PipemanRadio Interviews The Risen Dread

0:00 Hi, you have then too, censum wow, crazy young ro whycoume America. It's time for the Adventures of Pipeman on W four c Y dot com. Wis pomp Beach is number one Internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man's World, your real sir, the Law. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Main W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with our next guest, too is across the Pond and uh man some badass new music and I want to welcome to a show, the Risen Dread. How are you Hi, Hey, guys her things then it's weird.

1:15 Here the guitars from the recent Dread. Yeah, thanks for having me. Oh my pleasure. And first question off the bat is what was the first thing in your life that prompted you to pick up the guitar. I think was my cousins. They always played guitar when I was young. I was watching them playing just chypical local songs. But when you're having like family party and family reunion kind of thing, and I do remember picking up the guitar in my cousin's house. I'm lefe handed, so I got the guitar and I tried to do the I and then I got the tap in front of me and I tried to do see the chord and he looked at my hands like, no, no, you have to do the other way around because you're left hand, so you have to do the upside down kind of thing. So I was like, okay, I have to very clear in my head. I think that was the first time that I picked up any kind of guitar that was acoustic guitar. But yeah, yeah, that's what kind of got me to the guitar. I'd say, yeah, you know, that's funny because I'm a lefty too, and I played guitar for a while, but I sucked, and I think it's because I was being taught to play righty as a lefty and it was just never something that became totally comfortable to me. And then after doing that so much, if I tried

2:46 the other way, that felt weird too, So it was like neither way was right for me. And you know, but in the same token, you take after good company because look at Jimmy Hendrix, m yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's that's one of one of the guys, and it is unfortunately for us, everything is more expensive. The buying instruments is going to be more expensive than than the right the orthodox guys. Uh, and you have less options usually. But yeah, and now I think we can find a good priority of guitars. But back when I started playing, you want to find a feel and pretty much the same design, just different colors.

3:35 And but I remember seeing one left e back when I was starting as well in one of the instrument's store that they had a Gibson there and that was so be I saw that hanging on the wall. That's beautiful, but it was very pricey, like yeah, that's that's that's that's too far from me. And then and as I remember that, the colors kind of red, like no kind of wine color. Yeah yeah, I was like, oh, that's a bit of guitar. But I never got a Gibson Lispo well, you know, uh. And you know, it is funny.

4:18 I think people don't realize how how difficult lefties do have it, you know, because we don't really complain much about it. But like even I think I went over this with one of my uh children a month ago because I was cutting paper for you know, a holiday present, and they're like, why you look so weird doing them, like because they make scissors for right e's not for lefties. So it's kind of awkward. You know. It's like everything it's made you got to like figure out your own way to do things with everything. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty much started you you.

4:59 Yeah, but people the ward is kind of done for Orthodox in a lot of sense. And then we when you're not well back in the days, it'll be weird just because you're not right, like like like like they would do like happens like like happens to you. They're like, I know, you have to play this way because that's it's the Orthodox way. So everyone plays this way. But at least it is a lot but a lot of things. Even if you go to school when you have some some of the chairs and then the tables there, they work way more for Orthodox. And if you have like two or three people that they are left in the in the same classroom, they'll be like, okay, we don't have enough tables for you guys. They have to pick it up for somewhere else. Yeah, right, So but it is, it is the way it is.

5:48 And at least I kept left and I learned and left a way I'm not sure. I'm not sure if it's good because of the pricing, but that everything else and then that good point. There's one good thing that I always I like being lefty. I have my guitar at home. I have my guitars, the acoustic and elect guitars, and I always have people that they come to my house. They always play guitars, but they cannot play my guitars because I'm left handed, so they like funck, I cannot play this a great no at touch my guitar. And when I go to their house, they don't have to play anything either, So I'm happy that way. I love it, you know. And I don't even understand why in things like music or anything creative they don't gear towards lefties because they say that the lefties are the ones, are the creative ones. So maybe they should.

6:36 We should start a new trend wherein ain't creative industry. It's the orthodox people that are the ones that have to worry about it. Yeah, yeah we should. Yeah, so tell us about the tell us about the new song Betrayal, And it's pretty badass. It's you know, it's heavy, but it's also like whole on musicianship, like there's and Somebody. It's a metal head from way back. There's a lot of heavy music nowadays, but I wouldn't exactly say a lot of the heavy music is musicianship. It's just being heavy and loud. Whereas you guys, it's very like you know, you can get into it. It's music and musicianship and pre technical as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, well thanks the betrayal. It's the song it's been.

7:30 It was a weird year for us twenty twenty three. We had played in twenty twenty Shoe, we had tour, we played Vacuum twenty twenty Shoe. Then twenty twen three or Druma left so he moved out to Canada and we were like without the drama for a whole year. We actually only found a drama as now twenty twenty four, the but we have we're kind of dead, like the bundle pretty much gone. Nothing released on not playing because you didn't have a drama and we didn't want to all the offers that we had. You have enough enough money to get a session drama for that, and then we decided to release a single. Then I invited the drama that Greek drama that I knew. I was like, would you do that for me, like to record that, and he's like, yeah, I would do that. And the song it's it's way even that our album was.

