October 16, 2025 • 33 mins
Debut Full-Length Album 'Discipline & Punish'
Produced by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Blood Incantation)
Out on November 7th via Spinefarm
COLD STEEL strike hard with ‘Discipline & Punish,’ a full-length that channels their Tampa roots into an unrelenting vision of “aggressive metal.” From pit-splitting riffs to punishing drums, the album captures the raw intensity of the band’s sound. Leading the charge is the venomous single “Blacksmith of Damnation,” a track that makes it clear COLD STEEL are among the scene’s most explosive rising acts.
Their patented “aggressive metal” takes no prisoners on a series of 2025 singles and their forthcoming full-length debut LP for Spinefarm Records.
“In many of the songs, we’re dealing with facing conflict from both the inside and the outside,” concludes Shawn. “We’re hopefully offering listeners an escape.”
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Produced by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Blood Incantation)
Out on November 7th via Spinefarm
COLD STEEL strike hard with ‘Discipline & Punish,’ a full-length that channels their Tampa roots into an unrelenting vision of “aggressive metal.” From pit-splitting riffs to punishing drums, the album captures the raw intensity of the band’s sound. Leading the charge is the venomous single “Blacksmith of Damnation,” a track that makes it clear COLD STEEL are among the scene’s most explosive rising acts.
Their patented “aggressive metal” takes no prisoners on a series of 2025 singles and their forthcoming full-length debut LP for Spinefarm Records.
“In many of the songs, we’re dealing with facing conflict from both the inside and the outside,” concludes Shawn. “We’re hopefully offering listeners an escape.”
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you live on to censure.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Wow for you young.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Shot shot, night.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Light bat Watch.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here with
our next guests at they're a little bit north. They're
a little bit west from me up in the Tampa area,
and uh, I love the Tampa area and the music
scene there. So let's welcome to this show, Cold Steele.
How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yeah, man doing good? Thank you for having us pipe Man.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh my pleasure man, And you guys are badass. And
I contribute that to the Tampa metal scene because I
was listening to new music. I'm like, man, it just
sounds like every great metal you could possibly imagine that area.
You know, you guys sound unique, but you also have
(01:19):
that familiar sound of like some of the greats that
came out of your area. Oh nice much.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
That's so flattering, man, Thank you. Yeah, Man, RAFFI had
a good hand. One of our guitars had a good,
great hand in writing everything. And I think that dude
leads Tampa through and through.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
So yeah, we're super grateful for the gracious words. Man.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Thank you. Yeah. And what I think is cool about
it too, is Okay, So I'm a metal head from
way back, from when you could only like a certain
type of music, but we actually did like all other
a bunch of other types. You just either weren't allowed
to admit it or weren't allowed to go to a show.
(02:06):
And I find that's what your bad is and what
makes you unique is you combine like all of the
heavy genres that I like, you know, all in one place.
You know, it has a thrashy sound to it, it
has a you know, a partial death metal sound to it,
hardcore sound. It just it puts it all together to
(02:28):
make you sound like you.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Definitely, I think I definitely agree with that. A lot
of us wearing different sound of metal bands. I was
in death coore bands, metal core bands, now a thrash
slash metal bands, thrifty, you were playing reggae, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I mean, we're all over the spot, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I think we had a lot of a lot of
good places with just our influences alone, and they come
very eat and fast.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
See. I love that too nowadays, especially because I find
like the bands I like the most are the ones
that have so many different blended, you know, genres influences
you know that bring it to a table and make
it sound unique, because a lot of metal bands nowadays
are just like, you know, they plug in this formula.
(03:25):
I find a lot of times, you know, and everybody
in the band is into the same exact subgenre microgenre,
and that makes it sound the same as every other
band because there's nothing being added to the recipe.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yeah, I've heard that people are definitely following a formula nowadays,
but it's nice to find somebody that's like, really true
to their passionate writes whatever they want to write, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
No doubt.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Definitely.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, I as formally it as at amazing, Like I think,
just us figuring each other out and what we all
like and compromising to one spot.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You don't necessarily need.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
To start in one specific place, you know, Like yeah,
one day we thirty can come through with just a
simple two step groove on drums and then we'll play
whatever we feel around that, you know what I mean.
It doesn't have to stick to a label or a
genre in that way. But I think we all just
love heavy music, and yeah, I think the music represents
(04:30):
a lot of the different versions of heaviness that we
really like and respect.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, and I think heavy music takes you on journey,
and when you do combine all those different elements, that's
what makes the journey. Like if this verse one, it's
the same as verse three, and the rifts at the
beginning are the same as the mental as the end,
like all completely the same. I don't think that has
(04:56):
as much heaviness as bands like you that, like one
second you're in one vibe and then a few seconds
later you're in a different vibe.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Mm hmm. I can rock with that. I rock with that,
I agree to a certain extent.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Like the one thing that comes to mind is like
songs like the Day That Never Comes with Taluka Yea.
The versions are exactly the same, but that's still one
of the dopest songs ever written. Somehow for them still
making songs like that in two thousand and nine read
defining their own version of heavy you know, but the diversity,
(05:38):
like the different things they did, definitely shine more so.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I definitely see where you're coming from with that.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well, think about from any like band, even going to
the Beatles. Okay, the Beatles couldnot be labeled into one
genre because like one album, there may be one genre
and then another album, there is something different. I think that.
