Regicide on Essex Thrash, Bloodstock, and the Global Unity of Metal

0:04 Hey, you have done to true wow crazy you. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio and I'm here with. You're here with Regicide. Nice and I like that you're some proper essex thrash, sir, because I'm an old school thrash metal head. So excellent. I was very excited to see that. Yeah, I see, we love we love that, We love that. Well, we all big fans of thrashmaw obviously, and then we put the element of the groove middle in there, so.

0:45 Like to break it down a little bit, just kind of yeah, get a bit of groove going like the hardcore, like the hardcore elements of things as well. We just kind of a bit of a mixed match, mixed match of those sub genres. But no, we all love a bit of thrash, see fast and hard. That's what I love about thrash. Okay, because like I find nowadays, there's a lot of genres that it's almost like they use an algebraic equation to formulize their music. Yeah, thrash was never that, like you take that big for a thrash. They did not sound the same at all, and they all had like these different influences to them. Oh, absolutely, and that's what makes you unique and stand out, and that's the way you should be. I think the problem is there's a lot of new bands.

1:27 They try and do things that that they would that they would see is unique. But if so many people do the exact same thing, it just loses. That uniqueness exactly, Like you. Need to find your own sound. But like, I don't know, it's more like the actually. It's bringing those different elements in. Yeah, thrash is quite diverse in some way, That's what I think of it. Like you look at how thrash was in the eighties and how it's evolved from like the nineties for example, you know, like I mean. Completely different two municipal waste. Yeah, absolute. But then we're throwing the influence of say Pantera and then say machine Head as well, which has those Lama God that have the thrash influence. But with the great thing about thrash metal, any top of metal, really it evolves through Ageyes.

2:18 Well, you talk about evolving like machine had a perfect example because Rob started forbidden, he started violence, yes you know, and then he transformed and evolved into machine Head. Yeah, you know, and that's what it's about. And like, you know, I was at slayers first show ever, Metallica's first show ever. Yeah, they weren't the same. Man Like, Metallica was considered power metal at the beginning, you know, And so you take Slayer. Lombardo was a punk, Hanneman was a punk, Kerrie King was a metal head, and Tom didn't even know what metal was. And the most iconic thrash metal band ever had all those influences, so you couldn't really label them.

3:06 You can label them. That's why. You know, Metallica had the Misfits, the diamond Head, the you know other sa Yeah, so ye had all those influences, and then you took Anthrax, who had the hip hop influencer, you know, and you know, like each band had different influences. They used to consider possess thrash in the begame, but they were really like the first death metal band, so they incorporated the death into the thrash. So that is why I like thrash because every one of the bands in that genre, including yourself, it is somebody I can listen to and not think I'm listening to the other band.

3:52 Yeah, exactly, that they're all, Yeah, they're all the same genre, but they've got their own sound. They've got their own sort of like little signal ch sound or like maybe a rare for whatever, that separates them from each other. I think the whole concept of thrash is combining genres. Bottom line, Yeah, you. Know you you got thrash crossover, which incorporates other genres into thrash. Right like us with Thresh Group. I was about to say the same thing. Yeah, yeah, we've got the example of us. We do throw a groove or win with the thrash you know, which I think is cool, absolutely actually nice. And fast song with a nice groovy breakdown. Perfect combination. It's funny too, Like you mentioned about the crossover. So I remember when dri I grew their hair out. Yeah, because like in that those times, if you had long hair and you went to a punk show, you got your ass beat and vice versa. It was fucking stupid.

4:43 But dri I set the stage for like, let's all combine together and you take their first album and their second album and they're basically all the same songs just done differently. Well, I'll give the a good example of Pantera. There were a glam rocks metal band one hundred percent start with, and all of a sudden they said, let's just play the stuff we love to play. I said, boom, getting you know, the backy cargo shorts on, you know, loose T shirts on, and then they just created a brand new sound one and the rest was history. And you know, I'm probably been in that era when that came out. That must have been like, Holy God, that is amazing to see. It was just a music was it was everything.

5:25 It was the look, it was the music, it was everything involved. Like if you asked me in the beginning of Pan Terror if they would be doing a song like walk, I would tell you you're nuts. Yeah yeah, yeah, you know, like no, but that, like you said, doing what you love. And we all transform as metal heads, even as listeners. Like you know, back when I was a teenager, before Metallica start, before Uh Slayers start, all we really had was stuff like Priest Maiden Scorpions things like that. So that and then even before that, like my foundation was my older brothers and listening to like the sixties stuff and like to me, Cream and Mountain and bands like that.

6:12 They were like the original medal along with Sabbath, you know, and so it's always been transformation, and that's true of all of us. Like we didn't just wake up and like start listening to Slayer. I mean my first introduction to any kind of rock music with bands like meat Loaf, Brian Adams, Yep, Alice Cooper, things like that which would considered be would now be considered just like classic rock. Absolutely. Yeah. If you google Zeppelin, they label them on Google as metal. Oh I mean do they yeah? Okay, And if you think about it, some of the music communication breakdown could have easily been a metal song. Yeah, you know, look at the beatles Helter Skelter could easily be a metal song. Well, you know, I think the great thing about being here at Bloodstock is there are no gatekeepers. Here, were one big family, so you can't say, well, that wasn't metal, you know, like exactly. And I think that's also the thing that people think that metal heads only listen to metal. It's our favorite. But you still can appreciate all kinds of other music. And that's what makes spands like you unique because you don't even try. It just happens to fit into the music because of all of your influences absolutely.

