Pipeman Interviews SYK at Hellfest 2025

0:04 Hi, you have done too. Yes, that's true. For why gray you? This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here with yes here at hell Fast where you just had a sick set.

0:45 Yeah, indeed, Oh my god. And she commented to me and Nicole over here that's with us taking pictures. She comment to me that you guys looked like you were having so much fun up there. Yeah, definitely. It's impossible to. You're you're wrong business if you're not having fun right Like, Yeah, I. Mean, if you don't love, the stage might be there exactly. Music isn't about the money. It's not about rock star. It's about pursuing your passion, having fun, Yeah, expressing that most important. Yeah, shut shit all the time. I can say, you. Can say whatever the fuck you want? Wow? Is that the good way to answer? Right?

1:26 Yeah, that's the best one. It's also the best therapy, I think for you, the artist, and me the audience. Anything that's bothering me in that outside world, especially as fucked up as it istched last night, I was at Exodus, Okay. I used to see them back in the day, in the early eighties up in the Bay Area, and it was a brutal pit and I let it all out in the pit. I didn't care how high it was. I was dripping sweat. Had to tone when it was over, but it was worth it because anything that was going on out there just disappeared. Yeah, of course that's the good thing in music.

2:08 Yeah, and also pushing out all the shit you got, which is the more about therapy in the park like which is necessity, and living in a healthy way through music. Yeah, people like speaking in a mush, but people that don't understand or haven't been to something like this, they don't understand it. It's not about hurting the mame in people. It's about so you don't hurt in main people like you get it all out in the pit and then you don't feel like beating the shit out of people. No. And actually there are thousands and thousands of people here every day, four days and nothing happened. Everyone is happy, everyone is peaceful, everyone, because the thing is that when you expressed you, you don't hurt anyone. When you express violence or aggressive shit through music, yes, exactly.

2:56 So that's the most developed. I would say, way to stay on dessert, because if you're just brutal viol doing that with your hands or some weapons, and shit, you're a fucking the undertoe. Yeah, so totally. So that's a good thing about music. You're not hurting anyone, You're just expressing and putting it out, so and that's healthy. I would say, well, it's funny what you just said too, because several years ago, because I go on tour and do like all the festivals, and then sometimes there's conflicts. So one weekend I had two festivals, same weekend, same state. Said one of my employees, who had never been to a metal show ever in her life. Wow, I'm like, I'm gonna send you a cover to show. She was a country girl. Yeah, And I basically said to her, I'm like, listen, it's not what you think you're gonna go there. It's not like your country shows where a bunch of rednecks are getting drunk and beating the.

3:54 Crap out of each other. That's exactly what I said. Yeah, I said, you're gonna find more one big family, You're gonna make new friends, you're gonna see no fights. It's you're just gonna have the best time of your life. And she came back from that weekend. She's like, oh my god, you were so right. She goes, I met all these cool people. I got a new boyfriend now, and I have this new favorite band. They're called Bring Me the Horizon. I'm like, yeah, I've heard of them. Oh okay, And I think I have this philosophy right now. With all the turmoil in the world, what we really need is one music festival for the whole.

4:35 World and everybody. It's mandatory to go to, like the whole world has to go. And I think we could solve all our problems by doing that. Yeah, we just stopped to follow, not follow, but let brutal and stupid and human leaders to lead us, because don't really represent us. It's like we're totally different, police, totally different. There are a bunch of stupid guys. We likes to push things and have brutal shit going. But the most of the people is I find here. There are like sixty thousand a day maybe, and no fucking one is rude.

5:16 It's brutal, it's just hitting out. Can be themselves. They don't have to. If you want to. Express some perceive us, you will be in the most bit. But it is I mean, it's not a fight. No, it's just reacting to music. And you can dress the way you want. You get that, you can dress the way you want. Color, your skin doesn't matter, sexuality doesn't matter, gender doesn't matter. Like nobody is an outsider here. We're all on the inside. Yeah, definitely, everyone is fucking bra and sister. You know what got you into music therapy? Nice? When I was like five or six, I started playing guitar, and it's been like my mother my father at the same time. So my day was like coming back to school and spent hours when I was six seven and close the door my room and just disappear for the rest of the day and just every day was the same and has been like that since. I would say, now I'm forty one, so thirty five years nice, and I'm now growing up. I'm now after years and years of music therapy, I would say, and discipline, because if you want to learn an instrument, you need a lot of discipline and.

