PipemanRadio Interviews Anoxia at Inkcarceration 2025

0:04 Hey you lunto, Yes, that's true. See for you your. Incarceration America's Rock, Metal and Tattoo Festival. This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here with. Crystal James of the band in Oxia. Nice and we were just talking about that in another interview of a band you also play in and so that Carbon Stone. That's pretty cool. Yes, absolutely. What I think. What I think is coolest about it, though, is that you are a husband and wife playing together, touring together. It's funny. There's so many people in my life that have said, oh, I wouldn't while I work with my husband, I don't want to be around them all the time. I'm like, then you're married to wrong person.

0:57 I think if you have the right marriage, you want to be with that spouse. We actually work nine to five together. To look at that, that's fucking cool. Yeah right right, So he's tired of me, No, I'm just kidding. We do it all together. We do everything together. So see that is so cool. And it could go both ways, you know, it could annoy the shitt of you or it could be cool. And if we're not annoying each other, we're doing it fucking wrong right. Well, listen, I'm from New York and New Jersey, so annoying people is like my language, absolutely and only people understand that. Though some people get annoyed dude, But if you have to explain it, they don't understand. You just don't get it right exactly. So tell us about your bunny.

1:46 He talked a little bit about it, but I like what he was saying is like that he was describing your look. So let's start with it's a little different. It's kind of like Maria Brink and Slipknot had a baby. Description descript like I totally have a picture of You can picture that if you can picture Maria Brink if in this moment and Flipknot the whole band having a baby, the whole image of it, the imagery, the sthetic, the whole things, that's us. That's an oxyo. I could tell you're married because he explained carbon Stone by doing the same thing. Yeah, what was he said? If it was corn. Orgy and one other band fuck, I can't remember they all had a baby, then that would be us. Yes, And see, I love explaining it that way instead of we were talking about the stupid genre shit.

2:36 Yeah, I hate that. Well, humans are visual creatures, so I think that it helps to give people a more visual aspect. Totally get some intrigued and then they'll want to hear it. So and how long does it take you do your eyes? That's what I want with you? Oh my god. So I worked at a Glamour studio for good six seven years and I worked with a lot of different ethnic people. They taught me a lot of tricks. I've got this shit down to twenty five minutes. Yes, wow, twenty. Five minutes because looks hard the eyes alone. I'm like, you got to be an artist to do that. Yeah, yeah, you do, you do. I'm a little artist synclined as far as like drawing and stuff. I do all of our graphics. I do all of an Oxia and Carbonstone's graphic, all the artwork for that, the t shirts, the album work, all that stuff.

3:22 So yeah, and I imagine your merch is probably badass. Then I think I'd like to think, so, how. Do people buy your merch? Because you can't listen to my show, and let's say buy your. Merch so you can do it both. You can actually come to a show and buy merch and then you can also buy merch through us through our website. So we do this like print on demand thing. So we have so much more stuff outside of shows that people can purchase. And I'm constantly doodling, so I might just throw something up there just for whatever. So very cool, and tell them your website address, socials and all. Well, it's the big card. Tell it's carbon oxia. That's carbonstone and an oxya together. So carbon Oxia that's the big cartel store. And you can also get there through carbonstone dot net and you can get there through an oxyamusic dot com.

4:06 Very cool. We're on YouTube, we're on Facebook, we're on Twitter, we're on Instagram, we're everywhere nice all over the place. If you look for a carbon stone and an oxia, you'll find you find carbon stone, you find an oxia, and vice versa. So do you guys do tours together? Yes? Because that's harder word now if you're playing two sets? Yeah, Like I'm always impressed. No artists that do that twice. That's tricky because you know, an oxia is carbonstone but different. You know, well, you pour everything out in one set, so to do two sets impress its me. But then it's like flipping the switch. Oh yeah, I know for sure, and you think he's a Gemini right there you.

4:47 Go and see like I'm also a motivational speaker, so it's like there's a switch there too. Radio me and motivational speaker me are two different people, right you know? Yeah, I always joke I'm schizophrenic. Okay, that works, But see that works, that's awesome. What was that moment in time for you asked him the same question that you knew this is what you needed to do music. Well, that's a good question, but I honestly have to say I come from a karaoke background. Okay, I was actually very shy, and there was this moment in time where my ex well I was married previously, and my ex family in law is they really wanted to get me out there somehow, so they put me in this karaoke competition. It was ten weeks long. My final song I made it all the way to the end. My final song was We're Not Gonna Take It Nice by Biff Naked Though, so I covered the chick version of it.

5:44 I got up on the ball. I just totally showed my ass and It was just amazing to really feel so much energy coming back at me. And I think that was the first time that I really felt full of life. I love that and I couldn't let it go. I could never let this go right And even if it was just minimal, I'd have to have this in my life somehow, some way. It's like when I talk to people and they're like, well, I used to listen metal, but now anymore. I'm like, no, you didn't know it's your hooks, Yeah, what's your metal head? You were always a metal ed music though. It's but music in general it has the power to do so many beautiful therapy. It's therapy, it's it's a healer.

