PipemanRadio Interviews Lorna Shore at Louder Than Life 2025

0:04 Hey, you lunto here's sure. For see. Wow. Crazy Young. Is a pipe man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with Adam Dimiko from Lorna Shore Nice. Here at Louder than Life. I've been following you all over the world actually because I do festivals here UK Europe, and you guys have just been everywhere. We have been everywhere, literally have been everywhere. It feels like it. How wild is that? Like, from starting out and then being a death core band and then all of a sudden you're accepted in like even Lollapalooz are like everywhere you go like they want you.

0:49 It is very surreal to think about the band from the scope of like being a New Jersey local band, and then it's already hard as is. To I feel like, to make it outside of like the state. And then to be able to make it across the country and then across the different countries and across the world. It is kind of crazy to see, especially the style of music that we play is not really something that I would expect to be able to be in all these different places. But definitely humble and grateful that we get to do all these things. But yeah, it's nothing I've ever expected. I was just grateful that we got to like leave New Jersey. Right, what exit do you live off of? I'm from Jersey to. Where in New Jersey. I grew up on Exit one? Nice. I grew up in Montclair, roseland Little Fall, so not far. From Union County. So yeah, yeah, so I still live in Union County. I just don't live I live off Exit one thirty five now, so yeah, Scotch Plains area, so that's where.

1:36 I live, and that I lived in South Plainfield. Nice is nice, nice nights. I used to be years and years ago, manager of Harrows On in Union. I don't even know if it was open because it closed like several years. It was open for like sixty years. Okay, it was the pool place. Oh, okay, you know what I think. I think I didn't have a pool, but I think I know exactly what you're talking. About it, yeah, Jersey, Well, yeah, exactly. It's a very small world. So to be able to escape and be able to like, you know, play in different countries and different parts of the world is very surreal. I would say. Totally because I remember back in the day, Like back in the nineties, it was like either you play club Stocks we called it pig Pen, but it was play Pen or Birch Hill and Old Bridge or like one of those little places, and like that's kind of where it stayed, Like Metallica, that's where that was their home after their home was in the Bay Area after LA.

2:27 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No. It's crazy because like we grew up playing really really small like VFW fire halls and like all that type of stuff wasn't even like venues because there really wasn't many outside of like bigger ones stuff like Starland and like Walmont and stuff like that, which we were not capable of playing. At that point in time. So to be able to do that and to be able to take the band from where we were to where we are now is just really awesome. I have my thoughts. I want to hear your thoughts and then I'll express mine of what do you think propelled you to play all over the world and especially in places probably Death Gore would normally not play. Honestly, the more I try to think about it, the less magical it is, right, I think, the more try to figure it out, so that maybe I shouldn't tell you no, please tell of your opinion, because everyone always tells us the opinion, and it's cool to hear.

3:13 It's like cool to hear the people's take on it. But to me, I just feel like my whole thing is that I feel not just our band, but I think just the world that our band comes from, just from being extreme music. I think it's starting to be more accepted these days. I think people are starting to be more open minded to it and being more open to it, and I think that has allowed us to be able to exist and thrive in places that we probably shouldn't have been in because I feel like these days everyone is a lot more open minded to what we are producing, and I think more people are understanding it. I would say, is that's the way that I kind of see it, just from not band, but from just the extreme mental standpoints I feel like growing up, I feel like if I explain to anyone, like my family or anyone that any friends I didn't listen to it, they never got why I listened to that stuff. But I feel like nowadays, I think people are being a little more are diving deeper and trying to understand what it is that makes us music, and I feel like kind of gaining more fans from that, That's how I kind of see it.

4:11 Totally agree with that as somebody that comes from the original eighties band, Like I went to slayers first show ever, Metallica's first show ever. That's my battle vest nice in the eighties and Slayer didn't even have a patch back then, so I just did that Nice, there you go. And so like, I think it's because the world first of all metal. We're one big family now, so there's a lot of people that are accepting metal that would have never back then. I think there's a lot less gatekeepers is one thing. There's some still, but not like then, Like you couldn't even listen if you listen to this band, you can listen to that band. But I think most importantly, the world right now is so crazy and your music is so emotional and so real that people are really that and relating to the lyrics and the feeling that they get from it.

