New Jersey hardcore band Gel was set to have a tremendous 2025. The band simply launched their new EP Persona again in August and was slated to tour with each Spiritbox and Volbeat all through this 12 months. Sadly none of that’s occurring anymore, because the band has damaged up.
In a prolonged assertion, Gel states that former guitarist Anthony Webster is accountable. Gel accused Webster of stealing tens of hundreds of {dollars}, posting nude photographs of the band’s members on the Web, spending band funds on OnlyFans, put the band in “bodily harmful conditions quite a few occasions,” and extra. It is fairly dangerous if it is all true. Gel’s full assertion could be discovered under.
“Hey everybody, buddies and followers – Gel is now not a band, and due to this fact won’t be enjoying any of our presently scheduled upcoming exhibits. The reason being fairly easy at its core; the previous guitar participant, Anthony Webster, has dedicated such heinous acts in making an attempt to ahead himself in his musical profession that he is finished irreparable harm to the band within the course of, and it is affected us as human beings greater than we are able to even try to clarify, to the purpose of being utterly unable to do the band anymore. Listed below are some examples of what he is finished:
“He is stolen tens of hundreds of {dollars} from us, and the very best half is that he left all of it on file for us to ultimately discover. He spent it on his personal hire, private meals orders, and actually no matter else he wished to, as a result of for a protracted time frame, nobody had entry to the checking account (or any accounts for that matter) however him, regardless of quite a few makes an attempt to realize entry, as a result of you realize, we’re a band, and we should always have all had entry to these issues. Oh yeah, he additionally spent it on a very unbelievable variety of OnlyFans purchases and mysterious CashApp transactions, probably in the identical lane.
“He posted nude pictures of band members on Reddit for the world to see. Yup, simply casually, for who is aware of what objective. Let that one actually sink in. He did that each one whereas nonetheless in a band with us too, by the way in which. Fortunately, he is really horrible at protecting up his tracks, so we have now the receipts to show that one too.
“He put us in bodily harmful conditions quite a few occasions. From speaking shit on the band Twitter and getting our van window smashed in with a baseball bat, to recurrently driving erratically like a psychopath as a result of he was “upset” for once more, who is aware of what motive (oh yeah…. he would not let anybody else drive both by the way in which, so we simply needed to cope with it), and throwing issues at us as a result of he is a bit fucking child and may’t deal with himself like an grownup, it was all the time the identical with him. Absolute distress and inconsideration for anybody and everybody round him (properly, apart from the individuals who he wished to impress and would feign being a pleasant man to…LOL).
“Now, I am certain lots of people are considering, properly why did not you simply cease coping with it? Why did not you simply depart? Should you’ve ever been in abusive relationship, emotionally and / or bodily, you may most likely perceive this higher. It is like that, however together with your life’s work and keenness on the forefront as properly. It is not really easy to simply give one thing up that you just care a lot about, particularly with pressures from outdoors organizations, folks, and so on which might be all relying on you in a roundabout way. We want that this might have all been simpler, and we want that it did not have to finish this fashion – we’re fighters although, and we noticed it by means of to the very finish, till it merely could not go on anymore. And we’re pleased with that.
“On that be aware, we might prefer to ship our most honest and deepest apologies to anybody who that is affecting on a private degree and past. We all know so many individuals have been relying on us, together with Spiritbox, Volbeat, our good buddies in Anxious – we’re so sorry that we have now to finish it this fashion and we really hope for the very best for all of you. Thanks a lot to the buddies we have made through the years, and thanks a lot to our followers for all the time being there for us and exhibiting us how a lot you care. Handle one another, and love your pals.”
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