As previously reported, Dany Ciara, the ex-wife of Tim Lambesis, recently made headlines after opening up about their toxic relationship during a new interview. That chat also saw her level more allegations against the frontman, who recently had to rebuild As I Lay Dying after footage of him engaging in disturbing altercations with Ciara and her dog surfaced online. Now, Lambesis has responded to her latest comments, saying “old stories resurface only when [his] life and career move forward again.”
Lambesis said the following:
“I stayed quiet about my personal life because it wasn’t relevant to the work. I’m only speaking now because the same pattern keeps repeating. Old stories resurface only when my life and career move forward again.
I’m not interested in drama or attention. The music either stands on its own or it doesn’t.
What is difficult to ignore is when someone you moved on from long ago suddenly becomes publicly fixated right when momentum returns. That kind of timing explains itself.
Context matters. Removing it is the easiest way to manufacture a narrative, especially when platforms are willing to host one-sided stories without accountability.
I was held accountable for my past over a decade ago. Since then, my life has been public, documented, and scrutinized. If anything illegal had happened in the years since, it would have been addressed through proper channels.
This isn’t even unique. The same sequence played out with another artist, Greg Overton, following a surge of visibility after appearing on the Joe Rogan podcast. Public commentary from a former relationship followed immediately. People noticed then, just as they notice now.
Some people build things. Others only appear when there’s something to attach themselves to. In the end, it’s the work that lasts, not the noise around it.
It’s over. Time to finally move on. I’m going back to making music. I have an album to finish before the next tour.”
During a recent interview with Robbs MetalWorks, Vio-lence singer Sean Killian opened up about parting ways with Phil Demmel in 2024. He also claimed the guitarist tried to get him to shelve the band a year prior.
Killian said the following:
“[Phil] wanted me to shelve the band. And then we sold out the Whisky [A Go Go in February 2023] in L.A., and he brought it up in the green room after we played. And I was, like, ‘No, I’m not shelving anything.’ ‘Cause we never really toured back in the day, so there’s so many places around the world that haven’t seen VIO-LENCE or heard it live. For him, it’s a garage thing that — I don’t know… He’s kind of a selfish guy. And if you’ve seen some of his interviews. he even brings it up himself.”
He continued when asked why the band’s previous reunion in 2001-2003 didn’t last:
“Well, we actually were writing music at the time, so we had Perry [Strickland] on drums and Phil [on guitar], Deen [Dell] playing bass, me singing and we had Ray Vegas playing guitar to fill in, ’cause Robb [Flynn, former VIO-LENCE guitarist] was already taking off with MACHINE HEAD. And we wrote some music and then Robb, he came to Phil and tapped him and said, ‘You wanna play [with MACHINE HEAD]?’ And then Phil called me and I was, like, ‘Look, dude, I’m just a guy that loves to play music. You’re a musician.’ I’ve never told him, ‘You can’t do this’ or ‘you can’t do that,’ ’cause he’s filled in for LAMB OF GOD [in later years] and a bunch of stuff. And I’ve always supported him a hundred percent. But when he told me that he wanted me to shelve it [two and a half years ago], that’s when I was just kind of, like, ‘This relationship…’ Like [THE MENTORS legend] El Duce would say, ‘This relationship is over.’ [Laughs]”
He also added:
“It’s an internal thing with him. It’s not about me. It’s when he started doing interviews. So when [VIO-LENCE] played the Mystic Festival [in June 2024] in Poland, MACHINE HEAD was playing [at the same event], so I text Robb, ‘Hey, man, why don’t you play [the classic VIO-LENCE song] ‘World In A World’ with us?’ ‘Cause he always shows up a day before [MACHINE HEAD is scheduled to play]. And [Robb was], like, ‘Fuck yeah.’ So we did it. And so then the next week [Phil] does an interview, and it’s just nothing but him talking bad about [VIO-LENCE]. And I just finally had it with him and told him, ‘Man, you got issues. And I don’t want any part of it.’ I’m 61. I don’t want people like that in my life. And so here we are today. And I’m happy. And the group that I’m playing with are enjoying themselves, and the fans really respond every time.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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During a recent interview with Mark Strigl, Disturbed bassist John Moyer discussed the band’s plans for new material. According to him, “there’s no shortage of music coming.”
