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What shitty things have your favourite bands/artists done? (lemmy.nz)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Discovered recently that Electric Wizard were kinda dicks back in the day. "At the time, we were pretty bad people. I got arrested for arson of a car, outside a police station. Tim [Bagshaw] went to nick a crucifix off a church roof so we could use it onstage..."

R. L. Burnside killed a man "possibly at a craps game."

Varg of Mayhem Burzum burned a couple churches and killed a bandmate.

I could list other examples, but would like to hear from other people and other music genres.

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[โ€“] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Iced Earth guitarist was one of the first ones in the door on January 6th. The band pretty much said they disagree with his actions,but not his intent.

They said nothing about agreeing with his intent. They condemned his actions and left it at that.

It's also hard to say "the band" as Schaeffer is iced earth. He has been the only constant member and to my understanding owns the rights to their iconography and etc.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Yeah. This is the one that came to my mind.

    Dude straight up ended his career. His band members left, label dropped him and his colabs said they wouldn't work with him anymore.

    Turns out he was a lieutenant in the oath keepers and the FBI grabbed him. Last I heard he made a plea deal and got put into the witness protection program.

    He is the band and it can't exist without him. Even if he could continue, he'd have to rebuild it from the ground up.

    It's a shame, I really Loved Demons and Wizards, the iced earth / blind guardian colab group.

    ... Based on some song lyrics I feel I should have seen this coming when looking back though.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago

    Iced Earth was one of my favorite growing up, but I don't think it hit as hard because I had discovered so much better USPM in recent years. IE had kind of stagnated after Barlow left the first time.

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