Revolver's Suicide Silence issue—which comes in two, highly collectible editions with alternate covers featuring frontman Mitch Lucker (see below)—is out on newsstands everywhere right now. And to tie into the issue, here's the fourth and final in RevolverMag.com's exclusive bi-weekly series of new Suicide Silence webisodes. In this one, Lucker and guitarist Mark Heylmun take us track-by-track through the second half of their new album, No Time to Bleed (Century Media).

Killswitch Engage bassist Mike D, whose band is playing the main stage of Mayhem Fest this summer, was kind enough to drop us a little video blog from the road. Watch it below:

The Acacia Strain frontman & friends check in from the Summer Slob tour. Watch the topless fun below:

Thursday, July 16

Stomach sloshing full of Fierce Grape Gatorade, higher than a eagle’s genitals, I sit cross-legged in the back of this godforsaken vehicular contraption: a stark-white truck/camper hybrid called “The Renegade” with a grey cloud of BAD FUCKING LUCK floating ever over high.

Here we are stuck in Nowheresville, California, about to get stabbed by a weirdo on the way back from 7-Eleven. We’re smoking joints outside, watching Jason MacGyver (our fearless driver) weld and shit, having a laugh in the fresh night air, glad to hear that the generator is probably cool enough by now so that we may turn the A.C. unit back on… Hallelujah! When my balls get out of the hell swamp they are in, they’ll be sure to write. I can sense that everyone has a knot in their stomachs like I do, wondering if we’ll even make the show in Phoenix tomorrow, sure to be a scorcher if we do. We’ve been derailed of ten fucking hours of travel time by two fucked up wheel bearings. Tour sucks. I heard Immortal say, “Fuck the sun,” at the beginning of their set once and I must wholeheartedly concur.

The first days of Mayhem have been a riot… bro-down central. A lot of intense live bands on this tour; everyone is coming with their A game. Whitechapel, Job for a Cowboy, Behemoth, and Cannibal Corpse all on our stage… too brutal. The Whitechapel guys had never seen Cannibal before. I kept hyping them all up, because there is no surer thing than the fact that Cannibal Corpse is going to kick ass live. Right on time, they absolutely annihilated the crowd the first evening and had one of the most disgusting pits I have seen in a long time… Long live “Hammer Smashed Face,” the national anthem of Death Metal. Also, I’m pretty sure “Unleashing the Bloodthirsty” may be the heaviest song ever written.

Slayer were in fine form… I think it was the best I’ve seen them. There were a lot of flames onstage, and it was goddamn loud. I stood behind the soundboard because the security people from the arena stage were cool enough to let it happen. I stood next to an air-drumming George “Corpsegrinder” [Cannibal Corpse’s frontman], a couple Whitechapel types, and a few guys from the BDM, and I headbanged my ass off to “Ghosts of War,” drunk off pocket beers, smiling from ear to ear.

Rockstar Mayhem, I drink this warm shot of Jägermeister to you. Snoogins.

Photo by Nathaniel Shannon

As a proud owner of a vagina, and daughter of a gynecologist, I feel more than qualified to offer up honest, raw, and unadulterated advice regarding all things related to sex, the human body, and relationships. So, all you metalhead freaks out there, please email me your most dire, dirty, sick, and twisted questions about women and the way we work, from our emotional hearts to our even more complicated parts. Email me at RevolvHer@gmail.com.


