Machine Gun Kelly pays tribute to Luke ‘Dingo’ Trembath on bittersweet single ‘Your Name Forever’ – featuring Oli Sykes and Avenged Sevenfold

Machine Gun Kelly has paid tribute to his late friend Luke ‘Dingo’ Trembath on the bittersweet new single ‘Your Name Forever’ – featuring Bring Me The Horizon‘s Oli Sykes and more.

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The rap-rock song honours the late Australian snowboarder, who died last month aged 38, and also features Avenged Sevenfold‘s M. Shadows and Synyster Gates, as well as Mod Sun, all too friends of Dingo’s.

Shadows took to X/Twitter to share the video for the song, writing: “Dingo meant so much to us and many of our friends. SG and myself jumped on this song to celebrate his life. Shoutout to MGK for turning this around so quickly. Dingo is looking down smiling.”

Yesterday (March 18), the Sam Cahill-directed video dropped, celebrating the life of the extreme sports legend with a series of clips of Dingo over the years, with mourners releasing doves in his memory.

“Tell me, did you know it was time to say goodbye? / Tell me, did the heavens align where angels fly?” MGK sings on the chorus. “What happens, what happens when you kiss the sky? / Tell me, did you know it was time to say goodbye?”

The video concludes with various clips of Dingo and MGK, including a poignant moment the ‘Lonely Road’ singer asks his late friend: “Are we going to grow up and be doing this when we’re 50?”

Kelly later took to his Instagram stories to share the story behind the song, telling fans it came together in the last hours of Trembath’s life. “I appreciate everyone listening to ‘your name forever’, the song for our bro Dingo, that came about the same hour that he was passing away,” he said.

“I had a weird feeling in my gut, and we were doing a completely different song and out of nowhere, I just was like, ‘Let’s make something different, I’m feeling – the words I said was ‘I’m feeling angry’ – and we switched songs and started making that one. The only line that I had laid down was ‘Someone call me back / I’ll paint my coffin black if no one will’.

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“Then I just sat there, and I was burning this Palo Santo for like thirty minutes, and nothing else was coming to me right, and I didn’t really understand why I was saying that line, and then we got the phone call.

“Actually, Slim [producer Brandon Allen] came and tapped me and said ‘Come to the kitchen, I need to tell you something’, and we went out and said a prayer, and the next phone call that we got was that he was gone. And then clearly it turned into Dingo’s song. That was the purpose of why that started. So the next day we came back in and made one of probably the hardest songs I ever had to make in my career. Dingo forever.”

In an earlier post shared last week, Kelly wrote: “Crazy…i didn’t even cry this hard when my dad died. i’ve lost a lot of friends, but i’ve never lost a brother. we’ll never get another Dingo on this planet. a true rockstar without ever needing to make a song, the most loyal, loud, charismatic, funny, and annoying human i’ve ever had the honour of knowing.”

MGK and Sykes had previously teamed up on 2022’s ‘Maybe‘, which got its live debut in LA during an appearance at long-running club night, Emo Nite, at the Avalon in Hollywood.

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