PipemanRadio Interviews Brian Haran of Night's Edge

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0:54 Stuff. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm very excited about our next guest because with a badass band and badass musician. So let's welcome to the show, Brian some Knight's Edge. How are you? I'm doing all right? How are you doing? Dan? I'm doing great. And so I was checking out all your new music and it's pretty badass, and I love that there's a lot of variety to it, Okay, Like it's not the same song over and over and over again, not even the same sounds, like, not even the same influences over and over again, which tells me you're a true artist. Well, thank you. Yeah, we definitely.

1:36 I don't know if we necessarily, like consciously try and mix it up song to song or if it just naturally happens that way, but we just write what we want to write, and what comes out comes out, and we just try try our best to keep a cohesive between tracks, even though it's pretty varied at times. And I think you kind of don't try, and that's what makes you a great artist. It's just like pro everybody that has some input has some different influences and different things that they bring to table, which brings on variety, which I think makes you unique compared to a lot of bands nowadays that may sound exactly the same. Thank you, thank you, Yeah, I appreciate that.

2:18 I definitely understand what you're saying, with a lot of a lot of like our contemporaries, you know, sounding very similar to their influences throughout their you know, their catalog. So tell me a little bit about the new album and it comes out August. Tell tell me a little bit about why this could be the best album yet from you guys. So the new album, The World That Never Was comes out on August twenty first, and it's it's definitely our best work. It's our strongest songwriting, it's our best arrangements. All three of us are at our best in terms of playing and performance, like quality of musicians, lyrically as the strongest like conceptual through line and just word choices and word play in the songs, and I think it really we really started to kind of find our sound on our last album, Strangers, but I think this one the world never was. This is really an album where what we are bringing forward, if a listener is willing to take the time and dive in that they could get something unique and kind of fall into a different kind of world, different kind of vibe that we bring that you can't really get anywhere else.

3:38 And you know what, I kind of think too, Like you know, when you're a musician, you want to do better and better each album, and you kind of explore and you got better and get better at your craft. But then you have your old school fans that think you should stay like a garage band. So maybe you can explain as an artist what that feels like like when maybe the original people following you want you to stay basically new beginner and even artists would you learn things so you want to apply to things that you learn as you get better at your craft. Well, I mean I would think of that in the same way as you know a person may think about like, oh, I if trying to chase like a commercial accessibility, for example, I think that if you are taking too much into account any outside person's opinion of how you should sound and instead of just sounding how you do sound and how you want to sound.

4:38 Then you know, he secrifice a little bit of integrity there. See. I love that because you know, again, to me, that's a true artist that makes the music for themselves. And whoever likes it, well, they like it because they're on the same wavelength. And whoever doesn't like it, that's okay too because they may like something different. Yeah, we definitely make music for ourselves, make the music that we want to hear, and kind of, at least for me, it's you know, writing the music that I want to listen to that I can't necessarily listen to because it's not out there yet. Right to the way. And then you have one song also where you have kind of, as I saw it, put Queen's reight guess vocals. But every time that you got or like at least the first time you went on stage doing this kind and kind of I don't know best way to describe it is maybe feels kind of strange to you because that's a pretty high standard to be held up to.

5:43 Oh yeah, I know exactly. The song that's Someone to Stay, which is the first track on the album, and we actually released that that's out as a pre release single. We put that out in May, so that's out for anybody who want to listen, wants to listen to it. Very eighties inspired, kind of has that Queen's reke eighties prog vibe, but with the Knight's edge, kind of gothy keys sense and all the left turns we like to put into stuff. But yeah, for sure, vocally that is an insanely it's like a really challenging song. But I put down the vocals that I thought would serve the song the best, and when it comes to do it it live, I just got to do my best to match what I did in the studio. It's mainly that last scream at the very end of the song. It's pretty high. Sometimes it comes out as just a grit scream, which is it's all.

6:34 Right, But sometimes I nail it. Yeah, nice wins and losses. Well, even like Okay, you take a lot of bands, you know, they when they do it live, they can't necessarily hit the same way. Funny story, you know, like Tom from Slayer when he did Angel of Death, like that was a one off when he did that scream in the beginning they were in the studio, he did the scream like didn't practice or just did it, yeah, and then they want him to do it again and he's like, I can't do it again. Was that was it? You know? But and you know, I think people don't really grab sometimes. That's how it is.

7:16 Man. It's like even with a riff, Like how many times do artists come up with a riff but then they don't like note it down or anything, and it's like, you know, it may never happen again. Yeah, I mean we do. I definitely do make an effort to reproduce everything we do in the studio live as best as I can, and all of us do, like we want to sound great, and I think we are good live, but we definitely want. To sound great live too. So even though I may have pushed myself in the studio, I kind of interpret that as a you know, it's a challenge for myself to keep up with that standard live. And you know, what I always want to find out for mors like is how do you say and play an instrument at the same time, Because to me, that's like rubbing your head and your tummy at the same time.

8:08 Oh, I guess just practice. I've been so I originally started on guitar, and I've been playing guitar since I was very young, and I started singing and playing guitar in like high school, and I'm in my early thirties now, so just doing it for, you know, fifteen years. I think it's mostly just practice. Do you feel you guys, excuse me. Do you feel you got thrown off sometimes? Where like sometimes you kind of have to focus more. So, I mean sometimes it can definitely be a little bit challenging in that if I don't walk in and really make sure that I'm like in the zone but not necessarily thinking about what I'm doing, because if you think about what you're doing, then you're gonna screw up.

