Davey Suicide Settles Lawsuit with Standby Records

Last month we told you about a pending lawsuit between Davey Suicide and his record label Standby Records. While Suicide’s music isn’t our cup of tea, his story resonated: extremely dubious accounting practices by the label and their owner Neil Sheehan (with hard proof, not just claims) and thousands of dollars in money owed. We weren’t the only ones to catch on; the video Suicide released explaining his case garnered over 1.2 million views and, according to Suicide, “people that didn’t even know our band that just stumbled onto the story that were coming forward and backing us, bands that didn’t even like our music that had our backs.” Hey hey.

Shortly after the video went live there was a hearing in Cleveland and the case was settled by the end of the day. In a new wrap-up video released earlier this week, Suicide says that he can’t legally reveal the terms of the settlement, but that we can “read between the lines” — so I’m gonna venture that removing the old video was one condition of the settlement (it’s been scrubbed from the Internet now), and that Suicide got at least a good chunk of the money he claims he was owed.

This is fantastic news! Finally the good guys win one. Now the world can return to an order in which MetalSucks no longer writes favorable articles about Davey fucking Suicide… phew!

Watch Davey’s update video below.