PipemanRadio Interviews Dry Kill Logic at Aftershock 2025

0:04 Hi, you love them too, Yes, that's true, way crazy young. It's a pipe man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm. Here with Clifforgano dry Kill Logic. Nice here at Aftershock. Guess sir, oh man, you're making the rounds and the Danny Wimmer festivals. Man, that's so cool. We're just so grateful to be a part of all this. We've been a we played this one, played Rockville, we played Incarceration, and each one is just a masterclass in live events. So we're just stoked. And they're all so different too, like the vibe, it's different.

0:47 I love Ink because it's at Shawshank Prison. That's like kind of insane. Yep. One year I was there. I was taking pictures. Exeth the artis was taking pictures and he's like, hey, can you take my picture? I'll take yours. Look at us. We're fanboying out on Shawshank Prison. And seriously, and and to put it at incits in a prison at rock Villa, it's in the infield of racist It's like like that's real experience for folks, and they've just got it so well mapped out that it's like it's just wild to be a part of. Well. I love hearing after Shock. It has all the trees, the vibe like I've watched in previous years where people are like sitting in the trees watching it.

1:28 No shit, really, that's pretty awesome, right, Yeah, that's super cool. So it's been like twenty years since you played Cali. Yeah, wild right, twenty years man, since two since two thousand and six. We were touring on the second record and we came off the road actually two thousand and five, as a matter of fact, in two thousand and six, we came off the road in the US wrote a Vengeance and Violence, and then we toured twice in Europe and once in Australia. We never toured again in the US after we came off the road for the Dead and Dreaming. By two thousand and seven, we were kind of on high. So it's like we've only been here on the second album for the first two So, like it's crazy now twenty years later to come back and everybody's. Much more familiar with the music than they were the first time.

2:10 I was kind of weird too, right, Like I see a trend to that happening, like acid Bath, first time in twenty eight years, and like most of the people that are into them aren't even from twenty eight years. Again, well that's the other part too, it's not necessarily people just coming back after twenty years. There's the audience is so varied. It's awesome. It's just a wild witness because you definitely see folks who were there in the beginning, and then you see folks who clearly of the age where they couldn't have been, and it's just. So cool to see them all in the same crowd. So yeah, and you know what I think's cool is you go back to like the eighties. I would have never as a teenager gone to see people my age and the band right, and certainly my dad was never going to take me to a metal show or any kind of rock shroo. But yet today you see parents, grandparents, kids, like every generation showing up at festivals like this. I think it's fucking cool.

3:14 It's really cool. And I noticed this. We're back. We start playing again and now we rehearse, so we're in reversal studios and we go to local bars to watch other bands, like and it's really interesting because like you come here and you see the bands perform and you look in the audience and you see an audience it's like totally resonating with the band of all ages. But then like now for us, we're in the studios and the bars, and we see the audience in their own bands playing and kind of emulating what they see, and like you see, you're like, oh you love metal, and like you go to the shows and you're in your own band and you write your own songs and you stand on that stage and you fucking live it the same way you take from the bands that are on there. But the part that's most exciting is that in those small bars and in those studios, the audience for those local bands are they're little brothers and little sisters, and they look up to them the same way that man looks up to the part.

4:05 And if you'd see it, you can see. This generational connection to your point where when a show comes to town, dad and your uncles and your kids all want to go because you all have this communal appreciation of it. I don't see that very often in many other genres of music, with like singular artists that way. Yeah, you can be an argument it happens, but it doesn't seem as prevalent as it does. That's in metal. That's why I have this idea, if we want to solve all the world's problems, we need to have one music festival for the whole world's required to attend. Because we're all insiders here and we're all united here. We're one big family, and we have no problems here. And I think we could work it all out that.

