January 31, 2025 • 20 mins
In a recent episode of The Kevin Powell Podcast, metal band 6DEEP opened up about their latest EP, Dead in Five, the emotional weight behind it, and their upcoming tour. The conversation was raw, insightful, and full of energy—just like their music.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Lit's sten to Kevin Powel podcast. My name is Kevin Powell.
(00:42):
This is the third attemph on this thing. So it's
gonna be perfect and it's gonna be awesome. I love
talking to bands. We have six Deep with us right now. Hello,
six Deep.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
How's it going man?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
So it's going good.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
What's happening now is now that I'm in a fantastic
mood from just I have this new setup. I've been
playing around. I thought I had the first time. No,
second time. No, Now I'm recording and now we're actually
into this interview. So again, I apologies to you guys.
Let's get your information out there. You guys have a
new EP out right now called Dead in five. Tell
(01:15):
me about this. What was the recording process like going
into this, what was you know, the the writing process, like,
go ahead and tell me anything and everything.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, man, So basically dead in five was a was
an idea that we had right after our first EP
and two twenty twenty three, about around the summertime of
twenty twenty three, we knew we had to, you know,
start working on new music. And unfortunately, Brandon and I
both had a friend pass in that same summer and
we were both feeling the hurt from them.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Man, and I had a personal message from one of
my friends that, you know, he ended up dying. He
mentioned that he's going to be dead in five, you know,
and so that really hit home for me.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Whenever I heard that, I brought it and like, you know, this,
this might be a good way to like kind of
come commemorate them. So that's like the whole idea behind
the name dead in five Man. There's a lot of
grief that's in the lyrics. There's a lot of you know,
there's a lot of pain in them. So the recording
process started probably towards the end of twenty twenty three.
(02:22):
We all kind of came together and you know, wanted
to hash out a sound that evolved from our previous EP.
We wanted to kind of expand the genre a little bit,
you know, be experimental and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You know, we brought ideas to each other.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Nate brought a bunch of risks to me, and we
started cracking down and we got into the home studio.
I produced it all on the computer and set it
out for mixing and mastering to Scooter.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Out and the second round of this, I shout it out,
Scooter for making your EP sound fantastic.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'm gonna do it again.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Shout out the Scooter here because I was listening to
this EP leading up so I can get in the
zone and get a better understanding of like some of
the song titles and whatnot. And it sounds crisp, it
sounds pro it sounds fantastic, and going into stuff like that,
we all know it's expensive. So shout out to you
guys as well for putting the work and making this happen.
(03:19):
And I love the fact that it's more sentimental in
value to you guys, and I appreciate you, you know,
explaining that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Right now we have Bobby up top and then the
rest of the guys six deep down here. Bobby, what's
what's your role? You're the bass player, and when it
comes to you know, writing and recording, is it you
know this separate with you or are you with these
guys a lot or how's that go down?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
So, yeah, I'm the bass player.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
I live about an hour and a half away from
these guys, like an hour and a half south. So
when it comes to like the writing process, we we
kind of like send riff ideas back and forth and whatnot.
But in terms of recording, that's all. I believe Devin
had that all programmed, all the base tracks, should everything
like that, just for the sake of consistency.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
But yeah, I mean we'll.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Send riff ideas back and forth. Recently we started working
through Discord. Devin and I have been in a couple
of different Discord calls. We'll have reaper pulled up and
we'll be sharing our screens and like sharing audio with
each other and just like basically writing whatever comes to mind,
(04:31):
whatever sounds cool, and it's honestly, it's been a massive
game changer because he's taught me a lot of things.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
And yeah, I'm really.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Excited about it because, like like I said, living an
hour and a half away from those guys like it,
it's gonna it's making things so much easier because obviously
I don't have to drive three hours round trip. Anytime
we're wanting to get together to write, I can just
be like, hey, let's hop in discord real quick. I
got an idea, and then we can hash something out.
