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MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx says that Vince Neil is “on the mend” after breaking his ribs during a concert earlier in the month.

Fan-filmed video showed the 60-year-old CRÜE singer walking to the front of the stage while performing with his solo band on October 15 at the Monsters On The Mountain festival at LeConte Center in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. With his guitar strapped around him, Neil was encouraging the crowd to clap along while playing the 1989 MÖTLEY CRÜE hit “Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)” when he suddenly fell and dropped out of the camera’s view almost instantly.

TMZ later reported that there was a small gap between the speaker and the stage that Neil didn’t notice. His roadie and a security guy helped him get to his feet, and Vince “limped away.”

Now, in a new interview with Billboard, Sixx said the festival crew didn’t put down reflective tape to mark the edge of the stage, which led to the fall.

“Without that, it’s all completely black, so you can walk forward thinking there’s still stage there and fall off,” Sixx explained. “I’ve done that myself. Vince and I were laughing about one time we both fell off the stage at the same show. But he was really lucky. He said if it wasn’t a song that he was playing rhythm guitar on it could’ve been his head, which would’ve been a worse injury. The guitar broke his fall. But he’ll heal up and we’ll be ready to go on tour [with MÖTLEY CRÜE] in June.”

According to Nikki, he and his CRÜE bandmates are looking foreard to “The Stadium Tour” with DEF LEPPARD, POISON and JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS, which was originally scheduled to take place last summer but ended up being pushed back to 2021, and then to 2022, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“This tour’s been (postponed) twice,” he said. “We just didn’t have enough information at the time, with protocols and all, to go and do a stadium tour. We’re all feeling good about it now, and we can’t wait, man.”

This past May, Neil apologized to fans at his first pandemic-era performance when he began losing his voice several songs into his set.

Last month, Vince revealed that he was trying out a new toning machine in an apparent effort to get in shape for “The Stadium Tour”. The singer said he was using Emsculpt Neo, a revolutionary new treatment which supposedly builds muscle and reduces fat using both radio frequency and high-intensity electromagnetic energies.

It’s not clear how long Neil will need to recover from his injuries, but Mayo Clinic claims broken ribs usually heal on their own in one or two months.

That explains why I lost track of him in this video. I apparently captured the fall at the end of this clip. Totally agree that he looked great and was singing great. Hope the X-rays are clear and you bounce back quickly @thevinceneil pic.twitter.com/jfWT6c3rVb
— Darrell Jenkins (@bigdoftn) October 16, 2021

So, Vince Neil took the stage tonight and into the third song he fell off the stage and broke his ribs.
Check it out

Posted by Joe Wintrow on Friday, October 15, 2021

Breaking News from Metal Sludge!
Vince Neil has fallen at tonight’s Monsters on the Mountain festival and is being taken to a local area hospital now. pic.twitter.com/ahERWH34jr

— metalsludge (@MetalSludge) October 16, 2021

KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons spoke to Beond TV about the band’s upcoming second Las Vegas residency, which will kick off at the end of the year. The legendary rockers’ engagement at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood will launch the last week of December.

Regarding what fans can expect to see this time around, Gene said: “We hired a big technical staff, and to the extent that the concert facility is gonna allow us, we’re gonna blow the roof off the joint. There are gonna be things that are gonna be lifted and separated — in other words, the show is gonna come into the audience. I don’t wanna say too much about that. So wherever you are, even in the upper areas and stuff, the show is coming at you. Usually shows stay on stage. You’ll see what I mean.”

The 12 shows are as follows:

December 2021: 29, 31
January 2022: 1, 19, 21, 22, 26, 28, 29
February 2022: 2, 4, 5

The legendary rockers previously set up shop in Sin City in November 2014 at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel And Casino. The nine-show run was captured for the “Kiss Rocks Vegas” DVD and Blu-ray set, which arrived in August 2016.

Asked by Rolling Stone what brought KISS back to Las Vegas for another residency, Simmons said: “There are matters of the heart and then there are matters of the pocket and it’s nice when they both converge. So it’s a very nice payday. They pay well and that’s reason enough. But it’s also easier for the band because you don’t have the wear and tear of traveling.”