5:05 Yeah, I think definitely think we put a lot of our emotion and we wear a heart on our sleeve. I'd say when we writ our music, I think we really lean into that. And I think we've taken some chances in the past by leaning into that kind of route and it's done well for us, Yeah, which is always kind of nice to kind of be like, put yourself out there and then people will receive it the way you kind of wanted to be received is a good you know, feeling and good experience. And I think the more we've done that, the more people we've reached, which is a good Obviously, good feeling allows me to go to different places that I never thought oud would be, so it's really cool. I definitely agree with that. I feel there is a lot going on, and I've always said that our job as musicians is to be the wage between people and the shit they deal with. Yeah, and trying. To create that piece for a little bit, and that means finding something to relate to in our music or finding something to escape to in our music. Is I feel like we're doing our service to the world.

5:49 I agree, and it's true because back in the day, you know, metal wasn't supposed to be the emotional music. It was something different, but we all got therapy from it. But now it's there's different therapy. I think there's different therapy mean now than there was then. Yeah, I think for me, what I got into metal was all I got into it was I felt like it was an escape and it was a release from just like being super intense. And I've always loved that, and we try to put that in our music as well, because I also do find that there is a place for it, but I just feel as if it's adding the other elements to it is just as necessary. But it's not like a conscious thought. It just kind of comes out organically. It kind of like comes out and how we write, and it's not like we sit down and go, we need to write this because of these blank reasons, because I just feel like that feels very disingenuous. Yeah, so we try writing from a very honest standpoint what we're feeling. And I even said, I can't write a sad song if I'm not feeling sad. You can't force me to write something. And I'm not gonna write an angry song if I'm not really angry or not having a need to express those emotions. So I feel human beings are very dense and have a lot of emotions they kind of go through on a regular basis and try to find a way to channel that and put into songs and put it on an album and people can relate to it or escape from it.

6:58 I love hearing that too, because on the other end, there are a lot of metal bands nowadays I kind of go by this formula of what they should be for whatever their micro genre is. And I love what you're saying because to me an artists, you're just expressing yourself and you're right, whatever mood you're in, you can't force another mood and you can't fake it. No. I think I try to. It's always come out really wrong and just very It's something I wouldn't even listen to. But I feel like, oh, I have to be this thing and I'm not in the mood to do that. Then it won't come out in a productive manner. So yeah, I also feel we all have different emotions that we go through. I think some people spend more time in certain ones than others, but I feel that's true. What we try to do with writing a record is having a diverse spectrum of emotions that you can kind of relate to, and whether it be good or bad, or ones you're trying to escape from or ones you're trying to live in.

7:50 A little bit more. I think just try to have that because I feel like we all kind of go through that throughout the week or throughout the day or throughout the year, and I feel like just having that as an availability is something that I try to think about. And I love what you said before because like, to me, like, if you are just true to yourself, your people will come. And I think that's what happened. Yeah, you didn't think about what you should do, what you have to do, or what people would like. You just did what you felt. And then that I think that's why you got out of Jersey. Can't you can't figure out what people like? I think someone says something to me forever ago was like you can be the ripest, juiciest peach under the sun, but someone stile allergic to it. That's a great So, like, it doesn't matter what you do, someone's gonna find something they don't like about it or don't even have any interest in. So uh, to try to write from that standpoint of trying to be the best for someone, they might not even like it anyway. So trying to create with that intention is, I just feel is very disingenuous and it's very inauthentic, and it doesn't allow people to organically come to the band, which I feel like for me as a still a fan of music, it's nice to just come to something organically and not someone telling you you must listen to this thing because here said reasons.

9:01 The contrarian to me, doesn't really prescribe to that anyway, right, So to me, it's really nice to have come across something organically because it connects to you and it's not something and it feels nice that it's being written not because of like any other reason other than that's just what they felt like expressing. So absolutely, And how do you feel it's been for you as an artist? Like to me, I know music is therapy to the artists and to the listener. How do you think it's helped you through your hard times? Just writing and performing the music. It's a way to express yourself. It's a way to make sense of things that don't make sense. Think of things like emotions have they don't make any sense at all, at least that's what I tell myself. And to find a place to express it, to almost somewhat put it to paper is I think really healthy. It's really productive and I find it just it's been cool to just put it out to the world and have other people relate to that. So it's a really cool moment for me.