I think that's the key of being a true artist
is you kind of evolve and you experiment. I also
(06:07):
think that's the whole idea of metal and how metal
started is experimenting and you know, not just going by
what is the norm. It's like figuring out what kind
of sound you can make?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yeah, no question, man, Like yeah, yeah, I don't believe
it that. I agree with you totally.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
And Metallica is a perfect example of that. I'm glad
you brought that up because I was at Metallica's first
show ever in LA and you know, I was one
of those assholes from the eighties that was like when
the Black album came out, I was me and my twenty.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Four hardcore fans were like, fuck those posers, blah blah
blah blah blah, sellout. And but you know what, as
I got a little older, little bored, but sure and
gone through the whole cycle of a Metallica, it's like,
you know what. You listen to James and he talks
(07:15):
about those old days of how he sang and he
says I sucked. Now we thought his voice was the
best ever, and it was like, now you know, like
even with Seeking Destroy he was saying that interview recently,
I heard him saying about, you know, they play it
at the hockey game, you know, but they played the
(07:36):
old version, not the newer version. He goes, I learned
how to sing like I didn't know what the hell
I was doing in that first version. Why are they
playing that one?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
It sucks? And I can see both sides of it,
And I could see the side of him as the
artists and them as the artist. It's like, why would
you want to stay a garage band? You know, why
wouldn't you want to get better at your craft experiment?
And you know, they've gotten a lite of hate sometimes
for like doing all these different things, whether it be
(08:05):
you know, doing the album with lou Reed or or like, uh,
stuff that was on Reload. I don't even say Sane
Anger because I think there's some songs on Sane Anger
that I like. I love Frantic, yeah, dude, right, I
love Invisible Kid. And you know, everybody talks about the
(08:25):
drums on sant Anger. I'm like, I think the drums
were pretty badass.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Actually, you know, crazy you're speaking to the choir man.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I'm with you on that It's like, I think we
can relate it to our music because like our first
two EPs are crossover, that's the first word that comes
to mind. It's just thrash and metal quarter put together.
And this new record that we're doing definitely has elements
of that, but there's definitely different routes that we've taken
(08:57):
to try and solidify what the Cold Steel sound.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Is, at least for what it is now. You know.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah, I think it speaks more to the comfort levels
of what you want to do and what you want
to change. You know, we wanted just to make a record,
and we were completely okay with compromising what may have
been an original sound, but not necessarily compromising the integrity
of the music. You know, we still have those moments
(09:28):
of thrive, so those crossover heavy moments, and we may
plan forever, we may play them until next record.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
We'll wait till that happens.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
And I love that. I love Listen. You're an artist, okay.
You you want to explore your craft and what you
can do and evolve, you know, And I don't know,
it's like, why would you want to write the same
song over and over again? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I agreed, yeah, unless you know, if it ain't broke,
don't fix it too. I see that side too. You know,
if people can rock with them, want to do that,
go for it. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I think arts should do whatever they want to do.
That's my point. Yeah, you're the artists, right, You're the
artist man. And like I've always felt that. I was
very involved in that eighties metal scene, and I got
out of the scene because it pissed me off what
(10:31):
the record labels were telling artists to do. And I'm like,
I think the business people should be there, but they
should do the business stuff and the artist should do
the creative stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's the way it should be. And it's funny, I'm
gonna piss you off even more because you said crossover.
I was at the first crossover show ever. Oh, Like
I know, I wasn't allowed, but I wasn't allowed to
go to punk shows. Like I was a long hair
and I loved punk and I couldn't go because I'd
get my ass beat, you know. So that first crossover
(11:10):
show it was insane actually. So it was at the
Sun Valley Sportsman's Lodge, which was like this Elks lodge,
and there was no security. I don't think the Elks
Lodge had any idea what was coming into that building, okay,
And so you had on like the metal side, you
(11:33):
had to span Savage Grace, which was a pre popular
thrash band in LA that never really made it too
much farther than that, and it was let's see Dark
Angel and it was possessed on the metal side. On
the punk side was Suicidal pre crossover. It was coc
(11:59):
pre Pepper, so when they were hardcore, and then and
the descendants, and when I tell you like it's the
most it's my most memorable gig, and I've been to
like thousands of them. There was no place to hide
in that venue. I mean there were people like climbing
(12:19):
up on the rafters and and you can't even call
it stage diving because it wasn't off the stage. People
flying through the air, and it was just this brutality
of finally the punks and the metal heads figuring out
that we should be together, like because I always thought
it was stupid. You know, the jocks would kick both
(12:39):
of our asses and we would fight with each other.
We should have banned together. And that's why it's beautiful
that we have bands like you guys today where you
can go to like I go on tour and I
do festivals all over the US, UK, Eurepe where you
can have every type of heavy music at one festival
and everybody get along.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh yeah, it's dream.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's a dream, dude, Like right, yeah, you know I
could imagine like being raised in like the eighties climate.
You know, I'm a sensitive voice, so you know, different
things like that. Who knows what could have happened done,
But like being you know, circling back to Tampa, like
coming to shows all the time where you know, you
(13:26):
have acoustic acts opening shows and then you have bands
like a Dalia headlining them, you know, like a lot
of hardcore, and then you have shows where like I
don't know, bands like Holly Maddox playing with eight strings
or like, you know, I can go forever about it,
you know, but the fact that you can circle around
(13:48):
a city that created death metal but find so much
more and be able to expand on so much more
of it as a young person, I think we're spoiled
for choice, and I think it shows with the stuff
that we make together and who knows what else will
make from here? You know, I'm just excited for your
(14:10):
people to hear what we got now it's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
And so tell us about the new album and what
was the process going into that album opposed to your
previous stuff, and like what ended up? How did it
start and how did the final project come about.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
So me and thirty we aren't original members. We weren't
there for the making of the first two EPs. I
don't know if you're there for the second EP. Thrifty, No,
I wasn't. Okay, So yeah, we're two. We're probably the
two newest people. But the first two EPs were done
(14:53):
with Raffie and Jose our vocalists, and while of our guitarists,
they worked with Hunter Young who's in Mood Ring, worked
with Psycho Frame. Has a really good repertoire of artist.
