PipemanRadio Interviews Friends of Hell About God Damned You To Hell

0:04 Hey, you have done to censure. Wow for you, young ro whycoume America. It's time for the Adventures of pipe Man. I'll W four c y dot com. West Pompeas is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures of pipe Man W four c Y Radio. I'm really excited about our next guest because there're some friends of mine from Hell and in all seriousness, they are some badass musicians with some great new music and they are friends from friends of Hell. So welcome to the show. Hello, thank you very much.

1:17 It's good to be here. Oh, it's good to have you. And as we can see in the background and behind me, we got a new album coming out. And I am such a fan always of album artwork. Anyway, I feel like today some people missed the boat by not getting to see that one of my first albums ever, well, yeah, probably one of the first, but especially in this arena, was because I saw this album cover in this record store and I'm like, I need to have that. Didn't even know what it sounded like, and that was Venom's first album, Welcome to Hell. Yeah, it's a similar Yeah, exactly.

2:04 So then I you know, iomatically, as soon as I got the promo for your band, I'm like, oh, they gotta be badass, and you are like, I listened to a new song Bringer of Evil, and man, not only is it cool because as an old school metal sound, but it's also weirdly enough kind of like catchy. It's got this you know, vibe to it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I believe in even if it's the music is heavy or whatever. I believe in good songs. You know, a good song of Kachi korus it needs to be like a good arrangement, you know, good absolutely, you know it has to you know, you have to be into it when you're the listener and there's something that keeps you listening instead of like just listening to a few seconds of the track and being like, okay, now now I know where it is.

3:04 I mean, you know, nowadays most many bands forget you know that even the heavier bands, let's say the ones you mentioned like Venom Or or even Possessed or bands like this, they do have choruses and you know, and catchy songs. Oh one, I remember that's another one too. When Possess came out with their first album. Yeah, you know, it was evil, it was heavy, but then it was like, wow, this is catchy, you know is yeah, and that's the way it needs to be. Listen. Like, I think there's a big misconception a lot of times in metal for people that don't understand metal music. I think they don't realize, first of all, how much musicianship is involved. Number one, because I can tell you right now, like to play any kind the metal, I think you have to be a superb musician, like insane, especially if you're playing something very heavy, very fast. You know, it's not as easy as people may think. The other thing is too, is there's just riffs in metal are always meant to be something that's memorable and catchy, that like sticks in your brain all the time. Tonyayomi said, the best riffs are the ones that they sound good on a ringtone. I love that that is, you know what. I never heard that before, And that is

4:35 a great point right there. Absolutely, So we'll have to. I think I'll have to change the ring tone on my phone right now to your new Songbringer of Evil, because that would sound pretty cool. So tell us a little bit about the origin of the band. For those that don't know you, and like, you have this complete new lineup now for the band, and that's what makes the second album, like I don't know, far superior than first. It's it's almost like you have this togetherness and tightness now that maybe wasn't there before. Yeah, I mean the first album when when I made this band, I knew from the start. Let's say, for example, that the guitarist that was before, John Dicks, is not a very good player, but because he was a friend, you know, I said, okay, you can play or anything, but it was he wasn't an adequate for the band. You know, it couldn't play so good. But also with the two new guitars we have, they are way better than they sound amazing. But a part of that, I think that the new album, even the songs themselves, are more you know, they're they're better.

5:51 They they have better melodies, better courses, the arrangements, everything, everything just happened. But it's you know, everyone fitted the music perfectly. Yeah, And you know it's funny you borrow up a point about somebody being a friend. I believe in this in a band, in business, in whatever, like, sometimes it's better not to do it with friends because you can't say certain things or you feel bad, or you know, you do things because they're your friend instead of really exploring your creativity. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's true. But it did happened. But I like the first album too, But but I think the new album is way superior. So what and now you're going to be doing some live shows okay, with which you didn't really get to do before, am I correct? Yes, it's true. It's because our fashing your Albert. He wasn't up. He didn't want to do any gigs. And when you from the start, he told us he's only going to sing in one album because he wants to kind of quit music. He's not up for it anymore to create, it's too stressed.

7:12 So because he wasn't, you know, he didn't want to do any concerts, we said, okay, we're going to go along until you know that's second album. We change singer and with a new lineup, everyone is up for it. So nice, so ready. So what can our listeners expect from a live show from Friends of Hell? They can expect like the songs of the album, but maybe played a little bit more best yet there you go, And so what was that moment in your life if there was one where you knew this is what was made for you. Making music was what was made for you. Was there something that happened in life that really kicked that into play. Well, my love for music started from going through the records of my older brother, you know, then I did in the seventies, I discovered band like you Write a Heap, Deep Purple, Black Sabas. But I always had this this thing that this is like something far because they are musicians. You know, the music they play. I mean, you write a heap or the purple is like just incredible, It's impossible.

