A couple of months ago, MESHUGGAH announced that they would be postponing their previously announced U.S. tour, which had been set to kick off in early 2022, to the fall.
MESHUGGAH had stated that they needed: “to prioritize the physical health of one of the band members who is currently undergoing medical treatment related to a skin condition on his hands, hindering him from rehearsals and from all in all playing his instrument.”
In a new discussion with Rolling Stone, MESHUGGAH drummer Tomas Haake spoke about his condition, saying: “I have this eczema inside my hands. I’ve got to tape up all my fingers and put on gloves just to mess around on the kit, even. That means I haven’t really touched the drums since we recorded the album, and that was, like, early April. So I’m almost a year out, without even hitting a drum.”
According to the drummer, he’s been dealing with Eczema for nearly two years and just isn’t getting a strait answer from medical professionals. “I’ve been to so many specialists and dermatologists about this at this point and they’re all, like, ‘Huh?’ They say it looks like contact eczema, but we’ve ruled that out because I’ve done all the tests that you can do, as far as anything that I might come in contact with. It goes up and down, but it’s a bummer, for sure, whether you’re a drummer or not. I mean, we all need our hands to function for daily life.”
Tomas added that his “hands are bumming me out, man. I try to stay positive about things like this and not allow myself to just get all depressed over it,” he said. “It is what it is. We’ll see if some new doctor has something important to tell me that helps me clear this up. But, yeah, I mean, if not, I will still have to play.”
MESHUGGAH’s ninth studio album, “Immutable”, is set to arrive on April 1 via Atomic Fire.