And yeah, it's it's awesome.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I mean he already travels, he already travels that three
hour round trip every week, but doing it twice, I
could tell that would be a it'd be a lot
of time to kind of just go back and forth
with like a maybe an afternoon.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I mean that shows the dedication right there to Bobby
with you guys, So it looks like you have a
good connection there. And the discord thing, I don't have
to look into that. I've never I've kind of heard
of it. But I've never actually like looked into it.
So thanks for the idea there. Now you guys have
something cool that you're going to be announcing here soon.
But by the time this comes out, you're already be out.
So you guys have a tour coming up, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
This March we'll be on tour Sport and Dead and five.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
We're going to be in like ten different cities across
the Midwest and East coast with Midwinterer from Cleveland and
Splinters from Detroit.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So with this tour, is it all DIY, Like you
reached out to the venues and did everything like that
or how did that go down?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Pretty much.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
I reached out to a lot of these venues and
booked it straight up myself, found all the bands, you know,
just research bands in the area, found some people that
were you know, like similar vibe to what we do.
Also changed it up kind of get some like hardcore
elements going in there, just so it's not you know,
stale for people in the audience and stuff like that.
So we definitely like curated it so that way it's
(06:30):
it's a fun time.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
All the way around.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But yeah, it was all DIY, man.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
There was a couple of shows where I went through
a promoter, but ninety percent of it.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
So all the otawa, that's the way to go.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Is this your first tour with sixty or.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (06:47):
Yeah, this is our first official tour for ourselves. Up
to now, we've just been playing kind of one offs
or you know, we get you know, asked to play
some shows.
Speaker 9 (06:59):
Out with our friends. There's something like that, but nothing
to this scale until now.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
All di y too.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I mean, that's that's impressive, So hecky on that. Make
sure you get warm material because I don't know how
cold it is over your guys's way, but here in
West Virginia, boy, here's cold.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, I apologize advance for our great league and giving.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
You a lets no man, so we can all blame
you numkin guys. Is sound.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Let's pretend that I am not familiar with six deep
and someone is now introducing me to you guys. Maybe
it's you guys introducing it to me. How would you
describe your sound to someone who's never listened to you
guys before.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
It's a little bit of like Bruno Mars mixed with okay,
maybe a little Taylor Swift kind of thrown.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
In there, Frank Ocean.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
No, man, it's so if I was gonna try to
put arrange, it would be in between of volumes like
volumes twenty twelve Era volumes and uh and Darko maybe,
(08:19):
you know, with the experimental side of it. So it
has Jenny elements, but then it also has you know,
just hard hitting riffs, deep tuned guitars.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You know, really low vocals and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So yeah, to me, I mean, I have listened to
you guys. I've been following the band for a couple
of years now. Bobby and I are social media friends,
so you know everything involved that way. Bobby, what guitars
do you have hanging up back there? There's able man.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Uh, election, I guess too many, Yeah, too many. I've
got an epiphone, Matt Heafy signature, Les Paul epiphone, Goth Explorer,
An Ltd Josh Middleton signature, an Ivan az FR seven string,
(09:11):
an Old Ivan az RG eight, and then right over
there is a Firefly twenty eight inch scaled baritone explorer.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Jeez, now this is I love doing interviews like this
because just that caught my eye and I thought of
a question. Right now, we're gonna start with Bobby and
the we're gonna go the rest of the band. What's
the most expensive musical thing you own and how much
was it?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Roughly?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Uh, probably probably my Camper, I guess.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
I think that was the power rack, which I think
I paid like seventeen hundred for it.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Okay, how about the rest of the guys.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
On the line?
Speaker 9 (09:58):
Now?
Speaker 10 (09:58):
Okay, well, not for this band, but I do also
play guitar as well, so I would say.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
My it's either my Kemper stage pedal board or.