8:31 It's more it is more straightforward and we have like like me, Marco, we all we have that kind of influence from back in the days. We are like old school death metal style and I think that's what it's in there with with with more modern sound, but it is kind of a lot of festival bass and we have a piece of blast speak and it is for us, it's kind of like a it's almost an angry song for us. It's heavy and it's fast, it's it's nice to play. It's just it's kind of like the song that would kind of represents our we both as a as a band, because a lot of people think that we're actually gone, like after we released, even in the Irish scene, the guys like the guys who are out of nowhere, they're like out of a year, and then they suddenly came with that single. So that's kind of one of the like we won't give a statement like we are back. We are never gone for the first thing, and we are back we are back now that we haven't announced the drama yet and now you have a drama, So twenty twenty four is going to be way different than twenty twenty three. We already have a lot of things like up then you're gonna announce you know, you're going to

10:03 work on the new album as well. That's probably gonna be really early twenty twenty five. Uh, but yeah, the betrayal is is it's it's kind of the direction of where we're going in terms of sound. But we're probably gonna do the album with the produce with the same guy who is mixing Massive for this for this track, it's going to produce the album. I've been in touch with him, so that's we're gonna We're gonna probably fly to Germany and and and get the album done, but I'm gonna say probably straight after summer. But yeah, that's that's that's pretty exciting to feel feel to be back well. And I think a lot of people don't realize when there's lineup changes in the band, it's not like you could just put somebody in there, you know. I think that's the time where you kind of evaluate where you want to evolve too, and then try to find the perfect fit for that, and sometimes it takes time, and you know, you don't want to just throw somebody in there and then a few months later you gotta throw somebody else in there. You gotta find the right fit. Yeah, and there's a lot of guys that we tried, and some of them even though they come like that, because we we have that he said, we tour, We tore Vader, we Vader Marduk, we played Vacuum within the are scene like that's a band that we keep keep an eye on the end.

11:28 And then every time that the guys can try, they're like, yeah, but I'm not sure if I want to Even though they want they say they want to tour. They once we have like a you want to tour, but you have to you have to know what happens like numbers, what happens with the numbers specifically, So you have to know. You have to be aware of what happens before and after, like what what the investment you have to do before and what kind of money you're gonna get after the tour possibly and deals and kind of thing. Yeah, everyone wants to Everyone says they want to tour, but when they actually face that. They're like, oh no, I don't want to do that. Maybe they have that idea that you're going to tour, are going to be rich and it's going to be famous face straight it might it might be that. Might it might be that because I had that when I was like sixteen. Right now I'm actually twenty eight. I know I don't have that. Nothing is going to happen straight away. But we are in the band. We are kind of all we are on the toties and we all had bands before, so we know what we want to do, where we want to get and how we want to get there. We just go on a pace that it needs to be done like there's no rush, even though we are not young. But it's we're doing what we like. That's the main thing for me. And we enjoy being together. That's all I can right there. When when you're on a tour, you have to enjoy, you have to no no chorting, and

13:03 when you share both with out the bunds. It is also get triacky because we have you don't know that the guys. So that's but we've we've we just found a guy, we just found a haven announced I'm gonnounced gonn announce him next week and yeah, and then we have we have things to announce or gigs that's gonna come. So any on a pipeline. I love it. And you know, I'm glad you brought all that up because people have this fancy of what touring's like. Touring is a grind it and you don't get rich, and like they say, it takes twenty years to become an overnight success, and you have to be really really dedicated, and the most important part, like you said, you have to get along with the people you're with because you're with them twenty four to seven on the road, no escape, and you know, it can be really really not fun if you're with the wrong people. Yeah, and you don't rest enough. So it's if sometimes things that would happen that you usually kind of people do that let you let this go, But then you're just very tired. And then that's kind of if it gets on the nerve very easy because you're tired. Like the tour one of the tours, I was driving the whole thing, so why drove like two thousand miles but the guys knew, Like I I was

14:35 like, oh, I'm gonna do. I'm gonna drive, so I do the loading, we do sound check, I'm going to sleep straight after we play, so they can drive to the next venue while you guys are sleeping, right, So that's kind of so then we so I always hop over somewhere to take a nap and out of two two or three hours nap because there were some distance there were like seven an hours eight hours from between venues. It worked out. But then we had a day off and that day off killed me because you kind of in that routine and your body is just on that even though you you're tired, once you actually stop, you just don't want to go back. It's just like one day off, you're off, chill out. I remember you're we were on the coast of France on that day, like that last take day off here, but then you go to Germany the next day for the venue. On the next day, it's just like I didn't even want to drive. I was on the stage doing the soundtrack, was like, don't even want to play, Like I'm very tired right right, and then you have to have all your energy to play, so like it's tough when you have no energy and you have to give it. You're all, yeah, but what what once once you start playing, once you start the settleast, you get going to the crowd. Yeah, but that moments, don't you like the first sho or three minutes putting

16:07 the first track of the set least, that's really hard. That at least it was really hard for me. I hear you totally. But you know what, you guys are gonna kill it here in twenty twenty four. I'm glad you got this new song. It's a banger, and you're gonna announce the new drummers. So let's tell everybody how they can connect to you guys on the web on socials and all that stuff, and so they can keep posted with the new drummer announcement and new songs, new album tour dates and all that good stuff. Yeah, yeah, we are. We are on the Facebook, Instagram. We don't use much, you know, we have a tweeter. We don't use much tweeter, and we are. All the songs are in all streaming platforms. You can listen to us and there to our noise. And hopefully you guys gonna like and keep an eye because we're gonna be spending some time in the road this year that's already being planned, and sat and Stone and also gonna hit this too as well. The same between those those tours that you're gonna be doing well. Love it again, love the music. Everybody needs to check you guys out, and thanks for giving us some great creativity, and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thanks for having me here for the space and make sure you guys check it out our new song portrayal and everywhere. So the reason dread we're

17:42 gonna be make some noise in this year. Love it can't wait. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man on w for CUI Radio.