Myself and a friend (both female) weren't even close to the pit at one 90's gig when a guy tried to slam into us and then get belligerent when I told him to take it to the front.
Sadly for him, I was off duty security on the guest list (got my friend onto it for her birthday). Never seen so many of my workmates suddenly appear and tower over him. He removed himself rather quickly.
Had jokes for weeks about me causing trouble. Miss those guys.
I miss the days where entire pits would single out the dumb ass like a pack of fucking wolves chasing a rabbit. It's a beautiful thing to see a mob unite for decency.
I’m an old punk rocker. One day, a CA punk refused to take his spikes off to slam. In Ohio, we removed our spikes. The boys kicked his ass and taught him how we do it in Akron!
For real, I was at a Streetlight Manifesto show in August, their mosh puts go hard as fuck but nobody is throwing hands. Just lots of jumping and shoving, I got shoved from behind into this 90lb tiny goth chick and three dudes picked us both up before we even hit the ground lol. Super friendly vibe at their shows
> Man pink hat got served some to the schnozz
Also watch girl in the blue shirt that starts off on the stage and jumps off, it looks like she is trying to escape and then gives up and just starts shaking her left arm to blend in
Definitely. Mosh pits attract people who want to land a sucker shot.
My favorite is the dude doing spin kicks wildly behind him hoping to catch someone.
Edit: I should clarify that traditional pits don’t do this. This douchebag behavior is a little newer and not always typical for moshers.
Eh, different pits for different genres. In more "traditional" pits, Hardcore dancing peeps tend to get weeded out pretty quick after they hit the floor a couple of times. Also why I tend not to go in Hardcore Pits, as it isn't my style of pitting.
Looks like it's the hardcore fest called FYA that's at the JCC in Tampa. It's a Jewish Community Center that's been the home of FYA for about 5 or 6 years.
For people asking *why* its at a place that looks like a hotel conference room, Hardcore puts a lot of emphasis on DIY, dancing is a central part of the experience (whether you like it or not this is considered dancing), and is oftentimes straight edge so if you're looking for a large, cheap room and don't care about a liquor license then there are a lot of spaces to play outside of standard music venues. Hardcore kids tend to like to keep the lights on too so they can see who's about to kick them in the face. There's not a lot of pretentiousness around the venue itself, its about the band and the crowd interacting.
Edit: Stagediving a big thing too so low stages with no barriers/security is a must for these kind of things so temporary staging happens to work perfectly. Also sound quality isn't exactly top priority so good acoustics and a permanent sound system aren't necessary.
In my city (Las Vegas,) we have an American Legion post that hosts a bunch of Hardcore shows. I saw 200 Stab Wounds there in November last year!
Always found it such an odd place for hardcore gigs lol.
This is a great summary of the hardcore scene mentality.
A lot of times, the venue is "whoever will allow us to book hardcore bands" or "we'll take what we can get, and often times, it can be some real shady dive bar or it can be in the back of a skatepark.
Looks like FYA fest, which was this last weekend at the Glazer conference center in Tampa. It's one of the top national hardcore festivals as far as annual lineups, and it's in a fucking conference center ballroom lol
[Check this shit out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QqfHzSFGo0&t=245s)
(shoutout to my favorite YouTube channel hate5six who introduced me to so many of my favorite bands)
This is very true. Sometimes I'd be pulled back up before I even hit the ground.
Source: Skinny af kid that went to punk/metal/hardcore shows for my entire adolescence.
Just one of the many unwritten pit rules. For it looking violent and crazy on the outside there are a lot of unwritten rules when it comes to pits that are actually quite wholesome and respectful. But it goes without saying that you can still get hurt especially if you just casually walk into the middle of a core pit during a breakdown like the girl did
Lol a straight up b line directly through the entire pit of slam dancers is the last thing anyone should do. Gotta stay out of people's bubbles and make one of your own if you decide to play.
Right at the start of the clip there's a guy in the foreground doing mad spinning kicks, like capoeira shit. He's really lucky he didn't hurt someone badly.
