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A replay of Peaches Pit Party which you can hear on KBEAR 101 weekday afternoons 2pm - 7pm MST
The Artist Interrogations podcast. What's up? Oh, nothing much, man. It's awesome to get the chance to talk to you because I've been, like, begging for this to happen, you know? Yeah.
We've, we've been basically traveling, whether it's for shows or for doing stuff for our album release for, like, the last month nonstop. So today is like the or not today, but this week is like the 1st week I get to kinda stay in one place for a little bit. So that's, yeah, trying to catch up on this stuff. So sorry to keep you waiting. No.
It's okay. Perfectly on time. It just turned 10, and then you joined the call. So I was like, oh, perfect. It's fantastic.
So there we go. Here we are. Yeah. I was about to ask too because I know, like, you had the Trinity of Terror part 1 tour, and we were at that, but now the whole thing. And then you have the release of the album, and then you have Trinity of Terror part 2 coming up.
And I was like, when does this guy have time off to do anything for himself, you know? Yeah. Yeah. We, we've been moving, man. It's it's wild to me how it went from one extreme to the other.
I mean, I feel like we did have a warm up tour last September. We did some festivals, a couple shows here and there, and then we were off until early this year. So it was, like, kind of a a one off tour where it was, like, 15 shows. It felt like, oh, man. Everything's we're back.
This is great. And then it was 5 or 6 months off. And then as soon as Trinity's of terror 1 started, it just exploded. And it's crazy to see, like, what normal is now is back to a 100%. But it's it's awesome because it's, you know, we had a year and a half away from touring, so I'll take it.
Yeah. Absolutely. Because I know, like, my friend Braxton, it was his first concert. I took him with me to see you guys, and he's a giant fan of yours. Like, so we were sit we're sitting there in the middle, and I'm already, like, I'm I'm 6 foot 9.
You can't tell by the the camera, but, like, I'm standing there in front of everybody. I'm getting yelled at because I'm blocking their view. And then as soon as you guys come out on stage, open up and everything, like, the whole crowd started to push me towards. I'm like, I can't do this. I I'm just going to the right.
Yeah. I'm not going in there. Yeah. It's it's funny because I feel like you, you're, you know, you're 6 foot 9. That's some biking right there.
So, yeah, you're getting pushed around by a bunch of kids at venues. Very a a very funny visual in my mind. Oh, because there was a wave of kids. Get it. Yeah.
A wave of kids were pushing me. Not not like just 1 or 2 people. I just turn around and I see dudes, like, just go to the rail. Go to the rail. And, yeah, this and I was like I'm not surviving this whatsoever for you guys, Ice Steinkels and Black Veil Brides all in one night but I'm I'm so happy that like your guys's album, Scoring the End of the World, is doing so well from what I've seen all over Twitter and you know all the different sites saying it's it's amazing And I actually ended up playing it during my show from start to finish just because I was so excited for it.
Wow. Yeah. And people were That's a Yeah. That's a big move. There's some songs on there that are very, very topically, aggressive.
So I'm, I appreciate you taking the risk and putting it out there, but, that's really cool. It makes me happy. Yeah. We're, like, the only station playing slaughterhouse on the regular. Like, we play it, like, 7 in the morning.
And it's so funny whenever time I talk on the air and I just go, like, alright, in less than 10 minutes, I'll talk about this. And I hit the screen button, and I just hear Brian from Knocked Loose screaming in the headphones right away. It's crazy to me to think, like, imagine being on your way to work just pissed off that early in the morning and then just hearing that song. Mhmm. I would, I would have a very interesting commute and work day after getting pumped with that one going in.
Right. Yeah. Because we're, like, the only station that we have this feature called the middle morning wake up call. And our boss Victor will play like Lorna Shore at 6 AM or Slaughter to Prevail or one one of those songs that you're like I'm listening to this this early in the morning but we play Slaughterhouse of course because I have my my last name is Peach. I I go by Peaches on Kaybear so I have this thing called Peach's Pit, and I open up the pit and, you know, the guy who runs away from the mosh pit during your concert has a mosh pit type feature.
Don't tell anybody. Right. Right. No. That that's that's great.
I I love that, metal is or, like, the extreme metal in in the context of, you know, radio in any format is, getting its chance. It's there's a lot of fans out there, and they wanna hear that stuff. So it's it's really cool that people like you are putting it out there and giving fans what they want. It's not a common thing. Yeah.
