Trivium‘s Matt Heafy has inserted himself into the ongoing beef between Machine Gun Kelly and Slipknot, criticising the former for his “16-year-old pop punk cosplay identity.”MGK sparked an uproar this month when he hit out at the veteran masked band at Chicago’s Riot Fest, saying onstage: “You wanna know what I’m really happy that I’m not doing?
Being 50-years-old wearing a fucking weird mask on a fucking stage, talking shit.”His onstage diss came after Taylor appeared to dismissively allude to Kelly in an interview earlier this year: “I hate all new rock for the most part.
I [hate] the artists who failed in one genre and decided to go rock and I think he knows who he is.”Referencing Kelly’s onstage comments, Heafy tweeted: “I’d like to.
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