From The Austerity Program to Made Out Of Babies, it seems that some of my favorite acts in noise rock these days are coming from NYC, something that makes this native beam with hometown pride. Wetnurse is the latest addition to this list. As if Wednesday's Today Is The Day gig in NYC couldn't get any [...]
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The following e-mail was sent out to all Nine Inch Nails fans on their mailing list last night. I'm just gonna go ahead and re-print it in its entirety: Next Tuesday we will elect the next President of the United States. The result will have great consequences for the nation. This election offers a choice is between [...]
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The Webernet rumor mill has been aflutter in recent weeks with the news that two of the three surviving members of Led Zeppelin — Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones — would like to take the band out on the road following their massively successful 2007 reunion concert. The late John Bonham's son Jason, who [...]
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Here's an e-mail we received from MetalSucks Maniac Bill Kendrick over the weekend: "HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS SLEEP ARE REUNITING FOR TWO SHOWS!!!!! WHY HAVEN'T YOU WRITTEN YOU ABOUT THIS YET? THEY'RE THE BEST FUCKING BAND EVER! SLEEP! SLEEP! SLEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!" So, Billy Boy, this one's for you: Sleep are reuniting for two shows at Minehead in the [...]
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On several occasions I've heard someone refer to Def Leppard as part of the British New Wave of Heavy Metal, and that band's inclusion into the genre never made sense to me; it's not that I don't enjoy vintage Def Lep (for better or worse, I do enjoy it, very much so), but uttering the [...]
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I think I just came up with the stupid taglinge for Lamb of God's new album. Epic, you can make the check payable to MetalSucks. Thanks. ANYWAY, Lamb of God's new album, the imposingly titled Wrath, now has an official release date of February 24, 2009. There's still no track listing. In a statement, drummer/mouthpiece Chris Adler [...]
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I am currently sequestered away in my cave hammering out my next book, so I don't have any time to look shit up. Regardless, I have a few questions niggling at the back of my brain about some issues in metal. Maybe you can help me out. WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO…? Sounds of the Underground- I [...]
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Much like The Misfits, I’ll keep this short and sweet: if you haven’t carved that pumpkin yet, today prolly oughta be the day…This is the title track from The Misfits’ 3rd EP, and it was released on Halloween Eve, 1979, at NYC’s (now-corporate-owned-The-Fillmore-at-) Irving Plaza, where Vince and I triumphantly caught Protest the Hero play [...]
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The Phillies won the World Series, it's Halloween, and we have a U.S. presidential election coming up in less than a week. But what's happening in metal is obviously way more important: Living Colour ruled. As always. Mastodon announced the title and tracklisting of their new album. We spoke with Cynic's Paul Masvidal and Today Is the Day's [...]
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In case I haven't made this clear before, I fucking hate Halloween. Why anyone over the age of ten feels the need to dress up, I don't fucking know. Unless you're a member of Slipknot. Or Alice Cooper. Or in a black metal band. Or a hair metal band. Or Gwar. Or Marilyn Manson. Or… [...]
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Recently, Metalsucks’ Vince wrote a very informative blog for young musicians aspiring to “make it” as a band. Well, I’m sure it was informative, I didn’t actually read the whole thing because, hey, I mean, come on…. right guys? Yeah! High five! It did however make me think of some other groups of people I [...]
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Honestly, I'm not a huge Bolt Thrower fan. I don't hate 'em or nuthin', I just never got into them, even though a lot of intelligent people whose opinions I respect have told me they're swell. So, this one's for you, intelligent people whose opinions I respect that have told me they're swell: Bolt Thrower are [...]
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Okay, I'm going to come right out and say this but I don't want it to deter you from exploring what I'm about to describe; Capricorns are a band from London who invariably fall into the doom/sludge category. Wait! Don't run away. Seriously, you should keep reading this time and I'll even make it brief. While [...]
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Textures have released a breathtaking (metal!) new video for "Awake," from their breathtaking (yeah!) new album Silhouettes, likely to rank in both mine and Kip's year-end Top Ten. According to a press release, "the band received a generous grant from the Dutch tax videoclip fund which gave the band the opportunity to film a video [...]
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Here's a headline from Blabbermouth this morning: GUNS N' ROSES' 'Chinese Democracy' Single Best 'Mainstream Rock' Debut Since 'Don't Cry' Wow. So in the seventeen years since "Don't Cry" was released, there hasn't been a better debut than "Chinese Democracy?" What incredible power Axl Rose has over the charts! Only, this isn't exactly true. And by "exactly," I [...]
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If you like noise rock and you live in or near New York City, the next week-and-a-half will melt your genitals clean off. You read right. The molten manmeat madness starts on Sunday, when Harvey Milk headlines the (now Tombs-less) Beasts Of The East festival at Club Europa in Brooklyn. The event starts at [...]
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So a lot of you have been emailing us lately about this band Hacride, a really solid French progressive metal band very much in the Meshuggah / Textures / Benea Reach school. I think they're pretty F'n cool, even if not entirely original (see also: those bands). Here's the trippy Aronofsky-esque video for their song [...]
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Election day is only a couple of days away and it's excruciating. For that reason alone, I'm not going to talk about politics at all until this election is done with. It seems things are so contentious right now that having an objective point of view about things causes arguments that aren't even intended, so [...]
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Is it too early to get excited about a tour that doesn't even kick off 'til May? Not when the tour is Enslaved, Keep of Kalessin and Swallow the Sun. Truth be told, I'm not as familiar with KOK (say it aloud for a cheap giggle) as I oughta be, but Vince has been raving [...]
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Seriously, I think I can safely speak for both Vince and myself when I say that Living Colour are one of our top five desert island bands of any genre. Everything about Living Colour rules. We've seen them live a bunch of times, and with one very notable exception, they've killed live each and every [...]
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