Malevolent Creation’s Phil Fasciana has exited the band’s current North American tour. This news comes after the guitarist was recently placed in an induced coma after being hospitalized with bacterial pneumonia.
Fasciana said the following:
“I must apologize to my friends, family and most importantly my band members — Chris Cannella, Jesse Jolly and Ronnie Parmer — for my stupidity on our North American Tour with Kataklysm Vader and Skeletal Remains and everyone involved on the Carnival of Death Tour.
“I really believed I was healthy enough to do that tour. But one day before the tour started in Tampa, Florida I received some very heavy prescription medication for my lungs and heart by my doctor from complications sustained in France which left me in a coma because of bacterial pneumonia and 3 weeks in ICU coughing out the blood that filled my lungs. My doctor contacted me a few days into the tour and told me do not drink alcohol on these medications because it could kill me. And like an Idiot I was drinking ridiculous amounts of Jack Daniel’s and everything came to a halt in Los Angeles when I stepped off the tour bus and walked into a bar at 11am and drank ungodly amounts of whiskey before our show at the Whiskey A Go Go (how ironic) and nearly killed myself and had to leave the tour.
“I am still deathly sick and I am home and have to see multiple doctors and find out if I am ok or did permanent damage to myself. I take responsibility for my actions and all I can say I am very sorry to everyone involved on the Carnival Of Death Tour. I have to get ultrasounds on my aorta and x-rays on my entire chest cavity on October 21st and if they don’t find anything life threatening I would like to finish the remaining dates on the tour if possible. Once again I am very sorry and I really let down a lot of people because of my stupid decisions.”
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