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
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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
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.
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