Ted Nugent Thinks He’s MLK, Dave Mustaine’s Rising Cameo Fees, and More Stories You May Have Missed This Week

The MetalSucks Playlist — Week of July 3 – July 9, 2021

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

• Ted Nugent claims he’s done more for Black artists than anyone else ever.
• Watch a half-naked guitarist get arrested for rocking out in his driveway.
• Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine has raised his Cameo fee four times in one week.
• Guitarist Parker Lundgren quït Queensrÿche.
• Corey Taylor and Clown say that the members of Slipknot all hated one another when they were making Iowa.
• Speaking of Slipknot, people love this Slipknot x Gloria Gaynor mash-up.
• We watched the Chris Holmes documentary so you don’t have to.
• A woman in New Zealand has named her child Metallica, Pantera, and Slayer.
• Anthrax looked back on their post-9/11 controversy and working with John Carpenter on the movie Ghosts of Mars.
• King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox covered System of a Down’s “Chop Suey!”.

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.