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Whatever Happened To Bloodhound Gang?

Given how it took almost a decade and a half for the Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" to get released, the record has practically become a synonym for any musical project that takes so long to get released, only for it to be much ado about nothing. Bloodhound Gang's equivalent to that album was 2015's "Hard-Off," which arrived one decade after "Hefty Fine" and made zero noise on the album charts, where it failed to crack even the lower rungs of the Billboard 200.

Rumors of a new album started swirling around April 2011 when it was suggested that it would be called "Getting Laid on a School Bus" and released later that year. By 2014, there was still no new album, though Jimmy Pop responded to a fan on X (formerly Twitter) in February of that year, hinting that the record would be coming soon and that he's "been in the studio recording vocals every day." Between August 2014 and September 2015, Bloodhound Gang released five new singles,  with the last one, "Uncool as Me," featuring NSYNC's Joey Fatone as a guest performer. But alas, that full-length album of new music was still as elusive as ever.

On December 18, 2015, "Hard-Off" finally saw the light of day, with the five aforementioned singles joined by six other tracks. The reviews weren't particularly glowing; Punk News complained about Bloodhound Gang's increased focus on techno, while users on Album of the Year described the album as unfunny and weak in comparison to the rest of the discography.

And with that, Bloodhound Gang seemingly — and quietly — went dark, as "Hard-Off" is the band's last album or single release as of this writing.

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Almeda Bohannan

Update: 2024-05-06