PipemanRadio Interviews FRAYLE at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

0:04 Hi, you love them too, Yes, that's true. See WW for you you. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with Hi. I'm going from Frail. Hi. I'm Sean from Frail. Nice here at Bloodstock. Wow? How did you end up at Bloodstock? We took a ride at the no I'm I've been waiting for that somebody weekend. I was waiting for that all weekend. Low hanging fruit. I went there. I love it. We love it here. Our booking agent actually put this together and when we heard that we got to play Bloodstock, our minds were blown, right, So we are very excited to be able to play and to interact with this audience.

0:56 Yeah, it's been amazing here, like hot, but amazing. Yeah, and you believe it. I live in Florida, okay, and I'm fucking hot. It's ridiculous. I had to pack winter clothes to come here because your weather's usually so bipolar. And even this morning, I'm like, I'm gonna wear jeans, and now I'm like, oh, that was a bad move. I regret this decision. Yeah, I know, right, So it is like such a to me. It's like the best metal festival, like a true metal festival. There's other metal festivals. I do a lot of them, but this one HiT's different, right, you know, the people, the community, the bands, we're just like one big family and I love that's diy right.

1:41 Absolutely, there's definitely an energy here and it feels like family. Like you said, it feels like just love. And everybody has been so kind and so into the music. It's blowing our mind. Yeah, and we just can't wait to come back. When are you coming back? Let's Vicky she has have you back. Next Yeah, so we hope to come back here. We will be back in UK and Europe before the end of the year, and hopefully this will lead to more appearances of Bloodstock. Nice. And where are you guys from. We're from Cleveland, Ohio. Oh so you're from my necad world. I thought you said more American. Yeah. Absolutely. So do you play festivals in the US?

2:23 Yeah, we actually have one coming up in. October after Shock. No, it's a smaller one. It's a Tennessee Metal Devastation. Oh, I know that one. We'll be there. And then we played Incarceration last year. That's like one of the only years in the past ten years, I didn't do ink. Why isn't that fucking you want to know the real reason why? Because Wimmer wasn't allowing interviews at you. Oh yeah, well it's a bummer. I'm a said here, you could have a review ticket. I'm like, if I can't do interviews, there's no reason. Yeah, but I love changed for this year. Yeah, okay, good. I was there just last month. Okay, awesome. Is that the coolest festival in the States. It's amazing. Yeah, and it's only like an hour and ten minutes below us. So to have that, you know, reformatory or is that the right word reformatory? Yeah, yeah, down there, it's incredible. But yeah, it's like to play next to that and to.

3:12 Walk through it like it's crazy. Well, it's fice because I tell some bands and interviews there. I'm like, you know, you're like Johnny Cash because the prison next door, the inmates are outside hearing you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can see them. It's so cool. It's crazy. And my youngest stor she's always like how old is she? Thirty? Man? Okay, okay? Or in next month, She's like she calls me up before every festival because I go on tour and do all the festivals US, UK, Europe, I do all the whimmer ones. And she's like, so you're excited about going this festival. I'm like, well, I don't know if excites a word. I love doing it, but when you do it every weekend, it's excited.

3:53 First time I did inc, I called her up. I'm like, I'm calling you from the Shawshank Prison. Yeah, dude, now I'm exciting. Yeah you know. And then I was out there taking pictures of the prison and some other band members taking pictures. Goes, hey, can you take my picture, I'll take yours. Look as we're fanboying out on shot show. On the venue. Yeah that's amazing. Yeah, it's wild. Did you explore the whole prison? We went into it briefly, but it was like it was really hot when we were there, like it was ninety something and it gets humid in Ohio. Not quite like Florida, but it gets pretty brutal. So we were like in and out in our ridiculous stage costume. So we got out pretty quick. Yeah. I always like bands are friends of mine. I take them aside. After here, I'm like, how the fuck do you dress? Like that in this weather Man. It's like it shows how dedicated you are to your crab.

4:45 Yeah, because you could. Easily just say screw it, I'm just gonna dress normal. But we didn't do our job then, I know exactly. That's my point. Yeah, but that prison is really haunted for real, not just Blood Prison, but the real pritty legit. Yeah. So you know whil and Revis right Wayland. Yeah yeah, yeah so he I always saw it was Revis too until he said his name in the interview and I'm like, oh, I've been fucking. Up his name. But he told me that they filmed the video in the one of the torture rooms and he came out scratched up, bloody, scratched up.

