THE DROP
CKY have released "Beware of the Heartless," a track carrying a guitar solo Brent Hinds recorded before his death *†‡. It hit streaming August 14, 2026, days before the one-year mark of Hinds dying in an Atlanta motorcycle crash on August 20 †‡.
WHAT TO KNOW
- Second CKY song with Hinds on it — he also soloed on "Days Of Self Destruction" from 2017's "The Phoenix" †.
- The recording sat unreleased on frontman Chad Ginsburg's computer until the anniversary pushed him to put it out †‡.
- Ginsburg: "Brent played a solo on a song we recorded called 'Beware Of The Heartless', and I thought, 'Why would I leave this on my computer?'" †
- Hinds' band Fiend Without a Face was about two months from opening CKY's European/U.K. run when he died ‡.
- Follows 2025 single "Can't Stop Running"; CKY tour the U.S. Sept. 9 through Nov. 8, including Aftershock on Oct. 1 ‡.
THE TAKE
The cynical read on posthumous guest spots is that they're marketing, but Ginsburg's explanation — he was too gutted at the time to think about it, and now he'd rather hand it over than sit on it — reads like a friend, not a label †‡. The detail that sticks: the tour Hinds never got to play was already booked when he died ‡.
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