recorded together two years earlier, appearing on a cover of The Beatles‘ Come Together, credited to The Smokin’ Mojo Filters, a one-off supergroup also featuring Paul McCartney, Paul Weller and more. laid down for the charity record The Help Album. Not everyone might have known that the actor had been signed to Geffen Records a decade earlier, as a member of Rock City Angels, or indeed that he’d recorded a terrible album alongside Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes as a member of the ‘supergroup’ P, but he’d been on Top Of The Pops with Shane MacGowan, and if the ex-Pogues singer had his back, then Depp’s rock ‘n’ roll credentials needed no further authentication.
Depp recorded his slide guitar part for Fade In-Out during the spring of 1996, when Gallagher and his wife Meg Matthews joined the actor and his supermodel girlfriend Kate Moss on holiday on the Caribbean island of Mustique. Actually, for clarity, Gallagher wasn’t there for a holiday, as such: he wanted a change of scenery to work after experiencing a new and unwelcome feeling for the first time in his professional career: writer’s block.
“In London the phone was going all the time or there was someone knocking at the door or our kid comes round, ‘Are we going out on the piss or what?'” he told Q magazine’s Phil Sutcliffe in 1997. “Nailing a song together, finding the missing chord that gets it all flowing into one, that takes a lot of peace and quiet.”
“The first part of [Fade In-Out] is from the Mustique demo with Johnny Depp playing slide guitar,” Gallagher revealed. “I like it because it’s the first blues song I’ve ever done and Liam does the best singing I’ve ever heard from him.
“The scream near the end was the last bit we did. Me and Meg went back to Mustique over Christmas and I took the rough mix with me. It needed something and it was bugging me. Meg woke up one morning and there was I in bed beside her with the Walkman on, screaming. She thought I’d gone into my drug psychotic phase. Oh, sorry, I’m just filling in a bit of the record.
“So I don’t think 14-year-old girls will be skipping about to this one. [Cockney] ‘’Ere ’Shelle, wind that one on will yer!’ Until they find out Johnny Depp’s on it… If he hadn’t been around, we’d have had to get some fat old geezer who’d be telling us about how he played with Clapton in ’76 and took a slide solo that lasted for fucking months.”
Be Here Now sold an astonishing 424,000 copies in a single day in the UK upon its release in August 1997, and went on to sell 1.47 million copies in the UK alone in 1997, making it the biggest selling album of the year in Britain. The album also topped the charts in 14 other countries, but missed out on topping the US Billboard 200 chart by a mere 771 copies.
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“We’re in Leon in Mexico in a bit of an amphitheatre,” says frontman Joe Elliott. “It’s a kind of a one-off gig and we’re doing it a man down as Vivian is not here. Vivian is recuperating from cancer surgery and he’s doing very well, but he’s in a bubble he’s not allowed to travel.
“So John Zocco – basically Phil [Collen’s] guitar tech – has manfully stepped up to the plate because he’s a phenomenal player himself and he can sing a bit as well. So, rather get some stranger in that we don’t know, he’s doing it, which is fantastic. We have every confidence that it will go swimmingly until our boy Vivian is back on the stage with us.”
Zocco also filled in for Campbell at the band’s previous show, a performance at the Daimler Truck Customer Appreciation Event in Nashville last October.
After the show in Leon, Campbell shared a message on Def Leppard’s social media channels, letting fans know how his treatment was progressing.
“Thank you for all the recent messages and support,” he wrote. “As you all may know, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma several years ago. I recently had a bone marrow transplant as part of my treatment plan, and it’s safe to say that thus far it’s been a very successful transplant! I just have to keep my head down and my spirits up for the next 100 days of primary recovery.”
The show in Leon took place 45 years ago to the day since Def Leppard kicked off their On Through The Night tour headline tour at a show in Aberdeen, Scotland. The band marked the occasion by playing Wasted, originally released as a single in 1979 and later rerecorded for the On Through The Night album. Footage of the performance is included in the new video (below).
