Metal

The longest-running metal tour in North America is back! The Decibel Magazine Tour celebrates the magazine’s 20th anniversary with its return in February 2024 as Northwest black metal executioners Hulder headline Decibel‘s 11th nationwide expedition. Tour support comes from supreme Philly vampunk warriors Devil Master, Floridian blackened doom swamp things Worm and Houston black metal earth-scorchers Necrofier.

It’s that time of year once again where the incessant jingle bells, old-timey ballads, Mariah Carey blowing out shitty in-store speakers, and *shudder* songs about Christmas shoes takes over the airwaves. Gods help you if you head out to do your holiday shopping, lest you be bombarded by saccharine holiday cheer. But is that sort

We feel like we need shout when say the name of Dutch metallic hardcore outfit LIES! And, yes, it is all caps, with an exclamation point. So, naturally this quintet is disgruntled and quite possibly not inclined to buy into whatever the man is peddling. Not surprisingly, that seems to be the general theme of the

Death metal fans everywhere may want to take notice, because there’s going to be a damn good tour rolling through North America next spring and you likely won’t want to miss it. Swedish melodic death metal band and viking raiders Amon Amarth are heading back out on the road, yet instead of bringing (the unfairly

As we look forward to 2024, one thing remains certain — the summer metal festival scene remains insanely exciting. Case and point is the fact that Ohio’s Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival is not only going to have more than 120 bands on its bill, but it’s also getting a fourth stage to accommodate

In the pantheon of modern black metal coming out of the U.S., it’s hard not to consider someone like Austin Lunn as one of the more creative and interesting artists out there today. Having recently dropped The Rime Of Memory under his band Panopticon, we’re once again witnessing the man’s ability to take our expectations

British metalcore act Architects are planning to cross the Atlantic next year for a nearly month-long stint through parts of Canada and the U.S. Slated to kick off on May 2 in Toronto, the 13-date tour will come to an end on May 19 in Columbus, Ohio. In addition to the newly announced dates, the

Huge news for the metal world: Power Trip just reunited on stage for the first time since the death of their vocalist, Riley Gale, on August 24, 2020. The reunion came about at a show that Fugitive, the band featuring Power Trip guitarist Blake Ibanez, was headlining at the Mohawk in Austin, TX alongside Dresscode

If you missed out on the holiday party that MetalSucks and our friends over at Metal Injection put on either in Brooklyn, NY or Los Angeles, boy did you ever fuck up. From great drinks, to great people, to great performances by artists like: Testament, Revocation, Type O Negative, Exciter, Alluvial, Dethklok, Bleeding Through, Warbringer,

The year was 1993, and extreme metal, for all intents and purposes, was still a baby. Over in the U.K., they were taking a stab at death metal strongly enough to compete with American counterparts in the form of Carcass. But where Europe was really thriving, and continues to thrive to this day, was in

All That Remains just dropped some serious hints on X that they are finally back in the recording studio, hopefully making their first record since 2018. Vocalist Phil Labonte shared a clip on his account which you can see below showing himself in the recording studio, and you even get to hear a brief few

Spite, Bodynatcher, Boundaries, and Mouth For War have announced their Dedication to Flesh tour, which will absolutely decimate the U.K./EU area. Some crowdkilling will definitely ensue. Hailing from Southern California, Spite are eager to pedal their modern, abrasive brand of deathcore with other modern-day deathcore heroes in tow. In September, “Spite” dropped a new song,

Within Destruction surprised the internet last week with a new EP, Rebirth. The record features six songs, and the deathcore band got some guest spots, including David Simonich of Signs Of The Swarm and Alan Grjnja of Distant. Drummer Luka Vezzosi says about the EP: “We had free time to do sort of a pet

Milwaukee Metal Festival made a comeback this year, and now, the Midwestern metal fest has announced they will be back next year with 19 bands and multiple days of music. More bands will be announced in the future, but for now, this is a quite impressive lineup. The fest will take place at The Rave/Eagles

Dragonforce have shared a new version of their song “Doomsday Party,” this time featuring Elize Ryd, vocalist of Amaranthe. The song will be a bonus track on the band’s forthcoming record, Warp Speed Warriors, to be released March 15 of next year. The collab is a strong combination between two majorly epic players in the

Doom dealers Conan are no longer to be joined by their former bassist, Chris Fielding. But it doesn’t seem there are any hard feelings—Fielding is leaving to focus more on other areas of his life, and will still be the band’s producer. The English band haven’t announced a new bassist yet, but claim they will