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The MetalSucks Playlist – This Week’s Top Tracks, from June 12 to June 18 Why did this week feel so long? Seriously, it felt like someone was just kicked me in the head over and over. Anyway, here are the top stories you might have missed: German hard rockers Kingdom Come totally botched their Sweden Rock

To this day, Korn‘s Untouchables is looked back on with both reverence and amazement. The album, which dropped 20 years ago last week, was a huge one for the band, spawning the massive single “Here to Stay.” That said, it also cost a buttload of money to make, and was not as universally received by

Quiet. Wait. Do you hear that? Ephraim, close the shutters. Elodie, douse that candle. Quickly, my children, quickly. Come here, gather up your rosaries, and pray with me. Hush, child. Stop your crying. Listen, and be afeared. There. The thunder. It is the crashing of his bricks. He comes. Like a broad-shouldered shadow, he falls

Most of you know Manuel Gagneux as the mind behind Zeal & Ardor, who famously perform harrowing black metal that focuses heavily on the Black experience. The band’s 2017 debut Devil Is Fine combined metal’s shadowiest subgenre with slave spirituals, while 2020’s Wake of a Nation confronted the racial strife gripping America in the fallout

Tonight saw Mötley Crüe kick off their long-awaited and twice-rescheduled Stadium Tour in Atlanta, Georgia, marking the band’s reunion after their recent farewell tour. Unfortunately, according to fan-shot video below, drummer Tommy Lee had to be replaced five songs into the band’s set, while Vince Neil had significant issues singing. According fan videos via Blabbermouth,

Sad news for the comics and horror world today, as Tim Sale, the artist behind the much-loved Batman graphic novel Batman: The Long Halloween, has died. He was 66 years old. Sale’s death was announced today via his official Twitter account, which posted the following: “It’s with a heavy sadness that I must announce that

Last month, Polish death metallers Behemoth announced their new album Opvs Contra Natvram, and dropped the first single “Ov My Herculean Exile.” Now, the band have released another new song, “Off to War!”, which you can hear below. Perhaps most notable about “Off to War!” is that it’s a bit faster than much of Behemoth’s

There are only a handful of bands who consistently release new material that makes me wonder what the fuck everyone else is doing, but Japan’s Sigh are high among them. The outfit’s mixture of black metal, psychedelic rock, and cinematic soundtrack music is always more compelling than 95% of the other stuff out there. So

Ever wanted to get guitar lessons from Metallica? Well, you’re in luck, because the band have joined forces with instructional platform Yousician to offer fans a series of Masterclass-ish guitar lessons. The classes are available via Yousician’s site, at a not-terrible cost of $99. Included with your purchase will be: Three guitar-focused courses on riffs,

In case you missed it, Ozzy Osbourne went in for a major operation on Monday that his wife and manager Sharon said would “determine the rest of his life.” Now, according to Sharon’s Twitter, there’s no need for alarm, as Ozzy is doing well post-surgery. Here’s what Sharon tweeted at the world: “Our family would

Ask your average hardcore Christian fundamentalist, and they’ll tell you that satanism is a cabal of murderers and rapists that has secretly operated behind the scenes of society for centuries (not most Christians, who are reasonable people that see the Bible has a series of informative parables and don’t cast God as some bloodthirsty drama

This week, Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater is back on the show! We discuss his upcoming North American solo tour that kicks off June 25th, the medley that he has created for the tour (which includes Liquid Tension Experiment and Dream Theater tracks), how his solo shows can be viewed as a musical autobiography, what

We are big fans of pirate party metallers Alestorm. However, a story has been sent to us on multiple social media platforms that we feel we should confront. In an Instagram messaging conversation, as captured and posted on the Instagram account Eye on Palestine and posted to the Reddit page r/IsraelCrimes, the band were allegedly

King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, are back with the latest entry in their ongoing “Sunday Lunch” series of cover videos. This Sunday, Fripp and Toyah cover “Killing In The Name” by rap-rock legends Rage Against The Machine. It’s not the duo’s usual flavor of cover, but definitely leans into

The MetalSucks Playlist – This Week’s Top Tracks, from June 5 to June 11 So stoked for the summer that you forgot about the winter of your soul that is MetalSucks? Don’t worry, we got your covered — here are this week’s top stories… That’s what we got this Saturday. We’ll update throughout the weekend,

For those of you too young to remember, Duke Nukem was a video game property about a wisecracking Schwarzenegger-type action hero who killed aliens and spat out one-liners. The game franchise kicked off in 1991, and the first two were fine, but after Doom came out in ’93, they released Duke Nukem 3D, which was

Right now, the word on the street is, death metal. In the past five or so years, metal’s grodiest subgenre is back in a big way, with an awesome crop of young and disgusting bands — Gatecreeper, Witch Vomit, Creeping Death, Mortiferum, Undeath, Temple of Void, Blood Incantation, and Bedsore, to name only a few

I am neither a huge Tool fan, nor am I anyone who has ever played the guitar, and even I will be the first to admit that the band’s song “7empest” off of 2020’s Fear Inoculum seems like a super complex and difficult track. But Maya Neelakantan is only nine years old, and yet in

When it comes to contemporary old-school death metal, few bands are as consistently fucking rad as Belgium’s Carnation. Last year’s Where Death Lies was one of those albums that just gets you feeling like a dehydrated longhair in a leather jacket from the moment it kicks off to the last note. Now, the band have

Tomorrow sees Decibel‘s Metal & Beer Festival kick off in Philadelphia, with sets by Candlemass, Nuclear Assault, and Cannibal Corpse scheduled to obliterate the City of Brotherly Love. But tonight, at the Foundry, the fest’s Pre-Fest show kicks off with some pretty gnarly-ass performances. Leading the way are Denver sludge champions Primitive Man, whose music