Rapper $NOT claims that he has been subjected to online abuse from “racist metalheads” after Mikey Doling of metal band SNOT lashed out at LIMP BIZKIT for agreeing to take $NOT out as one of the support acts on its spring 2022 tour.

On Saturday (March 19), Doling shared a since-deleted video message on his social media in which he called out LIMP BIZKIT frontman Fred Durst — whom he referred to as a “friend” — for seemingly having approved the addition of $NOT to LIMP BIZKIT’s upcoming tour.

He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Mikey Doling here from the real SNOT. I’m making this video because there is a young rapper kid out there calling himself $NOT. I heard about him about a year and a half ago. [I] didn’t think nothing of it because he was in the hip-hop world, rapper — different worlds altogether. Well, now he has stepped into our lane, and I need to address it.

“LIMP BIZKIT just posted [dates for] a new tour, and they are taking this rapper kid named $NOT on tour with them,” he continued. “And I wanted to say to [LIMP BIZKIT frontman] Fred Durst, if you see this video, how dare you, man? You were friends with SNOT. SNOT loved you, man. You came onstage with us and performed. Lynn [Strait, late SNOT frontman] went on stage with you in Boston. And you know the incident I’m talking about. We were friends. We shared drinks, stage, music [and] all that, and all these years later you take an artist named $NOT on tour with you? What the fuck is that, man? Bullshit.

“So, yeah. I had to address it,” Doling added. “That’s my two cents. And to that fake $NOT kid — [extends middle finger] right there, brother. There’s only one fucking SNOT. Get some.”

One day after BLABBERMOUTH.NET published an article on Doling’s comments, $NOT took to his Twitter to share a link to a XXL magazine story about the BLABBERMOUTH.NET report, and he included the following comment: “This actually ridiculous. Old man mad about my name.”

Two days later, $NOT returned to Twitter to say that he had apparently been hit with some vicious online attacks. “These racist metal heads won’t leave me alone dawg,” he wrote.

The 24-year-old $NOT, who was born in New York to Haitian and Dominican parents as Edy Edouard, and lived in the city until age 7, spent most of his life in Lake Worth, Florida, and still resides in the Sunshine State. He made his musical debut with the 2017 single “By Myself”.

SNOT disbanded in 1998 following the death of singer Lynn Strait, putting an end to a career that generated considerable promise but only one studio album, the 1997 Geffen Records release “Get Some”. Also killed was the band’s mascot Dobbs, Strait’s dog who adorned the cover of SNOT’s debut album. The band had been writing material for its sophomore CD and had completed ten songs at the time of Strait’s tragic passing. As a memorial to Strait, SNOT eventually decided to release those tracks, with lyrics and guest vocals provided by a host of stars from the alt-metal community. The resulting album, “Strait Up”, was a fitting tribute from Strait’s peers and friends, featuring members of LIMP BIZKIT, KORN, SLIPKNOT, SEVENDUST, (HED) P.E., COAL CHAMBER, SUGAR RAY, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, SOULFLY, and more.

In 2014, SNOT recruited Carl Bensley (VITIATE, CONSUME THE FIRE) to sing for the band following the departure of Tommy “Vext” Cummings (ex-BAD WOLVES, DIVINE HERESY).

Vext fronted SNOT in 2008-2009 before he and guitarist Sonny Mayo exited the group amid “strained relationships.”

LIMP BIZKIT’s month-long “Still Sucks Tour” will kick off in the band’s former home state of Florida and will include a stop in New York City at Madison Square Garden (May 13) as well as cross-country shows in Baltimore (May 15) and Las Vegas (May 28) before concluding with a Los Angeles-area date (Ontario on May 31). LIMP BIZKIT will be supported by SCOWL, WARGASM UK, $NOT, DYING WISH and YUNG GRAVY for various shows.

This actually ridiculous. Old man mad about my name. https://t.co/owe7M86WCd
— $NOT (@snot) March 21, 2022

These racist metal heads won’t leave me alone dawg ?
— $NOT (@snot) March 22, 2022