He is a brilliant artist. He was playing shows and
bands called Silence as well that I looked up to
a lot. So when me and Thrifty joined, I call
(15:17):
Brandon Thrifty.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
By the way, my bad. When I joined, I was
the last one to join.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
We were just putting out our second record, EP record whatever,
all the same stuff. Man, We're playing shows around that
for a little while, took our first trip to Alabama,
took a trip to Texas with a different drummer, our
(15:46):
friend Devin pick Up, Devin, I love you, and we
kind of circled around started to make music again, and
our guitarist Raffi left for a little bit because he
had personal reasons. You know, I won't go into details
with that, but he had to go for a little
bit figure himself out, do his thing. He came back
(16:09):
into the fold and listened to some of the stuff
that me and some of my guitarists are writing, and
it was like, look, I love this and what you
guys are doing is great, but a cold steal record
it may not be in the same direction. So he
(16:29):
sat down in a month wrote seven songs and in
the Glories basically, and he like I because I watched
Draffi in different bands growing up, and this was like
exponential Wow. I could imagine he would come back with
(16:53):
the stuff that he wrote for the record. So after
he did that, we all came together to help shape
those songs and created a couple more, one of them
being Blacksmith, where me and Sean and Math kind of
came together and then everyone else came up with details.
By that point we basically had everything together. We got
(17:15):
the offer from spine Farm, which Matt Heavey essentially referred
us over to spine Farmer was like, Hey, I played
a show with these guys once.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
They're incredible. Nice Matt from Trivium. What a legend. Like
the fact that he would say anything like this about a.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Band that we're in, like kind of blows your mind right.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Descendency was the first record, like first metal record physical
I ever bought for reference. I cried so hard, won't
dive into it.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Point being.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Spot him him up spine Farm and then then reaching
out to us being like, hey, we gotta make a record.
You guys are awesome. Matt Heavey like respects y'all and
wanted to put y'all along. So from there we got
placed in with Arthur Rizzik, who is the guitarist the
Cold World. We flew to Philly and literally recorded a
(18:10):
record together in his studio And it still feels like
a fever dream that we even had the opportunity to
do that. Yeah, when we got in the studio and
just being able to see what Arthur's ideas were, how
things were flowing in how to rearrange some of the
(18:32):
things we worked on together, and to hear his ideas
as to how to really exude the cold steel sound
out of what we're making. That stuff's invaluable, entirely invaluable,
and I'm so grateful for the combined work we all
came to together. And then that's not even mentioned, Like
(18:55):
fifty knocked out drums in like two days, because he's
a monster, one of the best drums in my life.
Like I could glaze all my members forever. I think
they're all genius in their own right. Everything was done
except lyrics because Jose is a poet before a musician.
(19:18):
He wants to make sure his words are good. He
took his time to make the record. We could not
give him any like am I allowed to curse. I'm
not gonna give him any bullshit. You can.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Nice anyway, you can say whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Uh, Jose wants to make sure his words are perfect.
He went back up to record vocals and we still
finished them up here, but like to help him get
his message across, with this record essentially being the reflection
of how we see the world these days and how
(20:01):
negative and distraughtful things have become over the last few
years to come together to compile into thoughtful and powerful
messaging that I am just endeared to the fact that
is on record, the fact that we all have our message,
(20:24):
our passion on record with people that care about it,
so many people that we all looked up to when
we were so young, and to this day, and then
to where we are now playing with shows in December
with obituary and still being able to play local shows
(20:45):
at the same time, this record is showing our dream
and we don't even know where it's going.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I love it, and you know, I want to focus on,
you know, some of the things you're talking about, because
it's like, like, first of all, who produces your album?
I think can make all the difference in the world.
I mean, we talked about the Black Album earlier. If
it weren't for the producer of that album, we might
(21:15):
not know that album to this day.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Complete facts like this album, the way that it's made,
it's Arthur is it coded entirely. And this is not
to this Hunter Young in any way either, because that
dude has done so much for those first two EPs
to establish the band.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
So of course we're grateful for that. But the work
Arthur did like just touch my heart in a certain
way just because I was there. You know.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
That's just my perspective on it, you know. But you'll
the rest of the record, you hear Arthur isik, the
whole thing is through this thing. So yeah, I don't
know this would be a black album for us type
but you know, well, I'm just grateful that we got
(22:03):
to do one with him in the first place. That's
my guy Guitarthur.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
But that and that's the same thing as you know,
you were talking about finding your sound. I think people
don't realize that bands don't find their sound until like
a few albums in like and it's and that's what's tough,
because when you're like one of the original fans, you know,
you want to hold on to that raw garage band
(22:30):
sound that you fell in love with, but that wasn't
necessarily the band's sound. That was the band's sound then
in the beginning, probably most of the time when I
came back in the day metal and punk where you
didn't even know how to play your instrument yet, you know.
