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What happens with As I Lay Dying singer Tim Lambesis' crowd-funded album now that he's behind bars?

by Tyler Munro

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Something that’s been lost in the windfall of As I Lay Dying singer Tim Lambesis’ legal troubles is that not long before he delivered a $1000 deposit on a $20,000 contract to kill his life he raised more than $75,000 towards the production of a new Austrian Death Machine. We don’t want to jump to conclusions, but it’s a little iffy, to say the least.

As Metal Sucks points out, the IndieGogo campaign for his side project took donations up until April 19th. According to the crowdfunding website’s small print, it then takes around ten-to-15 days for everything to process. Do the math and it becomes a little suspicious that Lambesis would carry out part of such a huge (and horrifying) transaction so soon after such a successful campaign; he apparently solicited a hit on his wife on May 2, and was arrested five days later.

Of course it’s absurd for us to make any implications here, and the likelihood that one contributed to the other is virtually zero. But if anything, it’s a conversation worth having. If he had the money for the hit, how does that impact the album?

More importantly, what happens to the incentives he offered on the fundraiser? More small print on IndieGogo highlights that following through on proposed and paid-for perks is entirely on the artist, which could be hard since Lambesis is behind bars with a hefty $2 million bail to get out. He is however legally bound to deliver the album in a timely matter. Not that I’d be holding out hope for that butt tattoo he promised.