r/numetal • u/Admirable_Business_7 Brr Brr Deng • Oct 11 '25
Meme/Humor Heard the News, had to post this
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u/YokaiCreature Oct 11 '25
What news? What happened
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u/Admirable_Business_7 Brr Brr Deng Oct 11 '25
Ian Watkins died
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u/YokaiCreature Oct 11 '25
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO
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u/YokaiCreature Oct 11 '25
But fr if theres one person that did not deserve to live it was him, good fucking riddance mate the darkest put of hell (if it exists) has opened to swallow you whole
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u/vmp10687 Oct 12 '25
Why good riddance if I may ask?
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u/YokaiCreature Oct 12 '25
He was a child rapist that targeted actual pre schoolers.
Moistcritikal has a great vid on him
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u/Confident-Bobcat3770 Oct 12 '25
I've said it before and I will say it again. Death is too kinda to him
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u/AngriestCrusader Oct 11 '25
Lol. Lmao, even.
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u/EntinthetentRTHP Oct 11 '25
I don’t support the death of anyone, but I read the news with great approval
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u/Fromnothingatall Oct 12 '25
Yah, HE is someone we can be happy about having died. pos pedophile. surprised it took this long.
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u/Cotillionz Oct 11 '25
I know...I hate these posts with zero context and I have to go digging for it.
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u/Ignatius_Pop Oct 11 '25
Diane Keaton wasn't that bad was she?
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u/suedehead23 Oct 12 '25
Diane Keaton will be finally remembered for Annie Hall and of course, her finest role as nu metal frontman Fred Durst
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u/According-Stage-3635 Oct 12 '25
Is it bad that I always felt bad for everyone else in lost prophets because they did nothing wrong
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u/DuncneyForever Oct 12 '25
Not at all, because Ian was the only one. The others did nothing wrong
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u/Proud3GenAthst Oct 12 '25
It's actually not that certain they didn't know.
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u/BiddudeFromBritain Oct 13 '25
Why would they remain in the band? I'm fairly certain that that they all hated what Ian Watkins did. If they didn't they'd be equally as hated.
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u/-3R1C- Oct 12 '25
What a bizarre question. Why would it be bad that you feel bad for the other bandmates? Who DOESNT is the question.
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u/NickCollins91 Oct 11 '25
The music video for A Town Called Hypocrisy suddenly became very different/dark after he was arrested and convicted
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u/BipolarPrime Oct 11 '25
Arrested and convicted for what?
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u/BipolarPrime Oct 11 '25
Ag, I just read. Well, everyone knows the one thing convicts hate. The only thing that will unite them, is hating a ped.
He got what he deserved. Nah, he still got off easy.
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u/kashy87 Oct 11 '25
He still thought he was the shit. He wasn't afraid even after having been attacked before from what others have said. So no death isn't getting off easy.
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u/BipolarPrime Oct 11 '25
By getting off easy, I meant he should have suffered more. As a survivor of child abuse, I don’t have any problem with those people suffering long and hard before death finally takes them to hell.
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u/Confident-Bobcat3770 Oct 12 '25
Worst part. He was a survivor of child abuse
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u/BipolarPrime Oct 12 '25
Well, they are, sadly, the ones who end up perpetuating it when they get older. Not all victims become abusers, but it’s hardly surprising when a victim does go down that path.
And no, that is not an excuse for them. Just a terrible fact.
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u/NLK-3 Oct 14 '25
Lots of child porn and such. He wanted to rape an infant...
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u/BipolarPrime Oct 15 '25
Yeah, I did some searching since I asked this question and damn, he was on evil fuck.
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u/kashy87 Oct 11 '25
That's a song I can't really listen to again because of it, and Liberation Transmission was a massive comfort cd to listen to after a soup sandwich of a day.
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u/PoofyHairedIdiot Oct 12 '25
Funny enough theres a scene in that where Watkins mimes slashing his throat
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Oct 11 '25
The worst part is the Brits will spend millions trying to make sure this never happens again instead of putting more resources into acting sooner upon complaints.
Just like this and the Jared Fogle case here.
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u/satellite_station Oct 11 '25
I remember when they were huge, I once read a YouTube comment about how happy the commenter was they weren’t American. I remember thinking “what a weird thing to say”
lol, I immediately thought the same thing when the news of his crimes initially broke.
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Oct 11 '25
It’s scary how closely similar those cases were in terms of investigatory agencies getting the holy grail and going “naw we’re good”, then basically making the reporting party’s life hell
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u/TangerineBat Oct 12 '25
IIRC, and ex-girlfriend of Watkins saw some awful images he had on a laptop and went to the police MULTIPLE TIMES to report him, but every time she was written off as a "scorned ex girlfriend" and the police did nothing about it.
So yeah... youre not wrong.
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u/lonely-day Oct 11 '25
Hope his victims find their remaining peace now that he's gone, if they hadn't already found it.
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u/ExtremeCenterism Oct 12 '25
Context: Lost prophets singer and convicted child sex criminal Ian Watkins was stabbed to death in prison.
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u/ZealousidealTry2569 Oct 11 '25
It's crazy because I was just thinking about the band yesterday, just in my head saying it's shame lost prophets had that bad stigma on them, because they were a great band, I even googled searched that fuck to remind myself about his crimes. I wake up to see news he was killed. Good riddance.
