Metal music festival loses headliner, multiple bands after announcing Kyle Rittenhouse as guest
If you were planning to go to the Shell Shock II music festival in Orlando and you like Kyle Rittenhouse … well, you are in luck.
But if you were hoping to see a handful of the bands — including the headliner, Evergreen Terrace — there, well … they apparently don’t want to be on the same card as Kyle Rittenhouse.
So, instead, the new headliner for Shell Shock II, per Loudwire, will be a Slipknot cover band.
You read that right, the festival is now, apparently, down to a cover band as its headliner after announcing that Rittenhouse would attend.
I have no idea what this festival is like, nor do I know anything about the apparently four bands that have pulled out of it, but I have even less idea what the organisers were thinking. I mean, music festivals generally don’t need people making speeches anyway, metal festivals need them even less, and none of them need this cunt. So what do the organisers have to say for themselves?
“We have been silent,” a post on The Antihero Podcast Instagram reads. “But we are prepping. The liberal mob attempted to destroy Shell Shock. But we will not allow it. This is now about more than a concert. This is a war of ideology.”
Oh. So it wasn’t ideological when they hired (I nearly wrote that as “whored” for some reason; Kyle whores himself) Rittenhouse to speak at the festival, of all the fucking people they could’ve hired to speak at it if they had to hire anyone to speak in the first place? And getting a Slipknot cover band as your replacement headliner… THAT was the best you could do? None of the other bands still playing were good enough to promote? The Antihero Podcast, by the way, are a bunch of Trumpeters, which I learned from their Instagram and was somehow not surprised by this. I can’t find anything about the bands still playing the event, but whoever they are I’d be looking at them at least slightly askance from now on if they’re still OK with sharing the stage with Kill Rittenhouse. Damn shame, cos the festival’s actually in aid of veterans with PTSD, it’s a worthy charity event and that’s evidently what the bands thought they were signing up for… after this, though, I’d be surprised if Shell Shock III is ever a thing.
