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Some rock stars save the menace for the stage. Others bring it home with them.

A new rundown from Grunge digs into the musicians whose offstage behavior makes their onstage snarl look tame by comparison — guys and bands who’ve turned fan encounters, backstage moments, and even marriages into genuine danger zones. The anchor case is Tim Lambesis, frontman of the Christian metalcore band As I Lay Dying, whose 2013 attempt to have his estranged wife murdered reads less like rock excess and more like a police blotter.

• In May 2013, Tim Lambesis handed over $1,000 in cash along with gate security codes and a detailed schedule to have his estranged wife, Meggan, killed — while he stayed with their three adopted kids to build himself an alibi.
• The “hitman” Lambesis hired was actually an undercover San Diego County sheriff’s deputy; he pleaded guilty to solicitation of murder in February 2014, got six years, made parole in December 2016, and was back fronting As I Lay Dying by 2018.
• The same feature flags punk brawler GG Allin for assaulting his own audiences, Ted Nugent for his combative public persona, and Morrissey and members of Mötley Crüe as artists whose offstage volatility contradicts their public image.

The Plot Against Meggan Lambesis

Meggan Lambesis had filed for divorce from Tim the year before, and by the following spring he’d decided the split needed a permanent solution. In May 2013, Lambesis met with someone he believed could make his wife disappear for good, handing over $1,000 in cash, the security codes to her gated community, and a precise window of time to carry it out. His alibi was already built in — he planned to be with the couple’s three adopted children while it happened.

The problem was the man on the other end of that transaction. Lambesis wasn’t negotiating with a hired killer; he was talking to an undercover San Diego County sheriff’s deputy running a sting. Every detail he handed over — the cash, the codes, the schedule — became evidence.

Guilty Plea, Prison, and a Reunion

Lambesis pleaded guilty to solicitation of murder in February 2014 and was sentenced to six years in prison. He was released on parole in December 2016, having served just under three years of that sentence. As I Lay Dying, the band he’d fronted since the early 2000s, stood by him through the trial and incarceration, and in 2018 he rejoined the group as its singer.

He handed the man he thought was a hired killer $1,000, the gate codes to his wife’s neighborhood, and a schedule for when to strike — and the whole plot was being run by a sheriff’s deputy the entire time.

The Rest of the Rogues Gallery

Lambesis is the headline case, but Grunge’s list doesn’t stop there. GG Allin built an entire punk career around physically assaulting the people who came to see him play, turning shows into brawls rather than concerts. Ted Nugent has spent decades cultivating a reputation for hostility and combative public rhetoric that’s alienated as many people as it’s attracted. Morrissey and various members of Mötley Crüe round out the list — artists whose offstage volatility stands in sharp contrast to the more thoughtful, even-tempered public image plenty of other musicians manage to keep up. If you’re the type who’d want to swap stories with fans in this world, this same corner of coverage on Trending Music is worth digging through — and for a look at how ugly a celebrity’s private reputation can get once the details surface, the breakdown of disturbing details about Terrence Howard covers similar ground from a different corner of entertainment.

As I Lay Dying has kept touring since Lambesis rejoined in 2018, which means fans showing up for a metalcore set are, whether they clock it or not, watching a guy front the band less than three years removed from a parole board deciding he was fit to walk free. That’s the whole point of Grunge’s list — some of these guys you’d never want to run into outside the venue, and Lambesis is the one you’d actively want a police escort for.