5:25 Wow, nobody was there by him. Yeah, that's crazy, Like he just did he did a single recently with a man from Mushroomhead who sings on our upcoming record. Wow, that's pretty cool. And so tell us about your new music. Yeah, so we have a new album or Ticks and Lallabies, coming out October tenth on Napalm Records. We just released our latest single came out this week, which is to cover of Summertime Sadness. By Na del Ray. We have two more singles that'll come out with two more videos, and then the record comes out October tenth. It's like a birthday president of me because my birthday is October eleventh. Oh, one day. That's great. So we usually come to the Tennessee of your Metal Devastation fest to celebrate. When is it October tenth? I'm gonna have the eleventh. It's the eleventh. It's your birthday, my birthday.

6:11 It's a birthday only one day, right, Yeah, that one I know about it. Yeah, I'll go to check into it because normally after Shock is that weekend year. Yeah, this year is the week before. Okay, I'm gonna have to check that out. Yeah, that's a cool festival. I have seen it, but always conflicted with Aftershock. So what do you feel the experiences here at Bloodstock compared to US festivals? It is a completely different vibe. I mean, yeah, the bands here are hungry for new bands and new music and authenticity and things like that, which is sort of like a little bit different in Europe than the States, where seems a little bit more prepackaged. In the States. Sometimes it can be that way. We're here it's like, what's new, what's aggressive? Give me more?

6:55 And like I saw the tenths for a band blame at ten third to fold. To the rim on the last day? Like does that in the States, They're just oh, go a way to the headliners or on. You know that's my speed, dude, cause I'm first one to hear, last one to lead. That's the way a festival should be. You want to learn the new bands, not just the ones, you know. Yeah, I love when people say, hey, oh, my favorite band's not playing now, I don't want to go, dude, they go to their concert. That's the real show. Go to festivals to discover new bands. Absolutely, and the fact that Bloodstock has a tent for unsigned bands competing here is like that's really special to me.

7:40 Yeah. Medal to the Masses is like the most awesome thing. You know what else, It's awesome. Miss what you got there? The Sophie langcat, Oh yeah, amazing, like you know the story right. Absolutely we need that in the US. Yeah, because all of us have experienced what she did, except we're still here, bully beat up all that stuff. We need to make it normal to be okay, to not be normal. Absolutely, and I think I feel like in Europe, I mean, I think it's maybe leading a little bit with that right now, but we are extremely honored to play the Sylphie Lancaster stage because of. That exactly, and a lot are yeah. So give us all your socials how to connect with you and most importantly, how to buy your merch, because they can't listen to my show unless they buy your merch.

8:30 That's a good rule to have, right. The best way to support the band is on frailband dot com. Are we spend a lot of time and energy building an amazing website for everybody night so you can get normal merch there, but as you also get like drumheads and symbols and things from tour gear that we use in the studio, like that kind of stuff. You know. So we try to dig a little deeper on our web store and then our socials. Instagram is at frail band Facebook I think is frail band and that's frail spelled fr y no. F r a y l E. I hope you can know how I've spent and I'm. Terrible numbers and letters like it's bad. I just go on feelings there. I love it and that's why you're a great musician and like you guys, kick ass and I love that you're here at Bloodstock.

9:11 I can't believe I. Had to come over here to interview you. So we're gonna have to get together a lot more. And thanks for being on the Adventures of paye Men. Thank you so much for having us. Yes, thank you so much, my pleasure. Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking career here in the UK, my entire career with Machine. She recently passed away and it was a very, very sad day and I can tell you the reason that I'm gonna tell this story is because she was family. She was Bloodstock family. She was heavy metal UK family.

9:52 Most of the bars that you know. And love you probably heard of because of that woman right there, Linot Slayer, Machinehead, Trivium Kills, which engage, Hey, reed, you name it. She helped lift everybody up, man, She helped lift everybody up, and in so many ways, she helped make this entire music scene, this incredible, beautiful community that lives here at Bloodstock. Man, she helped make it. So, ladies and. Gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr, thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man on w for CUI Radio.