Large arenas and stadiums throughout New York State will be permitted to open for business starting on February 23, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo. Venues with a capacity of 10,000 qualify for the new regulations. They will be able to operate at only 10% of capacity, and attendees must prevent a negative Covid-19 test result
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A MetalSucks reader calling himself Prince Midnight has made a guitar out of his dead uncle’s rendered skeleton. You read that correctly, but if your mind is spinning, I’ll lay it out plainly for you: Prince attached a guitar neck, pickups, volume knobs, a jack, strings and electronics… to an entire skeleton that used to
Work has commenced on the eleventh studio album from Swedish melodeath titans Arch Enemy. This according to guitarist Jeff Loomis, who tells the Riffhard podcast that he will begin work on the album “very soon.” Although he also says he doesn’t know when the band’s next offering will be released, he does note that they have a
Architects, the extremely popular British metalcore band featuring Sylosis mastermind Josh Middleton, have released the latest single from their forthcoming album, For Those That Wish to Exist. It’s called “Meteor”… although honestly I found it to be a bit more like “Mehteor.” I’m not a fan of this band, but they’ve released other songs — like their last single,
Glenn Danzig’s debut as a feature filmmaker, Verotika, was so poorly received you’d think Danzig would stick to what he’s best at: getting winded fifteen seconds into live shows. But no! Glenn didn’t get where he is today by being a quitter! So he’s now made a SECOND movie, a vampire western called Death Rider
Actor Corey Feldman, best known for his roles in classic ’80s films such as Lost Boys, The Goonies and Stand by Me, has accused Marilyn Manson of “decades long mental and emotional abuse.” In a rambling statement posted on his personal Instagram account yesterday, Feldman says Manson has been “obsessed” with him ever since the first two
Periphery frontman Spencer Sotelo has shared a new solo track, “Stoopid Love.” The track finds Sotelo exploring a far poppier sound than Periphery fans may be accustomed to, with retro synth elements and pop vocals akin to his past work with Nik Mystery and Endur. You can stream “Stoopid Love” below. Sotelo is teasing a
Official press release: Ohio’s notorious bloodsucking death metal outfit Sanguisugabogg get animated in the new and NSFW video for “Dead as Shit.” Watch the visual spectacle, which offers a unique take on the state of the world while featuring the band in cartoon form, below. “We’ve always wanted to do an animated video,” the band says. “Check it out — we are fucking cartoons. We hope you
Evan Rachel Wood has elaborated on her recent allegations that Marilyn Manson abused her during their relationship. Furthermore, she claims that Manson’s wife, photographer Lindsay Usich, once attempted to release nude photos taken of her while she was underage and inebriated in order to This past Monday, February 1, the Westworld star wrote a post on
Tony Ciulla, who has managed Marilyn Manson for the past 25 years, has dropped his client in light of the wave of abuse allegations that have surfaced this week. Rolling Stone cites “a source close to the situation” as confirming the news. Ciulla picked up Manson shortly after the release of his 1996 album Antichrist Superstar and
Firstborne, the project featuring drummer Chris Adler (ex-Lamb of God), bassist James LoMenzo (ex-Megadeth, ex-Black Label Society, ex-White Lion, etc.), guitarist Myrone, and singer Girish Pradhan (Girish and the Chronicles), have released new called “Soul Control” as a Bandcamp exclusive. You can stream it below, and/or buy it for $1 here. The song was mastered
Two big bits of At the Gates or At the Gates-adjacent news today: First, the Swedish melodeath legends have finished recording their seventh album. Recording of their latest offering began late last year at Studio Grundle Gröndahl. According to a Facebook post from the band (below), the record is now being mixed by Jens Bogren (Dark Tranquillity,
The Armed have announced that they’ll release a new album, Ultrapop, on April 16 via Sargent House. Co-produced by the band’s own Dan Greene in collaboration with Ben Chisholm (Chelsea Wolfe), and “executive produced” by Converge’s Kurt Ballou, Ultrapop will be their first release for that label. The album will include include guest appearances by
Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor has issued a statement condemning Marilyn Manson for the abuse allegations that have surfaced over the course of this week. The two have a shared history, with Reznor releasing Manson’s first five albums on his label, Nothing Records, beginning in 1994 with Portrait of an American Family. In his
Iced Earth frontman Jon Schaffer, who is still being detained for his role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, had not voted in a presidential election in the last 12 years, according to a new report. Protestors stages the Capitol riot to dispute the 2020 election results. None of the three
Yet another woman has come out to publicly share a story of abuse at the hands of Marilyn Manson. Encouraged by the other women who have come forward over the past 48 hours, visual filmmaker Love Bailey detailed a 2011 incident to The Daily Beast in which the shock rocker put a gun to the
Back in the Before Times, we’d hear about bands being robbed on the road all too often, their instruments lifted from “secure” backstage locations or entire trailers ripped off while they slept. For obvious reasons, that hasn’t happened lately. But with all that gear sitting in storage, a new kind of theft has arrived, and
Marilyn Manson has issued a brief statement regarding several allegations of physical and emotional abuse by former girlfriends and associates. This morning, Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood wrote a post on Instagram in which she said that Manson, her former fiancée, “horrifically abused me for years.” While she has implied in the past that Manson abused her, this was the first
On Friday, February 12, at 9 pm GMT/ 4 pm EST/ 1 pm PST, Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson will host a Twitter listening party for the band’s 1984 classic, Powerslave. Dickinson will provide commentary and “interesting secrets” for each song for Tim’s Twitter Listening Party, hosted by Tim Burgess (The Charlatans). Appropriately, it will
Industrial metal/hardcore outfit Youth Code and hip hop artist King Yosef have collaborated on an album, A Skeleton Key In The Doors Of Depression, due out on March 9. The album’s first single, “Burner,” arrived on Friday, January 29, along with a music video. As the resident MS Mansion Youth Code superfan, I would like