It appears Heavy Heavy Low Low may once again be heading toward a breakup. After reuniting and releasing their fifth album Pain Olympics early 2025, the mathcore outfit had resumed touring and making select festival appearances. However, internal issues now seem to have derailed that momentum.
On Monday, January 26th, guitarist/vocalist Danny Rankin stated that the band has been locked out of their Instagram account, alleging that vocalist Robert Smith has retained control of the profile and has been using them to sell merchandise. Rankin further claimed that Smith has been pocketing the proceeds and intends to use the money to relocate to Florida.
Rankin also asserted that Smith left the band weeks ago, but continued to control the accounts in order to keep selling merch.
His post on story Instagram reads:
True ending of HeavyHeavyLowLow:
Rob (Singer) locked us out of the IG and used it to sell out merch on a personal Shopify to make $ to move to Florida.
I mentioned that it sucks to post shirts everyday with no intent for shows and he quit the band, blocked me for weeks, and still posted shirt for personal gain.
Its been a month and no one else in the band seems to give a shirt that hes making us look thirsty as fuck / low key stealing from us / ghosting one of the other members.
Mans throwing away the band and a 20 year relationship for a couple hunder dollars (current msrp on moving to Florida)
He would later share a cropped screen shot of a supposed group chat that shows vocalist Rob Smith replying to a member of the band stating:
I didn’t make enough money for that to matter to y’all
I need to move
I have to leave in 5 days. I have danny blocked so I’m leaving this convo too.
Do you know how much more stressful this make things for me? Jesus.
Ranking would state the screen shot was from a band group chat of drummer Chris Fritter asking for said profits from the sales and that Smith doubled down on his stance.
As of posting this the band nor Smith has issued any statements.