PipemanRadio Interviews Desolator at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

0:04 Hey you lunt, Yes that's true for. Crazy you. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here with. A bit decilated from Southampton, UK. Nice here at Bloodstock and little Birdie told me you're like a thrash metal band. We play a fellow fast rifts us in our repertoire. Absolutely yeah, a couple of like fast drum beats and some ranging solos. Like we do a slow riff for maybe at once every few years, but no, like, yeah, we're old school, fresh and also heavily inspired by speed metal, a little bit of rock and roll.

0:48 That's my battle first from there. You go, Yeah, we're inspired by all these bands. Take a look at all the bands on here. First of all, Sleigher at this point in time didn't I even have a backpatch, So I did that. Looks good. Fuckers. Yeah, so Slayer recently, it's the only GID got into. You go down the street and just even like half an hour later, everyone is shouting Slayer. I was at their first show ever, Holy and Metallica's first show ever. The makeup on the all and everything. Yeah, yeah, Metallica's first show ever. And then we should be into being you now, I know, right.

1:29 And then those assholes went up to the Bay Area because they were in l A. Yeah, me and my bro had to fucking hitchhike up the Bay Area to go to the real fresh shows. Now here's some history for you, since you were talking about the eye makeup slayer hat. When they went up to Bay Area, bands like Exodus and Possessed and other bands up there were like that ship don't fly up here. You need to take that off. Around God and she is getting supposes. Yeah, I mean it's like and they're like, oh, it's just eyeliner for evil. Fuck that. Yeah, I can't say what it is because you could only say that in the eighties. You can't say it now.

2:11 But you want to do that. Go back to LA with the glam. Bab What was it? What was it that mustaying so glam stood for. I'm not saying that's get that. Yeah that we can't say it's good. Yeah, good, good guys. Well, you know what's funny is that I was just talking in the last interview about s O D and they're actually playing at festival I'm doing in the States this year. But they did mister Bungle did a song at Graspop the speak English or Die, which you can't really sing now so they sang speak Flemish or Die.

2:57 It's incredible that they got away with at the time. There's a lot of. Songs that you could not even mention, every single song on the s O D album. But still I would still say they have the best crowds dive of all time? Is it likean I think that front flip? Oh yeah, from that well, my teeth, see my teeth. The blood from my teeth is on this vest. Because did you ever hear the band Savage Grace? They were a flat Yeah, yeah, I love it. I love the really controversial album covers that you could not get away with now. Right. So I was at their show, climbed up on the Marshall stack when full swan dive crowd.

3:43 Moved, Oh no, teeth first into the floor. Ah, that's it's always a risk in it. It's a good memory. It kind of sucked then, but it's I. Mean, we got some cool moshpit stories. Has a phelix Susa's shoes at Sodom come out of no shoes. Well, actually, the cool thing about today is that we were getting crowdsurfers. The e MP stage isn't even prepared for crowdsurface and normally they're supposed to catch them. They're not even expecting it. There's people flying over just nowhere to go, Jack from Bango, if you listen to this, you kick my pedaboard right out the way. And I couldn't hit the fucking boots with the solos, thank you. That's like, if your gear isn't getting sucked up by the crowd, it's not a real fresh gig.

4:25 Of course. So the stage has taking place. Okay, my blood, there you go. So you mentioned about the Dark Angel. You know they have a new album. Dark fucking Angel. Yeah, yeah, you know they have a new album. Yeah, it's I mean, you know, you're never going to be able to beat like the Darns Sands Leaf Scars. It's fucking great. How about we have arrived we find that Oh my god, you are thrashed. Yeah that was great. Yeah, me and Sam went can you see them in London? Played the whole of datis the Sands. It was a fucking dream country, fucking brilliant angel rock.

5:07 So I was just doing an interview at Helfest with Gene Hoagland and I pulled this out. I'm like, do you know this band? So yeah? I loved Dark Angel back in the day. I was at the first crossover show ever, which was at a Sun Valley Sportsman's lodge. It was like an Elks lodge because back then, if you were a long hair, which I was, you couldn't go to a punk show, and if you were a punk you couldn't go to a metal show. You got your ass beat. So I at this fest. At this show, it was on the punk side coc pre Pepper when they were hardcore punk, Suicidal before they crossed over when they were crazy punk, and then the Descendants and on the metal side with Savage Gray, Dark Angel and Possess. What year was that man, nineteen eighty three or eighty two.

6:10 It was so insane. There was no security, It wasn't a music venue, and like I remember in my head seeing people flying through the air because they were climbing up to rafters and dive in from there. There is no safe place to hide anywhere. There's no style of music that has that same energy. Oh my god. You might get a sort of death frash show, but you're not going to get there anything other than the fucking frash show. Yeah. Like, speaking of crossover, one of our earliest gigs was supporting Dric. It was a dream coming true. I love that as a huge inspiration for us and as you say, bridging that gap between Metel and punk. Yeah, they grew their hair out and they were like people talk about a lot of bands that did it.

