Metal Anarchy

During an appearance on the “LOS Podcast,” Hatebreed vocalist Jamey Jasta took aim at As I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis, who infamously tried to hire a hitman to kill his former wife in 2013. Jasta says he “was one of the only people that publicly went against him.”

Jasta said the following:

“Ok, so we did the podcast [with Tim] and everybody said that I was too hard on him and the questions were rude and stuff and I was like, ‘the dude survived prison… what’s a couple questions over Zoom?’ The fans get very attached to certain people in certain bands and they want to see them… no matter what they’ve done, it doesn’t matter. If they’re your favorite band, they’re like ‘oh, separate the art from the artist’. I was asking questions like, ‘Do you still have a restraining order with your kids and your wife?’ and there were things that he couldn’t answer… because that’s what I would want to know, especially if we’re going to tour together or be on the same stage together…”

“If [the hitman] wasn’t a cop, she would be dead… and he had dudes vouching for him, so those dudes wanna come on the show, or one of the dudes I think I’ll have on the show again, Ken [Susi, ex-As I Lay Dying, ex-Unearth], who’s a great guy, was like, ‘yeah, I want to take back what I said, vouching for [Lambesis]’.”

“But yeah, it’s a shitty situation if you’re a diehard fan of [Lambesis], who I asked, ‘is your ex-wife still in witness protection?’ and he couldn’t answer.”

“[Lambesis] cried on the show and stuff and really sold it, so people were like, ‘Fuck Jasta! He’s so insensitive! I can’t believe this!’…”

“I was one of the only people that publicly went against [Lambesis] and said it on multiple shows. Not a lot of people… I think I’m still, you could probably Google this, I’m still one of the only people that said, ‘No fuck this dude! It’s wack. He’s done. This is someone that should really be canceled’. And I swear, in one day I had maybe like 400 tweets where it was like, ‘Fuck you, Jasta, you never wanted to kill your wife?!?’… I was like, ‘No, I mean…’”

[via Lambgoat]