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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

Classic music videos are great archeological finds. Digging up an old video from when your favorite musician was going through a phase, trying something new, or just getting their sea legs always gives you amazing insight into an artist’s development. Case in point, as far as I was concerned when I woke up this morning,

Last December, Griffin Taylor, son of Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor, said that he has fits of severe depression when his band Vended is compared to Slipknot. Which is why it’s a little weird and kind of silly that he joined Slipknot onstage during the band’s set at RomExpo in Bucharest this past week. In case

Of the many bands I saw at this year’s Mutants of the Monster festival, BRAT were one of the acts I’ll never forget. There they were, a quartet in bright colors, led by a bouncy blonde rocking pigtails and a Prodigy shirt, with Britney and Cascada samples kicking off their songs. Of course, none of

Death metal kingpins Cannibal Corpse will embark on a 29-date North American tour this winter. They’ll be supported by Swedish black metal institution Dark Funeral, New York death metal OGs Immolation and USBM outfit Black Anvil. The tour marks Dark Funeral’s first United States appearances since 2019 and coincides with seventh album We Are the

Right now, Ozzy Osbourne is promoting his upcoming album Patient Number 9. And what better way to tell the world that you’re still metal’s prince of darkness than erecting a 25-foot-tall effigy of yourself outside of a gathering of society’s overeducated run-off? Yup, there’ll apparently be a 25-foot-fall inflatable Ozzy Osbourne outside of San Diego

There’s a long-running tradition of blaming wives, girlfriends, and other women around a band when things don’t work out for them. Among the bands whose split was laid at the feet of the nearest woman was Brazilian thrash metal gods Sepultura, with Gloria Cavalera, wife and manager of guitarist/vocalist Max Cavalera, often being credited as

Earlier today, Slipknot hinted at the release of new music — and now, they’ve delivered. The nine-headed Iowan sex monster have announced their next full-length album, and have dropped a new single to boot. Slipknot’s new album will be titled The End, So Far, and drops September 30th. The record is already available for preorder.