March 12, 2025 • 37 mins
Purge of Lilith stop by to talk up their album Lamashtu (out NOW) as well as where theyve been and their plans for this year
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What is up? Guys. Welcome back to another episode of
the Misfit Minutes podcast. I'm your host, of course, Jade.
If you're new around here, welcome. If you're not around here,
welcome back to the Chaos. So for today's episode, we
have not one, but two very special guests with me.
We have Trevor and Josh from Purge of Lolith. Welcome guys.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hello, so thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Of course, thanks for coming on. I appreciate it. Those
of you who are ogs already know that Purge of
Lolith has been on the show before, so welcome back.
It's good to have you back.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's my first time, but Josh has been here.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, yeah, as my second time. Last time was with
Jack our drummer. Yeah, how you been? Uh chaotic. We're
finally releasing that EP. The last time when we were
on the show, I mentioned that we were working on
this an EP. It's taken all of twenty twenty four
(01:03):
for us to do that, but we finally have it
coming out in March third. By the time this is
being heard, it will be out and so hopefully it's
doing well. It took us a while because we had
a lot of stuff going on. Each one of us
for the most part, moved to a different state or
different area. And yeah, and also some of us went
(01:28):
or I think all of us have different jobs or
different occupations or something. It's like basically between all the
chaos and stuff, and we took a break from playing
shows for a year so we could focus on our
personal lives with trying to make adjustments with that along
with you know, just trying to get this record to
the best of its you know, ability to be.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
That's fair, that's fair. I was wondering because I hadn't
seen y'all like out and about in a while, and
I was like, oh, man, they didn't like die off,
did they? But then I saw that for the and everything,
I was like, yes.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, no, that was that was a concern that I
had because we didn't have anything to post, so like
we didn't like.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I don't I don't want to do the stereotypical big
things coming.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Would have done that a few times though, and.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Then Instagram reels.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well see the band originally started like in twenty fourteen
and broke up in twenty sixteen, and Trevor and I
tried to bring it back in twenty twenty and we
did an announcement saying Perge twenty twenty, and that was
kind of like a big Things Coming thing, and then
it's like another year or two.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
To like twenty twenty two, I think the EP actually released.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, so we've done it before. We still do the big.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Things Coming, Yeah, we do that. That's a way to
keep the band alive just a little bit so people
don't forget about us because it takes us a long
time to do stuff. Also because we do everything ourselves,
So I mean it's kind of my fault that it
takes so long because I'm also like I'm writing, I'm
mixing and mastering, and I'm also learning at the same time.
So it's like by the time I get done with
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one song and I think it sounds pretty good, and
then I start working on the second song, I like,
make the second song sound like that much better. Then
I have to go back into that first song and
like redo that. And I'm also listening to the same thing,
like constantly over and over. So by the time I
listened to that first song a thousand times, I'm like,
I need to change this riff because now it annoys me. Yeah,
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the first Newly Crowned Queen wrote, we wrote in twenty twenty,
and it sounds different to what you hear.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
That's where I was actually going. It's funny you were
sawing about that because I was about to say, I
just listened to our like private SoundCloud that you and
I like send stuff through, and I listened to the
the demo version, so Newly crown Queen, it's so bad
and different, Like, I'm so glad we've reworked it. But
it's like, if we had released it how it was,
(04:02):
it was like, oh man, this would have been here.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You know, it probably sounded cool for twenty twenty, but
music evolved so quickly so that it's like it wouldn't
work in today's world.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Twenty oh yeah, it was wild as far as music,
just because everyone was trapped in their houses for months
at a time, so people had all this.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Time and you know, yeah, that's really why we started.
We've just had the time to do that, yeah, right.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Which it's both a good thing and a bad thing.
