B.J. LISKO 2 years ago

Darby Allin Crowd Surfs In Body Bag At Louisville Concert (w/Video)

Rapper/rocker Ghostemane performed this weekend at the Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky. The 31-year-old songwriter has made a name for himself with his merging of heavy metal, hip hop and industrial music. Lyrically, his themes focus around depression, death and the occult, and he has cited extreme metal bands as his primary influence at the start.

Ghostemane also has a fan in All Elite Wrestling superstar Darby Allin, who has used his music in some of his cinematic style wrestling promos. Allin was also in attendance at the Louder Than Life festival, and during Ghosteman’s set, he crowd surfed in a body bag. Video of the stunt is below.

Ghostemane has made quite a career for himself via streaming. In 2020, Rolling Stone interviewed him and highlighted that he had a major label deal fall through, but that it didn’t hurt him. “In the beginning, I didn’t know if I even wanted to do (a major label deal),” he said. “When it started to become real, and we were sold this dream and this plan of what was going to happen, I kind of got head over heels for the idea. This is the next step.”

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When negotiations halted, Ghostemane had already amassed his own following, so the lack of a major label deal didn’t affect him in the way it might have other artists. Rolling Stone reported: “The major-label system tends to value mammoth hit singles above all else, but while Ghostemane doesn’t have a track beaming into living rooms across America via TikTok, he has something potentially more valuable: the makings of a robust, sustainable career. Whitney has been able to sell 3,000 tickets to a show in Moscow and help his mother buy a new house.”

Ghostemane’s co-manager Jonathan Tanners said: “If you were to weigh his stats against other artists, he’s competitive against anyone who’s considered ‘hot.’”

Allin has done numerous stunts both in and out the wrestling ring, and his reckless and daring nature has endeared him to wrestling fans around the globe. He once jumped a Jeep over his own house and did a death-defying jump on a motorcycle at the Nitro Circus tour. In and around the ring, he’s taken some insane bumps, but he also is a technically-sound wrestler and considered one of AEW’s best “home grown” talents.