During Pain Of Truth’s July 22 show at Proyecto in Los Angeles, CA, the band were joined onstage by Denzel Curry for a performance of “The Test.” You can see official footage of that below:
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Slipknot’s Clown Launches New Project O’ Day Monster
Slipknot percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan has launched a new project called O’ Day Monster. An AI-generated video for its first single, “Un Life,” can be found below:
Crahan commented via theclown.com:
“Welcome everyone, to the new home of all my artistic endeavors. If you’ve been following me for a while, you know it’s been a challenge to get the .com to a place where I feel I can contemplate, and present, all my creative memories caught with one brush – or several brushes combined. And yes, sometimes there’s no brush that can express the deep inner self.
It’s been difficult for me to share all these expressions of mine, mainly because of time. With that said, I believe I’m at a crossing where my heart is telling me to share the life I have lived. It’s been an incredible journey so far, and I need to utilize some time and get busy now, to reveal all that has been hidden behind the curtain. Forms and brushes, like fingerpainting when I was young.
My mother and I shared the love of writing; she encouraged me to write exactly how I truly felt. And to revise, revise, revise so the work could be it’s truest self. Then there’s painting, drawing, performing, directing, producing, single frames, moving frames, Polaroids, scans, 3-D animation, AI images, coding, level creation for video games, recording my songs in Pro Tools, using plugins to expand my experience, exploring gear, connecting dots, and my newest path – modular synths controlled voltage, frequency, vibration and circuitry. There’s much, much more to find and explore in the lane known as my life. It’s time to grab it all, and move it to it’s new home, here at the .com.
This is where you get the unedited me. The no-filtered me. The no-paraphrasing me; you’ll get no lies from me. Just the racing thoughts of imagination that make their way to some sort of canvas or canvases, time-stamped and put here, in it’s resting place.
As always, it’s going to be a great while before it’ll all be up, if indeed it can be put up. It takes a lot of work, but that’s what’s next – the time to explore all this together. I can’t wait to go down this wormhole and share thoughts with you about vision and one’s self, concentrated on output.
I was told once I was like a Renaissance artist, meaning I would do a little bit of all of it, and that’s exactly what I’ve done with my life. Make the love I have for art be the introduction to creating further interests. This has been my personal hobby to create, calculate, and then demand output. You can use all methods, old and new. I’ve come to learn to utilize fear and misunderstanding to dig so deep within my own ability to conjure the scratch. To dream about shedding a tear because of the depth of the subconscious, and the ultimate need to then bring it to life – to feed the knowledge and hopefully set forth a possible understanding that brings lives together, or apart.
One last thing before I am done here. Check out my new project called O’ Day Monster on the feature page here. I’ve entered a time in my life where I wanted to create something I could conduct and drive, with words. I wanted to create the spaceship I could drive with my words.
I’ve always wanted to have someone sing my words with the conviction that the subject matter demanded. Many close friends and I came together to help bring the battle of “me against me” to life. This has been my suffering, and salvation, my entire life. You know, the “I’m my own worst enemy” kind of situation. I am very blessed to have several friends who believe in me, the music, and my words enough to bring all this new color to life to taste and smell. To hold and connect with.
Either way, the choice is yours. I just know I’ve never had a choice – in the end, it just simply is me. And I want it to find those to whom it speaks, those who take something from it. I hope you enjoy this world I’ve created. Maybe the feeling you get when you arrive is an internal feeling. One that feels like you’ve been here before. Familiarity would be nice. So explore, and hopefully I’ll see you somewhere here beneath all the shadows.
To all that helped bring my art, my vision, and my scratch to life: Thank you with all my heart. I hope you all enjoy what we have put together for you. It’s not much yet, but it will keep expanding outwards – until it is no more.
Until then, ‘Enjoy, thank you, and live your life’.”
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Asking Alexandria’s Danny Worsnop Addresses His Lack Of Involvement In The Business Side Of The Band
Asking Alexandria’s Danny Worsnop has offered more insight into his role in the band. The singer still performs with the group, but is not part of the actual business side of things.
