Concert moshing pointless,dangerous, student complains

The band sounded more like a bunch of animals being tortured to the beat of a heavy metal drum set, echoed by over-amplified bass and guitar.

If the music was not enough, the mosh pit was more than enough to make this suburban ritual ridiculous.

It starts when the already fast music is played at an intensified level. The pit forms somewhere in view of the stage, generally right up front.

The pushing is called moshing and the entangled circle it thrives in is called the pit.

Once a person has entered the pit it is hard, if not impossible, to leave, because the heaviest, biggest and strongest guys surround the pit and create a barrier so that no one can leave.

They are there to keep the circle going and push anyone trying to leave back into the ring.

These pits formed randomly and sporadically throughout the concert and I was lucky enough to find myself dead center of one.

Before I knew it, the pit had formed and the ritual had begun. It became a raging ring. The sweaty men stomped and pushed other moshers as they circled within the pit.

Mosh pits are nothing more than a testosterone competition and release for young punk rockers.
 

Jessica Sorensen is a public relations junior at CSULB.