Dive Into Metal: Guillermo Miranda Talks Dieth, Wacken, and the Power of Brazilian Fans

0:01 Hi you don't you. Yes, that's true for wow, crazy you. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm here with Gillermi Miranda. That's nice. Can you say that ten times fast your own name? Yeah, Gillerim Miranda, Glare Miranda. And tell the listeners what band you play in? Work band? Nowadays? No, nowadays I play on Dieth. It's my it's my main band, which I play guitar and sing and stuff and write the main songs and so on. We had a very good we have a very good start for you guys in the US. We started the band with David from Megadeth, David Alfson, so it was very cool.

0:58 Started really yeah yeah so and uh yeah, I play here in fucking with Dark Embrace. There's an our band. I'm filling in for them. Nice. I played as a fillingine guitarist in January for Destruction, which is a. One of my favorite band. Oh yeah, man, it's a class. I'm a total thrash metal head, so anything that's thrash or teutonic thrash I'm down with. Oh hell yes no. And I remember that when we played the gigs Man with Destruction. It was like a huge fan, you know, so it was a big honor when they asked Mitchell to fill in for them. And I remember we were playing the first song.

1:40 We were opening with Curse the Gods, which is a cold Time classic, right, and you know, I played the whole song like because when you went around stage or in another mood and they're not ending another mode as well. We're just professional focused. And you know, and in the middle of the song when everything is you see and everything's working, the monitors, you know, the sound is good, the guitarist is there, and then when we do that that break like dent dum tan and ten and then before the chorus. Uh, then I look at this. I looked to the audience and everybody was looking at us, and I had just seen the backing vocals like Curse.

2:20 The Gods, you know, nice. So when I did the Curse and then the teenager in me appeared like, oh man, this Curse the Gods I'm playing, I'm here, you know, right. Of the best times of my life. Man, that would be such a trip, right. Yeah, A trip, man, a trip, a trip because I I I got myself out of myself. I looked. Imagine you get a helicopter and you look everything from an other perspective, and I was thinking, like, man, imagine my teenage self watching me is saying. Curse, oh my god, you know, and. Then everybody singing that it was beautiful, but beautiful.

3:03 Alive and no doubt about it. And you know a little bit trivia. We were talking in the last interview about Possess. Do you know originally people tried to call them thrash and they weren't really thrash. They were the original death metal back then. And you know, they were called the Slayer copycats. But I'm a huge Slayer fan. Okay, huge, Yeah, Possessed and Slayer to me don't sound the same. They. I think Possessed its weight, heavier, It's different and faster, you know. And as you know, death met metal is pretty technical, so you gotta be a really really good musician to play death metal like. And a lot of people don't realize that. That's why I say it, because you take people that aren't in the metal, they think it's just noise. But some of the raised musicianship I ever heard is from death metal.

4:03 Man. I've seen a lot of people saying that playing death metal it's like being a jazz musician because it is technically it requires. You a lot of you know, skills and stuff. And and to to write death metal songs, it's not that easy. It sounds easy because you know you can do like it sounds easy when you when when you start. But then one thing that I always tell people is like, and I tell band members when I'm in bands, because they send a riff and they say like, hey, man, I have a song, and I'm like, no, man, you don't have a song. You have you have a you know, you have this, you have a riff, or you have a part of a song, or you have a transition or you have a bridge, but it doesn't mean it's a song. Yeah, and to have a death metal song, it's not that easy.

5:00 Yes, it sounds now, and the people that don't know, they think you're just making noise, and it's like you should listen. That's why I tell people like, actually you may not like it, but listen to it, because if you listen to the undertone, that's where you hear the musicianship. In my opinion, you know, and there's. Some stuff like for example, the altars of Madness from Morbidangel. Dude, the harmonies they do on guitars there, it's something like I can't even describe that. It's spectacular, and I think that's the finest of the finest of the things that you can do in music, you know.

5:41 So what started you as a musician. Well, first of all, I never planned to be a musician. I don't know. Even sometimes although I do it professionally, I still you know, when you do your formulas and stuff that you have to write, what's your professional activity. I still have difficulties on writing musician. I write guitarists and stuff, But I never planned to be a musician. Actually, I've done the university, I graduated, and I've done some post grad and stuff and humanities. I studied history nice and.

