American metal force KING 810 have returned today with their malevolent new track, “Hungry Gods”.
Following the final instalment of their boundary-pushing Rust Belt Nu-Metal project, which saw the band release three thematically linked albums in twelve months, the new song marks the beginning of a new chapter in the band’s story; one laden with darkness, tenebrosity, and unapologetic honesty.
Speaking on the new single, vocalist and songwriter David Gunn shares:
“From natural and unnatural disasters to madness, greed, and anything that bleeds – Hungry Gods explores the idea that human affairs could be nothing more than sustenance for our more sophisticated galactic farmers.”
Listen to ‘Hungry Gods’ here.
“Hungry Gods” arrives just before KING 810‘s headline Summer Solstice tour gets underway, which also sees them perform at the critically acclaimed Hellfest this weekend. The band have also slotted in performances at Jera On Air, Graspop, and Fajtfest festivals. The tour takes the group around the U.K. and mainland Europe, before they then head back to the U.S.A. for dates with For The Fallen Dreams and Weeping Wound.
Find more information and get tickets here. See below for the full list of upcoming dates.
SUMMER SOLSTICE EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
20/06 – Hellfest, Clisson (FR) *
21/06 – Graspop, Dessel (BE) *
22/06 – Kola, Portsmouth (UK)
23/06 – Corporation, Sheffield (UK)
24/06 – Parish, Huddersfield (UK)
25/06 – Dust, Brighton (UK)
26/06 – Jera On Air, Ysselsteyn (NL)
27/06 – Belvédère, Namur (BE)
29/06 – Schlachthof, Wiesbaden (DE)
30/06 – Stadtmitte, Karlsruhe (DE)
01/07 – Backstage, Munich (DE)
02/07 – Rockhouse, Salzburg (AT)
04/07 – Fajtfest, Velké Meziříčí (CZ) *
05/07 – Dürer Kert, Budapest (HU)
* – Festival appearance
NORTH AMERICAN DATES WITH FOR THE FALLEN DREAMS & WEEPING WOUND
16/07 – WC Social Club, Chicago, IL
17/07 – Century Music Hall, Fort Wayne, IN
19/07 – Montague Music Hall, Rochester, NY
21/07 – Dingbatz, Clifton, NJ
22/07 – Scandals Live, Virginia Beach, VA
23/07 – Hangar 1819, Greensboro, NC
24/07 – Reggies, Wilmington, NC
25/07 – Trolley Pub, Summerville, SC
26/07 – Conduit, Orlando, FL
28/07 – The Orpheum, Tampa, FL
29/07 – Albatross, Jacksonville, FL
30/07 – 529, Atlanta, GA
31/07 – The End, Nashville, TN
01/08 – Hobart Art Theatre, Hobart, IN
KING 810 is an American metal band from Flint, Michigan. Formed in 2007, they have become notorious for music that explores the darkest corners of life in a town renowned for its crime and poverty statistics. With a sound that blends everything from crushing nu-metal riffs and twisted alt-rock, to experimental hip-hop, electronica and dark jazz, they stand alone as true originals, proudly apart from the common modern metal herd.
KING 810 punctured the mainstream consciousness in 2012, when their Midwest Monsters EP earned them a deal with Roadrunner Records. A second EP, Proem, followed in 2014, and the band’s full-length debut Memoirs Of A Murderer emerged to great acclaim later that year, and secured the band significant press coverage, particularly in the UK.
KING 810 have always done things their own way. In 2015, they broke new ground with digital EP Midwest Monsters 2: a collaboration with DJ Drama, featuring luminaries from the hip-hop world, including Freddie Gibbs, and a wholly new take on the much-abused rap/metal crossover.
The following year, KING 810 released their first masterpiece, La Petite Mort Or A Conversation With God. A bold and audacious artistic statement, it earned more ecstatic reviews and cemented its creators’ reputation as heavy music’s most intelligent and ambitious outlaws. Built around the extraordinary, visceral poetry and prose of frontman David Gunn, KING’s second album screamed their uniqueness from the rooftops. The acoustic respite of the Queen EP followed, before KING 810 cut their big label ties and embraced independence with 2018’s gleaming, esoteric Suicide King album.
More recently, Flint’s finest have been spotted around the world, performing increasingly artful and theatrical live shows, for a fiercely loyal fan base that have been there from the start. KING 810 reprised the subversive thuggery of their early works on 2020’s apocalyptic AK Concerto No.47, 11th Movement In G Major; and dropped their most vivid and absorbing material yet, on 2023’s K5: follow my tears EP. Never ones to do the same thing twice, 2024 brought on under the black rainbow, an episodic full length occult film with an accompanying EP by the same name serving as soundtrack.
Over the last year, KING 810 recorded and released three full albums (K6, K7, K8 Rustbelt Nu Metal series) live in front of studio audiences – no metronome, no overdubs, no programming. Endlessly creative, always plotting their next move, KING 810 continue to stride where no else dares, armed with nothing more than the bloody truth.
KING 810:
David Gunn – vocals, guitar, keyboards
Eugene Gill – bass
John Paul Vega – drums
Bryce Ballinger – guitar
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