Spin have posted a piece about former The Icarus Line/Nine Inch Nails guitarist (and ex-Buddyhead scribe) Aaron North‘s struggle with mental illness; which among other things saw him isolate himself for weeks at a time and walk away from the music industry.
The piece also includes commentary from former friends and bandmates of North, including Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor, Queens Of The Stone Age bassist Michael Shuman and The Dillinger Escape Plan‘s Ben Weinman. You can read it in full at Spin.com.