Because I know, like, when I I'm from the Southern California area and they have the the famous stations and whatnot, but they don't play any of the metal. And I'm are me and my boss, like, get so mad because you hear these stations just playing sublime all day, and then you have these 2 metal heads that are like, I wanna listen to, of course, motionless and white and everybody else that puts out great music out there, you know? Yeah. I'm actually in Southern California right now that you say that. Oh, really?
Definitely definitely not a, a very heavy radio presence, really. Any I I know that there's a lot of, like, fans that are on radio that that try to squeeze it in, but they're, like, so restricted by whatever type of overseer that tells them that they can't. And, I just think it's awesome when either they just are like, nope, we're gonna go ahead and do it anyway or like you who just build a whole show around it. That's awesome. Right.
Yeah. And I I love the sound of it because it I love, like, the eighties type sound with it, like, the futuristic vibe kind of thing for most of the songs, especially, Werewolf of 2 as well. Like, what made you guys go with that direction? Because I know, like, there's the evolution of, like, all your guys' albums from 2010 to now. I think I mean, I'm gonna say probably the pandemic was like a very, video game heavy period for some of us, just to have something to do with the time.
And, we were kinda just like, man, this is, like, stuff that we've always been interested in, but never had the means to really try out, interested in, but never had the means to really try out bringing that in as a whole package deal with the whole band as far as sound, visuals, photos, etcetera. So we kinda just assess what that would look like and how to approach it and mixed, a lot of, like, cyberpunk influence with the like, just all kinds of things that we loved from from video games and other popular aesthetics and, thought that that would kinda create a world that felt appropriate to the subject matter. And that's just what we do. We try to give, like, one big picture package deal whenever we do an album, and this one is by far our favorite for sure. Yeah.
It's amazing, really. And did did you play Cyberpunk when it first came out? Like, you mentioned the Cyberpunk. So I'm like, did you play the video game at all? Yeah.
Glitches and all or all the, you know, everyone everyone freaking out about it not working and being a broken game and everything. I actually migrated more to I hate saying it. I have a bunch of friends that play the Call of Duty games, so I just played with them. That was the easiest one to get everyone to play together. So we had more of that than anything else, but I tried to venture all over the place from Doom to Cyberpunk to Call of Duty, Halo, all all the games I I wanted to play or love and just had time to do.
And that was really fun. And I'm just picturing you, like, getting angry, like rage quitting on Call of Duty and screaming the way you do on stage. Like, just like it. That'd be fantastic to hear. I should do it.
I should do a TikTok series where I play and put the microphone on and every time I get killed by somebody, I just blah in in the microphone or something. Yeah. That'd be fantastic because I know, like, when, I was listening to some other interview with the UFC fighter, Stipe Miocic, and he was talking trash to some kids and the kids were insulting him back and it's like do you know do you know who you're talking to? It's a UFC Heavyweight Champion. Yeah.
That type of thing. Oh, that's great man because I just I'm so happy the album is doing so well and then I also saw like because I went to when I went to Twitter once I was actually in here just looking at there was this right computer monitor and I saw there was a signed copy of the album for like $10. It was like, buy immediately. But then I saw, there's cassettes like now popping up everywhere of like these newer albums. Like, do you think there's going to be a resurgence of like cassettes version of these albums?
It's tough for me to say, because I feel like it's just a collector item situation. Like with vinyl, I know some people actually listen to the vinyl. But I think it's still just, like, the nostalgic collectability aspect of it that makes it so hot. I don't know if cassettes will hit the status of where vinyl currently is, but we did really well with them. And whether or not whether or not that's because we didn't have vinyl or not, I don't know.
But our fans love the collector's items. I love having I love being a band that can offer things that people wanna collect and have. And then when they show pictures of all the CD variants, all the cassettes, it's just like, man, that's that's, like, so sick that somebody wanted to have all these somewhere and just look at them like just, it's wild to be a band and have that kind of fan base that wants that stuff. So, I hope cassettes make a comeback because that's that's my era. That's when I started listening to music was cassettes.
Right. Yeah. Or was it after vinyl? I think my I had a cassette when I was kid because I was I was born in 1996. To not make you feel old in any way.
But I was born then and my first cassette was for my parents. It was Devo, the eighties group with Whippet. That's all I listened to. Nice. But I yeah.
I do see, like, the bright orange cassette tape from you guys. I'm like, I kinda wanna get that because that's extremely cool to see really. And I see your fans on Twitter going berserk buying everything and, like, having these giant bundles of the different variations of your guys' album. I know that the fan base is so crazy. I love the way that your guys' fans are so into it and with everything.
