Hatebreed, Jasta, and so on. vocalist Jamey Jasta has newly shared his ideas on As I Lay Dying‘s Tim Lambesis and the controversy that surrounds the latter. In 2013, Lambesis tried to rent a hitman to homicide his then spouse on the time. His plot was foiled nevertheless, as authorities caught wind of his plan beforehand, establishing an undercover sting to catch him.
In consequence, Lambesis served a number of years in jail, after pleading responsible to solicitation of one other to commit homicide. On the time of the incident, he and his spouse shared 3 adopted youngsters collectively. Whereas Lambesis was initially sentenced to 6 years, he was paroled roughly two years later.
Upon his exit, he got down to reunite As I Lay Dying, reconciling together with his estranged bandmates by way of varied means, together with using therapists to assist the group work by way of their points.
Whereas As I Lay Dying‘s lineup did reunite in 2018, points started to as soon as once more take root, and by 2022, guitarist/vocalist Nick Hipa, bassist/vocalist Josh Gilbert and drummer Jordan Mancino had all exited the fold, leaving solely Lambesis and guitarist/vocalist Phil Sgrosso because the remaining members.
As such, that duo went on to rebuild their lineup, recruiting Ryan Neff (bass/vocals), guitarist Ken Susi and drummer Nick Pierce. Nevertheless, historical past quickly seemingly repeated itself, as this October, Neff, Susi, Pierce and finally Sgrosso all left the band, every issuing statements cryptically voicing their issues over private morals and ranges of integrity being examined.
Lambesis for his half, issued this assertion in early November, providing little readability, whereas vowing to as soon as once more resurrect the band, going as far as to begin reserving reveals for 2025.
Nevertheless, simply earlier than the top of November, disturbing footage of Lambesis and his newest spouse Dany emerged on-line. That footage captured varied personal interactions between Tim and Dany. Tim, who had married twice since being launched from jail, was seen to be launching into extremely agitated states of misery within the movies, repeatedly hitting himself and performing out.
In mild of the footage leaking, Lambesis went on to to difficulty this assertion, alleging that he had filed a restraining order towards Dany, claiming that she had assaulted and verbally and mentally abused him for over three years. He additionally defined his agitated reactions within the leaked footage as, “inappropriate (however not unlawful) reactions to those anxiousness inducing interactions.”
Again in 2018, as Lambesis was gearing as much as make his return with As I Lay Dying, Jamey Jasta was amongst those that publicly expressed their doubts about welcoming him again to the scene. Partially, Jasta acknowledged on his ‘The Jasta Present‘ podcast on the time:
“What we do is a present. What we do is a privilege and it’s gotta be earned. And it’s gotta be earned again when you fuck up and also you rent somebody to KILL. YOUR. WIFE. OK?
‘Oh, it didn’t occur. Oh, you by no means wished to kill your spouse? OH, You by no means wished to kill any person?’ No motherfucker I’m not saying that. Don’t fucking put phrases in my mouth. I’m saying what has been achieved… ‘Oh he served his time’—no, he served an abbreviated sentence. Look he’s bought time to point out and show….”
Across the similar time, Jasta additionally weighed in on social media as effectively. This previous April noticed Jasta invite Lambesis onto his ‘The Jasta Present Podcast‘, the place an emotional Lambesis mentioned varied subjects of his time in jail and the second dissolution of the band’s basic period lineup.
Now, showing on the ‘LOS Podcast‘, Jasta was requested about his present ideas on Lambesis within the wake of the newest controversy that unfolded in October/November onward. He acknowledged:
“Okay, so we did the podcast, and all people stated I used to be too onerous on him, and that the questions had been impolite and all that stuff. And I used to be like, ‘the dude survived jail… what’s a pair questions over Zoom?’ The followers get very connected to sure folks in sure bands they usually need to see them… it doesn’t matter what they’ve achieved, it doesn’t matter.
In the event that they’re your favourite band, they’re like ‘oh, separate the artwork from the artist’. However I used to be saying… I used to be asking questions like, ‘Do you continue to have a restraining order along with your youngsters and your spouse?’ And there have been issues that he couldn’t reply, as a result of that’s what I’d need to know. Particularly if we’re going to tour collectively or be on the identical stage collectively.”
He continued:
“If [the hitman] wasn’t a cop, she can be useless… And he had dudes vouching for him, so now these dudes wanna come on the present, or one of many dudes I feel I’ll have on the present once more, Ken [Susi], who’s an awesome man, was like, ‘yeah, I need to take again what I stated, vouching for [Lambesis]’.
“However yeah, it’s a shitty state of affairs when you’re a diehard fan of that dude [Lambesis], who I requested, ‘is your ex-wife nonetheless in witness safety?’ and he couldn’t reply.”
Following some quips from the assorted comic hosts of the present, Jasta continued:
“He [Lambesis] cried on the present and stuff and actually bought it, so folks had been like, ‘Fuck Jasta! He’s so insensitive! I can’t imagine this!’…”
After some additional dialogue from the hosts, Jasta concluded:
“I used to be one of many solely those who publicly went towards him [Lambesis] and stated it on a number of reveals. Not lots of people… I feel I’m nonetheless, you can most likely Google this, I’m nonetheless one of many solely those who stated, ‘No. Fuck this dude! It’s wack. He’s achieved. That is somebody that ought to actually be canceled’. And I swear, in sooner or later I had perhaps like 400 tweets the place it was like, ‘Fuck you, Jasta, you by no means wished to kill your spouse?!?’… I used to be like, ‘No, I imply…’”
[via Lambgoat]
