After years of great success in the rock world, Welsh band Lostprophets is closing their chapter as a group after disgraced lead singer, Ian Watkins was found guilty for child abuse.

"You work for 15 years on something - and your entire legacy is wiped away in an instant. Everything you've done and achieve is something that's hard to be proud of any more," said guitarist Mike Lewis to the Sunday Times.

As if the mere charge of child abuse was not enough, Watkins was engaged in child pornography, sexual abuse with infants, and a slew of other acts that are too grizzly to speak of that will keep Watkins behind bars for 29 years.

"I've thought about it long and hard - and I have no interest in ever speaking to him again," said Lewis, who has been friends with Watkins since he was five. "I feel incredibly bad for his mother and his whole family, and the stigma they have to endure. But I have no interest in questioning him about it. Never."

The acts were even too despicable for the band members to look at. "I tried reading the judge's report - I couldn't finish it. I find it utterly unbelievable that he was capable of doing these things. Obviously he did, but I don't understand it," Lewis said to the Sunday Times.

According to ClassicRock.TeamRock.com, guitarist Lee Gaze said the band was beginning to break down before Watkins got caught. He cites drug use and Watkin's own perversion that sent him and the band spiraling down. "To be in prison, where he's going to be the guy from the rock band with those charges - I was worried. But then I reached a point where real resentment set in," he said to Sunday Times.

Gaze explained Watkins was trying to convince the band and everyone else he was being set up and people were trying to get him. He said "a web of people" were involved with the lie and the story, and finally someone spoke up.

Now as the remaining Lostprophets members pick of the pieces of an entire career that will forever remain with an asterisk, they have begun to work on a new project with Geoff Rickly, singer of Thursday and United Nations.