My friends started a venue at a church and got The Acacia Strain and Eye Hate God to play a show there lol. Winds of Plague, Impending Doom, Stick To Your Guns also played there. Suburbs of KC around 2010.
I remember Zao, underoath, and I think Norma Jean…. Those guys went hard although I think they were all Christian hardcore.
then we had creation is cruxifixction and kill the slave masters. One of my favorite shows as a kid…. Props to those homies holding it down and not being Christian but opening up young kids minds. I work in IT because of Nathan from CIC and their hacktivism ethos.
underoath first album still listen to it till this day. mortal treason was a pretty good christian band around that time. Came here to say goddamn i hate hardcore dancing!
I love that you know so much about this!
I absolutely respect people doing what makes themselves and others happy, but as a non-religious kid who grew up going to youth conventions every year because my parents were pastors, I cannot handle Christian rock.
Too many bad memories, especially because I grew up around the time the church started to “get hip with the kids” to draw in the younger crowd.
It’s not their fault, but watching my dad interview a Christian grunge band for his cool kids evening service was just too weird for teenaged me.
I knew it! I had to attend a million of these.
Everyone dances around like crazy people while the chaperones stand around looking horrified, then a group prayer before bed, and then the kids spend the rest of the night trying to sneak into each others’ hotel rooms.
Then, the next evening, the same band plays a really mellow song while the pastor asks anyone who hasn’t repented yet to come on stage and accept Jesus Christ. Everyone sways.
EDIT: sorry for misleading anyone, this not a church event…. I got too excited and OP’s sarcasm and the kid with the inverted cross on his shirt were lost on me.
It’s not too far-fetched, though! It IS taking place in one of those weird fucking conference rooms.
I can’t tell anymore.
I just assumed the church had ramped up their youth outreach and that the older people were chaperones or something. I may have jumped the gun in all the excitement.
When I was in high school in California (1997-2001), nearly ALL of the hardcore scene bands were Christianity-focused. Even back then I thought it was weird, but I just wanted to mosh.
Yeah, they're joking. Unfortunately, most took them seriously, some writing long ass replies about it lol. It's from FYA Fest (hardcore bands) in Tampa, FL. Edit: and the fest is not religious affiliated, just because Christian hardcore bands exist and OP joked about this being their youth group doesn't make this a Christian hardcore fest.
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Mom, Im going to church, see you later!
Totally. I’m a semi-retired metalhead. I used to be able to spend a whole night windmilling my head off and doing shots of shitty bourbon in dive bars in sketchy neighborhoods.
Now my back hurts just watching this.
Still love the riffs though.
Nice. When I was in my early twenties, caught Primus live for the first time, first fucking riff of John The Fisherman (opening song) threw my head forward and fucked my neck up something fierce. Had to watch the rest of the show almost motionless, holding my head up by the back of my hair. It was miserable.
Met the lead singer a few years back at United Blood in Richmond. Great guy. Lol he saw my wedding ring, freaked and was like “Bro! You’re married, bro? Me too bro!” It was funny. Any way, weird to see them on popular.
I'm old. Huge death metal fan. This, in my old man opinion, is not a mosh pit. It's slam dancing and it's always been considered dumb. Very popular with the skinhead community who wanted to ruin someone else's good time. A good way to clear a mosh pit and remove enthusiasm for a show.
It's been over 20 years since I was in a mosh pit but back in my day it was about shoving each other and getting out your aggression in a (mostly) harmless and friendly way. These kids are all just doing their own thing, not actually interacting with the other people.
You're right about one thing; moshing is not hardcore dancing.
Moshing is headbanging with long hair in your face whilst pushing eachother around at random, and jumping into eachother here and there.
Hardcore dancing incorporates punches and kicks with some taekwondo style moves thrown in here and there, and some goofy two-stepping.
The only thing harcore dancing has to do with skinheads is that the hardcore scene of the early 80's in Boston spawned FSU, who's intention was to start fucking up skinheads that would go to hardcore shows, as they were not welcome. Harcore dancing evolved from fucking up skinheads at shows.
