10 Rock & Metal Bands Who Fired Their Singer

Contemporaries of the likes of Children of Bodom and Municipal Waste, Skeletonwitch occupy a fairly niche branch of the metal family tree, and have been laying down some serious sounds in the melodic death metal scene for the past two decades.

Finding their original singer in guitarist Nate Garnette's older brother, Chance, the band put out five studio albums with the singer until the wheels came off in 2014. A long-delayed firing, no doubt lengthened by the difficulty in asking your own brother to move along, Chance's drunken and abusive behaviour simply became too much to ignore, and Skeletonwitch went singer-less for a year or two before they landed on Veil of Maya and Wolvhammer vocalist Adam Clemans as a replacement.

Chance's throaty growl was undeniably a valued aspect of the Skeletonwitch sound, but while range does vary down this end of the register, there's not as much room for variety as with cleaner vocals. As such, Clemans' vocals are a good like-for-like and, as Skeletonwitch's most recent album Devouring Radiant Light (2018) has evidenced, Clemans may have an even greater command of the style than his predecessor.