PipemanRadio Interviews Dead Flesh About Bloodstock 2024

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0:49 D right God, I know, I thought, I love. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm said about our next guest, and bum too, because I normally do Bloodstock every year. This year I'm not doing Bloodstock because my daughter decided to get married instead, and so now I can't go, and now I can't watch this band perform live, and that really bums me out. So let's just bring Rich on the show and welcome Dead Flash. How are you? Thank you? Em just doing good? Thanks, So tell us a. Little bit about the journey that got you to the new Blood stage.

1:34 So we did Metals to the Masses, the sort of the Battle of the Bands competition in our local town of Hitchin, just down the road for me at our local venue, Club eighty five. We did Metal to the Masses. So we played with a whole bunch of other bands and we got through round after round and we got to the final and surprisingly Simon whole, the organized with liked us enough that he decided that we were going to win the whole competition, which we were all super super stoked about. So yeah, that was That was our Meltson mass'es journey to playing Bloodsto which is super cool. Love it, love it, and they're gonna blow your mind that you actually won placement in playing at Bloodstar.

2:21 Absolutely, man like totally. The the you know, the quality of all the bands that were that were playing was so high and you know, all of us couldn't couldn't believe it because we've done the competition before, like previous years, and actually actually winning this time around was was. It was super cool. Man. I love Bloodstock and I've been going for years and to actually be able to play myself like as a front man in my own projects is super cool. With the guys as well. Yeah, it's amazing. Totally and you know what's cool about it too is okay. So in my opinion, if you're going to be a band like yours in the UK, there's only one festival that if you're going to play one you should play, and it's Bloodstock totally.

3:08 Yeah, it's it's such a great festival, and like, like I said, I've been going for years and you know, everyone's super friendly, is a real sense of like community Bloodstock and the you know, the lineups always grey, and the stages are great and of course you know the the new Blood stage where they do the metal to the massive thing all around the country. To give bands like Dead Flesh, you know, the chance to to play this like massive festival as a you know, young band, it is like awesome, like we really appreciate it. And that's what I love the that. So you know, I do festivals all over the world and blood Bloodstock is one of my favorites for a few reasons and ones that you mentioned. You know, I find that it's like a family there, okay, and I'm just amongst my family, my world metal family is all at Bloodstock, you know, absolutely, yeah, And I think that's good for the band. I think that's good for the audience, and I think it's good for just mental health in general.

4:13 Yeah, yeah, totally. It's so nice to take a couple of days to just be around you know, people who like love the same have the same sort of passion for like metal and heavy music that I do and and you know, I'm sure every real feels the same. It's just there's a real sense of like community, there's it's it's really nice. It's great festival. It's my favorite. Yeah, And you know, in the in the world that we're living in today with all of the you know things and struggles going on in the horrors of society, I mean that it's the escape, that's the escape we can all go to and not have to deal with all that bull crap going on in the world.

4:59 Absolutely, I can't wait for to have those those four days or so where I just I don't have to think about too much other than the show exactly. That's why, you know, during the lockdown, I think live music would have saved us all because I think that's a reason why people got so angry and so you know, tacking each other, because there was no live music bringing us together. Definitely, it was a real felt like it was a real missing thing from my life, was live music. Yeah, I'm glad that we still get to get to be able to. Do it, you know, right, And where was that moment in life where you decided live music was something you wanted to do.

5:48 Ah, Man, it was I can't remember exactly which band, but it was seeing one of the big kind of metal bands. You know, it might have been Metallica. It's probably more likely Slipknot or something like that, but it was it was seeing you know, bands like slip Knot and Metallica and Lamb of God and stuff like that playing this like insane music and these front men who were like screaming these crazy you know, making these crazy sounds from their from their throats and stuff. And I was like, that's cool as ship, you know, me teenage me going like, that's fucking cool. I want to do that. So I think it's definitely just checking out. Yeah, some of the other big, big bands really sort of inspired me to want to.

