Die Oaklander Extreme Metaller von ALL SHALL PERISH haben sich kürzlich von ihrem Sänger Hernan „Eddie“ Hermida getrennt, nachdem dieser bei SUICIDE SILENCE eingestiegen ist. Dort ersetzte er Mitch Lucker. In einem Interview mit Metal Injection erklärte Bassist Mike Tiner nun genauer, warum es zu dem Rausschmiss kam. Offenbar wollte Eddie beide Bands parallel führen, was unter den Kollegen von ALL SHALL PERISH jedoch kritisch gesehen wurde.

„As we had always trusted Eddie before, after a lot of long conference calls, we gave him the benefit of the doubt and decided to wait till there was an actual scheduling conflict and cross that bridge then. We already had METALLICA’s Orion Music + More and our own MTL: South Of The Border Tour on the books, so we went ahead with Eddie for those shows, and they all turned out very well. It seemed like maybe everything would actually work out OK. Then, after Eddie was officially in SUICIDE SILENCE (but before it went public), we got an offer from DEATH ANGEL to play two or three shows with them, all in California. Eddie in particular wanted to do these shows and pushed hardest for them, so we confirmed them. Then a week or two later he tells our management that he actually can’t do the shows… because of SUICIDE SILENCE.

That’s when SUICIDE SILENCE’s management informed us of all of the things ALL SHALL PERISH would and would not be ‚allowed‘ to do. ALL SHALL PERISH could not play a show until Eddie was well ‚established‘ as the new singer of SUICIDE SILENCE. SUICIDE SILENCE’s management told us that they would have to be well into their new album and touring cycle before ALL SHALL PERISH could be seen again with Eddie.

That is easily a year of ALL SHALL PERISH not being ‚allowed‘ to do anything; possibly more than a year. There were other rules, too, but this one was huge. When we heard this, we immediately all got on the phone with Eddie and asked him how him being in both bands could ever work, especially after this whole DEATH ANGEL thing. Eddie still insisted it could work but also maintained that SUICIDE SILENCE would be his priority. We asked Eddie if he was quitting and he said, ‚No, I’m not. If you want me out of ALL SHALL PERISH, you’ll have to fire me.'“