Thunder Mother Interview: Pyro Stages, Arctic Swims, and Upcoming Album Bombshells at Wacken

0:04 Hey, you lunt to censure. Wow, crazy you. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm here with. Philippa and Linea thunder Mother. We're guitar player and singer. Nice I'm also like a manager here you are. I thought, well, the way you were saying your band name, that's why I like having you guys. Say you say your band name better than I would. But I thought you were going to say something after the mother. I was like, oh, she's already no on the no rules thing.

0:49 Yeah, no rules, thunder Mother already all the way. I was thinking thunder mother fucker. You know that's our secret name, motherfuckers. We actually did because we we we the lineup was changed in twenty twenty three when I joined the band, and then I was. Like, and it's so much better now, right of. Course, No, I'm too humble to say that it was. It's another thing I want to say. I'm too humble. That's such a fucking piece thing to say. She just want to say. We had a warm up gig in a local rock club where we live, and we just wrote on the sign motherfuckers.

1:34 Tonight. I gotta tell you. I like that, You're like, so not typical Swedish. Why do you like that I am very typical? We didn't I a very not typical. It's very not reserved in this interview. I think that it is a misconception, a misconception. I always said that to the people I know, give two beerswhere probably. Give two beers to Swedish person and they stop. Being That's why it's different. I know that. I'm like, hi from the show and like you speak English. See there you go? Yeah, do you want to hear a funny Swedish story? Yes? Please? Okay, So my one of my best bros. He got married to a Swedish girl. I went to a wedding and I was married at the time. We were in Uppsala, okay, and I was a vegetarian at the time. My wife was a meat eater and so and I like the bus chops and she's.

2:29 Eating what the bus chops? Yeah, means giving you a shit like I like to be, like, I'll fuck with you and give you a ship. Okay, Okay. So she's eating this meat and like is it good? She's like yeah, I'm like, you're eating Rudolph because Americans think that reindeer artists fictional character. Oh yeah, okay, they don't think there's a real thing. So she's like, what are you talking about. I'm like, you're eating Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer. She's like, get the fuck out here. There's no such thing as reindeer. I'm like, what, that's what I'm saying. I'm like, Ng, who was the bride.

3:12 I'm like, Eng's parents are reindeer farmers. Oh okay. They would probably stop me though, at the. North Pole and they're like She's like, no, there's no North Pole. That's only in Santa Claus. Typical American. I don't know where anything else is in the fucking world. There is no North Pole, no rain deer, and no North Pole. It And so you didn't get the divorce right, Oh. Yeah, I'm divorced now. I'm definitely divorced now. But I was like, no, Eng's parents are reindeer farmers. Were like, literally like a half an hour from the North Pole right fucking now, and you're eating Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer. When she finally realized I wasn't kidding, the cold horror on her face.

4:02 Oh, for her, it was like eating a unicorner. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Well, we eat a lot of rein there, right, I love it. And we actually played in North Norway three days ago and we had a swim in the Arctic Ocean. Nice. Yeah, no, I guess it's seventy seventy So you. Did like an ice plunge. It's coole, it's working roll you live once you have to have a bath in the Arctic. We were like, we did like a bat in the band, Like, okay, Arctic ocean. You can tell it for the rest of your life. Who's in amen. I mean, I'm not taking user.

4:43 The idea just went, you know what. I want to live a nice, comfortable life without ice plunge. Now I can tell everyone I play, I swim in the Arctic, and I can tell everyone that you did also had reindeer. I also played hockey on a Bondi court in Gothenburg. On a Bundy court. Yeah, yeah, ice. I never saw one before. I was like, that's freaking big. Yeah, it'so We had like twelve hockey games going on on that thing. I remember when I used to have a proper job. I worked in a in an Arena in Stockholm and they had the Swedish Tournament final finale in ice Bandy as we would say, I think now Bandy, I guess is the one with the ice, yeah, and then the floor ball I think is in the Bundy.