As for what kind of production the residency will have and whether it will be scaled down or on par with the touring show, Gene told 95.5 KLOS’s “New & Approved” show: “The plus side of Vegas is that now, the culture of Vegas has changed so that it welcomes punk bands and rap and all kinds of stuff and lets them do their art their way, instead of saying that Vegas is about showgirls and magicians and stuff like that. Yes, it is, but it’s also about other artists, comedians and people coming in — Mike Tyson had a talk show there; he’s a friend. If they don’t tell you what the rules are, you make the rules. You can come in and do it your way. So that’s exactly what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna be KISS, ’cause that’s all we know how to do. THE [ROLLING] STONES already exist, and [LED] ZEPPELIN already existed, so doing second best isn’t a good idea. But we can be the best KISS, and that’s what we’re gonna do when we come in and play New Year’s Eve right there at Planet Hollywood, and we’re gonna do a bunch of shows through January and February. And our good friends the fire department promised to sort of extend the limits of what you can do indoors, and it’s gonna be safe. If you’re an asshole and don’t wanna wear a mask and stay safe and do that stuff, you’re not gonna be allowed in. We wanna keep everybody safe, responsible and have the best party on earth.”

KISS is in the middle of its “End Of The Road” farewell tour, which was originally scheduled to conclude on July 17, 2021 in New York City but is now expected to last well into 2022.

KISS’s current lineup consists of original members Simmons and Paul Stanley (guitar, vocals), alongside later band additions, guitarist Tommy Thayer (since 2002) and drummer Eric Singer (on and off since 1991).

Formed in 1973 by Stanley, Simmons, drummer Peter Criss and lead guitarist Ace Frehley, KISS staged its first “farewell” tour in 2000, the last to feature the group’s original lineup.

In a new interview with Joshua Toomey of the “Talk Toomey” podcast, David Ellefson was asked if he has a copy of MEGADETH’s upcoming album with his bass tracks on it before they were replaced following his exit from the band. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I don’t, no, because it was all in sort of Dropbox and all that kind of stuff. You don’t take anything out of there; you always leave it in there. That’s the professional acumen. So, no, I do not. I don’t have a copy…. They weren’t mine to have. They belong to Universal Records. It’s their property. They paid for it; it’s their property.”

MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine has yet to reveal who played bass on the band’s new album after Ellefson’s tracks were removed from the LP following his dismissal from the group in late May.

Ellefson laid down his bass tracks on MEGADETH’s sixteenth LP in May 2020 at a studio in Nashville, Tennessee.

In July, Mustaine announced during an episode of his Gimme Radio program “The Dave Mustaine Show” that Ellefson’s bass tracks would not be used on the new MEGADETH LP.

In early May, on the same day that sexually tinged messages and explicit video footage involving Ellefson and a woman that was not his wife were posted on Twitter, he released a statement on Instagram denying all social media chatter that he “groomed” an underage fan.

On May 24, Mustaine — who formed MEGADETH with Ellefson in 1983 — announced the bassist’s departure from the band.

Ellefson was in MEGADETH from the band’s inception in 1983 to 2002, and again from 2010 until his latest exit.

For the recently completed “The Metal Tour Of The Year”, MEGADETH was rejoined by bassist James LoMenzo for the first time in nearly 12 years.

LoMenzo joined MEGADETH in 2006 and appeared on two of the group’s studio albums, 2007’s “United Abominations” and 2009’s “Endgame”. He was fired from the band in 2010 and replaced with a returning Ellefson.

In addition to MEGADETH, LoMenzo has played with Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde and WHITE LION. For the past eight years, LoMenzo has been performing with iconic rocker John Fogerty.

Slash says that GUNS N’ ROSES has yet to begin writing new material after recently releasing two reworked songs from the “Chinese Democracy”-era sessions.

Last month, the guitarist and his bandmates dropped “Hard Skool”, which came more than a month after their performance and subsequent official release of “Absurd”, a reworking of GUNS N’ ROSES previously unreleased “Silkworms”.

Slash, who is promoting the upcoming “4” album from his solo band SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS, discussed the status of new GUNS N’ ROSES music while speaking to Audacy Check In host Remy Maxwell.

