FinFangFoom

Back in 2004, guitarist Michael Triplett of Fin Fang Foom faced a health battle that nearly killed him. He generally explains the illness that sidelined him from music as spinal meningitis in quick passing, just because it's easier to explain than the couple of illnesses he was actually fighting...

During the last weekend of October, hordes of bands ride down to Gainesville, Fla. to play the always-eclectic, always-loud festival simply called The Fest. This year was the eighth time the festival has happened, and like the previous seven years, North Carolina's Fin Fang Foom played...

It's been six long years since Fin Fang Foom have had a new full-length out, but don't think they didn't wanted to release an album during that time -- they did. They even had a majority of the newly-released 'Monomyth' written. But while still assembling the songs in 2004, guitarist Michael Triplett ended up in the hospital diagnosed with spinal meningitis and fighting for his life...