6:32 Yeah, I love it. And so what kind of reaction have you gotten from people in your world when you you came up with this idea of having a band and singing metal and playing metal and very good metal. But to some people, I don't know if they think that same way. Oh, thank you. Yeah, I mean largely it's been it's been pretty pretty positive, to be honest. You know, we've had a lot of great feedback from you know, like the local scene and stuff and beyond, you know. I mean, I think generally people who come to the shows, they won't they don't tend to say if you're be like, oh mate, that was really shit. You know, I didn't like that at all. You know, generally people are really positive and really nice. So who knows. Maybe there are people who don't enjoy it as much, but generally the feedback's been like really positive for Dead Fives well.

7:31 Of the One of the things I love about what you said is really nice because if metal heads that new like we know each other, you know, we would describe each other as very nice, but we don't let the rest of the worlds think. That it's true, isn't it. Yeah, It's true quite often, you know, people who aren't like into it or whatever just like, oh god, you you know, so the metal heads are so different off stage than they are on stage, and right, it's true, isn't it. Yeah? And it's funny. There was one band, uh that I was interviewing, and we were sitting talking afterwards, and it was like, yeah, let's not let the secret out to the general public that were actually not satanic murderers and that were actually just nice normal.

8:24 People or I know, right in the image, right. Exactly, you know, because then you can have stuff like what happened with the Olympics, with the Mighty Gojira playing and killing it, and then there's still idiots out there saying, see there's the Satanist day of It invaded the Olympics, and it's like, have you read the lyrics at all? Oh? I know, Yeah, it's just hilarious, isn't it. Right, Absolutely fantastic seeing seeing one of my favorite favorite metal bands, you know, into the mainstream. Suddenly it's so cool. Right, it is very cool. And you know, it just gave me an idea of something new I might do on my live show where we'll play music like metal music that the average person would not understand the lyrics and ask them what they think the song is about.

9:25 How many words can you pick out of this, right? And you know they're just gonna make stuff up. It's gonna be like, oh, it's about somebody killing their wife and uh, you know, and murdering the world and and and they all did in the name of Satan. Absolutely, that's what's all all of the lyrics are about. Right, that's good stuff. So speaking of that, let's talk about your songs and your lyrics and your music and what is it about. What message do you send? Because that's the thing. Metal music always sends some kind of message and it's something that people could relate to, and it's not you know, like you know, like in pop music, some of the lyrics are just they have no meaning to them, but metal lyrics always have meaning most of the time.

10:20 Yeah, yeah, most of the time. Yeah, I like, I like to think that the thing I try and write sort of lyrics that have, you know, some kind of meaning behind them. It's a lot of the stuff that I write about is kind of personal experience really. It's it's a lot of a lot of stuff about like kind of depression and mental health and and that sort of thing. A lot of my own experiences with that and and to me having having these these lyrics and you know, quite like sensitive subjects that I like express is a form of you know, self expression. Really. Yeah, I like to say, you know, it's it's art, but it's personal to me, And yeah, I don't know, so sometimes people can connect with that, you know, like I found through my favorite artists and hearing some of the some of the lyrics that you know, come from the heart and experience, past experiences and stuff. Yeah, it's something that I like, I like to do as well, so.

11:17 Well, you know what's cool about that. A couple of things is, I think a lot of people don't realize they look at musicians and they think they're kind of like extroverts because of what they do. And generally the stuff you're writing in your lyrics you probably rarely talk about to people like you do in your lyrics because then you get it's like you can express freely in the lyrics. Somehow you disassociate in some ways too, because it's you're writing a song, you know, it's not like you're having a conversation with somebody that could judge you or or argue with you or anything. It's like you just get to freely express and put it down.

11:58 It's totally true. Yeah, yeah, it's you know, I try. I'd like to try and think that I do it in a way that kind of works with the music as well. But it's definitely a good way to you know, get thoughts and feelings out there and and if if people aren't into it, then fair enough. You know, it's not our music isn't for everyone, but people you know, do connect with it as well. So it's and that's what's really cool, I think, is having that connection with with with people. It's like, you know, I've I've written a song where I've like, oh, I feel like really shit and this are the sort of things that I'm feeding in. Somebody else is like how I felt. I like to you know, it's cool way to connect with people.

