PipemanRadio Interviews Enforced About War Remains

0:00 Hey, you love them too? Sure, I'm come from four s why for you? Wake up America. It's time for the Adventures of Pipe Man on W fourcy dot com. West pom Beach is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the White Man. What are you waiting for? So black? Why? Right on level ball? Right, my lady, this is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man. W for see Why Radio and our next guest. I'm very happy to be talking too because they are just my speed number one and they are badass. So when the publicists reached out to me asked me if I would do the interview, I'm like, oh yeah, I love them. Of course I'll do the interview.

1:19 So let's welcome to the show. Knox from Enforced, How are you go? Fight Man? Awesome to talk to you, Hey, awesome to talk to you, and awesome to hear your new music because you guys were already badass and now you're even more badass. Thanks man, that's really awesome to hear. So tell us about the new album coming up with War Remains. I read some things, but I want to hear from your viewpoint how this is different from previous work and possibly better. I think it's better. I think it's pretty objectionally objectively better. I think the songs are far more aggressive. I think the songs are I mean, they're obviously shorter, they have a lot more grit darkness to him, and I think it adds a lot of unique character. Yeah. I read something that where you said that the album itself is a little shorter, but it's definitely packs a lot more of a punch. Yeah, it's about it's about twelve minutes shorter than Kilgrid, but it's one song longer, so you're getting more bang for your book.

2:19 And you know, I'm in old school thrash metal head, and I know the first time I heard you guys, I was like, now that's real thrash, because like there's bands nowadays calling themselves thrash, and I don't like, like, maybe they have a hint of it, but not true thrash, you know, and your latest music definitely proves true true thrash for sure. I have to tell you. I'm also really excited you guys are going to be on tour with Venom Inc. That's pretty incredible. Yeah, man, I cannot wait for that. It's coming up soon and I'm counting the days. I'm counting the days for a lot of things. Man, count of the days when our beer comes out, kind of the days when the album comes out, kind of the day's tour. There's a lot happening pretty quickly, and we're so pumped for all of it. And at least you're not counting the days till the pandemics over and live music comes back, because here we are and so yeahs and that I think that's why bands are real busy now too, because Yeah, it kind of had this time to kind of reflect and get off the hamster wheel and kind of reflect really where you want things to go. Like it was going so fast that you didn't really have time to stop and be creative or think. You just had to keep going. And I think it was like a hard stop to evaluate and move forward. What do you think? Yeah, I would agree with that.

3:42 I mean we by the time the pandemic started, we were already recording Kilgrid, so that was kind of in the back when everything shut down. But we spent you know, that time, and the frecker kept getting pushed back over and over and over again because everything was still long count for so long that gave us time to kind of really get everything squared away with that record and kind of understand the inner workings and like working with the record label like Central Media. So I'm happy that we had that extra time because I feel more comfortable work room with them now than I did, you know, April twenty twenty. Yeah, And you know, I think a lot of people out there don't realize you as an artist sometimes you have these deadlines that you kind of finish an album before it's really finished. And based on what you just said, it tells me that what you were allowed to do this time is make sure it was really finished. You get to like kind of a value and go, uh, maybe we should make it more like this.

4:40 Yeah, I mean we didn't think too much about it, but we also were like two months ahead of schedule, so we're like, well, I mean, we're going to be on tour by the time that we need to get it done, so let's just do it now so we don't have to worry about it. And then we just we recorded at the ward for about I would say a week or so. I mean it was a pretty quick process. Well that's old school too, like like most of the best thrash Mail albums were like finished pretty quickly, so kudos. We don't we don't. We don't write in the studio either, So like the album was pretty much written, yeah, nice, and just needs to be recorded. So there's really nothing to do in the studio, but's going and record it and not waste time and not wreck up a bill. And you know what I think, to me, a real artist, a real musician, a real band goes into studio ready to go and it like opposed to, oh now, we have to do all this stuff to it to make it sound good. Whereas you know, to me, most bands, like you guys, hearing you live and hearing you in the studio is like hearing the same band instead of two totally different bands, which you do with some of it.

5:51 Yeah, that's that's kind of that was I guess that was our subconscious thought about it. Just this is how we sound, this is how we play. There's no reason to church it up. It's supposed to be, you know, hard gritty trash. Why would you why would you try and polish it? Yeah, just keep it raw, no doubt, no doubt. I'm with you one hundred percent. So what do you think for you, was that first time in life that you were like, oh my god, thrash metal is for me, well in the studio or just in general, No, just in general before you even started the band, like just in general, Like I know, my cod give you an idea. My first experience was I went to the first Metallica show ever, in the first Slayer show ever, and that's it. Okay, I've been hooked for the past forty years. Yeah, I've been hooked for the past forty years now, yeah, I think. Let's see, I was born in nineteen ninety, so I grew up after the Black album had had like been huge for years, so it was kind of inescapable on the radio, right, So I just kind of grew up with Metallica being huge, so I didn't really think much of it as like a genre. I was just like this band rips and know that Dan listening to Slayer for the first time that blew me away. I would say, Sepultory ChaosD The first time I heard a track off of that, I think it was Territory. I was like, this is this is what I like. It's like this this style is what I

7:23 like and the most and it's got a perfect amount of speed, it's got a perfect amount of like you know, stop parts something like that. It's just a perfect bla be in aggression and slamming. I think that kind of I can't really speak for everybody, but I'm gonna I think sept one of the greatest bands in the world. They are one of the greatest, for sure. You know, it's funny because you mentioned the Black Album and talk about the difference from you know, generations of metal. Me and my bros were like, fuck them, they're posers now and how b came out. Yeah, but I mean like when you're five, you could the concept of opposer doesn't even make sense to you. I know that's where it's better.

