PipemanRadio Interviews Halocene at Louder Than Life 2025

0:04 Hi, you lunto here, that's sure for see why were you you? This is the pipe Man here on the adventureds Pipe Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm here with Addie and Bradley of Halisine. Nice here at Louder than Life. It's your first time at Louder, isn't it it is? It's pretty cool, isn't it something else? The weather is since toasty out there today. It's a little toasty, but it could be worse. It really have a tornado. Okay, we're from Nashville, so that does. That is common with us as well.

0:45 It happens almost every year here. We're lucky it hasn't happened yet, but last weekend. If I can find the picture, I'll show you what happened here. Okay, And I'll find that while we're talking. But I've been actually following you guys for a while because you have badass music. I think I found you on TikTok oh sick right. Yeah, that's what's so cool about today is like you can find bands on TikTok Like years ago, how do you find a band? It was not that easy, And now you can use as a tool to really get your music out there and not depend on anybody except yourself. Yeah. Yeah. We've been in the industry since two thousand and eight, and back then it was MySpace, so we saw the whole progression from the uprising of YouTube to the TikTok sensationalism, and then we were doing live streaming on Twitch.

1:36 So we're kind of all over the place. I love that. And here's what the picture is going to pull up? Oh shit, that's crazy. First wheel right there. It's striking the actual Ferris wheel. Yeah. That was last week and Dani Wimmer at another festival here and that's what happened. Yeah, that's pretty incredible. Right, that's a great picture there. We could put it in a video too. Did you take that picture? No? Okay, that's what was called Bourbon Beyond, so it was on there inside. Oh okay, okay, but I. Heard it, like I was out there and I heard him like, what was that? Yeah, you never know what. I live in Florida, so I just got a notification I might go home to a hurricane, so who knows.

2:17 But it is toasty out there because I'm from Florida and this is hot. Like I'm to go home in the cool. We're originally from Phoenix, Arizona, so to be honest, it's actually quite mild, but when you're out there all day, it is definitely brutal. And when you're performing. I would say performing is worse because you're gets you get soaking wet because the humidity. Yeah, and Arizona it's sure you'll sweat, but it's like a gross hot here, and it's like a deadly hot there. So it's like figure poison exactly. Florida. You that's like maybe the worst of all of it, right, right, Like. I remember Warped Tour, they used to do the last show in westbaum Beach in August. I'm like, are you insane? Same Phoenix, it would be July. It'd bely what on black off asphalt, like not even on grass.

3:02 It was the worst, But it's part of the game, right. But when you go up on stage though, like at first maybe, but then you get in the zone, right and then afterwards you die? Yeah, no, zero percent. I die fucking in the middle of those shows. So we were just in Europe and we were and they had no AC and this particular venue I don't even remember what it was called, and it was we had cut like six soft. We couldn't finish. It was that hot and humid and just deathly and once you get like hundreds of bodies in there too, I don't know how that is even legal. It was bad. No, we still have a great time. Those are like they feel like punk shows, but as we get bigger and more people get in, it gets more dangerous. Like literally literally there's bands where, especially like the drummer will like pass out of heat stroke during the middle of the set.

3:49 Yeah. No, I mean at that show particular, I had to get my shoes off because I was really it was hard to stay conscious at a certain point. I hear you, but you guys are pretty badass. How would you describe your music without using genre to the listeners that may have never heard you? Okay, well, we just like to rockify things. So we started off as kind of a when we were younger. I think a lot of bands go through this when they're young, and they kind of go through the like punk pop punk pop rock kind of face, you know, and then he's your taste, evolve and become a better musician. Our band has always been really democratized by our fans, and we would live stream or do videos, and they would be like, you should try screaming, Brad, And so I started screaming. Now ADDIE's fucking screaming. So now we're kind of going through a metal core phase, if you will.

4:37 So I mean right now, and we said don't use the genre fans. I mean, we're at a metal festival, what the hell right, right, But we've been doing it for so long. We've scratched a little bit of every genre for the most part. But we always try to do like a rock ify flare, whether that like cover or even like our originals when we might start off writing and it's not rock yet, right, and then we just kind of like, okay, our formulas just try to rock wify it a little bit. HALLI SEENI I love that that that's a perfect term. Rockify it. Yeah, okay, and yeah, I mean I the reason I say no genre is because I hate how artists are boxed in. Yes, especially nowadays, it's like there's like, okay, your subpost metal, or.

