Metal Anarchy

As I Lay Dying’s Tim Lambesis has responded to recently leaked footage that shows him involved in some disturbing altercations with his wife Dany. The frontman says the couple have split up and that he is filing a restraining order after being assaulted and mentally abused.

Lambesis said the following:

“There is currently a restraining order and a domestic violence investigation being filed against Dany Norris (formerly Lambesis). Anything she is saying now is to distract people away from that to instead focus on my own inappropriate (but not illegal) reactions to these anxiety inducing interactions.

This woman assaulted me and verbally/mentally abused me over 3 years. I took the much needed and overdue step to leave her yesterday by delivering divorce papers. That is the reason there have been attempts at retaliation toward me online today that pale in comparison to what will really be the focus of the courts.

The following evidences are part of the case:

• multiple videos of her assaulting me
• videos of her chasing me around the house with a knife or scissors
• video of her insisting that I delete all other accounts of her physically assaulting me under threat of her knocking me out with a weapon held over my head
• photos of a black-eye she gave me with witness accounts of the event
• witness accounts of me being threatened if I try to leave, even temporarily

I’m certain she will counter by trying to expose my anxiety filled reactions and defenses, but please remember that reacting in panic by hurting myself is far different than what I’ve listed above.

The timing of these public attacks online are because I served her with divorce papers yesterday after many days of her pleading for me stay while also flipping back and forth to attempting to exert abusive control.

This is blatantly a retaliation for me finally leaving a relationship I should have run from a long time ago.”

This latest controversy follows a mass exodus that saw everyone exit As I Lay Dying except Lambesis. At least one member has quit Austrian Death Machine as well. Amidst the shakeups, rumors were circulating that seemed to suggest that the vocalist was abusing Dany. However, she ultimately shot those claims down.

Despite this, it’s no secret that Lambesis does have a dark past. The frontman, who was released from prison in December 2016, infamously tried to hire a hitman to kill another one of his former wives in 2013.