News Thanks A Lot: Adele’s New Album Is Causing A Global Vinyl Shortage November 9, 2021 10:35am These days, it often feels like metal music comes in two forms: digital or vinyl. Metal fans are either listening to their favorite artists on Bandcamp or they’re ordering some super-deluxe gatefold record that’s made […]
News When Cannibal Corpse’s Frontman Got “Owned By Cher” November 9, 2021 8:50am It’s hard to imagine anyone out-metaling George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher. As the frontman of seminal death metal act Cannibal Corpse, the guy bellows like a buffalo being fed into a meat grinder and headbangs like his […]
Lists 10 Times Metal Musicians Stopped Shows to Help Their Fans November 8, 2021 12:43pm This weekend, rapper Travis Scott held his annual Astroworld Festival with deadly results. After a number of red flags and warning signs were ignored by festival organizers and security, the crowd of 50,000 rushed the […]
News David Ellefson: “I Was Just Kicked to the SIde of the Road” by Megadeth November 8, 2021 10:49am If anyone knows about being gracelessly kicked out of a band, it’s Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. The guitarist and vocalist was fired from Metallica in 1983, for being a violent, angry drunk, and due to […]
News Trailer: ‘Death to Metal’ Is About a Mutant Priest Trying to Wipe Out All Heavy Metal Bands November 8, 2021 10:21am As a rule, metal is rarely portrayed well in the movies. At best, comedies give us relatable metalheads whose everyday love of the genre and culture reflects our own; more often than not, though, metal […]
New Music Video: Evanescence and Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale Join Forces for Cover of Linkin Park’s “Heavy” November 8, 2021 8:29am Back in May, it was announced that hard rockers Halestorm and goth metal hit-makers Evanescence would be joining forces for a co-headlining tour. Well, Friday night saw that trek kick off in Portland, Oregon, and […]
News Slipknot’s Jay Weinberg Revealed His Terrifying New Mask During Knotfest LA November 7, 2021 9:17am A big part of Slipknot‘s album cycles is getting to see their new masks. Ever since 2001’s Iowa, the band have used release cycles to reveal different sides of themselves to the world via their facewear. […]
New Music Watch Slipknot Give “The Chapeltown Rag” Its Live Debut at Knotfest LA! November 6, 2021 8:13am Yesterday, nine-skulled death worm Slipknot released “The Chapeltown Rag,” their first new track since the 2019 release of We Are Not Your Kind. Now, the band have given the song its live debut as part of […]
New Music New Metal Releases Out Today: 11/5 November 5, 2021 3:27pm 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 Nita Strauss to Play Olympian Boxer Mikaela Mayer to the Ring for Historic Title Fight November 5, 2021 2:40pm We’re here for Nita Strauss. The virtuosic guitarist has a lot to her name, including her own fitness challenge, a place in Alice Cooper’s band, and a lineage going back to a brilliant classical composer. […]
