PipemanRadio Interviews Stu of SpiritWorld at Louder Than Life 2025

0:04 Hi, you lunto here, that's sure for see why cray your will. This is the pipe Man here on the Inventors Pipe Man W four CY Radio, and I'm here with yo. What up everybody? It's st Folsome from Spirit World. Nice here at Louder than Life. Yeah, you know, I do festivals all over the US, UK, Europe, and I've been like following your sets everywhere at festivals. Okay, so I'm happy to be talking you here at Loud in Life because I just love your live show.

0:45 Yeah, thank you man. Tell the listeners who have never seen you live what that's like. I guess I came up in late eighties early nineties thrash and like hardcoren crossover was the stuff that really my older brother had that I just geek out on. So my band, when you see us live, I mean, we just bring next snap in heavy metal riffs. So if you dig Metallica, Pantera, Obituary, all that good old stuff, I mean that's basically we're just kneeling at the altar of those bands. There you go. Yeah, And I'm an old school thrash metal head, so that's why I like it. This is my eighties battle. Vest Hell Yeah, Slayer didn't even have a patch yet, So I made that myself. Yeah hard and you could see it probably a bunch of the bands you were listening to back then on that I drew on air and you know this one Somebody coming to Home.

1:39 Man, you have the. Old school Exodus logo, because that's a logo when I drew it. So if you were to look at that and there's the front side, you could tell it's been through some battles. Oh yeah, who would you say you would most want to. Tour with no obvious want to Slayer? There goa Those are the two Metallica had us out when they were doing their seventy two tour. They picked some bands and just I think we did Dallas and they just they do like a kickoff thing for the weekend. US Fugitive, two. Hundred, Stab Wounds all met up and did like some big club shows that like let into the Metallica weekend.

2:20 So I mean, it's not like we got asked the tour, but at the same time, it's like still cool. You're on their radar enough to like go open up a Metallica weekend where they're doing two nights at a stadium. And they gave us all pit passes to go to the show, and shit, it was cool. How bout ass was that? It's sick? I mean, my older brother that got me into the lot of this shit plays bass live in Spirit World, So I mean it's one of those like pinch yourself things where it's like the email comes in and it's like, yo, somehow Metallica knows what the fuck we're doing, and we're right, that's We're going in a pack up the guitars. We're gonna go play some riffs. Nice. How is it playing with your older brother? Like I have older brothers, none of them I would fucking play music with, but they don't like the same music as me.

3:05 So yeah, us we're cool, Like we like a lot of the same stuff, and like it's just a blessing to be able to do a band and like spend time with people you really dig. Like I got the hand pick because I when we did our first record, I just recorded it all and then when we start, I think Obituary hit us up to take us out, and I I think I told our booking agent he was like, so can you tour? Like what is up with this project? And I'm like little White La, I'm like, yeah, of course, ready to go. And then Obituary took us out and I had to like call up my brother and a couple of my homeboys and be like, Yo, you want to go on tour and play these songs with Obituary. I sort of may have booked a tour and need to get a band cooked up that's great, and hoping that they could do it. I got to handpick who I wanted and they were like, fuck, yeah, dude, let's go. And then since then we've toured with like we're really lucky, like Sepulteura, Creator, Fucking Nails, Terror, Obituary, Agnostic Front, all these bands that I like, literally their catalog changed my life, and those are the bands that we just find ourselves out in love with.

4:15 It's amazing, And you're going on tour in November soon with another couple other badass bands, like I love Alien Weaponry Yeah yeah, Stoke. I don't know those guys, so it'll be cool to meet them, Like Alien Weaponry and Avatar. Yeah, like those an Avatar They're just the coolest dudes. And what a great show. Yeah, they took out Orbit Culture a couple of years ago. I think it was at the House of Blues in Vegas, and I love orbit culture, so yeah, it's another thing. It's just cool man, all these opportunities. It's like a couple of years ago going to watch a band that they brought out on support and then fast forward and getting an email saying you want to go open up for.

