Code Orange’s Jami Morgan says band is “on the shelf… for good reason”

It’s been almost a year since Code Orange performed–they last played Download Festival in June of 2024, before dropping off Aftershock the following October due to guitarist Dominic Landolina’s medical issues–and in the time since then, vocalist Jami Morgan and multi-instrumentalist Eric “Shade” Balderose released an EP by their project NOWHERE2RUN, while guitarist/co-lead vocalist Reba Meyers started rolling out singles for her debut solo album and playing in Marilyn Manson‘s band. And now, Jami seemed to confirm that the band is on a hiatus of sorts.

He said on the Nik Nocturnal Podcast that Code Orange don’t have any future plans right now and that they’re “on the shelf… for good reason, for many reasons. I think you can put two, two and four together, and you’ll probably come to the answer.”

“It was a series of circumstances,” he continues. “One that I am happy to speak about is my guitar player, Dominic [Landolina] — he’s one of my best friends in the world — was dealing with a really hard genetic condition that really started damaging his hand, and his neck, and his foot, and that was the primary cause for us to have to cancel our first tour on the record. His fingers were this big, I was really scared for him. He was having a really hard time. He’s got it under control now, for sure, which is amazing.”

“I saw into the ether and I thought, ‘Gotta ride off for right now, quietly, and with some dignity.’ I think the record that we made, [2023’s] The Above, if you guys haven’t checked it out yet, it says a lot of what needed to be said about that, even just spiritually, artistically… It’s such a, for me, beautiful way to have put that pause on it. And it kind of says everything that I wanted to say. It’s almost like it feels a little bit like a death record in some ways, but in like a beautiful way for me. So I feel really artistically fulfilled in that way, and it’s just on the shelf and there’s many circumstances, and we’ll see what happens. But yeah, no plans.”

“If it was right, and if things were right, and things were happening the right way, then we would have did it,” he continues. “But I felt that they weren’t, for many reasons, and so did others. And you know, we said, ‘Fuck that. That’s not how we operate.’ We’re not gonna fight against the current here.”

Watch the full interview below. The part about the future of Code Orange begins at the 30:50 mark.

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