Christian Heavy Metal Star Tim Lambesis Arrested Over Alleged Murder-for-Hire Plot
There’s something wrong here besides just the term “Christian Heavy Metal”….
(and… if you are going to be “Christian Heavy Metal”, then f’in just own it and be proud of it, don’t be “sekret Christian Heavy Metal” because there’s nothing worse than thinking someone’s singing about sex and then realizing “oh, he’s or she’s singing about JAYSUS! and Rapture!”…not sex. Don’t get me wrong, even as an atheist I love quite a few religious songs, but I want to know it’s about religion…)
In an interview with heavy metal website Noisecreep in January, Lambesis talked about being described as a Christian band.
“Five or so years ago when magazines would try and press that point we decided to stay silent on the spiritual topic so that they would have to pay attention to our music and nothing more,” he told Noisecreep.
“We didn’t preach at our shows, our goal has always been to just write the best music we can write. Of course religion has some influence on the things that we write about just like all of our life experiences do but as a band, we want to be judged on the music rather than what our personal beliefs are,” he added.
The band was slated to go on a cross-country tour with Massachusetts metal band Killswitch Engage later this month.
The band had been touring in Asia in recent weeks.
“I love the crowds here in Asia and the Pacific. Great shows in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand so far! Just landed in Hong Kong,” Lambesis said on Twitter on May 1.
On Monday, Lambesis tweeted, “Goodbye China. I’ll be home in about 15 hours.”
In the statement, which was headlined “Murder for Hire Plot Foiled,” the sheriff’s department said Lambesis was arrested “without incident” on Tuesday in a store in Oceanside, San Diego County.
Lambesis was charged with solicitation of another to commit murder, the statement said.
“Information came to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department on May 2nd that Lambesis was soliciting another individual to kill his estranged wife, who resides in Encinitas,” it said.
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