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
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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
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