And so I think that's what people miss out on,
(22:52):
is like as you're a few albums in you finally
find what you really want to sound like and you
have kind of learned how to play your instrument the
way you want to play it type of thing.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Mm hmm, definitely.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
I think with us it's more so just knowing we
wanted to play heavy music together. I think we necessarily
knew or almost didn't really care what kind of sound
it landed on. It's just like the people in the band,
we're all just friends, like we hang out.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
And just that's so import Yeah, it's so important.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
If you're not friends and you're on the road all
the time, especially in those early days when you're in
a band and always together, you're going to kill each
other if you're not friends.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Even though I feel like sometimes I want kill these
sometimes he just with his.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Memes, man, it just gets me to a point.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I can't help it.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Man, I go goofy mode whenever I'm around the boys
because I just want to make him laugh, you know it.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And that and you know what, that's the best messine
besides music. Laughter is the best medicine. Because people don't
realize when you're a musician and they look at you like, oh,
you're living a dream life and in some ways you are,
but in other ways it's like it can be hell,
you know, and so you need laughter to diversify from
(24:28):
that hell.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, you could be more right, and I love your message.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
He's like, he's like, oh, hell no, he's giving me
a platform to be goofy on.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yeah, yeah, there you go. Let let that goofiness fly man.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
And you know what's cool about that is everybody thinks
that metal heads are like totally dark and serious all
the time. But some of the people I know are
metal heads.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Were you, like, were you a class clown in high school?
Were you all the yearbooks for that at all? I
was for sure, Oh dude, I was like I was
just the big boy everyone knew. But I had a
sense of humor behind it and hands behind it if
people have problems, But that's not the point, you.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Same, Like, it's all just like, yes, we want to
represent the music we play properly, and we do, but
first and foremost, we're friends.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
We give love, we spread love. Fifty knows all about that.
That's the thing.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Like nice, there's nothing better than being up there with
those other five guys. And playing our fucking hearts out
every damn time.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
It doesn't get old.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
There's not a song I don't want to play because
it's been played too many times or whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
People give us a platform that's physical, metaphor.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
That's that's the point we get to do it in
the first place, and we're grateful that we get to
do anything local, let alone whatever scale this goes from.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
And I love the idea of your message because what
pisses me off in the past few years all these people,
it's all the people saying that musicians, artists should just
stick to the music. Hello, do you know about every
music ever in history was always a message. It was
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always some kind of protest. It was always speaking up.
That's what music's about, man, And it's it's cathartic for you,
the artists, so you can get this stuff out of you.
And for us it's therapy too, you know. And you
know what, you should have a voice. Why would people
that are getting up and doing what you do not
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have the voice? To me, that's pop music and I'm
not into pop.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
I do love me to some pop music. But man,
if you're gonna get me a microphone, how are you
gonna tell me how to.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Use my voice, no doubt. Like it's like you should.
That's what writing a song is about, isn't it. Like
you don't write a song that most of the time.
You don't write a song just making shit up. You
write a song that comes from inside and and frankly,
as somebody that was in the eighties, I'm a little
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like buged that in twenty twenty five, I feel like
we're back in the eighties again. You could take songs
that were written in the eighties, change the names and
it's and it's still an appropriate song today. And that's
why musicians, artists need to spread their voice so we
don't have to keep having the same thing happened over
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and over again. Exactly, I've a s laughter, let's hear it.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
What is that.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Speak on that?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
No?
Speaker 5 (28:06):
I agree, brother, I mean everyone's got a voice. Everybody
got everybody has a truth to speak, you know. And
from my point of view as a drummer, talk about
cathartic energy, bro, Like it is just energy and passion,
and like what I have to say is necessarily voiceless,
you know, it's a movement and energy and my voice
through movement, and I agree though, like lyrically, it can
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get kind of twisted, it can get kind of old
and moldy and the same thing.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Repeated over and over again. But like either way, you
gotta speak your truth.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
And I think that the more honest people are like
Jose Are Vocalist and a lot of other bands nowadays
that are just like raw and truthful in the way
that they portray themselves, in the way that they speak
and lyricize.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
I think that's the most important thing you can do.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
And people, people, consumers, fans all align with the t
They hear it, they see it, they feel it. Man,
if someone's not being honest or truthful vocally or not energetically,
it's you can read that ship from a Yeah, people.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Are tell my good book. You know.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
It's so transparent, you know, And and I think the
key to being a great artist is just being yourself exactly,
you know, exactly, and you know, like you said something
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about you know people, everybody has their own truth. Like
why shouldn't people have a voice. They don't have to agree,
not everybody else agree, but everybody should have a voice.
And whoever it relates to, you know, you'll find your people.
And that's the thing, if you're an artist, you're not
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going to find your people by being fake. You're going
to find your people by being real and speaking your truth,
and then people will align with you that feel the
same way.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Exactly. If we're so worried about what we're speaking on,
we wouldn't say it.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
But we just want to put our word out, our
energy out, the word of cold steal, whatever.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
People transpire it to be. But yeah, we're just going
to do it because we love doing it and it's
our word and it's our true word. And anything past that,
anything good, anything bad, that is just what happens. You know,
it's a connection.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
People aren't only gonna resonate with what you say, but
the people that do, the people that get it. It's
not that it matters more, but it matters in a
selfish manner.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, no doubt, you know. And there's so much conflict
out there that music like yours helps with that conflict.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
In my opinion, I appreciate that. Man.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Check the rest of us, dude, who like I don't
think we have an objective other than this is our word.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah, here you are.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
If you want to hear it, go for it.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
If you want to talk to us about it, go
for it. If you don't, that's cool. There's so many
other bands, so many good bands, so many people worth
the time. As long as people find their message through
whatever they're listening to or writing or whatever, congrats.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
That is the find your.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Place, that's the goal. That's the goal. So tell everybody
how they can reach out to you on socials, on
the web, how they can get the new album. It
drops November seventh, right.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Yes, November seventh, Discipline Punished full length record. Our instagram
is at Cold Steel Band fl That's the main place,
and the link in our bios are linked tree. You'll
be able to pre order our record, preorder vinyl, see
all of our music videos, and send us a message
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if you really rock with the comment whatever you want
to do. But I hope everyone listens to the record
when it comes out. They like the songs, and yeah,
Cold Steel was the best.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
There you go. You got this do fucking rock man
and it did.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
It's funny, it's modern, but it brought me back to
back in the day, you know, like it just and
I love too that the collaboration type of thing that
you do, and that and that it's not all the same,
you know, and it appeals to all my schizophrenic personalities.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
We got the same ship, record experience together to agree.
