Editorials 420 MAIDEN ARE BREAKING THEIR OWN ALBUM SALES RECORDS… BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN??? August 30th, 2010 at 3:00pm Vince Neilstein …wouldn’t have that spark. People often wonder how these guys that are approaching 60 have so much energy on stage… it’s because they’re still psyched about what they’re doing, driven…
Editorials 590 JOHN WILLIAMS IS F*CKING METAL August 27th, 2010 at 12:00pm MetalSucks …John Williams? Chariots Of Fire, Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, motherfucking Jurassic Park?! The dude has enough air-punching moments of musical badassery to his name to give Tony Iommi a…
Readers' Choice 340 READERS’ CHOICE (KINDA): THE PERTH EDITION August 27th, 2010 at 10:00am MetalSucks …nuanced beauty rather than fist-raising guitar solos. Yes, they owe a debt to the soft/loud dynamics of Neurosis and the manic confessionalism of Circle Takes The Square, but no other…
Fear Emptiness Decibel 330 FEAR, EMPTINESS, DECIBEL: AMOPRHIS’ TALES FROM THE THOUSAND LAKES GETS INDUCTED INTO THE DECIBEL HALL OF FAME August 26th, 2010 at 4:30pm MetalSucks …park, as the Dickman has been working on a Moog-less version of this HOF for years, with or without the EIC’s kind of necessary approval. So, what do you guys…
Green Eggs and Slam 300 ALL OUT WAR’S MIKE SCORE ON METALCORE, MYSPACE, AND MORE August 20th, 2010 at 2:40pm Sergeant D …talking about the old days! I found this awesome clip on YouTube of All Out War playing a show at some skatepark in Newburgh, does that ring a bell? [laughs]…
Reviews 120 IRON MAIDEN’S THE FINAL FRONTIER (VINCE’S TAKE) August 17th, 2010 at 5:00pm Vince Neilstein Some albums hit you immediately, and some grown on you with time. From the very moment at Madison Square Garden last month that the band played “El Dorado” live and…
Interviews 220 THE AUSTERITY PROGRAM’S JUST FOLEY INTERVIEWS LEGENDARY ILLUSTRATOR DEREK RIGGS August 17th, 2010 at 3:20pm MetalSucks …Street in London, where I lived. There was a huge Virgin records store at the end of the block. They did an absolutely huge 15 foot by 15 foor square…
Cinemetal 270 KATAKLYSM “PUSH THE VENOM” August 12th, 2010 at 4:30pm Axl Rosenberg I’m a hypocrite. I give bands like Linkin Park and Nickelback shit for basically writing the same album over and over and over again, but I don’t have a problem…
Metal in the Media 770 LADY GAGA DANCES (BADLY) TO METALLICA’S “METAL MILITIA” August 10th, 2010 at 3:20pm Axl Rosenberg …went to her show at Madison Square Garden last month. But I hate the Lady Gaga songs I’ve heard, and when I saw her on Saturday Night Live, she clearly…
Interviews 80 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH IRON THRONES GUITARIST STEVE HENNINGSGARD August 9th, 2010 at 4:30pm Vince Neilstein …go on, you know exactly the kind of band that’s going to win. You know it’s going to happen, they’re just going to spark and flash in the pan and…
Tour de Force 230 AN AWESOME NOT-REALLY-METAL BUT STILL PROGGY/COOL FALL TOUR August 3rd, 2010 at 12:00pm Vince Neilstein Photo by the esteemed Ms. Jacqueline Cheng. More from their Central Park performance here. If you’re a prog nerd and this lineup doesn’t get your balls tingling, I’m not sure…
New Stuff 440 HUMANITY MUST BE DESTROYED August 3rd, 2010 at 10:40am Axl Rosenberg The good news is that Linkin Park’s new single, “The Catalyst,” doesn’t sound exactly like every other song the band has ever recorded; the bad news is, it might actually…
The Webernets 610 MEET THE CRUD WIZARD! August 2nd, 2010 at 4:40pm Vince Neilstein …bass, and was quite good. On Saturday I went to Tidal Wave, the metal festival in McLaren park. The first few bands weren’t that good but when Stone Vengeance played…
This Sucks 480 EARLY GRAVES VOCALIST MAKH DANIELS KILLED IN VAN ACCIDENT August 2nd, 2010 at 2:20pm MetalSucks Early Graves vocalist Makh Daniels was killed in a van accident early this morning en route to a show in Reno, NV, according to The Gauntlet [via reader Stephen Parker]:…
New Stuff 110 YOU STILL NEED TO GO SEE LIVING COLOUR LIVE July 28th, 2010 at 4:00pm Axl Rosenberg …-Paradiso 08/15 OUDENAERDE (B) – Feest in het Park Festival 08/17 VIENNA (A) – Porgy 08/18 WROCLAW (PL) – Alibi 08/19 WARSAW ( PL) – Proxima 08/20 KLAGENFURT (A) –…
Upcoming Bullsh*t 780 LINKIN PARK BOLDLY GOING WHERE OTHERS HAVE GONE BEFORE July 27th, 2010 at 12:30pm Axl Rosenberg I know that making fun of Linkin Park is like making fun of a retarded cripple — it’s just not fair and probably not nice. Except that this particular retarded…
Viral Vomit 120 TOM AND JERRY AND FINNTROLL July 26th, 2010 at 12:00pm Axl Rosenberg …is the below, which melds Tom and Jerry with Finntroll the same way previous entries have combined Job for a Cowboy with Spongebob Squarepants and Throwdown with Teenage Mutant Ninja…
Green Eggs and Slam 90 SAMANTHA MALONEY TALKS TO SERGEANT D. ABOUT BROTHER CLYDE, SHIFT, MOTLEY CRUE AND MORE July 23rd, 2010 at 2:30pm Sergeant D …what’s “up” about Jackson Heights is the raised above ground El Train. REGO PARK/FOREST HILLS/MIDDLE VILLAGE/ROCKAWAY Thats what’s up. I am the Queen from Queens. (mad love to my boy…
Contests 360 WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO THE ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL July 23rd, 2010 at 2:00pm MetalSucks …are available for this contest are: any date starting with the July 30th show in Tinley Park, IL going all the way through to the end of the tour August…
Upcoming Bullsh*t 300 FRET NOT IF YOU MISSED OPETH’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR July 22nd, 2010 at 1:30pm Axl Rosenberg The only problem with Opeth’s awesomer-than-awesome twentieth anniversary tour — in which they played Blackwater Park in its entirety, followed by a second set of rarities from the rest of…