Speaker 10 (10:13):
It's my Keyzel custom Steven string that I got built
a few years ago.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
One of those two is probably the most expensive.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
They're around the same price though, which wasn't seventeen or
eighteen hundred.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
So I played drums, right, and I have this thing
where I like to hit symbols really hard. And you know,
if we're talking you know, separate items like that, you know,
I'm been in probably four hundred a month now, not
a month, maybe every other month on symbols after they break.
(10:50):
And then if we're talking like single instrument items, you know,
probably the drums that I just bought last year, say Tama,
not Silver Star, but a Star Classic Star Classic, Yeah,
tamo Ash. It's like a special addition with gold hardware
and stuff. So that was that was about twenty eight
hundred used, but can't find them anywhere. They're a pretty
(11:15):
one off thing. And I was looking for years for
this thing because it got discontinued in twenty twenty. And
actually a guy a couple hours south in Columbus, you know,
he popped up on Facebook marketplace one day and I
jumped on it.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
So shout out Samara, yep, samaraw.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
All right, is it my turn?
Speaker 9 (11:35):
All right, dude?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I play a three hundred dollars guitar for sixty I
bought it for three hundred bucks on Craigslist, like in sixteen,
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Love that guitar. I still play it. Is a Scheckter
hell Raiser two thousand and eight. You know, it's an
original Hellraiser. It's worth more now than it was when
I bought it.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
But if I was gonna say the Boss was a
guitar I owned is a Jackson USA Soloist SL two
h It's a two thousand dollars guitar. I don't even
play it that much. It's a sixth string I used
to play in another band, but it kind.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Of sits around now.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
I think my most expensive item is probably the.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
Guitar playing in this band, which is an LTD SN
one thousand and seven. It's a baritone seventh stream that
was like fifteen hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Geezy, here's something that I have and I don't have
it here so I.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Can pull it out. But everyone familiar with who Josh
Travis is for sure? Yeah, okay, So.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Two years ago, three years ago, I think he was
selling his two custom made ESP nine string guitars and
one had Fishman pickups and one had EMG and I
was like, you know, I got plenty of EMG geez,
I'm not super familiar with Fishman yet. Let me let
me try the Fishman And he was like, yeah, man,
(13:05):
just shoot me at price. I'm like, what do you
want for it? He's like, name your price. I'm like,
what do you mean? Name your price?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Josh?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I can't just say, like, I don't want to underdo it,
and I don't want to overdo it to where you
are upset, So like, how much do you want? He's like,
name your price, man. I'm like, Josh, you're making me nervous,
So I was like, I don't know. It's a custom
made esp and as I look into it, one of
two in the world. So I'm looking into it just
(13:33):
trying to get a ballpark. He paid anywhere between five
thousand and eight thousand dollars for this thing, Okay, so
I don't know what to ask him of this. So
I'm like, is three thousand too low? He goes, try
one more time. I'm like, three thousand, one hundred. He goes,
(13:58):
how about three thousand, one hundred and twenty three dollars.
I was like, sure, sure, let's go with that n
man I have. I'm a big Josh Travis fan. This
one actually beside me is his Legator signature nine string
and then his Lego to war signature.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
This is the nine string.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
This is the A string, both legas war boat signature
when he played Legatur. Anyway, that's enough talk about guitar stuff,
and I want to get back to you and do.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That all day.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
We could.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Hey guys, it's Stephen from Lions at the Gate and
you're listening to the Kevin Powell Podcast.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Make sure you check out our newest single, Silhouettes of
Me streaming everywhere right now.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Now, here's another fun one I want to do. So
you guys are doing your first tour, You got your
bands picked out? Rate a rock and roll If you
had to do a dream tour with any bands, this
all could be individual, this could all be collective.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Who would it be? And why damn?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Anybody?
Speaker 10 (14:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (14:59):
That's that's crazy. That's got to be individual. We all
like so many.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Different bandslet's do let's do individual and individually. Name like
one or two?
