News Super7 Releases Slayer ‘Live Undead’ Action Figure Pack August 17, 2020 10:06am Man, toy company Super7 really knows how to give Slayer fans what they want. Last year, they created an action figure of the infamous Baphomet from the cover of the band’s debut Show No Mercy. Now, […]
News Looks Like Deftones Are Teasing Their New Album For September August 17, 2020 8:46am One of the many highly-anticipated new albums that was announced in 2019 was Deftones’ follow-up to 2016’s massive Gore. But as with so many upcoming releases, the possibility of the record being released in 2020 started […]
Features Why ‘The Return of the Living Dead’ Is The Ultimate Horror Punk Movie August 16, 2020 10:30am By the mid-1980s, the horror genre was in a strange, beautiful place. People were taking interesting risks and plumbing the decade’s quickly-mutating musical subcultures for new concepts of darkness. At the same time, the musical […]
Last Words The Hosts of Last Words Ask: Does the Identity of Slipknot’s Tortilla Man Really Matter? August 14, 2020 3:50pm Last year, the world was all a-tizzy about the identity of Slipknot’s new percussionist, popularly known as Tortilla Man (they aren’t even bothering with numbers and characters anymore, it’s just what your mask looks like). […]
News Tonight: Vile Creature Livestream An Interactive, Immersive Concert Experience August 14, 2020 11:54am With the coronavirus canceling most live gigs around the glove, bands have started getting creative with how they perform for their fans. While most musicians are going the traditional livestream route, some have taken a […]
Wait...What? Watch This One-Armed Drummer Nail A Cover of Slipknot’s “Duality” August 14, 2020 11:22am It’s sometimes easy to take the small blessings in our lives for granted. Things may be totally fucked, and we may not be able to attend concerts for a while, but most of us don’t […]
Interviews Every Avatar Album Ranked Worst to Best by Frontman Johannes Eckerström August 14, 2020 11:00am It might be easy to hear Avatar’s latest album, this year’s Hunter Gatherer, and think of them as a new or breakout band. The record’s a huge step forward for the Swedish quintet, showcasing a […]
New Music Venom Prison Drop Video For Vicious New Track “Daemon Vulgaris” August 14, 2020 10:18am Death metallers Venom Prison aren’t letting quarantine slow them down. After releasing their massive third album Samsara only last year, the British quintet have already announced Primeval, a new album featuring re-recorded songs from their demos […]
New Music New Music Out Today: 8/14/2020 August 14, 2020 9:28am 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 Spirit Adrift Announce New Album, Drop Ripping First Single August 14, 2020 8:56am When Nate Garrett of Arizona’s galloping doom act Spirit Adrift told us he had a big album reveal in his online announcement earlier this week, we knew it was going to be good, because, well, […]
