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Three Members Abrubtly Quit Controversial Band As I Lay Dying

Three members have left the controversial band As I Lay Dying years after the frontman's muder-for-hire plot.

As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis pleaded guilty in 2014 to hiring an undercover policeman to kill his then-wife AP Photo/U-T San Diego, Bill Wechter, Pool, File Guitarist Ken Susi, drummer Nick Pierce, and bassist Ryan Neff — all of whom were recent additions to the band — separately said they were leaving in social media posts. In 2018, Lambesis said in a YouTube post that the return of the band was meant to be “something positive” after his conviction: “There was such an unbelievable sense of relief after my sentencing of, like, ‘defense’ is no longer in my vocabulary.

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