“As far as new GUNS is concerned, we haven’t even gotten to that point of really in earnest sitting down and writing,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “We’ve been doing a lot of material that’s been sort of sitting around for a while. So that will be a whole focused endeavor unto itself.”

As for how “Hard Skool” and “Absurd” came about, Slash said: “They both have a lot of history. What happened was Axl [Rose, GUNS singer] has all these songs that he recorded at some point along the way. And so Duff [McKagan, GUNS bassist] and I went in and re-did them, basically… Like, I wrote my own kind of parts to what else is going on, and [we] just sort of took the drums and re-did everything else.”

Written by Rose and co-produced by Rose and Caram Costanzo, “Hard Skool”, which had the working title “Jackie Chan”, was originally recorded during GN’R’s “Chinese Democracy” era but was eventually omitted from that album. Short clips of the song were later posted online and a full version was leaked in August 2019.

On “Hard Skool”, Axl sings: “But you had to play it cool, had to do it your way/Had to be a fool, had to throw it all away/Too hard school and you thought you were here to stay/ If that were true, it wouldn’t matter anyway.”

“Hard Skool” is the title track of a new GUNS N’ ROSES four-song EP which will be released on February 25, 2022. The effort, which is exclusive to the GUNS N’ ROSES official store, contains the two new songs the band released in the last two months — “Hard Skool” and “Absurd” (stylized as “ABSUЯD”) — as well as live versions of “Don’t Cry” and “You’re Crazy”.

“Hard Skool” EP track listing:

01. Hard Skool
02. ABSUЯD
03. Don’t Cry (Live)
04. You’re Crazy (Live)

“Absurd” came out on August 6, three days after GUNS N’ ROSES performed the tune live for the first time during its concert at Boston’s Fenway Park.

GUNS N’ ROSES last performed “Silkworms”, which was also reportedly written during the “Chinese Democracy” sessions, in 2001.

If and when it happens, the new GUNS N’ ROSES studio album will be the first under the GUNS banner since “Chinese Democracy” and the first to feature Rose, Slash and McKagan since 1993.

ANTHRAX’s Frank Bello has commented on the band’s 1992 split with singer Joey Belladonna, saying “it was tough, but at that time that needed to happen.” The bassist reflected on Belladonna’s exit while chatting to Eonmusic about his just-published autobiography “Fathers, Brothers, And Sons – Surviving Anguish, Abandonment And Anthrax”. Frank also spoke about how much his loves both eras of the band: the Belladonna years, and the John Bush period, which ran from 1992 until 2005.

Said Bello: “I see ANTHRAX as two different bands — as a fan, not only as a bandmember. I just think they’re two different bands that I’m a big fan of. I really love all the songs from each band. With John, you have a different voice — you have more of a raspy voice — and Joey’s got the cleaner [tone].”

Going on to talk about the Bush-fronted catalog, Bello said: “I really enjoy — now I can listen to it — seeing John. I love John. This is all a family thing, you know what I mean? Sometimes families separate and come back. With John Bush, that was a good time in our life.”

He continued: “We came back with Joey, this is the ANTHRAX that we know and love, and I love the John Bush ANTHRAX, so for me, it’s a win-win. People have their favorites — I get it — but for me, both are my favorites because I think there’s such a great catalog of music, and I really enjoyed both terms.”

When asked how it was for him, personally, when Belladonna departed, he admitted: “It was tough. Nobody wants to make that move. It was a very tough time in the band. But you know what, at that time, that needed to happen.”

Finally, when asked what his favorite Bush-era tracks are, Frank offered: “‘Room For One More’, ‘Only’. There’s the big ones. There’s just so many. The thing is, I’m proud to say in my band, ANTHRAX, there’s a plethora of songs that I would love to play. ‘Inside Out’, I love that song. It’s just a fun song, it’s heavy as hell, it punches you in the face. There’s so many like that. I can go back and look at these records, and for me, when I think of these songs it brings be back to the studio time and then the writing of it. We’ve had nothing but great times in the history, writing this stuff and recording them.”

Read the entire in-depth chat at Eonmusic.

