Transgressive five-piece 3TEETH is thrilled to announce their signing to iconic metal record label Century Media Records (Sony Music Entertainment). The announcement coincides with 3TEETH’s back-to-back co-headlining shows in their hometown of Los Angeles, which precedes their headlining European tour this spring. Tickets are available here: https://3teeth.org/#tour On 3TEETH’s signing, frontman Alexis Mincolla shares: “It was a perfect-storm-moment for 3TEETH; musically, culturally, to make the jump to Century Media. We have more to say than ever and needed a label home that understood that.” Having been compared to the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Tool and Ministry, 3TEETH made a name... 

“Keep your politics out metal!” Facebook users scream because an artist doesn’t share their political views, oblivious to the fact that many a classic metal song is politically charged. (“War Pigs,” for example) Ministry simply don’t care. With the past few years in America being politically charged and splitting the country down the middle, Ministry opt to argue out the discourse rather than mend it. You could say agitating it will only make it work itself out, and given by the production, they aimed to absolutely offend anyone in attendance who might question their views.  

Legends will collide late this summer when Deep Purple and Judas Priest embark on a co-headlining North American tour.  Produced by Live Nation, the outing will kick off August 21 in Cincinnati, OH and visit 25 cities across the U.S. and Canada before wrapping September 30 in Wheatland, California.  

I think I often forget the simplest of reasons why I enjoy metal. As I get older, I find myself tracing back my roots and revisiting albums that I loved, all in an attempt to re-evaluate what it is I expect out of the genre and the standards I’ve set up. With the bleak void that is black metal to the enveloping sorrow that typically accompanies death metal, I’ve come to love bands in those genres, all the while appreciating their sound as an art form separate from the core sound the genre started from. On the opposite side of the spectrum, it was last Friday night when Battle Beast took to the stage that I remembered what it was like to hear metal that aimed to be fun rather than evil. The band no doubt take their... 

the multi-platinum, hard rock band Five Finger Death Punch have unveiled the new song “Sham Pain,” off their long-awaited seventh studio album AND JUSTICE FOR NONE, due out May 18. The new song marks the second of three brand new pre-order tracks and follows last week’s release “Fake” (out 4/6) which generated just under 1 million streams in the U.S. during its first week and made the viral chart on Spotify in multiple countries.  

Currently wrapping up their stateside tour with Dying Fetus, Thy Art Is Murder, Enterprise Earth, and Sanction, Rivers of Nihil is ready to head back out on the road again in June/July – this time, headlining a Canadian trek (plus select USA shows) with Alterbeast and Inferi. See below for all dates!  

Bad Wolves and From Ashes to New have announced the What’s In Your Head Tour, a co-headline tour featuring support from special guest and label-mate Diamante. Beginning on June 4th in Madison Wisconsin, this intimate club tour stretches across North America, including stops in Chicago, New York, and Minneapolis.  

US Death Metal veterans SKINLESS announce three East Coast tour dates supporting the impending release of the Savagery full-length. The weekend tour begins is June 7-9 with support by Ringworm, Churchburn and Outer Heaven. Additionally, SKINLESS will perform at California Deathfest and Quebec Deathfest in October. All confirmed tour dates below.  

Atlantic recording group Halestorm has announced details for a second leg of their highly anticipated milestone North American tour showcasing all female-fronted hard rock outfits. Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale said “After the announcement of our tour with In This Moment, the response was so great that we decided to do another run together! It’s going to be so much fun to tour with our good friends! See you all on the road!”  

Grammy® Award-winning band Ghost today announced their fourth sacred psalm Prequelle (pronounced prē-KWELL)will be released on June 1, 2018 via Loma Vista Recordings. Prequelle is available for pre-order starting today HERE.  

A Perfect Circle share new song “So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish”as the release date for Eat The Elephant (April 20, BMG) nears. The song premiered last night on BBC Radio 1’s Rock Show as Daniel P. Carter’s Rockest Record and is available now to stream or download.  

The road demons in GOATWHORE will return to the streets this May on a short run of live dates supporting Satyricon. The MetalSucks-sponsored trek — set to commence on May 13th in Los Angeles, California and run through May 30th in Austin, Texas — follows GOATWHORE’s recent month-long European live takeover with Sepultura where frontman Ben Falgoust performed in a cast after sustaining a broken leg and fractured foot just a few days into the journey.