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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

Call it “For Whom the Bell Trolls.” Metallica performed last night (February 19) as part of BlizzCon 2021. Because this year’s BlizzCon, like most events, is being held remotely, the band’s performance was streamed live on Twitch from the band’s HQ in California. Unfortunately, according to Twitter, the performance did not go off without a hitch:

Ohio’s Sanguisugabogg — I believe the name is Sanskrit for “Explosive Diarrhea” — have released a new song in the form of the NSFW track “Dick Filet.” They used the French spelling of “fillet”! SO FUCKIN’ CLASSY!!! In any case, as funny as it would be if the song’s unintelligible lyrics were, indeed, a recipe

Norway’s self-proclaimed “black ‘n roll brigade,” Vreid, have released the title track from their forthcoming ninth album, Wild North West. You can check it out via the below music video. According to press materials… “Wild North West is not just a collection of songs but a concept album that developed alongside an entire movie. Throughout

The Crown have released “We Drift On,” the latest single from their new album, Royal Destroyer. You can check it out via the below music video, which was directed by Christoffer Tönnäng and Oskar Norberger. Guitarist Marko Tervonen comments:  “I think that after 30 years, people are aware that we can play pretty brutal music.

Code Orange were way out front with the whole livestream thing. When Roadrunner released their latest album, Underneath, on March 13, 2020, the pandemic was really just taking hold. So the band did an audience-free record release show — with full production! — on March 14, which they broadcast for free on their Twitch channel.

Chris Cornell’s widow, Vicky Cornell, is suing the late singer’s Soundgarden bandmates — again. Vicky and surviving members Kim Thayil (guitar), Ben Shepherd (bass), and Matt Cameron (drums), have been at odds since at least 2019, when Thayil alleged that Cornell’s vocal tracks for the final Soundgarden album were being witheld. Several months later, Vicky

This past October, Ricky Hoover, former vocalist for Suffokate and beneficiary of revolutionary earlobe reconstructive surgery, announced that he was launching a new band called Ov Sulfur. At the time, it was reported that the group would play blackened death metal. Now that Ov Sulfur have premiered their debut single, “Behind the Hand of God,” we can say