Of the many bands I saw at this year’s Mutants of the Monster festival, BRAT were one of the acts I’ll never forget. There they were, a quartet in bright colors, led by a bouncy blonde rocking ...

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 ...

As a massive Mike Patton fan, I regularly daydream of a moment where I get to share the stage with him. It’s a pipe dream, I know, but certain folks get to live out that dream like fellow ...

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 ...

Does Varg Vikernes even need an introduction at this point? Murderer, arsonist, white supremacist — and, I guess, musician — it’s not hyperbole to call the Burzum mastermind black metal’s most ...

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 ...

The Internet, you may have noticed, feels pretty passionate about recent MetalSucks stories regarding members of Watain and Marduk seemingly having concrete ties to Nazi groups and ideologies and ...

Suicide Silence got a LOT of hate back in the day for their breakdowns and because late frontman Mitch Lucker was a total scene icon. Their first album, The Cleansing, is undeniable. It’s one of the ...

MondaySucks is MetalSucks brand new weekly column on Mondays, written by your favorite goblin comedian, John Goblikon. For years, battles have been waged inside the music world: Pop vs. Rock’n’roll, ...

If you’re a Melvins fan who has spent any time on social media recently, chances are you’ve seen a whole lotta brouhaha surrounding frontman Buzz Osborne and a 2018 interview he did with Gavin McInnes ...

Earlier this month, rumors of a potential Ozzfest return swirled online after Sharon Osbourne noted that she’d been talking about the festival’s potential return with promoter Live Nation. Immediately ...