PESSIMIST Officially Laid To Rest

16 September 2006

PESSIMIST guitarist Kelly McLauchlin (DIABOLIC) has released the following statement:

"As most of you folks already know, I have recently joined the newly reformed DIABOLIC, along with founding DIABOLIC member and former UNHOLY GHOST bandmate Aantar Coates.

"After parting ways with UNHOLY GHOST in March 2005 'to once again pursue PESSIMIST and other musical interests,' lots of folks have been writing me here and on MySpace, wondering what's going on with PESSIMIST! At that time the PESSIMIST lineup from 'Slaughtering the Faithful' (Kelly McLauchlin: lead guitars, Reaper: bass/vox, Bill Hayden: lead guitars) had reunited with original PESSIMIST drummer, Chris Pernia (from the first two CDs). I had flown to Baltimore for a couple days of practice/jamming, rehearsing old tunes and planned to start writing some new PESSIMIST material. However, I live here in Tampa, FL now and the rest of the band is located in the MD/NJ area.

"Since then, the writing process has mainly consisted of emailing MP3s back and forth and working on song arrangements with drummer Chris Pernia via email. Meanwhile, PESSIMIST guitarist Bill Hayden is apparently no longer involved in the death metal scene and bassist/vocalist Ralph 'Reaper' is now currently incarcerated in NJ for an undisclosed amount of time...

"So in order to lay the band to rest with some dignity, I must announce that PESSIMIST is on indefinite hiatus. This will also allow me to focus musically 100% on my current involvement with DIABOLIC!!

"Further info or anything related to PESSIMIST will be available at the official PESSIMIST web site, www.pessimist.com, and also on MySpace, at myspace.com/pessimist."

Source: blabbermouth.net

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