PipemanRadio Interviews Zebulon at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

0:04 Hi, you have learnt, Yes, that's true. For Wow, crazy young. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio. When I'm here. With Stebylon from Norway. Nice and who are your other members? Here is this? And this is Froo the drummer. My name is Udmund Nice And how do you get the Bloodstock? We wanted a week in the version of the Metal to the Masses, so that got us a ticket for the Bloods New Blood stage, which we are very happy to be here and play Bloodstock.

0:47 It's such a great festival. It is an amazing festival. And you know what, I've talked to a lot of the New Blood bands. I didn't even know that Medal to the Masses went outside the whole UK area, so that's really cool. Like I thought, I. Buy a knew, But when you said Norway, I'm like, wow, they went all the way over there. That's freaking cool. Because that's what's great about Bloodstock. It's given exposure to bands that might not get it, and it's creating our whole metal community to get bigger and a bigger family. And that's what I love. And I'm glad you're here. It is and all the bands playing here on the main stage. Now, they've been through the pub playing gigs stuff like that in the past, so we have to start somewhere.

1:32 That's right. The last interview I just did. The first time they were on new Blood they won Melow their masses. Second time they were on the Sophie Lancaster stage and this time the main stage. So that's where you'll be too. Let's hope that's the latter for us as well. So how would you describe your music to our listeners have never heard you guys before. Well, if you like the classic doom stuff like Candlemass or of those kind of bands, that's pretty much what we aim for, and then give it a twist with some rhythmic changes and stuff like that. So the classic doom, slow and heavy. So here's a good question. Since you're in Norway. Is there so many doom bands in Norway because six months of darkness and winter? Because like I would be like that would make me a doom band?

2:27 Okay? Is that what happens? There's so much great music that comes out of Scandinavian countries and I think it's like we got nothing better to do when it's winter. Right in the winter time, we just look up in the rehearsal rooms, just practice some new riffs and hope for the best. There summertime, we go out here and play. See, that's the way it is, right, I love it. And what is it for each one of you that that moment in time that you knew this is what you wanted to do. Well. The thing about playing live is you go around being nervous before, but when you're actually on stage and playing, it's Yeah, it's the best feeling. You just don't want it to end. So yeah, I've never played the set that was too long. You always want to just keep going and feed off the energy from the crowd.

3:16 And yeah, that's so true too, because I'm also besides doing the radio when I get up on stage for that, but I'm also my evasional speaker, and every time before I get on stage, I'm like really nervous. I'm in my head going over everything. The mid that I turn on the mic, it's gone. I'm just in the zone. Yeah. I joined the bands after hearing the first riff he made and I just thought, this is a stadium song, and I envisioned that one day I'm gonna sit on top of the drum podium and just see the crowds all over there and play that song. But we didn't play that song today.

3:59 But you were up on that podium and you were looking at the crowd here at Bloodstock. They blow your mind that for your set it was that crowded. I was just amazing to play here was so it joined every single second of it. It was fantastic. So I really really want to continue doing this stuff here. Yeah, it's really fun. And how have you guys been treated here at Bloodstock by all the staff and like just the way they handle the festival. Well, they've been treating us very nice. We arrived, they point us to where we have the park, where we have the load or gear, and they say, now you can do this, Now we can do that.

4:41 Then when we finished the set, which is like half a minute, and then everything was off the stage because they just came and helped us with everything. So it's just truly amazing. It makes it so much better for you, right, because a lot of times gigs can be super stressful that by the time you got on stage, you've dealt with a lot of bull crap, and then when you come to something like this, it just makes it so much better, right. Yeah, Starting at our level when we have to do everything ourselves, carrying the gear, setting up the gear, everything like that, and then you just have a few helping hands, that means quite much. Yeah, I mean totally. In a couple of years, maybe we have some roadies, but you never know what happens, and then we can just show up and oh, here's your guitar, here's your bass, here's your drums.

