Metal music festival loses headliner, multiple bands after announcing Kyle Rittenhouse as guest

Updated: Oct. 04, 2024, 6:59 a.m. | Published: Oct. 03, 2024, 5:00 a.m.


The Shell Shock II festival has lost several acts since announcing Kyle Rittenhouse as a guest. (Sean Krajacic/The Kenosha News via AP, Pool)

By Brian Linder | blinder@pennlive.com

If you were planning to go to the Shell Shock II music festival in Orlando and you like Kyle Rittenhouse … well, you are in luck.

But if you were hoping to see a handful of the bands — including the headliner, Evergreen Terrace — there, well … they apparently don’t want to be on the same card as Kyle Rittenhouse.

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So, instead, the new headliner for Shell Shock II, per Loudwire, will be a Slipknot cover band.

You read that right, the festival is now, apparently, down to a cover band as its headliner after announcing that Rittenhouse would attend. ... The unraveling began when Evergreen Terrace pulled out.

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