News Hear Full of Hell Guitarist Channel Melvins, Unsane on Eye Flys’ Gnarly New Song “Guillotine” March 10, 2020 3:51pm Named after a Melvins song (the lead cut off 1987’s Gluey Porch Treatments) and featuring members of Full of Hell, Backslider and Triac, ferocious noise-rock crew Eye Flys made waves with 2019 debut EP, Context. […]
News Watch Ozzy Osbourne’s Emotional New “Ordinary Man” Video March 10, 2020 1:58pm Ozzy Osbourne‘s new solo full-length, Ordinary Man — his first in 10 years — has been a big hit for the heavy-metal pioneer, debuting at No. 3 on both the U.S. Billboard 200 and the […]
News Triptykon Announce ‘Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)’ Album March 10, 2020 12:55pm Swiss avant-garde extreme-metal band Triptykon — led by former Hellhammer and Celtic Frost frontman Tom Gabriel Warrior — have their highly anticipated live album Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019) for a May 15th worldwide release […]
News See Metallica’s Kirk Hammett Get Upset by Mrs. Smith in Epic Wah-Off March 9, 2020 3:16pm Back in January 2019, drag queen guitar virtuoso Mrs. Smith threw down the gauntlet to Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett, the revered shredder who is celebrated and at times mocked for his love of the wah-wah pedal. […]
Interviews Venom Prison’s Ash Gray: My Dream Supergroup March 9, 2020 2:52pm U.K. death-metal firebrands Venom Prison are a supergroup unto themselves. Led by rabble-rousing vocalist Larissa Stupar, the fast-rising and critically acclaimed quintet are one of the most exciting extreme-metal bands on the circuit at the […]
News See Code Orange’s Surreal Animated “Sulfur Surrounding” Video March 9, 2020 2:09pm In January, adventurous Pittsburgh’s metallic hardcore trailblazers Code Orange revealed the details of their highly anticipated new full-length Underneath — the follow-up to 2017’s genre defining and transcending Forever — and unleashed it’s infectious, alt-rock-inflected lead single and title track. Then […]
News HarborLights’ Andrew Diaz: 5 Albums That Changed My Life March 6, 2020 4:42pm In September of 2019, Massachusetts natives HarborLights dropped their post-rock masterpiece and Deathwish debut album Isolation Ritual (which you can pick up here). After forming nearly a decade ago, the group released two split EPs […]
News Hear Thrash Vets Testament’s New Ripper “Children of the Next Level” March 6, 2020 3:58pm Back in January, tried-and-true Bay Area thrash stalwarts Testament dropped the furious pit-starter “Night of the Witch,” the lead single off the quintet’s highly anticipated new album Titans of Creation, due April 3rd via Nuclear […]
News Watch Avatar’s New Crowdfunded Short Film ‘Legend of Avatar Country: A Metal Odyssey’ March 5, 2020 8:21pm Fantastical Swedish alt-metal juggernaut Avatar are busy in the studio right now, working on the highly anticipated follow-up to 2018’s conceptual opus Avatar Country. For fans eagerly awaiting the in-progress LP, the band has given […]
News Watch the cast of LAST WORDS talk about Greg Puciato’s new single, metalheads getting it on in cars, and more! March 5, 2020 7:27pm In case you missed it, The Pit launched our very own heavy-metal talk show, LAST WORDS, where hilarious, irreverent industry experts go toe to toe over metal news, gossip, and new releases. New episodes are […]
