Welcome to 2012! No matter if you're inclined to believe the predictions of a certain ancient civilization or subscribe the nonsensical ravings of yet another evangelical Christian idiot (or are just, like, paying attention to the amount of holy-shit-we're-fucked that's been going around), all signs seem to point pretty clearly towards Armageddon. Maybe fire won't [...]
A headline like "Tori Amos Issues Challenge to Metal Bands" is hard to ignore. So I went over to Spinner.com to read this interview with Ms Amos, and this is what she had to say: "Well, look, sometimes you don't know how music affects people. I embrace that because I don't think that just because I [...]

El-Ahrairah are a black metal act from Minneapolis Minesota who are really into Watership Down (which rules.) They released a pretty awesome 3 track Bathory tribute tape that is worth listening to. I wouldn't even bother trying to get a copy, as these kvlt as fvck dudes only made thirteen copies of it. Buzzsaw guitars, grunted vocals and an apocalyptic atmosphere make this worth listening too. I am also honing to post their self titled release which is a lot more raw and atmospheric; along with "Untitled" which is one long, winding track. El-Ahrairah change with each release, and bring more to [...]
Ah, Valentine's Day. Reviled by most, enjoyed by the smug, and shrugged off by the belligerently ambivalent. But while most of us couldn't care less about this specific day in February, it's still an annoyance that comes around every year. Kind of like the common cold. Now, most places will have shitloads of "quirky" recommendations [...]
Banner Designed by Cysquatch Welcome to "Question of the Week," a (sometimes) weekly debate amongst the MetalSucks staff regarding a recent hot button issue. Last week we asked you, oh beloved readers, to suggest some QOTW, and there were actually a number of good queries posited. So we kinda just picked one at random, and [...]
Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here's managing editor Andrew Bonazelli. In 1998, there was Lords of Chaos. In 2008, there was Until the Light Takes Us. Somewhere between that, aired amongst a bunch of shitty [...]

hex noir I was really late with this one, Hex Noir was a raw black metal band hailing from Ohio. The play raw black metal with crust and d-beat influences. While nobody is re-inventing the wheel (or pentagram I guess) they demo while short, is a killer. The first demo is very, very heavy with the Bathory and Mayhem influence. the drumming is not the best, but at least they are tolerable. The riffs are blistering and catchy and the quality is a little shitty but reminiscent of Bane Awl. The second demo [...]
What better way could you pass a Monday night than in a stinking darkened room watching the most evil of black metal? Or at least that's what Tom Dare thinks, which is why he went along to catch Watain in London. A crowd queuing quietly in Camden late on a miserable Monday afternoon is nothing [...]
Oklahoma's Evangelicals had one of our favorite LPs last year in 'The Evening Descends,' so with that we asked front man Josh Jones to DJ our Friday Ten this week. The bar was set pretty high last week with Nicole Atkins' DJ turn, but Josh has come through with flying colors. Rather inspired and diverse colors, I might add: "On our way to Kansas City from Denver earlier this evening, and while dj'ing from the passenger seat, I momentarily fell asleep and dreamt that it was me [...]

The Reik is, in essence, the Web of Oaths that binds the Folk together in vor tru (our faith); as much as it is a "church", it is also a systematic tether, which binds those of our Thiud together as a tribe of inter-dependant clans and rooftrees. Normandy clings to the values and principles of retro-tribalism and takes the cultural context and tribal dynamics of our ancestors and works them into a modern expression. It is not for the timid, it is not an easy path, but it is Vor Normannitas, Our Own Normanness, and therefore worth [...]

Presentazione: Abbath (voce, chitarra, tastiere), Horgh (batteria) e la nuova entrata Apollyon (basso) dimostrano a tutti gli scettici che quella creatura infernale dal nome Immortal è ancora viva e vegeta pubblicando, dopo sette anni di distanza, un nuovo act dal titolo All Shall Fall ! Giudizio complessivo: ritornati dopo uno scioglimento dettato più dagli impegni personali che da litigi o altro, gli Immortal hanno deciso di "dare alla luce" il loro ottavo studio album che, come andremo a vedere, è una piccola "perla malvagia" che [...]

The subject matter of this week's selection is something I think a lot of our readers can relate to. On the surface, this tune - a selection off The Beatles 1966 album Revolver , could innocently be about the feeling of being woken up too early in the morning...Then again, it could be about drugs. And as my friend Dan likes to say, "If you think it might be about drugs, it's probably about drugs." While dissecting the lyrics, I found it humorous how polite the narrator of the song is [...]
Since its inception in the late '80s, black metal has been one of the most rigid genres in terms of evolution and change. While bands like Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, and Behemoth trumpet the genre through its larger than life, orchestral origins, black metal's "elite" have gained their notoriety through either a) being a [...]