PipemanRadio Interviews Omnivide

0:04 Hy you have done to censure? Wow for you young, whycoup America. It's time for the Adventures of Pipeman on W four c Y dot com. Wis pomp Beats is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man rack. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with my my next guest, who is from the north actually from where I am right now. A lot more but man, some badass music that I really What I really love about what I heard is that it has a lot of different components to the song, opposed to a lot of music nowadays that the whole song. Once you've listened to the first fifteen seconds, you've heard the whole song. This is like old school to me, where you just want to listen to the whole thing from beginning to end. So I want to welcome to a show.

1:36 I'm divide. How are you? I'm doing pretty good? Thank you? Sure? Hey, my pleasure, and so tell us a little bit about your band, how it came about, you know, and how you as an artist would describe your music opposed to a genre, because I hate genres. They box artists in to be something that is it's like in this little box that they fit into, and I'd rather hear from an artist's point of view how they describe their music. Sure, well, it was really cool that you said that in the introduction, how you found there was a lot of components to our music. That's certainly something that we had in mind as soon as we started writing music for this band, was really that we're fans of many genres of music. And obviously you've heard the song. It's still very much metal, but within metal, we're fans of a lot of different genres and we didn't want to limit ourselves to fitting a specific aesthetic. So that song, and more broadly the whole album is really a combination of our favorite genres, which you know, goes from more typical death metal to more adventurous prague metal, and you know, some symphonic elements just kind of throwing all that in a blender. And I think that maybe those three elements are kind of the main stays of what define our sound as a broader and really the progressive aspect is what gives it more freedom. We really like to just

3:06 you know, kind of the opeth idea of having extremely heavy parts and extremely clean parts, which obviously aren't unique to Opeth, but just a band that did it really well early on, and that's something we like. And then we also take from you know, kind of more melodic bands, and you know, we really try to have songs that will have dry, more aggressive sections and then go into something more grandiose and musical and kind of piece all that together in a way that makes a song and then the whole album more of a diverse listening experience and hopefully, you know, just make it something that, like you said, is something you want to listen to again.

3:46 So I think it's interesting because I wasn't going to bring it up till you brought it up, but you talked about Opath and probably even a lot of bands that know your music now may not know that, you know, originally members of the band were in an Opeth tribute project. So that's pretty cool. Yeah, for sure. That's how three of the musicians in our band right now got together, myself, Nick and Sam. Sam's our keyboard player, and Nick's the other guitarists. I do vocals and guitar, and yeah, we did that project for about a year and a half. It was loads of fun. It was just kind of something we wanted to do because we were such big fans of Opeth. So we did it for like, you know, we did maybe four or five shows. It was a lot of work for the actual result in payoff, but it was really just a good musical experience overall. And as we were doing that and towards the end of that year and a half, we really decided then that we wanted to write together, and that's how this project came along. See. I love that you made that transition because there's so many like tribute bands out there that they just stay there for a long time, or even like the most infamous that he did end up in Priest. But you know, Ripper was in a tribute Priest band forever and then all of a sudden he's in Priest for a while, and now he's in you know, Kk's Priest. Then it's

5:16 I think at some point as an artist, you really want to do your own thing and have your own artistry, and it's good to start off a certain way, but I think a true musician evolves, and that's exactly what you guys did. Yeah, that was kind of the intent from the beginning that you know, we were aware that we weren't going to do that for you know, ten years or something. Really, from my perspective, I'd never done vocals and metal guitar at the same time. You know, I'd sung a little bit on my own, but I wanted to practice that aspect, in the live performance aspect. So doing that project was a way to kick myself in the ass a little bit, get it done, and learn and get better. So that was a conscious thing throughout that process, and I always I and probably most of the other members of the band, I'm pretty sure all had in mind that we wanted to write our own music.

6:13 So it was really more of a stepping stepping stone, sorry, than kind of a long term project. Absolutely, And I think it's kind of harder to be a tribute band than to write your own music, because when you're doing your own music, it's coming from inside of you and you have the innate passion for what you're doing, and when you're doing a tribute it's kind of like you're using the passion of something else you like instead, And I think there's a big fundamental difference. Yeah, and that's why it felt right for it to be kind of a temporary project, something that we did for fun in a sense, but not something that we you know, tried to write awave off of it for ten years or anything like that. So we definitely felt like people were going to judge our performance based on you know, an amazing and like o bet so we weren't pretending to be nearly as good, but it was just a great experience overall for us to learn and get better. Yeah. Yeah, And I love what you said about being and doing vocals and playing guitar, because I always am in awe of somebody that can do both of those. It's kind of like that thing when you're a kid trying to rub your head and you're tummy at the same time, because it's gotta be so hard to focus on both because usually both are like very important parts of all songs, and they're usually the front runners. And now it's like you're doing both of them at the same time. Oh absolutely.

7:42 And it doesn't come especially naturally for me either, I think from what I've seen and heard other people talk, it does more so for other people. I just grind it a lot, and you know, eventually your brain and body adapts, whether it's easy or not. To just do both at the same time and things just be more automatic. And that's really what enables you to do two things at once is when you really don't have to think about your hands anymore, you can focus on the vocals. I'd say that's more the perspective is your the hands become automatic, and then the vocals are the thing that have more of a conscious thing because it's more of a physical process even than the playing the guitars. So for me anyways, that's how it is. I have noticed that too, because like you look at certain guitars, like I'll take Dave Mustain, you know, who never wanted to really sing. He got thrust into that, but what amazing, amazing guitarist and now you watch him, man, it's like he doesn't have to look as guitar at all. He just like right, yeah, it's just second nature.

