Craig Owens Talks About The End Of D.R.U.G.S.

January 15th, 2013

Grant Trimboli

Craig Owens recently opened up about the split of his former band D.R.U.G.S. (Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows) and the opportunities ahead with Chiodos. Read what Owens had to say below and be sure to catch Chiodos on tour in 2013.

“Last time we had talked on the D.R.U.G.S. headliner, I definitely got the feeling that the band was going to stick around a lot longer than it did. What exactly happened after that day to cause the band to split up?

It was kind of weird, to be honest. The Chiodos opportunity was something that I’d obviously wanted to do for a long time. Once we found out that was an opportunity, the plan was to play a couple of Chiodos shows and then see what happens. At first the D.R.U.G.S. guys were super cool about it and were behind me, then they just got bummed about it, which I could totally understand. Then once the video came out for the reunion shows, the next day the guys were like “Eh, we’re done”; there wasn’t some falling out or random thing, it was just basically they didn’t want to compete or worry about my time being spent with Chiodos, I don’t really know.

When was the last time you talked to those guys?

Not very recently, we don’t really keep in touch. It was kind of a put-together thing in the first place, and we weren’t really friends before it started. I was a friends with a couple of the guys, a couple of them I didn’t even know. So it is what it is, and I’ve been kind of saying I was away at a really nice hotel, and now I’m back home.”