Rock Radio's Tom Russell spoke with Matthew Leone ahead of Madina Lake's appearance at Download. A show Leone surely feared he'd never make.Having suffered horrific head injuries when he intervened to stop a man assaulting his wife, Leone refers to the long road back to health as his 'trip to Disneyland'
His hospitalization as a result of being battered over the head more than eighty times with a brick was the final straw in a series of testing incidents which the band had endured.
Leone said: "It was a tumultuous time running up to that period. We got dumped by Roadrunner, and within a couple of days our management dropped us, our booking agent dropped us….everyone seemed to run for the hills." more on this story