6:25 My life was pretty awesome back then. It still is, but you know, it was pretty awesome back then. I had a good job. I was teaching history in high school and. In private schools in Brazil, which gives you very good money. It was a fair amount for my age back then. And I never planned to be a musician. I just thought like, okay, I'm going to release an album, and then maybe we tried to play this festival and this gig, and then we try to make a tour, and then we try to make the next tour, and then the thing just went off rails. Yeah, it just happened. And it was never a plan. I was never the guy that planned like, Okay, I'm going to study music and be the shreder And I never planned that thing, man.

7:13 And so how do you think actually the college education helped you as a musician, helped on. Everything, man, because it's like. You were more of an interesting person when you when you've been to college. Because in college, I've been around people from all over the world. I've been to congresses, I've talked to people from international uh congresses, places, professors and teachers. I've read a lot of books, and I think that's what brings me to playing a lot of bands that I played with, not the guitar playing, because people liked that. You know, I'm very articulated. I know how to talk, I know how to you know, position myself.

7:59 And as far as I in history, when I go to places, I see the meaning of the whole thing and like to study and get the books and you know, so it's pretty awesome. This this fact that I don't come from a music background and that helped me more than playing guitar, I think. And some guitarists that I know, I don't. I don't want to be a guy sounding without respect for them. But some people that I know that they are fantastic, perfect guitarists. If you take the guitar out of the guy, man, he can't articulate two phrases together. And it's not my case, you know. So I can talk to people. I understand things and stuff.

8:41 And I think that being a public university in Brazil, which is the highest thing you can reach, studying there was very good for me. You know. I love that, and you know why because I would tell my kids when it came to college, like going to college, it's not about getting the degree. It's about becoming a well rounded person that can assimilate in any environment. It's about the experience, man, the experience, you know. And then I man, my college shaped me. And I had a band when I was in college, and you know, you know Heavywever, of course you did, but you know that the series Friends, Yeah told me Conia.

9:28 I always dreamt about going like a Chandler and a Ross. When they come to the chicks and they say like, hey, I'm in college and I play in a band. And when I was in. College and I played in a band and my band was like being in my hometown. I was getting to the chicks like, you know, you know, I'm in college and I play in a band. Right, it's almost folklore. You know. It was beautiful. You know. Well that's like Dexter from the Offspring. He pause the band so he could go to it was either Harvard or Yell and then resumed like get the education.

10:09 Yeah yeah, And it's like so and it's something like I always have this as a plant. I don't have a plan B. My plan B is to make the plan a work. I love that because I'm also a motivational speaker and I always tell people in order to succeed, you have that you have to have nothing to fall back up, because you will. The plan B is to make the plant a work. Let's say my Plan C, you know, Plan D. It's like, but that that brings me some comfort. It's like if if I ever want to quit music or something, which probably is not gonna happen, but if if you know, like the beers pass and you'll decide to do something else in their life, which is very valid. I would go back to my country, to my hometown and teach history, and I would be super happy with that because that fulfills me as well.

11:02 You know. So I'm a very good place in my life with all these things. I love it. I love it. And so. Since you're from Brazil and we're at Voking, how do you compare. I don't mean like good or bad, but just in general the festivals in Brazil like Bangers, Open Air and fuck on. I've been doing interviews all day. I'm trying a blanket real in real. Rock and real Yeah. Uh well, I compared the value I played Rocky with Metallica, Gujera stuff and it was fabulous. And the comparison is that fucking is very unique. If we talk about can I say that it's the Jerusalem for the Christians or the Mecca for the Muslims and stuff. So fucking there's an energy here that is different from anywhere in the world.

11:59 And I think that I meant heads we kind. Of elected here that it is the place, and we put the energy here. And I believe in a lot of energy and frequencies and stuff, and here there's a magnetic field for the metal that it's beautiful and you feel that it's something special. That's why they call it the holy ground. It's the holy ground, yeah, and it's true. So fucking has something totally different from the others. But Brazil, I must say, our festivals are top high ending and we have one of the best crowds in the world. And yours or hearing fucking you have like a substantial percentage of the people attending here are Brazilians. Wow, And I think that, Yeah, it's crazy, man, because when I go out here, I hear people talking Portuguese, speaking the language, and I'm like, fuck man, half of the festival was Brazilian and that makes me happy. And I vow a lot for Brazil because I think we're fantastic country and we.

