PipemanRadio Interviews Vantablack Warship

0:00 Hey, you love them too? Sure, I'm come from for s Why for you? Wake up America. It's time for the Adventures of Pipeman on W four CWY dot com west Poon Beaches number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the White Man. Why it's a pipe man here on the Adventures Spike Man W four cby Radio. And I'm here with our next guest that has some fever or new music you're definitely gonna want to check out.

1:08 So let's welcome to the show. Vant to Black Worship. How are you? I'm very good, I'm very good. You're talking to Kurt today, the bass player from vant to Black Worship. Nice. So tell us a little bit about your band and you know, and for people that haven't heard you before, how would you bess as the artist describe your music. I don't mean genres because I hate that crap. It just locks artists into a specific, you know box. I'd rather hear what the artists let me describe how they describe their music. I describe us a nice mix between thrash metal, hardcore, and punk. We're guys who are very much into eighties thrash metal, whether the you know, Big four stuff or more underground thrash metal of the eighties. We like our hardcore Kromag's, Bad Brains, Agnostic Fronts, you name it. And our guitarists, Terry, he's really into punk rock, and so you merge all that together, and I think that's what gives us a kind of a unique style, and it caters very well to people who like that music from that time. You know, we're not trying to we're not trying to sound twenty twenty three. We're sounding like the bands that we grew up on and that we love, and I think that those three styles best capture what Bantle Black Worship does. Well. You know what I love about what you just said, because I am from that time, Like I was at Slayer's first show ever. I was a Metallica's first show

2:39 ever when they were called power metal because there was no such thing as thrash yet. And then I remember when they left LA and left us with all the hair bands. Me and my bro used to just hitchhike up to the Bay Area to go to the real shows. And you know, you're hitting all my things because every band you mentioned I love. You know, it's funny back then, as a long hair, I can go to punk shows, so it's kind of cool. Now, that's the cool thing about twenty twenty three is you can go to punk shows and punk and go to mel shows, because I always saw it was kind of stupid anyway. But what I love most about what you said was that you're not trying to be twenty twenty three. You're trying to be more like then. And the reason I like that is because I find that in two thousand and twenty three, there's so many bands that I don't know. They just use this like algebraic equation to create a song, and they all sound the same. Like the Big Four, none of them sounded the same. You could totally tell the four of them apart, you know, Yeah, yeah, agreed for hundred percent.

3:53 And you know, it's get getting scary out there with artificial intelligence. I mean, who knows what's going to happen with music and what it's gonna look like. It's gonna get pretty bland and pretty generic very quick. But anyways, we'll let's not get ahead of ourselves. Well, and you know, you know, you know what's really interesting about what you said about, you know, not being able to go to the punk show, it's not going to being able to go to the hardcore shows. I was very much in that boat as well too. You know, I was a metal head. I was a long hair couldn't really go to those shows sometimes because you know, of the animosity between the two crowds, which has since gone away, dissipated and crossover helped fix some of that. And I was really lucky in high school because I had buddies that were, you know, pure punk's pure hardcore, and we had a radio show together. We do it together, and I put the metal and they put the hardcore in the punk.

4:44 And that's that was my first kind of taste of hardcore and punk. And it's because of those guys, and I still hang around with those guys today and in high school. I guess it's kind of cool. You know, we're not going to beat each other up, but you know, we couldn't go to the same concerts. But anyways, it's so funny. You should mention that because that was also why I thought it was stupid, because the metal heads and the punks were such a small group back then. It's not like now. And we both were gained our asses kicked by the jocks. Why wouldn't you band together? I mean, everybody hated us. Why are we hating each other? I never knew how that made sense. I'll tell you too. I love the combining. I mean, that's really what thrash was, wasn't It was the combining. It's the crossover and the punk and the metal together. Like Slayer Lombardo was a punk, Hannaman was a punk.

5:31 Carrie and Tom were metal heads, you know. And then when you had bands like dri which is one of my favorites, I mean, and even the Suey Boys. The scariest show to go to back in the early eighties was a suicide tensee show. If you were a long hair and that would blow your mind saying that today, you know, like you tell people that and it'd be like, yeah, come on, and they all end up being long hairs in the end. I know. That's the funny part. Okay. You know what's even funnier. Okay, So a few years ago I had a hawk, and so now like all the punks they have long hair, and the metal heads are getting stuff like hawks as we're getting older. Yeah, it's evolved, yes, absolutely, So tell us about the new music and your take on it compared to what you've done before, and you know where things are going for you guys put into the new record.

6:31 Our first records were more slower. There was some influence of stone a rock in there, and we kind of moved away from that. We wanted to get back to the roots, and so this album is a lot more upbeat, a lot thrashier, a lot heavier, and you can hear the influences. But what's really been kind of cool the reviews that we've been getting on the record and about our sound, is that although you can see where the roots are coming from, we've kind of milded it all together to make it our own and make it our own sounds. So there's been a nice progression there in terms of the band as well too. The band's been together now for eight years and so you know, we've really jailed in terms of our songwriting and whatnot, and I think we've taken it to another level and we're getting really really good reviews on the record, and we're doing a lot of shows here in our home country of Canada and home province of Quebec.

