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The Artist Interrogations podcast. It's features sitting down with Twiztid on KBEAR 101. How are you guys doing? We are amazing. We are here and we are now.
We just came out of, like, 41,000 feet of elevation. And, yeah. So our sinuses are awry. But, we're draining, and we're here. And it is amazing.
Thank you for having us. Yeah. Thank you for so much for joining in. I know last time I saw you guys on the Zoom call, and then now I see you guys in person. Yep.
Pre I went just as ugly. Yeah. We're constantly ugly, though. Same for me. Same for me.
How's it how's it been for the music wise? Have you guys been making anything new, or has it just been kind of the same old same old, or what's going on? No. No. We, we we just released songs of Samhain volume 3.
It's available now for your fall Halloween season, perfect to spook up any party or or or or haunt any, holiday get together. Yep. There's a pumpkin spice version available as well for all of you pumpkin spice lovers. There's nothing like fall, but we love that, man. We're like the kings of Halloween.
We love that stuff. So it's like it's it's it's good to keep up that we started like this, I guess. What do you call it, Naz? Is it an anthology? It is an annual anthology.
There you go. So so it's like every year we drop one. This one is no exception. It's it's cool. It just came out.
We're currently on tour with the, certified psychos tour, and, we are playing somewhere tonight. I'm not quite sure where, but In the middle of nowhere. In in in your area, and, it's been a good time. We're it's it's like a throwback deal. We're doing our old school material for everybody who's been you know, why won't you go back here and this and that?
So we've been it's like a throwback vibe. Right. We're gonna vault some of these songs. Exactly. You know what I mean?
Like, this will be the last time you get to hear some of this stuff unless you come to, like, the one off specialty show every 5 years. You celebrate so many years of the album, and they people do the album in entirety. We're just gonna try to retire some songs, man. We've been doing a lot of music for a long time, and there's a lot of that we've recently released that we don't even get the chance to perform. Right.
It's like our career is spawned in in 2 years of 10. It's like there's you can go back 10 and it's all old or you can come this way and it and it's all new. And we can go either way with it. And I don't know. It's just time, like, we feel like Walt Disney.
Let's be tired of it. Let's vault some things. Let's put our hands in cryogenic freezers and There's nothing wrong with that. How many albums has it been for you guys? 604?
I was gonna say easily 605, but, yeah, he's he's he's probably close. Now we release a lot of material, and we do, like, EPs and collector editions and stuff like that, so we lost count a long time ago. But, we always worry about the most current ones, like Unlikely Prescription that I know you guys, you Do you know how many records that we've done? I'm just asking George. Yeah.
We just wanna see if anyone else knows. George would be in the ballpark at least. 22. That's I was not what I was thinking. 22?
22. And all those lyrics, you have to remember, like, live too. At times, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
The most important one right now is Unlikely Prescription. That's that's got the track MV I heard you guys are playing. Not so it's like Nice. That's important. That that's our most recent record, and then we've been in the studio working on new projects as well in between touring and stuff like that.
So we constantly stay busy. Yeah. We got a super big one coming next year. Sure. That's gonna be awesome.
Yep. Heck, yeah. Back in the rock roots. Yeah. Yeah.
We've been playing Rosepetal. We've been playing Magic Spells. We've been playing a lot of your good stuff. I know we just implemented our Halloween playlist, so we're doing 2 per hour and, like, we don't we don't, you know, do the radio cuts. So there's audio edits.
So, like, typo negatives, 11 minute lawn songs are in there. Oh, my goodness. Get your Halloween out. White. No.
Yeah. Yeah. That was terrifying. I I heard he was a super nice dude too. Oh, absolutely.
Yeah. Absolutely. He's just 1 6 foot 8 tall guy that's He's just a vampire. Just because he's a vampire doesn't mean he doesn't have emotion. Wouldn't be surprised by who previously worked here.
That's right. That's right. But are you guys obsessed with pumpkin spice as well? You just see it everywhere. I actually rode by an oil change place that assured everybody they have pumpkin spiced, scented oil.
Oil. Yeah. Like, it's just everywhere. I hate it. It reminds me of, potpourri potpourri or whatever that is.
