It’s been a couple years since the world got new Testament tunes, but that’s not going to be the case forever, as guitarist Eric Peterson and newly minted drummer Chris Dovas have apparently begun hashing out ideas for the next release. Over the weekend, Peterson posted a few pictures on his Instagram account highlighting some
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Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose is notoriously selective about when he gets his photo taken. Sure, when he’s on stage he doesn’t really have a say in the matter and sometimes he’ll wave to a gathered crowd outside a hotel room every once in a while, but he’s also known to want his privacy.
It’s honestly a happy accident that The Silver—Philly’s favorite post-black metal quartet, which happens to feature half of Philly’s favorite progressive death metal quartet Horrendous—are the Decibel Flexi Series entry the same month that Horrendous graces Decibel’s cover. While we’ve been banging on about Horrendous for over a decade, we’ve been just as excited about
The best records feel immediately familiar, like a classic record you’ve heard a dozen times by the end of your second listen, while offering something fresh to the mix. That’s certainly the case for Celestial Prophecies, the second album from Midwest death dealers Machinations of Fate. Despite hailing from Newport, Kentucky, Machinations of Fate sound distinctly Swedish.
Lajon Witherspoon of Sevendust is our guest this week! We are here to celebrate their 14th studio album Truth Killer coming out July 28. We also perspective that came after the pandemic, the Huntridge Theater in Las Vegas being a hub for heavy music in the late 90’s, how Sevendust feels about releasing new music
On Sunday, July 16th, our dear friend and brother, Dave Cohen, suddenly passed away. He was only 36 years old. Both Dave and his wife, Mariann, joined the Stryper camp in early 2023, with Dave as our guitar tech and Mariann as dual guitar and monitor tech. Most recently, Dave was working on the Dreamsonic
Last week, The Zenith Passage dropped the video from the title track of their latest album, Datalysium, out now via Metal Blade Records. This record is the band’s second full-length, and the LA-based death metal band are leaning into their technical prowess as well as their melody and musical chops on this latest release. The
L.S. Dunes just got in trouble for posting a video featuring Legos, and now they want to know why. The post-hardcore band featuring former members of Coheed & Cambria, My Chemical Romance, and Circa Survive used Legos in their video for the song “Grey Veins,” and then started receiving calls from the company with requests
North Carolina metal band Wretched announced last week that they signed to Metal Blade Records for their next album. The band originally formed in September 2005, and signed to Victory Records in 2008, releasing four albums with the label. This new record will be their fifth and the first album from the band since 2014.
We’re not sure why we’re even uploading this playlist update. Most of you guys are probably out either enjoying your summer or spending five or more hours in the movie theater for Barbenheimer. But the show must go on and the music must be ready when you get back. So with that in mind, we’ve
Equal parts goofy and impressively technical, Archspire have unveiled a new video for “Bleed the Future.” They initially unveiled the video via livestream on Thursday of last week, and while their quote about the video pertains more to the livestream than the actual video, we included it because its hilarious: “Attention Archspire fans: “If you
Hard rock/metal/ mainstream/badass crossovers Beartooth announced a new album this week, The Surface, and dropped a video for the track “Might Love Myself.” This record is the band’s fifth album and will be out October 13 via Red Bull Records. According to the band, it not only represents musical growth but the members’ personal growth
Need a dose of melodic death metal to get your weekend started? New York City’s Solemn Vision have just the thing for you in the form of new single “Gates.” Characterized by staccato guitar riffs and upbeat drumming plus vocalist Aaron Harris’ recognizable high screams, “Gates” is pretty impossible to dislike if you’re a fan of melodic
Gabber, commonly referred to as “hardcore techno,” shares a lot in common with metal and punk, namely in that it is loud, abrasive and incredibly annoying to the uninitiated. The small but dedicated international gabber scene has produced a few breakout acts in it’s 25 years of existence, notably groups like Angerfist and Rotterdam Terror
Normally, Fridays are a day where I do my best to sift through new releases and blatantly show my bias for black metal and death metal. But today, let’s go for change of pace. Let’s slow down the tempo and kick up the blues with the new video from Vermilion Whiskey. If you dig the
What’s up? It’s your old boy Waldo here to deliver you some bad news. Unfortunately, after 15+ years, it’s time for me to fly the coop. It has given me great pleasure to deliver my opinion on the best, the worst and the in between. It saddens this birdbrain very much that we have to
Despite the various lineup changes within All That Remains, one of the constant faces within the band has been drummer Jason Costa. Yet all of that changed earlier today, as he announced his departure from the act after 17 years. According to a post on the band’s official Instagram account, the 50-year-old drummer assured fans
Ever since they dropped the two singles “Blast Furnace” and “Standoff” earlier this week, Fugitive has been on repeat here at MetalSucks HQ. Gimme some good fucking thrash and it’s on repeat, man. So you can imagine my excitement when not only did they release a video for the killer “Blast Furnace,” but they made
We’ll be honest, we love a name with dual meanings, and Chicago thrashers Bloodletter have a good one, both meanings being very metal. But, hey, this frisky quartet—Pat Armamentos (guitar), Pete Carparelli (vocals/guitar), Tanner Hudson (bass), Zach Sutton (drums)—have more to offer than just a kick-ass name, as evidenced by their upcoming third full-length, A Different
Photo: Ester Segarra On the video that you’re about to watch, before this devastating song, the opener on Trivax’s forthcoming new album Eloah Burns Out, kicks in, a short message is shown, generally giving us the conceptual context, and ending on this note: “Trivax stands against totalitarianism of all forms including religious and cultural dictatorships.”