PipemanRadio Interviews Dead Flesh at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

0:04 Hey, you have done too. Yes, that's true for. Crazy Young. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man w four c Y Radio, and I'm here. With you have Nelly the drummer from Dead Flesh and Chris the guitarist from Dead Flesh. Nice. Oh yeah. So my first question, most important right now is did you go catch Cage Fight set? Yes? I did, because that was amazing. I've also just what gave it away is the fact I'm wearing a Cage Fight shirt right. But it's they were so good. Nick Blues, the drummer, is one of my favorite drummers. He's from around our area and just to be able to watch him play in that style of band that he's in, but add his vibes, so it's a great band anyway. They've got so many hardcore ish sounds and then he'll just rinse in a blastby and it makes me so happy.

0:58 And I love when a drummer gives other drummers kudos. Oh no, but he is unbelievable. In the warm up, the sound check beforehand, you heard him and if anyone's listening, he's playing a normal drum BEI then he goes into the Rosanna Toto Jumbie, which is free individual drummies at the same time, and then comes out of that very easily into like just a normal standard jumpie that is so complicated and difficult. I am so impressed that he just sneaks it in sneaks it back out. I'm always so impressed with people like you and people like him stuff because I played drums when I was a kid for nine years and I still suck. I played guitar for about twenty years and I still suck, So you do me.

1:40 There you go. Funny story about that is like when I switched from drums to guitar, because when I became a teen danger, I'm like, it's cooler to play guitar. I'm thinking, I am want to do the fucking scales. It bored me to death, so I was just like fucking around, I want to see what sounds I can make. And my dad's like, you should give that shit up because you suck. But it didn't get it though. I just want, like, you gotta explore your instrument so you don't sound like everybody fucking else. Of course, you got to just sit there and make a lot of random noise. And just see what comes out. That's how you find your own sound, just just having fun with it and just exactly just make noise. That's right, that's right. I'll know the panetonics I learned, the others instantly forgot them. I've forgotten more stuff than most people have learned, So you know, it's all good.

2:28 Who was the guitarist that did it for you, that made you want play guitar? When I was a kid, I was a massive Red Chillies fan, So John Frusciante. I mean, he's such an inventive guitarist and he's pull stuff out on the fly. But then when I started getting into heavy music, every time I die Jordan Buckley, He's just absolutely insane. He was just all over the for everybody were playing stuff backwards, being really weird chords. Just the way he plays it is just so chaotic and like that just speaks to me, so that while our music sounds nothing like that a genre, I'm really kind of that kind of chaotic energy is what really draws me into it. See, and I love that it's not the same genre because you know, like in the eighties, we were a bunch of fucking idiot gatekeepers now and I love that Today It's like we can be this big community. That's why we're a big community today. Metal we've never survived without people like you, guys that are accepting other types of metal, other types of genres.

3:27 Oh of cose, there's so many different types of genres. Just this weekend alone, you got doom, black metal, hardcore, death core, metalcore, your fresh metal. There's just so much shre Why would you want to limit yourself to just like this is my genre, This is the one thing I'm going to listen to, right It's absolutely insane. So we'll do the same thing. When we're writing, we're trying to draw in as many different influences as possible. We've got a song that we are working on the moment. It's a really stompy, aggressive hardcore song chucked in a black metal verse, and it like why not? I don't love it, But that's what's gonna make you grow and stand out because nowadays I find there's a lot of bands that are still pre gatekeepers. Everybody in the band listening to the same music, so they all sound the same because they're using some formula exactly like a metal shouldn't have a formula spawn that's why it's good to have different influences.

4:22 And we all mostly hate each other's genres as well that we really like. So I love lots of standard old school death metal. Then he likes far more like rubbish music as far as like I said. So then we were to fight out over the style of Risks should be. But then you know, it seems to somehow work. There you go. Was there a drummer for you that stood out? Oh? Yeah, I'm a massive fan of a band called Status Quo. Heavily I remember that. Yeah, I heavily w is write that from my dad. And so when John Coglan was their drummer from the Frantic four era, he is just unbelievable in Rollover laid Down, he plays a blastbeat as much as people No no, no, no, no no, it's like he does. He plays sixteaphs on the snare and a high hat leading back out of the bridge, so it's a blastbey wow.

5:08 So I'll give my answer for both. Yes, Lombardo, okay, yeah, no, fair fa fa fa fair Yeah enough set. You don't even need to go any further down. I was friends went back in the day because I went to Slayers show ever, no way. Yeah, So we used to hang out outside the club and laugh at that people thought they were devil worshipers when really, like Tom was a Christian, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was just we used. To laugh about it. But like, look at all. The bands that Lombardo will play in, like he just can play anywhere. But in that double bass, he was like the original double bas That was like, oh my fucking god, how does he do that?

