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It will surprise no one to learn that one of MetalSucks' collective most-anticipated albums this year is the new offering from God Forbid. They're still one of the strongest NWOAHM bands out there, they still kick ass live, and their first release in more than three years will also be their first with new guitarist [...]

I don't really have anything intelligent to say about the album art for Kreator's latest, Phantom Antichrist. I just think it's cool, and appropriately ridiculous for an album called Phantom Antichrist. Seriously, I could probably write an entire paper on the subject of "What the fucking fuck is a 'Phantom Antichrist'?" Phantom Antichrist comes out June [...]

While I was away recovering from my wisdom tooth extraction, Municipal Waste released the cover art for their upcoming release, The Fatal Feast - and it's friggin' awesome. It's by Justin Osbourn of Slasher Design, and not only is it cool as fuckin' ice, but I love the "Waste in Space" bit. I don't think that's an [...]

Speaking of prolific artistis, The Ocean just released two epic concept albums in the middle and end of 2010 and they're already back at it. That might seem turtle-paced compared to Devin Townsend's breakneck writing schedule, but one and a half years is as long as it usually takes Metallica to write three or four [...]

That we adore Devin Townsend here at MetalSucks is no secret. But whether you think he's worthy of all the praise or you think he's an overrated hack, this much is not disputable: dude is incredibly prolific. One gets the impression that when Devin isn't touring or spending time with his family he spends ALL [...]

I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that I never liked Tenacious D - fuck, dude, I loved Tenacious D. I watched their show on HBO, I bought their first album the day it came out in 2001, and I saw them live in concert. I though they were great. But then Jack Black way outstayed [...]

I hereby posit that Psycroptic, Spawn of Possesion, Obscura and Gorod are the four best tech-death bands in the world - THE BIG FOUR of tech-death - fight me on that claim if you dare. This year is shaping up to be an incredible year for top-notch tech-death, as three of those bands are poised to [...]

If that combo makes you scratch your head and go "zuh?" then you certainly wouldn't be the only one, but there you have it: three of the most vocal personalities from Cannibal Corpse, Killswitch Engage and The Black Dahlia Murder are apparently teaming up for a new project. The news comes straight from Corpsegrinder's mouth, [...]

Jeff Loomis has been teasing a new solo album since July of last year, with increasingly juicy bits of information slipping out all the time - like the fact that it will feature guest appearances from multiple former Megadeth guitarists (namely, Marty Friedman and Chris Poland), PLUS Tony MacAlpine, PLUS, oh yeah, some dude named [...]

Ten out of ten MetalSucks readers agree: Ihsahn is awesome! Proving that I am not completely delusional (ok, maybe a little), you all voted Ihsahn's second solo album After as your collective favorite album of 2010. That same year I named it as my #2 favorite record of the year; despite all the shit you guys [...]

So yesterday, now-former Chimaira guitarist and current Six Feet Under six stringer Rob Arnold tweeted that "Work has begun on the new project with" Andols Herrick - the twice-departed Chimaira drummer whose most recent split with the band came about over a year ago and was announced this past April - and posted the above [...]

It's pretty cool that we live in a time where it's once again cool to be able to play your instrument, like, really well. Even five years ago a dude like ex-Nevermore guitar god Jeff Loomis would never have had a chance for his instrumental shred solo album to be celebrated in the media; shit, [...]

Mike Portnoy's new band, Adrenaline Mob, are gonna release their debut full-length, Omertà, later this year. And now they've unveiled the cover art, which is pretty typical metal album stuff... ...except if the concept of a skeleton against a deep blue night sky seems kind of familiar, well, it ought to, because of this: Obviously the [...]

photo by Chris Fulcher Stomach Earth TBA Label - Black Market Activities Release - TBA Like most of the world, I have only heard two minutes and nineteen seconds of music from Stomach Earth, in the form of an excerpt of a rough version of the track "Prolong the Death Watch" (listen here). And yet [...]

Like so many old school thrash bands, Overkill have been experiencing a renaissance as of late, and their last two releases, 20072s Immortalis and 20102s Ironbound, were both top-notch. So you should be excited to learn that the band has a new album coming out: it's called The Electric Age, and will be released on March 30 via eOne. [...]

Maybe you'd like Dream Theater more if they had a different singer and less noodling. Maybe you thought they jumped the shark when Kevin Moore left the band after Awake. Maybe you don't give a fuck about Dream Theater (maybe you even think they suck!) but you're just a fan of good progressive metal in [...]

7 Horns 7 Eyes Throes of Absolution Release date – TBA I feel like I've been hearing about 7 Horns 7 Eyes forever, and though it's really only been two years - when they played the Seattle stop of the Metal As Art Tour with Revocation, Hypno5e and The Binary Code in January, 2010 - [...]

Reunited-but-not-really prog metal pioneers SiKth have officially announced what we all basically already knew: a new album is on the way! The announcement came via the band's newly launched Facebook page, following the band's decision earlier this week to launch said Facebook page and a new merch site. Launching Facebook pages and new merch sites aren't [...]

Crazy Lixx Riot Avenue Label - Frontiers Release date - April It's been a million years since L.A.'s Sunset Strip hosted a massive glam metal scene. But with red hot Steel Panther and blockbuster Nickelback as testers, maybe the people have spoken, fun is fun again, and the time is right to import Sweden's budding [...]

Strapping Young Lad is dead, but we can forever honor them by keeping them in our memories. And what better way to commemorate SYL than with a huge seven vinyl box set? From the website of Blood Music: "This monstrous limited edition 7xLP box set will contain *all five Strapping Young Lad full-lengths*; as well [...]