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First, Tony Hawk sang “Superman” with a Tony Hawk Pro Skater screen band. Then, Tony, 55, jumped connected stage to sing the opus with the actual Goldfinger. After that, the skateboarding fable covered Nine Inch Nails‘ “Wish” with Mike and His Uke (with peculiar cameo from Trent Reznor.) Now, Tony’s later-stage vocation arsenic a vocalist takes a synth-pop turn, acknowledgment to Liquid Death. The h2o institution — known for its decease metallic imagery and its sustainable cans — released Greatest Hates Vol. 3, the latest installment of putting the real-life hatred comments the marque received to music.
“It wasn’t until I lent my vocals to ‘Worst Name For A Water Company’ that I realized my existent imaginable arsenic a singer,” said Tony with the merchandise of the album. “I americium present acceptable to boldly measurement into my adjacent vocation acknowledgment to the foresight of Liquid Death. Rick Rubin amended beryllium ready.” Jason Ellis, erstwhile pro-skateboarder and big of SiriusXM’s The Jason Ellis Show, adds, ” I discovered that Tony Hawk is 1 of the GREATEST vocalists of our time.”
The medium besides boasts Aaron Thompson (of Soft Faith), Chris Cole (skater/designer), Frank Iero (of LS Dunes), Jen Razavi (of The Bombpops), musician Kayleigh Goldsworthy, Lexie Papilion, Mark McGrath (of Sugar Ray), Shapel Lacey (of Mad Peaceful and the Lesser Known Characters podcast), Toby Morse (of H2O), Tony Haijar (of At The Drive-In/Sparta) and Tony Kanal (of No Doubt). Fans tin instrumentality location this medium connected pinkish vinyl, connected sale present astatine Liquid Death’s site.
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Since arriving successful 2019, Liquid Death has drawn immoderate large disapproval for its sanction and its product. The decease imagery has drawn the ire of the religious, arsenic heard successful “F**k Whoever Started This,” and the information that it’s canned h2o has upset those, arsenic heard successful “There’s Not Even Alcohol In It.” Since it began selling online, the marque has expanded to see flavored sparkling variations, and successful 2023, its ain caffeinated beverage brands: Armless Palmer, Grim Leafer, and Rest In Peach.
Because determination was specified a deluge of hatred and disorder implicit Liquid Death, the marque made lemonade retired of these sour comments by releasing 2 volumes of Greatest Hates. These real, existent comments were acceptable to music, often metallic and punk tunes that matched the aggression displayed successful these hateful reactions. Volume 3 is the archetypal clip the bid has gone successful a non-metal/punk direction, producing immoderate catchy tunes. (“F**k Whoever Started This” is simply a bop, and you can’t contradict that.)
Liquid Death is nary alien to moving with euphony groups. Punk set Wolf-Face wrote a jingle for them, and Liquid Death launched “Cans For Bands” initiative, offering 50% of each income to bands that partake successful its profit-sharing program, Death Peddlers United. The marque adjacent teamed with Travis Barker to motorboat the first-ever celebrity-endorsed enema kit. The Travis Barker x Liquid Death Enema of the State kit included a signed tin of Liquid Death Mountain Water and a branded enema bulb. They were priced astatine $182 (for Travis’s band, blink-182) and rapidly sold out.
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