Re: Stoffe leaving Dead by April
Hey all!
First things first. As the headline states, Stoffe is leaving and by no means is he kicked out. We got the message from Stoffe by e-mail simply stating; "Hi all, I just wanted to inform you that I no longer want to be a part of Dead by April and hereby declare myself out". That's it. That's all we got. And unfortunately we still didn't receive an explanation to attach to this post in order to clear things up. We've added a short flow of events to hopefully provide some clarity to what led up to this situation.
A few months back Stoffe sent us another e-mail explaining he felt the need to go to rehab, for whatever reason, it's irrelevant. In the same e-mail he acknowledged that the timing was far from optimal because of the upcoming album release of Worlds Collide and that he would be away during this time. Accordingly, Stoffe explained to us that he would totally understand that we would need to get a stand-in vocalist in his place during this time. He also went as far as saying, quote "If you even want to move forward with a new vocalist full time, I would have to respect that."
Our (Pontus, Marcus R, and Marcus W) response, unanimously, was that he's got our full support in his choice to go to rehab, and that changing members was not an option.
At this point we now need to find a stand-in vocalist for the upcoming shows.
Clearing up the rumors. Since a while back I (Pontus Hjelm) have been working on other projects with Jimmie Strimell. These projects has had absolutely nothing to do with Dead by April whatsoever. The fact that me and Jimmie managed to establish contact again is something that I never thought would happen in my lifetime, and would not have happened if certain fundamental changes wasn't made on behalf of Jimmie himself. We were friends for 13 years, 5 of which was together as founding members of Dead by April. We have talked a lot about the past and moved on from there.
As things stand we obviously have no growl-vocalist at the moment and therefore, yes, Jimmie as been discussed as a session vocalist in order for Dead by April to survive and take on the world. This is all the information we have for now and we will of course get back with an update A.S.A.P as we move forward!
Dead by April will never split up or cease to exist. We are warriors and will continue to make great music with the support of all of you amazing fans ❤️
Major events and shows will be announced in a few days. Includes a continent we've never been to before :-)
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I wasn’t into stoffe in let the world know, for some reason, but I really liked him in worlds collide, so it does suck he left as soon as I began to like him. I don’t mind at all Pontus on full clean vocals since he would already do some before but I sure miss Zandro but especially Jimmie since he was there since the first album when I began listening to them since their first album was released. I’d almost cry if it was confirmed that Jimme would be back, I’d love to see live versions of worlds collide songs with Jimme as the screamer and wish he’d stay until the next album and be the screamer as well as part clean vocals too. Sure we all have the image of what we wish the band would be but they all have personal reasons for the choices they make to stay or leave and we have to respect that, as long as Pontus is there, the core of dead by April will always remain in tact and I can live with that.
I’m devastated that Stoffe has left. Especially when Worlds Collide has only just been released. He was my favourite screamer. I hope he finds happiness in whatever he decides to do.
I’m glad the band is carrying on, obviously. I love DBA.
So is Jimmie going to be the new permanent screamer again? Or is he just standing in until Stoffe comes back? Article is a bit confusing.
Yay! Go DBA! Go Pontus And Jimmie!
Great Jimmie is back in the band (I guess?). I just hope it’ll be official. Would be even great if Johan and Alex would rejoin and we would have the original lineup.
OMG A Dream come true when jimmie comes back. Finally i prayed that would be happen.YESSSSS He s my favourite screamer. Dead without jimmie <3