Metal

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

Over the course of the past two years, Godsmack singer Sully Erna has been flagged by Facebook for spreading disinformation about Bernie Sanders, endorsed conspiracy theories about COVID-19, and asserted that the virus “not a global killer” despite the fact that it has, indeed, killed more than five million people worldwide. Regardless of his willingness

Over the course of the past two years, Godsmack singer Sully Erna has been flagged by Facebook for spreading disinformation about Bernie Sanders, endorsed conspiracy theories about COVID-19, and asserted that the virus “not a global killer” despite the fact that it has, indeed, killed more than five million people worldwide. Regardless of his willingness

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: The heavy metal ‘n’ roll dark madcap visionaries collectively known as Avatar— vocalist Johannes Eckerström (vocals), guitarists Jonas Jarlsby and Tim Öhrström, bassist Henrik Sandelin, and drummer John Alfredsson — have shared another new song. Today, the band has dropped “Construction of Souls.” Listen below. It’s Avatar’s version of a holiday song! “This song will be to Christmas songs what Die Hard is to

Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi has released “Scent of the Dark,” which is described as “A fusion of new Iommi music, video and unique fragrance blended by Xerjoff’s Sergio Momo with major input from Tony.” You can check out the song below. There doesn’t seem to be a buy link for the fragrance as of yet.

Gared O’Donnell, singer for influential early ’00s post-hardcore band Planes Mistaken For Stars, has died. He was just 44 years old. The band announced the news of O’Donnell’s passing through their official Instagram account late last night, November 24, revealing he died yesterday while surrounded by his family. He had been fighting oesophageal cancer since

Imagine if, every morning when you sit upon the throne for your morning crap, you could rest your tuchus on Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich’s lap as you drop your load? Well, now you can, with the ability to load and re-load all you like: one enterprising man has made a custom Lars Ulrich toilet, with

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Gold-selling hard rockers Of Mice & Men — Aaron Pauley (bass + vocals ), Valentino Arteaga (drums), Alan Ashby (guitar), and Phil Manansala (guitar) — will release their seventh album Echo on December 3 via SharpTone Records.  Today, the quartet shared the title track to the new album. Listen to the song and watch the visualizer below. “‘Echo’