News The Black Dahlia Murder Announce ‘Yule ‘Em All’ Holiday Variety Livestream November 20, 2020 12:37pm Christmas is almost upon us, a time of warm fires, dark beers, and praying to Krampus that you finally get that Marshall amp mini-fridge. But now, metal fans can add ‘guts-fucking macabre death metal’ to […]
News Watch Kill The Ideal’s Hilarious Video for Their Cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” November 20, 2020 11:00am In the past couple of years, Led Zeppelin‘s “Immigrant Song” as re-emerged as perhaps one of the great Viking metal tracks of our time. The song’s use by Taika Waititi in Marvel’s space Viking epic Thor: […]
News Sodom’s New Music Video F*cking Rules November 20, 2020 10:19am Listening to Sodom makes one wonder why the hell they don’t just listen to Sodom all goddamn day long. Like many of their peers, the German thrash legends have updated their approach over the years; […]
News New Metal Out Today: 11/20 November 20, 2020 8:38am It’s Friday, which means two things: giving this week the finger and new music! Tune in every Friday for The Pit’s round-up of new releases, from singalong hard rock to pus-drenched underground death metal. Keep […]
New Music Within Temptation Premiere Soaring New Single “The Purge” November 20, 2020 8:16am Dutch symphonic metal crew Within Temptation have always made music that sounds like breaking through the clouds over a futuristic city, and given the apocalyptic changes we’ve seen over the past year, their unique sound […]
News Anthrax Announce New ‘Among The Living’ Graphic Novel With Stories By Corey Taylor, Rob Zombie, and More November 19, 2020 1:42pm While many of the metal bands of the ’80s were writing songs about Satan and warfare, Anthrax were always content to pen tracks about horror stories and comic books. Now, the patron saints of thrash-metal […]
Last Words Nothing’s Domenic Palermo Talks Shoegaze In This Week’s Episode of Our Metal Talk Show, Last Words November 19, 2020 12:46pm Shoegaze: a dreamy portal to the musical heavens, or rock’s most listless genre? For decades now, shoegaze has threatened to creep into rock and metal and turn it into something between an emotional mindscape or […]
Wait...What? A Sink Signed By Tool Is Being Auctioned Off For Dio’s Charity November 19, 2020 11:43am These days, Tool fans can own all sorts of strange and awesome pieces of merch, from socks to stash boxes. But what about kitchen fixtures? How many diehards can say they have a kitchen sink […]
Premieres War Orphan (ex-Sick Of It All, Reach) Pull No Punches On New Single “Fuck The NRA” November 19, 2020 11:08am You gotta love a band like War Oprhan. While so many other acts are trying to push the boundaries of hardcore, these three dudes — whose combined musical pedigree includes Sick Of It All, Reach, […]
Lists The 20 Greatest Slayer Riffs of All Time November 19, 2020 10:45am No one writes riffs like Slayer. At the end of the day, the California thrash titans’ guitar parts are what has made them such metal legends. Plenty of bands have lyrics about Lucifer and lightning-fast […]