Blog: MetalSucks

It's been quite awhile since I've shared a Pit Romney update, and thus far 2012 has seen some pretty excellent fests happen, including this past weekend's Breast Fest in North Carolina. The annual Black N Blue Bowl happens here in NYC this coming Saturday, so I figured now was as good as any time to [...]

I knew I got out of bed this morning for a reason!!! Nuclear Blast has announced that they'll release the new Testament album, Dark Roots of the Earth, in Europe on July 27; that's a Friday, so it seems like a safe bet that us 'Mericans will either get it the Tuesday prior (July 24) [...]

We already posted Metal Injection's multi-camera video footage of High on Fire and Intronaut at our second annual South by South Death showcase, held March 14th at the Barbarella Patio in Austin. Now it's time to watch footage of all the rest of the killer bands that graced our stage: Nachtmystium, Darkest Hour, Black Tusk, [...]

Following the "leak" of a magazine ad announcing both the release date for Periphery's heavily-anticipated new album (that would be July 3) and that the album features a guest solo by Dream Theater's John Petrucci, today Guitar World released a new interview with guitarist Mark Holcomb, who revealed some guest soloists that will appear on the release: [...]

"West Ruth Ave" might be the single catchiest song I've heard all year. No joke, this is like beyond Gotye levels of catchy! I'm hooked. The song is by The Night Flight Orchestra, the new "classic rock" band featuring vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid from Soilwork and bassist Sharlee D'Angelo from Arch Enemy. It's cool to hear [...]

Liquorworks refer to themselves as "a Finnish progressive metal project," which is terrifically vague in this day and age; the truth is, if you Google this instrumental band, the first page that comes up will be from got-djent.com, and while Liquorworks certainly wouldn't seem out of place on tour with djent bands, neither did Jeff [...]

Lettuce be cereal for a moment: people who think death metal vocals are "just screaming" can be excused for feeling thusly. Even avowed metal fans make this mistake from time to time; even if the vocalist is often the most recognizable face of the band, at the end of the day, it can't be too [...]

In March we learned from a highly reliable source that the reports of The Human Abstract's demise were greatly exaggerated, and that a European headlining tour "may" happen this coming summer. No longer do you have to trust our word, because the band took to Twitter themselves yesterday afternoon to basically say the same thing: "Tour [...]

Happy New Release Tuesday everybody! Today's Shit That Comes Out Today profiles three new releases familiar enough to get into immediately; another trio of this week's jamz are more dynamic and stretch genre boundaries to their breaking point. Thrilling, right? Shit yeah! So peep them. Feel them. Go inside them. Repeat. You'll be happy you [...]

Photos by kind permission of Daniel Falk // FramedNoise.com This isn't the classiest thing to write, but the re-return of awesome Sweden death-thrashers The Crown causes my pants to fly off and my hands to, y'know, go to town down there. It's been a weekly occurrence since their reformation with a new screamer (for 20092s [...]

(photo credit: Krish Mistry) Ulcerate's first-ever North American tour kicks off this Friday! We can't believe it's finally here, and we know we're not the only ones; people in our circle and on the web have been buzzing about this limited East Coast run, with Tombs and Svart Crown opening, ever since it was announced. [...]

Last week I saw this tweet: "Where the fuck are Mantic Ritual at? @AnsoDF? Help?" The question came from a rad L.A. metal dude and is a good one: Where the fuck indeed are the authors of the rave-reviewed 2009 debut Executioner? Are they not overdue for its follow-up and then for another choice slot on a cool tour? Why haven't [...]

Too many folks have an unfortunate chip on their stupid shoulders about noise rock. "Ohh, it's too screechy" some say, "why can't there be more harmony and/or pleasurable melody?" Well, admittedly on some level they have a point. But in another more open-minded way, these naysayers are missing out on a daring subgenre that deserves [...]

Hot Water Music certainly aren't metal and I don't know very much about their history, but I do know this: if you came of age in the '90s and listened to punk, they were a very important band to you. My experience with them has been limited - I saw them open for someone (can't [...]

Oh Dear Jesus Who Art in Heaven, Hiya. So, first of all, let me begin by apologizing for never having prayed to you before. If it's any consolation, I can't recall a time when I ever actually prayed to any deity. I'm what some people call "culturally Jewish but not religiously Jewish," which is to [...]

I don't know why you'd doubt Brendon Small when he says he's working on a new Dethklok album which he hopes to have out later this year, but in case you did, I guess this photo he tweeted of his desktop proves it. Well, actually, it proves nothing other than that he made a folder [...]

Baroness have been playing a new song called "Take My Bones Away" live for several weeks now, but today we get our first listen to the real, crisp, recorded version that'll be found on their forthcoming mega-album Yellow & Green. Stream it above, via Metal Insider! "Take My Bones Away" is pretty indicative of Yellow [...]

What's the difference between Scott Weiland and Axl Rose? Axl Rose is so fucking crazy that even the lure of money can't get him to put the old Guns N' Roses back together; Scott Weiland is just sane enough to know a good deal when he sees it. And so, four years after he split [...]

Original Ratt bassist Juan Croucier made his live re-debut with the band this past Ratturday, May 12th at the M3 Rock Festival in Columbia, MD after Robbie Crane, Ratt's bassist since 1997, left last month to focus on Lynch Mob. For Ratt fans, this meant two things: 1) No songs written after 1991 were performed [...]

When did the "Missed Connections" section of Craigslist become so metal? First there was the infamous - and, sadly, fake - ad in which a woman claimed to be looking for the baby-daddy she hooked up with at Gigantour; then, last week, Vince posted another terrific one from a Tragedy fan/astronomy lover. Now comes a third [...]