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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

It’s not often that an average Joe or Jane gets the chance to join an established technical death band, but here it is. In a post on their official Instagram page, Canadian outfit Archspire announced ...

In the last few months, Born of Osiris has had a lot of changes. From parting ways with their long-time guitarist Lee McKinney and keyboardist Joe Buras, to announcing Fallujah guitarist Scott ...

The following is a guest post by Noah Grossman. Nu metal is back! So many people are finally coming around to the polarizing genre now that enough time has passed to finally admit that it was actually ...