Reviews 40 CATARACT’S SELF-TITLED ALBUM: COMPETENTLY GENERIC May 12th, 2008 at 12:19pm Axl Rosenberg Last week I was talking about the difference between metal […]
Reviews 50 WITH DEAD HANDS RISING’S EXPECT HELL: EXPECT NOTHING YOU HAVEN’T HEARD BEFORE May 8th, 2008 at 12:42pm Axl Rosenberg Vince and I had occasion to hang out with some […]
Editorials 1 DEF LEPPARD RELEASE NEW SINGLE FOR GUITAR HERO III April 17th, 2008 at 12:08pm Axl Rosenberg Look: I know the new Def Leppard single, “Nine Lives,” […]
Editorials 6460 BIG RELEASE TUESDAY: ARSIS, CHILDREN OF BODOM, APOCALYPTICA, THRICE + MORE April 15th, 2008 at 6:33pm Vince Neilstein Today is the third big Tuesday in a row, and […]
Interviews 150 “BEARD ON BEARD”: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH KILLSWITCH ENGAGE’S JUSTIN FOLEY… ABOUT HIS BEARD March 24th, 2008 at 3:27pm Vince Neilstein Justin Foley, the fire-maned skinsman for Killswitch Engage, has got […]
Exclusive 20 METALSUCKS AT SXSW: HELMET March 16th, 2008 at 2:58pm Corey Mitchell HELMET @ RED 7 – 4:30 P.M., Thursday, March 13 […]
Exclusive 80 METALSUCKS AT SXSW: THURSDAY REPORT March 14th, 2008 at 5:09pm Corey Mitchell Metal has always been the unwanted red-headed stepchild at the […]
Cinemetal 60 SLAYER WON A SECOND GRAMMY February 11th, 2008 at 11:27am Axl Rosenberg So Slayer won the Best Metal Performance Grammy for […]
Editorials 60 SOME INFO ABOUT THE NEW OPETH ALBUM February 5th, 2008 at 11:28am Vince Neilstein Opeth, one of our all-time collective favorite progressive metal bands, […]
Reviews 20 GHOST BRIGADE’S GUIDED BY FIRE: A PLEASANT END OF YEAR SURPRISE December 19th, 2007 at 2:09pm Axl Rosenberg Metal Review’s bit on Ghost Brigade’s Guided by Fire was […]
Editorials 70 SCREAMING TREES WAS THE TRUE EPICENTER OF GA-RUNGE, AND “UNCLE ANESTHESIA” WAS THEIR MASTERPIECE December 17th, 2007 at 3:32am Kip Wingerschmidt Back in the day, I must have listened to this […]
Editorials 210 HERE ARE THE METAL-RELATED NOMINEES FOR SOME AWARD NO ONE IN HIS OR HER RIGHT MIND SHOULD GIVE A FLYING F*CK ABOUT December 7th, 2007 at 3:19pm Axl Rosenberg More succinctly, the MetalSucks-relevant Grammy nominees are… Best Metal Performance: […]
Editorials 30 BUY THREE GOOD CDs, GET A FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO DECIBEL December 3rd, 2007 at 8:06am Axl Rosenberg This should make holiday shopping for metal heads easier: right […]
Editorials 170 TO NU-METAL OR NOT TO NU-METAL? November 29th, 2007 at 4:54pm Vince Neilstein From the Wikipedia entry on nu-metal: The term was first […]
Editorials 40 IS ATREYU’S MAJOR LABEL RECORD DEAL IN ITS DEATH THROES? November 21st, 2007 at 11:21am Vince Neilstein Atreyu’s got a new video for the song “Doomsday,” an […]
What the...?? 20 WHEN DOWN AND OUT NU-METALLERS FALL UPON HARD TIMES… November 2nd, 2007 at 9:46am Vince Neilstein … they resort to auctioning off their used gear on […]
Black Collar Workers 110 NOW RECORD LABELS DON’T WANT YOU LOOKING AT LYRICS ILLEGALLY October 29th, 2007 at 9:18am Axl Rosenberg Variety published the following report this morning: “MTV Networks is […]
Editorials 40 ALSO, SEBASTIAN BACH IS “INTELLIGENT” September 21st, 2007 at 9:24am Axl Rosenberg In a recent interview, Sebastian Bach called Axl Rose “prolific.” […]
Oh Don Piano! 4500 STUDY PROVES THAT ROCK STARS REALLY DO DIE YOUNG September 4th, 2007 at 1:37pm Vince Neilstein In the “duh” category, Idolator has alerted us to a […]
Editorials 1 SEVENDUST ARE RELEASING A SECOND GREATEST HITS PACKAGE? REALLY? August 29th, 2007 at 9:31am Axl Rosenberg We like Sevendust around here. In fact, there’s a pretty […]