September 22, 2025 • 16 mins
PipemanRadio Interviews Halocene at Louder Than Life 2025
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Louder Than Life 2025 Wrapped Up 8 Electrifying Days Of Music Performances In Louisville, With America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival (Sept 18-21) & Bourbon & Beyond A Week Prior (Sept 11-14) Bringing In A Combined, Record-Breaking Attendance Of Over 450,000 Fans
Louder Than Life Returns September 17-20, 2026 First Headliner Revealed: My Chemical Romance Plus Many More Acts To Be Announced Early Bird Tickets Will Go On Sale This Fall At LouderThanLifeFestival.com
Louder Than Life not only continues its reputation as America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival with the 2025 edition, but the 11th year of the event also marked the biggest festival in the history of DWP, and breaking rock festival records in North America. There were a number of once-in-a-lifetime moments over the course of the four days that added to the specialness of Louder Than Life.
In addition to music performances, this year’s edition of Louder Than Life featured various partner onsite activations, award-winning beverages and delectable eats from partners including Acathla Clothing, Al Capone, Angel's Envy, Basil Hayden, Beatbox Beverages, Black Shades, Blackcraft Cult, Bud Light, Cutwater Spirits, Demons Behind Me, Dimebag Hardware, Drew Estate, Eargasm, Elijah Craig, Fxck Cancer, Huber's Starlight Distillery, Jack Daniel's, Jim Beam, Knob Creek & Rye, KREWE, Kroger, Maker's Mark, Middle West Spirits, Milagro Tequila, Old Forester, Park Community Credit Union, Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, Parlor Root Beer, Red Bull, Strüng, Take Me Home, The Music Experience, The Taylor Foundation, Tito's Handmade Vodka, To Write Love on Her Arms, U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, White Claw, and Willett Distillery. According to Louisville Tourism, it is estimated that Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life together generated nearly $43 million in local economic impact in 2025. The back-to-back festivals also drove some of the highest hotel demand of the year, with overall occupancy reaching more than 80% citywide. These preliminary estimates highlight the tremendous tourism and economic value of the festivals, which bring hundreds of thousands of visitors to Louisville and fuel spending across hotels, restaurants, bourbon attractions, and local businesses.
Louder Than Life is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America.
To learn more about Louder Than Life, please visit:
Website: https://louderthanlifefestival.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/louderthanlifefestival
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LTLFest
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louderthanlifefest
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@louderthanlifefestival
#LouderThanLife
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Louder Than Life 2025 Wrapped Up 8 Electrifying Days Of Music Performances In Louisville, With America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival (Sept 18-21) & Bourbon & Beyond A Week Prior (Sept 11-14) Bringing In A Combined, Record-Breaking Attendance Of Over 450,000 Fans
Louder Than Life Returns September 17-20, 2026 First Headliner Revealed: My Chemical Romance Plus Many More Acts To Be Announced Early Bird Tickets Will Go On Sale This Fall At LouderThanLifeFestival.com
Louder Than Life not only continues its reputation as America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival with the 2025 edition, but the 11th year of the event also marked the biggest festival in the history of DWP, and breaking rock festival records in North America. There were a number of once-in-a-lifetime moments over the course of the four days that added to the specialness of Louder Than Life.
In addition to music performances, this year’s edition of Louder Than Life featured various partner onsite activations, award-winning beverages and delectable eats from partners including Acathla Clothing, Al Capone, Angel's Envy, Basil Hayden, Beatbox Beverages, Black Shades, Blackcraft Cult, Bud Light, Cutwater Spirits, Demons Behind Me, Dimebag Hardware, Drew Estate, Eargasm, Elijah Craig, Fxck Cancer, Huber's Starlight Distillery, Jack Daniel's, Jim Beam, Knob Creek & Rye, KREWE, Kroger, Maker's Mark, Middle West Spirits, Milagro Tequila, Old Forester, Park Community Credit Union, Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, Parlor Root Beer, Red Bull, Strüng, Take Me Home, The Music Experience, The Taylor Foundation, Tito's Handmade Vodka, To Write Love on Her Arms, U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, White Claw, and Willett Distillery. According to Louisville Tourism, it is estimated that Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life together generated nearly $43 million in local economic impact in 2025. The back-to-back festivals also drove some of the highest hotel demand of the year, with overall occupancy reaching more than 80% citywide. These preliminary estimates highlight the tremendous tourism and economic value of the festivals, which bring hundreds of thousands of visitors to Louisville and fuel spending across hotels, restaurants, bourbon attractions, and local businesses.
