WebBirthday: April 15, (40 years) HomeTown: , , United States Tommy Vext is an American musician who serves as the lead singer for the heavy metal bands Bad Wolves, Snot, Divine Heresy, and Westfield Massacre. But, the song has been embraced as a tribute to the woman and helped thrust Bad Wolves into the public eye several weeks before their debut album Disobey drops, and we caught up with Tommy a few hours before they made their network TV debut on Irelands The Late Show. Its temporary, its going to pass, Vext described. When will you be back in performance shape? And then the people who you are in the band with are like, Why are you doing this? And Im like What do you mean? Im completely unaware that my behavior is completely and utterly insaneI was in Heresy on Roadrunner Records and Id beaten my guitar player up two timesonce on stage and I beat him up again for something he said in the press.. So what does it matter what her gender is? So Id have to drinkId have a bottle of whiskey. Then I started working at the sober living facility Madden House. You may remember Tommy Vext as the former vocalist of Bad Wolves. I managed to get on my feet and throw him off of me. Not too long ago, Bring Me the Horizon were just a bunch of lads from Sheffield scraping together a living playing deathcore at the citys metal clubs. But when I was little, I wanted to be a scientist. Those two guys have known each other ages, Chris and John go back a really long way, and Kyle actually auditioned for Divine Heresy and got the job playing bass until Dino found out he was underage and didnt want to take him on tour, because he felt he was going to be a liability! Thats what friends do. Youve always been a drug addict. Theres that pressure, and then theres the concern for your friends on top of that, and I really, really commend him and his band on what they did, because thats a different story. There are bands that influenced me like Candiria. Yeah, they have a female singer, but she sings better than 90 percent of the men out. I went to a lot of meetings and stayed sober. His father especially would excuse the behavior even when Vexts brother hurt everyone else around him. The songwriting process was a step towards healing, and even when recording, he could not help but shed tears. And he brought me to a meeting and I started going to Alcoholics Anonymous, Vext said. And I didnt realize that. And we both took separate directions in life. And while I dont think we should just have people there as a token or have someone of this identity to kind of check a mark, I do know for a fact that representation matters in the aggregate. I decided that by the time he gets out, my mom will probably be dead. I wish that "female-fronted" would stop being a thing, because who the fuck cares? After that relationship, Vext decided to stay single and work on himself because he felt he could not pick a healthy partner. He received a call from someone who needed his help. Because my attacker had not been apprehended I was staying with a friend in Manhattan during the first few days of my recovery. After being taken to the hospital, he was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar and serial killer prediction. Your cover of the Cranberries' "Zombie" has been one of the biggest hits of the year. You guys are a new band, but no one in the band is a rookie; you've all been in bands before. And perhaps more importantly, how did he find his way out? [2] A music video was released a month later on June 15, debuting exclusively on Apple Music. Reviewed by Abigail Fagan. It hurts a lot because I love him and hes wrecked his life and nearly took mine. Bad Wolves fans were shocked to learn this week that vocalist Tommy Vext has left the band. Bad Wolves' new album N.A.T.I.O.N. Yeah, I do some public speaking work, as well as sober coaching. And I know for a fact that what we did had an impact. How do you even begin to process something like your twin brother trying to kill you? Vext (n Thomas Cummings) and Bad Wolves parted ways in January, not long after the frontmans ex-girlfriend, fitness model and personal trainer Whitney Johns, was granted a restraining order against him. Well, not hundreds, but a lot. While mainstream cultures may consider heavy metal music disturbing and destructive, studies show many benefits of this genre. His face was slashed. And it saved my life. We were recording at Jupiter4 studios in NYC demoing and had about 3-4 songs ready for vocals and then this happened. We actually had Austin [Dickinson] from As Lions sing two of the shows for me so I could recuperate., If you had the power to turn off the internet, would you do it?For everybody? He recounted that he was with a mentally ill woman for five years but had to give up on her because she was destroying him. Listen to the song below and pre-order the album here: Firstborne, featuring Chris Adler (ex- Lamb of God) and James LoMenzo (Megadeth) have shared a video for their song, Intercontinental Champions. Watch the clip below: Tarja Turunen and Torsten Stenzels Outlanders has released an adaptation of Hans Zimmers We Own The Sky featuring Ron Bumblefoot Thal. No, do not confuse this Thomas Newman with the composer. Metal Injection, Roadrunner records, Century Media & even my friend David Draiman (Disturbed) reached out with generous donations and merch to raffle off at the show to help raise more money. And he was in this punk-metal band in the city. Ive been doing a lot better with it as of late, but theres a really bad food addiction cycle where I will binge and purge on massive quantities of sugar and then shame myself about it. I had to live off of $300 a month. Which is very typical. in 2019. And then obviously, tragically, it never got to happen. First, despite all that had occurred, Vext felt guilty for turning in and testifying against his brother. About 2.5 million middle school and high school kids vape in the U.S. As marijuana becomes decriminalized, the evidence shows an increase in its use. Evidence demonstrates why punishment does not change criminal offending. I was hospitalised for two