Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer is one of the 31 members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers against whom District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine has filed a new lawsuit. CNN reports that Racine has filed the complaint “in an effort to recover the millions of dollars the city spent to defend the US
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Matt Pike will release his debut solo album, Pike vs. the Automaton, on February 18 via MNRK Heavy, the High on Fire/Sleep guitarist has announced. Pike wrote the record with drummer Jon Reid (ex-Lord Dying) and recorded it with Billy Anderson, with whom he previously collaborated on Sleep’s Holy Mountain and High on Fire’s Surrounded by
2021 is almost behind us, so this week on The MetalSucks Podcast we celebrate all the hope and despair that our favorite artists gave us in a year of comebacks and the new normal we collectively felt. We play one track from every record we loved and praise those artists for giving us music that
Tool’s Danny Carey has been arrested for misdemeanor assault, TMZ reports. The drummer was arrested at Kansas City International Airport in Kansas City, Missouri, following a “disturbance” between Carey and an unidentified man. Carey was subsequently booked for misdemeanor assault, and has since been released on bail. The TMZ report says that “the police report
Experimental folk music group Heilung have announced a North American tour for the back half of 2022. The group, whose members hail from Denmark, Norway, and Germany, will stick to mostly major markets in America while also performing twice in Canada. The band comments: “Friends overseas, we were deeply moved by your warm welcome on
Former God Forbid guitarist Dallas Coyle (brother of current Bad Wolves guitarist and former God Forbid bandmate Doc Coyle) has launched a new musical project, SVSPVRP (pronounced “sus-purp”). The project sees Coyle combine metallic guitars and grooves with hip hop production and rapping. Fans of Coyle’s work in God Forbid will find some familiar sounds
Vended vocalist Griffin Taylor has been brought to tears over comparisons between his band and Slipknot, the group fronted by his father, Corey Taylor. Vended’s line-up also includes Simon Crahan, son of Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” Crahan, making comparisons between the two bands all but inevitable. Still, in a new interview with Knotfest.com‘s Ryan J. Downey,
Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson is now selling several pieces of signed gear that he used during his tenure with the band. While two basses have already been sold, three items remain available. Those items, and their corresponding prices, are as follows: Tour used Jackson X Series David Ellefson signature series concert bass CBX 5
Eddie Van Halen is the latest prominent metal musician to get the Pop! vinyl figurine treatment from Funko. Eddie’s son and bandmate, Wolfgang Van Halen, tweeted out the news earlier yesterday (December 9): “Pop signed off on this way back in 2019 and it’s wonderful to see it finally come to fruition. So stoked with
The results of our annual readers’ poll are in! According to you, oh wise, noble, and sexually desirable MetalSucks readers, these are The Best Metal Albums of 2021: 1. Every Time I Die, Radical (Epitaph) – 23.8% of all votes [embedded content] 2. Between the Buried and Me, Colors II (Sumerian) – 10.43% of all
Content warning: the following post includes descriptions of rape, emotional and physical abuse, self harm, suicide attempts and eating disorders. Kristin Hayter, better known as the multi-instrumentalist and performer Lingua Ignota, has accused Daughters frontman Alexis Marshall of emotional and physical abuse, rape, gaslighting, and causing her to attempt suicide, among other allegations in a
Infected Rain have released “The Realm of Chaos,” the third single from their forthcoming fifth album, Ecdysis. The track features a guest appearance by Heidi Shepherd from Butcher Babies. Infected Rain frontwoman Lena Scissorhands says about “The Realm of Chaos”: “‘The Realm of Chaos’ was inspired by the massive depression we all lived in 2020, dedicated to
Underoath have released a new single called “Numb.” It is, without question, one of the two best American rock songs to be called “Numb” that I can think of off the top of my head and one of the three best rock songs from anywhere called “Numb” that I can think of off the top
British psych metallers have announced plans to return to the U.S. and Canada in March of 2022. It will be there first time playing those territories since 2019. Support will come from King Buffalo. Says the band in a statement: “WARNING: We’ll be returning to the stages of North America for the first time since
For the latest entry in their ongoing series of “bedroom covers,” Two Minutes to Late Night has rounded up a characteristically-rad line-up of musicians to cover Funkadelic’s 1971 song, “Hit It and Quit It.” Specifically, they enlisted Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Bryan Giles (Red Fang), Bryan Richie (The Sword), Moe Watson (Shai Hulud), and Emily Panic (Ghosts
Death mastermind Chuck Schuldiner died on December 13, 2001. It’s nearly unfathomable that was 20 years ago. Time is a flat circle and nothing matters. This Sunday, December 12, one day shy, Death fans all over the world can join together in a celebration of Schuldiner’s life with a special concert featuring an all-star cast
On a day that already gave us Ben Affleck wearing a Boston straight-edge hardcore shirt, we’ve got yet another celebrity metal fashion sighting to gawk over: Lil Nas X wearing a shirt featuring the scratchy-font logo of Chicago-based deathgrind outfit Hatemonger. The rapper sported the shirt in an interview he conducted to promote his appearance
Knocked Loose have knocked loose some upcoming U.S. tour dates, set for the spring of next year. Those’ll go after the band opens for Every Time I Die at their annual “‘TID the Season” event, and in-between two separate runs in Europe and the U.K. The band’s entire itinerary as it now stands is below.
Hardcore band Comeback Kid have released a new track, “Crossed,” that features a guest vocal spot from Gojira’s Joe Duplantier. Vocalist Andrew Neufeld comments: “’Crossed’ is a no-frills metallic hardcore track. Lyrically it deals with someone in my life that seemed so far gone and I had to watch them dig themselves further and further into a
Death metal up-and-comers Hath will release their sophomore full-length album, All That Was Promised, on March 4 via Willowtip Records, and they’ve now posted its first single, “Kenosis,” along with a music video [via Heavy Blog is Heavy]. The album follows up their critically acclaimed and MetalSucks-approved 2019 debut Of Rot and Ruin. The band comments on their