The MetalSucks Podcast
The official podcast of MetalSucks, featuring Petar Spajic, Brandon Hahn and Jozalyn Sharp. One featured interview each week with a prominent metal musician, and discussion of the latest headlines in metal news. New episodes every Monday morning.
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#93: Testament's Chuck Billy and Exodus' Steve ...
This week Testament's Chuck Billy and Exodus vocalist Steve "Zetro" Souza guest on the podcast to kick off . We talk about the early days of thrash metal, the differences between their experiences touring in the '80s and today, the benefit...
73 min
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#92: New England Metal and Hardcore Fest Founde...
The New England Metal and Hardcore Fest kicks off its seventeenth year in just a few weeks, so Chuck and Godless had some questions about the prolific festival for founder Scott Lee. Scott talks about how he picks bands for the festival, the...
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#91.5: Otep Shamaya Shares Her Side of the Terr...
Otep Shamaya found herself at the center of controversy this week  -- also set to feature Ill Nino, 36 Crazyfists and Terror Universal -- because the singer of Terror Universal allegedly "violently grabbed my crotch on our...
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#91: Hannes Grossmann of Alkaloid (Ex-Obscura, ...
Drummer Hannes Grossmann of Alkaloid (Ex-Obscura, ex-Necrophagist) guests this week. We talk about the differences between being a session drummer and a band member, how to admit you wrote something that sucks, how playing fast is no...
81 min
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#90: Mlny Parsonz of Royal Thunder
Mlny Parsonz from Royal Thunder guests on the podcast with Chuck and Godless this week. We discover her surprising history with religion and spirituality, her theory on songwriting and life, her Jesus tattoos, how she's learned to look forward...
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#89: Decibel Magazine Editor-in-Chief Albert Mu...
Chuck and Godless invite Editor-in-Chief of Decibel Magazine Albert Mudrian onto the podcast to talk about , with updated chapters on the past decade of death and grind. Albert also speculates on the future of metal; where are...
78 min
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#88: Don Jamieson of That Metal Show
That Metal Show co-host Don Jamieson is our guest this week. We talk about season fourteen of the show, how and why VH1 decided to put some metal into their programming line-up, who the best and worst guests have been and why they don't seem...
82 min
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#87: Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson
Enslaved founding member Ivar Bjørnson is our guest this week. The legendary progressive black metal band's new record In Times hits shelves in a few weeks, and Chuck and Godless had a chance to talk to him about his young...
77 min
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#85: Psycroptic Drummer Dave Haley
Dave Haley, drummer for Australian tech-death band Psycroptic, guests this week, Chuck and Godless grill him about the difficulties of being an Aussie band and touring the world, the benefits of retaining the rights to their music, their involvement...
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#85: Reviewing Unsigned Band Demos with Eyal Levi
An action packed episode this week! Chuck and Godless take a bunch of your calls, talk about love and relationships for Valentine's Day, and debut the inaugural installment of "One Minute to Midnight," where unsigned bands get to have their music...
76 min
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#84: Corrosion of Conformity + Max and Gloria C...
70,000 Tons of Podcast! Chuck and Godless set sail for the Caribbean with 4,000 metalheads to experience 60+ bands and some amazing times: a bigger ship, 20 more bands and even more fans on board than ever before, all headed to Jamaica with one thing...
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#83: Periphery Guitarist Mark Holcomb
Periphery guitarist Mark Holcomb guests this week on the eve of the release of their new album Juggernaut. We talk about the recording process, guitar nerds asking too many questions, and how producing the record themselves was a liberating...
78 min
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#82: Clutch Drummer Jean Paul Gaster
Jean Paul Gaster, drummer for the mighty Clutch, joins the podcast as the band heads into the studio to record their new album. He discusses how Clutch have been able to retain the same lineup for over two decades, keeping family and band...
72 min
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#81: Sylosis Guitarist/Vocalist Josh Middleton
Josh Middleton, guitarist and vocalist for British metal band Sylosis, guests this week on the podcast. Chuck and Godless chat with him about the local metal scene in England, their bad luck with touring and vehicle wrecks, and they grill...
81 min
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#80: Alex Rudinger (ex-The Faceless, Conquering...
Chuck and Godless enlist drummer Alex "Rudy" Rudinger (ex-The Faceless, ex-The Haarp Machine, Conquering Dystopia, Monuments) to ring in the New Year with the first MS Podcast of 2015. They chat about his work with Jeff Loomis and Alex Webster in...
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#79: Recapping the Biggest Stories of 2014, fea...
This week Chuck and Godless bring in MS Senior Editor Anso DF to discuss 2014's biggest news stories. Some things you might remember, others you might not; who the newsmakers were and who they should have been; and remembering several of our...
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#78: Debating the Best Metal Albums of 2014
They wrote them out for you, and now they spend this episode of The MetalSucks Podcast discussing the Best Metal Albums of 2014! Chuck and Godless received your Tweets and comments, and break down their picks versus yours as well as...
77 min
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#77: Mike Muir of Suicidal Tendencies
Mike Muir, legendary vocalist for Suicidal Tendencies, is our guest this week. Instead of talking about their album and touring, we wind up hearing about his philosophy on life, how his passion for music pisses people off and how he relates to his...
75 min
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#76: The Bad Christian Podcast
This week, the hosts of one of Godless' favorite podcasts to troll --  -- are our guests. Podcast hosts Matt and Toby also play in a Christian Rock band called Emery. They stopped by the studio to get grilled about all things Christianity,...
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#75: The Contortionist's Michael Lessard
Michael Lessard, vocalist of The Contortionist, is our guest this week. We go in depth about his home planet of Maine, his transition from his role in Last Chance to Reason as the new vocalist for this band and whether backing...
86 min
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#74: Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner
Richie Faulkner, guitarist for the almighty Judas Priest, is our guest this week. We talk to him about his relatively new gig with JP (seeing as their history dates back to before he was even born), which band member's daughter he might be...
82 min
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#73: Housecore Horror Film Festival Special Edi...
The Housecore Horror Film Festival took place this weekend in Austin, TX, and Chuck and Godless were on hand to take in as much as they could over the festival's four days. They run down their experiences at the fest, including Gwar's new...
102 min
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#72: Job For a Cowboy's Nick Schendzielos, Spec...
Our guest this week is Nick Schendzielos, bass player for deathcore heavyweights Job For a Cowboy. We talk about his new found work-out regimen, the songwriting process as a newer member of a band, how JFAC operates internally, his music listening...
90 min
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#71: Revocation's David Davidson
David Davidson of Revocation is our guest on episode #71, with their killer new album Deathless coming out this week. We discuss the new sounds they play with on the record, touring with assholes, whether or not it is important to...
82 min
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#70: At the Gates' Tomas Lindberg
Tomas Lindberg, frontman for the reactivated At The Gates, guests this week on the podcast. He tells us about the new album At War with Reality, why the band dissolved after such a seminal album, growing up in Sweden and his other career as......
73 min