A previously unreleased recording of Black Sabbath rehearsing the Dio-era track “Heaven and Hell” has surfaced. The recording comes from the estate of live band member and frequent collaborator Geoff Nicholls, who plays bass here but contributed keyboards and additional guitars to the band’s live show, while standing off stage, for a number of years.
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Everyone knows that life as a touring musician is difficult. Still, if you’ve never experienced it first-hand, you may not be to truly fathom the hardships of time on the road. Fortunately, Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton has now shared his tips learning what it’s like to be in a touring band. Writing on
Update: It looks like Bret Michaels from Poison is getting one, too. Photo is at the bottom of this post. The original story follows. AC/DC’s Highway to Hell and Motörhead’s Ace of Spades have been announced as the latest additions to the Funko Pop! Albums collection of vinyl figures. You can view photos of both
Amorphis have unveiled a two-song single featuring tracks recorded at the same time as their 2018 album, Queen of Time. “Brother and Sister” arrives today to stream, while “As Mountains Crumble” is available on the B-side of the vinyl release. Keyboard player Santeri Kallio comments: “Two great songs from the ‘Queen of Time’ sessions on vinyl which
The Merkins — the same jokesters responsible last year’s Mandalorian-themed Guns N’ Roses cover — have returned. This time out, they’ve offered up “More Than Burns,” a Freddy vs. Jason-themed take Extreme’s “More Than Words” (which remains the most beautiful song ever written about trying to get your S.O. to have sex with you and/or
Rob Zombie has released “The Eternal Struggles of the Howling Man,” the second single from his forthcoming seventh studio record, The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy. You can listen to it below. The first single, “The Triumph of King Freak (a Crypt of Preservation and Superstition),” is available for streaming here. In a 2019
We’re not even a month into 2021, and already, a metal musician has made history. Unfortunately, that musician is Iced Earth guitarist and founder Jon Schaffer, and the way he made history was by participating in the seditious pro-Trump siege of the U.S. Capitol building on January 6. The attack resulted in multiple deaths, including
On July 26, 2019 The Wedding Band — the all-star cover project led by Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo — performed for an intimate crowd of 200 at the Cosmopolitan Music Hall at Cosmo Music in Ontario, Canada. Cosmo Music has now released professionally-shot footage of The Wedding Band playing Billy Idol’s “White Wedding” as
The Crown have unveiled another new song, although it’s not from their recently-announced album, Royal Destroyer, but a standalone release for the Decibel Magazine Flexi Series. “Driven to Disaster” is a thrashy melodeath number in keeping with the band’s penchant for catchy as fuck, anthemic rippers. You can stream it below or get your hands
Of all the great tragedies to befall the world during this pandemic, none hit harder than the postponement of the rumored reunion between nu-metal outfit Saliva and erstwhile frontman Josey Scott, who left the band in 2011. There’s the fact that 400,000 people in the U.S. alone have died, millions are out of work (including
Thousands of folks who work in the live events industry, we likely don’t have to tell you, have now been out of work for nearly a year. Stage hands, techs, security, merch sellers, tour managers, promoters, various administrators, all just sitting idle, struggling to get by. The Covid-19 vaccination effort, meanwhile, can best be described
Guitarist Brian “Head” Welch has announced an impending announcement from his band, Korn. In a new interview with Kerrang!, Head reveals: “I asked the manager, because I’m doing [promotion for his other project] Love and Death, but I know people are going to ask me about Korn, and he said, ‘Just tell them the truth. Tell them
It started last week with a one lone announcement: Glastonbury, the massive festival held in England every June, has canceled its 2021 event in light of the ongoing pandemic. That led a number of other major festival promoters to question the feasibility of their own plans to hold events this spring and summer, with some,
When I tell you that there are these four dudes on TikTok making videos in which they cover famous songs like “Crazy Train” and “Back in Black” using nothing but vocals, acoustic guitars, empty plastic bottles, and bowls which worn like hats, you’ll probably think, “Well, that’s silly.” And when I tell you that these
I had to give this new Pupil Slicer video a look based on that band name alone. Just when it seems as if metal band names and song subject matter can’t possibly get any more gory after how ever many decades, along come these London-based noise-makers to give me the heebie-jeebies. Shit, I recoil when
Deftones have announced the latest beer to bear their name, a pale ale in honor of their most recent album, Ohms, which finds the group once again collaborating with the brewers at Belching Beaver. The beer will arrive in select U.S. markets on February 1. Here’s a description of what fans can expect from the
Every day here at MetalSucks, we get hundreds of e-mails asking the same exact question: “WHEN OH WHEN IS SOMEONE GOING TO FINALLY MASH-UP METALLICA’S ‘RIDE THE LIGHTNING’ WITH JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST’S ‘N****S IN PARIS’?!?!”*. Well, rest easy, dear friends: YouTube’s William Maranci has FINALLY made your dreams come true. You can check out
Tribulation guitarist Adam Zaars is our guest this week. We discuss the band’s new album, Where The Gloom Becomes Sound, and the departure of guitarist Jonathan Hultén, who wrote most of the material on it. Adam tells us that the band discussed breaking up after Jonathan’s departure, mulls over how the writing dynamic will change
There are a plethora of discernible influences Code Orange’s new animated music video for their song “Autumn and Carbine”: The Matrix, Tron, The Dark Knight, The Bible, Halo, etc., etc. But the one that really jumped out at me, for whatever reason, was The Lawnmower Man, the 1992 movie named after, but not actually based