Metal Anarchy

Earlier today (May 18) Butcher Babies released a new song titled “Blame It On The Wind.” The group initially planned to debut the song live at the Sonic Temple festival in Columbus, OH, but their set was cancelled due to weather. As such, the band decided to post an AI-generated video to poke fun at the situation. However, they have since been flooded with comments from fans opposed to the use of AI.

Frontwoman Heidi Shepherd had the following to say about the controversy:

“As you can see here, I posted this very obviously AI video this morning as an obvious joke, like it says in the caption, which I guess people don’t read captions anymore. Yes, uh, if you don’t know, our set was unfortunately but understandably cut at Sonic Temple this past weekend because of lightning, and it was raining cats and dogs, not these cows and houses, as you see here. And look at all these comments of all these people who don’t read captions, that it was so obviously a joke, making light of the fact that we got cut because it was raining so bad.

Yes, we were gonna debut a new song, and that song did come out today. So by the way, hey, new song out, so thanks for, uh, pushing this video into other people’s algorithms. Yeah, the real music video, the real music video comes out next week. This is not a music video.

This was a joke, like it says in the caption, which nobody decided to read. So here I am defending a joke, and I guess I should know better. It’s not like I’m new to the internet. But for some reason, um, jokes don’t work here.

So anyway, go enjoy the new song. We went ahead and redid it for your viewing pleasure. Don’t be mad.”