![]() Go to /decoderplus to join Slate Plus today. As a member, you’ll get to listen to Decoder Ring without any ads-and your support is crucial to our work. With over 50,000 in attendance at a music festival, fans poured up front to join the pit. Its not like one moment youre in the middle of a festive crowd enjoying the show and suddenly youre in the middle of a mosh pit fighting for your life. If you dont want to join the pit, theres nothing to worry about. If you’re a fan of the show and want to support us, consider signing up for Slate Plus. Answer: Several individual deaths have been documented, particularly since the rise of grunge in the late ‘80s, but the deadliest pit ever occurred June 30, 2000, during a crowded Pearl Jam show in Denmark. Most regular metal fans arent going berserk in the mosh pit, thats for the hardcore crowd. ![]() Mosh pits are a predominantly male environment but a lot of women really connect with heavy metal and punk. The animals have it figured out when the keepers cough blood. I’d say there were about 15 of us in the mosh pit and I wasn’t the only woman. If you haven’t yet, please subscribe and rate our feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Verse 1 They call it the chimp death grip, theyll tear your fucking face off. The Aces High sandwich shares a name with the lead track on Iron Maiden’s 1984 album 'Powerslave. The Mob Rules sandwich is a shout-out to heavy-metal band Black Sabbath. Each sandwich and wrap on the menu is named to honor a song, album or band. You can create your own mosh pit using this simulator developed by Jesse Silverberg and his colleagues. Tharpe has a namesake sandwich at Mosh Pit the Sister Rosetta Reuben. Thank you to Vivien Goldman, Paolo Ragusa, and Philip Moriarty, whose insights and research on moshing were crucial to this episode. Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director. ![]() Derek John is Slate’s executive producer of narrative podcasts. ![]() This episode was edited by Willa Paskin and Andrea Bruce, with help from Joel Meyer. This episode was written by Katie Shepherd. Moshing at the Glass House in Pomona has become a rite of passage for punks, emos, goths and metal heads in Southern California. In this episode, we explore the unwritten rules of this 50-year-old live-music phenomenon with punks, concertgoers, and a heavy-metal physicist.ĭecoder Ring is produced by Willa Paskin with Katie Shepherd. There’s some truth to that, but it’s also a place bound by camaraderie and-believe it or not-etiquette. The mosh pit has a reputation as a violent place where (mostly) white guys vent their aggression. ![]()
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