News Late Deftones Bassist Chi Cheng’s Spoken Word Album To Be Released Next Month December 14, 2020 10:47am In 2013, founding Deftones bassist Chi Cheng passed away of cardiac arrest after being put in a coma by a 2008 car accident. But while fans may never hear Eros, the album that Deftones were working […]
News Hellyeah’s Chad Gray Says The Band Will “Hopefully” Write A New Album In The Coming Year December 14, 2020 10:09am In 2018, the metal world was shaken by the death of Pantera and Hellyeah drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott. A force for good cheer in the scene and brother to the late, great Dimebag Darrell, Vinnie […]
RIP Eddie Van Halen’s Cause of Death Has Been Revealed December 14, 2020 8:12am In early October, the world was shocked and saddened to learn that Eddie Van Halen, guitar revolutionary and driving force behind legendary party rockers Van Halen, had died. Now, with his ashes being placed in […]
News Amigo The Devil Pours His Drunken, Rotten Heart Out In Video For “Another Man’s Grave” December 11, 2020 2:56pm Last month, murder-folk artist Amigo The Devil announced that he would be releasing a new album next year. Now, Amigo (Danny Kiranos to his mom) has dropped a video for the first single from the […]
News Metalhead Wakes Up From Coma to Discover His Favorite Band’s Bassist Is His Respiratory Therapist December 11, 2020 1:54pm We’ve all imagined what it would be like to wake up from a coma. The fantasy usually involves having grown a beard, and finding out the world is all futuristic, and maybe uttering something like, […]
New Music New Metal Out Today: 12/11 December 11, 2020 12:44pm It’s Friday, which means two things: giving the 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 […]
Lists 10 Reasons Why Chuck Billy Is Awesome December 11, 2020 11:23am For the past thirty-seven years, Testament have wowed audiences the world over with their heavy-yet-tasty brand of thrash metal. So much of the band’s appeal comes from frontman Chuck Billy, whose vocals are harsh and […]
New Music Converge, Health, Tomb Mold and More Release New Songs for ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Soundtrack December 11, 2020 10:34am After so many countless release delays that it became a meme, the long-awaited video game Cyberpunk 2077 is finally hitting shelves. Now, it appears as though the soundtrack is also making the rounds, with tracks […]
New Music Hear Chris Cornell Sing Guns N’ Roses, Prince, and More On Surprise-Released Posthumous Covers Album December 11, 2020 8:24am In May of 2017, Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell passed away at the age of 52. For many, Cornell’s unique voice and vocal style defined a generation of hard rock, bridging the gap between metal, punk, […]
News Avatar Channel David Lynch and Jordan Peele In Their Music Video for “A Secret Door” December 10, 2020 3:30pm Swedish genre-defiers Avatar have always had a taste for the strange and unusual. One only has to listen to their buoyant mixture of death metal, folk metal, nu-metal, and circus music to hear how committed […]
