Quick, name as many bands as you can that have A. been together for over a decade and B. still have all their original members. It’s hard, right? Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.   This Week on MetalSucks... Quick, name as many bands as you can that have A. been together for over a decade and B. still have all their original members. It’s hard, right? As a band goes on and finds some degree of success, sometimes the inter-band relationships sour, sometimes the creative vision changes, etc. This usually leads to one or more members getting the ol' heave-ho by a variety of cruel, sometimes hilarious methods. Breaking up is hard to do, and thus many people opt for the most indirect method possible. How would you feel, waking up to find out you’ve been axed from your gig via an all caps Facebook post that the press got ahold of before you did? This week we learned the stories behind Brandon Butler bailing on Veil of Maya, Stone Sour giving Jim Root the boot, why Jesper Strömblad stepped down from In Flames, and how Joey Jordison learned he’d been pink-slipped from Slipknot (cough).  Tragically, we also learned that Malcolm Young had no choice to step down from his role in AC/DC due to a dementia diagnosis, at only 61 years old. Malcolm, we salute you. Cool Rappers Listen To Burzum LA rapper Bones is sporting a Burzum shirt in a recent music video. Yep! The same Burzum fronted by convicted murderer/dipshit Varg Vikernes. We’re not sure if Bones is being ironic, if he's a legitimate fan, or if he found it in a thrift pile for three bucks and is unaware of the association, but considering this isn’t the first time a rapper has sported a Burzum shirt in a thinly veiled effort to piss off the noted racist and homophobe Vikernes, we're thinking the former. We hope. We really, really hope. Jim Root Fired from Stone Sour Via a Phone Call It's written in the Gentleman's Code: when you’re breaking up with someone, you do it in person. Not by email, not by text, and not by telephone. Back in May they released longtime guitarist Jim Root, and now Root has gone on record saying his bandmates did the deed by way of a phone call. Those cads. If we were fired from a band we’d been in for over a decade via a phone call, we’d be a little SOUR too. Get it? Ahahaha. Jesper Strömblad Sets The Record Straight On In Flames Jesper Strömblad slung axe for In Flames on every record of theirs up through 2008’s “A Sense Of Purpose’ and then left the band on the road to recovery for alcoholism. Or so we were told. The guitarist now claims that alcohol played a minimal role in his decision to walk. Rather, in the most diplomatic Facebook post we've ever read, he cites his unwillingness to ‘compromise his musical vision’ as the reason for leaving the band. Have a listen to his post In Flames project, The Resistance, and tell us if you think his decision was musically justified.   listen to The MetalSucks Podcast | follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Copyright © MetalSucks, All rights reserved.

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