PipemanRadio Interviews Escape The Fate at Aftershock 2023

0:04 Hy you have done to censure? Wow? Crazy young? Whycoume of America. It's time for the Adventures of pipe Man on W four c Y dot com. Wis pomp Beats his number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the Pipe Man. I'm so my So this is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here with with Eric Shreds from Escape of the Fate. Nice here at Aftershock. Yes, yes, yes, oh my god. How stoked are you to be here?

1:03 Day two? I get lost? Day three? Day three, that's fine. I'm so excited to be here. This is my personal first time ever performing at Aftershock, so it is kind of it feels like a dream to be on the Jack Daniel stage for my first time performing. That's cool. We had some you know, mystery today getting in with Corey Taylor having an emergency and needing to cancel, so it was kind of cool that now we have to play a little later in the day too, So benefit I'm grateful for that. I feel horrible for him in his camp for everything they're going through, but it's still exciting that it presents us the opportunity to get in front of a few more faces and put on a great rock show, especially since a few weeks ago you had not the same kind of fate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did not escape fate there. Talked about Blue Ridge, Yeah, talk about Blue Ridge. Oh yeah. I like I was there, but I really felt bad for you guys because that was like a be your debut for the new album, and then you were about to get on stage. Uh huh. We were set up, all of our equipment was out on the stage, our texts were up with our guitars checking for us. I mean, our entire back line was on that stage when it got hit. So when the storm came in, all of our shit just got Oh yeah, you know when I got evacuated. For me, I was in the middle of an interview and I was gotting evacuated. I'm looking at didn't see anything, and there was nothing on the weather app Like

2:36 it came out of nowhere. And then I got evacuated and I'm going back to camp and the storm started and where I was is right in front of the Heartset Camp, which I'm friends with. Those guys. They had all their equipment with campy over it. So I was like, oh shit, I'm gonna go help them so they don't lose all their equipment. We were holding this canopy down four of us. It lifted all four of us off the ground. Yeah, it was scary. It was insane. And then we're like, okay, fuck that. And then we grabbed their other canopy and we were getting pelted by hail. Yikes. See I got inside by the hail, but where we were the rain started coming. We're like, this is awesome. It's so hot outside, like great, everybody loves it.

3:22 And then five minutes later we're panicking to get our stuff from being wet. Like the first thing I see is waters start to hit like the laptop that like runs the lights and stuff like that. So I go to get the laptop and then just boom, the fury just happened. It was I live in Florida, and I thought that was unbelievable. It was like I deal with that stuff all the time in Florida. But in this scary moment, is like everybody's kind of figuring out what to do. We're like removing all of our gear and then we just hear everybody get the fuck off the stage. Get off the stage now, and we're like oh shit, we'll get off. Lightning hit the stage like ten minutes later. Oh yeah, crazy. Now apparently lightning hit this age twice that stage we were on. So grateful nobody was on it when that happened. And I'm glad you're telling this in the interview because of all the idiots that when that was happening, we're complaining in all the chat boards and the socials about oh, this is bullshit. It's supposed to be rain or shine. It's not the rain, dude, it's the lightning. It's the wind. Yes, you know, And I mean, look, there's perfect example, like who could have gotten hurt if they did not do that. It would have been a lot of fried band dudes, for sure, no doubt. But here we are at Aftershock. Looks like we won't have any shocks here. With the weather.

4:36 It's could be super fucking hot. Bring some lightning strikes though. Yeah that yeah, that's what I mean. Tell our listeners in case they don't know what that means. Ah yeah. Our hit single from the Chemical Warfare album, Lightning Strike, which is the third song in our set following the Flood, which is the set that we performed at Blue So we might have been part of the problem. We might have done a little rain dance with ourselves. Thank you, Like, I think it's all your fault. You brought it on. Let's just not tell any of the insurance companies that though. It would have been cool if you did actually get to play and you're playing Lightning Strikes and that's when the lightning hit. I see what you're saying, hardly sounds like you're mind. I hope you guys get hit by lightning.

5:21 I know, like in my mind, it sounds kind of good, But then I was like, oh, yeah, that might not be a good idea. I like what you got to say, though, there you go. So after shock, is this the coolest freaking festival or what? Though? Like, I did you take a look at this media artist area. There's gonna be free food later. Very cozy, for sure, the coolest, though. I don't know. It's like ninety out right now, ninety five or something right right, It's a little toasty, But the event is I was gonna say sick. That's also a very confusing term that could be mixed up. It's awesome being here. Everything is so well structured and organized.