12:38 Yeah, And that's the second part I was going to talk about right there too, because it's like it's kind of cool because as the artist, you may think you're all alone in some of those mental health journeys or anything like that, and then you write this song and people are coming up to you and they're relating their own life experiences. So only is it cathartic for you and cathoric for them, but now you know, both of you find out that there's other people feeling the same way. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, I mean I don't think I've ever had anybody come out to me in that way. And like sort of after a show because I guess the lyrics are sort of you know, it's kind of like death metal and it's like right, yeah, but for those who are interested in digging for that sort of thing, There's there's probably something there.

13:33 What's the one band that you think most of all made you want to do this type of music? I would I would probably go with Slipknot. I think. I think slip Knot was the first time that I, you know, when I was when I was growing up, he used to be really into kind of pop punk and and that sort of thing. And I had a mate who was like older than me, and and he was like this out uh and it was it was Iowa by slip Now. And I was like, oh my god, you know what what is this? Yeah? And that was that was my first introduction to like heavy metal really nice and it was all downhill from there.

14:18 So and so, if you were to pick a band that you would tour with besides Slipknot, because that would be your probably answer, Now, who would it be? I I think so? I guess a couple of choices about some good answers for us would probably be like something somebody like Whitechapel or or they are is murdered. I think we'd suit that sort of lineup really well. That would be awesome. Yeah, that they probably I think in terms of like, who would I love to Actually, it's like talk with to see night after night. I'd really you love to see Aborted. They're a fucking awesome death metal band. I saw them once Live of the Underworld and no idea how they were and they completely blew me away. So being able to talk with those guys would be cool. Ship but nice.

15:12 Yeah, how's everybody reached out to you guys on socials? On your link tree? Check out your merch, check out your music tour aid's all that good stuff. Yeah, yeah, Facebook, dead Flesh, We're on Instagram, Spotify, there's a link tree. I think we're on TikTok as well, all that all that good stuff, band camp, dead Flesh talk, band dot dot com. Yeah, everything's everything's online available for so get a hold of us. What's your what's your either craziest or funnest TikTok that you did.

15:52 There's probably a lack of decent tiktoks, to be honest. Most of them are just clips from sort of outtakes from the video shoots and stuff. We're not the most creative bunch when it comes to social media. Like I say, though, TikTok it's a lot of work. I give credit to people that do the tiktoks because I mean I do tiktoks too, but I don't have enough time in a day to put the effort in that other people play, you know, and there is a creativity to it that like it's a different creativity, and I don't even know if I have the patience for that creativity.

16:36 Absolutely. I mean some people do, right, like raised yowls to you know, make great like comedy skits and stuff. It's like it's like comedy skits and things like that of adventures of different metal bands, and yeah, we're probably not quite as comedically minded as. You can always be. Like Ronnie Radkey because it's tiktoks. Oh he he's funny because he just goes after all his haters on his TikTok and they're actually it's pretty entertaining. Like it's so it's so kind of funny to me actually, because like why do people have to be haters anyway?

17:19 You don't like a band, you don't like somebody, so what move on? Nobody needs to be haters. And it's like nowadays we have these people the screen warriors are haters on socials, and those are the people he calls out. He's like, you know, and I feel like, yeah, I really have respect to him because I'd like to do that too, But you know, I might get canceled if I did that. That's true. There's a fine line between the sort of things that you can and have to keep to yourself sometimes, and. That's right, that's right. So what are you most looking forward to at Bloodstock?

18:00 I mean, definitely playing the show I think it is. Playing on the New Blood stage is probably I'm most looking forward to, I will say, But I mean there's you know, just hanging out with me, seeing some great bands. I'm really looking forward to seeing Opeth and Clutch and loads of other bands. So I think it's just gonna be It's gonna be awesome. It is going to be bad, as I'm pre bummed, and I'm gonna miss a lot of bands, including yours. And I know you're gonna kill it there and listen. I hope we hear a lot more from you. And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. No, thank you very much for having me on Man much appreciate it anytime, Brother brilliant. Thank you for listening.

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