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This animation shows the multi-media, multi user state of social media that the band thrives under.

If you listen to when Fantano talks about meeting Burnett, he mentions how for a moment Burnett breaks from the MC Ride persona. The interviewer is audibly excited by this, not only showing the strong link between the band and the Youtuber, but also how little the public see of Burnett, instead of MC Ride.

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Burnett is the only one without any form of social media

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Burnett is the only one without any form of social media

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He likes to keep his life outside of MC Ride's existence incredibly private

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“I’m a very private person,” says Burnett. “I have very few people that I call my friends. I’m very distrustful of human beings in general; I’m very distrustful of media. I have no interest in sharing my personal life with the world. Zero.”

This quote shows Burnett's persona when he's not MC Ride. He's a very soft spoken man according to the article, in a stark contrast to his aggressive front man attitude.

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Music critic theneedledrop spotted at a Death Grips concert where Burnett performs blindfolded.

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Meme Culture, Anthony Fantano & Death Grips

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Meme Culture, Anthony Fantano & Death Grips

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This example is fantastic for showcasing the crossover of Death Grips, memes and Fantano.

Fantano's love for Death Grips is widely documented thanks to his channel and this Facebook meme page exemplifies how normal audiences and consumers have then created memes surrounding this.

This page is dedicated to posting this photo, every day. Nothing else. This screenshot is from day 870.

The caption also demonstrates another layer of 'comedy' as the poster is claiming they've never actually listened to the band before, despite devoting over two years of their life posting this same picture everyday.

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This meme account devoted to Death Grips memes has 50k followers and still receives 5-10k likes per post despite the band not releasing any music since 2018.

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Death Grips have collaborated with Björk for their latest album, Niggas on the Moon. The Icelandic musician features on all eight tracks included on the 'half' album, which is the follow-up to 2013's Government Plates.

Although largely cut and sampled, Björk's voice is scattered throughout the record, which features tracks such as Have a Sad Cum and Fuck Me Out. Posting a message on Facebook, she describes her involvement with the group, describing herself as the trio's 'found object'.

i am proud to announce my vocals landed on the new death grips album ! i adore the death grips and i am thrilled to be their "found object". i have been lucky enough to hang and exchange music loves w/ them and witness them grow !! epic : onwards !!

This is the first half of the Sacramento noise-rap group's double album, called The Powers That B, with the second part - named Jenny Death - scheduled for release in autumn this year. Death Grips, who formed in 2010, are vocalist Stefan 'MC Ride' Burnett, programmer and keyboardist Andy 'Flatlander' Morin and Zach Hill, formerly of experimental rock band Hella. As well as three albums, they have released a free self-titled EP, and a free mixtape entitled Exmilitary.

Niggas on the Moon is available to download for free from the Death Grips Facebook page, and you can stream it via the Soundcloud player below.

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Death Grips land a 'thrilled' Björk on their new album

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Death Grips have collaborated with Björk for their latest album, Niggas on the Moon. The Icelandic musician features on all eight tracks included on the 'half' album, which is the follow-up to 2013's Government Plates. Although largely cut and sampled, Björk's voice is scattered throughout the record, which features tracks such as Have a Sad Cum and Fuck Me Out.

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Youtuber theneedledrop is a music critic called Anthony Fantano who had been reviewing music on Youtube for a couple of years before Death Grips came on the scene. He reviews hundreds of albums a year.

Fantano awarded the bands debut album with his first ever 10/10, a score that he has only awarded to five other albums in the over a decade since this review.

This was a huge and cemented Death Grips place in internet culture, with Fantano himself having his own little cult audience. The two are very often interlinked

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Death Grips- The Money Store ALBUM REVIEW

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A thirty-three minute video where someone dissects a meme compiling all Death Grips 'lore.' Here lore is just a nickname for the band's history of memes and other information about them.

This is a good example as it shows the many layers there are to internet and meme culture. This Youtuber is able to make content discussing content made by another person in relation to Death Grips. Both creators will be happy with their gain from these pieces of content (views, comments, likes etc.) but in both examples Death Grips are the main focal point. This is the type of content that has made Death Grips so popular within deeper internet culture.

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Death Grips Iceberg EXPLAINED | Songpsych

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Their twitter handle isn't even their band name its @bbpoltergiest

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Tweets by bbpoltergiest

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Burnett in the music video for Guillotine from Exmilitary (2011)

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This music video is a great example of their work,
Not only does the distorted background work to reflect the dark sinsiter tone of the track, but it also reflects the motif of highlighting the problems in the modern technological age.

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Burnett's delivery is at its calmest here which, accompanied by the relaxed synth and bass sounds making up the song, creates a quite relaxed listening experience.

The relaxed vocals are their to contrast the meaning of the song, as Ride ponders the death of our generation due to our unlimited access to online pornography.

This showcases the band's (and Burnett's) ability to tone down their more aggressive approach, and still make a good song, that fits into all their themes and ideas.