I think everyone has like a villain arc within the
year of twenty twenty of some sort like everyone went
through something. I was working during that time. I was
working in a hospital. So yeah, it wasn't it wasn't
that bad.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I wouldn't say result, I wouldn't say the whole blame though,
should be on Trevor when it comes to the reason
why we take forever to do stuff. I said last time,
and like the last time I was on the show,
I said, I think I think a huge part of
it too is how him and I write the songs
in the record, because like he'll he'll have a version
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like where he does all the instrumentation, like bass, drums,
you know, all of it, and then he sends it
to me, and then I'll do all the vocals, and
then him and I will go back and forth with
ideas until we're happy with it. And then you know,
so we've already spent a lot of time doing that
just to make a pre production or demo or whatever
you want to call that version of the song, and
(05:33):
then we have to send it to the other guys
so they can do their parts, and that's can be
time consuming, you know. So you know, by the end
of it, everyone's on the record, but like for at
least three fourths of the life of the song, it's
just Trevor and I shooting shit back and forth via
cloud or SoundCloud or whatever, you know. And so I
(05:54):
think that that him and I can be perfectionists at times,
because we'll be, like he said, like we'll listen to
the song a thousand times and like, you know, maybe
for that particular moment it's it. We're happy with it,
but then the next month we're like, man, like it
needs to be heavier or darker or more symphonic or whatever,
you know. So it's constantly morphing. And finally, like, I
(06:18):
think we've gotten to the point where we know when
the song is done and look ready for the other
two guys to be on. But I think that there's
been a learning curve to figure out when the song
is still growing and then when it's when it's done.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I mean we're getting we're getting quicker at it too,
because yeah, we're working on the thirty p now and
oh yes, songs for that are almost time.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yes, I've already decided, like we tend to overwrite some too,
so which is a good thing because like I'll tend
to He'll send me some songs and we'll make a
playlist of them, and then I'll do a vote demos
of which ones I really like and we'll grow it
from there. And I'm at that phase right now where
like I'm driving in the car listening to our third
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record right now and writing lyrics and writing vocal lines
and stuff for it. So I'm about to be sending
him vocal demos already for the third record, and we're
still doing the promotion cycle for this one.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I mean, on the one hand, you don't want to
like put too much out at once and a tire
yourselves out and b not give people time to fall
in love with the EP before. But it's also good
to have stuff ready so that you're not scrambling at
the last minute or you're like, i' like have something
(07:46):
go wrong like mix. Let's say, like your pre save
link doesn't work and you didn't know that for the
first couple of weeks that you announced the song or
EP and then no one could pre save your stuff
because the link didn't work, or like something like that,
Like things that you can't really plan plan for things
(08:06):
that come up, but you can at least like have
an idea of what you want to do in the
event that those things occur. So nothing wrong with having
some extra material laying around or having a plan for
what comes next.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I think we have to because we take forever making
a record, so it's like it's a good thing. Like
I've already talked to Trevor about my ideas for the
fourth record, Like it's like, we have to. We have
to do that because if we just wait till we're
till the dust settles with this third record before we
even start working on or sorry, once the dust settles
(08:43):
with the second record, if that's when we started to
do this third record, it'd be like twenty six twenty
seven before we actually get finished with it.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
We also do it because we like to you also,
you know, we like writing.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Songs and work it out, and that's.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
What we're going to do in the future.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, it's good to not get past the point of
enjoying it and liking writing and such. So I think
I think that's some bands problems, is that they get
to the point where, all right, all right, this isn't
fun anymore. This is just work and it's not really enjoyable.
You're not like making art. You're just like, all right,
(09:22):
let's go into this staff meeting and write some stuff down,
and then it becomes kind of like a chore and
then you start to lose the passion for it. So
I hope that may you never lose your passion because
we love you guys, and we are all excited for
the EP coming out. Fun fact listeners, I got to
(09:44):
hear before you did, but it's dope, You're gonna.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Be real, thank you. Yeah, this time around, it's a
I would say found footage or debut EP. I kind
of described it as kind of creepy and eerie, I mean,
on the side of things, and I think that comes
down to the inspiration for it being found footage. Horror movies,
Like if you think about almost every one of them,
(10:11):
while there's action scenes and such, it it's really, uh
the hair on the back of your neck kind of raising,
kind of eerie suspensefulness because you never know what's outside
of the camera view and that's like how horror movies are,
and that's kind of how that particular like found footage
kind of sounds like for this one, I feel like
(10:32):
there was more of a it's still horror, but it's
it's violent and at the same time sensual because it's like, yeah,
because you're singing on it, you're so seductive, Uh, yeah,
we have queans now. Yeah, we do singing now, so
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that's where we're evolving our sounds some And like I think,
I think there's some very raw moments in it in
the sense of like the pere aggression, and like we
were saying, there's some like very I wouldn't say uplifting,
but just you know, sentimental moments. Yeah, And I think
(11:21):
the whole the whole theme of this EP instead of
found footage horror movies, it's like vampire stuff. So I
think that fits kind of with vampires. Like if you
think about like Thirty Days of Night or something like that,
like there is some brutal, brutal, you know, violence, and
then you know, you think about Dracula too, and there's
some brutal violence, and then all of a sudden, you
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know there's there's the sexual, seductive, romantic, more softer side
of vampires. So it's none of the Twilight stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Thank you for reminding me that I need to pick
up the graphic novel for Thirty Days of Night.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah, it's good and I highly recommend if we're on
the topic of vampire media, that knows Fautuo movie that
was really good.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I keep saying I'm going to go see it, and
then something else happens and then I haven't. I haven't
gone to see it yet. It's gonna be on streaming
before I get to see it.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
All on Peacock.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Now, what's up?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
It's on Peacock now, is it really?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I call my in laws real quick, Mom and Dad.
