Blog: MetalSucks

In case you're wondering, I was lying when I said I was having a wisdom tooth removed by an oral surgeon. In fact, I simply traveled to Spain, where I had the tooth knocked out by a pizza boomerang. Here's some other shit we did this week: We debuted new music by Terrorizer and Seas [...]

Forget Axl Rose - the great Cliff Burton would have turned fifty today. We have no idea what he would have accomplished had he lived past the age of twenty-four... if he would have been able to stop the debacle that Metallica became or if he would have been a willing participant in the shenanigans... [...]

I know a lot of people are bummed that Van Halen's long awaited reunion with David Lee Roth, A Different Kind of Truth, consists largely, or maybe even primarily, of old demos that the band re-worked; what I don't understand is why these fans are bummed. But my guess is that they're mistaking the reunion for [...]

Here's something make you happy while we wait to see whether or not The Human Abstract have broken up. Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is one of those pieces of music that's so famous, everyone in the entire world knows it, even if he or she doens't know that he or she knows it. Seriously. It's this thing, [...]

If you're not hip to Mobile Deathcamp yet, you should be. Featuring former GWAR guitarist Todd Evans, the band plays face-rippingly good speed metal, and are definitely worthy of your attention. So here's a good chance to start gettin' familiar with MB: they recently played a gig with Logistic Slaughter at Thee Parkside, and, as usual, [...]

With Def Leppard's recently announced blockbuster summer tour making headlines, now seems as good a time as any to write about De La Cruz, a band that sounds so much like Def Leppard that they may as well BE the might Lep. I know what you're thinking: the world needs another Steel Panther or The [...]

Leading independent music retailer VICTORY RECORDS has a special Valentine's Day gift for you: the exclusive, limited-time chance to design your own PACKAGE DEAL!! For You and Your Sweetie package deal, offers two shirts for $25 plus FREE shipping on the rest of your order ($7 for international). Choose one shirt for your Valentine, then [...]

Man oh man, the movie industry is IN LOVE with The West Memphis Three. Just to review, we already have Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, the latest West Memphis Three documentary from directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky; West of Memphis, ANOTHER documentary on the trio, produced by Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings), who also helped fund the [...]

I don't really have anything intelligent to say about the album art for Kreator's latest, Phantom Antichrist. I just think it's cool, and appropriately ridiculous for an album called Phantom Antichrist. Seriously, I could probably write an entire paper on the subject of "What the fucking fuck is a 'Phantom Antichrist'?" Phantom Antichrist comes out June [...]

Anxiety, the debut release from Italian experimental death metal band Acheode, recently caught my attention while listening to a ton of January releases for my next Bleeders' Digest column. Not only can they get all tweedly-dee on your asses, but they also know how to write killer songs with actual grooves. So, I decided to [...]

A reader sent us a link to this classified ad, in which some dude is looking for some other dudes to start a band with him. And the whole thing is so hilarious, I almost don't know where to begin. So I'm just going to cut and past the entire thing and add my own [...]

An extremely welcome surprise in 2011 was Reports From The Threshold Of Death, a throbbing, gauzy dream-rock record from Boston's Junius (read here). One shitty major magazine described Reports as the intersection of Neurosis and The Smiths, but a sharper listen reveals Deftones-sized hooks and melancholic majesty more akin to Loveless by My Bloody Valentine and [...]

While I was away recovering from my wisdom tooth extraction, Municipal Waste released the cover art for their upcoming release, The Fatal Feast - and it's friggin' awesome. It's by Justin Osbourn of Slasher Design, and not only is it cool as fuckin' ice, but I love the "Waste in Space" bit. I don't think that's an [...]

Yeah I really don't have any information that isn't in my headline. Ex-Chimaira guitarist Matt DeVries joined his also-former-Chimaira guitarist Rob Arnold in Six Feet Under less than a year ago as the band's new bassist. He did a few tours with them (including the 2011 edition of Summer Slaughter - pic above), and may or [...]

As you may be aware, In Flames and Trivium are in the midst of a co-headlining tour. But last night's show in Albuquerque, New Mexico (Meth capital of the world!!!) apparently ended prematurely... due to a bomb threat. In Flames guitarist Niclas Engelin said on his Facebook page, "What the fuck is going on!! We just [...]

iamaleak by gregoriev_suckalotsky Koloss comes out on March 27th via Nuclear Blast Records. -VN Thanks: Tim Shanks and Dantera

(from DougORama.net) King's X frontman and bassist Doug Pinnick is truly a metal warrior. At 61 years old he's still battling it out in the trenches, be it with his main band or one of his myriad side projects, touring all over the country and writing music day in and day out. Even more impressively [...]

Last week we gave away a bunch more limited edition shirts from The Metal Suckfest designed by Rodney Githens of Vertebrae 33. These five people are gonna super-stoked when their shirts arrive in the mail: Autohagios: "The only instance where being black won't help you be better at sports." Dozer: "Nothing new. The NBA is [...]

(click to enlarge) Oklahoma City gets all the good stuff. Well, maybe not all the good stuff, but five years ago they stole Kevin Durant from a metropolis whose literacy rate is in double digits, and now they pretty much get the one-off metal show of the year. If you're a proud OKC resident (or [...]

This is Ariella Spector, a self-described MetalSucks reader "hailing from Hollywood and currently living in the Holyland." Ariel works at a humous restaurant in Tel Aviv and rocks the nifty "Appetite for Deconstruction" MetalSucks t-shirt as she serves up humous and pita daily. Says Ariel, "I'm actually really impressed with the metal scene here. While I miss [...]