5:52 And it's what you can do with the double bass as well, So it's not even just like where Motorhead had that bit of overkill and bringing it in and you're kind of going, okay, cool, that's cool. Lombardo went, this is what you can do if it isn't just go kitkickk ki ki kick kick, actually work it into a film, work it into the riff, do something pretty interesting with it. Yeah, he's definitely developed something else there. And on the guitar side, we're talking about the Black Sabbath Bridge. I know what's coming you do? New Year's Eve. I told my dad I was sleeping at my friend's house. My friend said he was sleeping at my house, and we went to go see Ozzie with Randy Rhodes. Yes, and I was like, okay, I'm done with drums. I'm playing guitar now.

6:40 Hey, no, no, no, no, no, you should do both. We can coexist. How about if you like sat at the drum set and played guitar and drums at the same time. Like I have a friend that plays it's a guitar as a guitar and bass, so he his band, he plays both on the same instrument. You will see are the one man bands, which I always think you're impressive whenever they've got like the kick jum on their back, guitar on the front, harmonica in their mouth. So that's incredible, right, another thing. Or how about this? Okay, so you definitely I think you definitely need there a metal one of the bands I interviewed today. Ah, it's been so long since I played one.

7:25 Now we need to redo all of our albums, right. You gotta put the kazoo in there. It was so slightly on topic. You have no idea how long I've been trying to get this guy to blastbeat on a cowbell. He just refuses to do it. Oh, come on, man, this. Is a conversation that's genuinely happening more than once. Come on, you need the cow bell. Man will have to find a way to work it. And if we get there and it works, I'll consider it. I do have a cow bell. I just don't have a stand for you. You guys can make a deal. You guys can make a deal. You can do the cow bell and he could get one of those kids little guitars. See here's the issue of the deal. He would do that. I'm already thinking of how I'm gonna incorporate you.

8:07 Right, I just think that shit would be playing a shit at live show, like you break out the kazoo. There is actually I can't remember where, but I was at some of them that there was a live band playing and they were like a heavy band and the dude, oh it was a pre party for a festival, and the dude had the kazoo around his neck and then all of a sudden he starts playing the kazoo in like some really heavy fucking song and like that's badass. That's proper, that's proper. Right, right, So you gotta love a. Kazoo from weird ol Like he smashes how well you can use a kazoo and hand fats, hand fats all the way there.

8:51 You go listen, that's the best music right there, and doesn't even stink. No, it doesn't even stink. Perfect right, it sounds of the underground. I think they had one thing missing at the Back to the Beginning show because the band that gave me that kazoo, I said, man, I should have brought you to Back to the Beginning and we talked about he would play Wicked World or not Wicked World, but why I think it was maybe Black Sabbath or the Wizard with the kazoo instead of the harmonica. Yeah, can you imagine? Yeah, okay, yeah, I'll be about that. Right right, So we talk about the eighties. Here's my original battle vest is that all the way back?

9:36 Yes? I started it in eighty one. I love the fact that you literally got to the point of Stormtroopers of Death, let's go. Yeah, and you're literally writing them down, not just patches. Literally why why. Don't you do that? These is the proper battle Jackie, and not my poser with a nice new stitching and eing form. A part of handwriis beautiful. And I even have on their no posers, no poses. Let's go, like, if you buy a battle jacket, you're a fucking poser. Okay, you got to create your battle jacket. Slayer didn't even have a patch yet, so I did that? Did you use? So what did you use to make that one velvet lettering? Oh? Really? Yeah? Yeah? Because it looks like he's written on but it looks too perfect.

10:20 It looks like it's part of the jacket. Like you like that? Right? Forresci man. And then so last month at HELFESL was the interviewing Gene Hoagland. I've said this a few times today and I pulled this out. I'm like, do you recognize that logo? They just came out with a new album and they're going on tour. Yeah, I'm so fucking excited. They were one of my favorites man. In fact, that drumming right now sounds like a Dark Angel song. Let's go, maybe you guys should cover a Dark Angel song? Well, what would you go for? There's just there's too many I'd have to sit and think about it. I say only because I'm the following somebody who knows the drums way better than I do.

11:03 We're about to look like complete poses. If we pick a song, So what do you reckon? What do we do? I reckon you like, just start your show. You have played a whole song where we have arrived. Oh I was excited, and then I remember how difficult it is, so you might have give me six months. If you can play like Gene, I'm impressed. If anybody can play like Gene, I'd be impressed. Oh my god, Bus could do it from Cage Fight, Oh my god. At Hellfest it was death Clock and I'm just like enamored by Jean, Like what the fuck? Who can play drums like that? And it's like a mean band, and yet it's he does it as if that was genuine. I could play every little beat in there and.