Can I have y'alls peacock again?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, I don't know if you heard me shuffling around
because you were talking about you guys's previous releases and
fun fact, listen if you can't see this because you
can't see the camera, but lik what I found?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Oh yeah, that was we released that before found footage
as a I don't know, I have a weird I
have a weird upset with analog, like I still like
VHS's right, and I like tapes like cassettes. So I
have a I have a vinyl collection, I have a
CD collection, and I have a cassette collection. And I
really always wanted to be on a cassette, so I
(13:01):
pushed for you know, per pushed for Perche to do that,
and Uh, I wanted something out before we finished the EP.
So we had those two songs, UH finished with so
I like that. I like that it's the only way
that you can hear uh any instrumental versions of our
songs because.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
There's also an instrumental on there that you won't hear
anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
So yeah, missing, Yeah, it's on I think that's on
side B or is it. I don't remember, but I
know that side A was the regular mixes and side
B was the instrumental, so i'd imagine missing tapes on
that one. Yes, Trevor wrote this really cool. It's almost relaxing,
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like it's like it's.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Like, uh, like a lounge version of like of Fall
of Humanity.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I think, yeah, it's like we're in a bank like
a transaction to humanity.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
In the background while my husband plays gcas.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
What have Oh. It's still relaxing, it's peaceful.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
No, I definitely know what you mean about the physical
media stuff. I collect tapes from bands so hear me out.
I always, if I can help it, I always buy
something from one band at every show that I go to,
just to make sure that I'm like, you know, doing
my part what or what have you. Plus if the
band is really cool, when I like their stuff, then
I'll buy their stuff. So I have like tapes and
(14:37):
records and CDs from bands that I've seen the lives
that were really cool or that you know, are my
friends that I really wanted to support. Some of these
tapes I have not looked at in a very long time.
But neither here nor there.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
We should have physical copies of the La Mush Tool
EP that's coming out. It's not going to be out
March third, like digitally, the EP will be on March
third on streaming services, but the physical copies will probably
be a week or two afterwards. We're doing CDs this time,
kind of like what we did with Found Footage, so
(15:18):
there's no cassettes this time around of any singles or anything,
and we're just gonna focus on CDs. But uh, yeah,
that should be out and we'll be making an announcement
as soon as that's you know, shipped me and ready
to be shipped and added to our band camp and such,
because that's where our merch story is. So yeah, we will.
(15:40):
We will have those physical copies ready because we are
doing a tour in July. I'm actually I was in
the middle of emailing a place in Philly about us
playing in Philly. But we're getting the dates solidified, but
we're going to be in Philly, probably Maryland, Virginia for sure,
in may be North Carolina in the month of July.
(16:03):
So it's gonna be a little East coast run.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
So I love that.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, it'll be Uh, I'm happy for it because we
didn't play any shows in twenty twenty four because we
were so focused on our personal lives and also getting
uh this record done. That that was the other thing,
like why it took us so long with this record
is like found footage we released or we worked on
before we were playing shows, so we had like all
the time in the world to do that EP. But
(16:32):
Lama Stool we were working on at the same time
as playing shows, and we were playing like relentlessly, like
I think like every week we had a show whether yeah,
and we were playing in Delaware, multiple shows in Philly,
we were doing North Carolina, like, we were traveling all
the time. So we Purge in one form or another,
(16:56):
has been through almost every state on the East Coast,
you know, at least once, maybe a few times. So
trying to schedule our personal lives, like we all still work,
you know, full time, that are you know, day to
day jobs, and you know, some of us have like
you know, other things going on, other music projects, and
(17:16):
like I know, Trevor does like a lot of music
video for people and such. So trying to just schedule
that it gets We needed to take a break from
the shows so we could finish our product so we
had stuff to play at the shows, because I think
all of us are getting tired of playing the same
found footage songs over and over again. Yeah, we're ready
(17:41):
to play new songs, I understand.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I so the last time that and it wasn't you guys,
but the last time that I saw Fight for Within,
I always mess with them and I asked them to
play a certain song and they're like, day no, We've
played that so many times. Please God No. I'm like,
come on.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I think that's where we kind of got with two songs,
Warrior being one of them. I know that personally, I'm
tired of that song because we wrote it back when,
back in twenty fifteen was when the song was released,
so it's been a long time and we've grown as
a band since then. I think what we do now
(18:26):
is a million times better. And half the people on
that song aren't even in this lineup of Prginal, so
it's it doesn't even feel the same, and there's just
there's just so much about that song that I'm tired of,
and but it's still our most popular song and our
(18:48):
cover that we do live of Recreant from Chelsea Grin.