Back in March 2010 — just a couple of months before Belladonna rejoined ANTHRAX — ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian and his wife Pearl Aday appeared on an episode of VH1’s “That Metal Show” and took part in the program’s “The Throwdown” feature, where the guests and the hosts debated who was the best singer for ANTHRAX: Bush or Belladonna. Countering co-host Eddie Trunk’s point that ANTHRAX was in a unique position with Belladonna in the band of being able to “play incredible speed metal” while having “someone who could sing like a bird,” Ian said: “We didn’t need a bird; we needed a lion.” After Pearl offered that she was a “huge fan” of “The Greater Of Two Evils”, a collection of re-recorded older ANTHRAX tunes with Bush on vocals instead of Belladonna, Ian said: “And that’s the way we, as ANTHRAX, wanted to hear those songs.”

Belladonna, whose most recent return to ANTHRAX was officially announced in May 2010, was originally the lead singer of ANTHRAX from 1984 to 1992, and was considered part of the band’s classic lineup (alongside Dan Spitz, Scott Ian, Frank Bello and Charlie Benante), which reunited and toured during 2005 and 2006. His voice was featured on over 10 albums, which reportedly sold eight million copies worldwide.

Speaking to Radio Metal in August 2011, ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante was asked about Ian’s “That Metal Show” comments. He said: “I think Scott had to eat some of the words he said about that. But he only said that because I think he left things off with Joey kind of bad, and their relationship wasn’t very well back then when he said that. And I think Scott just harbored some ill feelings towards Joey and I think that’s kind of why he made that statement, you know?”

CANDLEBOX frontman Kevin Martin had the audience at the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix, Arizona on its feet Thursday night (October 21) when he welcomed 12-year-old TikTok star Vedder Gabriel on stage to perform the band’s hit song “Far Behind”.

Martin and Gabriel had met previously on Instagram, which later led to a rockin’ TikTok duet that caught the attention of thousands of fans. Martin quickly invited Gabriel on stage to perform the song, which led to a standing ovation.

Gabriel, who was named for Eddie Vedder, was only seven years old when he was plucked from the audience by Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto to join him on “Night Of The Hunter” at 30 SECONDS TO MARS’s inaugural Camp Mars music festival in Malibu, California. He has since sung “Tennessee Whiskey” with Chris Stapleton, “Know Your Enemy” with GREEN DAY, “Dead And Bloated” with STONE TEMPLE PILOTS and “Last Time For Everything” with Brad Paisley, among others.

Asked in a 2018 interview with the Arizona Republic how Vedder manages to find himself on stage as often as he does, his father said: “He’s fortunate. He’s crawling up me higher to see and every cell in his body is screaming every word to every song.”

His mother concurred, saying: “Even when he was that little, if he knew he was going to a concert, he would find the set list somehow and master the songs. He would listen to them and try to remember them.”

Vedder himself explained it: “I learn all their music and all their songs and if they need me, I’m ready.”

Gabriel is actually Vedder’s middle name but it’s become his stage name.

CANDLEBOX is currently wrapping up its fall tour in support of its latest album, “Wolves”.

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Fan-filmed video footage of LAST IN LINE’s October 22 performance at Penn’s Peak in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania can be seen below.

Formed in 2012 by drummer Vinny Appice, guitarist Vivian Campbell and bassist Jimmy Bain — Ronnie James Dio’s co-conspirators and co-writers on the “Holy Diver”, “Last In Line” and “Sacred Heart” albums — LAST IN LINE’s initial intent was to celebrate Ronnie James Dio’s early work by reuniting the members of the original DIO lineup. After playing shows that featured a setlist composed exclusively of material from the first three DIO albums, the band decided to move forward and create new music in a similar vein.

LAST IN LINE’s debut album, “Heavy Crown”, was released in February 2016, landing at No. 1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart. Initially, the release had been preceded by tragedy when Bain unexpectedly passed away at the age of 68 on January 23, 2016. LAST IN LINE, honoring what they knew would be Bain’s wish to keep the band moving, brought in Phil Soussan and committed to sustained touring in support of the album before beginning work on the follow-up release, 2019’s “II”.

This past June, Soussan spoke to Metal-Net.com about the progress of the writing and recording sessions for LAST IN LINE’s third album. The LP is tentatively due in 2022 via an as-yet-undisclosed record label.

