News It Looks Like AC/DC Have Leaked Their Own Comeback September 21, 2020 9:44am In April of 2016, it was revealed that longtime AC/DC vocalist Brian Johnson would leave the band due to issues with hearing loss. This left the music world agape, wondering how AC/DC would go on […]
Features An Open Letter to Cardinal Joseph Tobin: Please Don’t Shut Down WSOU September 21, 2020 8:59am Dear Cardinal Tobin, My name is Chris Krovatin, and I am a resident of Mine Hill, New Jersey. I grew up Catholic in Hoboken; though I am no longer practicing, the history and traditions of […]
New Music CONTRACULT collective’s New EP Is Everything You Love About Industrial Hard Rock September 18, 2020 5:12pm It’s easy to understand why industrial hard rock lost its way. After bands like Rammstein and Marilyn Manson blew up, every other act tried to add “electronic elements” to their music, resulting in a lot […]
Wait...What? Satanic Transsexual Metalhead Aria DiMezzo Has Won A Republican County Sheriff Nomination In New Hampshire September 18, 2020 3:11pm If you don’t know the name Aria DiMezzo already, get ready to be very familiar with it. Aria is a transsexual, an anarchist, a satanist, a metalhead — and now, she’s the GOP nominee for […]
RIP Riley Gale Memorial Street Art Appears In Houston and Brooklyn September 18, 2020 1:53pm The metal scene continues to reel from the death of Power Trip frontman Riley Gale last month. But if there’s one upside to Riley’s death, it is that it’s inspiring people throughout the world to […]
New Music New Metal Out Today: 9/18 September 18, 2020 1:30pm 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 […]
News Puscifer Announce New Album, Release Ethereal First Single September 18, 2020 10:08am Leave it to Maynard James Keenan to make a record-release announcement more bizarre than anything else one has heard this week. Today, the Tool frontman’s side-project/view into his soul Puscifer announced a new album alongside […]
New Music Carcass Release Delicious New Single “The Long and Winding Bier Road” September 18, 2020 9:51am Last month, British death metal pathologists Carcass announced the release of their new EP, Despicable, alongside a ripping single titled “The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue.” Now, the band have dropped a second song from that […]
Features How Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid’ Defined Heavy Metal As We Know It September 18, 2020 9:21am It’s hard to follow up an instant classic, which Black Sabbath’s 1970 self-titled debut certainly was. Armed with a guitar sound like no other, a goosebump-inducing atmosphere, and lyrics about Satan sung by a madman, […]
New Music Deftones Drop Doomy New Single “Genesis” September 18, 2020 8:38am With Deftones‘ much-anticipated new album Ohms on its way next week, the band have been releasing singles in order to get fans salivating. The first, the album’s title track, went heavy but hopeful in its […]
