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June 15, 2026 11 mins
PipemanRadio speaks with Paleface Swiss at Download XXIII Donington Park about their performance at the legendary music festival.  

Swiss deathcore band Paleface Swiss
delivered a standout, high-energy set at the Download Festival on
Friday, June 12, 2026
. Performing on the Opus Stage at Donington Park, frontman Zelli commanded the crowd for what was widely considered one of the festival's most anticipated performances. 


Festival Highlights & Reception
  • Set Details: The band brought their intense, signature deathcore sound to the Opus Stage, treating the crowd to fresh live reactions from their EP, The Wilted. 
  • Fan & Press Reactions: The band received tremendous praise, with press reviewers noting their furious and dominant delivery. Fan sentiment from platforms like Reddit (which showed a strong pre-festival desire to see them) and Facebook also overwhelmingly favored their performance, with many attendees highly impressed by their intensity. 
  • Backstage Interviews: Frontman Zelli took time backstage to discuss the new EP and the live crowd reactions with various media outlets. 
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you have done to censure.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Wow for you you. This is the pipe Man here
on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio,
and I'm here with.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Selling from Pale Face Swiss. Thank you so much for
having me.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh my pleasure, and oh my god. It took me
forever to get in here. I was like, I better
not miss that interview. I better not miss that interview.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Here we are, baby, here.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
You are sweating her ass off, right, I don't expect
that in the UK. I have my I was wearing
my hoodie before.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I've got my checker with it's not warm, but I'm sweating.
It's like, what's that weather? It's so weird.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
This is how the UK is, Okay, it's like bipolar. Yeah.
I can't tell you how many times I've done download
and I bring my hoodie. One interview, I have to
wear it, the next one I have to take it off.
You have like four seasons in one hour.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah, it's crazy, but hey, it is what it is. Right,
we're here.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
We're in a tent at least, so yeah, there you go.
It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter the weather.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
We're here, that's right. And so have you played download
for No.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
No, it's the first time.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, it never worked out. It never worked out. We've
we're supposed to play this festival for many years now,
but it never worked out with our schedule, you know.
So it's no, we're here finally.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Nice, And so I want to hear back of how
it is performing in the weather here, like while you're
doing your set and it changes the weather while you're
doing your set. Yeah, next time we talk on why here,
I want to hear about that.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, sure, because it is.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
I always call it bipolar weather.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, but that's rough.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
You know, it's rough on artists too. I think people
don't realize what you have to go through to give
a great show. When we'll deal with weather.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Especially the crew, it's like crazy how much they have
to handle, you know, like all the gear. It's not
like when it starts to rain, where the fuck does
the gear go? Won't like get we and all that,
you know. So I feel like the crew has like
a ten times more difficult day when the weather is
not playing nice, you know, than the artist itself. You know.

(02:11):
I mean we're on the stage, it's like it's mostly dry,
you know, right, But the crew, I'm always like, oh
my god, I hope I hope they're I hope that
the mood is still good.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
There you go. Yeah, and I like your hat. That
cay because I'm a hockey person. Let's go and to
come over to the UK for a band from Europe
wearing an Oilers hat.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
I like that. It's really cool.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Okay, let's go.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
I like that. I like that.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Are they your favorite band or you just like the hat?

Speaker 1 (02:40):
No, it's my favorite favorite favorite band band festival. No,
I think it's my favorite well I think no, I
know it's my favorite team, though I don't even know
how it started. Me and my guitar player, Yick. We're
watching hockey a lot, and it's funny that there's not
a single Swiss hockey player playing for the Oilers right now.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
I don't know why that team, but it's just it's
just stuck with me ever since I started watching like
NHL and stuff. You know, I know we have many
players in the NHL, but Oilers are not one of them.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
But maybe it was because of Grebski. Maybe that's one.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Maybe also dry title the German player as fuck. I
like him a lot, so yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, So I'm a Devils fan because I lived in Jersey, Okay.
I like second row blue line. I coached ice hockey,
I coached roller hockey, I played hockey.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
So next to metal, hockey is one of my favorite things.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Sick. I like that. I like that.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
What else do you like? Besides music? I like to
hear from the artists what their passion.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
I do like sports in general. I like doing sports,
like running. I like running a lot. I like swimming
and all that, and like sports. I like watching sports
in general. But besides sports, well, hiking and nature and
like mountains and all that, you know, which which kind
of leads into sports again. I just like to be
all the time, you know. I think I enjoy cooking

(04:04):
more and more and more. I got into cooking, like
I'd say, since I started taking care more about my health.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Obviously cooking comes along with it, you know.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
So I start like my interests woke, Like I've been
waking my.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Interest into like cooking way more and more and more.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
So i'd say everything that's like active and healthy kind
of at the moment, you.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Know, Yeah, I'm the same way I surf.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
A love Let's go let's let's do it.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, I actually like it's one of my goals. I
have a whole list of places all over the world
to serf, like I've served Portugal. Say, when I did
Healthfest right after COVID.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
You went to the west coast Atlantic goos and there.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, like it was like an hour fro and so
what I did because it was two weekends, you know,
that first one after COVID. So I got an airbnb
right on the ocean, so I would do metal on
the weekend, surfing during the week.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
That's a perfect life, if you ask me. That's crazy
good cuisine and friends too, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
There you go. I'll tell you a funny story about
friends too. So this girl started talking to me, you know,
at hell Fest, most of them are speaking French, okay,
and this girl starts talking to me. She didn't really
speak English, but she did know one thing to say
to me, and she like whispers in my ear and
she says, you know, French girls love sex, and well,

(05:27):
I'm moving to this country.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Surfing, sex, metal, what good foods?

