Metal

We’re a little more than 20 games (out of 162) into the 2023 baseball season and interest in a much faster and offensive game has made this one of the more exciting moments in the sport for a loooong time. It’s almost enough for an enterprising metal band with tangential ties to the sport and

Photo courtesy of Suffocate Faster Check out the latest track from hardcore band Suffocate Faster, “Lost Ones,” from one of two EPs slated to release this year via Smartpunk Records. About the song, the band say: “There are so many so-called criminals out there in society that have made mistakes in their young lives or

Photo by Jayson Palacio If you’re a high-octane punk rock band looking to make a video, what better locale to shoot than an auto body shop. That’s what SoCal quintet Daisy Chain (featuring members of Graf Orlock, Sweat and Mossbreaker) opted for when shooting “Roll the Dice” from their recently released debut on Vitriol, The

Back in 2021, Decibel magazine premiered the Break Your Faith EP from Atlanta thrashers Turn Cold. The debut introduced Turn Cold as a band that harnesses the power of golden age thrash without being derivative disciples. At the time I wrote: “While the songs are sleekly written, the sound is never over-polished and sanitized. Speed

Cleveland’s Vadiat is loaded with talent who have cut their teeth in death metal for over thirty years. Formed in 2019, Vadiat imbues doom-drenched death metal in the vein of Amorphis and Incantation. The band itself is comprised of current and former members of bands like death/thrash pioneers, Terror, as well as Blood of Christ, Ringworm, and more. They initially

Photo request courtesy of Revenge Beast Get stoked on the forthcoming Revenge Beast release with the first single from their debut album, “Inclination to Darkness.” The self-titled LP is out June 30 via Upstate Records and features Marc Rizzo on guitar, vocals by Jay Decay, Brennan McShane on bass, and Doug Gussio on drums. And

Photo courtesy of Hudson Visuals New Zealand-based proggy tech death gurus Blindfolded and Led to the Woods just released a video for the track “Caustic Burns,” taken their forthcoming album Rejecting Obliterations, out May 19 via Prosthetic Records. The record showcases themes of grief and trauma as residents of their hometown of Christchurch struggle with natural

Where they from?Germany and France. Yesterday news broke that Aaron Rodgers was being traded to my beloved New York Jets and man did my phone just absolutely blowup. By that I mean my one friend from Texas texted me to tell me what an asshole I am. This motherfucker is yet to play a single

Boston based instrumental/post-metal trio LESOTHO are proving they are more than a flash-in-the-pan pandemic project with their latest collection of bombastic yet ethereal cuts, Through The Dying Light. The combined forces of guitarist Kyle Loffredo, bassist Cliff Cazeau and drummer Zach Ganshirt released their Summer Wars debut EP in 2021, cementing their place as an

We couldn’t very well finish off our series of exclusive excerpts from Metal Blade Records founder Brian Slagel’s upcoming book, Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records without a Metallica teaser. After all, the band made its first appearance on Metal Massacre way back in 1982, and Lars and James have been

It’s getting harder and harder to expect a happy ending for former Jackass star and skateboarder Bam Margera. After multiple stints in rehab and friends literally doing whatever they can to try to help him clean up his act, he’s now on the run from Pennsylvania police following an altercation with his family. According to

Little Rock big guns Terminal Nation recently delivered the 150th entry in the Decibel Flexi Series. And both Decibel and the band couldn’t be happier to share the one-two punch of death metal/hardcore that is “Concrete Hell” and “A Pound of Flesh or a Gallon of Blood.” So much so that, in fact, Terminal Nation shot

Photo: Anna Atlasman Three decades is a long time for a band to exist, but Cradle of Filth have plenty left in the tank. Their latest, Trouble and Their Double Lives, is an 18-track live record spanning 2015-2019 and also features two new studio tracks that were recorded after Cradle’s last album, Existence is Futile, but didn’t

When Norwegian black metal’s “weirdification”—a turn-of-the-millennium dismissal of the second wave’s rule-heavy conservatism by its own practitioners (yes, even Mayhem)—is referenced, we often hear about the “heavy hitters.” Ved Buens Ende, Solefald, Arcturus… all fell victim to modernity’s beck and call, and with a Cardiacs-like whimsy did these artists completely abandon black metal in favor

This week, we’ve got Cattle Decapitation axeman Josh Elmore as our guest on The MetalSucks Podcast! We discuss what it’s like having to answer the same questions in interviews, the process of getting a Cattle Decapitation song passed by all of the band members, and which member sends memes in the group texts. We also

Experimental black metal project Thy Catafalque just shared a new music video for “A csend hegyei” from their forthcoming album, Alföld. The record is out June 16 via Season of Mist. The name of the new album means “The Great Plains” and returns to the artists heavy roots. Project mastermind Tamás Kátai includes both progressive

Brutal metalcore masters Bleeding Through just unleashed a new song, “War Time.” This is the first teaser of new material they are working on. Last year, Brandan Schieppati announced the band’s plan to make new music via Instagram, and in late December, they dropped the track. Bleeding Through have been on hiatus since their 2018

Sanguisugabogg just announced a very short and limited tour run with Jarhead Fertilizer and Stabbed. The tour starts May 30 in Fort Wayne, IN, and ends June 4 in Boston, MA. If you’re lucky enough to be on the strange and winding trajectory of this tour, one that resembles the nonsensical nature of the Sanguisugabogg logo itself,

In a recent interview, Marty Friedman claims that he has no regrets about the Rust In Piece-era Megadeth lineup not resurfacing. But not in a shady way. He has no regrets overall and is at peace with how things have played out. “The Rust In Peace thing was very interesting, the idea,” he says. “Whatever it took

Metallica‘s Jason Newsted is temporarily bringing back his self-named side project, Newsted, for a comeback show. This show will take place May 20 at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He gave more details about that in an interview with Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, as transcribed by Blabbermouth. “About a year ago at this time, The Chophouse Band played