It looks like Alex Varkatzas (Dead Icarus, ex-Atreyu) is set to become a firefighter. The frontman recently completed his training for the career.
Varkatzas commented:
“@mvcfireacademy54 graduation today. Grateful for my friends and family coming. I couldn’t have done this without their love and support. We have been working hard since pre academy in Jan. Up @ 4am, PT @ 5:30am usually not home til around 6pm everyday, mon-fri for 16 weeks. Countless hours of studying, training and drills has led up to today and to be honest this is just the start. There is a lot i want to say but i don’t know how to sum it all up. I’ll leave you with this….
Don’t ever give up on yourself. Losing is not the same thing as failing and winning doesn’t teach half the lessons that losing does. Be a student of life. Keep putting one foot in front of the other and when you falter , get up and just keep going. The only way to truly fail is to quit. I wish you all peace and power.”
Metal Anarchy 
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