OK, I just got back from the MetalSucks office, and some words were exchanged regarding my displeasure over the albums they’ve been having me cover as of late. Things got a little heated, and I’ll ...

Since its inception by the typings of some clever music journalist in the 80s, the categorization “hair metal” (or “glam metal”) has been as amorphous and, consequently, as misused as “metalcore” has ...

I’m not a very religious person. But I also don’t care that much if someone else is. In the immortal words of Devo, “Believe what you want to; nothing’s really true.” But some atheists and agnostics ...

On December 7, 2024, Nicko McBrain officially hung up his touring gloves after one final thunderous sendoff with Iron Maiden in São Paulo, Brazil. It was the end of a road paved with decades of ...

If you’ve been watching the Republican National Convention on television, you’ve had to sit through a lot of unbelievable shit. And while there’s plenty to talk about the policies and rhetoric spewed ...

This fall, progressive metalcore bands Invent Animate and Silent Planet are joining up for yet another run of live shows together dubbed the ‘Bloom In Heaven Part II Tour’ through North America. Once ...

After 18 years with the band, drummer Kevin Boutot is no longer in The Acacia Strain. His last show with the band was the finale of their most recent tour on July 15 in Kitchener, Ontario. Boutot ...

It’s no secret: Indonesians love death metal. If you go searching, you’ll quickly find that the country of a thousand islands has hundreds of brutal death metal bands. I can’t possibly cover them all ...

Back in May, long-running femme metal act Vixen announced a split with vocalist Lorraine Lewis which caused many shocked metal fans to utter “Vixen is still a band?” The band’s longest-running ...

It’s been almost four years now since Jason Hook’s departure from Five Finger Death Punch, and it was not one of those amicable splits. Hook indicated that he had been issued a gag order at one point ...

Anthrax have released the latest episode of their Anthrax 40 for 40 video series, which celebrates the band’s 40th anniversary by taking a look at each individual ‘Thrax album over the course of the ...