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Biffy Clyro and OFF! have released covers of Metallica’s “Holier Than Thou.” I suspect that they waited a couple of hours until after Metallica released pre-production rehearsal audio of the same song just to fuck with me. The Clyro and OFF! covers are part of The Metallica Blacklist, an album that “celebrates the enduring influence

During my recent guest sesh on The Metal Injection Livecast, it came to my attention that Mean Man: The Story of Christ Holmes is now available for viewing on Amazon Prime (at least here in the U.S.). Since watching the car wreck that is the former W.A.S.P. guitarist’s life is one of my great joys,

Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage and Times of Grace is our guest this week! We talk about the new Times of Grace album, Songs of Loss and Separation, their first in 10 years, and reflect on its predecessor, The Hymn of a Broken Man. Adam shares his thoughts on the importance of keeping his mind busy

Dave Mustaine, believer in the free market, has raised the price of a personalized video on Cameo three times in a matter of days since joining the service, ultimately doubling his fee. Mustaine first announced he was on Cameo, the service that lets you pay celebrities to record personalized messages, last week. Starting at $150

In a 20th anniversary retrospective in which Metal Hammer looks back on Slipknot’s sophomore album, Iowa, both percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan and vocalist Corey Taylor say that the band members were not on great terms during the making of that record. Metal Hammer teased the controversy as part of a preview of what’s in

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 July are in, and the pace of

Born of Osiris released their sixth full-length album, Angel or Alien, this past Friday (July 2) and with that arrived a music video for the track “Poster Child.” You can watch the video (and stream the full album) below as well as order the album here. Born of Osiris have a run of Texas tour dates

Guitarist Parker Lundgren has announced his departure from Queensrÿche after a dozen years with the band. Explains Lundgren in a statement: “For several years, I have been deeply immersed in collecting and selling guitars, as well as rare and fascinating musical instruments. This passion led to the opening of my guitar store Diablo Guitars in 2019. Since

Mayhem have released “Everlasting Dying Flame,” a new single from their forthcoming EP, Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando.  You can check out the song via the below visualizer. “Everlasting Dying Flame” is the second single from Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando to be released, following “Voces Ab Alta” last month. Mayhem’s Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando is out

If you’ve ever seen Sabaton live then you know well that all of their shows are essentially “the show to end all shows.” The world’s foremost historical metal buffs give it their ALL every single night with bombastic production and a full-hearted performance. If you haven’t seen Sabaton live yet… what the hell is stopping

Here’s some new metal to piss off your neighbors with at your July 4 barbecue. One of the bands is even American! At the GatesThe Nightmare of Being (Century Media) No, it’s not Slaughter of the Soul redux, smartass. At the Gates’ latest venture through the red in the sky involves some of the most

Seemingly inspired by the highly scientific, irrefutable study published in June which analyzed Metallica’s entire body of work and produced a chart of James Hetfield’s most commonly uttered lyrics, some Reddit whippersnapper (who else would you expect?) has done the same for Iron Maiden’s 16 studio albums. And the results are also not quite what

Earlier this year we introduced MetalSucks readers to Philippe Drouin, a right-handed metal guitarist who taught himself to play left-handed after a car accident left him unable to pick with his right hand. It took Drouin three years and an estimated 7,000 hours of practice, but his band, Obvurt, finally released their debut EP, The Beginning,

Body Count have released a second entry from their recent contest to create a music video for “The Hate is Real.”  Whereas the original winner of the contest, 25-year-old Brooklynite Seby Martinez, made a sock puppet video that (as you can likely guess, given the phrase “made a sock puppet video”) leaned into the silly, this

David Lee Roth is a showman, a character, a one-of-a-kind entertainer. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who disagrees. And that includes his Van Halen successor, Sammy Hagar, who respects DLR’s legacy in the band. But, according to Hagar in a new chat with Brazil’s Inside With Paulo Baron, what you see with DLR is not

CHALLAHHHHH!!! Tonight, I, Axl Rosenberg, the single most important person in metal, return to the Metal Injection Livecast! You should listen — it’s as close to the voice of God as you’re ever gonna hear. Tune in tonight starting at 6:00pm Eastern (3:00PM Pacific Time, 11:00pm in London, 8:00am Wed in Sydney) and going until

Official press release: The Bronx have released the first video in support of their upcoming album, Bronx VI (Aug. 27, Cooking Vinyl), sharing the gritty, garage-based, Estevan Oriol directed clip for “Curb Feelers.” Watch it below. “Every Bronx record has a backbone track, a sonic anchor that sets the tone for the entire album,” explains vocalist Matt Caughthran, “’Curb

Rock Hard Greece has published a new video interview with K.K. Downing, and assuming you take Downing at his word at least, it’s a doozy. For one thing, Downing says the remaining members of Judas Priest threatened him with legal action over the name of his new project, K.K.’s Priest: “Their lawyers sent a letter

Official press release: “Solar Fire” is the fourth single from Smith/Kotzen, the critically acclaimed debut project from Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) and Richie Kotzen (ex-Poison, Winery Dogs). The album was released globally through BMG on March 26 and immediately became a Top 20 album chart success in the U.K. and reached No. 10 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart in

Johnny Solinger, singer for Skid Row from 1999 until 2015, has died. He was 55-years-old. The cause of death was liver failure. Solinger appears on the band’s full-length albums Thickskin (2003) and Revolutions per Minute (2006), as well as the EPs United World Rebellion: Chapter One and United World Rebellion: Chapter Two. Skid Row say