Billy Strings Joins Cryptopsy At His Ionia Freak Fair
Bluegrass phenom Billy Strings is a bigtime metalhead who came up playing in metal bands, and he seems to have a special affection for Montreal tech-death legends Cryptopsy. Last year, Strings played a solo on Cryptopsy's 30th-anniversary medley of re-recorded songs from their 1994 debut Blasphemy Made Flesh . When Strings put together his own Ionia Freak Fair festival in his Ionia, Michigan hometown last weekend, he made sure to have a metal stage , booking Cryptopsy alongside bands like Bane,…