5:27 When you're doing like the metadata when you because we do our own distro and everything, like you know, where you don't have a label. We've been doing it all ourselves. You gotta choose all those subgenres and each song is different, like, well this was not metal anymore? Right, And you're right, like you you gotta choose what do you go with? You know? And if God forbid, you make the wrong fucking answer. I don't know where that metadata goes or how it affects the algorithms these days. Right, exactly, And I almost a lot of times bad. I'll have bands like make up their own genre name during the interview because it's pretty much what it comes down to it. There's so many micro jos that one band could fit into each. So some fan it wasn't a fan, actually, it was a hater that left a comment and called us Barbie medal, and I thought that was fucking awesome.

6:11 I feel like, I feel like if someone's gonna own Barbie Metal, it would be like Scene queen or something. Though, But she's bimbo core. And I hear all of them. There's this one band and a really good by of interview. I can't remember her name right now, but they are beauty core. Yeah, I mean that's the thing. Though, It's like, I don't know we the band. Will be that. Bring the handicap town, Nah. But I mean, yeah, we don't really subscribe to one label either, because even if you're on our live stream, like we'll go from singing the heaviest song to like country like out of nowhere. Because you're an artist, you should just express yourself. You shouldn't be like, well I have to do this kind of music. Let's do whatever you feel.

6:57 Yeah, So I think it makes you a better artist when you take from others genres. That's a good point. So we as we're coming up and we finally were able to leave our jobs, well we had like alter egos and we'd do weddings and casinos and those who're playing top forty shit, we never want to play. But you kind of start to appreciate other genres and it really does make you a better musician. Oh, I think that wholeheartedly because to your point when you were talking about punk, Okay, most punk bands, the old school ones, the whole idea of punk is they didn't know how to play their Instagram. Yeah, so then as they played more, they learned it along the way. So then you evolve and expand how your music is.

7:40 I would say that's very true for us, Like we started in like pop punk, kind of genre. But as time has gone on, we've kind of collected things here and there. We went through kind of like a Bradley's. One of Bradley's biggest influences is Hans Zimmer, so we almost had like I wouldn't say symphonic metal. So you know, okay, I changed my answer now in my brain, and it's not for the same It's like I always think if Hans Zimmer was in a rock or a metal band, that's what I want us to sound like. Whether we hit that mark or not, I can't tell you, but yeah. And then Nattie's got a slew of inspirations. Yeah, I'm all over the board. So what are your top five inspirations?

8:22 Oh shit, okay, Well, like if we're talking childhood, I'm gonna have to go, well, Avri Levine because that was my obsession as a child, My chemical Romance, Motley Crue, Britney Spears. What's my last one? Modern nowadays I would say like Sleep Token, Battleman's spirit Box, I Prevail. Yeah, so spirit Box. I am in fascination when I see her sing, Yeah, watch the technique of her mouth. Yes, Like it's exactly like my hand is showing she's scared.

9:03 It goes like this, Yeah she is fad ass, she kill her. I'm watching them, Like the way she just opens her mouth. Ye can tell she's using a proper technique because I used to sing thrash metal but we didn't have technique, right, So you just fuck up your voice and you fuck up your throat and you're. Done technique education and academia. Actual, how do you do it? Opera? And just fuck it right? Right? But yeah, I So I had the honor of interviewing her like very early on when they were first blowing up after they released Circle with me, I was doing an interview with her. I I teamed up with Sunheiser and we had a show called The Pulse for a little while and I was interviewing artists and everything. It was during COVID, so she was like just chatting it up with me and.

9:51 She was still working her day job. We talked about just like being a chick in a band and like it was cool. It was really cool. That's way cool. And now take a look at your mic. You can't see it. Oh with the Senneiser Mike, I'm sorry. Yeah, see, so you're with the thing. The logos. Ye, you're representing right, Absolutely, we have to, so it's funny you should say that. Yeah, we're big fans of Senheiser, like they have supported us since we were babies. Like nice, we shout out to Timmet Sennineiser. We had maybe I don't know hardly any of the falling whatsoever, and they asked us to come play an acoustic set at NAM one year and then they have supported us and helped us.

10:33 I love that. With gear and support when it comes to that kind of stuff like freebies is not important what you learn. It's support when gear fails or you need replacements or this or that, or help setting up for a bigger tour. And they especially as an invent artists, when you can't hire your own backline stage manager, you are the fucking I'm wearing the hats, you know it's me And so I can literally call them on speed dial so to speak. And they helped us out. So I did not to go off the rails, but they have been amazing. No, I love hearing that. That's so cool. You know that you want to hear things for artists because there's not a lot of support now. Yes, and so when you hear a company support in you. I love that.