SLIPKNOT drummer Jay Weinberg spoke to Decker of Wisconsin’s WZOR (Razor 94.7/104.7) radio station about the musical direction of the band’s upcoming follow-up to 2019’s “We Are Not Your Kind” album. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I would say we kind of turned up the dials on experimentation. And there’s some new things happening that are really exciting, really interesting, stuff that maybe I wouldn’t have even expected us to pull out of our hat. We’ve got a song that’s like the heaviest blues song on earth, and stuff like that that’s super exciting to hear what the guys are doing. Then, once we’re working on the instrumental for a while, then we get to hear what Corey [Taylor, vocals] brings to the table and how that elevates things and turns things into newer and better and whatever… It’s very exciting to hear that kind of taking shape. But, man, there’s so much in it that is trademark SLIPKNOT. We’re not gonna get away from that; we can’t escape that even if we wanted to. There are certain things that are just touchstones of what we are, and I think we’re really happy with that. And the fact that we can try to find new ways of presenting those elements — the loud, the fast, the abrasive, the discordant, all that is there for sure. And that’s really exciting. I think [last year’s single] ‘The Chapeltown Rag’ is a great example of that. I think that’s a song that’s us kind of at peak energy and chaos. But what also really excites me is the way that we push things in experimental ways without questioning it. It’s just kind of, like, ‘This is what we wanna do. And people can take it or leave it. We don’t really care.’ Like on our last record, ‘Spiders’ was a great example of a song that is totally out of no playbook of SLIPKNOT’s, but we make it SLIPKNOT. I think now that we’re kind of in this final stage of mixing this album, I think I’m confident in saying that we just kind of turned up the dials on all that experimentation. And there’s some really, really new stuff that’s super exciting. And I hope it makes its way onto the stage soon. It’s gonna be exciting to share.”

Asked how songs come together during the SLIPKNOT writing process, Jay said: “In a myriad of ways. There’s really no one set formula for anything that happens. I think the one thing that we can all expect when we embark on making a new album — ’cause it takes so much, it takes so much time and energy and thought — the one thing, I think, that we try to maintain is that each process is pretty different. We wanna push ourselves, and the only way you’re gonna push yourself is to change it up, make yourself uncomfortable in situations so you can become comfortable in those situations. And so I think pushing what we do to the extreme — you wanna kind of level up, for lack of a better term, each time you kind of go back to the drawing table.”

He continued: “Now, after [making] three records [with SLIPKNOT], I know there are certain patterns of the way that we work together and our musical chemistry and the trust that’s there. ‘Cause we’re all kind of trusting each other to make the greatest thing possible. So that could start with a lyric, it could start with a guitar riff, it could start with a drum beat, it could start with something that Sid [Wilson, turntablist] pulls from outer space. There’s a million different ways to go about it.

“My first record with the band, ‘[.5:] The Gray Chapter’ [2014], was very much like… I’m very proud of it, but I can tell in it, it was a lot of getting up to speed and really feeling out my new bandmates. ‘Cause I joined the band and literally the next day we were working on demos for that record. Then so much of it is informed by our live show. I find that when we went in to make ‘We Are Not Your Kind’, so much of what we were doing was informed by how our natural musical chemistry is and how we are on stage, really, I feel, made it into that record. And then making this record, I think, was kind of just following more down that wormhole. And working with new people. This time around, we were able to work with [producer] Joe Barresi, which was an exciting time. I loved working with Greg Fidelman, who did our last two records, but working with Joe this time was different and a lot of fun. And yeah, the creation is just so thorough and it takes so much of all of us. It’s so much more than I could have ever expected, being an outsider of the band and now having made three records. It’s a gnarly experience that tests everybody, but I think the music, at the end of the day, kind of speaks for itself. And we’re very happy with it.”

Last month, Taylor told SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” about the the new SLIPKNOT material: “It’s really killer, man. It’s darker than ‘We Are Not Your Kind’, but there’s a ton of melody. I’ve been telling everybody that it’s like a heavier version of ‘Vol. 3[: (The Subliminal Verses)]’. It’s got so many textures and layers. The heavy stuff has attack but the melodic stuff you can just sink your teeth in; there’s a lot of great melodies and hooks. I’m really, really excited for people to hear it.”

The 2022 iteration of SLIPKNOT’s “Knotfest Roadshow” tour is taking place over two legs, both headlined by SLIPKNOT. The first leg features special guests IN THIS MOMENT and WAGE WAR. The second leg will feature special guests CYPRESS HILL and HO99O9.

The first leg of the 38-date tour, produced by Live Nation, kicked off in Fargo, North Dakota on Wednesday, March 16 and is hitting a further 17 cities before wrapping up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Sunday, April 17. The second leg kicks off on Wednesday, May 18 in University Park, Pennsylvania and hits a further 17 cites before culminating on Sunday, June 18 in Chula Vista, California.

