Every Time I Die guitarist Andy Williams dies aged 48
The guitarist and professional wrestler died after collapsing following a match in Pennsylvania on September 5.
Sep 7, 2026
Credit: Guitar World
Former Every Time I Die guitarist Andy Williams has died at 48. Guitar World reports that Williams collapsed during a wrestling event in Pennsylvania on September 5 and later died in hospital. Williams had spent more than two decades shaping Every Time I Die’s rhythm-guitar attack, appearing on all nine of the band’s albums before the group ended in 2022.
Outside music he built a second career in professional wrestling as The Butcher, while continuing to make heavy music after Every Time I Die with Atomic Rule. His death closes an unusually cross-disciplinary career, but for guitar players his most lasting footprint remains the muscular, classic-rock-informed riff language he brought to one of metalcore’s most influential bands.
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Williams helped define the guitar vocabulary of a highly influential metalcore band while maintaining a rare parallel career in professional wrestling.
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