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May the speculation and waiting end; now you can finally hear the second of two Ocean albums released this year, the stunning and expansive Anthropocentric. The album won't come out until November 9th in North America, November 19th in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and November 22nd in the rest of Europe... but we've got it for [...]

In case Agalloch and Electric Wizard weren't enough to get you pumped this Monday morning, video footage of Turisas performing a new song, "The March Of The Varangian Guard," has now surfaced. The material is nothing new for Turisas, but it's not like the world couldn't use another epic battle metal song that makes you [...]

BOO-YA! We have a real treat for you today, kiddies: a brand-spankin'-new track from Havok's forthcoming Candlelight Records release, Time is Up. We give re-thrash bands a lot of shit here on MetalSucks, but Havok are no ordinary re-thrash band - sure, their music is distinctly old-school style thrash, but their songwriting skills and musicianship [...]

Album art credit: Dennis Konstantin White Arms of Athena are one of my most favoritest unsigned bands. I first spotlighted them back in June of 2009, heard rave reviews about their live show from the dudes in The Binary Code [who played with them this past January in their hometown of Dallas], and last, but certainly [...]

Way back in January I named After the Burial's as-yet-untitled album as my pick for our Albums That Will Fuck Your Face Off in 2010 series. It's almost November now, but it's finally time to let the face-fucking commence. The album is called In Dreams, and Sumerian Records has announced that it'll finally come out [...]

Way back in January I named After the Burial's as-yet-untitled album as my pick for our Albums That Will Fuck Your Face Off in 2010 series. It's almost November now, but it's finally time to let the face-fucking commence. The album is called In Dreams, and Sumerian Records has announced that it'll finally come out [...]

Ayreon mastermind Arjen Anthony Lucassen is always keeping busy, and 2010 is no exception: Next week InsideOut will release Victims of the Modern Age, the second album from his Star One project. Featuring vocals by Russell Allen (Symphony X), Damian Wilson (Headspace, Threshold), Floor Jansen (ReVamp, ex-After Forever), and Dan Swanö (ex-Bloodbath, Nighti ngale, Edge of Sanity) and lyrics based on [...]

BADABOOM! We promised you more awesomeness from Triptykon today, and here it is: an exclusive stream of Shatter: Eparistera Daimones Accompanied, the new EP from the legendary Tom G. Warrior's incredible new band, a full week before its October 26 release via Century Media. Featuring three previously-unreleased songs from the Eparistera Daimones studio sessions, plus [...]

BADABOOM! We promised you more awesomeness from Triptykon today, and here it is: an exclusive stream of Shatter: Eparistera Daimones Accompanied, the new EP from the legendary Tom G. Warrior's incredible new band, a full week before its October 26 release via Century Media. Featuring three previously-unreleased songs from the Eparistera Daimones studio sessions, plus [...]

Are you ready for new music from Gwar?!?! Well ready or not, here it comes! "Sick and Twisted" is your latest sampling of new music from Gwar's forthcoming release, Gwar's Bloody Pit of Horror. It might be the band's most tasteless song EVER, so crank that shit loud and make sure to offend the neighbors, [...]

Neither Vince nor myself were able to make it to The Faceless' show with Suffocation here in New York this past Saturday night; I think that's the first time we've missed the band live during the entire Planetary Duality tour cycle. So, of course, they played a new song, "The Idol of Reality," live. Figures. [...]

As always, I have to preface any judgment made based on a bootleg by pointing that any unofficial (and in this case probably illegal) release is not the best work by which to judge an artist. But this audio recording of Cavalera Conspiracy performing a new song, "Warlord," is not hitting my g-spot. What I [...]

In a recent issue of Decibel Magazine, some writer who thought it'd be clever to base his writing alias on the name of our own esteemed Satan Rosenbloom summed up East of the Wall's highly excellent 2010 release Ressentiment thusly: "Put simply, East of the Wall have written a minor prog-metal masterpiece without being assholes about [...]

Heyo, Taco Riff central! If you're on the hunt for taco riffs, The Fucking Wrath have got 'em in spades. On their new album Terra Fire, out October 19th on Tee Pee Records, The Fucking Wrath - who we first profiled back in 2007 - bring their taco riff A-game but also a whole lot [...]

Despite all the drama we still maintain that White Wizzard (or, really, just Jon Leon since he's the only constant) are a good band, and that Over the Top was a quality trad-metal album. Now we get to find out what three of Leon's ex-bandmates have been up to all this time in the form [...]

We've already told you how we feel about NC-based metallers Vanisher, who feature in their ranks members of Bloodjinn and Glass Casket, North Carolina royalty. Their debut album The History of Saints drops on Tribunal Records on September 14th, and now, in addition to the couple of tracks they've got on their MySpace page you [...]

The release of Triumvirate, the new album from New York's own Black Anvil, is still a month away. But because your uncles Vince and Axl love you so much, we're giving you a taste of the album right now, in the form of the track "Scalping," which you can stream below. Black Anvil are perhaps [...]

Of the many black metal bands that have come to gain wider acceptance in the United States over the past few years, Woe are one of my favorites. I find their brand of crunchy, angst-filled blackness to be the most approachable of the lot and the least bogged down by pretentiousness and genre cliches like [...]

You really just can't say no to the over-the-top theatrics of DragonForce, so when Roadrunner Records offered us the opportunity to premiere to the world "My Spirit Will Go On" from DragonForce's forthcoming live album Twilight Dementia we just couldn't resist. The track originally comes from the band's pre-Roadrunner 2004 release Sonic Firestorm, but of course [...]

So, here we are in late 2010, two years after Sumeriancore first gnashed its' gnarly teeth into the world's Internet metal undercurrent and one year after it exploded up above it. We're now firmly in the 2nd generation of the burgeoning sub-genre, meaning that today's up and coming Sumeriancore bands have the first generation's music [...]