PipemanRadio Interviews Supermodel Taxidermy - At What Cost

0:04 Hey, you have done to censure from w WOW where you young? Whycoume of America. It's time for the Adventures of Pipe Man on W four C why dot com. West pomp Beach is number one Internet radio station. Here's your host, the White Man, Lady's Christ what's the poss checks? Talking to Lady's check? What's a posy check? This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm very excited about our next guest because anybody knows me knows I'm an old school thrash metal head and this band is freaking awesome. It's like if I don't know, it's almost like to me if Nuclear Assault and Dri had a baby. This is the band. So let's welcome to a show. Super Model texta Derby, How are you? I'm good. How's it going? Oh it's going great. So yeah, I was checking out your newest music because you have the new album at What Costs dropping on May thirty first this month, end

1:36 of this month. And man, this just brings me back to the good old days, as I would call it, you know, like the music is real music, it's it's it's not I find that a lot of bands nowadays in these genres, they almost act like they're doing an algebraic equation. There's no thought put into it. It's like just let's let's follow this formula. And thrash and metal and punk was never a formula. You know. I agree with that, and that's what I love it. And listen, I love that we can cross those genres because back in the day, as you know, it was very hard to like dri started it, kind of Suiciu started it, Slayer kind of started, but you still couldn't go to shows. Like I was a long hair and I couldn't go to punk shows and punks can go to metal shows, and it was freaking stupid. So that's what I love about thrash too. It's that attitude of putting punk and metal together. That's that's exactly where my dad come from. Like it's it's just me here. I'm Sean, I'm the singer, but the other boys are at work right now. So this is where you get and I totally agree with you. When we play music, we usually just take this element of that punk rock, raw guitar, bassed drums, give your attitude and all being metal heads, it just made sense to amalgamate it and put that

3:07 together. So what we present or try to put across when we're writing music is just peerage. Iain that's the one thing we go for. I love it because that is what it's about. It is a droning rush, and you know, there's a lot of misconceptions about our genres of music that we're into, and it's kind of good. When I talk to some bands, we're like, yeah, let's keep them thinking that stuff, you know, But like, it's just is one of the healthiest ways to get out your aggressions, and it's one of the best therapies there is. Like forget all the drugs, you know, and the pharmaceuticals. Just get in a pit and that will cure a lot of your problems. It's therapy, man.

3:57 I don't know it's pc to say, but it is all almost prevents someone from punching another person in the face. It's a good It's a healthy way to just let it out, no doubt. I love how you put it that way because that is the way I think about. You know, how many people are lucky I didn't punch them in the face, because you know what I just got done with a metal show. You know it's it is true, because listen, I'll tell you a funny story, Like I go on tour and cover a bunch of these festivals, and one time I had two festivals in one weekend, so I had one of my other people at the radio station go cover the other festival. She had never even been to a rock show, much less a metal music festival. She was a country girl. She had huh she had a good time. Uh yeah, well, I told her. I'm like, listen, she was all scared about it. I'm like, listen, you should be more scared go into your country shows because there's a bunch of rednecks getting drunk and beating the crap out of each other. I'm like, you go to a metal show and we're like one big family and it seems like we're trying to kick e Jeddler's asses, but really we're just being being like a friendly family of outsiders where nobody's an outsider. And I'm like, you're gonna make new friends. You gotta do this. She comes back after the weekend, She's like, oh my god, You're so right, Like it was, it was so cool,

5:30 and I got all these new friends and have a new boyfriend now and I have this new favorite band. I don't know if you ever heard of them. They're called Bring Me to Horizon. And I'm like, yeah, I think I heard of them. But see that's the point, Like she went in there with this kind of thought process of what we are and realize that we're the best therapy there is out there. Yeah, that exists outside of the shows too, Like, yeah, walking down the street, if you see some wearing a Slayer T shirt, you know, you give the guy the eye who looks back at you. There's this mutual understanding. But if someone I've noticed it, like if one of the kids are walking in, like there's a Tailor Swift T shirt, that person just doesn't really recognize the other person. It's just kind of a commercial thing where it's like us people in the scene. We lit it. You know, you couldn't have put it better. And I love that you picked the Slayer part because really, if you walk by somebody with a Slayer shirt, like you know, I was just in Costa Rica for three months and they say pure a beta for everything, Well for Slayer, we just say to each other, fucking Slayer, got it? So I want to talk about the artwork on this new album, which is behind me and I think I'm I'm part of the crowd there, and tell me a little bit about your story behind the artwork of the album. I mean the move out away a little bit there. Well,

