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Jane's Addiction's front man Perry Farrell has lashed out at his former bandmates for splitting the group up.

Perry Farrell says his band had been taken over by 'new owners' and 'went astray, falling into shallow holes'.

But while his other bandmates have gone on to form a new band with a different singer, Farrell says he plans to launch a solo career.

He says he believes he has 20 years' music-making ahead of him.

The band, which some see as one of the originators of grunge, got back together for the first time in over a decade to release the album Strays last year.

But guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Chris Chaney announced that it had split up for good last week.

Farrell told Rolling Stone: "Music that was once relevant and graceful had become clumsy as a circus seal tooting his horns.

"I wish for Jane's Addiction to be remembered as one of the seminal bands of her era. She laid a foundation for unbridled underground music to rise up on."