EVERY TIME I DIE NOT DYING

Here’s a fun story. The interwebs were aflutter on Saturday after Every Time I die posted two messages on their official Facebook page which seemed to suggest that they were breaking up. Here are screen caps of the posts in question:

So it’s easy to see how fans might misconstrue those messages to mean that the band were done.

Then, of course, because the internet is a completely fucking crazy place, the chatter became that the band were breaking up due to a recent lawsuit from Kanye West (and possibly some other non-metal celebrities) involving the band’s fake re-tweets that seemed to endorse their new DVD, Shit Happens. Which is ridiculous, because a) even if the band broke up, they’d still be subject to the lawsuit, so breaking up would solve nothing, and b) the lawsuit was only just brought about a few days ago, so it’s way too soon to say what the outcome will be and what effect that outcome may have on the group.

But, hey, this all turned out to be a stupid rumor anyway! One which the band dispelled on Twitter later that same day:

So now we can all wipe the sweat from our brows and breathe a collective PHEW! Crisis averted. Hopefully Every Time I Die will be here for some time yet.

Of course, this is all very good publicity for that Shit Happens DVD. Not that I’m being cynical and saying they did on purpose.

This is still only my second favorite social network metal-snafu this year. Remember over the summer, when The Dillinger Escape Plan had a lot of people convinced that Greg Puciato had died? Good times. Good times.

-AR