Everyone always wants us to play that and we My god,
I've gotten to the point where I want to find
a different cover. We do one.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I don't think we're ever going to not be able
to pay that song. Everyone wants us to play.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Record the play Records Perdi wil is trying to pick
out a new song to play for their cover and
their sets. Send them your requests. Send your request to
Josh and.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I'm pretty sure this tour will probably for an encore
have Recreent.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But well there were covers because we didn't have enough
material to like fill a whole set, and now that's
where we do, so we don't have to do a cover,
but I didn't request we'll we'll consider it.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I really want to do for the third record cycle.
I really want to do all when Worlds Collide by Power.
I really want to do that mhm, because I think
we kill it.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Could it could be a vibe, it could be a
vibe bringing it back. Yeah, And speaking of songs and
track lists and such, I w to know what you
guys's favorite song on this EP is. I have a
personal favorite, but I want to know if our thoughts online.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I'll let Trevor answer first, because I might pick one.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
They're all so different. I like Unbidden that sounds complete,
like totally different from any other song on the album
because I did that song like almost only with my mouth,
only with mouth noises, So all the sense on that
are you going like? He's like a bocoder to make
(20:37):
all the all the all the drumming and stuff. So
it's people will understand when they when they listen to it.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
But I love it because it reminds me of the
band Health, which I'm on a huge kick with the
last two years. I love that band so and that's
like our third record is going to have some of
that in it too, So I like that. So I'm
but it's pretty good for me.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I really enjoyed the last song. It's a really like
poppy metal song. It's almost yeah, it's a it's very
uh that's the.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, that is something I appreciated about the EP was
that there were moments where it would the vibe would
completely change and I was like, oh, okay, all right,
I'm here for it. But it's still it didn't feel like,
you know, like albums that are like just straight up
all over the place there's no cohesion whatsoever. It still
(21:45):
felt cohesive to me. It didn't feel like it was
just a random collection.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, it's it's definitely has Each song has its own
identity for me. My favorite is the Horde. I know
it's the first track on there, but it starts off
the most aggressive, very almost slip knot. It's it's it's
it hits you hard. It's so aggressive. There's a really
(22:13):
cool base slide, which I'm always a fan of doing
live and everything is Trevor's. Trevor's probably taken those base
slides out of them like almost every rip library. Yeah,
Like I always do base slides for some reason, and
we kept it for like, I think we have a
base slide and found footage. But I'm so glad there
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was a base slide in Lama Stool like and it's
like the first thing, so it's like, hell yeah, I
like that song the most. The second one, it would
be close. Second would be Newly Crowned Queen because I
feel like that one. If you're going to sum up
the record in one song, it would be that one
(22:57):
because it does have the cleans, It does have the
the sentimental like you know, central clean singing and such
to it, but it also still has that violence to it.
It definitely has that blend of like progressive genta I
dare say with the death core you know, yeah, yeah,
(23:22):
apparently death core is like a hot topic right now.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
It's it's a hot mess, but you know what it's
It's okay, it's gonna be okay.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I don't know what you would call us because I've
always said, like, you know, obviously our our roots are
in like deathcore, a metal core, but we also have
like this black metal element. We have definitely a progressive
element where uh, like Trevor and I are fans of like,
you know, like bands like the Contortionists, the Faceless, and
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you know, even Bornovo Cyrus, which we were definitely uh
compared to with found footage like that, they have progressive elements,
and so I think we've always had like you know,
like the core you know, sounds like metal core, death
cord but there's also the prog influences. But it's definitely
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I wouldn't even call it necessarily a technical metal band
because it's that's not on the forefront. It's it's in there.
