Thy Art Is Murder guitarist Andy Marsh says he wants to avoid “starting another circus around the band” following the departure of frontman CJ McMahon last month.
Instead, he hopes the Australian outfit will be allowed privacy to get on with the business of finding a replacement.
McMahon cited financial pressures as one of the main reasons for quitting, saying: “We have been broke for years and I can’t live like this any more.”
Marsh tells The Jasta Show: “We love what we do, and we like playing heavy music, but at the same time we’re low-key guys.
“We don’t want all this attention – we want to create our shortlist in private. Hopefully we keep that in private and it goes through the motions behind closed doors.”
He already knows what kind of person the band are looking for. “They have to be our friend,” he says. “They have to represent our music and what our band is to people.
“Whoever we get will be good, no doubt – but they also have to fit un with us, sit in the van, sit in the bus, sit on the plane, and be bored for 20 hours a day with us.”
Molotov Solution vocalist Nick Arthur will front Thy Art Is Murder on a temporary basis during their next European tour, which begins on January 22.
