PipemanRadio Interviews Hyperia

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1:03 So let's welcome to a show. Colin from Hyperia. How are you hey? I'm doing great. Thanks? How are you so? I'm great? I can tell you right off the bat. As a long time thrash metal head, this new song iMac thrash Machine Man, it was amazing. It kind of reminded me of old school Nuclear Assault. All right on, that's a compliment for sure, absolutely, So tell us a little bit about you guys. For our listeners that have never heard your music before, how would you, as the artist, want to explain yourself to them? Yeah?

1:47 So, yeah. The band's called Hyperio. We kind of describe ourselves as melodic thrash metal. We have a lot of influence from bands from the eighties like Nuclear Sol like you said, or Exodus Anthrax Creator, but we also try and add kind of a bit of a modern take to it, especially incorporating some more melodic elements and neoclassical guitar parts, as well as a wide range of vocals from thrash to death metal to black metal to even some clean or harsh cleans. I guess, yeah, totally. And one of the things that's cool about you guys. Okay, So as somebody who like literally all those bands you just mentioned, they're from my day. Like I was at the first Slayer show ever, first Metallica show ever. I used to when Metallic and Slayer left LA me and my bro used to hitchhike up to the Bay Area to go to the real thrash metal shows. And you know, one of the things I always loved about thrash metal compared to any other part of metal is nine of the band sounded exactly the same, like there was such uniqueness for every band, and I think that all So hold's true for you guys, Yeah for sure. Yeah. So I mean, if I heard your music, I would know it's you, you know, And so that's key, I think, especially nowadays because nowadays it seems like so many metal bands are all trying to sound the same and use some like formula

3:21 and yeah, Thrash was just never that. So that's definitely something you're not like, you have your influences like everybody does, but you still have your sound. Yeah, that's something that we've definitely it's been a priority of ours to kind of you know, we want to we want to have that where it's well, yeah, you can tell you listen to a song and you can kind of tell it's us, like you said, which is cool. It's cool to hear that from you because it's definitely something that we want to create. So so tell us a little bit about what else you got coming up here on the rise in and anything you want the listeners to know about that's coming out for you guys that they can check out. Yeah. So we're playing a festival up in BC where we're from, in a little town called Penticton on October twenty eighth. It's called Underground Wasteline Festival. It's going to be really cool. Otherwise, we have we're playing our in Vancouver, opening for the legendary Exciter and lych King the Red Room on Halloween. Wow, otherwise. Yeah, we've released the two singles so far. Automatic Thrash Machine as a music video is our newest one. It was a lot of fun to make that one. We'll have one more video single coming out in October. Otherwise. The album releases in November seventeenth, and then, Yeah, the plan is just to kind of tour as much as we can into the new year and play as many kind of international shows as we can.

4:58 Nice and that's so so cool. You're playing with excited like, can you believe forty years? Like, yeah, I don't know. It blows my mind, you know, it blows my mind that I was alive for forty years, much less that I listened to a band for forty years. It's crazy, man. Yeah, they're They're a legendary Canadian van for a reason. They've been through it all and still going. Yeah, I caught them. I think it was Hellfest last year and it was it was pretty badass. So man, that's pretty exciting to tour with them because that's going to be a serious chef definitely. Yeah, we're really looking forward to that one.

5:46 Any plans for the US or anything you're looking at, specially US festivals? Oh no, plans for festivals in the US, but but we're definitely planning to do You're in Washington, right, I'm actually in South Florida. Oh it's so the opposite corner. I don't know why I said, I thought I saw Washington. Sorry, So yeah, we have we have plans to do like a West coast tour down to California next year. For sure. We would love to obviously come out to Florida potentially, you know, I mean there's been the festivals on our raidar obviously, seventy thousand tons of metal would be insane. You know what would be a cool one too, is tomorrow I'm leaving to go do Aftershock in Sacramento. Oh nice, You guys would fit in perfect there because there's always, you know, that that thrash element because it's so close to the Bay Area. Totally. Yeah, that would be right up rally. So you're just putting that word out there, I'm putting it out there in the universe so they can contact you.

6:56 Yeah, that'd be great. So what was that moment in life where you knew this was what you wanted to do. Was there a moment that happened that you're like, oh, my god, this is it? Yeah, I mean, let's I mean probably the first show, like the first metal show I went to was in two thousand and eight. It was the Giganteur with Megadith in Flames Children about him. I think job for a Cowboy, But that I remember that was is my first metal show in general, and it was obviously a huge stadium show. I think, like I had known, I mean, I had played guitar at that point, so I knew I was into that kind of stuff. But I think just watching watching bands of that caliber play a stage in a stadium, like a huge stadium, sold out show, that I would say for sure it was like a huge moment for me in wanting to make that my dream as well, and from going from being on the other side. Where did it feel when the first time you ever actually were on stage yourself? Yeah, that was awesome.