Louder Than Life is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America.
To learn more about Louder Than Life, please visit:
Website: https://louderthanlifefestival.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/louderthanlifefestival
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LTLFest
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louderthanlifefest
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@louderthanlifefestival
#LouderThanLife
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you lunto here, that's sure for see why were
you you?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is the pipe Man here on the adventureds Pipe
Man W four C Y Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
And I'm here with Addie and Bradley of Halisine.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Nice here at Louder than Life. It's your first time
at Louder, isn't it it is? It's pretty cool, isn't
it something else?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
The weather is since toasty out there today.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's a little toasty, but it could be worse. It
really have a tornado.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Okay, we're from Nashville, so that does. That is common
with us as well.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It happens almost every year here. We're lucky it hasn't
happened yet, but last weekend. If I can find the picture,
I'll show you what happened here. Okay, And I'll find
that while we're talking. But I've been actually following you
guys for a while because you have badass music. I
think I found you on TikTok oh sick right. Yeah,
that's what's so cool about today is like you can
(01:07):
find bands on TikTok Like years ago, how do you
find a band? It was not that easy, And now
you can use as a tool to really get your
music out there and not depend on anybody except yourself.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
We've been in the industry since two thousand and eight,
and back then it was MySpace, so we saw the
whole progression from the uprising of YouTube to the TikTok sensationalism,
and then we were doing live streaming on Twitch.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
So we're kind of all over the place.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I love that. And here's what the picture is going
to pull up?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh shit, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
First wheel right there.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's striking the actual Ferris wheel.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah. That was last week and Dani Wimmer at another
festival here and that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, that's pretty incredible. Right, that's a great picture there.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
We could put it in a video too.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Did you take that picture?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
No? Okay, that's what was called Bourbon Beyond, so it
was on there inside.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Oh okay, okay, but I.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Heard it, like I was out there and I heard
him like, what was that? Yeah, you never know what.
I live in Florida, so I just got a notification
I might go home to a hurricane, so who knows.
But it is toasty out there because I'm from Florida
and this is hot. Like I'm to go home in
the cool.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
We're originally from Phoenix, Arizona, so to be honest, it's
actually quite mild, but when you're out there all day,
it is definitely brutal.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And when you're performing.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I would say performing is worse because you're gets you
get soaking wet because the humidity. Yeah, and Arizona it's
sure you'll sweat, but it's like a gross hot here,
and it's like a deadly hot there. So it's like
figure poison exactly. Florida. You that's like maybe the worst
of all of it, right, right, Like.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I remember Warped Tour, they used to do the last
show in westbaum Beach in August. I'm like, are you insane?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Same Phoenix, it would be July. It'd bely what on
black off asphalt, like not even on grass.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It was the worst, But it's part of the game, right.
But when you go up on stage though, like at
first maybe, but then you get in the zone, right
and then afterwards you die?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, no, zero percent. I die fucking in the middle
of those shows. So we were just in Europe and
we were and they had no AC and this particular
venue I don't even remember what it was called, and
it was we had cut like six soft. We couldn't finish.
It was that hot and humid and just deathly and
once you get like hundreds of bodies in there too,
(03:33):
I don't know how that is even legal. It was bad. No,
we still have a great time. Those are like they
feel like punk shows, but as we get bigger and
more people get in, it gets more dangerous.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Like literally literally there's bands where, especially like the drummer
will like pass out of heat stroke during the middle
of the set.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
No, I mean at that show particular, I had to
get my shoes off because I was really it was
hard to stay conscious at a certain point.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I hear you, but you guys are pretty badass. How
would you describe your music without using genre to the
listeners that may have never heard you?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Okay, well, we just like to rockify things. So we
started off as kind of a when we were younger.
