Trivium Frontman Matt Heafy Breaks Up A Fight
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Trivium frontman Matt Heafy apparently verbally broke up a fight from the stage at New Oasis Sparks in Nevada. A concertgoer was there to capture it all on video, which can be seen below.
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Moshing does NOT include roundhouse kicks and flailing arms, that HXC sh**e which has NO f***ing place in metal, if you go into a mosh pit; you mosh, not chuck your arms about like a fight. So as much as i agree with Heafy's idea, he should've just told em to f***ing pit >;_>;
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Sorry folks, but moshing is just lame, retarded a$$ crap. Moshing is to metal, what line dancing is to country. Lame, dumb, and unnecessary. It's not because I'm old that I say this. I've hated moshing since the word go. I go to shows to enjoy the music, not to punch dumbasses, and avoid flailing arms.
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Heh, "hardcore moshing" is the problem, IMO. Pits just aren't the same these days. I'm not a fan of the circle pit and running around and sh**. The pits I enjoyed in my younger years weren't ruled by a few people - they were so packed that you really couldn't control what was happening to you - just get bounced around, push off the people near you and flow with it. I've been in some great pits from Slayer to Type O to Korn. You could hardly get your arms up to throw them around or do all this hardcore dancing stuff that happens in the middle of a circle pit these days.
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I'm not particularly fussed on most of the pits at shows, circle pits are bleh, but occasionally just a normal pit is fun to mess around in. Really dislike the hardcore people, they just look so stupid at metal shows, I'l generally try to body slam them out of it.
One thing that I will always jump into, front row, is the wall of death, nothing beats the feelin of adrenaline pumping as you run roaring at each other, just an amazing experience.
I don't understand the people who go to shows and stay on the balconies, unless they're fragile, sick or just not bothered. To me you need to be in the crowd to get the right feeling, because that's who they play for. It's not exactly the most fun thing in the world to go to a show and just sit and watch it. Pushing up to the front, getting headbutted in the face from headbanging, singin along at the top of my lungs - all of that makes the show for me, not just what the band is doing. I would feel far too detached and removed from what is happening if I was sitting down.
Actually for just that reason I jumped a barrier at Iron Maiden - about 10 feet up, and ran away from security into the crowd - my friend could only get seat tickets, and I couldn't stand it.
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yeah dude, I bribed the door staff at slipknots gig in london because i was sure i got a normal standing ticket and i got the one standing at the balcony so i went downstairs and asked the black dude how much he wanted to let me in,he told me to come back in 5 minutes, i came back showed him a 20 quid note he noded and i put it in my pocket,took the 10 pound note and handed it do hm with a handshake :D then i got to the front row and just went mad, but the way i see gigs if i can't be in the front row i'm in the moshpit,
and i'm one of those who support the supports meaning start the moshpints to bands i have never even heard of.
balcony is good when your emo and you go see slyer and don't want to get your a$$ kicked, or when you go to se apocalyptica because there's not much to mosh about
Real pits are cool, hardcore ninja's need to be stomped out- I hate those mother f***ers that use Taekwondo kicks, but regular moshing is part of the gig. If you don't like, wait until the DVD comes out and watch it from the safe confines of your sofa or STFU. Or listen to Coldplay. I hear they don't have pits.
I am baised on this subject because SoCal invented the circle pit, I don't partake as much now that I am getting old, but when I was a teenager I guaged (sp?) the band by crowd reaction, specifically if they got a good pit going. now I more or less chill out because if I get hurt I have to miss work, which I cannot afford to do at the present time.
Matt Heafy is a queer and Trivium sucks.
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Well your wrong Bruno Hockalugie! trivium is a great F***en Band, in my Opining you just dont Appreciate there music,...... so what if Matt broke up the fight! its better then somebody could've gone to the hospital and miss work , his business like you say Bruno, you cant chill cause you have less time and you cant afford to lose the present time.
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I think its a good thing that he stopped the fight.... sometimes there are idiots that go in the middle and just swing at people... i really enjoy moshing, but i also like to enjoy the music, and if i have to put my focus in trying to take out some retard its taking away from enjoying the band
elbows to the spleen take care of the little queers
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Wow, this discussion kind of troubles me about the state of metal. Seriously, I'm with AP1. Just feeling the music ripple through my chest, the smell of sweat, weed, beer and cigarrettes, the heat rising twenty degrees, yelling at each other as you leave because you can't hear your own voice anymore...That's enough for me. I always found it odd that we go to place where we have community for once, to beat the sh!t out of each other? A little shoving is kool, and expected, but wanting bruises, blood and deaths? That's flat-out wrong.
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Spot on DIE!!! I may look like a dork with my foam earplugs in, but I hear everything just fine. Actually, the foam kida cancels out some of the trebly stuff that sounds bad. I have seen Manowar(don't laugh, it was better than nothing), and Maching Fawking Head, with foam ear plugs, and everything was splendid. Crystal clear sound, still loud as f***, but with no negative effects to my ears. Anyway, I digress.
I may be in the back with all the old folks or people who are just there with there kids, but I am still raging and singing along(badly) to everything. I smell like old smokes and stale, muddy piss and sweat, but I have a great time. As for the balcony statement, alot of times, depending on the size of the venue, that is the best spot. I really like to be where I can see the drummer.
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30, I'd say its got a lot to do with the music being very aggressive. When you go to a metal or a proper hardcore show (deathcore is not hardcore) people like to get loose, get rid of all their frustration in the pit.
People pogo at pop shows (like Blink and that) because its not aggressive music.
