Sept. 25, 2023
PipemanRadio Interviews Traverse The Abyss at Louder Than Life 2023
On this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman, we’re joined by special guest Traverse the Abyss at Louder Than Life. The band describes their music as breakdown-savvy, intense & heavy metal that is made to be performed live. The band shares...
On this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman, we’re joined by special guest Traverse the Abyss at Louder Than Life. The band describes their music as breakdown-savvy, intense & heavy metal that is made to be performed live. The band shares memorable experiences from touring various festivals around the country. You can find more information about the band’s upcoming tour dates, merch, and latest releases at TraverseTheAbyss.com. Check out their latest release “Laid To Rest” out on all streaming platforms now!
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Listen to & Watch a show dedicated to motivation, business, empowerment, inspiration, music, comedy, celebrities, shock jock radio, various topics, and entertainment. The Adventures of Pipeman is hosted by Dean K. Piper, CST aka “The Pipeman” who has been said to be hybrid of Tony Robbins, Batman, and Howard Stern. The Adventures of Pipeman has received many awards, media features, and has been ranked for multiple categories as one of the Top 6 Live Radio Shows & Podcasts in the world.
Pipeman Radio also consists of multiple podcasts showing the many sides of Pipeman. These include The Adventures of Pipeman, Pipeman in the Pit, and Positively Pipeman and more. You can find all of the Pipeman Podcasts anywhere you listen to podcasts. With thousands of episodes that focus on Intertainment which combines information and entertainment there is something for everyone including over 5000 interviews with celebrities, music artists/bands, authors, speakers, coaches, entrepreneurs, and all kinds of professionals.
Then there is The Pipeman Radio Tour where Pipeman travels the country and world doing press coverage for Major Business Events, Conferences, Conventions, Music Festivals, Concerts, Award Shows, and Red Carpets. One of the top publicists in music has named Pipeman the “King of All Festivals.” So join the Pipeman as he brings “The Pipeman Radio Tour” to life right before your ears and eyes.
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• The Adventures of Pipeman
• Pipeman Radio
• Pipeman in the Pit
• Positively Pipeman
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Visit Pipeman Radio on the Web at linktr.ee/pipemanradio , theadventuresofpipeman.com, pipemanradio.com, talk4media.com, w4cy.com, talk4tv.com, talk4podcasting.com
Download The Pipeman Radio APP
Phone/Text Contact – 561-506-4031
Email Contact – dean@talk4media.com
The Adventures of Pipeman is broadcast live daily at 8AM ET.
The Adventures of Pipeman TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).
The Adventures of Pipeman Radio Show is broadcast on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) and K4HD Radio (www.k4hd.com – Hollywood Talk Radio part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com).
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Hey, you love them too?
Sure, I'm for see Wow you wake
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up America. It's time for the
Adventures. So pipe Man on W forcy
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dot com Westpong Beaches number one internet
radio station. Here's your host, The
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White Man by its pipe Man here
on the Adventures pie Man W for c
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Y Radio and I'm here with Traverse
the Abyss. What's up? How are
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you doing on this Saturday? Oh
man, it's louder than life? How
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can it be bad? Right?
Absolutely so? How has your experience been
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here at leard in Life so far? For you guys, so far pretty
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incredible. We played in the midday
on Thursday around three thirty, which initially
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we're like, I wonder how many
people were going to come out, but
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we ended up drawing a pretty nice
sized crowd to one of the backside stages.
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Nice and we have extremely positive reception. Joel from Metal Injection had a
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nice article in the day one review
for us. Very cool as well as
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there's a requested enough that we're going
to perform in the campground tonight after Revenge
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plays for all the campers and stuff. That's more fun. No, it's
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it's all. It's all of it
because we're here to entertain and make memories.
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I love it. So tell our
listeners who have never heard your music
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before, how you guys, as
artists, would would express your music,
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how you would give them a picture
of it. A lot of times we're
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getting, especially recently, we've been
getting compared to like as I lay dying
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with Black Dallia murder Child. Joel
wrote that we have the reminiscence of early
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days suicide silence. So it thought
it's breakdown savvy. It's intense, but
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the live show is what captivates it. Because if you want to listen to
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everything, Christine, you know,
there's the CDs and Spotify, but getting
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that live experiences where we really shine
because we're at heart all entertainers. So
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we lay it all on the line. They climbing each other's shoulders and everything,
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and we try to match the intensity
of our music by just a full
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out release on our part. Nice
and Yeah, there is no substitute for
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live music. Absolutely, that's when
you tell when band is really good.
