Listen to Fifteen Seconds of Fear Factory’s New Single, “Disruptor”

Fear Factory have released a fifteen-second-long teaser for their new single, “Disruptor.” You can check it out below. The entire song will be released this Friday, April 16. “Disruptor” will be the first single from Fear Factory’s first new album in nearly six years, Aggression Continuum. The album was originally recorded in 2017 with...

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Brutal Tourism: 10 Sick Taiwanese Metal Bands

Taiwan is known as an international tourist destination for its incredible street food, with the bustling, overcrowded bazaars offering tasty snacks ranging from taro balls to ice cream rolls. For the brave food connoisseur, there are treats which could be best described as “brutal,” too; take the scrumptious pig’s blood cake, served on a stick, which...

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Black Sabbath Announce Super-Duper-Extra-Special Edition of Sabotage

Black Sabbath have announced a super-duper-extra-special edition of their 1975 album, Sabotage. What makes it so super-duper-extra-special? Well [deep breath]… Available as a 4-CD or 4-LP set, Sabotagier will include a remastered version of the original album, a 16-song, predominantly-previously-unreleased live recording captured during...

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Artillery “Turn up the Rage” with New Single

On May 7th, Artillery will release their tenth full-length, X, via Metal Blade Records. You can check out the second single from X, “Turn Up the Rage,” via the below music video.The previous single, “In Thrash We Trust,” is available here. Pre-order X here. In the mid-1980s, Denmark’s Artillery established themselves as being at the cutting...

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Rammstein Unveil Line of Insanely Expensive Merch with Luxury Fashion Brand Balenciaga

Would you pay $650 for a Rammstein t-shirt or $995 for a hoodie? How about an $850 fanny pack or a $2,250 raincoat adorned with Rammstein’s logo and likenesses? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, now’s the time to test your mettle: Rammstein have unveiled a line of merch with luxury fashion brand Balenciaga, and the prices are absolutely...

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Completely Unreadable Band Logo of the Week: Win a Grab Bag of Metal Goodies!

Congrats to reader Scott Grey! Scott correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Abnormal Inhumane. For his troubles, Scott wins a grab bag of metal goodies from the MetalSucks Mansion Archives. Mazel tov, Scott! But don’t be too sad if you lost, ’cause this week I have another killer grab bag of metal goodies to give away!...

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Watch: Rare Cannibal Corpse Live Footage From 1993

Cannibal Corpse rolled into San Francisco on the night of March 9, 1993 riding high. Tomb of the Mutilated had come out six months prior, catapulting the band to death metal frontrunner status, and the band had embarked on their first headline tour to support the record in February. In retrospect it was only the beginning for them, of course, with their...

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Metallica Meet Van Halen in New Mash-up “Enter Panaman”

Speaking of Metallica and Van Halen… More than thirty years after the two bands toured together, someone has at last melded the music of Van Halen and Metallica… specifically, YouTube’s The-Art-of-Guitar, who recently released this amalgamation of Van Halen’s “Panama” and Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.” And hot damn!, does it ever work. In...

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Kirk Hammet’s Famous Ouija Board Guitar Is For Sale

Just a few days after someone paid $112,500 for the guitar Kirk Hammett used in the music video for Metallica’s “One,” another, even more famous on his axes is going up on the auction block: his custom ESP glow in the dark “ouija board” guitar. The instrument may not be as iconic as, say, Eddie Van Halen’s Frankenstrat or one of Michael Angel...

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Watch: 16-Year-Old Covers Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” on American Idol, Absolutely Nails It

Last we checked in with American Idol contestant Casey Bishop, the young star performed an Incubus song with the band’s frontman, Brandon Boyd, to widespread praise not only from the rock world, but from the show’s judges, Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie and Katy Perry. The 16-year-old kept the fire burning on the show’s latest episode, tackling Soundgarden’s...

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