Reviews 180 STARGAZER IMPRESS, FASCINATE, THEN IMPRESS AGAIN ON A GREAT WORK OF AGES September 2nd, 2010 at 2:40pm Sammy O'Hagar …and eerily prescient at once. Either way, there’s enough meat to grapple on to in order to get lost in this record. Every listen uncovers another way to experience a…
Green Eggs and Slam 200 MICK FOLEY HOSTS VICTORV August 31st, 2010 at 2:30pm Sergeant D …on here. Victory and professional wrestling have been BFFs for many years Subscribe to VicTorV on Youtube, and tell them to put some vintage footage of EVEN SCORE in the…
Album of the Day 150 ALBUM OF THE DAY: GUT, THE CUMBACK August 30th, 2010 at 10:40am Sergeant D …view it on Youtube. As much as I love their older material, Gut didn’t really peak until their 2006 full-length The Cumback. They’d always had a much more groove-oriented approach…
Interviews 310 MAKE ‘ENEMIES’ WITH THE ARMED August 27th, 2010 at 2:00pm MetalSucks …was very inclusive utilizing the web. A lot of people talk about how much better “the scene” was before the modern-day internet, p2p networks, youtube, social media…how kids used to…
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 …and Kasper regaling us with — you guessed it —t ales of ill-fated dentistry videos, Doors covers, clean vocals and hotel trashing. And accomplishing that was no walk in the…
New Stuff 80 IF ONLY WE COULD FOLLOW THEM THERE: THE ATLAS MOTH GO FORTH AMONGST THE WEED FIELDS August 26th, 2010 at 3:20pm Vince Neilstein Chicago dark-n’-crusty sludge/doomsters The Atlas Moth, a really good band I’ve slowly gotten hip to over the past couple of years, are releasing a digital-only covers EP this fall that…
New Stuff 230 WHAT’S BETTER THAN OPETH? HOW ABOUT FREE OPETH? August 25th, 2010 at 5:00pm Axl Rosenberg …is not a collection of trip-hop covers of songs originally by The Brothers Johnson, but is actually a recording of Opeth in live concert at the Royal Albert Hall? Well,…
New Stuff 130 TAKE THE “HIGHWAY TO HELL” WITH MUTINY WITHIN August 24th, 2010 at 12:34pm Vince Neilstein …kick it into Mutinized overdrive starting with the second verse. That’s how covers should be done; a good mix of the original and a new take on it. British singer…
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]…
Upcoming Bullsh*t 410 IT’S TIME TO GET ANTHROPOCENTRIC WITH THE OCEAN August 20th, 2010 at 11:20am Vince Neilstein …dense and maybe a tad more raw, which suits the songs perfectly”, comments guitar player Jonathan Nido. The album covers a similar sonic and dynamic range as Heliocentric, also including…
New Stuff 480 THERE ARE (ALMOST) NO CLEAN VOCALS IN THE NEW ALL THAT REMAINS SONG!!! August 19th, 2010 at 12:40pm Axl Rosenberg …you’re like me and you don’t want to be bombarded with constant e-mails from the ATR promo crew, the song is also now on YouTube, natch. Check it out below….
Contests 530 THE SECOND ANNUAL “RUN METALSUCKS FOR A DAY” CONTEST: VOTE FOR THE WINNER! August 18th, 2010 at 12:40pm Axl Rosenberg …takes a FUCKING HOUR and the youtube videos you post take FUCKING FOREVER to load. It makes me so GODDAMN ANGRY at you fucking assholes for changing it I want…
Interviews 220 THE AUSTERITY PROGRAM’S JUST FOLEY INTERVIEWS LEGENDARY ILLUSTRATOR DEREK RIGGS August 17th, 2010 at 3:20pm MetalSucks …that’s quite a lot for a country like England. Parts of London were completely rundown. The places on the album covers were places that I used to live. I lived…
Hipsters Out Of Metal! 150 HOME SLEAZE HOME: STEEL PANTHER NIGHT RETURNS TO THE KEY CLUB August 16th, 2010 at 5:00pm Anso DF …(our sighs seem to say “Just show ’em already and let’s get on with the Whitesnake covers!”) and secretaries-gone-wild sing-alongs (not to be a sandy vagina, but I submit that…
Question of the Week 330 QUESTION OF THE WEEK: HAVE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ALTERED THE METAL SCENE FOR THE WORSE? August 13th, 2010 at 4:30pm MetalSucks …and don’t need MTV to shove it down their throats. -AR The crux of Digby’s argument seems to be his statement of “Myspace/Facebook/YouTube have given instant power and information to…
Power Metal Party 60 BEST METAL SONG ABOUT METAL EVER OF THE DAY August 13th, 2010 at 10:40am Vince Neilstein …covers metalheads and prevents them from taking influence from any outside factors. When Axl and my grandchildren are throwing the horns together in the playpen 60 years from now, Germany…
Editorials 480 HAVE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ALTERED THE METAL SCENE FOR THE WORST? August 11th, 2010 at 1:20pm Vince Neilstein …the social networks in the last 5 years.Myspace/Facebook/YouTube have given instant power and information to anyones fingertips.Between them, they have actually changed the way millions of people go about their…
Upcoming Bullsh*t 40 A NEW TRIPTYKON EP ALREADY? SUH-WEET! August 10th, 2010 at 4:30pm Axl Rosenberg …sessions, plus live covers of the Celtic Frost classics “Circle of the Tyrants” and “Dethroned Emperor.” And I’m sure the live covers will be great and all — I mean,…
The Webernets 610 MEET THE CRUD WIZARD! August 2nd, 2010 at 4:40pm Vince Neilstein …fun, like rolling down hills, exploring in the park, building log forts and climbing trees. I mean, right? He’s also got some choice entries on his favorite album covers (including…
What the...?? 300 WALL OF DOUCHE August 2nd, 2010 at 1:20pm Axl Rosenberg …look it up on YouTube, but then I decided to just slam my nuts in the door and call it even. ANYWAY, I mention them now ’cause the MetalSucks Maniac…