And I'm sure you've had, like, fans like myself who've grown up with you guys since, like, the beginning pretty much. And how does that like, is it crazy to see those fans that have grown up with you? That that's, some of my favorite to see because I think that, you know, every time you put on an album or at least I think for the past couple of albums for us, I think that's when most people who are fans now have kind of discovered us. So, like, when you play live, you kinda watch a bunch of people stand there and not have any idea what's going on when you play the older songs. But, I like to look at at the at the fans.
And when you can see a fan that's like, I was there when you put out this record or, oh, wow. It's crazy to see how far you've come from this record to this one. I remember being at this show where you guys played for 300 people. Like, it it feels like a a deeper connection because you've just been around longer, and you can kinda connect over a way longer evolution of the band. That's not to say I don't appreciate newer fans.
That sounds like I'm saying that if you're a newer fan, then you're frowned upon. Not at all. I think it's awesome to get into a band and then have all that that catalog to go and explore. That's equally as amazing. So I don't I don't have a favorite of any by any stretch, but I do love the connection you share with the fans who have grown up with us because we've all been evolving together.
And that's a rare unique thing when you've been a band this long. I I think it's awesome. Yeah. Because I think when I first was introduced to you guys, it was back when I was in high school, and there was this little part of the the campus called Emo Hill and that's where all the cool band kids would hang out and, like, that's what they would have, like, the band t shirts and I would hang out with them even though I was on the basketball team and those were all the popular kids over there on the other side. I'd go to this hill because they would have the best, like, music opinions and whatnot.
And, yeah, it was just crazy that, like, those and then I saw heard you guys for the first time, like, a while back. Then kind of, like, I don't know if I stepped away or if I just did not listen or something like that, but I came back for the, you know, Disguise, Thoughts and Prayers and all those other songs, of course. And then really just Scoring the End of the World just, like, got my attention with Masterpiece, of course, and, you know, Scoring the End of the World, the title track, the Red, White, and Doom with Caleb Shoma from Beartooth, which fantastic because I do you just hit up your friends and say, like, hey, let's do a track together? Like, what is it? Sometimes, yeah.
Sometimes it's like, hold your breath and hope that they answer. Sometimes it's just, you know, with Caleb, it was very much I just texted him. And, shout out to Beartooth putting a new song out yesterday, by the way. Yeah. That that's cool when you have that connection with someone where you could, like, just text them.
I'm I'm too I'm usually too anxious to do something like that, but Caleb's, like, the coolest dude in rock and roll right now, and you feel comfortable to to, like, reach out. And he was just like, hell yeah, brother. I got you. Like, he's just he's in it, like, truly in it for the rock, and he is a pro through and through. So he was just, like, yep.
Totally. Send me the song and, totally crushed it. Sounds amazing. Right. Yeah.
Beartooth kills it every time. And, like, same with, Brian from Knocked Loose. Like, you just teamed up with him as well and kinda just said, like, hey. I wanna hear you scream on this on this, specific track? Yeah.
That that one was really cool because I've never you know, we've played so many shows at Knock Boost. You're supposed to tour with them before, you know, pandemic took it took the tour down. We had finished the song and I was kind of just like, I really want someone to sing on this. Like, I just want someone else to take this to a level that, I feel like it could go. So, you know, Brian being one of the most unique voices in heavy, extreme heavy music right now, I was like that.
He's the one. We're we're big fans. Why why would we not approach that? So that one was a little more, cordial where I I didn't have a dialogue with him already. So I kinda went through some friends that are friends with him, and then, we end up getting in touch, and it was the same thing.
Like, everyone is just cool. Everyone wants to do cool stuff together, and, Brian crushed the song. Like, it's so sick. And Susie hear the song and him start it, you're you know, you're ready for or you're in for a a ride. That's for sure.
Right. Yeah. Because I heard it and I was watching, so I heard the song. And, of course, you know, Stranger Things. Have you watched this season 4 for Stranger Things?
I just finished it. I waited until we were done touring, and I could sit in one place consistently. And I've I've been here in California for over a week now. So I was like, okay. It's time.
And, they didn't have to do me like that. Right. So yeah. No. I was thinking because you see that epic guitar solo from from Eddie, from Metallica.
