Metal festival loses bands including headliner when it invites Kyle Rittenhouse [View all]

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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.