{
  "id": 4663402,
  "title": "Billy Strings Joins Cryptopsy At His Ionia Freak Fair",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/billy-strings-joins-cryptopsy-at-his-ionia-freak-fair",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-31T15:12:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Stereogum",
    "slug": "stereogum",
    "url": "https://stereogum.com/2509870/billy-strings-joins-cryptopsy-at-his-ionia-freak-fair/news/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}