PipemanRadio Interviews Death by Romy at Graspop Metal Meeting 2024

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Man. This is the pipe Man
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C, Why Radio at grasp Pop
and I'm here with Death by romy Nice.

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I always love when I interview a
band one year back home in the

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States and then I see him here
in Europe or the UK, Like I

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see a bunch of bands and they're
like, what are you doing here?

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It's nice to see a familiar face, like we said. I know,

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right, absolutely, So I gotta
tell you I was at your set and

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you freaking killed it. That is
a cool tent there, and you had

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it full. I was sick.
Do you think we're there? I don't

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know. I couldn't even see past
the tent like I was up front.

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I want to say, if download
was like seven, that was probably at

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least six. I mean I was
taking a couple images where they Yeah,

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where'd they go? Where'd they go? I loved all the led screens they

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had in that tent. It looks
sick. That tent is badass like that

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roof yeah, and everybody was sow
into it. So I gotta know how

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much have we improved since you saw
us last year at after Shock. I

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think you're great anyway, but you
were badass. You were a badass,

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and what I like most of all, most of all is could have been

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not as good for you, and
you just had such a positive attitude after

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what could have not been positive.
And the crowd was cheering to the to

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the fact that you were talking to
them about what was going on and they

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were like they were supporting you them. No, it sucks when the song

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starts and the show can't really begin
because of technical difficulties or whatever, you

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know. And I don't know what
the sound people had going on, but

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there was no way we were gonna
be able to play the show with the

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mic feedbacking like that. So I
was like, you could have fucking cut

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the ship and then like nobody left, Like sometimes that will happen. That's

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what sucks is people just leave,
but they were cheering instead, they're like

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supporting you, and that that feel
really good. You know, I know

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what to expect from a metal festival. You know, you got some serious

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hardheads at these festivals, and then
you got a lot of really supportive,

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really sweet people and me gatekeepers which
we don't meet. There were no gatekeepers

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in that tent. If they were, they left and good let them leave.

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So how does it feel to be
overhere in Europe and doing these festivals

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over here? It feels fucking awesome. You know, I've been doing this

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project like ten years now, and
it took so many years before we finally

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got the opportunity to start touring last
year, and ever since then, we've

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just been going and going and going
and going. And there were so many

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times I thought, like what when
the what the fuck is it going to

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take? Like when when am I
going to be given the opportunity that I

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know I fucking deserve to go prove
myself out there and to be doing my

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second run in Europe on these massive
stages, hitting all these festivals. I've

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never even fucking heard of going places
with my friends. Uh, you know,

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I wouldn't have like dreamed of going
and less on vacation. Perhaps it's

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been awesome. It's been really fucking
gratifying nice and it's kind of cool when

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you come over here to a country
and all these people are cheering you,

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and You're like, how do they
even know who I am? Right,

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Sometimes that happens, You're like,
hell, yeah, well most of them

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are discovering you on these stages at
festivals. You know, most of these

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people are they hear something that sounds
a bit intriguing, they come, give

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it a chance, and uh,
you can tell when you went over a

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crowd or not, especially when it's
full of so many new people. Yeah,

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And I mean, you just killed
it there. And I can't say

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that enough. And I love your
guys outfits, especially since, like I'm

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a skater and a hockey player,
so I'm looking at me bad. Yeah,

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thank you. There's actually a motorcycle, neepads, some heavy duty motorizer.

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Yeah, and I'm thinking myself.
You know a lot of bands that

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like run and slide across stage probably
need those things. Oh yeah, they

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do. We were We were using
like dancers and nee pads on the last

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tour. We just did because I
was I was taking a dance class and

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I realized like, oh my god, we literally need these for stage.

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We're always fucking thrashing our bodies around
on the fucking floor, Yep, no

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regard. Uh. And then I
saw these and I was like, not

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only are these so fucking like heavy
duty, but they looked so hard.

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And I came up with this like
concept for the outfits that were in for

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this tour, that these like really
completed. Yeah, what of other bands

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that you've been at these festivals with
said about, said about you have any

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of them caught your set and like
talked to you about it? To meet

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a lot of other bands on this
We've been forced to be so in and

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out too that I've barely gotten to
catch anyone else that I wanted to see.

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But we've had a lot of people
come out from a couple of different

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labels out here, and just supportive
people from all the different festivals out here.