I think a lot of bands go through this when
they're young, and they kind of go through the like
punk pop punk pop rock kind of face, you know,
and then he's your taste, evolve and become a better musician.
Our band has always been really democratized by our fans,
(04:27):
and we would live stream or do videos, and they
would be like, you should try screaming, Brad, And so
I started screaming. Now ADDIE's fucking screaming. So now we're
kind of going through a metal core phase, if you will.
So I mean right now, and we said don't use
the genre fans. I mean, we're at a metal festival,
what the hell right, right, But we've been doing it
for so long. We've scratched a little bit of every
(04:49):
genre for the most part. But we always try to
do like a rock ify flare, whether that like cover
or even like our originals when we might start off
writing and it's not rock yet, right, and then we
just kind of like, okay, our formulas just try to
rock wify it a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
HALLI SEENI I love that that that's a perfect term.
Rockify it. Yeah, okay, and yeah, I mean I the
reason I say no genre is because I hate how
artists are boxed in. Yes, especially nowadays, it's like there's like, okay,
your subpost metal, or.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
When you're doing like the metadata when you because we
do our own distro and everything, like you know, where
you don't have a label. We've been doing it all ourselves.
You gotta choose all those subgenres and each song is different, like,
well this was not metal anymore? Right, And you're right,
like you you gotta choose what do you go with?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You know?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And if God forbid, you make the wrong fucking answer.
I don't know where that metadata goes or how it
affects the algorithms these days.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Right, exactly, And I almost a lot of times bad.
I'll have bands like make up their own genre name
during the interview because it's pretty much what it comes
down to it. There's so many micro jos that one
band could fit into each.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
So some fan it wasn't a fan, actually, it was
a hater that left a comment and called us Barbie medal,
and I thought that was fucking awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I feel like, I feel like if someone's gonna own
Barbie Metal, it would be like Scene queen or something.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Though, But she's bimbo core.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And I hear all of them. There's this one band
and a really good by of interview. I can't remember
her name right now, but they are beauty core.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, I mean that's the thing. Though, It's like, I
don't know we the band.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Will be that.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Bring the handicap town, Nah.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
But I mean, yeah, we don't really subscribe to one
label either, because even if you're on our live stream,
like we'll go from singing the heaviest song to like
country like out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Because you're an artist, you should just express yourself. You
shouldn't be like, well I have to do this kind
of music. Let's do whatever you feel.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yeah, So I think it makes you a better artist
when you take from others genres.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That's a good point. So we as we're coming up
and we finally were able to leave our jobs, well
we had like alter egos and we'd do weddings and
casinos and those who're playing top forty shit, we never
want to play. But you kind of start to appreciate
other genres and it really does make you a better musician.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Oh, I think that wholeheartedly because to your point when
you were talking about punk, Okay, most punk bands, the
old school ones, the whole idea of punk is they
didn't know how to play their Instagram. Yeah, so then
as they played more, they learned it along the way.
So then you evolve and expand how your music is.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I would say that's very true for us, Like we
started in like pop punk, kind of genre. But as
time has gone on, we've kind of collected things here
and there. We went through kind of like a Bradley's.
One of Bradley's biggest influences is Hans Zimmer, so we
almost had like I wouldn't say symphonic metal.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
So you know, okay, I changed my answer now in
my brain, and it's not for the same It's like
I always think if Hans Zimmer was in a rock
or a metal band, that's what I want us to
sound like. Whether we hit that mark or not, I
can't tell you, but yeah. And then Nattie's got a
slew of inspirations.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, I'm all over the board.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So what are your top five inspirations?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Oh shit, okay, Well, like if we're talking childhood, I'm
gonna have to go, well, Avri Levine because that was
my obsession as a child, My chemical Romance, Motley Crue,
Britney Spears.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
What's my last one?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Modern nowadays I would say like Sleep Token, Battleman's spirit Box,
I Prevail.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, so spirit Box. I am in fascination when I
see her sing, Yeah, watch the technique of her mouth. Yes,
Like it's exactly like my hand is showing she's scared.
