Now the nausea’s
In my guts
And I’m wrestling with doubt
The kind you get when your heroes
Sell you out
And as I watch the drawbridge come down
There’s mass extinction
On my mind
Human cruelty stains my thoughts jet black
I’ve got this feeling
Like things have gone too far and now we can’t get back

Here’s more fun shit that happened in the world of metal this week:

• We debuted new videos from Cradle of Filth and Arsonists Get All the Girls.
• We got exclusive tour blogs from Bison B.C.’s Dan And and Woe of Tyrants’ Chris Catanzaro.
• We spoke to members of Winds of Plague, Decrepit Birth and Born of Osiris.
• I counted down 50 things I love about Pig Destroyer, and then added a 51st.
• Ulrich Vs. Mustaine Vs. Ian and Zakk Vs. Ozzy made us laugh with glee.
• Kerry King Vs. Killswitch Engage was pretty funny, too.
• Dallas Coyle answered more of your questions.

Vince gets back from vacation tonight right around the time Repulsion take the stage, and then tomorrow, hopefully, Craig’s List will lead us to some Tool tickets. See ya Monday!

-AR

And finally, we have New York’s own Brutal Truth. Their new album, Evolution Through Revolution, is one of the best of the year so far (read Satan Rosenbloom’s review here), which isn’t really surprising, because they’re one of those bands where everything they touch seems to turn to gold – or, rather, awesome, awesome grindcore.

Here they are doing “Birth of Ignorance” in Copenhagen in 1993.

Is it time for the show yet? Is it? Is it???

-AR

I was watching the new show Michael and Michael Have Issues last night. It’s pretty funny. Anyways, the episode was about this dude who breaks up with this chick because she wants him to pee on her and he’s just not that into that kinda thing. I’m not into it, either, but it did get me thinking: how in love with a girl would I have to be to actually pee on her if she asked me? Or would she just have to be really hot? Like, could I find it in me to give Cristina Scabbia a golden shower? I somehow don’t think I could. But it is a good time-waster when you’re high and have nothing better to ponder.

ANYWAY, I think my boderline-stalker love of Pig Destroyer is pretty well documented at this point, so without further adieu, here they are performing “Piss Angel” at the 2004 Maryland (not Baxter County) Deathfest.

-AR

In case you couldn’t tell, I’m very, very, very excited about tonight’s Blackened Music Series show with Brutal Truth, Pig Destroyer and Repulsion (And it’s a book release party for Decibel’s Precious Metal, which I have read, and which is totally worth the dough). And thus, as I count down the final hours to what I’m 99.9% sure is going to be one of the best, if not the best, shows of the year, I’m gonna post some live clips of the bands playing.

First up we have the legendary Repulsion. If ya don’t know Repulsion, well, shame on you. Learning about them is the easiest thing in the world: they only have one full-length, 1986′s Horrified, which is pretty short (it is a grind album, after all), and which pretty much influenced all grind that came afterwards. Decibel even named Horrified the best grind album of all time earlier this year; I don’t know if I’d go that far, but it does rule, hard, and the band – in their first New York concert ever – will be playing it in its entirety tonight.

Here they are doing the track “Bodily Dismemberment” in 2003.

-AR

Metal and horror just kinda naturally go hand-in-hand. They’re both forms are art that exist on the fringes of “normal” society, they both often deal with violence and extreme situations/emotions, they’re both usually bleak as fuck. There’s a reason I discovered horror movies and metal music the same youthful summer, and a reason I started reading Fangoria and Metal Edge right around the same time.

So: once you’re done watching the awesome new Cradle of Filth clip we debuted earlier today, “The Death of Love,” head over to the aforementioned (and still awesome!) Fangoria, where they’re hosting a behind-the-scenes video, including an interview with Dani Filth himself. Dani has one of the only speaking voices in the world I enjoy listening to as much as my own. It’s the saucy British accent, I think.

Check out the video here.

-AR

We’ve been rocking Behemoth’s Evangelion for a few weeks here at the Mansion; it has quickly found its way into our regular rotation. It deathier, br00tler, techier, and lots of other “ier” words I just made up than any prior Behemoth release, which must be why Vince and I dig it so much more than any prior Behemoth release.