Sometimes that ain't the per world man.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Oh no it is. It Hats off to you, though,
to have that many people, with that many opinions and
actually come out with a badass album at the at
the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Good.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
More so, thanks for bringing us this music, Thanks for
speaking your truth and you're and giving us your voice,
and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Thank you for a time man, big love to everybody anytime.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
I'm w for CUI Radio.
Hi, you live on to censure.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Wow for you young.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Shot shot, night.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Light bat Watch.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here with
our next guests at they're a little bit north. They're
a little bit west from me up in the Tampa area,
and uh, I love the Tampa area and the music
scene there. So let's welcome to this show, Cold Steele.
How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yeah, man doing good? Thank you for having us pipe Man.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh my pleasure man, And you guys are badass. And
I contribute that to the Tampa metal scene because I
was listening to new music. I'm like, man, it just
sounds like every great metal you could possibly imagine that area.
You know, you guys sound unique, but you also have
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that familiar sound of like some of the greats that
came out of your area. Oh nice much.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
That's so flattering, man, Thank you. Yeah, Man, RAFFI had
a good hand. One of our guitars had a good,
great hand in writing everything. And I think that dude
leads Tampa through and through.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
So yeah, we're super grateful for the gracious words. Man.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Thank you. Yeah. And what I think is cool about
it too, is Okay, So I'm a metal head from
way back, from when you could only like a certain
type of music, but we actually did like all other
a bunch of other types. You just either weren't allowed
to admit it or weren't allowed to go to a show.
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And I find that's what your bad is and what
makes you unique is you combine like all of the
heavy genres that I like, you know, all in one place.
You know, it has a thrashy sound to it, it
has a you know, a partial death metal sound to it,
hardcore sound. It just it puts it all together to
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make you sound like you.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Definitely, I think I definitely agree with that. A lot
of us wearing different sound of metal bands. I was
in death coore bands, metal core bands, now a thrash
slash metal bands, thrifty, you were playing reggae, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I mean, we're all over the spot, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
I think we had a lot of a lot of
good places with just our influences alone, and they come
very eat and fast.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
See. I love that too nowadays, especially because I find
like the bands I like the most are the ones
that have so many different blended, you know, genres influences
you know that bring it to a table and make
it sound unique, because a lot of metal bands nowadays
are just like, you know, they plug in this formula.
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I find a lot of times, you know, and everybody
in the band is into the same exact subgenre microgenre,
and that makes it sound the same as every other
band because there's nothing being added to the recipe.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Yeah, I've heard that people are definitely following a formula nowadays,
but it's nice to find somebody that's like, really true
to their passionate writes whatever they want to write, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
No doubt.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Definitely.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, I as formally it as at amazing, Like I think,
just us figuring each other out and what we all
like and compromising to one spot.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You don't necessarily need.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
To start in one specific place, you know, Like yeah,
one day we thirty can come through with just a
simple two step groove on drums and then we'll play
whatever we feel around that, you know what I mean.
It doesn't have to stick to a label or a
genre in that way. But I think we all just
love heavy music, and yeah, I think the music represents
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a lot of the different versions of heaviness that we
really like and respect.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, and I think heavy music takes you on journey,
and when you do combine all those different elements, that's
what makes the journey. Like if this verse one, it's
the same as verse three, and the rifts at the
beginning are the same as the mental as the end,
like all completely the same. I don't think that has
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as much heaviness as bands like you that, like one
second you're in one vibe and then a few seconds
later you're in a different vibe.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Mm hmm. I can rock with that. I rock with that,
I agree to a certain extent.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Like the one thing that comes to mind is like
songs like the Day That Never Comes with Taluka Yea.
The versions are exactly the same, but that's still one
of the dopest songs ever written. Somehow for them still
making songs like that in two thousand and nine read
defining their own version of heavy you know, but the diversity,
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like the different things they did, definitely shine more so.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I definitely see where you're coming from with that.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well, think about from any like band, even going to
the Beatles. Okay, the Beatles couldnot be labeled into one
genre because like one album, there may be one genre
and then another album, there is something different. I think that.
I think that's the key of being a true artist
is you kind of evolve and you experiment. I also
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think that's the whole idea of metal and how metal
started is experimenting and you know, not just going by
what is the norm. It's like figuring out what kind
of sound you can make?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yeah, no question, man, Like yeah, yeah, I don't believe
it that. I agree with you totally.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
And Metallica is a perfect example of that. I'm glad
you brought that up because I was at Metallica's first
show ever in LA and you know, I was one
of those assholes from the eighties that was like when
the Black album came out, I was me and my twenty.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Four hardcore fans were like, fuck those posers, blah blah
blah blah blah, sellout. And but you know what, as
I got a little older, little bored, but sure and
gone through the whole cycle of a Metallica, it's like,
you know what. You listen to James and he talks
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about those old days of how he sang and he
says I sucked. Now we thought his voice was the
best ever, and it was like, now you know, like
even with Seeking Destroy he was saying that interview recently,
I heard him saying about, you know, they play it
at the hockey game, you know, but they played the
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old version, not the newer version. He goes, I learned
how to sing like I didn't know what the hell
I was doing in that first version. Why are they
playing that one?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
It sucks? And I can see both sides of it,
And I could see the side of him as the
artists and them as the artist. It's like, why would
you want to stay a garage band? You know, why
wouldn't you want to get better at your craft experiment?
