Keith Buckley, the former singer of the hardcore punk band Every Time I Die, wrote a four-page account of the band’s breakup from his perspective. Keith said that in early December, he overheard his bandmembers talking about plans to “replace him.” Communication between the band devolved from there. Keith’s message comes in response to a statement from Every Time I Die’s other four members — one of whom is Keith’s younger brother, guitarist Jordan Keith — announcing the band’s dissolution. “There has been no direct communication with Keith, because it’s either impossible for direct communication with him solely or we’ve been cut off to any and all communication by him himself,” said the statement by “Andy, Jordan, Steve, and Goose.” In December, Keith announced that he was taking a break f...
Every Time I Die just announced their first album in five years, which means we’ve got some long overdue rocking to do. Radical will be out Oct. 22 on Epitaph Records, but fans won’t have to wait another couple of months to get a better taste of what the metalcore icons have been creating all quarantine. Instead, they released a fourth track off of the album, “Post-Boredom,” following the previous releases (prior to the album’s announcement) of “AWOL,” “Desperate Pleasures” and “A Colossal Wreck.” “’Post-Boredom’ was the first song I ever wrote that gave me the feeling of real Truth,” vocalist Keith Buckley said in a statement. “I wasn’t hiding any secret confessions in metaphors, I was very much fed up with living an unfulfilling life and felt that I needed a death (either figuratively or...