Naaaaaahhhhh, I’m just joshin’ ya! It sounds more or less EXACTLY like EVERYTHING they’ve EVER recorded before! But that’s not a bad thing. They’re Dark Tranquillity. They practically invented the Gothenburg sound.The track is called “Dream Oblivion,” and you can hear it here. It comes off of the band’s new album, We are the Void, [...]
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Ozzy Osbourne has announced Soul Sucka as the name of his new album, according to Classic Rock.Now, unless this is a very, very poorly timed April Fool’s prank, I’d just like to say that from this moment forward, I am going to pretend that Ozzy Osbourne died in a horrible accident shortly following the release [...]
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Veil of Maya, Animals as Leaders, Circle of Contempt and Periphery will embark on a U.S. tour this winter from January 29th through February 20th, according to an official press release we received last night from the band’s booking agency. Veil of Maya aren’t my favoritest Sumeriancore band, but I find them interesting enough to [...]
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Writing headlines for Rage Against the Machine is too easy, because those dudes just rage against everything (except a couple of shitty Audioslave albums… oh snap! But I did enjoy the first one). Rage, rage, rage.The latest raging is happening in the U.K., where the band are jumping on board with a fan-led initiative to [...]
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Hey, lookit that! Our pals at Metal Injection posted some fan filmed footage of another new DEP song, Option Paralysis, which comes out next year.So now we’ve heard two new songs, neither of which sounds like the poppier material on Ire Works. And while the mathcore shit is great, I really, really hope the band [...]
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Honestly, I find Lady GaGa’s pop-based performance art a lot more interesting than anything that came out of that pretentious conference which Axl posted about the other day.Say. didn’t Marduk playing a show at Gramercy Theater the other night? Maybe the Times will review that too…-GS[Gary Suarez is kvlt. He helps manage Shadows [...]
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Yaaaaaayyyyy for Martin Gutfeldt, who correctly answered last night’s trivia question: yes, twas I who took off for Yom Kippur. Martin gets a mystery prize from Century Media, and a dreidel from us. Hey, those are both things you can spin!There’s still two more chances to win a little sumpin’ sumpin’ if you lost, though. [...]
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In the weeks prior to – and even during — the assemblage of this Top 20 list, I went back and listened to every album I’d selected as a candidate, sometimes more than once. Some weren’t quite as impressive as I’d remembered now that the sheen had worn off, some were equally as good, and [...]
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Anyone who says 2009 wasn’t an amazing year for metal is just being cynical for the sake of being cynical. And me telling you you’re too cynical is like Chris Holmes telling you you have a drinking problem.Wanna know how good 2009 was? Every writer in metal is bitching and moaning about how hard it [...]
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Despite Axl’s & Vince’s (& the monkeys’) insistence that there were just way too many amazing albums released this year to possibly narrow a best-of list down to ten, I was (initially) only personally blown away by a scant few. Sure, there were plenty of solid offerings, but flailing within the maelstrom of more year/decade-end [...]
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Axl and Vince really kept us busy this year with all the great stuff coming out, but it was worth it; those guys really feed us THE best bananas money can buy. We’re not kidding… Grade A stuff, perfectly ripe, and full of flavor.It was tough, but we’ve narrowed down the year’s metal releases to [...]
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MetalSucks intern Matt Heafowitz is making his editorial debut with his own Best of ‘09 Br00tal-list! What can we say? The guy’s got great taste. We taught him well.Albums that made me moist12. Havok – BurnI’m not going to say that you haven’t heard an album like Burn before but so what, it’s thrash to [...]
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In no particular order, here are a bunch of tours that made our collective nipples hard in 2009: Meshuggah + Cynic +The Faceless: The original incarnation of the prog metal boner / wet dream tour, but the 2010 incarnation (BTBAM, Townsend, Cynic, Scale the Summit) is gonna give it a run for its money.Opeth + [...]
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To those of you that haven’t been paying attention (which I imagine is only, like, five or six of you), this is only my second year-end list for Metal Sucks. And while 2008 was a pretty good year for metal, this year made it look like a Nachtmystium record and some other stuff. From great [...]
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20. Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Agorapocalypse (Relapse)On the strength of history’s greatest band name, Scott Hull’s Agoraphobic Nosebleed doesn’t even have to be good. But ANb is awesome anyway and Agorapocalypse is an eerily accurate soundtrack to my brain’s default setting. I mean if you ever see me, say, testily waiting in line at the movies, [...]
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In no particular order…Mastodon, “Oblivion” and “Divinations” – directed by RoboshoboThis is why music videos exist, kids.Suicide Silence, “Wake Up” – directed by David BrodskyYes, we’re huge Brodsky fans. This might be his trippiest video yet.Chickenhawk, “I Hate This, Do You Like It?” – directed by Danny NorthSatan Rosenbloom doesn’t watch many music videos, but [...]
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…and what a year it’s been! I wont bore you with a long intro, since we all know nobody reads intros. Hell, most of you wont even bother reading the descriptions of the albums I’ve chosen below, so I see little reason to preface my thoughts with anything meaningful.So, without further ado, here’s [...]
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1. Dreaming Dead – Within One (Ibex Moon)These guys have a leg up on the competition because they’re L.A. natives like me, but this terrific death metal album swept me away like no other this year. Chock-full of haunting riffs, expressive guitar shredding and real songs, it’s as close to a Death album as we’re [...]
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Every now and then, a metalhead’s loyalty is tested. Whether it be a shitty year of music, an inability to purchase new product due to a thinner wallet, or simply too many real-world responsibilities that beckon for attention. Rarely, do all of these factors come into play simultaneously, but that is exactly what happened to [...]
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1. Megadeth – Endgame (Roadrunner)Two-and-a-half minutes of guitar shredding (a throwback to 1988’s So Far, So Good… So What!?) is a goddamn great way to start a record. Follow it up with a slew of shredding songs and you’ve got a recipe for the year’s most spun record. Full disclosure: I’m a Megadeth fanboy that [...]
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