A few weeks before they were set to tour North America with Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden, Death Grips have broken up. (This is certainly better than just not showing up. Trent would have been pissed.)
Anyway, the Sacramento experimental noise-rap trio of Zach Hill, Stefan Burnett, and Flatlander relayed the message this afternoon via Facebook, via a handwritten note on a napkin.
Because that’s real.
UPDATE July 3, 11:06 a.m.: Trent Reznor has reacted to the news…
sorry everyone… why would I have ever thought those dudes could keep it together?
— Trent Reznor (@trent_reznor) July 3, 2014
The NIN/Soundgarden tour will come to Mansfield’s XFinity Center on July 29. And Death Grips new and apparently last record, the powers that b, will be out later this year.
Here’s their note…