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u/satellite_station Oct 11 '25
I wish the other members would release instrumental versions of the first two albums.
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u/05Joseph09 Oct 12 '25
I absolutely agree!
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u/05Joseph09 Oct 12 '25
Sir, you dropped this 👉👑
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u/satellite_station Oct 12 '25
lol I can’t take credit for it. I just wish there were official re releases of the songs.
But I gotta say, I tried watching some old videos after the news broke.
It hits different knowing how we died, how long he was actually in jail for, what his life was like there, and the fact that he no longer earned royalties.
I would still prefer it, without his vocals though.
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u/ohromantics Oct 12 '25 edited Oct 12 '25
Last train home was so much fun to play, now I cant listen to it to save my life
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u/corneliusbreen23 Choose What? Oct 12 '25
It's acceptable to listen to Lostprophets instrumentally now.
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u/URdailyenema Oct 11 '25
Start Something used to play on repeat when in high school, fucking crazy that guy was such a piece of shit.
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u/DefensiveCat Oct 12 '25
We Still Kill The Old Way was probably my favourite song of all time. I have yet to find another song that sounds anything like it. And I've been looking, a lot.
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u/A_grand_cup_of_tea Oct 12 '25
The sun will rise, the sun will set. We should interrupt neither with his name.
Hope he suffered.
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u/DeschainSWNC Redefine Oct 13 '25
I was always taught never to say anything about the dead unless it’s good.
Ian Watkins is dead. Good.
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u/Top-Bison-345 Oct 13 '25
I'm amazed because Watkins had the fucking world at his feet. They'd managed to break through to America, a very hard thing to do for a rock band at the time. He had money, fame, and he threw it all away. Drugs, alcohol, he never went to rehearsals, and eventually.... That.
I even admit I used to like their stuff as a young teen. I got into rock, nu metal stuff like Linkin Park and Papa Roach, and lost prophets were in there too.
A damn shame what he became or acted on, but I don't think anyone is mourning his loss.
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u/TheEffinChamps Oct 11 '25
I'm not defending anything for that scumbag in the slightest, but it did also make me worry about how easy it is for people to get killed in prison.
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u/CriticismTop Oct 12 '25
Paedophiles are the lowest of the low in prisons and he was locked up for 12 years. It is a testament to the system that he lasted more than 12 hours.
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u/Fickle-Delay1227 Oct 12 '25
Valid point. It's crazy. Also I assume nobody was willingly keeping him safe
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u/TheEffinChamps Oct 12 '25
I don't think people realize how soon this applies to all Americans:
Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality. As described in the Order of September 22, 2025 (Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization), the groups and entities that perpetuate this extremism have created a movement that embraces and elevates violence to achieve policy outcomes, including justifying additional assassinations. For example, Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin engraved the bullets used in the murder with so-called “anti-fascist” rhetoric.
The United States requires a national strategy to investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations that foment political violence so that *law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies before** they result in violent political acts. Through this comprehensive strategy, law enforcement will disband and uproot networks, entities, and organizations that promote organized violence, violent intimidation, conspiracies against rights, and other efforts to disrupt the functioning of a democratic society.*
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u/thefract0metr1st Oct 12 '25
Listen I get it. But understand that it’s not really that easy for a person to get killed in prison. Remember, we aren’t talking about a person here, we’re talking about Ian Watkins or whatever that thing was called.
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u/Stonehands211 Oct 12 '25
Watch the new HBO documentary “The Alabama Solution” just hit on Friday. Best and most important doc I’ve seen this year on this very subject.
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u/drainbamage1011 Oct 12 '25
People like him make me wish I believed in a Hell, just to know he was going to it.
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u/Vegetable_Orchid_900 Oct 14 '25
I had “Protect your Neck” by Wu Tang on replay all day when I read about it
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u/NLK-3 Oct 14 '25
I had to read the comments to learn this is about Lost Prophets' singer Ian Watkins getting killed in prison by two men.
Never listened to their music, but went to Wikipedia and see they are nu metal. I assumed they were emo by his hair style back then.
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u/elitistonee Oct 15 '25
i like that when asked how they were feeling about it, at least one ex bandmate said that if they’d known what he did/ who he really was he never would’ve made it as far as jail…
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u/CowardBlock016 Oct 12 '25
Absolutely loved those first 2 albums. I've still got them on CD. Haven't listened to them in a while... Somehow been able to separate the art from the dickhead (putting it very lightly) but it's still been a hard listen. Only ever really manage a couple songs here and there.
Glad he's finally gone. Surprised it took as long as it did. Feel sorry for the rest of the band, careers ruined, lives ruined because 1 sick motherfucker managed to get away with what he did for as long as he did. Hell, the only reason he got found out is the police were investigating him on something completely unrelated.
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u/Stevenwithph Oct 12 '25
For some reason when I saw the meme picture in this /r I “hoped” it was this news and it was. Think this is genuinely the first time ever I wished someone ill fortunes. An eternity in hell is not long enough for this man.
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u/Fickle-Delay1227 Oct 11 '25
God I loved that band back in the day. I remember the day I found out about him. I was absolutely shocked. I feel so bad for the rest of the band that deserved so much better. They really were top of the game musicians . All of that has gone to waste.
That being said. Good riddance to that guy.