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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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[–] Persen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Raped women(alegedly) (Rammstein).

[–] Fatmaninalilcoat@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

Metallica when they shut the bed and started attacking their fans.

[–] funbreaker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Back when I was a teenager I loved Lostprophets. I didnβ€˜t hear about Ian Watkins becoming one of the worst people in Wales until a few years after they disbanded.

Crystal Castles is also pain listening to nowadays with Alice and Ethan.

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[–] nocturne213@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Vince Neil killing Razzle. Then the band casually acting like Mick never existed.

[–] Sendbeer@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Such horse shit Vince didn't have to do time for that. He has gotten a couple DUI's since too. On his Wikipedia page seems he likes to assault women. Total piece of shit.

[–] nocturne213@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I think Vince was rather surprised he did not have to do time also.

[–] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago
[–] urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Salvador Dali was alleged to have beat his wife if I remember correctly. I don't remember what the details were, I think there was abuse there as well.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The time Josh Homme kicked that lady in the face

Also this fucker (bassnectar)

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[–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Missing a pretty big thing about Varg being a white supremacist, and of the spineless kind.

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[–] Floey@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Red House Painters, specifically Mark Kozelek. I think the things he was accused of were from his Sun Kil Moon days, but it still sucks. Those first couple of albums I have listened to dozens of times.

Crystal Castles and Sweet Trip also have intraband sexual assault allegations, which really sucks because then I'm a fan of both the victim and the predator.

[–] rakyat@artemis.camp 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sigur Ros’s ex drummer was accused of rape and the band itself was accused of tax evasion.

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Hyper Potions. They split due to the other member being involved in pedophilia and rape, which shocked me when I heard about it.

[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

More than a few of the musicians whose music I like have gotten in trouble for grooming, being pedos, and abusing minors. Two come to mind immediately because I found out recently: BoyInABand and Geoxor. There's probably more musicians like that whose news I haven't heard of.

edit: I don't follow this band but seems like lostprophets had an even worse situation.

Edit2: I read a bunch of the comments and a very prevalent trend is musicians getting in trouble for being pedos. Why so common?

[–] Tiefton@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

The Boyinaband thing sucks, used to like his collabs with Andrew Huang :( Boyinaband won’t get any of my views anymore.

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

I was fairly partial to "tie me kangaroo down, sport" as a child of preteen years. Not to mention Gary Glitter songs.

Being bought up in the [UK] seventies comes with a lot of that kind of trauma these days.

I'm having to re-evaluate my life choices as a ten year old regularly in 2020s civilization.

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