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[[File:00014a94_6444.jpg|link=The Doors|frame|Who the hell are these guys?]]
When a musical group loses one (or more) of its key members, such as the lead singer or a similar [[Face of the Band]] figure, it usually breaks up--but not always. Occasionally, a band tries to continue without its "face". Sometimes the group tries to replace the departed member, sometimes not. (If this happens, the new member is dismissed by fans as [[The Other Darrin]] or a [[Replacement Scrappy]].) Either way, more often than not, the result is a [[Dethroning Moment of Suck (Darth Wiki)|Dethroning Moment of Suck]], and the band rarely lasts more than one or two more albums. It can also lead to both [[Canon
Many bands both avert this trope and play it straight; it isn't uncommon for a band to survive the departure of one key member only to later see their popularity fade after the loss of a different member.
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* When Lord Worm was fired from Cryptopsy, they continued with new vocalist Matt McGachy. Their one album so far since then, ''The Unspoken King'', has received... somewhat negative reviews.
** Lord Worm had actually left Cryptopsy once before, in 1997. They went through two lead singers, Mike DiSalvo and Martin Lacroix, before he returned in 2003.
** Note: when Lord Worm returned, they averted [[Canon
* [[The Band]] did a tour of tiny clubs and theatres in the early 90s without Robbie Robertson. It was a rather depressing affair.
* After frontman Jerry Garcia's death in 1995, the remaining members of [[The Grateful Dead]] have reunited a few times under the names, "The Other Ones" (a cheeky reference to the Grateful Dead song "That's It For The Other One") and simply, "The Dead." Many fans have taken to always putting quotation marks around "The Dead" when they refer to them to differentiate from the shorthand way of referring to the full band.
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