Green Eggs and Slam 260 HOW TO MAKE PORNOGRIND June 30th, 2010 at 2:00pm Sergeant D YouTube user SoulsideJourneySucks may have a dumb name (it is the only good Darkthrone album, back when they still sounded like early Gorguts), but when it comes to making tutorials…
\m/ 130 MOUTH OF THE ARCHITECT LOOK INTO MY EYES, COVER PETER GABRIEL THE RIGHT WAY June 30th, 2010 at 12:00pm Axl Rosenberg If you read this site regularly, you know my opinion about covers. Nine times outta ten, they blow goats. So often, we hear bands perform a cover that either a)…
Interviews 170 THE AUSTERITY PROGRAM’S JUSTIN FOLEY INTERVIEWS JON FINE ABOUT TACO RIFFS June 29th, 2010 at 5:00pm MetalSucks …the late sixties that mostly did standard covers. But would then do three or four originals on their records and they were just insane. There’s a song called “No Tomorrows”…
Laugh At Others' Misfortunes 270 GUITAR SWING AND A MISS June 28th, 2010 at 4:00pm Axl Rosenberg There obviously isn’t much to explain here. I saw it on Metal Injection and it made me laugh my ass off… hopefully it brightens your Monday afternoon a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-yHowHsFxDA…
Cinemetal 270 DIDJA MISS THE BIG FOUR LIVE MOVIE THEATER SATELLITE THINGY? NO WORRIES, ‘CAUSE IT’S ONLINE NOW! June 28th, 2010 at 11:00am Axl Rosenberg …from all the performances up on YouTube even as I type this! [UPDATE: Metal Underground says there will be a DVD and Blu-Ray forthcoming. Thanks to metalguy for pointing that…
Editorials 540 EARACHE’S DIGBY PEARSON RESPONDS TO RE-THRASH BACKLASH June 24th, 2010 at 11:30am Vince Neilstein …clothes, album covers, etc, in the decades to come. Is Earache prepared to be the label for that movement? And if intense music is to grow, do you see or…
Viral Vomit 150 BLACK METAL BABY June 24th, 2010 at 10:30am Vince Neilstein …papa pops on a metal video on YouTube. Will keep in mind for the inevitable time (but no time soon) when there’s a little Vince Neilstein Jr. running around the…
Cinemetal 370 ENCORE PERFORMANCES: A GUIDE TO THE BIG FOUR LIVE BY SATELLITE June 23rd, 2010 at 12:20pm Anso DF …of unnecessary swoops and flailing and elbow picking. You’re sick to death of the overly-measured, perfectly precise players whose youtubes make you cry cuz the players are in junior high…
Viral Vomit 170 ESCAPE THE FATE OF SH*TTY OFFICE JOBS WITH BLACK VEIL BRIDES June 22nd, 2010 at 10:00am Vince Neilstein …he wants to be known for it amongst the YouTube youngster masses. There’s the whole “don’t let the man bring you down” + “be who you are” attitudes he’s portraying,…
Metal Mets 550 THE AT-BAT MUSIC MUSIC OF THE NEW YORK METS: METAL OR NOT METAL? June 15th, 2010 at 11:30am MetalSucks …Daddy Yankee “Te Veo Nena” by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico Our once and future overachieving fourth outfielder. Could the first song be Snoop covering Twisted Sister? Checking YouTube……
Upcoming Bullsh*t 600 BILLY HOWERDEL WILL EAT AGAIN!!! June 11th, 2010 at 1:30pm Axl Rosenberg …Which is great. APC were awesome. I saw them live twice, and they were terrific both times. Sure, that last covers record was pretty silly, but the original song it…
Greatest Hits 690 Let’s Argue About Iron Maiden Album Art June 10th, 2010 at 12:00pm Axl Rosenberg …five o’clock yet? I’ve had a long day and could really use a beer.” In a post-death metal world, Riggs-era Maiden covers like the one for Beast don’t really seem…
Metal in the Media 150 STEEL PANTHER SHILL FOR BAD BEER June 10th, 2010 at 11:00am Axl Rosenberg …Steel Panther aired. (This being the future, bootleg commercials are on YouTube so bored/crazy people like us can watch them and discuss them.) Now, you can’t accuse Steel Panther of…
Kingdom of Sorrow Sucks 330 JAMEY JASTA’S PICKS FOR FIVE GREAT ALBUM COVERS June 8th, 2010 at 10:00am MetalSucks These are just record covers I thought were great. I like when a CD cover provokes thought and makes me want to interpret what message or messages the artist or…
Green Eggs and Slam 2080 The History of Metalcore/Screamo June 7th, 2010 at 12:15pm Sergeant D …his kids listen to Attack Attack Audiovisual documentation Confide illustrate many seemingly-mandatory elements of contemporary metalcore: meticulously flatironed hair, covers of mainstream top 40 songs, and Truth drums Trancecore…
Blogronaut 220 THE BLOGRONAUT ON NEW HIS BAND GRAVITON, AND FUN WITH FAKE BAND NAMES June 3rd, 2010 at 1:30pm MetalSucks …check out on our Myspace, Bandcamp, Twitter, and if you’re too lazy to open a new window and require colorful moving pictures along with your music, Youtube: The coolest thing…
Upcoming Bullsh*t 190 CHIMAIRA COMING ALIVE THIS JULY June 1st, 2010 at 2:30pm Axl Rosenberg …Ferret. In addition to a new four-part, Bell-directed documentary that covers a year and a half in the life of the band, the DVD will feature a concert film of…
Tour de Force 220 NOTHING SAYS “GOODBYE TO ROMANCE” LIKE GETTING MARRIED AT OZZFEST June 1st, 2010 at 1:00pm Axl Rosenberg …I hope some couple actually does this so we can watch videos of it on YouTube and giggle. If you think you that you and your beloved might be that…
Readers' Choice 120 EVER WANTED TO HEAR METALLICA’S “BATTERY” PLAYED ON THE TUBA? June 1st, 2010 at 12:00pm Axl Rosenberg Yeah, me neither. But MetalSucks Sucaklo “troe” sent us a link to the YouTube page of NAME – that stands for New Acoustic Metal Experiment – a metal-covering brass quartet…
The Webernets 120 REJECTED VERSIONS OF ALBUM ART FOR METALLICA & GN’R May 27th, 2010 at 2:30pm Axl Rosenberg Well, no, not really. The reliably hilarious Cracked sometimes holds these really excellent Photoshop contests; their latest asked readers to create rejected versions of famous album covers. A lot of…