EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: NADER SADEK, “PETROPHILIA” In MetalSucks

From the brain of Egyptian-born, New York-based conceptual artist Nader Sadek comes In the Flesh, a new album that centers on the notion of humanity’s relationship with petroleum and how this exhumation of ancient life forms serves as a self-destructive fuel to society’s greed.

Stream “Petrophilia,” (music: Rune Eriksen and Nader Sadek, lyrics: Steve Tucker) MetalSucks. 

Watch the video for “Nigredo in Necromance” below. In The Flesh comes out May 17th via Season of Mist.

MACABRE's Human Stew Contest Via MetalSucks

Today the public has a chance to sink their teeth into some vintage MACABRE nostalgia in the form of Jeff Boyardee's Old Fashioned Human Stew! This mysterious but wholesome canned delight was concocted by the band themselves in the Dahmer album era. As it reads on the label: "Finally a human stew prepared the way Jeff prepared it himself.  We start by individually hand-separating fresh humans. We smother the meat with a delightful assortment of seasoned spices and slow simmer with a variety of garden vegetables. The result is a wholesome and hearty meal that is delicious and satisfying. Jeff Boyardee Old Fashioned Human Stew is Macabre-licious."

 

Check out the contest MetalSucks cooked up for MACABRE's stew at this location now!

 

To be released on the band’s own Decomposed Records as always, Grim Scary Tales is directly licensed for North American release on February 8th via Willowtip Records, and in Europe January 31st on Hammerheart Records. 

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"The band’s newest opus, and first proper full-length since 2003’s Murder Metal, is as off-the-wall as anything they’ve produced to date. Every bit the raucous, gore-grind slab of still-quivering meat fans have come to expect from the band, Grim Scary Tales is another one in the win column for this now legendary trio. " - MetalSucks

 

"...this odd, transgressive, audacious record will be like manna from the drill-hole in the head of a Dahmer acid zombie for those who can abide a healthy dose of absurdity in their brutality. 8/10" - Decibel

 

"Blending elements of death metal, thrash, nursery rhymes, country rock, circus music, chamber music, a weird old town crier and even some world music themes Macabre takes the listener on a twisted sonic journey on every track." - Metal Army America

 

"...their approach is utterly distinctive, with snappy, unfailingly energetic songs, based around either crisp machine gun death metal riffs or crunching, hooky mid-tempo grooves." - Metal Reviews

 

"It’s a little more mature for Macabre but that’s more in the evolutionary sense. They still make room for a lot of humor." - Stereokiller

 

"...the technical synchronicity that the band is capable of is nothing less than awe inspiring, and new fans just discovering Macabre with this disc might not fully appreciate their capability. 4/5" - Metal Rules

 

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MetalSucks Launches The AMON AMARTH Viking Beard Contest

MetalSucks Launches The AMON AMARTH Viking Beard Contest

Grow Some Gnarly Hair; Win A Rad Prize Pack!

In conjunction with the release of AMON AMARTH’s Surtur Rising full-length, slated for release this March via Metal Blade Records, MetalSucks has launched the official Viking beard contest! Inspired by the magnificent mane of vocalist Johan Hegg, the contest will run from now until the record’s release date and be judged by the folks at MetalSucks and the band.

THE RULES:

For the boys:

Step 1) Send MetalSucks a completely clean-shaven picture of yourself NOW — before Tuesday, January 11th at 11:59pm EST — holding up a sign that says “MetalSucks” and the date. Send all entries to news [at] metalsucks [dot] net with the subject AMON AMARTH Viking Beard Contest.

Step 2) Grow a beard.

Step 3) On March 29th, the day Surtur Rising is released, send team MetalSucks a new picture of yourself… same deal: Hold up a sign with “MetalSucks” and the date, only this time you’ll also need to write a secret passcode on your sign that will be revealed on MetalSucks on March 29th.

For the ladies:

The same as above, but for your armpits or leg hair! MetalSucks will be choosing one male winner and one female winner, both with an identical prize pack, so the playing field is equal for everyone.

Prize packs include: A lock from Johan Hegg’s beard, the “super duper fan edition” of Surtur Rising (of which only a limited number will be made), a drumhead signed by the whole band and more….

For additional info, visit the official contest page HERE.