8:26 Yeah. Then, you know, in the early eighties when we got into thrust and at the same time we got it to hardcore punk, you know, bands like Discharge or you know, Chroma, Disagnostic Front There's UK Then I thought, man, I can play that nice. I realized that I can actually play this music, actually move ever played well kind of hardcore band punk bands. Yeah, you know, your timeline is probably like so exactly like mine. Like you had me right at the begin when you said your brother, because I have a brother eleven years older than me, that I rifled through his record albums. That's how I got my first album.

9:16 And you know, the albums I would hear were be like Zeppelin, Uryah, Heap Ufo, you know, and even stuff like the Rascals, the Grassroots and like all that stuff. And then my first album ever. Okay, So I lived in New Jersey and I was at the Jersey Shore Seaside Heights, and I was playing this carne game and if you won the carnival game, you got to pick out an album. And I saw this out and that's where it started for me, like just looking at an album and buying it based on looks. I saw this album up there, I was like, that's the one. And it was the first Kiss album when it first came out. So that was my first official album. But then you know, it progressed, you know, it went to heavier and heavier, and then, like you said, thrash, I'm ana told thrash metal head from the beginning. I went to Slayers first show ever. I was actually, you're gonna laugh at this. I was at a show that was Venom, Slayer and Exodus. Yeah yeah, and Kronos and Tom got into a fistfight backstage because Kronos was telling Tom that they're not black metal, that Venom is the only black metal as it was so funny back then, and it's like, I look now, you know it's so funny too, because you

10:48 listen to some of the black metal now and a lot of black metal bands don't even consider Venom black metal at this point. So it's it's funny how the whole industry evolved, and I like, I took that ride from the very beginning, just like you. I think Venom is the only black metal band. I agree, man, bad ass, there there's not one bad song to me. I remember getting that first album and just sitting there and listening over and over again, reading the lyrics, and I was just like consumed with it and that that was really my first introduction to satanic type music. Yeah, yeah, they're They're perfect Venom, Yeah, no doubt.

11:31 So what other things you have coming up in the future here that you want the listeners to know about and check out, and also let them know about where how to catch you on your socials, your web, how they can pre save or just get the new album it drops on April fifth, and give them all the details for us please, Well, we we're not very much into social media. We only have one Instagram, which is Friends of Hell Official. The album I think because the Rise Above Records has very good distribution in the stage everyone, so I guess there's going to be an old record stores and the important for us now. I mean, we're going to concentrate on the concerts for now and then soon for the third album. I think nice Anything mention is because we mentioned Thrus. Also Hell Butcher, the singer has you know, he was a singer of Niphel him but they don't exist anymore. But now he has his own band called Hell Butcher and they signed with Metal Blade Records. Nice he played me the album. This is devastating. Truss is so brutal, but at the same time group melodic and catchy is incredible. So also look out for the Hell Butcher album. I would say, So, I got a funny Metal Blade record story for you

13:03 that ties right into what I said with Venom, because how I got that first Venom album is there. I was in la in the early eighties and the like, at the beginning of the whole scene, and we used to go to this record store in the valley called OZ Records, and there was this record store clerk there. His name was Brian, and he was brilliant. I've told him, like a few years ago, I was like, your strategy was so brilliant. He's like, it wasn't a strategy. I was just like working there. But he used to we we would come in and he would show us all these albums to buy and stuff. Like the first time that he brought out the it was an import of Welcome to Hell and he's like, you need to check this out, and that that was how I got that album was from Brian Slagel's right, And uh yeah, and you talk about the punk part. See, that was the thing, like you probably remember too. Back in the day, I liked metal and I liked punk, but long hairs weren't allowed to go to punk shows and punks weren't allowed to go to metal shows, which I thought was absolutely stupid.

14:16 So a couple of years ago I got to see one of my favorite bands for the first time that you mentioned at Hellfest and it was Discharge, And like, now I've got like all the bands I couldn't see as a teenager because you're I've gotten to see Discharge, Subhumans, GBH, all those bands and the Exploita actually have a funny story I got I got Waddie all riled up before he was doing a show to where he just lent like crazy on stage because I asked him in the interview. I interviewed him right before they went on. I'm like, what do you think of pop punk?

14:58 And I knew how he was going to answer. That's why I asked it because I have the same feeling like that's kind of an oxy moron, you know, But yeah, I mean like, uh, is great that nowadays we can combine all those things and all those influences to make great music. And I think that's exactly what you guys do. And that's why everybing needs to check out this new album. It is so badass. Uh, they definitely need to go out and get it. And I can't wait to see you guys at a live show because I think that's gonna be killer. Hopefully we will soon. Nice. Well, thank you, anything anything else you want to share that the listeners need to know that we haven't covered yet.

15:43 Oh I think that was good. All right, good deal. Well, Hey, thanks for the great music and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man Leasure Pleasure thank you for your interests. Thank you for listening to the ad ventures of Patement on w for c u I Radio.