PipemanRadio Interviews Deadly Apples at Welcome To Rockville 2025

0:04 Hi, you love done too? Yes, that's sure. Fore, Wow, crazy young Welcome to Rockville, North America's largest rock festival is finally here. This it's the pipe Man here on the inventors of Pipe Man W four Cy Radio, and I'm here. With Alex of Dead Lee Apples Nice. Here at Welcome to Rockville, and I caught your set Wednesday night. I feel bad for the people that didn't make it because it was a badass set. Oh, thank you much appreciated. What did it feel like playing at the Daytona Speedway. It was amazing because somehow everything we've done in the US always skipped Florida for some reason. So it was actually our first time playing in Florida. And I used to come here in Daytona on vacation as a kid, so it felt like a full circle moment to be able finally play here and not just be here on vacation.

1:03 So it was really amazing and huge turnout. Couldn't have asked for better reactions, So yeah, we're very grateful for the opportunity and for everyone's reactions. And it was a great crowd for a Wednesday night before the festivals even officially started. Like yeah, people really liked it. Yeah, I honestly didn't know what to expect since it was the opening night. Felt great to see that people showed up and they came early to catch our set. Actually saw some Delly Apple's shirts in the crowd and I including some from past tours, and people singing the lyrics huge mosh bits from beginning to end. It was a very short set, so it was very intense set list, and yeah, it was fucking cool.

1:54 What does it feel like when you watch people in the crowd sing in your songs? Vial feeling because whether it's myself writing lyrics alone on my own or my bandmate Onto Wine writing the music like you do this in a how can I say, in kind of a lonely isolated way. So to see it essentially come to life in the life setting, it's a very special feeling. No doubt. And I love what you said about coming to Florida because I live in Florida. Our main studio is in Florida, and no, bands don't come here often because it's a pain in the ass because it's such a big state. They have to drive so far into state and drive out to go to the next gig.

2:40 So I'm thankful that you were here at Welcome to Rockville in Florida. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. We love when bands actually get to us. So, what would you say is one of the coolest stories in your whole journey in music that you would share with like your kids. I don't know if I can pick one, but generally speaking, we've been very fortunate to tour with so many amazing artists that we grew up listening to, Like Corn We've been on tour with them in Japan, which was amazing. Also in Europe did some dates Rob Zombie, manson Deftones.

3:25 It's just a great feeling getting to get some form of recognition from people you grew up listening to. So yeah, I would say that it's in general just all these experiences And if you had told me all these things when I was a teenager listening to these bands, I wouldn't have believed it. You couldn't even imagine that looking forward to now from them. So I told you they like you'read your mind, but it's like something you came tom path them. Yeah, for sure, and hopefully we can keep doing it for as long as possible. Are you gonna be watching Corn tonight. Oh yeah, for sure. I've known Monkey since I was a teenager. Actually, I used to sneak backstage at their shows when I was a teenager Night and years later.

4:12 He played guitars on two of our songs, including Further and Yeah. As I mentioned, they took us out on tour a few times. We also played many festivals with them. Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing them nice. What else you got going on the rest of twenty twenty five. We're focusing on releasing new music. We've got a full new album called Distress, which was produced by my bandmate Onto One and was mixed by Ben Gross, who worked with so many amazing artists, everyone from Filter to Manson. There's too many to name, And I actually got Danny Lohner of Nine Inch Nails to play all the guitars and bass on the album. We actually released the first Volatile earlier this year. The reaction has been really good.

5:05 Richard Patrick of Filter actually has additional vocals on the song That's Cool and Yeah. We released the music video for that, which was also directed by my bandmate Atwin and Yeah. The reaction has been really good, and we released a second song called Envus and Little and we're about to release next month the second single called Sacrifice, which we actually played here the other night. And yeah, I think we're going to keep releasing songs individually, and at one point later this year we'll just release the full album. Nice. Yeah, we're looking forward to also doing more shows, more tours and hopefully come back here in Florida.

5:47 There you go, and the new music, how do you feel as the artist it's evolved from previous music of yours. I feel like it's in a sense we went back to our roots and it's unrestrained, but at the same time it was done I feel in a more modern way. We actually did some pre production work on the album with Michael Beinhorn. He's an amazing producer, and the demos we were doing back then, he sent us like ten pages of notes, which essentially was saying that it feels like you guys are like restraining yourselves and you're not like going full out. And I guess that's what we needed to hear. And a lot of the songs on the album are very aggressive, very dark, very angry. That there's also some very accessible songs and softer songs, so I feel like it's a good mix and the song's work, both on an individual level, since not everyone unfortunately listens to full albums these days. Yeah, but for those who still do, it feels like it's still a full story and there's a cohesion when you listen. When people will get to listen to the full thing from front to back.

7:07 Yeah, it's like you wouldn't listen to a part of the Dark Side of the Moon exactly. And I think we are making a little bit of a comeback maybe. I found that talking to some artists, like there are some people that are coming back to that full album experience opposed to just in the ten seconds of let me see if this is okay. I think that's what was better back in the day, where you had to spend your hard earned money as a teenager on an album that you never had a chance to hear. I think you because you spent your mon eye, you made sure you listen to everything on that album. Yeah, for sure, that's what I was doing growing up, and I'm happy that there's still people that listen to full albums that. At the same time, I understand that, especially for the younger generation, everything is so quick and easy, Like two seconds in, we didn't grab their attention and skip next next, And there's.