Speaker 9 (15:10):
Go ahead?
Speaker 10 (15:14):
Currently, I'd probably say Humanity's Last Breath and Silent Planet.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Okay, good picks, I'd.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Say I probably I would have loved to tour with
Distinguisher before they became you know, nonexistent, or Traders anything
like that. Anybody that kind of vibes with our sound
I'd love to get to tour with.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
If I was a choose, i'd choose Volumes and Reflections,
Easy easy, Leonard's Scared, Yeah, Brother Tyer, free Bird every.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Night, trying to get in that plane.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Oh man, go ahead, Bob, Silosis and Bleed from Within.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
We know you pretty much got it?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Yeah, probably like I don't know, yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Silo sism, bleed from within? Why not? Yeah, we'll go
with that.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
All great picks with twenty twenty five just starting. What
do you have planned for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Oh, god, a lot?
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Well, yeah, so we're gonna be done with the tour,
you know, in March.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Obviously, we've got some like one or two other shows
booked and we're pretty open from June till the end
of the year.
Speaker 9 (16:44):
But we're gonna try.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
To write some more songs before it gets too late
in the summer, and then hopefully go in for another
EP towards the end of the year beginning of next year.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Anything you guys really want to accomplish just shot in
the dark, throwing stuff at the wall.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah, man, we want to we want to quit our jobs.
I'm just yes man, the dream right.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
No, So realistically, what we would be trying to do
is to get on a decently you know, decently sized
festival probably around you know, maybe our area ever within
the Midwest region, that would be that'd be a goal
that we're trying to accomplish this year. And also just
(17:38):
to travel to other states.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And have fun.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Man, easy enough.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Two final questions for you, and I always ask this
one at the end of my interviews. What advice would
you guys have to bands just starting out, maybe it's
their first show, first couple of shows, and you meet
them at the show. You know what advice would you
give them?
Speaker 9 (18:00):
The biggest one is practice your ass off.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Most important thing about everything we do is we want
to sound good live. I mean, we're basically all traveling
T shirt salesmen at this point, so you definitely want
to sound good, draw people in, get them at your
merch table, make money that way, so you got.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Practice your instrument. And then definitely you want to make.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Sure all the guys you're working with are kind of
pooling their weight, or at least that you like them,
and that you guys can work well together and come
to solutions pretty quickly. You know, some of this stuff
is on a whim. You know, show offers, you know,
booking anything, spending money. You know, it's all got to
be quick and simplistic. So definitely stay organized.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And on a lighter note, man, I would say, don't
take yourselves too seriously and like, have fun with the process.
It's it's really it's about the journey, right, It's really
about the creator process. That's really why I love this
whole music thing. And the birthplaces. It's the creative process.
Just just enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Anything from you, Bob.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Uh, definitely practiced.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
I mean, like Joel said, practice, Yeah, put in the
effort and you will.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
I guess you'll reap what you.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
So that sounds like a threat, Bobby practice Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Yeah, stay dedicated, don't give up, keep a fresh fade.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
There we go. Any any funny words you guys want
to say to fans.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Hell yeah, Dude dead in five out now go stream
it on Spotify. We have it on YouTube music video
for idle hands on YouTube now, Apple Music, anywhere you
listen to music.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Dude dead in five and keep a lookout for the
rest of the year.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
We're gonna have new views think coming out probably early
next year.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So now stay with us.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Perfectly said six deep and be talking to both of
you guys. Well everyone here in a second off air,
we appreciate a little bit of your time.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
That's sixteep.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
These guys are out of Ohio, They're heavy, they rule.
They dealt with me messing up the first two attempts
at this interview.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
So thanks.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Anyways, appreciate you tuning into this episode of the podcast.
Appreciate it as always, We'll see you guys next time.
This episode is sponsored by Purest Labs. There's just something
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When I hit the gym, I can always count on
Purest Labs supplements to help me power through any workout.
