Year of the Knife’s Madi Watkins Gives First Interview Since Accident

Madi
Watkins,
beloved
vocalist
of

Year
of
the
Knife,
gave
her
first
interview
since
the
band
was
in
a
terrifying
and
nearly
fatal
van
accident
last
June.

The
interview
took
place
on
the

Hardlore
podcast,
hosted
by
Colin
Young
of

God’s
Hate
and

Twitching
Tongues
and
Bo
Leuders
of

Harm’s
Way.
During
the
chat,
she
explains
that
she
has
a
limited
memory
of
things
that
happened
following
the
accident,
despite
the
long
time
she
spent
in
the
hospital:

“That’s
the
weirdest
thing
about
it
is
I
feel
like
I
don’t
even
remember
being
at
the
hospital
and
I
feel
like
I
just
remember
being
back
home,
which
is
…
I
know
that
there
were
times
in
between,
but
it’s
just
like,
I
have
no
memory
of
them,
which
I
think
is
super
weird,
but
maybe
a
good
thing.” 

She
also
admits
that
when
it
comes
to
her
recovery,
she’s
always
in
a
rush
to
do
more
and
get
better
quickly:

“There’s
a
long
road
ahead,
but
most
of
it
is
just
convincing
the
rest
of
the
band
that
I’m
ready.
Because
I
think
sometimes
I
push
them
and
I’m
like,
‘I
really
want
to
play,’
and
they’re
like,
‘Can
you?’
And
I’m
like,
‘Yeah,
let’s
practice;
let’s
do
stuff.’
Maybe
they’re
just
being
conservative,
but
I’m
just
like,
‘Come
on;
let’s
go
for
it!’

“It
took
like
a
long
time
for
all
of
us,
but
I
think
that
everybody’s
back
100%.
The
twins
were
always
really
really
worried.
They
were
like,
‘I
don’t
know
like
if
you’re
going
to
get
back
to
where
you
were,’
and
I
was
like,
‘I
think
I’m
better
than
where
I
was.’”

Watkins
opened
up
about
how
great
it
felt
to
have
so
much
support
following
the
accident:

“Seeing
that,
I
was
just
like,
‘Holy
shit.’
Even
people
that
we’re
not
close
to
were
being
supportive,
and
to
me
I
was
just
like,
‘Damn,
we’re
so
lucky.’
I
don’t
know
if
I
felt
that
way
before.
After
that
I
was
like,
damn,
we
really
have
the
support.
When
we
needed
it,
people
were
there.”

We’re
so
glad
to
hear
that
Watkins
is
doing
interviews
again.
You
can
stream
the
full
thing
below: