No pun intended at all, but that is a heavy story. I'm glad you lived. Did it change things for you as far as the drug use?
Myself, I've only listened to their stuff while smoking weed, which was more of a college phase that I haven't continued. That was the one and only reason I ever smoked anyway - enhancing music, and that it did.
My attitude toward narcotics and hallucinogens went from "this'll be fun and trippy" to "this could be profoundly life changing." I didn't stop doing drugs, but I changed the way that I did them, and started treating them like spiritual vision quests instead of weekend party favors.
Every time I took anything hallucinogenic, Infected Mushroom would be playing, and so their music is almost like a place that I go back to rather than a sound that I hear now. I've been clean for about five or six years, but any time I hear Infected Mushroom, I'm instantly taken back to my days of hallucinatory cosmic travel, searching for the secrets of the universal soul.
I don't often listen to them anymore because I don't want to dilute those memories by playing it in the background while I'm doing laundry or something, but I occasionally dedicate an evening to laying the in the dark and listening to an album or two, remembering places I've been and insights I've gained.
Infected Mushroom will always be very dear to me.
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