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What a week it’s been! The metal news this had drama, heartbreak, and burgers, so lets dive into it… System Of a Down’s “Chop Suey!” passes 2 billion streams on Spotify It’s about goddamn time this happened! System Of a Down‘s 2001 “Chop Suey!” is one of their most revered and quintessential songs (and, for me, one of my fave’s in their discography to sing for karaoke besides “B.Y.O.B.”), and has finally reache

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, Hair Metal vs. Grunge, Jazz vs. People with good taste in music – then the war shifted to musicians vs the ever-changing music industry: Metallica vs. Napster, Spotify vs. Bands Who Like To Make Money, and of course, AI-Generated Bands vs. Bands That Sound Like They’ve Been Using AI This Whole

What a week it’s been! Thankfully, the metal news was full of warm, goody goodness, but there’s still a lot to dive into, so read on… Cold As Life vocalist Rodney “Rawn Beauty” Barger Suspected Murdered Finally Captured Justice moves very slowly; ask anyone. In this case, it took 32 goddamn years to find the alleged murderer of founding Detroit hardcore band Cold As Life vocalist Rodney “Rawn Beauty” Barger. The Detroit News reported that

Daytona Beach, Florida heavy metal festival Welcome to Rockville just wrapped up, and its four days of festivities and shitty weather were full of several memorable moments. Of course there’s no way to cover everything, considering how there were tons of damn people there and tons and of things going on, but here’s just a few of highlights from the four-day-daze. Poppy’s set got cancelled as soon as it started Of all the things we clown on Florida for, and trust, ther

What a week it’s been! Thankfully, the metal news hasn’t been as contentious as past weeks, but there’s still a lot to dive into, so read on… William Shatner Recruits Disturbed’s John Moyer and Slayer’s Dave Lombardo for New Metal Project Everyone’s favorite actor who says things interestingly, William Shatner, is out here Shatnering in a whole new way. The 95-year-old has done a lot of cool firsts in his life, but he’s taken the cake with this one, because

For the first time in six years, U.K. genre-agnostics Loathe are releasing a brand new, full-length studio effort titled A Stranger To You. Set to release on July 17, the album’s first single “Revenant” is streaming right now. Described as “perhaps their heaviest song to date”, the new single “Revenant” is aptly named. It only hangs around for a few minutes, hits hard, and then vanishes as fast as it came. Seriously, this thing goes hard in the paint

With their new album Projections coming out on May 29, British doom metal outfit Godthrymm shared a new single, titled “The Sun Never Fell”. The new album is being positioned as the finale to the band’s Visions trilogy, which started back with the release of 2020’s Reflections and was followed up by 2023’s Distortions. Of course, the band’s penchant for doom metal stems from the fact that frontman Hamish Glencross and Shaun Taylor-Steels are former My Dying

The men and women of Jackass have done some insanely dumb things. Countless things involving butts and balls and bears (the animal kind) that result in bodily harm for people’s enjoyment have made up the Jackass formula for decades. But in the team’s new and potentially final movie Jackass: Best and Last, they’re leaping into the future, one robot prostate exam at a time. That’s the hook involved in the latest trailer for the new Jackass movie — a robot dressed in a do

Bright Monday mornings don’t exactly evoke the spooky and macabre, but that changes in an instant whenever cult rock outfit Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats put out new music. And this morning, they released a new single titled “Don’t Let It Control You.” Teased as a “blood-soaked taster from their forthcoming studio album,” this new release is just under four minutes of fuzz-laden psycho rock. It’s got all the trappings of an Uncle Acid tune, including t

Over the weekend, Korn headlined the first night of Sick New World in Las Vegas. It was the culmination of a huge day of music and entertainment, but it also served as a chance to fans to catch the iconic nu metal band playing some classics and some newer tunes throughout the night. But about half way through their set, they broke out something new they released just last Thursday — “Reward The Scars.” You may recall that few days ago Korn dropped the aforementioned brand new trac

