Where that violence comes from? From old-school punk? As John Bush has said, he didn’t go to punk gigs because he would have got beaten up due to his long hair. Punk fans used to be pretty aggressive in those days. Anyhow, I’m not 100% sure because I don’t know punk so well. I’m just speculating.

Among the Living is fabulous, I love it as well. My favorites are also Persistence of Time and Spreading the Disease. Tracks like In My World, Armed and Dangerous and Indians really make be bang my head. And yeah, garage is a great place to listen to music, my favorite place as well
I feel like it’s time to listen to Pantera’s Domination.

In fact, I disagree with the definition of a Mosh pit by Wikipedia.
What moshing itself represents, is the form of dance of extreme music. In the early days of hardcore, you would see the crowd standing still watching during fast parts, and then break out into mosh-like dancing while standing in place. Later on, as metal began to adopt it as it’s form of dance, circle pits, or swamp moshing began.
I think moshing would be even more misunderstood if it weren’t for bands like Anthrax who attempted to teach the true styles of this expression…which is not about slamming into one another. It is easy for the uninitiated to see it as a chaotic mess of violence. These are the people that the media focus on, making it that much more misunderstood by those outside of the metal or extreme music genre.

I was always a mosher at concerts. Picking up people who fell, patting people on the back as they went by expressing their style or brand of skank. Thats what you do. We really didn’t even want to bump into anyone if possible.

Also, any metal music fan who truly loves heavy riffs knows what and when the “mosh part” is. You feel it coming, building up, and when it breaks, man, you almost have to get out there and do some silly and groovin moves.

Ban moshing. My god man. Perhaps the youth of today have drifted off and lost the roots of what we were doing there. But while I don’t do many shows these days, I just know there are those who still feel what its all about. And no, that shouldn’t be taken away from them by those who don’t understand it or cause the problems that are in question on this issue.

I’m gonna go listen to Among the Living from Anthrax now. My wife doesn’t get it either, I’ll be in the garage.