But the gym isn't the only place I rely on
Purest Labs. Before I hit the stage, I always mix
the scoop of every day a me nose into my
water to keep me fueled during performances. So whether you're
(00:20):
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to the next level with Purest Labs. Use code kxp
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Lit's sten to Kevin Powel podcast. My name is Kevin Powell.
(00:42):
This is the third attemph on this thing. So it's
gonna be perfect and it's gonna be awesome. I love
talking to bands. We have six Deep with us right now. Hello,
six Deep.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
How's it going man?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
So it's going good.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
What's happening now is now that I'm in a fantastic
mood from just I have this new setup. I've been
playing around. I thought I had the first time. No,
second time. No, Now I'm recording and now we're actually
into this interview. So again, I apologies to you guys.
Let's get your information out there. You guys have a
new EP out right now called Dead in five. Tell
(01:15):
me about this. What was the recording process like going
into this, what was you know, the the writing process, like,
go ahead and tell me anything and everything.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, man, So basically dead in five was a was
an idea that we had right after our first EP
and two twenty twenty three, about around the summertime of
twenty twenty three, we knew we had to, you know,
start working on new music. And unfortunately, Brandon and I
both had a friend pass in that same summer and
we were both feeling the hurt from them.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Man, and I had a personal message from one of
my friends that, you know, he ended up dying. He
mentioned that he's going to be dead in five, you know,
and so that really hit home for me.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Whenever I heard that, I brought it and like, you know, this,
this might be a good way to like kind of
come commemorate them. So that's like the whole idea behind
the name dead in five Man. There's a lot of
grief that's in the lyrics. There's a lot of you know,
there's a lot of pain in them. So the recording
process started probably towards the end of twenty twenty three.
(02:22):
We all kind of came together and you know, wanted
to hash out a sound that evolved from our previous EP.
We wanted to kind of expand the genre a little bit,
you know, be experimental and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You know, we brought ideas to each other.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Nate brought a bunch of risks to me, and we
started cracking down and we got into the home studio.
I produced it all on the computer and set it
out for mixing and mastering to Scooter.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Out and the second round of this, I shout it out,
Scooter for making your EP sound fantastic.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'm gonna do it again.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Shout out the Scooter here because I was listening to
this EP leading up so I can get in the
zone and get a better understanding of like some of
the song titles and whatnot. And it sounds crisp, it
sounds pro it sounds fantastic, and going into stuff like that,
we all know it's expensive. So shout out to you
guys as well for putting the work and making this happen.
(03:19):
And I love the fact that it's more sentimental in
value to you guys, and I appreciate you, you know,
explaining that.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Right now we have Bobby up top and then the
rest of the guys six deep down here. Bobby, what's
what's your role? You're the bass player, and when it
comes to you know, writing and recording, is it you
know this separate with you or are you with these
guys a lot or how's that go down?
Speaker 5 (03:45):
So, yeah, I'm the bass player.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
I live about an hour and a half away from
these guys, like an hour and a half south. So
when it comes to like the writing process, we we
kind of like send riff ideas back and forth and whatnot.
But in terms of recording, that's all. I believe Devin
had that all programmed, all the base tracks, should everything
like that, just for the sake of consistency.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
But yeah, I mean we'll.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Send riff ideas back and forth. Recently we started working
through Discord. Devin and I have been in a couple
of different Discord calls. We'll have reaper pulled up and
we'll be sharing our screens and like sharing audio with
each other and just like basically writing whatever comes to mind,
(04:31):
whatever sounds cool, and it's honestly, it's been a massive
game changer because he's taught me a lot of things.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
And yeah, I'm really.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Excited about it because, like like I said, living an
hour and a half away from those guys like it,
it's gonna it's making things so much easier because obviously
I don't have to drive three hours round trip. Anytime
we're wanting to get together to write, I can just
be like, hey, let's hop in discord real quick. I
got an idea, and then we can hash something out.
