Metal

Over the course of two weekends in the Windy City, a new type of festival will host a slate of kick ass crossover, stoner, and psych metal acts for the inaugural Heavy Chicago. And it’s all taking place in Chicago’s newest music venue, Avondale Music Hall. Set to take place on Saturday, October 28, Saturday,

Hailing from Greenville, South Carolina, doomy psychedelic trio Auralayer are primed to become your next favorite band. Armed with big riffs and a love for bands like Sleep, Mastodon and Torche, their debut album, Thousand Petals, is a jammer that will definitely appeal to fans of the aforementioned bands, or just stoner rock and doom

Why is it that the people who have access to cable TV news spots and massive platforms that make them completely uncancelable always complain that they’re being canceled? Case in point is Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider, who’s once again out there saying the LGBTQ+ community that he’s considered himself an ally of for all

The wait for some new High On Fire is coming close to an end, as the band announced that their so far untitled ninth studio effort is complete. Positioned as the band’s follow up to 2018’s Electric Messiah, the new slate of music has a lot to live up to its Grammy-winning predecessor. With the

On this week’s MetalSucks Podcast, we’ve got Fascination Street Studio Founder Jens Bogren on the show! During our discussion, we chat about his and Ihsahn’s course at URM Academy “How It’s Done” available until July 12th, why he decided to put together a step by step course, and how much of the actually course was

Blackwater Drowning jut dropped a new video for the song “The Caged” from their debut album Sonder // Satori. “It’s about breaking free of the mundane,” says vocalist Morgan Riley. “We all die the same no matter what we got in life, so why pour your minutes into the rat race and never be happy? For the video, Garrett

Snuffed On Sight just shared their new video, “Time 2 Dip,” from their upcoming debut LP, Smoke, out July 7 via Creator-Destructor Records and Maggot Stomp. The heavy, crushing, and fun Bay Area band have been touring and releasing splits and singles, and now, they are finally coming out with a full album. [embedded content]

High on Fire are celebrating 25 years of music with a release of their out-of-print record The Art of Self Defense.  They also announced a new record will drop in 2024 and that they will be heading out on the road to celebrate different eras of their career as they go. [embedded content] The Art

There certainly seems to be no love lost for Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth when it comes to the popular online music streaming service Spotify. In a recent interview with Sakis Fragos of Rock Hard Greece (transcribed by Blabbermouth), the vocalist called out the service and its practice of paying artists next to nothing

We’re starting to get the feeling that Iron Maiden‘s Bruce Dickinson may be over the whole “always the bridesmaid, never the bride” feeling they’ve had lately regarding the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Despite being eligible since 2005 and only recently having been nominated twice, Iron Maiden has yet to pass the threshold needed

Oh, hell yes. We recently questioned whether Baroness had something new in the tank and our suspicions ended up being validated, as the band took to social media to tease something new coming on Tuesday, June 20. Along with the new song, we’re likely to get new album information, since their social media post also

It’s not much of a stretch to say American politics — at least when you ask a specific side — is theocratic in nature. Lots of talk about God and scripture and the Bible being thrown around in the halls of law and justice these days. To combat those sentiments and to directly oppose an

Experimental folk music act Heilung are bringing their utterly unique live show back to the states for a quick 10-date slate of shows. According to the band, they’re hitting cities and regions they haven’t been to before, so if they aren’t playing near you, that’s why. Kicking off on October 17 at Greensboro, North Carolina’s

For the first time ever, Metal Injection is stepping out into the world and putting on a killer festival featuring some of today’s most exciting acts. For one weekend in September, bands like Exhumed, Xibalba, Spirit Adrift, and Exmortus will share the stage with titans like Testament, Cavalera, Fear Factory, and Machine Head for the

When it comes to video game concepts that instantly sounded metal as fuck, the concept behind Metal: Hellsinger ranks pretty high up there. I mean, you get to murder demons in Hell by shooting in time with kick ass metal tracks featuring vocals by the likes of Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe, Refused’s Dennis Lyxzén,

Roughly three months since the release of their latest album V: Djent Is Not A Genre, Periphery has finally scheduled their first headlining shows of 2023 — but just barely before 2024 hits. Announced earlier today, the progressive metal band revealed they’d be playing on November 4 at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California

If you’re ever going to be sick during a concert or potentially put yourself at risk of breaking your damn neck crowdsurfing, I hope it’s during a Trivium show. Not because I want you to get hurt or suffer in any way, but rather because we’d all be able to rest easy knowing the band’s

Normally, when people get diagnosed with nearly any form of cancer, they tend to describe it as “devastating,” “worrying,” even “scary.” Yet during an interview with Revolver leading up to the release of Queens of the Stone Age’s newest album In Times New Roman…, frontman Josh Homme called it “the cherry on top of an

Today Is the Day made fans happy last week when they announced both U.S. and European tour dates to celebrate their 30th anniversary. The band are also working on a new album and plan on releasing more information soon. The disjointed but expansive tour will start in Maine and then move over to Belgium and

Dreadnought, Immortal Bird, and Izthmi are embarking on a North American tour this July. Dreadnought play proggy metal and hail from Denver, while Immortal Bird are Chicago-based and play blackened sludge and Izthmi are from Seattle and play atmospheric black metal. The complimentary contrast of this tour will be something to write home about. The