News Judas Priest Postpone All Remaining U.S. Tour Dates As Richie Faulkner Is Hospitalized for “Major Medical Heart Condition Issues” September 28, 2021 8:13am Only last week, The Pit published a road report on Judas Priest‘s North American 50th anniversary tour from Pär Sundström of openers Sabaton. But now, it appears that Priest have had to cut their trek […]
News Tool Announce Massive 2022 World Tour September 27, 2021 1:54pm Given the massive success of their 2019 album Fear Inoculum, one could forgive Tool for taking a quiet moment afterwards to cool their heels (also there was a global pandemic). But now, the metal alchemists have […]
News Watch: UFC Star Nick Diaz Uses Deftones As Entrance Music for First Fight In Six Years September 27, 2021 9:21am This weekend, UFC star Nick Diaz returned to the ring for the first time since 2015 to duke it out with Robbie Lawler. And those rock and metal fans watching the match might have recognized […]
News Video: Machine Gun Kelly Booed and Flipped Off During Entire Louder Than Life Set September 27, 2021 8:10am Last week, rapper turned actor turned pop-punk musician Colson “Machine Gun Kelly” Baker learned there is such thing as bad press when he took a moment during his Riot Fest set to try and diss […]
News Corey Taylor Speaks About Joey Jordison’s Death: “He Was Way Too Young and Way Too Talented to Lose Him Like This” September 24, 2021 8:26am In July, the metal world was crushed to learn that Joey Jordison, founding member and former drummer of Slipknot, had died at the age of 46. In the wake of the terrible news, Slipknot responded […]
Hell Yes Grave School: Here Are The Origins of Your Favorite Terms for Death and Dying September 23, 2021 11:56am Death: the universe’s metal song. Since its inception, heavy metal has been fascinated with death and dying, as our final departure from this mortal coil is an odd mixture of ugly realism and cosmic symbolism. […]
News Photos: Rob Zombie Isn’t Just Building The Munsters’ House, He’s Building Their Entire Neighborhood September 23, 2021 9:58am Last month, shock rocker and horror director Rob Zombie showed off his first construction photos from the set of his reboot of The Munsters. The photos show the horror-comedy family’s unique house at 1313 Mockingbird Lane […]
News An Iguana Sings System of a Down’s “Chop Suey!” In the ‘Sing 2’ Trailer September 23, 2021 8:37am Someone over at animation hub Illumination Studios really likes System of a Down. The Armenian-American freak-metal act’s music was already featured in Illumination’s The Secret Life of Pets (which was especially weird given that the song […]
News Fit For An Autopsy Announce New Album for January 2022, Tease Single for Friday September 22, 2021 2:29pm Last we heard from New Jersey deathcore face-smashers Fit For An Autopsy was back in April of 2020, when the band released their track “Fear Tomorrow.” Now, the band have revealed details for their new […]
Wait...What? Why Type O Negative’s ‘Bloody Kisses’ Owes Everything to Mötley Crüe September 22, 2021 11:28am For many fans, Type O Negative‘s Bloody Kisses is the ultimate goth metal record, and arguably the most important metal album of the ’90s. The 1993 release’s unique mixture of doom metal, goth rock, noise, and […]
