Metal Anarchy

During an appearance on “The Garza Podcast,” Corrosion Of Conformity guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan discussed the death of his bandmate Reed Mullin. Notably, he also revealed that Foo Fighters singer/guitarist Dave Grohl offered to pay for the drummer’s rehab before his 2020 passing.

Keenan said the following when asked if he knew “No Cross No Crown” would be Mullin’s final album:

“No. Well, his health was not well. And we tried everything. [We] didn’t know. He just couldn’t get it together, man. And we tried everything. And Dave Grohl offered help — Dave Grohl had helped him with rehab, paid for it out of his own pocket, which was very kind. [I’ll] never forget that. And, yeah, I didn’t know.

Now me and Woody [Weatherman] look back at things and we have nothing but wonderful stories about Reed. ‘Cause when he was at the top of his game, he was a fucking animal on the drums. You couldn’t touch him in terms of creativity and moving that type of music forward. He’s one of the O.G.s of the crossover shit back in the day, so he truly had helped invent something.

Yeah. It’s just weird shit. You can’t plan anything. You can’t map it out. You’d be crazy to even try. You never fucking know what’s gonna happen.”

He also added the following about Mullin’s potential view on his own health:

“It’s a hard thing to get a grip on things like that if you’re not in it. It’s hard to say… I do think if he’d had gotten through all this stuff and could’ve cleaned everything up, and sometimes it takes that. And then if he was here right now, I think the band would be tearing shit up. I think he would come full circle and he would’ve been one of the people not scared to go backwards either, get back into it. But who knows? You can’t go there.”

[via Blabbermouth]