It's just not like we have to do something in
odd time signators. It's like, if it happens, it happens,
whatever's best for the songs.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
But have any really odd time signatures.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Yeah, we usually play on the offbeat if we ever
do anything like that.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah, like the Dotted Quarters.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Yeah, but yeah, everything, every song, it has its own
identity on this trail, on the on the track list,
and each one of them kind of go into each other.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
We did that with the last record, where it was
like almost like one so here thought, and we wanted
to do that with this one, and we want to
do it with the next one. I think that's that's
probably why, like I Love I was doing EPs instead
of full length albums right now, is because each each
song is its own story, but it's all based on
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one theme. So conceptually and thematically, it's a concept record,
but it's not in the same thing of like, oh
it's one long story. It's almost like the VHS movies
like where each story, like each film contains, you know,
anthology of different stories, but they're all like linked somehow
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or some way to like an overarching thing. And I
think that's where we're at right now. Found footage, found
footage horror movies, Lama Stool, It's Vampires, vampire movies.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I Feel You, I Feel You, which actually inspired me
to ask a fun question. I was curious, So if
you could write a song for any movie, Like if
you could like get on the time machine, go back,
go see a movie and be like, I want to
write a song for this movie, what would you pick?
(26:12):
What would be the movie you don't You wouldn't want
to write a song for Josh might be frozen.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Uh. Well, scoring films is really like, well got me
into music. It was like the music that was in
films that like made me want to do music, and
I originally had wanted to. That's what I wanted to
do for my career, was to score films for score
music for films. Oh, I feel like we're kind of
doing that now because lots of our songs are just
(26:45):
like Josh's lyrics are like inspired by movies that he loves.
So it's like we're already kind of choosing movies already
and writing about them. But if I wanted a song
to be in a specific movie, yeah, I don't know.
(27:08):
To think Napoleon Dynamite was like the first movie soundtrack. Yeah,
I really wanted to know who did the music for.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
It's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I'd write a music.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Maybe I'd write a song for Napoleon Dynamite.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I gotcha. I'm a huge fan of Scott Pilgrim versus
the World, the overall movie, not the character Scott Pilgrim,
because we all know Scott Pilgrim is not a good person,
trash trash, terrible human being. But I mean, LOOKI his
band kind of slapped a little bit. Was okay, this
(27:49):
is a vibe I can get down with this.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yes, of course, that whole movie is hilarious, and it's
even more hilarious because it didn't age super great, but
it's that's what makes it hilarious. But as we all know, again,
I am not a Scott Pilgrim scan, don't cancel me.
I hate him as a person, but the movie is funny.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
When the movie came out, were we supposed to like
like Scott Pilgrim? Or was he always was always supposed
to be.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I didn't think about it that way because I watched
it when I was younger, So at first I was
just like, you know, like you don't know, so you're like, oh,
this dang, this guy just in a shitty situation. And
then you grow up and experience things in the world
and you're like, oh, no, Scott, what were you thinking?
What is wrong with you? So I'm definitely at that
(28:41):
point I am nah, homie, Homie needed to get himself together.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
We're done. We're done with Scott Pilgrim. Did you want
to tell us what your favorite song in the record was?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
It was the first one.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
The hord. So that intro is two hundred tracks of me.
I'm the crowd in the beginning saying no, God, No
save us. That's like of me, just like we originally
wanted it all let's say Josh's back, but we to
doing to be doing the chanting, but it ended up
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just just being me. Two hundred tracks of me.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
The voices or the voice your voice.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
So I pitched them up because I can't get that high.
I can't really sound like a but no, they're all
I didn't like copy. I wanted it to all sound
like a real crowd, so it was just too man
tracks of me staring at different positions at the microphone
chanting it.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
When you're talking about the no God Can Save.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Us the intro to the EP.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Yeah, that that started because that riff the damn d
I couldn't figure out what I wanted to write lyrics
over that, and then I remember the no God can
save Us.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Thing and I was like, man, like that that fits perfectly.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
It's it came out great. That's really cool the way
that you did it. I think it turned out really nice.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Thank you. That's whattell is just one person.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
You can't not to me.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
When I listen to it, I just hear myself. But
I'm glad that other people can't tell.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I know I do.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
No. It sounds like we're we're hot shit, like people
people like are on scream and none. I want there's
a T shirt eventually. I don't know how we'll do it,
but I want to do that. We're like a stick
or something because it's such a cool, uh, such a
cool moment in the EP.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
So I'm an advent collector of bandstickers that I won't
stick to things because I don't want them to be ruined.
So whenever y'all put stickers out.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Let me know, yeah, like a stickers, I'm like the opposite,
Like my permits is just covered in the sticker.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I have one that's over. It's over by the sink,
so I'm not gonna go get it. But it has
like a bunch of band stickers. And there's a lot
of bands on there that aren't even a band anymore,
bands like Corey Tolbert's old Bandlyment configuration. There's stickers on there.