Yeah. Poopourri. Yeah. Poopourri. Right.
It's like I can't associate that with it. I'll I'll pumpkin pie, maybe. Carving pumpkin, sure. Absolutely. A great pumpkin, always.
Mhmm. Pumpkin spice, not so much. Hefty just released their pumpkin spice to trash bags. See? Oh, wow.
See? I only saw that. I see we've seen pumpkin spice kitty litter, so it doesn't stop. It's clearly a gimmick, and everybody's gonna get their their due out of it. Yep.
Absolutely. Do you guys do anything special when it comes to, like, watching movies for Halloween and stuff? I mean, do you guys have, like, 1 per day? Because that's what me and Russell are doing. We're starting that today.
That's a that's a cool one. And we Yeah. We're doing, like, a movie review. We're starting off with Nosferatu in one You guys are going back with that. Yeah.
Right on. That's good. That's awesome. What what are some of your guys' favorites? Well, Amityville 2, The Possession is my old school go to right there.
There's just certain things that happened in that movie are just like, man, it gives me the creeps. Makes me feel all weird below my zipper. Yeah. But, for new one, paranormal activity, the marked ones, I love that. That's a really good one.
You know what wasn't? The new saw. Oh, man. That's exactly what I was saying. Why I thought Will Smith went after Chris Rock for doing that.
Wow. Not because, I'm telling you, if you really ask, you'll probably say, no. It had nothing to do with that. It had everything to do with you ruining the Saw franchise. Is it but it's it's not called Saw.
Right? It's called something else. It is the Saw It's spiral. Right? Is that it?
Yeah. I think that's what that's a continuation. That's what Oh, okay. He basically got the franchise to continue it. I got you.
See, because I didn't see it. Now it's what threw me off. I was like, I'm not sure if it's part of the series or not, so it sounds like I did myself a service. Yeah. You see Russell over here, he actually, was not able to watch any of those movies growing up.
So now he's watching them because he's living on his own now. Absolutely. And he said Saw 1 was underwhelming. That wow. Underwhelming.
Deed. That guy cutting off his ankle. Yeah. But you got off the It was underwhelming. He's been hearing about the movie for 5 years, 6 years where and and now you see it, nothing ever really lives up to the lore that's before it.
You know what I mean? All the things that you hear, you know, us a lot of times too. People meet us and they're like, wait a minute. You're not gonna saw your arm off? What do you mean you're not gonna saw your arm off?
Off. It's so by the time he saw it, it probably was underwhelming because he's expecting this, and it was that. So I get it. I know where you're at. Interesting.
And I was listening to, Ice Nine Kill's recent album, and, of course, they gave you the song Envy with them and stuff. And, like, I just saw them live for the first time as well. They're awesome. Chopping arms off, chopping heads off. Like, sorry about the chopping arms off thing.
Right. And just I I real watching American Psycho, I was like, oh, this is where the references are from. So I I haven't seen American Psycho since, like, earlier than I just saw it earlier this year. That movie's deep. It's it's real deep.
Patrick Bateman goes in. There's a lot of, raincoats and axes. That sums it up. That is my, review of it. He's very moist in that movie.
It's a good one. He's naked a lot in it too for some strange reason. Have you guys seen, Guillermo del Toro's house? Mhmm. Like, it is where he lives?
Where he lives. No. They don't let us buy people's houses immediately on the property. The authorities are called. Bringing down property for you and everything as soon as we hit the ride.
Get down on your knees. I think I think you guys would be, like, cherished there because, he has this, he has, like, life-sized statues of different, like, horror figures. Oh, that's cool. And he has, like, HP Lovecraft, Alfred Hitchcock. He also has the So rad.
I forgot the girl from Exorcist. What's her name? Reagan. She's sitting on the couch. Oh, that's cool.
Like silicone figure of her. The Rob Zombie got stuff like that. So, yeah, Rob Zombie's got, like, the bear from The Addams Family. He's got all kinds of stuff in his house. Like What's the Go Go?
