Drum roll please...Nile, has announced a July 3rd release date for its upcoming studio album, At The Gate Of Sethu through Nuclear Blast records! This is the official follow-up to Nile's 2009 album, Those Whom the Gods Detest. The album will be produced by Neil Kernon (Cannibal Corpse, Macabre) and believe me when I say plenty of ...
On Thursday, August 4, 2011, MetalSucks photog Miikka Skaffari braved the treacherous pits of Slim's in San Francisco to bring you, our beloved readers, some awesome, awesome pics of Exhumed, Macabre, and Withered. And not only are the resulting photographs gorgeous, but they should more than whet your appetite for Exhumed's upcoming, MetalSucks-presented tour with Goatwhore, Cephalic [...]

Yes, you read that correctly. WEEZER, the pop group helmed by Rivers Cuomo, is headlining this year's five-day punk rock hootenanny known as Riot Fest . The festival returns to town October 5-9. Also on the bill this year are Social Distortion, X (playing their 1980 album Los Angeles ), Descendents, ALL, Helmet, Strike Anywhere and several Chicago acts including The Tossers, The Crombies and Nachtmystium. Another super secret Riot Fest headliner is expected to be announced this Friday. Tickets for this year's festival go on [...]
Am I the only one who thinks that Exhumed really missed an opportunity by not naming their new album No Guts, No Gory? I mean it's SUCH AN AMAZING PUN and no death metal band has ever used it for some reason, right? They totally should have gotten on top of that shit, don't you [...]
Let's keep this one short n' sweet, 'cause the poster tells you everything you need to know anyway. The might Exhumed are doing their first North American headlining tour in six years this summer, and they're taking some killer bands out on the road with them - namely Macabre, Cephalic Carnage, and Withered. The shows [...]
Cephalic Carnage have a busy few months ahead of them. After spending the Spring opening up for BTBAM, Job For A Cowboy & The Ocean (dates) they are jumping on tour with Exhumed, and later joined by Macabre and Withered. I'm there! Here are the dates: 7/17 San Diego, CA @ Ruby Room 7/18 Tempe, ...
How come Miss Piggy can't count to 70? 'Cause every time she gets to 69, she gets a frog in her throat. ANYWAY, here's how we amused ourselves this week: We debuted new videos from DevilDriver and Intronaut. We also debuted new music from Battilus and VYGR. We started a cool new series of tour [...]
It's a testament to the dedication (and depravity) of all those involved that a band like Macabre can live through a quarter century of fads, fashions and flat-out shitty bands, yet still manage to continually outdo themselves at their own game. Much like those who brought us all those wonderfully campy and gory slasher flicks [...]
The record release season is now in full swing. New albums by Motorhead, Crowbar and Belphegor stand out today in a week that's got some other relatively high-profile metal releases coming out as well. After the jump, Vic Vaughn slices and dices them all. Battlelore – Doombound (Napalm) The Finnish seven-piece band produce another slab [...]
The limited edition The Chariot 73 we offered as the prize for last week's Photo Caption Contest was a hot item, but only one of you scores the gold. And that one of you is Mark Wakters, who chimed in with the following caption to the photo at right: "Man, it sure is great to [...]
Etheral Progressions, across awesome pads and clean retro electronic tinges....

Ever since I was a kid, I've been fascinated with books and movies about serial killers , mass murderers , and true crime . Not in an admiring " I can't wait to grow up and murder someone " kind of way, but more of a morbid obsession with what exactly makes them tick. You could put every fictional monster ever created in front of me, but none could frighten me as much as a person with a psychotic mind. To think that someone just [...]

Have you ever wondered what The New Yorker 's comics would look like if Tim Burton illustrated them? If so you maybe interested in the works of Edward Gorey. He was the author and illustrator of over a hundred macabre books and was a major source of inspiration to Tim Burton. Although, his humor was dark it was exquisitely droll. Gorey's influence on Burton is most apparent in his book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories. Tim Burton is hardly the only [...]
While watching television last night, a commercial for the new De Palma film, The Black Dahlia came on, and I couldn't get over how familiar the trailer song sounded. I did a bit of research and, as it turned out it was "Dirge" by Death In Vegas off of their '99 release The Contino Sessions , which I just happen to have in my collection. Here is the song in question for anyone wondering: [...]