4:49 All your problems could be solved in the pit. There. It is. That's you an't gonna come out of here lined exactly one way or the other, are coming out of here. Aline, And I think people don't understand that's what the pit's all about. It's not about being violent. It's about not about hurting maymon people. It's actually about so you're not violent, hurt and maymen people on the outside. Yeah, when I have shit going on in my life, I go leave it all in the pit and then I'm not kicking the shit out of somebody in real life. Yeah, it's true. I mean, listen, you produce energy throughout a day. You gotta let it out somehow otherwise it just becomes unproductive. And that's where the power of heavy music really starts to transcend just a genre, or it starts to change how you think about things. That has the power to do that. And that's the wild, wildest part of it all.

5:32 I think it's amazing. And you guys also have new music, right, Yeah. We put out a song in May and now you Belong with the Dad. It's our first single in five or six years. It was really well received. I think now the time has come for us to write a record. Nice. Yeah, so we're gonna this is our last show and then we commence writing the next albums. How do you feel the writing process is for you now compared to twenty years ago. You know, it's a great question. I think now we have the benefit of time, Yes, so we can be thoughtful about do we like this, do we not like this? If yes, why, if know why, and we can spend time focusing on the songs and standing in service to the songs. Where previously it's like you got four months, right, crack out a record. You know, So you'll go in and write a bunch of guitar riffs, You'll go in and write a bunch of drums to them. I'll come back with some lyrics and some patterns and let's just go to the studio and you never really do the.

6:27 Diligence to be like, have we landed it? Could it be better? And I always feel like at least I can always be for me. But like when I'll go back over time and I'll listen to lyrics, I'll be like, Dad, I could have been better. Ah, I could have nailed that one. Right. So but again now, I think having the time and being able to put in the rigor to that part is probably the biggest difference between now and then. But we're all older now too, that right plays and part well. And I also think COVID played a part. I've said for a while that what COVID did for artists has allowed them to jump off the hamster wheel that you're talking about. It's like co tour, write songs on the bus, you have to submit it by a certain time. It's not really finished, but it has to be. Whereas COVID allowed ours to stop and think of how they really wanted their music to sound right truth, And that's what you're game to do now. And I think and it is part of being older that is to benefit because you think a little differently and you take a little more control of your art.

7:25 That's truth. Yeah, you're absolutely right. You said it quite well. At the end of the day, I think now we're not necessarily going to out energy our younger selves, right, And I think that's probably impossible, but I probably we can spend a little bit more time out thinking our younger selves and putting that into the rigor of songwriting and performance. And that's been exciting. When we think about live shows. Where we think about new music, we never really thought about it as well, how can we be like the best performers, right, we just thought about it, get on the stage and smash. And now it's just a different approach. I largely because we're so goddamn old. Everything hurts soon. And maybe that is why kids today are appreciating the older bands, because like when we were younger, most of the bands kind of sucked, like especially in like the punk arena because and bands I love, but it's like, why do you become a punk musician because you didn't know how to play an instrument?

8:13 Yeah right, right, right? You know, yeah, well listen to that point. Like we used to laugh because our bible was getting the van from Henry Rollins and we. Used to laugh all the time. We'd just be like fucking Rollins would Rollins would play the show, Ronins would get in the van, You get in the van. You know. It's funny because that ethos, to your point, was like the driving factor. It was the spirit of the thing that kept you moving. And maybe that's yeah, to your point, maybe that's part of the appeal of living in a time when that could be the sole driver of your destiny, was just getting the fucking. Van right, right. And then now that you're older, it's like I've learned how to actually do this. Yeah, seriously, right, right, right, No, it's true.

8:54 You're right, it is anything else you want to let the listeners know that we haven't covered already. You know, we're gonna start writing this record. I'll tell you the title, drum roll. Your sins will find you. They find me all the exactly, man. Yeah, you can't run from them. We don't have a release date or anything like that yet. And then we're gonna be releasing some new tour dates pretty soon. For twenty twenty six, we're gonna be doing more headline shows. So we've got some stuff coming up. It's called the decades of distance tour, and it's gonna be like dates spread out through the US. Play just again, places we haven't been in twenty years. Just come back. Play some awesome shows, play some songs folks haven't seen. Just have a good time. I love it. Time so well. I love that you're here at Aftershock. And thanks for being on the adventure.

9:36 Thank you for having me Fell, I appreciate you man. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man on w for CUI Radio.