King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, have unveiled the latest entry in their “Sunday Lunch” series of cover videos that have captured the Internet’s attention in recent months. For their newest video, the couple have switched back to the tried-and-true formula of Robert on guitar and Toyah
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As you’ve likely deduced from the headline, Overkill and Prong have announced a U.S. tour for 2022. Here are the dates: 3/3 Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance3/4 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium3/5 Pittsburgh, PA @ Jergels3/6 Cleveland, OH @ House Of Blues3/7 Columbus, OH @ The King Of Clubs3/8 Detroit, MI @ Harpo’s3/9 Ft. Wayne,
On our final episode of the year, we continue our Best of 2021 recap (stream part 1 here), revealing our top 5 albums of the year and chatting with some of the artist that made our list, including Chevelle’s Pete Loeffler, Zao’s Scott Mellinger and members of Green Lung. Don’t miss out on celebrating the
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Metal icons Soulfly are proud to announce their 2022 U.S. Tour.The 35-date trek kicks off on February 7th in Las Vegas, NV, and will make stops in Seattle, Minneapolis, Nashville, and Baton Rouge before concluding in Gallup, New Mexico on March 19th. Joining the band for select dates is 200 Stab Wounds. Max Cavalera comments: “I’m
Have you ever watched a video on the MetalSucks YouTube channel? If so, you’re already familiar with The World is Quiet Here, the progressive metal act who graciously allowed us to use a 10-second clip of their song “The Vagrant: Inanimate” as the intro music on every video we’ve put out for the past couple
Matt Wolfe, who played drums for Byzantine from 2002 through 2015, has died. He was just 46 years old. A statement from the band indicated he died “from a long battle with addiction.” Wolfe was not Byzantine’s first drummer but was easily their best known, performing on all of their albums except for The Cicada
Whitechapel appear to have temporarily replaced drummer Alex Rudinger, who recently quit the band, with another one of their former drummers, Ernie Iniguez. Iniguez was the band’s tour drummer for several years prior to Rudinger. He refers to himself as a “fill-in” for Whitechapel on social media. You can watch video from Iniguez’s return to
Cosmic death metal band Blood Incantation have just announced the release of their first ambient record, Timewave Zero, coming February 25, 2022. Recorded at World Famous Studio in Denver, Colorado, Timewave Zero will be available as 180g Gatefold LP+CD, Ltd. CD+Blu-ray Digipak and on all digital platforms. The Ltd. 2CD Digipak version will feature an additional 27-minute-long bonus track (“Chronophagia”)
Like everyone else in the world, I really dig Danny Brown’s song “Grown Up.” Not necessarily like everyone else reading this, I am not a fan of Korn, whose music I find to be inoffensive at best. And yet, this video of Brown covering Korn’s “Freak on a Leash” during a December 15 show in
Evanescence has released a cover of The Beatles’ “Across the Universe.” First performed by the band in 2018 as part of their Synthesis World Tour, the studio recording was made available earlier this year for the first time as part of the deluxe release of new LP The Bitter Truth. Listen below. Evanescence is heading back on
Germany’s Destruction have announced that they’ll release their fifteenth studio album, Diabolical, on April 8 via Napalm Records. This will mark the band’s first album since parting ways with Mike Sifringer, their guitarist of 39 years, in August. You can check out the title track for Diabolical via the below music video. Destruction singer/bassist Schmear
Archspire, Entheos, Inferi, and Vulvodynia will team up for this spring’s “Tech Trek V” tour. Dates are below (via The PRP): 04/13 Seattle, WA – El Corazón04/14 Portland, OR – Dante’s04/15 Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst04/16 Los Angeles, CA – 172004/17 San Diego, CA – Brick by Brick04/18 Mesa, AZ – Nile Theater04/19 Albuquerque,
Tool drummer Danny Carey is set to appear in a Kansas City-area court on January 12 for the incident that took place at the Kansas City International Airport on Sunday, December 12. The drummer was arrested for misdemeanor assault following a “disturbance” between Carey and an airport employee, and he was subsequently released on bail. Billboard has
Rolling Stone has become the latest major metal media outlet to unveil their list of 2021’s best albums, Decibel, Revolver, Kerrang!, and, of course, MetalSucks. You can check out Rolling Stone’s‘s list below, or go here to read their explanations for each selection. 10. Panopticon – …And Again Into the Light [embedded content] 09. King
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
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