B.J. LISKO 1 year ago

Former Every Time I Die Guitarist Andy “The Butcher” Williams Is Jamming Again

Late last year it appeared that there were three projects in the works featuring former members of Every Time I Die, including one from vocalist Keith Buckley, who said he’s got his own new band brewing.

Guitarist Andy Williams, known as “The Butcher” in All Elite Wrestling, also teased another new project when he posted a video of himself jamming with former Every Time I Die drummer, Mike “Ratboy” Novak.

Recently, Williams again posted on Twitter a pic of himself and Novak jamming with the caption, “Time to make the donuts.”

It’s also possible that Williams is in another post-ETID project with guitarist Jordan Buckley, bassist Stephen Micciche and drummer Clayton “Goose” Holyoke. Last August, Jordan Buckley posted about that project and said: “We’re saving Andy’s spot while he wisely tends to all the success that pro wrestling has brought him! But he’s always with us in spirit.”

In a podcast last year with AEW’s Renée Paquette, Williams discussed the similarities between his job as a guitarist and his job as a grappler — and it’s all to do with his unique way of writing music.

“I don’t know how to read music,” he explained. “I just picked up a guitar and it just made sense. To me, it was more like Tetris than anything. I would just make these shapes up in my head and I would play these shapes. If I wrote out music, it would only make sense to me and the dudes I was in the band with. A lot of it is like X’s and O’s, or I’ll use squares for certain things and triangles for certain things. It really turned into more of, like, a video game to me than making music.”

“Wrestling, to me, is like writing a song,” he continued. “Once I kind of understood how to write that ‘song’, it was like, ‘Oh, ok, that’s cool – there’s an intro, there’s an outro, there’s a chorus.’ It really does work like that.”

Keith Buckley previously gave a lengthy explanation about the band’s break-up. He said the band’s problems have been ongoing for “decades” and the split was “inevitable.”

Jordan Buckley previously responded to a fan on Twitter who asked the band to keep going, minus their former singer. “That’s the plan. I hope I never stop getting in a room with these 3 to write rippers.”