8:01 I was I think I think I was thirteen at the time. An old band that I was in in like middle school. We did this kind of battle of the band's thing in my hometown and that was really cool. I mean I didn't know what to expect. It was kind of just this open air blend of a bunch of different genres. We were probably the only metal band at the time, I'm pretty sure. And yeah, it was pretty surreal. I mean it was awesome. I remember just trying to like think about, like what about the musicians I get in spread from, like how do they act on stage? What do they do, and just trying to kind of like replicate that and kind of like copy their stuff. But obviously the nerves were there, and I probably just looked like a like obviously just like a super on you know, like, yeah, I had no experience.

8:54 So but even looking back, I've seen videos and pictures and from it recently. It was looking back on it, and I mean for a thirteen year old kid, it's pretty cool for sure, and totally was a huge No, they're huge. Yeah, yeah, I think it was. If it was made, i'd be looking back on them like, holy shit, I look a lot better than I thought I did. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I mean, I don't know, it's it was cool. I mean come a long ways since then, but still, yeah, I mean the fact that we did that at that age, like none of my other friends were doing that kind of stuff at that age, so it's pretty cool. So what and there's a good question. What did those friends back then think of you, like, came up on stage and performing, especially, they were not doing stuff like that. Yeah, they all thought it was super cool. I mean, so, yeah, I was in a band, so obviously the four other members in the band were obviously that and they were a good friends of mine. But other than that, people just kind of thought it was cool and weird and different. The school that I was in was kind of primarily almost like every kid my age was just mainly into hockey and and playing sports and all that kind of thing. So it was definitely that was definitely the odd one, I would being the musician and being Canadian, you have to be into hockey, right, It's like a requirement when you're born. Totally. Oh yeah, and that was me too. I played hockey all my childhead and then eventually music took over.

10:22 But yeah, a lot of them came out to the show. They thought it was super cool that they mean, it was a fairly big crowd for a first show. Obviously, all the other bands brought their their people too, so nice, you know. And I gotta say, I think hockey and metal go hand in hand. You know. It's like you can practice for in the mosh pit for the rink, and you can practice in the rink for the mosh pit. I'd say so. Our Bassis would definitely agree. He's he plays, he's like a huge hockey dude. So there's definitely some parallels for sure. Absolutely. So how does everybody reach out to you guys? Connect on socials, check out your new music, check get the album when it drops, check out tour date. It's all that good stuff.

11:11 Merch. Yeah, all of our physical merch CDs, t shirts and all that is that our band camp, so it's hyperiametal dot bandcamp dot com. Otherwise you can find us on Facebook, Instagram. It's all pretty much just Hyperia and then across every streaming platform. All the new singles are out on the on Spotify, Apple Music. Other than that, the videos we have on our on our YouTube channel just Hyperia as well. And it's it's a pretty uncommon name and words, so I think if you just google google Hyperia, something will come up. Yeah, you know, it's funny you should say that because it's such a cool metal band name, especially thrash metal band name. It's weird that nobody ever took and took a name like that until now. Totally the only other bands we've seen were not metal at all.

12:05 And there's one band in particular I think called it was like Awakening Hyperio. That was some old EDM electronic band thing. But they've they've been out of it for at least five or ten years. So yeah, I mean it's been great for us. It makes it easy to find us and right and yeah, totally, it's so hard to come up with band names nowadays, like so many bands they put they like change letters to make them upside down, or symbols or or or all kinds of things, because like you run out things to call your band, and like your your band name is like the perfect name. I would be sitting there and thinking, holy shit, has this name still available? Hey we're in the same boat. Yeah, definitely. That's always our go to is you know, check Spotify, check metal archives, make sure no one else has it or no other active bands have it. But yeah, I guess we just got lucky for sure.

13:01 There you go. Any thing else you want to let the listeners know that we haven't covered already that they need to know about you guys, No, I would say, yeah, just check out our new music video, Automatic Trash Machine. It was a really fun one to make. It's just a keger fuel party chaos video. We got one more video coming in October for the last single. This would be way more kind of a serious or kind of vibe, just some time for Halloween and then otherwise. Yeah, I just appreciate anyone checking us out, supporting us by buying merch or even just listening, streaming our stuff on Spotify or whatever. It's all good. Nice. Yeah, that video it gave me flashbacks of being in the eighties and in the whole scene, because that's exactly what would happen, Like you would go to a Metallica show and then go back to their house after the show and like just partying, headbang all night long. Yeah, that's that's the way to listen to thrash for sure. That's it. Well you guys, rock Hope to see a lot more of you. And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Yeah, thanks, Van, appreciate your having me. You got it. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin on w for CUI Radio.