4:55 Avatar right, and kind of blows your mind. Yeah, and some of that shape like from liquid Metal and like I've always had a subscription and listened to it, and it's like you can tell like we're kind of breaking into like the metal thing, you know, like all of us came up going to underground punk, hardcore, death metal shows. And it's really cool that spare World is embraced by a lot of different spots in the underground because some bands they can't. I feel like they just get stuck in whatever little thing, and we're one of those bands that I feel like we can play with anybody and do anything. See that's cool. I like that about the band like you, because you're right. I come from the eight scene. I went to Slayers first show ever, Metallica's first show ever, and they had to.

5:42 Leave LA because they had nobody they could play with. I saw a striper open for Slayer. Yeah, crazy, and it's so yeah, that's the reason they left to the Bay Area from la Is because they were just left with all. The hair metal bands. Yeah, and the real flash scene was in the Bay Area, which I didn't find out until they left because I was like, oh, and then I me and my bro we used to hitchhike up to Bay Area after Slayer Metallica left us and we're like, oh, this is the real flash scene. Yeah. Yeah. So also, what about the concept of how you guys dress on stage? Yeah, the that's another thing that I think it helps because I wrote a book of short stories that the whole like gist of this band was to do, like I wanted to do a project that I could really try some different artistic just creative endeavors, so like fiction writing, a lot of the graphic design. I write all the riffs on the songs. So it's really like my catch all place to just kind of get weird. And so I because I knew I wanted to do something that allowed me to stretch into these different areas I kind of landed on. Like I grew up in a household where like we all rodeoed and like came from like a Western culture, and so I grew up reading like Louis Lamore books and watching fucking westerns and like Rio Bravo and like, so I love that stuff on one hand, but I also love thrash and cromags and like strife

7:16 and hate breed and hardcore and stage dives. So I ended up doing like I just came up with this idea to do like a horror Western world where like a group of like roughneck gun slingers are finding the gates to hell. And I'm like, then I can write a Western. I can write it like a horror movie. I can have like thrash songs where you have like demons and douvile warshippers because you have. This a cult thing. And then it's really cool on the records, like I can do some pretty far out there shit so live when we present it. It's been tough on the support stuff because I can't get like the visual component quite where I want. But like we come out in nuty suits like Ryan stoned out with a bunch of like a cult stuff all over them. And then at some point when I get it big enough. I want like Pyro and giant fucking cactuses with Jesus crucive fried on them and all the like heavy metal, Iron Maiden, Like that's.

8:13 Literally because it's different, you know, It's like you're not doing what everybody else says. I find a lot of new bands nowadays it's almost like they want to do exactly what somebody else did because that worked. And I love that you're taking the risks to do what you love, what's truly you, yeah, opposed to trying to be somebody else. Yeah. And when I was younger, I was in bands where you just play the shit that you like, and as you get older, you kind of figure out who you are more. And for me a big thing was if I was going to do another like artistic project, I wanted it set up in a way where it's only stuff that I love and there's not one way waye of it. That is something that i'm because sometimes you make con sessions. If there's five guys in a band, you may have a drummer and a bass player play a groove that you don't like, but because you just wrote five songs, you got to do it to keep the peace right. So not that I'm like that incredibly hard to work with, but this is like my self expression.

9:13 So the riffs, the grooves, what I want, Like everything is exactly something I'm really proud of and really excited to share. And then we get. So many cool opportunities and so many people are finding the band that it makes it a little easier when I like the first time I told people about this, we didn't even have a song up, and so it's like, you're gonna do a book and like, what the fuck? And I have like a sharp eat. I drew a picture of our live stage show before we ever recorded anything, and it hangs up on my wall. And now it's like when we're playing in front of like ten thousand people at a fest and we have a thirty foot banner of like this cowboy and these demons, like it looks just like this picture and we're like in our suits, like our guitar players seeing it the other day and was like, dude, that's so nuts that you like.

10:02 Drew that at work, and then this fucking yeah. But it just goes to show like if you know what you who you are, if you don't know who you are, how do you get your dreams to come true? Like that's the thing that I think about of Like, I know what I like, I know what I want to do. And you have to have that vision like everything you're talking about doing, Like I'm also a motivational speaker, so that like just goes right into that personality of mine, because it's like you have to see the vision before you can create the vision. And that's what you did. Yeah, And I have found that I don't know how to make things happen, Like I wasn't somebody that was plugged in with the industry by any means, But I know what I want to do, and I know that each piece of it, there's nobody putting more time and love and effort into it. Yeah, and then the art finds the way, Like I don't know where the door is or who the doormat is, but just the energy I'm putting out somehow it's finding well.

