On the identical day that Fall Out Boy shared information of their first album in 5 years, founding guitarist Joe Trohman shared a submit on social media asserting that he will probably be taking a break from the band.
“With out divulging all the small print, I have to disclose that my psychological well being has quickly deteriorated over the previous a number of years,” Trohman stated in a message on Fall Out Boy’s official Instagram. “So, to keep away from fading away and by no means returning, I will probably be taking a break from work which regrettably contains stepping away from Fall Out Boy for a spell.”
Earlier on Wednesday, the band launched the video for “Love From the Different Facet,” the primary single from their newly-announced eighth studio album So A lot (For) Stardust, set for launch on March 24. The brand new album will probably be Fall Out Boy’s follow-up to the 2018 LP Mania.
Trohman addressed the timing of his determination to step again. “It pains me to make this determination, particularly after we are releasing a brand new album that fills me with nice pleasure (the sin I’m most happy with),” he wrote. “So, the query stays: Will I return to the fold? Completely, one-hundred %. Within the meantime, I have to get well which implies placing myself and my psychological well being first. Thanks to everybody, together with my bandmates and household, for understanding and respecting this troublesome, however vital, determination.”
In an interview with Rolling Stone final fall, Trohman opened up about abusing opioids in tablet kind on the band’s peak and former hiatus. “I hid it nicely from lots of people till it bought actually dangerous,” he advised Rolling Stone. “I used to be taking pill-form heroin, however not seeing it as that. I used to be not being very sensible with my youth and I used to be losing it away, making an attempt to quell these illogical obsessive ideas with medicine that actually didn’t appear that dangerous as a result of they had been made in a laboratory and got here in a prescription bottle.”
It was after Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, who performed with him within the Damned Issues, known as Trohman out that helped him stop chilly turkey. “It took one person who I revered to inform me I regarded like a junkie, mainly, to make me go, I’m accomplished with this now,” he stated.
In his memoir, None of This Rocks, printed final yr, Trohman additionally regarded again at his profession with Fall Out Boy. “For the primary time in my brief life, I can replicate upon my two-decade profession in my band with pleasure: the nice, the dangerous, the disgusting, and the abysmal. The embarrassing outfits. The unfathomable haircuts. The songs which have change into classics for some. The ridiculous kissy-face photographs for teen rags,” he wrote in his memoir. “That point I vomited inside our van, throughout everybody, as a result of I believed ingesting a complete bottle of Bushmills was protected to do. I’m happy with it. All of it. Besides that terrible cowl of the unique Ghostbusters theme. Sorry!”