The progressive metalcore group Reflections simply misplaced each their bassist and their guitarist in a single fell swoop. The now ex-bassist Francis Xayana and now ex-guitarist Patrick “Patty” Somoulay individually made public statements on social media about their departures, however each shared the identical motive for leaving – vocalist “Jake [Wolf] is an ICE apologist and I can’t fuck with somebody like that,” Xayana writes in his tales on Instagram.
With the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement working rampant all through the state of Minnesota and inflicting havoc, and taking the lives of two civilians within the final two weeks, tensions have been sure to rise inside bands who might have differing opinions, and it appears like a Minnesota-based band would undoubtedly be inclined to the chaos occurring round them.
Bassist Xayana wrote in his tales on Instagram: “Jake [Wolf] has all the time had management of the band. There’s a motive Patty [Somoulay] left regardless that he’s the first author. Jake is an ICE apologist and I can’t fuck with somebody like that.
“I don’t give a flying fuck what we’ve been by means of. I can’t belief an individual who thinks that is obligatory. And actually fuck you if you happen to help this ICE shit. You’re a fucking bitch. And as an alternative of stepping into your fucking emotions y’all ought to have been listening to Black voices this whole time.
“Now when a white particular person is killed in the identical kind they’ve skilled for hundreds of years, we’re at finish sport. There is no such thing as a going again. That is the start of the tip if folks proceed to show a blind eye. He’s going to kill anybody who opposes him.”
Somoulay had a press release of his personal, as an alternative posting it to his important grid – with an image of his cat carrying an American-themed tie within the background:
“I’m now not part of Reflections.
Quite a lot of stuff occurring in life these days the place it simply doesn’t really feel okay to proceed on with this myself.
Additionally f**ok ICE.
This isn’t the nation my household needed to threat their lives to return to.”
Jake Wolf has but to touch upon the state of affairs himself.
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