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FEATURING MEMBERS OF AT THE GATES, TEXTURES, GRINDLINK, FIGHT AMP, MONSTRO, GLORIOR BELLI, VALLENFYRE, HOODED MENACE, AND PORTRAIT Every year year, MetalSucks invites musicians from across the vast spectrum of the metalsphere (or, in a few cases, the almost-metalsphere) what their favorite albums of the year were. Death metallers, thrash metallers, black metallers, stoners, grinders, [...]

Lock Up - the supergroup (for lack of a better term) featuring Tomas Lindberg of At the Gates/Disfear fame, Napalm Death's Shane Embury, super-famous-drummer-dude Nicolas Barker, and Pentagram's Anton Reisenegger - have never tour the U.S. before... but that's gonna change in February, when the band will cross the ocean to do a headlining run [...]

"The '90s were a challenging decade for metal," opens Loudwire writer Joe Robinson. You got that right! '90s nostalgia hasn't firmly set in for metal yet; Limp Bizkit's new record tanked, less people are interested in Korn than ever, and some of the more credible '90s acts from Europe never even stopped to take a [...]

It's the death metal album everyone's been waiting for. This is A Fragile King by Vallenfyre. Yeah, this is it. It's pretty darned good as well. Hooray! Not hooray.

In 2001, screamer Johan Lindstrand departed Swedish death-thrashers The Crown, and the band went on with then-former At The Gates screamer Tomas Lindberg. But after one awesome album, The Crown reverted to its line-up with Lindstrand for Possessed 13, one of metal's twenty best albums. Then, after a re-make of that Lindberg album, The Crown folded [...]

Last week, one of the many, many press releases that was emailed over to us here at Thrash Hits was an announcement from Century Media that they'd signed a death metal band called Vallenfyre. "So far, so what?", right? We clicked on the link they gave us to the band's website, cast a cursory glance [...]

• Imperium Productions - VALLENFYRE - Desecration & Iconoclast - Sound Samples

Last week I wrote a little bit about how a lot of modern production techniques I loathe may actually be aesthetic choices; and I tried to keep that in mind as I attempted to listen to Dead Throne, the latest offering from The Devil Wears Prada. If, for example, the band didn't favor such excessive [...]

Did you see At The Gates at Bloodstock Open Air 2008? You didn't? Oh. Well, did you make sure you caught them this year, at Bloodstock Open Air 2011? You still didn't? Oh. In that case, you are a very, very silly person indeed. At The Gates @ Bloodstock Open Air 2011 setlist Slaughter of [...]

Still not had your fill of festivals this summer? Well, the folks over at Bloodstock Open Air 2011 have given us a pair of Weekend Camping tickets to give away to one lucky Thrash Hits reader. Details of how you can put yourself in the running to snag them are after the jump. Click click. To [...]

Hace ya casi dos semanas se celebró la que fue la decimocuarta edición de Tuska Open Air , el festival más importante de música metal no sólo de Finlandia, sino de los países nórdicos . Celebrado tradicionalmente en Helsinki, este año ha reunido nada más y nada menos que a unas 28.000 personas, de las cuales cada vez un mayor porcentaje es internacional. Esta nueva iteración de Tuska -cuya traducción literal es dolor o agonía - ha sido un tanto especial, no sólo por el [...]

I pride myself on being open minded, so it is very important to me that I consider both sides of an issue before I decide what I think about something! For example, I have always thought that "melodic metal" was a very confusing idea. To me, melody and metal are like oil and water: no [...]

Kevin Stewart-Panko must be some kind of monster that feeds off the hatred of internet commenters. First, "The Bravest Man in Metal" defended Metallica's St. Anger and Cryptopsy's The Unspoken King for The Deciblog's weekly "Justify Your Shitty Taste" column. Now, The Deciblog has launched a new weekly column, a kind of anti-"Justify..." called "Disposable Heroes," [...]

Not all of us can be lucky enough to live in Holland, but those that do live there got the chance to experience the Neurotic Deathfest this weekend which featured such bands as At The Gates, Autopsy, Athiest and other bands whose names don't start with the letter A. For those of you like me, ...

Even though I thought A Sense of Purpose was pretty lame, I'm not ready to feel too cynical about In Flames' new album, Sounds of a Playground Fading. Soundtrack to Your Escape wasn't exactly a masterpiece, either, but the band followed it up with Come Clarity, an album I really like (power ballad and all!)... [...]

The Haunted Unseen Century Media 21 March 2011 by Hugh Platt Oh dear. Whatever it was that The Haunted were hoping to achieve with Unseen, they haven't come close to succeeding. In fact, I'd go so far as to describe the pan-Scandinavian quintet's fifth studio album as a rambling, directionless mess. From it's opening bars of [...]

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 [...]

I was thinking the other day about how some bands make a lot of money even though they always get bad reviews and it seems like nobody likes them. Like how everybody is all "I H8 DEATHCORE/METALCORE;;;ALL THE BANDS SOUND THE SAME;H8 U SUISIDE SILENCE;;H8 U ATTACK ATTACK," and then they are like "U SHOULD [...]

If you still have any iTunes gift cards left over from the holidaze, Earache Records has something for you. Announced just before the Xmas blitz, Earache launched a live recording series called Into the Pit, which features live boots of classic and modern Earache bands, including At the Gates, Napalm Death, Deicide and others.Most of the albums include never-before-released live recordings from

FEATURING MEMBERS OF GOD FORBID, AT THE GATES, DISFEAR, MACHINE HEAD, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, THE OCEAN, JUCIFER, THE BINARY CODE, HULL, DYSRHYTHMIA, INDIAN, AND DARKEST ERA For 2010, we decided to do something special as part of our regular end-of-year festivities here at MetalSucks - namely, ask musicians from across the vast spectrum of [...]

It seems like the number of "Why did you ban me from commenting?!?" e-mails from readers has increased as of late, and the gist of those e-mails is often "Whassa matter, can't take it when someone tells you you suck?" or whatever. And we've never banned anyone for disagreeing with us. We don't give a [...]