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M a couple of other we have.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
We have shirts from like festivals we've played at that
were composed of mostly, if not all, local level bands.
And uh, it is funny to look at because I
think that Adam, when we first started, I think the
only two acts that are still around that we grew
(31:50):
up with was X Case Scenario Impulses. That's it. Like
like every other band that I could think of as
broken up called it quits or turned it into some
other kind of form or function like so, I don't know,
it is funny to see that, Like it kind of
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makes me feel old a bit, yeah, I mean theoretically, yeah,
because we started, like I said back in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
So we've gotten to see a lot of bands come
and go, and now I try and keep my ear
to all the scenes that we're involved with. But it
is a little challenging at times because Anthony moved to Florida,
I moved to Kentucky, Trevor lives in Detroit now, and
Jack lives in Virginia still. So we do all of
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our record like, thank god, all of us have our
own home studios.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
That's good. I feel like there's a lot of bands
that do that. Like where everyone is excuse me, everyone
is spread out and you kind of have to work
pretty much online. I think as long as you're dedicated
and you know, you have a structure of how you
want to get things done, then it usually turns out
(33:16):
fairly well and you're able to release and you know,
communicate and get things out.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
So right, that's why it's a big deal for this
record to do do well. Also because the more streams,
the more merch we sell everything that it supports us
for expanding to bigger and bigger shows and tours because
right now, like part of the reason why we're focused
on the East Coast is this is our first time
(33:45):
since we've all moved away from each other that we're
going to do a tour, and so we're kind of
we're playing on the East Coast because it's a happy
median for all of us to meet up. I mean,
I know Trevor and I don't technically live on the
East Coast anymore, but it's not that wild for him
and I to drive to Philly and then go down
(34:05):
the East Coast Strip. And Anthony living in Florida, he
drives all the way up to Philly and then he
starts slowly but surely going back home as we go
during the tour dates. The same thing with Jack. He
lives in the center of it, so he's just he's
sticking around that area. So it's it's easier for us logistically,
but it will get easier for us logistically if we're
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a bigger deal. So to his record does well, We
put a lot of time into it.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
So you should do like like a weird rhombus shape
of like every like the states that y'all live in,
and just like go in like the shape of right.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
We talked for hotels too, We just like go to
each other's home states and.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Well, that's part of the reason why. That's why it's
so easy for the East Coast right now too, is
because I can just stay with my cousin, and Anthony
stays with his family there, and you have family in
Maryland and Jack gets to just sleep in his house.
So but you're right, it is cost effective and we
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will probably do that next year. Unfortunately, I didn't get
us any real shows for Kentucky, which is where I
live right now, And when I was about to start
networking and trying to figure that out, I had gotten
into a car wreck. So I'm finally healed and walking again.
But that was part of the delay with this record too,
(35:31):
was Trevor was waiting like a month or two for
me to send bass tracks and I couldn't. I couldn't
play bass because I couldn't support the weight of a
bass guitar on my broken hip, and I couldn't stand
up to record my vocal parts, and so it was
kind of like a Yeah, how dare I drive into
a tree going sixty miles per hour? I can't believe
(35:52):
I'm alive.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I'm very glad that you were alive as well.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Yeah, I'll think about it.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, no, please don't do that again. But we're definitely
glad that you are recovered and that you guys are
on the road to putting out new things and going
on going on tour in July and all the things
that you guys have planned for the year. I'm definitely
excited and I'm so glad that y'all are back.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Absolutely, that being said, gentlemen, it has been so great
talking with you and catching up and again, welcome back.
I was so glad to have you back on and
I cannot wait for listeners. I can't wait for y'all
to hear this EP. It's gonna slap. You're gonna love it,
and if you don't out come find you. Thank you absolutely.
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Of course, of course, listeners, you know how we get
down over here. You know, we always support the homies
to make sure you might comment, share, subscribe, all that
good stuff to Partly, we'll go to shows and we
have them buy March when they have it. You guys
know the drill. Gentlemen, it has been real.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Thank you so much, thank you, thank you,
What is up? Guys. Welcome back to another episode of
the Misfit Minutes podcast. I'm your host, of course, Jade.
If you're new around here, welcome. If you're not around here,
welcome back to the Chaos. So for today's episode, we
have not one, but two very special guests with me.
We have Trevor and Josh from Purge of Lolith. Welcome guys.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hello, so thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Of course, thanks for coming on. I appreciate it. Those
of you who are ogs already know that Purge of
Lolith has been on the show before, so welcome back.
