Sadus has fired co-founding drummer Jon Allen after videos and photos of domestic abuse have surfaced online. Sadus vocalist and guitarist Darren Travis issued a statement earlier today, saying: "Upon recent allegations of misconduct.. SADUS will be parting ways with Jon Allen.. I do not condone any type of malicious behavior towards any person."
The videos and photos in question can be found below via Anubis bassist and vocalist Devin Reiche. I'll be as frank as possible here – the videos and images are fucking disgusting, and I suggest you skip them unless you really want to verify everything yourself. The videos show Allen hitting his partner Brandy Mae Collins while Collins is hooked up to a dialysis machine as her son screams for him to stop. Another video shows Allen acknowledging he is currently intoxicated while further abusing Collins.
"CONTENT WARNING: Extremely detailed video footage of woman hooked up to dialysis being beaten as her elementary school-aged son watches in horror," wrote Reiche.
"So, you know whose music I love??? SADUS. They're like, one of my favorite bands from that late '80s/early '90s period where thrash metal was gradually evolving into technical death metal.
"THAT SAID, here's some footage of their drummer Jon Allen beating the absolute living fuck out of my friend Brandy while she was hooked up to a dialysis machine (as her elementary school-aged son watches and tries to intervene). She ended up hospitalized some days later after she started urinating blood, and it turned out that he had dislodged her catheter into her ovaries, and from what I understand she almost died as a result. Any questions you may or may not have, I'm sure she'd be willing to answer."
Allen played for Sadus from their founding in 1985 to 2015, and then again upon their reformation in 2017 to present day.
