“Not to stereotype, but there were lots of jock-looking dudes whose only interest was to go in there and hip check and shoulder check as many people as they could as hard as they could. For real circle pit bands, I'd recommend 90's skate punk bands like NoFX, Pennywise, Bad Religion, even most Rise Against and Anti-Flag shows have pretty huge pits.
“In the mid-to-late-’80s I saw lots of people going into the pit specifically to wreak havoc and perpetrate violence against others,” Ian says. They just stopped after a short while because they realized that these aren't good songs to mosh to. Suddenly, a cultural element that had defined solidarity turned into a divisive contest of physical strength. This dynamic changed, though, when the big metal bands outgrew the club scene and started getting booked at mid-size venues, outdoor sheds and eventually arenas and festival grounds. “And then you learned, oh, I shouldn’t act like an a-.” This video includes mosh pits with bands like Korn, Ave. Check out Beach Demonz from the Inland Empire perform their set in Homeland, CAI'm the one in yellow with the ponytail Subscribe to my Youtube channel. “In 19, if you went into the pit and you were a jerk, you were going to get yanked out and maybe knocked out,” Ian says. With live music coming back in short order, we wanted to look back at some of the craziest mosh pits. The crowd at the Lamb of God concert on Feb.
Bands didn’t want to watch their fans get hurt and when bad apples entered the pit and threw their weight around, either the artists onstage or concerned crowd members often tried to remedy the situation. Pits became more violent, but the core values of metal fans were similar to those from the hardcore scene. In the mid ’80s, popular thrash metal bands, including Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth adopted the rapid-fire rhythms and chugging, surging riffs of hardcore metal.
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