Aug. 23, 2026

Escape the Fate’s Reflections on Growth, New Fans, and Songwriting Evolution

Escape the Fate’s Reflections on Growth, New Fans, and Songwriting Evolution

The conversation focused on Escape The Fate’s enduring presence at Warped Tour, their creative process, the evolution of their music, and their personal passions off stage. Nostalgia, musical growth, and the changing landscape in music streaming were recurring themes as the group shared stories from the road, influences, and what’s coming next for the band.Main Topics Covered

  • Returning to Warped Tour: Reflections on longevity and the festival’s evolution
  • Musical relevance and validation in a changing industry
  • Creative and writing processes over the years
  • Balancing personal life and passions outside of music
  • The influence of diverse genres and streaming platforms
  • Stories of musical discovery and nostalgic memories
  • Upcoming releases and plans for new music
Key Discussions & StoriesWarped Tour Reflections
  • The discussion explored the feeling of returning to Warped Tour after many years, with a focus on how production and atmosphere have grown from smaller, challenging beginnings to a grand reunion-like event filled with both old friends and new fans 00:38.
  • One concept discussed was the idea of being invited back as a validation of the band’s continued relevance and their passion for creating music 01:54.
Musical Evolution and Writing Process
  • A key theme that emerged was the shift in their approach to songwriting; taking more time, removing deadlines, and truly refining each track allowed for a deeper and more satisfying creative experience 04:26.
  • The group emphasized the importance of both old and new music resonating with fans, viewing longevity as tied to both nostalgia and growth 02:49.
Life Off Stage
  • Several points were raised, including individual passions outside of music: one band member highlighted fitness and being involved with his kids, while another described an ongoing dedication to music—practicing guitar, exploring different genres, and composing soundtrack-style instrumentals 05:51, 07:11.
Influence of Diverse Genres and Technology
  • The conversation delved into the ways modern streaming services have broadened exposure for artists, allowing fans from different backgrounds and musical preferences to discover Escape The Fate through playlists and social media 09:31.
  • The accessibility of all genres through platforms was contrasted with the days of purchasing single CDs and limited genre exploration 08:18.
Musical Memories & Influences
  • The discussion covered impactful early musical experiences: from Limp Bizkit’s “Significant Other” to classic rock staples like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, and Guns N’ Roses, as well as stories about collecting music on formats like tapes and 8-tracks 10:28, 11:05.
  • The album “Blizzard of Ozz” and seeing Randy Rhoads live were cited as pivotal moments inspiring a life in music 11:12.
Upcoming Releases
  • Escape The Fate revealed plans for a new album, with singles being released soon and an anticipated fall release date. The group encouraged listeners to stay tuned for a new song dropping at the end of August 13:11.
Notable Quotes
  • “You just feel like you still matter. Like, the brand is still relevant and that you have... something to offer to people who like music.” 01:54
  • “It allows you to really rip the song apart and take it to another level.” 05:05
  • “Now I’m just their chauffeur and the butler for them.” 06:23
  • “But really, it’s just spending time with my kids. I love watching them grow.” 06:10
  • “I play music and play guitar for fun... I like to write in all different genres.” 07:00, 07:19
  • “In the past, you had a limited amount of money and you had to make a choice. Now it’s $15 and I get all of them.” 08:47
Resources & Links Mentioned
  • Warped Tour (Festival appearances discussed)
  • Upcoming album and singles (Keep an eye on Escape The Fate’s official channels for release dates)
  • Past and present acts referenced: Three Days Grace, Veil, Limp Bizkit, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoads, Slayer
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Hey, you're listening to Adventure on W4CY Radio.

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This is the Pipe Man here on the Adventure's Pipe

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Man W4CY Radio, and I'm here with..

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Robert.

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Matty.

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From Escape to Fate.

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Yes, here in Montreal at Warped Tour, man.

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Yeah.

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How does it feel 20 years later... to be back

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at Warped.

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Tour again and again and again?

