This blog is to confirm my motion to depart from InHhume.
We will complete the recording of a 3-song EP, and play at least one more show before parting ways.
Be assured, it is not a mere creative discontent or clash of style/direction that spurned my choice.
This was not an emotional decision, and I bear no malice to the other members of the group. There is a point when one must stop blaming, arguing, excusing, and hoping, and simply refuse to accept the personal dynamics and the aspects of oneself that are triggered and conjured.
The ability to adapt to or justify conditions that are uncomfortable, difficult, taxing, or even harmful is not the obligation to settle for them, for the sake of any success or status.
Those are not my primary goals to begin with. They are to be the byproducts of a healthy, honest, progressive and respectful creative realm. Of these traits I am no paragon, but I will not be devoted to a project where their lacking is encouraged or accepted. And I will not be part of a project to which all members and I are not completely devoted, motivated, and unified. To achieve either success or status in the absence or degradation of those vital conditions is worthless to me.
There is a crucial difference between giving up on something prematurely, and moving on from something that, by the very nature of its sources, construct, and energies, is not and will never be what I need or want.
I have evaluated this situation countless times over the years, and twice that in the last weeks.
So long as I am honest with myself and with the people who have been as brothers in a most intimate and riveting chapter of my life, there are no regrets.
My sincerest apologies to those who have vested interest, time, energy, and resources into this project, and shared in any vision of success or greatness.
Integrity is rarely convenient.
I appreciate, so very much, the musician this band has made me, and inspired me to be. I will never take this for granted.
The music was never a lie.
~Brandon