New Jersey hardcore act Gel have damaged up attributable to what the band describes as “heinous acts” dedicated by guitarist Anthony Webster.
The opposite band members launched a prolonged collective assertion saying the group’s disbandment and detailing Webster’s actions. The guitarist — who had already been ousted from the band previous to the assertion — has been accused of stealing cash to pay for OnlyFans content material and posting nude photographs of different band members to Reddit, amongst different grievances which have executed “irreparable injury.”
Gel’s full assertion on Instagram learn:
“Hey everybody, mates and followers — Gel is not a band, and subsequently is not going to be enjoying any of our at the moment scheduled upcoming reveals. The reason being fairly easy at its core; the previous guitar participant, Anthony Webster, has dedicated such heinous acts in attempting to ahead himself in his musical profession that he’s executed irreparable injury to the band within the course of, and it’s affected us as human beings greater than we are able to even try to clarify, to the purpose of being fully unable to do the band anymore. Listed below are some examples of what he’s executed:
He’s stolen tens of 1000’s of {dollars} from us, and the most effective half is that he left all of it on document for us to finally discover. He spent it on his personal lease, private meals orders, and actually no matter else he needed to, as a result of for a protracted time frame, nobody had entry to the checking account (or any accounts for that matter) however him, regardless of quite a few makes an attempt to achieve entry, as a result of you recognize, we’re a band, and we should always have all had entry to these issues. Oh yeah, he additionally spent it on a very unbelievable variety of OnlyFans purchases and mysterious CashApp transactions, doubtless in the identical lane.
He posted nude photographs of band members on Reddit for the world to see. Yup, simply casually, for who is aware of what goal. Let that one actually sink in. He did that every one whereas nonetheless in a band with us too, by the way in which. Fortunately, he’s actually horrible at protecting up his tracks, so we’ve the receipts to show that one too.
He put us in bodily harmful conditions quite a few occasions. From speaking shit on the band Twitter and getting our van window smashed in with a baseball bat, to recurrently driving erratically like a psychopath as a result of he was “upset” for once more, who is aware of what purpose (oh yeah….he wouldn’t let anybody else drive both by the way in which, so we simply needed to cope with it), and throwing issues at us as a result of he’s a bit of fucking child and may’t deal with himself like an grownup, it was at all times the identical with him. Absolute distress and inconsideration for anybody and everybody round him (effectively, aside from the individuals who he needed to impress and would feign being a pleasant man to…LOL).
Now, I’m positive lots of people are pondering, effectively why didn’t you simply cease coping with it? Why didn’t you simply depart? If you happen to’ve ever been in abusive relationship, emotionally and/or bodily, you’ll in all probability perceive this higher. It’s like that, however together with your life’s work and fervour on the forefront as effectively. It’s not really easy to simply give one thing up that you just care a lot about, particularly with pressures from exterior organizations, individuals, and so forth which might be all relying on you indirectly. We want that this might have all been simpler, and we want that it didn’t have to finish this fashion — we’re fighters although, and we noticed it by way of to the very finish, till it merely couldn’t go on anymore. And we’re happy with that.
On that be aware, we’d prefer to ship our most honest and deepest apologies to anybody who that is affecting on a private degree and past. We all know so many individuals had been relying on us, together with Spiritbox, Volbeat, our good mates in Anxious — we’re so sorry that we’ve to finish it this fashion and we actually hope for the most effective for all of you. Thanks a lot to the chums we’ve made over time, and thanks a lot to our followers for at all times being there for us and exhibiting us how a lot you care. Handle one another, and love your folks.
Love, Gel”
As talked about within the assertion, the New Jersey band — shaped in 2018 — will drop its tour dates supporting Spiritbox on this spring and opening for Volbeat later within the 12 months. It halts Gel’s speedy ascent within the hardcore scene on the power of their acclaimed 2023 album Solely Fixed and 2024 EP Persona.
The band simply performed in Japan on Wednesday (March nineteenth), doubtless marking its closing gig. Watch fan footage and see Gel’s full assertion under.
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2025/3/19 pic.twitter.com/gDRkKin9ed— Japan Gigs (@JapanGigs) March 19, 2025