Memes about Jon Schaffer in Capitol...

And that's the end of a very pathetic story, folks!

Yeah Lostprophets didn't exactly last long after Ian Watkins was put behind bars. Slightly different with the crime, but still.

https://www.metalsucks.net/2021/02/01/hansi-kursch-quits-demons-wizards-my-collaboration-with-jon-schaffer-is-over/

So Hansi Kursch is out.

Well, I for one am done with Iced Earth, and I won't spend another dime on their music or merch, and I probably won't be able to listen to their music without getting angry (a shame... I mean Stormrider and all). Same thing with Tim Lambesis: after the whole hitman thing, I just couldn't enjoy Austrian Death Machine anymore. And Varg can suck a bag of dicks.

Back then after Varg was in prison record labels didn't want to touch his music either. It was only released because a fan set up a label, Misanthropy Records (coincidentally a very local label to where I live), just to release Burzum, that those records were released.

I do keep keeping thinking about Varg's crimes through this and how his music remains in such high regard. Varg literally murdered a man (and is not the only musician in black metal alone to have done so), yet people still worship his music. Filosofem remains the top black metal album on RYM to this day. Likewise Faust from Emperor also murdered a man, yet was allowed to rejoin Emperor from 2013-2014 and to this day is with several active acts including Blood Tsunami.

I guess the difference is these are historical crimes now that the guilty have served their sentences for. Schaffer's is still fresh (and committed during the era of Cancel Culture) and some will probably consider it a worse crime, which I disagree with. He's still a prick for what he's done and I don't think I'll ever be able to respect him as a person again, but he didn't kill anyone. He took part in a riot during an event where tensions were already high and those people were pretty much encouraged by the President himself.

He will get what's coming to him for it, but it'll be interesting to see if metalheads in general will come to overlook this event and just judge the music as music. I'd hope so, given how many overlook Varg's crimes today.

For the record I own Burzum releases too, but I have zero respect for Varg as a person. But I will still listen to him in those rare moments when his brand of black metal scratches an itch. The same will be true of Jon Schaffer's bands.

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. Some people really understand how to destroy their lives and their legacy...

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This thread did ask for memes and this one isn't in the linked web page in the first post. And perfectly sums up this mess he's made for himself.

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Yeah it's looking bad for him. Completely deserved of course. Who I feel sorry for are his bandmates. Jon may be the main writer of Iced Earth but he's never been the sole writer (and this isn't accounting for performances themselves) and there are quite a few other members having their work dismissed because of his actions. Although I honestly wouldn't be surprise if they end up leaving Iced Earth if the band continues in some form.

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Hmmm.... I can't decide whether to throw my Iced Earth merch and CDs in the trash now.I'm definitely not going to purchase any Iced Earth stuff anymore. I won't support that asshole in any way financially or otherwise. Iced Earth just lost a fan.

Are devil women with tits that big really a punishment though?

Debate it lads.