The MetalSucks Playlist – This Week’s Top Tracks, From May 1 to May 6 Did all of Thursday’s tequila erase this week from your brain? Here are the top stories you might have forgotten… Type O Negative’s Peter Steele allegedly once punched Deftones’ Chino Moreno in the face for inciting an onstage riot. Watch King…
Given that they’ve booked dates into 2023 already, one could argue that German industrialists Rammstein aren’t fucking around when it comes to touring for this year’s Zeit. Except maybe they’re fucking around a little, as they’ve now announced that the openers for their 2022 tour dates will be Duo Abélard and Duo Jatekok, two pianist…
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For those of you who don’t know, Lordi are basically a Finnish hair-metal version of GWAR who won the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. But now, guitarist Jussi “Amen” Sydänmaa, who’s been in the band since 1996, has decided to leave the rubber-masked fold. Sydänmaa announced his departure from the band via social media, writing: “THIS…
Read More “Founding Lordi Guitarist Jussi “Amen” Sydänmaa Has Quit the Band” »
We’ll be the first to admit, there are plenty of people in the metal scene who we turn up our noses at. Bill Ward, however, is not one of them. Bill Ward, founding drummer of Black Sabbath, is a goddamn legend, and his thunderous beats defined the genre of music which has given us everything….
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The following editorial is solely the opinion of MetalSucks writer and editor Chris Krovatin, AKA Emperor Rhombus. It reflects his views and his views alone. Episode IV A NEW SACKLESS MORALITY PLAY A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, some teenage virgin is contacted by a Roomba vacuum and a clockwork gay stereotype that…
Earlier this year, the stars of stunt/prank show Jackass released the fourth feature film in the series, named Jackass Forever. The movie was surprisingly hardcore compared to its predecessor, and involved some of the crew’s most dangerous and brutal stunts to date. One might think that this was a good cap on these poor assholes’…
In February, we got our first look at Daniel “Harry Potter” Radcliffe playing parody master “Weird” Al Yankovic in the upcoming rock biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Now, the first trailer for the film has been released, and you can watch it below. Our first reaction is: is “Weird” Al pulling a “Weird” Al…
Because the ’90s was such a scrappy time in metal, we like to think of the bands of that era as one big high school class, supporting each other in the name of big-ass riffs. But as with any high school class, people would get punched in the face for pulling some obnoxious-ass shit. One…
The world outside of metal is a little like mold — no matter how well you seal yourself in, it’ll find a way to come oozing through the cracks in your veneer and infect everything. Metalheads pride themselves on their insular culture, but even they can’t beat back Society At Large their entire lives. Eventually,…
Read More “13 Non-Metal Albums That You Couldn’t Avoid Back In The Day” »
Last month saw a tech-death massacre get unleashed upon Austin, Texas. Canadian riff-twisters Archspire took the stage at Come And Take It Live, backed by an epic line-up of bands including Santa Cruz weirdos Entheos, Nashville tower-topplers Inferi, South African brutalists Vulvodynia, and home-state harrowers Athanatos. The entire massacre was captured in brutal honesty by…
King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, are back with the latest entry in their ongoing “Sunday Lunch” series of cover videos. This time around, Fripp and Toyah are covering “No One Knows,” the massive hit tracks from Queens of the Stone Age. Toyah is wearing considerably more than normal, to…
MetalSucks Presents Beer Metal – Updated Walpurgisnacht, 2022 Woof, I got fucking CRUSHED last night. I ate three bowls of my wife’s keto sugared cereal, and now my insides are trying to fucking murder me. Anyway, let’s start drinking again, I got lawn shit to do. Here’s what we got this Saturday: Cross Examination, “Arson…
Read More “Beer Metal: Cross Examination, Gang Green, and More of Your Drunkest Song Suggestions” »
Right now, Suicide Silence are gearing up for a co-headlining tour with Carnifex. However, it also looks like they’re changing up their ranks as well, as they’ve officially parted ways with drummer Alex Lopez. The band made the following announcement via their social media: “Suicide Silence & our long-time drummer, Alex Lopez, have mutually agreed to part…
Read More “Suicide Silence Part Ways With Drummer Alex Lopez, Tease New Single for Next Week” »
In the late ’90s and the early 2000s, Korn were the ultimate alternative to boy bands. The Bakersfield weirdos were at the front lines of the culture wars, and stood against everything that five quickly-assembled dudes singing bubblegum songs about dating cheerleaders represented. But just as some of those boy band members probably loved nu-metal,…
Read More “Watch: Korn Sing Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way”” »
NFTs: the future of an art world that is finally rising to meet the technology of our time, or a high-priced version of the emperor’s new clothes that turns MS Paint drawings into million-dollar deals? When they were first introduced into the world, non-fungible tokens immediately created a polarizing effect, with much of the rock…
Read More “Poll: Are NFTs the Future, or a Bunch of Bulls***?” »
The MetalSucks Playlist – Week of April 24 to April 30 Were you so stoked to hear new fucking Darkane that you forgot about this week’s top stories? Happens to the best of us. Here’s what you missed: And the most expensive rock song to use in a movie is… Guitarist Kirk Hammett described getting…
Today sees German industrialists Rammstein dropping their new record Zeit. Now, the band have also released a video for the track “Angst,” which you can watch below. It makes sense that the “Angst” — fear in German — video is so scary, as the track is definitely one of the more metallic on the album….
