As it continues slashin’ its way through the golden age of the “Silver Scream,” playing to sold-out crowds across the United States on its Silver Scream-A-Thon headline tour and at stadium dates with Metallica, Ice Nine Kills is celebrating another career milestone with the news that it has earned its first RIAA-certified gold single for the 2018 fan-favorite “A Grave Mistake.”
Inspired by “The Crow” and taken from album “The Silver Scream,” the track has surpassed 100 million streams.
In an unusually worded, somewhat robotic statement, Ice Nine Kills creative mastermind and frontman Spencer Charnas said: “I am filled with human emotions after ingesting the data that my musical ensemble has achieved a golden status for the very first time. Programmed with a hauntingly harmonic minor cadence, 175 bpm and a 3/4 time signature, it sufficiently garnered more than half a million sales equivalents.”
Fans can hear the band play the freshly minted gold single on its new live album, “I Heard They Kill Live 2,” available digitally here. Captured during a sold-out home state show on Nov. 17, 2022, at the Tsongas Center in Lowell, Massachusetts, the record showcases the energy of the band’s live performances, with a set list that spans the albums “The Silver Scream” and “The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood.”
“Captured in optimal performance conditions during a sold-out operation in the geographical region of Massachusetts, this album contains high-energy sonic outputs calibrated for maximum efficiency,” Charnas said. “As a result, these auditory data files will undoubtedly prove supremely satisfactory to the devoted Ice Nine Kills user base, aka, the Cyclos!”
Physical copies of the album are set to be released Sept. 5 and can be preordered here.
“I Heard They Kill Live 2” track list:
- Funeral Derangements
- Wurst Vacation
- Hip to Be Scared
- IT Is the End
- A Grave Mistake
- Ex-Mørtis
- Stabbing in the Dark
- The Shower Scene
- Farewell II Flesh
- The American Nightmare
- Welcome to Horrorwood
All of this unfolds as Ice Nine Kills continues its sold-out Silver Scream-A-Thon tour—a two-night headline event celebrating “The Silver Scream” and “The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood.” The band also is playing to stadium audiences on Metallica’s M72 World Tour and will launch its own Hell of a Summer U.S. headline tour on Aug. 10, joined by Dayseeker, Kim Dracula, The Funeral Portrait and Mest. Tickets and VIP packages available here.
Tour dates:
Ice Nine Kills with Dayseeker, Kim Dracula, The Funeral Portrait
Sunday, August 10 – Waukee, IA – Vibrant Music Hall
Tuesday, August 12 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion
Thursday, August 14 – Tempe, AZ – Mullett Arena
Saturday, August 16 – Reno, NV – Grand Theatre at The Grand Sierra Resort
Sunday, August 17 – Garden City, ID – Revolution Concert House and Event Center
Monday, August 18 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre
Wednesday, August 20 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Union Event Center
Thursday, August 21 – Grand Junction, CO – Amphitheater at Las Colonias Park
Friday, August 22 – Albuquerque, NM – Revel Entertainment Center
Sunday, August 24 – Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
Wednesday, August 27 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee
Thursday, August 28 – Youngstown, OH – The Covelli Centre
Friday, August 29 – Sterling Heights, MI – Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill
Sunday, August 31 – Salem, VA – Salem Civic Center
Tuesday, September 2 – National Harbor, MD – The Theater at MGM National Harbor (also with Mest)
Wednesday, September 3 – Virginia Beach, VA – The Dome (also with Mest)
Friday, September 5 – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live (also with Mest)
Saturday, September 6 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – War Memorial Auditorium (also with Mest)
Saturday, September 13 – Worcester, MA – DCU Center (Silver Scream Con with Dayseeker, The Funeral Portrait, Mest, A Loss for Words)
Rounding out this latest round of Ice Nine Kills new, Charnas was the first guest on “Fire with Fire,” a new video series hosted by Ryan J. Downey. In this rare, in-depth sit-down, Charnas talks about his journey into horror, getting banned by Disney, scrapped storylines for the “A Work of Art” music video and more.
“Two months ago, I had a conversation with my colleague and spiritual mentor, the renowned music and pop culture journalist, Ryan J. Downey of Nazareth,” reads a post on Spencer’s official X account. “We discussed musical pursuits as well as the challenges and hardships of life.”
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