Hi RevolvHer,
My girl and I have been going out for a few years now, and we have hot sex all the time. We are pretty adventurous, do different positions, orals, and all that. But now I think it is time for us to explore the final frontier. By which I mean, anal sex. I think it would be very awesome if I was the one to take her anal virginity. I think it will even bring us together because we will be each other's first time, in a way. But she is nervous and kind of stubborn about it, I think. She says that if I am going to penetrate her ass, then she should be able to penetrate mine. She says it's only fair. Plus, she says, that I might actually like it, because of my prostate or something, but that for her, it will probably not be so enjoyable. Is this true? And even if it is, isn't getting your ass penetrated gay, if you're a guy? I don't think her standard is right. Why should I have to get ass-probed for us to have anal sex? I think she's just stalling. What do you think I should do? How can I convince her to have anal with me, without getting probed myself?
Ass If

Dear Ass if,
Your lady makes a fine point. You should totally let her fuck you in the ass if you expect her to let you fuck her in the ass, especially if she doesn’t really want you in her ass. This is your fantasy, and as with most things in a relationship, it comes with a compromise. So, Ass, you are going to have to give a little to get a little. I concur with your girl that you might find anal sex very enjoyable once you try it. At first it might be a bit uncomfortable and awkward, but then, once you relax, it can be pleasurable for a man, from what I hear. There is this spot inside the male rectum called the prostate gland that, when probed, can provide a man with the most intense pleasure he has ever known. Some liken this gland to the male g-spot (that is what Wikipedia told me). But I do not agree with your girlfriend that she won’t find anal sex enjoyable. In her head she is thinking that it will hurt, so how can it feel good? If you take all the necessary precautions, and she can relax, she too might get pleasure from the act. The two of you need to use a lot of lube and you need to practice safety at all times. In fact, if you decide to go through with this act, I suggest you read this instructional I wrote to another reader who was debating whether or not to give up her ass cherry.

Now to answer the most important question of all, does it make you gay if you take it in the ass? It does if it is a man fucking you with his cock. But if it is your girlfriend using a strap-on, and you are only doing it as a means to her end, then I say you are in no way gay. Now, haven’t I piqued your curiosity, Ass If? I know that I have at least managed to use the word “ass” a total of eight times in this response.

Get thee to a sex shop and get thee a strap-on!
xxx
RevolvHER

Didn't get enough of this month's Hottest Chick in Metal, Tatiana DeMaria of TAT? Neither did we. Which is why we've posted these bonus pics of her, as well as a few more of her grossest stories. Enjoy. And check out DeMaria’s pinup in the new issue of Revolver.

Photo by Justin Borucki

"The grossest place I've ever stayed while on tour? Worse than under a bridge, bug-infested truck stops, haunted hotels, and on a mountain top in a blizzard... White Castle parking lot. Just looking at the food gave us all the shits."

In Revolver’s September issue, out now, we interview frontman Boots Riley (who also raps for the Coup) and guitarist Tom Morello (also of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave fame) of the hip-hop-rock crossover group Street Sweeper Social Club about their self-titled debut full-length (SSSC). For those of you who didn't get enough (or are too cheap to buy the magazine), here's the best of the rest of our wide-ranging chat.

REVOLVER Boots, you were in a bus accident that ended a Coup tour in 2006, did this affect your mental state going into the Street Sweeper record?
BOOTS RILEYI think it put me in a depression afterwards. I didn’t even realize it. We’re tumbling down a hill basically, and I’m thinking, This is the end. You look at life differently. I went through this shock where I was just watching movies all day for a couple months. I came to and wrote a bunch of songs. Some of those songs are what you hear on Street Sweeper Social Club.

What’s the difference between a Coup tour and a Street Sweeper tour?
RILEYWe’re in a bus. I’m not driving a van. I’m not the tour manager. I’m not having to walk off stage and help load the van and drive 15 hours from Tallahassee to Austin. Things like that—just little things. [When the Coup started touring in the early ’90s], it was really hard to get hip-hop tour going unless you were a platinum-selling or gold-selling artist. Our main way that people knew about us was from videos; luckily there was somebody at BET that played out videos. Mainly because we drove to Washington, DC, ourselves and knocked on the door and hounded them until they played our video.

How are you reaching out to your fans during the recession?
TOM MORELLO One of the things we’re doing on this tour… the guy who ran the Obama text message campaign is working with Street Sweeper Social Club. If you text the word “street” to 94553, you get free music and we help you, where you live, find avenues to help the homeless and hungry in your area.

