Metal

A few weeks ago, most of us didn’t know what the heck NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are. Now it feels like it’s all anyone is talking about. Megadeth are the second prominent metal artist to announce the impending sale of an NFT, after Slipknot’s M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan. ‘Deth’s is called Vic Rattlehead: Genesis and is,

Add a new outfit called Disorder Assembly to the resume of Between the Buried and Me bassist Dan Briggs, who, when not busy with his day job in one the sickest prog metal bands of all time, passes his days making music for Trioscapes, Nightmare Scenario, Nova Collective, and surely at least a couple I’m

Here’s your second big chunka metal-and-rasslin’-related news today: Poppy and Alice Cooper guitarist (and solo artist) Nita Strauss are both set to perform at this week’s WWE NXT pay-per-view event, NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver. The two-night extravaganza is set for this Wednesday, April 7, and Thursday, April 8, but Poppy will only appear the

As first reported in January, the creative geniuses at Two Minutes to Late Night — who have kept us all entertained for the past year with their Bedroom Covers — have launched a new streaming series, Splitsville, during which two bands cover one another’s songs. The first installment, which initially streamed on January 29, featured Every Time I Die

When I saw that artificial intelligence had written a “new” Nirvana song using the band’s catalogue as inputs, I was reasonably sure it’d sound a helluva lot like Nirvana given we’ve seen this kind of thing before. What I couldn’t have possibly known is how insanely well it would ape the band’s compositional style and

Immortal Guardian have released a new song, “Psychosomatic,” that explores the number quarantine has done on our collective brains over the past year. Specifically, how at one point or another over this crazy year we’ve all psyched ourselves into thinking we had Covid-19 when we didn’t… I know I have! Cue to the freakout, the

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 weeks. The duo’s latest video finds the pair covering Iron Maiden’s 1982 anthem “The Number of the Beast.” In keeping

Filmmaker Joe Berlinger recently appeared on the Greatest Music of All Time podcast to discuss Some Kind of Monster, the 2004 documentary about the making of Metallica’s St. Anger. Berlinger co-directed the film with the late Bruce Sinofsky. As part of the interview, Berlinger revealed that when the band first saw a rough cut of

California death metallers Exhumed have entered the studio to record their tenth full-length album. The band have been documenting their progress on social media. You can view the updates they’ve offered so far below. Exhumed’s last album, Horror, was released in 2019. Last year, the band released Twisted Horror, a split with Gruesome. [via The

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 April are in, and 218 of the

The weekend is here! Which means it’s time for more of… fondly reminiscing about a time when we could all go out and congregate in public without a care in the world … 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

The multi-instrumentalist known as Charlie Sad-Eyes (Crawl Below) is doing dadding right: he started a grindcore band, Animal Schoolbus, with his daughter, who goes by the name ‘Princess Beast.’ Princess Beast is nine now, but she and Charlie have been making a racket together for years already, according to a press release: “Animal Schoolbus started

Tetrarch, the young band that puts the “meh” in “nu-metal,” have released a new single and video, “Negative Noise.” As a piece of music it’s whatever; it starts out aping Slipknot’s “Heretic Anthem” and then starts doing a Korn/Static-X thing and then I turned it off because a man has limits. Having said that, there

There’s an elite group of bands from the early aughts that were way ahead of the curve — arguably too much so for their own good. There was Darkest Hour and A Life Once Lost, the first American bands to make their names riffing on the styles of At the Gates and Meshuggah, respectively; experimental

Iced Earth founder Jon Schaffer (or the attorneys representing him) is once again set to appear in court on April 6 for his role in the Capitol insurrection on January 6. This particular appearance is related to a motion Schaffer filed on March 20. That motion moved to review his continued detention ordered by Magistrate

Dress the Dead, the new band featuring  guitarist Craig Locicero (Forbidden), drummer Mark Hernandez (Forbidden, Vio-lence), bassist James Walker (Manmade God), and vocalist Kayla Dixon (Witch Mountain), have released a video for their song “Knives Out.” The track itself was released was released earlier this year, but I’m sharing the video anyway because a) Dress

Corpsegrinder is back on the show! We talk about Cannibal Corpse’s upcoming new album, Violence Unimagined, the experience of recording it during the pandemic and welcoming longtime producer Erik Rutan into the band as a guitarist and writer, how Cannibal Corpse pick singles for their albums, and his desire to learn new technology despite his

Smith/Kotzen, the aptly-monikered new project from Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) and Richie Kotzen (The Winery Dogs, ex-Poison), continues to be a traffic boon for MetalSucks. I don’t know if that means our readership now entirely consists of the gray-haired or if “Smith/Kotzen” is the secret magic password to unlock The All-Holy Facebook Algorithm® or what.

Over 120,000 people packed out the CubaDupa festival in New Zealand this past weekend. No masks, no social distancing, no Covid restrictions whatsoever. This is the reward afforded to New Zealanders, who endured strict lockdowns early on in the pandemic, eradicated Covid-19 from the country entirely, and can now fully enjoy “normal” life. Featuring over

Following several weeks of “internal investigation” by CBS, the network has announced that Sharon Osbourne will no longer co-host their popular program The Talk. She has been part of the show for eleven seasons, and is the sole remaining original host. The program, which has been on hiatus since March 12, will resume taping on