Ten Great Bands That Inadvertently Helped Ruin Metal 1650 #7: NINE INCH NAILS March 18th, 2010 at 5:00pm Gary Suarez …out Madison Square Garden with a little-known band from Florida known as Marilyn Manson. Of course, with such extraordinary exposure on a national and international scale, record labels and the…
Admin 70 THE HEAVY METAL ROAD TRIP GRINDS ON March 15th, 2010 at 12:00pm Vince Neilstein …around little rock, Arkansas – a spot for us to park our bus – a desire to party – optional: herbal accoutrements, ladies, dignity, local treats Interested? Email vince at…
Editorials 90 MUSICIANCORPS OFFERING MUSICIANS HEALTHCARE IN EXCHANGE FOR TEACHING KIDS March 11th, 2010 at 2:30pm Vince Neilstein …public schools. The program is running in four cities – SF/Oakland Bay Area, Chicago, New Orleans and Seattle – where twenty MusicianCorps Fellows are serving full-time in public schools, parks…
Show Reviews 60 ORPHANED LAND AND SUIDAKRA TRY TO MEND GERMAN-JEWISH RELATIONS IN TIMES SQUARE March 10th, 2010 at 1:30pm Axl Rosenberg Video of Orphaned Land in Times Square Monday night courtesy lindersgirl, whomever she is. The thing about Times Square is, it’s a total dichotomy of a mind fuck. It has…
Tour de Force 360 DREAMS OF MAIDEN COME TRUE: IRON MAIDEN + DREAM THEATER TOUR CONFIRMED March 4th, 2010 at 4:23pm Vince Neilstein …automatically awesome because IRON FUCKING MAIDEN, but having Dream Theater on too is just an added bonus. Full list of dates after the jump. Madison Fucking Square Garden! **THE FINAL…
Black Collar Workers 110 MARCH IS METAL MONTH! WHY CAN’T EVERY MONTH BE METAL MONTH? March 3rd, 2010 at 11:30am Vince Neilstein …Tip, Crash Music, Prospect Park and Capitol. Along with the sampler which includes tracks from Lacuna Coil, Five Finger Death Punch, Fear Factory, White Wizzard, Isahn, Gama Bomb, Atlas Moth,…
Hipsters Out Of Metal! 350 PROTEST THE HERO HELPS PROTEST CRAPPY TAB BOOKS February 25th, 2010 at 10:20am Anso DF …turns out that the transcribers settled on ball-park estimation of metal’s greatest fucking guitar songs while also displaying a dazzling ignorance of distortion. And the nutfucked thing is how Hal…
Tour de Force 300 THE FINNISH METAL TOUR, PRESENTED BY METALSUCKS February 24th, 2010 at 4:30pm Vince Neilstein …@ El Corazon Apr. 22 – Vancouver, BC @ Red Room Apr. 23 – Portland, OR @ Peters Room Apr. 24 – San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside Apr. 25…
Admin 30 REMINDER: METALSUCKS & METAL INSIDER WILL JOIN FORCES TO LIVE-BLOG ANDREW W.K.’S PUBLIC Q&A FROM NYC TONIGHT! February 23rd, 2010 at 4:00pm Axl Rosenberg …I make for you, oh beloved readers! The fun starts tonight at 7 pm EST. You can read all our coverage and witticisms here. Be there or be square. -AR…
Scraping Genius Off The Wheel 60 H2OTUBE February 23rd, 2010 at 2:00pm Gary Suarez …Mar 11 Chain Reaction Anaheim, California Mar 12 Chain Reaction Anaheim, California Mar 13 Thee Parkside San Francisco, California Mar 14 Thee Parkside San Francisco, California Mar 18 Mohawk Place…
Editorials 3160 Down With The Sickness: God Forbid’s Doc Coyle Takes on Mainstream Metal February 22nd, 2010 at 5:00pm MetalSucks …genre that I consider myself to be a real fan of, like Korn, Deftones, Slipknot, Linkin Park, Nothingface, Sevendust, System of a Down, and Ill Nino. And, yes, I enjoy…
Upcoming Bullsh*t 120 IF THE MUSIC ON SON OF AURELIUS’ THE FARTHEST REACHES IS AS AWESOME AS THE COVER ART… February 22nd, 2010 at 4:30pm Axl Rosenberg …band’s previous release, Myocardial Infraction, which has been a cornerstone of my own personal rotation ever since reader Parker Werley recommended the band to us back in January. The Farthest…
Reviews 90 QUICKIE REVIEW OF AN UNSIGNED BAND: INTO THE STORM February 19th, 2010 at 2:30pm Dave Mustein …to twenty seconds into the outrageously titled “Sometimes Maybe, I Like to Go to the Park and Look at Swaans”). There are a lot of weird, instrumental breaks, but there…
Tour de Force 500 GET HIGH AND GO SEE AMON AMARTH. WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL COME OF IT? February 18th, 2010 at 4:30pm Axl Rosenberg …Of Calgary 04/15 Edmonton, AB Edmonton Event Center 04/16 Saskatoon, SK Odeon Event Centre 04/17 Winnipeg, MB Garrick Center 04/18 Saint Paul, MN Station 4 04/19 Chicago, IL Logan Square…
Reviews 120 XASTHUR KEEP PURSUING RECLUSIVE CRANKINESS ON 2005 DEMO February 16th, 2010 at 2:20pm Sammy O'Hagar …including these songs on a split or as an EP with a name is a way to spark interest, not unearth almost-lost maybe-classics from Malefic’s seemingly bottomless pit of miserable…
Editorials 400 MAX CAVALERA MAKES MORE MONEY THAN YOU February 15th, 2010 at 3:30pm Axl Rosenberg …which is 2,794-square-feet and has five bedrooms and three and half baths – for a list price of $1.475 million. Now, Max’s musical output over the past ten years has…
F-F-F-Feudin' 330 “GET IN THE RING,” PART 2 – ONLY AXL’S NOT PISSED AT THE MEDIA THIS TIME February 11th, 2010 at 1:00pm Axl Rosenberg …privileges or the miniscule amount of power you’ve had here you wield like an angry, lesbian, wannabe, high school parking lot rent-a-cop always mouthing off like you’re some kind of…
Scraping Genius Off The Wheel 300 OCEANO TAKE THEIR BAND DRAMA TO NEW, UMM, DEPTHS ON MYSPACE February 8th, 2010 at 5:00pm Gary Suarez …702 Skatepark Las Vegas, Nevada May 16 2010 Fox Theatre (California Metalfest IV) Pomona, California -GS [Gary Suarez usually manages the consistently off-topic No Yoko No. He recently quit Twitter.]…
Scraping Genius Off The Wheel 30 CRO-MAGS TAKE THEIR (JAM) ON THE ROAD February 8th, 2010 at 2:00pm Gary Suarez …& Omega) March 12 Chain Reaction, Anaheim, CA (w/H2O, Alpha & Omega) March 13 Thee Parkside, San Francisco, CA (w/H2O, Alpha & Omega) March 14 Thee Parkside, San Francisco, CA…
Not Quite Metal? 320 BIFFY CLYRO ARE BACK AND BIFFER THAN EVER February 5th, 2010 at 4:08pm Vince Neilstein …PA March 26 — Water Street Music Hall — Rochester, NY March 27 — The Mod Club Theatre — Toronto, ON March 29 — Northern Lights — Clifton Park, NY…