Vulvodynia's vocalist assaults drummer

2023-05-08 by Fernando Alves STAFF | 26 Comments
"He threatened and tried to kill our drummer Tom."

South Africa's deathcore slam squad Vulvodynia have announced that they have fired vocalist Duncan Bentley for allegedly assaulting drummer Thomas Hughes. The band's statement is as follows:

"So we are sure you’ve all been wondering whats going on and you deserve to know.
Due to recent events and recurring uncontrollable violence from Duncan Bentley. We can no longer have him in the band.
This has been something we have been considering even before this tour but had to just continue and try our best because the financial losses would have been too devastating.

He threatened and tried to kill our drummer Tom. Tom ended in hospital and sustained various injuries including a badly broken nose. This is also not the first time he’s attacked Tom and displayed this type of violence. Its been a recurring problem for a while. We thought it was alcohol related but we now know its just who he is.

We will be continuing the tour without him. We are going to try make plans to get some friends who are vocalists to help us out on the way and still bring you the best show possible.

Tom is absolutely destroyed and in pain but he’s willing to try finish up the tour and we will do our best. As many of you might know the cost of touring is insanely high and we would like to finish the tour to help us cover our costs.
We hope you guys all understand and we are heart broken to bring you this news.

Please do not trust Duncan. He is a manipulator, psychopath and compulsive liar. He will try take us down after this and we just need you all to know the truth.

*Duncan somehow still has access to our Facebook and is deleting posts.




Meanwhile, drummer Thomas Hughes issued the following statement on social media:

"Just want to say thanks to everyone who has reached out personally and through messages . I’m doing ok other than being in a little pain and we just want to try to continue the tour and make the best of this awful situation.

We were not in any sort of drunken brawl. We had an amazing night out with friends after the show and towards the end of the night started noticing changes in his behaviour with him becoming irratic and irritable and unnecessarily mean about people and towards homeless people around so when we got back to the hotel I asked him if he had been drinking at all and he absolutely snapped. I literally said “Duncan as a friend I need to know if you have been drinking tonight” and he absolutely lost it.

This is not the first time this has happened at all, had to deal with a very similar situation in the Philippines just over a month ago when he was late for lobby call for our flight and I went to his room to wake him and when I did he snapped and attacked me punching me multiple times, breaking my ribs.

We had been considering telling him to leave the band since then but he’d assured us he would quit drinking and had been seeking professional help. Tours are planned months in advance and I had been the one responsible for signing surety on merch orders and many of the financial things that allow us to tour. If we missed the tour I will have been financially ruined for life so we decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and continue with him and his promise to not drink at all. This latest situation just proves that it was never the alcohol at all that sets this off and is a much darker mental issues. After this situation I’d sent him multiple links to AA and other alcohol treatment programs as well as psychologists and tried to be there for him. I also tried with the help of our Manager to help him get a sponsor who comes from our scene and understands the music life and it’s issues and wasn’t just gonna push god on him as treatment. He never once reached out to that person.

We did not abandon Duncan in a random country with nothing. He was about to be arrested for his behaviour but the police had said that we would have had to wait in Prague for weeks of court dates and as much as we wanted to we we’re not in a position to do so. With this the police removed him from the hotel and escorted him away from us telling him to leave him.
Even after all this and spending most of the day at the hospital when we got to our accommodation I still reached out to his wife Cathrine yesterday evening checking in on him and letting her know how to change his flight home as well as sent him money to be able to get to where he needs to be to catch his flight home against the wishes of everyone else involved as I didn’t want to leave him stranded.

I hope he is able get the treatment he needs and get better. He will never be in the band again but I hope that he can get treated and sort his life out. I do not wish any violence against him and hope he can get his life sorted."


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TheNotrap
Staff Reviewer
May 8th 2023
18936 Comments


Brutal death metal

Tundra
May 8th 2023
9665 Comments


mega yikes

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
May 8th 2023
18256 Comments


the broken nose mug shot seems pretty real deal yikes.