6:54 They were the ones that started to cross over one. Yeah, going the term crossover album, yeah exactly. Yeah. When we played with them is when Harold Ouman was in the bands and before then I bought the Murder in the front Row book, so I spoke to him about it and he got us laptop out. Sam, do you remember backstage and he was showing us all these photos that couldn't make it. Into Murder in the front Rows. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's yeah. He was showing us all these amazing photos. It was great to just kind of see here we go, look nice, listens to the home there we're pointing it to dear I tattoo on Sam Torbert's her drumming arm. And a funny story about that gig was that we were so oh we do we don't be playing for about a year and a half. I didn't know that when you put new bass strings on they'll lose their tuning.

7:43 And I didn't have it. I didn't have a tuna pedal. So we had one tuna which we shared between us, and it wasn't even a pedal. It wasn't a pedal. So I put new strings on. Use this bullshit tuna we go to play. Every string is so out of tune. There's just no hope. So I played the whole set with my base turned off and I just look over and see Harold looking at us like a little bit con bewildered, you know, but like and then back then we had a lot of dropouts where it's just face, so I'd have to turn the bass back on, play this like bass only section out of tune, and then turn it up again. The most confused sound guy you've ever seen. Oh my god, that's but that's a long time ago. We're a bit more professional now he's got his own pedal. Now, how about this For a gig I went to.

8:25 It was a Slayer show in LA before they were big. Striper was the warm up band, right, yes, Striper with Slayer, Wow, And I was right up front at the stage and the guitars from striper bent down and his cross was hanging in my face and I turned it upside down and he like smiled that day. No, no Bible for you then, right. No, No, I'm gone to Hell. I'm gonna go party with Ozzie. So tell people a little more about your band and besides it being fresh, what they can expect at your live show and from your music.

9:06 Yeah, I think we take like the fun element of thrash. We also are very inspired by speed metal. We love like we try and bring in a bit of rock and roll, like we're not are you. A speed killer Mania? Yes? Yeah, no, no, we're not. Speaking of manis everyone who listens to us to speaking a manias nice and the speaking a maniac is a theme that runs throughout some of our songs. It's just the emporiment of the spirit of just going fucking nuts thrash. Yeah, we're not a pizza fresh bands. We're not going to sing about pizza. We've got a couple of songs about like yeah, but it's more about the it's in a way that kind of an avenue for like hedonism, about just having a fucking great tie. Yeah, Like we always talk about liberation, you know, like Fresh and speed Metal is a liberation, but we're also heavily inspired by like the savagery of like German Fresh as well, you know, Creator and Destruction. Yeah, so like kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, So we kind of mix that fun vibe with also that savage vibe. We want totally you know what me We want to mix it all together. But ultimately it's about having a good time and we want to know, like today, everyone in the crowd's smiling.

10:08 That's what it's all, you know. Yeah, so we see a lot of smiles other shows. This is the Fresh hour, I figure. So at Hellfesto was in the Exodus pit, which was fucking awesome just a couple last month, a couple of months ago, and I was filming it the whole time, all im in there, and everybody commented on, I've never seen you smile that much, Like I'm getting fucking. Banged around, and I just like grin from her here. I brought my son into his first mosh pit and I explained to him it was Metallica tattooed the Earth tour with slip Knot as the opening van and explained to him like, this is what's gonna happen. People are gonna push you around. Chill out, don't worry about it's all in fun, don't.

11:00 Get upset, friendly violence and fun. Yeah, and then people are pushing me. He was like thirteen, and I see him start getting mad. I'm like, jill out. And then five minutes later, grin ear the ear. I'm like the batanas thrashes like an athlete. Oh yeah, it's the greatest fucking therapy ever. Well, when we were playing, I looked over and I saw it's like this metal dude that he had this kid with him, and I was kind of looked over and he had this huge grin on his face. After the show, he come over and he. Had his son, who was about sort of four or five, and he goes, you are my son's favorite band. And we did his fist bump to this. Little four or five year old kid he had lost and both like Mark like dad and son had this massive grin, and it's like that's the fucking real deal there, that's it.

11:47 That's it. Yeah, Because you know, like there's not as much old school this year. Blood Sock like we fucking love we love Blood sock like i'ze I think this year you gotta go, Yeah, you gotta go to the smaller stages to find the old school stuff, you. Know, right, Well, it's cool hell Fest. This year they took instead of he used to have like the Black Melt stage and the death metal stage, the Black Melt stage this year was the thrash metal stage. Like that was so fucking cool to minute. I have a trivia question for you guys. There we got got. What was Metallica considered before there was such thing as calling it thrash metal? Oh? Fuck up yours?

