As soon as Kerrang! mentions Undeath’s unlikely favourite brand of footwear, Kyle enthusiastically fetches a pair to show off to us. Alex, meanwhile, details the story behind the iconic shoe accessories which band and fans alike went bonkers for.
Alex: “Above all else, we are enthusiastic Crocs supporters! There’s a lot of talk on the internet these days about selling out and corporate involvement in music, and we don’t need to get deep into that discussion, but all I’ll say is this: if the Crocs corporation ever wants to sponsor us and give us money to rep the brand, well, we’re already doing it! We wear Crocs 24/7, so let’s get paid for it! We sold some Crocs charms as merch thanks to an idea someone we work with had. We’d just done a tour with The Black Dahlia Murder where we were rocking Crocs onstage, and in doing so we’d inadvertently made it part of the Undeath brand identity. Then our guy hit us up and told us we could get a good deal on our version of these things called Jibbitz, which is the name for the charms. So we just did it, got 500 of them, and people couldn’t believe it.”