7:26 We've had the opportunity to play with a whole bunch of bands in the past eight years. I mean we've played with We've opened for Life of Agamy, We've opened for venep Inc. We've opened for Voivode, for Prong, We've played for you know, local local bands that are very popular here in Quebec as well too. The list goes on and on. We played even with Annville, the forefathers of heavy metal here in Canada. You're making me, you're making me sad now because I like, I'm on tour doing music festivals right now. And I got home from the last music festival and I wasn't paying attention because you know how it is when when you're doing that, you just get home and you just like isolate kind of. And I found out the next day that that that night Anvil was playing like right down the street from me, and I wanted to like, I wanted to die that I didn't get to go see him because I wasn't paying time. They're always great, great to see and they're they're they're fun to play with as well too.

8:28 They're great guys, and you know it's they're Canadian legends here as far as heavy metal goes them. Boy vot Sword sacrifice Annihi leader. Yet we played with a Nihi leader as well to night and you know, take a band like excit you know, We've We've got. They're one of my favorite great metal in Canada. Exciters one of my favorite all time ever bands. Actually, I saw them at health Fest last year. I was doing coverage for health Fest in France and I saw them for like the first time since the eighties. It was cool. I got an excited I've got an excite story for you do it. They were coming back from a show they didn't and you found it here in Canada, and they got dropped off at the airport in Ottawa, and unfortunately the connecting flight wasn't getting them home on time.

9:13 So they post, they do this post and they say, you know, is anybody out there who would be a kind enough soul to bring us back home? We're stuck at the airport here in Montreal? Did you bring us home? I rolled back to Alan Johnson and I had already been you know, chatting with him and told him, sure, no problem, I'll pick you up and picked him up at the airport in Montreal, drove them all the way back home. Him and Dan Bieler and it was It was a great It was a great car ride because they were telling us all about their tours and their war stories and the history of Exciter and whatnot. And it was great. And I've been in contact with Alan Johnson ever since. It's a great guy. That's pretty cool, and that's so metal in my opinion. You know, I gotta say too that I love the name of the album. It says a lot to me. I don't know if it's what you meant it to say, but last of hardmouth poets, Like to me, what you said in the beginning about your band ties right into that, because the way I look at is it's like you're this old school band that's like the last of the moeekens here. And to me, songwriting is poetry, you know, like Jim Morrison, he was a poet. He wasn't a songwriter. It was a poet. And but yet hardcore punk metal is pretty hardcore poets poetry. So that's what I gotta have. Your album name, it's your bang on there. It means a whole bunch of different things to it. It means that it talks about lost generations, lost epochs,

10:45 and cherishing the ones that are still there. It also talks about in some of their lyrics, we talk a lot about, you know, a lot of the American authors that were blacklisted back in the day, and it's all about, you know, cherishing the freedom of speech that we have and challenging the fact that you know, we're getting censored more and more, and we don't want to lose that as well too. So there's all that kind of intertwined in the meeting of that title, Last of the hard mouthed Poets. That's it means a lot to us, that title. I love it. I love it. And you know what else too, is I'm going to tell you something. I don't know if anybody's told you yet, but I got a little bit of your talking about influences before I got a nuclear assault vibe. I think we've gotten that. Yeah you did? You have gotten that? Yeah we did. Yeah. The voice you know we often get our singer's voice is a mix between nuclear assault and a bit of a sprinkle of Tom Moriya as well. There you go. I also kind of saw as heard a little who I'll be interviewing them at download in a couple of weeks. I heard a little bit municipal wasting there too. Oh yeah, that's interesting because a slakes municipal waste a lot, so there's probably some influences there. I'm I'm not as much into that, like that new generation of thrash metal bands, not that I don't like them, but I'm not into them as much. But he's really into them, so he'd be happy to hear that. There you go. So how do people connect to you

12:16 on your socials on the web, how they get the new album? Check out your tour dates, and most importantly buy merch. Yeah, well, we were on band camp, We're on Facebook obviously. Our music you can stream it on Spotify, on YouTube, on ds or on Apple, all all the social medias. We also work with a record company in Canada called Bam and Co Heavy and people can order the album online through them either but CV Vinyl. So so yeah, you know, if folks are interested, they can either reach us through Facebook and we'll connect them. So we've got folks all across the States who write to us and saying we just heard such and such song on the radio, really like what we're hearing. Where do you buy your record? And we hook them up right away. So if they want to just connect with us to the Facebook side and blant to black worship more than glad to connect them nice and you know, I want to close out with you know, focusing on something else that you said about how you were more like stoner music before and going back to your roots, and you know what I immediately thought of. I immediately thought of, you're doing the opposite of COC. And I was at you know, I was at the first ever show that had both punks and metal heads in the same place.

13:41 It was at a place in La the Sun Valley Sportsman's Lodge. It was like an Elks lodge. There was no security, and you had Dark Angel, Possessed and Savage Grace on the metal side, and then on the punk side you had COC Suicidal And I can't remember who the third band was, and that It's funny because I interviewed both Woody and Mike Dean at one point on separate interviews, and I'm like, I'm bringing it up. I'm like, I gotta bring up a gig I was at you might not even remember, and they instantly knew what it was or that was the most epic show ever, Like I couldn't even paint the picture of what looked like in there with no security and punks and metal heads in one building, but there were it looked like people were flying through the ceiling because they were up on the rafters and like major stage diving, but not on the stage but up in the rafters. It was like it was just utter mayhem. It's the most memorable show I've ever been to. Oh yeah, that must have been a great show. That was probably back in the day when Larry Lolone was still unpossessed as well, I think so, yeah, absolutely, yeah, so yeah, that would have been a great shot. See. Oh it was amazing and you guys are freaking amazing. Love them music. I think everybody should support you. I thank you for giving it to us, and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Hey, I really appreciate it. Then please, by all means promote any which way you can and

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