Texan Band Uses Puddle Of Mudd's Abandoned Facebook To Plug Their Own Music

We should have known that, in the Land Of Opportunity, people wouldn't just let Puddle Of Mudd delete their Facebook page and not use that to their advantage.

Indeed, after the Missouri-bred rock outfit eradicated their Facebook presence having been booed off-stage at a concert in Versailles, Ohio — following months of perilously worrying behaviour from unhinged frontman Wes Scantlin — a comparatively little-known act from Austin, Texas, decided to move into the abandoned premises. (Well, that, or Puddle Of Mudd is undergoing an extreme The 1975-esque social media makeover — but they haven't been heard from since the deletion last week.)

As an astute Redditor has pointed out, Black Heart Saints have leaped on the vacant space left by Puddle Of Mudd's open Facebook URL, which now proudly tells users to "Check Out This Band Instead", the page flooded with links and other promotional content for themselves.

The band have even gone so far as to hit up Puddle Of Mudd's management, label and bookers as a potential replacement act who would never dream of totally squandering a life in music, Scantlin-style.

Personal feelings about their music aside, you have to admire the brazenness of their strategy. Of course, from the tone of their own Wall posts — self-descriptions of being "an upcoming [sic] original rock band … that proves rock music is very much alive, thriving and ready to rise again", while not acknowledging rock music shouldn't need to rise again if it's currently thriving — suggest they're possibly a bit new at all this still, or maybe just painfully earnest in an industry that has no time for it. But who knows — it might pay off for them down the road.

Oh, if you're interested, although Puddle Of Mudd have left Facebook, their Twitter page does still exist (and currently links to Black Heart Saints' co-opted Facebook URL), but hasn't been posted to since April last year. We wouldn't hold our breath.