{"id":64904,"date":"2017-12-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=64904"},"modified":"2018-05-23T14:07:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T14:07:43","slug":"news-tysondog-part-ways-with-vocalist-john-clutch-carruthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-tysondog-part-ways-with-vocalist-john-clutch-carruthers\/","title":{"rendered":"TYSONDOG Part Ways With Vocalist John \u201cClutch\u201d Carruthers (December 30th, 2017) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>TYSONDOG Part Ways With Vocalist John \u201cClutch\u201d Carruthers<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>December 30th, 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedleft\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/tysondog2014promophoto2news.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/><span class=\"smalltext\"><strong><em>Tysondog 2014 (l-r): Paul Burdis, Phil Brewis, John \u201cClutch\u201d Carruthers, Steve Morrison and Kevin Wynn<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nNewcastle, England-born heavy metal band Tysondog have parted ways with long-time lead vocalist John \u201cClutch\u201d Carruthers, revealing this development on December 30th, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Bass player Kevin Wynn issued the following statement: \u201cConfirmation today our dear friend and vocalist John \u2018Clutch\u2019 Carruthers will quit Tysondog and the music business altogether due to illness. We wish him well and thank him for all the great memories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently writing and rehearsing new material for our fourth album, due late 2018. No decision yet on a replacement vocalist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carruthers joined Tysondog in 1983 and appeared on all three of the band\u2019s full-length studio albums to date; <em>Beware Of The Dog<\/em> (1984), <em>Crimes Of Insanity <\/em> (1986), and <a href=\"\/site\/album-review-tysondog-cry-havoc\/\"><em>Cry Havoc<\/em><\/a> (2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYSONDOG Part Ways With Vocalist John \u201cClutch\u201d Carruthers December 30th, 2017 Tysondog 2014 (l-r): Paul Burdis, Phil Brewis, John \u201cClutch\u201d Carruthers, Steve Morrison and Kevin Wynn Newcastle, England-born heavy metal band Tysondog have parted ways with long-time lead vocalist John \u201cClutch\u201d Carruthers, revealing this development on December 30th, 2017. Bass player Kevin Wynn issued the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3809],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tysondog-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64913,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64904\/revisions\/64913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}