As I Lay Dying’s Tim Lambesis offers first interview since break up with band members: “I do not need pity”

As I Lay Dying‘s Tim Lambesis has given his first interview following the departure of his former bandmates.

Final October, the band’s bassist Ryan Neff, guitarist Ken Susi and drummer Nick Pierce, all of whom joined the band in 2022, introduced that they had been quitting the band, citing “private morals”.

The next month, longtime guitarist Phil Sgrosso – who had joined the band again in 2003 – adopted within the footsteps of his former bandmates and departed the band as nicely, leaving Lambesis as the only real remaining member.

Talking concerning the departures on the time, Sgrosso mentioned that they had been as a result of band now not providing “a wholesome or secure atmosphere for anybody concerned – whether or not creatively, personally, or professionally. After witnessing some regarding patterns of behaviour, I’ve realised that I can now not, in good conscience, allow additional actions that might negatively have an effect on anybody working inside this area.”

That very same month, video footage of the frontman and his spouse Dany in what seemed to be a tense argument surfaced on social media. Lambesis spoke out about he movies and accused Dany of home violence and alleged that she timed “these public assaults” after he served her with divorce papers.

Now, whereas showing as a visitor on health coach Justin Wenzel’s podcast – marking his first interview because the departure of all of his As I Lay Dying’s bandmates and the footage of him and his spouse in a heated argument surfacing on-line – Lambesis opened up concerning the break up explaining that his relationship with Dany had altered his habits resulting in his bandmates to depart.

“I wasn’t going to speak about it as a result of I didn’t wish to let anyone know the way deeply unhealthy issues had been as a result of then they’d inform me I’ve to depart the connection. I wished to discover a approach to struggle and keep so I simply stored it in,” he defined.

He continued: “The irony is that my relationship ended on the similar time that these guys kind of gave up, per se. I’m not blaming them, however the resolution occurred on the similar time that they felt like they now not had been — they didn’t wish to stick round as a result of they felt like there was no resolution.”

The frontman additionally mirrored on himself, admitting that he tends to isolate himself when struggling together with his psychological well being. He shared that he doesn’t blame his former bandmates for not intervening and acknowledged his previous – by which he ended up incarcerated for trying to rent a hitman to kill his spouse on the time – explaining that that was not one thing that the band could be keen to take care of once more.

“I feel that’s a criticism that’s warranted as a result of I’ve had loads of alternatives to take a step again and heal from that, however I by no means wished to speak about it,” he mentioned, including, “Twelve years in the past is once I was arrested, and within the final 12 years I perhaps acknowledged that loss a few times.”

After being launched from jail in December 2016, Lambesis took to As I Lay Dying’s official Fb web page to put up a prolonged assertion, “apologising to everybody” for his actions.

The vocalist then reunited with As I Lay Dying band in 2018, who launched their first new track in six years with ‘My Personal Grave’ and introduced particulars of a homecoming present that summer season. Longtime guitarist Nick Hipa would depart the band in 2020, with drummer Jordan Mancino and bassist Josh Gilbert following swimsuit in 2022.

Final yr, his facet venture Austrian Dying Machine misplaced their drummer Brandon Quick, who introduced his departure on Instagram writing: “For the sake of my psychological well-being and private beliefs, and in gentle of the latest developments surrounding the As I Lay Dying camp and Tim, this has turn out to be an inevitable step for me.”

Quick continued: “The repeated guarantees, the limitless cycle of ‘I’ll do higher’ – phrases that when gave me hope – have was a damaged report that has introduced no actual change. As a substitute, I discovered myself trapped in a sample that eroded my belief and my well-being. This cycle has reached into my private life, affecting my psychological well being in methods I can now not ignore.”