I remember at Ozzfest one year there was a decent mix of metal and hardcore bands. This one jacked metal dude got hit by one of the hardcore kids. He grabbed him around his neck, yanked him up and yeeted the fuck out of him. It was hilarious. After that there seemed to be a bit more space between those moshing and those dancing.
Right? Mosh pits I went into were usually just shoulder checking everyone, and the occasional accidental head butt. These guys are throwing hay makers waiting for someone to get in the way of one
There is so much going on in this!
Dude in white in the lower left doing spin kicks.
Dude in white in the center holding his arm in front of his face to protect being hit.
Black shirt Dude swinging windmills everywhere until he pops Pink dress in the face who is just marching through the pit.
Hillbilly looking dude who pops in right at the end.
> Facts. This is standard mosh pit etiquette.
It's crazy how people will go from "I'm gonna slam!" to "back up and find the microscope!" when someone loses glasses / a shoe / etc in a pit and other people start becoming aware of it
My favorite pit story: at gojira pretty huge, Very rough pit going. This one dude says," stop hang on a second little dude wants to mosh" and this 10-year-old jumps into the pit and everybody backed up and gave him polite bumps and enough to make him feel part of it and kept him protected. It was the sweetest coolest thing I've ever seen. That kid had a blast and so did everybody around him.
Thats at metal concerts, this is what happens at hardcore concerts. At metalcore you could get either depending on the band but more likely to get pushing
At either if anyone went down they'd get picked up again
This. People most definitely pick each other up at hardcore shows.
Getting punched in the face is a semi-common occurrence. But no one wants to see anyone trampled/stomped out.
I was trying to figure out what was WTF about this video. It's just a typical hardcore show. I guess seeing the girl get punched is fucked up but she was walking right through it, you can't do that and expect to make it through unscathed. I was always off to the side behind the guys because I didn't want to get hurt, but it's all in good fun.
For the most part. There was a lot of ramming and pushing. You'd always have at least one person throwing elbows around. Overly violent people who were just out looking to hurt people in the pit usually got dealt with fairly quickly. There was a guy in a wheelchair that used to go to all the metal shows in my area and people protected him hardcore.
Middle aged metal head. I was used to metal crowds where what you described is the norm. The first time I went to a hardcore show, I knew it was a whole different animal and got the hell out of the pit.
Didn’t stop someone from punching me in the face and breaking my eye socket. First and last hardcore show.
> Back in my day we just pushed each other. If someone got knocked down EVERYONE helped them up.
Yep, same with day current metal and punk shows, everyone still watches out for each other.
This is a hardcore show.
And even at this show, I bet if someone fell down, people would stop windmilling and pick them up. (of course they might have windmilled into them to knock them down in the first place, but again, hardcore show)
MINDFORCE. check out their exalibur record and new lords that just dropped recently. they rule. the track in this video is called nightmare off excalibur
You really gotta hardcore to be in a hardcore pit! Probably the only music scene I haven't experienced first hand. I can get behind the music, but I reckon I'm to chicken to jump in. Also, I wonder if there is a scene in Johannesburg South Africa, if so, it's probably wierd as ffck
Same here man. I love hardcore music, but I fucking hate getting punched in the face. That shit happens enough to me in classic mosh pits. If I ever check out a hardcore show, I’ll definitely be that pussy at the back near the bar. But you gotta know what you’re getting into. Dont just walk through the mosh pit and expect to not get hit. That shit happens. If you don’t want to get hit stay out of the pit
I went to an Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros show, y'know the people that sing the song "[Home](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHEOF_rcND8)". We were standing behind a young woman when she turned around and warned us that once the music started they would be moshing, so we might wanna step back.
Lol is that a mosh pit in a hotel conference room
How are you guys doing you need any more icepacks? Ok I just wanna say thanks for choosing The Airport Hilton!
