RTTP Blurb
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6 years ago today, the first version of the online face to Return to the Pit was officially launched*. This special hexennial anniversary (traditionally known as the Iron Anniversary) comes on the heels of September's decennial anniversary (traditionally known as the Tin or Aluminium Anniversary). Things that you can do?
Leave a message here in the forums
Wear your RttP hoodie with pride
Criticize a co-worker's musicial taste through an anonymous internet posting that'll show ‘em
Listen to the radio show here
Visit the http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.returntothepit.com WayBackMachine! to see older RTTP incarnations
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTTP
Or Do the Best thing you can do, go to a show!
BTW, there is a RTTP benefit show on Wednesday Oct 18th @ O'Briens Pub (Allston, Ma) set up by members of the RttP community.
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News Stories
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| OPEN GRAVE RECORDS RELEASE FREE DOWNLOADABLE LABEL SAMPLER |
| Ex-MORBID ANGEL/HATE ETERNAL Member JARED ANDERSON Dead At 30 |
| new Vader footage online |
| New BELPHEGOR mp3 online |
| Deicide on the cover of pit mag |
| Municipal Waste guitarist sponsored by mesa |
| willowtip updates main page, 2 new Arisis, 2 "new" Electro quarterstaff |
| AMPUTATOR / BAPHOMETS HORNS Satanic Forcefucked Annihilation split CD now available... |
| GOD FORBID Announce Last Shows of The Year; European Tour Wrap-up |
| Nov 24th-Gravewurm, Noosebomb, Hekseri, Zircon, Martyrvore |
| STUCK MOJO Announces New Frontman |
| 4 Burn My Remains videos posted |
| DECAPITATED TO BE INTERVIEWED BY EXTREME METAL MISTRESS JASMIE ST. CLAIRE |
| THE BERZERKER's new album to be titled ANIMOSITY |
| YAKUZA tour and news |
| Equilibrium signed to Nuclear Blast |
| INTO ETERNITY Emerge As Gigantour’s Most Talked-About Act; New YouTube Lesson Posted |
| SKINLESS Announce More Australian; New Zealand Tour Dates |
| Open grave records sponsored by UNRESTRAINED! MAGAZINE |
| FLOTSAM & JETSAM’s Doomsday for the Deceiver 20th Anniversary Set |
| AMON AMARTH “With Oden on Our Side” hits the charts in the US and abroad! |
| CANNIBLE CORPSE VIDEO TO AIR ON HEADBANGER'S BALL 10/14 |
| HAMMERFALL:: new video, in the chart, and more |
| THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Drummer Schedules Drum Clinics |
| DREAM EVIL Stand United; Shoot New Video |
| THE MIDGET WHO STOLE GOD'S MAP OF THE UNIVERSE post new song |
| Antennas (Lawrence punkrock) posts 4 new songs |
| Putrefaction reunites for Maryland Metal Fest |
| Bubba leaves Hell Within; looking for new drummer |
| AT THE GATES lmt picture LP info |
| Hate Eternal DVD preview + info |
| WITH PASSION new singer |
| LACUNA COIL Make Their Big Screen Debut; Featured On Masters of Horror II Soundtrack |
| a bad way to start a tour: Bloodlined Calligraphy loses singer and drummer |
| Shadar Logoth demo |
| Primus CD and tour |
| ALL THAT REMAINS frontman checks in from the road |
| FU MANCHU To Release New EP In November |
| NEW 3 HEADED MONSTER SONGS UP YAYYYYYY |
| Sacrifice reunion footage posted online |
| SUFFOCATION: Halloween E-Card |
| GRAILS and KAYO DOT tour going through Boston |
| Metal Blade Records turns 25 and upcoming releases for 2007 |
| NEW SLAYER ALBUM BANNED IN INDIA BY CHRISTIAN GROUP |
| Kevin Talley joins Cattle Decapitation (new CD tour) |
| Dew Scented new CD, Flo back in band, and more side projects |
| Decibel Magazine Presents: THE LAST STAB Tour |
| Fear Factory: MAchines at War Tour |
| THE STORM signs to Innerstrength |
| XXX maniak post new song to myspace |
| BLOOD RED THRONE work on new CD with new vocalist and new drummer |
| DIECAST Hit The Road With Sepultura This Fall; New Album Hits Billboard Heatseekers Chart (mp3 link) |
