$uicideboy$ bring Grey Day back to St. Louis

$uicideboy$ brought Grey Day back to St. Louis on September 19th, taking over Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre with one of the more varied lineups the tour has put together in recent years. Grey Day has grown into an annual event at this point, with the 2026 version bringing Destroy Lonely, Shakewell, DRAIN, Black Kray, and $lim Gucci along for the St. Louis stop. That made for a long night, but also one that moved through several different corners of underground rap and hardcore before $uicideboy$ finally took the stage.

$lim Gucci started things off early.

He came into the tour with a new album, nepo baby, released in June and his short set gave the early crowd a first taste of the darker trap sound that would run through much of the night. Black Kray followed, bringing one of the more influential names on the bill to the stage. Also known as Sickboyrari, Kray has been part of the cloud rap and underground scene for well over a decade; his hazy, loose sound stood apart from some of the harder material elsewhere on the lineup. He has also stayed active with new music, including Posted Where the Scarecrows Play in 2026.

DRAIN was easily the biggest stylistic left turn of the night. The Santa Cruz hardcore band traded the trap beats for guitars, screaming vocals, and a set built around getting the pit moving. Their newest album, …Is Your Friend, leans heavily into the energy of their live shows and dropping a hardcore band into the middle of Grey Day ended up making a lot of sense.

Shakewell brought things back toward the G59 side of the lineup.

A longtime collaborator with $uicideboy$, Shakewell released the six-song SLUGEATER EP earlier this summer with plenty of material familiar to the crowd this night. His connection to the headliners also carried into the main set later in the night.

Destroy Lonely got the final opening slot, drawing one of the bigger reactions before the headliners I’ve seen to date. The Atlanta rapper has had a busy couple of years, releasing LOVE LASTS FOREVER in 2024, </3³ in 2025, and new singles including “MONSTER” so far this year. His darker, more atmospheric production fit naturally into the Grey Day lineup, while still sounding very different from the G59 artists around him.

By the time $uicideboy$ came out, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre had already been through several hours of music.

Ruby da Cherry and Scrim opened with “Leviticus” and “2009 Reggie Bush”, before moving through newer material, including “Napoleon”, “Monochromatic”, and “Now and at the Hour of Our Death”. The set pulled heavily from 2025’s THY KINGDOM COME, while still leaving plenty of room for older songs that have become regular Grey Day staples.

Shakewell returned during “Whole Lotta Grey” and the second half of the set moved deeper into older favorites. “Memoirs of a Gorilla”, “1000 Blunts”, “Avalon”, “Carrollton”, “Antarctica”, and the “Kill Yourself” songs all made appearances as the night went on.

The scale of Grey Day is a little strange when you consider where $uicideboy$ came from.

The music still sounds rooted in the same grimy Internet rap scene that built their audience in the first place, but now it comes with a full amphitheater, a massive production, and thousands of people yelling the words back at the artists.

What keeps Grey Day interesting is that it still feels connected to that underground world. Giving artists like Black Kray and $lim Gucci the same stage as Destroy Lonely and a hardcore band like DRAIN makes the lineup feel less like a standard package tour and more like a snapshot of the scenes that have grown around $uicideboy$.

Photography by Sean Rider

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