7:01 that's uh, we reached out to Andrei Buzikoff. He actually did some municipal waste. He's he's worked with talks the Holocaust. Like if you're in the scene, you recognize his artwork. But the concept for this is, uh, it's like a subway and it's an entrance into the underworld. So as you're watching these people walk down those steps, they're losing these horns there or they're gaining them. They're becoming the demons that they are, and the ones on the other side exiting into Earth, they're losing them. And it's supposed to signify like the evils all around us. So right up front, you have this guy being torn in both directions, being pulled in opposite directions, and what it's represents to us is at what cost would it take to keep your composure in today's kind of a world. I love it. See, That's why I wanted to tell a story because I love the whole story about it because it does it kind of blows me in my mind that the things we were singing about in the eighties are not only as relevant today but even more so. It just kind of blows my mind that in all these years we haven't gotten any better, but we've gotten worse, which ties right into what you were just saying. Yeah, it's unfortunate, but there's still a few of us, so tho've kept our roots. Yeah, there you go. And it's funny that you mentioned Municipal Waste because I'm looking at the album cover, I'm like, man, I recognize whoever that artist is like

8:33 that. It looked so familiar to me. As soon as you said municipal Waste, I'm like, that's where I recognize it from. Yeah. Yeah, he's a force to be reckoned with this guy. He knows what he's doing. We reached out and we had a couple ideas that we traded back and forth, and at first, initially we wanted to call this album Exorcist for Beer. It's one of the songs it's a single off of this album, and we couldn't quite articulate what the story represented, so coming across this, it just made more sense to us to go forward with it. But Matt he threw out idea after idea, and I'm so happy with that results.

9:18 And I do love the other name too. That sounds like a definite punk rock album name. That's a party anthem song. I highly recommend checking it out. And there's a story behind it too, if you want to hear it, I do. So. My drummer Riley, and his father and his brother were driving back from a fishing trip and it's like an eight hour drive. So Whiley's old man is bitching about coal in the back seat, all he does is drink all day and smoke his bong and scream and it's just metal music come out of the basement, right, So pretty soon it turns into like Riley's writing all this down right, Cole's throwing in his two cents. And by the time they got back off this fishing trip, he gave me this piece of paper that was like a good portion of Exorcist for peer. So yeah, so what I wrote it on like, I made it fit to the way I sing in my singing style. But between everybody's lyrics, this is where we got the song. From and it's actually a song about It's about a little motherhead who can't quite exercise the demon out of him. So the answer is to find an exorcist online. Well, they go in the dark Web and they find they find this guy that makes their problems much worse than it actually is. In the end of it, we called him Little Johnny. He's off on tour with blacked out of the murder. The exorcists gave up like there was no help. I love it.

10:48 Yeah. To tie it all together, when we recorded the song in the studio, we brought in Whyley's old Mare. We got Call singing some backups on the lyrics, and we brought in Kenny to do a little skip for us. He's like, I don't know what to do. We had a little piece of paper ready for him and just see this. He's like, I'm not reading a script that's already written. Riley's like, well, what do you want to do? He's like, I don't know. He's like, well, how about this. You got twenty seven years practice, so y'alling at me. Come up with something. So before the song starts, you hear this like thirty seconds skit of your old man coming in, slamming the door, yelling at us to turn the noise down. I'm not turning his place in the studio. Go clean the fucking your boot. The song starts, I love it. Which song is it? I'm trying.

11:35 I'm drawing a blank right now. That they met reminded me so much of a dri song, and I'm trying to think of which one it is. It's one of the original ones. Same thing. The dad comes in Tiger oh Man. So tell everybody how they can catch up with you guys on socials on the web. Check out all your you know tour the newest songs, check out the newest videos, get the pre save the album, get the album when it drops by merge all that great stuff. Well, you can definitely check us out on our band camp account, supermodel toxidermy bandcamp dot com. We've got you know, all the same socials, Instagram, Facebook, We're on every platform out there, so wherever you're listening to if you want to just have a peek, follow us our YouTube channels another great source too. We just released a music video another single on this album. It's called Lipstick and Yeah you can. You can have a good time checking out one out. It's actually a song written in homage to all the women in our scene and the ones that bring the guys to the show. They're the ones that are up front. So we really spotlighted this and if you take a peek you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. I love it. I love it. Everybody should check it out. It's a badass video. And do you have anything else you want to let the listener know about that we haven't covered already. We had a couple of tours tours dates coming up on

13:07 a tour for later this August, but we haven't quite fully released all the shows yet. We're gonna end up in Lethbridge, Alberta with the records in August fourth. Again. You can see all of this on our socials, but just for me to you, guys, take care of each other, keep safe. I love it, I love your music. Thanks a lot for giving us great music and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you, Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Main. I'm w for CUI Radio.