So Jeremy's been bugging me for a while to write this. It's not exactly easy but there's no time more fitting than today. Eight weeks ago tomorrow my father suffered a sudden heart attack in our home. He was blue when we found him and no matter how much I beat on his chest and tried to breathe life back into him it was too late. It still gives me chills when I think about it; these images will never leave my mind.

Today is his sixty-seventh birthday, Easter of all days. Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes. We don’t think he’ll be doing any sort of rising today though. The second eldest of seven children, he was an amazing father, a wonderful husband to my mother, an avid athlete (he played basketball weekly including the day before he passed) and so much more. He was a huge pain in the ass but that was all part of his charm.

We’re all bound to go through this eventually, death is a part of life. I can’t think of how many places I’ve heard this in how many forms but it really does ring true: dying’s easy, it’s being left behind that’s tough.

So that’s what’s going on around here. One of many reasons the band has been quiet for some time now. It’s why the album got further delayed (though it is almost finished now) and why I’ve become even more of a recluse than I normally am. Please be patient while I get my life back together and we get this band moving full steam again. We have a lot planned anno 2009 and beyond. Don’t miss it.

Rest in peace William F. O’Meara
04 / 12 / 1942 – 02 / 16 / 2009

-Michael/Abnormality