Death Grips announce split
Death Grips have announced what seems to be their demise, confirming the news via Facebook.
In a note scrawled onto a napkin, the noise-rap outfit cite reaching their peak as the reason for their split. “We are now at our best and so Death Grips is over”.
They add that all upcoming live dates are cancelled but their forthcoming double album will still be released as planned.
Read the full post below and view the handwritten note here.
we are now at our best and so Death Grips is over. we have officially stopped. all currently scheduled live dates are canceled. our upcoming double album “the powers that b” will still be delivered worldwide later this year via Harvest/Third Worlds Records. Death Grips was and always has been a conceptual art exhibition anchored by sound and vision. above and beyond a “band”. to our truest fans, please stay legend.
Here’s what Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor - who was about to take the group on tour as supports - had to say on the matter:
sorry everyone… why would I have ever thought those dudes could keep it together?
— Trent Reznor (@trent_reznor) July 3, 2014
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