The Hard R 9930 GOD FORBID’S DALLAS COYLE: AN OPEN LETTER TO LIGHT THIS CITY June 17th, 2008 at 5:17pm MetalSucks …do. I don’t care who reads this because it’s very rare when I see a spark in a band. When I did previously, most of the bands went on to…
...And F*ck You Too 8790 The Top 39 Annoying Things That (Local) Bands Do June 17th, 2008 at 3:52pm Vince Neilstein …“artists”, Picasso, Left-handed midgets, respect this, respect that etc etc… What are these guys in the Mafia? The next morning you discover the parking spot they were parked in the…
Editorials 2280 FULL BLOWN CHAOS COMING TO YOUR TOWN TO PLAY A SHOW, F*CK YOUR SISTER June 17th, 2008 at 1:01pm Axl Rosenberg …GA 6/25 @ Beamers – Panama City, FL 6/26 @ Skatepark of Memphis -Memphis, TN 6/27@ The Foundry Music Theatre – Joplin, MO 6/28 @ McGraws – Hutchinson, KS 6/29…
Contests 370 “SOMEWHERE BIKINI TIME” CONTEST: WIN A BUNCH OF VINTAGE THRASH CDs! June 13th, 2008 at 1:19pm Vince Neilstein Our friends over at BITPOM.com (Believers in the Power Of Metal) are hosting a pre-party Sunday afternoon to gear up for Iron Maiden’s triumphant return to Madison Square Garden. The…
Interviews 80 INTERVIEW WITH PURE MURDER AUTHOR AND METALSUCKS CONTRIBUTOR COREY MITCHELL June 11th, 2008 at 10:50am Vince Neilstein …park when they stumbled across a gang initiation. It is also the story of the struggle experienced by the parents of the girls and their fifteen-year legal odyssey that continues…
Editorials 150 THE OCEAN MAIN-MAN ROBIN STAPS IS NOT ONLY AN INCREDIBLY TALENTED MUSICIAN, BUT SMART TOO June 5th, 2008 at 11:50am Vince Neilstein …call it botellones, meeting up with your friends in a park with a stereo or a guitar and a few bottles of red wine. It’s a part of culture; it’s…
Cinemetal 80 “WHAT’S PISSOPISS?” June 5th, 2008 at 10:17am Axl Rosenberg …Arcade 8/21 Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s 8/22 Arlington Heights, IL @ Knights of Columbus 8/23 Rodgers, MN @ Showcase Skatepark 8/24 Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews 8/25 Colorado Springs,…
Neilstein Soundscam 90 THIS WEEK IN SOUNDSCAN: 10 YEARS, FILTER, ARSIS, WARREL DANE AND MORE May 21st, 2008 at 2:06pm Vince Neilstein So I am officially boycotting Linkin Park and Nickelback when it comes to these Soundscan reports, until the day those two records drop off the charts. That will be a…
Cinemetal 110 HOLY SH*T, THE DUDE FROM THE HUMAN ABSTRACT CAN PLAY May 14th, 2008 at 10:31am Axl Rosenberg …journals… like the one below. Now, for the first two minutes the guitar player (who looks kinda like that dude from that episode of South Park where the guy is…
Editorials 5780 OK, SERIOUSLY THIS TIME: OZZFEST WILL BE A ONE DAY EVENT May 13th, 2008 at 2:54pm Axl Rosenberg …one single day, on Saturday, August 9, at at Pizza Hut Park* in Dallas, Texas. The line-up will be as follows: Main Stage OZZY OSBOURNE METALLICA SERJ TANKIAN HELLYEAH JONATHAN…
Interviews 6280 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FULL BLOWN CHAOS FRONT MAN RAY MAZZOLA May 8th, 2008 at 5:31pm Axl Rosenberg …her elbows and her knees, and we were the last ones to pull out. And seeing her left out like that, in the parking lot of the venue… she never…
Saturday Song to Get Stoned To 90 SATURDAY SONG TO GET STONED TO: NINE INCH NAILS’ NEW TRACK “ECHOPLEX” May 3rd, 2008 at 4:24pm Vince Neilstein …release a proper with-vocals NIN album this coming Monday (as opposed to the instrumental-only Ghosts I-IV). Spark that bowl up and enjoy your Saturday. Nine Inch Nails – “Echoplex” -VN…
Neilstein Soundscam 60 THIS WEEK IN SOUNDSCAN: IT’S 2001 ALL OVER AGAIN April 30th, 2008 at 6:14pm Vince Neilstein …Park. Sigh. And the highest charting metal debut was Whitesnake. Yes, Whitesnake, who sold a whopping 8,000 copies of their new album, good enough for a #70 chart position. After…
Editorials 180 DOES ANYONE LISTEN TO ACTIVE ROCK RADIO? April 18th, 2008 at 12:07pm Vince Neilstein …dudes fell of a cliff sometime around 2002. The rest of the top 20 is filled out something like this: Seether (with two songs!), Chevelle, Linkin Park, Three Days Grace,…
Cinemetal 40 LIVING COLOUR, “MIDDLE MAN,” LIVE IN ROTTERDAM 1988 April 18th, 2008 at 11:15am Vince Neilstein …well… interesting. This clip of them playing “Middle Man” at Poppark Rotterdam in 1988 begs the question; which member had the worst pants? Corey’s got some sort of stone-washed army…
Neilstein Soundscam 70 THIS WEEK IN SOUNDSCAN: P.O.D, NINE INCH NAILS AND ASHES DIVIDE DEBUT, EVERYONE ELSE STINKS IT UP April 17th, 2008 at 7:22pm Vince Neilstein …(or him) I’d be disappointed considering the big radio and press push. #47 LINKIN PARK – MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT This Week: 11,665 Cume: 2,348,436 #48 BUCKCHERRY – 15 This Week:…
Editorials 1 DEF LEPPARD RELEASE NEW SINGLE FOR GUITAR HERO III April 17th, 2008 at 12:08pm Axl Rosenberg …comes from the band’s forthcoming new offering, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge* – is a collaboration with country singer/Faith Hill fucker Tim McGraw, which places it squarely in the Sevendust/Chris…
Neilstein Soundscam 40 LAST WEEK’S SOUNDSCAN: BIG DEBUTS FROM SEVENDUST, IN FLAMES, THEORY OF A DEADMAN, MUSE AND JOE SATRIANI April 14th, 2008 at 10:47am Vince Neilstein …Theater’s greatest hit compilation made it in at #122. Business as usual in the Nickleback / Linkin Park / Buckcherry / Three Days Grace camps, while the most notable drop…
Editorials 7310 DETHKLOK TOURING WITH CHIMAIRA AND SOILENT GREEN?! April 11th, 2008 at 4:35pm Axl Rosenberg …York, NY @ Nokia Theater Times Square 6/26 Baltimore, MD @ Ram’s Head Live 6/27 Philadelphia, PA @ Theater of Living Arts 6/29 Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues…
Cinemetal 9650 “GOD HATES US ALL” April 10th, 2008 at 4:00pm Axl Rosenberg …our mutual lunch break and eat on the steps of Union Square Park. So there we are, enjoying a nice semi-picnic… …when a huge group of people come along and…
