Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin barely has time to rest at home on the Florida coast these days. With the big UPROAR Tour starting in just a couple of weeks, he's getting in some rehearsal time with 'Smack guitarist Tony Rombola, who also lives in the Sunshine State, but before that trek, …
Last week was a somber one at ''Creep Show' central. It started well enough with the booking of one of our favorite metal vocalists, Armored Saint and Anthrax vocalist John Bush, but it spiraled into the abyss on April 15 when we learned that iconoclastic metal frontman Peter Steele o…
Holy Maynard! Could it be true? Tool, who MetalSucks so appropriately called "the past, present and future best band on the planet," are writing material for a new record, working three days a week on new tunes while frontman Maynard James Keenan continues touring the U...
The four guys in Cape Fear, N.C.-based extreme prog metal band Gollum are well aware that most people know their name because of the creepy, bony character in director Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' films, and they're kind of miffed about it...
It's been five years since aggro-rap rockers Limp Bizkit released 'The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1),' and while the much-promised 'The Unquestionable Truth (Part 2)' never managed to materialize, Bizkit will be back in 2010 with a new disc...
Your first question might be: Why have a Hard Rock Hall of Fame when there is already the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame? Well, for one, while we love her, Madonna -- a pop star, not a rock star -- was inducted in the the Rock Hall, something that many dyed-in-the-wool rockers were appalled ab…
If you've ever loved Rush, Queensrÿche, Iron Maiden, Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd, then you can understand the extreme admiration people have for Coheed and Cambria. For me the band -- with their hearty, retro guitar solos and progressive song structure -- has always been a tribute to the gr…
Since Barn Burner are a Canadian stoner/doom metal group that sound like a '90s disc unearthed in a musty wooden crate at a Man's Ruin estate sale, we figured their guitarist Nick Ball's iPod would be filled with songs by Kyuss, Corrosion of Conformity, Cathedral, Sleep and pretty muc…
For more than a year now, Metallica have been trotting the globe, traveling from continent to continent, promoting their latest album, 'Death Magnetic.' And the band's still at it, playing a recent show in Colombia that, needless to say, didn't go so well...