Matt Shultz arrested on firearm charges

In 2022 Cage the Elephant hardly toured, this was a result of frontman Matt Shultz experiencing a severe mental health crisis triggered by an adverse reaction to prescribed ADHD medication, which led to paranoid delusions and a break from reality. This ultimately resulted in an event on January 5, 2023, where Shultz was arrested in New York on charges of felony firearm possession. Shultz was staying at The Bowery Hotel in Manhattan, where a hotel employee reportedly saw him carrying a firearm into the bathroom and called 9-1-1 . In June, he made a plea deal, avoiding jail time, as well as allowing him to wipe the charges from his record should he “stay out of trouble for one year.”