King 810

When King 810 frontman David Gunn was severely beaten up during a robbery in 2012 he channelled his experiences into the band’s maiden EP ’Midwest Monsters’. Two years later this resulted in their first long player ‘Memoirs of a Murderer’, a commercial success that turned heads both in the US and beyond. In 2019 the heavy metal/nu-metal/punk rock band returned to the limelight with ‘Suicide King’, a many-faceted colourful cocktail of rap, hip hop and aggressive metal with the violent life in their hometown Flint as the central theme. Gunn was said – and has admitted – to have taken part in the 6 January storming of the Capitol but ultimately no charges were brought against him. Over the last couple of years they’ve been particularly busy with the release of the RBNM (rust-belt nu-metal) trilogy. (#GMM26)