Sitting down with Justin, RayRay and Tito from SAINT DIABLO_1

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
The whole point is the share on here.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Embarrassed the ship out of yourself.

Speaker 4 (00:09):
Keeping conversations, you know, random is possible, and you're doing
your friend job on your name.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
What's happening, everybody? Welcome back to JJ's lounge. I'm your host, Jukebox,
and we are here with an interview show.

Speaker 5 (00:28):
Today.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
We got the metal band, actually a Latin metal band,
sant Diablo with us.

Speaker 5 (00:33):
How you guys doing today, How you doing?

Speaker 6 (00:35):
How you doing? Good to be here? Good to be here?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Good?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Good man, I'm doing great. We're missing one guy. Uh,
he is aware, so he'll be on here at some point.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Hey, look at that man.

Speaker 6 (00:45):
There is almost.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Almost too late, but not too late. We just went live. Man,
how you doing, Tito?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'm doing a right small brown and round. Apologize for
the time.

Speaker 5 (00:56):
Not really, Tito, I'm jukebox.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
It's nice to beat you man. Nice to have you
guys on the show today. It's it's it's always fun
to interview bands because it's cool to kind of see
kind of the behind the scenes aspect of being a band. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I appreciate you guys coming on. Hey, justin man, you
know Ray I'm gonna have you introduced yourself last, because
we've already met you. Uh so, no hard feelings. Justin Man,

(01:21):
want to tell every a little about yourself?

Speaker 7 (01:23):
II Justin Adams uh go by the name jay Bone
on stage, San Diablo.

Speaker 6 (01:31):
Been crushing it for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Sweet dude.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, I appreciate you guys coming on again. Tito Man,
you so you too are the original band members?

Speaker 5 (01:41):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yes, sir, Yeah, so watch tell every a little about yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Tito, Tito, uh go by Tito and Uh. I have
a small group of people to call me poppy and
and I love music. Been with I've been with Justin
since like ninety four, ninety three. We knew each other

(02:06):
since like middle school or somewhere around there, and we
uh started doing music girling way long ago, too long ago.
We did a talent show for high school, started taking
it seriously, went to college, started touring with bands, and
figure there was something special there. We just figured that

(02:26):
if there were, we're going to be spending our time
doing something worthwhile, that music was going to be part
of it. And uh right, yeah, an embarrassing amount of
an embarrassing amount of time later, we're still not rich.
And famous, but we are, but we are trugged along.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, dude, I was.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
I was telling Justin and you guys got I think
you're as far you got a music video as far
like as fourteen years ago.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Man, Yeah, that was like almost, isn't it. Isn't that
like like before the Internet or something like that.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
As back in my space?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
You know? Right? Oh god, I remember my Space times.
Those times was just so much simpler. You could spend
eight hours on the computer and get like a week's
worth of work done. The algorithms didn't exist. You could
actually make an impact.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yeah, most people were on MySpace in a world of
warcraft at the same time.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, Ray ray.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
Man, how you doing.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I'm chilling, baby, I'm chilling.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
So I've had y ray on a couple of times,
and I didn't even know he was in this band
until recently, So I'm glad he introduced me to you guys.
I've been checking out a lot of your guys' stuff.
What do you guys hear most like as far as
what you sound like?

Speaker 5 (03:35):
Do you guys get a.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Lot of like feedback from from fans on like if
if you sound like other bands are not, so.

Speaker 6 (03:44):
We get like, I'll just throw this in real quick.

Speaker 7 (03:47):
We from our fans, like people that know us say
we're pretty unique in a particular kind of way. But
then people that have never heard of us before like,
that's all neme you.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Right, So or they'll get they'll get real creative. And
sometimes we've gone on tour with people that have been
like that's stick.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Not a couple of times, I do, I gotta I
gotta say that having the bongo set in there actually
adds a whole new element to the whole metal.

Speaker 6 (04:27):
Genre, right, which so we did.

Speaker 7 (04:30):
We started that many years ago with a couple other guys,
and it was always a you know, we'd always get
the came here to see the guy.

Speaker 6 (04:39):
The bongo player.

Speaker 7 (04:40):
Don't care about the band, you know, and then and
then when they left, you know, because of you know,
band members leave, and uh we didn't. We didn't run
with it for a long time.

Speaker 6 (04:51):
And uh it.

Speaker 7 (04:52):
Was always that you know, yeah that band was good
when they had a percussion player. You know, it was
just kind of like, you know, you just it's just
the things you hear, you know, And but we figured,
you know, it was and I'll tell we could get
into the story later, but we just we knew we
had to bring it back to some degree and you know,
and that's kind of how Ray Ray got involved.

Speaker 6 (05:10):
But but yeah, it's just.

Speaker 7 (05:11):
You know, it was you know, we brought it back
many you know, we had it many years ago, and
then we brought it back and we felt it it
was something that had to be done.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
So so when I started listening to the videos, what
I hear is like a unique like you guys are
like a baby version of if non point in God
Forbid had a baby.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
That's what I hear that I.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Can hear that. And for the record, we've been out
with both of them, not the name drop.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Just say see, I would love to see God Forbid live.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
Right, They're awesome.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
They're awesome.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, I mean a lot of so the metal scene
out here is big, but I mean you really have
to know the scene and know the people in order
to kind of make friends and socialized. If you ain't
going out seeing shows, then you don't really run into
a lot of metal heads out here, right.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
Is there a pretty big fan base on on the
East Coast?

Speaker 6 (06:05):
I think so. I mean we come from you know, Virginia.

Speaker 7 (06:09):
Virginia's where the band's based out of so you know
we're in the there's.

Speaker 6 (06:13):
Lots of metal action.

Speaker 7 (06:14):
There's Lamb of God from rich from Richmond, Gwars from Richmond,
you know, Municipal Wastes. Uh, so many bands, I mean,
and then d C and Baltimore right up the street.
So you have you know, back in the day, it
was nothing face and then you had you know, everybody
even even in the pop realm, you had back what
good Charlotte back in the day, you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (06:34):
So it's just the whole DC.

Speaker 7 (06:36):
Virginia, North Carolina, and then you got you know that's
that doesn't even include New York or whatever. But yeah,
it's it's definitely a large presence of metal and rock
and pop in this area.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
So where where did you guys kind of decide to
blend kind of that Latin I'm guessing Tito was this
year idea to kind of blend that Latin American kind
of mix in your vocals and the what do you
guys talk about?

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, I started off in a hip hop groups, and
I was doing a lot of Spanish and English rap rapping.
And when we decided to like try to do uh,
when I tried to get into metal. That's before like
Corn and all those other bands, Limp Biscuit had already
like made the market space that we know now as

(07:22):
like new metal. Yeah, So, like to answer your question,
I was trying to No one was doing the Spanish
mix of all that then, and I was like trying.
I was trying to do that even back then. Then
then then then the oinos and the non points and
a bunch of other people started coming out of me.