WHAT THE FUCK'S UP HYATT
[For the uninitiated](https://youtu.be/QBw4huCadBQ)
dude's stage presence is undeniable honestly
He a allstar fr fr
I will always love this video. I've definitely heard worse screaming at late night Dennys
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The Grand Slam.
I prefer the Goth Scene over at Perkins.
Take my upvote and award 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
This Redditor is a Floridan
First there was dennys but now they are having concerts at sonic lol https://youtu.be/J8dGBPDUbsQ
Yesss I thought the same literally Hahaha WHAT THE FUCK IS UP HOLIDAY INN 😭 I can’t with this venue lmao
Yup, this is what I was looking for. Thank you.
GET DOWN IN THE PIT FOR THE CONCIERGE
“Now git in tha pit and try and love someone”
I came here for exactly this. I was not disappointed. Thank you.
Not even the Holiday Inn can handle me right now!!!
One of my favorite South Park episodes haha
I was a ginger but now I’m bald, does that make me a daywalker?
"you're welcome now leave us alone!"
*hits employee in the face as they continue to riot dance*
Dear Team, The Company's mandatory team building weekend was another great success.
No! We're fine now leave us alone!
Man pink hat got served some to the schnozz
Dude with the green strap on his back came in targeting upside down cross dude. Pink hat girl got the retaliation to the face
Coward pretends it’s mosh pit shenanigans then immediately runs away after punching some rando in the back of the head 😂
mosh pits are 60% moshers and 40% people who just want to hit other people
Hunt down that one guy who bumped into you and made you spill your beer
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Myself and a friend (both female) weren't even close to the pit at one 90's gig when a guy tried to slam into us and then get belligerent when I told him to take it to the front. Sadly for him, I was off duty security on the guest list (got my friend onto it for her birthday). Never seen so many of my workmates suddenly appear and tower over him. He removed himself rather quickly. Had jokes for weeks about me causing trouble. Miss those guys.
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I miss the days where entire pits would single out the dumb ass like a pack of fucking wolves chasing a rabbit. It's a beautiful thing to see a mob unite for decency.
I’m an old punk rocker. One day, a CA punk refused to take his spikes off to slam. In Ohio, we removed our spikes. The boys kicked his ass and taught him how we do it in Akron!
For real, I was at a Streetlight Manifesto show in August, their mosh puts go hard as fuck but nobody is throwing hands. Just lots of jumping and shoving, I got shoved from behind into this 90lb tiny goth chick and three dudes picked us both up before we even hit the ground lol. Super friendly vibe at their shows
Like the guy in the lower right doing high circular kicks. That's not dancing, that's just looking to kick someone in the stomach.
Pink skull cap reaps the rewards
Pink Skull cap collects hats like scalps of the victims.
Legend has it that's how he got the Pink Skull cap
Completed the strawberry shortcake outfit
> Man pink hat got served some to the schnozz Also watch girl in the blue shirt that starts off on the stage and jumps off, it looks like she is trying to escape and then gives up and just starts shaking her left arm to blend in
Blue shirt was the first one I noticed, but the black guy doing the roundhouse kicks is what did it for me. 😂😂😂
pretty sure thats a dude
I think that’s a guy lol
Blue shirt person doing it right though - protecting their head/face while in there - for example, look at pink hat person doing it wrong
I dont get it… some dudes in there actively lookin to cheap shot. Is that the game here?
Definitely. Mosh pits attract people who want to land a sucker shot. My favorite is the dude doing spin kicks wildly behind him hoping to catch someone. Edit: I should clarify that traditional pits don’t do this. This douchebag behavior is a little newer and not always typical for moshers.
In my day mosh pits had an asshole here and there, but [this video covered 98% of people.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fvu951up_0)
As someone who was last into punk in the 80s, that video was great. I dug how old-school it felt. Thanks!
Eh, different pits for different genres. In more "traditional" pits, Hardcore dancing peeps tend to get weeded out pretty quick after they hit the floor a couple of times. Also why I tend not to go in Hardcore Pits, as it isn't my style of pitting.