11:03 Channels, you know what I mean? Yeah, because you're being altruistically you Yeah, and then you get your following from what I've noticed at your live shows, you have just like Coltish following because we do that because of that, in my opinion, Yeah. We it's cool. Like when we tour with hardcore bands, like we went out with Stick to Your Guns and Comeback Kid last year, and you could tell, like the spiritual fans are like rolling in. There's like goth looking goals that are like done up in like western dresses and like long hairs with battle vests. They like come right up front. And the hardcore kids they pitched so hard that a lot of those shows there's like a horseshoe in front, but then it like fills in with this like ragtag group of just a lot of really different eclectic freaks up there headbanging.

11:54 For us, and I love it. It's cool, like and other bands notice that too, when like, I don't know, it's just a thing. I think that's why these bands aren't taking you out on tourns, because you stick out and they you're something different that we need different in music. I agree, And like a lot of the shows, like even if you love the style, you just go watch five bands that are basically a couple degrees off from the same thing, it does get SEMy and so it's cool. Like the visual component to us really sticks out when we're playing with hardcore bands and punk bands that are just wearing the same thing they woke up in. So like, on one hand, we're more theatric, but at the Avatar tour, they're so theatrical. Our show doesn't touch theirs yet, right, but we're so heavy and like aggressive, like our set at that will be I'm sure there will be people at Avatar that have never seen anything is like violently aggressive as our set. So in that room, it'll will turn heads because they'll be like Jesus Sat Band just fucking relentless riffing, holy shit.

12:59 No doubt. I've noticed that other festivals. It's like people didn't know what to expect, that like didn't know you yeah, and they see but then. You start playing and they're like okay, holy shit. Yeah. And it's tough for us because we can't we haven't been able to really translate some of the like all country stuff we do on the records just because like we're not big enough to have a crew and have like texts and shit, and so I'm not bringing out acoustic guitars and telecasters to like do some of the interludy stuff. And so we come out. Eddie Arnold plays every night, like right before we walk on stage and then you just feel that the crowd like the riffs are undeniable and at some point like people love metal, yeah and they it just wins crowds over totally.

13:50 And this upcoming tour, I think, based on what you were saying too, I was thinking about it is perfect because each one of you three Bams have a different type of vibe, different type of theatrics. You have avatars, you were talking about the alien weaponry, they do, the whole New Zealand stuff. So yeah, super unique. It's like all three of you are super unique, which makes it such a cool tour. Yeah, I'm pumped, man Like, we played some shows with Carcass and Bruhia the other day and like it's a similar thing. We come out to Eddie Arnold do our thing and then I don't know who the artist is, but Breharia comes out to like it's just like some kind of mariachi like cool dancy song and then they do their like beat down ultra like I don't know, it's cool cool vibe. Man Like, I like weird shit too, and the older I am like even if I don't even if I can't understand music, because I've learned that sometimes it takes shit a while for me to something that I couldn't get into ten years ago might be my favorite shit today, right, And so I do like when I can just tell whatever somebody's doing is this unique, crazy thing that I don't understand, Like I almost seek that shit out more.

15:05 I love it than I ever have. And so how do people reach out to you on socials on the web to your merch store because they can't listen to my show unless they buy your merchant You have some cools merch. Yeah, yeah, I mean we're we're terrible at social media. We have we're on Instagram, but spiritworldprofit dot com is our merch store. And then we got a record, Helderado that came out in March that's doing great. And then we're on tour all November most of December with avatars. So easiest way come to the show, hang out and say what's up. They definitely have to. I think they'll see the vision when they're at a show for sure. Yeah, hell ya. And you're gonna kill it here at louder in Life.

15:46 And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipeline. Thanks for having me man, Thank you for listening to the adventures of Pipemin on w for Cui Radio