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Gojira have shared an official music video for “Sphinx,” a track from this year’s Fortitude. Directed and animated by Zev Deans, the music video sees Gojira delivering a pulverizing performance at the feet of the infamous Egyptian colossus. Watch it below. Gojira are currently out on a U.S. headline tour featuring special guests Knocked Loose and Alien

Underoath are keeping the hits coming with their latest single, “Cycle,” featuring heavy electronic artist Ghostmane. Underoath continue to leave their metalcore roots largely in the past on this one, in line with previous singles  “Damn Excuses,” “Hallelujah” and “Pneumonia.” I’d call it a heavy rock song more than anything — it wouldn’t be out

I said HOT DAMNUM! Allegaeon — about as exciting a progressive melo-death band as there is right now — have announced that they’ll release a new album, Damnum, on February 25 via Metal Blade. The group’s sixth full-length reunites them with longtime producer Dave Otero (Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic Carnage, Khemmis, etc.). This already-tremendous news is made

W.A.S.P., the band your mom always mixed up with Ratt, are turning forty. To celebrate this momentous occasion, they’re gonna tour Europe with one original member and not play their most famous song. Don’t everyone rush for tickets at once. Paradoxically for a band with so few actual ties to their past, in a press

The Black Dahlia Murder frontman Trevor Strnad is both a student of metal and a prolific vocalist, regularly sharing public displays of affection for underground bands from throughout the metalsphere and lending his voice to up-and-comers (most recently, VHS). His newest foray outside of his day job finds him teaming up with Artificial Brain (and

System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian is “doing well” after coming down with Covid-19 according to a post from the singer on social media. System of a Down postponed a pair of shows in Los Angeles this past weekend as a result of Tankian contracting the coronavirus despite being fully vaccinated. Serj noted in

On February 11, 2022, the newly-created Gibson Records will release 4, the fourth album from Guns N’ Roses’ Slash’s Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators with Slash (Guns N’ Roses). But why is the album called 4????????? There are five members of the band… Slash was born on July 23, 1965… Slash has five

King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, have unveiled the latest entry in their “Sunday Lunch” series of cover videos that have captured the Internet’s attention in recent months. The duo’s new video finds them covering The Stranglers’ 1977 classic “Peaches,” with Robert up on the kitchen counter

Kiss singer/bassist Gene Simmons is selling his family’s Las Vegas-area home, with an eye-popping listing price of $14.95 million. He owned the property for less than a year, paying $10.8 million in a 2020 transaction for the massive home in the suburb of Henderson. According to The Wall Street Journal, the house mostly sat empty

Despite having released two “new” songs originally intended for Chinese Democracy over the summer, Slash says Guns N’ Roses have not actually begun to work on new material as of yet. Speaking with Audacy Check In, the guitarist says: “As far as new Guns is concerned, we haven’t even gotten to that point of really in earnest

Guitar maestro John 5 (Rob Zombie, David Lee Roth, ex-Marilyn Manson, etc.) has announced that he will no longer be participating in Yngwie Malmsteen’s upcoming U.S. tour “out of an abundance of caution” regarding the ongoing pandemic. Says the guitarist in a statement: “Due to unforeseen circumstances and out of an abundance of caution I

Last we checked in with Soften the Glare, the heavy jazz fusion outfit featuring Mudvayne bassist Ryan Martinie, the band had just released their stellar sophomore album Glint. That was in early 2020. Since then, of course, Mudvayne reunited, following years of rumors, for four massive North American festival shows (although one was canceled due

Insane Clown Posse have released a new song called “Wretched.” There’s a section where someone sings a deliberately-warped iteration of “Plowed” by Sponge. That’s just about the last thing I expected to hear in an ICP song, but they both came up in Detroit so maybe they’re buds? ANYWAY, the rest of the song is

Unleash the Archers, whose album Abyss won the prestigious Vince Neilstein Best Metal Album of 2020 award, have announced a new batch of U.S. tour dates. These are in lieu of European tour dates that had to be called off because of the pandemic. Once again, Europe’s loss is ‘Muhrica’s gain. As was the case

Sad that you’re not gonna get to see Death Angel (or Testament or Exodus) live this year? Maybe this’ll help a bit: the distinguished thrash outfit will release a new live album, The Bastard Tracks, on Black Friday (November 26). As its name suggests, The Bastard Tracks will focus on rarely- and never-before-performed cuts. It

Mastodon have released “Sickle and Peace,” the latest single from their forthcoming album, Hushed and Grim. Putting this as politely as I know how: I do not care for not-heavy Mastodon, and other than the chorus, this is not-heavy Mastodon. It’s very much the same way I feel about not-heavy Opeth. To each their own!

Atmospheric black metallers So Hideous have returned with a new album and single, their first since 2015. The band headlined the MetalSucks 10th anniversary bash we held at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus bar in early 2017. That seems like friggin’ FOREVER ago, and indeed, the band’s undergone a complete rhythm section swap in the ensuing down

There comes a time in every metalhead’s life when they decide it’s time to finally venture into the dangers of the pit. For you it may’ve happened early, perhaps even at your first show, no fucks given. Perhaps it came later once you worked up the courage. And for a few of you, never at

Willow Smith, progeny of actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, has not only proven her musical prowess in recent months, but her affinity for rock and heavy music. Starting with a pop-punk song of her own while sporting a particularly metal-looking aesthetic, Willow later fronted a reunited Wicked Wisdom as a Mother’s Day gift

Insomnium guitarist Jani Liimatainen (ex-Sonata Arctica) was our guest on a recent episode of The MetalSucks Podcast to discuss their new EP, Argent Moon, the upcoming 25th anniversary of the band and more. Jani revealed to us that the band are already working on a new full-length before despite just releasing the EP last month.