A rockstar was sadly diagnosed with stage four cancer while in the middle of recording his comeback album after almost a decade away from his passion
A rock star received a stage four cancer diagnosis while recording his comeback album.
Skunk Anansie’s bassist Cass Lewis is facing a battle with cancer while the band crafts their first album in nearly ten years. The British rock group, which includes Skin, Ace, and Mark Richardson, is set to drop ‘The Painful Truth’ on May 23, their latest since 2016’s ‘Anarchytecture’.
At an emotional London album playback this week, Cass opened up about his ordeal, confessing to The Independent: “During the process of recording I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and so I was having chemo while we were making the album.”
He added, “I thought my f****** cards had been marked, actually, and so I was happy with having had a good life and I was quite content, you know, I accepted whatever my fate was.”
Cass also reflected on his focus during treatment: “I wouldn’t think about the work, the record, I would think about my life. I’d had some very intensive chemo sessions, and no one knew [anything]. I just thought, I’m on this long road of chemo. And that took a year.”
Miraculously Cass was declared cancer-free and his immediate thought was to return to the studio. Overwhelmed with emotion, he recounted how Skin’s daughter joyfully told her mother that “Uncle Cass” wasn’t sick anymore, leading to a poignant moment when he revealed: “About two weeks later, I had to go and have tests to see how the chemo was affecting me, and they couldn’t find any cancer.
“So from stage four, it disappeared. So her little angel is my little angel. As soon as I knew that I wasn’t going anywhere, I was ‘Just get back on the record. There’s nothing better to work for!”
The “heart-wrenching” album chronicles everything Skunk Anansie have faced together “over the last few years”, with Cass choosing the poignant title.
Skin said: “That’s what all the songs are about, that connects everything, that connects what we’ve been through over the last few years.It’s the connection with these guys. I love them to bits, you know, they’re my brothers.”
“What we’re going through, and everything, it’s quite emotional, it’s the painful truth. It’s what you’re here for, and what’s important in your life, and what you’re going to do about it. That’s the painful truth!”
In a statement about ‘The Painful Truth’, Skin declared: “I don’t care that we were big in the ’90s. Creatively it’s irrelevant because in my rock bible the first commandment states, ‘If thy rest on them laurels thy shall wither up and die artistically, musically, mentally.”
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