Jeff William's message 2022-12-31

“TL;DR-Jeff is retiring and Casey is making the songs for RWBY Volume 9.

Over the last 12 to 15 years, I worked on music a lot. Like, a REAL lot. I’m glad I did and I am happy overall with the music I made alongside my partners.

In the last few years I started to realize that I wasn’t really accomplishing new things, and that I was missing out on a lot of other parts of life that I didn’t have time or energy for while working obsessively on music.

I asked myself how I would feel if I worked on RWBY Volume 9, if I busted ass for another year, put out another good album that fans enjoyed. I would feel the same as I felt after all the other releases, and that’s the problem.

I want my life to be one of change, growth and journeys. To me, that’s what creativity is all about.

I’ve been retired from music since releasing RWBY Vol 8, and for now I don’t see myself going back to it. I mean, who knows? Maybe I will, maybe I won’t? Right now, I’m not stressing over that. I’m enjoying using my time and energy and creativity in other ways.

I suppose I should spend one sentence making sure you know that there’s absolutely no negative situation between me and Rooster Teeth or anybody else. We’ve been good to each other and for each other; we’ve had an extremely successful relationship with an inordinate amount of trust on both sides.

And yes, now I get to sit in the crowd and watch Casey melt your faces!

With love and endless appreciation to you, my RWBY family,
Jeff”