Noisecreep have unveiled their list of the Top 10 Death Metal Debut Albums (although the list is in no particular order), courtesy Friend of MetalSucks, Carlos Ramirez.

And for once, I don’t actually have any complaints. The list is pretty good.

That being said, I’m sure you folks will find something to bitch about, so… have at it!!!

-AR

New music that might tickle your pickle…

Click to read more…

Blood Oath comes out July 7 on Nuclear Blast.

-AR

In case that new KSE song was too soft for ya: here’s Suffocation performing a new song, “Mental Hemorrhage,” off their forthcoming album, Blood Oath. I kinda wish it had some faster parts. Other than that, no complaints on my end.

-AR

[via Blabbermouth]

So the line-up for Summer Slaughter – a.k.a. the big summer package tour that isn’t Ozzfest, Mayhem, Warped, or Sounds of the Underground (R.I.P.) – has been announced, and, pretty much as expected, it’s totally solid. Yes, there are a few bands on the bill I don’t care for (I’m looking at you, Winds of Plague), but the presence of co-headliners Suffocation and Necrophagist, plus Darkest Hour, Origin, Born of Osiris, Dying Fetus and Blackguard pretty much guarantees this will be a day (well, late afternoon at least) worth your time and money. Especially since, unlike the aforementioned summer fests, this one plays smaller venues and comes at a cheaper price.

Also kind of advantageous: you’re basically just dealing with death metal on this tour. So… you pretty much know if you’re the audience or not for this tour.

No dates yet… stay tuned for more details.

-AR

2009 is Suffocation’s twentieth anniversary (!), and they’re celebrating in all the usual ways: a headlining tour, a new album, a DVD, and… a video game?

Click to read more…

So many of you have e-mailed us this week to instruct us to post news about the fact that Opeth and Enslaved are touring together that I’m fairly certain posting news about the fact that Opeth and Enslaved are touring together is a complete waste of time; I mean, clearly, everyone and their mother is already aware of this tour.

I’m not saying this isn’t an awesome package – clearly, it is – I’m just saying, you’ve all sent us the news and the tour dates, so what can we tell you that you don’t already know? How about this: we will be at the show at the Starland Ballroom in NJ, and we will be high. Actually, you probably knew that already, too.

I’m putting tour dates after the jump, although I don’t for the life of me know why.

Click to read more…

Well, I wanted to try and make last week’s logo a little easier, and I guess I succeeded, ’cause a whole bunch of you correctly identified said logo as belonging to the band Bazzah. Unfortunately, there can be only four winners, and the luck of the draw tells me they’re Doug Gross, Jack Smock, Nathan Griggs and Joshua Ray Jacobs. Each of these lucky bastards wins a copy of Cavalera Conspiracy’s Infliked. Be envious.

This week, the noble men and women at Roadrunner Records have donated five copies of The Best of Suffocation for us to give away. Vince, Kip, Anton OyVey and I all just saw NYC’s own Suffocation open for Carcass on Saturday night, and almost two decades since their debut, they still fucking kill it, and Frank Mullen is still one of the funniest motherfuckers ever to front a br00tal death metal band. If you’re just breaking into the world of metal, here’s a great primer on a great band, and if you already love Suffocation, well, here’s your chance to be a completist.

All you have to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail with your answer, your name and address at axl [at] metalsucks.net. We’ll randomly select four winners from everyone who gets it right, and announce their names next Monday.

The bad news is that this week’s logo is fucking hard, and the good news is that this band has a new album out, so more enterprising readers should be able to figure it out. Good luck…

-AR

I’ve been meaning to write about Germany’s Necrophagist for some time now — their last album Epitaph is fucking brutal with a capital BRU and a testament to just how expressive extremely technical extreme metal can truly be. Slays me every time; the playing, the songwriting, the punishing — it’s all here. And much like most of us here at MetalSucks will do this very weekend, you too can see these dudes play as opener along with Suffocation on the Carcass reunion tour for the next week or so on the East Coast. Check out the band’s MySpace page for tour dates.

KILL.

NECROPHAGIST - “The Stillborn One”, from Epitaph (2004)

NECROPHAGIST – “Seven”, from Epitaph (2004)

NECROPHAGIST – “Fermented Offal Discharge”, from Onset of Putrefaction (1999)

[Visit Necrophagist's website]

-KW

Mazel tov to MetalSucks readers Daniel Santana and Mark Moritz-Rabson. They correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Patisserie. That was a hard one, and for Daniel and Mark’s Herculean efforts, they’ve each won a copy of The Best of Suffocation, courtesy the good folks at Roadrunner Records.

This week Roadrunner has donated two copies of The Best of Obituary for us to give away. Whether you’re a hardcore Obituary completist or a new fan looking for a quick introduction to these death metal legends, this is a pretty sweet compilation.

All you have to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail with your answer, your name and address at axl [at] metalsucks.net. We’ll randomly select two winners from everyone who gets it right, and announce their name one week from today.

Good luck, everyone. Have a br00tal weekend!

-AR

Whoa. So I guess last week’s logo was pretty hard, because very, very few of you got it correct. The band it belongs to is called Abort Mastication, by the way, and five of the lucky MetalSucks winners who did get it right – Andrew Robbins, Sydney Kekoler, Bertie Michaels, Josh Dechter and Earl Eames – will each one a copy of Cavalera Conspiracy’s awesome new album, Infliked. Congrats, kiddies.

This week, the fine men and women at Roadrunner Records have graciously supplied us with two copies of The Best of Suffocation to give away. Whether you’re a hardcore Suffocation completist or a new fan looking for a quick introduction to these death metal legends, this is a pretty sweet compilation.

All you have to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail with your answer, your name and address at axl [at] metalsucks.net. We’ll randomly select two winners from everyone who gets it right, and announce their name one week from today.

Good luck, everyone. Have a br00tal weekend!

-AR

Ah, the simple pleasures of New York’s own Suffocation. They only want you to die in the most painful, horrific manner imaginable – is that so wrong?

Anyway, here’s two clips of the band performing “Infecting the Crypt.” I don’t know exactly what year the first clip was filmed, but Frank Mullen still has all his hair, so it must’ve been back in the day. The second clip was taken from a performance in Bucharest last year. You can argue amongst yourselves if this band has aged like a fine wine or with all the dignity of Joan Rivers.

[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/9nD1HsXLf9c" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/Adhimi3qTqw" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]

-AR