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NameAlreadyTaken

(1,440 posts)
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 09:50 AM Oct 4

Metal festival loses bands including headliner when it invites Kyle Rittenhouse

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2024/10/metal-music-festival-loses-headliner-multiple-bands-after-announcing-kyle-rittenhouse-as-guest.html

The headliner, Evergreen Terrace, said:

“Evergreen Terrace has always supported and continues to support philanthropic events for veterans, PTSD awareness, child poverty, and many more, but we will not align with an even promoting murderers such as Kyle Rittenhouse capitalizing off of their pseudo celebrity. Unfortunately, we did not do our due diligence with this particular event. Even after they offered to pull Kyle from the event, we discovered several associated entities that we simply do not agree with. As advocates for free speech we are respectfully cancelling the Shell Shock festival. We will be personally contributing to a veterans charity and urge you to do the same. The promoters have been nothing less than understand. ‘Lines we draw in the sand … depend on where we stand.’”

The headliner is now a Slipknot cover band.
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Metal festival loses bands including headliner when it invites Kyle Rittenhouse (Original Post) NameAlreadyTaken Oct 4 OP
There's a non-zero chance that the organizers have deep catalogues of NSBM Prairie Gates Oct 4 #1
Have Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller organize a Metal Fest Clouds Passing Oct 4 #2
You can get older, have more responsibilities and still hold onto Metal and Punk.. Tikki Oct 4 #5
Exactly! GB_RN Oct 4 #16
Good luck to them, but they'll suffer criticism like a country band denouncing racism or something. Silent Type Oct 4 #3
Why would they invite him in the first place ? JI7 Oct 4 #4
valid question. stopdiggin Oct 4 #6
Exactly. Ray Bruns Oct 4 #7
Everybody on the committee is responsible for not drawing a line. Martin68 Oct 4 #14
Maybe they think all metal fans are skinheads or something Mysterian Oct 4 #21
A Slipnut cover band? Was it.....The SLIPNUTZ? progressoid Oct 4 #8
Good on them. canuckledragger Oct 4 #9
The festival organizers are hard right wing SCantiGOP Oct 4 #10
They will soon be ex-festival organizers kcr Oct 4 #17
Not to mention outdoor music festivals blow IMO. Crowman2009 Oct 4 #19
and it always rains kcr Oct 4 #22
Many people dont want to be shot Johonny Oct 4 #11
Great action, great letter. Inviting Kyle Rittenhouse means the organizers are just like him. Totally stupid move. Martin68 Oct 4 #12
Most people I know who are into heavy metal thrash music are in it for the energy Warpy Oct 4 #13
so it turns out it's a fascist music festival PedroXimenez Oct 4 #15
There are a lot of cash-grab music festivals nowadays. Crowman2009 Oct 4 #18
PTSD Charity and Awareness is the Cause this supports PurgedVoter Oct 4 #20

Prairie Gates

(2,674 posts)
1. There's a non-zero chance that the organizers have deep catalogues of NSBM
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 09:57 AM
Oct 4

(National Socialist Black Metal) albums and live recordings.

How hard is it to have a metal show and not invite Kyle Rittenhouse what in the actual fuck?

Tikki

(14,791 posts)
5. You can get older, have more responsibilities and still hold onto Metal and Punk..
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 10:26 AM
Oct 4

Probably not head banging or moshing as much..but the real is holding the old, treasuring what followed and never stop
searching for what has evolved. And loving it all.

Tikki

stopdiggin

(12,665 posts)
6. valid question.
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 10:48 AM
Oct 4

that name doesn't just appear without everyone fully understanding what it represents. Somebody on that committee ....

Mysterian

(5,187 posts)
21. Maybe they think all metal fans are skinheads or something
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 12:50 PM
Oct 4

I'm glad it blew up in their faces, whoever it was.

canuckledragger

(1,897 posts)
9. Good on them.
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 11:11 AM
Oct 4

That's called integrity, folks.

I wouldn't want to have anything to do with the murdering little coward either.

SCantiGOP

(14,155 posts)
10. The festival organizers are hard right wing
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 11:11 AM
Oct 4

Another article quoted them saying that they wouldn’t give in to ‘liberal cancel culture’ or some BS. Hope they end up with a small crowd of violence seeking freaks.

kcr

(15,520 posts)
17. They will soon be ex-festival organizers
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 12:40 PM
Oct 4

The music festival boom is over, to begin with. A lot of festivals are going under, and the ones that remain are struggling. No festival is going to survive if it loses acts and puts off fans.

Crowman2009

(2,765 posts)
19. Not to mention outdoor music festivals blow IMO.
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 12:48 PM
Oct 4

It's one thing if there are multiple bands playing at an indoor venue with actual working bathrooms. But outside with portajohns during the summertime, hell no!

Martin68

(24,428 posts)
12. Great action, great letter. Inviting Kyle Rittenhouse means the organizers are just like him. Totally stupid move.
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 12:05 PM
Oct 4

Warpy

(113,102 posts)
13. Most people I know who are into heavy metal thrash music are in it for the energy
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 12:06 PM
Oct 4

but have no use for anger and violence. I wonder if this stunt has people rethinking their ticket purchases.

I know I don't want to be anywhere near that punk. He lucked out with a tame jury, or he'd be sitting where he belongs, in prison and reconsidering his love affair with his AR instead of prancing around as the darling of the extremist right wing.

Good for the bands who are canceling. Some chucklehead really miscalculated.

PedroXimenez

(562 posts)
15. so it turns out it's a fascist music festival
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 12:32 PM
Oct 4

so they should go find some fascist bands.

Good for all these bands for standing up, it's a great sign.

Crowman2009

(2,765 posts)
18. There are a lot of cash-grab music festivals nowadays.
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 12:45 PM
Oct 4

I'd rather go to a revue in an indoor facility with bathrooms already built in.

PurgedVoter

(2,396 posts)
20. PTSD Charity and Awareness is the Cause this supports
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 12:48 PM
Oct 4

Unless we are agreeing that a murdering child is demonstrating PTSD, the management of a rock festival has no business inviting Kyle Rittenhouse to show up on stage.

Remember that conservatives worship selfishness. When they run a charity, you can bet the grift is in.

Telling the truth, every single time I see a charity asking for help with veterans, I feel outrage. Phone cards for active duty soldiers, when our military owns most of the wavelengths and has deep access to communication was a pretty horrible cause. Any time I see a charity for veterans, I think, why? With all the money in the military, it seems insane that every issue is not covered well. Cake sales are for field trips, and should not be for injury, mental or physical when caused by military duty. When I was a child, having access to military medical care was the gold standard in our country.

Conservatives pretend to support the troops, but they never come through with the goods.

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