MetalSucks

Enough is enough. If I have to scroll down 3 fucking screen-lengths in order to hear any music, it’s too much. If the MySpace page takes half a minute to load because the images are all 500k and hosted on photobucket, it’s too much. If a video player auto-loads you deserve a punch in the face. If your heavily-photoshopped band photo and use of eye-bleeding colors makes me go blind I’m assuming you’re covering up for the fact that your music sucks. All I need something simple to visually represent the band and the player itself… ya know, where the music is. Enough with the atrocious MySpace designs already. This goes for well-established signed bands too.

I’m really digging BandCamp.com lately as a vehicle for bands to have all-in-one pages. It’s so much simpler, faster, more functional, and best of all… leaves no room for bands to over-design their page and over-hype their own wares. Labels and bands, check that out. No one uses the social networking elements of MySpace anymore anyways.

Sincerely,
VN

In case ya’ll don’t know, we’re down with all the cool kids. Join us on MySpace, Facebook and Twitter if you haven’t already. OK, maybe not MySpace.

The killer metal news site SMNnews.com has just re-launched with a brand new design and interface; we highly recommend you use SMN as your metal news source rather than that other site.

Also be sure to check out the intrepid industry reporting the lads at MetalInsider.net are doing — smart, timely and sadonic, just the way we like it.

That is all. You may now return to your regular daily business.

It be true. So go and add us as a friend, won’t you? BIG ups to MetalSucks intern Natalie C., who took a break from changing our bong water and did an amazing job with our newly revamped MySpace. So check that shit out too, son. Yeeeahh boy!

On Friday we asked you guys if you still use MySpace, and the answer overwhelmingly suggested that you use it mostly for music listening and rarely for social networking anymore [That having been said, this poll was done on a music blog - Ed.]. Well, someone forgot to give this poor kid the memo. Iann Robinson of Nonelouder posted the following home video clip on Friday of a young kid in absolute hysterics freaking the fuck out when his older siblings try to take away MySpace from him. This is hilarious and extremely upsetting at the same. If it’s real — which we think it is.

-VN

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MySpace seems to have hit some tough times. Since the site hit its popularity peak some time in late 2005, it seems like people are abandoning the social networking elements in favor of Facebook (and others), and are only using MySpace for its music-listening capabilities. In other words, the coolness factor seems to have worn off. What do you think?