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Fraser Lewry

Punk legends Dead Boys have spectacularly fallen out over the alleged use of AI to generate "fakeass robot" vocals by original frontman Stiv Bators

Jake Hout onstage with Dead boys in 2019.

Former Dead Boys frontman Jake Hout, who left the band at the weekend, has hit out at his former employers, claiming that artificial intelligence has been used to generate new vocals in the style of original frontman Stiv Bators, who died in 1990.

Yesterday Los Angeles-based Cleopatra Records announced that a new Dead Boys album – their first collection of new songs since 1978's We Have Come for Your Children, and the first since the death of Bators in 1990 – would be released next year.

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