New Stuff 290 CHILDREN OF BODOM ARE “WORTH IT” January 5th, 2011 at 10:30am Axl Rosenberg …song is of course now on YouTubes. You can check it out below. My first impression of this not-exactly-great-quality bootleg? I like it. I mean, Children of Bodom don’t drastically…
Music Dorkery 410 KVELERTAK KVELERTRANSLATED January 3rd, 2011 at 11:00am Axl Rosenberg …interesting: a YouTube (l)user has translated the Norwegian lyrics for the single “Mjød” into English. I double checked the translation with Google Translate, and, at least according to that site,…
New Stuff 180 NEW MUSIC MONDAY! NEW SH*T FROM EVER FORTHRIGHT, TURISAS AND GOES CUBE December 20th, 2010 at 1:50pm Vince Neilstein …guessing the track’s already up on YouTube — as is par for the course these days — if you want to bypass that step. The track isn’t full of the…
Br00tal-lists 400 THE BEST METAL ALBUMS OF 2010, AS CHOSEN BY METAL MUSICIANS THEMSELVES — PART VIII December 17th, 2010 at 3:00pm MetalSucks …bands, I stumbled across a YouTube clip of them and Ian doing “Riders on the Storm” and it left me speechless. 6. Cough, Ritual Abuse — Classic doom riffing with…
Br00tal-lists 440 THE BEST METAL ALBUMS OF 2010, AS CHOSEN BY METAL MUSICIANS THEMSELVES — PART IV December 15th, 2010 at 5:00pm MetalSucks …Napalm — Rotten Sound’s Napalm Death covers are fucking insane. I couldn’t think of a better present day band to cover Napalm Death and the original Rotten Sound songs on…
Admin 560 ANNOUNCING: NYC SUCKS, A FREE COMPILATION FEATURING THE BEST OF NEW YORK CITY’S METAL SCENE December 15th, 2010 at 4:30pm Vince Neilstein …10. Abacinate 11. ikillya 12. Atakke 13. The Ghost in Black and White After the jump, the cover for Volume 2. The covers were designed by the very talented Jesse…
Interviews 200 THE OCEAN’S ROBIN STAPS: THE SECOND METALSUCKS INTERVIEW! December 15th, 2010 at 4:00pm Dave Mustein …nightmares. Great! I think that about covers it, unless there was anything else. No, I’m pretty sure that’s all! Thanks for all the support you guys are giving us, by…
New Stuff 30 REVOCATION AIN’T NO HOARDERS, BUT REVOCATION ARE EXHORDERS December 14th, 2010 at 12:00pm Vince Neilstein …bonus track on the Japanese version of Existence, although this is my first time hearing it. Covers provide a glance into a band’s arsenal of influences, but in this case…
Necessary Roughness 270 UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS WITH THE RED CHORD’S GREG WEEKS: THE ROOF COLLAPSES December 13th, 2010 at 6:02pm MetalSucks …headed to not finish his last season, hopefully, starting every game. Here’s the roof caving vid. It was listed under “sports” and “comedy” on YouTube. That cracked me up. They…
New Stuff 300 “RESIST” — AS BLOOD RUNS BLACK ARE BACK December 9th, 2010 at 11:20am Axl Rosenberg …— a quick search of my inbox shows that some readers were sending me YouTube links to the track as far back as July. Presumably those were demo versions or…
Interviews 190 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW AMERICAN HARDCORE AUTHOR/FILMMAKER STEVEN BLUSH December 8th, 2010 at 5:00pm MetalSucks …Agnostic Front, the Cro-Mags, and Suicidal Tendencies, in addition to lesser-known groups like Boston’s phenomenal SS Decontrol. Blush covers the entire country by city or region, spotlighting scenes in Pittsburgh,…
Upcoming Bullsh*t 360 ALBUM ART ROUND-UP: NEW ALBUM COVERS FROM DEVILDRIVER, LAZARUS A.D., AND NEURAXIS December 8th, 2010 at 3:20pm Axl Rosenberg …have the cover for Neuraxis’ latest, Asylon, which comes out February 15 on Prosthetic. This is far and away the strongest of the three album covers, which isn’t shocking, since…
Reunion Mania 40 I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THAT CERBERUS HAD BROKEN UP December 8th, 2010 at 2:00pm Axl Rosenberg …can hear some music at their MySpace page, natch. I tried to find some good videos on YouTube, but all I found was the below short, not-great-quality footage of them…
The Webernets 190 GWAR TO HEADLINE GLENN BECK’S NEXT RALLY December 8th, 2010 at 12:40pm Axl Rosenberg …has done a terrific job of collecting some of the more amusing comments left under the video on YouTube. My personal favorite, by some dude named PhillipMcLoins, is after the…
Greatest Hits 1840 The Final Word on Metal Drumming December 3rd, 2010 at 3:30pm Sergeant D …inhumanly fast and ultra-precise riffing, so machinelike, robotic drumming is entirely appropriate. (Yes, I know this is the wrong version, but I couldn’t find the right one on YouTube.) Of…
Metal in the Media 140 THE FUNNIEST (AND MOST METAL) COMMERCIAL I’VE SEEN SO FAR THIS WEEK November 30th, 2010 at 12:30pm Axl Rosenberg …accident while YouTube surfing, and apparently it’s at least four years old, which makes the fact that I’ve never seen it before all the more surprising. In any case, it’s…
The Webernets 160 GOJIRA IN IRAN: HEAVIER THAN ENRICHED URANIUM November 30th, 2010 at 10:30am Vince Neilstein …for a new series called “Scream For Me Tehran” on the website Manoto1 TV. Unfortunately Google Translate can’t handle what’s being said inside YouTube videos (yet!) but Joe’s answers are…
What the...?? 370 THE WORST THING EVER OF THE EVER: CHRISTINA AGUILERA COVERS MARILYN MANSON November 29th, 2010 at 4:00pm Axl Rosenberg Actually, I don’t know if you could call this a “cover” — it samples the guitar riff and title phrase from Manson’s “The Beautiful People,” but beyond that, it’s a…
Interviews 150 SLOUGH FEG’S MIKE SCALZI: THE METALSUCKS INTERVIEW November 23rd, 2010 at 4:00pm MetalSucks …because first of all, it sounds like a Slough Feg song. Yeah, exactly. Most of the covers we pick sound like Slough Feg songs. Someone might say, “Why would you…
Viral Vomit 170 CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS EARLY WITH THIS RIDICULOUS SLAYER LIGHT SHOW November 22nd, 2010 at 2:00pm Axl Rosenberg …too much free time on his hands. But that doesn’t mean that it’s not totally awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFjI7gT1FvI Now someone figure out a way to do this with a menorah! -AR…