Basil Go Go? Basil Go Go, the original paintings and everything, right, from the old monster magazines and creepy from Warren, magazines. It's just some he's he's he's like it's like once you get that kind of level of, success, you acquire cool things like movie props and people are like You get chances. You get better chances. At getting those things.
Right. That's that's a good way to put that. You have better opportunities at getting things that are like the needle in a haystack. And that's where we get excited about our stardom. The walk into a McDonald's and they bring you from a medium to a large because of who you are, man.
Or Right. You got 2 pieces of cheese. I went ahead and bumped you and threw you a couple extra nuggets. Whoop whoop. Thank you.
It's the small thing. So good. And when it happens, it is amazing. It is. It's the kickbacks of life, man.
It is. It's why we do this. Alright. Everybody knows now. We're just in this for the food.
Right. Right. Right. I think I left the ranch packets for everything. We just wander around the fast food places and restaurants, paint it up, hoping to god somebody back there recognizes us and throw us an extra nugget.
You asked what we do for Halloween. One of our tradition is collecting condiments from all the places we stop to. Absolutely. And at the end, we give them away for Halloween. Here's a relish packet for you.
Love your costume. Yep. All the way. It's a good time. I swear to you.
All the way from Idaho Falls. A little fry sauce for you. Yep. Oh, there we go. We don't have that.
We don't have that. I know. So when I moved out, I moved here from Southern California. There you go. Like like when I first came out here, I'm like, what's what's fry sauce?
What is that? South Carolina. Yeah. Ketchup and mayonnaise is what I'm hearing. Yeah.
Well, that's what I'm hearing. I'm just thinking if you guys can know the bad kids just like some terrible condiment. Like, here's some True. Expired horseradish or something. Oh, man.
No way. I'm doing a charley horse is right in their thighs. Yep. Yep. I'm around here trying to trick or treat.
Oh, that's great. Have you guys seen, have you are you guys, like, on TikTok as well? Oh, yeah. We do. We have a TikTok account.
Yep. Have you seen, like, ghost enter the Billboard top 2? Yeah. Heard about it. Yeah.
Mariana Cross. Right? Right? So we need to get twisted up there as well. I'm saying that.
Absolutely. We keep trying to, throw throw down, you know, stuff, but I think a lot of that stuff is organic and people just, like, someone does it and then everybody just follows suit. So that's cool because if I'm not mistaken, isn't that song, like, 2 or 3 years old? Yeah. It reentered.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, came back up. Yeah.
Right? Yeah. Good for that, man. Man. That's cool.
It just goes to show the power of of fans. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's like they they they control a lot of stuff and can determine a lot of stuff and a lot of, entertainers careers. Absolutely.
They would they can end you or For real. Make you. Or begin you. Yeah. For sure.
I think even now, like, Pierce the Veil Yeah. Has entered the Uh-huh. Jam right there. Past Nirvana. Yeah.
And then came came for a day as well and then Yep. Got to see them at Blue Ridge. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Mhmm.
Pierce the Veil. It was dope. It was awesome. I know Crossfade's Cold is now trending too. That's really Older song as well.
I was gonna say, yeah. Crossfade is the jam, dude. Totally. Streaming is something else. It's the Kate Bush effect.
You know what I mean? Exactly. Yeah. That's what everybody's hoping for that now. All the old schoolers are, like, that's all it takes.
For sure. She was making $1,000,000 a day, something like that off of the streaming. Holy smokes. Wasn't it walk a 100 miles from the season before? Running away.
And that was the like, every every season, I think they have, like, some kinda gimmick between them. Like, what what old song can we take out of obscurity and make the most popular? They probably bet. Was it the Duffer Brothers? Right?
They have some kind of paper, rock, scissors, or this time, it was, running up a hill or whatever it's called. That's got a Running down the hill or running into a hill. What I I'm so confused. But you guys do have 22 albums to choose from. We do.
I mean So, I mean, it's actually I I believe the choice is in your hands, the listeners. It has nothing to do with us. We can virtually just sit on the side and eat the condiment packets we've collected amongst our October run. I don't think Kate Bush submitted for the Stranger Things soundtrack. Honestly, right.
Right. I don't believe that. I think she was just sitting at home and, like, really me? Wow. Really me?
