Peaches Interviews Chase Wilson from Ov Sulfur - February 2023

Peaches sat down with Chase Wilson from Ov Sulfur after seeing them live in November 2022 with Lorna Shore, Aborted, Angelmaker, and Bodysnatcher

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The Artist Interrogations podcast. Hey. How's it going? Hey. How's it going, Chase?

Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you as well. Pleasure. Oh, man. It's great to talk to you.

I just saw you guys live last time at the Complex in Salt Lake in November. It was awesome to see you guys on stage and everything. Oh, yeah. Thank you so much. Appreciate that.

Yeah. How different is it really for Of Sulfur to to to hear Of Sulfur being played on, like, a rock radio station? It's interesting. I never thought that would happen. Yeah.

Yeah. It's it's kind of insane to me still, like, you know, but, I'm I'm happy, you know, happy to hear it. Yeah. And I was talking to, when I briefly ran into Ricky at the show, I was like, hey, we play you guys, and he kinda, like, gave a glance. Like, what?

What are you talking about? I was like, yeah, Of course. Because we we wanna make ourselves different, play the actual medal and such. So it's, as soon as I saw the opportunity to get the chance to talk to you today, I was like, I gotta do it. You know?

That's a lot. Thank you. Yeah. I mean, that show was funny too at the complex because, you had Blue October in the other room, and then you had you guys, Lorna Shore, and all the great heavy bands that you got all of you guys together. And I was in line.

I'm like, why is nobody wearing black? Like, what who are these? And I wasn't I was in the wrong line. I was gonna be in line for Blue October. And I think there was a few people during that show, that even they were, like, in shock because they thought they were in line for Blue October, but then saw you guys on stage and saw Ricky do the vocals.

And it's just like, oh, I'm in the wrong room. I was trying to sneak over to see that show. I love October. Me too. Yeah.

I was trying to see if I can sneak to both. You know, go see you, and then when in between bands, just go to that one, check them out real quick, and then come back, you know. But, you guys are actually coming back to the complex. It was just announced yesterday, another tool for you guys, Chelsea, Grin, Carnifex, Left TO Suffer. And my question is, like, how do you guys coordinate all these bands, hitting the road together?

You know, honestly, it's kinda just like a right place, right time thing. Our manager, was you know, he works with Carnifex and, you know, Chelsea, we he was talking to a couple of the members from that band and he threw our name out there. And, they were like, that's funny because, like, you know, like, we were thinking about that as well. So it just kinda ended up working out. You know?

And, you know, I can't speak for, like, left to suffer or anything like that, but I know Chelsea and Carnifex have been touring quite a bit over the last few months. Like, I know they were just in Europe together with I think it was Vareal's Body Snatcher, if I'm not mistaken. But, yeah, man. I mean, it's right place, right time. It's it's, like, a lot of luck, to be totally honest.

And you guys never seem to really have a break. I mean, you just did that tour with Lorne and Shaw and all those other bands, and now you just announced this one. I mean, what do you do with your free time in between that little that little free time in between tours? Yeah. I usually spend my time writing.

I I kinda handle a lot of the business aspect of the band, like, with our manager, Brad, and everything too. So I'm kinda the point person for a lot of things. So my free time, I guess you could say, kinda consists of just me working, like, pretty consistently. So that's pretty much what I do. In in my in the little free time that I get, I I end up writing.

Right. Yeah. It seems like it's nonstop for all of you guys. I had Chris Motionless on the show past time, and he was talking about constantly touring. And at the time, they had a new album out as well.

And now you guys have an album set for March 24th, The Burden of Faith, and I was looking at the track listing, and I was loving all the features that I saw in there. I mean, you had Alex Terrible as a feature on one of the tracks. I mean, did you guys write these songs with them in mind, or how did you guys come up with these features on the album? You know, like, we knew we wanted features on the album, and a lot of names were, like, thrown out. And, you know, these songs weren't necessarily written for anybody per se.

We knew we wanted some features and we knew we wanted certain people. Alex was definitely one of them. You know, and Howard Jones was another one. And then Lindsay, Kyle, and Taylor kinda, like, fell into our lap, and I was like, oh my god. Like, these these would be perfect.

So with with that being said, we kinda just picked out the best parts that we think would really showcase these vocalists. And I think I think it's awesome. Like, all the tracks with the with the feature, they're banging. Like, they're some of my favorite tracks to be totally honest. So I'm really stuck with how they turned out.

