Death Grips Calls it Quits

You can forget about seeing Death Grips on the Nine Inch Nails / Soundgarden tour this summer. The experimental hip hop band from Sacramento says it “is over.”

Photo: John Davisson

Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Great Stage Park, Manchester, Tenn.

In a message posted on the band’s Facebook page, Death Grips not only scrubbed its current touring calendar but said the group is no more.

“we are now at our best and so Death Grips is over. we have officially stopped. All currently scheduled live dates are canceled. Our upcoming double album ‘the powers that b’ will still be delivered worldwide later this year via Harvest/Third Worlds Records. Death Grips was and always has been a conceptual art exhibition anchored by sound and vision. above and beyond a ‘band’. To our truest fans, please stay legend.”

This isn’t the first time Death Grips has flushed its touring schedule. The group failed to make its scheduled appearance at Lollapalooza last year and canceled dates immediately following festival. Two months later, the Fun Fun Fun Festival in Austin, Texas, dropped Death Grips from its lineup, saying the group had canceled its entire fall tour.