“Mosh pit” is what you are looking for, and they are absolutely awesome. In Austin, Lamb of God was playing and I was in the wall of death, it’s where two sides form and then run at each other full force ending up as a huge cluster f**k. In Utah, depending on who’s playing, there is a certain type of person who will show up. The people I am talking about are usually on meth or PCP and they’ll put razor blades in between their knuckles and they will just swing their arms wildly to the sound of the beat. Once at a Slayer concert, a kid fell on the ground and got his head stomped in, and when they called the paramedics they had a lot of trouble getting to the kid. Once they got to the kid, Slayer stopped playing and immediately started up “Raining Blood” and the paramedics got swept away in the stew of people, the kid died at the concert. As far as injuries go for me, I have had my should dislocated, my nose broken twice, a rolled ankle, all of my fingers(not including thumbs) have been broken at least once, too many black eyes to count, I almost got my back broken once when I fell, I got nicked by one of those kids from Utah but nothing to serious, and I’ve got a small chuck of my ear missing.
@TheHaight, I never knew Modest Mouse had mosh pits, they seem to laid back for their fans to be doing that. What’s really awesome though is getting high on Dramamine and then listening to their music, I don’t know if your into that but it’s pretty crazy.