Charley Crockett Removes Twin Temple From Tour Dates Over Satanic Imagery

The L.A. duo Twin Temple have built a tidy career on ’60s-style pop and affectionate Satanic blasphemy—song titles like “Lucifer, My Love” and blood-filled vinyl pressings aren’t exactly a secret. That made their removal from two upcoming Charley Crockett dates all the more strange.

The pair were booked to open shows in Troutdale, Oregon (July 14) and Paso Robles, California (July 18). In a statement yesterday, they said Crockett’s camp decided to drop them “due to our Satanic imagery.” The group expressed disappointment and described the gigs as a missed chance to “bring different types of people and music lovers together.”

For an act whose entire aesthetic is theatrical Satanism, the objection lands with a certain irony. Crockett’s own tour poster, for the Age Of The Ram run, leans on horned animal imagery. And Twin Temple have already faced real-world blowback: a few years back, an Alex Jones rant triggered a wave of death threats. Next to that, a venue cancellation feels minor, if still telling.

The duo’s September run with Danzig, an artist unlikely to flinch at occult stagecraft, remains unaffected. The booking itself—a retro-country star sharing a bill with Satanic doo-woppers—always implied a gap in expectations. This week, it just became official.