Da sind sie wieder: Nach 5 Jahren ohne neues Material
bringen Dead To Me im Oktober eine neue EP heraus namens „I Wanna Die in Los
Angeles“.
Das Ganze erscheint bei Fat Wreck, und Chicken hat sich
recht ausführlich zu der Scheibe geäußert:
„Dead To Me is happy to announce that we have recorded three
new songs for an upcoming seven inch, called I wanna Die in Los Angeles, to be
released in October on Fat Wreck Chords. This release features our current line
up of Jack Dalrymple, Ken Yamazaki, Ian Anderson, and myself. A lot of people
have been asking us what we have been up to since Moscow Penny Ante and the
touring we did around that record. To be honest, we never stopped being a band;
we weren’t on hiatus; we weren’t taking a break. I was pretty busy bottoming
out with a crippling opiate and alcohol addiction. I was dysfunctional and
basically didn’t leave my apartment for a couple years. I wasn’t speaking with
anyone in my family or anyone in the band. Shit got weird and I had a psychotic
break. I came to in the psych ward in November of 2014 and after a few days of
the worst delirium tremens and opiate withdrawal I’ve ever had the pleasure of
experiencing, decided I wanted to live. I went and completed a six month sober
living treatment program in Los Angeles and have been clean for about two years
now. All this took some time. We know nowadays bands are supposed to tweet,
podcast, blog, Instagram, etc, every thought, dick joke, opinion, gripe, craft
beer named after them, etc, but we find most of that terribly uninteresting and
being that we are low key luddites, we decided our time was better spent
focusing on my getting clean and writing songs. Sorry/not sorry we didn’t keep
you in the loop. That being said, we have a ton of new jams and will be
recording a full length in December of this year. We plan on touring and
generally bugging the shit out of you all next year; deal with it. We are
headed to Florida in October to play the pre-fest shows in Tampa and Little
Ybor, as well as the Fest 15 in Gainesville. It would be rad to see you there.
Also, if you or anyone you know needs help getting clean or
is struggling with mental health issues, please look up treatment in your area.
If you live in the western world, information is generally a few clicks away…
and if you can’t figure it out, hit me up and I’ll help you.
CHICKEN/DTM“