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In a new interview, Slipknot percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan has explained why Slipknot have yet to release Look Outside Your Window. The already-mythical album was recorded by vocalist Corey Taylor, guitarist Jim Root, DJ Sid Wilson, and Crahan during sessions for 2008’s All Hope is Gone. In January of 2020, Clown said Window would be

Earlier this week, Pat Becker, mother of legendary guitarist Jason Becker, revealed that her son has recently been “in constant contact with his doctors” after “experiencing shortness of breath and a rapid heart rate.” Becker was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 1991. Two days after Ms. Becker’s announcement, things seemed to take a turn for

Rapper Lil Nas X, best known for his massive hit “Old Town Road” a couple of years back, caused quite a stir last month with a line of “Satan Shoes” he released to promote his new single, “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name).” Nike was bothered by the unauthorized used of its sneakers, conservatives everywhere

ten56., the new project fronted by Aaron Matts, have debuted their first-ever single, “diazepam.” You can check it out via the below music video. Matts announced his departure from Betraying the Martyrs last week. In addition to the new-former BtM vocalist, ten56. includes members of Novelists FR, Uneven Structure and Kadinja. Aaron comments on “diazepam”: “ “As is the case

WWE’s NXT Takeover: Stand & Deliver event had a pair of special metal guests over its two-night broadcast last night (April 8) and the night before, with both Nita Strauss and Poppy showing off their talents live on air to the wrestling audience at large. Nita’s came on the first night, when she performed the

It looks like Tom Morello is gonna have another year of putzin’ around the Internet, schooling conservatives who somehow don’t realize Rage Against the Machine is a politically liberal band: the seminal rap-metal band have just delayed their eagerly-anticipated reunion tour for the second time, to 2022. The tour had been scheduled to kick off

You may remember Hammerhedd from when we wrote about them in 2016 and 2018, always with glowing words, some of the band’s members still pre-teens at the time. But either way, 2021 finds the group — a three-piece consisting of kids aged 19, 17 and 14 — absolutely crushing and only getting better with age.

A few weeks ago, most of us didn’t know what the heck NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are. Now it feels like it’s all anyone is talking about. Megadeth are the second prominent metal artist to announce the impending sale of an NFT, after Slipknot’s M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan. ‘Deth’s is called Vic Rattlehead: Genesis and is,

Add a new outfit called Disorder Assembly to the resume of Between the Buried and Me bassist Dan Briggs, who, when not busy with his day job in one the sickest prog metal bands of all time, passes his days making music for Trioscapes, Nightmare Scenario, Nova Collective, and surely at least a couple I’m

Here’s your second big chunka metal-and-rasslin’-related news today: Poppy and Alice Cooper guitarist (and solo artist) Nita Strauss are both set to perform at this week’s WWE NXT pay-per-view event, NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver. The two-night extravaganza is set for this Wednesday, April 7, and Thursday, April 8, but Poppy will only appear the

As first reported in January, the creative geniuses at Two Minutes to Late Night — who have kept us all entertained for the past year with their Bedroom Covers — have launched a new streaming series, Splitsville, during which two bands cover one another’s songs. The first installment, which initially streamed on January 29, featured Every Time I Die

When I saw that artificial intelligence had written a “new” Nirvana song using the band’s catalogue as inputs, I was reasonably sure it’d sound a helluva lot like Nirvana given we’ve seen this kind of thing before. What I couldn’t have possibly known is how insanely well it would ape the band’s compositional style and

Immortal Guardian have released a new song, “Psychosomatic,” that explores the number quarantine has done on our collective brains over the past year. Specifically, how at one point or another over this crazy year we’ve all psyched ourselves into thinking we had Covid-19 when we didn’t… I know I have! Cue to the freakout, the

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 weeks. The duo’s latest video finds the pair covering Iron Maiden’s 1982 anthem “The Number of the Beast.” In keeping

Filmmaker Joe Berlinger recently appeared on the Greatest Music of All Time podcast to discuss Some Kind of Monster, the 2004 documentary about the making of Metallica’s St. Anger. Berlinger co-directed the film with the late Bruce Sinofsky. As part of the interview, Berlinger revealed that when the band first saw a rough cut of

California death metallers Exhumed have entered the studio to record their tenth full-length album. The band have been documenting their progress on social media. You can view the updates they’ve offered so far below. Exhumed’s last album, Horror, was released in 2019. Last year, the band released Twisted Horror, a split with Gruesome. [via The

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 April are in, and 218 of the

The weekend is here! Which means it’s time for more of… fondly reminiscing about a time when we could all go out and congregate in public without a care in the world … while we live vicariously by watching our favorite bands perform online instead! MetalSucks has got you covered with our continuously updated livestream calendar, powered by

The multi-instrumentalist known as Charlie Sad-Eyes (Crawl Below) is doing dadding right: he started a grindcore band, Animal Schoolbus, with his daughter, who goes by the name ‘Princess Beast.’ Princess Beast is nine now, but she and Charlie have been making a racket together for years already, according to a press release: “Animal Schoolbus started

Tetrarch, the young band that puts the “meh” in “nu-metal,” have released a new single and video, “Negative Noise.” As a piece of music it’s whatever; it starts out aping Slipknot’s “Heretic Anthem” and then starts doing a Korn/Static-X thing and then I turned it off because a man has limits. Having said that, there