Metal

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

Former Cannibal Corpse frontman Chris Barnes has expressed disapproval of Kourtney Kardashian wearing Cannibal Corpse merch. The reality television star, socialite, and model made waves in the metal world this week when she was spotted sporting a Cannibal Corpse/Eaten Back to Life longsleeve t-shirt while hanging out with her boyfriend, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker. Barnes

Muldrotha, the band featuring ex-Fallujah vocalist Alex Hofmann, his former bandmate Andrew Baird on drums, Rob Maramonte of The Zenith Passage on guitars, and Decrepit Birth’s Sean Martinez on bass, have released a new track, “Red in Tooth and Claw” or “Red in Tooth and in Claw,” depending on who you ask. You can check

Eleven days after a leaked group chat showed the members of symphonic power metal band Gloryhammer using racist terms and sexist innuendos, the band — as well as keyboardist Christopher Bowes, who is also the singer in Alestorm — have finally issued statements directly addressing the matter. Bowes went first by posting a photo of

Sepultura vocalist Derrick Green joined us for a recent episode of The MetalSucks Podcast to discuss the band’s upcoming touring schedule, how Sepultura decided to stay connected with each other through Zoom during the pandemic, the band’s new live album, SepulQuarta, and more. Among the topics we tackled in our chat, Derrick shared his opinions on

The Kardashians are no strangers to metal fashion: from Kim wearing a Morbid Angel shirt (which resulted in a run on the band’s merch) to Kourtney repping Metallica to one of the Jenner brethren sporting a Megadeth tee, this much is certain: it’s mainstream cool to wear metal shirts again, as if we didn’t already

Precious few genuine Big Event metal releases these days, and even fewer worth looking forward to. Like, new Metallica albums feel like latter-day Undertaker matches – you’re just kinda hoping they don’t ruin their legacy or hurt themselves. A few missteps aside (I know I’m in the minority here, but A Matter of Life and

Bassist David Ellefson has posted on social media for the first time since he was fired from Megadeth in May. The post appears to be teasing something called ‘The Lucid’ for September 8. It’s not clear if that’s the name of Ellefson’s new band, or his new song, or his new album, or his new

Metal fans with at least a modicum of good taste rejoiced last month when it was announced that the Ronnie James Dio hologram is being retired (at least for now). Now Wendy Dio, Ronnie’s ex-wife and manager, has revealed both why the hologram is being shelved and with what they plan to replace it, and

Rammstein may have utilized the downtime brought by the pandemic to finish a new album in way less time than it usually takes them — under two years as opposed to ten — but they’re keeping that tight, perhaps waiting until they can properly tour again (currently scheduled for 2022). For now fans will have

I’m as sick of talking about the Black Album as anyone who didn’t actually help make the Black Album, but this is actually a truly interesting insight into Metallica’s creative process. See, there is one song, and one song only, on the Black Album for which Jason Newsted gets a songwriting credit (which he shares