On Sunday night we caught the Beard Destroyer 2009 tour with Hull and Batillus (sadly for us, Salome didn’t play that date). It crushed even harder than we thought it would, so we asked our frie...

On the way to Friday’s final-U.S.-appearance-ever Burnt by the Sun show, Axl and I were lamenting how fucking tough it is going to be to chose ten favorite albums at year’s end. Even in ...

You’ve seen ‘em around and you’ve looked at them longingly. Don’t pretend you’re too cool, ’cause you ain’t. They’re Mastodon Vans. You know you�...

Congrats to Graham Fahey of Manchester Center, VT for winning our Mastodon Vans contest. His winning entry, why he deserved to win: “cause i’m starting a shoegazing band.” Simple ...

[Writer and musician Tres Crow comes to us from the excellent blog Dog Eat Crow, for which I just published a Halloween-inspired list of The Top 5 Goriest Metal Album Covers of All Time. What follows ...

No offense, but does anyone else find it hard to trust metal websites whose titles don’t include the actual word “metal?” Take AOL’s Noisecreep. To me “noise” is ...

Sometimes I feel fairly certain that a substantial portion of the people who leave comments on MetalSucks would be considered legally brain dead by most medical doctors. Having said that, I’m g...

I seem to recall an interview with Howard Jones from a few years back where, when discussing the importance of a good hook, he said something along of the lines of “You could play most Slayer so...

The latest MetalSucks intern found that suggesting Five Finger Death Punch for “best album of ‘09″ didn’t go so well. And the hits keep on coming. Chad Bowar of About.com is...

…reader Mark VanDeusen just tipped us off that Crack the Skye has been named number three on Time Magazine’s The Top 10 Everything of 2009 list. Which I imagine will be read by slightly ...