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Wiggles, like I said I think a little pushing and shoving is kool, and expected, but intent to inflict bodily harm is excessive and unnecessary. I understand sh!t happens, senses are heightened, but some of these posts read like they only go to beat on other people.
I think some of you, I don't know, "less physically aggressive" types need to release that a different kind of bonding occurs in real pits, like at a Slayer show. Yes, it appears violent from the top deck but if you actually got down in the middle of it you will see that mostly everyone is enjoying themselves and leave the pit with a smile on there face because they have just released aggression with dozens of like minded individuals who do not take the lumps and bruises from the pit personally. In the past when I have been compelled by the music to enter the pit I enter it knowing that I am with my people and that we are all there for the same reason- it is a release for us. That is why in a real pit if you fall you will be picked up by your metal brothers, complete strangers that you do not even know have your back. Of course there are always a$$holes, but usually the bigger guys will see the a$$holes and deal with those a$$holes, more than anything to help out everyone else who knows the true spirit of the pit.
But also then again some shows I would prefer a seat instead of being in the pit, especially shows during the week that I have to work the next day. So yeah, go to the show and have a good time. If that includes an hour of running in a circle or just chillin' with a beer in the back, either way is cool with me.
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Used to mosh. Don't mosh anymore. Spills my beer. Anyone who knows me will stand by my love of metal. Just don't enjoy it as much as I enjoy the show. I just can't imagine watching a band like Opeth and not being in rapt attention.
Most brutal pit for me though had to be Ministry during the Psalm 69 tour. Absolute violence.
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SOme bands demand your attention, and your seat. Opeth, Metallica, Ozzy, Alice Cooper, etc.
but I can never imagine sitting down for a band like Converge or Brain Drill. It just wouldnt make sense.
Mosh pits are merely an extension of the already chaotic energy inherrent at metal shows. Another testament as to why metal is not for the meek-minded individual. you can cry about their existence all you want, but without them, there is little to seperate a metal concert from a rock concert other than, more incoherrent yelling, and more mohawks and tatooes.
Everything else concerning moshpits under my opinion, can be read in bruno's post 35. Brotherly spirits and communed cathartic violence and all that rot. If you dont understand it, you never will.
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FAN says it all in 38.
When I saw Gojira I was up at the front, entirely engrossed in what they were doing, headbanging because thats what feels right when they start the faster parts. People were pushing to get as close to them as they could, and there was a good pit going on. The feel in the crowd was absolutely awesome, and almost everyone had a strangely calm look on their face. The only other show I've properly had that feeling was at Soulfly, because I was in the middle of a crowd of their older fans.
Get Thrashed - The Story of Thrash Metal is a must see, it just shows how together the metal community was, and the insanity they got up to back then.
DIE - no one is calling for death lol, but it just feels good to take a hit from time to time, makes ya feel alive by giving you a sense of your own mortality - or maybe I'm just strange.
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Oh wait, correction, Demented Clown was, but I have no idea what kinda music the dude listens to, so I can't form an opinion.
One more point as Bruno said earlier - none of it is done in malice - I can't count how many times i've been headbutted in the face by headbangers and done it myself to others just because you're so lost in it. But I always look round immediately to make sure the person is ok, and they generally just put the horns up and smile before goin mental again.
The only people I see who do things in malice is the posers - I saw these three little emo fa**ots pointing at a kid with his back to them, and one had the other two push him into the kid. I got annoyed at this, and when I saw they were gonna do it again, I got up close and then bounced the all three of the gits straight into the pit, give them a taste of their own medicine.
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I basically like pits that aren't just violence. It's a different kind of violence than 'actual violenc', per se. I think that it's mainly what goes on at metal gigs and hardcore dancers can fvck off.
I get to pit to Suffo next month! \m/
horns up to you fvckers and hope that I get to pit with you all one day.
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right its trivium so i am refusing to watch the vid for fear of polluting my taste in music.
is it matt "lets wave the US flag at a maiden gig in london then wonder why im being bottled" heafy whinging because people arent listening to his song or is it him breaking up 2 15 yr olds having a "fight" about whos more emo??
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I rarely go into pits but that's because my back and leg is so knackered. Before that though I'd go in on occasion and have a good time until some twat starts throwing his arms and legs around like a little kid at his aunties wedding, but for the most part, I like to enjoy a cold drink and sing along. The best bits for me is when you're stood next to a complete nutter like when I ended up dancing with a group of Polish people at a Budgie concert or when a group of Belgians offered us free beer at Graspop purely because my mate is massive.
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well used to like mosh pits
but did lose to many glases with out them blind as a bat
and i n holland it used to be this skinheads going to a show and they indeed do their kungfu sh** in the mosh pit
always end up with a fight with the skins
once a while will jump into the pit last one i went in testament in holland
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If my money from the DWP comes in then I will definitely be going to Graspop this year! There's some bands playing that I'd love to see such as Sick Of It All, Sacred Reich, Hatebreed, Heaven And Hell, Down, Korn and Lacuna Coil and some bands playing that I'd love to see again such as Exodus, Anthrax (I wanna check out the new singer), Suicidal Tendencies and Death Angel. I think I'll give Dragonforce and Trivium a miss though!
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Hmmm on the moshing front I think it depends on the size of the show. Small shows are lame without moshing and I've had some incredible fun with my friends moshing at small shows. No-one gets hurt and everyone looks after each other. Large concerts, meh yeah I'd prefer to stand and watch.
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Lol, the guitar sounds at the beginning of the video pretty much set the tone for that scene. He sounded sort of funny. Either way, good thing nothing serious went down.