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Days after three local men were charged with murdering a 22-year-old “Pit kid,” the regulars who congregate near the Harvard Square T-station mourned the woman they knew as “Rook” and complained that increased gang activity in the Square led to her death...
...allegiance” declared by these fans is to the bands that give them an outlet where they can vent their frustrations, which manifest themselves either in the form of mosh pit violence or stadium screaming. The Worcester Centrum was not a place for the meek this past Tuesday night, as two of the most popular acts in heavy metal brought out many of the skinheaded/long-haired, tattooed, pierced, goateed, leather loving, adrenaline-hunting denizens of the greater New England area. System of a Down and Slipknot shared the headlining slot on the ticket, but with their unrivaled stage-show...
...album’s track to their live performance. Their lyrical activism was matched at one point by a personal act of activism by Malakin on behalf of women’s rights. Before their final song, Malakin addressed a large male fan in the front of the mosh pit (who was being escorted out of the area for punching a girl in view of security) saying, “I wish you weren’t so fat…I bet you wish you weren’t so fat, too. Maybe then you wouldn?...
Their hour-long set of crowd-chanting, mosh-pitting anthems was punctuated by three notable moments. The first was a series of solos—initially, DJ Sid “#0” (who wears a gas-mask), a turntable master, scratched and spun in an ever-quickening crescendo as strobe lights flickered; the second spotlighted the drummer—the kabuki-masked musician drummed at a hellish pace while his drum set floated upside down and rotated above the stage. Slipknot’s second highlight was their final track, “Surfacing...
When she moved back to Boston in the summer of 1997, Palmer says she hoped to set up the princess character in the Pit area, but there was too much equipment...