Metal Anarchy

Blessthefall have removed their “Bless The Slice” shirt from their merch store. The band made the decision after facing backlash for the design, which was created with AI.

The group commented:

“We’ve seen the concerns about the shirt design and want to address it directly

The artwork came from the assest our director made for the ‘MALLXCORE‘ music video. It was originally just something fun for the video — we never planned to turn it into merch. We only made the shirt because people asked for it.

The design was supposed to be a nod to our first Hot Topic shirt ‘Cat Barf’, and we didn’t realize the new version invovled AI.

Using AI like that is lame and we get why people are frustrated. There was never any intention to cut artists out or be shady

We just didn’t look closely enough at how the design was created and we’ll be pulling it from our online store.

Thanks to everyone who pointed it out. We hear you, and we’ll do better moving forward.”