11:46 He wasn't even sweating. It was like he wasn't even trying, Like it was just so easy. Ah. I'm jealous of him, so jealous. So what else do you guys got coming up after Bloodstock that you want to tell people about. We got couple of shows in London in a few weeks. We're playing in Camden Assembly with gut Wreck to Me and Cane Iron. They're coming over from Europe. I am so excited for that. It's gonna be so many bass drops. And then the week after we're in the underworld with to the Grave Osiah and Beyond Extinction. So somehow we're gonna end up looking like the lightweight ones on that bill. Nice, that's gonna be one of the heaviest shows. And again I am just too excited for that. We got a new single coming out. Just play that for the first time on Thursday, England. You gonna hear it how it's meant to sound without all the cock ups. That'll be good.

12:40 A few other bits, but I'm gonna wait to say about that just because I don't want to upset our boss. Imagine might hog tie as for us in his basement. We don't know what he's like. And Joel can't get incredibly violent. Yeah, well, you know, so, how did the audience receive the new song that you played for the first time? It seems that was the most insane audience we've ever played to. I mean, we used to people getting excited and chining and stuff, but that was on another level. I mean, it seemed like every single person was already just so off their heads and just out for anything. There was jumping around, screaming, so much the biggest mush bit we've ever had crowdsurfers. It was insane, absolutely ridiculous.

13:29 They did just want to jump out there and join them, right. Yeah, it did. I was like, I'm tevered to this stage. I want to go down and throw some shapes. Right. They were really really up for it, and it was so it was so nice to have that warmth response where you know they've got your back and they don't really know who you are. They're giving you a go, and it's nice that rather than having the feeling sometimes you. Can get where you have to prove yourself. They were already on our side. They want us to just have a good show as much as we wanted to have a good show, and you kind of just get that feeling in the attitude the whole time, and it was amazing. One thing that I find at Bloodstock is like, I don't think any band has to prove themselves at Bloodstock. Yeah, yeah, And it just seems to go in and being like we're on your side.

14:10 Just do what you do, like ganging up at to go to a set at ten thirty in the morning, Like it doesn't happen all the time at festivals. They're usually partying all night long and sleeping, So that says a lot when bands can come out and play that early in the morning, expecting that there's only going to be a couple of people, and then it's like, holy fuck, well for. Sure, Like we just watched cage Wait it was what ten thirty, and we might just so many people with shirts and the crowd's going mass like it is so early? What are you doing a week? Right? That's my circle pit as well, exactly me. I'm like, I want to save my circle pitting until later. So I fucking hurt myself now and ruined me for the rest of the day. So tell everybody how they can reach out to you on socials, on the web, and most important, they buy your merch because they can't listen to my show unless they buy your merch.

15:04 Oh yeah, no, absolutely merched buying is a pre werik is it? For any future shows of yours, They're going to have to fill in a form with the receipt number from buying our merch in order to operate your show. That's right, Go on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok all the bits, dead fash. We'll go up band camp for all our merch r EP singles. We've got quite a few different bits on their t shirts. Hats all the good stuff. I think that's it. Yeah, that's streaming as well. Will have the streamings too. So if you even if you want to listen to it somewhere to follow out ourselves, find any streaming service with their somewhere on the internet. That's it. You got Spotify, nice and free. You just want to listen to us, but your money's hard. Spotify, Apple Music YouTube were in there. Get on it just as long as people who are enjoying theirselves nice get on it.

15:50 Which one of your tiktoks is the one you're most embarrassed for? That? Oh, there is an absolutely ridiculous one our guitarists made nearly here. It's very excited when he's boss being and he alluded to some newer divergence and it got a bit out of hand. So everybody go check out their TikTok and find that one. He's also on Instagram as well, in case you can't find it. That there you go. Yeah, well you guys fucking rock. Thanks for being here at Bloodstock and thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Thank you for coming over as well. That means a lot to actually have somebody coming from abroad as well to actually come here and even talk to us as well with a bunch of nobody.

16:31 So thank you very much. Oh my pleasure, and I love coming over here, especially escaping my crazy country. Yeah good. Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking career here in the UK, my entire career with Machinat. She recently passed away and it was a very, very sad day. And I can tell you the reason that I'm going to tell this story because she was family. She was Bloodstock family. She was heavy metal UK family. Most of the. Bears that you know and love you probably heard of because of that woman right there, slip Knots, Slayer, Machinehead, Trivium, Killswitch, Engage, Hey Reed, you name it. She helped lift everybody up, man, She helped lift everybody up, and in so many ways, she helped make this entire music scene, this incredible, beautiful community that lives here at Bloodstock.

17:40 Man, she helped make it. So, ladies and. Gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr. Thank you for listening to the adventures of plate Man on W for Cui Regio