6:02 It just feels like a breeze getting in, there's no confusion, and just it's so comfortable. You're right, like everything's so well laid out. You're not crammed into tiny corners. If you need a place to sit, you're gonna find a place to lounge. And Dannie Wimer always treats the rs great. That's what all the RS tell me. I haven't had one R say anything bad about women love DWP. See loved there it is, you know, like they just know how to do it right. I do all the festivals I do, the UK festivals, European festivals. His are the ones are most parallel to the UK and European festivals, you know, because yeah, they were always known to be better than ours and based on some other festivals, that's true, based on DWP now yeah. And the cool thing is that you also hear the same from the fans as well, which is awesome that everybody loves the experience, well, even the media. You know, it's funny at Blue Ridge the media people that complain about DWP start saying, well, I guess d WP's not so bad. This wouldn't happen at DWP, like some of the things that happened yeah, and so I think sometimes it takes something like that to take spoiled people and let them know that, hey, you got it pretty good for sure. You know, so you got the new album out. That's cool. Uh, Shadow tell us listeners about the album, how it may be the same and different as previous works. Yeah. So, I think one of the coolest things about

7:36 Out of the Shadows is it's the most band involved album in years. You know. Throughout the past it's kind of been like situation of working with these big famous producers. They want left chefs, left chefs in the kitchen, so you know, not everybody has to come in and write where is this time? This is my first full album writing with the band, and we brought in a new lead guitarist who did all the solos on the record. You know, it was cool because us coming in kind of shifted the internal dynamic of the band and it became more of a unit. So we went into creating this album with a goal. Whereas in the past the goal was just make a single, make singles, this time it was like, hey, we want to be a heavy band, we want to be dark, we want to have emo influence, and we want the album to be kind of about the personal journeys we've all discovered throughout COVID, through coming out of the shadows and into the light alone. And as for like a lot of the themes of the music, you know, we had that. One of the things I thought was kind of cool about the band is that me and our new lead guitarists, we were fans of the band back when we were younger. So you know a lot of people you see on all the forums they want get heavy again, bring back this sound. So it's kind of cool because we're also the ones that have the fans of that sound. Now that we're back and I'm in the writing seat, I'm writing the riffs, he's doing the solos. It's we're able to bring that want and influence you

9:07 to the table for the fans because you're thinking the same way they are exactly. Yeah, I love it. I'm very proud of the album. All of us are eleven songs of heaters And you know, one of the things I've been saying, if you're going to pull something positive from the COVID lockdown, is that artists got a chance to jump off that hamster wheel and really figure out where they wanted to go because you're like doing doing doing, and you don't think about it because you don't have time to think about it. It's like show to show to show, write songs in between a show, and then if you don't have the coesive miss that you have now, that makes it even harder. So I think some of the best music I've been saying all along it is going to come out of that COVID lockdown, like your album, because I think that's an example of that. It gave an opportunity to like, hey, as a band, how do we want to present ourselves? How to you want to sound now? Opposed to never thinking about that because you're too busy. Absolutely, I mean like the lockdown in the pandemic just put a lot of like I feel like, perspective on people's lives. So it just really brought to the forefront of like why are we here? Why are we doing this? What's important? And everybody had to face that personal journey of like why are we here? And ultimately everybody's opinion is we're here for the music, right, We're here because we have a message, we have a craft, we want to share, and we want to make the world a better place through our art, no doubt. And then, like I think about it too, how trippy is that to join

10:41 a band in the middle of the pandemic, because that's when he came with the band, right in twenty twenty one, right in the middle of the pandemic. Was weird. So, I mean, I've been playing with the band since twenty seventeen, okay, but I had like a friendship and we're all close, so it wasn't weird. It was just a little you unique, I suppose, because we hadn't seen each other maybe in like a year or two at that point. So when we started the album, uh, everybody just flew down to my studio in Arizona and we just started there for a week, just making songs, seeing what would happen, what would come from it. And then yeah, we took those songs and maybe months later we started going to John Feldman studio and writing songs and recording them and laying him down nice. But yeah, we started at the end of the pandemic.

11:31 I think we've done it too, We're already but by the time we'd started writing, well and now we'll get to hear some of it here today. Yet aftershock. So I love that. Tell everybody how to hit you guys up on socials, on the web, check out the new album, buy your merch all that cool stuff. Yeah, so you can follow us anywhere TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, it's all just at Escape the Face. Same with YouTube at least that's pretty clean and clear. Everybody's got personal social media's you got Craig Mabbitt, You've got Robert E. T F. You got TJ bell E t F, Eric Schredz and Maddy Hoffman. You can reach any of us through our social media as we have contact sections, there's buttons, there's there's things everywhere, links to hit up where you used to get in contact with our management. And then beyond that. Our new album All the Shadows came out just a month and a half ago. It's streaming anywhere music is streamed, and we plan to just keep dropping more and more music as time comes. I think it's gonna just get better and better.

12:30 And absolutely listen, I'm psyched about today. And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Hell. Yes, Escape Debate's going to take over the world. Yes, yeah, thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe man On w for Cui Radio