News Alice Cooper First Smoked Weed with Jimi Hendrix April 5, 2021 7:48am The history of rock and roll is littered with amazing stories, and unfortunately for devout edge kids, a lot of them involve drugs. The explosion of mind-opening and mood-altering drug use in the late ’60s […]
New Music Brooklyn’s Swarm of Flies (Eternal Black, End of Hope) Get Far Out and Pitch Black On New Song “Writhe” April 2, 2021 12:33pm While being pissed off and turbo-charged will always be an important part of metalheaddom, sometimes you just want to wallow in stygian darkness. That’s where Swarm of Flies come in. The Brooklyn-based project of guitarist […]
New Music Video Nasties’ New Track “Draw The Shades” Is The Sickest Thing You’ll Hear All Day April 2, 2021 10:27am If you’re not familiar with Video Nasties yet, you have to get on that, man. Last year’s Dominion was a ripping piece of pure entertainment, a gush of mindblowing horror-inspired black’n’roll that had fans of both […]
New Music New Metal Out Today: 4/2 April 2, 2021 9:19am 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 releases, from singalong hard rock to pus-drenched underground death metal. Keep […]
Why Not Cat-Fronted Metal Band Cattera Release New Single for Charity April 2, 2021 9:03am If there’s one thing metalheads love that makes people outside the genre chuckle, it’s cats. Headbangers may be dour, no-nonsense apocalypse-worshippers most of the time, but hand them a cat and they’ll start making ‘PSPSPSPSPS’ […]
News At The Gates Announce New Album ‘The Nightmare of Being’ April 2, 2021 8:17am Back in November, we learned that Swedish melodeath pioneers At The Gates were in the studio and preparing to release a new album in 2021. Now, the Gothenburg band have revealed the full details of […]
Last Words Did Streaming Kill the Music Industry? ERRA Vocalist JT Cavey Weighs In On This Week’s Last Words April 1, 2021 3:42pm Streaming services: an awesome way for massive libraries of music to be heard by those who might not experience them otherwise, or a manipulative pyramid scheme that robs artists of royalties and turns fans into […]
News Jon Bon Jovi Announces New Collaboration with Darkthrone April 1, 2021 1:50pm Few hard rock bands have courted the massive mainstream appeal as arena-rock hit-makers Bon Jovi. However, it now appears that frontman Jon Bon Jovi has turned his attention towards the putrid underground of black metal, […]
News A Day to Remember’s Jeremy McKinnon: “I Literally Eat Three Tank Tops a Day” April 1, 2021 11:50am With their buoyant mixture of hardcore, pop-punk, and mainstream rock, A Day to Remember have become one of music’s unlikeliest success stories. For years, fans have wondered what it is about the band that has […]
News Ghost Reveal New Frontman, Papa Billy Joel April 1, 2021 9:50am Last March, Swedish occult rockers Ghost revealed what was believed to be their new frontman, Papa Emeritus IV. Today, the band have thrown audiences for a loop by announcing the arrival of their actual new […]
