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Metallica frontman James Hetfield has expressed skepticism regarding the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine. Furthermore, he says he himself may not get vaccinated unless required to in order to travel. Hetfield made the admission during an interview with The Fierce Life podcast. He also implied that his hesitancy stems from his upbringing as

GWAR have released a new acoustic version of their 2017 anthem, “I’ll Be Your Monster,” complete with a characteristically-entertaining music video. You can check it out below. The track will appear on The Disc With No Name, which GWAR will release as a limited edition 12″ picture disc on May 28 via Pit Records. The

Chris Cornell’s widow and children have reached an undisclosed settlement with Robert Koblin, the doctor who prescribed the highly addictive anti-anxiety medication Ativan to the late Soundgarden singer. In a lawsuit filed in November of 2018, the Cornell family — his widow, Vicky, and their two kids, Toni and Christopher — alleged that Dr. Koblin

People of color were actually pretty tolerant of the United States’ intolerance until the United States elected a white supremacist to be its president. That broke the social contract. Suddenly someone was like “Hey maybe the least we can do is ask the cops to stop innocently killing Black people?” and half the country was

Anthrax have released the second episode of their Anthrax 40 for 40 video series, which will celebrate 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 18 (the band’s actual 40th anniversary). Each album will get

Cannibal Corpse’s new album, Violence Unimagined, has been greeted warmly by fans, delivering precisely the dose of unfiltered, gruesome death metal we so sorely needed. It’s also been quite a boon to the metal press, with money quotes about frontman George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher’s gargantuan neck and his propensity for claw arcade machines propping us up

Just about a year ago, Shadows Fall frontman Brian Fair revealed that the band had been trying to put together some reunion shows… before the pandemic came along and derailed those plans. Fortunately, the time past doesn’t appear to have made the band change their mind about wanting to play together again. In a new

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 May are in — including over 40

Dumbshit MVP Ted Nugent performed a maskless, indoor concert three days after he started experiencing “flu-like symptoms.” Those symptoms, of course, turned out to be the result of COVID-19. The Naples Daily News reports that Nugent played at Oakes Farms – Seed to Table Market in Naples, Florida on April 12. That establishment’s owner, Alfie Oakes,

Big week for fans of Tomas Lindberg Redant, f.k.a. Tomas Lindberg: a whopping four days after At the Gates released “Spectre of Extinction,” the first single from their new album The Nightmare of Being, Lock Up have now released “Inside Cthulu’s Eye,” the first single from their new album, which doesn’t have a title yet.

Perturbator has released “Excess,” the latest single from his forthcoming album, Lustful Sacraments. The track first surfaced as a standalone single in 2019 but has been re-released now as part of the new album rollout campaign. Joining the two singles released from the new album so far — “Dethroned Under a Funeral Haze” and “Death

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 months. The duo’s latest video finds them covering Heart’s classic rocker “Barracuda” along with the masked special guest, Sidney Jake,

Nobody’s ever heard of Dig the Grave before. Still, the band wanted to make sure that people would watch their new video… so they used Cameo to hire a whole bunch of famous metal musicians to make them clips, which they then compiled into the video. And voilà! Now we’re all going to watch this

Pat O’Brien, former guitarist for Cannibal Corpse, has been sentenced for his 2018 burglary and aggravated assault charges. Blabbermouth reports that on March 16, O’Brien was sentenced to time served and five years of probation, ordered to pay nearly $24,000 in restitution, submit to regular drug and alcohol evaluations, be subject to random drug testing, and serve

The weekend is here! Which means it’s time for more of… fondly reminiscing about a time when we could all go out and headbang shoulder to shoulder with our closest strangers … 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 eOne,

Esmé Bianco, the Game of Thrones star who earlier this year accused Marilyn Manson of physical and psychological abuse, is now suing the shock rocker and his former manager of 25 years, Tony Ciulla. Rolling Stone reports that the complaint, filed today (April 30), alleges that Manson “used drugs, force, and threats of force to

Update, 11:59pm EDT: An additional source tells MetalSucks that Mecum was on life support as of this afternoon when this article was first published, but has since passed. Original Post: Will Mecum, founding guitarist of long-running stoner metal outfit Karma to Burn, has died, sources tell MetalSucks. Mecum founded Karma to Burn in 1994 in

If you’re familiar with country/pop star Carrie Underwood’s work at all, it’s likely this mega-hit (which, to be clear, is an absolute banger of a jam): [embedded content] Or perhaps you remember her winning American Idol back in 2005: [embedded content] Chances are you do not associate Underwood, whose music often carries heavy-handed Christian themes,

A Russian fan’s appreciation for Rammstein is being used against him as a political weapon in his native country. According to Amnesty International, Andrei Borovikov faces up to three years in a “high security penal colony” after sharing Rammstein’s “Pussy” music video on the Russian social network VKontakte in 2014. The extremely NSFW clip debuted on

When Primus initially announced their Rush tribute tour, scheduled for spring 2020, it was ostensibly to pay homage to late drummer Neil Peart (who died earlier that year from brain cancer). The gigantic summer tour would see the band play two sets every night: one of originals, and one consisting of them covering Rush’s 1977 classic, A