Warbringer frontman John Kevill is once again back on the show! We open the discussion on his take on the world we currently live in, how his optimism of seeing positive change in his lifetime has waned in recent times, and how that mindset inspired the song “A Better World”. We also talk about how many of the songs on the new album are based on hi…

Dani Filth of the iconic Cradle of Filth is back on the podcast! We are here to celebrate the new album The Screaming of the Valkyries coming out March 21st! We begin our conversation on writing music post pandemic and Dani’s lets us know they are already writing for a new album before this one drops, we continue to discuss all the new social media…

Brandan Schieppati of Bleeding Through is our guest this week! We discuss the latest record Nine that came out this past Friday and if they picked that date on purpose. We also chat about the story behind is signature roll on stage and if he plans on retiring it, why this latest record is his favorite, what he liked about the indie label packages f…

This week on The MetalSucks Podcast, Lacuna Coil vocalist Cristina Scabbia joins the show! She's here to discuss the band's latest album Sleepless Empire coming out this Friday, Feb. 14! We discuss if there was any plans for releasing the album on Valentine’s Day, the challenge of creating after the experience they had with previous album Black Ani…

Jesse Leach of Killswitch Engage is our guest this week and we're here to make sure everyone out there picks up their upcoming album This Consequence, coming out February 21. The conversation starts with the journey from Atonement to the latest album, re-releasing the debut record with new ears and years behind it, growing up in the New England met…

Bjorn “Speed” Strid is our guest this week on the podcast! He joins us to help shine a spotlight on the latest album by The Night Flight Orchestra, Give Us The Moon! The discussion starts with if he thinks he would fair well if he chose a career as a steward for an airline, what job he wanted when he was a child, if there's a customer service eleme…

Harakiri for the Sky vocalist JJ is back on the podcast celebrating the latest album Scorched Earth out January 24! We open the conversation on the three pillars of life that influence him lyrically, having the reestablished his personal identity after life changing during the pandemic, leaving isolated in a cabin in the woods when creating songs f…

This week on The MetalSucks Podcast, we welcome guitarist Niclas Engelin of The Halo Effect to the show! In our interview, we discuss the overwhelming response to the band's debut record Days of the Lost and how that momentum lead to their latest release March of the Unheard. We also discussed what it's like being bandmates with people he went to h…

Josh James of Stick To Your Guns is our guest this week! We are here to discuss the latest album Keep Planting Flowers coming out January 10th! The conversations starts with Josh enjoying no stereo system in his truck, how silence is a commodity in headphone culture, the listening and viewing habits of interacting music and films, the rise of subti…

After giving you guys the first half of our Top 15 Best Albums of 2024 last week, it's time to round out the list with the best of the best. This week, we discuss our personal picks from number 7 all the way to coveted number 1 spot. Additionally we let you know what our favorite album cover of the year is! This episode is packed with interviews wi…

It's officially that time of year again here on The MetalSucks Podcast! Time for Petar, Brandon, Jozalyn and Sylvia to get together and discuss the best music of this past year. We're so lucky to have been able to interview some of the artists featured in our list, so to celebrate we're playing tracks from each band and recounting some of our conve…

This week, we've got Bartek Krysiuk and Monk Boruta of Patriarkh on The MetalSucks Podcast! Their debut album Prophet Ilia coming out January 3! We begin the conversation with the historical figure that they cover, choosing to use regional instruments while recording, and how the first vision of the album completely changed over the two years it to…

This week, Vaughn Stoffey of Defeated Sanity joins us on The MetalSucks Podcast! We are all in on the new album Chronicles of Lunacy, out this Friday, November 22! We start the conversation on the Taxi Driver sample used on the latest single “Accelerating The Rot”, embracing cult horror, and what determines the line of tasteful to tasteless in gore…

This week, Neon Nightmare mastermind Nate Garrett joins the MetalSucks Podcast! He's here to discuss the release of Faded Dreams! In our chat, we discuss the excellent music videos created for the project and what inspired them. Other points of conversation include how 90’s goth culture had a ridiculous aura associated with it, the negative experie…

Make Them Suffer's Sean Harmanis joins the podcast this week! The band's self-titled album is coming out this Friday, so we got together to chat about their success with releasing singles over the last two years. We also discuss how it's been touring almost non-stop and why he says the new record feels like a greatest hits album. Interestingly enou…

This week's episode features Biohazard and Powerflo axeman Billy Graziadei! He joins the show to talk about Powerflo’s second album Gorilla Warfare coming out on the Day of the Dead (November 1)! We start our conversation discussing what it's like to juggle so many projects at once and his duties in the process, what sporting event gets the songwri…

Legendary Melvins drummer Dale Crover is back on the show and this time he's bringing some friends! AAL and EHA of Low Flying Hawks are making their podcast debut to celebrate two new albums: Low Flying Hawks' Makebelieve coming out October 25 and Dale Crover’s awesome new solo album Glossolalia, out now! In our chat, we talk about the writing proc…