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Because anybody can sound good in the
studio, get up on stage and sound
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good. That's a whole other world. Absolutely, there's definitely times and you
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know you hate to see it.
But there's times you really want to see
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a certain band and then they start
playing and it like, oh man,
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they're having like they have the computer
troubles and then all of a sudden,
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now they can't perform. Like we
are as bare bones raw, we're a
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little strange. We use three guitars
so like one could stay locked in with
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the bass for rhythm while to accentuate
like harmonies or vice versa. When we
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need to get really bass to the
wall heavy, you have two guitars just
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punching in the face while like Michael
lay something ambient and eerie underneath. That
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just completely fills the atmosphere nice.
So what made you decide in the beginning
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to go with three guitarists? We
didn't. It was a complete progression.
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We started out originally with just four. It was me Mike on guitar,
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and then we had our old bass
player and original drummer. Eventually we worked
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in a second guitarist and we played
swap a guy several times and we ended
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up with two great candidates to fill
in a bass position. And that's when
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we were spitballing, like, hey, you know, sometimes there's these stuff
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you do in the studio that you
can't replicate, which tracks usually will counteract.
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But having that extra guitar now we
have like if one has to pause
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and tune real quick, like there's
no law, like we could keep everything
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rolling, and so what you're gonna
do to follow up Louder than life now?
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Like now you have to you have
this pull that you have to overcome.
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I would like to cross off a
couple of bucket lists, like we're
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looking at Rockville, Like trying to
get into Welcome to Rockville would be awesome
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because we're East coast. We're from
Scranton, Pennsylvania, so like that easily
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we could do an independent run down
to Daytona and then back up to home
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and ship rocks. Like getting to
Hill with two birds and get stoned and
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go on a cruise and perform see
other bands. Is like it's like almost
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a dream that I feel like I
haven't cracked yet. So like nice that
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type of experience, rock fest,
any of the festival, Like we want
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to just get into the circuit of
the festivals. We've seen a couple of
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bands come up doing stuff that we're
doing and now list it on you know
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they did After Shock, they did
Sonic Temple they did incarceration, which luckily
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enough and grateful for our fans.
They are the reason we got to perform
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at Ink this year and as well
as Louder So thank you to all the
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listeners. That was pretty iconic performing
at the Shawshank Prison, wasn't it.
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The saw Ink Ink is a whole
another interview that was one of the that
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was like a quintessential rock star story
on our part, Like we put I
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have the pictures and everything. We
pulled over like four thousand, five thousand
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people to the backstage. It was
the whole reformatory was filled in just the
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treatment and everything. It was our
first festival appearance and most of us are
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first time ever even going to a
festival, so just wow, it was
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really overwhelming to soak it in.
Plus like the Shawshank redemption and just seeing
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how the prison was lit up with
those green and purple lights. It was
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just like fever dreamish, no doubt. Yeah, So first time I ever
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did in like I don't know,
ten years ago or something, and I
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do all the festivals. So my
daughter's always like, well are you saying
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about this next festival? I'm like, I don't know if excited is the
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word. I love doing it,
but when you do it every week,
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it's not necessarily excitement as the word. But then when I went to INC,
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I was on the prison yard quote
unquote, and I called up my
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door. I'm like, now I'm
excited, I'm at I'm on the prison
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yard of Shawshank Redemption. Did you
do the tour? Did you go inside
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the tour? You know what else? Too? Did you notice that they're
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the new reformatory is next door And
for some of the performances, the inmates
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are out in the yard just like
doing it, just like your Johnny Cash
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performing to the inmates. That's and
where we were stationed there that we would
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have been a band that they heard. So that's yeah, see that's wild
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right Yeah, And even if they
were inside their cell, they could probably
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hear you. It's so loud,
so like any entertainment when you're in there.
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Yeah, it's starved for out,
that's for sure. Did you do
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the Blood Prison? No. We
found out that we were able to like
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kind of get through the line and
go through it at Sunday around five o'clock
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when it was already shut down,
and we were like fingers toes crossed for
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next year. There you go.
