The Fat Kid reporting. . .

Gdansk, Poland – Adam “Nergal” Darski of blackened death metal band, Behemoth, has been rushed to the hospital, according to a statement on the official Behemoth website. According to unconfirmed reports (that is, message board posts) by people who are allegedly from Poland, Nergal has been taken to the Hematology Department at Gdansk Medical University Hospital, which would seem to indicate that he has leukemia, or some other form of cancer.

Nergal, the guy with the bird, is super skinny which, in retrospect, would seem like a clue that he might have been ill. And those abs aren’t really his. That’s like a I’m a tough metal guy chest plate or something. Yeah, so, the skinniness might be like a symptom. Or maybe in Poland they can actually stop eating when they aren’t hungry anymore. I wish I had that ability.

Nergal and Behemoth have been featured on BZ several times, and we like them very much even though we’re really too old to be listening to bands like that. Let’s hope that he’s OK, and that he is able to perform on the Lawless States of Heretika tour in the Fall. (Not that it's coming to Columbus or anything, but still.) Let’s also hope that he doesn’t pull a Peter Steele on us and get all religious and stuff. I mean, his whole identity is wrapped up in Satan, so it doesn’t seem like he’d do that, but. . . it didn't seem like Pete would do that, either.