It goes like this, Yeah she is fad ass, she
kill her. I'm watching them, Like the way she just
(09:09):
opens her mouth. Ye can tell she's using a proper
technique because I used to sing thrash metal but we
didn't have technique, right, So you just fuck up your
voice and you fuck up your throat and you're.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Done technique education and academia. Actual, how do you do it?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Opera?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And just fuck it right?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Right?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
But yeah, I So I had the honor of interviewing
her like very early on when they were first blowing
up after they released Circle with me, I was doing
an interview with her. I I teamed up with Sunheiser
and we had a show called The Pulse for a
little while and I was interviewing artists and everything. It
was during COVID, so she was like just chatting it
up with me and.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
She was still working her day job.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
We talked about just like being a chick in a
band and like it was cool.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
It was really cool.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
That's way cool. And now take a look at your mic.
You can't see it.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Oh with the Senneiser Mike, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, see, so you're with the thing. The logos. Ye,
you're representing right, Absolutely, we have to, so it's funny
you should say that.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah, we're big fans of Senheiser, like they have supported
us since we were babies.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Like nice, we shout out to Timmet Sennineiser. We had
maybe I don't know hardly any of the falling whatsoever,
and they asked us to come play an acoustic set
at NAM one year and then they have supported us
and helped us.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
With gear and support when it comes to that kind
of stuff like freebies is not important what you learn.
It's support when gear fails or you need replacements or
this or that, or help setting up for a bigger tour.
And they especially as an invent artists, when you can't
hire your own backline stage manager, you are the fucking
I'm wearing the hats, you know it's me And so
(10:55):
I can literally call them on speed dial so to speak.
And they helped us out. So I did not to
go off the rails, but they have been amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
No, I love hearing that. That's so cool. You know
that you want to hear things for artists because there's
not a lot of support now. Yes, and so when
you hear a company support in you. I love that.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I think it is like so massive in what they
do because we are completely independent, so having that support
is just like incredible.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, and what's cool is you mentioned Mike chem So
now we have to talk about Danny Wimmer and talk
directly to him. Yes, so that you could play all
those festivals next year after yesterday's announcement.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Fun fact one, one year they dropped off or couldn't
make a show to Arizona and our band field in.
It was Blink wenty two, Jimmy World and My Chemical
Romance and our nothing band was able to fill in
for My Chemical Romance.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
So maybe you could do that.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
So Mike came, if you're listening, well, I mean technically,
I mean you need you need DREG support.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yep, we saved you though one time, right.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
We already the terribly filled your shoes at one date
in Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yes, And I thought it was pretty wild too that
you said Motley Crue. Yes, I used to go see
them before they even had an album. No, Like, it's
so funny too because that was the first club show
I ever went to in my life. Like before that
was just regular concerts and they were like horror punk.
They weren't clam yet. Yeah, I know, and I just
(12:26):
remember my jaw was dropped out of like I'm never
going to a real concert ever again. Yeah, it was
like the most amazing experience.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yes, I mean, like I grew up on that kind
of music. My dad is a guitarist and would be
playing that all the time. My mom and I would
be headbanging. So it's all the like hair metal bands
and everything. So yeah, they're a hilariously big part of
my influence as an artist.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Well it's funny too because like I go too Rainbow
Now in Lao Yeah, and I look, I'm like, how
did I get into in there when it was like
thirteen years old? No kidding? Oh I was walking in
with Motley Crew, yeah, or like I used to hang
out with Mick Mahr's at the mall.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Okay, yeah, let dope with Motley. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
So it was cool. She said that because you kind
of spammed everywhere, and I love that that makes you
a well rounded artist something.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Yeah, I think so too. We were talking about See
Queen a minute ago. She commented on one of my
videos recently and said, I think you've unlocked every like
way to have a voice at this point, and I
was like, yeah, I mean that's kind of been my goal,
is like I don't want to just sing one particular way.
