Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at 2:15pm by Axl Rosenberg
I am increasingly convinced that the new Anthrax album, Worship Music, is going to suck. It’s just a weird gut feeling I get… like I’m gearing up for disappointment. Everyone knows the record is coming out, but no one really seems to care. Like that G.I. Joe movie or some shit.
Here’s the band covering Refused’s “New Noise,” and, uhhh, it doesn’t do anything to squash that icky feeling I have. I want so badly to be wrong, but fear so very much that I am right.
By the way, I love that Rob Caggiano now has more hair than Robin Williams, and yet still refuses to headbang. Super.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at 12:15pm by Axl Rosenberg
I know I’m probably not supposed to say this, given that we co-sponsored the tour and all, but Moonsorrow blew every other band off the stage at this year’s Paganfest. And they had the best merch. Did anyone else get one of those shirts with the viking ship sailing away from a burning Statue of Liberty? One day I will wear that shirt around Corpus Christi, Texas. Fuck yes.
Metal Injection, with whom we frequently spoon, have done what they always do, which is captured some sick video footage of the band in question raping and pillaging at Paganfest earlier this year. I’ve posted one clip below; you can check out another here.
Also worth checking out: Metal Injection Israeli Station Chief Noa’s interview with Moonsorrow’s Ville Sorvali, where he does, in fact, answer the question set forth in my headline.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at 9:58am by Axl Rosenberg
Early Man front dude and friend of MetalSucks Mike Conte posted the below on his site, Whiplash, and it’s just too good not to post. The specifics, of course, need no explanation.
For more fun with Sesame Street and metal, check this out.
Raise your hand if you’ve listened to Daath’s new record The Concealers. Through my telepathic e-screen abilities I know that there are not nearly enough hands in the air right now, because a) you’re not stupid enough to actually raise your hands because an Interweb article said said so, b) your hands are probably on your dicks at the moment as you wait for that p0rn torrent to finish downloading, c) not nearly e-fucking-nough of you have heard this ridiculously great record! Like, seriously, The Concealers has quite possibly gotten the most spins on my iPod in the past few months, right up there with Earthsblood and Crack the Skye. It’s silly good!
So when the band came to us and asked us to host the world premier of their new music video for “Day of Endless Light,” we were more than happy to oblige. The track is one of the heavier and faster tracks on The Concealers but it’s still got that swaggery Daath groove. The video was directed and animated by Robin Fuller. Check it out below.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 11:00am by Axl Rosenberg
Darkest Hour are currently out on the road doing the MetalSucks co-sponsored Summer Slaughter tour, and they’re doing a video tour diary for our gay lovers at Metal Injection. Check it out below.
It’s good to see that Lonestar is growing his mega-beard back. It’s also good to see his package.
ANYWAY, I’ve seen enough of the touring lifestyle to know that I don’t ever want to go on tour. But then again, it looks like these dudes are having so much fun…
Look for more Darkest Hour tour diaries at Metal Injection throughout the rest of the summer. And you can Summer Slaughter tour dates here. In addition to Darkest Hour you get Suffocation, Necrophagist, Ensiferum, Dying Fetus, Origin, Born of Osiris, Winds of Plague, and a bunch of other cool bands, so definitely check it out!!!
Monday, June 29th, 2009 at 10:00am by Vince Neilstein
It’s hard to believe there are two new Pirate Metal bands breaking in 2009, but here we are in June and both Alestorm and Swashbuckle have already toured the U.S. extensively. We’ve gotten 3 irate reader emails demanding we post the new Alestorm video “Keelhauled,” so here it is; and it’s pretty fucking bad-ass.
For reference, the new Swashbuckle video is posted after the jump. While both videos are pretty cool, I’m feelin’ the Alestorm track way more than I am the Swashbuckle track. The Alestorm track sounds like true, beer-swiggin’, raping and pillaging Scottish Pirate Metal, while the Swashbuckle track sounds like tongue-in-cheek thrash played by guys dressed up as pirates from… New Jersey. You be the judge, and tell us what you think in the comments.
Friday, June 26th, 2009 at 10:00am by Axl Rosenberg
Metal Blade will release The Red Chord’s new album, Fed Through the Teeth Machine, later this year. In the meantime, guitarist Mike “Gunface” McKenzie is shooting and editing an in-studio diary for our friends at Metal Injection.
Watch part four below. You can check out part one here, part two here, part three here, and a new song, “Floating Through the Vein,” here.
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 12:38pm by MetalSucks
Tokyo thrash disciples Grief of War – who call their kamikaze brand of thrash “samurai crunch” – return with a vengeance on their new album Worship, which will be released on July 7 via that bastion-of-stellar-metal Prosthetic Records. We’re proud to host the world premier of the video for the record’s title track. The band’s MySpace page has a stream of another new song, “Disorder,” if you’re jonesin’ for some more Japanese thrash after checking out the new video below.
Any of our 241 readers who leave in Tokoyo or nearby should definitely check out Grief of War live at their July 20th CD release show at Explosion in Tokyo. Banzai!
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 9:45am by Vince Neilstein
All this Fear Factory brou-haha got me huntin’ for Fear Factory live videos this morning… and I found this performance of the band at Bizarre Festival in 1998 performing “Edgecrusher.” Obsolete must have literally just come out. Watching this, I’m reminded of that fact that Fear Factory were totally nu-metal; I’m not saying this is a good or bad thing (that’s for ya’ll to argue about)… I’m just sayin’.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 12:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
Here’s a pretty cool story for you.
