News Metallica’s ‘S&M2’ Beats Katy Perry’s ‘Smile’ In First-Week Sales Numbers September 8, 2020 8:48am One likes to think that in recent years, metal has become at least slightly less antagonistic toward the pop music world. As digital streaming and on-demand video make airtime and magazine space less of a […]
New Music Spirit Adrift’s New Single Is Heavy Metal At Its Best September 4, 2020 12:34pm Arizona-based epic metallers Spirit Adrift have tamed the time warp at heavy metal’s core. The band always sounds current, informed by the late 2000s’ doom explosion out of Texas and Arkansas. But frontman Nate Garrett […]
Lists Love System of a Down? Here Are Five Bands You Should Know September 4, 2020 11:00am It’s hard to think of other acts that a System of a Down diehard would also like. That’s because the Armenian-American alt-metal quartet have always made an effort to sound as unique as they do […]
New Music Napalm Death’s New Single and Video Will Gut You In All The Right Ways September 4, 2020 10:30am If you’re looking to escape the troubles of the everyday world, don’t listen to Napalm Death. The British grindcore forefathers have more important things on their minds, namely ripping out the sick, apathetic heart of […]
New Music New Metal Out Today – 9/4 September 4, 2020 9:56am 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 Zeal & Ardor Announce New EP, Release Heartbreaking Singles “I Can’t Breathe” and “Vigil” September 4, 2020 9:00am When Zeal & Ardor released Devil Is Fine in 2016, the Swiss-American act — then just frontman Manuel Gagneux — were praised for their novel and often chilling combination of black metal and slave spirituals. But […]
News Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween’ and ‘Halloween II’ Soundtracks Are Getting Released On Vinyl September 3, 2020 2:22pm When they first came out, Rob Zombie‘s remakes of John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween and its sequel Halloween II were hated on by metalheads, who saw Zombie’s overly-gritty style as tasteless. But in recent years, the films […]
News Dillinger Escape Plan’s Ben Weinman Honors Riley Gale On Our Heavy-Metal Talk Show, Last Words September 3, 2020 1:14pm Last week, the rock and metal worlds were shocked and crushed to hear that Riley Gale, frontman for Texas thrash act Power Trip, had died at 34 years old. As both the frontman of one […]
News Steel Panther Release Black Metal Video for “Let’s Get High Tonight” September 3, 2020 12:43pm Black metal — super serious, right? In fact, the genre that most extreme metalheads have no sense of humor about is comprised of dudes in facepaint and renfaire armor who secretly dig on some ABBA […]
News Hanging Bats Filmed Upside-Down to Goth Music Is Absolutely Amazing September 3, 2020 11:34am For a body of people who claim they despise humanity and acting normal, goths sure do love to go dancing on the weekends! Goth clubbing has become such an established part of the culture that […]