Well, I'm sure you'll be on all
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the Danny Wimmer festivals because it's like, once you get on one, that's
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just stepping stone to others, especially
if you were invited back to a second
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one. Now you're on your way. Yeah. Absolutely, we're hoping even
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doing like one of the secondary stages
at like Ink or something like that is
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a breathtaking crowd to perform for.
Yeah, and Rockville's really cool because you
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get to perform at that. They
tone the speedway man, that's like iconic.
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Yeah. Just even there's beaches in
Florida, so it's nice and warm,
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so that there's some extra pluses.
Will roast in the bus in the
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Florida heat. Right, So how
do people reach out to you on socials
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on the web by your merch all
that good stuff? We are just like
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everywhere traverse. If you search Traverse
the Abyss and it doesn't come up the
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video games Dark Souls or Destiny,
it's more than likely us. We're on
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Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Spotify. We have music videos on YouTube.
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Our website is ww dot Traverse the
Abyss dot com. We have almost a
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line of exclusive online merch where we
have like flip flops. We have pillowcases
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and bedsheets and like just random stuff
you wouldn't find out the average merch table.
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That is pretty cool. I've never
seen pillows, pillowcases or sheets or
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ang that, so that's cool.
Yeah, it's I think more bands should
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do that. Ship your friend Sean
Matthews, his wife actually has our flip
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flops. Nice. Oh yeah,
she surprised him. She's like, these
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flip flops are awesome, and Mike's
like, we have fucking flip flops.
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Wow, that's cool. Yeah,
and you wouldn't find many metal bands that
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would have flip flops. I get
weird looks for it, but like,
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honestly, ICP is like marketing geniuses, and like listening to them growing up
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and stuff, it's like they put
their name and their emblem the Hatchetman,
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on everything. Love them or hate
them. They are marketing fucking wizards,
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and I took note of that at
an early age. It's like, damn
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these dudes. They have action figures
or shoelaces like brand recognition. I agree
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completely. So definitely everybody's got to
check out your merch because it's the only
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way bands survive. So they're not
allowed to listen to my show unless they
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buy some merch from you. Absolutely, and everybody needs pillowcases. So at
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the very least, slide in our
DMS tell us you listen to us with
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pipe Man and maybe we'll give you
a little discount code or something. There
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you go, I love it.
Any other words you want to give our
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listeners that we haven't covered yet that
they should know about you guys, We
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do you have anything as well?
Yeah, honestly, the only thing that
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I could personally say, I'm the
guitar player for Traversity Abyss in my own
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opinion, And this is like something
that everybody says. Our music is good
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if you listen to it, right, but the live show is even better.
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So make sure if you see us
come in your hometown or something,
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you come out. The more that
you listen like follows share, the more
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that you stream us on Spotify and
Apple Music and all that, our numbers
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go up in your area, and
that means that we're more likely to go
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to that area. Nice. Yeah, there's no substitute for a live show,
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so definitely everybody's got to check you
out. Go one of your shows.
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You know, mess some things up
in the pit and all that good
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stuff. We gotta show you the
incarceration pictures and videos. Man, dude,
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that was even like the Metal Injection
and Metal Insider write ups and everything
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like that was insanity. Nice.
Well, you guys are insane, and
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I mean that in the best way. So I love it. And thanks
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for being here at Louder and thanks
for being on the Adventures pint Man.
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Thank you for having us, and
thank you all for the listeners and your
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continued support. Thank you for listening
to the Adventures of pinate Man. I'm
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w for CUI Radio.
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Hey, you love them too?
Sure, I'm for see Wow you wake
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up America. It's time for the
Adventures. So pipe Man on W forcy
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dot com Westpong Beaches number one internet
radio station. Here's your host, The
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White Man by its pipe Man here
on the Adventures pie Man W for c
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Y Radio and I'm here with Traverse
the Abyss. What's up? How are
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you doing on this Saturday? Oh
man, it's louder than life? How
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can it be bad? Right?
Absolutely so? How has your experience been
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here at leard in Life so far? For you guys, so far pretty
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incredible. We played in the midday
on Thursday around three thirty, which initially
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we're like, I wonder how many
people were going to come out, but
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we ended up drawing a pretty nice
sized crowd to one of the backside stages.