13:01 Have to sell ourselves better because our metal scene is huge. Yeah, our festivals are huge and we have a great metal audience, and I think that Brazil is It's like I can't compare because it's different environments, but I can say it's from playing the European bands all these years as I've been doing, and all the Europeans their dream is to play Brazil man. Right, Yeah, every band I know they talk about the fans at the Brazilian vents. The fans and how they receive you and the food and the everything is great. And I think at Brazil nowadays in everything in every topic, man, you get in the world now every topic, like you can go from economy blah blah.

13:52 Blah, rare, minerals whatever. If you get the top ten or the top five, Brazil is there. We're not the first, but we're in the top ten or top five, like we're minerals, gold, oil and natural resources blah blah blah. And then you and then you go to the music madaw audience, we're in the top five. Or maybe top three. So I think I'm very proud to be Brazilian and I love the country and uh and although I still live in Europe for logistical reasons, yeah, but I think I think Brazil is something else man. Yeah. So where I live in South Florida, we have a lot of Brazilians, and you know, I hear a lot of talk there about the pride of their country. Even though they're in the US. There's still that pride of your country.

14:46 Yeah, man, And it's the same with the US. It's like there's a lot of Americas. I know a lot of Americas nowadays. I live in Portugal, and I have a lot of Americans living there before from Chicago and stuff that they want to live in a order environment, in a better in a better weather place, right because Chicago win the city, right, and and they're still super proud of being Americans, you know, And I value that, and I think it's super awesome. I love America. I've been there many times and and I think that in Brazil we have we have to feed, you know, to feed more this this feeling of being proud of your country because we're fantastic, you know, and we have great bands and our scenes dominating a lot in Europe now and stuff. Americans recognize that. So it's great.

15:40 I do festivals all over the US, UK and Europe, and everybody keeps telling me, you need to do rock and real, you need. To do Rocky Rio and Bangers open air. Probably I played Rocky Rio and it's dude, it's amazing. It's amazing. The festival is just it's it's something that you can experience only there. I think you do have to experience things too, like before I ever did Vadkan, which is this is my first time. I don't have an image of what Vadkan is. I have people saying it's great in this, but then not till I got here, and I'm like, holy shit, like no wonder, it's the holy ground, like I couldn't even conceive it.

16:25 Fucking is the holy crown that I have this feeling like I bring my mom last year to Santiago de Compostela. Where's Santiago, of course in Europe. In Europe it's called Sant Jacob. You know, there's a whole history since the Bible Man, and they found the guy there is true. They found his remains, his bones and stuff, and they built like blah blah blah, and there's a church. I bring my mom there. And when I go to these places, I'm not talking here about religious beliefs. I'm talking about the energy and people put so much energy and effort there and love that the place becomes something. When yeah, there you feel something, if you believe it or not. I'm not discussing that.

17:10 And I think that we fucking in some proportion, in some way is the same thing. People put so much love and effort and we repeat ourselves that here is the holy ground, that when I come here. I feel the energy. You know, Yeah, it is the holy ground of metal, so vocking hell, yes, you know. And the last thing I'm gonna say is you got my favorite band in the world on your calf and it's perfect. Ah, yes, it's perfect. Yeah, Like that is a c Now check this out. My battle vest from the eighties. Slayer didn't even have a patch yet, so I went out and got vine velvet like velvet lettering and ironed it on.

17:55 Layer Man Slayer. Fucking Slayer. My first Slayer concert, and I watched Slayer with Jeff Henneman and Dave Lombardo my friend. I got in my friend's shoulder and I told him, like, man, I have to fulfill my all time dream. I was like eighteen years old, and he put me on his shoulder. He left me. He lift me up, sorry, and I took a deep breath and I said at the concert, I don't know, it feels great. And I got carry King's Peak back then.

18:36 Nice, Well, then you're gonna be jealous. I was at their first show ever and used to hang out with them all the time back in the eighties. Holy holy, oh yeah. I had some wild experiences in the Slayer camp and Lombardo is my favorite. Hell yeah, what a fucking drummer. Lombardo is the best, oh. My god, best drummer I've ever known. And the fact Day plays in all these different bands like just amazes me because it's a different way in every band and he just can play anything. You know he can. Well, it's a blast avenue here at Vakin. What a pleasure man. Thank you very much for having me.

19:18 My pleasure and real quick, tell them how they can reach out to you on socials. Check out your band, check out. Everything Dia band on Instagram and mine is Guilermi Miranda guitar on Instagram or Rachel's on Instagram. I think is going to be faster, easier. Sounds good. Well, thanks for being on the Veneres pleasure much, my friend. Thank you for listening to the adventures of fight Man. I'm w for CUI Radio.