I want to be able to do a little bit
of everything. And like, I just got off a tour
with the rock Orchestra, so I was doing like orchestral
(13:40):
singing and like the opera. So it's I'm really like,
I love doing all different kinds of stuff and not
sticking to like one thing.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
So now what you need to do today is is
you gotta go up to Eye Prevail and you gotta
tell that hilarious.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Literally, you need to sing. This just fucking happened, I
swear to God. So we're in catering right now and
we're getting coffee next to Eric and I was like, hey,
you just want to say the record's great or whatever,
and we introduced chatted for a little bit, and then
Addie introduced herself and he goes, oh, yeah, you covered
our songs. She literally just did a cover of Violent
Nature and that's the fact that you recognize her that
that was cool.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah, yeah, now you get you should have told them like, hey,
if you want me to sing blank spaces for you.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I will the a the invite'es there of course, but yeah,
try to be more peers. It's hard sometimes because you
like you just want to say, dude, what you guys
have done has been great, and then do them on
with their day. You don't want to beat faberal out
or whatever, even if you are on the inside. But
super nice guys, very sweet guys.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I really appreciate what they do. Like they're massive within
the instry.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And they've come from a similar place. But if you're not,
its us right. They did a YouTube video cover which
our band has done probably around the same time. There's
just fucking really popped off, man, and so it's really fascinating.
And this sounds weird because they're bigger than me, but
I'm proud to see their trajectory because they're lack of
the same coloth even though they are massive now they
(15:03):
just did and had it and it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So now you're gonna be massive. Wow. We hope that
right after, you know, right after Louder than Life and
then you'll be on all the DWP festivals next.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Year with Mike m And that would be an honor.
That would be an honor.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's just really cool to have you hear you guys Rock,
Thank you. Tell everybody real quick. I had to reach
out to you on socials on the web, buy your merch.
They can't listen to my show on unless say buy
your merch.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, that's really sweet. Yeah, we're hallising on all social
media platforms. We're heavy on TikTok, twitch, YouTube, Spotify, all
the places.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
H A L O C E N E. Baby.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I like how you spelled it too, with the baby
at the end.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
That's the important part.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Well fun, how is he baby?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I know somebody's gonna do that. You know somebody one
is gonna do that. Well you guys rock. Thanks for
being on the Adventures of pipe Man.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man
on du the U four C U I Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yesh
Hi, you lunto here, that's sure for see why were
you you?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is the pipe Man here on the adventureds Pipe
Man W four C Y Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
And I'm here with Addie and Bradley of Halisine.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Nice here at Louder than Life. It's your first time
at Louder, isn't it it is? It's pretty cool, isn't
it something else?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
The weather is since toasty out there today.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's a little toasty, but it could be worse. It
really have a tornado.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Okay, we're from Nashville, so that does. That is common
with us as well.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It happens almost every year here. We're lucky it hasn't
happened yet, but last weekend. If I can find the picture,
I'll show you what happened here. Okay, And I'll find
that while we're talking. But I've been actually following you
guys for a while because you have badass music. I
think I found you on TikTok oh sick right. Yeah,
that's what's so cool about today is like you can
(01:07):
find bands on TikTok Like years ago, how do you
find a band? It was not that easy, And now
you can use as a tool to really get your
music out there and not depend on anybody except yourself.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
We've been in the industry since two thousand and eight,
and back then it was MySpace, so we saw the
whole progression from the uprising of YouTube to the TikTok sensationalism,
and then we were doing live streaming on Twitch.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
So we're kind of all over the place.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I love that. And here's what the picture is going
to pull up?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh shit, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
First wheel right there.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's striking the actual Ferris wheel.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah. That was last week and Dani Wimmer at another
festival here and that's what happened.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, that's pretty incredible. Right, that's a great picture there.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
We could put it in a video too.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Did you take that picture?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
No? Okay, that's what was called Bourbon Beyond, so it
was on there inside.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Oh okay, okay, but I.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Heard it, like I was out there and I heard
him like, what was that? Yeah, you never know what.