And yeah, it's it's awesome.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I mean he already travels, he already travels that three
hour round trip every week, but doing it twice, I
could tell that would be a it'd be a lot
of time to kind of just go back and forth
with like a maybe an afternoon.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I mean that shows the dedication right there to Bobby
with you guys, So it looks like you have a
good connection there. And the discord thing, I don't have
to look into that. I've never I've kind of heard
of it. But I've never actually like looked into it.
So thanks for the idea there. Now you guys have
something cool that you're going to be announcing here soon.
But by the time this comes out, you're already be out.
So you guys have a tour coming up, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
This March we'll be on tour Sport and Dead and five.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
We're going to be in like ten different cities across
the Midwest and East coast with Midwinterer from Cleveland and
Splinters from Detroit.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So with this tour, is it all DIY, Like you
reached out to the venues and did everything like that
or how did that go down?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Pretty much.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
I reached out to a lot of these venues and
booked it straight up myself, found all the bands, you know,
just research bands in the area, found some people that
were you know, like similar vibe to what we do.
Also changed it up kind of get some like hardcore
elements going in there, just so it's not you know,
stale for people in the audience and stuff like that.
So we definitely like curated it so that way it's
(06:30):
it's a fun time.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
All the way around.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But yeah, it was all DIY, man.
Speaker 8 (06:34):
There was a couple of shows where I went through
a promoter, but ninety percent of it.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
So all the otawa, that's the way to go.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Is this your first tour with sixty or.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (06:47):
Yeah, this is our first official tour for ourselves. Up
to now, we've just been playing kind of one offs
or you know, we get you know, asked to play
some shows.
Speaker 9 (06:59):
Out with our friends. There's something like that, but nothing
to this scale until now.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
All di y too.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I mean, that's that's impressive, So hecky on that. Make
sure you get warm material because I don't know how
cold it is over your guys's way, but here in
West Virginia, boy, here's cold.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, I apologize advance for our great league and giving.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
You a lets no man, so we can all blame
you numkin guys. Is sound.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Let's pretend that I am not familiar with six deep
and someone is now introducing me to you guys. Maybe
it's you guys introducing it to me. How would you
describe your sound to someone who's never listened to you
guys before.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
It's a little bit of like Bruno Mars mixed with okay,
maybe a little Taylor Swift kind of thrown.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
In there, Frank Ocean.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
No, man, it's so if I was gonna try to
put arrange, it would be in between of volumes like
volumes twenty twelve Era volumes and uh and Darko maybe,
(08:19):
you know, with the experimental side of it. So it
has Jenny elements, but then it also has you know,
just hard hitting riffs, deep tuned guitars.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You know, really low vocals and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So yeah, to me, I mean, I have listened to
you guys. I've been following the band for a couple
of years now. Bobby and I are social media friends,
so you know everything involved that way. Bobby, what guitars
do you have hanging up back there? There's able man.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Uh, election, I guess too many, Yeah, too many. I've
got an epiphone, Matt Heafy signature, Les Paul epiphone, Goth Explorer,
An Ltd Josh Middleton signature, an Ivan az FR seven string,
(09:11):
an Old Ivan az RG eight, and then right over
there is a Firefly twenty eight inch scaled baritone explorer.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Jeez, now this is I love doing interviews like this
because just that caught my eye and I thought of
a question. Right now, we're gonna start with Bobby and
the we're gonna go the rest of the band. What's
the most expensive musical thing you own and how much
was it?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Roughly?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Uh, probably probably my Camper, I guess.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
I think that was the power rack, which I think
I paid like seventeen hundred for it.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Okay, how about the rest of the guys.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
On the line?
Speaker 9 (09:58):
Now?
Speaker 10 (09:58):
Okay, well, not for this band, but I do also
play guitar as well, so I would say.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
My it's either my Kemper stage pedal board or.