Right. I like Vector or Vecna. What's his name? Is this Vector? I I call it Vecna.
It's Vecna. Alright. Cool. Vecna. Yeah.
Yeah. He's my homie. So I think it's, like, for 22 albums for you guys and to try to at least get down to, like, season 8 of Stranger Things or some Netflix show in the future For sure. To get added on to it in the soundtrack because I've noticed, like, for metal Metallica, which I think now, luckily enough, these kids are now getting interested in metal again because I noticed that for TikTok when they're in across master of puppets and then to discover all these different artists and music. Tired of being the cost down the street with the shirt, hey, you know a song from that band?
No. It became more fashionable to wear the clothes, but then you're, like, tell me one song that band performs and you're, like, I I got this shirt at Levi's. It's really cool. So I was thinking about that. Gap.
It's stuff like that. So got the shirt at the Gap. Yes. The Metallica shirt from the Gap and Justice For All with rhinestones on it. Real trendy.
Real, real, real trendy. You're like, name a song. Can't do it. But it's cool that they come back, but also because music has been such a melting pot, and everything is like all the lines are starting to get blurred. Yeah.
So it's like rock is rap. New metal is rap. You're hearing more rap in new metal. You're hearing more rock and pop. You're hearing all these things blend, so maybe it's it's refreshing for people to go back to something that's purist.
This is just metal. Yeah. You're not gonna hear no flows. It's just shreds and hair and You're not gonna hear John Bush on the new twisted record. I guarantee you that one.
Right. But it's cool, though. That's that's the fun part about it, though. But if she called, I'm a motherfucker. I would put her on the record.
Absolutely. Out. Can't eat your old button here and send me some stuff. We'll be alright. Come up that hill for me one more again.
Yeah. I mean, have you got have you guys have you guys been on to, like, any concerts as of late 2 or anything crazy? Blue Ridge for 4 days, man. Yeah. We got to see Jelly Roll, our homie.
He he he rocked it. We Came as Romans. They rocked it. I those are 2 sets that I got to see and Ice Cube and, dub c put it down. Like, those are the most recent shows that I got to catch that were just, like, amazing.
But Tenacious d came out and Yeah. I see that. Everybody know. It's cool. That's a goal of mine to see them live, even Rammstein too.
Mine too. I keep hearing that. I saw them already too. You have? I saw them when they first started and they were opening, for Black Sabbath.
It was at a festival, and you're just watching. All of a sudden, the guy was running around on fire and all. It was crazy, dude. And it was put on a show too. Yeah.
Yeah. It was nuts. Now their their live shows, they say, are some of the most insane. I I kinda wanna see that. I wanna get shot with a flaming arrow.
They say, like, you can hear from, like, 10 miles away. Like, it's ridiculously loud. Yeah. Like, someone thought, like, this was war footage. It's like, no.
That's Rammstein live in, like, San Antonio. The flames are being shot. The cannon burst. Boom. Boom.
Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom.
That's what you guys gotta do for your next concert. Just Man. Take a cannon. Absolutely. Just to be clear, to get the permits to do that kind of jazz and the places that we go is is is I don't think it's gonna happen.
I don't think we know the right. It's like a no fly zone, and you wanna bring a plane in. It's like, I don't know. We'll see. But that's one way to get my toes crossed.
Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Set somebody on fire. It's a hard one to forget.
Right. Right. Right. The Mickey East Idaho News, fired a blank cannon on the outside, caused the whole crowd to run away. There it is.
See? Not used to wait when he permits. Yep. There is a battle though, online, I've noticed, recently. Mhmm.
Ronnie Radke have fallen in reverse. Yeah. And you guys saw that? And trunk. Yeah.
Yeah. The bloody trunk, we just talked about that. Yeah. Victor Walt, the guy who interviewed you last, 2 years ago. I got Ronnie's side.
Yeah. Yeah. Dude, seriously, he's right. He's got a point because it's like ever since and this is that's for rock, but I can attest since him and I have been doing this in our career, we've always played off a backing tape. So it's like the bands nowadays that do play, a lot of bands have atmosphere in between tracks.
