In Which We Got Herpes from Our Uncle

THE METALSUCKS WORST WEEK PLAYLIST — WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 15 – SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

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Here are this week’s top stories:

• We debuted new music from Obituary!
• The Contortionist took over our site for a whole day!
• Everyone continued to obsess over Slipknot’s new masks, one of which conceals the face of new drummer Jay Weinberg, who is not very popular with his former bandmates from Against Me!
• Papa Roach got herpes from kissing Uncle Roach.
• Now you can eat Slayer pizza in your Slayer car.
• Bloodbath announced Paradise Lost’s Nick Holmes as their new vocalist.
• Buckcherry’s Keith Nelson got pissy about the Apple/U2 free album stunt.
• Someone covered Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” on an acoustic bass made from an old water bottle, because the internet.
• Someone else wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on Job for a Cowboy, deathcore, and so-called “MySpace bands.”
• How did it take someone so long to think of this Sepultura/Guardians of the Galaxy mash-up?
• We spoke to King Diamond on The MetalSucks Podcast.

Aight. We out. See ya Monday!