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Some sad news broke over social media today, as people close to former Spiritbox bassist Bill Crook announced that he’d passed away. News of his passing came from an Instagram post by Crook’s friend and fellow musician Kai Turmann. According to their post, they were asked by the bassist’s mother to share the news with

Thrash metal icons Anthrax may be standing firm with their frontman Joey Belladonna behind the mic, but there’s still a contingent of fans around the world that still yearn for the John Bush years. That’s not a knock against Belladonna, per se, but for many the high octane, groove metal stylings of Anthrax in the

A couple weeks back we got our first glimpse of Metallica frontman James Hetfield donning his best lawman outfit in a frigid frontier for the upcoming movie The Thicket, but that was all we got — an image. Well earlier today, we got some short snippets of Papa Het in action, as the official trailer

(Editor’s note: In a bid to get more U.S. festival coverage on the site, we’ve got Sean Matthews out and about taking photos and documenting his experience at various shows. This go around, he spent the past weekend at this year’s Inkcarceration. This is day one, complete with photo galleries.) In rural Ohio, Mansfield is

Months after the release of their latest album New Heaven, Inter Arma‘s got some live dates coming up that you should absolutely go to if you’re able to get out to the east coast. For five days this coming September, the insanely heavy blackened post-metal outfit will be on the road from September 24 to

Unsurprisingly, John 5 of Mötley Crüe thinks we should be forgiving of bands that continue on without their original members. Considering John 5 took over for Crüe founding member Mick Mars in 2022 in what is proving to be one of the most controversial and drama-filled band member replacements in metal history, he would naturally

It’s been a minute, but the MetalSucks Playlist is back with a fresh new update for you guys. Roughly half of the playlist is fresh new stuff while we rotate some of the older tracks out, so there should be plenty of variation while still keeping some familiarity in the mix as well. This time

Shelter announced a four-date run of headlining dates for September on their Instagram. Yes, I can see the gears turning in your head going “I know the name Shelter, but I can’t remember from where.” Well, to remind you, Shelter is the Hare Krishna-based band from Youth of Today vocalist Ray Cappo that he started

Ex-Great White vocalist Jack Russell shocked the music world recently—or, at the very least, the five people who associated Great White with anything other than the Station Nightclub Fire—by announcing his retirement from touring due to his recent diagnosis of Lewy body dementia. Russell exited Great White proper back in 2011 after he was unable

It’s been a fuckin week for Tenacious D and one half of its founding members, Kyle Gass. After making an admittedly dark joke about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life, he’s since been dropped by his talent agency and the band are on an indefinite hiatus. It’s not been a great time,

Attention assholes that claim we don’t highlight smaller bands — choke on this heavy track from Beacon, New York death metal outfit Sickbay. These guys have been smashing up the Hudson Valley for a while now and they’re premiering their latest track “Killing You Slowly” with us. Yet if you think these guys are just

Fans of super heroes, intergalactic villains, and other shit that will never become reality should feel a certain kinship with Sebastian Bach and his dreams of reuniting with Skid Row during his visit to this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Confirmed earlier today to attend on Friday, July 25, Bach will be there signing as a

Spoiled rich kid, right-wing grifter, and terrible shot Kid Rock will be part of tonight’s festivities in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention. That sentence shouldn’t shock anyone, as the dude’s been hard in the paint for pretty much every bit of Republican outrage that’s reared its ugly head over the last few years just

To say there’s no love lost between Sharon Osbourne and Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson would be one hell of an understatement. Those two old Brits have had it out for one another for a long time now, with the flashpoint being Iron Maiden’s final headlining performance during the 2005 Ozzfest run. In a recent

If ever there was a time when metal might have felt the most in limbo to some of the oldheads out there, it might be the 90s. After the raucous successes earned in the 80s, the advent of grunge and shifting tastes in mainstream music made it feel like metal was in a downturn and

Shit’s getting real out there in the world lately, so what better way to throw a middle finger to some of the more toxic parts of our society than to blast the latest track from thrash/hardcore band Extinction A.D., titled “Epidemic Of Mutation”? This new track is yet another single off their forthcoming album To The

Embattled shock rocker Marilyn Manson (née Brian Warner) has been on his comeback run as of late, hinting at new music in the future and announcing major tours with bands like Slaughter to Prevail and Five Finger Death Punch. Multiple lawsuits filed against him alleging sexual abuse and gross misconduct have since either been settled

Fans of dark synthwave, 90s anime, or a combination of the two should check this shit out. Last week, the ever-awesome Gunship released a new single and accompanying music video for the track “DooM Dance.” This time around, they’ve teamed up with Carpenter Brut and Bush’s Gavin Rossdale to fill out the track. Anyone who’s

Sometimes, you just gotta ‘take a look around’ and ‘rearrange’ a band’s discography to determine which release makes you want to ‘break stuff.’ Hence why over the weekend, we had you guys vote on which Limp Bizkit album you thought was the worst. Looking at our always stellar comments section, a lot of you people

The Beatles aren’t a controversial topic amongst hard rock music fans, right? That never goes wrong when we bring that up. Nobody thinks the Beatles were overrated. Nobody is going to bring up that John Lennon was a wife beater. That’s definitely not all going to happen in the comments section, I’m sure of it.