6:29 Practice, practice, practice, practice, And. That's really useful to release and to forget everything that's outside that fucking door. You just closed. And what's changing now in my life is like it's not a therapy anymore because I'm now more centered, like, so I need to find a new meaning. It's like my is really like my parents. So it's like the relationship with my parents change. Yeah yeah, yeah, And now I'm not old, but I'm not a child any more. So everything's changing and I don't really know what's now for me because it has been therapy for so many years now in the last couple I need to find a new meaning, but it's still there. I need that and I need to be on a stage.

7:15 I need to forget about all the shit I ingest every fucking day. And that's the thing. Without music, I don't really find any other option to release the same way my inner world because I need otherwise I would be dangerous. Probably right, yeah. Because I have so much sit inside. But the thing is that music still keeps the level on a kind of okay, and that's fine for me. I'm not looking for anymore. I'm not like childing, more like dreaming big shit and stuff like I'm really grounded. So it's like a day life companion.

7:56 That's it. I'm having fun. It's not really fun. I didn't have fun on saying no, it's more off absence. I'm absent for thirty minutes for. For getting out of body. I don't anymore, like everything is hot, all the things that maybe hurt you every day. He's just gone, yeah, that's very cool. And you said, practice, practice, practice. That was my big problem. I started playing guitar wow, and I as a kid, and I just didn't practice enough. I remember Randy Rhodes was like my idol. And then I found out he practiced eight hours a day. I'm like, oh, I'm not. I don't think I'm going to. But now fast forward all these years. My grandson recently, I didn't even know he was that much into music, but he had a birthday and what did he want?

8:47 A guitar? So I brought him to. I brought got him a guitar and he's sitting down in the store playing and I was like, holy shit, like he actually knew how to play it. And now it's funny because his mother tells me that his sister is so annoyed all the time because all he does is Gann's room, closed the door all. Day and play the guitar. That's it. So it was funny when you're saying that, I'm like, there's my grands. You're all the same. I think it's just about why you do that as a young guy as well, because it's different if you started twenty yeah, rather than five. It's totally different. And so I think that it's not just about practice, it's just about losing yourself into something which is not irting all the time.

9:37 Yeah, that's totally What do you think of hell Fest? I want to live here, but unfortunately is not a city I know, right, this is my utopia. I can dream about this like this is a perfect city in the world. Oh, it looks like a city. Actually it is, and. It's hell City. Yeah, but it felt like this. I would definitely go there. Have you seen it at night? Yes? Oh my god, it's like you are at Hell, Like it's so awesome. And the thing is that I'm really the guy living in the woods with I mean, I live in an environment which just got one hundred people and just woods all around. So there are ten people where I live in Maha. So coming here.

10:19 It was like when I just got through the door and said, what, what the hell? This is real? I never saw that much people in my fucking life. Maybe in Moscow, I don't know, right, It's wild, right, huge, cities. But this is insane. It's fucking insane. It's so good, so good, and you know what in here, Like that's what I'm saying before, Like I don't think the rest of the world exists when I'm here. It's like, I'm just here. This is the world to me. And I do a lot of festivals. This is when I got here. I'm like I've reached the promised Land. Yeah it's different. You got huge and great festivals, but this is different. This got this character. This is a place itself. It is different. It's not like you know, a festival, right, good one. This is a place which is totally different being.

11:12 Here and a community. I work commart beard and see some bands then just go around. Is there a particular band you're both looking forward to? Saying, oh, Lord, really looking forward? I would say no, and I don't want to be unpolite, but I'm an old guy on that side. My favorite, I mean, my favorite one that. Really changed my life was Death when I was fourteen nice and when I was fourteen, the sound of perseverance was hout and that changed totally my view of music. And since then, and I saw a lot of concerts by the end when I was thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, like nineties and early two thousand and I must say that when you see those pants, it's limiting because everyone else is different now the intensity of those concert like Death Testament, all those fucking bands, which are my favorite.

12:07 Yeah. So I was at Slayers first show ever. I saw twice them twice Slayer, which was because of Metal in nineteen nine, two thousand and then after six days, I saw them and that Earth's Kirt in London when I was sixteen, and it was insane. I mean, I'm not the kind of normal, average Slayer guy, but I really loved them, and it was one of the most impressive things on a stage I saw in my life. Yeah. They were so fucking intense. No doubt. It was brutal. Yeah. So like when I was a teenager, my dad moved me in nineteen eighty to la and so I was in that whole scene. I saw Metallica's first show ever. Yeah, I saw Slayers first show ever. Well yeah, and then they both left. They went to the Bay Area. So me and my bro used to, hey, Jake up the Bay Area.

