Metal

Someone better check the temperature down in Hell, because it’s late July 2023 and I’m writing a MetalSucks post about Vince Neil actually sounding half decent during a recent show. While the rest of Mötley Crüe are ostensibly working on new material or trying to find new ways to drag Mick Mars through the mud,

Last year, a product called The Real Thing cropped up on Kickstarter that could only be described as a weird little tabletop roleplaying game that was loosely based on — and endorsed by — Faith No More and their releases. Earlier this week, the company behind the RPG came back to fans with their hat

Earlier this month, Philadelphia sludge eulogists Quiet Man released their debut LP. The Starving Lesson is a churning collision of harsh distortion, art-house doom, and Neurosis post-metal. The promo text initially grabbed me with the promise that Quiet Man are “bringing the darkness back to psychedelia.” Then I quickly realized that the band was a

Where they from?Czech Republic. If your baseball team sucks this year (God knows mine does) then you, along with millions of other Americans, have entered the dead zone of the sports calendar. I know I should probably be at the beach or vomiting on a Six Flags roller coaster somewhere in New Jersey, but goddamn,

Metallica has been a cultural commodity for so long that it’s difficult to imagine their lives before global fame. Fortunately, there is a time capsule: the band’s life-altering debut Kill ‘Em All, which hit shelves four decades ago today. The album came out when the band members were in their early 20s. It is Metallica

Prepare to widen your mind’s eye and take an acid-tinged journey through the cosmos with Sweden’s Domkraft. Formed in 2014 with an aim to craft heavy music with a psych-filled twinge, the outfit have released three albums, two EPs and one split record ahead of their latest opus, Sonic Moons, available September 8 through Magnetic Eye

Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl, but when boy meets girl’s family and friends, they definitely don’t love him. So, boy and girl try to run away, hijinks ensue, yadda yadda yadda, people wind up dead. It’s a tale as old as time, one that’s been interpolated by storytelling masters like William

With this new release from Norwegian retro trio Flight, we’re turning the way-back machine to a time before the term “heavy metal” really existed. Yep, that era when metal was being forged, but in the parlance of the day, it was just heavy rock or hard rock. And it should be noted that even though

It’s been a couple years since the world got new Testament tunes, but that’s not going to be the case forever, as guitarist Eric Peterson and newly minted drummer Chris Dovas have apparently begun hashing out ideas for the next release. Over the weekend, Peterson posted a few pictures on his Instagram account highlighting some

Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose is notoriously selective about when he gets his photo taken. Sure, when he’s on stage he doesn’t really have a say in the matter and sometimes he’ll wave to a gathered crowd outside a hotel room every once in a while, but he’s also known to want his privacy.

It’s honestly a happy accident that The Silver—Philly’s favorite post-black metal quartet, which happens to feature half of Philly’s favorite progressive death metal quartet Horrendous—are the Decibel Flexi Series entry the same month that Horrendous graces Decibel’s cover. While we’ve been banging on about Horrendous for over a decade, we’ve been just as excited about

The best records feel immediately familiar, like a classic record you’ve heard a dozen times by the end of your second listen, while offering something fresh to the mix. That’s certainly the case for Celestial Prophecies, the second album from Midwest death dealers Machinations of Fate. Despite hailing from Newport, Kentucky, Machinations of Fate sound distinctly Swedish.

Lajon Witherspoon of Sevendust is our guest this week! We are here to celebrate their 14th studio album Truth Killer coming out July 28. We also perspective that came after the pandemic, the Huntridge Theater in Las Vegas being a hub for heavy music in the late 90’s, how Sevendust feels about releasing new music

On Sunday, July 16th, our dear friend and brother, Dave Cohen, suddenly passed away. He was only 36 years old. Both Dave and his wife, Mariann, joined the Stryper camp in early 2023, with Dave as our guitar tech and Mariann as dual guitar and monitor tech. Most recently, Dave was working on the Dreamsonic

Last week, The Zenith Passage dropped the video from the title track of their latest album, Datalysium, out now via Metal Blade Records. This record is the band’s second full-length, and the LA-based death metal band are leaning into their technical prowess as well as their melody and musical chops on this latest release. The

L.S. Dunes just got in trouble for posting a video featuring Legos, and now they want to know why. The post-hardcore band featuring former members of Coheed & Cambria, My Chemical Romance, and Circa Survive used Legos in their video for the song “Grey Veins,” and then started receiving calls from the company with requests

North Carolina metal band Wretched announced last week that they signed to Metal Blade Records for their next album. The band originally formed in September 2005, and signed to Victory Records in 2008, releasing four albums with the label. This new record will be their fifth and the first album from the band since 2014.

We’re not sure why we’re even uploading this playlist update. Most of you guys are probably out either enjoying your summer or spending five or more hours in the movie theater for Barbenheimer. But the show must go on and the music must be ready when you get back. So with that in mind, we’ve

Equal parts goofy and impressively technical, Archspire have unveiled a new video for “Bleed the Future.” They initially unveiled the video via livestream on Thursday of last week, and while their quote about the video pertains more to the livestream than the actual video, we included it because its hilarious: “Attention Archspire fans: “If you

Hard rock/metal/ mainstream/badass crossovers Beartooth announced a new album this week, The Surface, and dropped a video for the track “Might Love Myself.” This record is the band’s fifth album and will be out October 13 via Red Bull Records. According to the band, it not only represents musical growth but the members’ personal growth