Hour 1:

Shadows Fall - "Fire From the Sky"

This Or the Apocalypse - "Hell Praiser"

Unearth - "Black Hearts Now Reign"

Sepultura - "Symptom of the Universe"

Slayer - "Hate Worldwide"

Pantera - "Primal Concrete Sledge"

Testament - "Over the Wall"

Soilwork - "Let This River Flow"

Opeth - "Demons of the Fall"

Norma Jean - "The Anthem of the Angry Brides"

Napalm Death - "When All is Said and Done"

Motorhead - "Ace of Spades"

Lamb of God - "11th Hour"

Machine Head - "Bulldozer"

Hour 2:

Kataklysm - "A Soulless God"

Mastodon - "Crack the Skye"

Megadeth - "Wake Up Dead"

Killswitch Engage - "My Curse"

All Shall Perish - "Day of Justice"

Deftones - "Swerve City"

Cannibal Corpse - "Absolute Hatred"

Cradle of Filth - "Tonight in Flames"

Dream Theater - "Constant Motion"

CHildren of Bodom - "Relentless, Reckless Forever"

August Burns Red - "Marianas Trench"

Between the Buried and Me - "Arsonist"

Hatebreed - "I Will be Heard"

(Photo credit: Getty)

See those hands?  Welp...yesterday they were in cuffs.

Tim Lambesis, frontman of Christian metal band, As I Lay Dying, (and the dude who plays all of the instruments in Austrian Death Machine) was arrested yesterday, May 7th, for plotting the murder of his ex-wife. 

Tim!!! You.....f@#$ing....IDIOT!!!!!!

So you're afraid that Christians would frown upon the idea of divorce...better to just have someone murdered, right? 

WHAT THE HELL KIND OF LOGIC IS THAT?!?!?!

I'm so disappointed, to say the least.  You hear me play AILD in The Pit a lot.  I've always been moved by the beauty in their lyrics, paired with the heavy sound. 

Take these lyrics from "Illusions" for instance:

"But your love has set me free, as you've awakened every star that had been sleeping in the constellation of my soul."

I remember hearing that song and thinking, 'Wow...that's beautiful.  Who comes up with that?'  Shoulda known he was a creep, mildly put.

You can read more on the story here.

-Pit Stain

Tonight we pay homage to the late Jeff Hanneman.  RIP, man.

Hour 1:

Slayer - "Black Magic"

Slayer - "Blood Red"

Slayer - "Angel of Death"

Slayer - "Reign In Blood"

Machine Head - "Bulldozer"

Lamb of God - "Ruin"

Mastodon - "Curl of the Burl"

Shadows Fall - "The First Noble Truth"

Suicidal Tendencies - "Nobody Hears"

Cannibal Corpse - "Coffinfeeder"

Goatwhore - "Forever Consumed Oblivion"

August Burns Red - "Back Burner"

Hour 2:

Unearth - "Watch it Burn"

Slayer - "War Ensemble"

Testament - "Over the Wall"

Static - X - "Push It"

Slayer - "South of Heaven"

All Shall Perish - "Deconstruction"

Fear Factory - "Shock"

Hatebreed - "Destroy Everything"

Soilwork - "Song of the Damned"

Pantera - "F-cking Hostile"

Killswitch Engage - "My Last Serenade"

Cradle of Filth - "Dirge Inferno"

Slayer - "Behind the Crooked Cross"

I can't believe it....

I heard the news last night while I was getting ready to go to a show and it hit me....the bands I was about to see were most likely heavily influenced by Jeff's music. 

R.I.P. man....Thank you for your music, your passion, your influence.  At least now we know that there is, indeed, heavy metal in heaven.

(Photo credit: Getty images)

Machine Head's Robb Flynn wrote some pretty powerful words on his blog regarding Jeff's passing.  You can read it here.

\m/ Pit Stain

Hour 1:

Children of Bodom - "Aces High"

Cradle of Filth - "Nymphetamine"

Goatwhore - "Forever Consumed Oblivion"

Machine Head - "Be Still and Know"

Megadeth - "Killing Is My Business"

All Shall Perish - "Deconstruction"

Chimaira - "Down Again"

Hatebreed - "I Will Be Heard"

In Flames - "Crawl Through Knives"

Gojira - "All the Tears"

Between the Buried and Me - "Arsonist"

Becoming the Archetype - "Epoch of War"

Napalm Death - "Silence is Deafening"

Suicidal Tendencies - "Nobody Hears"

Hour 2:

Pantera - "Walk"

Soilwork - "As the Sleeper Awakes"

Slayer - "South of Heaven"

Black Label Society - "Suicide Messiah"

Dethklok - "Murmaider"

All That Remains - "Six"

Killswitch Engage - "A Bid Farewell"

Dream Theater - "Constant Motion"

Iron Maiden - "Hallowed Be Thy Name"

Lamb of God - "Set to Fail"

Suicide Silence - "Wake Up"

Kataklysm - "Determined (Vows of Vengeance)"

-\m/ Pit Stain

Hour 1:

Hatebreed - "Destroy Everything"

Machine Head - "Davidian"

Testament - "Dark Roots of the Earth"

Between the Buried and Me - "Blackened"

In This Moment - "Blood"

Napalm Death - "When All is Said and Done"

Motorhead - "The Game"

Obituary - "Don't Care"

In Flames - "Trigger"

Bullet For My Valentine - "Temper Temper"

Killswitch Engage - "In Due Time"

Slayer - "Epidemic"

Hour 2:

Becoming the Archetype - "Into Oblivion"

Trivium - "Ignition"

As I Lay Dying - "Within Destruction"

Kataklysm - "Iron Will"

Megadeth - "A Tout Le Monde"

Gojira - "Backbone"

Testament - "Into the Pit"

August Burns Red - "Composure"

Soilwork - "As the Sleeper Awakes"

Pantera - "Five Minutes Alone"

Machine Head - "Message in a Bottle"

Kittie - "Brackish"

Opeth - "Ghost of Perdition"