Lists Every Opeth Album, Ranked from Worst to Best March 12, 2021 12:15pm No band in metal consistently makes statements as grand and overwhelming as those of Sweden’s Opeth. The group hit their 30th anniversary in 2020, and they’ve come a long distance in those three decades — […]
RIP Original Entombed Members Pay Tribute to Late Founding Frontman LG Petrov March 12, 2021 9:59am The saga of Swedish death metal pioneers Entombed became a little convoluted in recent years. The long and short of it is that after disputes between former bandmates, there was until recently two Entombeds, the […]
New Music New Metal Out Today: 3/12 March 12, 2021 9:36am 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 […]
Why Not Watch: Schoolteacher Rewrites the Alphabet Song In The Style of Korn March 12, 2021 8:43am Whitney Houston once sang that children are our future, but Jonathan Davis once said, “BRRRRATUUUR NANA!” Perhaps that’s why a generation of young listeners felt more in touch with Korn than with Whitney — the […]
Last Words Brody King Talks Wrestling and Metal On This Week’s Last Words March 11, 2021 2:46pm Professional wrestling: a bloodsport of champions for some, a parade of weirdos in spandex playing tough guy for others. So, too, is heavy metal, whose fans recognize it for the vital art form it is […]
News Avenged Sevenfold Share Studio Video with Clip of New Music March 11, 2021 11:21am Last month, Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows announced that the band’s new album is 70% done. Now, A7X have confirmed this by posting a video of them in the studio, working on the release…and included […]
Premieres Exclusive Album Stream: Gizmachi Court Groove Metal Chaos with ‘Omega Kaleid’ March 11, 2021 10:00am For Gizmachi, left turns have become a way of life at this point. The band have been around since the mid-’90s, but only really rose to acclaim when Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” Crahan signed them to […]
Why Not Watch The Pope ‘Sing’ Megadeth’s “Holy Wars…The Punishment Due” March 11, 2021 9:17am Plenty of trends have come and gone in the world of YouTube viral videos, but supercuts of public addresses which make famous people “sing” classic metal and rap songs has remained at least somewhat funny. […]
Take Our Money Rob Zombie Is Making a New ‘Munsters’ Movie March 11, 2021 7:41am Though never quite as outwardly dastardly as their brethren in the Addams Family, the Munsters always had a certain weirdo charm to them — outright monsters, who came from classic horror films and not the […]
News Here’s Mike Patton Singing the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Theme March 10, 2021 1:25pm If you were a kid during the ’80s or ’90s, you probably spent a shitload of time at video arcades. And if you did that, there are a handful of scrolling beat-em-up games that you’ll […]