News New Metal Releases Out Today: 7/2 July 2, 2021 11:59am 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. […]
Lists Happy July 4th: Here are 10 Honorarily American Metal Bands July 2, 2021 11:00am America: love it or leave it — though if you’re a metalhead and you leave it, we kind of get it. The U.S. of A.’s influence on heavy music is undeniable, but in the modern […]
News Video: Bavarian ‘Yodel King’ Franzl Lang Gets A Blistering Metal Remix July 2, 2021 9:39am You may remember guitarist Andre Antunes as the guy who performed a metal remix of Trump ‘faith advisor’ Paula White-Cain’s insane rant about angels coming from Africa to smite Biden voters (or something). Well, now […]
News Sabaton Announce 2022 UK and European Tour with The Hu and Lordi July 2, 2021 7:44am We’re huge fans of the military grandeur that is Swedish power metallers Sabaton. Their music does a solid job of merging both the harsh realities of war and the elaborate theater with which war is […]
New Music Tenacious D’s New Tribute to The Beatles Will Have You Laughing Your Ass Off July 1, 2021 12:53pm No matter how grim-faced a metal elitist you are, Tenacious D can make you laugh. The zaftig duo might not make the heaviest music in their world, but their dedication to ridiculous lyrics and their […]
Last Words Gemini Syndrome’s Aaron Nordstrom Reveals The Truth About ‘Selling Out’ On This Week’s Last Words July 1, 2021 12:04pm Mainstream success: the golden ring which all rock and metal bands are secretly reaching for, or a seat at the table that any true metalheads will smash to pieces and burn in a trash can? […]
Why Not Video: Death Metal Band Perform at Elementary School, Kids Go Nuts July 1, 2021 11:39am Due to its violent imagery and subject matter, parents often act as though extreme metal isn’t for children. But that’s nonsense — any metalhead parent knows that little kids actually love death metal music, in […]
Features 30 Years On, ‘Butchered At Birth’ Proves That There’s Still No One As Disgusting As Cannibal Corpse July 1, 2021 9:31am In the early ‘90s, death metal was an arms race. The battle of faster-louder-grosser was being fought along America’s East Coast and on the streets of Gothenburg and Stockholm. But just as important as the […]
Take Our Money Ghost’s ‘Opus Eponymous’ and Ozzy’s ‘Diary of a Madman’ Get Funko Pop! Figures July 1, 2021 8:18am Nothing proves that you’ve made it as a musician like getting a Funko Pop! figure made of you or your most famous album. Back in October, the vinyl figurine company released a tribute to Black […]
News Blumhouse Confirms New ‘Exorcist’ Movie, Might Ignore All Other Sequels June 30, 2021 1:41pm Last August, it was revealed that a reboot of horror classic The Exorcist was in the works. The news was not met overwhelmingly well, with some fans even starting a petition to have the film stopped […]
