BREWtally Speaking Podcast

Join Nathan and I as we chat about his upcoming debut album, "Hollywood Mortician" coming out this Friday July 11th via Crowdkill Records.

We talk about Nathan being the first artist signed to Crowdkill Records, if there's any pressure he feels being the first artists signed to the label. How it's been to work with people like Lorenzo and Ant knowing their pedigree in the music business.

Nathan shares how his other career in photog...

Join Myke and I as we talk about how working in kitchens really expanded our musical horizons.

Myke shares what it was like to grow up in VA and how living in a house that doubled as a local DIY venue really inspired him to pursue being in bands.

We talk about Myke's time in Bury Your Dead. How it was for him to find his voice, literally and figuratively, in a band that had an established sound, and the journey to taking the band t...

Join Alfonso and I as we discuss how toxic the metal/hardcore scenes are, and honestly maybe have always been? 

Alfonso opens up about how he got into heavier music growing up in Puerto Rico and moving to Miami. The importance of seeing representation in the scene with artists like Chino Moreno, Max Cavalera and how that made being in a band seem possible. 

We also talk about how fatherhood has changed him in various ways. From stren...

Join Tom and I as we talk about what Tom has been up to since his last appearance on the podcast. 

Tom shares what ultimately led to him deciding to step down from The Acacia Strain. The hardships of leaving something he worked so hard to achieve, but ultimately knew wasn’t going to be good for him if he stayed.

Tom also shares the struggles of not only stepping down from the band, but also going through a divorce as well. How divin...

Join Mike and I as we chat about old man house project stuff we each were engrossed in to kick things off. 

From there we talk about how small the music industry really is the longer you stay in it.  Mike shares some of the opportunities he’s  gotten over the years to fill in for people and his process of learning someone else’s songs with a day or two’s notice. 

Mike and I get into a bit of drum talk as I’ve recently been learning h...

Join me as I introduce you to someone I’ve become quick friends with from going to various local venues in town where Dale works. 

Dale shares a bit about his upbringing and how he got into heavier music while growing up in a religious household. 

Dale shares his journey into working venue security, how a twitter exchange with someone from one of his favorite bands led to one of many instances of him becoming friends with his long ti...

Join Patrick and I as we catch up for the first time in a little over a year.

Patrick opens up about how his declining health led him to making the tough decision to step down as the drummer of Ice Nine Kills, arguably at the height of the band's career. Patrick shares his journey to sobriety and we of course nerd out a bit about the ever growing non alcohol space. 

We discuss the real stresses of touring as much as INK was and how P...

Join Andrew and I as we do what we always do on these and catch up with one another.

Andrew and I reflect on the journey of getting to  500 episodes and how it’s similar to his journey between Eidola and Dance Gavin Dance, where it’s head down and continue to do the work. Realizing the importance of taking time to enjoy the journey and not getting burnt out. 

Andrew reflects on doing one of the biggest tours of his and DGD’s careers ...

Join Stephen and I for this quick chat discussing the upcoming Anchor and Braille album, New Mexico. 

Stephen reveals how Anchor and Braille has changed for him over the years, while still at its core being about being a vessel for music that needs to come out of him. 

We dig a bit deeper into the process of self exploration Stephen went through at the end of Anberlin calling it a day back in 2014. The journey he went on to find hims...

Join Jesse and I as we go deep and reflect on some major life experiences that we had both gone through recently with our wives and how those hardships strengthened those relationships.

Jesse shares his journey through meditation, learning to not be such a people pleaser and learning

to be more tapped into nature and leaving the noise the outside world behind.

We also discuss the importance of communication and how it was fo...

Join Nick and I as we talk about the inspiration behind his series of solo EP's, the various moon phases, and how I became aware of one of them (waxing gibbous) due to my wife and I seeing a pretty moon one night and wondering what kind it was.

From here we dip into Nick really looking inward over the last few years and wanting to challenge himself creatively outside of what 311 does and

We discuss how barebones the son...

Join Chris and I as we discuss the evolution of being a fan of music in the physical media age. From scouring the "thank you's" for bands you should check out to the era of the producer/labels being as much of a factor in what albums you bought as the bands themselves.

We get into how bands go about choosing producers now when it doesn't seem to be as important, as well as the misinformation surrounding cowrit...

Join Lorenzo and I as discuss his journey through the music industry and how it lead him to co founding Crowdkill Records with his friends, and how it's been to navigate being an upstart label.

We get into his time in Sworn Enemy, how it was to try and traverse the bands changing sound with their core fanbase. Lorenzo talks about the struggles of navigating the bands career where it was taking off in another country, while declinin...

Join Brock, Tyler and I as we dive joke about the last time we all tried doing a podcast together around the release of Tyler's solo ep, but it was just a drunken mess that was never released. We discuss how that was the impetus for Brock and Tyler to want to write more music together and the journey they went on to create Paradise Slaves.

The guys share how it was finding the rest of the guys to round out the band, the imp...

Join Ken and I for what was to be a part of my 500th episode week, but given some of the recent events going on in the metal/hardcore landscape seemed more apropos dropping this chat early.

Ken reveals what lead to him finally deciding to leave As I Lay Dying. How it has been for him to remain silent on the matter while others have gone about discrediting his and the rest of the members decision to exit the band. Ken shares wha...

Join Justin and I as we.....well honestly I spend a lot of this quick chat gushing over the bands latest album, The Program.

Justin talks about the song writing process for the band, how he approaches writing lyrics that REALLY line up with what the band is doing musically.

Justin shares his journey as a musician, from getting into the business as a kid and "throwing away" his opportunity at stardom to pursue a style of music he wa...

Join Dwid and I as we cover a broad spectrum of topics like how it feels to have his lyrics from the 80’s still being relevant in 2025.

We also get into growing up in the Midwest and how a lack of having much to do really helped inspire the creativity of him and his bandmates to forge their own sound. We reflect on how hard it was for them to really break through in the various heavier scenes.

We get into what led to Dwid moving to...

Join Kris and I as we catch up from our last chat where Kris shares that he has since deleted all of his social media in the last few years. We get into how that has been for his personal and professional life, as well as the decision to step away from being a barber.

We also discuss learning to become a fan of things again, reconnecting with the live show experience and finding new ways through old songs as we get older.

Kris talk...

Join Lee and I as we catch up with him while the band was in the midst of their tour.

Lee and I share some pleasantries from mutual friends of ours, and get into an interview he had done on Good Company with Bowling a few years prior and how I realized that the songs he was working on at the time were what would become "Welcome To Suffocate City".

We get into how there was an obvious shift in how Lee and the rest ...