The Band Korn in Thy Art Is Murder Tour
How CJ McMahon returned to Thy Art Is Murder
During his time away from Thy Art Is Murder, vocalist CJ McMahon would get up at the crack of dawn. Instead of heading to a venue or a studio, he would go stuck into a day's graft equally a stonemason in his native Sydney, putting in the hours to build the kitchens and bathrooms of suburban dreams.
He made the surprise career move later realising he was on a downward spiral – and it wasn't like shooting fish in a barrel. "It's hard piece of work lifting heavy, fucking brutal stone," he says. "I only needed to clean my life up, get off the drugs, detox my body, sort my fucking brain out, and be happy that I'm alive once more."
CJ announced his deviation from Thy Fine art Is Murder via Facebook in December 2015, citing fiscal ruin and homesickness as key reasons. It was one of the year's nearly shocking moments; post-obit the release of the savage, religionbating Holy War in June, the band had been riding the crest of a wave. But offstage, things hadn't been right for a while.
"It had been coming for years," CJ sighs. "I'd exist touring so much that I wouldn't run into my family for 10 months. Coin was always the main issue; we alive in the most expensive urban center in the world, so when I was there I couldn't pay for anything. I couldn't afford health insurance. I recently had an impacted wisdom tooth removed and it cost me a m dollars. It's been killing me for years, but I just had to put up with it."
With the weight of the world on his shoulders, CJ turned to drugs to block out his frustrations, condign a user and a dealer. He close himself off from everyone, including his bandmates, who were forced to suffer in silence as he "just refused to appoint" with them. "I was trying to get that high I had onstage, and to repress the feeling of missing my family unit and having no money," he remembers. "It was a vicious circle that I was spiralling in. I pretty much OD'd twice in that fourth dimension, and one twenty-four hours I woke up in LA after a massive drink and coke bender feeling angry and frustrated, and I just went, 'That's it… I'grand not doing this anymore.' And I went habitation."
It's obvious from CJ'southward tone, simply as it was obvious from his argument, that he was peckish a normal life: job security, financial stability, a social support network. When he quit the band, he took Xmas off and so got straight to piece of work equally a bricklayer with his father-in-law and brother-in-police force. The strict routine not simply gave him the higher up, but allowed him to block out his destructive thoughts.
"I was feeling completely physically wrecked, getting up at half five and finishing at seven, only it was adept that I could back up me and my married woman," he says. "I'd be and then tired that I'd just sleep, so it was helping me mentally, too. I was also exhausted to dwell on things or to engage with the people who'd be a negative influence on me."
With a more regimented lifestyle in place, CJ used willpower to go clean, simply soon began to miss Thy Art. In Feb 2016, the band headed to Europe in support of Parkway Bulldoze, with interim vocalizer Nick Arthur filling in, for some of the biggest shows of their career – including ane at London's five,000-capacity Brixton Academy. It was a huge opportunity, even so CJ was on the other side of the earth.
"I had a mate in London who sent me footage of the oversupply chanting 'CJ' before they came out," he remembers. "That made me feel adept, but it also fabricated me feel really bad that I left the boys in that situation. Every time I saw them on Instagram doing these crazy shows… information technology was like breaking up with a daughter and being fine with it, then seeing she had a new boyfriend and beingness like, 'He'south not fucking good enough for her!' I'd exist lying if I said that wasn't happening."
With frustrations growing, it was a risk meeting with an onetime bandmate that sowed the seeds for his return. CJ went to a house party, and Sean [Delander, guitar] happened to be there. The pair hadn't seen each other for six months, and had lots to catch up on. "I couldn't sleep that night, just thinking near the ring. I messaged him the side by side mean solar day and said, 'I wish things were different, I wish I hadn't gone, my life sucks – I don't fifty-fifty accept fourth dimension to spend the coin I make because I'g working then much.' And he replied, 'Fuck it, it's easy. Just come back.'"
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He joined Thy Art Is Murder at do and his return was made official in January, followed past the single No Absolution. It inadvertently sparked a state of war of words with Suicide Silence's Eddie Hermida, who defendant Thy Art of beingness stuck in a deathcore rut, while his ain band had shunned the genre for their new single, Doris. Thy Fine art responded by making a ready of Trumpstyle 'Make Deathcore Smashing Again' baseball caps, seemingly mocking both Eddie's comments and his music. After Suicide Silence released their polarising, cocky-titled album, the beef escalated to the point where Eddie chosen CJ a sellout. "A person who is looking for money and talks about money and focuses on money when they're making music is a consummate sellout," he told the website Live Metal. "They're literally going, 'Hey, we're not sellouts, but delight buy this lid.'"
"He's trying to drag us down, because the rex of the mountain has lost his throne. And the new immature prince has risen to be the supreme leader," responds CJ. "He's like, 'Fuck this. If I'm going downwards, I'm taking these cunts with me!' And it'southward worked out the opposite. If I didn't come back and I joined 5 Seconds Of Summertime or became an EDM DJ then, yes, I go information technology. But I'm cleaner and stronger. I really don't requite a fuck what those salty fuckers take to say virtually me."
But he is hoping that upcoming album, Dear Desolation, which leans less heavily on the 'core' and focuses more on barbaric death metal and hulking loonshit grooves, will propel them beyond the deathcore scene and to bigger stages. "We desire to be able to play shows with bands like Lamb Of God, and possibly look toward being one of those bands in the time to come," CJ says. "People like to pin the whole deathcore thing on us, but we're more than that on this record. We're pushing into wider metal territories, because we want to be a big band, and I believe that if we work hard that'southward a realistic goal for us."
With a more focused CJ McMahon back, they might accept a chance.
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Source: https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-cj-mcmahon-returned-to-thy-art-is-murder
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