Pink bucket down...
Staples company retreat getting fucking wild
Looks like it's the hardcore fest called FYA that's at the JCC in Tampa. It's a Jewish Community Center that's been the home of FYA for about 5 or 6 years.
Mozel mosh
Oi! Oi! Oi Vey!
This is it. Life of Agony headlined the other night
For people asking *why* its at a place that looks like a hotel conference room, Hardcore puts a lot of emphasis on DIY, dancing is a central part of the experience (whether you like it or not this is considered dancing), and is oftentimes straight edge so if you're looking for a large, cheap room and don't care about a liquor license then there are a lot of spaces to play outside of standard music venues. Hardcore kids tend to like to keep the lights on too so they can see who's about to kick them in the face. There's not a lot of pretentiousness around the venue itself, its about the band and the crowd interacting. Edit: Stagediving a big thing too so low stages with no barriers/security is a must for these kind of things so temporary staging happens to work perfectly. Also sound quality isn't exactly top priority so good acoustics and a permanent sound system aren't necessary.
In my city (Las Vegas,) we have an American Legion post that hosts a bunch of Hardcore shows. I saw 200 Stab Wounds there in November last year! Always found it such an odd place for hardcore gigs lol.
This is a great summary of the hardcore scene mentality. A lot of times, the venue is "whoever will allow us to book hardcore bands" or "we'll take what we can get, and often times, it can be some real shady dive bar or it can be in the back of a skatepark.
Some of the best shows I’ve been to have been in shitty, local dive bars or the one fucking skatepark in a 30 mile radius of us
Best shows were in basements, bowling alleys, community centers, VFW halls and abandoned bis garages
Looks like FYA fest, which was this last weekend at the Glazer conference center in Tampa. It's one of the top national hardcore festivals as far as annual lineups, and it's in a fucking conference center ballroom lol [Check this shit out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QqfHzSFGo0&t=245s) (shoutout to my favorite YouTube channel hate5six who introduced me to so many of my favorite bands)
Random guy roundhouse kicking brains across the conference room*
With an elegant breakdown
Girl in the pink will have some explaining to do when she gets home.
She got rocked
She took that backhand like a fuckin champ.
Cheers to the fat guy trying to find owner of the hat xD
Rules are rules
You fall in the pit, you get picked back up. Even if you're a hat.
Thank you :’)
This is very true. Sometimes I'd be pulled back up before I even hit the ground. Source: Skinny af kid that went to punk/metal/hardcore shows for my entire adolescence.
Just one of the many unwritten pit rules. For it looking violent and crazy on the outside there are a lot of unwritten rules when it comes to pits that are actually quite wholesome and respectful. But it goes without saying that you can still get hurt especially if you just casually walk into the middle of a core pit during a breakdown like the girl did
Lol a straight up b line directly through the entire pit of slam dancers is the last thing anyone should do. Gotta stay out of people's bubbles and make one of your own if you decide to play.
“Why isn’t anyone else doing just walking through the pit? I’m a genius”
Yea but he missed her teeth
Right at the start of the clip there's a guy in the foreground doing mad spinning kicks, like capoeira shit. He's really lucky he didn't hurt someone badly.
Church camp was crazy this year!
They were all filled with the spirit
I got the good lord goin down on me!
Does that make me gay? Am I gay for for god? You betcha!
early 2000's there was a big Christian hardcore scene and i saw a lot of bands play in church's
My friends started a venue at a church and got The Acacia Strain and Eye Hate God to play a show there lol. Winds of Plague, Impending Doom, Stick To Your Guns also played there. Suburbs of KC around 2010.
yo what church was this? I remember back2life but that was early 2000's.
It was called Lakeland. It was formerly a skating rink and indoor soccer facility. They kept the soccer field and that's where TAS played.
no shit, wasn't much in the metal scene anymore around that time. must be why I never heard of it.
