PipemanRadio Interviews Unearth at Louder Than Life 2025

0:04 Hey you unto you? That's sure. Fore wow crazy you. This is the pipe Man here on the Avengers pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here. With Trevor and Peter from the band on Earth. There you go. You know what's flyings? A lot of times I'll do that. I could pronounce yours, but that way I don't fuck up. The pronunciation of a band's name like yours is easy, but the one it's like schmooge. I'm like you just say it. There are some bands like that, I know. Right.

0:44 So we're here at Louder than Life. How badass is this? It's massive. This is our first NIM festival really just to see the scale of it, it's huge. It's it reminds me of a bigger European festivals we've done, like a Vodka or a health Fester download. So it's so to see at this level of festival in the States. Now. Well, funny story, Okay, So I do festival coverage at festivals all over the US, all the Danny Emer's, but also UK and Europe. I just got back from Bloodstock a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, I love that one. But I was at hell Fest okay, and I've done it for years. And here's the funny story that one time Danny Wimmer was over at Hellfest just as in Tende.

1:25 And that's why the Danny Wimmer festivals have gotten to where it is like I've been doing them for sixties years, sixteen years, but we've evolved it and to me, it's like a European festival. Now US festival. Definitely seems like that. You can kind of sell with the setup, by the grounds, by the backstage, but as far as like even the catering, everything seems like it's just running on that level. Also fine, Like every artist I've ever talked to has nothing bad to say about how Danny Wimmer treats the arts, whether you're the smallest band or the biggest band. And I think that also copies the European model, because everybody I talk to at hell Fuster or like, oh my god, it's so easy, load in, so easy, sound check so easy.

2:07 That's so important because the last thing you need when you're playing a gig is stressed right before the gig from loading in or any other of the things that can happen. Oh yeah, yeah, Like I said, it is our first one, but we feel very taken care of right out of the gate, and our set is in about three hours from now, so everything seems relaxed and nice. See that's cool, yeah, like because right am, I right? There's nothing worse that. Okay, you got three hours ago. Imagine ten minutes before something happens, and that won't happen here. We already did line check, sound check this morning. Done. It's all set. I love it. I love it and riff. So tell our listeners who have never heard your music, how you would want to describe your band to get them to check you out.

2:49 Anything. I want to describe it just metalcore, heavy metal stuff. It's just it's got all the good stuff. It's so riffy. And I think I could say that because I was a fan before where I joined the band. It's not like I can. I'm not like tooting my own horn or anything. I'm just they are Unearth is a very riffy band and it is so fun to play guitar in this band. So for listeners, it's got everything. It's got all the crazy drums. I just love it, sing along parts. This guy does great. Nice and so how would you say it feels to be a fan and then going to being a member. I've known them forever for twenty some years at this point, and to me, it's just awesome. You listen to especially some of the songs we play, some of the really old songs two thousand and one songs, stuff like that, and playing those songs, it's like I remember listening to those and just being like, God, this is so killer.

3:43 How do they play this? And now I know, obviously because we have to play it, but I just have so much fun doing it. Like showing up at a festival like this is incredible for one thing, but being there with your brothers is just awesome. See that's key right there, because like, I don't know how bands that don't get along with each other do it like you're in the most closest quarters. It's it would be it's worse than a family, meaning that if you don't like your family, you can escape them. You can't escape the band if you don't like your band members. That's correct. That's why so many bands have changes. Yeah, of members, and we've had our share over the years, but Theater was almost in the band in two thousand and five when we were about to have a member change back then, so we actually had him fill in for a couple of tours, and when we had to have a change in twenty twenty two, it was our first call was like, let's see what Peter's up to.

4:35 Nice there is nice it was. That's what Buza says, once you get Peter called, gim a vibe check. And I like that you said it the way you did, because I think a lot of people don't get it when there's all these lineup changes that really you're just finding what works and has the synergy so you could be the best band that you can be. And I don't mean because you have the best players, but you have the best como, like he's playing together. I think as long as the core of the band that started is there, the members actually write the most of the music. And that's not saying these guys aren't gonna write, but the guys who started the band, the key writers are there. I think that's that keeps the band name intact and the performance and actually the face of the band it's acts and you just go from there, and then you see so many bands doing it, and that's how you just have the most longevity.