8:57 But if you're not thinking about it at all, thinking about something else, or if you're just if you're not present, then you're gonna screw up. To you have to be in like this middle place where you're like locked in but you're not too conscious of yourself. And as long as I stay there, I'm okay. And and we practice all of these songs to death before we ever bring them out live, So I'm not gonna you know, we're not gonna be playing anything live that we can't get through, and and we're able to get through everything before we even get to the studio. So it's just. Practice, practice, practice, and by by the time you see me play it live, I've played it probably one hundred times and I'm just used to it now.

9:41 I don't know. It's not. I don't have like any sort of specific mnemonic device or learning strategies. I'm not like a trained musician or anything. It's it's just uh, just grinding it out basically. Sometimes it's better to just be doing it. Do you said, practice, practice, practice, I think that's key right there, because it just becomes second nature when you practice it that many times, and that I think that's the best way to become a great musician. You know. You take somebody like Randy Rhodes, he practiced eight hours a day, every single day. That's why he was a great guitarist.

10:23 I went that at the time, to practice eight hours a day every single time. I know, right, I played guitar and I sucked because I definitely didn't even have the time to play an hour every day or maybe even the maybe even that strong a desire. I think that takes a lot of desire to do it the same thing for eight hours a day, for sure. Yeah, you have to go on it for tour, Yeah, totally and get through that the game part for me, the hardest part was, you know, going through scales bored me to hell. And people that were trying to help me play guitar or like, you gotta do the scales first, I'm like, I don't want to do that. I just want to play a song like most people do. But you gotta you gotta do that framework, that that foundation before you can shred.

11:11 I mean, I guess I did some of that when I was learning guitar when I was like very young, you know, like elementary. School and stuff. But by the time I really started getting good at guitar, I was just playing playing along to like Metallica and and then Sevenfold and whatever I was listening to at the time. That that all started. Right around the same time started getting into heavy music, like heavy heavy music, but it was just just plight. Like it was practice. Yeah, what was that first moment that you thought of picking up a guitar or what happened? Think or just music in general. Honestly, my parents got me a guitar from a sixth uh for Christmas or a birthday when I was six, so it was like it was a Squire mini strat, like this little bitty baby guitar.

11:56 But I was a child, so it fit and it was like. Time me up for lessons practice half hour day and uh did that, you know. And then by the time I was ten or so, then I was into it enough and I was good enough at it where I just kept doing it on my own. I kept doing like, you know, the little lescense and stuff like that, and uh. Yeah. Then by high school it was just playing in bands, and not even high school, middle school, playing in bands, doing the whole garage band thing, playing in basements, churches, stuff like that. And so what your parents think now, Oh, I mean.

12:38 I think they're happy that I'm you know, still playing music and still enjoying it. They don't really enjoy the style of music. Very much, but well, I think I think they're glad that that, you know, they sent me on a path for something that I enjoy in life, and I am glad that they did that. What else do you want to tell us what's going on in the rest of two twenty twenty five that the listeners need to know about. So we. Just put out our third single from the album, Smite. We put that out a couple of days ago on June fifth, June fifth or sixth, it was last Friday.

13:20 That is out everywhere. There was a really awesome and funny music lyric video that goes with that that is available on our YouTube. I encourage everybody to check it out. That song is a heavy one, it's a lot of fun, kind of slip, not reminiscent almost. We have another single help Me out next month called love Fiction. That one's a. Lot more kind of sad and contemplative, very gothic, almost like a synth wave of electronic influence going on in that one. And then of course the album August twenty first, and we're going to be doing as many shows as we can. We are in the we're in Maryland, Baltimore, Marylands, in the mid Atlantic area.

14:01 We do the weekend Warrior thing. Well, we'll just go to cities around where we are and play shows Friday and Saturday whenever we can, and if anybody wants us to come to our town, let us know, we'll do our best to make it there and we'll be we'll probably do a post release music video in addition to the video that we're gonna do on the day of the album release. We're gonna record a video for the song Soaring, and then what's the album is out will probably do one more post release music video along, which is short form content. All the lyrics for everything will be put out onto Spotify so that you can like read the sync lyrics with the videos.

14:43 And well, we're going to try and support this album as best. As we can and keep it in people's minds after its release because we really believe in what we have and we don't want it to kind of just get lost. In the mix. Well, the new music is badass and everybody should definitely check it out. How do they connect to you guys on socials on the web, get the new music, check out merch all that good stuff. We are on every social and streaming site that you can think of, so Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon Music, et cetera. If you look up nights Edge, you'll find us. If you google Night's Edge band. Like all of our stuff comes up.

15:29 We have a website nights Edge knightsedgeband dot com. And has all of our links, all of our information. We're pretty easy to find, so if you look for us, you will find us nice. Well, they definitely have to look for you because it's not only great music, but great musicianship. And thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. All right, thank you, thanks for having me Gee, thank. You for listening to the Adventures of plate Man. I'm w for CU on Light Radio.