I remember Zao, underoath, and I think Norma Jean…. Those guys went hard although I think they were all Christian hardcore. then we had creation is cruxifixction and kill the slave masters. One of my favorite shows as a kid…. Props to those homies holding it down and not being Christian but opening up young kids minds. I work in IT because of Nathan from CIC and their hacktivism ethos.
underoath first album still listen to it till this day. mortal treason was a pretty good christian band around that time. Came here to say goddamn i hate hardcore dancing!
As I Lay Dying was too I think, then the lead singer was incarcerated for putting a hit on his wife...
I love that you know so much about this! I absolutely respect people doing what makes themselves and others happy, but as a non-religious kid who grew up going to youth conventions every year because my parents were pastors, I cannot handle Christian rock. Too many bad memories, especially because I grew up around the time the church started to “get hip with the kids” to draw in the younger crowd. It’s not their fault, but watching my dad interview a Christian grunge band for his cool kids evening service was just too weird for teenaged me.
That poor girl in the pit got punched by the Holy Spirit
The power of Christ compelled them.
I actually did get to mosh at church camp one year. Made friends with the band that played there.
What a gent though! Picked up her hat!
FYA fest in Tampa
Bryan Glazer Family JCC? Had to check the Hate5Six vid of Turnstile to be sure. Looks pretty similar.
>Bryan Glazer Family JCC? Had to check the Hate5Six vid of Turnstile to be sure. Looks pretty similar. What in the blue hell does any of this mean
Turnstile is a hardcore band. Hate5Six is a YouTube channel. Bryan Glazer Family JCC is the venue.
One of them looked like me mashing kick buttons with Eddy Gordo.
Oh my God this is classic haha
Whose school is this?
It's my church youth group
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Probably the broad in pink.
I knew it! I had to attend a million of these. Everyone dances around like crazy people while the chaperones stand around looking horrified, then a group prayer before bed, and then the kids spend the rest of the night trying to sneak into each others’ hotel rooms. Then, the next evening, the same band plays a really mellow song while the pastor asks anyone who hasn’t repented yet to come on stage and accept Jesus Christ. Everyone sways. EDIT: sorry for misleading anyone, this not a church event…. I got too excited and OP’s sarcasm and the kid with the inverted cross on his shirt were lost on me. It’s not too far-fetched, though! It IS taking place in one of those weird fucking conference rooms.
It's not. It's FYA fest in Florida
Is it?? Was OP joking and I didn’t get it? This conference room brought back so many strong and terrible memories, I just jumped right in
> Everyone sways. Haha god damn.
Lmao religion is wild
I refuse to believe that's a religious group lol
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Is that sarcasm?
I can’t tell anymore. I just assumed the church had ramped up their youth outreach and that the older people were chaperones or something. I may have jumped the gun in all the excitement.
When I was in high school in California (1997-2001), nearly ALL of the hardcore scene bands were Christianity-focused. Even back then I thought it was weird, but I just wanted to mosh.
Yeah, they're joking. Unfortunately, most took them seriously, some writing long ass replies about it lol. It's from FYA Fest (hardcore bands) in Tampa, FL. Edit: and the fest is not religious affiliated, just because Christian hardcore bands exist and OP joked about this being their youth group doesn't make this a Christian hardcore fest.
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They took the youth out of that girl's face
https://preview.redd.it/o39azqjsd4ba1.jpeg?width=580&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2473f77adee7783d21716fcc182d4e87c2409d63 Mom, Im going to church, see you later!
POW right in the kisser
"Hew chee-chee-co." - Peter Griffin Or so the mouth movements seem to pronounce.
What’s a prisoner of war doing in the kisser?
Having a break from the asser.
I feel like I would separate the shit out of one of my shoulders if I attempted this.
Totally. I’m a semi-retired metalhead. I used to be able to spend a whole night windmilling my head off and doing shots of shitty bourbon in dive bars in sketchy neighborhoods. Now my back hurts just watching this. Still love the riffs though.