12:31 I can't remember, ah, So I'll tell you. I'll tell you a story to remind you. I was at their first show ever, and afterwards, Dave Mustaine comes out in the crowd and he's talking to me. It must have been like thirteen, I think, and he hands me a business card. He had a business card. It said Metallica power Metal. Dave, yes, didn't I Yeah, yeah, that's interesting. I don't know, it's wild to think of them as power metal. Yeah, metal took a bit of a different turn after that, I know, right. Because it was they were called power metal when they were the fastest thrashiest.

13:11 They ever were. But we have a song called full Power. So we were on speed Kills. Obviously everyone remembers speed Kills. We were on number seven. We did a single called full Power, so power I can kind of see how you could. Yeah, before before the whole power metal movement took off. That makes it before it became like a Viking thing. Yeah, Chasing Goblinson, No, he likes some power metal. Hammer is one favorite band. Yeah. Yeah, it's like there's power metal, then there's heavy metal, and then there's. There is a crossover. I think as soon as you issues keyboards, that's when it becomes power metal.

13:52 Yeah. I like maybe you've got like a lot of the German band Yeah, like Primal Fear, Primal Fear, Bland Guardian. They consider palm old bands now, but when they start, they're just fresh bands that could actually play and write songs that weren't based in the pentatonic that was those bands. But yeah, it's yeah, palmel I remember now, I feel like a right poser for not knowing that. Yeah. Yeah, okay, well I'm gonna pull the vest out again for you. There's no posers allowed. Yeah, yeah, beat that poser down. So how do people reach out to you guys on socials on the web. Buy your merge because they can't listen to my show unless say buy your.

14:36 Mind Instagram at Desolator metalifing deeslate Tora, there's a few Deslators. I didn't know. It's where we started. I named the band after Sadas song. They say this, yeah, yeah, yeah, they did it on theemical exposure that they did, like a demo or something. It was on that. It's named after that. Yeah, Desolator. It was just like Desolator UK with any British deslator. I think we're the only deslator still going. I don't know, but yeah, you can find us on there anyway. Yeah yeah, yeah, it's like a black metal band. It's like a death mail band. But we are the only thrash deslayer band. But yeah, it just to find us, just google three heavy metal bastards from the south Ampton who like to play speed meal. Get us over to America. Yeah, we've never done that.

15:17 We want the barbecue, we want the barbecue, we want the pale ale, we want all of that. Well, you could come over in America and have Dave Grohl barbecue for you. Because yeah, if he wants to, if he's available. Yeah, I know too. How do I become a serified member of speed killer Mania? You already are because you own that. You are a membership of the speaker a Mania club. And how do the people listening join? Just google speaking Speaker a Maniac. And that's a song from our first album. New album, Spirit of Speeds, came out a few months ago, so spotify, band camp. Yeah, so you can buy the stuff on the band camp, shirts, CDs, but just you don't have to buy, just listen to it.

15:58 Spread the word nice. Is there anything else you want to share with the lizards that you got upcoming or that we didn't discuss that they need to know about your band. We don't really have anything coming up like this worth mentioning. The album's out we've recently put out, so just listen. To the album. Yeah, that's the key that we've been waiting. We always joked that we're like the Fresh Metal's Easy Top because we're a three piece, we have no lineup changes and we take over ten years between albums. Our first album was twenty thirteen. We finally released Spirit of Speed this year, so that alone is the reason to check out. That's why the music's so good, because you've been writing it for. All that you can look forward to another album in ten years. So now, are you sure you guys are from Canada, because Canada always has trios.

16:43 No, no, but Canada's got some fucking great bands. Got Razor, Sacrifice, Yeah, yeah, three piece, keep it simple. Yeah yeah, we got en our egos in this band. We can't have another one it take it, take it, take it well. You guys are true musicians because you're just having the best time, and that's what it's about. You're not having fun in this industry. It's the wrong fucking industry. Exactly. If you're not having fun, don't there's no point, there's no point. It's hard with us. It's hard right being in the band. Sometimes there's a lot of sacrifice and if you're not having fun, you may as well just lift something else, I think, Yeah, exactly, Oh no, it's all going wrong.

17:27 Anything to say, Sath. Well, you guys fucking killed the Air of blood Steak and thanks for being on the Adventures of Payment. Thanks so much, really appreciate it. Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking career. Here in the UK, my entire career with Machina. She recently passed away and it was a very, very sad day. And I can tell you the reason that I'm gonna tell this story because she was family. She was Bloodstock family, she was heavy metal UK family.

18:09 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 Man she helped make it. So, ladies and gentlemen, please make. Some noise from Michelle Kerr.

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