5:25 But we're not there yet. Well, and it's different nowadays, right, Like back in the eighties, I remember I was a teenager and I roady just because I wanted to hang out and like, don't pay me, I don't need it. Nowadays, it seems like you don't really have that anymore, where people just everybody volunteers the roadie for you because they just want to. Hang out with the band, Like is am I right? Do you find that people are like they more want something in return for helping you out a post in the old days? Well, I don't know. I was not in a band in the old days, back in the eighties, but I imagine that it was at least in the stage much bigger scene than all these bands growing up, coming out of all the clubs and stuff like that they had, but of course they also had their friends helping them out in the beginning.

6:14 Yeah. Yeah, so we have friends helping us out driving car maybe or loading some stuff if we need it. What's been the best thing about Bloodstock for you guys so far? Well, of course saying is probably, but yeah, it's been a lot of great bands playing. I really enjoyed Famine yesterday was one of my favorites. Just the atmosphere. Everyone's really friendly. Yeah, you can just go around talk to people and it's a good, good atmosphere. We're a big family. Yeah, how about you. Yeah. Actually, I really impressed by the quality of the band on the New New Blood stage. It's every band has something really special, so it's an honor for us to come here and play on such a scene like that.

6:57 Yeah. See, I love Heronet too, because I found about Metal to the Masses is all the bands they don't feel like they're in competition with each other. They're all supporting each other and they're happy for where everybody goes, and that's what's cool here because that's not always the case. Yeah. I totally agree to that. Yeah, so I noticed your striper patch, okay, and I want to bring it up because you're gonna laugh. I actually watched Striper open for Slayer. Can you imagine that this is my original battle vest?

7:43 That's cool and metallic. Slayer didn't even have a patch then, so I had to do this. But you got like Dark Angel just came out with a new album and they're on there. I interviewed Gene and I was like, do you recognize that logo? He may not like nowadays. You had to. We had no choice. They didn't have pre made vest then and we didn't have the money either. So what's next after Bloodstock? Next after Bloodstock would be to wait for the record company to press. Our first record be. Out this fall on Upolland Records in Norway. Nice. We released the first single from the album yesterday and Friday, and now it takes the time to press the vinyl and the cities. We're waiting for the cover arc to be finished these days and that will be the door opener.

8:35 We hope to get on another trip to UK or other countries and play small pub gigs or even bigger gigs like festivals. Yeah, you gotta gotta like health fest. I'm putting it out there that you're gonna play hell fast. Yeah you never know, right, but then we have to learn some French first, I guess probably. Yeah, excuse my friends. So other people reach out to you on the web on socials, check out your music, buy your merch. They can't. Let's say my show, and let's say buy your merch by the way, because people don't realize that's the only way you get to the next gig. There are no quote unquote rock stars gained money thrown at them nowadays.

9:21 It's a lot of work to be an artist and like support your artists so they'll come and play a gig in your town. Yeah. It ran actually a small campaign on Instagram a couple of weeks ago, just to as we said, raise some money for their flights. Yeah, it's all like ten shirts in one day. But it doesn't happen every day. But that is the thing that makes money for the bands like us selling shirts, selling merchandise, and people being supportive through band camp and stuff that they will pay for the songs. We actually have exactly good Spotify don't pay your shit, And I'll say it straight out, you don't have to say it, I'll say it. So what is your band camp? What are your socials?

10:05 All that stuff. We're on bank camp and Instagram and Facebook and we have a YouTube channel. Released a lyric video as well for the song yesterday, so you can check it out on YouTube. Nice Sebylon on YouTube nice. Sebylon doom all along with a set cool. Well. You know, if you send me your MP three stoo, I'll put them on the rotation in the station because you guys are badass. I'm glad you're here at Bloodstock and thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Thank you for having us. You got it. Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking career here in the UK, my entire career with Machine.

10:52 She recently passed away and it was a very, very sad day. And I can tell you the reason that I'm going to tell this story because she was family. She was Bloodstock family, she was heavy metal UK family. Most of the bears that you. Know and love you probably heard of because of that woman right there, Slip Knots, Slayer, Machinehead, Trivium Kills, which, Engage, Hey, Reed, you name it. She helped lift everybody up. Man. She helped lift everybody up, and in so many ways, she helped make this entire music scene, this incredible, beautiful community that lives here at bloodstock Man.

11:39 She helped make it so. Ladies and gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr. Thank you for listening to the adventures of plate Man on w for CUI Radio.