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There was a surprise stand-out performance at Lollapalooza last night. New Jersey deathcore unit Lorna Shore headlined the BMI Stage at the festival last night to an electric crowd, riding high on the momentum from their latest single, “Cursed to Die,” which dropped on Thursday. Video taken by attendees and posted to Twitter shows a

It’s like we told you two weeks ago: death metal is the hottest thing in the underground—really, it has been for what feels like the better part of the last decade—and we want to bring you the best bands in the scene. Each week, our inboxes overflow with new death metal from all corners of

We’re used to singer Vince Neil fucking up his parts while performing with hair metal legends Mötley Crüe, but drummer Tommy Lee is usually on top of his shit. That said, he’s the one who’s now under scrutiny after a video of him using a backing track at the band’s July 19 show has surfaced.

In May, we learned that shock rocker Rob Zombie would be bringing kids’ horror host Zombo back in his reboot of horror-comedy series The Munsters. Now, Zombie has dropped two new tracks from the OST of the movie: Zombo’s theme, and the soundtrack to his house of horrors, which sounds way more frightening than one

We were unsurprised to learn that Aaron Lewis went on another unhinged rant during one of his recent shows. The Staind frontman and Putin sympathizer doesn’t have much in the ways of good music — he’s known for drunkenly playing the same song twice — so his blithering conservative commentary is pretty much the star

In October of 2020, Five Finger Death Punch dropped an anti-mask music video for their song “Living The Dream.” The message wasn’t received well, in part because we were at the height of the COVID pandemic (this was pre-vaxx) and the weird overtones of Red Menace propaganda felt more menacing than the communism that the

There has long been a conspiracy theory that there are aliens dwelling among us. Whether it’s David Icke’s bigotry-rooted belief that reptilian extraterrestrials have infiltrated the deepest corners of our political landscape, or the somewhat hilarious idea that the American government has aliens in tubes after they crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico, the idea that

In December of 1984, Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil was drunk-driving a car containing Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley when he lost control and collided with an oncoming vehicle. Neil, who had a blood alcohol level of 0.17% (for the record, the legal limit in the U.S. is 0.08%), survived the crash, but Dingley

A few months ago, Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse announced that he’d be taking a hiatus from the band, replaced on the road by Simon McBride. But now, Morse has officially quit so that he can be with his wife during her ongoing battle with cancer. This weekend, Deep Purple released the following statement regarding

It it sometimes forgotten that shock rocker Rob Zombie and Powerman 5000 vocalist Spider One are brothers, but they are, which, when you think about it, makes a lot of sense. Right now, the two are out on the road together on Rob’s ‘Freaks on Parade’ tour, and at Thursdays’s show in Noblesville, IN, they

On Friday night, unhinged rap-rocker Kid Rock was supposed to play at the North Dakota State Fair, but his set was canceled due to inclement weather and tornado warnings. Kid’s fans reached, well, as you might expect Kid Rock fans to react, pelting the stage with bottles and drink cups. Of course, it wouldn’t be

The MetalSucks Playlist – This Week’s Top Tracks, from July 17 to July 23 Were you so busy having opinions about the new Pantera tour and Slipknot song that you forgot to keep up with this week’s biggest stories in metal? Don’t worry, here’s what you need to know. Spoiler: it’s most Slipknot and Pantera.

Last December, Griffin Taylor, son of Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor, said that he has fits of severe depression when his band Vended is compared to Slipknot. Which is why it’s a little weird and kind of silly that he joined Slipknot onstage during the band’s set at RomExpo in Bucharest this past week. You can

Classic music videos are great archeological finds. Digging up an old video from when your favorite musician was going through a phase, trying something new, or just getting their sea legs always gives you amazing insight into an artist’s development. Case in point, as far as I was concerned when I woke up this morning,

Right now, metal’s crown prince of darkness Ozzy Osbourne is preparing to release his 13th studio album, Patient Number 9. We’ve already heard one track from the record, the incredibly heavy title track; now we’re getting a taste of a second single, this one titled “Degradation Blues” and featuring Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi. But

Of the many bands I saw at this year’s Mutants of the Monster festival, BRAT were one of the acts I’ll never forget. There they were, a quartet in bright colors, led by a bouncy blonde rocking pigtails and a Prodigy shirt, with Britney and Cascada samples kicking off their songs. Of course, none of

Though their general message has always been, Better find something sharp, because God help you if we catch you, nine-headed Iowan sex llama Slipknot have always added an undercurrent of optimism to their music. Like, sure, the whole world’s a dead crow in a jaw, but at least us maggots are feeding and growing into

There’s a long-running tradition of blaming wives, girlfriends, and other women around a band when things don’t work out for them. Among the bands whose split was laid at the feet of the nearest woman was Brazilian thrash metal gods Sepultura, with Gloria Cavalera, wife and manager of guitarist/vocalist Max Cavalera, often being credited as

Welp, it’s finally happening: Slipknot are teasing new material. The band have dropped a video on social media revealing what sounds like new music, and have posted a link to a new website which includes release times. As you’ll see in the posted below, Slipknot have dropped a short video clip spanning their whole career,

Earlier today, Slipknot hinted at the release of new music — and now, they’ve delivered. The nine-headed Iowan sex monster have announced their next full-length album, and have dropped a new single to boot. Slipknot’s new album will be titled The End, So Far, and drops September 30th. The record is already available for preorder.