alexreinhold said:
BroccoliRob said:
its amazing how hard Americans mosh given we have to pay for health care.
My European metalhead friends who lived in the US described American moshpits as a "boring circle pit with one fat dude in the middle who's pushing around everyone else". If you want some real violence, grab your frontpack, get a solid travel insurance and come visit us :headbang1:
it really varies around the country, venue, and sub genre tbh. the usa of america is pretty big and varied
like, any hardcore show in FL with a front man wearing a hockey jersey is most likely going to: a. have terrible music, and b. have a dangerous pit (hate to say it, but skinhead crowdkillers aren't uncommon)
however, the pits at a so cal (short for so-cal California) punk show are pretty tame in my experience. too friendly, which is fine, I mean I don't want to actually die, but sometimes i want to THINK i might die, you know?
the best pits beleiive it or not, are in the #heartland at hole in the wall venues that play stuff like glitchcore and noisecore (think Melt Banana) where people are often too out of shape to last very long, so there is always fresh bodies rotating in and nobody's there too long enough to get seriously injured and the people are kind enough not to stomp u to death if u do fall. they'll pick you up and slap your back and hand you some grilled corn on the Cobb, its the best.
the best pit i was ever in in the europe was at a little club in Helsinki where a black metal (genre not skin color (or colour as they would spell it lol), i actually have seen a black black metal band and they ruled) band played to a room of only like 20 dudes all wearing plastic halloween store viking battle armor and it was more like Battle LARP'ing (lemme know if i need to explain what that is) than moshing but still basically moshing when u think about it. i drank whatever the European equivalent of moonshine is out of a goat horn and we howled into the night (full dissclosure there may have been amphetamines in the euro-shine)