Vince Neil’s Voice Is Shot, Jason Newsted Isn’t Joining Megadeth, and More Stories You May Have Missed This Week

The MetalSucks Playlist — Week of May 29 – June 4, 2021

Did you miss some of this week’s top stories in the world of metal? Catch up below:

• Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil played his first post-pandemic show — and it did NOT go well.
• Ted Nugent says all Joe Biden supporters are “rotten human beings.”
• Jason Newsted will not be replacing David Ellefson in Megadeth.
• Speaking of David Ellefson: former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing has defended him.
• Linkin Park have the most-streamed heavy album of all time on Spotify.
• Weezer offered Ozzy Osbourne their song “Hash Pipe” back in 2000.
• Corey Taylor says his new Slipknot mask is “very disturbing.”
• Bad Wolves announced former The Acacia Strain guitarist Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz as their new lead singer.
• hed(p.e.) released nu-metal’s answer to a Sesame Street education song.
• King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and Toyah Wilcox covered Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid.”

That’s all for now. We’ll check in periodically over the weekend as usual and be right back at it full-bore next week.