As the drums beat at machine gun speed and the guitars shred lightning fast, dozens of moshers flock to the center of the room and slam into one another. It looks like chaos as their bodies collide ...

Physics and heavy metal don't seem to have a lot in common, but Matt Bierbaum and Jesse Silverberg have found a connection. Both are graduate students at Cornell University. They're also metal heads ...

Stop me if you've heard this one. A Cornell graduate physics student takes his girlfriend to her first heavy metal concert. Instead of diving straight into the mosh pit, as he typically would, he ...

Nothing kills a good show quite like a lame crowd. For this Loud List, we scoured YouTube to find the worst mosh pits in the world, so get ready to cringe. A lot of these fails come from horrible ...

Metalheads in mosh pits act like atoms in a gas. That’s the conclusion of the first study of the collective motion of people at a rock concert. The finding could add to the realism of ...