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Decapitated announce plans to begin performing live again
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 26 March 2018
Death metal band Decapitated have issued a statement saying that they plan to return to live performances soon. Kidnapping and rape charges pursued against the band’s members in the US were dropped earlier this year.
The case against the Polish band was halted in January shortly before a trial was set to begin due to the emotional toll it was having on their alleged victim. Prosecutors said that as it “would be a lengthy trial” it was felt that “at this time it’s best for her to heal”. The band said at the time that they were confident that the evidence would have seen them found innocent had the trial gone ahead.
All four members of the band had been arrested in LA in September, accused of raping the woman on their tour bus following a performance in Spokane, Washington on 31 Aug.
In a new statement on the band’s Facebook page, guitarist Wacław ‘Vogg’ Kiełtyka says: “We are innocent. We are free. We are back home. And we are ready to return with the band. The last few months were one of the most terrible and irrational times in our lives”.
“Jail is a horrible place”, he adds. “96 days in jail and almost a month outside the jail where we [were] dealing with fear, unbelievable stress, depression, and even violence. It was a really hard time – especially for our families”.
He went on to criticise media coverage and online discussion about the case, saying: “In this internet age, it is really easy to ruin someone, their life, their family, their career. Some media and people just jumped on a topic and made their own inconsistent storytelling, taking one piece of information and creating a story they wanted to tell about us around it”.
Concluding, he says: “We cannot and we will never accept someone else’s narration about who we are. That is why we have chosen to return with the band. We know who we are and we can hold our heads and our music high with that knowledge”.
