A less forward-thinking company might shirk at the prospect of an unlimited music streaming service, especially one whose music business is rooted so firmly in pay-per-track iTunes and the iPods/iPhones that carry said tracks. If Apple were as thick-headed and dense as the major record labels, they’d forge ahead with their existing models while attempting [...]
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APPLE MAKES A PLAY FOR THE MUSIC CLOUD
DO NOT WANT
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Artist:Brandon Saller
Atreyu drummer / vocalist Brandon Saller has announced he’ll be playing a solo show in Anaheim this January. If badly out-of-key vocals are your thing, then I recommend you attend this show. Exactly what this show will entail, I’m not certain… continuous drum solos? Brandon on an acoustic?Also, what the fuck is going on in [...]
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GEE, I WONDER WHO JAMEY JASTA IS TALKING ABOUT?
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Our friend D.X. Ferris recently interviewed Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta for the Riverfront Times. Ferris is a great writer and an all-around good dude, so it’s definitely worth checking out… but here’s the part that really caught my attention:What’s the latest with your books?I had a major setback with the lyric book, which the lawyers are [...]
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NEKROGOBLIKON “RETURN TO THE SKY”
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Artist:Nekrogoblikon
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Album:Stench
What the fuck, Nekrogoblikon? You said your new album, Stench, was “almost finished” way back in April, and here’s it’s fucking December and no release date. C’mon, dudes, don’t leave me hanging!!!Oh well. At least MetalSucks Mega-Maniac (and F.O.N. – that’s “Friend of Nekrogoblikon” ) Mark Moritz-Rabson sent us this video of the band performing [...]
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“SEXUAL MAN CHOCOLATE”: ATTACK ATTACK! MAKE IT TOO EASY
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Reader Luke Papadopoulos sent us the below video of Attack Attack! performing a new song. Even with the lo-fi audio, it’s easy to tell that the song is fucking awful. Still, there’s three things I’d like to point out, at the risk of coming across as a major homophobe:The song is called “Sexual Man Chocolate.”Attack [...]
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SO WHO STILL THINKS AL JOURGENSEN IS SANE?
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We just received the following press release here at the MetalSucks Mansion. I don’t usually like to just cut and paste press releases, but in this instance I feel like I need to do so in order to make my point. So:Ministry’s Uncle Al Jourgensen is apparently in the Christmas spirit, having created a Christmas [...]
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THE BIRDS AND THE BEES OF METAL
Cosmo Lee, Ph.D. of Invisible Oranges would like to know the following:At what point do you tell a love interest/potential mate/significant other of your metal-ness?It’s a great question, and one that I’ve struggled with before. Being a fan of metal is a lot different than being a fan of indie rock or country or pop… [...]
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SUICIDE SILENCE BOOTED FROM MEGADETH TOUR?
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Everyone loves a good feud, especially when Mega-dick Dave Mustaine is involved! The guy’s a fantastic musician and Endgame will likely make my year-end list, but the dude’s got serious temper and ego issues and provides us with fun stuff to write about on a near-daily basis… so thank you, Dave Mustaine!The latest fracas involves [...]
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METALSUCKS’ 3RD ANNUAL HEAVY METAL HANNUKKAH, BROUGHT TO YOU BY CENTURY MEDIA – NIGHT 3 OF 8
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A technical snafu prevented this from getting up on time last night. Apologies!It will be a very happy Hannukkah for Joleen Greenland, who correctly answered last night’s trivia question: it was Genghis Tron’s half-Jewish Mookie Singerman who once joked to us that he had auditioned for Norma Jean and not gotten the gig because of [...]
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TODAY IS THE EIGHTH ANNIVERSAY OF CHUCK SCHULDINER’S DEATH
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I almost never know what to say when attempting to commemorate someone’s death. But reader Paul Lakomski reminded us that today is the anniversary, and it just felt like we have to do something to remember the man and what he did for the music we love. There are so many bands that just wouldn’t [...]