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Nice and we have extremely positive reception. Joel from Metal Injection had a
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nice article in the day one review
for us. Very cool as well as
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there's a requested enough that we're going
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plays for all the campers and stuff. That's more fun. No, it's
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it's all. It's all of it
because we're here to entertain and make memories.
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I love it. So tell our
listeners who have never heard your music
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before, how you guys, as
artists, would would express your music,
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how you would give them a picture
of it. A lot of times we're
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getting, especially recently, we've been
getting compared to like as I lay dying
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with Black Dallia murder Child. Joel
wrote that we have the reminiscence of early
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days suicide silence. So it thought
it's breakdown savvy. It's intense, but
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the live show is what captivates it. Because if you want to listen to
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everything, Christine, you know,
there's the CDs and Spotify, but getting
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that live experiences where we really shine
because we're at heart all entertainers. So
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we lay it all on the line. They climbing each other's shoulders and everything,
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and we try to match the intensity
of our music by just a full
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out release on our part. Nice
and Yeah, there is no substitute for
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live music. Absolutely, that's when
you tell when band is really good.
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Because anybody can sound good in the
studio, get up on stage and sound
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good. That's a whole other world. Absolutely, there's definitely times and you
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know you hate to see it.
But there's times you really want to see
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a certain band and then they start
playing and it like, oh man,
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they're having like they have the computer
troubles and then all of a sudden,
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now they can't perform. Like we
are as bare bones raw, we're a
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little strange. We use three guitars
so like one could stay locked in with
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the bass for rhythm while to accentuate
like harmonies or vice versa. When we
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need to get really bass to the
wall heavy, you have two guitars just
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punching in the face while like Michael
lay something ambient and eerie underneath. That
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just completely fills the atmosphere nice.
So what made you decide in the beginning
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to go with three guitarists? We
didn't. It was a complete progression.
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We started out originally with just four. It was me Mike on guitar,
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and then we had our old bass
player and original drummer. Eventually we worked
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in a second guitarist and we played
swap a guy several times and we ended
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up with two great candidates to fill
in a bass position. And that's when
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we were spitballing, like, hey, you know, sometimes there's these stuff
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you do in the studio that you
can't replicate, which tracks usually will counteract.
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But having that extra guitar now we
have like if one has to pause
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and tune real quick, like there's
no law, like we could keep everything
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rolling, and so what you're gonna
do to follow up Louder than life now?
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Like now you have to you have
this pull that you have to overcome.
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I would like to cross off a
couple of bucket lists, like we're
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looking at Rockville, Like trying to
get into Welcome to Rockville would be awesome
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because we're East coast. We're from
Scranton, Pennsylvania, so like that easily
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we could do an independent run down
to Daytona and then back up to home
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and ship rocks. Like getting to
Hill with two birds and get stoned and
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go on a cruise and perform see
other bands. Is like it's like almost
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a dream that I feel like I
haven't cracked yet. So like nice that
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type of experience, rock fest,
any of the festival, Like we want
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to just get into the circuit of
the festivals. We've seen a couple of
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bands come up doing stuff that we're
doing and now list it on you know
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they did After Shock, they did
Sonic Temple they did incarceration, which luckily
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enough and grateful for our fans.
They are the reason we got to perform
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at Ink this year and as well
as Louder So thank you to all the
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listeners. That was pretty iconic performing
at the Shawshank Prison, wasn't it.
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The saw Ink Ink is a whole
another interview that was one of the that
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was like a quintessential rock star story
on our part, Like we put I
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have the pictures and everything. We
pulled over like four thousand, five thousand
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people to the backstage. It was
the whole reformatory was filled in just the
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treatment and everything. It was our
first festival appearance and most of us are
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first time ever even going to a
festival, so just wow, it was
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really overwhelming to soak it in.
Plus like the Shawshank redemption and just seeing
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how the prison was lit up with
those green and purple lights. It was
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just like fever dreamish, no doubt. Yeah, So first time I ever
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did in like I don't know,
ten years ago or something, and I
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do all the festivals. So my
daughter's always like, well are you saying
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about this next festival? I'm like, I don't know if excited is the
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word. I love doing it,
but when you do it every week,
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it's not necessarily excitement as the word. But then when I went to INC,
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I was on the prison yard quote
unquote, and I called up my
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door. I'm like, now I'm
excited, I'm at I'm on the prison
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yard of Shawshank Redemption. Did you
do the tour? Did you go inside
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the tour? You know what else? Too? Did you notice that they're
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the new reformatory is next door And
for some of the performances, the inmates
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are out in the yard just like
doing it, just like your Johnny Cash
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performing to the inmates. That's and
where we were stationed there that we would
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have been a band that they heard. So that's yeah, see that's wild
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right Yeah, And even if they
were inside their cell, they could probably
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hear you. It's so loud,
so like any entertainment when you're in there.