Speaker 10 (10:13):
It's my Keyzel custom Steven string that I got built
a few years ago.
Speaker 9 (10:19):
One of those two is probably the most expensive.
Speaker 10 (10:22):
They're around the same price though, which wasn't seventeen or
eighteen hundred.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
So I played drums, right, and I have this thing
where I like to hit symbols really hard. And you know,
if we're talking you know, separate items like that, you know,
I'm been in probably four hundred a month now, not
a month, maybe every other month on symbols after they break.
(10:50):
And then if we're talking like single instrument items, you know,
probably the drums that I just bought last year, say Tama,
not Silver Star, but a Star Classic Star Classic, Yeah,
tamo Ash. It's like a special addition with gold hardware
and stuff. So that was that was about twenty eight
hundred used, but can't find them anywhere. They're a pretty
(11:15):
one off thing. And I was looking for years for
this thing because it got discontinued in twenty twenty. And
actually a guy a couple hours south in Columbus, you know,
he popped up on Facebook marketplace one day and I
jumped on it.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
So shout out Samara, yep, samaraw.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
All right, is it my turn?
Speaker 9 (11:35):
All right, dude?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
I play a three hundred dollars guitar for sixty I
bought it for three hundred bucks on Craigslist, like in sixteen,
twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Love that guitar. I still play it. Is a Scheckter
hell Raiser two thousand and eight. You know, it's an
original Hellraiser. It's worth more now than it was when
I bought it.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
But if I was gonna say the Boss was a
guitar I owned is a Jackson USA Soloist SL two
h It's a two thousand dollars guitar. I don't even
play it that much. It's a sixth string I used
to play in another band, but it kind.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Of sits around now.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
I think my most expensive item is probably the.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
Guitar playing in this band, which is an LTD SN
one thousand and seven. It's a baritone seventh stream that
was like fifteen hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Geezy, here's something that I have and I don't have
it here so I.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Can pull it out. But everyone familiar with who Josh
Travis is for sure? Yeah, okay, So.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Two years ago, three years ago, I think he was
selling his two custom made ESP nine string guitars and
one had Fishman pickups and one had EMG and I
was like, you know, I got plenty of EMG geez,
I'm not super familiar with Fishman yet. Let me let
me try the Fishman And he was like, yeah, man,
(13:05):
just shoot me at price. I'm like, what do you
want for it? He's like, name your price. I'm like,
what do you mean? Name your price?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Josh?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I can't just say, like, I don't want to underdo it,
and I don't want to overdo it to where you
are upset, So like, how much do you want? He's like,
name your price, man. I'm like, Josh, you're making me nervous,
So I was like, I don't know. It's a custom
made esp and as I look into it, one of
two in the world. So I'm looking into it just
(13:33):
trying to get a ballpark. He paid anywhere between five
thousand and eight thousand dollars for this thing, Okay, so
I don't know what to ask him of this. So
I'm like, is three thousand too low? He goes, try
one more time. I'm like, three thousand, one hundred. He goes,
(13:58):
how about three thousand, one hundred and twenty three dollars.
I was like, sure, sure, let's go with that n
man I have. I'm a big Josh Travis fan. This
one actually beside me is his Legator signature nine string
and then his Lego to war signature.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
This is the nine string.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
This is the A string, both legas war boat signature
when he played Legatur. Anyway, that's enough talk about guitar stuff,
and I want to get back to you and do.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That all day.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
We could.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Hey guys, it's Stephen from Lions at the Gate and
you're listening to the Kevin Powell Podcast.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Make sure you check out our newest single, Silhouettes of
Me streaming everywhere right now.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Now, here's another fun one I want to do. So
you guys are doing your first tour, You got your
bands picked out? Rate a rock and roll If you
had to do a dream tour with any bands, this
all could be individual, this could all be collective.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Who would it be? And why damn?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Anybody?