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Def Leppard’s next scheduled show is at the San Juan Coliseo de Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico, on May 15. Full dates below.
DEF LEPPARD – Behind The Tour 2025 – Episode 1: Leon, MX – YouTube
May 15: San Juan Coliseo de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico May 17: Ocean City Boardwalk Rock 2025, MD Jun 19: Milwaukee Summerfest, WI Jun 21: Thackerville Lucas Oil Live at WinStar World Casino and Resort, OK Jun 28: Atlantic City Borgata Event Center, NJ Jul 03: Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena, CT Jul 13: Craven Country Thunder Craven, Canada Aug 14: Des Moines Iowa State Fair, IA Aug 16: Springfield Illinois State Fair, IL Aug 20: Highland Yaamava’ Theater, CA
Just reading that headline might have made you a little nervous—because the #1 rule of Grandpa’s garage was…
… never go in Grandpa’s garage.
There was definitely a mystique about it, this home away from home for Grandma’s favorite man (except for maybe the very charming milkman)—long before the concept of man caves even existed.
Tools and Bikini Hardware Calendar
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Tetanus was a sure bet in Grandpa’s garage, as was a long-expired calendar featuring a very pretty lady who gave you “funny feelings.”
It was made pretty clear that everything in Grandpa’s garage would either kill you or maim you in some form or other.
Everything that was sharp/rusty, flammable, generally distasteful or bad for you in any way (and banned by mom at home) was readily available just by stepping inside.
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Grandpa also had his projects. One of the projects you’d find in his garage was your late Uncle Jerry’s car which Grandpa was certain he could get running if “only everyone would stop borrowing his tools.”
Everyone knew the car was never leaving the garage but Grandpy sure did have a good time telling his buddies from the neighborhood about the places he’d go (without Grandma) once he finally had it up and running.
LOOKS: Things You’d Find in Your Grandpa’s Garage
Adventures were plentiful in the domain of your family’s patriarch who saw no use for rules – unless he was the one making them. From rusty tools to a stack of filthy magazines, Grandpa’s garage was a land of mystery and danger.
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Totally ’80s: The Pictures That Take You Back
Take a nostalgic journey through the ’80s with these iconic photos—capturing the fashion, toys, and unforgettable news events that left a lasting impact on a generation. Keep scrolling to relive the moments that defined the decade.
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Jackyl burst onto the American hard rock scene in 1991, bringing with them a raucous mix of Southern rock, heavy metal, and unapologetic showmanship. Formed in Kennesaw, Georgia, the band quickly gained notoriety for their high-energy performances and unconventional use of a chainsaw as a musical instrument. Their self-titled debut album, released in 1992, achieved platinum status and included standout tracks such as “The Lumberjack” and “Down on Me,” cementing their reputation as one of the most distinctive acts of the decade.
Over the years, Jackyl has released eight studio albums, weathering changes in their lineup while maintaining their signature sound. Albums such as Push Comes to Shove and Relentless kept the band in the spotlight, earning them loyal fans and critical recognition. Known for their relentless touring schedule, Jackyl has played countless shows across the United States, showcasing their enduring commitment to delivering powerful live performances.
The band’s roster has seen notable shifts, with founding members like Jesse James Dupree and Jeff Worley standing as constants, while others like Jimmy Stiff and Thomas Bettini left their mark before moving on. Jackyl’s ability to adapt and thrive over decades in a competitive industry is a testament to their enduring appeal. From charting hits to collaborations and individual projects, the band’s members have continuously pushed creative boundaries, contributing to their legacy as rock icons.
Jesse James Dupree
Jesse James Dupree has been the charismatic frontman of Jackyl since the band’s formation in 1991. Known for his dynamic stage presence and distinctive vocal style, Dupree has contributed lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and the band’s signature use of a chainsaw on tracks like “The Lumberjack.” His songwriting and performance style were pivotal on albums such as Jackyl and Push Comes to Shove. Outside of Jackyl, Dupree has released solo albums, including Jesse James Dupree, and is the founder of Mighty Loud Entertainment, a record label and management company.