| New KRISIUN Video To Make Its Headbangers Ball Debut This Weekend (video link) |
| New POISONBLACK Video To Make Its Headbangers Ball Debut This Weekend (video link) |
| BRIAN POSEHN TO GUEST HOST HEADBANGER’S BALL |
| JUCIFER Completes Work on Video |
| LENG TCH'E Nears Completion of New Full-Length & possibly posts tracks |
| 3 HEADED MONSTER (complete with some sort of classic wrestling match) @ Goodtimes Oct. 20th (THE HELP US MAKE MONEY BACK FROM RECORDING OUR NEW CD SHOW) |
| Valient Thorr Posts New Live Video On Myspace & post tourr |
| EUROPE releases SECRET SOCIETY on Sanctuary Records |
| War of Ages on Fuse and Seacrets Revealed tour |
| In Remembrance posts new song |
| Sepultura US tour |
| NUCLEUS TORN sign with Prophecy |
| Raise the Red Lantern and Indian tour dates |
| Chimaira signs deal with Ferret |
| IN THIS MOMENT New MP3 Posted Online |
| EPHEL DUATH new drummer |
| With Passion: new singer and hit the studios |
| Hirax/Anal Cunt mini-tour!!! |
| OOOH! Mastodon on Conan O'Brien November 1st |
| BTBAM reissue and tour |
| Job for a Cowboy needs a DRUMMER/drummer left |
| TOOL and MASTODON European tour dates |
| NEGATIVE FEDERAL FUND RECORDS to release THROWING SHRAPNEL FULL LENGTH |
| Deicide booted from practice space: it's just not their month |
| WARPIG: Classic Re-Issue Available Now in Stores; Streaming Online |
| Today Is The Day's Steve Austin Launches SuperNova Records |
| Unreleased CRYPTIC WARNING mp3s posted |
| COLISEUM And YOUNG WIDOWS Prepare Split Release |
| THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD to headline US tour this fall |
| Willowtip to reissue The Year Of Our Lord releases |
| GOJIRA's cover of Metallica's "Escape" online! |
| 3 more bands confirmed for MDF 2007 |
| DOWNLORD post new track |
| CREMATORIUM to tour with MISERY INDEX |
| THE WARRIORS sign to victory records |
| Check this out |
| THE WAYWARD Embarks on US Fall Tour |
| DYING FETUS Begin Work on New Full-Length; Announce Tour Dates |
| FULL BLOWN CHAOS |
| Dissector/It Will End In Pure Horror/Whoremastery/UFA 4-Way Split CD out soon! |
| HORROR PAIN GORE DEATH: VOL. 3 DVD, NOW RELEASED! |
| IMMORTAL RETURNS; ANNOUNCE TWO U.S. DATES FOR 2007 |
| IMMORTAL Announces U.S. Dates For 2007 |
| Feed Us Fetus Looking for new members |
| BURNT BY THE SUN Record New Material |
| SURVIVAL LIES BENEATH US (new band featuring high-fives and Reginald Vel Johnson) |
| THE END completes new album |
| HORSE the BAND singer jailed (from Lambgoat) |
| WOLF - New video online! |
| Atomic Ballroom Calamity |
| RIP- Randy Hein |
| KYLESA to tour with Converge in November |
| Awesome Destruction News |
| GAZA pre-order underway and new track |
| ANIMOSITY checks on from Sanctity of Brothers tour |
| FLESHCRAWL busy working on new record |
| RHAPSODY OF FIRE presents Part Two of the Dark Secrets Saga: Triumph or |
| MANOWAR unveils Themes of “Gods of War”! |
| A LOVE ENDS SUICIDE launch exclusive download on My Space |
| GOD DETHRONED reveal content of European release bonus DVD |
| BORN FROM PAIN reveal track listing for new album “War |
| CATTLE DECAPITATION wins San Diego Music Award! |
| Demiricous’ announce new drummer |
| Dour Cursiva Update: New Drummer, Shows, Why Brian is a sellout?, Recording, and more... |
| Bostons' Dead Returns! |
| Hekseri Review on Belgian E-Zine |
| Khanate disbands |
| AKROMA releases debut album // MP3-extracts available |
| New Arsis song |
| Practice Recordings from February up on TTOS MySpace |
| Cadaveryne album out late Oct. |
| Blood for Blood announces they will start doing weekend shows |
| Municiple Waste Live 2006 Trailer |
| JUSTICE tour dates and plan to record |
| NEW PHOENIXPYRE SONGS UP |
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Oct 18, 2006 Steve Miller Band @ Augusta Civic Center
Mustard Plug, Against All Authority, BOMB the MUSIC INDUSTRY, Westbound Train, @ Univ. Of Massachusetts Lowell,MA
Head Automatica @ Avalon