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Yeah, it's starved for out,
that's for sure. Did you do
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the Blood Prison? No. We
found out that we were able to like
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kind of get through the line and
go through it at Sunday around five o'clock
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when it was already shut down,
and we were like fingers toes crossed for
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next year. There you go.
Well, I'm sure you'll be on all
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the Danny Wimmer festivals because it's like, once you get on one, that's
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just stepping stone to others, especially
if you were invited back to a second
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one. Now you're on your way. Yeah. Absolutely, we're hoping even
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doing like one of the secondary stages
at like Ink or something like that is
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a breathtaking crowd to perform for.
Yeah, and Rockville's really cool because you
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get to perform at that. They
tone the speedway man, that's like iconic.
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Yeah. Just even there's beaches in
Florida, so it's nice and warm,
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so that there's some extra pluses.
Will roast in the bus in the
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Florida heat. Right, So how
do people reach out to you on socials
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on the web by your merch all
that good stuff? We are just like
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everywhere traverse. If you search Traverse
the Abyss and it doesn't come up the
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video games Dark Souls or Destiny,
it's more than likely us. We're on
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Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Spotify. We have music videos on YouTube.
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Our website is ww dot Traverse the
Abyss dot com. We have almost a
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line of exclusive online merch where we
have like flip flops. We have pillowcases
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and bedsheets and like just random stuff
you wouldn't find out the average merch table.
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That is pretty cool. I've never
seen pillows, pillowcases or sheets or
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ang that, so that's cool.
Yeah, it's I think more bands should
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do that. Ship your friend Sean
Matthews, his wife actually has our flip
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flops. Nice. Oh yeah,
she surprised him. She's like, these
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flip flops are awesome, and Mike's
like, we have fucking flip flops.
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Wow, that's cool. Yeah,
and you wouldn't find many metal bands that
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would have flip flops. I get
weird looks for it, but like,
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honestly, ICP is like marketing geniuses, and like listening to them growing up
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and stuff, it's like they put
their name and their emblem the Hatchetman,
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on everything. Love them or hate
them. They are marketing fucking wizards,
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and I took note of that at
an early age. It's like, damn
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these dudes. They have action figures
or shoelaces like brand recognition. I agree
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completely. So definitely everybody's got to
check out your merch because it's the only
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way bands survive. So they're not
allowed to listen to my show unless they
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buy some merch from you. Absolutely, and everybody needs pillowcases. So at
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the very least, slide in our
DMS tell us you listen to us with
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pipe Man and maybe we'll give you
a little discount code or something. There
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you go, I love it.
Any other words you want to give our
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listeners that we haven't covered yet that
they should know about you guys, We
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do you have anything as well?
Yeah, honestly, the only thing that
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I could personally say, I'm the
guitar player for Traversity Abyss in my own
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opinion, And this is like something
that everybody says. Our music is good
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if you listen to it, right, but the live show is even better.
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So make sure if you see us
come in your hometown or something,
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you come out. The more that
you listen like follows share, the more
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that you stream us on Spotify and
Apple Music and all that, our numbers
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go up in your area, and
that means that we're more likely to go
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to that area. Nice. Yeah, there's no substitute for a live show,
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so definitely everybody's got to check you
out. Go one of your shows.
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You know, mess some things up
in the pit and all that good
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stuff. We gotta show you the
incarceration pictures and videos. Man, dude,
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that was even like the Metal Injection
and Metal Insider write ups and everything
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like that was insanity. Nice.
Well, you guys are insane, and
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I mean that in the best way. So I love it. And thanks
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for being here at Louder and thanks
for being on the Adventures pint Man.
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Thank you for having us, and
thank you all for the listeners and your
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continued support. Thank you for listening
to the Adventures of pinate Man. I'm
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w for CUI Radio.
