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What Banana Man Said After the Incident
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Shortly after the incident, the concertgoer in the banana costume sharedonInstagram Stories, “”People have been trying to dim my sparkle my entire life. It sucks, but I’m used to it. I’ve surfed hundreds of people in this suit, all genders, all ages, safely. Especially, a lot of first timers that felt safe to approach me for their first surf.”
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He continued, “@enditbaltmore two of your band members crossed the line…and I’m obligated to speak on it. Fuck the police? While policing what people wear? Take off, hoser. The message last night; Conform or get called out, exactly the opposite of what hardcore is supposed to be. I was an unwilling participant, attacked and clothing removed at the direction of a band I paid to see… What would you do?”
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READ MORE:25 Legendary Hardcore + Punk Albums With No Weak Songs
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Then, while appearing on The Beardo and Weirdo podcast, Banana Man shared, “There was no pretext to it that I understood. I also didn’t do hours of research on this band before arriving to the show, cause like you said, I was there for the headliner. I think you can see my happiness as he calls me and I reach for a handshake and he goes, ‘No, no, no. You don’t get rewarded.’ I was gonna say, ‘Hey, Scott welcome to Toronto,’ but that took a turn pretty quickly.”
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Calling the experience “weird,” he added, “”I’m a pretty big person, I’m 200 pounds and 6-4 and this was an all ages show, so I just can’t swing on kids. Now I’m the bad guy [if I did]. So I kind of had to take it,” he shared.”At the same time, had the band approached me before, I’m all for antics. I love antics. I’m all in. But approach me, ask. If they would have said, ‘Now you have to crowd kill him for this next song,’ I would’ve been okay, but I think a few adjectives were misused there.”
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When offered the chance to address the band, his comment was, “Practice your stage show before you deliver it.”
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Below, see our picks for the best hardcore and metalcore albums of 2025.
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Metalcore and hardcore encompasses its widest range of sounds yet as we’re over halfway through the decade. Here’s the best records of 2025.
Contributions by Rob Carroll (RC), Chad Childers (CC), John Hill (JH) and Bryan Rolli (BR).
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Is it possible for a band to continue to evolve even after 11 albums into their career?
Architectsraised the bar even higher with this record, which is a no-skip listen. The Sky, The Earth & All Between opens with “Elegy,” a song that puts Sam Carter to his greatest vocal challenge yet, while tracks such as “Black Hole,” “Whiplash” and the House of Protection-featuring “Brain Dead” continue to push the envelope of what an Architects song can be.
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