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If you loved Daath's The Concealers as much as we did - and both Vince and myself included the album fairly highly on our 2009 year-end lists - than you'll be as excited as we are to learn that there's a buttload of activity going on in the Daath camp right now. For one thing, [...]

Alright, so reader C.J. Altman follows Atreyu drummer/auto-tuner Brandon Saller on Twitter I guess. And C.J. tipped us off that Saller tweeted about God Save RockandRoll, a blog run by his wife, who is apparently named Ashley Jean and looks kinda like Saller if Saller looked like a dude. But I'm already getting off-topic. So. Ashley [...]

Well, you’ve done it! Once again, you guys have shown that when it comes down to it, metal is still about spreading the word. So most of you know about some bands out there that you feel should have a shot for whatever reason. Some more legitimate than others. I’m sure some girlfriends posted about their [...]

When I wrote my last blog, I wasn’t expecting a huge response. I was expecting pretty much what I got. A few people sharing their experiences at NAMM, and a few people calling me a negative nancy mainly because they weren’t there so they had no real concept of what I was getting at. I [...]

Howard Zinn, Zelda Rubinstein, and J.D. Salinger all died within twenty-four hours of another. That's crappy on all fronts, but right now I'd like to concentrate on Salinger. On the one hand, it's very sad that he's dead because I happen to think he was a brilliant writer; on the other hand, it's not like he'd [...]

Monday's Jumping Darkness Parade post in which Eyal shared his gripes about the 2010 NAMM show was spot on; I've done NAMM several times (though not this year) and the level of wankery and hang-on-ery is indeed at an insanely intolerable level. But my favorite part of NAMM is always watching Michael Angelo Batio shred [...]

Monday's Jumping Darkness Parade post in which Eyal shared his gripes about the 2010 NAMM show was spot on; I've done NAMM several times (though not this year) and the level of wankery and hang-on-ery is indeed at an insanely intolerable level. But my favorite part of NAMM is always watching Michael Angelo Batio shred [...]

“Went to NAMM, fucked a bunch of bitches, did a ton of blow. Life is good…” –Anonymous Somebody, NAMM Convention - Anaheim 2010 The above statement may or may not be entirely true, but it pretty much summed up the vibe over at the NAMM show last weekend. You could simplify things and call it [...]

Alright! After an initial slow news week, 2010 is finally start to get back into the swing of things. Here are some highlights from this week: Vince got an exclusive interview with Obituary/ex-Andrew W.K. drummer Donald Tardy about the AWK conspiracy mystery. We also spoke to Richard Christy and Pelican's Larry Herwig. We debuted new music by [...]

Alright! After an initial slow news week, 2010 is finally start to get back into the swing of things. Here are some highlights from this week: Vince got an exclusive interview with Obituary/ex-Andrew W.K. drummer Donald Tardy about the AWK conspiracy mystery. We also spoke to Richard Christy and Pelican's Larry Herwig. We debuted new music by [...]

Yesterday I had an experience that actually gave me some hope for the metal. After some all out insanity caused by the arctic blast that came all over this country’s face I actually made it out to a show last night. Me going to a show isn’t what gave me hope by the way. I’ll get [...]

I guess that by now it's old news that the drummer from AX7 is taking the celestial dirt nap for undisclosed “natural causes,” but I just realized that something is bugging me about this whole situation. First of all, let's establish something. I am NOT a fan of AX7. Never was, most likely never will be. [...]

I guess that by now it's old news that the drummer from AX7 is taking the celestial dirt nap for undisclosed “natural causes,” but I just realized that something is bugging me about this whole situation. First of all, let's establish something. I am NOT a fan of AX7. Never was, most likely never will be. [...]

Hello all. No year end list or rant about the state of bullshit… I just wanted to wish all you MetalSucks readers a Happy New Year from my hotel in NOLA. Emil is here as well as some other friends, and we’re just enjoying chilling after making an album that was basically like a three [...]

Are you ever going to write again? Is your column at Metalsucks over? Where the fuck have you been? Why don’t you hang out? You better be ditching me for a really good reason! You’re in town? Why didn’t I know? Etc. Etc. Etc. At first I didn’t know what I was getting myself into. If [...]

Are you ever going to write again? Is your column at Metalsucks over? Where the fuck have you been? Why don’t you hang out? You better be ditching me for a really good reason! You’re in town? Why didn’t I know? Etc. Etc. Etc. At first I didn’t know what I was getting myself into. If [...]

There's a lyric in the song "Hour of Rats" from Fed Through the Teeth Machine, the album by The Red Chord, and this particular lyric has really taken hold in my brain as of late: "WE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER TOO LONG TO BE FRIENDS." What a simple, beautiful statement that I can 110% relate to [...]

Okay, honest question. How many of you are still actually buying physical CDs? If you download illegally, I don’t care. Just let me know what your preferred habit is. I’m not a tool from a major label that’s going to sue you. I don’t give a fuck. I personally think that the Compact Disc is [...]

Pretty big week here at the MetalSucks Mansion. We laughed, we cried, we fired someone, we rocked out with our cocks out. Here's a rundown of the highlights: We debuted a new song by The Devin Townsend Project, a new video by Skeletonwitch, a new song by Javelina, and the cover art for Sigh's new album. Horse [...]

This is a follow up to Vince’s blog on drum triggers. I’m with him. There’s definitely a misconception out there that to trigger is to cheat. I’ll get this out of the way early: triggers are like any other tool. You can use them correctly, or not. Water can be used to give life or drown [...]