RTTP Benefit Show! WATCHMAKER, ABHORRED, REVOCATION, HEKSERI, EXTINCTION AGENDA - 9 PM - $7 - 21+ @ O'Briens Pub (Allston, Ma)
Hell Is Upon Us, Hypersolid, Hold Your Own; $5 or FREE with ticket from the bands! 9pm, 21+ show; For more info go to: www.myspace.com/HellIsUponUsMusic @ JRs Rockhouse (Cranston, RI)
HIM / Papa Roach / Lost Prophets / Kill Hannah @ Tsongas Arena (Lowell, Ma)
Arch Demon Choir @ Clifton NJ
Oct 19, 2006 Janis Ian @ Firehouse Theatre Newburyport,MA
SHAI HULUD, Dead to Fall, Twelve Tribes, One Three Wounded , Phoenix Mourning, @ Elks Lodge (Cambridge, Ma)
Oct 20, 2006 Red Hot Chili Peppers @ TD Banknorth Garden (Fleet Center)
Catie Curtis @ Somerville Theatre
Jeff Pitchell @ Regattabar
DEICIDE, NACHTMYSTIUM, EMBALMER, DAATH, DESOLATION, ANNUNAKE, DIMENTIANON 6:00pm, $25, 16+ @ North Six, 66 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
Pale Horse , Suffocate faster, GAZA, the_Network, THUMBSCREW @ St John's Rec Hall, 11 Chittenden Rd, Hudson, NY 12534
3 HEADED MONSTER, DISORDER BY DESIGN, DISCREATE, TROLL, RECKLESS JESUS $8/21+ @ 8pm @ Goodtimes Emporium (Somerville, Ma)
Reason Enough, Dedicated aggression, In search of, S.T.D. (steel toe destruction), Truth in needles...18+ doors @ 8 show @ 8:30 pm $10 @ Breffini Nightclub & lounge 43-45 40th st take the 7 train to 40th st
Oct 21, 2006 The Freeze, Tommy and the Terrors, The Knox, 26 Beers, Rejeted Society/$10/Doors at 12PM/All Ages @ Reflections Lounge (Chelmsford, MA)
Steve Gillette And Cindy Mangsen @ Rose Garden Coffeehse. Mansfield,MA
Moonspell, Katatonia, Daylight Dies, Dreaded Silence, Shroud Of Bereavement, Eulogy XL. 6PM, 18+, $20. Email dreadedsilence@665.org for ticket info. @ Mark's Show Place (Bedford, NH)
Suffocate Faster, Palehorse, Now Soldiers, The Neon Hookers 6PM $10 All Ages www.thekaveclub.com @ The Kave (Bucksport, Maine)
EMBALMER, GOREALITY, DECONFORMITY, CADAVERYNE, COFFIN BIRTH and MORTALIS $8.00, 8:00pm, 21+ @ The Bullpen, 1825 Acushnet Ave. New Bedford, MA 02743
Our Constituent Parts (ex Night of the Long Knives) CD Release! w/ Shot Down Sun, Always and Forever, Agnes Grey, The Jonah Veil and Cambiata @ Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
Hammer Bros, In Remembrance, Harder The Fight, and many more @ Byfeild Yellow School
VILLAINS (NYC - w/current and former members of UNEARTHLY TRANCE, HEMLOCK and THE DYING LIGHT - first MA appearance), HIRUDINEA, VOLATILE and 1 TBA - 7:30 doors, $7, All Ages @ Massachusetts College of Art, 621 Huntington Ave., Room N181, Boston, MA
RIGHTEOUS JAMS, COLD WORLD, COA, JUSTICE + MORE **ALL AGES** @ CAMBRIDGE ELKS CLUB
Dropkick Murphy's / A Wilhelm Scream / Darkbuster @ Palladium (Worcester, Ma)
THINK I CARE'S LAST SHOW, they are the ONLY band that matters; the rest are basically just worthless. @ Cambridge Elks (Fuck Flynn and his faggot crew)
Oct 22, 2006 Barbra Streisand @ TD Banknorth Garden (Fleet Center)
Ben Kweller @ Avalon
Ducky Boys, Suburban Showdown, Blue Bloods, Wrong Side of the Tracks, the ISF @ Dover Brickhouse, Dover, NH
ALL AGES! DOORS @ 3:30PM; SHOW AT 4:00PM - SUFFOCATE FASTER, DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR, PALEHORSE, HAMMER BROS. (VINYL RECORD RELEASE), NOW SOLDIERS, NEON HOOKERS, HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/NASHUASHOWS FOR MORE INFO! @ American Legion 11 Court Street, Nashua NH
RETURN OF THE HARDCORE MATINEE!!; Das Oath, Ampere, Hulk Out, Imprint; 2pm SHARP!; $8; all ages @ Providence Turners, 118 Glenbridge Ave, Providence
DIECAST, DEAD BY DAWN, WITHIN THE RUINS, HARVEY GONE ROTTEN, SEVER THE SKIES, DEFILER doors at 7 10 dollar entry, 8 dollar tickets @ Cabot street
Deicide $15 7:00pm 18+ @ Webster Theatre (Hartford, CT)
MANCHESTER METAL FEST at ROCKO'S with CANDY STRIPER DEATH ORGY, GODLESS RISING and HELL WITHIN..... ALL AGES!!!!!! only $15.00 to get in..... doors at 12pm and the show ends at 8pm. @ ROCKO'S in Manchester, NH.
