Former Cro-Mags Vocalist John Joseph Accuses Late Warzone Frontman Raybeez of Predatory Behavior

Former Cro-Mags frontman John Joseph, now leading Bloodclot, has ignited controversy by publicly criticizing the late Warzone vocalist Raymond “Raybeez” Barbieri. Raybeez, who passed away in 1997, remains an iconic figure in hardcore punk, even being commemorated on the back cover of most Victory Records releases for years.

In a fiery Instagram post, Joseph accused Raybeez of predatory behavior, claiming that he “got young runaway boys and girls high on drugs and alcohol and took advantage of them sexually.” He also linked Raybeez to the tragic 2018 death of Todd Youth, a former Warzone bandmate who later played in Murphy’s Law and Danzig.

Joseph’s full remarks are as follows:

“One of the dudes in this photo was a predator of the worse kind in the New York Hardcore Punk scene. The truth is while he was pretending to help young runaway boys and girls – he got them high on drugs and alcohol and took advantage of them sexually. As a matter fact the guy on the right is Todd Youth and he was one of Ray Beez victims when he came to the city in the 80s as a young runaway- I was in a band with Todd and he told me that he’d never forgive Ray for what he did to him. He broke down and told me what happened. Todd went through a lifetime of addiction because of it – and lost his battle in 2018 from heroin. There’s a lot of other people who know these stories too. In fact last week I was at a show with some old school New York Hardcore dudes and we talked about it. They admitted they’d heard the same things over the years. I mentioned this to a good friend of mine recently and he told me a story about Ray telling him ‘Yo let’s’ get with these girls’ my friend said they were around 13 or 14. He was like ‘I’m not doing that shit’. Ray even took young hardcore kids over to the pyramid club in NYC where he worked to have sex with older gay men. That dude was the Jimmy Savile of hardcore – a fake public image – while he destroyed kids lives – and as someone who was taken advantage of as a kid in foster homes and suffered through decades of addiction to deal with it – he’s lucky I found all this sh*t out after he passed away. I bit my tongue long enough and after talking with those dudes last week, I said fcuk that – this dude is getting put on blast. RIP Todd Youth and all the other victims of sexual abuse who weren’t able to work through their pain. 💔”

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