Whitechapel have cancelled their upcoming South American tour dates on account of their frontman’s psychological well being.
In an in-depth video assertion, Phil Bozeman explains that the US deathcore band is not going to be becoming a member of Thy Artwork Is Homicide on a deliberate trek via Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile, Brazil and Argentina in November and December. Nonetheless, the dates will nonetheless go forward with Thy Artwork Is Homicide performing.
Bozeman writes in an Instagram publish: “I shall be OK however I want time to get proper for myself, my fiancé, household, associates and all of you. Your help is immeasurable. Thanks all a lot for the whole lot. Right here’s to strengthening and therapeutic.”
He explains additional within the hooked up video, embedded under. The singer reveals that he has been on the antidepressant sertraline (typically bought in North America underneath the model title Zoloft) since his teenage years, and that he’s trying to wean himself off of it.
“I began to come back off of them as a result of I wished to,” he says (by way of The PRP). “I wished to attempt to not depend on remedy months again. And it has had a really unhealthy impact on me. I [have] been having psychological well being points.”
Bozeman continues, saying he began utilizing antidepressants following the loss of life of his father when he was 10 and his mom when he was 15. The singer has written lyrics about these occasions on the Whitechapel albums The Valley (2019) and Kin (2022).
“I used to be placed on Zoloft, and that mainly numbed me for 30 years,” he provides. “And I had tried to come back off this remedy earlier than, and that didn’t go nicely. I attempted to cease chilly turkey, and that simply didn’t work in any respect. However I attempted to do it once more not too long ago, and I did it the correct approach. I tapered off.”
He calls this tapering-off the “wholesome approach” to cease utilizing his remedy, however acknowledges it’s nonetheless “include penalties”.
Bozeman finishes by stating his drive to “get higher”, thanking followers for his or her help and telling them, “Simply discuss to somebody if it’s essential to, and don’t ever disguise it or maintain it again. It’s not price it.”
Whitechapel’s subsequent scheduled exhibits are two performances in Chattanooga and Nashville of their house state of Tennessee on December 19 and 20. At time of publication, these gigs appear set to go forward.
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