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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

PRAISE BE DIO!! Unleash the Archers, who released my absolute most favoritest album of 2020, will FINALLY get to take those songs on the road when they headline a 23-date trek of the U.S. in September. Frontwoman Brittney Slayes issued a statement that suggests the band might be playing Abyss in full — the wording

Kid Rock, aka Bob Ritchie, made some waves earlier this week when he called a fan at a Tennessee karaoke event a “fa**ot” for filming Rock with his phone while the singer was performing. Not that this kind of behavior is surprising given Rock’s history of unwavering political correctness but, ya know, waves in the

Good news for those of you who are into the more progressive, adventurous varieties of metal: Burial in the Sky are here to scratch every single itch your body has ever or will ever have. On “Anatomy of Us,” an ambitious 13-minute track that begins with a two-minute-long Pink Floyd-esque intro with acoustic guitar and

Former Nevermore shredder Jeff Loomis and his luscious blond locks have joined Graham Bonnet’s version of Alcatrazz. There are currently two competing versions of Alcatrazz: the one Loomis has joined, which features vocalist, co-founder and self-described “main songwriter” Bonnet, and a new version featuring original members Jimmy Waldo (keyboards) and Gary Shea (bass). Don’t worry, Arch Enemy fans; you

The Alrosa Villa in Columbus, OH operated as a music venue for 45 years, but perhaps is best known outside the immediate area as the site of Dimebag Darrel’s murder. December 8, 2004 is one of those “where were you when you found out?” moments, metalheads’ version of the JFK assassination; everyone’s got a story.

That Kid Rock slings homophobic slurs around like they’re candy from a piñata shouldn’t be all that shocking to anyone. Rock — aka Bob Ritchie Jr. — hasn’t exactly been a torch-bearer for PC culture over the past several years. Nevertheless, his latest public incident has got the culture wars as fired up as ever.

Linkin Park’s song “In the End,” from their 2000 breakthrough album Hybrid Theory, has surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify. The song’s music video reached the same milestone on YouTube last summer. It has since eclipsed 1.2 billion views. Chart Data, a music industry charts, awards and industry news aggregator, was the first to report