Jeff Worley
Jeff Worley joined Jackyl at its inception in 1991 as the band’s lead guitarist and backing vocalist. His guitar work is integral to Jackyl’s sound, featuring prominently on all the band’s albums, including hits like “Down on Me” and “When Will It Rain.” Jeff has remained a steadfast member of the band, contributing to its distinct Southern rock-meets-metal identity. Outside of Jackyl, Worley has worked on various projects showcasing his guitar expertise.
Chris Worley
Chris Worley, the band’s drummer, has been with Jackyl since their start in 1991. His driving rhythms form the backbone of the band’s music, evident in albums like Night of the Living Dead and Relentless. Chris’s drumming style complements the band’s energetic live performances, making him an indispensable part of Jackyl’s sound. While his focus has remained on Jackyl, Chris has occasionally contributed his talents to other musical collaborations.
Roman Glick
Roman Glick joined Jackyl in 1996, replacing original bassist Thomas Bettini. He made his debut on the album Cut the Crap, bringing a solid groove and backing vocals that added depth to the band’s sound. Before Jackyl, Glick was a member of Brother Cane, contributing to hits like “And Fools Shine On.” His versatile bass playing continues to be a cornerstone of Jackyl’s live shows and recordings.
Jimmy Stiff
Jimmy Stiff was a founding member of Jackyl, serving as the band’s rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist from 1991 until his departure in 2000. He played on early albums like Jackyl and Push Comes to Shove, contributing to the band’s formative sound. After leaving Jackyl, Stiff pursued other musical interests, although his tenure with the band remains a significant part of its history.
Ronnie Honeycutt
Ronnie Honeycutt briefly served as Jackyl’s lead vocalist in the band’s earliest days before Jesse James Dupree took over as frontman. While his time with the band was short-lived, Honeycutt’s contributions in the formative period of Jackyl’s history laid groundwork for their later success. Honeycutt pursued a solo career and other musical endeavors until his passing in 2024.
Thomas Bettini
Thomas Bettini was Jackyl’s original bassist, performing with the band from 1991 to 1996. His bass lines featured prominently on the band’s debut album Jackyl and its follow-up Push Comes to Shove. Bettini left the band in 1996, and little is publicly known about his subsequent musical pursuits.
Cliff Witherspoon
Cliff Witherspoon briefly played bass for Jackyl during the band’s transitional periods. While his time with the group was relatively short, his contributions supported Jackyl’s energetic live shows and recordings. Details about his career outside the band remain limited.
Jamie Taylor
Jamie Taylor joined Jackyl as a rhythm guitarist during their later years. While his tenure with the band was brief, Taylor contributed to their live performances, helping to maintain the band’s dynamic sound. His other musical endeavors include collaborations with local and regional acts in the rock and metal scenes.
Brian Kachejian was born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx. He is the founder and Editor in Chief of ClassicRockHistory.com. He has spent thirty years in the music business often working with many of the people who have appeared on this site. Brian Kachejian also holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Stony Brook University along with New York State Public School Education Certifications in Music and Social Studies. Brian Kachejian is also an active member of the New York Press.
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Formed in 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Imagine Dragons has cemented itself as a driving force in contemporary rock. The lineup features frontman Dan Reynolds, guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee, and drummer Daniel Platzman. Known for their high-energy performances and dynamic sound that blends pop, rock, and electronic influences, Imagine Dragons has released a string of successful albums, including Night Visions (2012), Smoke + Mirrors (2015), Evolve (2017), Origins (2018), and the two-part Mercury – Acts 1 & 2 (2021–2022).
Their accolades include Grammy, Billboard Music, and American Music Awards, with hits like “Radioactive,” “Believer,” and “Demons” dominating charts worldwide. Their music resonates with themes of resilience, love, and introspection, making them one of the most successful and innovative bands of the 21st century.
