Jimmy Hubbard
CKY (a.k.a. Camp Kill Yourself) got thrust into the national spotlight in the early 2000s when Jackass star Bam Margera, whose brother Jess drums for the band, employed their songs in his various MTV/skateboard/dad-slapping projects. Along with the fame that came with being Jackass adjacent, a lifestyle of recklessness and self-harm was attached for the band. Their new song, "Days of Self Destruction," off The Phoenix, CKY's first since 2009, seems to reconcile with this past and looks at their new direction forward. Which makes sense. After all, how long can a group of grown-ass men be expected to blow birthday candles out with their buttholes or whatever?"Shit was scary for a while," frontman Chad Ginsburg tells Alternative Press. "Things fell apart for a minute or two. Challenge is something that CKY have never feared, but we almost got eaten alive by our own undoing."Check out the song below. We'd tell you to heed the band's words and maybe not let it be the soundtrack to pushing your friend down a set of stairs on a Wendy's food tray, but you're probably gonna do it anyway. So… just, like, wear a helmet or something. The Phoenix is out on June 16.
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