6:29 I mean, you know, you see a lot of the elderly and dementia patients and things like that, and they just they connect so well with it. It's energy. It's everything. Like with animals, they say music, excuse the Savage Beast's fun, but it's true. They call me the modern day snow White, So wow, it works out. I love that. I would bend all day with birds and wildlife, and I'd sit there and feed a wild bear. I don't care. I love it. That's pretty cool. I always tell my husband if I ever die, the way I'm going is here, Kitty. Kitty and as a bear here today and he's gonna be on stage with dyl and Jerk Escape playing really. Yeah really well, did Carbonstone tell you that they got a bear too? Really? So we have a mascot. His name's Frankie. He couldn't make it here with us today, but he's amazing. He's really really cool. But he's our mascot.

7:16 Well, see that's cool. He kind of looks like Freddy's Friday Night Freddy's are. Oh okay, yeah, yeah he does he jump down in the pit. Not yet, he hasn't done that yet. We gotta get that happened. Yeah, yeah, one story good or bad that when you're like eighty about this whole musical journey. What would it be if I had, I'm sorry, one story good or bad from this whole musical journey if you were to tell it when you're eighty, what would it be? What's the one that sticks out in your mind, like like just an experience that I've had, or just a sort whatever whatever happened. I see a lot of people give up on their dreams on a daily basis, And I've been there. I've been in and out of mental health, in good places and bad places. And I feel like if you just follow what your heart tells you to do. The good thing about music is it will never let you down. Yeah, And it's the one thing that will never even when you want to let yourself down, music will never leave you alone.

8:18 I love that because it's so true. It's just the best therapy there is. Yes, you know, I think that's why people got to become such assholes because we had that two hours, two years of no live music. Yeah, nothing to let it out. Yeah. We were on a hiatus for eight years. My previous fan walked away from me. I was going through a hard time. Times are changing, and eight years to be without this was like torture. I would have rather been dead. And what does it feel like when you're up there on stage? It's like God, it's like being on the best drugs there are without taking drugs. Like there's nothing, there's no drug r I'd ever touch that kind of energy exchange. It's so powerful, so just it just gets in your veins and it just never lets you go.

9:04 And does it blow your mind when like you don't think people know your music and then you look out and they're singing your songs. It does, It does. It's fucking weird. Because they put me in tears every time they do whatever. I love that see one person, It doesn't matter how old they are, a little girl, you know, a boy rocking out, you know, an elderly woman or an elderly man, It doesn't matter. I see them gazing at me and connecting with me and feeling it, and that's what I do it for. That makes you a true artist. Because there's different types of artists. There's the ones that want to be a rock star, which doesn't even existing. Yeah, it doesn't. Okay. I was back in the time of the rock stars and it wasn't better. Better now artists and for the scene.

9:52 I think a lot of musicians are more self conscious and self aware now and they know that they have to take care of themselves a little bit better. We all loved the sixties and seventies. You know that's great, but right as it is for now, like it's gonna be a sad day when all my heroes are gone, and I'm just it makes me feel good that they're actually taking care of themselves like Manson and I'm so excited to see him today. You have no idea what I saw, I am, but I think it was Rockville, and man, he looks he was pretty fucking good. He looks amazing. I'm so glad to see he's doing better. So and it like even what happened with Ozzy, okay, like still with everything he did in life, who would ever figure that he'd even be performing.

10:39 At that beautiful though. Oh I mean, I haven't even been able to bring myself to watch the whole thing, and I've just the little clips that I've been able to see, like it just, oh my god, it's beautiful. And I've been seeing him every year since nineteen eighty. I saw him with Randy Rhoades. Yeah, that's amazing. So it's like it's just wild because you would never think he be even alive today, Like right, yeah, last did everybody you know with all the shitty did Yeah. He's infinite, He's infinite. Absolutely. Did you see the proposal? I didn't see it yet, but I did see the news. I saw the news of it, but I didn't see the actual footage. It's so funny because Sid was about to propose, and before he got out of his mouth, he did backstage with Ozzie and the whole family, and Ozzy goes, you're not fucking marrying my daughter.

11:29 Oh yes, that's amazing. It was Zicaic and then sid guy on an end did. Anyway, that's great, that's awesome, so cool. Anything else you want to share with the listeners about your band or anything that you want them to know that's coming up. We've got a few things coming up. We're going on tour with Spine Shank Nice Yes in September, and an Oxya is taking a side seat for that only because I am a part of the Carbon Stone crew. But shortly after that we'll be going right back into the Anoxia camp and we'll be reading the next album. So very cool. I'm excited for that. That's well, I'm excited too. Yeah. I hope to see them at a Danny Wimmer fest.

12:10 Yes, I would love to perform at one of these festivals. I can't wait. We'll get here next. Year, yes, you will. And you're here now, yes, And thanks for being here at incarceration. Thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you for having me, Thank you for listening to the adventures of pipement on w for Cui Radio