And you know, they've gotten a lite of hate sometimes
for like doing all these different things, whether it be
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you know, doing the album with lou Reed or or like, uh,
stuff that was on Reload. I don't even say Sane
Anger because I think there's some songs on Sane Anger
that I like. I love Frantic, yeah, dude, right, I
love Invisible Kid. And you know, everybody talks about the
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drums on sant Anger. I'm like, I think the drums
were pretty badass.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Actually, you know, crazy you're speaking to the choir man.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I'm with you on that It's like, I think we
can relate it to our music because like our first
two EPs are crossover, that's the first word that comes
to mind. It's just thrash and metal quarter put together.
And this new record that we're doing definitely has elements
of that, but there's definitely different routes that we've taken
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to try and solidify what the Cold Steel sound.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Is, at least for what it is now. You know.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah, I think it speaks more to the comfort levels
of what you want to do and what you want
to change. You know, we wanted just to make a record,
and we were completely okay with compromising what may have
been an original sound, but not necessarily compromising the integrity
of the music. You know, we still have those moments
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of thrive, so those crossover heavy moments, and we may
plan forever, we may play them until next record.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
We'll wait till that happens.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
And I love that. I love Listen. You're an artist, okay.
You you want to explore your craft and what you
can do and evolve, you know, And I don't know,
it's like, why would you want to write the same
song over and over again? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I agreed, yeah, unless you know, if it ain't broke,
don't fix it too. I see that side too. You know,
if people can rock with them, want to do that,
go for it. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I think arts should do whatever they want to do.
That's my point. Yeah, you're the artists, right, You're the
artist man. And like I've always felt that. I was
very involved in that eighties metal scene, and I got
out of the scene because it pissed me off what
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the record labels were telling artists to do. And I'm like,
I think the business people should be there, but they
should do the business stuff and the artist should do
the creative stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's the way it should be. And it's funny, I'm
gonna piss you off even more because you said crossover.
I was at the first crossover show ever. Oh, Like
I know, I wasn't allowed, but I wasn't allowed to
go to punk shows. Like I was a long hair
and I loved punk and I couldn't go because I'd
get my ass beat, you know. So that first crossover
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show it was insane actually. So it was at the
Sun Valley Sportsman's Lodge, which was like this Elks lodge,
and there was no security. I don't think the Elks
Lodge had any idea what was coming into that building, okay,
And so you had on like the metal side, you
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had to span Savage Grace, which was a pre popular
thrash band in LA that never really made it too
much farther than that, and it was let's see Dark
Angel and it was possessed on the metal side. On
the punk side was Suicidal pre crossover. It was coc
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pre Pepper, so when they were hardcore, and then and
the descendants, and when I tell you like it's the
most it's my most memorable gig, and I've been to
like thousands of them. There was no place to hide
in that venue. I mean there were people like climbing
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up on the rafters and and you can't even call
it stage diving because it wasn't off the stage. People
flying through the air, and it was just this brutality
of finally the punks and the metal heads figuring out
that we should be together, like because I always thought
it was stupid. You know, the jocks would kick both
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of our asses and we would fight with each other.
We should have banned together. And that's why it's beautiful
that we have bands like you guys today where you
can go to like I go on tour and I
do festivals all over the US, UK, Eurepe where you
can have every type of heavy music at one festival
and everybody get along.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh yeah, it's dream.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
It's a dream, dude, Like right, yeah, you know I
could imagine like being raised in like the eighties climate.
You know, I'm a sensitive voice, so you know, different
things like that. Who knows what could have happened done,
But like being you know, circling back to Tampa, like
coming to shows all the time where you know, you
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have acoustic acts opening shows and then you have bands
like a Dalia headlining them, you know, like a lot
of hardcore, and then you have shows where like I
don't know, bands like Holly Maddox playing with eight strings
or like, you know, I can go forever about it,
you know, but the fact that you can circle around
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a city that created death metal but find so much
more and be able to expand on so much more
of it as a young person, I think we're spoiled
for choice, and I think it shows with the stuff
that we make together and who knows what else will
make from here? You know, I'm just excited for your
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people to hear what we got now it's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
And so tell us about the new album and what
was the process going into that album opposed to your
previous stuff, and like what ended up? How did it
start and how did the final project come about.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
So me and thirty we aren't original members. We weren't
there for the making of the first two EPs. I
don't know if you're there for the second EP. Thrifty, No,
I wasn't. Okay, So yeah, we're two. We're probably the
two newest people. But the first two EPs were done
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with Raffie and Jose our vocalists, and while of our guitarists,
they worked with Hunter Young who's in Mood Ring, worked
with Psycho Frame. Has a really good repertoire of artist.
