New Music New Metal Out Today: 1/29 January 29, 2021 9:33am 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 […]
Lists 12 of the Best Ska Covers of Metal Songs January 29, 2021 8:43am It might be hard to believe, but in the late ’90s metal and ska were pals. The Warped Tour ska-punk crowd had an appreciation for the cheese of ’80s metal, partly out of an ironic […]
News Gatecreeper Sign to Nuclear Blast January 29, 2021 8:01am Over the past couple of years, Arizona death metal crew Gatecreeper have gone from underground darlings to new kings of brutality. Both of their full length albums, 2016’s Sonoran Depravation and 2019’s Deserted, became fixtures within […]
Wait...What? Here’s Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'” Except It’s “Dig” by Mudvayne January 28, 2021 3:07pm There’s no greater singalong for classic rock fans than Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.” Sometime between its initial release on 1981’s Escape and now, the song went from obscure ’80s power-pop track to the anthem every single […]
Last Words Nervosa’s Prika Amaral Talks Whether You Should REALLY Come To Brazil on This Week’s Last Words January 28, 2021 2:28pm “Come to Brazil!” This phrase has become a joke in the metal community throughout its ongoing relationship with sweet Mother Internet. It seems like every time a band posts something about their whereabouts or current […]
New Music Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle Team Up for Haunting New Track “Anhedonia” January 28, 2021 12:32pm Singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe might be one of the non-metal artists most loved and embraced by metal fans. Her eerie, echoing tracks touch on an organic darkness with which fans of bleak brutality can immediately identify. […]
Interviews Korpiklaani’s Jarkko Aaltonen: “We’re Basically a Reggae Band, Only Faster and Louder” January 28, 2021 11:11am At the end of folk metal’s long and raucous party, Korpiklaani will probably be the last band standing. Over the course of almost three decades, the Finnish six-piece have raged where others have passed out […]
News Thrash Till Death: Watch Tony Hawk Land a 720 at 52 Years Old January 28, 2021 8:26am Right now, a generation of metal and hardcore fans are seeing their idols get on in years. Artists and celebrities many of us still consider young or youthful are breaking fifty, and though they might […]
RIP Massive Eddie Van Halen Mural Unveiled on Flagship Guitar Center Store January 27, 2021 11:24am Last year saw Eddie Van Halen, pioneering guitarist and driving force behind legendary party rockers Van Halen, pass away at the age of 65. Not only was Eddie a cultural icon who taught a whole […]
News Exodus’ Gary Holt Swapped Guitars With My Chemical Romance’s Frank Iero January 27, 2021 8:47am 2019 revealed something that surprises some rock fans: many of rock and metal’s most hardcore musicians are diehard My Chemical Romance fans. When the New Jersey emo rock heavyweights announced their return to the stage […]