Knocked Free and Denzel Curry have carried out their single ‘Hive Thoughts’ dwell for the primary time at a shock present in Brooklyn – watch footage under.
The Kentucky hardcore band and Florida rapper launched the monitor in February, combining Knocked Free’s metalcore sound with Curry’s rapid-fire supply and entice influences.
On Tuesday evening (July 28), they joined forces once more for a free pop-up present at Substance Skatepark in Brooklyn, which was introduced simply in the future prematurely and likewise featured New York hardcore band Combust.
Throughout Knocked Free’s set, Curry emerged to carry out his verse on ‘Hive Thoughts’ alongside frontman Bryan Garris, because the packed skatepark descended right into a mass of moshing and crowd-surfing.
Take a look at footage of the efficiency right here:
The monitor’s accompanying video was equally filmed at a skatepark, with Garris and director Eric Richter capturing the band acting at David Armstrong Excessive Park in their hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.
Garris mentioned when the monitor was first launched that the group had been speaking about working with Curry for a while, insisting that the rapper was the one artist who would be capable of make the monitor work.
“We questioned if we might pull it off and who can be down,” he mentioned. “Within the very starting, we mentioned for it to work, it must be Denzel Curry. As a result of he will get it.”
‘Hive Thoughts’ was Knocked Free’s first new music since their 2024 album ‘You Gained’t Go Earlier than You’re Supposed To‘, which included the Grammy-nominated Poppy collaboration ‘Suffocate‘.
Garris has informed NME that the rise in consideration across the group had solely inspired them to grow to be extra excessive. “We see folks reacting positively to all of this chaos that we’re introducing to our sound and we get impressed by that suggestions, impressed by previous extremes working. That’s the way it will keep,” he mentioned.
Knocked Free and Curry will start their co-headline ‘Hive Thoughts’ North American tour on the MegaCorp Pavilion in Newport, Kentucky on September 26. The 24-date run will take them throughout the continent, earlier than wrapping in Mexico Metropolis on November 8. Discover any remaining tickets right here.
Curry launched ‘Strictly 4 The Scythe‘, his collaborative album with Key Nyata and the broader Scythe collective, in March.
In a three-star assessment, NME described it as “chaotic, playful and full of character”, including: “Like its namesake, the tape hits just like the swing of a scythe: broad relatively than exact – not each minimize lands cleanly, however sufficient to make the chaos really feel intentional.”
