MetalSucks’ Top 25 Most Popular Stories of 2018

This will be likely MetalSucks’ last week of regular posting for 2018, because even asshole metal bloggers celebrate the holidays (and by “celebrate,” we mean “lounge on our fat asses”). But before we go, we wanted to take stock of the year, as we always do, by reviewing the past twelve months’ top traffic-generating posts on MetalSucks. Thus, here is 2018 in review, as decided by the stories that you, or beloved readers, clicked on:

#25: Huntress Frontwoman Jill Janus Has Died at 43 Years Old

#24: Mayhem: Per “Dead” Ohlin Skull Fragment for Sale

#23: Etienne Sin: What the Actual Fuck

#22: Editorial: Of Course Black Metal Is Racist—It’s Evil

#21: Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated by Mass Amounts of Filthy Fecal Fisting and Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside the Infected Maggot Infested Womb of a Molested Nun Dying Under the Roof of a Burning Church While a Priest Watches and Ejaculates in Immense Perverse Pleasure over His First Fresh Fetus Release New Album

#20: Watch the Trailer for Heavy Trip, a Comedy About a Finnish Death Metal Band Trying to Get to a Norwegian Festival on Time

#19: Pestilence’s Patrick Mameli Scolds Facebook Follower with a Racist Slur, Propagates Jewish Stereotypes, Defends Donald Trump and Fox News

#18: BREAKING: Slayer Announce Final World Tour

#17: Album Review: A Perfect Circle’s Eat the Elephant

#16: Scientists Name a Newly Discovered Species After Between the Buried and Me

#15: Tool Fan on Twitter is Clearly Unaware That He’s Arguing with Maynard James Keenan

#14: Watain: Photo of Guitarist Giving the Nazi Salute Surfaces Online

#13: Vinnie Paul Dead at 54

#12: The 50 Most Popular Metal Bands Right Now, According to the Internet

#11: Update: The Entire Band Just Quit The Faceless

#10: The Problem with Taake Isn’t Just the Swastika Chest Paint Incident

#9: BREAKING: Coheed & Cambria’s Claudio Sanchez Has Cut Off His Hair!

#8: Periphery Leaving Sumerian Records; Label Chief Ash Avildsen Says the Band “Are Their Own Worst Enemy”

#7: Every Time I Die’s Keith Buckley To Trump Supporters: “My Band Doesn’t Need You. Nobody Does.”

#6: Blood on the Dance Floor’s Dahvie Vanity Accused of Sexually Assaulting Multiple Women, Many While They Were Underage

#5: Nazi Imagery: Why Watain and Marduk Don’t Get a Pass While Slayer and Metallica Do

#4: Dave Lombardo to Appear at Select Shows on Slayer’s Farewell Tour

#3: Report: Inquisition’s Jason “Dagon” Weirbach Plead Guilty to Child Pornography-Related Charges in 2009

#2: Babymetal Guitarist Mikio “Ko-Gami” Fujioka Has Died at 36 Years Old After Falling from Observation Deck

#1: L.A. Band Threatin Faked a Fanbase To Land a European Tour No One Attended