He is a brilliant artist. He was playing shows and
bands called Silence as well that I looked up to
a lot. So when me and Thrifty joined, I call
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Brandon Thrifty.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
By the way, my bad. When I joined, I was
the last one to join.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
We were just putting out our second record, EP record whatever,
all the same stuff. Man, We're playing shows around that
for a little while, took our first trip to Alabama,
took a trip to Texas with a different drummer, our
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friend Devin pick Up, Devin, I love you, and we
kind of circled around started to make music again, and
our guitarist Raffi left for a little bit because he
had personal reasons. You know, I won't go into details
with that, but he had to go for a little
bit figure himself out, do his thing. He came back
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into the fold and listened to some of the stuff
that me and some of my guitarists are writing, and
it was like, look, I love this and what you
guys are doing is great, but a cold steal record
it may not be in the same direction. So he
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sat down in a month wrote seven songs and in
the Glories basically, and he like I because I watched
Draffi in different bands growing up, and this was like
exponential Wow. I could imagine he would come back with
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the stuff that he wrote for the record. So after
he did that, we all came together to help shape
those songs and created a couple more, one of them
being Blacksmith, where me and Sean and Math kind of
came together and then everyone else came up with details.
By that point we basically had everything together. We got
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the offer from spine Farm, which Matt Heavey essentially referred
us over to spine Farmer was like, Hey, I played
a show with these guys once.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
They're incredible. Nice Matt from Trivium. What a legend. Like
the fact that he would say anything like this about a.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Band that we're in, like kind of blows your mind right.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Descendency was the first record, like first metal record physical
I ever bought for reference. I cried so hard, won't
dive into it.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Point being.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Spot him him up spine Farm and then then reaching
out to us being like, hey, we gotta make a record.
You guys are awesome. Matt Heavey like respects y'all and
wanted to put y'all along. So from there we got
placed in with Arthur Rizzik, who is the guitarist the
Cold World. We flew to Philly and literally recorded a
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record together in his studio And it still feels like
a fever dream that we even had the opportunity to
do that. Yeah, when we got in the studio and
just being able to see what Arthur's ideas were, how
things were flowing in how to rearrange some of the
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things we worked on together, and to hear his ideas
as to how to really exude the cold steel sound
out of what we're making. That stuff's invaluable, entirely invaluable,
and I'm so grateful for the combined work we all
came to together. And then that's not even mentioned, Like
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fifty knocked out drums in like two days, because he's
a monster, one of the best drums in my life.
Like I could glaze all my members forever. I think
they're all genius in their own right. Everything was done
except lyrics because Jose is a poet before a musician.
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He wants to make sure his words are good. He
took his time to make the record. We could not
give him any like am I allowed to curse. I'm
not gonna give him any bullshit. You can.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Nice anyway, you can say whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Uh, Jose wants to make sure his words are perfect.
He went back up to record vocals and we still
finished them up here, but like to help him get
his message across, with this record essentially being the reflection
of how we see the world these days and how
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negative and distraughtful things have become over the last few
years to come together to compile into thoughtful and powerful
messaging that I am just endeared to the fact that
is on record, the fact that we all have our message,
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our passion on record with people that care about it,
so many people that we all looked up to when
we were so young, and to this day, and then
to where we are now playing with shows in December
with obituary and still being able to play local shows
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at the same time, this record is showing our dream
and we don't even know where it's going.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I love it, and you know, I want to focus on,
you know, some of the things you're talking about, because
it's like, like, first of all, who produces your album?
I think can make all the difference in the world.
I mean, we talked about the Black Album earlier. If
it weren't for the producer of that album, we might
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not know that album to this day.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Complete facts like this album, the way that it's made,
it's Arthur is it coded entirely. And this is not
to this Hunter Young in any way either, because that
dude has done so much for those first two EPs
to establish the band.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
So of course we're grateful for that. But the work
Arthur did like just touch my heart in a certain
way just because I was there. You know.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
That's just my perspective on it, you know. But you'll
the rest of the record, you hear Arthur isik, the
whole thing is through this thing. So yeah, I don't
know this would be a black album for us type
but you know, well, I'm just grateful that we got
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to do one with him in the first place. That's
my guy Guitarthur.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
But that and that's the same thing as you know,
you were talking about finding your sound. I think people
don't realize that bands don't find their sound until like
a few albums in like and it's and that's what's tough,
because when you're like one of the original fans, you know,
you want to hold on to that raw garage band
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sound that you fell in love with, but that wasn't
necessarily the band's sound. That was the band's sound then
in the beginning, probably most of the time when I
came back in the day metal and punk where you
didn't even know how to play your instrument yet, you know.
And so I think that's what people miss out on,
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is like as you're a few albums in you finally
find what you really want to sound like and you
have kind of learned how to play your instrument the
way you want to play it type of thing.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Mm hmm, definitely.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
I think with us it's more so just knowing we
wanted to play heavy music together. I think we necessarily
knew or almost didn't really care what kind of sound
it landed on. It's just like the people in the band,
we're all just friends, like we hang out.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
And just that's so import Yeah, it's so important.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
If you're not friends and you're on the road all
the time, especially in those early days when you're in
a band and always together, you're going to kill each
other if you're not friends.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Even though I feel like sometimes I want kill these
sometimes he just with his.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Memes, man, it just gets me to a point.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I can't help it.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Man, I go goofy mode whenever I'm around the boys
because I just want to make him laugh, you know it.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And that and you know what, that's the best messine
besides music. Laughter is the best medicine. Because people don't
realize when you're a musician and they look at you like, oh,
you're living a dream life and in some ways you are,
but in other ways it's like it can be hell,
you know, and so you need laughter to diversify from
(24:28):
that hell.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, you could be more right, and I love your message.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
He's like, he's like, oh, hell no, he's giving me
a platform to be goofy on.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yeah, yeah, there you go. Let let that goofiness fly man.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
And you know what's cool about that is everybody thinks
that metal heads are like totally dark and serious all
the time. But some of the people I know are
metal heads.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Were you, like, were you a class clown in high school?