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I feel old, man. No, it's cool, man. It's definitely different.

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That's what everyone's been asking and talking about. How does

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it feel different than all those old times? Those were

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just so young. All these growing pains and doing everything

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wrong and slaving away and dealing with rain and broken

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down cars and all kinds of things. Now it's humongous

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in production and you get to reunite with old friends

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and new fans, old fans. So it's a, it's just

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really more celebratory of a, of a certain genre than,

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than in days past, you know?

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It's like a family reunion.

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Yeah.

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You know? And, and so how does.

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It feel like when you keep getting invited back to

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do this, like Warped Tour is iconic. We're here in,

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in Montreal and you're going to be playing in Mexico

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City too. Like, What does it feel like to keep

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coming back? Like, not every band comes back.

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Well, there's days when you wake up and you're like, geez, man. Like,

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what am I doing with my life? Like, I should

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go get a job, you know? I got bills to

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pay and stuff. But, you know, you just feel like

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you still matter. Like, the brand is still relevant and

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that you have... I don't know, you still have something

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to offer to people just who like music, you know?

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And I'm still passionate. I still practice every day. I

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still love doing what I do. And so to get

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invited to something like this, it just really feels like,

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I don't know, like a certain validation for the work.

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I don't need to be validated in this way for

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my life, but for my career, you know?

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Yeah, that makes sense.

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So yeah, so it feels really cool, especially when you've

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seen some of our peers grow into certain just..

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I don't know.

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They, some of them have gone really big and some

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of the bands that you used to like who kind

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of haven't been as active and then they come back

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to you and it's just like a new generation gets

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to discover the music that I love and I'm one

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of those bands too. So it's cool. And we're in

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a weird spot because we have new music too and

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we still have a fan base that continues to grow

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and new fans that discover and know us for more

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newer stuff and then obviously the nostalgic fans that have

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been there for a long time or discovered us later

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and listen to the old stuff.

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See, I think that's a great thing.

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Like, To me, that's your true musicians and artists when

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people like the new stuff and.

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The old stuff.

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There's a lot of bands that people only really like

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the nostalgic, but when you can come out like you

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guys and write new music and people love that too,

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to me, that's the validation right there.

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Yeah, it's weird, but that's why you keep doing it

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because you got to grow it. And then the fans

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that are kind of more of the older stuff, they'll

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give the newer stuff a chance and it might grow

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on them and then they'll eventually a few years from

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now the newer stuff will be older and they'll be

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nostalgic for.

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It totally so how would you say that as you're

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older your writing process is different or your creativity of

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it is different.

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I don't know.

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Every song's different right I don't know. What do you

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do when you write?

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We take a lot more time writing now.

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That's better, right?

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When you're on that hamster wheel, when you're going from

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date to date to date and don't have time to

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really create, but you have a deadline, I think it's

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better when you have the time to think of how

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you really want the music.

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Actually, that's what's crazy. You're asking what's different or what

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it This time around, we took our time. We didn't

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put a deadline on it.

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See, that's cool.

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And so it was refreshing to be just kind of

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open-ended about it. And then since the album's been done

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for a while, now we're putting deadlines on releasing things.

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And so it's like now it feels rushed, which is

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weird because we took so much time. But it was awesome.

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We got to take a step back and work on

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songs and be like, okay, this is like the meat

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and bones of the thing. Now let's go back and

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you take the guitar solos and go work on that.

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Just get in your own world. And then I'm going

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to go work on the drum parts.

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And then you.

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Focus on lyrics. So it allows you to really rip

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the song apart and take it to another level. And

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we hadn't really done that in a long time. It

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was a lot of writing in the studio with the producer.

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And I don't want to say rushing it, but yeah,

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everything happened so fast that you didn't really get to

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digest it as much and kind of tweak it. It

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doesn't matter at the end of the day because the

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song is what it is. But it feels more satisfying

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knowing I did the stuff that I wanted to do.

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And the song is what it's going to be now.

