Australia, for those of us in the US, is pretty much literally on the other side of the world, and, like good Americans, we pick and choose what we want to know about it. The continent conjures up images of free range marsupials, shrimps and barbies with some throwing somewhere in there, Paul Hogan, and [...]
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If you’ve ever wanted to see Randy Blythe in facepaint and tight black leggings covered in Jello and wrestling with a chick, now’s your chance. The YouTube user who posted this video surmises the event took place on January 5th, 1997, but he/she isn’t sure.I love that once upon a time Randy Blythe participated in [...]
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I’m a fan, but it’s not tough to overdose on melodrama when listening to Dir En Grey. Then again, hey so what if their singer lives in a constant state of shrieking despair and favors the bare chest/tight jeans look? The total product is awesome mostly thanks to two inventive guitarists. But, again, can so [...]
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A month ago we saw Periphery headline a small club show in NYC with The Binary Code and Empyreon, prompting my brother from another mother Axl to write: “… these guys are the shit, and are gonna be huge. They had the crowd eating out of the palms of their hands, and, unlike some bands [...]
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Since Kiss have already released, like, eighty-seven “live” (we know they tinkered with them in the studio after the fact so they’re not really live) albums entitled Alive, you’d think that no other band would ever want to give that name to their own live set ever again. I mean, being even vaguely associated with [...]
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Any site that lovingly mocks metal is automatically a friend of MetalSucks. Music satire paper The Umpteenth Times, which I just discovered last night — billing itself as “Music News That’s Fit to Fake” — apparently has a bunch of metalhead writers in their midst. Recent satire pieces have Anthrax being vaccinated for H1N1, Dave [...]
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Did you know that if you eat before you start slamming shots, you’ll get a little less drunk, but you’ll also have something to vomit up later? It’s true. Also, sometimes when you smoke weed, you get the munchies. These are just two great reasons why you should care about Hellbent for Cooking: The Heavy [...]
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Over at Invisible Oranges, Cosmo Lee recently revealed his own #1 pick for Decibel’s 100 Greatest Metal Albums of the Decade: Hate Eternal’s 2005 release, I, Monarch. I don’t have that magazine in front of me, but if memory serves, it didn’t make the list. Come to think of it, I haven’t seen it – [...]
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2009 is an awesome year to be Robb Flynn or anyone in Machine Head. Your band’s been touring non-stop for two and a half years on the well-deserved critical and commercial success of The Blackening, all without doing a single U.S. headline run. You’ve opened arenas for Metallica, huge theaters for Megadeth and Slayer, played [...]
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Devin Townsend has released the latest video from Addicted, the second of two albums he’s released in 2009 and the second of four promised records under the Devin Townsend Project moniker.The video is for “Bend it Like Bender,” and it’s done in a really unique animation style I can best describe as Aeon Flux meets [...]
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[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 [...]
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Over at his other blog, Stuff You Will Hate, Sergeant D. has started to really break his primary area of expertise – namely slam metal, which I only just recently feel like I’ve started to understand* – down to its core elements (no pun intended), I’m assuming so as to better explicate why we should [...]
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Los Angeles’ Hotel Cafe is a 165-person capacity venue, a seemingly unlikely place to find a world famous rocker with millions of record sales under his belt. And yet last Thursday it hosted noneother than Chris Cornell for an “intimate” sold out performance. As expected, YouTube has amateur footage of songs from the [...]
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I seem to recall an interview with Howard Jones from a few years back where, when discussing the importance of a good hook, he said something along of the lines of “You could play most Slayer songs on an acoustic guitar and they’d still sound great.”While I doubt we’ll be seeing a Slayer edition of [...]
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So on Friday night on friend Sergeant D. at Metal Inquisition got wasted and made the below tribute to Burzum and Varg Vikernes. Now, I can already sense that some of you are going to bitch that this isn’t that funny, and, in truth, the idea is pretty simple – but there’s something about the [...]
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MetalSucks photographic wiz girl Diana Lee Zadlo bore witness to Black Cobra and Pelican’s performances at The First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, PA on December 1st. Once again she’s been kind enough to let us premier her awesome photos. Check ‘em out after the jump… that is, if you’re not too riled up about that [...]
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“Welcome to Overthinking It, where we subject the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn’t deserve.” So reads the site disclaimer at the top of OverthinkingIt.com, which does exactly what it claims to do. Much like MetalSucks, OverthinkingIt.com attempts to take an intellectual approach to art that may or may not warrant [...]
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Way back before Death Magnetic came out I observed that the album’s cover looked like a big, hairy vagine. I wasn’t alone. Naturally there was an entire army of like-minded Internet snobs ready with their super-soakers full of Haterade, but it turns out that the members of Metallica noticed the similarities too. In the “Extras” [...]
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Last week’s Worst Tattoo Ever of the Day post — in which some sucker drew with crayons tattooed his back with logos of ’80s hair metal bands from the most popular all the way down to Tora Tora — seems to have struck a nerve. The post elicited a healthy number of comments while being [...]
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