I live in Florida, so I just got a notification
I might go home to a hurricane, so who knows.
But it is toasty out there because I'm from Florida
and this is hot. Like I'm to go home in
the cool.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
We're originally from Phoenix, Arizona, so to be honest, it's
actually quite mild, but when you're out there all day,
it is definitely brutal.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And when you're performing.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I would say performing is worse because you're gets you
get soaking wet because the humidity. Yeah, and Arizona it's
sure you'll sweat, but it's like a gross hot here,
and it's like a deadly hot there. So it's like
figure poison exactly. Florida. You that's like maybe the worst
of all of it, right, right, Like.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I remember Warped Tour, they used to do the last
show in westbaum Beach in August. I'm like, are you insane?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Same Phoenix, it would be July. It'd bely what on
black off asphalt, like not even on grass.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It was the worst, But it's part of the game, right.
But when you go up on stage though, like at
first maybe, but then you get in the zone, right
and then afterwards you die?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, no, zero percent. I die fucking in the middle
of those shows. So we were just in Europe and
we were and they had no AC and this particular
venue I don't even remember what it was called, and
it was we had cut like six soft. We couldn't finish.
It was that hot and humid and just deathly and
once you get like hundreds of bodies in there too,
(03:33):
I don't know how that is even legal. It was bad. No,
we still have a great time. Those are like they
feel like punk shows, but as we get bigger and
more people get in, it gets more dangerous.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Like literally literally there's bands where, especially like the drummer
will like pass out of heat stroke during the middle
of the set.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
No, I mean at that show particular, I had to
get my shoes off because I was really it was
hard to stay conscious at a certain point.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I hear you, but you guys are pretty badass. How
would you describe your music without using genre to the
listeners that may have never heard you?
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Okay, well, we just like to rockify things. So we
started off as kind of a when we were younger.
I think a lot of bands go through this when
they're young, and they kind of go through the like
punk pop punk pop rock kind of face, you know,
and then he's your taste, evolve and become a better musician.
Our band has always been really democratized by our fans,
(04:27):
and we would live stream or do videos, and they
would be like, you should try screaming, Brad, And so
I started screaming. Now ADDIE's fucking screaming. So now we're
kind of going through a metal core phase, if you will.
So I mean right now, and we said don't use
the genre fans. I mean, we're at a metal festival,
what the hell right, right, But we've been doing it
for so long. We've scratched a little bit of every
(04:49):
genre for the most part. But we always try to
do like a rock ify flare, whether that like cover
or even like our originals when we might start off
writing and it's not rock yet, right, and then we
just kind of like, okay, our formulas just try to
rock wify it a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
HALLI SEENI I love that that that's a perfect term.
Rockify it. Yeah, okay, and yeah, I mean I the
reason I say no genre is because I hate how
artists are boxed in. Yes, especially nowadays, it's like there's like, okay,
your subpost metal, or.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
When you're doing like the metadata when you because we
do our own distro and everything, like you know, where
you don't have a label. We've been doing it all ourselves.
You gotta choose all those subgenres and each song is different, like,
well this was not metal anymore? Right, And you're right,
like you you gotta choose what do you go with?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You know?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And if God forbid, you make the wrong fucking answer.
I don't know where that metadata goes or how it
affects the algorithms these days.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Right, exactly, And I almost a lot of times bad.