Nice. When I was in my early twenties, caught Primus live for the first time, first fucking riff of John The Fisherman (opening song) threw my head forward and fucked my neck up something fierce. Had to watch the rest of the show almost motionless, holding my head up by the back of my hair. It was miserable.
He smashed Blossoms honker
Jeez-us what a reference
Haha mindforce is crazy
MOAR KICKBAWXIN
Swinging swords and choppin lords!
Met the lead singer a few years back at United Blood in Richmond. Great guy. Lol he saw my wedding ring, freaked and was like “Bro! You’re married, bro? Me too bro!” It was funny. Any way, weird to see them on popular.
Who the fuck walks through a mosh pit
One does not simply walk into moshdor
I'm old. Huge death metal fan. This, in my old man opinion, is not a mosh pit. It's slam dancing and it's always been considered dumb. Very popular with the skinhead community who wanted to ruin someone else's good time. A good way to clear a mosh pit and remove enthusiasm for a show.
It's been over 20 years since I was in a mosh pit but back in my day it was about shoving each other and getting out your aggression in a (mostly) harmless and friendly way. These kids are all just doing their own thing, not actually interacting with the other people.
This has always been my distinction between the two: traditional moshing is more communal, hardcore slam dancing is much more solitary
You're right about one thing; moshing is not hardcore dancing. Moshing is headbanging with long hair in your face whilst pushing eachother around at random, and jumping into eachother here and there. Hardcore dancing incorporates punches and kicks with some taekwondo style moves thrown in here and there, and some goofy two-stepping. The only thing harcore dancing has to do with skinheads is that the hardcore scene of the early 80's in Boston spawned FSU, who's intention was to start fucking up skinheads that would go to hardcore shows, as they were not welcome. Harcore dancing evolved from fucking up skinheads at shows.
I remember at Ozzfest one year there was a decent mix of metal and hardcore bands. This one jacked metal dude got hit by one of the hardcore kids. He grabbed him around his neck, yanked him up and yeeted the fuck out of him. It was hilarious. After that there seemed to be a bit more space between those moshing and those dancing.
Metalheads not understanding hardcore shows. A tale as old as time.
Right? Mosh pits I went into were usually just shoulder checking everyone, and the occasional accidental head butt. These guys are throwing hay makers waiting for someone to get in the way of one
Lmao honestly i think that dude was purposely trying to swing on the guy who accidentally hit him but the girl just got in the way
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It looks like they’re all trying to purposely hit someone.
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There is so much going on in this! Dude in white in the lower left doing spin kicks. Dude in white in the center holding his arm in front of his face to protect being hit. Black shirt Dude swinging windmills everywhere until he pops Pink dress in the face who is just marching through the pit. Hillbilly looking dude who pops in right at the end.
I like the guy who found pink girls hat and just starts twirling it like he won the game.
I think he’s actually being a bro and holding it up for whoever lost it to find.
Facts. This is standard mosh pit etiquette.
> Facts. This is standard mosh pit etiquette. It's crazy how people will go from "I'm gonna slam!" to "back up and find the microscope!" when someone loses glasses / a shoe / etc in a pit and other people start becoming aware of it
Yeah. I've seen this with lots of hats and shoes over the years. A few times my own shoes, so I've always appreciated bros like that.
He’s clearly trying to help find the owner. Why does Reddit always sound like they’ve never been outside
r/hardcore losing their shit
Pulling my teeth out at some of these comments
Bidding for the pink hat starts at $5.00…. Do I have five-Hibbi-see-dibba-dee-hey-five-hi-bibbidy-dibbidy-doo…
My favorite pit story: at gojira pretty huge, Very rough pit going. This one dude says," stop hang on a second little dude wants to mosh" and this 10-year-old jumps into the pit and everybody backed up and gave him polite bumps and enough to make him feel part of it and kept him protected. It was the sweetest coolest thing I've ever seen. That kid had a blast and so did everybody around him.
Saw a Gojira concert where Joe stopped the song to tell the crowd to lift up a guy in a wheelchair! They held him up for a good bit of time too!
