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AT LAST: METALSUCKS SHIRTS AND HOODIES!!!
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 3:30pm by MetalSucksWe’ve been talking about making MetalSucks merch almost as long as there’s been a MetalSucks, and “When can I buy a shirt?” is easily one of the questions we’re asked most frequently (along with “When is Completely Unreadable Band Logo coming back?” and “Why are you guys such assholes?”). Well, the day has arrived at last – MetalSucks shirts and hoodies are here!
There are four different styles, which were graciously designed for us by Rodney Githens from Vertebrae 33, Sergeant D from Metal Inquistion and Stuff You Will Hate (check out his flickr page for more design work!), and Jesse Zuretti from The Binary Code. Everything will start shipping two weeks from today, but you can place pre-orders now.
Check out the various designs after the jump… we hope you’re as stoked on ‘em as we are!
LIVE WEBCHAT WITH DEVIN TOWNSEND TONIGHT! MIDNIGHT EST / 9PM PST
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 12:30pm by MetalSucksIn addition to graciously offering to run our site for a whole day, Devin is going to be making himself available for a live webchat tonight!
At exactly midnight EST / 9pm PST (that’s 5am Wednesday in the UK and 4pm Wednesday in Sydney), a Meebo chat room will appear embedded in a new top post at MetalSucks. Devin will be chatting under the handle “DT” (imposters beware), and the chat will last for a full hour as long as you are all good samaritans and don’t turn it into a raging shitfest. Free to ask Devin anything at all. If you can’t be in front your computer tonight, don’t fret — Devin plans to do a similar chat via Twitter within the next few days in which he’ll answer more questions and clear up any issues that might arise out of the MetalSucks session.
Thanks and see you tonight!
TOMORROW: DEVIN TOWNSEND SUCKS
Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 5:00pm by MetalSucks
We’ll keep this short and sweet.
Tomorrow, The Devin Townsend Project will release Addicted, the second part of a four album cycle.
To celebrate, Mr. Townsend is taking over MetalSucks for the day.
Seriously.
We’re not dicking around.
Devin Townsend is running MetalSucks tomorrow.
We know. We can’t fucking believe it, either.
We hope you’re as stoked as we are.
That is all.
Now if you’ll excuse us, we need to go splash some cold water on our faces.
-Axl & Vince
SCRAPED THAT GENIUS OFF OUR WHEEL
Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 4:30pm by MetalSucksWe have fired Gary Suarez. There will be no more Scraping Genius Off the Wheel.
We have put up with Gary’s bullshit for a long time now. Whether it was praising Bush or defending Chris fucking Cornell or giving unauthorized interviews where he admitted to being “the odd man out at MetalSucks” or naming Kingdom of Sorrow’s album the best of 2008 or Andrew WK’s I Get Wet the best metal album of the 21st century, Gary has been at the center of more screaming matches during MS editorial meetings than any other writer we’ve ever worked with. And we generally loved his writing just enough to put up with his nonsense.
But that Oceano review was going too far.
WIN A SAW BOXED SET AND PASSES TO A KILLER PARTY FROM OUR FRIENDS AT METAL INSIDER
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 at 4:00pm by MetalSucksIt’s horror movie season, and with the sixth installation of the ridiculously successful Saw franchise opening next Friday, Lionsgate and our pals over at Metal Insider want to hook you up! The same day the movie opens, Metal Insider is having their first Annual CMJ Listening Party. There will be plenty of Saw VI goodies on hand, as well as an exclusive listening party for Slayer’s World Painted Blood, a screening of their creepy DVD extra Playing With Dolls and a showing of the Gallows DVD Grey Britain. This is an RSVP-only event, which means it’s closed to the public.
However, Metal Insider has got your ticket in to this exclusive event! All you have to do to enter is e-mail saw6 [at] metal insider [dot] net with your name and why you deserve to go! If you place or link the above trailer on your social networking site (MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, etc) and send us a screen cap, you’ll be entered twice! If you win and can make it to our party, you and a friend will be added to the guest list and win a prize pack with a bunch of goodies including a Saw VI t-shirt, a copy of Anvil: The Story of Anvil book, a Metal Insider MusicSkin and more! Even if you can’t make it out, you’ll still be eligible to win a box set of Saw 1-5.
They’ll pick a winner on Wednesday morning. Only open to ages 18+, sorry kiddies! Entering automatically subscribes you to the Metal Insider and Lionsgate Films e-mail lists.
More details on our party can be found at Metal Insider.
CONTESTS, CONTESTS, EVERYWHERE FUCKIN’ CONTESTS
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 at 12:00pm by MetalSucksWe’re running so many cool contests on MetalSucks right now that we figured it would be a good idea to write them all down in one place so I can keep track of everything as a service to our readers. Here’s what we’re currently running:
- Have some fun drawing your best version of Ahhhnold in MS Paint and win Austrian Death Machine’s entire catalog.
- Impersonate Children of Bodom’s Alexi Laiho on video, win Alexi’s signature model ESP guitar.
- Win Revolver Magazine’s special edition all-SLAYER issue in our weekly funny photo caption contest.
Also, for those keeping score at home, we chose a winner to our Loudpark ticket giveaway; that winner is Ohad Gonen, and his winning entry is posted in its entirety after the jump if you’d like to read it. Go ahead and accuse us of Jew favoritism and you’d be dead wrong half-right.
REGARDING THE LEAK OF CONVERGE’S AXE TO FALL
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 at 10:00am by MetalSucksAs you may have heard by now, yesterday Converge’s new album, Axe to Fall, leaked. The watermarked files demonstrate that the leak originated with a MetalSucks staff writer, Shaun Hand.
