Dangerous Wolves guitarist AJ Rebollo has left the heavy steel band, saying the choice to launch a canopy of Dolly Parton’s hit “Jolene” was the “ultimate nail within the coffin.”
Rebollo revealed Friday that he give up after two years, accusing his label, Higher Noise Music, of “dangerous intent” in releasing Parton’s cowl simply days after the nation legend’s dying.
“I’m making the choice to step down as a member of the Dangerous Wolves,” Rebollo wrote in a press release on Instagram Friday.
“In brief, I can now not stay a member in good religion and co-sign on the choices consistently made FOR this group by the label, amongst different points I’ve with the interior workings of the corporate.”
Parton was anticipated so as to add vocals to the group’s heavy model of her 1973 hit, however the collaboration was now not potential after the “Jolene” singer died Tuesday at age 80.
Higher Noise Music nonetheless plans to launch the track on Monday, with out Parton’s vocals, and proceeds will profit its Creativeness Library, which supplies free books to kids from delivery to five years outdated.
The group teased the duvet as not too long ago as Friday afternoon.
Nonetheless, Rebollo mentioned the band made it clear to the label that that they had “no additional curiosity” within the track.
“As an entity, we advised the label that we had no real interest in releasing the duvet artwork after studying of Dolly’s unlucky passing, as her collaboration on the track was now not a risk, and we felt it might (understandably) be interpreted as some type of capitalization on her passing from an outdoor perspective,” he wrote.
“They went forward and introduced that we have been going to launch it anyway, regardless of the efforts of a number of members, together with myself, to object.”
“Whereas donating to his Creativeness Library is an unimaginable option to do one thing good with the proceeds, I can not assist however assume there are dangerous intentions behind the choice to launch the track,” he added.
Rebollo claimed the dispute was half of a bigger downside over how the group’s enterprise choices have been dealt with.
“With the label utterly ignoring the various choices we make out of ardour, and in the end unknowingly exhausting the band’s makes an attempt to totally take pleasure in being right here, I’m now not glad right here,” Rebollo wrote.
“The quantity of hatred, negativity and harassment we obtain every day because of choices made past our management has taken a toll on our psychological well being. »
Dangerous Wolves confronted the same state of affairs in 2018, when Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan died on the day she was imagined to document vocals for the group’s cowl model “Zombie”, launched with out her.
“Zombie” turned the group’s hit, topping the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for 3 weeks and finally going thrice platinum in the US.
Since then, Dangerous Wolves has undergone repeated roster adjustments.
Unique singer Tommy Vext left the band in 2021, whereas guitarist Doc Coyle and bassist Kyle Konkiel left in 2025.
Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz, who changed Vext, then left to hitch Falling in Reverse, and the group launched Sara “Killboy” Skinner as a brand new vocalist this 12 months.
The most recent fallout got here on Wednesday, when Dangerous Wolves have been banned from Christian rock band Skillet’s upcoming tour after followers falsely claimed Skinner was an “OnlyFans trans slut.”