GETTY. SCOTT IAN: WILL IRELAND
It reads like the plot of a Coen Brothers movie In the early 2010s, the singer with metalcore leading lights As I Lay Dying renounced his Christianity, hit the steroids and embarked on an affair that broke up his marriage. Then he tried to have his ex-wife murdered. He asked a gym buddy if he knew any hitmen, but that person alerted the authorities, who set up a sting where Tim agreed to pay $20,000 to a fake assassin, and he was sentenced to six years in jail. His return to the band in 2018 polarised the metal community: for some, his contrition and subsequent work in addiction and mental health meant he should be granted a second chance; for others, he was a misogynistic bozo who tried to have his wife killed.