{"id":43274,"date":"2015-03-31T16:54:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T21:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=43274"},"modified":"2015-03-31T16:54:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T21:54:21","slug":"terror-universal-vocalist-issues-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=43274","title":{"rendered":"TERROR UNIVERSAL &#8211; Vocalist Issues Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/terroruniversal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/terroruniversal-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"terroruniversal\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-43275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/terroruniversal-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/terroruniversal-600x223.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/terroruniversal.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TMDDOTCOM1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TMDDOTCOM1-300x31.jpg\" alt=\"TMDDOTCOM\" width=\"300\" height=\"31\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-42709\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDen Headz, TERROR UNIVERSAL frontman Chad Armstrong, accused by Otep singer Otep Shamaya of &#8220;violently&#8221; grabbing her crotch a week ago, has now issued a statement regarding the allegations and subsequent controversy. You can read that below.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m Chad Armstrong, singer from Terror Universal. Let me start by saying that I am here to set the record straight, once and for all, state the facts, and my side of the story.<\/p>\n<p>These are facts; Otep has ZERO proof of these allegations, and accusations. There is NO police report. There&#8217;s NO video. She waited 30 days to announce her allegations on social media.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly how the incident happened. I was walking out of the club to go back to the hotel, as Otep was doing her meet and greet. She was standing on a table, and as walked by I tapped her on the leg, and said &#8220;good night Otep&#8221;.. That&#8217;s when she freaked out, yelling and screaming at me, and yelled at 2 security guards to &#8220;escort&#8221; me out. The security guards were just as confused as I was, we discussed what had just happened for a bit and I left.<\/p>\n<p>Now let me ask you this; she claims I barreled through her hundreds of fans, and assaulted her? And the utterly false accusations about the two fingers, how does someone do that when a person is wearing pants? She claims I grabbed all of her band member&#8217;s genitals, to further distort the truth, which is absolutely false, and disgusting to even say&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Otep has a very strong social media presence, via Facebook, Twitter &#038; Tumblr, instagram, etc\u2026 She knows her fan base, and she knew that by using keywords like &#8220;molester&#8221; and &#8220;rapist&#8221; she would incite a maniacal frenzy within her fan base, that would be directed towards me. How could I even try to defend myself in a social media war with Otep and her fans? Otep is a seasoned veteran at this sort of thing, and she has about half a million followers on facebook, intagram, twitter, etc\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve received multiple threats of bodily harm and even death by Otep&#8217;s supporters. All of which were based on hearsay. Is this justice? No, this is more like a witch trial.<\/p>\n<p>I have been subject to defamation of character and slander in the worst way. These are very serious accusations that I do not appreciate, and would never want my son or daughter to have to read on the internet one day. All I want to do is clear my name and go about my business. Thanks to all my friends &#038; family throughout these terrible allegations.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: Lambgoat<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/terroruniversalofficial\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/terroruniversalofficial<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Den Headz, TERROR UNIVERSAL frontman Chad Armstrong, accused by Otep singer Otep Shamaya of &#8220;violently&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}