“Do I Suck?” is MetalSucks’ new Wednesday column, reporting on the scene’s burning AITA questions.

OK, I just got back from the MetalSucks office, and some words were exchanged regarding my displeasure over the albums they’ve been having me cover as of late. Things got a little heated, and I’ll ...

I’m not a very religious person. But I also don’t care that much if someone else is. In the immortal words of Devo, “Believe what you want to; nothing’s really true.” But some atheists and agnostics ...

The family of late Cinderella guitarist Jeff LaBar, who died last week at the age of only 58 years old, has now released a statement regarding his passing. Jeff’s first wife, Gaile LaBar-Bernhardt, ...

This fall, progressive metalcore bands Invent Animate and Silent Planet are joining up for yet another run of live shows together dubbed the ‘Bloom In Heaven Part II Tour’ through North America. Once ...

Since its inception by the typings of some clever music journalist in the 80s, the categorization “hair metal” (or “glam metal”) has been as amorphous and, consequently, as misused as “metalcore” has ...

After 18 years with the band, drummer Kevin Boutot is no longer in The Acacia Strain. His last show with the band was the finale of their most recent tour on July 15 in Kitchener, Ontario. Boutot ...

It’s been a minute since mall goth glam metal revivalists Black Veil Brides released some new music — last year, to be exact with the release of their track “Bleeders”, to be exact. And in that time, ...

If you’ve been watching the Republican National Convention on television, you’ve had to sit through a lot of unbelievable shit. And while there’s plenty to talk about the policies and rhetoric spewed ...

German metalcore act Caliban are back with a new song and music video for the all too real titled track “I Was A Happy Kid Once.” Us too, man. Us too… As expected from the band, it’s a heavy diddy ...

It’s been almost four years now since Jason Hook’s departure from Five Finger Death Punch, and it was not one of those amicable splits. Hook indicated that he had been issued a gag order at one point ...

On December 7, 2024, Nicko McBrain officially hung up his touring gloves after one final thunderous sendoff with Iron Maiden in São Paulo, Brazil. It was the end of a road paved with decades of ...