Bands pull out of heavy metal festival after Kyle Rittenhouse is invited to appear

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A post shared by @southpaw.flhcThey continued: “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.”Festival organisers have announced that the Texan Slipknot tribute band named SiC will be filling in as headliners.Southpaw also shared a statement explaining that they had agreed to perform at the festival as it was raising money for a good cause and added that they “knew nothing of a particular individual being a main focus of support for the show until after accepting… This simply is not what we signed up for.

Period.”“Though we are advocates of free speech we are collectively not a political band,” the band Let Me Bleed wrote in their statement. “It wasn’t until after we agreed to play the festival that these problematic and potentially alienating entities were being used to market the show and that is something we simply cannot condone.”The Antihero Podcast – who is hosting the festival – and Tyler Hoover – Shell Shock II’s founder and CEO – both took to their social media pages to share their response to the bands pulling out.A post shared by The Antihero Podcast (@the_antihero_podcast)A post shared by Tyler (@sucka_free_sundae)“We have been silent.

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.