News Watch Howard Jones’ Powerful Cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Simple Man” December 7, 2020 8:52am In the age of COVID, we’ve become inundated with covers. It seems like every excellent metal musician in the world has taken this downtime to stop and think, Man, I always wanted to cover ______, but […]
News Slipknot Announce European Tour for Summer 2021 December 7, 2020 8:29am As both 2021 and the possibility of a COVID-19 vaccine become more and more of a reality, bands are finally prepared to once more book tours. Now Slipknot have thrown their blood-spattered hat in the […]
New Music Steel Panther Send The Year Off In Style With “F**k 2020” December 4, 2020 3:18pm Even those people for whom it had good moments can agree that 2020 sucked, hard. Whether you had kids, graduated, or won the fuckin’ lottery, you have to admit that the global pandemic, the live […]
News Fire It Up: Marijuana Removed From The UN’s List of Harmful Drugs December 4, 2020 12:03pm Without marijuana, there would be no heavy metal. If not for how stoned the members of Black Sabbath were, metal’s thick, chocolatey riff style might never have been invented and perfected by Tony Iommi. Of […]
Features Deafheaven’s George Clarke: “As a creative person, you should always be scared” December 4, 2020 12:00pm Deafheaven should have been closing out 2020 with a victory lap. Back at the beginning of the year, the California black metal band were gearing up for a tour to commemorate their 10th anniversary as […]
New Music New Metal Out Today: 12/4 December 4, 2020 10:20am 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 […]
New Music The Hu Release Killer Mongolian-Language Cover of Metallica’s “Sad But True” December 4, 2020 9:18am Last we heard from Mongolian folk-metallers The Hu, they were releasing a new documentary about their experiences on the road. Now the band have decided to pay homage to their heavy forefathers by releasing a […]
New Music Greta Van Fleet Drop New Single “Age of Machine,” Announce New Album for April December 4, 2020 8:17am In 2018, Greta Van Fleet caused a bustle in listeners’ hedgerows with their sophomore album Anthem Of The Peaceful Army, which saw them reviving classic rock for a new generation of fans. Now, the band […]
Last Words Moshtalks’ Terry “Beez” Bezer Discusses The Best Metal Of 2020 On This Week’s Last Words December 3, 2020 2:54pm 2020: what a fucking gauntlet of a year. Between the global pandemic, the race riots, the election, the people freaking out that the results of the election was some kind of conspiracy, and Tiger King, […]
New Music Listen to This Insane Death Metal Cover of The Offspring’s “Come Out and Play” by Khemmis’ Ben Hutcherson December 3, 2020 2:03pm Last we heard from Khemmis guitarist Ben Hutcherson, he was covering Santana and Rob Thomas’ “Smooth” as an oozing death-doom track. Now, Ben’s ’90s covers project ‘Paging the Doctor of Doom’ has released a brand-new […]
