New Iron Maiden Music, Ed Sheeran Loves Death Metal, and More Stories You May Have Missed This Week

The MetalSucks Playlist — Week of July 10 – July 16, 2021

Did you miss some of this week’s top stories in the world of metal? Catch up below:

• Here come the fall tour cancellations…
• Is Steve Di Giorgio Megadeth’s new bassist?
• Guns N’ Roses shared pro-shot footage of their 2016 reunion with Steven Adler.
• Ed Sheeran wants to make a death metal album — and Dani Filth has thoughts.
• Iron Maiden premiered “Writing On the Wall,” their first new song in six years!
• Adult film star Stormy Daniels is gonna run the merch booth at an upcoming Eyehategod show.
• Deafheaven explained why they switched to clean vocals.
• Keanu Reeves explained how he wound up in the music video for Anthrax’s “Safe Home.”
• Ra Diaz (Suicidal Tendencies) will fill in for Fieldy on Korn’s upcoming tour with Staind.
• King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox covered “Pretty Vacant” by the Sex Pistols.

That’s all for now. We’ll check in periodically over the weekend as usual and be right back at it full-bore next week.