The Fall of Idols

There is this one special band "As I Lay Dying". For now about six years their music is accompanying me in every condition of life, whether I was sad, happy, depressed, frustrated, tired or euphoric. Their songs and lyrics gave me hope, made me cry, made me think about my life or pushed me on, and they still do. Although As I Lay Dying is a Christian Metalcore band, you don’t seem to notice very much of this attitude in their lyrics, which I think is pretty good because most of those christian bands are often put into one pot and mostly their lyrics are… let’s say weird and hard to understand to “nonbelievers”.

They lyrics are about life, love, hate, struggles, fights, wars, tears and much more and on each one of their eight albums there is at least one song I can identify with.

The main character of this band has always been Tim Lambesis, lead vocalist, guitarist and singer-songwriter. Not only did the various shades of his voice impress me but also the physical change he went through in the last few years. At the beginning of As I Lay Dying he was a thin, black haired, inconsiderable boy and it seemed like from one second to the other he became a man!

 For me he was a very attractive one. – I say "was" because here is the point of this whole story: A few weeks ago he was accused of hiring a hitman to kill his wife. I was totally shocked when I heard about this, it was almost like a small world of mine would crash into pieces. Immediately I tried to find out every single point about this accusation on the internet, but at first it appeared to be just a rumour. But day after day more information was made publicly and there was no longer a doubt that this would be just a rumour.

Tim Lambesis and his wife Meegan were going through a divorce, and his wife made a point that Tim would not be able to take good care of the three children because he would spend half of his life on tour and the other one in gym. Apparently Tim was afraid of losing his children so he asked around if anyone knows a hitman. Unfortunately the police got informed about his search and infiltrated an undercover cop into his surroundings. So obviously Tim’s plan went amiss. His trial has already started a few days ago, and it does not look good for him! He will have to spend the next 5-9 years in jail and sadly there will be no new albums of As I Lay Dying during this long period of time.