Anthrax’s Frank Bello Does a Spot-on Impression of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley

Anthrax have released the final episode of their Anthrax 40 for 40 video series, which celebrates the band’s 40th anniversary by taking a look at each individual ‘Thrax album over the course of the coming weeks. That all lead up to a special career-spanning livestream performance on July 16 (the band’s actual 40th anniversary). You can watch...

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Black Sabbath Announce Super-Duper-Extra-Special Deluxe Reissue of Technical Ecstasy

Official press release: Black Sabbath embraced change in 1976 when the heavy metal innovators started managing themselves and began exploring different sounds on the band’s seventh studio album, Technical Ecstasy. The record reached #13 in the U.K. and was certified gold in the U.S.  BMG honors this daring album with a super-duper-extra-special...

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Archspire Shatter Bodies and Brains on New Single “Golden Mouth of Ruin”

Between Burn in Hell’s Disavowal of the Creator God, Internal Bleeding’s “Overthrow Creation,” and now Archspire’s new single, “Golden Mouth of Ruin,” it is turn out to be a most excellent day for capital-B Br00tal music. “Ruin,” as you’d expect from Archspire, is the most technically-minded of those offerings. That means it won’t just shatter...

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The Fall Touring Season is Going to Be a Disaster

The fall touring season is going to be a disaster. If you think otherwise, you’re deluding yourself.  This fall was supposed to be the time it all came back. After a year of rescheduling and rescheduling again, this past spring, bands, their managers and their agents eyed the fall as a time it could realistically all work, finally. After a slow...

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

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

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Exclusive Full Album Stream: Burn in Hell’s Disavowal of the Creator God

People make a big deal out of MetalSucks being vocally outspoken against the far-right — and not always in a good way. It’s as though there’s a portion of the metal community that believes it’s impossible to make thoroughly vengeful music without being a complete dickwad. Australia’s Burn in Hell are proof positive that this is not the case....

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Internal Bleeding Release Pulverizing New Song “Overthrow Creation”

Okay so now I’m really starting to think I’m psychic: not only was I listening to the Guns N’ Roses song “Silkworms” right as the band was debuting a rejiggered version of that song, “Absurd,” in another city hundreds of miles away… but I was explaining to someone that there’s a metal band called Internal Bleeding at roughly the same time said metal...

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Deafheaven Debut New Track “In Blur”

The unceasingly-divisive Deafheaven have done the most divisive thing a band can do: they’ve changed their sound. Specifically, on their forthcoming album Infinite Granite, they’ve ditched most of the screaming and generally-metal elements of their music in favor of elements sure to appeal to what Vince wittily dubbed “the Pitchfork / Stereogum...

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Tom Morello Covers AC/DC with Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello has announced that he’ll release a new solo album, The Atlas Underground, on October 15 via Mom + Pop Music. The first single is a cover of AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” featuring vocals by Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder. You can listen below. Pre-order The Atlas Underground here....

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Underoath AnnounceVoyeurist Album, Stream New Single “Hallelujah”

Underoath have announced that they’ll release their seventh full-length album, Voyeurist, on January 14 via Fearless Records. They’ve also debut a new single from that album, “Hallelujah.” Personally, I find the song very annoying. I don’t have a good reason why I find it annoying. I put it on, it annoyed me, I turned it off. Hopefully you have...

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