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When I was first making this list, I had a hard time thinking of that many new albums I’d actually listened to in 2011. But once I actually got home and went through my iTunes/most recent pile of vinyl scores/the mid-year list I wrote, I realized that it’s actually been a damn good year. A few [...]

  This was an incredible year for metal, with major players and up-and-comers alike releasing stellar material in almost every subgenre. There were some clear winners for me, but a number of spots on Top 15 could easily have gone to any of the albums on my “honorable mention” list, so I partially picked this [...]

The first thing I think of when trying to sum up the year, musically speaking, is that I really just wanted people to shut up. I’m sure I’m not the only one, because I can think of at least three albums that had an alternate, instrumental version released. (Sorry, Darkest Hour.) I also apparently really [...]

It was the best of times, it was the most epically lame of times. 2011 saw my first speeding ticket ever, my car totaled, me spend a month in a sling due to surgery necessary after an injury at a Deströyer 666 show five years ago, and start writing for this fine online publication right [...]

No doubt about it; 2011 has been a pretty swingin' year for music —the year I had kind of expected 2010 to be (probably because about half of the albums I was anticipating came out so late anyway...). New Limp Bizkit, KoRn, Nickelback, and Soulja Boy? Am I in heaven? 15. Skindred, Union Black (BMG) [...]

2011 wasn’t exactly a banner year for metal. I see a world of metal caught in transition. The aughts are behind us, and what the new decade will hold is anyone’s guess, really. Of course, none of this is to say that there aren’t nuggets of face-melting joy. Here are fifteen records that stand out [...]

Making this list in 2011 seemed like a much bigger…. thing, I guess, than making this list in 2010 was. Maybe it's because one specific album didn't really stick out to me the same way things like Ihsahn's After or Anaal Nathrakh's In the Constellation of the Black Widow did in previous years. But the [...]

2011: A pretty good year for the old school. And, no, with all due respect to the band, Worship Music is not the best Anthrax album. 11. Selena Gomez & the Scene, When the Sun Goes Down (Hollywood) - Yup, Selena has a BAND, motherfuckers. A band that capably backs her in songs like “Whiplash” [...]

2011 was a great year for releases, as well as my first year covering them like a spectre.   Thanks, MetalSucks. Here’s my list: 15. Toxic Holocaust, Conjure and Command (Relapse) 14. KEN Mode, Venerable (Profound Lore) 13. Electro Quarterstaff, Aykroyd (Willo wtip) 12. Black Tusk, Set The Dial (Relapse) 11. Drugs of Faith, Corroded (Selfmadegod ) 10. East Of The Wall, The Apologist (Translation Loss) 9. Havok,  Time Is Up (Candlelight) 8. Ulcerate, [...]

So call it old age or what have you, but this writer fell out of "check" with "the scene" around June or so (as far as new stuff coming out), and was also astonished to see that Uriah Heep put out another album unbeknownst to him. Plus, a lot of the albums that made my list are traditionalist or [...]

FEATURING MEMBERS OF GOD FORBID, SKELETONWITCH, CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED, MUNICIPAL WASTE, TODAY IS THE DAY, LANDMINE MARATHON, AND SHAI HULUD 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, [...]

FEATURING MEMBERS OF CANNIBAL CORPSE, OBSCURA, FORBIDDEN, LAZARUS A.D., GIANT SQUID, PYRAMIDS, WOLVHAMMER, BENEATH OBLIVION, HALCYON WAY, AND GADGET 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, [...]

FEATURING MEMBERS OF MELVINS, RED FANG,  JUNIUS,  EXHUMED, RWAKE, ORPHANED LAND, HULL, EARTH, AND KILL THE CLIENT 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, grinders, and djenters alike [...]

FEATURING MEMBERS OF ARCH ENEMY, THAT METAL SHOW, BLACK ANVIL, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, AND LEPROUS 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, and djenters alike graciously contributed lists to [...]

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, [...]

FEATURING MEMBERS OF MACHINE HEAD, EPICA, NAILS, CLINGING TO THE TREES OF A FOREST FIRE, ARGUS, EVERYTHING WENT BLACK, AND WEAPON 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 [...]

FEATURING MEMBERS OF LACUNA COIL, TRAPPED UNDER ICE, ALLEGAEON, CULTED, MILLIONS, BIRTH A.D., AND NIGHTFALL 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, and djenters alike [...]

FEATURING MEMBERS OF LACUNA COIL, TRAPPED UNDER ICE, ALLEGAEON, CULTED, MILLIONS, BIRTH A.D., AND NIGHTFALL 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, and djenters alike [...]

What are the top ten most overused words in extreme metal writing? The ones that make you cringe in embarrassment when you see them on the printed page or screen? The Number of the Blog's new writer Rev. Will put together a top ten list of the worst offenders, excluding unavoidably essential terms like “riffs”, “solos”, [...]

Video games can be metal. I'm not talking put-on-big-hair-and-fight-demo ns-while-the-guitarist-shreds metal, but dark, creepy, rich, brutal, wading-through-blood-while-try ing-to-hold-onto-your-soul metal. The sort of experience that's intense and horrifying and makes you see, hear, and feel the world as a dangerous, wicked thing that wants nothing more than to consume your being. Sure, there's plenty of demon fighting too, [...]