Speaker 10 (14:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (14:59):
That's that's crazy. That's got to be individual. We all
like so many.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Different bandslet's do let's do individual and individually. Name like
one or two?
Speaker 9 (15:10):
Go ahead?
Speaker 10 (15:14):
Currently, I'd probably say Humanity's Last Breath and Silent Planet.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Okay, good picks, I'd.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Say I probably I would have loved to tour with
Distinguisher before they became you know, nonexistent, or Traders anything
like that. Anybody that kind of vibes with our sound
I'd love to get to tour with.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
If I was a choose, i'd choose Volumes and Reflections,
Easy easy, Leonard's Scared, Yeah, Brother Tyer, free Bird every.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Night, trying to get in that plane.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Oh man, go ahead, Bob, Silosis and Bleed from Within.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
We know you pretty much got it?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Yeah, probably like I don't know, yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Silo sism, bleed from within? Why not? Yeah, we'll go
with that.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
All great picks with twenty twenty five just starting. What
do you have planned for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Oh, god, a lot?
Speaker 9 (16:32):
Well, yeah, so we're gonna be done with the tour,
you know, in March.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Obviously, we've got some like one or two other shows
booked and we're pretty open from June till the end
of the year.
Speaker 9 (16:44):
But we're gonna try.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
To write some more songs before it gets too late
in the summer, and then hopefully go in for another
EP towards the end of the year beginning of next year.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Anything you guys really want to accomplish just shot in
the dark, throwing stuff at the wall.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah, man, we want to we want to quit our jobs.
I'm just yes man, the dream right.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
No, So realistically, what we would be trying to do
is to get on a decently you know, decently sized
festival probably around you know, maybe our area ever within
the Midwest region, that would be that'd be a goal
that we're trying to accomplish this year. And also just
(17:38):
to travel to other states.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And have fun.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Man, easy enough.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Two final questions for you, and I always ask this
one at the end of my interviews. What advice would
you guys have to bands just starting out, maybe it's
their first show, first couple of shows, and you meet
them at the show. You know what advice would you
give them?
Speaker 9 (18:00):
The biggest one is practice your ass off.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Most important thing about everything we do is we want
to sound good live. I mean, we're basically all traveling
T shirt salesmen at this point, so you definitely want
to sound good, draw people in, get them at your
merch table, make money that way, so you got.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Practice your instrument. And then definitely you want to make.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
Sure all the guys you're working with are kind of
pooling their weight, or at least that you like them,
and that you guys can work well together and come
to solutions pretty quickly. You know, some of this stuff
is on a whim. You know, show offers, you know,
booking anything, spending money. You know, it's all got to
be quick and simplistic. So definitely stay organized.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And on a lighter note, man, I would say, don't
take yourselves too seriously and like, have fun with the process.
It's it's really it's about the journey, right, It's really
about the creator process. That's really why I love this
whole music thing. And the birthplaces. It's the creative process.
Just just enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Anything from you, Bob.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Uh, definitely practiced.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
I mean, like Joel said, practice, Yeah, put in the
effort and you will.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
I guess you'll reap what you.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
So that sounds like a threat, Bobby practice Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Yeah, stay dedicated, don't give up, keep a fresh fade.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
There we go. Any any funny words you guys want
to say to fans.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Hell yeah, Dude dead in five out now go stream
it on Spotify. We have it on YouTube music video
for idle hands on YouTube now, Apple Music, anywhere you
listen to music.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Dude dead in five and keep a lookout for the
rest of the year.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
We're gonna have new views think coming out probably early
next year.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
So now stay with us.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Perfectly said six deep and be talking to both of
you guys. Well everyone here in a second off air,
we appreciate a little bit of your time.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
That's sixteep.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
These guys are out of Ohio, They're heavy, they rule.
They dealt with me messing up the first two attempts
at this interview.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
So thanks.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Anyways, appreciate you tuning into this episode of the podcast.
Appreciate it as always, We'll see you guys next time.
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