This past Friday was a dream that so many of us probably wish we could’ve experienced in real time. The lucky sons-o’-bitches who were at Queens of the Stone Age‘s set on April 24 at the Joshua Tree Retreat center in Joshua Tree, CA got a fucking treat, because they brought out Nick Oliveri on stage. Yes! That Nick Oliveri: their former bassist and vocalist who joined the band in 1998 and rocked with the for six years. Watch some fan-filmed footage below. There was a bit of

Damn, Derrick, we see you! Derrick Green, that is—the vocalist of Sepultura. As if he hasn’t been busy enough on the band’s farewell tour, he’s also been working behind the scenes, scheming and plotting on what he’s going to do once the band wraps up. Apparently, he’s got a whole new band in the works. Green sat down for a new interview with Heavy Matters where he spoke about his plans, post farewell tour: “I will continue doing music. I definitely woul

I think we all kinda saw this one coming, so it’s nice to have it basically confirmed. Godsmack frontman Sully Erna appeared on one of everyone’s favorite radio shows, SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk, on April 23, where he was asked about whether the band’s latest album Lighting Up the Sky will be their last. Since, let’s not forget, that both And, based on the title of this article, I imagine you’ve surmised what his answer was. Erna said, as tra

If David Attenborough scored music documentaries the same way he does animal docs, I’d absolutely scream from excitement. That’s not happening in this case, but could you imagine? Anyway, Blood Incantation plan on releasing their documentary All Gates Open, with a soundtrack to boot. The 73-minute juggernaut of a documentary score originally came as part of the deluxe edition of their latest album Absolute Elsewhere, while the actual footage itself documenting the writing and rec

Let’s start out by saying that we do NOT stan, or really even like, Live Nation over here (who the hell does?), but, just like last time, we feel like this is a pretty good deal worth sharing. The ticket monopoly just announced this years $30 “Ticket to Live” shows, seemingly the same as their $30 “Ticket to Summer” promo they’ve run in the past, with over 4,000 shows to choose from. Yeah, that’s a whole hell of a lot, and there’s so many good one

Another day, another creep to call out. Can Slam Dunk Festival founder Ben Ray please come to the front? You’ve got some explaining to do. Yesterday, British actress and showgirl Jenny Miller blasted social media accusing Ray of sexual assault. She says the two were friends with a working relationship where she would sometimes dance for him with STRICT rules prohibiting touching, but that he broke those rules after doing some illicit substances. Miller posted the following statement

Last week, attendees of this year’s Monsters of Rock Cruise boarded the Norwegian Joy and embarked on a trip from Miami to Grand Turk full of good times and great music. It was supposed to be a celebration of all things rock and metal on the high seas, but one dude apparently didn’t get the memo. For one dude, it was a chance to allegedly get belligerently drunk and throw a bitch fit at someone during an exclusive VIP party. That one dude was ex-Skid Row and current Twisted Sister

Their first show in Italy should have been an entirely positive experience, but Ukrainian World War I-themed blackened death metal band 1914 ran into a problem with local police over money they collected during the tour. According to a statement the band shared with fans, their visit to Italy went mostly without a hitch until they went to leave the country. During their travels, they were stopped by the country’s financial police and subjected to an inspection. What resulted was the imm

Metalcore outfit August Burns Red have a new album titled Season of Surrender coming out this June and it’s with that in mind that they dropped their new single “Sonic Salvation”. The new track features Polaris vocalist Jamie Halls. Clocking in at just over four minutes, guitarist JB Brubaker said the track was the very first he wrote for the new record. “‘Sonic Salvation’ was the first song I wrote for Season of Surrender. I set out to write a song tha

It’s beginning to sound like new Baroness is on the horizon, as the band gets ready to head into the studio this summer. Details surrounding the sludge metal band’s seventh album and follow up to 2023’s STONE have been scarce at best, but some new details have emerged thanks to guitarist Gina Gleason. While speaking with Guitar World about the band, her side project Ecliptor, and a whole buncha other stuff, Gleason admitted that the band’s been eyeing new tunes for som