After releasing the excellent Minoans album last year, American post-metallers Giant Squid have now announced that they are going on hiatus. The long statement can be read on their Facebook page. In short, Giant Squid is taking a long break. But the band might also never return with no plans for a new album on the horizon.

Band guitarist/vocalist Aaron Gregory writes: "I felt it time to clear some stuff up, and have gone back and forth on whether to bother or not, honestly, cause at the end of the day we're a tiny, tiny band, and I hate self-important press release style break-up announcements from yet another no-name band. Fugazi didn't say shit really when they stopped, and they're the best goddamn band to have ever existed, so why should we make a big deal of things?

"But, since I've been a little unintentionally cryptic in posts about the upcoming shows, coupled with the rash of gear sell offs, I've been asked by a lot of you what's up; which says to me that there might be a small amount of people who give a shit, and may personally try harder to make our two shows in October if our current status was put out there."

Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Giant Squid