A German trainee high school teacher has been warned that he
will be dismissed if he refuses to give up his role in death metal
band, Debauchery. The 29 year old Thomas Gurrath is training to
become a teacher in politics, history and ethics at Hegel Gymnasium
in the city of Stuttgart, but is known in the local metal scene as
"The Bloodbeast," his stage name with Debauchery, who feature
naked, blood smeared women in their act.
He has now been given the ultimatum to choose between teaching
and death metal as education authorities have told Gurrath he will
have to give up the teacher traineeship he began on January 1
unless he quits his band.
Clemens Homoth-Kuhs, spokesman for the regional education
authorities, told the Daily Bild: "We have in the end agreed that
Mr Gurrath is now to stop his traineeship, but have told him that
he can start again under certain conditions."