More on Surtur Rising:

Surtur Rising marks AMON AMARTH’s eighth studio release and undoubtedly one of 2011’s most anticipated albums by fans and critics alike. Surtur Rising is the follow-up to the highly acclaimed 2008 release, Twilight Of The Thunder God, which landed the #7 spot in Revolver Magazine’s Top 20 Albums of 2008 and what MetalSucks called a "bottomless gauntlet of riffs that the band endlessly takes gargantuan swigs from, sounding both lush and emotive as well as skull crushingly heavy… every goddamn one is a chest-beating anthem." Outburn declared how Twilight Of The Thunder God“will render you nothing short of ecstatic" and Time Out New York noted that "AMON AMARTH plays some of the most unabashedly epic metal you’re likely to find these days."

Further details on Surtur Rising to come. Stay tuned.

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THE SECRET: New Track Premiers On MetalSucks; Vinyl Release Nears

Tonight, MetalSucks unloads a new track from Solve Et Coagula

The latest release from Italian skullcrushers THE SECRET. Drop what you're doing, and check out "Antitalian" right now, at this location.

THE SECRET might actually be a misleading name for this crushing act, as recent praise of the album reigns in, exposing the horde's infectious attack. Solve Et Coagula -- the band's third full-length, and first for Southern Lord -- was officially dropped on the masses at the end of September, carpet-bombing audiences everywhere with its neck-snapping, nihilistic, mournful and antagonistic attack on life, the album's twelve tracks brutally integrating a crushing metallic hardcore flow into extremely tortured, noise-ridden, riff-bending madness.

Southern Lord will unleash the beast known as Solve Et Coagula on 12" wax to the masses on November 22nd. Limited to 1000 copies worldwide, 300 are being pressed on gold vinyl, and available to mailorder via the 'Lord only.

North American tour aktions for THE SECRET are in the planning stages now, and will be released shortly. Interviews with the band and review copies of Solve Et Coagula are available now.

Solve Et Coagula was recorded by Kurt Ballou at his Godcity Studios (Trap Them, Converge, Disfear). Running rampant with dismantling breakdowns, gargantuan riffage and jackhammer blastbeats, all empowered by the most shredding vocal attack, THE SECRET's attack is surely cutting edge, and places them near the top of the heaviest bands to ever surge forth from Italy. Definitely a band for fans of Converge, Cursed and labelmates Black Breath, Solve Et Coagulaexposes the sound of humanity's failure and defeat, embodied as pure aural rage.

"The body and soul of The Secret’s fast-paced, fuzzed out, frenetic attack lies in the hardcore bands I'm betting these guys listened to growing up, but they're clearly metalheads too that pride themselves on incorporating elements from all over the metal spectrum; a tinge of black metal melodies and chord voicings, a blast beat here, a doomy slow-down there." - MetalSucks

"Sinister and coarse, the hyperactive coupling of chaotic screeching with detuned riffs and pummeled drums and cymbals inside black metal dissonance on Solve Et Coagula is equally nightmarish and exciting." - Exclaim!

"This stuff is bleak, harsh, and unrelenting, twelve tracks of utterly miserable crusty darkness that bury their atmospheric indulgences behind sheer naked fury." - Metal Reviews

"...an album that finds Converge-influenced hyperactive passion uniting with obliteratingly heavy detuned riffs, demonic girth and attitude clearly culled from black metal’s most tormenting heyday. Essentially, Solve Et Coagula is as imposing and acerbic as it is enthrallingly original." - Hellbound.ca

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THE OCEAN: Full Album Stream Via MetalSucks

New Full Length To Drop November 9

Today MetalSucks.com will begin streaming Anthropocentric, the upcoming full-length from German progressive/atmospheric metal enigmas THE OCEAN, in its entirety. The stream will remain active until November 8, the day before the official North American release date.

Check out Anthropocentric HERE.

Anthropocentric is the sequel to the band's Heliocentric long player, released earlier this year. WhereHeliocentric tells the story of the rise of the heliocentric world view -- the idea that the earth revolves around the sun -- and the effects this discovery had on Christian belief and occidental culture,Anthropocentric challenges the views of creationists and other modern fundamentalists who still believe that the earth is at the center of the universe and no more than 5,000 years old. "Anthropocentric continues the critique of Christianity, inspired by the questions that Dostoyevsky asked and some of the answers that Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Dawkins gave," notes guitarist Robin Staps.

Musically heavier than Heliocentric, Anthropocentric covers a similar sonic and dynamic range as its predecessor by including a number of calm, acoustic moments, but these are, for the most part, orchestrated with guitars, and not so much with piano and strings. "The album is a pretty big production, and still has a very earthy, organic feel to it," says Staps. "We've spent a great deal of time on the basic sound this time around -- the drums, bass, guitars and vocals -- and at this stage I am pretty confident that this will pay off in the end!"

Anthropocentric will be released on November 9 via Metal Blade Records.

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