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Official press release: The Armed have released a new song and video, “Average Death,” from their forthcoming album Ultrapop. You can watch the video below. Featuring Clark Huge, flame throwers and a colorful cast of characters in incredible wardrobe and makeup–it’s a surrealist, pastel-colored vision of the future of pop that could have only been made by The

If you’ve been on Metallica’s Instagram page in the past 24 hours, you’ve probably seen this logo, gotten really excited, and then instantly become totally confused: Alas, this is not part of some new tribute to late ‘Tallica bassist Cliff Burton… it’s a team-up with a sporting goods and travel gear company called Burton. Offerings

Demon Hunter frontman Ryan Clark is our guest this week! We talk about the journey of creating acoustic versions of classic Demon Hunter tracks for their new album, Songs of Death and Resurrection, which track was hardest for him to convert from heavy to acoustic, how an acoustic livestream concert went from an afterthought to

It’s been fun to watch the resurgence of industrial metal over the past few years. Fueled by the confluence of renewed interest in goth culture and the rise of dark synthwave, there’s no question there’s been a groundswell in support for the industrial metal reboot. Aside from 3Teeth, though, there haven’t been any acts solely

King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, continue to soldier on with their “Sunday Lunch” series of cover videos. Perhaps recognizing the need to up the ante to maintain viewer interest, the duo brought on a special guest for their latest, a cover of the Foo Fighters classic,

After nearly a year of teasing, current Light the Torche / former Killswitch Engage frontman Howard Jones and YouTuber Jared Dines have revealed the name of their new project and announced the release date of its first single. Dines, who has previously promised that the music will sound like Jones-era KSE, posted a 30-second trailer on his

Tennessee-based industrial quartet Combichrist have released a new single, “Not My Enemy.” You can check it out below. The band’s most recent full-length studio album, One Fire, was released in 2019. It’s not clear if “Not My Enemy” heralds the impending arrival of a follow-up or not. [embedded content]

We’ve been indoors for a year. Fuuuuuuuuu- Liquid Tension Experiment, “Beating the Odds” This song belongs in a ’80s movie training montage. We mean that as high praise. [embedded content] Smith/Kotzen, “Scars” Fun fact: this generated more traffic for MetalSucks than any other new song released this week. By a LOT. Interpret that as you

An actress named Bianca Allaine is the latest woman to level claims of abuse against Marilyn Manson — and she says she has an impending meeting with the FBI to discuss those claims. Allaine tells The Sun that Manson “forcefully kissed her” in 1995, when she was only 16-years-old. She also says he “fondled” other

I’ll give it you straight, my friends: “Beating the Odds,” the new single from Liquid Tension Experiment, is really good — it sounds like it should be playing over an ’80s moving training montage, and I mean that as high praise. The accompanying music video, on the other hand, is really bad. It’s just a

Megadeth mastermind Dave Mustaine has revealed that the band’s new album, which is tentatively titled The Sick, the Dying and the Dead, is nearly finished. Mustaine also says that the album will include a cover song… although he hasn’t said what that cover song will be. Speaking on Gimme Radio’s The Dave Mustaine Show, the

Every media company has finally realized that streaming is the future, and are thus launching their own streaming platform. It somehow seems lost on all these various entities that this is going to lead the market being overly fractured, and will thus inevitably leave some of these services in the dust (we’ve already seen Quibi

The Zombies, Rob and Sheri Moon, have released a new video in which they discuss the completely bonkers title of Rob’s upcoming album, The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy. Zombie’s album titles used to have relatively simple, easy-to-remember names, like Hellbilly Deluxe, The Sinister Urge, and Educated Horses. That all changed after 2010’s Hellbilly

Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine is switching guitar companies again. In the past, the Megamastermind has been endorsed by/made signature models with Jackson, ESP, and Dean. But as of today, he’s with Gibson. Sez a press release: “Gibson is proud to officially announce a new partnership with Dave Mustaine, the legendary guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and GRAMMY®-winning founder and leader of Megadeth who joins Gibson as a Brand Ambassador. The new Dave Mustaine Collection will span

Vexed — which is a band from the UK that mercifully have nothing to do with a certain homophonous turd bucket — have released a new song called “Hideous.” If you’re not yet exhausted by groups kneeling at the altar of Meshuggah, you may very well dig it. The “Demiurge”-ish riff is certainly catchy. I

It’s been five days since Gojira announced the impending release of their greatly-anticipated new album, Fortitude, and released that album’s first single, “Born for One Thing.” And you know what that means… enough time has passed that we can now all needlessly judge the quality of the work! YAY!!! So we ask you, our beloved

The Crown guitarist Marko Tervonen is our guest this week. We discuss the band’s upcoming album, Royal Destroyer, and how their previous one, Cobra Speed Venom, was a comeback album of sorts, why having an outside producer this time around was helpful, writing a tribute song to late Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, and how the

We’ve covered the O’Keefe Music Foundation countless times on this site over the years, the dozens of metal cover videos its kids have produced giving us hope for the future. Most recently, a group of music students aged 8 through 17 covered Slipknot’s “Psychosocial” — complete with an actual keg — and now some of those

A previously unreleased video of the Deftones performing in 1992, one of the earliest known visual recordings of the band, has made its way online via the DeftonesLive YouTube channel. The video, which the channel claims got the band’s blessing to be made public, features the Deftones performing a little-known song called “Answers” which appeared

Trivium frontman Matt Heafy has released the third installment in his series of acoustic EPs, each of which reimagines a handful of tracks from one of the band’s albums. Heafy has previously released EPs containing acoustic versions of tracks from Ascendancy and The Crusade. The guitarist/vocalist plans to continue with an acoustic EP for each