Brian Rademacher of RockEyez recently conducted an interview with CRASHDÏET guitarist and SWEET CREATURE frontman Martin Sweet. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below.
Speaking about vocalist Simon Cruz’s sudden departure from CRASHDÏET in January 2015, Sweet said: “Well, he left the group when we were in Tokyo [Japan]. We had two shows to play — two shows in a row; like maybe Saturday and Sunday, or something like that. We were opening for EUROPE. And after the first show, he left home to Sweden without announcing anything. But he had been acting weird for some time before.”
He continued: “We’ve been through some rough times, with our manager dying in the midst of our world tour. And I don’t know… He changed after Michael Sundén died, and he seemed to be having a lot of personal stuff going on. And we actually wanted to cancel the Japanese tour, ’cause we didn’t think he was fit for it, but he was stubborn, as he is, and he went to Tokyo anyway. So we did what we could. I mean, we did a whole show; we did like an hour set, and it was fine. Then he left the morning after.”
According to Sweet, Cruz’s exit from CRASHDÏET came at a time when the band was already working on material for the follow-up to 2013’s “The Savage Playground”. “We had plans for the next album, and demos were being made,” he said. “We had plans, but it just didn’t work out. And then when [Simon] left, we kind of lost the spirit for a while.”
Despite the fact that CRASHDÏET has been inactive for nearly a year and a half, Sweet insists that the band still has a future. “A lot of people are talking about, you know, they ask, ‘Is CRASHDÏET over?’ Fuck no!” he said. “CRASHDÏET is my main band, you know. And when the time is right, we will start the search for a new singer.”
Martin does stress, however, that fans shouldn’t expect to hear new music from CRASHDÏET for quite a while. “I don’t think we have the energy to start a huge campaign about searching for singers right now,” he said. “We get e-mails every now and then — or quite often, actually — [from singers offering their services] so we look at all of them and listen. But we’re not actively searching for a new singer right now. We’re just kind of trying to recoup and trying to get our lives together.”
