ANIMOSITY BROKE UP
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 at 12:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
Animosity, largely revered as one of the best bands of their kind, are apparently throwing in the towel. A statement from vocalist Leo Miller to Lambgoat explains:
“You have never seen us rest this long. For those of you wondering about Animosity, you are correct to have assumed that we disbanded. It has been nearly a year since all five of us were in a room (or the same state) together. In this time, we have written zero songs and played zero shows. In short, nothing happened which I mean to say plainly and clearly. We are all still alive and friends, but following our last tour we just did nothing band related. Many of us grew up in this band, and for me personally, Animosity was somehow prioritized over everything including my very own life. This band formed our communities, relationships, experiences and the lens through which we view the world. Eight years later, I look back to being 14 years old playing Animosity shows in garages and backyards and I can honestly say that our musical and experiential goals have been exceeded in ways that once seemed impossible to me. If you haven’t gotten enough of Animosity, please rest assured that we have.
“This is not to say, that everyone is gone from music. In the time since our last show, Navene finished his spectacular debut solo album called Fleshrot – dementia/dyslexia. Navene wrote played and recorded all the music himself and features beastly vocals from Jonny Davy. Check out the project here and stay posted for album release info. Also, Navene has teamed up with Tosin Abasi and is drumming in their new band Animals As Leaders. Chase also has a new band called Son of Arelius from which you can expect a full-length album out soon. New music from Evan and Frank can be anticipated in various different forms. As for me, I moved out east to study the environment.
“To Animosity fans worldwide, thank you for doing this with us, it was an awesomely epic journey. Be well!”
I’m not a huge Animosity fan, but they were a good band and it sucks that they’re calling it quits.
Mourn by reading Sammy O’Hagar’s interview with Leo Miller from earlier this year.
-AR
Bummer.
what a shame i loved these guys….i was wondering where they’ve been
HOLY FUCKING SHIT BALLS. This Fleshrot side project with jonny davy is fucking SICK!!!!!! Like a Born of Osiris/Black Dahlia Murder hybrid with brutal death metal vocals.
bitchin animosity is gone and decapitated is back, my day is complete
That’s a pretty weak day man. Decapitated is amazing. Animosity was doing something deathcore bands can’t even contemplate. Plus their Drummer Navene is probably one of the most creative drummers I’ve heard in death metal. Kinda crazy to think the guy can make beats and patterns that don’t have blast beats longer than 5 seconds.
NOOOO! The Black Page is one of the sickest deathcore songs ever written. Please tell me there drummer has a new project.
read the article.
Forgive my illiteracy.
Ah lame. Still, there are much better deathcore bands around.
fuck you. There aren’t.
I’m with you. Animosity rules.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
“Empires” was one of the best deathcore albums ever. I’m glad I managed to see them live in 06 with Cattle Decapitation, FASSW and Misery Index.
RIP Animosity.
Awesome band, awesome releases, awesome guys too !
Good luck for the rest !
That sucks their last album was good
Best Deathcore band to ever exist, not like that’s saying much, but, worst news since Vitek died. At least I got to see them live twice.
Ah ah ah. No, seriously, I can see why some people might miss them but I didn’t like their music so I’m not gonna cut my veins for this.
Well they’ve gone the way of all bands of this ilk. Release a couple of albums and build up a small but loyal following, then break up. Immediately join a new band, featuring ex-members of _____. Rinse and repeat. Who were these guys again?
I can’t believe Leo is going to go hug trees instead of making more awesome music…
Wow! This sucks, the talent this band had… Their sound was fresh and each album got better and better. They started off sounding in the vein of dying fetus, then progressed into a beast sounding like a mix of misery index, cattle decap and the red chord… Will be missed
They didn’t start off anything like Dying Fetus…
I’ll miss this band though, they were different than a lot of the crap out there, and they were good at it.
Son of Aurelius is sick – Santa Cruz death metal for the win.
Good. They sucked.
FUCK YOU.
Well this is disappointing :(
ABSOLUTLY SUCKS. THEY WERE AWESOME. EMPIRES IS ONE OF THE BEST DEATHCORE ALBUMS OUT THERE.
Anyone who doesn’t, at the very least, realize the talent and creativity this band had is retarded. To anyone who said they suck, actually listen to their music or develop better music tastes.
animals as leaders will be awesome with a real drummer and not dkfh
I hate it when bands break up, it’s like a piece of metal dying. Anyway, more power to them in their future goals.
Goddammit. I loved this band so much. They were one of deathcore’s last hopes.
RIP
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Great…the one good “core” related band out there breaks up. Now we’ve gotta put up with all this other shit.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I JUST DIED A LITTLE
who?
FUCK.
Call me what you want, but good riddance.