Hatebreed, Jasta, and so forth. 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, organising an undercover sting to catch him.
Consequently, 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 kids 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 along with his estranged bandmates by varied means, together with using therapists to assist the group work by 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. Nonetheless, historical past quickly seemingly repeated itself, as this October, Neff, Susi, Pierce and in the end Sgrosso all left the band, every issuing statements cryptically voicing their considerations 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 start out reserving exhibits for 2025.
Nonetheless, simply earlier than the top of November, disturbing footage of Lambesis and his newest spouse Dany emerged on-line. That footage captured varied non-public 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 problem this assertion, alleging that he had filed a restraining order in opposition to 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. Partly, Jasta said 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 should 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 accomplished… ‘Oh he served his time’—no, he served an abbreviated sentence. Look he’s acquired time to indicate and show….”
Across the similar time, Jasta additionally weighed in on social media as nicely. This previous April noticed Jasta invite Lambesis onto his ‘The Jasta Present Podcast‘, the place an emotional Lambesis mentioned varied matters 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 said:
“Okay, so we did the podcast, and everyone mentioned I used to be too laborious on him, and that the questions have 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 hooked up to sure folks in sure bands and so they need to see them… it doesn’t matter what they’ve accomplished, 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 children and your spouse?’ And there have been issues that he couldn’t reply, as a result of that’s what I might 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 believe I’ll have on the present once more, Ken [Susi], who’s an important man, was like, ‘yeah, I need to take again what I mentioned, vouching for [Lambesis]’.
“However yeah, it’s a shitty state of affairs should 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 offered it, so folks have 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 folks that publicly went in opposition to him [Lambesis] and mentioned it on a number of exhibits. Not lots of people… I believe I’m nonetheless, you can in all probability Google this, I’m nonetheless one of many solely folks that mentioned, ‘No. Fuck this dude! It’s wack. He’s accomplished. That is somebody that ought to actually be canceled’. And I swear, in at some point 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]
