Christian Metal Star Convicted of Attempted Murder Admits He Was Secretly Atheist [View all]

[Alex P Notkeaton]

Source: Mediaite

by Tina Nguyen | 3:09 pm, June 19th, 2014

Tim Lambesis, the frontman for a popular Christian metal group who was recently convicted of attempting to murder his wife, admitted in an interview that not only was he actually atheist, his entire band was, too — and they hid that fact in order to keep selling music to their fans.

The fact was initially revealed by his wife in divorce papers, and in an interview with Alternative Press shortly before his conviction, Lambesis, the lead singer of As I Lay Dying, said that he’d become an atheist after completing a religious studies course online. “I’d get three pages of the traditional evangelical conservative point of view, then three paragraphs or sometimes even just three sentences from the atheist perspective,” he said. “But even in just a few sentences, I’d think, ‘This point of view makes more sense,’ even when it wasn’t being well represented. In the process of trying to defend my faith, I started thinking the other point of view was the stronger one.”

“I actually wasn’t the first guy in As I Lay Dying to stop being a Christian,” he added. “In fact, I think I was the third. The two who remained kind of stopped talking about it, and then I’m pretty sure they dropped it, too.”

It soon became a problem when As I Lay Dying fans began accusing Lambesis of promoting Satanism in a side project, when in fact he was attempting to “[come] to grips with the idea that life has no purpose, no meaning. These were negative themes I wasn’t ‘allowed’ to deal with in As I Lay Dying songs.” He added that he was afraid to disrupt his income stream: “My plan was to tour for as many really good years that we actually had left…I wanted to save up that money and then stop doing it altogether, stay home with my kids, have the money we needed.”

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And it turns out Irom Maiden weren't really Satanists, either. What a bummer!