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And I don't go back and be like, oh, I

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should have done this or I should have done that.

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I did everything I could do to it. So it's

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a more refreshing way of doing it now.

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Cool.

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And so now when you're not doing this, what's each

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one of your passions like?

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Oh man.

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I'm outside of this for me.

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I mean, I'm a fitness guy. I just love going

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to the gym and like whatever fitness is, or I'm

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either I'm boxing, you know, just hitting the bag or

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sparring and getting beat up or like, I don't know,

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just lifting weights, anything that makes me sweat. I enjoy

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doing it, but really it's just spending time with my kids.

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Um, I am, that's the best, right?

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And I love watching them grow as frustrating as it

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can be at times. It's, It's really awesome just always

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taking them on adventures, making new friends because I got

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to become friends with the parents of their friends. And

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I'm on their schedule. And it goes from I'm this

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important guy and people need me to be places to

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I'm just their chauffeur and the butler for them. So

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that's really where my two passions are.

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And see, that's cool, too, because that time goes quick.

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Like you think it's like a long time and you

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like blink and they're adults or teenagers and maybe they

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don't want to hang with you.

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You know?

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What do you do outside of this?

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Outside of music, I still do music and play guitar

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all day, every day. Honestly. Work on music. See, that's...

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Fitness and being healthy, but still music.

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So, do you... In your off time..

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I play music and play guitar for fun. Right.

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Do you do different other genres? Oh, yeah.

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Anything. Whatever I'm feeling that day.

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That's cool.

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So..

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What's some of the other stuff that you like to play?

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I do a lot of instrumental music and soundtrack stuff,

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like movie soundtracks and video game soundtracks. A lot of

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classical and jazz stuff, too. I like to write in

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all different genres.

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See, that's cool, because, like, you know, there's been a

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lot in the old days where, oh, you could only

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listen to this genre. But we all love music. You know,

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it's not just one type of music. And like you said,

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It is, depending on the vibe. I think that's what's

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cool about Warped Tour, because you can get all those

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different vibes here. If you want to listen to metal,

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there's metal. If you want to listen to punk, there's punk.

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If you want to listen to ska, there's ska. And

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you can do it all in one day. And I

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think people think that people only listen to one type

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of music.

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But, yeah, it's different parts of your personality, too.

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Well, I think now people have accessibility to it, too.

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As well. That, that's a good reason too.

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Yeah.

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It's like back in the day when I'm like, I'm

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holding up a, a rap CD or my fourth Megadeth CD. That's,

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you know, I still need this one in the collection.

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My wall.

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Sorry.

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I'm going to go for, I'm going to go for Megadeth,

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but I could be at the gym doing my thing.

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And I'd be like, you know what? I'm going to

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listen to Megadeth and the new whatever the rap album

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might be or, you know, classical or whatever. So I

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just have access to it all, you know, for one

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price for every month, you know.

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There you go.

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And you can have appreciation for it, which maybe you

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wouldn't have in the past.

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Well, yeah, because in the past, you had a limited

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amount of money and you spent it.

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You had to make a choice.

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Like 15 to 20 bucks for one CD. Now it's

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15 bucks and I get all of them.

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Totally.

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I think you're spot on about that because you can

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just change the tracks anytime you want. See, a lot

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of people talk about streaming services, what the negatives are,

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but there's positives too, where you're getting your music exposed

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to people that may never have listened to it.

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So that's kind of cool.

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Have you had fans come up to you that were like,

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they only learned about you because of things like, those

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other stream on the streaming outlets. Have they come up

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to you and said, Hey man, I heard you here.

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I don't normally listen to that music, but I love

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your music.

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Oh yeah.

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It was like on playlists and stuff. It's so, it's weird.

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You'll find you on a playlist.

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I know that's other.

