I’ve never actually heard a note of As I Lay Dying’s music, cos metalcore just isn’t really my thing, but I know all about their… difficult history; it’s not every band whose lead singer causes the breakup of the band by hiring a hitman to kill his wife, then reforms the band after getting out of jail and carrying on his career… but over the years most of the rest of the band got jack of him, and now the ringers he replaced them with have done the same…
American metalcore band As I Lay Dying now contains just two members after guitarist Ken Susi, drummer Nick Pierce, and bassist/singer Ryan Neff departed the band. At the time of publication, As I Lay Dying now consists of vocalist Tim Lambesis and rhythm guitarist Phil Sgrosso. […]
“My time playing with As I Lay Dying has come to an end today,” Susi wrote, adding that he left with “so much gratitude” for everyone who’s supported his career to date.
Explaining that he had “full knowledge” of the band’s “heightened dramatic history” before he joined, he said that he had a “drive” to play “great music with great friends.”
His statement continued, “Unfortunately, my personal morals have recently been tested to a breaking point, and it’s now the saddest ending to what could have been the greatest second chance for this band.”
Ken, my brother in metal, FUCK YOUR PERSONAL MORALS. You knew the band’s history, by your own admission, and you were still happy to join it. Where were your personal morals two years ago when you did that? I mean, I don’t respect ANY of the other band members for rejoining Lambesis (I do think it’s faintly hilarious that the only one apparently still with him is the one who reportedly took the most convincing to come back to the band), except insofar as three of them quit again later, but I respect these other three replacement characters even less. Morals? Morals had piss all to do with it…
