Metal

Every year, countries from around Europe compete in Eurovision, which is basically a gigantic song contest where nations compete with pop tracks. Metalheads might remember that Finnish shock rockers Lordi won the contest in 2006 with their track “Hard Rock Hallelujah.” But after their full-scale invasion of Ukraine took place yesterday, Russia has been booted

Fun fact: Cannibal Corpse were definitely a band you’d get made fun of for listening to once upon a time (not so much that they made our list of those bands, but still). The idea was that Cannibal just made the same album again and again, and were therefore death metal for a stupid or

For those of you who don’t remember, I Am Morbid are a Morbid Angel split-off band fronted by former Morbid Angel members David Vincent and Tim Yeung. Now, in the wake of Morbid Angel refusing to tour, the band have announced a European tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of Blessed Are The Sick, Morbid Angel’s

Today, Russia launched a large-scale invasion of the Ukraine, causing loss of life and economic disparity. Now, two Ukrainian acts, hard rockers Jinjer and death metal act Selfgod, have issued statements on the crisis. As reported by Loudwire, Jinjer issued the following statement today, stating that they’re all safe and condemning Putin’s invasion: “Dear all,

Given that frontman CJ McMahon made it very clear that he was tired of COVID restrictions, it was only a matter of time before Thy Art Is Murder found their way back to our shores. Now, the band have announced a North American trek with After The Burial, and are bringing Currents and anime-lovin’ deathcore

Hot DAMN, Aftershock 2022 just got announced, and every band in the fuckin’ world is on there! The final count for the festival is 90 bands, including everyone from Slipknot to Meshuggah to Ice Nine Kills to Wargasm to Dirty Honey to fucking KISS! Jesus, this is going to be an insane fest if there

There are moments you wish you could travel back in time to stop, in the hopes of making the future brighter. And now, we know one of them: Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes has revealed what album got him into metal as a youth. Responding to podcast Sobre La Dosis via Cameo, Sykes

Sad news for the rock and metal world today, as Mark Lanegan, the musician, author, singer and songwriter known for his pivotal work with Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age, has died. He was 57 years old. The news was confirmed in a statement via Mark’s social media: “Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan passed away

Are you a Tool fan? Do you have more money than sense? Then friend, have we got a deal for you! As reported by our second family over at Metal Injection, the experimental nu-metal band (or whatever) have just revealed details for their ‘tour edition’ of 2019 smash album Fear Inoculum. The good news is

If you told us that Dave Grohl was somehow invulnerable, we wouldn’t be surprised. The dude has fallen off stage several times, including that one time where he broke his leg, and drinks like a fucking superstar. But now, Dave has revealed the extent of his hearing loss, and man, the dude’s eardrums have definitely

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 have covered Smashing Pumpkins‘ ’90s alt-rock hit “Bullet with Butterfly Wings.” It’s exactly what you’d expect, mainly a bizarre take on

So far, what we’ve seen of Foo Fighters‘ Studio 666 has proven that it’s more metal than we thought it’d be. Not only does the movie include a cameo from Slayer’s Kerry King, it also features an entire album of killer blackened thrash written by Dave Grohl himself. Now, the uncensored red-band trailer for Studio

Does anyone think Ghost‘s Tobias Forge is a union-friendly, group-hug kind of guy? Come on, the dude created his band with all the focus on him and his entire backing crew relegated to ‘Nameless Ghoul 1 – Whatever.’ And in a new interview, Forge comes clean, saying he is definitely the control freak people think

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