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Download Pilot, the scaled-down version of the U.K.’s annual Download Festival, is taking place this weekend at the festival’s usual site in Donington Park. Although the full-scale annual Download Festival won’t be happening for the second year in a row as a result of the ongoing pandemic, Download Pilot, which will admit 10,000 fans instead of the

Official press release: Chicago’s Yakuza will begin recording their long-awaited, as-yet-untitled new studio album!   The band will enter Palisades Studio with engineer Sanford Parker (Yob, Voivod) later this month. The recording will be completed and mixed at Parker’s own Hypercube Studios. Set for worldwide release in the Spring of 2022, the record follows their critically lauded Beyul full-length (2012) and marks Yakuza’s

GWAR frontman Blöthar the Berserker appeared on Gutfeld! on Fox News yesterday, Friday, June 18. You can watch video of his appearance below. GWAR recently announced a tour with Napalm Death, Eyehategod, and Madball. Dates are as follows: $ – with Madball / Eyehategod supportingx – with Napalm Death / Eyehategod supporting# – Festival9/16/21 –

Back in January, we learned that Trivium’s Matt Heafy and Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda would be collaborating on a new track via their respective highly-successful Twitch channels. The fruit of those labors is now ripe. “In Defiance” features vocals and guitars by Heafy and production and programming by Shinoda; the duo share songwriting credit. Heafy

I feel horrible for our Canadian friends. Despite the fact that life in Canada is, in many ways, often better than in the U.S., the country has had a real rough time with Covid-19. Not that the U.S. also hasn’t, but whereas the vaccination campaign here is going quite well, with 65% of adults over

Is death less sad if we all go at once during an extinction-level event? That’s ostensibly the premise of “Everyone Dies,” the new song from Crobot: “Nobody has to cry if everyone dies.” Fair enough. Whether or not you reject the premise or not, the song kicks a ton of ass. The band calls the

Let’s get this out of the way right up front: Unto Others, the band formerly known as Idle Hands, seem to have missed an apostrophe in their new song title, “When Will Gods Work Be Done.” It’s wrong in the YouTube title, it’s wrong in the press copy, it’s wrong everywhere. Unless it’s intentional and

Sevendust have added on to their previously announced July run of the U.S. with some tour dates in September alongside Tremonti, the project led by Mark Tremonti of Alter Bridge. Lydia Can’t Breathe will open. The headline dates are bookended by some major festival appearances. Anyone wanna join me at that Albany date?? Newly announced

In an email to his “General Journals” email list, Machine Head mastermind Robb Flynn has addressed the criticism some fans have leveled his way that he runs the band as a “dictator” or a “Robb Flynn solo project.” Those accusations first picked up steam back in 2018 when longtime band members Phil Demmel (guitar) and

There are 56 ethnic groups recognized by the People’s Republic of China, and the Nu people are one of them. The group, who take their name from the nearby Nujiang river, aren’t known for red baseball caps and Adidas tracksuits, however, instead preferring cotton tunics. As for nu metal, the genre is as popular in

We’ve been singing the praises of progressive death metal troupe Alustrium for months — nay, years! — here on MetalSucks, and today we’re pleased as punch to premiere a guitar playthrough video of the band’s recently-released single, “This Hollow Ache.” The clip sees Alustrium co-guitarists Mike DeMaria and Chris Kelly tear through the nearly seven-minute

Flotsam and Jetsam have announced a string of U.S. tour dates for this August in support of their new album, Blood in the Water. Although the trek currently only has eleven dates books, band reassures fans that “we are working on coming to your neck of the woods soon.” Here are the dates: Aug. 17

Official press release: Kiss’ The End of the Road Tour resumes in 2021 with rescheduled shows and new additional concert dates! Tickets for the newly added dates below go on sale to the general public beginning this Friday, June 18th at 10am local time. Tickets for all previously rescheduled dates are on sale now. Kiss will be offering VIP experiences

Pain, the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer Peter Tägtgren, have unveiled the band’s first original song in five years, “Party In My Head,” along with a music video. Tägtgren comments: “I decided to write a song about all the bullshit from the last year of lock-up and people’s struggle, including my own, to adapt to the new way of life.

Last week, Foo Fighters announced that they will reopen Madison Square Garden for live music on June 20, in what will be the first full-capacity concert in New York City since early March of 2020. The roughly 20,000 attendee concert is open only to those who can show proof of Covid-19 vaccination (or a recent

Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters have been slammed by Richard Fairbrass, singer for the band Right Said Fred, over their decision to play a 100% capacity show at Madison Square Garden later this month… but only for a vaccinated audience. The show will be the first full-capacity concert in New York City since early March of

Anthrax have released the fifteenth and sixteenth episodes of their Anthrax 40 for 40 video series, which celebrates the band’s 40th anniversary by taking a look at each individual ‘Thrax album over the course of the coming weeks. That will all lead up to a special career-spanning livestream performance on July 16 (the band’s actual 40th anniversary). You can watch the new

Baltimore brutalists Misery Index have announced that they’re gonna release a new compliation of rarities and b-sides, Coffin Up the Nails, on July 9. The first single is a fairly straightforward cover of Bolt Thrower’s 1994 classic, “When Glory Beckons.” You can check it out below. Says the band of Coffin Up the Nails: “Much

Slipknot’s inimitable percussionist, Shawn “Clown” Crahan, has released a pair of new solo tracks, “Brainwash Love – Death Inside” and “Live Your Life.” Both are extremely Clownish, albeit in different ways. By which I do not mean that they contain a lot of hitting a keg with an aluminum baseball bat. What I actually mean