Now the album is streaming, in its entirety, on the group’s MySpace page. You should listen to it. Not only is it awesome, but because its release is still more than a week away… or, at least, here in the US, where it comes out August 11 on Metal Blade (Nuclear Blast will release it a few days earlier, on August 7, in Europe).

Also, Nergal is apparently shtupping the Polish Britney Spears (I know, I know, who knew Brit Brit could get any stupider?), and while I’d like to judge him for that, I’d probably fuck her, too. So there’s that.

-AR

Weekend Nachos, one of our most favoritest grind acts out there right now, have signed with Relapse. This is excellent news, as it will surely lead to the band gaining a greater amount of exposure. And this band deserves exposure.

Their new album is called Unforgivable, and will be released on September 1. Holy shit, September is just overflowing with awesome releases, isn’t it?

You can check out two songs off of Unforgivable, “Pain Over Acceptance” and “Shot in the Head,” here. They’re awesome. Go check ‘em out.

You can – and should – pre-order Unforgivable here. It will cost you all of eight bucks. Totally worth it, duders.

-AR

Metal Insider has the inside (see what I did there?) scoop, as originally reported in The Irish Times, on a recent incident in Turkey in which five metal heads in town for a music festival made the mistake of throwing horns at a passing convoy of cars with darkened windows. I’m just gonna print a huge chunk of the story now, as it’s pretty funny/disturbing shit:

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Ah, McSweeney’s. You make me giggle.

Their latest bit of metal humor? A statement announcing the cancellation of a fictional metal fest:

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Shockhound.com, which is owned by Hot Topic, captured the below footage of Suicide Silence doing a recent four song in-store show. And while I’m fully aware that Hot Topic is no one’s favorite clothing store, the footage is killer, and the band sounds pretty sweet. Enjoy…

-AR

[via Metal Injection]

Bram Teitelman at Metal Insider reports that fans at Germany’s Wacken Open Air, one of metal’s biggest and best festivals, have been warned about ways to avoid a possible swine-flu outbreak:

Citing “circumstances of limited hygeine,” the statement urges festival attendees to “resist close greeting rituals,” including hugging, handshakes and kisses on the cheek. They also asked not to let beverages “circulate.” Also, medical rescue personell have stockpiled antiviral medical inventory and isolation rooms to help prevent the spread of swine flu, also known as the A/H1NI virus.

Well, I’m not at Wacken (obviously), but as a misanthropic, maladjusted, socially awkward blogger, I tend to try and avoid “close greeting rituals” anyway. That being said, someone might want to point out to festival organizers that 75,000 people all packed closely together and in some cases deliberately slamming into one another will pretty much render any kissing/hugging/sharing of drinks moot. If someone in the crowd really does have swine flu, expect it to spread faster than Tawny Kitaen’s legs backstage at a hair metal show.

-AR

Thanks to this tweet from morrizz for the headline!!!

Per a posting on their MySpace blog, Decapitated have named Kerim “Krimh” Lechner from Thorns of Ivy as their new drummer.

As you probably recall, the band’s previous drummer, Witold “Vitek” Kieltyka was killed in a tragic car collision back in 2007. He was only 23 years old. Vocalist Adrian “Covan” Kowanek also sustained serious injuries in the accident – injuries which, as far I know, he still has not fully recovered.

Shortly after the accident, the band announced plans to soldier on and signed with Nuclear Blast. Then, earlier this, guitarist Waclaw “Vogg” Kieltyka announced that he was soldiering on with the Decapitated name, even if it meant hiring a new vocalist. At the time I questioned the logic of such a move, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t at least curious to hear a new Decapitated album.

Here’s some footage of Krimh playing. The dude certainly has chops, even if it is going to be hard to shake the memory of Vitek, whose drumming was a huge part of Decapitated’s sound.

-AR

Thanks to Tom Fassnidge for the tip.

Metal’s First Couple, in happier times.

Okay. I’m starting to feel bad for Zakk Wylde. And I hate feeling bad for Zakk Wylde, ’cause then I can’t poke fun at him.

