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Tomorrow, October 15, Metal Blade Records will release Rugia, the twelfth full-length album from Polish blackened death metallers Hate. The album is now streaming in advance of that release. You can blast it below. Rugia was tracked at Hertz Recording Studio in Poland, and it was recorded, mixed, and mastered by the Wiesłaski Brothers. Everything was

Korn drummer Ray Luzier is the latest member of the band to test positive for COVID-19 on their current tour, The PRP reports. Consequently, Aric Improta (Fever 333, Night Verses) will fill-in for Luzier at the band’s upcoming live dates. Luzier follows singer Jonathan Davis and guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer  in contracting the virus on this

Look folks, it ain’t a secret: longtime readers of MetalSucks know that I’m a huge sucker for some feel-good rock vibes with giant-sized vocal hooks. See my recent love affair with dad rock extraordinaires The Night Flight Orchestra, or my ongoing infatuation of acts as disparate as Robyn and Bon Jovi: I can’t resist! Enter

France’s Dropdead Chaos have released a new cover of Slipknot’s “Surfacing” as tribute to that band’s late former drummer, Joey Jordison. The track includes contributions from Sean “Sean Z.” Zatorsky (ex-Chimaira, Dååth, etc.), who was in the band Sinsaenum with Jordison. Dropdead Chaos explain: “In 2018 our producer Hk from the Vamacara Studio was hired

Like the provocative cover of their new album, Your Time to Shine, Monolord’s latest single, “I’ll Be Damned,” is a paradoxical mix of the beautiful and the bleak. No one in their right mind would describe the track as “celebratory” or “uplifting,” but no with ears will be able to deny how gosh darn catchy

You come at the king, you best not miss. Rapper-turned-rocker Machine Gun Kelly has become public enemy #1 of the metal world lately, with Slipknot fans in particular choosing him as the object of their hatred. Metal fans at the Aftershock festival this past weekend in Sacramento, CA let MGK have it, pelting the singer

Sharon Burns, principal of Eden High School in St. Catherines, Ontario, has come under fire from some of her students’ parents… ostensibly for being an Iron Maiden fan. The controversy began when Burns posted a pair of photos on Instagram. In the first (above), she’s throwning horns while standing in front of an Iron Maiden

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: New Jersey’s progressive metal masters, Symphony X, will kick off their “25th Anniversary North American tour 2022” on May 10th at Irving Plaza in New York City. The 27-date trek will make stops in Montreal, Chicago, and Portland before concluding in Montclair, NJ on June 12th. Today, the band is proud to welcome Haken as direct

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: It’s the End of Existence for The Browning — but not literally. The band has announced its new album, titled End of Existence, out December 3 via Spinefarm. Pre-order it here.  The band has also shared the video for the title track. Watch it below.  End of Existence was written, performed, recorded, engineered and mixed by The Browning’s impresario Jonny McBee. It’s

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Slashercore outfit, Ice Nine Kills have dropped the fourth and final new track from their upcoming album The Silver Scream 2: Welcome To Horrorwood prior to its release this coming Friday, October 15th via Fearless Records. Today’s offering submitted into evidence is titled “Funeral Derangements” and is inspired by the Stephen King

Nightwish, The Ocean, Between the Buried and Me, Cannibal Corpse bassist Alex Webster, Gojira and The Ocean. All of these metal bands have had ancient but newly discovered species given names in their honor by scientists in recent years. Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi can now add himself to that list. Drepanoistodus Iommii, a newly discovered 469-million-year-old species of

The friendship between liberal activist Tom Morello and conservative whacko Ted Nugent is unlikely, but the Rage Against the Machine guitarist explained earlier this year that the two are pals who regularly exchange birthday pleasantries and have a lot more in common than you’d think. Morello has now doubled down and defended that friendship in

“He took cancer and kicked it right in the fuckin’ face,” shouted Exodus frontman Steve “Zetro” Souza during their set last night (Thursday, October 7), before welcoming drummer Tom Hunting back to the stage. The band’s performance at the Aftershock festival in Sacramento, CA was Hunting’s first since he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, a form of

Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss, an acclaimed shredder in her own right, just announced a solo tour set for later this year. Surely she didn’t expect to get this kind of press bump so soon after the announcement, but hey, all press is good press, right? It certainly makes it easier to laugh off since

Slipknot’s massive North American tour with Killswitch Engage, Fever 333 and Code Orange is in full swing, and by all accounts the performances are absolute fire… literally. The pyro is insane. But bad jokes aside, it’s no surprise that Slipknot are out killing it after over a year and a half of down time, and

Jeremy Spencer, aka Grim Synner from Psycho Synner (the band formerly known as Psychosexual) — and former drummer for Five Finger Death Punch — is our guest on this special half-episode of the podcast! We discuss why the band rebranded from Psychosexual to Psycho Sinner, his plan to release nine albums on the same day

Every month we take a look at Spotify’s ‘monthly listeners’ counts for several hundred metal bands and compare them side by side to gauge their relative popularity at any given moment. For more on why we’re doing this column and the methodology behind it, read this. The numbers for October are in. More than half (186)

Ever wondered about the identity of the woman on the cover of Converge’s Jane Doe? I didn’t! I mean, the album is called Jane Doe, fer Chrissakes. It’s literally telling you not to think about it. But now we’re all gonna be thinking about it anyway, because a French actress and model, Audrey Marnay, believes

Vended, the band featuring Simon Crahan, son of Shawn “Clown” Crahan, and Griffin Taylor, son of Corey Taylor, have announced their first U.S. tour. The thirteen-date trek is scheduled to kick off in November. The Slipknot progeny recently released a new single, “Asylum,” No word on an upcoming album or EP from the budding metal

Bad Wolves have posted a new single, “House of Cards,” their second to feature new vocalist Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz (ex-The Acacia Strain). Their first single, “Lifeline,” which arrived in September, has amassed over 1.2 million YouTube views since its release. Laskiewicz replaces Tommy Vext (né Cummings), who split with the group at the start of 2021. The