PipemanRadio Interviews Crüzer Are THRASHING FROM BEYOND THE STARS

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0:41 Never so because they dress that zero tape inside. How long have you no? No? How long have you? Chef dot blind. It's the pipe Man here on the Adventures Pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm very say that about our next guest because, as everybody knows, like all kinds of metal, but thrash metal is my favorite. And they have some killer thrash metal and yeah, other influences in it, which is what I really dig. So let's welcome to the show. Eric from Kruisler, How are you hello? Hello? This is Eric Wilmot, lead singer from Cruiser Nice.

1:24 Nice, and tell me about your background there, because I'm kind of digging it behind you. It looks very cool. It's just my bedroom. I've got my of course, my my bathory blanket. Of course, as you can go to sleep at night without the warm embrace of quorthon, you know, Nice is my favorite band, and I like to show it off whatever possible. I've also got a nice big record collection behind me, and of course I've got another Bathory poster on the wall because I just can't get enough of that band. I definitely have. I have behind me somewhere over there my album collection, and there is Bath three from back in the eighties from me gain it at OZ Records in the Valley in Los Angeles, you know, and going oh what is this?

2:11 Yeah? Oh yeah, So tell us a little bit about your band for the listeners have never heard your music. Tell us a little bit about how you describe it, but not not genre, because I don't really give a shit about genre. I hate the old school gatekeeping shit that I had to deal with in the eighties, and I'm glad we're not really like that anymore, except for some of the idiots, but for the most part. And that one song too that he like, that's what really drew me to that, because listen it was I remember, Okay, Motley Crue. That was the first club show I ever went to at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip before they even.

2:56 Had an album. And then I was at like Slayer's first show ever, Metallica's first show ever. But once we started getting into Slayer, you weren't allowed to like Motley Crue and we had to burn all the Motley Cruse shit. And that was just one stupid thing that we all had to deal with back then. So yeah, tell us a little bit about your thought. Well, I know you don't like to use genre labels or anything like that, like you said, so I will say that Cruiser is ostensibly a thrash metal band, but you know, there's a lot of play in that genre. You know, you have bands that toy around with speed metal, or you on the crossover thrash kind of stuff, stuff that veers into like death thrash.

3:39 Like Demolition Hammer and Exorder, And you know, I love all that stuff. And I love hair metal too, you know, seaching some hair metal videos on TV as I was working out this morning. So we love to like play around with the genre. We love to kind of bend the rules and break them a little bit and kind of you know, smash this the stereotypes or cliches or whatever have you with our music, because you know, on the EP that we just made, it's it's like a buffet of different it's it's all technically thrash, but it's just it's all so different. There's some metal core sounding stuff in there. There's some crossover I want to say, like crossover hardcore punk kind of stuff. On Born to Rise, you have I Need Thrash, which is probably the most Slayer esque song.

4:23 Yeah. Also ironically the song that's a that sort of like bashes against the stereotypes the most with the line about not going out and killing posers because that's stupid. You know, I got called a poser when I was younger by other metal heads and it sucks. You know, it's not fun for anyone. Of course, you have Yeah, exactly, and then you have the last song Pit Viper on the album, which is by far the most like radio friendly hair metal tinged new wave of British heavy metal tinge song on the whole album. So you know, you get it all in one package, you know, to try to accomplish. I think that's really cool. And a couple points. So if you take all the old school thrash metal bands, none of them sounded a light like It's not even though it was a genre, it was almost not a genre because Anthrax and Slayer as example, or completely different sounds.

5:16 Yeah, oh yeah, and the production too. Uh. One of the reasons I love eighties metal so much is because the production always sounds different. It's it's all technically bad from a production standpoint compared to modern metal production. But it sounds bad in a very unique kind of way. Like no two metal albums from the era sound the same, oh for sure. You know. You take like a Dark Angel record and god, I don't know, like a Cinderella record or a more of an Angel record, or or you know, anything like that. They all sound completely different, really strange production techniques. I don't know what they what they were snorting in the studio. I mean I can imagine, yeah. Yeah, love believe me anything you could imagine they were doing.

5:57 Yeah yeah. But it's funny you mentioned Dark Angel too, because that's one of my favorite bands, and oh yeah. Just Dark Angel. I was just with Gene Hoagland at Elfest interviewing him for Death Clock, but then a couple of weeks before for the new Dark Angel album because there's a new one coming out now. Oh yeah, I'm very excited for that. So had your interest in music and in metal start? What's the origin story? Well, My mom is a nineteen seventies kind of rock and roll hippie chick. So I was raised on the classics, you know, your ACDC, led Zeppelin, Van Halen, the local rock radio station Rock one oh one was a staple in the car growing up, but it was it was kind of just passive listening for the most part. It was just kind of in one ear and out the other, and I wasn't really I didn't really pay attention to the music until around middle school when I watched a little known film called Maximum Overdrive, directed by the Master of Horror himself, Stephen King, and featuring a soundtrack by ACDC.

7:03 And as soon as I heard that opening riff to who Made Who, I was completely hooked, and I actually started paying attention to the music I was listening to and being like, wow, this is actually really good stuff, Like oh, so this is what Black Sabbath sounds like, So this is what Metallica sounds like. You know. And when I got older and became a teenager, I guess my way of rebelling against my mother was to just go heavier. So I started getting into like Slayer and you know, Dark Angel, Bathory. As soon as I heard Bathory, I was just my mind was just blown, especially when I found out that he basically recorded all those albums and what was essentially a garage, right, And that's what kind of inspired me to start recording on my own, because I'm like, you know, if this guy can do it in a garage on outdated, you know, nineteen sixties whatever recording equipment, I.

