In Which We Beat Ourselves Up

 WORST WEEK EVER PLAYLIST, May 19 – May 23, 2014

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Here are this week’s top stories:

• Behemoth were detained in Russia for allegedly having the wrong visas… they’ve since been released and deported from the country.
• Wovenwar guitarist Nick Hipa spoke out against his former As I Lay Dying bandmate, Tim Lambesis, who was recently convicted of attempted murder.
• King 810 made a bid to establish themselves as the scariest band in metal. They failed.
• We kicked off our countdown of the 66.6 Most Metal Movie Scenes of All Time.
• We learned what it costs to book bands such as Korn, Disturbed, and Avenged Sevenfold.
• We watched some dude beat the shit out of himself at a Cattle Decapitation show.
• We were delighted to learn that Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam D.’s new project with Corpsegrinder (Cannibal Corpse) and Shannon Lucas (ex-The Black Dahlia Murder) is almost complete!
• We were also delighted to learn that bassist Sean Malone will be touring with Cynic this summer, the first time he’s done so in twenty years.
• We fell in love with this string quartet arrangement of The Black Dahlia Murder’s “Statutory Ape.”
• We spoke to filmmaker Sam Dunn (Metal: A Heabanger’s Journey, Super Duper Alice Cooper) on The MetalSucks Podcast.

We’ll be closed for Monday on account of Memorial Day… but the Suck will be back in full swing Tuesday! ‘Til then…