We would like to formally apologize on behalf of everyone at MetalSucks for the leak. We take full responsibility.
METALSUCKS NOW AVAILABLE ON iPHONE AND BLACKBERRY!
Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 2:00pm by MetalSucks
A couple of weeks back we debuted a new, sleekened iPhone compatible version of MetalSucks, and now we’re pleased to announce that you can access MetalSucks on your Blackberry via the Viigo Rock! app. Viigo is a leader in the Blackberry application space, and we’re pleased to have them on board as our Blackberry mobile solution. Included in the Rock! module in addition to MetalSucks: DeafLeftEar.com, DrivenFarOff.com, MetalInjection.net, MetalInsider.net, MetalUnderground.com, PureGrainAudio.com and SMNnews.com. All you need, really. The Rock! build is immediately available for download at http://getviigo.com/rock.
ZILTOID, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF METALSUCKS (FOR A DAY)
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 at 11:00pm by MetalSucksFriendly reminder: as the winner of our best contest ever, MetalSucks reader Ziltoid will be running the site tomorrow, Friday, August 28. All stories will be written by him, and even the site’s slogan for the day was chosen by him.
Our regularly scheduled programming will resume on Monday, August 31.
-Axl, Vince, and Everyone at MetalSucks
METALSUCKS: NOW iPHONE FRIENDLY
Monday, August 17th, 2009 at 11:12am by MetalSucks
Axl and Vince both recently got douchie iPhones, because they do everything together including eating, sleeping, fucking and going to shul. But honestly, the quality of life improvement resulting from said purchases is that drastic; life is without a doubt much, much better now.
So, as some of you have already noticed MetalSucks is now iPhone friendly; if you visit MetalSucks using Safari on an iPhone or iPod Touch you’ll see a much sleeker, simpler, faster version of the site. If you’d prefer to view it the old/normal/slow way, just scroll all the way down to the bottom and flick the “Mobile Theme” slider to “off.”
Maybe a MetalSucks app soon? Who knows.
SALE: GET ANY OF OUR ‘21 BEST’ ALBUMS FOR 12% OFF AT THE OMEGA ORDER!
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 12:00pm by MetalSucks
Love our 21 Best Metal Albums of the 21st Century List or hate it, a sale’s a sale and you can’t fuck with saving money. MetalSucks has partnered up with The Omega Order to bring you a special deal; 12% off any of the 21 albums on our list! Fill in that classic album that’s been missing from your collection or take a chance on a band you hadn’t heard of before (we’re just asking for flames here, aren’t we?).
Check out the MetalSucks 21 Best Metal Albums of the 21st Century / The Omega Order storefront. Prices shown are before the discount; just enter the coupon code “MS21″ when you check out, and you’ll be all set. On a $15 CD, that’s almost $2 off!
Please free to tell us how much our list sucks in the comments below.
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 2:00pm by MetalSucksYou may have noticed that this morning’s pieces on Alice in Chains and Every Time I Die are now gone.
Obviously, we’re trying to correct this issue.
Please bear with us.
Thanks.
-Axl, Vince and Everyone at MetalSucks
ONE LAST TEASE ABOUT THE LIST
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 at 4:00pm by MetalSucksTomorrow we are going to tell you what the list is all about. In the meantime, here’s one last little tease.
Last week we told you that the list is actually the result of a poll, and that certain members of certain bands all participated in the poll.
Managers, publicists, and labels reps who work with, have worked with, or in some cases even discovered the following bands also participated in the poll:
WE DIDN’T MAKE THE LIST ALL BY OURSELVES
Friday, May 29th, 2009 at 4:15pm by MetalSucksIn fact, the list is the result of a poll.
Members of the following bands all had their say.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE LIST
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 at 4:30pm by MetalSucksYeserday we told you that we’re making a list.
Here are some (but not all) of the bands that are, for better or worse, not eligible to appear on this list.
WE’RE MAKING A LIST
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 at 6:22pm by MetalSucksWe can’t tell you about it yet, but… get excited.
TODAY
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 at 9:53am by Axl RosenbergI’m sick as a dog and since I haven’t seen Vince around the mansion this morning, I’m thinking he might still be in Kentucky.
In any case, expect limited (if any) posting today. With the aid of antibiotics, things should be back to normal tomorrow.
-AR
METALSUCKS FAQS
Friday, May 15th, 2009 at 1:00pm by MetalSucksIs this a news site?
No.
Are you journalists?
No. We’re bloggers.
Why do you report the news in such a biased way?
Because we don’t report the news. We’re bloggers, not journalists. If you’re getting your world news from The Daily Show, you’re an idiot. If you’re getting your metal news from us, you’re an idiot.
UM, SO ABOUT THAT “APOLOGY”…
Friday, May 1st, 2009 at 10:37am by Axl Rosenberg
“So that’s how you get swine flu!”
Dear Everyone,
- This post was a joke.
- If you’d clicked the included links, you would have seen it was a joke. Thanks to all three of you who did click said links.
- Mark Moritz-Rabson did not seriously write me a scolding e-mail. He provided me with the (in my opinion, hilarious) link included in the post. I tried to incorporate him into the joke. Clearly, that didn’t go so well.
- No joke is ever off-limits here at MetalSucks. For example, here’s a good one: What do you do after eating out the cleanest pussy in the world? Put the diaper back on. See? Pedophilia is funny. Ha ha ha.
- Get swine flu and die.
Kisses and bunnies and rainbows,
AR