(07:43):
God bless them, they just they lapped us a million
times over. I mean, no, no, no, no, love loss.
It's just a matter of timing. But but to answer
your question, I from from day one and in artistically
expressing myself, I just took the advantage of I'm gonna
be able to express myself twice as much just because
of the dual language. So just from day one, from

(08:06):
from from writing poetry was always a mix of Spanglish. So, uh,
that's the best answer I can give you a reference to, like.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
Because it's good because like you talked about hip hop
and then poetry, and I feel like that definitely kind
of carries over into the metal because a lot of
like the lyrics and the stuff for like uh Odo
and Domine Toto and some of the meaning behind it.
I mean, there's a lot of meaning behind those songs, man,
and I loved actually you're even before that, the the

(08:39):
uh Halo's and was it the devil Horns and Halo's. Man, dude,
the meaning behind that song is exactly how I feel
about religion.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Awesome, awesome, thank you so much for saying that. Man.
It was also hent Astronauts is also another one where
it's got a really uh good religious base because if
you and if you and if you scratch the surface,
I'm not anti religion. I'm more just question your beliefs.
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, right, question the beliefs, Question

(09:14):
the beliefs that were given to you. It's really all
I'm saying, Yeah, jay Z says.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Jay Z says the same things, a question at all.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
Well, and for me, it's more like I I respect
the commitment.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
So like if you're if you're a Christian or you're whatever,
and you're like devout to that, I respect it, but
at least kind of acknowledge the other sides, you know,
acknowledge that there's more to so ray how you kind
of gave me a little background on how you met
these guys. Why don't you tell everybody while we're live,
kind of how you guys all met.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Let's see.

Speaker 8 (09:52):
Originally was that I was I was on tour in
New Jersey and had a couple of shows lined up
outside of Atlantic City, and I ad actually knew two
other bands that San Diablo was on tour with, and
I had stopped in at Dingbats to see r Tusia
ended up meeting the guys from San Diablo and just networking,

(10:12):
and then a couple of days later I played my
show in Atlantic City and then they had another show
in Southern Maryland, down the street from my parents house,
and I was like, fuck it, I'm gonna go. So
I popped up there and they're like, hey, it's it's
you again, and I was like yeah, And there's like
a wicked storm that came through. It was an outside show,
so it kind of got rained out ish, but the

(10:35):
fellas didn't want to get electrocuted, so we were just
jamming around and playing around and did this like huge
drum circle thing and it popped off and it was fun.
And then a couple months later I was asked to
host a Halloween show and I hosted it and introed
the guys and we took some pictures and it was
a dope ass show. And then they're like, hey, man,

(10:58):
hit me up later, like you want to, you know,
play some percussion, you know, for a couple of shows
for us and see where things go.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
And I'm like, I.

Speaker 8 (11:05):
Never really played percussion in a band before because I've
always played drums. And I was like, yeah, fuck it,
I'll try it, and ended up clicking man. And then
you know, played a couple of shows, then a couple
more shows than a couple more shows, and it was.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Like, hey, you're in the band now. I'm like all right.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
We were like we got we were like, we got
photos coming up.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Get in here.

Speaker 8 (11:28):
It actually works out too with like the cross promotion,
because there's always like people saying like, raight, I didn't
know you were in Santiablo or you know, people are
like dude, you're you're you fucking wrapped two and I'm
like yeah, man, So it kind of works out.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Man.

Speaker 8 (11:41):
There's been actually, i think has it been three shows
already where we've played the same show.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah, And.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
Then you would go do San Diablo, yep.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Now I'm trying to creep into his set too. To
be honest, I'm like, yo, yeah, back.

Speaker 8 (12:02):
Listen, we got we got a North Carolina show coming
up in November, man, where I'm I'm opening in San
Diablo's direct support.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
So it's actually not that rare though, I mean the
vocalist are left to suffer. He also does like R
and B hip hop as.

Speaker 6 (12:20):
Well, right, so yeah, that's that's awesome.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah yeah, justin Man, So have you only done guitars
or can you play other instruments as well?

Speaker 7 (12:31):
If it's got strings on it, I can, I can
play it. I'm gonna attempt to play it. Uh, you
know the piano a little bit. You know, I'm not
super verse in it, but you know, I know where
the notes are, and you know, if I know how
to get something out of it, you know. But like
when we're writing, I'll usually refer to you know, keyboarder, piano,
but now just just guitars and some backup vocals here

(12:53):
and there.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
So anyway, with you and with you and Tito kind
of being the original members, I mean, you guys kind
of collactbrate to kind of come up with some lyrics
and stuffer is at all ut.

Speaker 7 (13:03):
Though, Tito's Tito's pretty much. I mean, I'll give him
some like it's usually it comes to any kind of lyrics.
It's like I'll give him an idea or like, hey,
talk about this or come up with some lyrics about this.
I'll give him like a theme, and then he kind
of goes from there. But he generally does everything on
his own.

Speaker 6 (13:21):
Like, uh, We'll usually come.

Speaker 7 (13:23):
Up with a track and it's like eighty percent done
or seventy five percent done. And it's like, because I
don't want to show him something too early because things
change a lot, you know what I mean. So I
usually try and give him something that he can put
his teeth on, you know, to kind of bite into
before he's like eh, you know before you know so,

(13:44):
and then he takes it from there. I don't really
give him any kind of like, you know, maybe in
the studio later we're recording, I'm like, hey, maybe change
the line here or change this word that doesn't fit,
but he's he does it all on his own.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
So odio was audio was all all Justin's I was.
We were we were we were in a transition between
band members and agendas, and he was like and the
world was like burning at that time, and we were like,
it's some political and I was like, all right, I mean,
it wasn't like I didn't have anything to say. It
was most of the time, most of the time people

(14:20):
in our in our genre tell you to keep those
opinions to yourself if they don't happen to align up
with what most of the marketplace thinks. So it was,
it was. It was a it was almost a refreshing
green light to be like, oh I get to talk
some ship, all right.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
But you know, even in podcasting, I've noticed that, like
because I make clips from all the shows, the biggest
reactions you get is when it's controversial, Like if people
can argue it, you get the biggest reaction out of it.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Right.

Speaker 7 (14:53):
The crazy thing, The crazy thing about that particular song too,
is that Tito Tito. One thing I've always notices he'll
leave He'll leave plenty of room for interpretation exactly, He'll
open the door, but he lets you try.

Speaker 6 (15:07):
And figure the puzzle out yourself, you know.

Speaker 7 (15:09):
So he'll say a couple of lines where, depending on
what side you're on, you're like, is this is this
to me? Or is that to them like what Like
it's like, well, in a minute, like is he talking
to me?

Speaker 6 (15:21):
Or is he talking to them?

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Like?

Speaker 7 (15:23):
And then in some yeah, it's just like which flag
am I fucking supposed to hold up?