People come out to intros and not a person's playing, and then they start playing. So for when he made that statement like that, it was like, that's really bold to say that. And then for a dude to just jump in and now he wants to fight, it's like, dude, what what man, children, slap them, Ronnie. That's all I'm saying. Lady.
Right. Right. Right. And then now other people wanna get involved and then it's like everybody's trying to hop on the trend, but it's like I mean, it could be worse, I guess. If you do well, that was the thing.
He had they had they canceled the show because someone stole their laptops Oh. And and they couldn't play because their music was on their laptops. We travel with this machine we call AllSpark. Yes. We're Transformer fans.
And it contains all of our music in it. And we can dial up a song, and it's all in this database. But if you steal that We are screwed. There's no way to do it. Play the CD and go off of that.
We can and he was like, no. My fans deserve better than that. I'm not performing off a CD. I these are just elements. It's not the entire tape.
And when that guy made the assessment, it came off. He didn't say this verbatim, but it came off as he was in in implicating that everything he's doing is like a lip sync. Everything he's doing is not there, and and and I understand why dude got got upset, though. Seriously. And and he had the absolute right to get upset because it was like, how dare you?
That he even made a statement, which was crazy. I have to watch the footage, but, like, he's like, Steven Tyler's playing piano in this thing and because he said all the old bands are just purists, and he he's playing the piano. And the dude gets on top of the piano, and it's still playing. And it's like, so if that's not a track, then what the hell are you talking about? So I guess just people get lost in that.
Which books you had a twisted show? Lip syncing. I'll tell you that much. There's no lip syncing. Right.
Right. It's like We go hard. But we do have elements that that add to the ambiance in what we do. So it's like Right. It's it's We wanna make it a show.
Absolutely. We wanna make it as entertaining as possible. Every second that you are there, you spent money to be there. You have your kids in a babysitting program and you took time off of work and it's like the least we can do is make that time as entertaining as possible. Right on.
So I don't I don't see what's wrong with that. I did notice with Eddie Trunk too. Like, he was already beefing with Kiss about the lip syncing thing. Absolutely. And I don't think it's a crap lot of bands that do lip sync.
It's true. That is what it is. But what what I would think that Eddie Trunk would understand from being such a a person from you. People behind our curtains and stuff. Yeah.
Like, this is our area. You know what I mean? As artists, we have our own thing. Most of the stuff. That lip syncs.
We're just gonna say it right Stop it. I'm not with I Know Fall The the thing that bothers me, though, is a lot of the things like like like what was I can't think of the name of it. It wasn't Soul Train. It was like Electric City or something. All of those gold.
Solid gold. All of those performances were all lip synced. All seventies, 75, 78, they were all lip synced. So it's like for someone to say that, it's like these people broke away from lip syncing and instead of using it's like you get with the times where you get left behind. It's cool that you can grab a guitar and go sing at the coffee house.
No one's no one's pooping on you. Props to you. Hater. Not no haters. All all congratulators, but at the same time, if you add more to the event to make it more theatrical in the regard to give the best show, then I don't see what's wrong with that.
Right. It's not about you anymore at that point. It's about the people that made you who you are and what they deserve in your eyes, and you go from there. Right on. And if you feel your people deserve that, then it's fine.
That's your choice. And I didn't even notice from, like, a musician standpoint either. Because I I knew from the Eddie Trunk standpoint, I'm sure he doesn't know how to play an instrument either and stuff. Right. Yeah.
Right. I think he's ever toured at all, but, like, Victor is the guy that interviewed you 2 years ago, and he's, like, my boss and stuff. He was telling me, he's, like, yeah, the the the is what you use like, what you guys said for the backing tracks, especially orchestral parts for Fallin' River. For tempo. Like, there's a click track.
People I'm not trying to spoil this behind the curtains, but there's there's a click track that people hear in their in ears that sets the tempo. The drummer's the backbone of the beat. So even if he's playing live, he's still hearing a track. All of that's on the laptop or or like we have AllSpark or whatever the case may be, however you prefer, but it's like that's part of the show. So for you to not have that, that completely cripples your show.
