\m/ 120 THERE ACTUALLY IS A SWING VERSION OF “ENTER SANDMAN!” May 27th, 2010 at 12:00pm Axl Rosenberg …Cheese has been doing lounge versions of metal songs for years, but that’s (duh) not swing music. If anyone knows of any other swing groups that did metal covers, let…
Cinemetal 190 Nuno Must Be Thrilled May 26th, 2010 at 12:30pm Axl Rosenberg …most of the time he’s either in the background or out-of-focus. So, to review: Rihanna would rather have a fake Slash in her video than a real Nuno. Swell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMOIUUS8GWo…
\m/ 120 GRANDPA LOVES SLAYER May 21st, 2010 at 12:30pm Axl Rosenberg Endre Pál – or “palendre,” as he’s known on YouTube – is the guitar player for an incredibly cheesy Hungarian band called Sub-Zero, apparently along with his grandson and his…
Readers' Choice 100 I DID NOT KNOW THAT LOUIS LE PRINCE WAS A BLACK METAL FAN May 21st, 2010 at 9:30am Axl Rosenberg …below video for the song “Raven’s Eye View,” and was intrigued by the description which accompanied it on the band’s official YouTube page: This footage was discovered in the attic…
Hair Metal Happy Hour 90 BEST DISCOVERY EVER OF THE WEEK: LIVE VIDEO OF NITRO FROM 1989 May 18th, 2010 at 11:30am Vince Neilstein …news; after a search that lasted months (years?) he’d finally found live footage of Nitro on YouTube, the veritable video holy grail of ’80s hair metal excess. Jon Becker’s Jim…
Green Eggs and Slam 280 STEVE JOH: THE MAN TO THANK FOR SUICIDE SILENCE & WINDS OF PLAGUE May 17th, 2010 at 2:00pm Sergeant D …so than anything else. To be honest, I have no idea who Nachmystium are and have never heard them before I grabbed this video off YouTube. I only listened to…
Black Collar Workers 180 IN A BAND? BETTER GET YOUR TRACKS UP ON YOUTUBE. May 13th, 2010 at 1:00pm Vince Neilstein …streams) YouTube (week ending 5/2): Rank: 4 (4,282,376 video views) Bram points out that while this speaks to MySpace’s decline, it’s got a lot more to do with YouTube’s rapid…
Cinemetal 280 FAITH NO MORE’S RODDY BOTTUM SCORING THE MOST IRRITATING CHILDREN’S MOVIE EVER May 13th, 2010 at 11:30am Axl Rosenberg …a YouTube star, because we’ve gotten to a point where there’s such a thing as a YouTube star, but, again, that didn’t mean all that much to me. But, hey,…
Viral Vomit 230 “TIK TOK,” KE$HA SUCKS DEATH METAL’S COCK (AND GIVES IT AN STD) May 7th, 2010 at 2:30pm Axl Rosenberg …think it’s more than okay to call her out on it.) And while I normally hate ironic metal covers of pop songs, I actually like this death metal rendition of…
Contests 530 NEVERMORE/METALSUCKS “CREATE YOUR OWN CONSPIRACY” CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED! May 7th, 2010 at 2:00pm MetalSucks …and put it on YouTube. Well, we got a lot of great entries, but there can be only one grand-prize winner. And that winner is… Ben Robson! Congratulations, Ben!!! Here’s…
The Webernets 70 BEST GAME EVER OF THE WEEK: “HINDER OR METAL?” May 7th, 2010 at 9:30am Axl Rosenberg …ones. DO NOT USE ANY RESOURCES OTHER THAN YOUR BRAIN. Don’t use MySpace, YouTube, Last.fm, audio recognition software, or even your own music collection. That’s no fun (not to mention…
Hipsters Out Of Metal! 80 UNDER THE COVERS WITH DEFTONES, THE CARDIGANS May 5th, 2010 at 12:30pm Anso DF …killer song from the Cardigans’ masterpiece Gran Turismo. Score! The cool thing about The Cardigans is that they’re pretty metal anyway. Their wiki could tell ya about their covers of…
Tour de Force 100 BOOTLEGS ARE NO LONGER A PESTILENCE May 5th, 2010 at 10:30am Axl Rosenberg …kind of footage when I was younger; now it’s pretty much expected that if you play a show, it’ll be all over YouTube within a matter of hours. Check out…
Contests 40 CONTEST REMINDER: WIN A JAGER WATER PIPE FROM LEVI/WERSTLER! May 3rd, 2010 at 1:30pm MetalSucks …be playing in the background Upload it to Youtube and title it “4/20 DAATH Contest” Post he link to your entry in the comments here. And that’s it! So if…
Cinemetal 110 LAMB OF GOD COVERED WHAT NOW? April 30th, 2010 at 2:30pm Axl Rosenberg …in London once, but I barely remember the experience), I’m not at all familiar with this theme, but when I sought it out on YouTube, well… I was surprised, to…
Contests 180 THE NEVERMORE “CREATE YOUR OWN CONSPIRACY” CONTEST ENDS TODAY! April 30th, 2010 at 12:00pm MetalSucks …Conspiracy,” the title track of Nevermore’s forthcoming album. You’ve got until midnight EDT tonight to submit a video response to the above video on YouTube, so make these last hours…
Interviews 380 HOW THE HELL DID GARY SUAREZ LAND AN INTERVIEW WITH MIKE PATTON? April 29th, 2010 at 3:30pm Gary Suarez …I arrange well. When you’re attacking music like this — or really when you’re doing any covers, in my opinion — you have to do them somewhat aggressively. You have…
Cinemetal 180 ROADRUNNER RAMBLINGS April 29th, 2010 at 12:30pm Axl Rosenberg Fresh off of unveiling their list of the “Ten Greatest Album Covers” in Roadrunner Records’ history, the label has now started to count down their “Ten Greatest Music Videos” –…
Rampant Rumors 200 MAYBE OZZY SHOULD HAVE CALLED HIS NEW ALBUM POINT April 29th, 2010 at 9:30am Axl Rosenberg …covers, they’re generally not representations of the band/artist (although I can think of at least one exception). But I’m not that bummed out that the cover art is pretty meh,…
Music Dorkery 80 JEFF LOOMIS RECOMMENDS MASTERTRACKS18 April 28th, 2010 at 10:00am Axl Rosenberg …dorkery; so while I can’t remember exactly how it came up, at some point Mr. Loomis recommended we all check out MasterTracks18, a YouTube user who has uploaded literally hundreds…
