Southpaw FLHC stay adamant to proceed on within the wake of the lingering controversy surrounding their alleged ties to Nazism. You’re seemingly conscious now that the group’s drummer Harrison Linder was seen carrying and actively selling attire from Curb Stomp Manufacturing on-line earlier this yr. That clothes firm has been singled out by the Anti-Defamation League for incorporating numerous Nazi-related imagery and messaging on their clothes and extra.
Whereas the preliminary callout of the band this previous January largely flew below the radar, the images in query resurfaced amid the discharge of the band’s new album “The Normal” final month. This time round, quite a lot of bands withdrew from the group’s summer time and fall touring plans in response, with venues and promoters shortly canceling the band’s reveals. In the end the band’s touring slate was scrapped. The group went on to difficulty this assertion, through which they denied being a racist band.
They additional claimed that Linder was unaware of the message behind the merch he was carrying. Whereas the band additional argued their level via a video assertion, the response to their rationalization has been combined.
Latest posts shared on-line by the band this week, tout rising stream counts for his or her aforementioned album “The Normal“. Rumors have additionally been circulating that Southpaw FLHC have been dropped by their label Spinefarm Data in response to the aforementioned controversy. Theprp.com reached out to Spinefarm for touch upon the matter final week however didn’t obtain a response again as of press time.
Vocalist Daryn LaMontagne issued a second video yesterday, August fifteenth, stating [transcribed via Lambgoat]:
“You realize what’s wild is that this shit’s been occurring for like per week straight now as a result of y’all don’t have anything higher to do together with your lives. Don’t y’all silly motherfuckers notice that if we have been actually a racist band, we might simply admit it? What the fuck do we’ve got to lose at this level? We began with completely nothing, constructed relationships all through all the United States, booked our personal excursions on our personal via networking and supporting different bands throughout the map, whether or not they fucked with us or not, took it to the best stage we probably might on our personal, turned a “signed” band, misplaced all of it, and we’re nonetheless right here and it’s not fucking stopping. Don’t you assume by now we might simply say it?
Do you actually assume that I give a fuck concerning the opinion of those sheep on the web? Y’all motherfuckers dwell on the web. I dwell out right here in the actual world. I don’t know what the fuck y’all obtained occurring out right here, however I’m outdoors in the actual world going to reveals, supporting bands, whether or not they fuck with me, whether or not they fuck with us or not. I’m nonetheless supporting the trigger, nonetheless placing my time and power into the identical sport that gave us a lot.
What are you really gonna do once I roll as much as the spot and placed on a pop-up present at no cost, and host an occasion in a random car parking zone with permission to be there and the police can’t do something about it? Nothing. Are you prepared to die on this hill? As a result of I can let you know this a lot, I’ve sacrificed my life for this sport. I’ve given all the pieces that I probably can. It’s all within the document.
I’ve been evicted for this shit. I’ve slept on the ground with cockroaches for this shit. Collectively, I’ve misplaced years of my life with my very own little one for the love of this sport. Did y’all actually assume that by my drummer making a mistake. as a result of he was uneducated about what he was carrying. that you simply’re gonna cease this shit?
I’ve discovered so much about all y’all since you’ve proven your true colours on-line. Fairly than stepping to us or me or my drummer as a person and asking a easy query and having a dialog like grown adults, you selected to hop on the bandwagon and air out your opinions on-line. And I hold receipts of all the pieces. Plenty of y’all are gonna must eat your phrases actual quickly, so that you picked your facet, stand on it. Better of luck to you.
Be blessed.”
