Metal

Death mastermind Chuck Schuldiner died on December 13, 2001. It’s nearly unfathomable that was 20 years ago. Time is a flat circle and nothing matters. This Sunday, December 12, one day shy, Death fans all over the world can join together in a celebration of Schuldiner’s life with a special concert featuring an all-star cast

For the latest entry in their ongoing series of “bedroom covers,” Two Minutes to Late Night has rounded up a characteristically-rad line-up of musicians to cover Funkadelic’s 1971 song, “Hit It and Quit It.” Specifically, they enlisted Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Bryan Giles (Red Fang), Bryan Richie (The Sword), Moe Watson (Shai Hulud), and Emily Panic (Ghosts

Do you have a friend who you really wanna get into Tool, but don’t know what to play them for them in order to achieve that task? If you do, I think you should do some soul-searching as to why it’s so important to you that other people like the same bands you like. Grow

On a day that already gave us Ben Affleck wearing a Boston straight-edge hardcore shirt, we’ve got yet another celebrity metal fashion sighting to gawk over: Lil Nas X wearing a shirt featuring the scratchy-font logo of Chicago-based deathgrind outfit Hatemonger. The rapper sported the shirt in an interview he conducted to promote his appearance

Hardcore band Comeback Kid have released a new track, “Crossed,” that features a guest vocal spot from Gojira’s Joe Duplantier. Vocalist Andrew Neufeld comments: “’Crossed’ is a no-frills metallic hardcore track. Lyrically it deals with someone in my life that seemed so far gone and I had to watch them dig themselves further and further into a

Death metal up-and-comers Hath will release their sophomore full-length album, All That Was Promised, on March 4 via Willowtip Records, and they’ve now posted its first single, “Kenosis,” along with a music video [via Heavy Blog is Heavy]. The album follows up their critically acclaimed and MetalSucks-approved 2019 debut Of Rot and Ruin. The band comments on their

Venom Prison have released a new single, “Pain of Oizys.” The track will appear on the band’s upcoming album, Erebos. Guitarist Ben Thomas comments: “The second offering by Venom Prison is a cold room with a dusty piano. It’s a softly sung war hymn with finger-picked guitar. It’s a ship in calm seas watching for

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Red Fang, whose highly-anticipated new album, Arrows, arrived over the Summer, give fans an opportunity to try out their own Katana-skills as seen in the band’s “Arrows” video, with the new, single player “Blade to Waste” video game. Relapse Records and Red Fang will be offering three top scorers a variety of prize packs including

Despite the fact that he’s currently being sued by half the women he’s ever known for various forms of abuse, Marilyn Manson recently scored two Grammy nominations: one in the Album of the Year category, for his contributions to Kanye West’s recent release, Donda, and one in the Best Rap Song category, for the Donda cut “Jail.” Understandably, this

Mere hours ago, Every Time I Die released a statement revealing that frontman Keith Buckley would be missing some of their upcoming shows while he focuses on his mental health. But now Buckley has released a statement of his own, and it would seem not everyone in the band is on the same page about

The New York Times reports that “The Supreme Court seemed poised on Wednesday to uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.” This isn’t good news. If I have to explain to you why it’s not good news, you’re probably already a lost cause. You can call yourself “pro-life” all the

After initially announcing an early 2022 North American run back in October, death metal bruisers Defeated Sanity have now revealed the support acts for the tour: Skeletal Remains, Vitriol and Splattered. Defeated Sanity commented: “We welcome on board of our upcoming US headliner tour our distinguished guests in Skeletal Remains, Vitriol and Splattered! Don’t miss

Architects will be performing an exclusive global streaming event from the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London on December 11, exciting news on its own. But this is no ordinary show: the performance will be backed by Parallax Orchestra, made up of some of England’s best and most versatile classical musicians, arranged and written by Simon Dobson, Parallax Orchestra’s conductor and

Like my best bud Axl, 2021 was the year I officially grew bored of all the bands you might expect to see on year-end lists (and you’ll likely see elsewhere). No disrespect whatsoever to all-time metal greats such as Mastodon, Gojira and Between the Buried and Me, to name but a few who put out

MetalSucks will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary just about a month from now; this list will be my personal 21,169th post for the site. I turn forty a couple of weeks after the blog’s quinceañera. Vince will have about a month to call me “old man” before he joins me in middle-age. Perhaps as a result

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: In an effort to sublimate the negative energy surrounding everyone in 2020, legendary Japanese heavy rock band Boris focused all of their energy creatively and turned out the most extreme album of their long and widely celebrated career, NO. The band self-released the album, desiring to get it out as quickly as possible but intentionally

This has absolutely nothing to do with metal… and yet, it is, without a doubt, the most brutal story I’ve heard in quite some time. According to The New York Times, a snowstorm recently trapped 61 people inside the Tan Hill Inn in Yorkshire, England… for an entire weekend… with an Oasis tribute band. SHUDDER.

Tool are making up for lost time with an extensive North American tour that’ll kick off January 10 and run through the middle of March (European and U.K. dates are scheduled for April and May). Now, you could just go to your local show of choice, assuming there’s one near you, or… … you could

Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil made his return to live music this past Wednesday (November 24) at the annual ‘DrinksGiving” event in Las Vegas, his first show since falling from the stage and “breaking a few ribs” during his performance on October 15. Unfortunately the time off has not done Neil any good, as fan-filmed

The wizardly metal devotees at Two Minutes to Late Night are back with their latest cover, a version of Metallica’s “Blackened” — except the fast parts are slow and the slow parts are fast — with a star-studded cast of musicians. The lineup on this track consists of: Troy Sanders (Mastodon): vocalsDoc Coyle (Bad Wolves, ex-God Forbid): guitar Nate