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What shitty things have your favourite bands/artists done? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by luthis@lemmy.nz 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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[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The dude from Iced Earth and Demons and Wizards is a right wing terrorist. That's a bummer.

[–] foosel@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

That really ruined the day of my partner when it came to light, he is .... was a huge Iced Earth fan for decades 😕

[–] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the singer of Blind Guardian made it clear he wouldn't play with him again after that. I respect that choice.

[–] emptyother@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Demons and Wizards

Oh. Damn. I've been listening to those songs for a decade.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Me too, they're one of my favorite power metal acts. I feel like it's okay to pirate them though. Dude tried to steal my voice, so I'm gonna make unauthorized copies of his.