News Watch Members of Mastodon, Converge and More Cover Robyn In The Style of Thin Lizzy September 8, 2020 12:50pm Last we saw of those Two Minutes to Late Night scamps, they had just orchestrated an incredible cover of Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name” in the style of Slayer. Given how relevant […]
Wait...What? Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta Now Makes ‘Jasta Pasta’ September 8, 2020 11:56am Every dad out there can agree that there are some stupid jokes that just can’t be resisted. Sure, the world may groan and roll its collective eyes at you for cracking these absolutely cornball gags, […]
Lists Ihsahn’s 10 Favorite Pop Songs of the ’80s September 8, 2020 10:30am These days, Ihsahn can do whatever he wants. The former frontman of Norwegian black metal legends Emperor has forged a solo career of beautiful, bizarre, and sometimes baffling experimental music that would make your average […]
News Metallica’s ‘S&M2’ Beats Katy Perry’s ‘Smile’ In First-Week Sales Numbers September 8, 2020 8:48am One likes to think that in recent years, metal has become at least slightly less antagonistic toward the pop music world. As digital streaming and on-demand video make airtime and magazine space less of a […]
New Music Spirit Adrift’s New Single Is Heavy Metal At Its Best September 4, 2020 12:34pm Arizona-based epic metallers Spirit Adrift have tamed the time warp at heavy metal’s core. The band always sounds current, informed by the late 2000s’ doom explosion out of Texas and Arkansas. But frontman Nate Garrett […]
Lists Love System of a Down? Here Are Five Bands You Should Know September 4, 2020 11:00am It’s hard to think of other acts that a System of a Down diehard would also like. That’s because the Armenian-American alt-metal quartet have always made an effort to sound as unique as they do […]
New Music Napalm Death’s New Single and Video Will Gut You In All The Right Ways September 4, 2020 10:30am If you’re looking to escape the troubles of the everyday world, don’t listen to Napalm Death. The British grindcore forefathers have more important things on their minds, namely ripping out the sick, apathetic heart of […]
New Music New Metal Out Today – 9/4 September 4, 2020 9:56am It’s Friday, which means two things: giving this 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 […]
New Music Zeal & Ardor Announce New EP, Release Heartbreaking Singles “I Can’t Breathe” and “Vigil” September 4, 2020 9:00am When Zeal & Ardor released Devil Is Fine in 2016, the Swiss-American act — then just frontman Manuel Gagneux — were praised for their novel and often chilling combination of black metal and slave spirituals. But […]
News Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween’ and ‘Halloween II’ Soundtracks Are Getting Released On Vinyl September 3, 2020 2:22pm When they first came out, Rob Zombie‘s remakes of John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween and its sequel Halloween II were hated on by metalheads, who saw Zombie’s overly-gritty style as tasteless. But in recent years, the films […]
