Blood 4 Blood: Sound Of War, a documentary built around the Slaughter To Prevail singer stepping into a bare knuckle ring, arrives today on Prime Video and Apple TV.
The fight itself happened on 6 May this year in Daytona, Florida, at a Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship event called Blood 4 Blood. Alexander Shikolai, who everyone calls Alex Terrible, trained for it partly under the fighter Jake Bostwick and turned up with three million Instagram followers behind him, which is the only reason a promotion in Florida booked a deathcore singer in the first place.
The film has already won awards on the festival circuit. Jose Mangin, Zakk Wylde, Bostwick, the champion known as Mohawk Rodriguez, Jack Simmons from the band and Savannah Lee Carter all appear in it.
What it is really about is the trade. A man whose job is to scream at a crowd walks into a sport where nobody is pretending, and the film follows what that does to him rather than selling it as a stunt.
He had already wrestled a bear on camera, so the bar was set some time ago.