Last Words The Pit’s Staff Writer Chris Krovatin Joins This Week’s Episode of Our Heavy-Metal Talk Show, Last Words August 13, 2020 3:49pm Metal fans will root for the underdog to a fault. Sure, it’s always fun to fight for the little guy and feel vaguely like a victim of the world at large. But real must recognize […]
News System of a Down’s Serj Tankian Will Release A New EP This Fall August 13, 2020 3:11pm While the possibility of live System of a Down shows hangs in the balance, the band’s members are all busying themselves with other projects. Earlier this month, bassist Shavo Odadjian dropped a new track with […]
Wait...What? ‘Jackass’ Star Steve-O Has Been Taped To A Billboard In Los Angeles August 13, 2020 2:35pm Who didn’t love Jackass? The early-2000s MTV phenomenon was a constant, hilarious reminder that life is short, the suburbs are terrible, and your wisdom tooth surgery was fucking clown shoes. So it feels good to see […]
New Music Devildriver Drop Video for New Single, “Nest of Vipers” August 13, 2020 1:37pm Of the bands who rose from the pit of the mid-2000s New Wave of American Heavy Metal, Devildriver were unique in their embrace of the dark. Instead of just leaning on Dio worship and the […]
New Music Linkin Park Reveal Previously Unreleased Track, “She Couldn’t” August 13, 2020 11:36am Few if any of the rock and metal world’s tragic losses in the past decade could equal that of Chester Bennington, vocalist for Linkin Park. And yet, this year also marks a celebration for the […]
New Music Mr. Bungle To Release Their Demo ‘The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny’ This October August 13, 2020 10:38am Earlier this year, before the whole world got shut down, Mike Patton-led clown metallers Mr. Bungle toured the U.S. performing their demo, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny, in its entirety. The trek was […]
News These ‘House of 1,000 Corpses’ Nesting Dolls Are The Ultimate Rob Zombie Merch Item August 13, 2020 10:11am Merch trends come and go, oftentimes to great hilarity later on. Remember when every band had a ball-chain necklace? Or a fuzzy armband? And yet there are some pieces of merch that we see and […]
News Foo Fighters Revive Classic 1995 Tour Shirt To Raise Money For Struggling Venues August 13, 2020 8:54am We all know that Foo Fighters are a bunch of good dudes who are truly dedicated to rad music — the guys love a Black Sabbath cover and are happy to invite Scott Ian’s son […]
Lists Here Are the 20 Best Mathcore Albums of All Time August 12, 2020 3:00pm Within every style of metal, there’s a kind of unstated mission to push extremes. To be the darkest, heaviest, loudest, most evil. And more often than not, that includes pulling off the most technically dexterous […]
News Death Metallers Arsames Escape Iran After Being Sentenced to 15 Years In Prison For Playing Metal August 12, 2020 1:18pm Earlier this month, we reported that Iranian death metal band Arsames had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for playing death metal. Now, the band have apparently fled their home country in order to […]