Speaker 6 (15:29):
Like you know what I mean? So, but yeah, that's in.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Some ways it's a play of words, and sometimes it's
a play of words. Sometimes it's like a play on concept.
But at the end of the day, I'm really we
have more in common than you really think, to the
point where both sides are like yeah, yeah, wait a
minute saying yeah, how that work out? Dude?

Speaker 4 (15:48):
That's how That's how it is with everything though, man,
I mean if and I think one thing that you
guys do capture in pretty much all your songs is
that you don't cater towards one side, you know, if anything,
it makes people question, like you were saying, which is phenomenal.

Speaker 7 (16:05):
Look, listen, everyone's gonna have an opinion about everything in life.
And when it comes to being in a band, like
we don't circle ourselves around particular things, like we all
have our own things personally, but when it comes to
bringing things to the table for music, we it's more
of a just put out what we know that we

(16:26):
enjoy and what our fans are going to enjoy, you
know what I mean. But when it comes to like,
when it comes to lyrical stuff, it's always a it's
always a you know, choose your own adventure, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 6 (16:36):
It's like it's not it's it's not a it's not
a here we are, here you are. It's literally like here's.

Speaker 7 (16:42):
Some stuff, talk about it and then do what you
want with it, you know what I mean. So even
with you mentioned devil horns and halos, and you mentioned religion,
but it's it's actually more about person people. It's about
you know, wearing masks. You know, people that are like, hey,
we're cool, but as soon as you leave.

Speaker 6 (17:00):
I'm gonna talk about you, you know what I mean.
That's really you.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
Know when you say that, Like I grew up at
a very strict Pentecostal very strict Like we go to
church four days a week and then we go home,
and and as soon as we leave the church, my
family would start talking shit about how somebody dressed or
you know, and then the church or so it's like, God, seriously,
man's that's it.

Speaker 6 (17:21):
That's what the song's about.

Speaker 7 (17:22):
It's about people that are cool with you, and the
next thing you know, they're with your homeboy and they're like, well, dude, shop.

Speaker 6 (17:30):
You know so and it's like, and we know who
you are, trust me?

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Right? So right?

Speaker 5 (17:35):
I mean fucking true colors one of your lighters.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
I would say, it's a little bit lighter now a
whole lot, but voice on the phone and almost like,
you know, it has a little blend to boats. But
it almost seems a little bit more mellow than most
of your songs.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
It's supposed to be a melancholy, supposed to be a
somewhat exciting, romantic melancholy of a vibe. It's still the
You're still you're you're almost crying and wondering why your
hips are gyrating. It's like it's like this, it's like
you're you're in the midst of this memory you were.
At first it's like warm, but then like as soon

(18:13):
as you start thinking about it even further and you
realize that it is a memory and they're gone, that
warm memory turns into melancholing. But your hips are still going.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
You're so, you're you're you two are married, uh Rey
Ray your bachelor.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Right, I am in a very loving and committed relationship.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh well, hell yeah, man.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
Finally, how does how does your spouse and your families
feel about you guys being in a metal band.

Speaker 6 (18:47):
I let you to go first.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Well, yeah, with your Puerto Rican everybody, I'm curious, everybody.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
I mean, it's actually it's it's it's I'm I'm surprised
still at times. I've been married for over twenty years.
We just had a little baby girl, And to be honest,
I don't I I don't know how it's still we're
still standing. It must be loved because and it must
be support. It must it must be because. I mean,

(19:15):
I'll be honest with you, I'm I'm I'm not an
easy person to to be friends with, let alone be
you know, married to it and and and a lover too.
So I can only appreciate the patience that it takes
to to to be in our periphery, in our circle
of people. I know that for me, the success means balance,

(19:40):
because I wouldn't want to be on top of the
world on all the radio stations if it meant that
I had to make my personal life a toilet bowl.
And at the same time, when I'm in my personal
life wishing that music was, you know, more successful. I
wouldn't trade either one of them off. So for me, balance,
a search for balance has always been my uh my

(20:02):
compass for success. And you know, my wife is supportive.
She doesn't always understand what it is that motivates me
or us, but but she's supportive in her own ways.
It's not like you can it's not like you gonna
find her at every show, but there's no but it's
but it's definitely not a move that I don't meet

(20:23):
behind the scenes in some way or shape or form,
hasn't been talked about or strategized with the person that
says that they love Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
And I the reason I asked you, and it's typically
catered more towards metal is because of how I feel
like metal is such a small fan base compared to
a lot of the genres of music. You know, Yeah,
and like my wife hates metal, but I love death.
I love death of the metal like heavy heavy, So
what's up?

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Just what you got?

Speaker 7 (20:54):
You know, my wife is extremely supportive. But I you know,
also I think you know the whole thing what Tito said.
It's about support, you know, and it's also about communication
and and I'm I involve her in anything and everything
about this. You know, if she if she if she
don't again, she doesn't come to every show, you know,
and but she has the opportunity to, you know what

(21:15):
I mean. So it's like and then you know it,
strategize with her with you know, when it comes to
merchandise and look and sound like she's she's the first
one to hear every one of our new songs before anybody,
you know what I mean. So she's the first one
to tell me it sucks or it's good, you know,
or whatever. So but no, she it's it's the whole,
like you said, it's balance, you know, it's living you know.

(21:37):
But she's she's been you know, she's been a part
of music her whole life, you know what I mean.
So she and she knew what she was getting into
when we.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
Decided to do this, go down this road.

Speaker 7 (21:49):
But but she yeah, I mean, aside from guitars showing
up at the house randomly.

Speaker 6 (21:56):
How should that cost? You know, she's she's awesome.

Speaker 7 (22:02):
Uh yeah, she but yeah, you can't, to be honest,
I can't do this without her support, you know what
I mean. So I look at it from that from
that perspective, not it's not about me, it's about us,
you know what I mean. So it's definitely uh having
her there and being uh, you know, somebody that can
bounce ideas off of or just you just or just

(22:22):
vent to you know what I mean about frustrations because
you know, music sucks, you know, and as it's as
its moments where you love it so much but it
doesn't love.

Speaker 6 (22:32):
You back, you know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (22:33):
So right, and it's like, Okay, well I'm pissed off
about this, so I need to talk to somebody about
it before I lose.

Speaker 6 (22:39):
My ship, you know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (22:40):
So, but and she's and she's that person for me,
so yeah, right, man, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
She's incredibly talented too. She's an artist, Justin's wife and
uh she did all the makeup for Domontolo. She's she
like Justin says, she she's one of the first sound boards.
Does this look cool? Does this sound cool? Does this cool? Period?
So we we rely a lot on her opinion on

(23:07):
a lot of things. Right.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
That's awesome that you include her in that too.

Speaker 7 (23:12):
Uh yeah, it's the point if you can't do you know,
the people you love you can't bring with you, you
know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Right raise over here, like flirting around the camera here,
what's going on there?

