Festivals, Faith, and Friendship: Meet Your Maker’s Journey at Bloodstock

0:04 Hey, you love done to censure? Wow for you you. This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here with I'm Dying. I'm the guitar pro and Meeta Maker and I'm Pete I'm on drums Meta Maker. Well, I sure hope I don't meet my Maker after your set. I feel like I might sometimes off to you, right. And you know you got to pick the day that it's super hot. Yeah, I could see you're already, You're sweat and off. Yeah right, And like that's the thing. Man, I come to the UK. I love the UK, I love the people here, but the fucking bipolar weather I cannot handle. Like last night I was freezing, So this morning, wake up, I walk out, I put the jacket on.

1:02 I'm like, fuck, it's hot. Yeah. Yeah, you just don't really know what to expect. I think you kind of have to play it by year, which isn't helpful for preparation. And yeah, I think you basically have to leave the house with every outfit ready. Oh yeah, I have a light jacket, a rain jacket, maybe some shorts in the bag. It's like you never really know. I don't even bother looked at the weather app when I'm coming over to it wrong. I just pack winter and summer clothes and rain stuff. I'm covered for no matter what happens. Unfortunately, I have to bring all that in my backpack to the festival because there's four seasons in one hour. That's it there. I've literally been times I've like put my hoodie on for one interview and then take it off for the next, and then I have to put it back on for the next. I don't even know how you guys perform in that kind of environment.

1:52 Mostly indoors. That's why, Yeah, well there you go. Because imagine you're up there, okay, cool, it's nice out, and then next thing you know, it's reason and then it's raining, and then it's nice again. And no matter what weather we play in, whatever it starts. However, like temperature wise, you feel at the start of a set, about one song in you're dripping right sweat, regardless it could be minus ten outside, I'll be dripping with sweats. And that's true. That's true, and that that proves that you give it all you got, because that's if you're not giving it all you got, then you're not sweating exactly. Man. That's what we're all about, high energy performances. That's what we're about. That's the way it should be, right, Like I've been talking about a lot today, Like if I want to just listen to your music, I'm just listen to the album.

2:36 I'm here for engagement, entertainment, and fucking excitement. Man, that's it. I think, you know, you know, we see a lot of bands it's like they're asking a lot of the crowd move and wise, so well, we also need to give that. We're like, we're also well into the music that we're playing, funny enough, so we need to show that. Yeah, you're right, though, how can you ask the band and the fans to move if you're not moving? Like, to me, it's a transfer of emotion, a transfer of actions. If you're up there fucking going nuts, we're gonna be down here going nuts. One hundred percent. Man, I don't know that. Obviously. People come from different places when they come to a gig. Give out that a bad week or a great week or whatever you're going through. Even I was like, we've got loads of going on, but you might have had a horrible night's sleep. Whatever goes on. But as soon as this, as soon as that show starts, as soon as our set starts, it's like a whole different world, and just give everything you can in that half an hour, hour, forty five minutes.

3:32 What have you got? So? How does it feel to be here at fucking Bloodstock? This is like one of my favorite festivals. It feels unbelievable. Man, it's really surreal. It still doesn't sunk in and we're meant to play in about three hours and it is I think like for all of us. Actually it's our first time at blood Start unbelievably and it didn't hear next to me, here's the baby of the band, but this is his first ever music festival, which is horrifying to think about, but also one to start with. Is your first music festival ever? My first one? Yeah? Yeah, I've never been. My friend tried to get me to go to download a couple of years ago, and I was tempted by I kind of jokingly said, I was like, listen, I'll go there when I play. And we're not playing a download yet, but we're playing here, so.

4:14 This is better. I do both festivals and I love both, but I love the family atmosphere here, the community here. That's what we've really experienced with the with the medal to the Massives competition and the judges and Angel and Chris and Berg, like everyone knows everybody. Everyone just really wants to see everybody succeed and it's just such a such a great community, family vibe. Yeah, we felt very welcomes. That's our first time here. You know, we're still a small band and we haven't really felt like anybody's looking down on us or anything. So there. Yeah, there is no levels here. It's just like you know, and that's the cool thing about Bloodstock too, is that they do this metal to the masses to give bands a shot like you to experience it, and that that's amazing. Man. What you're going to find is that the crowd will be there for it. Yeah. You know.

5:05 That's another cool thing here is they show up no matter what. Yeah, and that's really cool. That's really cool. I think it's hard to get that in the UK these days. It feels like a lot of the grassrooms gigs aren't the best attended because people people don't really just go there just because anymore. You know, it's like a I'm going to go there and see that band or yeah, but it's great that there's that atmosphere a bloodstock I think so yeah where Yeah. What would you want to tell the listeners about your music? Where so well, just yeah, energy field. We love metal where like a metal a new metal core band. We love big choruses, big riffs, but we we have a real message of emphasizing about mental health sot.