I think I heard Earthin' for the first time, not too long ago. And it's funny to me because when you listen to it from, like, an outside perspective, really, you kinda just hear, like, oh, this is a heavy song. But then I was trying to dig deep on more of the song meaning because I'm I'm much more of a person that cares about the meanings of the song. And I saw Ricky actually based it off of a person that he knew or some what was the story on that track? So, yeah, Earthin Earthin is actually about, Ricky's nephew dying from, a a rare type of cancer, actually.

And, you know, when I wrote the song, I had no idea that that was gonna be the tribute for his nephew. It was like the that was the first thing I wrote when I came back from a tour we did with, Signs of the Swarm and Worm Shepherd. And, you know, when he showed me the lyrics, I was like, damn. This is, like, really deep. You know?

Like and I I wasn't expecting that from Ricky because 9 times out of 10, the lyrics from Ricky are, like, religion hate, god hate, like all all that type of stuff. All the good stuff. Right? Yeah. That we're known for.

But I guess he just wanted to do something different. He wanted a memorial for his nephew and I mean that's exactly what it is. And I'm I'm super proud of him for, like, being able to life Yeah. So the Zoom kinda went out there for a second. Sorry about that.

That's all good. That's all good. No. It really is a deep song. I mean, it's crazy to me to hear these tracks because before I started working here, I was just like, oh, it's just all noise to me.

But then I started getting used to it and more and more used to it and used to these vocal tracks. And, I mean, bands like Lorna Shore are now taking off. You see, like, this resurgence of heavier melodic, deathcore, metalcore, all that really. So it's great to see this music kind of just all of a sudden be on the trend. It seems like we're revisiting the nineties too with, like we saw an upsell and cassette tapes.

So, I mean, are there any upsell for cassette tapes set to be, on on sale? Man, that's so cool. Well, we do have, 3 different types of, like, vinyl, out. I know they're, like, color exclusive to where you buy them from. We have the gold one on our indie merch store.

Don't quote me on this because I might be wrong, but there there is so much talk about this. Red, I think, might be at the Century Media store, and then silver is Europe, if I'm not mistaken. So we do have vinyl. Cassette tapes would be really cool. And I believe we will actually have CDs.

Like, believe it or not, people still buy them as, like, a collector's item. They love them. And, you know, like, it's just it's more so some people just like the physicality of holding something. You know? I think that's what it is.

Yeah. I'm way more of a physical music collector. I got my CDs. I got cassette tapes, and it seems to be making the comeback like we just talked about. I mean, vinyl records have been on the rise for the past few years, really, and people really like them.

I like to just hang mine up and keep them on the wall and such. And actually, since, you're, like, on the business side of things for of sulfur, I know recently, on Twitter, Gojira was trending because, the prices of their merch was really, really high. And then people were talking about the economical side of it versus, like, just being a fan. I mean, the one thing I do like about what you guys did at the complex was that everything merch wise was reasonable and it was really cool to see and it was just it's it's funny with like Gajira's t shirts were like $65 and I mean like to some people, that's real steep. But I mean, to tour in 2023 as I you you definitely would know, it's probably way too expensive for some of these stops you have to make and such.

A 100%. I mean, that's the thing. And it's, like, that's it's kind of a hard subject because I understand to a point what Gojira is doing, you know, and they're they're at a point in their career where they can charge that, and people will buy it. And, like, I get it like but at the same time from another standpoint I would want my fans as many of my fans as possible to have the t shirt and say they went to the show and were able to go get it and you know things like that but you know you have your you have your, my family grew up in, like, the hard rock industry. Like, my uncle drummed for Manson.

He now drums for Rob Zombie. And he you know, I've just seen I've seen things go up on an uptick, like merch and physical sales and stuff like that. And, you know, I I I do understand the business aspect, but me personally, I would rather have all my fans have my merch. Going back to this upcoming album, The Burden of Faith, do you do you guys plan on using a lot of those tracks during your upcoming set list or just kinda like a nice mix of old and new? So there will be mostly new songs on this tour since it is our first tour in support of the album.

So you're gonna see more new than old. We will play some of the classics, you know, we you how can you not? But we will we really wanna showcase what this album has to offer. And in my personal opinion, I think it's, like, miles above where the EP stood musically. And I'm just really excited to showcase these songs for, like, people that wanna come see us.

You know? So it's definitely more new than old, but we'll play some bangers for sure. And earlier, you mentioned that you you wrote Earth and before Ricky kinda gave out the lyrics about his nephew and such. Do you usually do that? Like, do you write most of the songs, like, the lyrics and such, and then Ricky kinda just takes over from there?

