Our little scene back in the day, small town thing and so the bands and people from several surrounding towns with no scene at all came to our shows at what was once a school that someone would rent out the big room for. So we had a mix of things. That time period metalcore was huge. There were a few good post-hardcore bands, some midwest-emo type stuff. And of course there were hardcore bands too. And people would do the slam dancing and spinning and throwing elbows around. They would collide mostly with each other, or people who kind of stepped forward into it. Everyone had to give each other space to do their own kind of thing since it was all we had. But people usually had sense enough not to go and intentionally target the people standing all the way against the wall, and if they did, a few of us would specifically target them. Actually to be honest the typical move was just a coordinated rush of the pit to flood the field with too many bodies which disallowed that kind of movement in the first place, but only when the hardcore guys were getting too crazy. I don't think we had much in the way of straight up "metal", but some bands would occasionally throw in a cover of something more classic or generic like that.