Into the Pit – Q2 2020 Joshua Bulleid July 14, 2020 Into the Pit Howdy headbangers! What a hell of a few months, huh? Yet, while the world appears to be falling apart at an ever-increasing pace, 2020 is shaping up to be maybe the strongest year for thrash metal since 1986.* ... Read More...
Into the Pit – First Quarter 2020 Joshua Bulleid March 31, 2020 Into the Pit Howdy headbangers! Josh here, I'm officially taking over Into the Pit while Pete's off trying to make the world a better place and whatnot. This means two things: a) it's gonna get a whole lot groovier around h... Read More...
Into the Pit – 2019 Wrap-Up And Playlist Swap Joshua Bulleid December 16, 2019 Best of 2019, Into the Pit Happy holidays, fellow moshers! Once again, we find ourselves at the end of the year. A calendar is about to get thrown out just to be replaced by another one with a new number on it. But what a year it was! 20... Read More...
Into the Pit – Best of Q3 Pete Williams October 10, 2019 Into the Pit Welcome back to the Pit, fellow moshers! We’re back to tell you about the thrash you need to know. Josh and I actually had a tough time this quarter. While there really aren’t enough releases to do this bad bo... Read More...
Into The Pit – Playlist Swap Joshua Bulleid August 14, 2019 Into the Pit Following our mailbag post last week, Pete and I thought we'd get further antiquated with a good old-fashioned Heavy Blog is Heavy playlist swap. We each put together a list of the songs that we thought best de... Read More...
Into the Pit: Thrash Metal Mailbag Pete Williams August 8, 2019 Into the Pit Hello fellow pit-sters! This month, I thought we could do something a little different. You all know I’ve been playing fast and loose with the schedule of this column, and August will be no different! Fellow t... Read More...
Into the Pit – Best of Q2 Pete Williams July 8, 2019 Into the Pit Good day to you all, fellow thrashers! Have you missed me? I’ve certainly missed all of you. However, there are only so many topics to discuss with thrash metal these days still. That being said, we are gettin... Read More...
Into the Pit – First Quarter Thrashin’ Pete Williams April 10, 2019 Into the Pit, News About a month ago, fellow thrasher and friend of the column Josh Bulleid asked me a question (In so many words). “Hey dude, should we do a quarterly wrap up? We got some good records we haven’t talked about ye... Read More...
Into the Pit – Let’s Remember Some Other Bay Area Bands Pete Williams February 26, 2019 Into the Pit So far on this column, I’ve referred to a lot of the heavy hitters of the subgenre. I personally have a lot more thoughts about them because there’s just a lot more material to go through with them. It’s the s... Read More...
Into the Pit – Exodus, the Historian’s Big 5 Band Pete Williams January 29, 2019 Into the Pit Let’s start 2019 by negating a column! Well, that’s not entirely what we’re doing here, but stay with me. Last year, I wrote a piece about how Testament should be considered a Big 4 band. To me, their sound fi... Read More...
