Metal

It’s been 10 years since Kentucky hardcore crushers Knocked Loose first showed up on the scene, pushing an emotional and heavy-as-hell sound on first EP Pop Culture. A few releases and years of hard touring later, Knocked Loose are pretty much the biggest thing in current-day hardcore and, as demonstrated on new album You Won’t

Swedish death metal supergroup Grand Cadaver released the second half of their 7” double A-side single following the release of the first single, “Terminal Exit,” last month. The new track is called “Skinless Gods,” which is so named because skinless is the healthiest way to eat your gods. All of the fat is in the

Where do these months keep going?! I mean, it’s already May? Damn. Pretty soon we’re all gonna be sweating our nethers off in the dead heat of summer, wondering when shit’s gonna cool down. Before we get ahead of ourselves though, we’ve got a newly updated MetalSucks Playlist on your favorite digital streaming platform (as

Doom sludge bands Yashira, Autolith, and Drag Pattern dropped a surprise three-way digital split EP yesterday that was posted to Autolith’s Bandcamp page. The new release contains one song from each band, and Yashira’s contribution, “Blindfolded in Holly,” seems like it will mark the final song for the band as they announced an indefinite hiatus

Knocked Loose drummer Kevin Kaine responded to allegations made by an anonymous and now-deleted account on Reddit from someone claiming to have had a sexual encounter with Kaine and contracted multiple STIs. Here’s the original post that appeared on Reddit: “Warning for other women I don’t know what’s going on with Reddit or why my

Finland’s Unearthly Rites – Photo by Lassi Kojola As we turn the calendar page from April to May, Earth Month may have ended yesterday, but that doesn’t render the care and feeding of this spinning hellscape we mosh upon any less important. Especially not in the eyes, minds, and riffs of Unearthly Rites. With their

On Memorial Day weekend last year, when Maryland Deathfest took the year off, Northwest Terrorfest, the Milwaukee Metalfest and the Hell in the Harbor Fest all seemingly tried to take advantage of the absence and fill in the gap by airing their own festi-tacular wares that particular weekend. Almost lost in the shuffle of extreme

Denver has produced a veritable fuckton of of great metal over the last couple decades but few artists are as prolific as melodic death metal outfit Necropanther. The highly prolific band has put out at least one release every year since 2016—excluding 2017—and are still finding new ways to push themselves. On their latest EP, Oblivion Jones,

Photo courtesy of the band Weirdo avant-garde metal band Frogg have jut shared a video for “Double Vision Roll,” and boy is it quirky. Check it out below. The band say about the song: “’Double Vision Roll’ is a simple song. It’s about having a mental breakdown, a midlife crisis of sorts. Experiencing a shitstorm

Photo courtesy of the band They’ve been at it since ’92, and they aren’t slowing down any time soon. Suppression are back with a new album, Spiritual Sepsis, which features 24 songs clocking in at 17 minutes. The record is out May 10 via To Live A Lie. The two-piece grind band features Jason Hodges on bass

Richmond post-hardcore heroes City of Caterpillar’s return in 2016 was one of the most welcome unexpected events in a year largely full of unwelcome unexpected events. Eight years later, the latest surprise is their first new song since 2022’s stunning comeback album, Mystic Sisters, via the Decibel Flexi Series! “In the Tall Grass” is an exclusive new

You might know artist Chuck BB from his work with Decibel or his graphic novel Nosk of the Void. If not, you can know him for Adjure, his new one-man black metal project inspired by the likes of Gehenna and Sigh. Adjure’s debut album, Live Like You Know You’re Going to Die, is slated for a May 31

Where they from?Los Angeles, CA. The NFL draft was this past weekend. Is there any greater non-event in the universe? I mean, it literally could be summed up as an e-mail instead of the brash decadence the NFL trots out every April. I guess Goodell just can’t handle not having his professional brain trauma operation

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Slipknot‘s celebrating the 25th anniversary of their self-titled debut album and as such, they’re planning a buncha special shows celebrating that fact. You may also know they do this little festival all over the world called Knotfest where they get a buncha bands to play with them.

If you’re a fan of records that are actually just one long song, then this premiere is for you. Hailing from Albany, New York, sludge/drone quartet Carnwennan have crafted such an album with Lush, the proper follow up to their demo last year. Divided into four parts titled simply with roman numerals, it’s an album that slowly builds

Bay Area deathcore band Rings of Saturn are finally in the news for a reason that doesn’t involve the antics of Lucas Mann, or the band arguing with fans about turning instrumental-only. The band’s guitarist Joel Omans announced his departure from Rings of Saturn after 10 non-consecutive years. Omans has been with the band since

EXHUMATION, Photo by Stefan Admiral Hailing from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Exhumation emerges once more with their fourth full-length album, Master’s Personae. Since their inception in 2008, the band has garnered attention for their unique blend of atmospheric solace and death metal aggression. Master’s Personae encapsulates the essence of Exhumation’s sound, weaving a tapestry of darkness and brutality that

Photo by Sophie Gransard “You guys are nerds, are you?” What followed was a tension-shattering bout of laughter from your eager co-columnists, already halfway through our most star-struck interview to date. It was our guest who less threw out a jab and more stated the obvious after disappointingly learning that Kill Screen was incapable of

We are just hours away from Austin post-everything noisemakers Glassing releasing their fourth LP, From the Other Side of the Mirror, but you can gaze deeply into band’s video for the track “Wake” right now. The collective vision of director/editor Ken Whiting, cinematographer Manny OA and screenwriter Andrew Bonazelli, the team commonly known as 10

Danish dukes of disgust Undergang have been ripping up the underground for the past 15 years, leaving a trail of gore-soaked LPs, EPs and splits in their bloody wake. The death metal quartet can now chalk up another victim in their prolific killing spree—courtesy of the Decibel Flexi Series! Exclusive track “Brusk” (translating to “cartilage”