9:50 I think I've always found it, whether it be at this scale or at a smaller scale, which is cool that like you can tell your story and someone can relate to it and it's a complete stranger from you, and it's just really cool. I don't know, interconnecting type of thing, if you will, but it's a cool way to express yourself. It's a really cool outlet and it's a lot healthier than other forms. I would say. Absolutely, Like people don't understand the pit, Okay, Like me, I go on the pit to get all my crap out. Yeah, you know, so I won't do stupid shit out there. Yeah, I mean that's what that's what they're for. It's there to release so that you can go back to life feeling a little bit more at peace. I would say, yeah, Which I know it seems crazy because you on the outside world seeing something like this extreme genre of music is like that makes no sense, But like I feel like it's if you see it from a lens of being more cathartic, as opposed to like you know what other stigmas.

10:39 Are attached to it. I feel like it. It looks like a healthier thing, I agree, which is weird to say healthy. And like in the context of us, but that's kind of how I view it. Well, that's kind of like when people say certain things to me, like how can you listen that and go to sleep? Or how can you listen whom like it relaxes. Yeah, No, it's crazy because again that was the same thing as me as a kid listening to it, Like I would listen to the bands and I would fall asleep right away. I'd fall asleep listening to it. I do it on the road and just like all right, wake up to like listening to a record, I'm like, how did I fall asleep to this? But it just I don't know it. There is a release. There totally, so the newest album, Yes, tell us about that, and tell us how you've evolved as a writer and artist in this album compared to previous albums.

11:22 So I think this time around, the biggest thing that I feel like I was attached to was trying to make each song be its own character and focus on the strengths of those characters as opposed to try and to have every song be every character. You know, it's like kind of like watching a movie and each character plays its point, all right, it's purpose in the story. And I feel like that was something that I was trying to focus on, is like lean into the strengths and really commit and protect those strengths. So if a song is meant to be a certain direction, really do everything to bolster that up. And if a song's meant to be a completely different direction, do things that aid in that as opposed to trying to take away from it. So I feel like that was the biggest thing that I feel like I evolved from, was like really being committed to what is this song, what is the theme of the song, from top to bottom, from beginning to end, because I feel like in the past, I feel like we're a little more vague and we tried like dipping our toes into different things at once, which sometimes worked out, but sometimes it felt like you were left with like a confusing story. And this time around, it felt like from top to bottom, from like the moment we start writing a song to like finishing a song with lyrics or a music video or even album art or anything, or just song name or anything.

12:32 It was just like, let's just make sure it. Really hones into committing to what that song's purpose is. So I feel like just making sure and protecting the diversity of the record, making sure that you're protecting the theme of the record is just is important. And that's something that I feel like we've for sure grown to on this album. And I also just think, as I was saying before, like genuinely writing about your experience, you know, not writing a song because I feel like I have to have in checking a box and we need to have a blank song. We need to have a song that has blend or this or that. It felt like this time around was like, if we're feeling this emotion, just kind of ride that as long as you possibly can, and then just really being committed to having everything be as cohesive as possible.

13:12 I think that's what makes your music real and what has brought such a strong loyal fan base to you. Right there, I hope. So I'll take it. I'll take that. I'll take it. Tell everybody how they reach out to you on socials, on the web, by your merge. If you're coming out to us tour, we're retouring with us The Black Dolly Murder, Shadow of inten Peeling Flesh. We're touring pretty much all across America for the next six weeks. So come out to a show. If you're not find us on all social media platforms. If you haven't bought a record, come out and listen to it, by it whatever you need to do, but come check us out and hopefully it don't let you down. I don't think you will, and you're definitely not gonna let us down here at Louder then, and thanks for being here and thanks for being on the adventure. It's the pipe Man.

13:52 Thank you for having me. This is Adam Dimiko from Laura Shore and you're listening to the Pipe Man on W four c Y Radio. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin on W four c u I Radio.