In a world full of social media teases, a new challenger has entered the arena. It appears that Lacey Sturm has officially rejoined Flyleaf after 10 years away from the band. The hard rock favorites shared a photo of themselves with Sturm today (Nov. 7) and changed their profile photos to an image that reads “Flyleaf with Lacey Sturm.”
Sturm is an original member of Flyleaf, bringing her vocal talent to the group from 2002-2012. Flyleaf’s debut album went platinum in 2005 off the strength of the singles “I’m So Sick,” “Fully Alive” and “All Around Me.” Flyleaf recorded two more albums with Sturm, who left the band shortly before the release of New Horizons in 2012.
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— FLYLEAF (@flyleafmusic) November 7, 2022
Lacey opened up about her reasons for her departure from Flyleaf in a video promoting her 2014 memoir “The Reason: How I Discovered A Life Worth Living”. At the time, she had this to say.
“We were on our second album when I got married. And the album was called ‘Memento Mori’. And ‘memento mori’ means remember you’re mortal, remember that you’ll die and remember that your life is short and precious and so are the lives of those around you.
“For two years, I toured with my husband and it was really amazing, and then after those two years, we ended up getting pregnant with my son,” she continued. “And I recognized that my priorities were gonna change even more and that message of ‘memento mori’ and remembering how short your life is was really weighing on my heart.
“We toured for ten years. I mean, we weren’t home for more than a month, probably, a year. So, for me, I just felt really blessed to be pregnant and to be in a place where I could stay home if I wanted to, and really ask that question: how is this gonna change my priorities? How is this gonna look? We had a few things happen that really brought that message home, but the one that hit the hardest was the death of our sound engineer [Rich Caldwell]. We did one last show with Flyleaf as a benefit for his wife Katy and their son Kirby. And it was really hard to do a show without him, and it was really hard to think it could be our last show. So I remember looking at my son after Rich had passed and just wondering to myself, if this was the last year I had with my son, how would I spend it?
“It was really amazing to recognize this season changing in my life and the freedom that I was gonna be able to focus on my family. And I’m so thankful for that time. And although it was really hard, I’m thankful. And that’s the reason I stepped down from Flyleaf.”
The reactivated Flyleaf is rumored to be one of the bands appearing at Sick New World, a nu-metal destination festival set for May 13, 2023 in Las Vegas. Also apparently scheduled to perform at the event are System Of A Down, Korn, Deftones, Evanescence, Incubus and Chevelle, along many others.