But according to Blabbermouth, The Only Southerner Ever to be Born in New Jersey called into another radio station – this one in Kansas City – and went on a rant ever more hostile towards Ozzy than the one from yesterday. Here’s a transcript:

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Due to an unfortunate accident in which guitarist/vocalist Dan Gapen broke his hand, Lazarus A.D. will be forced to miss the final few dates of the MetalSucks co-sponsored Baptized in Beer tour.

We wish Dan a speedy recovery, and hopefully we’ll see him out on the road in the not-too-distant future.

And while this sucks, it shouldn’t discourage anyone from going to the shows, ’cause you just know that Bison B.C. and Woe of Tyrants are gonna continue to murder it.

Here are the remaining dates of the tour:

July 31 2009 – San Jose CA @ Voodoo Lounge
Aug 1 2009 – Portland OR @ Ash St Saloon
Aug 2 2009 – Seattle WA @ El Corazon

If you haven’t done so already, check out our special Baptized in Beer tour blogs from Bison B.C.’s Dan And and Woe of Tyrants’ Chris Catanzaro.

MetalSucks is proud to present the exclusive premiere of “The Death of Love,” the epic new video from Cradle of Filth! It’s got war, blood, beautiful women, and a lesson in medieval French history. What else would you expect from symphonic black metal’s most infamous band?

The track comes off of COF’s latest, Godspeed On the Devil’s Thunder, which is out now on Roadrunner Records. We hope you dig the video as much as we do!

[This exclusive has now ended.]

Three words:

METAL. AS. FUCK.

Breathing the Fire comes out October 13 on Prosthetic.

-AR

I’ve gotten multiple e-mails from peeps about this interview The Eagles of Death Metal front dude Jesse Hughes just gave to the Montreal Mirror.

Now, I should preface this by saying I’ve heard very little of TEODM’s music, and what I hear didn’t do anything for me. But, clearly Hughes is a funny guy.

But the statements everyone is harping on seem kinda… well… shrug. Read for yourself:

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The Blood and Shutter metal photo/art/design blog (by way of the always excellent Metal Insider) tells us that The Waste are the latest band to offer their new album in super awesome deluxe packaging, for those of us who still, y’know, buy physical product n’ shit.

So: the deluxe version of MW’s new album, Massive Aggressive (out August 25 on Earache), a woven logo wristband, a woven logo patch, three pins, and, perhaps best of all, a clam box. Which is not actually meant for holding clams. In case ya didn’t know.

Now, normally, I just keep my weed on my desk. But I’ve had to end that practice recently when The Antichrist Sacha the Death Metal Puppy – who I swear is some kind of idiot savant – figured out how to push my chair to the desk to make a ladder, thus allowing him to get to said desk and eat promo CDs, some credit cards, and, oh yeah, some greens. So an awesome Municipal Waste clam box might be just what I need right about now.

US fans can order the box set here, whilst our friends in Europe need to go here. The prices strikes me as pretty reasonable.

-AR

Last week, Elise at Reign in Blonde wrote a piece entitled “TOP 5 SONGS I WOULD PROBABLY USE AS MY STRIPPER SONG.”

Improbably enough, this led to a stoned think-session where I came up with a list of the top five songs I would probably use as my own stripper song. ‘Cause I know you all wanna see me strip so badly.

Okay, here we go:

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It seems like the entire metal world has gone kuh-rayzee with mash-up fever. The latest come from Nick Green at The Deciblog…

First up we have Nuclear Assault mashed up with Snoop Doggy Dogg, or Snopp Dogg, or Snopp, or Calvin, or whatever the fuck he’s calling himself these days. And, kinda oddly, this mash-up doesn’t bother me so much. Maybe it’s just my fond memories of Doggystyle (1993 woot-woot!) and the pornographic cartoon that came with it, or maybe it’s just because, against all odds, the visibly stoned-out-of-his-gourd Snoop ended up being far and away the most entertaining act at Metallica’s MTV Icon thing (including Metallica). But this somehow works for me:

If you head over to The Deciblog, Mr. Green has also posted a mash-up of Meshuggah and Lil’ Wayne. I hate that one, although it does make me wanna listen to the actual “Bleed.”

-AR