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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

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