Das Oath, Ampere, Daniel Striped Tiger, Poison Control @ Tufts University Oxfam Cafe, Boston MA
Oct 23, 2006 The Fray, Feeling, @ Orpheum Theatre
Das Oath, Ampere, Mind Eraser, Guilt Lust, Cut Up @ Mercy House, Amherst MA
Oct 24, 2006 A Girl A Gun A Ghost, The Miles Between, When Legends Die (Comeback show!), Sluts, Always & Forever, Transit, Fresh Ta Death @ Club Lido (Revere, Ma)
Take Over Tuesdays - STNNG, Psycho, Witch Tomb +1 TBA @ O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA)
PSYCHO , WITCH TOMB , STNNG and more 9pm 21+ @ Obrien's pub
Oct 26, 2006 Olivia Newton-John @ Lowell Memorial Auditorium
Heavy Heavy Low Low, Ed Gein, Ligeia, Stand Before The Firing Squad 6PM $10 All Ages www.thekaveclub.com @ The Kave (Bucksport, Maine)
ALL AGES!!!!! Pluto Records own - Imperial, With Blood Comes Cleansing, A Well Thought Tragedy, And Then There Were None, The Serenade Surrender. $10. 7 pm @ Club Drifters 17 Factory St. Nashua NH
Atreyu / From First To Last / Every Time I Die / Chiodos @ Palladium (Worcester, Ma)
Oct 27, 2006 Uncle Kracker, Randy Travis, @ Mohegan Sun Casino
Black Stone Cherry, Zakk Wylde Label Society, @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
insane clown posse / Boondox / Subnoize Souljaz / Wolfpac @ palladium
Throwing Shrapnel/Revocation/Deathamphetamine/DeathKiller/Monster Truck more tba @ 96 alloway friesburg road, Alloway, NJ 08001
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR, NO TURNING BACK, SINCE THE FLOOD MORE 7PM @ ROMANS BROCKTON,MA
DUNCAN WILDER JOHNSON TURNS 30!!! - BEYOND THE EMBRACE / THE HIDDEN / DESTRUCT-A-THON - 21+ @ New Wave Cafe (New Bedford, MA)
Oct 28, 2006 Blue Oyster Cult, Uncle Kracker, @ Mohegan Sun Casino
'Real Men Of Comedy Tour', Charlie Murphy, Joe Rogan, John Heffron, @ Orpheum Theatre
Jeff Pitchell @ Bull Run Restaurant Shirley,MA
Fright Fest with Reign of Pestilence and TBA @ The Playroom, Torrington CT
the body,electric horesmen,sea of bones,seabeast,stone the disciple @ AS220 (Providence, RI)
Throwing Shrapnel/ASRA/3 Faces of Eve/Aphelion more tba @ 2101 barclay st, Baltimore , MD 21218
HALLOWEENFEST 2006! Death Threat, Death Before Dishonor, Hammer Bros., Colin Of Arabia, Listen Up!, Essence Of Pain, Violent Reality, Thanks For Nothing www.thekaveclub.com @ The Kave (Bucksport, Maine)
THE BREATHING PROCESS, THE CONCUBINE, IN DIRE NEED, FOREVER IT IS WRITTEN, THE OBLIGATE, ANZIO, GADGETS MADE FROM WOOD, NECK DEEP, 426, A RED SKY MORNING, KALI MA @ New Milford, CT
HORDES OF DARKNESS FESTIVAL II, With ANAL CUNT, Typhus, Godless Rising, Engorge, Ashdautas, Baphomets Horns, Cold Northern Vengeance, March To Victory, Morte Genesis, Acidwinter, Nephillim @ Bottoms Up, 126-02 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY
Black Label Society & Black Stone Cherry. Price= 27.50 GA. All ages. @ Palladium (Worcester, Ma)
Cocked'n'Loaded, Headed for the Smoke, Cortez, Black Chrome @ O'Briens Pub (Allston, Ma)
