Matt Pike Has Diabetes, Amity Affliction Singer Calls Out Trump Fan, and Other Top Stories That You May Have Missed This Week

Worst Week Ever Playlist — Week of January 7 – January 11, 2019

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• High on Fire were forced to cancel a tour after frontman Matt Pike was diagnosed with diabetes.
• The Amity Affliction’s singer is NOT a fan of Donald Trump.
• Drummer Jason Bittner says Shadows Fall “wore out our welcome.”
• Members of Lamb of God, Animals as Leaders, and Sworn Enemy have joined forces in a new band called Over It All.
• Is Richard Benson the worst shred guitarist ever, or a brilliant performance artist? You decide!
• Devin Townsend has completed his new album, Empath! Check out the cover art here.
• The Ted Bundy biopic in which James Hetfield makes his acting debut will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival later this month.
• Listen to Mark Morton’s collaboration with Chester Bennington, “Cross Off.”
• Gene Hoglan believes that Metallica’s “One” owes a major debt to Dark Angel’s “Darkness Descends.”
• Someone made a “more metal version” of Bring Me the Horizon’s poppy new song, “Medicine.”