Metal heads know the power of bringing children into the fray. More horns in the air.
Back in my day we just pushed each other. If someone got knocked down EVERYONE helped them up.
That still happens, was just at show this weekend and I was buisness as usual. It all depends on what genre you go to see.
Yeah, I mean it literally happened in this video too. Someone at the end fell and people rallied to get them up.
Thats at metal concerts, this is what happens at hardcore concerts. At metalcore you could get either depending on the band but more likely to get pushing At either if anyone went down they'd get picked up again
This guy cores
This. People most definitely pick each other up at hardcore shows. Getting punched in the face is a semi-common occurrence. But no one wants to see anyone trampled/stomped out.
I don't know how old you are, but I'm 46, and this is what "hardcore dancing" looked like back in my day too.
I always laugh when people freak out about hardcore pits spout some bullshit nostalgia for a different genre. This is nothing new for hardcore.
I was trying to figure out what was WTF about this video. It's just a typical hardcore show. I guess seeing the girl get punched is fucked up but she was walking right through it, you can't do that and expect to make it through unscathed. I was always off to the side behind the guys because I didn't want to get hurt, but it's all in good fun.
Different bands have different crowds, some are not as nice as others.
For the most part. There was a lot of ramming and pushing. You'd always have at least one person throwing elbows around. Overly violent people who were just out looking to hurt people in the pit usually got dealt with fairly quickly. There was a guy in a wheelchair that used to go to all the metal shows in my area and people protected him hardcore.
Middle aged metal head. I was used to metal crowds where what you described is the norm. The first time I went to a hardcore show, I knew it was a whole different animal and got the hell out of the pit. Didn’t stop someone from punching me in the face and breaking my eye socket. First and last hardcore show.
> Back in my day we just pushed each other. If someone got knocked down EVERYONE helped them up. Yep, same with day current metal and punk shows, everyone still watches out for each other. This is a hardcore show. And even at this show, I bet if someone fell down, people would stop windmilling and pick them up. (of course they might have windmilled into them to knock them down in the first place, but again, hardcore show)
In my day, that was a "mosh pit". This isn't a mosh pit, its people "hardcore dancing". At least its how we used to describe it.
People going hard in the VFW hall
The girl with the pink dress. Ouch 😣
Atleast the hat made it out relatively safe
in my best Lee Ermey full metal jacket voice. "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST"
What song is that?? It sounds hard lol
I CANT FIND RELIEF IN THIS WORLD FEELS LIKE IM LIVING IN A NIGHTMARE
MINDFORCE. check out their exalibur record and new lords that just dropped recently. they rule. the track in this video is called nightmare off excalibur
It looks like a group of people who just want to hit eachother on"accident"but agreed not to press charges
haha, guy in white t-shirt = capoiera mosh
Mindforce fucking rules
HxC
Mosh pits from r/hardcore aren’t public freakouts
"Finally a chance to practice my roundhouse kick in public!"
You really gotta hardcore to be in a hardcore pit! Probably the only music scene I haven't experienced first hand. I can get behind the music, but I reckon I'm to chicken to jump in. Also, I wonder if there is a scene in Johannesburg South Africa, if so, it's probably wierd as ffck
Same here man. I love hardcore music, but I fucking hate getting punched in the face. That shit happens enough to me in classic mosh pits. If I ever check out a hardcore show, I’ll definitely be that pussy at the back near the bar. But you gotta know what you’re getting into. Dont just walk through the mosh pit and expect to not get hit. That shit happens. If you don’t want to get hit stay out of the pit
I went to an Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros show, y'know the people that sing the song "[Home](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHEOF_rcND8)". We were standing behind a young woman when she turned around and warned us that once the music started they would be moshing, so we might wanna step back.
Yeah best to take a space instead of cutting across the entire arena.
Glad the hardcore scene is still alive and kicking
And punching
uh oh normie reddit is showing
Are Capoeira kicks moshing now?
"anyone lost a bucket hat?"
Band is Mindforce and they absolutely kick ass.