Last Words King’s X’s Doug Pinnick Gives Metal Bassists Their Due on This Week’s Last Words June 25, 2021 11:31am The bassist: a vital backbone to every band whose rhythmic prowess and low-end gravity aid metal in reaching new realms of heaviness, or a band member who’s just lucky to be here and owes the […]
News New Metal Releases Out Today: 6/25 June 25, 2021 11:09am 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. […]
Premieres Exclusive Video Premiere: A Call to the Dark (VHS, Valravne) Take Camp Crystal Lake By Storm With New Single “They Say” June 25, 2021 11:00am Like any horror movie-addicted metalhead worth their salt, we’re big fans of Ontario gore-mongers VHS. But what some might not know is that members of the band are also involved in a side project named […]
Features 40 Years Later, Motörhead’s ‘No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith’ Is Still The Greatest Live Album of All Time June 25, 2021 8:16am In the world of hard rock and heavy metal, live albums don’t always land well, simply because recorded music can’t replicate the incredible power one feels surging to the front row in a tidal wave […]
News Watch the Hellish First Trailer for ‘Halloween Kills’ June 24, 2021 11:14pm The build-up to Halloween Kills, the follow-up to 2018’s Halloween and the latest installment in the saga of seasonal boogeyman Michael Myers, has been pretty intense. In January, fans got their first look at Myers in all his […]
News Powerman 5000 Frontman Spider One Launches Horror Anthology Podcast June 24, 2021 11:08am For ’90s metal fans who would have died with their spacemen parachute pants on, Powerman 5000 were one of the nu-metal bands who kept it realer than most. Now, frontman Spider One has revealed that […]
News This 8-Year-Old Girl Singing Sepultura’s “Roots Bloody Roots” Is The Greatest Thing You’ll See All Day June 24, 2021 8:12am In recent years, the O’Keefe Music Foundation have made millions of metalheads grin with their students’ covers of classic hard rock and metal tracks. Today, though, O’Keefe kids might have outdone themselves via their cover […]
BOOOOOO blink-182’s Mark Hoppus Diagnosed With Cancer June 24, 2021 7:47am One of the most important bands of the last three decades for fans of any guitar-based genre is blink-182. Though they might not be as hard or heavy as many punks, goths, and metalheads would […]
Wait...What? Video: High School Senior Gets Diploma to Slipknot’s “People = Sh*t” June 23, 2021 12:17pm Ah, graduation season, a time when teenagers on the brink of adulthood can cut loose for one final summer before beginning four years of unbridled heartache, academic self-doubt, and Molly addiction. For many, graduating high […]
Features Lyrics Quiz: Five Finger Death Punch or Indigo Girls? June 23, 2021 11:24am It’s easy to draw a hard line between genres and cultures within music. People feel comfortable with these divisions because it allows them to put themselves on one side or another — aggressive or sensitive, […]