Nevertheless, they persisted

This turned up in FB memories:

And I remembered it being celebrated at the time as possibly the greatest band break-up of all time, particularly thanks to the kicker at the end. But I knew nothing about the band, never knew anything at the time or now—indeed I’d kind of forgotten the incident until I got this marvellous reminder—so I decided to do a bit of research, see if they’d amounted to anything after that… lo and behold, not only are they still thriving, they never actually broke up in the first place and the drummer’s not dead after all:

The other Sunday I posted on Witchrot’s Facebook page that the band was taking a break. Two people I cared about stabbed me a trillion times in the heart with betrayal and that resentment scars like hell fire. It obviously left me feeling wretched. I always hate it when bands stop dead without any updates and I felt, well, might as well let the people know.
After writing, I asked Simon, our drummer who quit a couple weeks prior (due to the fact that he has become increasingly busy drumming for Crazy Bones, Gloin, and Brenda), if that was a good idea. He said ‘Yeah, but say I died, no one will give a shit’…… Clearly they did.
I am floored by the fact that this post received so much attention, considering we had only around 300 likes on Facebook when I wrote it. The amount of positive feedback people expressed, with regards to my situation along with the praise for our music, was touching to say the least. I thought maybe a couple people in Europe might care or ‘like’ the post but instead it reached nearly every news source on the planet……..Fuckin eh.

Fucking phenomenal. Looks like the guitarist cheating on the bassist was the best career move he could’ve made for them.