And for them to be, like, that unsympathetic to the to or or even just to have to chime in, you didn't have to say anything. Here's the question. Shut the f up, but you didn't. Is he buying tickets to his show? No.
He's not. He's just trying to should should not matter to him. Ronnie Radke is packing clubs. He is so not worried about any of that and and whatever, dude. It is what it is.
Everybody got to get in get in the sauce. But Dip their finger in the Kool Aid. I don't like the hair pulling. Yeah. I don't like it either.
Let's all just be friends. Exactly. I do like you guys' positive attitude all the time. Because I I've listened to past interviews too, and it's nice to actually hear a positive outlook. You know?
For sure. For sure. Because I I love seeing the Twitter beefs too because it's Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, it's like we we can turn up. We just we just learn from turning up.
A lot of the times when you do turn up, it's because you didn't read it all the way through properly. You didn't digest it properly mentally or emotionally, and then you just popped off. Yeah. And the next thing you know, that person did that, and it just creates a domino effect of crap. And then you get back to, why we beefing?
I don't know, man. Hey. What's up? I'm Jamie. I'm Paul.
You know, whatever the case may be, and we're cool. It's like so that's what we've come to learn. That's the only reason why we're like that now. If you'd have talked to us 10 years ago, we'd have been like, where they at? At?
What they wanna do? Nothing's real anymore. Right. You know what I mean? You can read a 1,000 people saying that they hate you.
And then once those 1,000 people are in front of you, it's not the same. It's different. We watch it happen for the last 10 years. People that say whatever they wanna say, and then we see them either through a meet and greet or just and it's never what they're portraying on social media. Mhmm.
So I refuse to believe any of it. And also when we live in such a tech savvy world, a lot of stuff isn't human face to face. So anything like, I could text you know that that's not a cat Right. Typing that. Right.
Like no. But I could text you and you and you and them all the same message, and each one of you are gonna interpret it a different way. He's mad. Well, he sounded happy. Wow.
Is he pissed at me? You know what I mean? It's like everybody's gonna interpret it their own way because you didn't literally hear it from the person's mouth. There wasn't they didn't emote when they said it. There was nothing.
There was no contact. Yes. But right. You leave a sentence unpunctuated Right. And you could start World War 3.
Seriously. It's it's that true. And it's like so that's why a lot of that stuff giving validity to all of that just seems so over the top, but I get it. That's what we do. You know what I mean?
In the in the industry, you gotta create stuff to keep stories going and stuff like that and and talk about stuff so we can get past it. We're gonna learn something from this whole trunk situation. We're gonna learn something. We're gonna find out how many bands really get down like how we do. Right.
Because we get down. We do. I do enjoy, like, the old DJs going up against, like, modern artists of today. I just wanna see more like Howard Stern versus Ghost or something. Right.
Right. Right. Right. Right. Right.
Howard Stern would destroy that one. Oh my god. What's going on in rap too right now? It's the same thing. You have the purest, and then you have the people that came on the last 3 years that have made, you know, $200,000,000,000 and 600,000,000,000 streams.
It's not the first thing they do is disrespect the whole staircase they walked up to get there. And that's a lot of them. Up a staircase. They don't even know any of them. They didn't.
But if you look behind you, there was a staircase there, and it's just it's a respect value. Even if you don't enjoy a person's music, just know pay it forward. They probably laid a brick in the path you're walking. So that's why we're here. Because someone gave them a chance, they turn.
It's all it's all, man. It's evolution in the in the music industry, at least, the way I think about it. Absolutely. Well, yeah. Well, thank you guys for joining us today and this whole thing, and you guys have a you guys new album coming soon?
Yep. Yep. Yep. It's a mystery. It's a mystery.
It's a mystery. It'll be next year. Keep your eyes peeled. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's one out now Yeah. For your Halloween seasons?
Season yes. Yes. That's what I was talking about. Songs of Samhain volume 3 is available right now. You could go pick that up.
But he was talking about a brand new rock record that we have coming out and the year coming up that we're working on. Yeah. So you can go now to your local wherever you buy music and pick up songs of Samhain volume 3. Check it out. It's perfect for haunting your house on the holiday.
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