Interviews Tattoo Stories: Polaris’ Daniel Furnari on First, Worst, Most Painful Ink March 2, 2020 1:08pm Australian metalcore outfit Polaris wear their hearts on their sleeves. On their new, sophomore album, The Death of Me — the follow-up to 2017’s The Mortal Coil — the young rising stars veer adventurously between […]
News Watch Our New Heavy-Metal Talk Show, LAST WORDS! February 28, 2020 4:19pm In case you missed it, this month The Pit launched an irreverent weekly heavy-metal talk show called Last Words! Every week, industry experts from all sides of the metal world will go head to head […]
News Hear the Acacia Strain’s Pummeling New 7-Inch, Jesus Piece Singer Guests February 28, 2020 3:28pm New England-based punishing metal group The Acacia Strain have surprised dropped a brand new 7-inch, D, through Rise Records. It of course includes two pummeling, yet atmospheric tracks (both of which you can hear below) […]
News Hear Havok’s Insane New Thrasher “Phantom Force” February 28, 2020 2:41pm Colorado-based thrash crew Havok are back in a big way. The quartet have announced their forthcoming fifth album, simply titled V, unleashed the LP’s ripping lead single “Phantom Force” and dropped the song’s accompanying music […]
News See Toxic Holocaust’s Gritty Post-Apocalyptic “New World Beyond” Video February 27, 2020 3:10pm Joel Grind has been flying the old-school thrash flag high for the last 20 years with his mostly one-man project Toxic Holocaust. Last year, he released his sixth full-length under that name, the tellingly titled […]
News Hear Trivium’s Epic New Song “Catastrophist” February 27, 2020 2:00pm Trivium have announced their highly anticipated new album, What the Dead Men Say, which is due for release April 24th via Roadrunner Records. The follow-up to 2017’s The Sin and the Sentence and the Florida-based […]
Interviews Orthodox’s Adam Easterling: My Favorite Nu-Metal Records Of All Time February 26, 2020 5:09pm Across the board, nü metal seems to be back in a big way. Led by bands like Gojira, Code Orange, and Vein, the genre that was once relegated to the “guilty pleasure” folder now seems […]
News Metallica Release New Surfwear Collection Inspired by ‘Master of Puppets’ February 26, 2020 3:28pm Last year, Metallica and Billabong announced a collaborative 2019-2020 surfwear collection inspired by some of the band’s most iconic albums and informed by guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo’s personal passion for riding the […]
Interviews Luggage’s Luca Cimarusti: 5 Albums That Changed My Life February 26, 2020 2:58pm In November 2019, Chicago-based post-hardcore trio Luggage dropped their third full-length, Shift, a critically acclaimed slab of gritty noise-rock that captures that cold severity of the Windy City as well as nodding to such hometown […]
News Motionless in White Announce “The Black and Blue” Tour With Knocked Loose, More February 25, 2020 5:13pm Riding high on the momentum behind their 2020 album, DISGUISE, Motionless in White have announced a North American spring run dubbed The Black and Blue Tour. The jaunt will see the Scranton, Pennsylvania, band joined by […]
