Metal

Hailing from Greenville, South Carolina, doomy psychedelic trio Auralayer are primed to become your next favorite band. Armed with big riffs and a love for bands like Sleep, Mastodon and Torche, their debut album, Thousand Petals, is a jammer that will definitely appeal to fans of the aforementioned bands, or just stoner rock and doom

Rising from the bowels of this nation’s most vile and loathsome state, Tennessee’s Korroded have exploded onto the scene with a debut full-length of only the most kick-ass grindage this side of the Mississippi. Featuring former members of the equally vicious Reserving Dirtnaps, Korroded’s brand of grind is both visceral and vital, pummeling the listener

It hurts a little to admit, but we remember the actual day when “Video Killed the Radio Star.” The launch of MTV was supposedly going to revolutionize music. It sort of did, but those first few years of the channel we were subject to music videos, like this new one from Pittsburgh grungy noise mongers

Gather ’round the fire, friends. You’re in for a fiery and epic black metal performance. Teloch Vovin is a ferocious collective of dark disciples hailing from New York City and Long Island. On July 28, the band will issue a split with their Queens-based brethren in Viserion called The Iron Age of Kali Yuga. To

Bay Area thrash metal giants Testament are currently making the rounds through the European summer festival circuit, but that doesn’t mean they’re not already working on the follow up to their 2020 release, Titans of Creation. Over the weekend, guitarist Eric Peterson told Loud TV (as transcribed by Blabbermouth) that they already have a handful

Why is it that the people who have access to cable TV news spots and massive platforms that make them completely uncancelable always complain that they’re being canceled? Case in point is Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider, who’s once again out there saying the LGBTQ+ community that he’s considered himself an ally of for all

The wait for some new High On Fire is coming close to an end, as the band announced that their so far untitled ninth studio effort is complete. Positioned as the band’s follow up to 2018’s Electric Messiah, the new slate of music has a lot to live up to its Grammy-winning predecessor. With the

Fresh from their recent Decibel Flexi Series appearance, U.K. doom titans Godthrymm have unveiled Distortions, the second chapter of the “Visions” trilogy and follow up to 2020’s much-acclaimed Reflections—and Decibel was among the exalted lucky enough to secure our own variant on stunning Blue Vinyl with Gold, Black and Silver Splatter limited to 100 copies!

Voivod are back with a new single, “Condemned To The Gallows” from their forthcoming album Morgöth Tales. This record will celebrate the band’s impressive 40 years as a band and will function as their anniversary record. Morgöth Tales is out July 21 via Century Media Records. To be even more specific, the song is officially

96 Bitter Beings just announced a North American Summer tour supporting their new album, Synergy Restored, and playing the Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild CKY record in full. The CKY connection comes because vocalist and guitarist Deron Miller used to be the vocalist for CKY. Now, his new band has an album out through Nuclear Blast, but he’s not

Blackwater Drowning jut dropped a new video for the song “The Caged” from their debut album Sonder // Satori. “It’s about breaking free of the mundane,” says vocalist Morgan Riley. “We all die the same no matter what we got in life, so why pour your minutes into the rat race and never be happy? For the video, Garrett

Hawkwind fans, get ready for the ultimate Space Ritual Box set. Even for a band as jammy as Hawkind, 11 discs is quite a lot. The new set will be released via Cherry Red and Atomhenge on September 29. On the day of release, they’ll be celebrating their 50th anniversary of the 1973 album with

Femme-forward classic metalers Girlschool just released a new single, “It Is What It Is.” The song is from the band’s upcoming record WTFortyfive, out July 28 via Silver Lining Music and celebrating 45 years of being a band. The track pulls from their classic yet raw and punk sound and gets us stoked for the

Snuffed On Sight just shared their new video, “Time 2 Dip,” from their upcoming debut LP, Smoke, out July 7 via Creator-Destructor Records and Maggot Stomp. The heavy, crushing, and fun Bay Area band have been touring and releasing splits and singles, and now, they are finally coming out with a full album. The new

High on Fire are celebrating 25 years of music with a release of their out-of-print record The Art of Self Defense.  They also announced a new record will drop in 2024 and that they will be heading out on the road to celebrate different eras of their career as they go. The Art of Self

Yet another week’s worth of bangers have been added to the MetalSucks Playlist. In addition to another kick ass Mutoid Man song and a new track from Spirit Adrift, we’ve added the latest singesl from The Shredderz (featuring Brandon Ellis, of The Black Dahlia Murder), Evile, and the illustrious Dolly Parton’s collaboration with Rob Halford,

We’re starting to get the feeling that Iron Maiden‘s Bruce Dickinson may be over the whole “always the bridesmaid, never the bride” feeling they’ve had lately regarding the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Despite being eligible since 2005 and only recently having been nominated twice, Iron Maiden has yet to pass the threshold needed

I remember listening to Focus as a teenager and feeling the convulsive, architectonic shift of possibilities blistering the material of my otherwise under-seasoned reality. Cynic’s debut fundamentally altered my understanding of what I could demand of art—whether it was created by others or by myself. In fact, it’s a personal axiom that Focus, (along with

If this were a seasonal beer, when would you release it? Spring seems like the obvious choice as a tie-in to maple sugaring season—typically when the snow begins to thaw and temperatures are consistently above freezing. Before global warming, that used to be somewhere between mid-February and mid-March on the East Coast. But this isn’t

What’s up? It’s your old boy Waldo here, to inform you about some new and upcoming releases, good, bad, or otherwise. Remember, I’m not an elitist, you just have terrible taste. First of all, I’d like to mention that I RARELY do reviews of releases that have already passed—mostly it’s about two weeks ahead—BUT I’d