News Killswitch Engage Drank 40 Forties While Making Their Career-Defining Album August 24, 2020 9:55am For fans all over the world, 2006’s As Daylight Dies was the album on which Killswitch Engage went from underground sensation to genre heroes. On that record, the band refined their mixture of hardcore, melodic death metal, […]
Wait...What? This Country Version of Slipknot’s “Duality” Will Put Rhinestones on Your Jumpsuit August 24, 2020 8:53am Because of their massive fan over the years, Slipknot have come to mean different things to different people. For metalheads, they’re a powerhouse phenomenon reigniting the genre’s fires. For the mainstream world, they’re a shock […]
News Quiet Riot Drummer Frankie Banali Dead at 68 August 21, 2020 3:41pm Sad news today, as it’s been confirmed that Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali has died after battling pancreatic cancer. Frankie passed away the night of Thursday, August 20th, 2020. He was 68 years old. According […]
New Music Carcass Announce ‘Despicable’ EP, Release Raging First Single August 21, 2020 12:46pm Last year, British gore-gods Carcass revealed that they were working on a follow-up to 2013’s massive Surgical Steel, to be titled Torn Arteries. Unfortunately, the band had to put off this release due to COVID-19, but the […]
Wait...What? Behemoth Will Livestream A Concert From Inside A Church August 21, 2020 12:16pm Few if any contemporary band goes come off as utterly dedicated to satanism as Polish death metallers Behemoth. Rather than just wear the trappings of enemies of God, the band go all-in on their spiritual […]
Premieres Exclusive Premiere: Raven Black’s New Single Sounds Like Getting Murdered By A Clown August 21, 2020 11:00am For the past few years, Raven Black have been one of the few bands fully dedicating themselves to shock rock. While plenty of acts throw on some greasepaint or armor, the LA-based quartet go all-in, […]
New Music New Metal Out Today: 8/21/2020 August 21, 2020 10:30am 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 […]
Lists Unleash The Archers’ Brittney Slayes: 4 Rules For Writing An Epic Concept Album August 21, 2020 10:17am To say that Canadian power metallers Unleash The Archers went big with the concept behind their new album Abyss is sort of a hilarious understatement. The album is the second part of 2017’s Apex, telling the […]
New Music Deftones Release Dreamy Video for Their New Single “Ohms” August 21, 2020 8:52am This week proved momentous for Sacramento alt-metallers Deftones. The band began teasing the release of the long-awaited new album before fans discovered they’d been hiding the title in plain sight. They then sent diehards on a […]
Last Words GWAR’s Blöthar the Berserker Lays Waste to Our Heavy-Metal Talk Show, Last Words August 20, 2020 2:22pm A few million years ago, the planet Earth was introduced to perhaps the only worthwhile musical act to ever play a note — the collection of intergalactic conquerors, crack fiends, and thrash metal musicians known […]
