As Cities Burn Singer Departs

As Cities Burn has announced the departure of vocalist, TJ. Here's a statement from the band:

"TJ will be stepping down as the singer for As Cities Burn. When we came home after our headlining tour this summer, TJ moved to Mississippi, and began his new life with his wife. We began writing the record, and with work, and his responsibilities at home he wasn’t able to make the 3-hour drive often. After awhile it was obvious that TJ had moved on to a new life, and he loved every second of it.

As you can hear on “The Hoard”, Cody will be taking over the singing duties. Colin has moved to bass for the time being, and we have added our great friend Chris Lott “la shreddericus” from The Planning Fallacy on guitar duties. Pascal has not been playing with us since mid July last summer; he’s back in school, and doing some amazing work on cars. We wish him the best of luck in all his pursuits.

We wish TJ and his new wife the greatest of love and happiness in their new marriage, and can’t express enough how much we appreciate everything TJ has done for this band over the past 4 years. He’s still our closest friend in the world.

We hope that you all will stick with us in this time of transition, as we are extremely excited about the direction in which the band is headed."

Meanwhile, the band will enter the studio in mid-February to record a new album, which should be available late-Summer 2007 via Solid State Records.

Source: Lambgoat