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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
News Limp Bizkit and Spiritbox Announce U.S. Tour June 22, 2021 1:58pm If there’s one rock band who has risen out of the pandemic year triumphant, it’s Canadian metallers Spiritbox. And if there’s any band who have experienced every insult and indignity known to man and somehow […]
News The 10 Best Songs About Necrophilia June 22, 2021 11:54am Few things are more universally taboo than having sex with a dead body — which is exactly why rock and metal musicians are so fascinated with the idea. Murder may be dastardly and brutal, but […]
News Shadows Fall Announce Reunion Show with Unearth, Darkest Hour, and More June 22, 2021 11:23am Today, metalcore is most commonly associated with emo-leaning bands like Killswitch Engage and As I Lay Dying, but in the early 2000s no band led the charge like Shadows Fall. Leaning heavily on thrash influences, […]
News Metallica Announce ‘Black Album’ Tribute Record featuring Ghost, Miley Cyrus, Weezer, The Hu and More June 22, 2021 10:25am This August marks the 30th anniversary of Metallica‘s self-titled record, known to the world as the Black Album. The album features the band’s massive MTV hit “Enter Sandman,” as well as a several other career […]
News High On Fire Announce New Drummer Coady Willis (Big Business, ex-Melvins) June 22, 2021 8:40am In 2019, stoner thrashers High On Fire said goodbye to founding drummer Des Kensel, who quit the band after twenty years and one Grammy. Now, Matt Pike and Co. have revealed their new percussionist: Coady […]