Kreator was touring for Terrible Certainty, and when they started playing, a giant pit broke out that reminded me of a huge hurricane vortex that was spinning in a circle.
early on the Crossover tour in 1987 playing with Kreator and Holy Terror at the Storyville Jazz Hall in New Orleans, and it was the first time I saw a fully formed mosh pit. The next day we had to cancel multiple shows and then the band got a bodyguard because they told me I couldn’t be doing security anymore. I didn’t realize that human nature says that when nobody else had ever swan dived off the stage before and you suddenly see 180 pounds of silver lamé coming your way, you move out of the way. I invented stage diving in the 1970s after a guy in the audience threw a beer bottle at me and I decided to swan dive into a crowd of a thousand people or more to confront him because he was pretty far back. Mosh pits and stage diving go hand in hand nowadays. As strange as that seems, lots of musicians have witnessed ever weirder activities in the mosh pit.ĭee Snider (Twisted Sister, ex-Widowmaker) Plenty of moshers emerge from the bit with battle scars they’re proud of, but some scars never fade and, in retrospect, many pit-dwellers would have been happy to have exited the pit fray with mere cuts and bruises.īands that have been around for a while have likely seen dudes in wheelchairs being passed around overhead. Even the largest pits sometimes fail to catch divers, and if moshers already face the serious possibility of getting trampled without even ascending the stage, divers who find themselves on the ground in the middle of a swirling pit are even more likely to be injured.
Then there are those that clear the barrier only to crash on the floor. There’s no guarantee divers won’t be clocked by bouncers, or flub a leap and crash into the barrier between the audience and the crowd. And those who stagedive do so at their own risk. Even those who adhere to the rules are sometimes met with accidental kicks to the head from soaring stagedivers. But for those who crave heavy-duty physicality along with blaring, chugging rhythms, crashing around inside the pit can be a great way to vent pent-up anger and aggression and escape within a swirling mass of semi-orchestrated chaos.Īs anyone who frequents the pit knows, there are unwritten rules to being caught in a mosh: Don’t dish out more than you’re willing to take if someone’s delivering cheap shots or injuring fans, help other moshers eject him from the pit if someone falls pick him up. The cut remains a stand-out of the band’s live set and encapsulates the energy and spirit of late 1980s thrash.īeing a dedicated fan of thrash metal doesn’t require entering the mosh pit, the rotating circle composed of lurching, colliding arm-swinging headbangers. One of the many highlights on the disc was “Caught in a Mosh”-a churning, roiling number based on real-life experience. The record was faster than the band’s first two releases and the group sounded angrier and more defiant than ever. With their third full-length album, 1987’s Among the Living, everything clicked for New York thrash band Anthrax.
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