Speaker 8 (23:23):
I'm sorry, she's walking by, and I'm like, damn, partners,
we don't have to hurry this up.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah, no, man, no.

Speaker 8 (23:35):
I mean, I definitely agree with with Tito and Justin,
and I think the support is very important. And I
can say, like my partner, she definitely is a is
a big fan of music and has always been, you know,
a part of music and involved with music, like way
before we even met.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
And it is it is tough.

Speaker 8 (23:51):
It is challenging, you know, especially with like so when
we first met, it was just me doing awesome Ray
Rays stuff and then it morphed into awesome rare and
Saint Diablo stuff. So it's kind of like twice as
much and that's definitely not easy. But I think, like
Tdo said, trying to find that balance, and I think

(24:11):
with where and I'm not judging, but I think, just
my observation from other folks in the music industry with
marriages or partners, I think where people fail is they
fail to calibrate, you know what I mean, Like you
kind of have to constantly adjust and calibrate and cycle
through things. And you know, sometimes it's not easy. Sometimes
it's an argument or a fight. You know, sometimes it's stress,

(24:34):
you know, and you're going out on another gig.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
You're going on another gig, you know what I mean.

Speaker 8 (24:37):
But I think that love and support and I think
what all our partners realize is like, this is our passion.
This is not a you know, at least for me,
this is not a oh, you know, we're just gonna
you know, play the local pub, you know, our with
our buddies or rock out in the garage on the
weekends to look cool and have something to tell with
workers on Monday.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
And if that's people's thing, hey, that's your thing. But
I think we all I.

Speaker 8 (25:00):
Grew out of that when I turned like twenty one,
I was like, yeah, that's I have a lot bigger
aspirations and motivations and inspirations with that. But I mean,
it's challenging, but I also think that the support is
very crucial. And also we have to realize, like we
got to reciprocate that supporters. And I think that's something

(25:20):
that I'm learning actively, like on the job training learn
how to reciprocate that that support as much as possible,
you know, and things that she likes to do, like
we go to a shit ton of shows that don't
have usually anything to do with al Rawi Albo, you know,
so I think that's important to keep that kind of
stuff up too. And then as far as kids goes,

(25:41):
I have two teenage daughters. My partner has a teenage
daughter and an eight year old son. Our kids fucking
love it. Ever, Like my daughter's kind of annoyed sometimes,
but low key. They're telling all their friends, they're telling
their teachers. My dad's on YouTube, you know. My dad
just play the show in the Hollywood and my dad
just played music, you know.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
So it's it's it's pretty cool man.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
You know you mentioned the makeup on Doma Toto. I
actually got a little clip from Doma Toto.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (26:13):
Am I okay to play it?

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Oh? Yeah please, it's a very easy.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
But I want to talk about something making, okay, So

(26:39):
the makeup idea, the the video itself.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Obviously you got that Latin inspiration in there.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
Whose idea was the makeup?

Speaker 2 (26:47):
I think Justin first brought up the idea to do
Ada Little Vibe, and with that we there was no
way escaping that we would either have to have a
bunch of sugar candies goals or makeup or both. And
when it came down to production and logistics, the masks

(27:07):
were so cool in and of themselves that not much
was needed to be done after that except for them.
And I was like, well, wait a minute, for vocals,
we're gonna need I can't wear it mak So then
we had to go back to the idea of makeup.
But several people got makeup in like the girl got

(27:28):
make up, some of the other some of the other
extras got makeup, So it was a nice blend between
makeup and masks. But the vibe really was brought up
with justin when it comes to capture the d others
more those vibes, right.

Speaker 7 (27:43):
The idea was was funny because I had a whole
different plan for the video, Like I wrote the treatment
and did the whole thing, and then then I was
searching YouTube just to kind of be like, all right,
has anyone done this yet?

Speaker 3 (27:58):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 7 (27:59):
Like this was this idea, it was another idea, and
I found like four videos of bands that had already
done this idea, and I was like, fuck, and I
was like, okay, so I had to go back to
the drawing board. And then I had another idea. I
did number two, and then what's that band? Fallout Boy
had a video and I was like, it's fucking bastards.

(28:20):
They have a zat video that I wanted to do,
and but no, they did it so good. I was like,
we can't do this, man, Like, it's just gonna look
like we ripped it, you know. And then and then
finally I came to this third idea and I was
like urban, tactical, sugar skull street warrior kind.

Speaker 6 (28:40):
Of feel, you know what I mean like, and then
I was like so.

Speaker 7 (28:45):
Right then, and then I was like call of duty
kind of feel, and I was like, but yeah, I
wanted to be more like not. I didn't want it
to be the military base. I wanted to be more
like out in the streets, you know, rebellion kind of feel.
And then I was like, all right, bulletproof best. And
then I was like, oh, punish her that that kind
of feel with the skull on the chest. And then
I was like and then I was like, all right,

(29:07):
whatever paint is in you know, makeup is in masks
in you know, and then.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
It's flowers and flowers. We need lots of flowers, which
felt counterproductive at first. People were like, see know, really flowers.
I'm like, yes, flowers.

Speaker 7 (29:25):
The crazy thing is is we were working with our
producer on some on someome album art or because you know,
we wanted every song to have its own imagery, you know,
when it came to like not just an album, but
each song had like a vision and we just and
actually it was pretty funny because we hired a guy
to do it, and then the guy fell through and
we were like last minute, like the day of turning

(29:47):
in art, We're working with our producer and it was
just like a rush, and he's like what about this?

Speaker 6 (29:52):
What about this?

Speaker 7 (29:52):
And then we all kind of collaborated on this idea
of you know, skulls and flowers, this whole like you know,
Day of.

Speaker 6 (30:01):
The Dead kind of feel.

Speaker 7 (30:02):
And and then when the video came around, teas like,
why don't we just do what the artwork is? And
then I took that and then turned it into this whole,
this whole thing. So yeah, it was pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (30:14):
Well, and you know just from the music, I mean
we talk about the music and the lyrics but there's
so much more to Like, you guys have been cranking
out music videos, and I think that takes a lot
of dedication in itself, especially for each song, and they're
all so different, right, that's.

Speaker 6 (30:30):
You got to keep up with the Joneses man.

Speaker 7 (30:32):
Like everyone out there, especially in the music genre and
the pop genre, they are just cranking out weeklies, monthlies,
you know. And it's like we we kind of had to,
you know, like we've been talking about we've been around
a while and it was kind of hard for us
to get out of our own way and certain things,
you know, and it was like, we need to do this,
and we need to do it this way, you know,

(30:52):
and we need to be able to make noise. And
then we just started like, okay, here's the newsic, but
we want we don't we don't want to lose the
song in the mix. We felt strongly about all of
these songs and we were like, we want everyone to
hear every part of it and if it.

Speaker 6 (31:10):
There was no there was no fillers on this.