And, of course, now that, like, Metallica had to make that statement saying, like, no gatekeeping, like, allow these new metal fans to come in. And I was thinking I was just laughing to myself because I thought of this this morning. What if, like, slaughterhouse was the song used in the in, you know, the upside down to really scare off Vecna? That one that one might have done it. I don't know if we I don't know if we can compete with Master of Puppets, but I I suppose we'd be a very close second.
Right. Yeah. Because I think yeah. I think because that guy had to learn the that guitar riff specifically, but I was just thinking, like, like it would be the funniest thing to have like Stranger Things be the reason why like these kids nowadays are getting more and more into metal and all that and getting themselves into heavier music and being introduced to it because, you know, people are still who listen to who are listening to top 40 are kind of like who who's Metallica? You know, who's back when, Paul McCartney was on 1 Kanye West track.
It was like, why is this who's this new nobody? And I'm like, you know, that's what people were asking. But, yeah, no, I think it I think it's amazing that, like, you know, hopefully, more and more people get introduced to you guys because it's been awesome to try to play or play the full album. And people were texting me, like, what's that song? Like, what's this?
Who's who's that by? And it's amazing just to have more and more people introduced to you guys because I remember, like, back in the day, it was a totally different type of thing to be, like, into you guys, you know, the whole Emo Hill thing. So Yep. But also, like, I was thinking, too, like, what got you guys to look the way you do now with, like, the crazy cool makeup and, like, the cool stage costumes and whatnot? Like, was that a thing growing up as a kid you'd like to do?
Or what is it? I just just a quick side note, I feel like I got to write this down on my phone that, we need we need to name the next album Emo Hill. Yes. Yes, you do. That's it's a very good very good title.
I will die on Emo Hill defending my emo rights. I think that the answer to your to your question is just we look like the bands that we grew up listening to that are the ones that, were within this realm that we really love. You know, Misfits, AFI, Cradle of Filth, like 18 Vision. There's so many bands that we wanted to sound like and we really loved when getting into being in a band, that it kinda just it was just like we already looked like that anyway, and it just came into the band. It had many iterations and many phases where certain members of the band didn't quite look like that, or it it came and went over the very many years that we've had so many different phases.
But, I mean, at least for me, it's always just been I just wanted to look like I was in one of the bands that I loved the most. Kind of the same. I'm sure I don't I don't know if you, ever got up on Emo Hill and had, any of your friends paint your nails or do your eyeliner or anything like that, but, you know, you, you look the part of the things that you, that you connect with and love the most and love visually. And, that's kind of just how it always has been. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, it's really cool because I love the individuality and, like, the creativity and whatnot. And, like, I remember just seeing you guys come out on stage and I was like, woah, like, this is gonna be a crazy performance. And I love the song you guys came out to as well. I believe I had to, like, look this up and search for it.
It's like that Rez song called Edge or something towards, like, that's kind of scary tone. And then you do the big build up for thoughts and prayers. And then that's when the whole pushing started. And, you know, it's just the big build up to the amazing performance. But I also love the fact that you went on stage and said, like, I'm so sorry.
I'm not feeling so well tonight. And I'd love to make it up to you. And it's I love the brutal honesty of that as well. Yeah. There's, that that tour went through a really, really rough sickness.
I, I, I think, 3 days in, as soon as we went from LA to San Jose, I woke up in San Jose and I was like, oh, no. Oh, no. I can just feel my face just blowing up. Couldn't breathe, couldn't swallow just razor blades in my throat, and it just developed over the next, like, week and a half to be one of the gnarliest sicknesses I've gotten on tour. And I felt so horrible because I felt, like, you know, all the the Canadian shows, the Boise show, the Colorado show, all you Salt Lake City.
Like, I I just felt like I was letting our fans down. Like, they came to get this awesome, you know, package deal of all these bands in this big show. And here I am just struggling to even speak, and it just it, like, it destroyed me mentally more than it hurt even physically. But the cool thing is, you know, 2 of those cities were getting the makeup coming up soon in September, and then we'll continue to try to find ways to get back to those other ones as soon as possible so I can, you know, get redemption and give these fans the show that they came for. But fortunately, everyone was, like, incredibly nice and understanding.
Very oddly enough, Salt Lake City was probably the worst of all the shows that I tried to to perform, and we sold the second most amount of merch at that show on the whole tour. So I'm I'm assuming fans were just like, you know, we're gonna we're gonna back the band and show them that it's okay. You know, you can have a bad day. You could be sick. You could whatever.