Or how does the songwriting process go? Yeah. So, like, all pretty much what how the song writing process will work is, you know, me or the guitar player I'm working with, at this point in time, it was Matt, who's no longer in the band. We would go in a room, write things out. I would kinda structure all the songs out, and we'd each pull riffs and see what we could work off of.

From there, we would send it to our drummer who would spice up the drums a little bit because we don't know what we're doing when it comes to that. It's like, you know, that's his forte. And once the songs are kind of all laid out, then we send them to Ricky. And it's kinda he's got the most important job, which is to pick out, like, the feeling of the song and kinda convey that with words. You know?

And I think with Earthen, he picked the right song to do that with because it is kinda somber. It starts out with that really ambient, sad, you know, lead in the beginning, and then it just explodes into this crazy riffage, and and he really pulls from the sadness in the chorus too. So I don't think he could have picked a better song, to be completely honest, and he was right on the money with the feeling portion of that. Yeah. It seems like it's a really it's it's funny how, like, this sad like, we just talked about the sad deathcore is kinda like what's in right now.

I mean, Lorna Shore kinda had that with Pain Remains 1, 2, and 3. And it was funny you mentioned, like, about the drums being the forte when, like, Lorna Shore's drummer was like, my back I think he had a back injury or something like that, and the bassist took over on drums. I mean, how many skills can this guy have, really? He's, like, insane. He can play literally, like, every instrument, it seems like, and, like, really well.

He's, like, not moderate at certain instruments. He's just a beast at everything. Yeah. Insane. Nuts.

I wish I could be like that. You know? Yeah. And be being a guy who's in the genre, do you are you one of those that exclusively listens to it all the time? Are you more so, like, I need to listen to everything?

Oh, no. I couldn't listen to it all the time. Like, at first, I was actually just talking to somebody else about this too. Like, after a show, I listen to really chill, like, indie or I listen to, my favorite thing to listen to is, like, Depeche Mode, like, Synthwave type stuff. Mhmm.

Relax on, like, the car rides, especially if I'm, like, trying to go to sleep or something like that. That stuff will put me right to sleep. So, but I I don't exclusively listen to it. I don't I think if I did, I would probably end up getting tired of it, and so it's good that I mix it up every now and then. Yeah.

For me, it's just, like, I have to take it in doses too. Like, I have such a wide music taste. It's like that's why I was like, maybe I should go watch Sulfur, then go get a break from go watch Blue October, then come back and go go watch Angelmaker and all these other bands and such. But, yeah. I mean Totally.

Yeah. I mean, thank thank you so much for joining me today. It was awesome to really get the chance to talk to you and, looking forward to the new album. I'm sure we'll play a lot of those tracks on Jang Show, which is what happens, Saturdays 10 PM to 2. We also play it we we go crazy with the metal around here because we have the freedom to do so.

I mean, we have, like, the metal morning wake up call. It's like 6 AM right off the bat. Something crazy heavy. So Well, it'll start your day. I know.

Right? It's it's so funny to me to see people kind of, like, get spoiled with our station here. And then eventually, like, they'll go to, like, another state or something and be like, oh, this radio station sucks. Let me stream these other guys back online. Because we Back to the guys.

Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I know. We do we do album playthroughs too, which is kind of a sad thing.

I mean, people don't do albums that I mean, people are now going towards the single route, the singles route. And I'd much rather have that full album, really, because it's fun to do those album playthroughs. I've I've done them in the past for, like, 5 Finger Death Punch, played theirs from start to finish, played Lorna Shores from start to finish. It's just it's fun to just sit down and listen to a band's artwork pretty much. I agree, man.

Honestly, like, I try with every album I listen to to listen front to back. There's albeit, like, there's not a whole lot I can sit through the entire thing, whether that means my ADHD kicks in or whatever. But there are some where I just listen the whole way through it. I'm like, wow. I'm really glad I listened to that the whole way through.

Pain Remains was one of them. So, you know It's it's nutty. Yeah. Well, awesome. Yeah.

Thank you, Chase, for, joining me today. It's awesome to have you on the show, really. Hey. Not a problem. Thank you for having me.

I guess I'll see you to the the complex. Right? Yes. Yes. I'll try to look out for you and just be like, Chase, I interviewed you.

Dude, definitely. I love saying hi to everybody. So please do. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

And I'm I'm hard to miss because I'm, I'm 6 foot 9. You just can't tell because of the Zoom camera, so I'll be right there. I'm pretty easy to spot too. There we go. Yeah.

No. It was easy to spot Ricky in the crowd too because he's a big buff dude with the long brown hair. I was like, there he is. Yeah. Totally, man.

Well, alrighty, Chase. You have a great rest of your day, man. Hey. You as well, man. Take it easy.

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