Young and in the Way Disband

2018-02-26 by Brandon Scott EMERITUS | 36 Comments
After nine years together, North Carolina crust/black metal group Young and in the Way have decided to disband following sexual assault accusations levied at the band by a former promoter. You can read the band's statement below:

"An accusation of sexual assault has been made against members of our band.

As a band and as individuals, we are disgusted that someone was sexually assaulted at an event that we were a part of. We applaud the victim’s courage to talk about it and we support her decision (and right) to name her aggressors. We stand by what we said when we learned about this incident – no member of our band was responsible for this crime. Let us be very clear – our response to this accusation is not an attempt to discredit the victim, we believe her, we’re sorry this happened to her, and we support her. But it was not us.

Victims’ voices can and should be amplified, and we are not sure there’s any decent way to respond to an accusation like this without accepting fault. We can’t accept fault, but we also can’t prove our innocence. That we could even be suspected of such a crime brings us to the end of the road. YAITW is no longer on Deathwish Inc and will not be playing anymore shows. There is nothing left for us to say.

Lastly, do not attack the victim. There is no room for that here.


For all the details regarding the allegations you can visit the story here: http://www.metalinjection.net/metal-crimes/members-of-young-and-in-the-way-accused-of-sexual-assault-band-denies-accusations-disbands

Tagged: Young and in the Way

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TheSpirit
Emeritus
February 26th 2018
30304 Comments


I never liked these guys and apparently they are dicks, so I'm not disappointed by this.

Papa Universe
February 26th 2018
22503 Comments


also, who?

Sinternet
Contributing Reviewer
February 26th 2018
26568 Comments


sucks they were pretty decent

SteakByrnes
February 26th 2018
29706 Comments


They finally got out of the way

Dinosaur
February 26th 2018
1373 Comments


"That we could even be suspected of such a crime brings us to the end of the road."


accusations in 2018 are one thing, but if you're just rolling over after being accused there is either something else going on or the allegations are true...

Prancer
February 26th 2018
1597 Comments


Old and out of the way

cvlts
February 26th 2018
9938 Comments


statement basically translates as,

"We were drunk, don't really remember much, so can't confirm nor deny"

InFiction
February 26th 2018
3995 Comments


That sucks, I actually didn't mind these guys. Having said that, if a sexual assault allegation is a thing that's going to break up your band, that's very suss.

hansoloshotfirst
February 26th 2018
1580 Comments


not a big loss. their albums are only okay and they are dicks (from everything I've heard about them)

Space Jester
February 26th 2018
10989 Comments


I remember reading about a venue having to shut down because this band sprayed real pig blood everywhere during their set and everything ended up being contaminated

emmny
February 26th 2018
109 Comments


music was trash anyway! NEXT!

teamster
February 26th 2018
6219 Comments


Something is fishy ....

pjquinones747
February 26th 2018
4240 Comments


Damn I kinda liked this band but that's a really poor job of clearing your own name lol.

XingKing
February 26th 2018
16148 Comments


Good riddance

Prancer
February 26th 2018
1597 Comments


why does over half of the news posted to this website involve sexual assualt?

zaruyache
February 26th 2018
27340 Comments


"We were drunk, don't really remember much, so can't confirm nor deny"

Basically. At least one instance was supposedly at a party where they sexually harassed a woman (whose description of events can be found in the facebook thread), so their being too blitzed to remember makes sense in light of this nothingburger of an apology. Band is trash.

pjquinones747
February 26th 2018
4240 Comments


Nothingburger

I love it. Adding to my personal dictionary.

Nazzadan
February 27th 2018
2363 Comments


As Taake is dealing with recent drama, they are now part of this too by telling someone that they don't care that their ex was sexually assaulted by someone they are touring with. Goddammit, Hoest. Glad to see everyone is fairly unanimous on shitting on these guys

botb
February 27th 2018
17769 Comments


Fuck these pieces of garbage

butcherboy
February 27th 2018
9464 Comments


I miss the cheeky headlines..

"Young and in the Way get out of the fucking way"

BallsToTheWall
February 27th 2018
51216 Comments


Holy shit! That's extremely disappointing.

botb
February 27th 2018
17769 Comments


When a band acknowledges something like this, doesn’t say they didn’t do it, breaks up, and deletes all their social media and people still think they’re innocent. That blows my mind.

ZippaThaRippa
February 27th 2018
10671 Comments


We just need a close friend of the band to come out and say "I know these guys, they're such genuine people. They would never do a thing like this." And then I'll be convinced

Deez
February 27th 2018
10313 Comments


Thought they were a pretty awesome band to be be fair so even more dissapointed to find out theyre pieces of shit. Reading accounts of people around the same scene this isnt actually a surprise.
Wonder how Caro from Oathbreaker feeling right now :/

Deathconscious
February 27th 2018
27347 Comments


"Having said that, if a sexual assault allegation is a thing that's going to break up your band, that's very suss."

Not at all. In this political climate, youre fucked from a simple accusation. they might have decided its just not worth continuing because of all the flak theyre going to get regardless of whether they did it or not. Same reason they had to resort to doublespeak by saying "we believe her but it wasnt us." Not saying i know what really happened, but the contradictory statement and breakup dont really spell out guilt to me. Its more a symptom of today's political climate.

XingKing
February 27th 2018
16148 Comments


^What's her connection to the band?

Papa Universe
February 27th 2018
22503 Comments


huh, they deleted my comment...

guess it was... in the way

Deez
February 27th 2018
10313 Comments


shes been dating the singer for about 6 months or so maybe longer

Deathconscious
February 27th 2018
27347 Comments


Pussies. it was a good joke.

Papa Universe
February 27th 2018
22503 Comments


nah, i'll do nothing, sorry. it was too soon, i guess. the band are assholes and she's a poor soul and all that what everyone's saying just copy paste. i'll be good.

Deez
February 27th 2018
10313 Comments


'shes a poor soul and all that'

there were 3 of them.

Papa Universe
February 27th 2018
22503 Comments


i really should have read the article...

Deez
February 27th 2018
10313 Comments


Yep

Doctuses
February 28th 2018
1914 Comments


dey aight

Spacesh1p
February 28th 2018
7716 Comments


Band sucked but that's a bad way to go.

zaruyache
March 2nd 2018
27340 Comments


wth happened to this thread

mods messing with my postcount



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