"Massacre of El Kuroke" arrives as Illusion & Doubt turns ten

The Dead South paired a new lyric video with the Dead Man's Fog Edition, an anniversary vinyl of their 2016 album.

Channel: The Dead SouthStory of October 2, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

The Dead South - El Kuroke (Official Lyric Video)

Fourteen hours after it went up, the lyric video for "Massacre of El Kuroke" had nearly 19,000 views, and it is the busiest thing on the Saskatchewan band's channel by a wide margin. The song is a dark one, even for a group that describes itself as the Foggy Mountain Boys by way of Beetlejuice. It is a revenge ballad about a boy whose love is taken from him and who grows up to pick up his guns. It sits in the same murder-ballad country the band has been riding since "In Hell I'll Be in Good Company."

The rest of the week looked backward. Two short videos introduced the Dead Man's Fog Edition, a limited anniversary vinyl marking ten years of Illusion & Doubt, the 2016 album that carried "In Hell" to the wider world. The first of the two clips, posted on September 28, has passed 10,000 views.

Behind the new single, two older uploads keep turning. The Dead South Station, an always-on mix of music videos, live performances and art tracks, has passed 200,000 views in under three weeks. The "Broken Cowboy" lyric video, about a CPR railway man born in Wadena in 1955, is still finding listeners six weeks on.

Among the country and folk channels nearest its size, the band sits fourth by subscribers, just behind Zach Bryan, a name the band itself drops in its tags.

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The videos drawing views on The Dead South right now

Dead Man’s Fog | Illusion & Doubt 10th Anniversary Vinyl10,519 views · 2026-09-28 The Dead South – Dead Man’s Fog | Illusion & Doubt 10th Anniversary V…2,261 views · 2026-10-01 The Dead South Station215,832 views The Dead South - Broken Cowboy (Official Lyric Video)173,843 views

The numbers

Here are the figures behind The Dead South's week.

subscribers

1,560,000

total views

948,452,097

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Luke Combs

4,160,000

Blake Shelton

3,450,000

Zach Bryan

1,700,000

The Dead South

1,560,000

Cody Johnson

993,000

Lainey Wilson

841,000

Bailey Zimmerman

799,000

Warren Zeiders

554,000

Bryan Martin

317,000

As of October 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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