GodForbid

What a weekend! We started things off right on Friday, paying $7 for Snapples, hanging out with Bam Margera, hitting on teenage girls and rocking out along the waterfront in Camden, N.J. to the glorious sounds of God Forbid, the Black Dahlia Murder, Behemoth and more...

Enough with the lists, folks. Is it just us, or does it seem like everybody's obsessed with them these days. Numerous metal and hard rock sites (including Noisecreep) have been rolling out these lists ... the best albums of this decade, the best thrash bands, the best death metal bands, the best death metal albums ...

Those of you who have spent any significant amount of time on Facebook have surely responded to the iPod Roulette challenge before. You know, you put your iPod (or other MP3 player) on random shuffle, hit play, write down whatever pops up, forward to the next song, write that one down, too, and then repeat until you've listed 20 or so songs...

EAST MEETS WEST IN NORTH AMERICA: The legendary Metallica, alongside Lamb of God, have scheduled a North American tour this coming fall/winter. Added to the bill is France's Gojira, who will be opening the shows between mid-September and mid-October...

The second annual Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Fest is in high gear, laying waste across American in the summer swelter. We held court on Sunday, July 12, 2009 at the San Manuel Amphitheatre, located in the dusty (and incredibly hot) San Bernardino region of Southern California...

There was this one time when I made up a story about a fight I had been in. It was back when I was in grade school, and this kid who was two or three years older than me, and used to pick on my all the time (we lived in the same neighborhood) got his proverbial a-- handed to him by a bunch of high school kids...

Anyone who has heard heavy metal producer Jason Suecof's old project Crotchduster knows the man who calls himself a "fat, crippled Jew" has a phenomenal sense of humor. Ultimately, Crotchduster wasn't a serious band at all, but rather a joke project and a statement on a scene that rarely laughs at itself, or very frequently takes itself way too seriously...

Want some backstage action? Our friends behind the No Fear Energy Music Tour just posted two new clips featuring exclusive interviews with members of As I Lay Dying and Byron Davis of God Forbid. Watch the clips, learn what makes the musicians you love tick and then get ready to mosh...

Jason Suecof has been the "It" producer for a handful of years, having manned the boards for Trivium, All That Remains and God Forbid, to name a precious few. Suecof, whose base of operations is in Florida, gave Noisecreep the rundown on what's he's doing, how he chooses bands and life from a sitting down perspective, since he's been wheelchair-bound (and has an excellent sense of humor

Last month, MetalSucks caught up with God Forbid's guitarist Doc Coyle at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, and they asked him to explain the recent departure of his brother, Dallas, from the New Jersey metal band. Filling in for Dallas Coyle on the band's current tour with Lamb of God, Municipal Waste, Children of Bodom, and As I Lay Dying is Darkest Hour guitarist Kris Norris... Read