The MetalSucks Playlist – This Week’s Top Tracks, from June 5 to June 11 So stoked for the summer that you forgot about the winter of your soul that is MetalSucks? Don’t worry, we got your covered — here are this week’s top stories… That’s what we got this Saturday. We’ll update throughout the weekend,
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For those of you too young to remember, Duke Nukem was a video game property about a wisecracking Schwarzenegger-type action hero who killed aliens and spat out one-liners. The game franchise kicked off in 1991, and the first two were fine, but after Doom came out in ’93, they released Duke Nukem 3D, which was
Right now, the word on the street is, death metal. In the past five or so years, metal’s grodiest subgenre is back in a big way, with an awesome crop of young and disgusting bands — Gatecreeper, Witch Vomit, Creeping Death, Mortiferum, Undeath, Temple of Void, Blood Incantation, and Bedsore, to name only a few
I am neither a huge Tool fan, nor am I anyone who has ever played the guitar, and even I will be the first to admit that the band’s song “7empest” off of 2020’s Fear Inoculum seems like a super complex and difficult track. But Maya Neelakantan is only nine years old, and yet in
When it comes to contemporary old-school death metal, few bands are as consistently fucking rad as Belgium’s Carnation. Last year’s Where Death Lies was one of those albums that just gets you feeling like a dehydrated longhair in a leather jacket from the moment it kicks off to the last note. Now, the band have
Tomorrow sees Decibel‘s Metal & Beer Festival kick off in Philadelphia, with sets by Candlemass, Nuclear Assault, and Cannibal Corpse scheduled to obliterate the City of Brotherly Love. But tonight, at the Foundry, the fest’s Pre-Fest show kicks off with some pretty gnarly-ass performances. Leading the way are Denver sludge champions Primitive Man, whose music
Goth-metal artist A. A. Williams has officially announced her second album, and has dropped a new single to boot. As The Moon Rests, Williams’ follow-up to 2020’s Forever Blue, comes out October 7th via Bella Union. The album is already available for preorder. Says Williams of the record: “Traditionally, your second album is the worry;
This weekend’s Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest is fast approaching, with thousands of fans preparing to have the burpiest time in the City of Brotherly Love (gonna be more like the City of Rubbery Glove in Rhombus’ hotel room, am I right? Eh? You like to party?). It was at the 2021 fest that
Last month, hard rockers Halestorm released their new album Back From The Dead, which saw a huge public response. Now, the band have announced a North American headlining tour in support of it, with a rotating cast of openers. The one consistent opening act on Halestorm’s new trek is Mexican rockers The Warning. But also
Only a couple of weeks ago, Australian metalcore act Parkway Drive told the world that they were not in fact breaking up, despite having canceled a North American tour in order to focus on mental health issues within the band. Now, Parkway are back with their first new song in four years, and it’s bouncy.
Getting their trailer ganked during their last tour hasn’t scared Texan death metallers Creeping Death off of the road. They’re heading out on a North American tour later this year with 200 Stab Wounds and Tribal Gaze thrown into the mix. But that’s not all! The tour also has a rad list of rotating openers,
Back in March, we wrote about how Christina Ricci would star in Tim Burton’s upcoming live-action Addams Family series for Netflix, titled Wednesday. However, Ricci would not return to the film as Wednesday Addams, the role which made her famous as a child; instead, that part would be going to actor Jenna Ortega. Now, the
Sad news for the rock world today, as Alec John Such, founding bassist for arena rock legends Bon Jovi, has died. He was 70 years old. The news was confirmed by the band, who issued the following statement: “We are heartbroken to hear the news of the passing of our dear friend Alec John Such. He
When we think of Poison guitarist C. C. DeVille, we imagine him in his height-of-the-’80s look — wily, spritely, with a massive blast of so-blonde-it’s-white hair around his head. But C. C. just posted a picture of Instagram that makes him look way more like an Arkansas sludge frontman than one of hair metal’s finest.
Note: Most of the news we’ve seen about Axel James Markel’s tragic death has his name spelled ‘Markle.’ However, the GoFundMe launched for him has spelled his name ‘Markel,’ which is the spelling we have chosen to use since the organizers are probably closer to him than the metal media. We mean no disrespect if
The MetalSucks Playlist – This Week’s Top Tracks, from May 28 to June 4 Have the unfolding horror of the world made you feel too sick to read this week’s top stories? It’s all good, here’s what you missed: That’s what we got. We’ll update here and there throughout the weekend, then come back in
On Wednesday, Dance Gavin Dance frontman Tilian Pearson responded to sexual assault allegations against him posted to Reddit. Now, the band has officially announced that they’ve let him go. As reported by Loudwire, a Reddit user posted a 6,000-word recollection of a short relationship she had with Pearson. They interacted under the influence of alcohol,
Last month, the riffs landed hard in the City of Bats. Progressive metalcore crew After The Burial and furious deathcore force Thy Art Is Murder hit up Austin, Texas, as part of their Back From The Gulag tour, with Currents and Brand of Sacrifice offering support. The whole thing was captured in vibrant detail by
YES! The long, long-awaited sequel to the classic film Beavis and Butthead Do America has a trailer and a release date. Not only do we get to see them go to a place previously visited only by Jason Voorhees and Lubdan the Leprechaun [citation needed], writer/director/star Mike Judge figured out a way to bring the
Last we heard from Viking metallers Amon Amarth was the release of their new single “Put Your Back Into the Oar” back in February. Now, the band have announced a new album, and have dropped another single to boot. Amon Amarth’s new record will be called The Great Heathen Army, and drops August 5th via