Ever feel like you just absolutely need one more streaming service to add to your long list of subscriptions? If the answer is yes and you want to make sure your subscription money was used to support artists you actually care about, then a new music streaming service/app called ROKK could be the solution. Founded by Kamelot/Cyhra drummer Alex Landenburg and Mentalist Guitarist Peter Moog, the new platform has a crowdfunding campaign going on right now with plans to launch first in Europe and the U.K. in January 2024. Landenburg said this new platform will pay rock and metal artists significa ..read more

Gamers and metal fans unite. Avenged Sevenfold just teased that they’re collabing with massive game franchise and friend to teenage boys everywhere, Fortnite. For those not familiar with the game, it’s a free-to-play first person shooter where the winner is the last player (or group of players) alive. Recent updates to the game have added special skins for the game where players can be different characters like Darth Vader and Goku and it seems like Avenged Sevenfold might also be part of the game in the near future. To announce this little project, the generation-spanning punk/metal icons sh ..read more

After much anticipation, Vemod will finally unleash their sophomore album The Deepening this January via Prophecy Productions. Having earned a reputation as one of Norway’s preeminent bands, Vemod’s mastermind Jan Even Åsli is in my opinion one of the country’s highest regarded composers. Jan Even founded Vemod at the start of the millennium when he was 12 in his native Namsos, though the outfit is currently based in Trondheim. He’s also known for co-founding the now disbanded powerhouse One Tail, One Head, which is likewise revered by the black metal community. So it was ..read more

For the first time in their 40+ year career, Metallica is bringing their world-class live show to the sandy confines of Saudi Arabia. The performance will take place as the headlining act on the opening night of a three-day music festival called Soundstorm in the country’s capital city, Riyadh next month. Seeing a major western media apparatus make a splash in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is nothing new, as the WWE has now has numerous successful pay-per-view events in the major Middle Eastern city. Similarly, other music artists have been playing shows in KSA in recent years as the government ..read more

Metalcore outfit Silent Planet released a pair of visualizers for two songs featured on their latest album Superbloom: one for “Euphoria” and one for “Dreamwalker.” Both visualizers can be viewed below, with each telling a part of the album’s sci-fi epic concept. Silent Planet are especially happy to celebrate the release of this record, as it is coming into the world a year after they were involved in a horrible van accident. Miraculously, everyone in the band safely walked away from the crash, but it could have been incredibly catastrophic, and was certainly traumatic. Now, they celebrate t ..read more

Deathcore outfit Alluvial have a new EP coming in several weeks titled Death Is But A Door and to hype it up ahead of time, the band’s released a music video for the title track that serves up a bit of wanton gun violence. As you’ll see in the video posted below, it’s not good guys gunning down bad guys, it’s more angry white dude shoots his friends because… reasons. According to the band, the video follows the “mental and emotional descent of a man against an apocalyptic urban backdrop,” which I guess you could say that’s what’s happening there. But to me it just looks like an angry incel de ..read more

Tool bassist Justin Chancellor and Peter Mohamed of Sweet Noise join our show this week to discuss the second album from their project MTVoid, we discuss returning to the project, the joy of creating music through file sharing, the conceptual team that create the music video for “MaBeLu,” all the collaborators that mad contributions to the songs on the album, the lyrical technique that was used on the record, and why a project like MTVoid is helps Chancellor grow as a bass player. Petar and Jozalyn discuss The Black Dahlia Murder entering the studio to record their first record after the pass ..read more

Jammy metal weirdos in Australia and New Zealand will no doubt be overjoyed, as Mr. Bungle and Melvins are joining forces to tour that area in March 2024. This will be Mr. Bungle‘s first tour of the are since 2002, so fans in the area will likely be extra excited Check out the dates now, and go ahead and snag tickets. 3/3 Auckland, NZ – Town Hall 3/6 Melbourne, AUS – Festival Hall 3/7 Adelaide, AUS – Hindley St Music Hall 3/9 Sydney, AUS – Hordern Pavilion 3/10 Brisbane, AUS – Fortitude Music Hall 3/12 Perth, AUS – Metro City This is big news for Melvins, as their fall 2023 tour saw drum ..read more

Ghost never pass up a good collab, as their recent line of butt plugs and dildos proves. Now, they’ve also collaborated with Lugz on some shoes. This time making something a little more practical than sex toys and action figures (depending on how you look at things), the Swedish larger-than-life band have create a functional, fashionable black booth that just about any metalhead can stand behind—pun intended. This limited edition show from Lugz shows even more creativity from frontman Tobias Forge, as well as something swanky to put on your feet. The shoes can be purchased online for a limite ..read more

Got shopping to do and need some motivation? We’ve got the playlist for you. Updated this week with tracks from Dead By April, God’s Date, and Eye Am, this still has some of the last few weeks’ worth of bangers too. You just can’t go wrong. As always, we’ve updated the playlist on both Spotify and Apple Music, so feel free to hit play below or search for MetalSucks in the app to find the new list. And while you’re at it, feel free to subscribe to our podcast and other playlists if you choose. All we ask in return is that you remember to also follow/like/subscribe/whatever the playlists so you ..read more