“I’ve been quite motivational with the band,” Phil said. “I’m trying to keep things happening. We wanted to work on a few different aspects [during the pandemic]. I find things that we could do… We had some considerations with LAST IN LINE. I was trying to plan a streaming show. We were not able to do it because Vivian [Campbell, LAST IN LINE and DEF LEPPARD guitarist] has some preexisting health issues and he’s not really able to travel until we have some assurance that he’s going to be healthy and able to do so. So, out of respect, we tried to do some other things. We have a TV show, which was like a Zoom chat show that we would do occasionally, and that was fun. And we also had to go about getting a new record deal — we were changing labels — so that’s something we’re in the process of doing, and we’re getting pretty close now. But part of that was writing a third record. So we’ve been hard at work trying to write a third record and even record that third record while we’ve been in different locations around the world. And, obviously, this band works as a unit in every sense of the word, so it’s a real handicap not being able to be in the same room as everybody and trying to make it happen.”

In February, Appice told Metal From The Inside that former DOKKEN and current FOREIGNER bassist Jeff Pilson, who produced both “II” and 2016’s “Heavy Crown”, is not involved with the upcoming LAST IN LINE album. “We made a change,” he said. “Actually, the guy who mixed the last record, Chris Collier — he’s great; he’s working with KORN — he recorded this record. And we’re kind of producing it ourselves, between all of us.

“Jeff is great — Jeff’s a great producer, and [he has] great ideas and stuff, but we just felt that we could probably do what we wanna do now that we’re a band, we’ve been on the road, and we know what we wanna hear,” he explained. “But it’s coming out great. The stuff sounds fantastic.

“And yeah, I’ve been through a lot with Jeff Pilson. I’ve known him for years. He’s a great guy. He’s like my brother.”

Also in February, Soussan told the “Pat’s Soundbytes Unplugged” podcast that the band was working on “a very, very special song that we’re gonna be putting out fairly soon. I can’t tell you any more than that, but it is something in the interim between us coming out with a new album, or releasing a new album, and now,” he said. “So we’ll do this as a video single.”

As for the musical direction of the new LAST IN LINE material, Phil said: “The songs are another progression from the last album — the difference between ‘Heavy Crown’ and ‘II’, and now ‘II’ and whatever this next album is gonna be called; we don’t know yet, by the way. But it’s definitely evolved even more; it’s gone into even more of an evolution, but we are always trying to keep the characteristics of LAST IN LINE there. I mean, you can’t shake those things — you can’t shake Vinny’s drumming, you can’t shake Vivian’s playing. And I’d like to say the same thing about myself, and, of course, Andrew.”

Some of the early recording sessions for LAST IN LINE’s third album took place in January 2020 at Steakhouse studio in North Hollywood, California.

Two months ago, Joey Jordison’s SINSAENUM bandmate Frédéric Leclercq spoke to the Impact metal channel about the passing of the founding SLIPKNOT drummer. In the chat, which has just now been uploaded to YouTube, he was asked if he knew what caused Joey’s death, Leclercq said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “That’s not my place to discuss. Of course I know. I’m just saying it’s not my position. The family asked for privacy at that time, and I respect that. It’s just very sad.”

Asked how he would summarize Jordison’s legacy, Frédéric, a former member of DRAGONFORCE who now plays bass in KREATOR, said: “To me, he was more than a musician. To me, he was first and foremost a friend. So I lost a friend that was only 46 years old, and it hurts. He was an amazing musician, not only on drums but also he wrote amazing songs. And we were lucky enough to play together. It was great.

“I created SINSAENUM,” he continued. “He contacted me. We were looking for a drummer. Everything just fell into place. He came up with the name [a combination of the words ‘sin’ and ‘insane’). The last shows he played were with us; that’s the last thing that he played.

“I have a column in a Japanese magazine called Young Guitar, and I was doing yesterday, typing, and I just remembered the last song that he played ever was [SINSAENUM’s] ‘My Swan Song’, and I guess the title is… And that’s a song that he really loved. I remember he was just, like, ‘Yeah.’ He felt something about it. So it’s a little strange to think about it now. So I’ve been listening to the song again and again.

