Interviews Witch Taint’s Dave Hill Ponders The Bonkers Banality Of Metal April 7, 2020 12:05pm Dave Hill is probably a lot like us– hunkering down, riding out the pandemic, and listening to as much heavy metal as humanly possible. Then again, he also happens to be way more important than […]
News Enter for a Chance to Win a £200 Shopping Spree at EMP March 31, 2020 2:00pm Hey, UK fans of The Pit! It’s time to take a break from doing windmills in your bedroom and hop on this awesome opportunity. Fill out the form below for your chance to win a […]
News Here Are 10 Discharge Covers to Blast in Quarantine Right Now March 25, 2020 4:57pm Whether it be punk or metal, it is impossible to understate the influence of Discharge on heavy music. Put simply, without them many of your favorite genres wouldn’t even exist. Thrash metal, death metal, grindcore, […]
News 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Death’s ‘Symbolic’ March 21, 2020 2:06pm 25 years ago today, Death released their sixth album, Symbolic. It stands as one of the most acclaimed death metal albums of all time, even among the near-perfect discography of one of the genre’s pioneering […]
News Watch Code Orange’s Album Release Show on Twitch March 14, 2020 2:46pm UPDATE: If you missed the livestream, you can now watch Code Orange’s “LAST ONES LEFT: In Fear of The End” performance below. Watch LAST ONES LEFT: Fear of the End // 3.14 9pm EST from […]
News Watch the cast of LAST WORDS talk about Greg Puciato’s new single, metalheads getting it on in cars, and more! March 5, 2020 7:27pm In case you missed it, The Pit launched our very own heavy-metal talk show, LAST WORDS, where hilarious, irreverent industry experts go toe to toe over metal news, gossip, and new releases. New episodes are […]
News Watch Our New Heavy-Metal Talk Show, LAST WORDS! February 28, 2020 4:19pm In case you missed it, this month The Pit launched an irreverent weekly heavy-metal talk show called Last Words! Every week, industry experts from all sides of the metal world will go head to head […]
Interviews Orthodox’s Adam Easterling: My Favorite Nu-Metal Records Of All Time February 26, 2020 5:09pm Across the board, nü metal seems to be back in a big way. Led by bands like Gojira, Code Orange, and Vein, the genre that was once relegated to the “guilty pleasure” folder now seems […]
Interviews Kirk Windstein Wants You To Let Things Go February 25, 2020 3:29pm Kirk Windstein is a man who has lived through countless lifetimes. Between being a founding member of Down, the New Orleans sludge-metal group that formed in the wake of Pantera, fronting his own sludge band […]
Interviews Higher Power’s Jimmy Wizard: “I could be in jail. Everything could be so different.” February 18, 2020 6:34pm “I never go to the hospital, and this is one of those times where I’m like, I think I’m going to have to go to the hospital.” Jimmy Wizard, singer of the Leeds-based hardcore band […]