Read More “Rammstein Release Surreal, Politically-Loaded Music Video for “Angst”” »
In case you haven’t heard or seen it yet, No Cover is a contest show where young bands get onstage and play a song for a panel of veteran rockers, namely Halestorm leader Lzzy Hale, Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale, singer-songwriter Bishop Briggs, Animals As Leaders guitarist Tosin Abasi, and Alice fuckin’ Cooper. The panel does…
Last we heard from Californian tech-death band Fallujah was when they announced their upcoming tour with Rivers of Nihil, Alluvial, and Warforged. But now, it appears that the band aren’t just on that tour as support — they’re also promoting a new album! Fallujah’s latest will be called Empyrean, and drops September 9th from Nuclear…
Read More “Fallujah Announce New Album, Drop Cinematic First Single” »
The past couple of years have been tough on the health of metal’s prince of darkness Ozzy Osbourne. Between his multiple staph infections, his Parkinson’s disease, and his recent neck and back surgery, it’s safe to say that Ozzy has had some of the toughest struggles of his life lately (and given Ozzy’s life, that’s…
Read More “Ozzy Tests Positive for COVID-19, Sharon Says She’s “Very Worried”” »
People like to say they live life with “no regrets,” but they’ve obviously never bought a talking bird. Having an animal that can randomly shriek back things you’ve said in the past seems like something you’ll pay for the entire time you own said creature. Could anything be worse than an animal that copies you…
Read More “Video: Man Buys Cockatoo That Won’t Stop Singing Drowning Pool’s “Bodies”” »
Given their fraught history, one might assume that KISS and former guitarist Ace Frehley would never share the stage again. But apparently, Gene Simmons doesn’t think so, having urged Frehley to join the band on their upcoming ‘End of the Road’ farewell tour. As reported by Blabbermouth, a few years ago, Frehley said he’d actually…
If you’re reading this site, you probably know who Kim Kelly is. For years, “Grim” Kim was one of extreme metal’s most storied and respected journalists, using platforms including Invisible Oranges, Noisey, and even MetalSucks to give much-needed coverage to rising artists, while also unflinchingly calling out parts of the metal underground for fostering bigotry,…
Damn, the ‘Bay Strikes Back’ tour with Testament, Exodus, and Death Angel must be doing well so far! The bands aren’t even finished with the first leg, and already they’ve announced a second one for this fall! As reported by Blabbermouth, the tour has announced Leg 2 to kick off in September with the same…
Read More “Testament Announce Second Leg of North American Tour With Exodus and Death Angel” »
When it comes to metal cartoon characters, it’s hard to out-headbang Otto Mann, the degenerate pothead schoolbus driver from The Simpsons. Whether he’s causing multi-car pile-ups, accidentally getting on a tax submission line because he wants tickets for Metallica, or just hitting a bong during the destruction of Springfield, Otto represents the lazy piece of…
Read More “Video: This Is How Otto’s Awesome Solo from The Simpsons Would Actually Be Played” »
In case you forgot, brass-heavy rock band Brass Against were the subject of significant controversy last year when vocalist Sophia Urista urinated on a willing fans’ face midway through a festival performance. The band later apologized, as did Urista, but not before they were banned from all NASCAR venue and had a police report filed…
Read More “Brass Against Found a ‘No Pee Zone’ Sign On Stage at Their First Tour Date with Tool” »
Jim Saxton, known to many as the man behind the Temple of Bleh podcast, is right now spearheading a documentary titled The History of Roadrunner Records, which catalogs the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of metal’s most important labels. In honor of a major turning point in Roadrunner’s history, Jim decided to give us…
Read More “The Burning Red: A Complete History of Roadrunner Records, Pt. 1 – 1981-2012” »
Right now, Canadian tech-death act Archspire are out on tour with Entheos, Inferi, and Vulvodynia. But this weekend’s Houston stop gave the band a bit of a scare, as thieves rolled up in the middle of the night and attempted to steal the trailer containing their gear — with drummer Spencer Prewett still sleeping inside…