13:01 The fucking lucky man. I'm so much. Possessed, Dark Angel, Exit stop It. I would like to be older to leave that moment because I was I'm from eighty four, so I started listening to Black Sabbat when I was like ten. Me too, but that's happening like fifth grade. Sabbat, Pantera, all those names, which were fucking unbelievable acts and actually I would really love but I miss them to see here. The only band I was really like, wow, which is totally different from the whole thing, is Muse. Oh yeah, they were last night. Which is not my favorite one, but they are some guys I really would like to see on a fucking stage because they're so intense and great musicians. There are three guys holding huge stages. Yeah, with the insane.

13:55 Power it always That's why I want to see bands. With three people in it that make that kind of sound just blows my mind. Say right, there's you know, it's good. I'm like, how do they do that with like three people? Like you got Slipknot as nine people and they make more sound than Slipnot. Yeah exactly, you know, well music sounds pretty heavy. Yeah, So that was really but we miss them because we were gonna play this morning, so we went to sleep at midnight. We have one hour drive to the hotel from here, so it's you know, it's long. So they were starting too late for us and this I had that, but we. Need to work.

14:35 Well, you had to play, but me, I was here until the end. I was there for high long. Yeah, and then I'm like, I half forty minutes away from here, so I'm like, we gotta get up early because we got to catch the six set and let's go. Yeah. Yeah, Actually, there's a lot of good bands on the bio. I mean there's many, fucking a lot too many. I would really love to say there's a lot of bands on Halter stage where we played. Those are all my favorites because they're all a thrashman. I would really love to see some kind of new stuff like Vola and Leprous as well, and all that Persephone as well. Yeah, but there's a lot of. Good, good ones today and such Fay because of Steviian just training. We were like when I was when Passion and Warfare came out, and the other one with the TRN I don't remember the name, but when I was a teenager, they were really gods for me, like Jack Charldener, like James Murphy, like Cobble.

15:35 Alex Kolnick was my ye. I mean they're so great players. And like tomorrow is Death Clock with Gene Hoagland, who's also went. Don't tell me that because tomorrow we're gonna go away. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I interviewed him a couple of weeks ago for the new Dark Angel stuff, and now they in review him tomorrow for Death Clock. Okay, I want c Once in my lip. I Actually it's the nicest guy in the world. Yeah, I know, I went. I would really love to meet him. I'll tell him tomorrow for you. I'll tell him it's here. I'll tell him tomorrow that he has to put your band on tour with him. Oh please, I will trust please. I'll even do it in the review. I'll put him on the stoe.

16:16 I'm getting older. I need something good in my life. There. Well, this was enough, but I need to tour as well. I missing touring. So because we used to tour a lot. I mean we were not just with Seek I AD the previous band which goes like sixteen years before Sick, and we tour like one hundred and one hundred and fifty gigs a year, and now we are like after the COVID thing, we just stopped and it's pain in the ass. Man, I'm suffering so much for that. Let's make it happen, please. Please. So last thing is tell everybody how they can reach out to you guys. Check out your music and everything else.

16:59 I buy your merch and stuff like that. And yeah, they just can. We are easy guys. Just right to a season means, or write to us, or check our Spotify or check our Instagram page. I mean, you know, nowadays you're more influenced or deanisition, but I'm not like that. So we are pretty bad at socials. I must say that I'm totally handicapped about that. But because it's not my style, I'm still used to go to club to see bends. When we're young, every fucking club. Was full tape trading was my social media. Exactly, and or city burning like yeah, and at that time everyone was going around to check bens. I mean two hundreds, three hundreds for local or maybe bends then.

17:41 No one knows it was normal. Yeah. Now two or three hundreds are the average for the good bands, right, which sell tickets, which is crazy and so hope to be back, you know, like back to the future, like right right, I have a fucking time machine, and. But I think things will change. I mean this is huge and crazy and it really brings some hope. Well I'm glad you were here because I've never seen your band and now I'm hooked because that was a fucking sick show. And thanks, I'm glad you're here. And thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thanks so much, my pleasure man, my pleasure really.

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