Moyer said the following about taking a break in 2026:
“Yeah, you know, every band takes a break after they tour. It’s pretty standard. Some people are trying to make — honestly, it’s so weird. Social media, and some of these news outlets, they try to blow things up, ‘DISTURBED are taking break after’ blah, blah, blah, and I’m just, like, uh, every band takes a break after a tour. There’s nothing special about this. It’s not that big a deal. [Laughs] It’s just, like, I don’t understand sometimes some of these headlines that come out, I mean, I get it — it’s for clicks, and it’s, like, ‘Oh, is something wrong with DISTURBED?’ There’s nothing wrong. Everything’s great. Dave [DISTURBED singer David Draiman] just got married. He might wanna enjoy some time with his wife before we jump out back on the road again. I don’t know. Just a thought. [Laughs]”
He also added the following about new music:
“There’s no shortage of music coming from DISTURBED, I’ll tell you that right now. I know that for a fact. We’ve got stuff. We’ve got a lot of stuff that… Now I’m letting cats out of the bag, but even though there’s not a record that’s coming out, there’s no announcement of anything, the band’s been working in the studio now for the last two years, and there’s a lot of material that is sitting there, that’s gonna get released. And it’s some great stuff. It’s just a matter of the timing of it and which songs are right for us and what the concept is and all the things that go with creating that art and pushing it.”
[via Blabbermouth]
During a recent appearance on the BREWtally Speaking Podcast, Dany Ciara, the ex-wife of Tim Lambesis, further opened up about their toxic relationship. She also raised new allegations against the frontman, who recently had to rebuild As I Lay Dying after footage of him engaging in disturbing altercations with Ciara and her dog surfaced online.
Ciara said the following about initially meeting Lambesis and the beginning of their relationship:
“We started talking to each other through Instagram and that same day when I first messaged him, he told me he’ll fly out to wherever I am to meet me.”
“We got married two weeks after meeting each other. And so what had happened was he flew to where I lived to meet me, and then I went back to California with him to see where he lives, and he showed me a little bit of his life. And then after that, we came back here and packed up all my stuff and drove to California. And on the way to California, we both were joking, but not joking, about getting married in Vegas. And we just ended up doing that.”
She continued:
“It just felt like I was on such a cloud nine and feeling like I can’t believe that, like, this is too good to be true, which it was.”
However, things started to change six months later, when she discovered he was cheating:
“I still remember it. It was on March 14th. We got together in September. So I just remember it was on March 14th, six months after we’d gotten together. And I just remember that was the worst day of my life.”
“It’s definitely something he’s done to everyone he’s been in a relationship with.”
She then described his actions during the aftermath:
“He wanted me to heal in the time frame that he felt was acceptable. He couldn’t handle days on end where I would have all the ranges of emotion. I would be angry, I’d be depressed, crying. I would not want to talk to him, not want anything and feel. I’d feel disgust. And these are like normal things you would feel after getting cheated on.
And that wasn’t acceptable to him. That caused a lot of the blowups between us because he would say I was torturing him by being in a bad mood for a long period of time or that I was just like generally like this awful, negative person. And he’d make comments to me like, you know, you won’t have the capability to heal and your timeline for healing is abnormal compared to most people.
He even told me that like cheating hurts him more than it would the average person. And I don’t know what that means. I don’t know how anyone else has reacted in the past, like infidelity, but I just felt like it was a way to shame me. The past is the past is something he’d always say too.”
She also revealed that things turned physical and he was using edited surveillance footage to make her look crazy:
“He had shoved me and took the phone from me. He took this video and he muted it. He took the audio out so you couldn’t hear that I was actually screaming at him, knew that he was cheating on me.
So I just looked like this absolutely crazy fucking person without any context.”
She also addressed one of the biggest claims against her:
“I do want to explain the context behind the biggest claim that he has against me, I guess, of me chasing him around the house with a knife. I will say I have pulled a knife on him more than once. There was this cycle of when things would escalate and I could feel it happening. like there were signs I knew when it was going to get physical.
And it started out with like Tim pinning me down, putting his body weight on top of me so I can’t breathe. I’d be screaming for help — which I do want to mention that we had several roommates, and a lot of them were men that Tim spent time with in prison. So I guess, I don’t know, they have some like bro code that no matter what like you don’t snitch… you always take his back. So they weren’t there to help me. Which I will, that’s another thing that I need to mention…’
“So [Tim] would… if I didn’t agree to quit being angry with him about something or be in the mood that he wanted me to, it would escalate to the point where like, you know, he’d have one of his mental breakdowns and then he would pin me down. He would strangle me — which I have evidence of, him strangling me.
…I have evidence of this too where it’s one of these times where he’s doing this to me and I’m screaming at the top of my lungs. And by the way, this is one of his so-called witnesses that he keeps mentioning. He keeps mentioning in comments and stuff about all this online. He has like eight witnesses that witnessed me abusing him and not the other way around.
One of his witnesses, I’m in there in our room screaming at the top of my lungs for him to come help me get Tim off of me. And like bloody murder, like screaming at the top of my lungs so loud that the neighbors called the police and he didn’t come help me. And I texted him the next day and I said, ‘I can’t believe you wouldn’t come help when I’m screaming for you like that. I don’t know if you heard me. Neighbors heard me. I know you were here. I know you were home.’ And I’m sorry I’m all over the place.”
