Interviews portrayal of guilt’s Matt King: “We’ve Gone Off The Deep End At This Point” January 20, 2021 12:08pm The mounting popularity of portrayal of guilt might be telling of the world we live in. The mixture of roiling hardcore, unhinged extreme metal, and eerie noise rock that the band offered the world with […]
News Here’s Metallica’s Business Card from 1982 January 20, 2021 8:20am For our younger readers, business cards were sort of like tiny paper LinkedIn profiles that you could hand out at meetings to give other people your information. Back in the ’80s, they also became a […]
News Machine Head Are Back In The Studio January 19, 2021 2:34pm Given the whirlwind of unprecedented turmoil we all just survived, 2021 feels primed to be either the best year of our lives or an absolute shitshow. But at least now, we know it’s getting off […]
New Music August Burns Red Drop Animated Video for New Track “Standing In The Storm” January 19, 2021 11:36am It’s been a hot second since we heard from Pennsylvania metalcore crew August Burns Red, but the band have apparently been busy. Today seems them premiering an animated video for their new single “Standing In […]
News “Hip To Be The Sandman” – This Metallica/Huey Lewis Mash-Up Is Surprisingly Satisfying January 19, 2021 10:13am If you time-traveled back to 1986 and told Metallica that their music would sound really good to the tune of Huey Lewis & The News’ “Hip To Be Square,” James Hetfield might have hocked a […]
Wait...What? Dave Grohl Will Remember Seeing Lemmy In His Underwear Till The Day He Dies January 19, 2021 8:20am It was well known that among rock’s newer legends, Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister had a soft spot in his heart for Dave Grohl. The Foo Fighters frontman was Lemmy’s friend, and plays a special role […]
News Tribulation Release Eerie Music Video for Thrashy Track “Funeral Pyre” January 15, 2021 2:44pm Last we spoke to stygian Swedish metal crew Tribulation, they were helping us identify rock and metal musicians who are secretly vampires. Now, the band have released a new music video for “Funeral Pyre,” a […]
News New Metal Out Today: 1/15 January 15, 2021 10:12am 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 […]
New Music Eyehategod Release Filthy New Track “Fake What’s Yours” January 15, 2021 8:42am How a band as hostile and ugly-sounding as NOLA’s Eyehategod have survived all these years is anyone’s guess, but we’re glad they have. The sludge pioneers always deliver their promise of making nasty, hard-hitting alley-core […]
RIP New York Dolls Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain Dead at 69 January 15, 2021 8:21am Sad news for the rock community today, as it’s been revealed that Sylvain Sylvain, the guitarist and pianist for seminal glam rockers New York Dolls, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 69 […]