It's good to have you back.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's my first time, but Josh has been here.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, yeah, as my second time. Last time was with
Jack our drummer. Yeah, how you been? Uh chaotic. We're
finally releasing that EP. The last time when we were
on the show, I mentioned that we were working on
this an EP. It's taken all of twenty twenty four
(01:03):
for us to do that, but we finally have it
coming out in March third. By the time this is
being heard, it will be out and so hopefully it's
doing well. It took us a while because we had
a lot of stuff going on. Each one of us
for the most part, moved to a different state or
different area. And yeah, and also some of us went
(01:28):
or I think all of us have different jobs or
different occupations or something. It's like basically between all the
chaos and stuff, and we took a break from playing
shows for a year so we could focus on our
personal lives with trying to make adjustments with that along
with you know, just trying to get this record to
the best of its you know, ability to be.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
That's fair, that's fair. I was wondering because I hadn't
seen y'all like out and about in a while, and
I was like, oh, man, they didn't like die off,
did they? But then I saw that for the and everything,
I was like, yes.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, no, that was that was a concern that I
had because we didn't have anything to post, so like
we didn't like.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I don't I don't want to do the stereotypical big
things coming.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Would have done that a few times though, and.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Then Instagram reels.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well see the band originally started like in twenty fourteen
and broke up in twenty sixteen, and Trevor and I
tried to bring it back in twenty twenty and we
did an announcement saying Perge twenty twenty, and that was
kind of like a big Things Coming thing, and then
it's like another year or two.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
To like twenty twenty two, I think the EP actually released.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, so we've done it before. We still do the big.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Things Coming, Yeah, we do that. That's a way to
keep the band alive just a little bit so people
don't forget about us because it takes us a long
time to do stuff. Also because we do everything ourselves,
So I mean it's kind of my fault that it
takes so long because I'm also like I'm writing, I'm
mixing and mastering, and I'm also learning at the same time.
So it's like by the time I get done with
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one song and I think it sounds pretty good, and
then I start working on the second song, I like,
make the second song sound like that much better. Then
I have to go back into that first song and
like redo that. And I'm also listening to the same thing,
like constantly over and over. So by the time I
listened to that first song a thousand times, I'm like,
I need to change this riff because now it annoys me. Yeah,
(03:31):
the first Newly Crowned Queen wrote, we wrote in twenty twenty,
and it sounds different to what you hear.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
That's where I was actually going. It's funny you were
sawing about that because I was about to say, I
just listened to our like private SoundCloud that you and
I like send stuff through, and I listened to the
the demo version, so Newly crown Queen, it's so bad
and different, Like, I'm so glad we've reworked it. But
it's like, if we had released it how it was,
(04:02):
it was like, oh man, this would have been here.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You know, it probably sounded cool for twenty twenty, but
music evolved so quickly so that it's like it wouldn't
work in today's world.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Twenty oh yeah, it was wild as far as music,
just because everyone was trapped in their houses for months
at a time, so people had all this.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Time and you know, yeah, that's really why we started.
We've just had the time to do that, yeah, right.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Which it's both a good thing and a bad thing.
