News Judas Priest Postpone All Remaining U.S. Tour Dates As Richie Faulkner Is Hospitalized for “Major Medical Heart Condition Issues” September 28, 2021 8:13am Only last week, The Pit published a road report on Judas Priest‘s North American 50th anniversary tour from Pär Sundström of openers Sabaton. But now, it appears that Priest have had to cut their trek […]
News Tool Announce Massive 2022 World Tour September 27, 2021 1:54pm Given the massive success of their 2019 album Fear Inoculum, one could forgive Tool for taking a quiet moment afterwards to cool their heels (also there was a global pandemic). But now, the metal alchemists have […]
Wait...What? ‘Venom’ Star Tom Hardy Knows His Death Metal September 27, 2021 11:15am Given his monstrous appearance, vicious nature, and morally-ambiguous stance of protecting the innocent with hardcore violence, it’s unsurprising that Marvel’s Venom has become one of metalheads’ favorite comic book characters. It also doesn’t hurt that […]
News Watch: UFC Star Nick Diaz Uses Deftones As Entrance Music for First Fight In Six Years September 27, 2021 9:21am This weekend, UFC star Nick Diaz returned to the ring for the first time since 2015 to duke it out with Robbie Lawler. And those rock and metal fans watching the match might have recognized […]
News Video: Machine Gun Kelly Booed and Flipped Off During Entire Louder Than Life Set September 27, 2021 8:10am Last week, rapper turned actor turned pop-punk musician Colson “Machine Gun Kelly” Baker learned there is such thing as bad press when he took a moment during his Riot Fest set to try and diss […]
Interviews Sabaton’s Pär Sundström: “This Is the Life I Love — Every Day, a New Town, a New Audience, a New Show” September 24, 2021 11:22am It’s unsurprising that playing in Sabaton means taking the world by storm on a daily basis. The Swedish band have risen to worldwide acclaim performing striking, bombastic heavy metal songs about history’s most infamous battles […]
New Music New Metal Releases Out Today: 9/24 September 24, 2021 10:01am 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 metal releases, from singalong hard rock to pus-drenched underground death metal. […]
News Corey Taylor Speaks About Joey Jordison’s Death: “He Was Way Too Young and Way Too Talented to Lose Him Like This” September 24, 2021 8:26am In July, the metal world was crushed to learn that Joey Jordison, founding member and former drummer of Slipknot, had died at the age of 46. In the wake of the terrible news, Slipknot responded […]
New Music Guns N’ Roses Release New Song “Hard Skool” September 24, 2021 8:11am Last month, hard rock legends Guns N’ Roses released their first new song since 2008. The track, “Absurd,” was an industrial punk stampede, with the band’s traditional snottiness couched in pure speed and fury. Now, […]
Hell Yes Grave School: Here Are The Origins of Your Favorite Terms for Death and Dying September 23, 2021 11:56am Death: the universe’s metal song. Since its inception, heavy metal has been fascinated with death and dying, as our final departure from this mortal coil is an odd mixture of ugly realism and cosmic symbolism. […]