5:34 Well that was a nice It was nice and and it's huge. So many people was there. I didn't even realize that it was such a big deal in Sweden. It was packed in loops. You live there in Stockholm. Yeah, that's why I was again busting your chops, like how do you not know you live there? Yeah? Because I don't like bumby myself. Yeah, but since I never went, but I like it, we should go to. A bandy game, so you should play it in the Arctic, Bundy and the. Arctics in there. It is so I actually played bandy in the Arctic once.

6:15 So I just have to say that I scheduled my day so I could go to your set. That was like my one break today. And when I started walking there, I was like, why did I do this? Because it was freaking hot as shit out there, But man, you guys killed it. Thank you. I don't even know how you were that good in that heat either, because on stage. Oh good, because that stuff was brutal. But you guys, I mean it was amazing. It was pretty amazing, Thank you. The crowd was amazing in the sun, I felt like bad for everybody. There was a big crowd for your set, Like they didn't even have the infield open.

7:00 I was amazing, you know, it was great. And and as a what do you like a front man, I would guess, I am, since I'm the. Singer, you're a man front war mom person. I noticed that I really took the time to appreciate and look out. People were clapping. Singing along, waving and like being they were such fucking champs in that son. Oh my god, I saw like someone floating on the audience singing the lyrics and yeah, old dude with beard. They carried him through the audience and was going to kick him out and he was like he knew the whole lyrics of Elevator.

7:46 Amazing. So I gotta say too, like from somebody that was there, from my perspective, that was like, I'm not even keen. That was like a Metallica crowd out there. Because I was moving myself up front and it was not easy. I mean, we're lucky that people know our songs in Germany. We're so lucky, right, it's lucky? Is it luck? Or is it because you're that good? I think it's because you're You're that good. We've been touring a lot here, even during COVID, it was like four tours when it was lockdown. We were rented like a little five truck and stood on the roof and the tour around old school. Yeah, everything to play, you know, for the people. We are the people bound.

8:33 We want to be there for you to entertain. So that feels good. That's why all and the radio has been playing those songs, and it feels amazing now that everyone, you're. Going to have to send me your songs like Wave for Man, I'll put in a rotation and my. Station Oh nice, thank you nice. Because now I'm a fan. Yeah, we have to make a little promotion for the next album because we're going to release an album in February twenty twenty seven, and it's the best we've ever done. And I'm not sure how much we can talk about it, but I'm gonna reveal it now, reveal it for the first time. I won't tell it. I won't tell anybody, nobody will know you revealed it.

9:15 Okay, it's motherfucker, not kidding. The name of the album is Motherfucker. That was pretty good. Aunty than that, it's Mothers of Thunder. It's actually cool. So your ideas are very cool. You're the reason I keep getting evacuated from on the festivals I've been doing in the past months, because that's what keeps happening, is like your thunder and then lightning comes. I think it's kind of a combination of your thunder and mustain doing ride the lightning, and that makes me evacuate affect. Did you see our pyro on the show? I don't think I saw it. We had everything and we put so much money and thought into.

9:58 That, so much money into the pirol. I thought that was just the thing for a vaking. No, you have to pay for it if you want to have it. Oh, so that was you. I thought that was just a vakin thing. It was ass all along. Oh that's badassos. I mean, we're so looking forward to having this album out because it's gonna be fucking killer. I mean, when is it dropping February? Okay, Well, then what you need to do is tell everybody how they can connect to you so that they can pre save it, pre buy it, buy your merch. You can't listen to my show unless say do all. Three Philippi is the best of this stuff. So I give the mic.

10:41 Well, I can reveal that our first single of our next studio album ever, you're the first one to hear it. It's called Bimbo Boost and it's going to be released in September twenty twenty six. Why are you writing songs about my ex wives? We all need a bimba boost. Listen. I'm all for it. You know, this is a song for the ladies who feel a bit let's her. Yeah, it's a song about it got multiple layers. To that sounds a little bimbo wish.

