We've been a bit worried, but recently frontman James Malone assured us everything would be okay after hinting that he is recovering from some sort of problem, which many assumed was drugs. But, in a recent interview with NoiseCreep, James came clean on what the situation really is:
This is really tough for me to talk about. I don't even know where to begin in all honesty. I just want to start off by saying that I don't have a drug problem of any kind. I know a lot of people were saying that when I released that press statement. The truth is I've had anorexia for the past year or so. It's not the first time I've gone through it either. When I was in college I struggled with it. I finally got past then I started having a drinking problem that I fought with for years. When I stopped drinking last year, the anorexia problems came back.
I have the kind of personality where I take things way too far. For me it wasn't about weight, it was all about control. I couldn't control everything in my life so I fixated on my weight. At my worst, I weighed 128 lbs and that's crazy for a guy who is 6' 1" tall. I got to the point where I was surviving on 500 calories a day and that's even with the rigorous exercising I was doing at the same time. Last year I lost 100 lbs in the span of 4 months. I think doctors say that a healthy weight loss pattern is about 2 lbs a week so that should tell you how messed up I was.
Woah! That sounds rather serious. We can sit here and make jokes but we love ARSIS, so we won't resort to that kind of name calling. We just hope James can stay healthy and continue to blow our fuckin minds. Read the whole interview here.
