Phil Labonte Compares Metallica to Nickelback, Axl Rose vs. Steve Mnuchin, and More Stories You May Have Missed This Week

The MetalSucks Playlist — Week of May 4 – May 8, 2020

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

• Phil Labonte compared Metallica to Nickelback, causing the Internet to lose its shit.
• Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose got into a Twitter fight with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
• Video: Every time Jonathan Davis screams “Me!” in Korn’s entire catalogue.
• Fear Factory’s Burton Seabell guests in Skumlove’s new video — and the results are not good.
• Someone made an awesome action figure of Cannibal Corpse’s George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher.
• Stryper’s Michael Sweet and Tracii Guns from L.A. Guns are apparently working on a black metal record.
• Machine Head’s Robb Flynn has some strong opinions about taxing the 1%.
• The collaboration between Mastodon’s Brent Hinds and High on Fire’s Matt Pike has been revealed.
• Deftones are considering pushing back the release of their new album.
• There’s gonna be a concert in Arkansas next week.

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.