Watch an array of metal legends perform classics by Pantera, Slayer, Iron Maiden, and more!

The event is now completely sold out, so this is your only way to see it!!!

Time for our annual look at some great upcoming under-the-radar releases!

MetalSucks will be closed Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Day, but we return Tuesday with more premieres, more interviews, more snark, more everything. In the meantime, here are this week’s top stories…

Death metal tour has a little something for everyone.

Carcass is back. Gorguts is back. Voivod is back. What’s taking The Crown so long?

Mastodon! Gojira! Kvelertak!!! Kid Rock? Five Finger Death Punch? Seether???

Confirmed guests include Phil Anselmo, Kerry King, Scott Ian, Mike Portnoy, Chuck Billy and more. Don’t miss it.

How many other great bands have to make solid reunion albums for fans to accept that At the Gates can do it, too?

One final listicle for 2013.

Dave wonders: Could there be greater torment than being a ‘Skins fan?

Metal Masters 5 will feature Philip Anselmo (Pantera/Down), Kerry King (Slayer), Gary Holt (Slayer/Exodus), Charlie Benante (Anthrax), Frank Bello (Anthrax), David Ellefson (Megadeth), Chris Broderick (Megadeth), Billy Sheehan (Winery Dogs), Mike Portnoy (Winery Dogs) and Rex Brown (Pantera/Kill Devil Hill).

This concludes our regularly scheduled programming for 2013.

Last Chance to Reason’s Evan Sammons takes an in-depth look at this standout edition to one gaming’s longest-standing and most critically acclaimed series.

Let’s play fantasy line-up change, shall we?

A more expansive, ruminative take on the super-charged 1995 classic, “Dopes to Infinity.”

The metal scene is creatively bankrupt and metal fans are narrowminded and unsophisticated, says Sergeant D.

Offering you a better way.

We’ll raise our glasses to the memory of the wretches who served.