Reverend Grundarr and the Unholy Trinity, Boom Boom Kids (Argentina), Mechannibal, More TBA. 7 PM, $5, All Ages. @ Mass Art North Hall - Huntington Ave, Boston MA
SKINLESS, NeverSayNever, Supplication, Doors 7pm, 18+, $15 @ Mark's Show Place (Bedford, NH)
Watchmaker, Battletorn, The Hidden, Rawradarwar, Ichabod, Abhorred @ the Linwood, Boston MA
Oct 29, 2006 Blue Oyster Cult @ Mohegan Sun Casino
The Derek Trucks Band @ Mohegan Sun Casino
Michael Schenker Group @ Webster Theatre / Underground
Psylab, Lucretia's Daggers, Dreamchild, Ultra Plush, Walter Sickert & Army of Broken Toys, Aepril Schaile bellydancer, Fish the Magish, Poet Delsin Mills, DJ Michael Brown, 3 vendors, psychic/tarot: $12 dos; $10 in adv. from performers/organizers. Contact: lucretiasdaggers@rcn.com, www.skybar.us @ The Skybar (Somerville, MA)
SWASHBUCKLE, DESPOTIC ROBOT, REVOCATION, DEATHAMPHETAMINE, REVEREND GRUNDARR AND THE UNHOLY TRINITY - 4 PM MATINEE! - 21+ - $7 @ O'Briens Pub (Allston, Ma)
Frozen, Sacreligion, The Accursed, Judecca, Anomia, Station Life : $5 Advance : $7 Door : 4PM : All Ages @ The Compound (Fitchburg 01420 , MA)
BLOODY PANDA / GHENGIS TRON @ GREAT SCOTT, ALLSTON, MASS
Oct 30, 2006 PRE-HALLOWEEN MASSACRE w/ Hirudinea [as Carnivore, Agnostic Front and more], Into The Unknown [members of Sexcrement & Hekseri as Mercyful Fate], Dissector [as Impetigo], Shit Fuck [as The Misfits], PanzerBastard [as Motorhead] - 8 pm - 21+ @ O'Briens Pub (Allston, Ma)
A Cold Reality, Cythraul, No Allegiance, and more @ The Compound (Fitchburg 01420 , MA)
Oct 31, 2006 Witch Trial Records and Takeover Tuesdays Present: Raise the Red Lantern, Indian, Bury the Needle, Superpower, Hackman, 8PM, 21+, $8 @ O'Briens Pub (Allston, Ma)
Classifiedsadd your own classified not listed
GUITARIST NEEDED for "Beatdown Style" Hardcore Band
Gibraltar Drum Rack for Sale...
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things is seeking.
New items at Lost Disciple Rec...cds still just $6
Sovtek Mig 60
Drummer for thrash band wanted.
ATTN: Bands interested in playing PA this Friday!
guitarist looking for good musicians
Guitarist Needed for Slayed Innocence
Feed Us Fetus Looking for new members
Thrash-Grind drummer wanted
DRUMMER SEEKING MUSICIANS!
guitarists read
Anyone selling a cheap car?
AL Glassman shirts for sale!
Screamer/Shouter/Growler for hire.
some shows coming up, want your stuff handed out?
Northern RI Guitarist looking to join, start band
go for the kill looking for shows. PLEASE READ
looking for a guitarist
Rich Horror & The Screaming Nervous Breakdowns would like shows.
New and Restocked titles at Lost Disciple Records
Of The Betrayed is currently seeking a new bassist
Guitarist Available.
Looking for drummer (Providence)
Selling 2 tires, very evil, very metal!
MURDER STEINBAG NEEDS MUSICIANS
Manchester Metal Fest : need bands
Looking for a rehearsal space to share
Ice In Her Veins Seeks Metal Drummer
The Devil's Yard Sale a.k.a. Buy My Shit
Restocked & New titles at Lost Disciple Rec. 10/15/06
VOCALIST WANTED
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