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METALSUCKS’ 3RD ANNUAL HEAVY METAL HANNUKKAH, BROUGHT TO YOU BY CENTURY MEDIA – NIGHT 2 OF 8
Mazel tov to Kelly Certain, who correctly answered last night’s Heavy Metal Hannukkah question: Who did Vince interview for his very first entry in his “Jew on Jew” interview series? Well, duh. It was Eyal Levi, who are now proud to call part of the MetalSucks team. Poor bastard wishes he’d never met us.ANYWAY, Kelly [...]
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IN WHICH WE WERE FUCKING HOSTILE
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As we mentioned earlier today, next Thursday we’ll run the MS staffs’ various year end lists. Of course, that means that the MS staff has to start turning them in now. And as we’ve begun the editing process, we’ve been reassured of what we already knew: opinions are like assholes. Everybody’s got one. But what’s [...]
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METALSUCKS’ 3RD ANNUAL HEAVY METAL HANNUKKAH, BROUGHT TO YOU BY CENTURY MEDIA – NIGHT 1 OF 8
Ahh, Hannukkah. The Festival of Lights. Like every Jewish holiday, is ostensibly boils down to “They tried to kill us, we lived, let’s eat!” Which, when you think about it, really is as good a reason to celebrate and exchange gifts as any.So for the third year in a row now, MetalSucks is teaming up [...]
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JUMPING DARKNESS PARADE: WHERE YA BEEN, EYAL?
Are you ever going to write again? Is your column at Metalsucks over? Where the fuck have you been? Why don’t you hang out? You better be ditching me for a really good reason! You’re in town? Why didn’t I know? Etc. Etc. Etc.At first I didn’t know what I was getting myself into. If [...]
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MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN TURNS BLOOD INTO WINE
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So not only does Tool’s Maynard James Keenan have his own winery, but someone made a documentary about it? How did this news completely escape me ’til now?No matter. Blood into Wine, the documentary in question, is going to premiere at the W Hotel in Scottsdale, AZ on Feb. 19 at 7:00 pm. It will [...]
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BARREN EARTH: METAL TO BE REALLY, REALLY COLD TO
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Artist:Barren Earth
Do you enjoy Agalloch? Daylight Dies? Swallow the Sun? Insomnium? How about Katatonia or Opeth?If you answered “yes” to any of the above, then a) you have great taste in metal, b) you really owe it to yourself to check out Barren Earth, a dark melo-doom outfit from Finland (where else?). Simply put, Barren Earth [...]
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COOKIE MONSTER VS. RAMMSTEIN
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Rammstein seem to be the subjects of a whole lot of homemade viral videos lately (see also: this). Why exactly, I’m not sure. Perhaps it’s that the whole concept of the band is just kinda funny to begin with. And of course, those German accents!Take this one originally posted on Metal Injection. Gold. I can [...]
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THE DREADFUL DEMO FILES: THE DECEMBER 2009 EDITION, PART III (AKA THE BEST PROMO PACKAGE EVER MADE)
[A series of absolutely dreadful demos to grace the doorstep of the MS Mansion of late has inspired me to resurrect The Dreadful Demo Files, in which we take a look at some of the face-palm-inducingly bad packages we receive. For the sake of these poor bands' egos we've disguised their identities. I'll be highlighting [...]
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(HED)P.E. HAVE A NEW VIDEO. LULZ!
Rejected by even the lowest also-ran nu-metal mooks, (hed)p.e. have sunken so far down to the lowest dregs of society that they’ve been drawn into the only scene left that will actually accept them; Juggalos. They’ve been touring with Psycopathic artists for years now, but somehow I missed the fact that they’ve now even resorted [...]
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AXL ROSE STILL HAS ANGER MANAGEMENT ISSUES
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So you may have heard this story that Axl Rose allegedly got in a fight with some paparazzi at LAX the other day while on his way to board a flight to Taipei, Taiwan, where Guns N’ Roses are about to finally begin touring in support of Chinese Democracy more than a year after its [...]
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