From Denmark to Bloodstock: Neckbreaker Shares Tour Stories and Metal Community Insights

0:04 Hi, you have done too, Yes crue for see Wow Crazy Young. This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here. With Chris from Nick Brega. Nice. You say your name much better than I would have. Like I liked a little you know, plang on it that American could not do. Yeah, our old band name was much worse. I want to hear what that is if you want to tell. It means the same as neck Grega, but it's not a kenega. It's Danish word for Nick Grega.

0:48 Yeah. I like that too. Yeah, but it's much harder for people to say. So we just ran with Nick Grega. I'll tell you what. Like I've gone to Copenhagen a few times when things I love about your country is the people and the attitude. Okay, Like we were sitting around there are like eight of us, all different religions, political beliefs and all that, and nobody was arguing, nobody was attacking, and everybody was just respecting each other. And then I remember this one girl. She says, you know a lot of times America, which is true, we talk about your country like and the socialism and you know, oh and that you pay such high taxes.

1:34 First of all, we call that bullshit anyway, because we say yours is much higher taxes, but I know ours is just as bad. We just lie about it. But she said the greatest thing. She was like, why should I have two cars and my neighbor have none? We believe we should share with our fellow countrymen. And that is the best fucking attitude ever. And I think the whole world could learn from that. Yeah. True. So what does it feel like to be here at Bloodstock? I love being in England, like in general, and I think the two. I think the people are very nice, and each time we go here we take we'll take good care of and I think, like the way you have it around Denmark, we have the same thing to England.

2:26 Yeah, it's so hot. To get in England, like you have to show papers and you get to get took aside because you're working in England, and now it's a problem. But when we get to England, everybody is so nice and even the security guys in that in the airport and stuff. But like, yeah, yeah, I love it here too, like I love coming over here. If it weren't for the bipolar weather I might live here because you don't even know how to pack. I just pack everything summer and winter and that's it, you know. Like, but this festival in particular, like even when I got here, like I was at Vodking and then I came here and I'm like, oh good, I'm here at home with family, because it's kind of what it's like at Bloodstock really is.

3:13 Yeah. You know, have you played Bloodstock before? Yeah, we played here a few years ago before we released our album, and it was. The bipolar weather we got. It was raining and it was cold and we all got sick and it was awful. But this time it's great weather. We they don't jinx it because in the next hour it could change. Yeah, tomorrow when we get back to that mugg it's worse. It's like last night I was freezing, so I wore my jacket when I left the hotel this morning, and I. Was like, fuck, it's hot. Yes, you just never know what to expect. I don't even pay attention to weather appen when.

3:54 We lived from Denmark. Yesterday, I was wearing my puffle jacket, like big window jacket because. It was so cold and then like raining almost snowing. You know, and then we went here it was just like, oh my god, this sun is blinding me and just yeah. That's wild. That's wild. So one festival I've never done, because I do all over the US, UK and Europe, but once on my radar that I haven't done yet is Copenhall. Yeah, tell me what it's like at copen Hill. Copen Hill is our family. You know. We've been to all of the Copa Hill like festivals, Like they have a metal Cruise like seventy thousand times of Metal, you know, and they have a smaller festival which is called like Common Hill Phrases over, which is like for for boogers and for not the ones in.

4:46 You know, but for glad you clarified that even I knew what you're talking about. And and like record labels and stuff, they go to see different bands and they say like, oh, Nuclear Bland, it's Nuclear Blast Ones neckbreak on. So you go to those and you play that, and then you have volunteer festivals and you have everything and we've played them all and comb Hill and each year it's just. So it's a really cool metal community. It really is. Yeah, and we know everybody you know. Now it convinced me even more that I need to do press coverage at Copenhill. Yes, yea. Also a lot of families who don't really go into middle but they like rock and they like like family festivals.

5:29 Cobin Hill is a very family friendly festival. Well see that's cool too, like and I find that the same here at Bloodstock. Like yesterday, I was in a pit with a bunch of dinosaurs and kids because heavy Source was playing, and I'm like. This is pretty cool, you know, like they're you know, we're just all having fun, yes, is what? And you need to bring the kids into the community anyway, we really do. You know, they'll keep metal alive, keep it going exactly. And I mean our band wouldn't be here if it wasn't for our fathers to put us into heavier music, you know. See. And so tell us about your first experience of being involved in the metal community.

