A spokesman for the legendary Horsemen of the Apocalypse has confirmed rumours that the famous foursome are to split over ‘apocalyptic differences’ following a statement from Pestilence that he intended to concentrate on his solo career. ‘Pestilence has had a great time with the guys over the past few millennia, but feels that the time has come to move on’ said his manager to shocked journalists.

However conflicting rumours are circulating the underworld suggesting that Pestilence may have actually been thrown out by the other three who have been hinting for some time that they felt they were carrying him. The remaining horsemen have not yet confirmed whether they will continue to tour as a threesome or also take some time out to develop solo projects. Despite having remained unchanged for thousands of years the famous line up had continued touring Africa, parts of Asia and the Middle East and had been planning American and European tours ‘in the near future’.

‘We don’t need Pestilence – he brought nothing to the band,’ said War in a recent interview. ‘Every time we talked about trashing some country – he was always like; ‘and then maybe a load of locusts fly in and eat all the wheat?’ Like please? Has he not heard of pesticides? It’s over Pestilence! Accept it.’

However other sources blame War himself for the split; ‘It all started when War started to let his horse-mad girlfriend tag along,’ claims one fan. ‘He started to say that Samantha had got some really interesting ideas about changing their image, putting less emphasis on the Apocalypses and more on Gymkhanas and Show Jumping…’

Bitter exchanges have continued to fly back and forth between the two camps. Pestilence was reported to be in Southern India where a plague of Colorado beetles devastated a local potato crop, while the other three horsemen were spotted at the Windsor Horse trails where Famine won a rosette in the dressage section.