Worsnop had the following exchange with Sumerian Records founder Ash Avildsen:
Avildsen: “asking alexandria should be his focus and back on sumerian when they were peak button —->”
Worsnop: “@ashavildsen you better than most should know that I never rejoined the band and don’t have any control or say or involvement in the business decisions or operations of the band. I play no part in either direction in you sending them an offer and then accepting or refusing it. I’m not (or wouldn’t be) on the deal so don’t have a dog in that fight in either direction. As for my “focus”, it also isn’t within my control when the band does and doesn’t want to work or not work. If you want an Asking Alexandria album on your label, maybe don’t focus on trying to pressure the guy who wouldn’t be making that call and who’s name wouldn’t be on the contract and focus on the guys who would.”
He also had a separate exchange with a fan:
Fan: “All the guys in Asking are fucking amazing, but dude… you are the band to me. If you’re not a part of it, then so be it. I’ll still be a forever fan. And I’ll always say this, Danny: I’ve been to a lot of shows, and your vocals are hands down the best I’ve ever heard live. Megadeth comes in at a very close second, but you still take the top spot.”
Worsnop: “I may not be a part of the business, but that doesn’t change anything in terms of us being friends who love playing music together. I don’t even know if anybody wins if I were to rejoin the business…
I’d have to read more emails and take more meetings and vote/weigh in on business and creative decisions… would also make votes even, which means stalemates now exist with two saying yes and two saying no…”
[via Reddit]
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Staind Share “Fade” Live Video
Staind have shared a live video for their song “Fade.” You can check that out below. The track will appear on the live version of the band’s 2001 album, “Break The Cycle,” which will be released on August 21.
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Sleep Token’s “Take Me Back To Eden” Goes Platinum In The U.S.
Sleep Token’s “Take Me Back To Eden” has been certified platinum by the RIAA. The album achieved the status after shifting 1 million units in the U.S.
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Emma Ruth Rundle Shares “Enough” Music Video, Announces Fall U.S. Tour
Emma Ruth Rundle has premiered a new video for her new song “Enough.” You can find that below. The track is from her new album, “These Killing Times,” which will be released on September 18.
Rundle commented:
“‘Enough’ is inspired by the ‘Man Who Sold The World’ – and in a retelling of the story of Elijah, we imagine him as an Elon Musk type figure – we ask – is not the whole world enough? We ask the many gods to unleash vengeance and carry this man away into the angry sky – piece by piece – this song is a reflection of the times we live in and is a vision for the dispensation of the billionaire class. The world belongs to all beings.”
In other news, Rundle has also announced a fall U.S. tour. This includes solo shows supporting All Them Witches and full band headlining shows with Cinder Well. Here’s the dates:
With All Them Witches:
10/10 Chattanooga, TN – The Signal
10/11 Ponte Vedra Beach, FL – Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
10/12 Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club
10/13 Charleston, SC – Charleston Music Hall
10/14 Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre
10/15 Norfolk, VA – The NorVa
10/16 Harrisburg, PA – XL Live
10/17 Asbury Park, NJ – The Stone Pony
10/18 Norwalk, CT – District Music Hall
10/19 Portsmouth, NH – 3S Artspace
10/20 South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
10/21 Albany, NY – Empire Live
10/22 Buffalo, NY – Electric City
10/23 McKees Rocks, PA – Roxian Theatre
10/24 Indianapolis, IN – HI-FI Annex
10/25 Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection
10/26 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
10/27 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
10/28 Des Moines, IA – Wooly’s
10/29 Bloomington, IL – The Castle Theatre
10/30 Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’sWith Cinder Well:
11/24 Seattle, WA – Neumos
11/25 Portland, OR – Polaris Hall
11/27 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
11/28 Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
11/29 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
12/01 Austin, TX – 29th Street Ballroom
12/02 Dallas, TX – Puzzles
12/04 Atlanta, GA – The EARL
12/05 Nashville, TN – EXIT/IN
12/06 Asheville, NC –
12/08 Washington, DC – Black Cat
12/09 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
12/10 Brooklyn, NY – Saint Vitus Bar
12/12 Boston, MA – Saddest Day Festival
12/14 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom & Tavern
12/15 Detroit, MI – El Club
12/16 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
12/18 Omaha, NE – Reverb Lounge
12/19 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
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