Were you all the yearbooks for that at all? I
was for sure, Oh dude, I was like I was
just the big boy everyone knew. But I had a
sense of humor behind it and hands behind it if
people have problems, But that's not the point, you.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Same, Like, it's all just like, yes, we want to
represent the music we play properly, and we do, but
first and foremost, we're friends.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
We give love, we spread love. Fifty knows all about that.
That's the thing.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Like nice, there's nothing better than being up there with
those other five guys. And playing our fucking hearts out
every damn time.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
It doesn't get old.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
There's not a song I don't want to play because
it's been played too many times or whatever.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
People give us a platform that's physical, metaphor.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
That's that's the point we get to do it in
the first place, and we're grateful that we get to
do anything local, let alone whatever scale this goes from.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
And I love the idea of your message because what
pisses me off in the past few years all these people,
it's all the people saying that musicians, artists should just
stick to the music. Hello, do you know about every
music ever in history was always a message. It was
(26:37):
always some kind of protest. It was always speaking up.
That's what music's about, man, And it's it's cathartic for you,
the artists, so you can get this stuff out of you.
And for us it's therapy too, you know. And you
know what, you should have a voice. Why would people
that are getting up and doing what you do not
(26:59):
have the voice? To me, that's pop music and I'm
not into pop.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
I do love me to some pop music. But man,
if you're gonna get me a microphone, how are you
gonna tell me how to.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Use my voice, no doubt. Like it's like you should.
That's what writing a song is about, isn't it. Like
you don't write a song that most of the time.
You don't write a song just making shit up. You
write a song that comes from inside and and frankly,
as somebody that was in the eighties, I'm a little
(27:32):
like buged that in twenty twenty five, I feel like
we're back in the eighties again. You could take songs
that were written in the eighties, change the names and
it's and it's still an appropriate song today. And that's
why musicians, artists need to spread their voice so we
don't have to keep having the same thing happened over
(27:55):
and over again. Exactly, I've a s laughter, let's hear it.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
What is that.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Speak on that?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
No?
Speaker 5 (28:06):
I agree, brother, I mean everyone's got a voice. Everybody
got everybody has a truth to speak, you know. And
from my point of view as a drummer, talk about
cathartic energy, bro, Like it is just energy and passion,
and like what I have to say is necessarily voiceless,
you know, it's a movement and energy and my voice
through movement, and I agree though, like lyrically, it can
(28:29):
get kind of twisted, it can get kind of old
and moldy and the same thing.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Repeated over and over again. But like either way, you
gotta speak your truth.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
And I think that the more honest people are like
Jose Are Vocalist and a lot of other bands nowadays
that are just like raw and truthful in the way
that they portray themselves, in the way that they speak
and lyricize.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
I think that's the most important thing you can do.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
And people, people, consumers, fans all align with the t
They hear it, they see it, they feel it. Man,
if someone's not being honest or truthful vocally or not energetically,
it's you can read that ship from a Yeah, people.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Are tell my good book. You know.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
It's so transparent, you know, And and I think the
key to being a great artist is just being yourself exactly,
you know, exactly, and you know, like you said something
(29:34):
about you know people, everybody has their own truth. Like
why shouldn't people have a voice. They don't have to agree,
not everybody else agree, but everybody should have a voice.
And whoever it relates to, you know, you'll find your people.
And that's the thing, if you're an artist, you're not
(29:55):
going to find your people by being fake. You're going
to find your people by being real and speaking your truth,
and then people will align with you that feel the
same way.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Exactly. If we're so worried about what we're speaking on,
we wouldn't say it.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
But we just want to put our word out, our
energy out, the word of cold steal, whatever.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
People transpire it to be. But yeah, we're just going
to do it because we love doing it and it's
our word and it's our true word. And anything past that,
anything good, anything bad, that is just what happens. You know,
it's a connection.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
People aren't only gonna resonate with what you say, but
the people that do, the people that get it. It's
not that it matters more, but it matters in a
selfish manner.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, no doubt, you know. And there's so much conflict
out there that music like yours helps with that conflict.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
In my opinion, I appreciate that. Man.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Check the rest of us, dude, who like I don't
think we have an objective other than this is our word.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah, here you are.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
If you want to hear it, go for it.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
If you want to talk to us about it, go
for it. If you don't, that's cool. There's so many
other bands, so many good bands, so many people worth
the time. As long as people find their message through
whatever they're listening to or writing or whatever, congrats.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
That is the find your.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Place, that's the goal. That's the goal. So tell everybody
how they can reach out to you on socials, on
the web, how they can get the new album. It
drops November seventh, right.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Yes, November seventh, Discipline Punished full length record. Our instagram
is at Cold Steel Band fl That's the main place,
and the link in our bios are linked tree. You'll
be able to pre order our record, preorder vinyl, see
all of our music videos, and send us a message
(32:09):
if you really rock with the comment whatever you want
to do. But I hope everyone listens to the record
when it comes out. They like the songs, and yeah,
Cold Steel was the best.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
There you go. You got this do fucking rock man
and it did.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
It's funny, it's modern, but it brought me back to
back in the day, you know, like it just and
I love too that the collaboration type of thing that
you do, and that and that it's not all the same,
you know, and it appeals to all my schizophrenic personalities.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
We got the same ship, record experience together to agree.
Sometimes that ain't the per world man.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Oh no it is. It Hats off to you, though,
to have that many people, with that many opinions and
actually come out with a badass album at the at
the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Good.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
More so, thanks for bringing us this music, Thanks for
speaking your truth and you're and giving us your voice,
and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Thank you for a time man, big love to everybody anytime.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
I'm w for CUI Radio.
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