After debuting the song “Karate Nipples” right here on MetalSucks last month, Iwrestledabearonce — possibly the most popular allegedly unpopular band in metal today — have unveiled another new song on their Facebook page. This one is called “Next Visible Delicious,” and it’s actually the opening track from the band’s forthcoming release, Ruining it for Everybody.

And… I don’t know what else to say. Sorry. Don’t mean to be lazy. But it seems like most of you have made up your mind about IWABO already. So some of us will be over on one side of the room, rockin’ out to this song and having fun, and the rest of you will be on the other side room, quietly and almost imperceptibly bobbing your heads along with Yog Sogolgoth or some band like that. And a percentage of the Yog Sogolgoth crowd will probably be secretly wishing they could be on the IWABO side of the room, but they’re too scared to walk over for fear of what their pal in the Necrobluhdist shirt will say about them. So it’s really just a sad situation over on the Yog Sogolgoth side of the room.

Shrug. Your loss.

Ruining it for Everybody comes out July 26 on Century Media. The band hasn’t even released the best material from the album yet.

-AR

Every now and then you hear or see a band that is truly pushing the envelope; a band that is doing things you’d never envision in your wildest dreams or most haunting nightmares. What’s worse is that these bands are not only few and far between; they’re often completely enigmatic and not at all prolific.

Such is the case with Elote 5, a Mexican (we think) grind band that we caught, totally by accident, this past Saturday night in Brooklyn.

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Our friends at Noisecreep must really enjoy getting yelled at by internet trolls, because now they’ve gone and published a list of the Best Metal Bands of the Decade. Like the other lists they’ve published as of late, this one was compiled by polling “a panel of music insiders,” which included yours truly. Look, ma! I’m an “insider!” You’re gonna make it after alllllll…

Anyways, I voted for four of the ten bands that made the final list, and I realize now that there’s one I didn’t vote for that was a major oversight on my part, so I’m glad they made it on there even without my help. And I think it’s a pretty solid line-up overrall. I suspect that more than a few of you will shit your pants over the inclusion of Slipknot, but I think Slipknot might be one of the most famous metal band of the past ten years that wasn’t already firmly established prior to 2000 (e.g., Slayer, Tool, etc.) and didn’t spend the decade sucking down goat semen (e.g., Metallica, Korn, etc.). By the way, I didn’t vote for Slipknot, I’m just saying I don’t think they deserve all the shit they take. Just some of the shit they take.

But I digress. Read the list here, and then come back and bitch and moan because Yog Sogolgoth (or the so-underground-no-one-knows-who-the-fuck-they-are tr00 kvlt band of your choice) didn’t make the cut.

-AR