Speaker 3 (05:33):
You fucking warm?

Speaker 2 (05:34):
I do love your country too, Yeah, I love driving it.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
It's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I mean, it's just amazing. Yeah, and it amazes me.
I forget exactly where I was, but at the bottom
of the mountain it was nice. And I went to
the top to go snowboarding, yeah, and I'm like, fuck,
it's freezing up it is, you know. I'm like out below,

(06:00):
I was like, it's okay, yeah, you know, and then
the temperature was so different when I got to the town.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
I know.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
I love it ski a ski. That's that thing that
I grew up doing, like since I was a little child.
I ski all my life and I still love to
do it to this day, and that's one of my
favorite activities. It's just the risk of injuries kind of
is there, you know, so I have to be really careful,
especially before we go on torn ship. But I still

(06:27):
I love doing it because, hey, let's be honest, when
you go ski, there's always.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
More than one beer you're going to drink, you know,
and true drink and drive, I guess, is never a
good idea.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Also on skis, beer, beers and trees don't go well, no, no, no,
no at all, not at all. But I'm not gonna
what so far, I never got hurt, you know.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
See, I prefer the snowboarding because like I'm also a skateboarder.
I have three different skateboards are all for different reasons.
Like I have a surf skate, which is made for
like surfing on lamb. I got my trick board, and
then I have my longboard. Nice have a paddle for
my longboard, so it's a whole different workout. It's like
paddle boarding on land, but like works your whole body,

(07:07):
you know. But the skis, I have a problem with
the two leg thing. I don't have a problem on skates,
but I have a problem with the skis.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
I always had them.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
With the snowboard, I'm like, I have a problem with
my feet being locked like on one board. You know,
I cannot I cannot spread my legs like keep my
feet apart if I would need to or whatever.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
You know.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
It's just they're like, I don't have a problem with
skateboards or like surfboards because you're.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Not locked and jump off, Yeah you can jump off.
But with the snowboard, you like.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
That does bother me for your snowboard too, Like I'm
about to say, it's like I like, if I'm if
I'm going on a skateboard, I'm about to eat ship.
I can jump off.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah yeah, if I fall, they just fall off. They
would fall off your your feet, you know, they don't
hold on to like you like that. I don't know
what's it called. The thing you step in made to
fall off of your boot if you crash, you know,
so they won't hurt you. But with the snowboard, it's
like you fucking break everything if you like fall really bad.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
You know.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's like that's what I was good of when I
was a little kid all the time. So I just
stick to ski all the time.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, exactly. So what led you to metal?

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Probably my father, well also my mom did both like
rock music, and yeah, I think like basically Nickelbeck brought
me to metal, and I thought loved Nickelback.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
I do love Nickelback.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
And then after Nickelback, I found I don't know, probably
Lincoln Park, then Slipknot, and then it went down the
hill obviously you know. Yeah, yeah, I always like to
express my emotions like very like with loads of like
energy and all that, you know. So I found myself
in metal again because uh yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
That's what metal does, right in my opinion, right, I just.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Had had a little child, so that was a perfect
outlet for me to like go crazy and all them, so.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
No doubt. One other thing I want to touch on
is I love that you just released some new merch
that's made for the summer. Yeah right, that is freaking.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Cool, crazy, especially nowadays when we don't really get a
summer anymore. Look at it, it's like raining, Like Europe
is so fucking cold at the moment. I'm like, sure,
is it supposed to be summer? Like, at least bring
some sunshine with the new swim trunks and all that
that we just put out.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
You know.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, So tell everybody how they can get all this
cool new Summit's easy.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
We do everything by ourselves, like we run our own
little merch store. Everything is like family owned stills. So
just go to pailfast Swiss dot com and you'll find
everything you want and everything is shipped out by us,
So bear with us. It's it takes a while, but
it will arrive on summer, right.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
And it'll be worth it.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Yes, yes, but like I said, it's still there's no
big company behind it. It's still us.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
So everything you would you need to find is either
on our Instagram or pailface Swiss dot com easy.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
I think you definitely too need to for winter, have
your own skis and your own What else was I
talking about? You know, like just all the winter. We
want your own hockey stick.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
That be sick the hockey stick I like, because Switzerland
is big into ice hockey too, you know, we put
out the puffer checkets and like beanies and all that.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, you never never talked about like like winter sports,
you know, winter sports stuff that'd be sick as fun.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Could you imagine at the Olympics and the Swiss hockey
team was using pale face Swiss amazing.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Imagine that'd be sick put.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
It out there, do that.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yeah, let's go, let's go.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Well, uh, you guys are badass. I'm glad you finally
made it to download. Yeah, and thanks for being on
the Adventures of Pipe Man.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Thanks so much for having me. I'm stoked to talk
to you next time. Talk about the weather next time.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Patemn on
w for c u I Radio.
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