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Death Grips - Artificial Death in the West

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One of Their Most Critically Acclaimed Songs

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One of Their Most Critically Acclaimed Songs

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This album (and this song in particular) is built around samples of Bjork's vocals that she contributed to the band.

Burnett's lyrics in this song are almost at their most cryptic, yet his delivery allows them to flow in strange ways making them seem almost poetic.

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In this song Burnett's vocals are at their most extreme, being described as sounding like a crazed inmate by music critic and youtuber Antony Fantano in his review of this mixtape in 2011.

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The man who destroyed Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has revealed that he was listening to Death Grips as he carried out the act.

Austin Clay took a pickaxe to the President's star on the famous walkway back in July, with the assailant having carried the pickaxe to the location in a guitar case.

Clay has now recalled the incident in an interview with , revealing such details as the music he chose to listen to while he was destroying Trump's star.

"I bought a pickaxe at the Home Depot in Glendale," he remembered. "I concealed it in a guitar case, and I went down to the star. I put on some headphones; I was listening to Death Grips, which is some high-energy, ridiculous music. It gave me the energy I needed to tear through the star.

"I'd heard from a lot of people that a sledgehammer was the right tool for the job, but the pickaxe worked. Rocks were flying up in my face. I wanted to obliterate the thing, because I thought that would be a statement: We're removing him from the ground, we're removing him from Hollywood, we're removing him from California, we're removing him from the United States."

Clay also revealed that he was bailed out by an anonymous person just 24 hours after being arrested. He also spoke about a subsequent visit he received from the US Secret Service, who Clay claims "kind of thought [the incident] was funny".

"I didn't harm anyone; I didn't commit a violent act. After we got to talking, one of [the Secret Service] gave me a high five," he added.

Back in June, it was revealed that Death Grips had been working on new music with Andrew Anderson, who directed the original Shrek movie.

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Man who destroyed Donald Trump's Hollywood star was listening to Death Grips at the time

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The man who destroyed Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has revealed that he was listening to Death Grips as he carried out the act. Austin Clay took a pickaxe to the President's star on the famous walkway back in July, with the assailant having carried the pickaxe to the location in a guitar case.

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As mentioned in the introduction, Death Grips do very little with their influential status, and most likely would not like to call themselves celebrities.

What they focus on is their music and performances

What Stefan lacks in off screen, real life persona, he makes up for with his band persona, MC Ride. While Zach Hill is said to be the brains for Death Grips, Ride is the face.

Burnett always performs shirtless, revealing a multitude of sinister tattoos including a pentagram, a skull and what looks to be the devil under his right pec. On top of his manic delivery, and satanic appearance, Ride's dancing when on stage completes the act with

Despite being the poster boy for Death Grips, when Ride is not shrieking his lyrics and actually speaks he is a very soft spoken man.

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Death Grips Members from Left to Right: Zach Hill, Stefan Burnett and Andrew Morin

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Death Grips are an underground experimental hip-hop band founded on December 21st, 2010, who still perform to the present day.

Their explosive and undeniably unique sound have given them a cult following, leading to the band releasing six major studio albums, four EPs and two instrumental soundtracks.

Their first proper introduction into the public limelight was their 2011 mixtape Exmilitary. A creative blend of hip-hop sampling and rapping with an experimental, electronic edge that garnered them huge acclaim from critics and listeners. Some notable fans of the band are Björk and Robert Pattinson, who have both contributed to the band's later works, but most notably of all David Bowie, who's final album Blackstar (2016) is said to take inspiration from the band's debut studio album The Money Store (2012).

While the band have this success and now sit at around 750-800,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, they are definitely not for everyone. Their blaring, atonal sound combined with the frontman's cryptic lyrics and aggressive delivery create a somewhat challenging listening experience that will turn many people off. Those who can listen to their music however are rewarded with a listening experience genuinely like no other. The upbeat tempos and creative sounds result in music that begs to be seen live.

Much like their abstract approach to music, the bands approach to promotion and their celebrity image is also rather abstract. They have very few interviews and a sparse social media presence, as they are very much focused on rewarding their fans with the music they produce, evident by the fact that they have released most of their music for free. They even leaked their 2nd album from 2012, No Love Deep Web, when their label tried to push the release into 2013, as the band had promised two albums that year.

This lack of conventional celebrity presence does not leave them in the underground however, as it essentially has the opposite effect on the fans, who crave to know more about the band and as such they have achieved a cult status from their die-hard fans.

Social media sites like Reddit and 4chan have formed the backbone of the Death Grips fan community, where users can access all the information about the band and speculate on song meanings.

Arguably, Death Grips are the epitome of music in the technology generation of the 21st century. The band's own lack of promotion leaves a vacuum for the fans to fill, and as such the groups existence and reputation is spread through posts and memes, creating a cult status and allowing their reputation to be spread further than they could ever do themselves.