“I’m still processing the fact that he’s gone.”

Joey’s family confirmed that he died “peacefully in his sleep” on July 26 of an unspecified cause.

A few days after Jordison’s passing, Leclercq blasted TMZ for sharing the audio of the 911 call placed by the former SLIPKNOT drummer’s ex-girlfriend after she found him dead. On July 29, the tabloid site posted the two-and-a-half-minute phone call in which the ex-girlfriend — who continued taking care of Joey’s bills and maintaining his house in Iowa even after their split — could be heard getting very emotional when she went to his home to check on him after he hadn’t returned her messages. During the call, she indicated that Joey was “a really bad alcoholic” with “health issues,” and she revealed that the motion sensors on the house hadn’t detected any activity in days.

SLIPKNOT announced its split with Jordison in December 2013 but did not disclose the reasons for his exit. The drummer subsequently issued a statement saying that he did not quit the group.

Last month, SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor called Jordison’s death “a damn tragedy. “He was way too young, and he was way too talented to lose him like this,” Corey added in an interview with SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”. “I know a lot of people wonder about the circumstances that led to him not being in the band anymore, and it’s, like, we’re not gonna talk about that, because I’d rather talk about his legacy, which is that he helped create this band that we all have fought to keep out there and keep going. Just the fact that he’s not here now, it’s still — I still can’t believe it,” Corey said.

The same year that he exited SLIPKNOT, Jordison launched the band SCAR THE MARTYR and later, VIMIC.

Cleopatra Records has announced the signing of synthwave act PRIEST featuring former members of Grammy Award-winning Swedish rock act GHOST. Hailing from the same icy darkness of the Scandinavian inland that birthed GHOST, PRIEST consists of a trio of musicians — vocalist Mercury, who was known as Water when he played bass for GHOST, keyboardist Salt, formerly known as GHOST keyboardist Air, and programmer/ keyboardist Sulfur — who came together in 2017 and started releasing their own unique brew of electronic music that bears little sonic resemblance to their former band yet still shares the same creative DNA. But whereas GHOST borrowed their theatrics from old school horror and ’80s rock, PRIEST comes steeped in cyberpunk and industrial music.

Cleopatra owner Brian Perera states: “We’ve been living in this genre since the ’90s so we have a pretty good feel for when bands do it right, and as soon as we heard PRIEST, we knew they were something special. We see an extremely bright future ahead for the band and are thrilled to be partnering with them to make that happen.”

PRIEST concurs, saying: “Signing with such a legendary label like Cleopatra will probably be the biggest step in our career. With great knowledge of the genre we’re in, we can’t think of a better match for PRIEST. Our next album is by far the best yet and we can’t wait to unleash it to a wider and more diverse audience.”

Watch for PRIEST’s new full-length album, produced by another GHOST alumni Simon Söderberg (GHOST guitarist and producer/engineer of debut album “Opus Eponymous”) as well as a full-scale U.S. tour in summer 2022.

Last year, PRIEST released a new album called “Cyberhead”, the follow-up to its debut, “New Flesh”. “Cyberhead” was the first album since original singer Tom Åsberg (also known as Ginger Khan) left the band to pursue other projects. PRIEST mastermind Linton Rubino has taken over on vocals, which are performed by a masked character they call Mercury.

Back in 2017, GHOST leader Tobias Forge was sued by four former members of the band after being dismissed by the group’s founder the previous December. They accused the singer of cheating them out of their rightful share of the profits from the band’s album releases and world tours. The lawsuit was filed in the district court of Linköping, Sweden, where GHOST was originally based. It claimed that a partnership agreement existed between Forge and the four former members, all of whom performed anonymously in the band as Nameless Ghouls. As a result of the lawsuit, Forge was forced to reveal his identity after years of performing in a mask as Papa Emeritus. He has maintained that “no legal partnership” ever existed between him and the other members.

In May 2018, Linton, who played bass live in GHOST from 2013 to 2014 in the role of the Nameless Ghoul Water, blasted the band’s latest album, “Prequelle”, saying he was “ashamed to have been part of that” and calling the music “a joke” and “mainstream shit.”