News Blood In The Ink: A ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ Animated Series Is On The Way January 22, 2021 10:55am Last week saw Robert Rodriguez’s madcap vampire film From Dusk Till Dawn turn 25 years old. The movie, about a duo of bank robbers who hold a family hostage and take them to a Mexican strip […]
New Music New Metal Out Today: 1/22 January 22, 2021 10:23am It’s Friday, January 22nd, which means two things: Donald Trump is fucking off somewhere, and there’s new music! Tune in every Friday for The Pit’s round-up of new releases, from singalong hard rock to pus-drenched […]
News The Bank of Mongolia Honors Folk Metallers The Hu with Commemorative Coin January 22, 2021 8:36am Last we heard from Mongolian folk metallers The Hu, they’d just released an incredible cover of Metallica’s “Sad But True” in their native tongue. Now, the band are being honored by Mongolia itself with the […]
News Rob Zombie To Release New Single Next Week January 22, 2021 8:11am Last October, musical horror master Rob Zombie saved Halloween by announcing the release of his new album The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy, from which he dropped the first single, “The Triumph of King Freak […]
Last Words Cognitive’s Rob Wharton Debates Vinyl vs. Streaming On This Week’s Episode of Last Words January 21, 2021 6:03pm Vinyl: the only true way to listen to classic albums, or a waste of space that makes you hate yourself every time you move to a new apartment? In the past two decades, vinyl has […]
News The New Poster for ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Has Us Stoked AF January 21, 2021 2:35pm Metal fans love monster movies, but giant monster movies are especially important to us. From Blue Öyster Cult’s anthem to the destruction of Tokyo to Metallica’s love for Lovecraft, the idea of a god in […]
Lists Every Episode of ‘Metalocalypse,’ Ranked Worst to Best January 21, 2021 12:46pm It’s hard to accurately describe to younger fans how huge Metalocalypse was when it first premiered. For decades, metal culture had been depicted as painfully ultra-gritty or a lot of cheesy, poofy-haired bullshit. All of […]
News Metallica Producer Bob Rock Sells His Rights to Black Album Songs In Multi-Million Dollar Deal January 21, 2021 10:14am While producer Bob Rock has a massive resume including credits with bands ranging from Mötley Crüe to Simple Plan, he will probably always be best known for producing Metallica‘s 1991 self-titled album, best known as […]
New Music Tomahawk (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Helmet) Announce Their First New Album In Eight Years January 21, 2021 8:11am It’s been a hot second since Tomahawk, the heavy alternative supergroup featuring Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle), Duane Denison (The Jesus Lizard), Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas) and John Stanier (Helmet), released a […]
Wait...What? Breaking: Here’s a Kitten Singing Disturbed’s “Down With The Sickness” January 20, 2021 12:38pm There may never be a vocal part in metal as identifiable as David Draiman’s “OOOOO-WAKAKAKA!” in Disturbed‘s classic nu-metal rager “Down With The Sickness.” Something about that pierced man’s mating call struck a chord with […]
