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This is either a huge creative leap or a funny bit of trolling. M. Shadows, the vocalist for popular metal band Avenged Sevenfold, told fans in July that he was in the studio recording vocals for the metal giants’ eighth album. Though we don’t know much of anything about how the new record sounds yet

Celebrity chef and TV host Guy Fieri is a confirmed metalhead after being spotted at a Slipknot show in 2021 and his latest musical obsession is Rage Against the Machine. Fieri went viral on TikTok after a video was published of Flavortown’s mayor rocking out to the rap metal institution’s set, cigar in hand, in

Guitarist Robert Fripp of the legendary King Crimson and his wife, actress and singer Toyah Willcox, are back with the latest update in their Sunday Lunch series of cover videos. This week’s is a cover of Lenny Kravitz‘s “Are You Gonna Go My Way?” and features Willcox in a maid outfit “cooking” a tortilla like

Two video game series are responsible for introducing swathes of impressionable young people to punk and metal: rhythm game series Guitar Hero and the Tony Hawk skateboarding game franchise. The soundtracks were a who’s who of bands at the time; everyone from Rise Against, Bad Religion and Sum 41 to In Flames, System of a

Sometimes you get more than you bargained for at a live show, like when Anthrax bring out Public Enemy emcee Chuck D to perform their crossover hit, “Bring the Noise.” Fans at the thrash legends’ show at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles last night, July 29, were treated to the surprise performance. Guitarist Scott

Were you so caught up in the ongoing excitement of the Pantera reunion and debating whether or not Tommy Lee is using a drum track that you missed this week’s news? Not to worry, we’ll catch you up. That’s what we’ve got for today. We’ll have a few weekend updates and see you for the

There isn’t a ton of new music this month but what does come out today sends July out with a bang... Stick To Your Guns Spectre (Pure Noise) If melodic hardcore with big choruses and energetic performances is your jam, then Stick To Your Guns‘ first album in five years is a must hear. These

In a recent interview with VWMusic, Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard was asked his thoughts on the frequent claim that grunge killed off heavy metal and hard rock in the mainstream. Gossard’s answer, transcribed by Blabbermouth, acknowledges the commercial success grunge had and offers his reasoning on why. “I think there’s always renewal in the

Former president of the United States Barack Obama is something of a celebrity, and not just because he ran this country for eight years. When he’s not serving as a target for Ted Nugent, Number 44 makes plenty of public appearances, some political and some not. Since he took office, Obama has reliably shared a

It’s like we told you two weeks ago: death metal is the hottest thing in the underground—really, it has been for what feels like the better part of the last decade—and we want to bring you the best bands in the scene. Each week, our inboxes overflow with new death metal from all corners of

Among classic death metal bands still making great music, Autopsy will always have a place near and dear to our lower intestines. There are plenty of good reasons for that, but what they mostly boil down to is that 2013’s The Headless Ritual and 2014’s Toruniquets, Hacksaws and Graves were so fucking incredible that it

In May, we learned that shock rocker Rob Zombie would be bringing kids’ horror host Zombo back in his reboot of horror-comedy series The Munsters. Now, Zombie has dropped two new tracks from the OST of the movie: Zombo’s theme, and the soundtrack to his house of horrors, which sounds way more frightening than one

In October of 2020, Five Finger Death Punch dropped an anti-mask music video for their song “Living The Dream.” The message wasn’t received well, in part because we were at the height of the COVID pandemic (this was pre-vaxx) and the weird overtones of Red Menace propaganda felt more menacing than the communism that the

When it was first announced that Judas Priest would receive the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s ‘Musical Excellence Award,’ we reported that they hadn’t actually been inducted, because, well, because there were performers being inducted, and then Priest getting this other award. But later, as Priest and other press outlets ran graphics ensuring that they were inducted,

In case you missed it, we voted Warbringer‘s 2017 album Woe to the Vanquished as the best thrash metal album since the turn of the millennium. So while we’re a little bummed that the band won’t be in our neck of the woods for their upcoming tour, we’re none the less stoked that someone’s going

In December of 1984, Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil was drunk-driving a car containing Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley when he lost control and collided with an oncoming vehicle. Neil, who had a blood alcohol level of 0.17% (for the record, the legal limit in the U.S. is 0.08%), survived the crash, but Dingley

It it sometimes forgotten that shock rocker Rob Zombie and Powerman 5000 vocalist Spider One are brothers, but they are, which, when you think about it, makes a lot of sense. Right now, the two are out on the road together on Rob’s ‘Freaks on Parade’ tour, and at Thursdays’s show in Noblesville, IN, they

On Friday night, unhinged rap-rocker Kid Rock was supposed to play at the North Dakota State Fair, but his set was canceled due to inclement weather and tornado warnings. Kid’s fans reached, well, as you might expect Kid Rock fans to react, pelting the stage with bottles and drink cups. Of course, it wouldn’t be

The MetalSucks Playlist – This Week’s Top Tracks, from July 17 to July 23 Were you so busy having opinions about the new Pantera tour and Slipknot song that you forgot to keep up with this week’s biggest stories in metal? Don’t worry, here’s what you need to know. Spoiler: it’s most Slipknot and Pantera.

Whether you think it’s for better or for worse, people think more carefully about how the things they say will affect others when they speak. Some artists and comedians have labeled so-called cancel culture as the death of free expression, fighting against it with creative and original arts and crafts. In a new interview with