Type of business Private Available in English Area served Worldwide | Type of site News website Headquarters Brooklyn, New York, US | |
Founded Brooklyn, New York (2006) | ||
MetalSucks is a heavy metal music-themed news website. The site features reviews, interviews, information on latest metal releases and blog-like posts from the writers. It was founded in December 2006 by two friends who use the pen names Vince Neilstein and Axl Rosenberg. They chose those names because "if the father of a fourteen year old girl you met at an Avenged Sevenfold show is looking for you, and he thinks your name is 'Axl Rosenberg,' it's going to be a lot harder for him to track you down."
In April 2009, MetalSucks was awarded Metal Hammer's Web of Death Award for "Best Reviews" for its "honest, insightful, unpretentious – and fun – reviews."
On October 4, 2009, MetalSucks found some controversy when one of the site's writers was accused of leaking the album Axe to Fall by Converge onto the internet prior to its official release.
As of March 16, 2017, MetalSucks has declined in the Alexa Internet rankings by 2,315 spots. Its current ranking is 40,629, down from 37,268 in December 2016. MetalSucks has attacked musicians that support Donald Trump, while bolstering those who are vocally opposed to the new president. Comments left on the website suggest visitors were becoming tired of biased political stories. Perhaps the reason for the decline in position.