Death Grips Unleash Pummeling, Brain-melting Bottomless Pit Comeback Single, "Hot Head" On The Eve of Superbowl 50 (Thirdworlds)
"WE ARE NOW AT OUR BEST AND SO
DEATH GRIPS
IS OVER. WE HAVE OFFICIALLY STOPPED. ALL CURRENTLY SCHEDULED LIVE DATES ARE [CANCELLED]. OUR UPCOMING DOUBLE ALBUM
THE POWERS THAT B
WILL BE DELIVERED WORLDWIDE LATER THIS YEAR VIA
HARVEST/THIRDWORLD RECORDS
.
DEATH GRIPS
WAS ALWAYS HAS BEEN A CONCEPTUAL ART EXHIBITION ANCHORED BY SOUND [AND] VISION. ABOVE AND BEYOND A "BAND." TO OUR TRUEST FANS PLEASE STAY [LEGEND],"
Death Grips
wrote within a seemingly haphazard
band break-up note uploaded to their Facebook page back in July 2014. Although, it now seems as though said disbandment was nothing more than an elaborately planned rouse, as founding members
MC Ride, Zach Hill & Flatlander
are amidst a full-fledged band reunion; having already circled the world once around, booked a number of festival dates for this upcoming summer, and are currently recording a proper follow-up to their reported "last" album,
The Powers That B
, tentatively titled
Bottomless Pit
.
Death Grips
previously
Colin Hanks
and
Robert Pattinson
. However, this past Saturday night, right around the same time old friend
Beyoncé
unveiled her empowering
Superbowl 50
single
"FOUNDATION,"
Death Grips
quietly uploaded
"Hot Head"
to their various widely speculated band-affiliated social media accounts.
For what it's worth,
"Hot Head"
isn't too dissimilar from
Death Grips'
frantic, self-destructive brand of
Yeezus
-influencing
Aggro-Rap
.
VICE
sister site
quite fittingly described
Death Grips'
triumphant return-to-form as chock-full of characteristic "revving chainsaw synths, frenetic vocal cuts,
MC Ride
's signature screams, and hellish thuds." It's probably just a mere coincidence that
Death Grips
decided to suddenly release
"Hot Head"
the same night as
Beyoncé
's latest,
"FOUNDATION,"
but it does however, make me wonder: what might a shimmering
Beyoncé
-assisted
Death Grips
track recorded with
Twilight
heart-throb
Robert Pattinson
on guitar and maybe even produced by
Kanye
, for good measure, likely sound like? While there's currently no form of scheduled or rumored release date set for
Bottomless Pit
, I really wouldn't put it past bandleader
Zach Hill
to just wake up one day and upload the entirety of
Death Grips'
"comeback" album to
YouTube
before breakfast or just haphazardly leak it in the vein of d*ck pic-sporting critically-acclaimed magnum opus,
NO LOVE DEEP WEB
. There's no telling what exactly
Death Grips
have up their figurative sleeve next, but I'm sure it will be just as riveting, trail-blazing, and utterly discouraging as their past work; I, for one, know I can't wait to write a couple equally disjointed articles about
Bottomless Pit
!