Speaker 7 (31:12):
This was every song was its own piece of art,
and we looked at it that way and we took
it very personal when it came to how it was
going to sound and look and feel, and but we
wanted to bring that out more as as our identity,
you know what I mean, because I felt that a
lot of people didn't know what Stia Albom is or was,
you know what I mean, Because before this EP came out,

(31:34):
it was just kind of like we were regurgitating the
same shit over and over and we were we were
even getting point.

Speaker 6 (31:40):
Where like, we don't like what we're hearing, we don't
like how we sound.

Speaker 7 (31:43):
And then we really had to Tito and I specifically,
we really had to dive deep into like really figure
out what we want to do, because we were literally
just like flipping the pancake over and over and over again.
It was just its just gonna change, It's gonna look
the same on the other side.

Speaker 6 (32:00):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (32:00):
So but yeah, we on this one, we we went
down some roads that we'd never been down before, and
we we knew we had to because the way that
the landscape has completely changed, and just in just a
handful of years from COVID that if you want to
be somebody or do anything, you have to keep churning
out content content content.

Speaker 6 (32:21):
I'm not even in a band anymore.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
I just.

Speaker 7 (32:25):
You know what I mean, Like the band is the
way over there, Like it's all about what the image
looks like to the world.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
You know.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Well, and you guys, you guys have a lyric video
released for Cosmic Inferno. But then on this Tuesday, you're
releasing the music video. What's kind of some of the
behind the scenes stuff that people are going to know
about that you guys enjoyed the most about this video?

Speaker 6 (32:49):
Go ahead, right.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Put in a grill. Yeah, he had.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
He had this golden grill that that they spent like
a good like ten to fifteen minutes getting good some
good shots. And then I saw the first round of
the video and I was like, more grill, more grilled.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
On my inner Little John.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Dude was like, Dude, was like, I can give you
what you want, but it's gonna be less of you.
And I was like, more grill.

Speaker 7 (33:28):
You know, behind the scenes stuff that's part of it,
because we all had like this little thing that we
you know, because I didn't know Tito was into makeup
again until literally like two days before the shoot, and
he kind of carried a theme over from from Domin
Yeah and uh, and it it kind of just connects
all the videos together.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
And yeah, yeah, I was gonna say that. I was
gonna say that. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (33:47):
And then and then it was like, you know, you know,
Anthony had Anthony was rocking gold chain, like I ain't
never seen Anthony with a gold chain on before. And
then you know, everyone just kind of had our own thing.
I will wear different contacts I haven't worn in a
video before, Like you all just kind of like brought
something to the table just to spice up our own,

(34:08):
our own character a little bit more, you know what
I mean. So and that was that was cool because
we didn't talk about it, and like as a group,
we didn't know.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
We didn't know, we didn't know Rey Ray was coming
with a grill. He just put it in. I was like,
all right, let's do it.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
A lot of little subliminal stuff, I mean, like, right,
we'll see some headphones with some upside down crosses. Were
just supposed to make an infant zone like devil music,
you know, not that not that we not that we
consider ourselves double music, but it's more of the way
that it's the perception of not.

Speaker 6 (34:46):
It's a it's inside joke.

Speaker 7 (34:47):
A lot like I have really good friends, and they
think I play in a Satan worshiping devil band, and
I'm like and I'm like and there and there, I'm like,
that's not what I do.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Which, well, no offense, no offense, nothing wrong with devil wishing.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
I literally had on my show like last week, so
it's all.

Speaker 7 (35:10):
Hey, we were talking about religion earlier, and just give
props to the other side, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Oh ten four can't but good without the bad, right.

Speaker 7 (35:19):
I just always I just always think it's funny that,
you know, you talk to people that don't listen to
metal and they're always like that devil music, That damn
devil music, you know what I mean, especially when you
get down South, they're like that that devil music. And
I was like, how do we how do we display
devil music with imagery? And I was like, to have
some headphones with an upside down cross on the side
of it.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
That's just it's funny because like I love death metal,
like Lords like up there, and then you listen to
new metal and you're like, no, that's not that bad.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Oh time four. I mean, And that's been one of
the one of our achilles heels for like almost our
whole existence because because we'll play with we'll we'll play
with the Lamba Goddish type bands. Yeah we're not we're
not hardcore enough. We'll play with We'll play with rock
steady rock bands. Oh, these guys are like Cannibal Corpse
all of a sudden, you know, it's like we're the

(36:14):
only time that we really aren't in a situation where
people aren't saying that we aren't enough. That is when
we end up finding ourselves into the Latin metal niche,
where in that niche there isn't the uh not enough
that or too much that. It's just like, yeah, Latin metal,
you know. So that's one of the things I like
about that that Moniker, although we are much more than

(36:36):
that Moniker from my perspective. From my perspective, we just
happen to be a band that is Latin metal. But
I mean, I don't but I don't. I don't think
that we begin an end.

Speaker 5 (36:46):
There now, now what it?

Speaker 4 (36:48):
What would you say that you guys do in each
of your songs that makes keeps that Latin aspect to it?

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Well? For me, I know that for me, I do
whatever I can to keep bilingual language and thoughts when
anybody thoughts is just you know, cultural cultural concepts that
may not be as common to my Anglo counterparts with
imagery or poetry. I know that for my part, try

(37:17):
to do rhythms and the that that try to try
to have the band do rhythms that will fit with
the vocal deliveries that I would that I would find
familiar in pop Latin music or pop reggae throon music.
Things like that, you kind of drive, help drive the

(37:39):
big ship in a certain way, but it's not like
it's not like anyone sitting there sitting there with the
steering wheel. It's more of like a nudge this way
and a nudge that way to make the ship go
the way you want to.

Speaker 7 (37:50):
The good thing about right, the good thing and the
bad thing about metal is is that it is the
family the people are in.

Speaker 6 (37:59):
It is a family.

Speaker 7 (38:00):
I mean, metal music is a family like people hold
their own. But the bad thing is is that it
is a very that sucks. You know what I mean,
unless you're if you're not what I like, that's not metal,
you know what I mean? Like you have your all
your subgenres are like, well, I listened to this and this,
and I can't listen.

Speaker 6 (38:20):
To new metal because new metal sucks. But it's metal, right, We're.

Speaker 7 (38:24):
All agreeing that it's metal, but it sucks because you
don't listen to it, you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (38:29):
So that's the good and the bad. And then again
we're like, well, we see these bands that are.

Speaker 7 (38:34):
On Octane and that are on Serious XM, and then
they're and on YouTube and wherever you go and watch
your music or listen to your music, and these bands
are adding elements of pop.

Speaker 6 (38:46):
They're adding elements of hip hop and rap, R and B.

Speaker 7 (38:50):
And you even have Jelly Roll who's bringing in country
into rock and pop. And that's the one thing that
we love about Ray Ray. He is a blend of
all of it, you know what I mean. When he
does awesome re Ray, it's like, why can't why can't
any other band do this right? Why can't Why can't
a band just bring in all of these inspirations. I

(39:11):
think it's more accepting now because of the way the world.
You have access to everything right now, you know what
I mean. It's such a I want this on Amazon.
I'm going to buy it right now. I don't have
to wait for it.

