PipemanRadio Interviews Brandon Saller of Atreyu on Shiprocked 2025

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0:45 J'm back. How you jump and see us when she fall? Tell about us? This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with Brandon Saler for I'm gonna tray you nice. I've commented before, but I have to comment every time. I love the frickin' hat. Oh thank you, Like it's like it's so cool because you look at it at first and you think it's bass pro shops and it gets me every time, Like every time I see you, it gets me.

1:29 We felt like if there was people that would appreciate the bass pro hat, it was gonna be here. Right, It definitely would for sure. So how does it feel to be on Shiprock? How many times have you guys been on ship Rock? This is our second Wow sengtime feels good man. I don't know why it took them so long to ask us back. Maybe next time they'll they'll learn. Yeah, they better bring you back next year too, right, So how is it for you as an artist to be on ship Rock compared to doing the festivals? As an example, it's. Kind of the same sort of vibe. I feel like people are just as excited here, maybe more than like the festival vibe. But it's just like a cool different experience, Like playing on open water and moving around on stage is something, but it's fun.

2:11 I was gonna ask somebody I forgot earlier about that in an interview, like how hard is it if the boat's weighing for you to be playing up there? Me standing up now? Like the last time I did it, I was playing drums in the band and that was weird because you're sitting down, so you feel a lot more less so when you're standing up, but you definitely you hit a big sway and you for sure feel it. And the stage when we played on Sunday was soaking wet, so that was also fun. Oh yeah, I think I remember that. I'm like, I think I was watching them, like. Fuck, I hope something doesn't happen. I'm surprised not more people fell good, but it was all. Right, right, but it was a bad ass set. You and you're playing again when Thursday, Oh, Thursday night Theater.

2:52 So how's that too? Like going on ship Rock? Do you play twice? Do you like playing playing two different sets two different days? It's funny you sneak a couple of different things in there, and just gotta make sure you don't party too hard in between, right, actually get to play both. Of them, you know, unless you're a Hollywood and dead. Yeah, then you just chill or you just keep be partying, no matter. Well you should have seen they were on the Family few Oh yeah, yeah, okay. And king Don that was so drunk, oh yeah, and so entertaining. Yeah, he's a legend. Oh it was. And he want it for them? Oh yeah, like it was. You could have scripted it.

3:33 That's that good. That's awesome, you know. Yeah, he's a legend. Uh So what else you guys got going on? Twenty twenty five? We're busy, busy. We're going to South America for the first time. We're doing a bunch of anniversary touring for album The Curse. We're doing UK and Europe. We're doing Australia, probably back in the States at the end of the year, so we're all over the place. Are you doing that festival in seven Polo? I think it's like hell something, not hell Fast, because that's France. I wish we were doing That's awesome. No, we're just going to doing like a headline show and kind of it's our first time going out there and headline and so it took us twenty five years, so should be good. Wow, you know. Yeah. I was talking to somebody a couple of weeks ago and they mentioned that festival, and like literally two days before that it was on my radar. I'm like, hmm, I should check into this festival, and then he started saying how great it was, and you definitely have to work a festival in Brazil and like how the people are there and.

4:27 I've heard it's absolutely insane. So we're looking forward to show. Yeah, that's gonna be fun. And so I have something fun for you. Okay, I brought something here I haven't worn since I'm sixteen, and I haven't ever brought to a festival by I feared. It's eighties themed. Yeah, oh yeah, that's good. So I want you I want you to look at this battle vest and I want you to look at all I drew everything on here like it exploited. Yep, dude, that's great. A lot else, a lot of the patches are like worn off. Oh yeah, that and and that's the pit and then. These patches made of You're the second one that ask that, like right. And what what Metallica logo? Is this? Just that's jumping the fire your deep cut.

5:09 Fucking That's what. Winston said, because look at the back. He's like, I've never seen Metallica have that kind of. You could sell this on eBay for so much money. I bet right, some some freaking rich idiot would buy this for fucking five thousand dollars. Can you imagine, dude, I would never sell it though. This is hard, dude, GBH. I love the mix of the metal and also the punk though. In a time where I was a long hair and couldn't go to punk shows because I would get my ass. Pall and like, I feel like specifically GBH and Exploited were two bands that kind of like weaseled their way into the metal world, right or too. I think I have discharge on here too. Here, that's great. I have coc on here, pre Pepper, that's fucking awesome.

5:51 Yeah, this is English dogs even dude. This is a very multi genre vest. Yeah. Right. And so if you were to pick one band on this whole vest, we got excited over here. Dri. If you were to pick up and pick one band on this whole vest to play with go on tour with, who would it be go on tour with? Yeah? I mean quite obviously Metallica though, just because it'd be the biggest, right, you know what I'm saying. If we're gonna go most cred I'm gonna go Exploited. Nice. Yeah, we grew up on Exploited, So I got a funny story for you about Exploiting. So I was interviewing Exploited. I think it was a festival in Europe. I can't remember, I think it, but basically no, it was a club show.

6:38 At Punk Rock Bowling, Okay. And it was right before they were going on stage, and I decided in my head I'm gonna ryle Loddie up so. Right for the show. Yes, So I said, so, Lottie, what do you think about pop punk? Oh? My god, I knew what I was gonna get Yeah, he went off and then you head out on stage and he started the show by like pu punking, not puking, fucking pullshit, not pucking bunch of pullshit. He just started going off on it. Oh that it was great. You gotta get him fired up, you know.

7:19 I love you. I love it, you know. And how hardcore is he? He's had a multable heart attacks and ship lately he's still like he comes out of hospital and gets on stage. Yeah, I fucking love it. That's so old school punts out that now. So tell everybody how they can get to all your socials website merch by merch, because you can't survive without merch. For sure, you can do. It's the simplest way. It's a trado official pretty much on everything Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, a tray you merch for merch or a trade official for the website. Yeah, find everything there. How many people in their interviews ask you which is your favorite tattoo? Every now and again, every now and again. It's a tough one to pick. My most random it's this tooth.

8:04 That's one of my most My favorite texts. Oh wow, me and my wife were in Chicago. We went to my other band played at Festival Chicago Open Air years ago, and we went a couple of days early and we just kept seeing everywhere we went was like teeth and dental shit for some reason. So we got tattooths and that's one of my favorite tattoos. Nice not the big pretty ones, just the little tooth. See but those are the best ones because those usually have the best stories. You know, They're not like some fancy thing you pick as just something happened at that point in time that. Made you want to do that exactly. So is there anything else you want to share with the listeners? We haven't shared a ray that you want them to know about you, guys. I mean, just keep listening to our jams and have fun with us.

8:48 Do you have and your time before and then time so far in ship Rock? Do you have your favorite story about ship rocked or or worst story about ship I don't. Have any bad stories. It's all good stories. My wife pulled a prank on Matt from both from my Valentine last time we were on the boat. Matt off stage is a pretty reserved dude, so he was eating dinner by himself at the steakhouse, so my wife sent him said it was his birthday, so I sent him a birthday cake with like sparkle candlers into a singing all loud and everyone looked at him and sang to him. He was pretty pretty bummed out, but it was. That was a good one. Oh, I love it. That's great because I'm a practical joker, so I love that shot. I go for it. You gotta go exactly well. You guys rock. Thank you. I can't wait to see you again here on ship Rocked and everywhere else. And thanks for being on the Adventures plight Man.

9:34 I appreciate it. Man, you got it. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man on w for CUI Radio