DEATH ANGEL Singer Discusses Eyeball-Tearing Incident
July 6, 2007Kimberly Chun of the San Francisco Bay Guardian reports that San Francisco vocalist Mark Osegueda of DEATH ANGEL was in the studio June 24 with his other, punk rock project, the ALL TIME HIGHS, laying down scratch vocals at Fantasy Recording Studios in Berkeley when he got a hit by a bit more than a scratch.
"Holding a scream for a long time, you get a head rush because of the lack of oxygen. You almost feel really woozy, but usually my adrenalin is going so much onstage that I'm OK," Osegueda, 38, said.
"Instead I was standing in a little isolation booth in the studio, I had a head rush, and I passed out and fell forward, and a mic stand caught my eye."
The micless pole tore into Osegueda's eyeball. "I was really, really fortunate that it didn't hit the center of the eye — it hit the white area of the eye and took out a big chunk of it," he says. "So I'm dealing with pain and discomfort instead of vision problems, which is nice because, had it hit the center of the eye, we'd be having a different kind of conversation now!"
When he came to, Osegueda grabbed his eye out of panic, knowing he had done something "pretty severe and pretty wrong." Delirious and separated from his bandmates, who were continuing to play through the song elsewhere in the studio, Osegueda confesses that he was tempted to just take a nice little nap right where he fell, before he stopped himself, thinking he might have suffered a concussion.
Read the entire article at the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
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