Death Grips Are Bringing The Ruckus Down Under This August

21 June 2017 | 12:23 pm | Alex Sievers
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"Is this Death Grips?" Yes, it most certainly is!

"Is this Death Grips?" Yes, it most certainly is! 


Lock up your memes, the always-novel Death Grips are coming back to an Australian East Coast town near you this August.

The chaotic, noisy, and experimental Sacremento hip-hop trio of Zach Hill, Andy Morin and Stefan Burnett (AKA MC Ride himself) will hopefully be bringing as intense performances as usual for their returning Aussie voyage; the kind that old mate Anthony Fantano would cream his various jeans over.

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All novelty, Anthony Fantano's, and memey shitposting aside, Death Grips do genuinely have some royal bangers in the song vault; including 'I've Seen Footage', 'Takyon (Death Yon)', 'Spikes', 'Get Got', 'No Love', and one of their better songs in recent years, 'Ring A Bell', which you can stream below. (Also, notice how I didn't mention 'Guillotine (It goes Yah)'? Yeah, that's because that song is just genuinely trash). Songs aside, however, I am genuinely excited to catch the band as I've heard such positive things about their live shows in the past and to also witness the band's drummer Zach Hill in action would be fantastic! Seriously, that dude is just off-his-head good behind the drum kit - even more so live!

Death Grips most recent album, 'Bottomless Pit', came out last year, with a collab track with Primus's Les Claypool called 'More Than The Fairy' dropping shortly after that LP's release. As far as 2017 is concerned, last month they released a remix EP called 'Steroids' (look, it's not very good) and there have been rumours circulating that a new album is in the works as we speak. For now, though, this upcoming three-show tour will suffice.


Death Grips' 2017 Australian tour is presented by Frontier Touring. Frontier Members pre-sale begin Monday, June 26th before the tickets go live to the general public on Wednesday, June 28th. Check out the tour dates below!

Oh, and I also hate myself for that shitposting intro line. 

Death Grips Aus Tour 2017