“Knotfest Roadshow” 2022 is part of Live Nation’s Live Stubs initiative which provides digital collectible NFT ticket stubs to ticket holders. Live Stubs will automatically be included with tickets purchased for the tour. Fans will also be able to view, share, gift, trade, and resell their live stubs on LiveNation.com.

“We Are Not Your Kind” was released in August 2019. The LP sold 118,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week of release to land at position No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Furthermore, the album made an impact worldwide with No. 1 debuts in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Australia, Canada, Japan, Ireland, Belgium, Portugal and Finland, as well as Top 5 debuts in Germany, France, Norway, Italy, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain and New Zealand.

According to TMZ, one of KORN’s tour buses was hit by gunfire while parked outside a hotel in Davenport, Iowa on Thursday (March 24).

A spokesperson for the Davenport Police Department told the tabloid site that they got a call Friday morning around 7:41 a.m. for a vehicle that had been hit overnight. A single bullet pierced the exterior wall of the bus — which was parked on the street outside a hotel — and was found inside the cabin. No one was on board at the time of the shooting and no other damage was reported. The incident is currently under investigation.

KORN — with support acts CHEVELLE and CODE ORANGE — is scheduled to play Friday at TaxSlayer Center in Moline. The three bands performed in Saginaw, Michigan on Wednesday.

KORN is touring in support of its latest album, “Requiem”, which was released on February 4 via Loma Vista Recordings.

KORN kicked off a short run of shows with SYSTEM OF A DOWN on January 31 in Phoenix, followed by dates in San Diego (February 1) and Los Angeles (February 4 and February 5). KORN’s headlining tour with CHEVELLE and CODE ORANGE launched on March 4.

’90s metal band Korn is in town for a concert at Moline’s TaxSlayer Center with bands Chevelle and Code Orange and stopped at nearby Abernathy’s. Davenport police, though, would not say whether the damaged bus was associated with the band or concert… https://t.co/5oMG0Y53JR
— qctoday (@myqctoday) March 25, 2022

IN FLAMES guitarist Björn Gelotte has confirmed that the band’s upcoming album was once again recorded with Grammy-nominated producer Howard Benson and Howard’s longtime engineer Mike Plotnikoff.

Gelotte discussed the progress of the recording sessions for IN FLAMES’ fourteenth studio album while taking part in an online video chat on “The Metal Tour Of The Year” Instagram on March 14.

“We just recorded [our new album], actually,” Björn said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “We came home three days before we came [to Germany to start rehearsing for the currently ongoing U.K. tour]. We worked [in Los Angeles] with Howard Benson and his team. It’s really, really good, and it suits us perfectly. The weather — January in Sweden is not very fun, and January in L.A., it’s amazing.”

Asked if Benson has his own recording studio in California, Gelotte said: “He’s got a couple [of studios], actually. It’s like a house where he has a few rooms, which is the studio. And that’s where we do all guitars, bass and drums and all that stuff. But he’s doing all the vocals at his house; he’s got his own studio set up there. So [IN FLAMES singer] Anders [Fridén records his vocal tracks] there, and I’m in the house with Mike Plotnikoff, working on riffs and stuff. Yeah, it’s awesome. This is the third record we [have done] with them, and it just works out really, really good for us.”

IN FLAMES’ follow-up to 2019’s “I, The Mask” is due later in the year. The upcoming album will mark the band’s recording debut with American drummer Tanner Wayne, best known for his work with UNDERMINDED, SCARY KIDS SCARING KIDS and CHIODOS. Wayne joined IN FLAMES following the departure of Joe Rickard, who played on “I, The Mask” and 2016’s “Battles”.

Tanner made his live debut with IN FLAMES in July 2018 in Brno, Czech Republic.

Longtime IN FLAMES drummer Daniel Svensson announced in 2015 that he was leaving the band to focus on his family life.

IN FLAMES’ current lineup features American bassist Bryce Paul, who has been playing most of the shows with the group since longtime bassist Peter Iwers’s November 2016 exit.

Three years ago, IN FLAMES guitarist Niclas Engelin stopped touring with the band to focus on “personal matters.” Filling in for him since then has been former MEGADETH and current ACT OF DEFIANCE guitarist Chris Broderick.

In August 2020, IN FLAMES released a special 20th-anniversary edition of its seminal, critically acclaimed album “Clayman”. “Clayman 20th Anniversary Edition” came entirely remastered by Ted Jensen (PANTERA, DEFTONES, GOJIRA) and featured all-new artwork in a 16-page booklet, a brand-new instrumental medley plus four re-recorded versions of fan favorites such as “Only For The Weak” and “Pinball Map”.

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