You have a very different guitar sound on this record. What were you going for?

MORELLO I wanted to make a really hard record, a really funky record, and a record that didn’t sound like records I made before. The first major change was I used a different guitar on the entire record. For Rage and Audioslave, I have my same old Frankensteiny pawn shop guitar; this one I actually a really nice, fat Les Paul. Like the one good guitar in my collection. [Laughs] And it bore fruit. There certainly is some Morellian sonic weirdness, but for the most part I stuck to just ripping on the guitar.

You’re playing real guitar solos instead of your trademark toggle-switch madness.
MORELLO Well, my whole life I’ve played solos, but on my recorded work, I’ve tended towards the left-of-center playing. But it’s always been part of my bag of tricks—to just play with no tricks. I used to practice scales eight hours a day, so that has always informed my playing, even if it hasn’t been on the surface.

Interview by Christopher R. Weingarten

In Revolver’s September issue, out now, we interview vocalist Mikl of the screamocrunk group Brokencyde about its new full-length, I'm Not a Fan...but the Kids Like It! (BreakSilence). For those of you who didn't get enough (or are too cheap to buy the magazine), here's the best of the rest of our wide-ranging chat.

REVOLVER So, you grew up in Albuquerque. What was the music scene like there?
MIKL It’s pretty much metal. That’s why we wanted to do something different, because everybody there never really supported what we were doing. It just pushed us harder to make this genre that we wanted to create even bigger.

I read that in the band’s earlier days, you recorded your EP in a closet.
Yeah, we were just recording it at Se7en’s house because we never expected to be where we are now. We were just doing it for fun and because people enjoyed it. And we did it in a closet with blankets and big empty egg cartons to try to make it soundproof. It’s just crazy to go from there to where we are now.

Having recorded your debut full-length in a studio in California must have been a bit different. What was that like?
At first I was scared to step in there. I was used to the mic and stuff like that, but when you see a real producer there and there’s that big window that they’re watching you through. But it just turned out to be really cool and we all just felt like at home, I guess. Our producer [Mike Kumgai] was really, really nice and he just accepted what we were doing. We were scared as well because we weren’t sure if people were gonna accept what we were doing when they were recording us. It worked out.

What was it like working with Mike?
It was really, really fun. He was super nice and super understanding. He kind of had the same idea we had because he used to make club beats and stuff, so it was exciting. He recorded like, Kottonmouth Kings and like everybody on that label.

You did some collaborations on a couple of songs on I’m Not A Fan…, can you tell me a little about how they came about?
We collaborated with Daddy X and Kottonmouth Kings on a song called “Get Up.” We did something different with that song as well, so we wanted to have someone from Kottonmouth on there because we thought it would be really cool. Daddy X was nice enough to say OK and he did it.

Did you get in touch with them through Mike?
Well, Daddy X was always at the office where we were recording. He’s a really cool, down-to-earth dude. We met him a few times and he said yeah, I’d love to do it. So, he did it.

What’s your favorite track on the new album?
That’s kind of hard. I’m would have to say it’s between one of our older songs, but we redid it, it’s called “Jealousy,” or the one with Daddy X. The one with E-40 as well. It was cool to have him on a track because of who he is. He’s been around forever and is a big name in the game. So, that was really cool. The Daddy X one is really different because it’s just a straight up 808 [drum machine] beat, but we made it our style with screaming and rapping. And when we first did “Jealousy” a few years ago, for some reason I just really connected with that song.

So, you guys seem to interact with your fans a lot, whether it’s at a show or through your MySpace.
Yeah, we love our fans more than anything. People tend to forget that your fans make you. We always want to give back to our fans and show them that we care for them more than anything.

What’s the craziest thing a fan has ever done for you guys?
Just the typical groupie things they say. It’s crazy!

Interview by Valerie McQueen