The above video for the song “Duststorm,” off Daath’s truly excellent recent release The Concealers, was fan-made. But the band loved it so much that… well, best to just let guitarist/MetalSucks blogger Eyal Levi explain:
MetalSucks is thrilled to premier the brand new music video for Metal Blade Records artists Woe of Tyrants. The track, “Golgotha,” comes from the record Kingdom of Might, released in January of this year. The music video was directed by Jake Beemer of Siege Media.
Says vocalist Chris Catanzaro, “We have worked with Jake and Siege Media twice now, and it’s very exciting for us to see a young company develop between two videos shot in such a close proximity. We feel Jake and the crew captured the mood and excitement that we’d envisioned for this song and we’re excited to premier it with our friends at Metalsucks and Metal Injection for all of you to enjoy as well. Big thanks as always to our friends at Siege Media for tireless efforts and quick turnarounds and also the warehouse in Detroit, MI where the video was shot!”
So Dangerous New Machine have a new video for their song “Burn.” Dig it. Like Metal Inquisition’s Sergeant D and Crazytown, I’m just a sucker for this stuff. Ain’t nothin’ kvlt/br00tal/tr00 about it. It isn’t even all that original. But the songs are good and I love it!
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 at 11:00am by MetalSucks
Cain. Iago. Lecter. Vader. Joker. The dude in the black hat is always the most interesting character in any given story. Who gives a shit about the pansy ass hero who wants to save the day because it’s the right thing to do and yadda yadda yadda? The villian is the guy who’s gonna buck the system. The bad ass. The man with the motherfucking plan.
DevilDriver understand this better than most. They’ve got an awesome new album, Pray for Villians, coming out July 14 on Roadrunner Records, and it’s all about the celebration of the rebel. The anti-hero. The guy you need to fear.
MetalSucks is proud to debut DevilDriver’s brand new video for the title track. It was directed by Nathan Cox, who, in addition to the last two DevilDriver videos, has also worked with Trivium, Lacuna Coil, Queens of the Stone Age, and loads others, so ya know it’s a gonna be a masterpiece of modern cinemetal. Check it out below! Pre-order the special edition of Pray For Villains at a special discount here.
You can pre-order DevilDriver’s Pray for Villainshere as either a Special Edition digi CD/DVD with bonus tracks or the regular edition CD. Either way, if you order now, you get an autographed booklet to sweeten the deal. You can also get all your up-to-the-millisecond DevilDriver news at the band’s Roadrunner home page.
And don’t forget to check out DevilDriver headlining the MetalSucks co-sponsored Thrash & Burn tour all summer long. Get official tour dates here.
Monday, June 15th, 2009 at 4:37pm by Vince Neilstein
Last night Messieurs Neilstein, Wingerschmidt and Suarez attended the Brooklyn Vegan metal showcase at Club Europa where Wetnurse, Javelina, Howl, Clouds, Doomriders and a bunch of other sickly good metal bands slayed a devoted audience of Brooklyn metal die-hards.* Our hetero life-mates at Metal Injection were there to capture the rockage of Doomriders — the punk/noise/metal/blues-rawk band featuring Nate Newton of Converge and John-Robert Connors of Cave In — and they’ve already posted videos of four, count ‘em four, songs. Check them out performing “Black Thunder,” aka the best song ever, below, then after the jump check out footage of 3 brand new songs all set to appear on their forthcoming Deathwish Records summer release.
Monday, June 15th, 2009 at 1:56pm by Vince Neilstein
So, Chickenfoot released a new video last week. Chickenfoot of Hagar, Anthony, Satriani and Smith fame. Chickenfoot of selling over 49,000 albums (!!) during their album’s first week on the charts fame. Chickenfoot, recipients of a collective MetalSucks Haterade Mafia shrug. The video is basically just a collection of candid, studio, live performance and “goofing around” shots, which given the band’s makeup and selling points makes a whole lot of sense. And the fact that it’s so low budget is kind of refreshing, playing down the celebrity status of the band’s members. The perfect video for a ho-hum but serviceable rock song.
In other news, Eddie Van Halen is probably still saying Michael Anthony quit Van Halen and Michael Anthony is probably still saying he was kicked out. Same shit different day.
Monday, June 15th, 2009 at 12:39pm by Vince Neilstein
Acclaimed documentary and recipient of “Top 5 Metal DVDs of 2008” status, Heavy Metal In Baghdad — the moving documentary about Iraq’s only (at least at the time) metal band and the incredible obstacles they’re forced to overcome just to survive — is now available for streaming in its entirety on Hulu.com. Big ups to Vice / VBS.tv and Hulu for making this happen — more people need to see this incredible movie. In case you somehow missed it, watch the trailer below.
Friday, June 12th, 2009 at 3:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
Steve Stamopoulos sent us this video of Rob Halford performing the Judas Priest classic “Delivering the Goods” with Skid Row on MTV. I remember watching this when it first aired, on whatever MTV’s equivalent of TRL was back in the day. The show was hosted by future ex-The Panic Channel vocalist, Steve Isaacs, who was maybe the last (only) cool VJ in the channel’s history.
There’s a studio version of this on the Skids’ most forgettable covers EP, B-Side Ourselves. It’s fun to watch this video, though, ’cause a) the song rocks and b) Halford is dressed like trailer trash.