7:36 I mean we like, we like a bit of Irish folk here and there as well, don't we. Yes, I like a bit of blues here and there, you know, yeah, because if you if you narrow, if you narrow your music taste down to one thing, it just gets like war it off exactly. When we we we can't waiting for you come back from Saxon, me and Jordan were listening to a bit of Luke Holmes. There you go, there go you do you know what I mean? A country nothing wrong with that, you know exactly. There's even some country that you know has that rock feeld, like the New York Country. And then like look at Hank's Williams the Third he's a metal head and has a metal band. Same with is it j Rowl He's a metal head as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, has a metal band. He was metal first, like body Count was before he started rapping, and and they're like brutal, brutal, brutal, and it's so good that now a days you can do ship like that, you know, and you don't have to be listen. I did a festival in the States and one of the metal festivals, Louder in life and Ice Cube was one of the headliners.

8:44 Nice you know, and that's the way it should be. Or you tell I'll tell you a funny story. So Vanilla ice lives in my town, okay, And when I met him at first, like somebody said, oh, you should interview him, and I got to roll my eyes and I laughed, like why. And then I met him and I got friendly with him. I was broadcasting live at one of his events and he's helping me pull out my radio equipment. I had a car and I had slip knot blasting and he started headbanging and I kind of rolled my eyes at me. He's like, no, you don't get it, man, this is my jam. I helped them get signed, like I love metal. Christina aguilera metal head, Lady Gaga. Look at what she fucking did with Metallica.

9:32 I was like, holy shit, Like one week she's doing Tony Bennett, the next week she's doing metal. You know, it's fucking awesome. There's a lot more metal heads in the world, especially in the pop. World, that people realize. Oh yeah, but you know they at the end of the day, like they got they got they. Got pay bills, didn't they exactly, so. They you know, they've got their they've got their job. Obviously. I don't know. Maybe it would. Have been different if Lady Gaga started to miltband and then got big, she could have been like a massive metals But where she's gotten so big as a pop Eye is there's no point of just been like, no, I don't want to do this because it's not my thing anymore. Yeah, but like you know, yeah, no, there's there's loads there's loads of artists and loads of people where I know it's quiet. There might be a misconception of you see these people wearing band t shirts and people are like, oh, they probably don't even know five songs. Yeah, well they're probably bigger metal head than you are. Exactly, could probably name more songs than you ever knew.

10:28 Existed, no doubt, no doubt. And here's the funniest of all that you might not even know about. One of the festivals I cover in the United States just made an announcement that there's gonna be a debut of a new heavy metal band playing there. Yeah, and it's fucking Captain Kirk ninety five years old starting a metal band. Like who would think that? William Shatner is a metal head, right, so there you go. I mean you have to look at Christopher Lee as well. Yes, absolutely, yeah, yeah, there's so many you can mention, and I love that we're just one big family. You can meet a metal head anywhere in the world and you have instant kinship.

11:15 Do you know what the beauty thing about metal is no matter what country you are in. It's universal. But they put their culture into their own musically. Yes, like look at Titanic, thought Blood. Would for example when they had that influence. That's incredible, or the who you know the who? Yeah, yeah, I. Love it, even a concrete age that playing the New Blood stage later today. They their singer is from Russia, and I think they've I think they've got someone from I don't know if it's positing a Bulgaria. I think it might have been Bulgaria. But they incorporate loads of like like all these different like ethnic instruments, instruments into their music, so it's not like it's not just conventional metal.

11:58 It's like metal with a bit of like like Eastern European spice on it. And yeah, mate, some of their songs are phenomenal. They're they're really really good. And that's what I love about metal because no matter where you are in the world, you can throw your own culture into it. And again another example alien weaponry. For example, Oh I fucking love that. Yes, you know they do Maori stuff with it. I think it's great. Again, it's so diverse. It's the world unior. Absolutely, like if we would just have one big metal festival for the whole world and no political leaders, we would fucking all get along exactly.

12:39 Yeah, you see someone in the Maiden shirt and you're in say like Costa Rica. You know you've got that connection somewhere. It's funny you imagine that because I've got Costa Rica all the time, because I serve there's a huge underground metal scene. Absolutely, and you wouldn't think of that that, you're right. But Central South American, man, they're they'rest. Fucking Columbia and then Brazil for about exactly the dream exactly. Well you'll make it there, but for now you're at the Dream of blood stuff. Absolutely, that's badass because this is I do a lot of festivals since it's one of my favorites, because we're a big family here.

13:21 I was seeing in a previous interview. You know, like we've as a kid like teenager when you start listening to mew, your your dream is to play a major. Festival something like this. And you know we've you come to one of these festivals is and you're like, I want to be that one day exactly. And now we're here, we are and we've done it, and it's it's amazing. You know, it's a great memory. I can tell you know, my grandchildren or whatever. What's even better is I bring my grandchildren to these festals. They helped me win interviews. I bring them in the pair here not here, but in the States. I'm not paying for the flight over here. But you know, like even yesterday, Heavy Soaurus and all the dinosaurs in the plan and the kids. That was the best shit ever.

14:09 Fucking evil, scared evil Scarecrow. That was fun as ship like. That's the message of the metal throughout the world, the Great United, the Great Therapy. And I'm so happy you're here at Bloodstocks. Pleasure to be a part of that. And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Thank you, I appreciate it. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin. I'm w for Cui radio,