Tagged: br00tallists

"Not even Kill 'Em All?!?!" Rolling Drone recently held a readers' poll on the ten greatest metal albums of all time; the resulting list consists of four of the first five Metallica albums, the first two Sabbath albums, Slayer's Reign in Blood, Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, and Led Zeppelin II. Which makes perfect sense, [...]

The Faceless: Not on the list! If there's one thing you know we love doing here at MetalSucks, it's smoking pot. But if there are two things you know we love doing here at MetalSucks, it's smoking pot and masturbating. But three things, if there are THREE things you know we love doing here at [...]

This past December, Rolling Stone published their list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time," and never mind that there wasn't enough metal on it, it really just plain old sucked. So I have to imagine that the editors of Spin were highly aware of what dangerous ground they were treading when they made their own list, [...]

Kataklysm's twentieth anniversary,  MetalSucks-presented tour with Origin, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Vital Remains, and Rose Funeral is now underway! You can get dates here. Since, as I stated in my recent interview with Kataklysm frontman Maurizio Iacono, I believe that this band writes AWESOME elephants marching riffs, I thought this would be an ideal time to count down [...]

We at MetalSucks are smitten with the hard-driving, big-charm debut album from Soilwork singer Bjorn "Speed" Strid and guitarist David Andersson's '70s-inspired hard rock posse The Night Flight Orchestra. Titled Internal Affairs, it's a warmly modern and aurally retro instant classic, a reel of tired departures and hopeful arrivals shot in soft-focus and soundtracked by feel-good [...]

Writing about L.A. Guns earlier got me thinking about hair metal songs I really like, some of which are by bands I don't think should be classified as hair metal but are anyway. So, like, here are some songs I was listening to, if you wanna listen to 'em, too: L.A. GUNS, "NOTHING BETTER TO [...]

Compiling lists is the sort of bad habit that makes music journos tingly with both static electricity (dryer sheets can be pricey) and something resembling excitement. Readers, though, may groan at the mere sight of the headline above. And sure, we're only six months into 2012 - but we can't help ourselves. The year had [...]

It's time again for the listing of the listening! It would be unsurprising if some of 20122s first-half favorites didn't end up among my best of the year - so many exciting new releases loom on the event horizon. But I'm ready! Are you? Take a peek at my best of 2012 so far (in [...]

So much br00tuls, so many epic: 2012 is rocking my socks. Looking over my half-year's best list, I see many gems but something gives me pause: I listed Wilton and Akerstache's "Storm Corrosion (Of Love and Emotion)," not Wilson and Akerfeldt's Storm Corrosion. What's wrong with me? Oh, that's right — nothing. Call Me No [...]

In 2012 I'm favoring the punk fringe of metal. That happens every few years; I return to my roots. Of course there's that saying: If you "used to be" punk, you never were to begin with. Um sure? You don't ever forget the music that first knocked the wind out of you. But you don't [...]

Already I can't stop listening to and thinking about a bunch of 2012 albums. It's been a crushing half-year: Crusty blackened death. Depressive doom. Multiple eargasms! So don't get behind on the grind, cuz still to come is another six months' worth of 2012 could-be classics. For now, ready yourself with this year's best so far (in [...]

This year we've heard a staggering number of decent metal releases, a handful of really good ones, and a few that have the potential to be incredible. Time will tell, and 2012’s still got a lot of life left in ‘er. For now, I know I’m forgetting a million things, but here’s a handful of [...]

Readers of my Bleeders' Digest may know that I am barely two-thirds of the way through April releases, so plenty of new 2012 albums are not on my list below - because I haven't heard them yet. So we'll wait and see about potential keepers from Burzum, The Cult, Huntress, Marduk, Ne Obliviscaris, St. Vitus, [...]

FUCKFUCKFUCKIHATEYOUDAMMITOKAY HEREWEGOMYTOP40SOFARASSHOLES Aeges The Bridge (The Mylene Sheath) Antigama Stop the Chaos (Selfmadegod) Antropofagus Architecture of Lust (Comatose Music) Avenger Bohemian Dark Metal (Deathgasm Records) Beaten to Death Xes and Strokes (Mas-Kina Records) Bereft Leichenhaus (The End) Bosse-de-Nage III (Profound Lore) Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity (Metal Blade) Christian Mistress Possession (Relapse) Demon Lung Pareidolia (self-released) Dimesland Creepmoon EP (Vendlus) Dreaming Dead Midnightmares (self-released) Emptiness Error (Dark Descent) Enabler All [...]

Here's how I measure the metal awesomeness of 2012: I love the new Six Feet Under album. That's right, a band once the epitome of overrated death metal has put out one of this half year's best records. Granted, Undead features the triumphant return of Kevin Talley to death metal and was written with Rob [...]

If 2012 ended with June, I'd be about due a tropical vacation. If 2012 ended with June, the statute of limitations would kick in before authorities could prosecute me for that incident at the taco truck. If 2012 ended with June, no metal listener could complain for already multitudinous are our hard and heavy treasures this year. [...]

This year I've been keeping a running list of my favorite albums since January 1st in a handy yellow "note" on my iPhone, ensuring I won't forget about any albums that came out a whole five months ago. Some will end up getting bumped by Fall releases, but so it goes. In alphabetical order: 7 [...]

Hard to believe, but 2012 is nearly half over. Even harder to believe: We need to start thinking about year-end best album lists. FML! Though perpetually behind on new shit (uptown problem!), I will now list the albums that have been tickling my pickle so far in 2012. It's in alphabetical order because June is [...]

Few bands party harder based solely on the power of their SICK RIFFS than Philadelphia's Rumpelstiltskin Grinder. Thankfully the dudes party just as hard in real life to back up their party-hard thrash-metal-via-Crüe-riffs ethos. Since RsG's new album Ghostmaker is coming out on June 19th, we asked guitarist Ryan Moll to count down his Top [...]

Ranker.com, a site that compiles lists (duh) and let's the audience choose the ranking by vote, has put together a list of "The Worst Bands of All Time" as crowd-sourced by the public. What an incredible idea for a website; any time we run a list on MetalSucks we get a traffic surge, and that's all these [...]