I'll have bands like make up their own genre name
during the interview because it's pretty much what it comes
down to it. There's so many micro jos that one
band could fit into each.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
So some fan it wasn't a fan, actually, it was
a hater that left a comment and called us Barbie medal,
and I thought that was fucking awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I feel like, I feel like if someone's gonna own
Barbie Metal, it would be like Scene queen or something.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Though, But she's bimbo core.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And I hear all of them. There's this one band
and a really good by of interview. I can't remember
her name right now, but they are beauty core.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, I mean that's the thing. Though, It's like, I
don't know we the band.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Will be that.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Bring the handicap town, Nah.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
But I mean, yeah, we don't really subscribe to one
label either, because even if you're on our live stream,
like we'll go from singing the heaviest song to like
country like out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Because you're an artist, you should just express yourself. You
shouldn't be like, well I have to do this kind
of music. Let's do whatever you feel.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yeah, So I think it makes you a better artist
when you take from others genres.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That's a good point. So we as we're coming up
and we finally were able to leave our jobs, well
we had like alter egos and we'd do weddings and
casinos and those who're playing top forty shit, we never
want to play. But you kind of start to appreciate
other genres and it really does make you a better musician.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Oh, I think that wholeheartedly because to your point when
you were talking about punk, Okay, most punk bands, the
old school ones, the whole idea of punk is they
didn't know how to play their Instagram. Yeah, so then
as they played more, they learned it along the way.
So then you evolve and expand how your music is.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I would say that's very true for us, Like we
started in like pop punk, kind of genre. But as
time has gone on, we've kind of collected things here
and there. We went through kind of like a Bradley's.
One of Bradley's biggest influences is Hans Zimmer, so we
almost had like I wouldn't say symphonic metal.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
So you know, okay, I changed my answer now in
my brain, and it's not for the same It's like
I always think if Hans Zimmer was in a rock
or a metal band, that's what I want us to
sound like. Whether we hit that mark or not, I
can't tell you, but yeah. And then Nattie's got a
slew of inspirations.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, I'm all over the board.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So what are your top five inspirations?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Oh shit, okay, Well, like if we're talking childhood, I'm
gonna have to go, well, Avri Levine because that was
my obsession as a child, My chemical Romance, Motley Crue,
Britney Spears.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
What's my last one?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Modern nowadays I would say like Sleep Token, Battleman's spirit Box,
I Prevail.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, so spirit Box. I am in fascination when I
see her sing, Yeah, watch the technique of her mouth. Yes,
Like it's exactly like my hand is showing she's scared.
It goes like this, Yeah she is fad ass, she
kill her. I'm watching them, Like the way she just
(09:09):
opens her mouth. Ye can tell she's using a proper
technique because I used to sing thrash metal but we
didn't have technique, right, So you just fuck up your
voice and you fuck up your throat and you're.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Done technique education and academia. Actual, how do you do it?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Opera?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And just fuck it right?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Right?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
But yeah, I So I had the honor of interviewing
her like very early on when they were first blowing
up after they released Circle with me, I was doing
an interview with her. I I teamed up with Sunheiser
and we had a show called The Pulse for a
little while and I was interviewing artists and everything. It
was during COVID, so she was like just chatting it
up with me and.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
She was still working her day job.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
We talked about just like being a chick in a
band and like it was cool.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
It was really cool.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
That's way cool. And now take a look at your mic.
You can't see it.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Oh with the Senneiser Mike, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, see, so you're with the thing. The logos. Ye,
you're representing right, Absolutely, we have to, so it's funny
you should say that.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah, we're big fans of Senheiser, like they have supported
us since we were babies.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Like nice, we shout out to Timmet Sennineiser. We had
maybe I don't know hardly any of the falling whatsoever,
and they asked us to come play an acoustic set
at NAM one year and then they have supported us
and helped us.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
With gear and support when it comes to that kind
of stuff like freebies is not important what you learn.
It's support when gear fails or you need replacements or
this or that, or help setting up for a bigger tour.
And they especially as an invent artists, when you can't
hire your own backline stage manager, you are the fucking
I'm wearing the hats, you know it's me And so
(10:55):
I can literally call them on speed dial so to speak.
And they helped us out. So I did not to
go off the rails, but they have been amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
No, I love hearing that. That's so cool. You know
that you want to hear things for artists because there's
not a lot of support now. Yes, and so when
you hear a company support in you. I love that.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I think it is like so massive in what they
do because we are completely independent, so having that support
is just like incredible.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, and what's cool is you mentioned Mike chem So
now we have to talk about Danny Wimmer and talk
directly to him. Yes, so that you could play all
those festivals next year after yesterday's announcement.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Fun fact one, one year they dropped off or couldn't
make a show to Arizona and our band field in.