8:09 I think it's better now though, because you know, we kind of kind of were snobby gatekeepers back then. I'm not that way now, but I was back then. And I mean, yeah, I listen, I love the Black Album, but I wasn't allowed to love it back then. You know. It's like, yeah, I understand, but I mean, like having that amount of airtime and radio play, they would play on other songs, like you know, like Master of Puppets is, like you still hear Master Puppets on the radio go. So yeah, I mean I was just like, oh this band also were these songs like Jesus and then kind of delving back into their their catalog and then finding you know, Slayer and shit like that. Yeah. And the fact is is, you know, what you learn when you get older is like bands do have to grow and evolve, and that's kind of what they did. But listen, if it weren't for that Black album, you and I might not be speaking right now, because who knows if there would be a place for it. You know, that's what created the mainstream metal because before that, you weren't here in Slayer Metallica ever on the radio. No. I couldn't imagine that, right well, I mean I couldn't imagine like that being kosher for the radio exactly.

9:22 And we were like, oh, if it hits the radio, we don't want to listen to it. That's kind of how we were. And it's it's interesting too. Okay, So you're going out on tour with Vena Mink. What's interesting about that first time? Like when I first started getting into stuff, I walked into this and your publicist is gonna laugh when she hears us. But I walked into this record store in the valley. There was this store clerk there who also happened to own some nothing record label at the time for metal. Basically, he handed me this album called well Welcome to Hell and he's like, listen to this. It was Brian Slagel was who that was. Oh wow, cool, yeah, yeah, So we used to go into Me and my bros used to go into OZ Records, and Brian used to always here, check this band out, check this band out.

10:15 And I saw him a few years back and I was like, you know, that was the most ingenious thing ever. And he didn't even really mean it that way, but like to be a store clerk at a record store and have a label and be able to promote, that's really how the band's got promoted. Then you'd walk in and he'd say, here, listen to this, you know, and then like hearing Metallica on metal Massacre one that you know, it was kind of epic. So and then here we are today and man, you know, it's funny. One of my best bros from back then, we'll listen to some of the music now from back then, and he goes to me, he goes man, I remember it being faster than that. I'm like, well, here, listen to this and I have played him like your music and he's like, yeah, that's that's the speed I remember it was supposed to be. Because it's funny because I do think back in some of that old thrash and we thought it was the fastest, heaviest stuff there wes, and sometimes I listen to it now I'm like, wow, it's really not that fast, and we're just super fast for the time exactly, so to speak, no doubt. And so I'm glad we have a band like you that as the baton has been passed to make thrash even better. And then going out on this tour is cool.

11:31 And you've been on the Decipbel tour as well. So how do people connect you guys on socials, on the web, get the new music, check out your tour dates, and most importantly buy merch because you know you guys can't survive without merch nowadays. Yeah, I think the easiest way. It's kind of everything's centered. There is our instagram which is at enforced rza that has a link to all a link tree link to all of our where you can buy all the album color different colors, where you can buy our merch where you can buy tickets for upcoming dates, and YadA YadA YadA. Nice and yeah, at this the one I think we're the most active on as well, like we check it a multiple times a day. Yeah, and you do have you can pre order war Remains. And I'm glad you mentioned about the different versions because you got like the standard CD, but then you got black vinyl, blue vinyl, white vinyl, red vinyl. I think that's pretty cool. It's great that vinyls and they're all exclusive, like you can only get the red vinyl from US. I think you can only get the white vinyl from Century and the blue I believe is Nuclear Blast.

12:41 I believe it has the blue one exclusively. Nice, So if you have to, if you want to collect them all, you got to shop around all the different places. I like it. Spread the wealth there you go. And I love the album cover too, because that's pretty cool. You know, it's funny because when I first look at it, it looks kind of like what a death metal album would look like. Because the artistry is just so cool. I love it. Yeah, Joe, don't do an incredible job on that. We actually had the album art first before we recorded. That's the first thing that was done was the album mark. That's so old school because listen, back in the day, all the albums and that I have, and all the bands I loved, it's because I love their album cover. You couldn't listen to it ahead of time. You just looked at the album cover and go, oh, that's cool, and like you had to take a risk. You had to buy it. You can download it, you had to buy it, take a risk and hope that it was good. Yeah, because the album art had to speak for itself pretty much, kind of explain exactly what you're getting. Yeah, exactly, Yeah it's got If it's got demons and burning humans on it, it's probably gonna be dope. That's one hundred percent. Just like when I looked at that first Welcome to Hell, I'm like, oh my god. It was funny because back then there was nothing else like that. I remember listening to that album for the first time in reading the lyrics and it was actually kind of scary because nobody was doing like that severe satanism in their music. It was

14:13 like, oh, you know, like you went from black Sabbath to that and you thought Black Sabbath was evil and then like they were just angelic compared to Venom. Here you are enfor Sus badass as hell. Everybody definitely has to check out the new album. It's kind of sad that you know the title of the album. It's so appropriate because we were talking about war in the eighties and I can't believe we're talking about the same wars now. And that's why I think your album name war Remains, it is appropriate to me at least. Yeah, it's sadly and unfortunately it's timeless, a timeless album number name. It sucks. It's timeless for sure, but at least we have the music to escape all that bullshit from and like go on a journey and people, if you haven't listened in Force before, you need to pre order War Remains if you like metal. This is probably one of the best albums in twenty twenty three. Do you have any other comments that you need think the listeners need to hear that we haven't covered already down man, I mean check out the singles that we already have out. The album comes out in less than two weeks. Yeah, just thanks for your time Man and what's up to all the listeners, So be all check it out and hope you enjoy it well. Thank you for the great music and thank you for being on the Adventures of pike Man. Absolutely thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pike Man. I'm w for CUI Radio.