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Bands that are similar, you know, at least, but we

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kind of fit into a couple of the different sub

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genres of rock. So they'll, they'll, they'll find it in

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like the active rock next to like three days grace

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you know or they might find us in the stuff

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more warped or where it's like yeah here's the veil

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you know so we're kind of in this sort of

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middle ground and yeah so it we'd be fans from

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like I don't know you just get exposed out there

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in that different stuff or in someone's TikTok video.

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Or something right it's.

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Weird but whatever it all works I guess.

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As long as they hear you what was the first

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album or song you guys.

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Ever heard in your life yeah Yeah, that's a hard one, right?

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The first CD I ever got in middle school was

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Significant Other by Limp Bizkit.

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Nice.

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But at the same time, my parents were exposing me

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to The Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and

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all the old school shit. Then I got really into

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80s metal and classical.

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So yeah, kind of 90s new metal, but along with

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classic rock and 80s.

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Metal at the same time.

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There you go. How about you?

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I mean, my parents were, I feel like they were

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born in the perfect time and It was Metallica and

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Guns N' Roses touring together, and it was like, that's

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still my dream tour to this day. And, yeah, so

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it was Appetite for Destruction and the Black Album, both at, like,

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just this exact same time. I dressed up as Axl for, like,

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when I was, like, three for Halloween.

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That's pretty cool.

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Later became known as the guy that looks like Slash. Yeah.

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The album that made me want to be a musician

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and be in a band, though, was Blizzard of Oz

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by Ozzy. Or Crazy Train by Randy Rowe.

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Oh, my God. I saw Randy.

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That was like, okay, I want to do that with

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my life.

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I saw Randy. I had Blizzard of Oz on 8-track.

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Oh, man, that's awesome. I still have the CD and

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a vinyl version.

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So funny, the 8-track, like Mr.

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Crowley, 8-tracks, they used to fade out of a song

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and fade back in while they changed tracks.

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Mm-hmm. In the middle of Mr. Crowley, that is what

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would happen.

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It would fade out and then click tracks and then

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fade back in.

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Like, they would split up a song.

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Yeah, it was weird.

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And you used to have to put your, like, matchbook

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under it so it would go to right speed.

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Otherwise, it would, like, slow it down.

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Crazy. It makes me feel really weird to say that

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I'm old enough to where I used to listen to

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things on tape. And 8-Track's even older, so it's not

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that bad. But, yeah, when I hear... Enter Sandman. There's

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a part, you know, in the second verse where he says,

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dreams of war, dreams of light, dreams of dragons. There's

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a part. I had a tape and it would go.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you have to splice.

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It that way.

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It's like dreams of war, dreams of dragons. That's how

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I hear the song still.

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Totally.

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So I don't know if I told you this last time,

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but I was at Metallica and Slayer's first shows ever.

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Yeah, I remember that.

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Right? You had your jacket with you. Yeah, my battle vest. Yeah, yeah. Yep, yep.

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Yeah, well, but like now you have people like me

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that are your guys' fans. There's somebody out there saying, man,

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I was at the first Escape the Fate show ever.

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No. Slayer, bro.

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I know, right? Agreed.

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So anything else you want to let the listeners know

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that we haven't covered already?

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I mean, yeah, just the main thing is the new album.

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Like we were we're discussing a date either really soon

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or pretty soon. Label wants it really soon. We wanted

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it already out. But, you know, you wanted to reach people.

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So you got to present it.

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So we've dropped some songs and, you know, we're looking for.

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A fall album.

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Release date but we are releasing a new song next

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week which.

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I don't know when you're going to air this but

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it'll be very soon it'll be as like monday i'll

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be releasing it of august.

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There will be another song and i think this one's

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uh i think a lot of people are going to

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like this one so the next couple for sure and

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um yeah so that that's that's it so just keep

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paying attention.

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To that nice well thanks for being here at warp

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tour and thanks for being on the adventures of pipe

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man once.

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Again Thank you for having us.

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Thanks for having us.

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And I'll get to see your sets at Louder and Aftershock, too,

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because you'll be there.

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Cool.

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Have a good one.

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Thank you.

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