It was Blink wenty two, Jimmy World and My Chemical
Romance and our nothing band was able to fill in
for My Chemical Romance.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
So maybe you could do that.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
So Mike came, if you're listening, well, I mean technically,
I mean you need you need DREG support.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yep, we saved you though one time, right.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
We already the terribly filled your shoes at one date
in Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yes, And I thought it was pretty wild too that
you said Motley Crue. Yes, I used to go see
them before they even had an album. No, Like, it's
so funny too because that was the first club show
I ever went to in my life. Like before that
was just regular concerts and they were like horror punk.
They weren't clam yet. Yeah, I know, and I just
(12:26):
remember my jaw was dropped out of like I'm never
going to a real concert ever again. Yeah, it was
like the most amazing experience.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yes, I mean, like I grew up on that kind
of music. My dad is a guitarist and would be
playing that all the time. My mom and I would
be headbanging. So it's all the like hair metal bands
and everything. So yeah, they're a hilariously big part of
my influence as an artist.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Well it's funny too because like I go too Rainbow
Now in Lao Yeah, and I look, I'm like, how
did I get into in there when it was like
thirteen years old? No kidding? Oh I was walking in
with Motley Crew, yeah, or like I used to hang
out with Mick Mahr's at the mall.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Okay, yeah, let dope with Motley. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
So it was cool. She said that because you kind
of spammed everywhere, and I love that that makes you
a well rounded artist something.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Yeah, I think so too. We were talking about See
Queen a minute ago. She commented on one of my
videos recently and said, I think you've unlocked every like
way to have a voice at this point, and I
was like, yeah, I mean that's kind of been my goal,
is like I don't want to just sing one particular way.
I want to be able to do a little bit
of everything. And like, I just got off a tour
with the rock Orchestra, so I was doing like orchestral
(13:40):
singing and like the opera. So it's I'm really like,
I love doing all different kinds of stuff and not
sticking to like one thing.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
So now what you need to do today is is
you gotta go up to Eye Prevail and you gotta
tell that hilarious.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Literally, you need to sing. This just fucking happened, I
swear to God. So we're in catering right now and
we're getting coffee next to Eric and I was like, hey,
you just want to say the record's great or whatever,
and we introduced chatted for a little bit, and then
Addie introduced herself and he goes, oh, yeah, you covered
our songs. She literally just did a cover of Violent
Nature and that's the fact that you recognize her that
that was cool.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah, yeah, now you get you should have told them like, hey,
if you want me to sing blank spaces for you.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I will the a the invite'es there of course, but yeah,
try to be more peers. It's hard sometimes because you
like you just want to say, dude, what you guys
have done has been great, and then do them on
with their day. You don't want to beat faberal out
or whatever, even if you are on the inside. But
super nice guys, very sweet guys.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I really appreciate what they do. Like they're massive within
the instry.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And they've come from a similar place. But if you're not,
its us right. They did a YouTube video cover which
our band has done probably around the same time. There's
just fucking really popped off, man, and so it's really fascinating.
And this sounds weird because they're bigger than me, but
I'm proud to see their trajectory because they're lack of
the same coloth even though they are massive now they
(15:03):
just did and had it and it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So now you're gonna be massive. Wow. We hope that
right after, you know, right after Louder than Life and
then you'll be on all the DWP festivals next.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Year with Mike m And that would be an honor.
That would be an honor.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's just really cool to have you hear you guys Rock,
Thank you. Tell everybody real quick. I had to reach
out to you on socials on the web, buy your merch.
They can't listen to my show on unless say buy
your merch.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yeah, that's really sweet. Yeah, we're hallising on all social
media platforms. We're heavy on TikTok, twitch, YouTube, Spotify, all
the places.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
H A L O C E N E. Baby.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I like how you spelled it too, with the baby
at the end.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
That's the important part.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Well fun, how is he baby?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I know somebody's gonna do that. You know somebody one
is gonna do that. Well you guys rock. Thanks for
being on the Adventures of pipe Man.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man
on du the U four C U I Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yesh
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