And just it was like, wow, this is it really made me feel like okay and able to find the fact that they were being so supportive. Like, all right, I'll, I'll get through this and I'll come back stronger and, finish the tour and then come back and give them a show. Yeah. Absolutely. Because I was one of those dudes that bought the merch.
I bought the poster as well. It's on it's on top of my little, like, movie display case above all my horror movies. It's like it's like just you guys staring out in the living room. Every time I have, like, a friend over, I have to explain. Like, I'm a big fan of this band.
They look like this, you know. Check them out. Well, Funny. Well, thank you so much, Chris, for joining me today, man. It's been awesome to get the chance to talk to you.
Like I said, I've been begging for this interview to happen and my boss, Victor, is like, it's happening next week. And I'm like, oh, yes, you know. So thank you. Sorry for the wait. No, it's all good.
I I really understand that you're busy. All, you know, quite busy. We got the tour coming up and excited to hear all the, you know, positive reviews of that and whatnot and very excited for other people to see those you you guys as well as Ice Nine Hills and Blackfield Brights altogether. It's gonna be awesome to do it again. So, hopefully, we'll get an hopefully, we'll get one more run where we could do all the other places that we didn't get on leg 1 or 2 and, give, you know, Canada and North America or all of North America, including, you know, even elsewhere that we could get to within that time.
It'd be great to to just keep it going. Fans were really pumped, so just wanna do cool stuff with my friends. Perfect. Thank you so much, Chris. Yeah.
Thank you, man. I'm glad we got to do it. I'm sorry to keep you waiting, but, I appreciate you being at the show and supporting the band with, playing it's really rad that you play the whole record. That's very unheard of. So We're, like, the only station that ever does anything from start to finish, really, when it comes to albums.
And I know, like, when Lorna Shore's album came comes out, they're gonna my boss is gonna play that. He played Whitechapels new album when that came out. And I did the same thing for Bowl Beat but they, they backed out of the Boise show. So I've had a grudge against them ever since, like, as a joke on the air. Like, you guys back out and have to watch Ghost Buy at my like, only?
Even I'm a big fan of I'm a big fan of Ghost, but Volbeat, the drummer, like, was asymptomatic for COVID. They had to cancel the whole thing, and I was just so bummed out because I've been wanting to see them live for many, many years. So Sure. Well, I hope that your fans, appreciate the fun the fun garage and you just drive it. And Oh, yeah.
You you need to you need to stage some sort of battle between you and Volvieenix and then they come back. Oh, of course. Yeah. No. Because it's, most of the listeners agree with me, but also, like, I pretend I'm angry on the air most of the time.
They're like, why is Peach is so cranky, like, all the time on the air? And it's just like, they they hate me already because the whole California thing when you move to Idaho specifically, they hate the Californians. And I'm just pretending I'm, like, ruined I'm not pretending I'm buying all the housing and, like, driving up gas prices. It just ruined everything for everybody. The enemy.
Right. The enemy. Right. Yeah. Well, yeah, I'm excited for the next album, Emo Hill as well.
My god, dude. It's so funny. I wrote it in my phone. Because I know a lot of those kids from, like, Los Alamitos High School down there in Southern California would be ecstatic for that to happen. Hopefully, some of them are listening and get the get the reminder of, Emo Hill.
I'm sure people have moved on from that. But, it's very funny to me. So, yeah, thank you for sharing that. Yeah. Of course.
Yeah. I've been really enjoying those TikToks of the masterpiece duets. Like, I've just been loving watching those people, like, show off their talents. And I'm I get so mad because I'm like, I can't sing. I can't do anything like that.
And I can't, like, display my talents like that, you know? Yeah. Some of them are insane. Like, it, it made me feel like cool. So I'm a singer.
Why? Like, why like, these people are so good and singing next to me, and I'm just like, cool. I'll just crawl in the back and I'll pull now. They're they're awesome. Casually alright.
Have you picked a winner yet for that? No. I, I've been so busy. I didn't feel like I was gonna be able to give everyone a fair shot of going through it all, like, without being distracted. So, about to start doing that, next week.
I'm gonna start going through and, like, giving each one their time and making sure that it's a fair shot. So I'll pick soon. Very soon. Cool. Well, awesome.
Well, thank you again, Chris, for joining me today. I gotta unfortunately, I'm going to California next week as well, so I'll be I'll be there shortly. Enjoy. Alright. Enjoy.
Alright. Alrighty. Thanks, man. Thanks, man. See you later.
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