Decoder and vocalist Spencer Pearson and bassist Bryce Sipes have parted ways.
The band initially released a statement saying they fired Pearson due to issues with drug and alcohol abuse.
The group stated, “We recently decided to part ways with our vocalist, Spencer Pearson, due to recurring issues with drugs and alcohol that reinforced a lack of effort and poor performance on his behalf. It wasn’t easy, but it was necessary. After many long talks to try and get him to clean up his act on and off stage it began to get too out of hand. As a band friendship is first and foremost, but you can only be a friend to someone with those problems for so long until you become apart of the problem by allowing it to continue.”