Culture Abuse disband

2020-07-24 by aaronrkc | 26 Comments
Bay Area punk band Culture Abuse announced their breakup on social media Thursday with a statement and account confirming an allegation of sexual misconduct against singer David Kelling. The account details a years-long relationship that Kelling maintained with an anonymous survivor that began when she was 16 years old and eventually turned sexual when she was 17, continuing for several years afterward.

The survivor's account and the band's statement are available to read on their Instgram page: https://www.instagram.com/cultureabusefanzine

The band's b-side and live track compilation, Good Shit, Bad Shit, Who Gives A Shit?! was released today on Epitaph Records.

Tagged: Culture Abuse

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cold
July 24th 2020
6735 Comments


damnnnnnnn

Sinternet
Staff Reviewer
July 24th 2020
26903 Comments


reset the clock

TheCharmingMan
July 24th 2020
584 Comments


Gatdam i remember seein em wit Touche Amore if ida known this ida thrown a beer at the bastard or somethin

TheSpirit
Emeritus
July 24th 2020
30304 Comments


dude took the abuse part of band's name very seriously

Snake.
July 24th 2020
25561 Comments


[2]

ian b
July 24th 2020
2179 Comments


bad joke, boooooo. props to the victim for speaking out. fuck culture abuse and fuuuuucccckkk SWMRS/Joey Armstrong.

Relinquished
July 24th 2020
49707 Comments


i don’t see how this is a joke ian

LucretiaMyReflection
July 24th 2020
152 Comments


It’s funny because wasn’t David trying super hard to call out The Ghost Inside for their bassist saying some shit years ago?

ConcubinaryCode
July 24th 2020
7997 Comments


I think these allegations just prove how many predators are in the music scene and they get away with it for years.

dangerousdarrin
July 24th 2020
847 Comments


He was just throwing allegations at the drummer for the Ghost Inside. What a pos

ZippaThaRippa
July 24th 2020
10673 Comments


Saw them live, he talked about everyone being cool and told people to not be creeps. Man, this fucking massively sucks.

TooLateToGoBack
July 24th 2020
2114 Comments


lmao, of course, the shithead fuck who's super woke about the abuses going on in the industry turns out to be a fucking scumbag himself

every single time

fatneckbeard
July 24th 2020
82 Comments


another day, another fucking pedo

Minushuman24
July 24th 2020
5001 Comments


man, culture abuse ruled. This is so fucked

TheSupernatural
July 24th 2020
2240 Comments


Back in November I think, I went to see the Menzingers in Philly and someone in Culture Abuse got sick and they couldn't make the show so they got some local country dude to fill in for opener.

Guess I'll never get to see them lol

loveisamixtape
July 24th 2020
12458 Comments


the man was spreading underage nudes wtf

Wildcardbitchesss
July 25th 2020
16444 Comments


bummer.
Yeah I think the Ghost Inside guy made fun of him because he has cerebral palsy. Which is still fucked up, but fuck this guy now too.

DavidYowi
July 25th 2020
3512 Comments


I never understood abusers who use wokeness to cover up for their horrid actions, it always makes things worse. Do you think they do it out of guilt or to manipulate their audience into believing they're incapable of being a predator?

Asdfp277
July 25th 2020
25241 Comments


latter

deathofasalesman
July 25th 2020
8643 Comments


knew it was going to be related to grooming before i even clicked, fuck these guys

Kurai
July 25th 2020
549 Comments


I went to one of their shows in London almost two years ago as Gouge Away were supporting (I think that might have been the first time they played London as well). Culture Abuse got three songs in and then suddenly a girl in the front row got knocked out by a crowd surfer so the band had to stop playing until an ambulance arrived. After that, the singer said that they wouldn’t be continuing with their set as they didn’t feel comfortable doing so.

But yeah, this is a shitty situation, fuck their singer, but props to the rest of the band for going down this route rather than ignoring the allegations for well over a year and then breaking up after getting kicked off a Good Charlotte tour (i.e. Moose Blood).

possiblyafridge
July 25th 2020
15 Comments


every band in that scene is absolutely fucked, any scene built of bands with only 10-20 people involved theres guaranteed fuckery and abuse

cheapcrayon
July 26th 2020
97 Comments


“I’ve been living a life of sin, I pretend that I’m innocent” from “Dream On”

TheBigD1rty
July 26th 2020
3 Comments


So you're telling me these people who embraced cancel culture so avidly were abusing it to cover their own terrible behaviour? So Culture Abuse were guilty of culture abuse?

oltnabrick
July 27th 2020
40840 Comments


this band sucks

ian b
July 29th 2020
2179 Comments


their debut has a couple of killer tracks but yeah, way too overhyped of a band



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