DadKungFu
Staff Reviewer
May 8th 2023
4793 Comments


Sad story, seems like the band took all the right steps. Seriously big of Hughes to keep trying to help Bentley after being physically assaulted by him but cutting him off completely is the only safe move for everyone involved. Again, sad and shitty situation to have to be in.

Tundra
May 8th 2023
9665 Comments


Also... another Deathcore vocalist who did some messed up shit and got kicked out the band. This has also happened with Shrine of Malice, Lorna Shore off the top of my head, there are many others though.

botb
May 8th 2023
17834 Comments


Lol was reading about this. Not sure how this dude beat up the drummer and broke his ribs a month ago and didn’t get handled after that. The fact he gave him money to get home after he busted him up so bad is insane to me

Hyperion1001
Emeritus
May 8th 2023
25899 Comments


recurring uncontrollable violence would be a sweet track title

henryChinaski
May 8th 2023
5020 Comments


sounds like a great publicity stunt to promote deathcore

ThyCrossAwaits
May 8th 2023
3986 Comments


Alright since we’re all being so sensitive about this…

I dead-ass want this position. Would kick so many asses to be Vulvo’s new vocalist.

SomeCallMeTim
May 8th 2023
4093 Comments


who the fuck and what the fuck

SomeCallMeTim
May 8th 2023
4093 Comments


just checked their facebook page, awesome that the drummer / band are still playing:

"After all horrific recent events and our van breaking down. We made it back to the tour minutes before our show! Nate our merch guy and Zdenek from Lacerated Enemy records stepped in on vocals and we made it work."

Christbait
May 8th 2023
302 Comments


That wasn't very slammin' of the vocalist

BigBlob
May 8th 2023
5862 Comments


they are lucky they're not a black metal band

Storm In A Teacup
May 8th 2023
45732 Comments


That is horrible.

Eons
May 8th 2023
3770 Comments


maybe the guy can go join SHINING from sweden with niklas kvarforth

in all seriousness though you really can't understand the sadness that financial loss has on a band unless you've been in that situation, it's horrible, these guys probably planned things ahead of time with the money, what theyd have done with it, counted on it, etc. It's like having your job taken from you basically

chemicalmarriage
May 8th 2023
4294 Comments


They should change their name while they are figuring shit out because their name is awful

PotsyTater
May 8th 2023
10100 Comments


“ deathcore slam squad”

Stop

Faraudo
May 9th 2023
4617 Comments


I mean this is as deathcore as it can be tbh

XfingTheSullen
May 11th 2023
5235 Comments


it's more slam than deathcore really, at least imo

MoM
May 11th 2023
5994 Comments


Deathcore used to be the new Slam, but Slam still slammed while deathcore slapped and now, Slam is the new/old Slam cause people are listening now and deathcore fell off with its training wheels and only slams into traffic too heavy for it

Or something slam

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
May 11th 2023
18256 Comments


are there blast beats?

XfingTheSullen
May 11th 2023
5235 Comments


most sources seem to indicate that there is very little overlap of any kind between the deathcore and slam as far as the origins go, with the only convergence point being some hybrid bands

but the corekids definitely stole the bree bree from slammers

MoM
May 11th 2023
5994 Comments


Yeah, i totally have no idea how slam started (or deathcore, really). Sounds like some interesting reading, though!

I’ll always have a soft spot for the brees!

botb
May 11th 2023
17834 Comments


^NY in the 90s, the same place every cool remotely violent sounding music started off lol. Slam is mostly not for me tho, I admit.

MoM
May 11th 2023
5994 Comments


“ NY in the 90s”

Makes sense! Must’ve been hella wild going to shows at the time

“Slam is mostly not for me tho, I admit.”

Understandable. My relationship with slam is like my relationship with milkshakes: i love it, but i can’t binge it too much without getting a headache and diarrhea

XfingTheSullen
May 11th 2023
5235 Comments


I think pig squeals are comic relief personally, but then again, even guys like Åkerfeldt sound like they're squealing when they growl the "ee" sound, so I guess it's a bit blurry



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