11:14 I think it is like so massive in what they do because we are completely independent, so having that support is just like incredible. Yeah, and what's cool is you mentioned Mike chem So now we have to talk about Danny Wimmer and talk directly to him. Yes, so that you could play all those festivals next year after yesterday's announcement. Fun fact one, one year they dropped off or couldn't make a show to Arizona and our band field in. It was Blink wenty two, Jimmy World and My Chemical Romance and our nothing band was able to fill in for My Chemical Romance. So maybe you could do that. So Mike came, if you're listening, well, I mean technically, I mean you need you need DREG support.

11:57 Yep, we saved you though one time, right. We already the terribly filled your shoes at one date in Phoenix. Yes, And I thought it was pretty wild too that you said Motley Crue. Yes, I used to go see them before they even had an album. No, Like, it's so funny too because that was the first club show I ever went to in my life. Like before that was just regular concerts and they were like horror punk. They weren't clam yet. Yeah, I know, and I just remember my jaw was dropped out of like I'm never going to a real concert ever again. Yeah, it was like the most amazing experience. Yes, I mean, like I grew up on that kind of music. My dad is a guitarist and would be playing that all the time. My mom and I would be headbanging. So it's all the like hair metal bands and everything. So yeah, they're a hilariously big part of my influence as an artist.

12:50 Well it's funny too because like I go too Rainbow Now in Lao Yeah, and I look, I'm like, how did I get into in there when it was like thirteen years old? No kidding? Oh I was walking in with Motley Crew, yeah, or like I used to hang out with Mick Mahr's at the mall. Okay, yeah, let dope with Motley. Yeah. So it was cool. She said that because you kind of spammed everywhere, and I love that that makes you a well rounded artist something. Yeah, I think so too. We were talking about See Queen a minute ago. She commented on one of my videos recently and said, I think you've unlocked every like way to have a voice at this point, and I was like, yeah, I mean that's kind of been my goal, is like I don't want to just sing one particular way.

13:34 I want to be able to do a little bit of everything. And like, I just got off a tour with the rock Orchestra, so I was doing like orchestral singing and like the opera. So it's I'm really like, I love doing all different kinds of stuff and not sticking to like one thing. So now what you need to do today is is you gotta go up to Eye Prevail and you gotta tell that hilarious. Literally, you need to sing. This just fucking happened, I swear to God. So we're in catering right now and we're getting coffee next to Eric and I was like, hey, you just want to say the record's great or whatever, and we introduced chatted for a little bit, and then Addie introduced herself and he goes, oh, yeah, you covered our songs. She literally just did a cover of Violent Nature and that's the fact that you recognize her that that was cool.

14:16 Yeah, yeah, now you get you should have told them like, hey, if you want me to sing blank spaces for you. I will the a the invite'es there of course, but yeah, try to be more peers. It's hard sometimes because you like you just want to say, dude, what you guys have done has been great, and then do them on with their day. You don't want to beat faberal out or whatever, even if you are on the inside. But super nice guys, very sweet guys. I really appreciate what they do. Like they're massive within the instry. And they've come from a similar place. But if you're not, its us right. They did a YouTube video cover which our band has done probably around the same time. There's just fucking really popped off, man, and so it's really fascinating. And this sounds weird because they're bigger than me, but I'm proud to see their trajectory because they're lack of the same coloth even though they are massive now they just did and had it and it's awesome.

15:05 So now you're gonna be massive. Wow. We hope that right after, you know, right after Louder than Life and then you'll be on all the DWP festivals next. Year with Mike m And that would be an honor. That would be an honor. It's just really cool to have you hear you guys Rock, Thank you. Tell everybody real quick. I had to reach out to you on socials on the web, buy your merch. They can't listen to my show on unless say buy your merch. Yeah, that's really sweet. Yeah, we're hallising on all social media platforms. We're heavy on TikTok, twitch, YouTube, Spotify, all the places. H A L O C E N E. Baby. I like how you spelled it too, with the baby at the end. That's the important part. Well fun, how is he baby?

15:45 I know somebody's gonna do that. You know somebody one is gonna do that. Well you guys rock. Thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you so much. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man on du the U four C U I Radio. Yesh