Speaker 6 (39:20):
You know, I want to listen to this song right now.
I'm gonna go listen to it right now.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (39:25):
You don't have to buy it anymore. You don't have
to wait for it to show up, you know, in
your whatever.

Speaker 7 (39:30):
It's just there, so bringing at different elements, like Tito
was saying, reggaetne and more Latin and more pop and
more and heavier mental. And that's one thing with voice
on the phone, it's very melodic in those.

Speaker 6 (39:44):
Areas that are that.

Speaker 7 (39:46):
If you took the heavy drums and the heavy guitars
out and you put in a piano with some violin,
it's not metal anymore. But it's the same song, you
know what I mean. So it's just that whole thing
where people get so caught up in there it's not
good because I don't like it, you know what I mean.
It's like, we'll just admit that it's good.

Speaker 6 (40:03):
You don't have to like it.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
It's funny because a couple of the people doing reviews
it's pasted on this past campaign were or right right
on the right on that on that notion that Justin's described,
because they'd be like, damn, it's good. It really is good,
you know, for new metal, but it's really but it's
really good, you know, yeah, exactly metals.

Speaker 6 (40:31):
I review metal bands, but I don't listen to new metal,
Like what's that?

Speaker 4 (40:34):
Yeah, yeah, it's just yeah, if you throw new metal
out there, like a lot of people, it's too mainstream
or like it's like, no, it's not.

Speaker 6 (40:43):
Listen you know what.

Speaker 7 (40:47):
We we all that's the crazy thing about everyone in
this band. We all listen to all genres. Yeah, you
listen to the country. I listened to gospel and some
blues and metal and like it. Yeah, there's certain things
that I don't gravitate too as much, but that doesn't
mean I don't think it's not cool. Like I can
hear a song from somebody like that's some sweet lyrics,
Like whatever that message is is pretty dope, you know

(41:08):
what I mean.

Speaker 6 (41:09):
So that it's it's a matter of like you don't
have to say it sucks just because you don't like it,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (41:14):
Admit that it's Admit that something is good and somebody
did a good job with it, and just be beat
about your way, you.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
Know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
So right, well about you, Ray, do you think that
it has it been a struggle, a struggle at all
tried to transfer it to like a Latin vibe of music.

Speaker 8 (41:32):
It's actually been a breath of fresh air, to be
honest with you, man, because like that's it. The Latin component,
I think is like a very rhythmic, like enchanting trance
component that I think, honestly, metal has kind of been missing,
you know what I mean. And that's not the knock
metal or new metal or whatever, but I think that

(41:55):
and even with that Latin, it almost kind of curves
into hip hop a little bit too, And I think
I think it's fucking beautiful.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Get what they're kind of swaying while he's singing.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
You know, I love to perform.

Speaker 8 (42:11):
And then like you hear these fucking these these chugs
and this distortion and in this fucking angry, fucking.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Metal, and you got like, like it's.

Speaker 7 (42:25):
The crazy thing about it all is that we have
this new e out and everything, but it's and it
has Latin in it. But the crazy thing is it's
just gonna get more and more, Like we're gonna keep
diving diving into this.

Speaker 6 (42:36):
And because I hear cars driving down.

Speaker 7 (42:39):
The road and someone's listening to reggaetne, someone's listening to
a rendition of somebody took another song and turned it
into into reggaetne, Or it's some spans like I listened
to a lot of like like Filamenco guitar players, and
it's like, you know, the old school, like new like
old world, like Mexican, you know, uh that whole like
text Mexic guitar playing and stuff like that. And it's

(42:59):
just we're just going to keep get going deeper into
it when it comes to rhythms and all that stuff,
and doesn't mean we're going to lose our heaviness or
or our new or new metal tag or whatever you
want to call it. We we're just going to keep
churning it up, you know.

Speaker 5 (43:14):
So now I didn't notice good, no good, just for one.

Speaker 7 (43:19):
It's just you know, it's we we've realized a long
time ago, or you know, relatively a long time ago,
that we it's about just doing it for yourself.

Speaker 6 (43:29):
And if you're just doing it for that, then it's
everyone else will just gravitate to it.

Speaker 4 (43:33):
So right, I didn't notice a lot of your more
recent videos are on Eclipse Records YouTube channel. So did
you did you guys sign with the clip Eclipse Records.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Yeah, yeah, we've been on Eclipse alumni since I think
twenty twelve, twenty ten, if I'm not mistaken, we've been
alumni with them since then. And in order to I guess,
funnel our traffic into infrastructure that is more productive, we've

(44:05):
been releasing on their websites and you know, and having
our data be funneled through there for infrastructure purposes and
try to capture our streams and making sure that all
of our tea's get crossed and our eyes get dotted
in that regard, because I mean, we're we're musicians through
and through, but I don't wake up every day being

(44:26):
the best business man that I could or should be,
and we kind of we have to collaborate on those
and it's a lot it's a lot easier. Not I
take that back. Nothing's easy, it's just more. There's more
productivity that gets that you have the opportunity to actually
make something of yourself when you're collaborating with people that
have done it seventeen eighteen, twenty thousand times over. And

(44:50):
when it comes to album releases and video releases, we
definitely want to make sure that we are put into
the infrastructure so that it's not some some tree that
fell in the forest that nobody heard right.

Speaker 6 (45:04):
Right, Like we're big on branding, you know.

Speaker 7 (45:07):
We've always been a big band on branding, making sure
the image looks the way it's supposed to and and
if you have people in your corner that can help you,
then didn't use it.

Speaker 6 (45:17):
Don't don't fight that. There's all these.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
Bands when you hear a lot of people that knock
like signing with record labels and stuff, and I don't
want to and I'm not trying to knock eclips at all.
But has there been any like struggles with communication or
maybe there's something that they didn't vibe with or have
they been pretty much right there with you guys on everything.

Speaker 7 (45:35):
Communication, Yeah, very supportive. Communication has always been there. They
they they obviously have their what if you did this,
or what if the image looked like this, or what
if the song was this.