11:24 And I gotta tell you I'm blonde and I bought my hair for very much money, so you know I'm a bit of a bimbo myself. I'm a blonde Swedish girl obviously. And we both like to drink the drinking and we don't like to put on the makey makey. But we need them so that that you we do. We had a bimbo boost, a boost A. Yeah, so a guitar player has a boost button on stage to make. This solo louder. We don't have a little pedal to just we have makeup on. Hot, you know, and then you're done.

12:05 Well you're already hot because it's fucking hot as hell. Shift that's hot. Jesus Christ. It's Germany. I feel like we're. In like Florida. You were in Florida, Florida. Let's go look at the gators. I'm already drunk. We know, really really I can't tell. I couldn't, but you're Swedish. That just comes with the territory. I think it's because of the six months of darkness. Like, well, that's drink and make music. Drink, make music and do za you know. Yeah, and we're a baby free. We are mommies, so that's party when. We play there, it is there, it is we're mommies. What what What did the kiddos think of your music?

12:49 They My kid only want to hear thunder mother. She gets to cry when she hears other stuff. My kids have come to the age where they have their own taste, which is kind of cool. So my youngest, she's four and a half, she's going to be five, soon she wants to listen to Barbie Girl all the time. Wow. I remember when you said you asked your kids who sings best me or daddy? And you have the incredible voice, I have to say, compared to your ex husband and they said daddy sinks better. Well, how many ex husbands do you have?

13:30 Five? We're working on it. I have two ex wives and my youngest daughters bought me a sign hangs in my room and says my next wife won't be crazy, And I said, I wouldn't bet your life on that. Hey, listen, women aren't a fun if they're not crazy. That's what I think. Well, no, lessen, this this is crazy shit interview right. You started it as. But I think this is a perfect ending, like ended with like multiple husbands and wives. Suit.

14:10 I see, I thought you were going somewhere else. We were gonna end it with multiple orgasms. Why not? We have a boss in the let's do multiple orgasms after the interview. And I just revealed the other song you didn't want to reveal. You have to reveal. We have a super orgasm song on the next album Super. Can you describe to me what a super. Make the noise, how it sounds in the end of no. But then I will reveal the whole like that. I want. The point of the album is the noise. I want the noise. Have to hear our next album coming out in twenty twenty seven in February.

14:51 There it is exactly, well, you guys fucking killed it her Bakan, thank you. You're here at like the biggest metal festival the world, and the whole crowd was there for you. They all left, they all left your set. What's over? And I saw them all running. I know if I saw the same like I saw the crowd like there were so many people and then I looked like two minutes after we were done or everybody's gone. Now, yeah, they're like they that's what they came for. They did came for you. They did, Yeah, they did. It's amazing. I came for you too. So no, wait, that didn't sound. After I just said that, I've realized what I said.

15:31 I take that back and we rewind the tape. After my other interviews, I'll come by, well. This is we're going to Florida and off the Yeah, of course I love Florida. I live on an island, so yeah, come on down. I can get a boat. I have surfboards boards. I don't want anyone who can get a boat. No I own I'll own one. But I owned your own boat. That's why. That's why I just ask one of my friends, like, give me your boat, and they just give me the boat.

16:13 I have the boat. Say, Florida is my favorite place in the world. Will come visit me? Then I will. I We're gonna have fun. Absolutely we will. Because and you guys got to play in Florida or anywhere in the sit. You please wrap us to any of the cruises so we could come there. I can do that. Yeah, I can do that. I have the connects. I can't say that I can get you approved, but I can rep you. Thank you because you guys are so good. You rocked it out. We have to go because I've already missed one interview because this was too fun. That's what it was, kept calling me, was the interview. Oh but that's all good because it was worth it. Your set was worth it. Thanks you sweating my ass off and ruined my hair out there for your set. What's worth it? And you ladies have some serious talent. And I hope to see a lot more of you.

17:07 We appreciate you and your interview was amazing. Thank you so much for having us and I love that that's the best compliment I could get. And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipemin. I'll see you later at the tour bus. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipelin. I'm w for CUI Radio.