Below is a continuation of the comprehensive list of Imagine Dragons’ songs in alphabetical order:
Imagine Dragons Songs in Alphabetical Order
(A-B)
“30 Lives” – iTunes Session, Songs for the Philippines (2013) “A Man Like Me” – Hell and Silence EP (2010) “All Eyes” – Hell and Silence EP (2010) “All For You” – Transformers: Age of Extinction – The Score (2014) “America” – It’s Time EP, Night Visions (Deluxe Edition), The Archive EP (2010) “Amsterdam” – It’s Time EP, Night Visions (2010) “Bad Liar” – Origins (2018) “Battle Cry” – Smoke + Mirrors (Super Deluxe Edition) (2014) “Believer” – Evolve (2017) “Believer” (remix) – Non-album single (2019) “Birds” – Origins (Deluxe Edition) (2018) “Birds” (remixed single version) – Non-album single (2019) “Blank Space / Stand By Me” (live cover medley) – Imagine Dragons (Spotify Sessions) (2015) “Bleeding Out” – Night Visions (2012) “Blur” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “Bones” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “Boomerang” – Origins (2018) “Boots” – Speak to Me EP (2008) “Born To Be Yours” – Origins (International Deluxe Edition) (2018) “Bubble” – Night Visions (Expanded Edition) (2022) “Bullet in a Gun” – Origins (2018) “Burn Out” – Origins (Deluxe Edition) (2018)
(C-D)
“Cha-Ching (Till We Grow Older)” – Night Visions (Deluxe Edition) (2012) “Children of the Sky (a Starfield song)” – Non-album single (2023) “Continual” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “Cool Out” – Origins (2018) “Cover Up” – Imagine Dragons EP, Night Visions (Deluxe Edition) (2009) “Crushed” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “Curse” – Imagine Dragons EP (2009) “Cutthroat” – Mercury – Act 1 (2021) “Dancing in the Dark” – Evolve (2017) “Demons” – Continued Silence EP, Night Visions (2013) “Destination” – iTunes Session (2013) “Digital” – Origins (2018) “Dolphins” – It’s Time EP (2021) “Don’t Forget Me” – Loom (2024) “Dream” – Smoke + Mirrors (2015) “Drive” – Imagine Dragons EP (2009) “Dull Knives” – Mercury – Act 1 (2021)
(E-F)
“Easy” – Hell and Silence EP (2021) “Easy Come Easy Go” – Mercury – Act 1 (2021) “Emma” – Hell and Silence EP (2010) “Enemy” (single version) – Arcane League of Legends, Mercury – Act 1 (Additional Track Version) (2021) “Enemy” (solo mix) – Non-album single (2021) “Every Night” – Night Visions (2012) “Eyes Closed” – Loom (2024) “Eyes Closed” (remixed version) – Loom (Deluxe Edition) (2024) “The Fall” – Smoke + Mirrors (2015) “Fallen” – Night Visions (Deluxe Edition) (2012) “Fear” – VHS (2015) “Ferris Wheel” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “Fire in These Hills” – Loom (2024) “Follow You” – Mercury – Act 1 (2021) “Follow You” (Summer ’21 version) – Mercury – Act 1 (Japanese Edition) (2021) “Forever Young” (live cover) – Smoke + Mirrors Live (2016) “Friction” – Smoke + Mirrors (2015)
(G-I)
“Giants” – Mercury – Act 1 (2021) “Gods Don’t Pray” – Loom (2024) “Gold” – Smoke + Mirrors (2014) “Hand In My Pocket” (live cover) – Live at AllSaints Studios (2017) “Hands” – Non-album single (2016) “Hear Me” – Hell and Silence EP, Hear Me EP, Night Visions (2010) “Heart Upon My Sleeve” – TIM (2019) “Higher Ground” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “Hole Inside Our Chests” – Imagine Dragons EP (2021) “Hopeless Opus” – Smoke + Mirrors (2015) “I Bet My Life” – Smoke + Mirrors (2014) “I Don’t Know Why” – Evolve (2017) “I Don’t Like Myself” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “I Don’t Mind” – Hell and Silence EP, Night Visions (Deluxe Edition) (2010) “I Love You All The Time” (cover) – Non-album single (2015) “I Need a Minute” – Imagine Dragons EP (2009) “I Was Me” – Non-album single (2015) “I Wish” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “I’ll Make It Up to You” – Evolve (2017) “I’m Happy” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “I’m So Sorry” – Smoke + Mirrors (2015) “Imagine Dragons” – Non-album single (2021) “In Your Corner” – Loom (2024) “It Comes Back To You” – Smoke + Mirrors (2015) “It’s Ok” – Mercury – Act 1 (2021) “It’s Time” – It’s Time EP, Continued Silence EP, Night Visions (2010)
