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Earlier today, W.A.S.P. and its frontman Blackie Lawless announced that the planned U.S. leg of the “The 40th Never Stops World Tour” was canceled due to an ongoing back injury that he needs to be worked on. At the time, we’d only heard from Lawless, but the tour also affected Armored Saint, who were also

Ever since they dropped the two singles “Blast Furnace” and “Standoff” earlier this week, Fugitive has been on repeat here at MetalSucks HQ. Gimme some good fucking thrash and it’s on repeat, man. So you can imagine my excitement when not only did they release a video for the killer “Blast Furnace,” but they made

Despite the various lineup changes within All That Remains, one of the constant faces within the band has been drummer Jason Costa. Yet all of that changed earlier today, as he announced his departure from the act after 17 years. According to a post on the band’s official Instagram account, the 50-year-old drummer assured fans

With a mall goth look and a sound that blends alt-metal and pop, it’s easy to think of Florida-based outfit Living Dead Girl as a sort of American version of Babymetal — or maybe a less avant-garde Poppy. And while there’s certainly that collision of musical genres, this band should absolutely be on your radar

Ten years after its original release, Dayal Patterson’s book Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult will be hitting book store shelves once again, only this time it’s bigger and blacker than before. Touted as the “Restored, Expanded & Definitive Edition,” this new version of the book will provide an updated and more expansive look into

Hindsight is always 20/20, but for ex-Five Finger Death Punch drummer Jeremy Spencer, the past is much clearer looking back at his ill-fated Psychosexual and Psycho Synner projects. You may not remember them, or you only remember them with a snarky joke attached to it, but the projects saw Spencer dressed up as a devil,

On Prosaic, the upcoming studio effort from Mizmor, the doomy, blackened, all-things-heavy-and-slow band continue their epic narrative with a really solid record. Since the band’s inception back in 2012, project mastermind A.L.N. has been exploring the existential, and he does so once again on this record. It is both intimate and expansive, dark and light.

After 18 years with the band, drummer Kevin Boutot is no longer in The Acacia Strain. His last show with the band was the finale of their most recent tour on July 15 in Kitchener, Ontario. Boutot posted news about his departure in a recent social media post. “I didn’t go into this last tour

When you think of an NPR fan, what do you imagine? A glasses and beret wearing, latte guzzling, bleeding-heart neo-liberal with a penchant for pronouns, right? Exactly. So the fact that GWAR not only showed up at NPR’s offices, but managed to perform as part of the media outlet’s “Tiny Desk Concert” series was kind

Ukranian band 1914 are reiussing their 2015 album and dropping some merch to support themselves as well as the larger war effort. Their classic record Eschatology of War, unfortunately a very timely record right now, was digitally rereleased in April 21, and now, on August 4, Napalm Records are rereleasing the album in physical formats.

Yesterday, Year Of The Knife released an update about the recovery of vocalist Madi Watkins. Since the band’s tragic van accident last month, Madi has had surgeries on her jaw and facial fractures, as well as her femur and ankle, and now the next hurdle will be mental recovery from the traumatic injury. The band

Another week, another playlist. And even though we’re now kinda in that slowish part of the summer where everyone’s going to festivals and not a whole lot else is going on, we got some great new music to highlight in this week’s iteration of The MetalSucks Playlist. We’ve got new tracks from: KEN Mode, Baroness,

King Parrot will be touring across North America starting next month, hitting up festivals along the way. The Australian band haven’t been in the U.S. since 2018, so fans are rejoicing their return. They’ll be appearing at Full Terror Assault and RPM Fest, and will get to play with Pantera, Lamb of God, and Weedeater

At the start of 2023, Testament still had Dave Lombardo as their drummer and had a whole mess of live commitments lined up. Then they suddenly didn’t have Lombardo in the mix and they had to find a replacement. Then in April, guitarist Eric Peterson gave props to Seven Spires drummer Chris Dovas, who’d originally

Atlanta’s death metal outfit Dååth may be back in the studio and working on a new album, but that doesn’t mean they can’t put out a killer tune just to keep the fans satiated. Earlier today, they released a cover of Morbid Angel’s classic track “Where the Slime Live,” which you can hear in the

There are few things more metal and daunting than the cold, black infinite reaches of space. So naturally we humans want to fuck around with the infinite void — even though it very much would kill all of us in an instant — by sending our best/brightest men and women out there by strapping them

Ever since their now ex-vocalist and founding member Duncan Bentley was kicked out of the band for allegedly “trying to kill” the band’s drummer Tom Hughes while on tour in Prague, Vulvodynia has had a huge vacancy behind the mic. There were questions surrounding the band about how they’d ever continue after such a dramatic

Just days before Christmas back in 2021, Nothing More vocalist Jonny Hawkins ran over his then girlfriend with his truck in a domestic violence incident that resulted in severe injuries and legal repercussions following the singer’s eventual arrest. And as details of the incident have begun circulating online, Nothing More announced that they have pulled

Fans of Ronnie Radke and Falling In Reverse planning to catch tonight’s show in Council Bluffs, Iowa are going to be disappointed if they don’t see this article, because the band has once again canceled a show. According to a post on the band’s social media, someone or multiple someones in the band or crew

Yesterday, we learned the sad news that Ozzy Osbourne had to cancel his planned performance at the Power Trip festival this October because of health issues. It’s a huge bummer to think he’s having such a hard time getting back on stage, but when he said some “personal friends” would take his place, we all