Checkmate Will Take This Brutality to Their First One-man

Happy Thursday Hurtsday, you guys! For what it’s worth, by some twisted accident of time and space, there’s a lot of hurt this Hurtsday, and I couldn’t be happier. Punish me, senpai!

The first item that I’d like to draw your attention to is Checkmate. It’s been a minute since we last caught up with them, but they’ve been busy, and clearly eating broken glass and stuff, because they sound positively livid about their first one-man, coming up in August:

DESTROY THE LIVE!

Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t actually offer a nice chunk of live video to show why you should care; this is why you should care:

Or listen to this. Or maybe this.

All we need now is for Broken by the Scream to crank out another video on par with their first one, and the Homicidol Fall Class of 2016 is going to seem like one of the strongest groups of debuts yet.