FEATURE: Exclusive: Madina Lake bassist Matthew Leone opens up about the attack that nearly took his life

FEATURE: Exclusive: Madina Lake bassist Matthew Leone opens up about the attack that nearly took his life

FEATURE: Exclusive: Madina Lake bassist Matthew Leone opens up about the attack that nearly took his life
Alternative Music

Things had been looking up for MADINA LAKE. After a tumultuous year that saw them dropped from their label, they spent the early part of this past summer in their hometown of Chicago writing and recording for their upcoming EP, The Dresden Codex, and an ensuing full-length called World War III. They teamed up with Pledge Music a service that lets fans contribute to fund band endeavors?and had just laid down the promising song, "They're Coming For Me." But late one night in June, as bassist MATTHEW LEONE was walking to his car, he intervened in a domestic dispute, leaving him horrifically beaten and in a coma for nearly a week. While fans flooded the band with support and donations and other artists like Smashing Pumpkins held benefit shows, Leone was undergoing two surgeries to repair brain hemorrhaging and beginning a long uphill battle of rehabilitation. Three months later, Leone has made nearly miraculous progress in his recovery and, in this interview, speaks for the first time about the events of that night, the bond he shares with his twin brother and bandmate Nathan, and what good came from something so terrible. Source: Alternative Press Magazine