8:45 He's doing way more focusing on the singing than he is on the guitar play. Yeah, I think that's the way that a lot of performers end up maybe viewing it as well. But yeah, it's definitely not something that comes easy for me. And every song is a new challenge every time. It's it's not innate for sure. And one thing I want to say about the song is that, Okay, so it's a killer song. But going back to what we were talking about when I first turned it on, like for the first couple of seconds, I'm like, it was kind of like when I heard a song like Battery or I heard like Fast as a Shark, and you're like, at first, gone, well that's not metal, and then all of a sudden, just out of nowhere, you get like thrown up against the wall. Yeah. That's definitely another thing that, like I said earlier, we tried to do with the album is to have different levels of intensity and energy and styles of sections. And there's there's a few songs where we like to start kind of slow like that and then slamming with a real the heavy section afterwards, just to kind of hoping that the clean section before will make the heaviness that comes afterwards more impactful. That's kind of the idea behind it. So that was an example in Holy Killer. That's what the intent is behind that introduction. So Holy Killer, which is the

10:16 first song or the first single off the album that's going to be coming out, that just dropped on Friday on the nineteenth and maybe tell us a little bit about the background of that song. Yeah. Sure, So that was one of the first songs that we wrote as a band the way that we wrote the album, and Nick, our other guitarists, and myself are kind of the main composers, and we each mainly wrote four songs that you know, we all ended up pitching in and working on together to some extent, But that was kind of his first song and he wanted to add in synthathizers and orchestral elements early on, and that really gave us a lot of direction for what we wanted to do for the next songs moving forward. So that song is one of the more I guess original first songs that we wrote that gave us a bit of an idea what we wanted to do musically. Nice and the whole album Tail of Fire is set to drop on the twenty second of March. Do you have any kind of like pre saves or places you want to send people so that they can get the new album my drops?

11:35 And also you know, tell everybody how they can hit you up on socials on the web all your connected and ways to connect with you. Yeah, for sure. So we're gonna add down some pre sage soon for upcoming singles and the album. So I tell people to follow us on Facebook and Instagram, where basically all of our news will come out, and then for any kind of support on band camp. Our album is already available for pre sale as well as a CD and a T shirt that can all be pre ordered, so any kind of support or buying the digital album can go there. And we also have the YouTube video. The lyric video is on YouTube, so that's another place to follow us that and we have our own website.

12:24 If you just type omnivide. We we tried to find a word that wasn't too common, so if you google omnivide, I think we do come up first right now, so it's easy to find, yeah, and you can actually spell it the right way without symbols or numbers like so many bands nowadays. It's like how that it's so hard to come up with a band name nowadays, because like some may have been taken already, you know exactly. Yeah, we were on the Encyclopepedia Metalum trying to find a name that didn't already exist, and it would always be like, oh, yeah, the one, and then next thing. You know, it's like, Nope, some band from the early two thousands took it, and then it's like, if they're not active anymore, you could take it. But we really wanted to find something that hadn't been taken, and to what we could find.

13:11 The closest thing that has our name is like some real estate company in Australia that actually had her name, but we figured that was far enough. Yeah, there you go. And so also, I gotta say hats off to you because you guys formed in twenty twenty. What a time to form. But I have a different spin on that than most people. I think it was the best time to form a band, because you know, before that, all these bands are on the hamster wheel and touring all the time, on the road all the time, and rushing to put music out because we didn't have any time. So they're writing it on the tour bus and they have a deadline they have to meet. And I think twenty twenty and twenty one allowed artists like you guys to really do things the old school way and like really work on the songwriting and perfecting the songs without just playing them out half done. Oh it certainly did. I mean, I remember one of our first jams when we'd actually got together after some songwriting that was just exchanges over the internet, when it was maybe three or four gems in. Then lockdown started happening and that got us, you know, made us unable to jam for a few months on and off throughout COVID, but we would always get back together when we could, and when we couldn't, we were writing and just working on the songs, and it really gave us a good gestation period to try to just write the music and focus solely on the music.

14:39 You know, we didn't have a Facebook page yet anything like that, so we were solely focused on the music and it was really nice to be honest. And now we're in the release process, so it's kind of the opposite, but I think it's it gave me a sense that it's good to maybe cut yourself off a little bit when you're trying to be creative because all the worldly distractions can really clutter your mind. So totally, it was really good for us for sure to have that time to focus and write together. Yeah. Oh, I mean, like how many artists out there, you know, they put on an album and then the album sound they're like, oh, man, I should have done it this way because they didn't really have the time to restructure any songs or really evalue it. It's like bam wam bam. Thank you ma'am. Yeah, yeah, for sure, Yeah, we that's not something we'd want to do where we're going to try to put out something a second album eventually sooner than later, but also take our time and make sure we're happy with it when we put it out. Yea.

15:41 Well, that's why it's great music. I love it. Everybody needs to check you guys out, check out the you know, the album of course when it comes out, but definitely they need to listen to Holy Killer now. They will love it and they will definitely be can't wait for that album. So thanks for giving us such great music, and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you appreciate it, Appreciate the kind words. And just to know, we'll have two more singles out before the albums which people follow us, they'll be able to tune in on that as well. Nice. I love it. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man on w for CUI Radio.