5:23 You just made a good point because I've interviewed bands that nobody in the band is the original member, and I'm like, that's just weird. I gave it like last week I was doing that Danny Wimmer festival here Bourban Beyond, and Foreigner was playing nobody's an original member in the band. That's pretty bizarre, right. It's like, yeah, that's kind of weird. And if you start writing new music, that's really weird. Like Okay, you're a cover band playing Foreigner songs and look at it like they're a tribute band. They're not Foreigner, they're a tribute band. And now if you start writing music, I'm like, no, you can't do that. I can see in these certain circumstances and see why because as bands go on for a long period of time. So I can say right now that if that if Buzz could no longer be in this band, just me and him start of the band, he's a guitar player, then it would no longer be on earth, right. I would want to do something else, maybe pay tribute to the songs. But I don't know what happens in twenty years.

6:17 If we were in our sixties and then one of us passes away, like, yeah, that's our whole career, this is our livelihood than what. So I'm not saying that's gonna happen that it's a question. I'm posing that I kind of agree. Well, for instance, like come on, like, they're still a band, right, Like it's only one of them, so I don't. Know, it's see one is okay by me, you know, and then like Skinnered, there was one till he passed, okay, So now I'm like, is it really Leonard Skinnered anymore? Without anybody? And I love them, but to me, it's like, okay, you had Rossington, it's still Skinnered. Yeah, yeah, at least one person that was there from the beginning. It's still the band, right, So I agree with you.

6:59 For a working band, like a career band as well, there's so much more than just can these guys play, Like you were saying, you want to have the best players, but you also need the people that gel the best. And yeah that's not only like musically that's in a hotel room together on the road to get like in a van for ten hours. Hey, you know, you really need to be able to hang with these dudes and to make it work to be a good band, like it's important. Yeah, you made a good point, because people may think like, oh, they just gotta get up on stage and play with each ard. No, that's the smallest part, right. It is the best job in the planet for a lot of people, but it doesn't come without its trials. A lot of the wear and tear emotionally and physically on the road. Sometimes it messes with your family and friends back home, and so it's not the easiest gig.

7:44 But how you get from being up there for a crowd that's digging what you're doing is for me, the best. Job on the planet, And the fact is you have to be that person. You gotta be a road dog, you know. Like I sometimes bring my youngest daughter to the festivals, and after the first day, for not even the whole day, half the day, she's like, Dad, I don't know how you do this. Every weekend, man, I'm done already, And I'm like, I don't know how. I don't like It's like I'm not home much at all, and I'm good with that. It's like when I get home, you know, because I'm not married anymore and my kids are anymore, I get home, I'm like I get the same as the artists do. I get that blues that you get home and then I'm like secluding for a week because my switch has been so on for so long and it's like, okay, world, we meet a fuck alone.

8:36 At the endorphins right of being on the road every day is it's a trial and it's also a reward right home. Yet yet it's just plain exactly mess with you ad a little bit. So yeah, no doubt, we get it. And then it's like you have that thing where you're going on to the next one and it's like you're like you're really excited, and there's the other side that you're like, am I prepared to go do this now? Like it's such a mind fuck all the time, but love it, but love it, Like I've been doing these things for sixteen years, and like I don't want to stop. I have no like even when I feel that like oh do I want to do that? The minute I step on the grounds, I'm like I'm home. Yeah, you know, it's so cool.

9:22 So tell everybody how to reach out to you guys on socials on the web, buy your merch because they can't listen to my show and let's say buy your merch and anything else going on after this that you want them to. Know about everything that we have online. The tag is gonna be Unearth Official, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter threads, and even our website is unearth official dot com. So that's our name. That's easy merch toward dates everything. So in two weeks we're gonna be a Furnace fest in Alabama, and in November we're gonna go off for about ten days. We're gonna be a couple headliners, but for about seven of the shows we'll be with the band called The Tray You Their Do Love a twenty year inversyar of the record The Curse. Their record came out the same day as all record The Oncoming Storm back in two thousand and four, so it's gonna be twenty nine year aniversary and we're going to be doing that records entirety while they do The Curse in the entirety. They're doing a nationwide tour. They're picking different bands different regions. We're doing the East Coast and the Canada portion. Then it's time to write a new record. Looking for one more North American tour before we get out. We'll have some Latin America stuff for next year lined up, some European stuff, but the band's always going. I love it well.

10:23 You guys rock. Thank you very much and I'm so glad to have you at Lowery and LPE. And thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Oh yeah, I like the name too. Thank you. I saw loves Adventures dude, so there you go. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man on w for CUI Radio.