8:08 Too much content for them to choose from. So it's not like it's either this album or that album, it's which of these ten million songs should we listen to next? Yeah, that's definitely a huge challenge, and especially I guess for a band like us, because we really wanted to put in the work on the album. You know, a lot of bands, and I have nothing against that, a lot of bands these days, you know, they just do everything in the box, like just on their laptops and in their basement thing. We spent literally a year at the studio in La like just working on this album with some legends, as I mentioned earlier, and we really wanted to have the quality there. I know that's very important for Aunt one because he writes the music, and so how can we get this level of quality and have it be as thoughtful as we want it to be and as meaningful as we want it to be and at the same time be able to appeal to that younger generation grab their attention, which is extremely difficult to do these days. Hopefully we'll pull it off, But so far as I was saying I feel like we got a great response with the release of Volatile, so we're very grateful for that response.

9:30 And you kill the Eric Welcome to Rockville, so obviously it's working. Yeah, the live show is a whole different animal, and I feel like that's probably one of the best ways to experience Deadly Apples. I think a lot of bands, for them doing a show is Okay, I get up on stage, I play my instrument, and then I get off stage and that's it, which is fine to me. Like I just tried to get in a totally different headspace and it feels more like a therapy or an exorcism, and I'm really feeling it when I'm up there, and as much as I'm very calm and quiet and when I'm off stage, as you can probably see right now, like when I go on stage, just like this whole other side just comes out. And I think it's definitely part of what makes Deadly Apple's unique and what makes our live shows memorable, because it feels like rock has become so safe and it lost the danger, the excitement, the unpredictability, and I think when we go on stage, anything can happen, which got us in trouble many times unfortunately, But I think that's what people like and that's been missing.

10:51 Yeah, totally. It's always what was associated with rock and roll. It's my even now, like people ask, hey, could he get me backstage? I'm like, there's no reason, yeah, nothing, nothing going on. They're still stuck in the eighties. When I was involved that backstage, that was a reason to go backstage. But then you didn't even have to ask. It's like the bands just brought you back there and stuff. Yeah. Hopefully, hopefully we can bring some of that excitement back. Yeah, it reminds me of what you were talking about before. Have you seen the meme of the eighties rock star compared to the rock star today? I haven't seen it.

11:31 Okay, So it's got two pictures. You got the picture above, and it's like the hair metal dude lying on the ground with guitar in one hand and whist ball of whisk in the other, passed out, and then goes to today and it's some kid seeing as seat as desk with the guitar on his lap while he's typing on the computer. And that sets it all right. Yeah, yeah, it says it all right. And yeah, some of the greatest musicians. They dedicate eight hours a day to hone their craft. And then like you're talking about like the quality, I'm all about that too. Same with me. In my industry, it's become like you have all these DIY people that probably shouldn't be doing what they're doing, and they watch some YouTube video and they buy some sixty dollars podcasts set with a mic and a headphones and mixture board, and like they don't even realize and that's a piece of crap if it's only fifty nine dollars and it's going to sound like crap. Whereas I'm a big believer. Okay, we're great, we're streaming, we're doing it's cool, but we still have to run it like a real radio station.

12:41 We have professional engineers, state of the art equipment, and you mix the sound to make it sound professional. And I'm hoping you bring that back. To Yeah, I guess it's a problem of everything being so accessible now. Yeah, and the fact that people thing that just because you can do it from your bedroom, you should. Yeah, it's a good way to put it. Anything else you want to share with the listeners that we haven't covered already. Look, out for the new songs and the new music videos that are coming very soon and the new album that's coming out later this year. And yeah, we hope to be back soon in Florida and elsewhere in the US.

13:26 Nice and yeah, it's nice being in this kind of weather instead of freezing up in Canada at home. I could tell you the coldest I ever was in my life. And I've been like a half an hour from the North Pole is Niagara Falls. Oh yeah, Oh my god. It was like I told the story before, because we've had a few Canadian bands here this weekend and it's I'm from New York and New Jersey, so I've done Times Square on New Year's. One year, I decide to do Niagara Falls on New Year's and I'm a total fomo person, like I don't want to miss on anything. I was married at the time. It was like eleven thirty. I said to my wife. I was like, I'm going back to the room. I'm done, and she looked at me like I was insane because I would never do that. But it was so freaking cold. And now I live in Florida, I don't think I could ever even live in the cold for long term anymore, because I remember being younger too and liking it, and I'm thinking, what the hell was I thinking? Yeah, but you do have beautiful country up there.

14:28 Yeah. Yeah, And I actually live in the countryside. Especially during winter, it just feels so isolated and dissolate, and I guess in a way it helps me just focus on what I have to do, essentially and not being distracted. Then it's good for creativity, right, because you're like, all you can do is be creative. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, love it. So tell everybody how they can reach out to you on socials, on the web, by your merch because that's the only way you guys survive nowadays, and so they can't listen to my show. Let's say, buy your march. I like that. Everything is deadly Apples, deadly Apples on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, all social media. Our website is deadly Apples dot com.

15:12 Follow us on Spotify and everywhere else. And yeah, we're grateful for everyone's support. We're grateful you're here at Welcome to Rockville, and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thanks to you, Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin i'm W for Cui Radio,