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Like everyone else in the world, I really dig Danny Brown’s song “Grown Up.” Not necessarily like everyone else reading this, I am not a fan of Korn, whose music I find to be inoffensive at best. And yet, this video of Brown covering Korn’s “Freak on a Leash” during a December 15 show in

Evanescence has released a cover of The Beatles’ “Across the Universe.” First performed by the band in 2018 as part of their Synthesis World Tour, the studio recording was made available earlier this year for the first time as part of the deluxe release of new LP The Bitter Truth. Listen below. Evanescence is heading back on

END, Portrayal Of Guilt, Yashira and Wake have announced a quick major market North American tour for March 2022. Dates: 03/03 Brooklyn, NY – St. Vitus03/05 Asbury Park, NJ – House Of Independents03/06 Boston, MA – Middle East Upstairs03/08 Montreal, QC – Cabaret Foufs03/09 Toronto, ON – Hard Luck03/10 Detroit, MI – Sanctuary03/11 Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen03/12 Minneapolis, MN

Archspire, Entheos, Inferi, and Vulvodynia will team up for this spring’s “Tech Trek V” tour. Dates are below (via The PRP): 04/13 Seattle, WA – El Corazón04/14 Portland, OR – Dante’s04/15 Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst04/16 Los Angeles, CA – 172004/17 San Diego, CA – Brick by Brick04/18 Mesa, AZ – Nile Theater04/19 Albuquerque,

Fans of John 5 who were disappointed the one-of-a-kind guitarist dropped his opening slot for Yngwie Malmsteen across the States this fall (due to Covid-19-related concerns), 2022 has a reward in store for you: the Rob Zombie sideman will be taking his own show on the road next spring and summer. The tour will run

Tool drummer Danny Carey is set to appear in a Kansas City-area court on January 12 for the incident that took place at the Kansas City International Airport on Sunday, December 12. The drummer was arrested for misdemeanor assault following a “disturbance” between Carey and an airport employee, and he was subsequently released on bail. Billboard has

Between the Buried and Me were one of the first metal bands to hit the road in the U.S. this past summer, and aside from a handful of shows bassist Dan Briggs had to miss due to contracting Covid-19 on the road, by all accounts it was a huge success. Originally planned for 2020 to

Matt Pike will release his debut solo album, Pike vs. the Automaton, on February 18 via MNRK Heavy, the High on Fire/Sleep guitarist has announced. Pike wrote the record with drummer Jon Reid (ex-Lord Dying) and recorded it with Billy Anderson, with whom he previously collaborated on Sleep’s Holy Mountain and High on Fire’s Surrounded by

2021 is almost behind us, so this week on The MetalSucks Podcast we celebrate all the hope and despair that our favorite artists gave us in a year of comebacks and the new normal we collectively felt. We play one track from every record we loved and praise those artists for giving us music that

Tool’s Danny Carey has been arrested for misdemeanor assault, TMZ reports. The drummer was arrested at Kansas City International Airport in Kansas City, Missouri, following a “disturbance” between Carey and an unidentified man. Carey was subsequently booked for misdemeanor assault, and has since been released on bail. The TMZ report says that “the police report

Experimental folk music group Heilung have announced a North American tour for the back half of 2022. The group, whose members hail from Denmark, Norway, and Germany, will stick to mostly major markets in America while also performing twice in Canada. The band comments: “Friends overseas, we were deeply moved by your warm welcome on

Former God Forbid guitarist Dallas Coyle (brother of current Bad Wolves guitarist and former God Forbid bandmate Doc Coyle) has launched a new musical project, SVSPVRP (pronounced “sus-purp”). The project sees Coyle combine metallic guitars and grooves with hip hop production and rapping. Fans of Coyle’s work in God Forbid will find some familiar sounds

Vended vocalist Griffin Taylor has been brought to tears over comparisons between his band and Slipknot, the group fronted by his father, Corey Taylor. Vended’s line-up also includes Simon Crahan, son of Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” Crahan, making comparisons between the two bands all but inevitable. Still, in a new interview with Knotfest.com‘s Ryan J. Downey,

Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson is now selling several pieces of signed gear that he used during his tenure with the band. While two basses have already been sold, three items remain available. Those items, and their corresponding prices, are as follows: Tour used Jackson X Series David Ellefson signature series concert bass CBX 5

The results of our annual readers’ poll are in! According to you, oh wise, noble, and sexually desirable MetalSucks readers, these are The Best Metal Albums of 2021: 1. Every Time I Die, Radical (Epitaph) – 23.8% of all votes [embedded content] 2. Between the Buried and Me, Colors II (Sumerian) – 10.43% of all

Eddie Van Halen is the latest prominent metal musician to get the Pop! vinyl figurine treatment from Funko. Eddie’s son and bandmate, Wolfgang Van Halen, tweeted out the news earlier yesterday (December 9): “Pop signed off on this way back in 2019 and it’s wonderful to see it finally come to fruition. So stoked with

Content warning: the following post includes descriptions of rape, emotional and physical abuse, self harm, suicide attempts and eating disorders. Kristin Hayter, better known as the multi-instrumentalist and performer Lingua Ignota, has accused Daughters frontman Alexis Marshall of emotional and physical abuse, rape, gaslighting, and causing her to attempt suicide, among other allegations in a

Side projects are so much fun for us fans precisely because of how different they can be from the “day job” bands of their members. Finding out your favorite brutal death metal musician is a secret admirer of dance pop is, like, the friggin’ best! In the case of Monsters Around Us, which features members

Underoath have released a new single called “Numb.” It is, without question, one of the two best American rock songs to be called “Numb” that I can think of off the top of my head and one of the three best rock songs from anywhere called “Numb” that I can think of off the top

British psych metallers have announced plans to return to the U.S. and Canada in March of 2022. It will be there first time playing those territories since 2019. Support will come from King Buffalo. Says the band in a statement: “WARNING: We’ll be returning to the stages of North America for the first time since