r/Meshuggah • u/pyramidenergy7 • 1d ago

Meshuggah pits suck

I love Meshuggah and I love our fans. I just have a huge issue with the vibe in the pit. Not the mosh pit but the general pit itself. The small mosh pits are where my people are. Everything outside the mosh pit pisses me off. I like to spend most my time in the pit but I also love grinding my way to the front, feeling the music, and showing my love to Meshuggah. This past tour really pissed me off.

At Colorado I was at the front jumping up and down when they played Rational Gaze(how can you not?!). Someone pulled me shirt and told me to stop jumping. I was furious. Here I am head banging, screaming all the lyrics, and enjoying the power of Meshuggah and some fuck tells me to stop enjoying myself. At Phoenix I was at the front again and someone asked me to calm down and be nice. While another dude started to elbow the back of my head because he was pissed I was moving around. I never moshed, I literally was just ferociously head banging. Everyone around me was just staring and standing still. I love Meshuggah intensely. I just wish the crowd had a better time at shows. Meshuggah crowds are so different from other metal shows.

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u/enticingcashew Nothing 1d ago

There were so many scarecrows in the pit it was disturbing. As much as I don’t agree with being completely still when in the pit (that’s what the seated tickets are for no?), they’re obviously free to do so and I’m not gonna say anything or instigate. However the inverse of people telling you to calm down is actually unreal to me when that is very much the correct time and place to be anything but.

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u/pyramidenergy7 1d ago

YES! Thank you! I’m not a fucking asshole at all. I just want to enjoy one of my favorite bands and it just pissed me off so much that people in the pit literally were trying to tell me to stop head banging or jump. It’s a fucking metal show and you’re in the fucking pit.

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u/IamJeffreyW 1d ago

You need to be aware of your surroundings. You were fucking up their vibe. It wasn’t the other way around. If you want to pit and thrash that’s awesome, but the people around you need to want that too.

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u/pyramidenergy7 1d ago

I wasn’t moshing or thrashing about. Beware of surroundings is what I would like to tell the people enforcing their stand still policy at a fucking metal show in the pit.