Speaker 6 (45:46):
I mean, they put their input in, but it's a
very fluid.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
They want us to be. They want us to be
radio friendly. I will say that we have hardcore versions
of everything, and they're like, well, if you got a budget,
we will go ahead and throw that fuck out there.
But if you have a smaller budget, let's let's let's
do the radio. Let's do the radio version.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
And that's really and actually that's fine, that's that's literally
what I was kind of aiming at is kind of
you know, is there certain like limitations and you know,
like with with with the cursing and stuff like that
makes sense.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
So our approach is that we'll record the songs the
way we want and which also includes a version A
and a version B. So for this for for our
purposes this time around, I purposely went into studio knowing
that I wanted to have a original version had all
the curse words, and I wanted to have another version

(46:42):
that that if we needed to, we could we could,
we could push it into all of the the online radio,
all the channels that needed to be pushed through. I
didn't want to limit ourselves based on being authentic, because
I just felt that I felt that being better prepared
for all opportunities was most authentic. And now we're But

(47:04):
then when it comes time to release, then there's a
matter of well, you don't want to cannibalize your own stats,
so you have to release with the best foot forward.
The best foot forward happens to be the radio edit.
But as soon as the radio edits are out there
in the campaign is done, then you start with Basically,
from my perspective, we have a whole we can re
re release them with with with the regular versions and

(47:26):
just have more content to put out there because we
were born to be artists, but the algorithms forced us
to be content creators. So having having a clean version
and an original version only makes it. Do we have
actually more content to push right well.

Speaker 4 (47:44):
And it's funny because you mentioned content creator and actually
this is kind of where I was going towards towards
the end of the episode. So I'm glad you let
into this. You guys have been around for two decades
basically are a little bit more than that. And you
guys have seen the progression of social media.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
Now.

Speaker 4 (48:01):
I have a love hate relationship with social media personally,
I hate it, but it's how I get my name
out there.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
How do you guys feel that it has helped with
your band?

Speaker 7 (48:12):
I mean it's the same, like we love and hate it,
you know what I mean. It's it's you hate to
get up in.

Speaker 6 (48:17):
The morning and have to grab your phone and make
a post. You know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (48:20):
You hate that, but you have to do it, you know,
and you you know it's not it's not it's not
about not having contact with people that enjoy what you do.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
That's not.

Speaker 6 (48:32):
That's not it at all. That part is awesome.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
We love that.

Speaker 7 (48:36):
It's the it's the it's a job now, feeling that
you have to you have to do certain things to
keep yourself in a in a loop, in a cycle,
you know what I mean. It's being able to have
those conversations with people is amazing and it's awesome, But
it's the whole job.

Speaker 6 (48:54):
Factor that is like, Okay, now I have to make
a post. Oh what time is It's five o'clock.

Speaker 7 (48:58):
I got to make a post before when everyone gets
all work, they can see my post or whenever one
gets up in the morning, they can see my post
or my video or this is coming out. And then
sometimes it gets to a point where it's too much,
where you're like you have to find a balance. And
then but the good thing about it is instead of
it being you, because I know Ray, Ray deals with

(49:18):
this because he's his own artist as well, like he's
the one doing all his awesome Ray Ray stuff, you
know what I mean. And it's difficult when you're a
solo artist. When you're in a band, you can kind
of like, hey, you do this, and you do that,
and then we'll come back full circle. But I can
see where it's especially for you too. I mean, you're
your own you know, all your comedy stuff and all

(49:39):
that stuff. You're like, you're promoting yourself.

Speaker 5 (49:41):
Promoting You've got nineteen shows.

Speaker 7 (49:44):
Right right, and it's like so, you know, but when
a band you can kind of delegate it a little
bit more. That doesn't mean that you still don't do
your portion of the work, you know what I mean.
So yeah, that's it's how I see it.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Yeah, for me. For me, it's the whole selling yourself
and the self absorption that was necessary to be platforming
yourself in such in such a constant way, The the
the how adjacent and close that is to this, this

(50:17):
narcissistic perspective. Coming from a recovering narcissist, you know, I
find it very difficult to hang around that rabbit hole
and I have to go to it strategically and walk
away from it strategically, because otherwise I don't know if
you've I don't know if you've seen these sort of

(50:38):
horror movie films where like this girl looks finds a
mirror and she ends up looking into it and just
sits there with this crazy, stupid, creepy smile on her
face until she dies. She does nothing else but stare
at the mirror. That that is social media, you know that.
And I have to approach it a way to where
I don't get stuck in the mirror and a creepy
smile until I end up pooping my pants and dying.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Don't.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
I don't want to be that person. And and and
the sad part is is that that person will lap
me and my band eighteen times over because because they
have the bandwidth and maybe maybe the youth to be
absorbed in it that way. I personally find it challenging.
And there's the self absorbtion that is necessary to be

(51:24):
constant and consistent. Is the part I find it to
be dark, and there's a there's a darkness to it.
There is that that I that I have a healthy
respect for. Right now, if I hope that I'm particulating, no,
you are? You are?

Speaker 4 (51:42):
You talk about consistency in the darkness. If you're not consistent,
the algorithm on the platform is don't give you the reach.
So it's like, if you're not posting content, then he
nobody sees your ship. So like, you have to be
posted every day. You have to because you have to
be interacting with people on the If you're not, and
you just don't go anywhere.

Speaker 6 (52:01):
So and there's that, there's the question. It's like if
everyone is doing this, then what are we all doing?

Speaker 3 (52:07):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (52:09):
It's like, yeah, if everyone is doing this, And it's
like so people like, oh, you listen to.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
This podcast, just listen.

Speaker 7 (52:16):
I'm like, where the fuck do you have the time
to listen to the fifteen podcasts you like? And then like,
so we're hanging out, we're hanging out with friends last
night and my wife turned her one of her best
friends doesn't have doesn't have TikTok, And then she turned
her on to TikTok yesterday and she's sitting on the
couch for like two hours looking at TikTok videos and

(52:36):
she ain't never been on TikTok. And I'm like, there
you go, there's a rabbit hole and you just dove headfirst.
In that bitch like you you know what I mean.
And then she's like, oh, you can buy stuff on
here too.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
I'm like, oh god, well, it's funny.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
Just it's just it's funny that you mentioned TikTok because
Ray Ray had one video in particular that took off
that was extremely.

Speaker 5 (52:57):
Stupid, and even he admits it. Right, why don't you
talk about that?

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Right?

Speaker 3 (53:03):
All right?

Speaker 8 (53:03):
So it was the second year I was at Blue
Rich Rockfest and just walking through the campgrounds. It's kind
of doing my networking thing talking to fans. I'm an extrovert,
so I'm just gonna talk to random people. And there's
this little girl had to be like six years old
and she's like playing corn hole and she's like, hey,
you want to play, and I was like sure, so
if you get it in you'll win a prize. I'm

(53:24):
like cool, right, and her parents are standing there and
I was like, yo, cool with this. I'm like, yeah,
she got prizes. So I played corn hole and I
get it in there and I was like, hey, yeah,
what's my prize. It's a unicorn big Tiara. I saw
that and I was like, I was like, a six
year old just gave me this.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
A six year old. Du it took me off, like
we're over eighty eighty k views.

Speaker 8 (53:52):
It was definitely I guess what you consider a viral moment.
And I was like, I think I make some pretty
decent music. I think I have a great per personality,
and but dick you in a corn is what?

Speaker 3 (54:07):
And you know what?

Speaker 2 (54:07):
You know what?

Speaker 6 (54:08):
Own it? Dude, own it, dude.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
It pinned to the top of my profile.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
You know what.

