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MetalSucks.net interviews Ulcerate drummer Jamie Saint Merat! See them on their first ever US Tour with Tombs starting this Friday! 

MetalSucks.net interviews Horseback’s Jenks Miller!

INVERLOCH: Full Album Streaming Online

Congrats to Danny Walker of Murder Construct, Exhumed, Phobia, Uphill Battle, Intronaut, etc. for being named the #3 Modern Metal Drummer via MetalSucks.net!

Scott Hull of Agoraphobic Nosebleed / Pig Destroyer named the #1 Modern Metal Drummer at MetalSucks.net! Epic trolling or legit pick?

Dave Witte of Burnt By The Sun / Birds Of Prey / Municipal Waste, etc. named the #11 Modern Drummer at MetalSucks.net, congrats dude!

Spawn of Possession Stream all of ‘Incurso’ via MetalSucks.net!

Metal Sucks names Revocation’s Phil DuBois-Coyne one of the top 25 modern metal drummers!

BRUTAL TRUTH Premiere New Video; Confirm Tour With Nasum & Dropdead

Grindcore subjugators BRUTAL TRUTH today unveil their brand new epilepsy-inducing society-hating politically-charged video for “Malice/Fuck Cancer,” the latest in an ongoing bombardment of videos coinciding with their latest LP End Time. This latest action-packed double-header was completed by Tyson Montrucchio who previously also directed BRUTAL TRUTH’s videos for “Sugar Daddy,” “Semi Automatic Carnation” and “Get a Therapist…Spare The World,” in addition to working with Cattle Decapitation, Downspell and others.

So without further ado, just in time for your drunken Leap Year Hump Day festivities, MetalSucks is proud to give you “Malice/Fuck Cancer” AT THIS LOCATION.

This week BRUTAL TRUTH are crossing the southern border of our country to assault Mexico City at Eyescream Metalfest IV, set as one of the main headliners alongside Tankard, Voivod and more.

Additionally the NY-state grinders have confirmed their participation on the upcoming American tour for the almighty Swedish grind unit Nasum. This very special final Nasum tour was booked in tribute to the band’s late vocalist Mieszko Talarczyk, who tragically died in the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. With Nasum bringing BRUTAL TRUTH as well as politi-crust icons Dropdead along as support, there is no doubt that this will be one of the most destructive and pertinent extreme tours of the year.

BRUTAL TRUTH’s confirmed attacks on human audiences:

3/03/2012 Circo Volador - Mexico City, Mexico @ Eyescream Metalfest IV w/ Tankard, Voivod
5/18/2012 Reggie’s - Chicago, IL w/ Nasum, Dropdead
5/19/2012 Now That’s Class - Cleveland, OH w/ Nasum, Dropdead
5/20/2012 Wreck Room - Toronto, ON w/ Nasum, Dropdead
5/21/2012 Sala Rosa - Montreal, QC w/ Nasum, Dropdead
5/22/2012 AS220 - Providence, RI w/ Nasum, Dropdead
5/23/2012 The Barbary - Philadelphia, PA w/ Nasum, Dropdead, Backslider
5/24/2012 Europa - Brooklyn, NY w/ Nasum, Dropdead, Margrudergrind, Grudges
6/15-17/2012 Hellfest 2012 - Clisson, France w/ Hatebreed, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sunn O))), Cannibal Corpse, Amon Amarth, Black Sabbath [info]

Black Tusk Confirmed for MetalSucks.net Official SXSW Festival Showcase featuring High On Fire, Official Darkest Hour, Nachtmystium, Intronaut, Holy Grail & MonstrO!

Liberteer Premiere Brand New Track from ‘Better To Die on Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees’ via MetalSucks.net! Hear it here.

VINCE NEILSTEIN’S TOP FIFTEEN METAL ALBUMS OF 2011

2011 was a year. Metal was released. Some of it was great, some was good, some was mediocre, some was bad. No one reads these intros or each album’s description anyway, right? You just scroll down to see we name #1 then fire off a stangry comment.

I do want to say one thing before you all start trolling: for the time ever this year I used iTunes play counts as a metric for determining the relative order of these choices. I didn’t use it as an absolute metric — so it’s possible that my #1 or #2 got less overall plays than something farther down the list — but when sussing out hard decisions about which of two candidates should be #2 and which should be #3, for example, it was a helpful tool that aided my decision. I listened to #2 more times than #3, so I must’ve enjoyed doing so more. And what are these lists if not really “favorite albums of 2011″? They’re completely subjective anyway; such a thing as objective music ranking is an impossibility and a fallacy.

Keep reading here and see the entire list

- Metal Sucks

THE BEST METAL ALBUMS OF 2011, AS CHOSEN BY METAL MUSICIANS THEMSELVES — PART X

FEATURING MEMBERS OF GOATWHORE, AGALLOCH, WARBRINGER, ROSETTA, ZEBULON PIKE, NOCTEM, THE WILL OF A MILLION, EXCOMMUNICATED, AND TRANSLATION LOSS RECORDS

- Metal Sucks

THE BEST METAL ALBUMS OF 2011, AS CHOSEN BY METAL MUSICIANS THEMSELVES — PART IX

FEATURING MEMBERS OF GWAR, DARKEST HOUR, REVOCATION, INTRONAUT, ABYSMAL DAWN, BRUTAL TRUTH, THE ATLAS MOTH, AND IKILLYA

- Metal Sucks

NICHOLAS PELL’S TOP FIFTEEN METAL ALBUMS OF 2011

2011 wasn’t exactly a banner year for metal. I see a world of metal caught in transition. The aughts are behind us, and what the new decade will hold is anyone’s guess, really. Of course, none of this is to say that there aren’t nuggets of face-melting joy. Here are fifteen records that stand out from the pack among this year’s crop of metal records, conveniently ranked from least most awesome to most most awesome.

Check out his list here