Earlier in the present day, Thy Art Is Murder introduced that they’d parted methods with vocalist CJ McMahon and that he’d been faraway from their new album Godlike, which is out in the present day. The singer has since commented on his dismissal from the group.
Thy Art Is Murder posted a prolonged assertion in the present day on their social media confirming that McMahon was out of the band following a string of inner points. Most just lately, the singer got here beneath hearth after sharing anti-trans content material on his social media and commenting in assist of it. He shared an apology video from the band’s account just a few days later. However, their submit in the present day highlighted the scenario as “the straw that broke the camel’s back,” implying that there had been different points amongst them.
Now, in a brand new submit, McMahon has commented on his dismissal from the group, including that he solely came upon about it by way of their assertion.
“I just woke up and saw the news. Yes this is how I found out. And yes it’s not the whole story. I’ll be going live tomorrow at 5PM Sydney, Australia time,” McMahon wrote, ending the submit with, “Burn everyone to death.”
The latter a part of McMahon’s submit is in reference to the preliminary anti-trans feedback he made within the first place. He’d reportedly reposted a video that was initially shared by political commentator Matt Walsh the place a mom requested her baby in the event that they have been a boy or a woman, and the kid answered “both.” McMahon proceeded to remark that the mom “should be burned to death” for accepting the response [via MetalSucks].
Following the information that McMahon had been ousted from Thy Art Is Murder, Falling in Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke blasted the band on social media.
“It’s time to stand the fuck up and boycott this shit boycott Thy Art Is Murder. I will send $20,000 to CJ right now tired of these spineless cowards bending to this shit ruining peoples lives. Fuck you,” he wrote. “Why is everyone in this music scene so scared to stand up for each other? Grow some balls, or is that transphobic too?”
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The singer proceeded to name them a “super satanic murderous evil band” that “want you all to know they love satan and murder but hate bigotry,” and added that he is “more metal” than them, regardless of having written the Falling in Reverse track “Good Girls Bad Guys.”
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