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Am posting this here as I don't want to torture anyone with my terrible German.

I know I'm not the only one who has been spending a bit of time with rather dubious online translators, parsing out what's being brought up regarding rumors about Clas leaving the band over in the German thread.

From what I can tell, I don't think anyone has any information on this subject either way. So it sounds like total speculation to me, arguments within the band or not. And it isn't like fighting with your co-workers, even if they are long-lasting friends in your band, is an uncommon thing. So we can't expect them to pop in with statements to rebut pure speculation about something that isn't even all that unusual to begin with.
I don't want to piss anyone off, but the requests for statements from the band are coming across as quite demanding.

Maybe there *are* problems- but the point is we don't know either way, so it's useless to try and fill in any perceived blanks. Why should they release a statement over our assumptions? if there's anything to release a statement *about* then they'll do it when they're good and ready to do so.

Clas hasn't performed with them live these past couple of times and he won't be on Orkus. Ok, and...? People seem to be jumping to a lot of conclusions based on that. Maybe he has things going on in his personal life that he prefers to attend to, but still plans on recording as part of Covenant as well as performing live when he can. And Eskil's side projects aren't indicative of anything other than the fact that Eskil has side projects.

I'll be just as disappointed as anyone if it ends up that Clas leaves the band at some point (or Eskil, or Joakim); I don't need to belabor the point that we all love and appreciate his contributions and that it wouldn't be the same without him. And I do hope that doesn't happen. It might, but let's not work ourselves up into a frenzy about it just yet.

Didn't mean to piss anyone off with this post- it's just something I have been thinking about since the whole Clas Is Leaving The Band thing started.

Anyway. Just wanted to throw that out there. If there is something I have gotten incorrect from what I'm understanding in the German thread, please let me know, and I apologize.

Indeed, big congrats to Clas.