Trapt‘s Michael Smith has announced that he’s quit the nu-metal band due to some of the public stances taken on the band’s behalf.The drummer’s departure comes after the band made a number of headlines last year concerning the social media outbursts of frontman Chris Taylor Brown.In November, Trapt were banned from Facebook following a series of controversial right-wing posts shared by Brown, and soon after this the band’s Instagram and Twitter accounts were removed after Brown appeared to defend statutory rape.Smith said his decision to step down from the group is “bittersweet” and that some of the public stances taken on behalf of the band (via Brown) were not representative of his individualistic views.“After playing drums for Trapt for.
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