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Enterprise Earth have announced that their vocalist, Dan Watson, will not be joining them for their myriad of upcoming tour dates “due to unforeseen circumstances.” No additional info was offered. Filling in for Watson will be Travis Worland from The Willow and Aethere. Says the band in a statement: “Due to unforeseen circumstances Dan Watson

Did Clutch write a song about a much-maligned guitar pedal? I can’t make out what Neil Fallon is singing in the below fan-filmed footage of the band performing a new song, “Boss Metal Zone,” but the title is surely no coincidence. In case you’re wondering, a 2018 rig rundown of guitarist Tim Sult’s gear did

System of a Down have a handful of live dates scheduled for this fall, and joining them for all five shows will be influential fusion-metal legends Faith No More and spacey instrumentalists Russian Circles. The first of those takes place on October 15 in Las Vegas, and while the other four follow shortly thereafter in

Björn “Speed” Strid of The Night Flight Orchestra and Soilwork is back on the show! We start out by discussing the brand new album from The Night Flight Orchestra, Aeromantic II; why they released standalone singles that are not on the record, the entire band catching Covid-19 after their last tour in March of 2020,

Mudvayne performed their first show in 12 years last night, September 11, at the Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival in Mansfield, OH. The show kicked off Mudvayne’s highly-anticipated reunion, which also includes performances later this fall at three other festivals put on by concert promoter Danny Wimmer Presents: Louder Than Life, Aftershock and Welcome to Rockville. The

Korn frontman Jonathan Davis took to Instagram this weekend to thank fans for their support during his recovery from Covid-19, which sidelined him for nearly two weeks and resulted in the postponement of six shows and the complete cancelation of two. Davis posted to his personal Instagram yesterday, September 11: “I’m not really good at

Official press release:  New York death metal pioneers Suffocation have announced their new live album, Live in North America, which will be released on November 12th. Today, the band releases the track video for the first single, “Funeral Inception.” Watch the video featuring photographs taken by Jason Carlson, below. Guitarist Terrance Hobbs comments:  “We couldn’t be more excited to bring our fans our

Korn have announced that J.R. Bareis will fill in for guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer, who will sit out the group’s upcoming shows after testing positive for COVID-19. Munky is the second member of the band to contract the virus this tour, after frontman Jonathan Davis. Bareis also plays in the band Love and Death with

TMZ reports that two children of Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, aged five and ten, have filed for a domestic violence restraining order against their father. Brody Dalle, Homme’s ex-wife, filed for the restraining orders on behalf of ten-year-old Orrin and five-year-old Wolf. Homme and Dalle separated in November 2019 and divorced a month later. They

According to Hypocrisy mastermind Peter Tägtgren, the band’s first new album in eight years, Worship, has been in the works since before the pandemic: “We’ve been recording this album here and there for two years and now it’s done! Maybe it was waiting for the right time as some songs are even more real now

One of the most attention-grabbing collaborations on The Metallica Blacklist, an upcoming album that features 50+ artists spanning a vast range of genres covering songs from Metallica’s Black Album — in celebration of its 30th anniversary — is the cover of “Nothing Else Matters” by Miley Cyrus. All sorts of other fascinating covers are contained

Coby Dick and the Big Bad Roach Daddies have released a new single and accompanying music video, “Kill the Noise.” The band says that “This track is probably our hardest rocking new song in 4 years!” Which is a strangely specific claim to make. Is it true? No idea. I can’t remember any of the

Perennial MetalSucks favorites Demiricous have, at last, made good on their threat to release new music: Decibel has debuted “Terminal Future,” the Indianapolis band’s first new song in twelve long years. And no, the band hasn’t lost a step… frontman bassist Nate Olp sounds less like “if Tom Araya gargled with broken glass” (as I

Thrice have released “Summer Set Fire to the Rain,” the newest single from their forthcoming album, Horizons/East. Says vocalist Dustin Kensrue of the track: “How often is life spilling over with beauty and novelty and possibility and all we can do is complain, in this case about getting wet, and to miss the moment completely?

I like death metal in all its many forms. I especially like when bands mix and match styles from across the death metal spectrum, I like death metal that’s a challenging listen, and I like bands are able to do that AND give a listener something catchy (be it riff-wise, vocally or other) to sink

At last — Iron Maiden’s new album, Senjutsu, has arrived! We’ve already shared our opinion — now we wanna hear from you, our beloved readers. Having had the whole weekend to rock out with Senjutsu, what do you think of the iconic NWOBHM’s latest? Is it one of their best efforts ever? One of their

Incubus have canceled the final two shows of their tour after an unidentified member of their touring party tested positive for Covid-19. It is not publicly known whether the person was band or crew, if they were vaccinated or not, or whether their symptoms are mild or severe. The tour had a strict Covid-19 vaccination

Bad Wolves will release their heavily anticipated new album, Dear Monsters, on October 29, the band has announced. The first single, “Lifelife,” will be released this Wednesday, September 8. The album will be their first with former The Acacia Strain guitarist Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz on vocals. Laskiewicz replaces Tommy Vext (né Cummings), who split with the

Guns N’ Roses set last night, September 4, at the BottleRock Napa Valley festival in the Bay Area, was cut short — in contrast to the band’s former reputation for extreme tardiness — due to a hard 10pm curfew enforced by local authorities. In fan-filmed video footage of the set’s planned final song, “Paradise City,”

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor debuted his new mask on Saturday night, September 4 at the Rocklahoma festival in Pryor, OK, the band’s first concert since February 24, 2020. Several photos of Corey performing with his latest facial garb have surfaced online, which MetalSucks has collected below. Slipknot typically debut new masks at the beginning of