{"id":33152,"date":"2013-04-08T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T17:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=33152"},"modified":"2013-04-08T12:46:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T17:46:37","slug":"kataklysm-drummer-taking-break-from-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=33152","title":{"rendered":"KATAKLYSM &#8211; Drummer Taking Break From Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/userserve-ak.last.fm\/serve\/_\/207958\/Kataklysm.jpg\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?attachment_id=31791\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31791\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tmdsite435x751lk-2-1.gif\" alt=\"tmdsite435x751lk-2-1\" width=\"435\" height=\"75\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31791\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMax Duhamel, drummer of the Montreal based death metal powerhouse, KATAKLYSM, is forced to take a break. He also won&#8217;t be performing on the new Kataklysm album. Max has just released this official statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hello everyone, it is with an a extremely heavy heart that I announce today that I will not be performing on the new Kataklysm album, I have been struggling with many personal issues the last year but lately, the main one has been alcohol, it&#8217;s been affecting my body in a very negative way to the point that when I came home after the Ex Deo tour we just did, I tried to stop drinking for few days and it&#8217;s been very hard without having any withdrawal symptoms, I&#8217;ve also lost a lot of weight as some of noticed recently and I&#8217;m not in good shape.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard the new material my brothers have written and its truely incredible stuff, it&#8217;s really some of the best music the band has ever done but It&#8217;s going to be a very demanding album and my state of mind and body is not ready to confront this big task right now, I need to clean my body and my mind and come back focused to Kataklysmand I don&#8217;t know how long this will take &#8230;, the guys have reached out to help in anyway they can which I can&#8217;t thank them enough .. I&#8217;m truely blessed to have them as a family,so as I start my road to recovery I send this message to all of you and thank you for all the support. It&#8217;s time to take my life in my hands and take responsibility, I will not be attending the Juno Awards ceremony in two weeks for Ex Deo nominations but i will close my contract with the shows in May that are left, ExtremeFest, Beastival in Germany and Metalfest Czech Rep. will be my last shows until I&#8217;m ready again to come back in full form, you guys deserve the best of me&#8230;see you later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new album &#8220;Waiting for the End to Come&#8221; is tentatively scheduled for a late 2013 \/ early 2014 release. The album will be recorded by guitarist Jean Francois Dagenais and mixed by Zeuss (Suffocation, Hatebreed).<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: Lambgoat<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/kataklysm\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/kataklysm<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Duhamel, drummer of the Montreal based death metal powerhouse, KATAKLYSM, is forced to take&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}