Is the era of the mosh pit over?

  • Thread starter Thread starter EXPcustom
  • Start date Start date
EXPcustom

EXPcustom

Well-known member
Been to a few recent concerts and I noticed its just people standing around with their cell phone cameras, are there really any big mosh pits anymore like back in the 90's or was that the end of an era? :cry:

I remember there were mosh pits at the Blind Melon concerts. :rock:

I know there maybe some kids that try to mosh at the local EMO Screamo show at the church down the road but that does not really count. :thumbsdown:
 
So you ask if mosh pits are dead, but you know of genres where they mosh and you disregard them?
 
I dunno man, my nephew is real into the Emo Screamo crap and I went to a concert with him last summer and the kids had a pretty good pit going. I wasn't really into the bands but I don't get to see him that much so I went and we had a good time music aside. It was like Trivium, White Chapel, Chimera (?) and probably one or 2 other bands. None of it was really my taste in music but I have to give the Trivium guys props, they were RIPPING up the guitar better than any other live show I've seen. Either way, yes moshing is alive but not like they used to do it in the Pantera days :no:
 
Go check out an Exodus show, seriously violent.... hell Slayer, Megadeth, etc..., any of those shows STILL have killer pits, Lamb of God shows usually always have a good sized pit....
 
Code001":10glb24n said:
So you ask if mosh pits are dead, but you know of genres where they mosh and you disregard them?
Click to expand...

Its kind of like 3 kids pushing each other in a near empty room and well yeah 3 kids pushing each other as opposed to:



So yeah I can safely disregard them.
 
I've been in a fair few moshpits in my time, some pretty big ones.. but they're mostly dominated by hardcore dancers, I hate them. :(

They are still arund, but it's hardly the same. There's much more of a 'scene' in metal now than there used to be, and that's reflected by the fans' douchey attitude and how they dress/talk. So you get hardcore dancers or guys just standing there, all looking the same. I HATE IT.
 
Juggernaut":29c4wqc6 said:
Go check out an Exodus show, seriously violent.... hell Slayer, Megadeth, etc..., any of those shows STILL have killer pits, Lamb of God shows usually always have a good sized pit....
Click to expand...

Yeah I went to a Lamb of God show last year and there was a pretty good pit going on. Wasn't nearly as good as it would've been 10 years ago though. I went to a Cypress Hill show in like 2000 and the pit was a lot more active. I think it is dying down a little bit, even the Slipknot show I was at last year or the year before wasn't nearly as active as I thought it should've been. The 16 year old kid next to me didn't even want the $8 beer I tried to give him, he asked for a cigarette instead :doh: :doh: :doh: :doh: :doh:
 
I got beat to it, but LoG stil ahve some god pits. I saw them a few years ago before their label banned them from starting the "Wall of Death" but those few shows I went to where Randy made it happen were F'ing awesome!
 
Juggernaut":25wbqzp0 said:
Go check out an Exodus show, seriously violent.... hell Slayer, Megadeth, etc..., any of those shows STILL have killer pits, Lamb of God shows usually always have a good sized pit....
Click to expand...

Exactly this.
 
Madrox":1iek2mqm said:
I got beat to it, but LoG stil ahve some god pits. I saw them a few years ago before their label banned them from starting the "Wall of Death" but those few shows I went to where Randy made it happen were F'ing awesome!
Click to expand...



they still do the wall, they're just sneakier about it. ;)
 
Juggernaut":nf0d0g0l said:
Madrox":nf0d0g0l said:
I got beat to it, but LoG stil ahve some god pits. I saw them a few years ago before their label banned them from starting the "Wall of Death" but those few shows I went to where Randy made it happen were F'ing awesome!
Click to expand...



they still do the wall, they're just sneakier about it. ;)
Click to expand...

Well that's good to hear :rock:
 
H Golf Sport":doakvoor said:
What's a hardcore dancer? :confused:
Click to expand...


this

moshzilla.jpg
 
Any Slayer gig I've been to always has no shortage of dudes who love nothing more than beating the hell out of each other reeking havoc a few feet back from the front row. I always hang back, rock out and have a few beers and see the injured folks get carried out. I suppose the pits still exist in the appropriate places, if Slayer can't get a pit going they need to hang it up. Not a huge Slayer fanboy myself but that is mosh pit music if there ever was such a thing, I do dig em live.
 
Dead ... for a long long time.

Slayer is great live.
 
Juggernaut":34o8nsuk said:
stephen sawall":34o8nsuk said:
Dead ... for a long long time.
Click to expand...


not from my concert going experiences.... :rock: :thumbsup:
Click to expand...

It died when people did it at Madonna concerts in the 80's. Now it is just something old people do. ;)
 
GOOD RIDDANCE. Always hated them and the whole idea of it. What do you want to do at a show, listen and watch the bands you're paying to see or rub up against fat, smelly, hairy, Lou Albano look a likes? I was tired of mosh pits in the late 80's. :thumbsdown:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top