days but we didnt cancel the shows. It was life-changing. I got pneumonia in Manchester and I was a mess. Metal Insider caught up with Tommy to talk about his attack, the show, and what hes been up to musically. I stepped in for a band, and Im mixed race. He started calling my phone saying he was going to kill me. And theres not a lot of that in metal. Nobody cares. And I looked at my phone and I didnt recognize the number. We didnt know if wed get put on a label. And I got on the train, and I met him and took him to a meeting. I wound up doing music and getting sober. Tommy: People ask this stuff, and I dont know where theyre getting their information from. Im like, You want us to go kill a guy with a wife and two kids and works for a living because you were an idiot and tried to rob his store? And he was like, Yeah. And I was like, No. And I told him he had to leave and I asked him to walk outside. And in 2010 he broke into my apartment, and I came home to a home invasion. What Might Drive a Narcissist to Suicide? You don't need to grow up in a perfect family to be emotionally happy and healthy, but your family must be "good enough.". When he moved away from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, he would spot someone at the bar staring at him and throw beer bottles at the person. And that was the beginning of a very long journey of recovery.. And without that, I dont know if this song mightve come to fruition or got to the record. "I Testified Against My Twin Brother, Who Tried To Kill Me Also, if not for singing in that band I might never have gotten sober. Or the restraining order that followed. My medical bills are upwards of $75-80 thousand dollars. Vext eventually joined another bandSnot. Id watch these documentaries where he was always in the middle of nowhere digging holes and I thought that was a cool job, but Im glad I didnt become a palaeontologist. Even though weve all been in separate bands, theres this real sense of family and camaraderie and we can lean on each other. You just keep going. Vocalist/guitarist Matthew K. Heafy comments: In the early days of Trivium, back when we were discovering the many [], Sortilge share new song Derrire les Portes de Babylone, Firstborne drop Intercontinental Champions video, Tarjas Outlanders drop new single We Own This Sky featuring Ron Bumblefoot Thal, Trivium cover Heaven Shall Burns Implore The Darken Sky. Consequently, for the period he played with the band, Vext got sober. Ive been kicked out of everywhere!, Have you ever been in a fight?Yeah. So thats something that I actively have to work on, and the fear is that I wont be able to get on the other side of these things that were done to me as kid and these circumstances that I had to survive and that at the end of my life Ill be alone. And that was my first sober companion gig. We go to Europe and South America. Representation matters; if you're not white and you see people who look like you onstage, it has an effect. He stayed involved as a drug dealer and became addicted to drugs. And I hear that all the time. Lets see I got kicked out of a bar in London when I was in Divine Heresy because I was doing drugs and the guy found my drugs. The Five Finger guys made a very mature decision that ultimately resulted in Ivans recovery and coming back stronger than ever. I fought him. Has writing a song about it been a cathartic experience for you? My girlfriend I was living with relapsed and started drinking and kicked me out of her apartment. It was my estranged brother. Or well go to battered womens shelters, Vext said. "But I look back at that and it might have been the most humbling quote-unquote worst job ever. And I just hauled off and started beating the shit out of him. And he said, You know that hes sick. Thats when I learned that my brother is exempt from the rules because hes sick., Vext feels that this cycle of violence and enabling resulted in the destruction of his family. I ended up going on a successful tourended up homeless after it. At home, his father had become an alcoholic; on the streets, his friends parents were drug addicts. The DA put me on a $300 a month stipend. The serial killer prediction that the psychiatric hospital had of Vexts brother almost came true in 2010. We can do things to help move the process along. So to me, its such a more direct sense of reality and emotion, and thats really what makes songs universal in a way. Doc:I think it was a real breakthrough lyrically because so much of the record before that was a bit more metaphorical. See tommy vext stock video clips Image type Orientation Color People Artists AI Generated Sort by Popular Tommy vext Singing Next of 1 Whats the worst job youve ever had?I had a lot of jobs when I was a kid, but they werent the worst, because it was just working for paper concert tickets and beers. Whatever lands in the world of music is something I'm likely interested in. The adoptive parents had been on a waitlist for two years, so when the hospital asked if they could take both boys, they gladly accepted. Would you like to hear? he said. I was in Brooklyn, at an above-ground platform so that if the train didnt kill me, the fall would, he explained. And he stood over me and started beating me with the crowbar. The best way to describe it is very George Lucas-like how they explain the midichlorians in the Force, like lifting things up and moving things around. This is another step, the fact that he would be willing to go to those lengths to expose himself in a vulnerable sense about something so personal, but we also felt thats exactly the type of thing that people were going to relate to. And I think that ultimately, the only reason we decided to release the song is because we donated the proceeds to her three children. I think that one thing that has happened, given the way its been embraced, is that weve changed what it means. He would do weird rituals where hed have to touch a door or a park bench a certain number of times., Vext explained how his brothers anxiety eventually gave way to violent episodes. 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