7:49 Can do it on a computer in a bedroom. Right. That's when I started. Yeah, that's when I started recording my own stuff in in high school, started jamming in bands, and the rest is kind of history. Nice. And you're you're also a voice actor too, that's pretty yes. Yeah, I just recently started kind of seriously diving into that. About a year or two ago, I was just in a YouTube animated show called Mammal Squad. Managed to snagger role on there. I was also in a mobile game a year or two back called Journey Renewed Fate Fantasy, which is like a kind of a Chinese like RPG mobile game. I did the voice of monkey King sun Wukong. And I also collaborate a lot with a YouTube channel called Spotted Martin. They do comic book dubs like official author approved comic book dubs. I worked with them on Tamberlane and Supercell, and it's a really great group of people.

8:39 That's pretty cool, see now, Oh yeah, I bet you that. Also, like they play hand in hand, oh yeah. And the voice acting kind of probably create some thought processes for the songwriting. Oh yeah, especially since I started going into voice acting professionally. It's definitely kind of up toed my my my recording game in terms of like going into a studio recording music, because now I just I live and breathe in the recording studio, whether it's my home studio setup that I have. Over here off camera, or you know, an actual studio. When I go to record with a band, I love standing in front of a microphone and making weird noises. It's the most fun thing you can do. Really.

9:20 I think it's also really fun on instruments because like when I was a teenager and I was playing starting to play guitar, my dad was like, you should give that up because you suck, And all I was really doing was trying to see what noises I could I can make out of it, Like you know how you're just sitting there experimenting. They're like, oh, well that was cool or you know, it sucked, and you know, you gotta experiment if you're gonna be creative, right. Yeah, Yeah, for me, it was because I was left handed. You know, I started taking up guitar, and I remember my mom's ex at the time being like, you know, it's a right handed world and if you're not gonna learn guitar.

10:02 Right handed, you should just give up right now. And I'm like no, So I paid a little extra money or asked my mom to pay the little extra money at the time because I was a kid, and you know, we got a left handed guitar, and I actually got pretty damn good at guitar. I don't really play so much anymore. I just used guitar for songwriting and I was I was more of a rhythm player anyway. I was never a big right shredder or anything like that. But yeah, you know, don't. Yeah, I kind of went through the same thing because I'm a lefty too, and it's like it was just easier to learn writy. Like even the guitar teachers like here, it's easier for me to teach you writing because it's so hard for the right handed people to kind of twist around their brain like a lefty.

10:47 Well, no, I completely disagree because in terms of like lessons at least, because when I was taking guitar lessons, I was left handed, My guitar player was my guitar teacher was right handed, so it would be like just watching a mirror image of myself. I found it very because I can just. Exactly. I never thought of that. Yeah, I found it very helpful. Yeah, we see, there's the advantage right there. So tell us how people reach out to you on your socials, on the web, how they can get the new album, how they can get merch, check everything out, tour date. It's all that all right. So we are on Twitter, Blue Sky, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, band Camp, and we even got a Telegram.

11:35 Just look up Cruiser Music on all of those platforms. That's c r u z E R m u z I K. You can tell we're Canadian because we see. Right, But just just look just use that, look up that username on all of those platforms and you'll find us. We got some we got some brand new merch that we're gonna put on our band camp very very soon. I was actually I was kind of starting that right as soon as the interview was starting, so I'll probably see nice that up as soon as his interview is done. We got brand new pit Viper T shirts. We're also playing another show at the end of July in Vancouver. If you're in Vancouver, come see us with Terrifier at the Kingsway. I believe on it's going to be a great show.

12:17 So how far is Vancouver from Calgary? Oh, as far as a drive goes, I would say, I mean, I've done the drive before, so I should know this by now. You know I'm going because why my co hosts. Okay, she lives in Calgary. So in fact, we were just having that discussion last week about Z and Z. Yeah exactly, and so I'm going to tell her to make sure her she goes and everybody she knows goes. But I don't know how far it. Is, all right, it's about an eleven hour drive. Oh yeah, let's reading Vancouver.

12:59 That's a long drive. So it is a long drive. I've done it, and I gotta tell you it's a pretty nice scenic drive with lots of stops. Along the way. So okay, I'm gonna tell her she has to go or she can't be he a co host on my show anymore. Hey, I mean, we'll probably get out to Calgary eventually. You know, our plan is to we got to cast a nice wide net around Canada anyway, right, we gotta play Calgary. We want to play you know, a little bit more rural BC. You know, go up because you know you want to like cast your net wide and then say at the end of the show that you'll be back, and then actually a year or two later you actually go back. That's how you keep a fan base around, right, So don't worry, we'll be We'll go to Calgary soon enough.

13:42 Time. Also, yes, come out to Vancouver and see us there you go for sure. Check out the album. It's great look called Look to the Skies. You can find it on all the streaming platforms, band Camp, Spotify, all that good stuff. Uh physical copies coming very soon and uh rock on, Earthlings. Rock On. Thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man, No worries. I'm happy to be here. Thank you for listening to the adventures of pipemin im W for c u I Radio.