6:13 I mean, one of my father's best friends, he was he is a big metal head and he my father liked like like hard rock like a CDC and let sebyl and and so and so, and I always liked the harder, harder rock, but I didn't know there was a genre called medal. But then I got introduced to metal by this friend and he was like, oh, you have to listen to this. It was Arch Enemy and Nice and HVL, like a bunch of Danish bands as well, and Miss Sugar and stuff. And then he was like, I'm going to this concert in Ohu's it's Miss Sugar and it's High on Fire. I was like, Miss Sugar, all right, all right, I can't headbank to it, but it's all right. Then High on Fire I didn't know, but then I went there. That was my first Middle concert.

7:00 And then I went to like local concerts as well with Danish bands, and yeah, started meeting friends in the Middle community, and then we went to more concerts and then I found these guys and then we started jamming and playing concerts. Very cool, very cool. And so. What else do you have going on after Bloodstock that you want the listeners to know about? We have we of course, has have few two festivals. We have a Summer Breeze and we have a Dynamo festival, and then we have a European tour with Avatar where we're going to Island, the UK and we're going to to the rest of Europe.

7:46 That's that's pretty cool. Yeah, so Dynamo. Have you played Dynamo before? Yeah? What's it like there, because that's another one that's been on my radar because I love the Netherlands too. It's a it's very low key. I've heard that it was like one of the big festivals. Now it's more like Loki. Everybody can go there. It's not too big. It's not like not like Vodkin, Yeah exactly, it's not like Vagen. You go to this festival. It's a big festival, but it isn't so big that you get overwhelmed. It's a very nice festival and a lot of cool bands last year Tmubuka Timu Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, they played and Decapitated as well, and a lot of other bands. And you know, it's funny because somebody was mentioning to me just yesterday that I need to next year cover Summer Breeze.

8:33 That's a that's another awesome festival. Yeah. That's the thing about UK and Europe. There are so many awesome festivals, and they're all different and they all have a certain culture to them, Like most of the festivals in the US are pretty similar. Yeah, you know, and just Europe and UK does it a little different. Yeah, it's all of the festivals in Europe are very tailored to that country. Yeah, exactly. So in Copenhagen it's close to like they have haven't the place with all of the boats and it's like a long road and it's in Copenhagen, so just take a walk and you're in the central of copen Megan with all the boats and stuff. Then we played at Terminata like two weeks ago and it was like close to a river, like Blue Blue River and everybody go.

9:25 Bathing and stuff. Then like bloodstug Is it depends on the weather man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Yeah, and a lot of festivals they they depend on the on the country. Yeah. I've never been to the US, and I haven't really got into like I know, there's US first and there's not First, and there's all of the the other festivals in the US, but I haven't really heard of them unfortunately. Yeah. Yeah. I'll tell you something else though, it is I find that the food is different at all the festivals here. That's typical of the food of that country, and that is a big difference because in the US the food tends to be like carnival or fair food, whereas like I ate some stuff at Vodkum, I was like, oh my god, that's like the best thing I ever had in my life, you know, And you don't expect that going on music festival in the States and you come over here, like I do Hellfest too, and it's like they just have gourmet French food there, and it's like that's what's cool.

10:29 And I think that, Like. I know a lot of countries but now no, like Denmark, Alotte, but copen Mega is one of the biggest city when it comes to food like Michelan restaurants and stuff. So a lot of. That food, like high quality food culture goes to copin Hill as well, because like, first of all, you have to pay and it's expensive to have a food stand. And yeah, at festival in general. Yeah totally. Yeah, you get a lot of cool food and nice food. The only thing about first of all is it's that food is expensive. Oh yeah at the time, but it's even more in the States. Like a slice of pizza twenty dollars a slice, not a whole pizza.

11:14 Yeah, So like I go out. Here and I get some food here, I'm like everybody's telling me how expensive. I'm like, that was actually pretty cheap. You know, we go to it. I mean I've been to Copon Hell a few times, like six times, no, four times, but each time I'm like, oh the food is, but twenty dollars for fucking pizza, man, right, I know, it's insane, Like I'd rather starve. Yes anything else you want to share with the listeners that they need to know. I mean, just keep listening to this podcast, man, it's amazing. And we we are working on a new album, so nice people can get ready for it.

11:58 Tonight we're playing two new songs. Cool. Yeah, we're probably also going to bring them on the on the avatar to them. So very cool. So how do people connect to you guys on the socials? Just mainly Instagram, which is neck brega Death like neck breagup with two k's and bregam uh huh. Then death that's our Instagram tech and then neck Breaga on Facebook, neck break on Spotify and just. All right cool, Well they need to check you out, check out your tour dates, buy your merch. They can't listen to my show, and let's say buy your merch. I appreciate it. Thanks for being here. At Bloodstock, and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

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