{"id":219065,"date":"2026-01-06T04:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219065\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:59:12","slug":"vio-lences-former-guitarist-phil-demmel-shares-insight-on-his-exit-from-the-thrash-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219065\/","title":{"rendered":"Vio-lence&#8217;s former guitarist Phil Demmel shares insight on his exit from the thrash band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founding VIO-LENCE guitarist Phil Demmel has denied claims that he demanded the band be disbanded following his departure from the group nearly two years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Demmel&#8217;s final performance with the San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal outfit took place in February 2024 at the Carioca Club in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent social media post, Demmel shared the following:<\/p>\n<p>I asked Sean to end the band with me, then perform the material as solo act as I felt the rapid turnover of the band wasn&#8217;t something I wanted to be involved with. When he told me he didn&#8217;t want to, I didn&#8217;t ask again. It was a request, not a demand. For my last few years of my time in Vio, Sean was doing the scheduling\/ booking, I wasn&#8217;t making any band decisions. He&#8217;d ask me if I was available to play and I was able to cherry-pick the gigs I wanted\/could do until it was time for me to stop. I was in no way &#8216;controlling&#8217; the band or making unilateral band decisions (except maybe getting [former FEAR FACTORY bassist] Christian on board to fill in) that I can recall. Sean and I decided on things together. Vio-Lence is forging ahead as am I. Can everyone else?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/demmel-ig-violence-post-20260105103658.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Founding VIO-LENCE guitarist Phil Demmel has denied claims that he demanded the band be disbanded following his departure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,4912,59845,1614,157,111,43,139,69,132106,132105],"class_list":{"0":"post-219065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hardcore","10":"tag-lambgoat","11":"tag-metal","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-phil-demmel","18":"tag-vio-lence"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}