35 Facts About Tim Lambesis

Tim Lambesis is best known as the founding member, lead vocalist, and the sole continuous member of the metalcore band As I Lay Dying.

Tim Lambesis pled guilty in 2014 and became a convicted felon.

Tim Lambesis was sentenced to serve six years in prison and was released on parole in December 2016.

Tim Lambesis formed a death metal band called Pyrithion and was the former guitar player for Society's Finest and Point of Recognition.

Tim Lambesis was a judge for the 8th and 10th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.

Timothy Peter Lambesis was born on November 21,1980 to Nick and Vicki Lambesis.

Tim Lambesis closed in 2019, with Nick co-founding a new agency called Sublym Digital in 2023.

Tim Lambesis grew up in Southern California and was voted "Most Like Jesus" by classmates when he attended Santa Fe Christian School in Solana Beach, California as a teen.

Tim Lambesis attended Liberty University for a time and majored in religious studies.

Tim Lambesis started his musical career while he was still in high school, playing bass in the first few bands he was in.

Tim Lambesis returned to California to restart Life Once Lost, but with a whole new lineup.

Tim Lambesis hired Jordan Mancino, former drummer of Edge of Mortality, and Evan White.

In 2008, Tim Lambesis and Destroy the Runner vocalist Chad Ackerman formed Austrian Death Machine, a parody metal band based around Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In 2014, all of Tim Lambesis' projects went on hiatus, due to his criminal acts.

In 2017, Tim Lambesis resurrected As I Lay Dying, initially rumoured with all new members.

Tim Lambesis addressed the sudden deterioration in a statement posted on social media, admitting to creating an unhealthy environment within the band and supporting his bandmates' decisions to leave; despite the mass exodus, Tim Lambesis stated he will continue As I Lay Dying and that the upcoming album would still be released on November 15,2024.

Tim Lambesis is a bodybuilder and started his own YouTube fitness channel.

Tim Lambesis's tattoos include a "rocking Jesus," and cyborg Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Koi fish swimming upstream, which represents a quest for meaning and fulfillment, Hebrew writing, a cross, Jesus Christ in clouds, and his largest, a samurai fighting a tiger, which represents the battle between reason and instinct.

Tim Lambesis has previously stated on multiple occasions that he is a Christian.

Tim Lambesis quoted the book Pagan Christianity by George Barna and Frank Viola, noting that both "Protestant and Catholic denominations have poisonous roots".

Tim Lambesis filed papers in San Diego Superior Court one month later in September 2012 seeking a dissolution of their marriage, according to an online court database.

In divorce papers, Murphy stated that Tim Lambesis was obsessed with bodybuilding, spending "endless hours at the gym", and was wasting "thousands of dollars on tattoos".

Tim Lambesis alleged that he had become "dangerously distracted" while watching their children, including falling asleep while they played in their pool, and had taken two last-minute trips to Florida to see an extramarital girlfriend.

Tim Lambesis met with the undercover agent posing as a hitman, code name "Red", according to Deputy District Attorney Claudia Grasso.

Tim Lambesis had directed the detective he believed to be a hitman to kill his wife while he was with his children so he would have an alibi.

Tim Lambesis was ordered to wear a GPS monitor, was subject to strict travel restrictions, and was unable to see or communicate with his wife and three children.

On February 25,2014, Lambesis changed his plea from "not guilty" to "guilty" and was sentenced to six years in prison on May 16,2014, and credited with 48 days for time served.

Tim Lambesis even recalls feeling awkward when asked for their testimonies and when fans ask to pray with them.

In 2016, after two years in prison, Tim Lambesis filed a lawsuit against two Southern California detention centers, Vista Detention Facility and George Bailey Detention Facility, for gross negligence in denying his request for anastrozole, a drug he'd been prescribed to fight the side effects of withdrawal from steroids.

The lawsuit alleges that as a result of the failure to provide him with the drug, Tim Lambesis developed breasts and underwent severe emotional distress.

Tim Lambesis was released on parole on December 17,2016.

In December 2020, Tim Lambesis said that he had accidentally spilled gasoline on himself while trying to add it to a bonfire.

Tim Lambesis suffered burns over 25 percent of his body and was hospitalized.

Tim Lambesis then released a statement alleging that he had filed a restraining order against Norris due to her ongoing physical and mental abuse of him.

In January of 2025, Norris shared a statement on her social media pages countering that the opposite was true and alleging Tim Lambesis of being mentally unstable and hiding behind his PR team to control the narrative of his pattern of abuse.