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You know, we had owners of
the festivals, the main bookers like

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giving us massive fucking applause. Nice. The show's been really really well received,

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and it's not only gratifying, but
it just it feels right. You

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know, it's final, It's finally
being received the way I've always intended for

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it to be. Too. Well, you know what they say in this

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business, it takes twenty years to
become an overnight success. I've never actually

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heard that one. Yeah, let's
play it business. I think I'm getting

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close to up, having had to
put in my ten thousand hours here,

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you're almost there. Because let's put
it this way. Metallica, who like

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I knew them before before all that
ten years they were eating baloney sandwiches with

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no bread, sleeping all of them
on one little floor. And now look,

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so that's where you're heading. EBT
was definitely getting us by on that

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last US tour. It's a shame
we don't have it here. So are

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you doing anything else over here in
Europe? In UK? After this?

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This is officially our last festival of
this run, but we leave to Rome

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tomorrow. Nice it'll be a lot
of our first times there, and we

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will be playing our last show,
third show, opening for none other than

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baby Metal. Wow. Yes,
it's been incredible opening for them. Wow,

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that's gonna be wild. Yeah,
honestly my favorite band I've gotten open

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for so far. I think that's
gonna gain you a lot of followers because

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Baby my old fans are like insane, you know they are, and I

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love it and I think you fit
right in there. So it's awesome.

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That is pretty awesome. It's it's
translated really well. For us, it's

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been an honor to play with them. They put on an incredible, fucking,

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seamless, fucking show. So it's
nice to, you know, have

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a little encouragement to push ourselves extra
hard when playing with someone so talented.

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Oh yeah, and so, what
have you learned over the past ten years

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about this music business that has made
you better? You think? My god,

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See, that's a hard question.
Nobody's asked. The list is endless,

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but I'm trying to think of one
of the most stand out things.

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What have I learned in the business
in the last ten years that's made me

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better? To trust myself? That's
the first thing they came to my head.

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And I don't know why, best
thing because Listen questioned it. But

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that's how you're a real artist,
because the real art just go up there

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and be themselves. And you can
tell anytime I've ever leaned into trusting myself,

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it's proven to be have been the
right decision for me. It's proven

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to be the most successful decision for
me. It's proven to be you know,

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what should have happened. Yeah,
And when I was younger in the

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industry, I had a lot of
voices, you know, around me,

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a lot of different people whispering different
things in my ear that I felt,

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you know, I should trust these
adults. These people have been in this

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business longer than me, this or
that. But regaining autonomy over my project,

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being independent the last couple of years
and really fucking grinding and trusting myself

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and having a team that supports me
and allows me to trust myself has been

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the greatest thing. Ever. That's
the way it should be. Anyway.

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I've always said that, like,
if you're an artist, the business people

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shouldn't tell you how to be artists. They shoul absolutely not do their job

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and then let you do yours because
you're the creative. And I never did

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get that. Like back in the
eighties, I used to be backstage for

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all those eighties these bands and stuff
and listening to these record labels ruin metal,

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because that's what they did. They
just told them what to do and

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this, and they converted these bands
that were good into something that were flashes

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in the pan and then gone.
Half the time, the people on these

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labels or the you know execs you're
referring to, have never been tried making

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music a day in their lives,
and I told myself after I asked my

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A and R if they had ever
tried making music a day in their life.

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They said no. I fired them
and I told them not to tell

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me how to make music good for
you? Good for you, because listen,

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I am all about if you're true
yourself as an artist, people can

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see it. If you're doing what
the labels tell you or anybody tells you,

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they can see that too. Absolutely, the fans can see it.

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Most importantly, absolutely so tell everybody, uh once again to how people can

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reach out to you guys on socials, on the web, see all your

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stuff by your merch. Unfortunately,
I exist everywhere the Internet allows me to.

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You can find me on Instagram,
YouTube, YouTube, community, TikTok,

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Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer,
SoundCloud YouTube did I say YouTube at

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Death by Roami and I have the
merch booth right before going to hit your

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set, and you had some pretty
cool merch up there too, So people

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have to buy your merch. That's
the only way you guys survive is with

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merch. Thank you so much.
Yeah, definitely check out my merch at

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deathbiromy dot com. Is there anything
you want the listeners to know that we

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haven't covered either here or after shock
that they need to know, and that's

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going on with you. Fuck it. I'm working on my first full length

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album currently, oo, so keep
your eyes in, ears out. I

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don't know if I asked you this
last time, but which is your favorite

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tattoo? My favorite tattoo is always
the most recent one I've gotten, and

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right now it's these words I have
across my arms, which are doggy,

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dog and gaudy. God. Wow, that's pretty cool. Hell yeah,

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my friend Caleb did them. He
goes by pretty skin stickers. Nice.

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Everybody's gotta check them out. Then, Hell yeah, hey, my pleasure.

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Thank you for being here at Grasspop
and killing it even against all odds.

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And man, I can't wait to
see you again because you guys rock.

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Have a wonderful day. Thank you
so much for having me. Hey,

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thanks for being on the Adventures pipe
Man. Thank you for listening to

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