Br00tal-lists 110 SEE? IT’S A PLAY ON THE WORD “COVERS!” March 26th, 2010 at 2:29pm Axl Rosenberg …Covers” in the label’s history. As is the always the case with these silly lists, some of the choices seem dubious/random – apparently photographing lesbians and tinting that photo green…
Cinemetal 640 DOES NECROPHOBIC’S “REVELATION 666” HAVE “ONE OF THE SWEETEST OUTROS EVER?” March 26th, 2010 at 1:00pm Axl Rosenberg …with Cosmo in our comments section (or his). And, of course, we’d love to your suggestions for “the sweetest outros ever.” Include YouTube links or whatever whenever possible, please! -AR…
New Stuff 80 THE RELEASE OF THE OCEAN’S HELIOCENTRIC IS LESS THAN ONE MONTH AWAY! March 26th, 2010 at 10:30am Vince Neilstein …cover of “Dead on the Whole” (from Fluxion) on YouTube. Check it out. If you haven’t already you should go listen to instrumental samples from the new album at The…
Ten Great Bands That Inadvertently Helped Ruin Metal 2210 #2: METALLICA March 25th, 2010 at 5:30pm Anso DF …stages before the hugest crowds? Metallica. Whose records had the best covers? Metallica. Whose members exuded mystique (no videos!) and uncommon friendliness (marathon autograph sessions following marathon shows)? Metallica. Baddest…
Cinemetal 110 UNSANE AND THE SIMPLE PLEASURES OF WATCHING OTHER PEOPLE GET HURT March 24th, 2010 at 3:00pm Axl Rosenberg …in ways that look incredibly painful. (There’s a little bit of performance footage, too, but it’s not why anyone cares about this video.) So we watched the video on YouTube…
Hipsters Out Of Metal! 240 DEVIN, SOILWORK, AND SONGS THAT SOUND THE SAME (TO CRAZY PEOPLE) March 24th, 2010 at 1:30pm Anso DF …to last week, when I beamed with nutjob pride when reading the comments on a YouTube posting of Devin Townsend’s “Supercrush!” (above left) in which a some observant/batty person wrote…
Cinemetal 80 BACKSLIDERS AND APOSTATES WILL BURN: THE AUSTERITY PROGRAM ARE GOING STRAIGHT TO THE TOP March 23rd, 2010 at 2:30pm Axl Rosenberg …from being seen in the format for which it was intended. Oh, well. At least they stuck it up on YouTube, so all the world could get a little taste….
Interviews 270 METALSUCKS TALKS TO GREG PUCIATO, LIAM WILSON, AND BILLY RYMER FROM THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN March 23rd, 2010 at 1:30pm Axl Rosenberg …parts] and then piece all the little bits and words together. I started making videos and posting them on YouTube. One of my friends got Liam’s attention. Liam told my…
Interviews 30 MIKE HRUBOVCAK: THE VOICE OF MONSTROSITY, METAL ALBUM COVER ARTISTE March 22nd, 2010 at 1:00pm MetalSucks …Plus, I’d end up doing album covers just for money and shooting things out just to get them done and taking any and every job even if I wasn’t into…
Cinemetal 40 WATCH AN ENTIRE LANDMINE MARATHON CONCERT FROM THE SAME CHAIR IN WHICH YOU MASTURBATE March 19th, 2010 at 12:00pm Axl Rosenberg …a YouTube user known as “dstanfie23” has uploaded an entire concert that the band recently did in Scottsdale, AZ. The quality of the footage is just okay, but, hey, better…
Editorials 130 SKOLNICKS FALL March 18th, 2010 at 3:30pm Axl Rosenberg “Bark at the Moon” is to Shadows Fall as “Holy Diver” is to Killswitch Engage. They’re both covers of classic solo tracks by former Sabbath vocalists, and both songs were…
What the...?? 220 DID BLACK SABBATH RIP-OFF THE SCORPIONS? March 17th, 2010 at 10:30am Axl Rosenberg …the whole world is just noticing now, sixteen years after the fact, is it? ‘Cause this is ridiculous. You can see larger versions of the covers here and here. -AR…
New Stuff 150 SNAP JUDGMENTS OF SLASH’S NEW ALBUM BASED ON THIRTY SECOND SONG SAMPLES March 17th, 2010 at 10:00am Axl Rosenberg …clips to YouTube. Gotta love the internet! So I thought we’d play one of our favorite games here at MetalSucks. It’s called “Let’s make premature judgments based on not very…
Hair Metal Happy Hour 240 STRYPER BETRAY THEIR LORD AND SAVIOR, COVER SONGS BY JEWS AND HOMOSEXUALS March 10th, 2010 at 11:00am Axl Rosenberg …still be the single lamest metal cover of a non-metal song ever, which is really saying something. Now the band is working on a covers album, which will include their…
Editorials 110 APEX THEORY FRONTMAN SPEAKS UP March 10th, 2010 at 10:30am Vince Neilstein …to it since. Going on YouTube to find a video to post with this piece and watching through “Shhh… (Hope Diggy)” and “Apossibly” (above) it’s obvious looking back that Apex…
What the...?? 1450 BEHEMOTH’S NERGAL FACES UP TO TWO YEARS IN PRISON FOR DESTRUCTION OF A BIBLE March 9th, 2010 at 11:30am Axl Rosenberg …Jew Watch (no, I’m not providing a link – you can find it pretty easily if you’re so inclined) that covers the way the Jews are allegedly running the world…
New Stuff 140 GOROD GET CYNICAL March 5th, 2010 at 4:00pm Axl Rosenberg I’m not generally a fan of covers unless it’s something kinda outside the box and the band puts their own spin on it, but I am a fan of Gorod…
Music Dorkery 50 ACOUSTIC IS THE NEW ELECTRIC FOR KATATONIA’S NIGHT IS THE NEW DAY March 2nd, 2010 at 12:30pm Vince Neilstein …My latest obsession is an acoustic cover of Katatonia’s “Forsaker” (from 2009’s excellent Night is the New Day) posted by YouTube user broadcast2k9 and sent in by Gordon Albert. I…
Scraping Genius Off The Wheel 20 VICTIMOLOGY REDUX: TWO SWEATY STINKIN’ VIOLENT NIGHTS IN THE TATTERED, SENTIMENTAL HEART OF NYHC (PART ONE) March 1st, 2010 at 2:00pm Gary Suarez …night of classic hardcore we had ahead of us, but Antidote gave Agnostic Front a run for their money with an impressive set of spunky originals and affectionately true covers….
Upcoming Bullsh*t 140 SPEAKING OF ZILTOID… February 26th, 2010 at 3:45pm Vince Neilstein The REAL Ziltoid has arrived on earth from Ziltoidia IX and left a message with us in the form a video on Devin Townsend’s YouTube account! Devin told us there’d…
