Some good news for fans of crust, grind, & metal in the U.S.- you can now pick up Power It Up titles domestically from our friends over at Give Praise . Power It Up , based in Germany, has been cranking out killer releases since the early 2000s, but finding some of em' stateside could be tough, and shipping from Europe is a beast. We told you about their Coffins box set back in April, but here are a few other titles that they've released this year: [...]
There are dozens of factors that go into creating a "great" record, and I try to consider them all while listening to music of any sub-genre, in any time period, from any geographical location (3 important elements that play a roll in critiquing music as far as I'm concerned). It's easy to simply write something ...
Fuck long-winded reviews. This isn't the place for it. This is a best-of list. Especially with the chaotic violence you'll find below, you'd probably get through five songs quicker than reading a shitty paragraph about them. However, I won't be a total dick and leave you out in the cold. You still get a sum-up ...
FEATURING MEMBERS OF KYLESA, INSOMNIUM, ABORTED, MNEMIC, MARUTA, EAST OF THE WALL, BLOODIEST, BROKEN HOPE, AND IN DE GOOT ENTERTAINMENT Every year year, MetalSucks asks musicians from across the vast spectrum of the metalsphere (or, in a few cases, the almost-metalsphere) what their favorite albums of the year have been. Death metallers, thrash metallers, black metallers, stoners, [...]
Martua - the totally excellent grindcore outfit known to idiots everywhere as "that band the drummer from Trivium used to be in" - have decided to call it a day. They'll play their final show on Sunday, December 4, at at Churchills in Miami, Florida, which blows, because the chances of me getting down to [...]
News Gridlink are one of my favorite grind bands that I almost never have an excuse to write about. And part of the reason I never have an excuse to write about them is because they don't really tour; the band's members live in three different locations on two different continents, so it's not like they [...]
Gridlink are one of my favorite grind bands that I almost never have an excuse to write about. And part of the reason I never have an excuse to write about them is because they don't really tour; the band's members live in three different locations on two different continents, so it's not like they [...]

Before the quibbling starts: I didn't include YOB's Atma because it isn't out until August. It would be way up there. I've also been listening to Dragged Into Sunlight's Hatred For Mankind quite a bit, but since it has an original release date of '09 before Prosthetic's 2011 reissue, I didn't include that either. On the other side of things, I've recently started listening pretty intensely to Servile Sect's Trvth (Handmade Birds), a collection that feels like it'll stick around for awhile. Otherwise, this is what I've found myself returning to [...]
It's a big week for metal releases. Children of Bodom, Destruction, The Human Abstract, Turisas, and Rival Schools are this week's heavy hitters, while new ones from Agnostic Front, Maruta, Jag Panzer, Swamp Thing and more give hardcore a surprisingly robust showing. After the jump, all the goods: Agnostic Front – That's Life 7" (Bridge [...]
Hey studs and foxes, Anso here. Please accept my most gracious hugz in return for partying with me these last two days. Running this site in the absence of Axl and Vince has been so superfun thanks to you, our cherished MetalSucks readership. I learned a lot of stuff too, for example that I should [...]

by BBG DOWNLOAD: Rotten Sound - "Plan" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Maruta - "March Forward (Into Regression)" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Maruta - "Hand Of THe Overseer" (MP3) Rotten Sound With all of the love floating around for the new Trap Them LP ( totally warranted ), I'm a bit puzzled that their future European tour mates [...]
We have a special treat for you today, kiddies: a pre-release full-album stream of Forward Into Regression, the face-fuckingly good new album from Floridian grindsters Maruta. This album is unrelenting in its viciousness; it's like the aural equivalent of being made to eat broken glass. Somehow, the jagged edges all fit together into a cohesive [...]
Maruta got a lot of attention last year when their drummer, Nick Augusto, joined Trivium; Maruta sound nothing like Trivium, but whatever gets people talking about them is fine. They are, in fact, a grindcore band, and a killer grindcore band at that; now Invisible Oranges is streaming a new song, "Strain." Listen here. The [...]
by: Frank Godla SO STOKED! If you're not familiar with Willowtip Records you should be ashamed of yourself, kick your own ass, then stop fucking around on this website and visit their site immediately. They're responsible for some of the decades best and most memorable bands such as Necrophagist, Gorod, Dim Mak, Rotten Sound, Capharnaum, ...
"Shattering the Skies Above," the new Trivium song the band recorded for the video game God of War III, has found its way onto YouTube, which in this day and age was inevitable, I guess. The song is notable because it marks the recording debut of Trivium's new drummer, Nick Augusto, late of the grindcore [...]
I've personally never understood all the ire directed at Trivium by metal purists. In Trivium you have a band with above average chops and way better than average songwriting skills led a young phenom who's a helluva nice guy. What's not to like - or, at the very least if it just ain't your thang [...]
If you hit up Trivium's most recent U.S. tour with Chimaira, you may have noticed an absence of drummer Travis Smith. When the tour started, the band said that Smith "will not be joining us on this leg and is home taking care of some personal business." Filling-in for him on the tour was his [...]
If you hit up Trivium's most recent U.S. tour with Chimaira, you may have noticed an absence of drummer Travis Smith. When the tour started, the band said that Smith "will not be joining us on this leg and is home taking care of some personal business." Filling-in for him on the tour was his [...]
A couple friends and I drove from Chicago to Baltimore in a car with leather seats and no air conditioning, blaring metal so loud we could hear it with all the windows open while doing eighty down the Pennsylvania turnpike. We took turns plugging our mp3 players into the tape adapter and playing songs [...]

by Black Bubblegum DOWNLOAD : Maruta - "The Collapse" (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Kill The Client - "Divide & Conquer" (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Copremesis - "Zombie" (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Defeatist - "Isolation Tactics" (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Misery Index - "Conquistadores" (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Crowpath - "Plague Bearer" (MP3) DOWNLOAD : [...]