Robb Flynn: "I quit Machine Head!"

Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn has revealed how he quit the band during their European tour with Slipknot in November last year.

In a posting on the Bay Area thrasher's official site, Flynn explains how a bust-up with bassist Adam Duce led the frontman walking out on his band of 17 years and how the pair are attending therapy sessions for the good of the band.

"Adam and I have been going to therapy," says Flynn. "Yep... going to therapy, to work out our bullshit. And oh how we needed to do this... After 17 years of being in a band together, touring together for a large majority of that time, we've accumulated a lot of shit between the two of us that's either been put off or swept under the rug, and frankly, it all reached a boiling point on the first night in Paris on the Slipknot tour. To summarize briefly, after a massive two-day-long fight, I quit the band. I was gonna be on a plane the next day and as far as I was concerned, I was never gonna see the dude again for the rest of my life. That next day he came by, and we agreed to try and sort it out... to try therapy before it all fell apart. Because it was falling apart.

"We agreed that the band meant more to us, that our friendship meant more to us, and that neither was something the two of us (four of us, for that matter) wanted to lose," he continues. "All-in-all it's going okay. We both bring a lot of baggage to the table, as, frankly, we're both pretty fucked up. While it isn't new for me (I did two years of fairly intensive therapy back '98 and more before The Blackening), it is new to him, and we still have a lot of work ahead of us.... but, we're working at it. We don't want to lose this, and after all we've been through, to lose this band, our friendship, now, would seem like the hugest of failures."