Read More “Thieves Tried to Steal Archspire’s Trailer While Their Drummer Was Sleeping In It” »
We’re stoked about the current proliferation of death metal in the modern day, and we’re extra stoked that bands like Obscene are a part of that. The Indianapolis quartet make the kind of elbow-reversing music that has always excited us about this genre. Now, with their second full-length album …from Dead Horizon to Dead Horizon,…
These days, Metallica‘s 1996 album Load and 1997’s Reload occupy an interesting space in the band’s history, with some critics (this one included) standing by the records’ weirdness and experimentation. But at the time of their release, the metal world shat on them en masse, along with Metallica’s short hair and sexy guyliner. Seemingly representative…
Seemingly seconds after Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington died, people began to speculate about the band’s next steps, and who if anyone they’d bring in to replace him. It seemed as though millions of people who’d begun shrugging off Linkin Park towards the end of Chester’s life were suddenly fascinated by the band after his…
When people lament the death of rock music, or how rock music is in decline, or that it needs saving, they usually fall into one of two categories. The first is old-timers who have no concept of an underground and are making blanket statements about what they’ve been served by mainstream media outlets. The other…
King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, are back with the latest entry in their ongoing “Sunday Lunch” series of cover videos. This time around, Fripp and Toyah are covering “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by the Who. It’s everything you want to be. Check out one of the couple’s other covers…
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MetalSucks Presents Beer Metal – Updated Saturday, April 23, 2022 Hope your morning has been all Pepto and pancakes, and that last night’s drinking didn’t scrape out your liver too much. Thankfully, there’s Saturday, so you’ll get to quiet your screaming head with some hair of the dog shortly – and then, you’ll be able…
Read More “Beer Metal: Alestorm, Dayglo Abortions, and More of Your Drunkest Song Suggestions” »
When guitarist Kirk Hammett first announced his solo EP Portals — which dropped today — everyone’s immediate thought was that times have definitely changed for Metallica, who used to be adamantly against side projects. Now, Kirk has explained how the band have grown in terms of outside art, and what it was like getting his…
Earlier this week, we posted that Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe had tested positive for COVID, and would have to miss the band’s Grand Rapids stop with Megadeth, Trivium, and In Flames. Mark Hunter of Ohio metalcore forefathers Chimaira took the stage in his stead, which was pretty fucking cool. Then, when the band were forced to cancel their Fort Wayne, Indiana, show entirely,…
Read More “Watch: Fit For An Autopsy’s Joe Badolato Fronts Lamb of God In Green Bay” »
The MetalSucks Playlist – Week of April 17 to April 23 Did you smoke so much on Wednesday that your resin-caked brain can’t remember this week’s top stories? Don’t worry, man, we got you. Here’s what you forgot: Watch Jon Bon Jovi struggle to sing “Wanted Dead or Alive” at a Raleigh concert. In an interview,…
The weather and planet are not the only things heating up this week! We’ve got some new jams from a trio of favorite metal bands to check out. Dorothy Gifts From The Holy Ghost (Roc Nation) This week, Dorothy blazes in with Gifts From The Holy Ghost, their third studio album, which blends straight forward…
The translation of music into a visual medium is difficult to say the least. A great song usually evokes all sorts of images in the listener’s head…but asking that listener to define, organize, and depict them is usually like asking a snake to juggle. Add to this the rules of platforms like MTV and YouTube,…
Read More “11 Killer Metal Songs With Terrible Music Videos” »
Sad news for the classic rock and dick-molding worlds today, as Cynthia Albritton, better known to the world as Cynthia Plaster Caster due to her habit of making plaster molds of rock stars’ penises, has died. She was 74 years old. As reported by Consequence of Sound, Cynthia died in Chicago after “a long illness.”…
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