Speaker 6 (54:17):
Listen like Freddy Krueger.

Speaker 7 (54:19):
You know, Robert England, he had he was an amazing
actor before he was Freddy Krueger, and then the whole
world went, Nope, we're just Freddy Krueger.

Speaker 6 (54:27):
Now, all right, that's cool, all right, got it?

Speaker 3 (54:31):
I had a moment.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
I have one clip that on Instagram and it's literally
six seconds long, and it's this elephant sitting on like
a fucking crate and he's got a red collar on it,
his dits just hanging, and I'm like, man, I've never
seen an elephant with a red collar.

Speaker 5 (54:45):
He's got two point eight million views?

Speaker 1 (54:50):
Why why is it.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Similarly similarly for us? A lot of our stories and
reels and stuff. I don't know why, but we'll put
up band stuff and put up something with my dogs.

Speaker 7 (55:04):
Like, like, I just made a cat post like an
hour ago on my on my social media, on my
Instagram page.

Speaker 6 (55:17):
I was like, oh, there's my cat sitting in the sun.

Speaker 7 (55:18):
I'll just take a quick little picture, and you know,
my cat says a lot to the world, you know,
So when I when I go check it in like
an hour, it'll have the most likes I've ever had,
you know what I mean. But I post a picture
of myself playing instrument, and they're like, but.

Speaker 8 (55:35):
You know it's important though, because it does highlight a
little bit of like your your personality, Like it shows
a little bit more than just the music because people
love the music, but they kind of want to see
that we're humans too, you know what I mean. Like
I posted a video a couple of years ago of
me somebody out in traffic, and then I was.

Speaker 6 (55:54):
Just saying, like another planet I'm just visiting.

Speaker 8 (55:58):
I'll say, like all kinds of bad things about them
in traffic, like I hope there's always snow in your driveway,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
And it got way more than my music, right right, Yeah, just.

Speaker 6 (56:10):
Remember remember to put your song in the in the feed.
That's all you gotta do.

Speaker 5 (56:14):
Ex just put the link to the music video. What
does they have to do with the music vide?

Speaker 3 (56:19):
Well for music in the background.

Speaker 4 (56:22):
I really appreciate all you guys coming on today. I'm
I'm excited for the release on Tuesday. I've watched the
lyric video, so the music video is gonna be a
hell of a lot better.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
I'm sure.

Speaker 4 (56:32):
Is there anything you guys want to say before we
wrap this up? You guys got any shows coming up?

Speaker 2 (56:37):
Yeah? Yeah, we got a bunch of little shows coming
up here for the end of the year, some some
festival in Maryland. We got a couple of shows through
Virginia and North Carolina. Sintiablo dot com is where all
of our sources are at, so if you don't remember,
you know all of the other ones is Sintialbow dot
com takes you to all of them. You'll also get

(56:58):
to see all of our videos. There are store is there,
All of our only fans pages are there, and we're
we mine have seventy five percent off right now for
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(57:19):
at look at it.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
Oh god, but just for meeting you on the show,
I can't believe that.

Speaker 6 (57:26):
I mean, you joke. I'm telling you, Bro, you joke
about this, But that's a payday, I'm telling you. Trust me.

Speaker 7 (57:35):
I've been telling my wife she needs to just do
only fans with her feet and then we wouldn't have
to worry about paying bills for a while.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
Trust me.

Speaker 5 (57:43):
I know I told my wife.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
I was like, just I told my wife just wear
bra and put a mask on and just walk around
doing chores.

Speaker 3 (57:50):
No, hey, that'll blow up. That'll absolutely blow up.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
But in reference to your question, we really, honestly just
want to make sure people know that there is a
new EP available. We are not your We are not
your dad's Saint Diablo. We are we are today's twenty
twenty four's Saint Diablo. We have new producers. We're all
of our handlers are the same people that bring you

(58:15):
the the albums from Il Nino, So we got a
good team. We are. Producer is just phenomenal, Chris Anger.
He's kind of he's just He's helped us reinvent ourselves.
So if you loved us, in the past. You'll you
you will be You'll be shocked at how far we've gotten.

(58:37):
If you've never heard us before, it's definitely something to
check check out. We are excited about our new products.
We have videos for everything that that we just did.
And we're already started on the next wave. So we've
already got songs in the oven, production pre production done.
We and and we're we're on the we're on the

(58:57):
calendar to get back in the studios for this for
this fall, not like next year. So we're we're just
cranking it out. Like I said, you know, nature called
us to be artists, but the algorithm gods call us
to be content creators. So we're doing our best to
to to feed the algorithm gods and our creative impulses

(59:20):
in the in the most authentic way possible. So hopefully
people will join us in that little ground we've carved
up for ourselves. And thank you, thank you for for
you know, for showcasing us. We take no one, We
take no one and nothing for granted. We really appreciate
it when people make a connection. And and you from
and Ray Ray love you you you uh. Your addition

(59:40):
to the band is has been a rejunification that has
that not only was it necessary, but but heart woman,
heart warmingly welcomed on my part. And I can't at
least from my from from my from my perspective. So like,
we're just really excited to be able to showcase where
we are right now and the next chapter or the

(01:00:00):
next chapter from this EP, the next EP, we'll have
more rhythms, more percussion, everything that you liked will be
a little more of it. Well, so yeah, yeah, yeah,
and and and Ray Ray will have Rayray will Ray raised. Well,
you'll we'll see the Ray Ray's part in the next chapter.
Things are gonna are gonna are gonna also be a

(01:00:21):
page turner when it comes to when it comes to
the timeline of what we can, what we have done,
and what we will do. So I just want to
say thank you. And if you have Saintdialbumo dot com
is the place you want to go to to make
sure you make you connect with us and every week.

Speaker 4 (01:00:35):
Hell yeah man, well spoken man. And you know I've
already talked to Ray about this. I've got a network
of podcasters across the US that would love to help
promote you.

Speaker 6 (01:00:44):
Guys as well.

Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
So any any kind of help I can give you guys,
any exposure. I'll be making clips from this show, so
you guys, you guys, just keep rocking out and doing
what you do. Thank you, appreciate you, appreciate you, guys.
I appreciate everyboy this for watching today. Anybody that's gonna
be watching later on or listening on any of the
platform Spotify, Apple, all that stuff, it'll be on there

(01:01:05):
as well. So until next time, we'll see you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
Wait, wait for the algorithm. Puppies, puppies, Puppies for the Algorithm. Puppies, puppies.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
God damn it.

Speaker 5 (01:01:15):
Now I gotta make a puppy video.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
Puppies for the Algorithm. Ok, where is Springfield? Where is Springfield?
Ain't the cats and puppies.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
And your dogs?

Speaker 6 (01:01:29):
That's too funny?

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
He Until next time, I buddy, We'll see you guys
around here so much.

Speaker 6 (01:01:33):
Thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Oh yeah,