(J-P)
(Q-S)
“Radioactive” – Continued Silence EP, Night Visions, Hear Me EP (2012) “Radioactive” (remix) – Non-album single (2014) “Ready Aim Fire” – Iron Man 3: Heroes Fall (2013) “Real Life” – Origins (Deluxe Edition) (2018) “Release” – Smoke + Mirrors (Deluxe Edition) (2015) “Rise Up” – Evolve (2017) “The River” – It’s Time EP, Night Visions (Deluxe Edition), Hear Me EP, The Archive EP (2011) “Rocks” – Night Visions (2012) “Roots” – Evolve (Japanese Edition) (2015) “Round and Round” – Continued Silence EP, Night Visions (Deluxe Edition), The Archive EP (2012) “Second Chances” – Smoke + Mirrors (Deluxe Edition) (2015) “Selene” – Hell and Silence EP, Night Visions (Deluxe Edition) (2010) “Sharks” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “Shots” – Smoke + Mirrors (2015) “Sirens” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “Smoke and Mirrors” – Smoke + Mirrors (2015) “Speak to Me” – Speak to Me EP (2008) “Start Over” – Evolve (2017) “Stuck” – Origins (2018) “Sucker for Pain” – Suicide Squad: The Album (2016) “Summer” – Smoke + Mirrors (2015) “Symphony” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “Symphony (Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles Version)” – Coke Studio (2023)
(T-Z)
“Take It Easy” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “Take Me to the Beach” – Loom (2024) “They Don’t Know You Like I Do” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “Thief” – Smoke + Mirrors (Deluxe Edition) (2015) “Thunder” – Evolve (2017) “Thunder” (official remix) – Non-album promotional single (2017) “Thunder/Young Dumb & Broke (Medley)” – Non-album promotional single (2017) “Tied” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “Tiptoe” – Night Visions (2012) “Tokyo” – It’s Time EP, Night Visions (Expanded Edition) (2011) “Trouble” – Smoke + Mirrors (2015) “Underdog” – Night Visions (2012) “The Unknown” – Smoke + Mirrors (Deluxe Edition) (2015) “Uptight” – Imagine Dragons EP (2009) “Wake Up” – Loom (2024) “Walking the Wire” – Evolve (2017) “Warriors” – Smoke + Mirrors (International Deluxe Edition) (2014) “Waves” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “West Coast” – Origins (2018) “Whatever It Takes” – Evolve (2017) “White Christmas” (cover) – Non-album single (2016) “Who We Are” – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Smoke + Mirrors (Super Deluxe Edition) (2013) “Wings” – NBA 2K17 soundtrack (2016) “Working Man” – Night Visions (Deluxe Edition) (2012) “Wrecked” – Mercury – Act 1 (2021) “Yesterday” – Evolve (2017) “Younger” – Mercury – Act 2 (2022) “Zero” – Ralph Breaks the Internet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Origins (2018)
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Brian Kachejian was born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx. He is the founder and Editor in Chief of ClassicRockHistory.com. He has spent thirty years in the music business often working with many of the people who have appeared on this site. Brian Kachejian also holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Stony Brook University along with New York State Public School Education Certifications in Music and Social Studies. Brian Kachejian is also an active member of the New York Press.
