News Video: Drummer Plays All 175 Rush Songs In Homage to Neil Peart January 10, 2022 9:06am Friday was the second anniversary of the death of Neil Peart, the groundbreaking drummer for Canadian band Rush who inspired a generation of percussionists to hit harder, faster, and with more unhinged precision than those […]
News Corey Taylor Promises a New Slipknot Album, His Indie Horror Movie, and “Secret ‘Homecoming’ Plans” for 2022 January 10, 2022 8:30am Back in December, Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor told the world that March or April of 2022 was when fans could expected a new album from the band. Now, the singer has announced on social media […]
RIP Woodstock Organizer and Producer Michael Lang Dead at 77 January 9, 2022 9:51am Sad news for the rock world today, as Michael Lang, one of the organizers of the Woodstock festivals, has died. He was 77 years old. According to a representative, Lang died of complications from non-Hodgkin’s […]
News Metallica and Tool Are Using COVID-Sniffing Dogs for Their Shows January 9, 2022 9:25am The most frustrating part of the COVID pandemic is how quickly we’re learning about new effects, capabilities, and traits of this awful virus. One minute, we think we’re finally going to beat this thing; the […]
News Video: blink-182’s Travis Barker Rocks a Napalm Death Shirt While Drumming to Adele’s “Easy On Me” January 7, 2022 2:20pm Though blink-182 would never be called a metal band, they are inherently tied to metal — or maybe metal’s tied to them? — because of how much they’ve promoted living, breathing, and dying for rock […]
New Music New Metal Releases Out Today: 1/7 January 7, 2022 12:42pm 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 metal releases, from singalong hard rock to pus-drenched underground death metal. […]
New Music Is This New Meshuggah? New Website Offers Rumored Teaser of First Single January 7, 2022 11:04am Last we heard about the new album by Swedish experimentalists Meshuggah was in October, when the band said the record would be out in late 2021; since we’ve obviously passed that date, 2022 seems to […]
New Music Trivium’s Matt Heafy Releases New Solo Track Featuring Testament’s Chuck Billy January 7, 2022 9:12am It’s no secret that we’re big supporters of Trivium — their new album In The Court of the Dragon landed at #7 on our list of the best albums of 2021 — and we’re obviously huge […]
New Music Dark Funeral Drop Crushing New Banger “Let The Devil In” January 7, 2022 8:48am Among the obsidian-armored ranks of extreme metal, Dark Funeral hold a place of respect. For almost 30 years, the Swedish band have played forward-charging black metal with a hard satanic bent, that remains stalwart in […]
News Korn Post Cryptic Teaser Video, Offer Secret Download of New Drum Tracks January 7, 2022 8:25am Back in November, nu-metal legends Korn announced their upcoming new album Requiem, along with the first single “Start the Healing.” Now, the band have posted a cryptic video which in turn leads fans to a free […]