5:57 Yeah. Yeah, we've we've lost people close to us to mental health and multiple people. And it's it's always heartbreaking. So we we really try and bring that positivity into our message where we're also we're all a Christian, we're all Christians. We're all Christian metal band, so we have that aspect of it as well. We try and bring a little bit of that message into our into our set. We're not there to preach to people, which is there to be part of the community and to love on people and. And just to be good humans. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Yeah. I don't know, do you do you have anything sad? Yeah? I think you touched on the mental health soft pretty well. I think yeah, we're about we're a new metical band with a Christian and good mental health sort of message, and we don't shut away from that. Our lyrics all very explicitly about that, about struggles, about fights, how to go through those, and how to prevail over those. You know, we fully believe we prevail through the blood of Jesus, but it's all about going through our struggles and knowing that well, for a lot of us, throwing down is a great way to to get through those emotions. And there's tough times, so that is one way we can always connect with everyone.

7:04 But that's that's essentially. It was high energy, new medical with a with a great message. I think music is the best therapy there is, including the marsh pit, Like you just get everything out in the pit. Man. I have cured so many different things that I was dealing with just by going in a pit, and it's helped a lot of people in the outside world for me, kicking the ship out of them, because that's the thing. People think, Oh, we're going there to hurt people. Now we're going in there so we don't hurt people, including ourselves. Exactly exactly. We're talking earlier about therapy with one podcaster and you know, for uz we're saying that in therapy, they tell you this is a safe space you can share what you want to share, where like for Uz, the pit is a safe space to all, safe space to be who you want to be, be authentic and raw and get it all out there, leave it, leave it all out there.

7:52 And as we saw yesterday, even if you want to be a dinosaur. Yeah yeah, absolutely yeah. Well see I just did bucking and they were there, but I didn't get to see him because it's too busy doing interviews. But I was in the pit with a bunch of dinosaurs at heavy swords, and that was like one of the most fun pits ever. They weren't even high to experience that, I know, right, it was Are the Hallucination. One of the bands that we competed with that Metal to the Masses was a wizard band and they all dressed up as wizards, and they actually won both crowd votes because every time doors would open, I'd go out into the bar and the whole bar would just be filled with all of their friends dressed as wizards and it was it was really fun.

8:37 It was. And they summoned a necromancer as they called it, which is basically a friend in an inflatable unicorn outfit with a bubble machine in the pit. Yeah, that's when I texted my wife, good yeah, we've lost the crowd vote. Yeah. And then like even Evil Scarecrow, like there were crabs, there were spiders that it's just listen. They put it best in the interview. We don't take our ourselves so seriously. We're just there to have fun. And that's the truth of it. We got plenty to take ourselves seriously about in the other outside world. Here, we should just have. Fun, absolutely understand. Yeah yeah, yeah, so I agree. So what is it that you know, what was that moment that you knew this was what you needed to do? Wow?

9:28 I think. I mean I first got into Mettle. My friend showed me Metallico and he showed me Master of Puppets, and I was just hooked instantly, and I was like, this is now my entire personality. Nice. So, and you know, kind of just snowball from there. But it's just such a metal in general. It's so intense and so like it's just like dopamine dumping all the time, you know, and so it's it's kind of hard to not come back to it. Again and again and again and again, you know, so. And you know, I've been a musician for a long time, so naturally I was just kind of like, well, I want to try my hand at this and have a go. You know so well, and here you are a bloodstu, a bud how about you?

10:09 Yeah? I think I mean music was I would't say it's always what I wanted to do. I think I was struggling with that when I was a teenager first learning drums and stuff. I knew that I loved drums, but I didn't know I could do it as a job. But I quickly discovered, especially with metal music, that it's the one way I found to express myself. Yeah, it's the one place I felt truly alive and truly myself. So that's kind of taken different shapes over the years. And then for me being a Christian that they're married with playing drums in church as well, that was like the next level. So be able to combine the two now doing a Christian metal band, it's just Unbelievabley, it's great that it's. Pretty cool to get to play in church. I wonder what they think that you're a place called Bloodstock.

10:50 They'd have different opinions, but overall, I think they'd love it. I think they'd love it. Like we were chatting to you're spreading the word. Huh, you're spreading the word exactly. I think we were. We're talking with a guy earlier saying basically, like you know, in the in the Bible, Jesus went to all sorts of communities. Yes, sat with all sorts of people. There was no one excluded from it. And you know we are. We're just here to love people and make friends. We're not here to make fans. We're here to make friends and build a community. And we just want to if you're up and timing the conversation, let's have a conversation. I mean the other other month, we were playing a show and we were chatting with a guy who's been a Satanist for thirteen years, and there's absolutely no animosity there. Just have a chat. Let's just make friends. Oh see. I love that philots of it, because I think that's the only way that we can all get along and understand each other. As to talk and listen opposed to try and impose, because people were only going to listen if you they know you're listening.

11:40 Exactly, Let's get a connection first. We're We're not here to run anything down anyone's throats exactly. Just we're just here to say this is who we are. If that resonates with you, cool. If it doesn't, great, let's just throw it. Down there you go. It's well. You guys are a test amount of what things should be. Thank you, Nu and thank you for being here at Bloodstock, and thanks for being on The Adventures and play Man. Thank you for having us, thank you, Thank you for Listening to the Adventures of Pipeman on w for c u I Radio.