Metal

Rough news for the rock and metal world today, as Dave Meniketti, frontman of influential proto-metal band Y&T, has revealed that he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer. You can read Dave’s full statement below, but the silver lining of this is that his cancer is very treatable, as Dave explains. That said, no cancer diagnosis

The MetalSucks Playlist — Week of February 12 – February 18, 2022 Were you too hung over this week to keep up with all the top stories in the world of metal? We got you covered: That’s all we got. We’ll check in periodically over the weekend as usual and be right back at it

We like to think of Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister as sort of a Dirtbagger Vance (you’re welcome, world): when you need him, he appears out of the mist, drinks all your booze, bangs your chick, and bails. But according to Sabaton‘s Joakim Brodén, Lemmy was actually a real gentleman, and used a glass of whiskey

Horror fans are gonna wanna make sure LD Entertainment’s The Cursed is on their radar. Described as a “reimagining of the werewolf legend for a modern-day audience,” The Cursed has already been hailed as “one of the best horror films of the year.” Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Sean Ellis, and featuring a

At last week’s BRIT Awards, sing-songwriter Ed Sheeran performed an embarrassing cover of his own track “Bad Habits” with former deathcore act Bring Me The Horizon providing shimmery, Linkin Park-esque “metal” accompaniment. Then, this week, we learned that the duo planned to record a studio version of their collaboration. Welp, now you can hear the version below, and guess

We’re not going to lie: we imagine opening for Bon Jovi to be one of the more harrowing experiences in the world. This isn’t because Bon Jovi are inherently terrible, or even that their fans are that bad. It’s more that you’d be playing to an audience of people who have been listening to, tipsily

Last month, Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne launched his ‘CryptoBatz’ NFT campaign, which according to The Verge cost fans and followers tens of thousands of dollars. Now, Ozzy has posted a video launching another version of CryptoBatz, this one titled ‘MutantBatz,’ and if you thought the first one was insane and risky, boy howdy! According

As anyone who’s ever read MetalSucks before imagines, we are loving the insanity surrounding founding Cannibal Corpse vocalist Chris Barnes and his public meltdown surrounding modern death metal. After calling out a video featuring four of death metal’s brightest vocalists as making him “physically ill,” Barnes went on to insult the entire scene, block everyone

Last month, we got our first look at Foo Fighters‘ new horror movie Studio 666, and were surprised to find that it looked pretty cool. Now, the band have dropped a single from that movie, a death-thrash track titled “March of the Insane” by a fictional act named Dream Widow, and…holy shit, it’s pretty rad!

Would you have a threesome with Kelly Osbourne and Sid Wilson? Remember that the former is the daughter of metal royalty Ozzy Osbourne, who might walk in on you naked (in that HE’LL be naked). The other is the gasmask-wearing DJ from Slipknot famous for breaking both of his feet because he goddamn felt like

Of course Mike Portnoy thinks the ’80s were better for metal than the ’90s. The Dream Theater drummer plays metal with a capital ‘M,’ heavy with technical flourishes and leap-of-faith choruses. That said, Mike recently did a Cameo video in which he answered the question of which was a better metal decade, the ’80s or

Back in December, we reported on Cave In debuting a new song titled “Blinded” at Saint Vitus. Now, a complete video of the band’s December 5th show at The Sinclair in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been posted online, including a performance of “Blinded.” You can check it out below. The video was shot by metal videographer

Back in July, the rock and metal community was crushed to learn that Joey Jordison, founding drummer of Slipknot and performer in Murderdolls and Sinsaenum, had died at the age of 46. Now, a previously-unpublished interview with Joey from 2018 has been released, and it’s both informative and very heartbreaking given what’s followed. The video

If there’s one metalhead duo more iconic than Axl Rosenberg and Vince Neilstein, it’s probably Wayne and Garth from Wayne’s World (also Beavis and Butt-Head). But while the couch-bound pals from SNL and Penelope Spheeris’ 1992 movie seemed all good onscreen, things behind the scenes weren’t quite as excellent, with comedians Mike Myers and Dana

Hey, did you know that guitarist K. K. Downing is very mad at Judas Priest? True story! In fact, K. K. really hasn’t missed an opportunity to tell the world how pissed off he is at his former band. Now, in a new interview, Downing has given a long, detailed statement about why he’s upset

If you want a raging metal song written about a specific and awesome piece of military history, you go to Sabaton. The Swedish war buffs and tour-mongers write songs that are equal parts accurate history lesson and gripping cinematic masterpiece. Now, the band have dropped a new single, and lo and behold, it’s got a

Live music is definitely on rocky ground post-COVID. It often feels like two out of three tours are getting postponed before they even launch, with the third walking on eggshells and ready to be scuttled at a moment’s notice. But Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen thinks there’s no reason why this summer’s twice-rescheduled Stadium Tour

As the old saying goes, it’s not a party until someone breaks out a dildo. Any bro worth his sauce knows that a rager isn’t complete until you got some liquored-up compadre running through a crowded room, whipping a big black rubber wang over his head like he was Pervert Genghis Khan. Problem is, your

The word that comes to mind witnessing Once Human‘s ascent is “improbable.” The band started off as a groove-metal outlet for Machine Head guitarist Logan Mader, and initially felt like it would be that and that alone. But since then, not only have Once Human succeeded, but they’ve also thrived. With their new album Scar

It was just last month that Sevendust announced their tour to honor the 20th anniversary of their album Animosity. But now, the band have already announced a second leg of the tour, which is a pretty ballsy move when you think about it. Hopefully that means that presales for the first leg went well. Openers