She later added:
“I just wanted to mention that that’s the credibility of the people that he has as witnesses for him of my abuse to him. And he, I even have a video of Tim assaulting me, and that guy that I’m talking about that was our roommate, turning his back and walking away. So he would protect Tim at all costs too.
It’s like this prison thing. I don’t know. But back to the story about the knife, I would feel it get to that point. I’d feel it coming. You know, there were obvious signs after so many times of it happening that like if there was a weapon by me, no matter what it was, I would pick it up and I would hold it out to him to keep distance between us because if I knew what would happen if he got close to me.
So, that’s the context behind the knife video. And I’m not ashamed of it. Like I’m not going to sit here and say sorry, if for someone, he’s literally 110 lbs heavier than me and fucking strangles me. And there was times where I thought he wasn’t going to let off of my throat. So like why would I let him get close to me? And then he says that I’m apparently charging towards him in this video, like coming at him with a knife, which I I don’t recall that happening. It could have, but if I’m walking towards him, like, I can honestly, honestly say the only time I ever pulled a knife out on him was to keep him away from me.
And I bet you anything that… if he were to show this video to people, which he has shown videos to people in the past without the audio, is because you can probably hear me saying in the in the audio like ‘stay the fuck away from me.’ You know what I mean? And I wanted to give context to that scenario, because I feel I have the right to defend myself against him and I don’t know why he doesn’t believe that I did, but I did.”
She also claimed he sent edited footage to members of As I Lay Dying from a fake email account:
“It was after the fact that he spit in my face at Ken’s house. So he’s trying to figure out to keep the band together. And he thought by showing everybody that he’s being abused by me, that it could keep As I Lay Dying together. And obviously everyone knew that it was him sending this email out.
It was forwarded to me and I read it. I immediately knew it’s him. It’s the way he talks. And I confronted him about it. He later admitted to sending that email and said he’s trying to just salvage his career.
And that was basically the end.”
Ciara also accused Lambesis of creating AI-generated porn including material involving a minor and an adult:
“There was a time in our relationship where he was into making AI pornography on his phone…
I didn’t even know what to say. I texted him and I was like, what the fuck is this picture? So it’s a picture he generated, and even if he didn’t generate it, he saved it to his phone as is, and it was a picture of… these are AI, by the way… a kid, like, erect making out with an adult woman.”
Ciara also said Lambesis used her pets against her:
“”He did that because when he was mad at me, he would take it out on my dogs. He would let my dogs outside to punish me and let them escape. And we had coyotes everywhere. I’m so lucky that nothing happened to them.”
“He offered me $20,000 to get rid of [my dog]. And I think it was because he was just jealous of how much I loved her, but he didn’t like her for some reason. And she’s… That’s my… I love my dog more than anything in this world.”
“The video where he’s hitting my dog Scrappy. He’s making comments on Instagram and Facebook and stuff about how Scrappy would on shit the couch and that’s why he did what he did. But that’s not true at all. That video of him hitting and kicking my dog. He did that because he’s an asshole. And because he was abusive to my dogs, not because the dog shit on the couch. I just wanted to clear that up.”
Ciara also accused Lambesis of bringing his mother and more into in their fights. She went on to say the police got involved multiple times as well:
“One of the things that I think is really important to talk about is how many times the police had showed up to our house in response to domestic violence calls. And most of those came from like the neighbors calling the police. And I have never had to deal with police for relationship issues ever in my life before this.”
She also added that she wants to take back the narrative:
“I just want to speak my truth and move on with my life. I’m not gonna back down to him. I’m not gonna be scared anymore.”
Terror have decided to fight back against bootleggers by printing their own bootlegged design. The band said the following about that via Instagram:
“Combat the bootleggers by bootlegging the bootleg! 😂 It can suck to be a hardworking band & have this happen, but that’s life and we try to make the best of it. Pick up an official shirt from us of a design we did ages ago for a very limited time. If you happened to grab one from @brokenuniformsyndicate we encourage you to get a refund. Merry Christmas and thanks for the love! Hoodie version also available. LINK IN THE BIO!”
As previously reported, Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Eric Avery, and drummer Stephen Perkins previously filed a lawsuit against singer Perry Farrell for assault, battery, emotional distress, etc. after he attacked Navarro onstage. Farrell later denied those claims and filed his own lawsuit. However, People are now reporting that the group have officially reached a settlement. As such, both lawsuits have been dismissed by the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles county. The news is somewhat unsurprising considering the musicians recently issued statements saying their issues have been resolved.
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