AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE: Why We Left COAL CHAMBER Tour

July 17, 2002

AMERICAN HEAD CHARGE bassist Chad Hanks has issued the following statement regarding the group's decision to withdraw from the ongoing COAL CHAMBER/MEDICATION US tour:

"The Official Reason We Have Dropped Off of the Coal Chamber Tour: Our producer and label owner, Rick Rubin, has requested that we take these next 5-7 weeks (depending on if we go overseas again mid-August) to start demoing for the new record. Of course we'll take a few personal days off, but then it's right back to work.

"Let's be real for a second. We've been touring like an speed-fueled vaudeville show that, in their psychosis, hasn't realized that it's not 1932 anymore. We've had little to no time in the past 15 months to sit down and really make a concerted effort to work on new material. We have tons of bits, pieces, riffs, parts, lyrics, poems, etc... but we need the time and a place to make this all come together. And considering that this will be the only chance (most probably) to get the basic ideas down before November, it seemed in our best interest (and the interest of those that would like to see a future AHC album come to fruition) to take advantage of this time, and excuse ourselves from the COAL CHAMBER tour. That's about it.

"Of course, we came up with quite a few strange reasons we thought might be interesting to throw out there (volunteer firemen needed to fight the blazes out west, J. needed a toe removed, Martin needed vocal cord replacement surgery, I moved to Amsterdam and have refused to come back, whatever...). But the bottom line is that we have a new AHC record to work on. And that's good for everybody, don't you think?"

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