I think everyone has like a villain arc within the
year of twenty twenty of some sort like everyone went
through something. I was working during that time. I was
working in a hospital. So yeah, it wasn't it wasn't
that bad.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I wouldn't say result, I wouldn't say the whole blame though,
should be on Trevor when it comes to the reason
why we take forever to do stuff. I said last time,
and like the last time I was on the show,
I said, I think I think a huge part of
it too is how him and I write the songs
in the record, because like he'll he'll have a version
(05:13):
like where he does all the instrumentation, like bass, drums,
you know, all of it, and then he sends it
to me, and then I'll do all the vocals, and
then him and I will go back and forth with
ideas until we're happy with it. And then you know,
so we've already spent a lot of time doing that
just to make a pre production or demo or whatever
you want to call that version of the song, and
(05:33):
then we have to send it to the other guys
so they can do their parts, and that's can be
time consuming, you know. So you know, by the end
of it, everyone's on the record, but like for at
least three fourths of the life of the song, it's
just Trevor and I shooting shit back and forth via
cloud or SoundCloud or whatever, you know. And so I
(05:54):
think that that him and I can be perfectionists at times,
because we'll be, like he said, like we'll listen to
the song a thousand times and like, you know, maybe
for that particular moment it's it. We're happy with it,
but then the next month we're like, man, like it
needs to be heavier or darker or more symphonic or whatever,
you know. So it's constantly morphing. And finally, like, I
(06:18):
think we've gotten to the point where we know when
the song is done and look ready for the other
two guys to be on. But I think that there's
been a learning curve to figure out when the song
is still growing and then when it's when it's done.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I mean we're getting we're getting quicker at it too,
because yeah, we're working on the thirty p now and
oh yes, songs for that are almost time.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yes, I've already decided, like we tend to overwrite some too,
so which is a good thing because like I'll tend
to He'll send me some songs and we'll make a
playlist of them, and then I'll do a vote demos
of which ones I really like and we'll grow it
from there. And I'm at that phase right now where
like I'm driving in the car listening to our third
(07:09):
record right now and writing lyrics and writing vocal lines
and stuff for it. So I'm about to be sending
him vocal demos already for the third record, and we're
still doing the promotion cycle for this one.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I mean, on the one hand, you don't want to
like put too much out at once and a tire
yourselves out and b not give people time to fall
in love with the EP before. But it's also good
to have stuff ready so that you're not scrambling at
the last minute or you're like, i' like have something
(07:46):
go wrong like mix. Let's say, like your pre save
link doesn't work and you didn't know that for the
first couple of weeks that you announced the song or
EP and then no one could pre save your stuff
because the link didn't work, or like something like that,
Like things that you can't really plan plan for things
(08:06):
that come up, but you can at least like have
an idea of what you want to do in the
event that those things occur. So nothing wrong with having
some extra material laying around or having a plan for
what comes next.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I think we have to because we take forever making
a record, so it's like it's a good thing. Like
I've already talked to Trevor about my ideas for the
fourth record, Like it's like, we have to. We have
to do that because if we just wait till we're
till the dust settles with this third record before we
even start working on or sorry, once the dust settles
(08:43):
with the second record, if that's when we started to
do this third record, it'd be like twenty six twenty
seven before we actually get finished with it.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
We also do it because we like to you also,
you know, we like writing.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Songs and work it out, and that's.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
What we're going to do in the future.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, it's good to not get past the point of
enjoying it and liking writing and such. So I think
I think that's some bands problems, is that they get
to the point where, all right, all right, this isn't
fun anymore. This is just work and it's not really enjoyable.
You're not like making art. You're just like, all right,
(09:22):
let's go into this staff meeting and write some stuff down,
and then it becomes kind of like a chore and
then you start to lose the passion for it. So
I hope that may you never lose your passion because
we love you guys, and we are all excited for
the EP coming out. Fun fact listeners, I got to
(09:44):
hear before you did, but it's dope, You're gonna.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Be real, thank you. Yeah, this time around, it's a
I would say found footage or debut EP. I kind
of described it as kind of creepy and eerie, I mean,
on the side of things, and I think that comes
down to the inspiration for it being found footage. Horror movies,
Like if you think about almost every one of them,
(10:11):
while there's action scenes and such, it it's really, uh
the hair on the back of your neck kind of raising,
kind of eerie suspensefulness because you never know what's outside
of the camera view and that's like how horror movies are,
and that's kind of how that particular like found footage
kind of sounds like for this one, I feel like
(10:32):
there was more of a it's still horror, but it's
it's violent and at the same time sensual because it's like, yeah,
because you're singing on it, you're so seductive, Uh, yeah,
we have queans now. Yeah, we do singing now, so
(11:00):
that's where we're evolving our sounds some And like I think,
I think there's some very raw moments in it in
the sense of like the pere aggression, and like we
were saying, there's some like very I wouldn't say uplifting,
but just you know, sentimental moments. Yeah, And I think
(11:21):
the whole the whole theme of this EP instead of
found footage horror movies, it's like vampire stuff. So I
think that fits kind of with vampires. Like if you
think about like Thirty Days of Night or something like that,
like there is some brutal, brutal, you know, violence, and
then you know, you think about Dracula too, and there's
some brutal violence, and then all of a sudden, you
(11:42):
know there's there's the sexual, seductive, romantic, more softer side
of vampires. So it's none of the Twilight stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Thank you for reminding me that I need to pick
up the graphic novel for Thirty Days of Night.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah, it's good and I highly recommend if we're on
the topic of vampire media, that knows Fautuo movie that
was really good.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I keep saying I'm going to go see it, and
then something else happens and then I haven't. I haven't
gone to see it yet. It's gonna be on streaming
before I get to see it.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
All on Peacock.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Now, what's up?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
It's on Peacock now, is it really?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I call my in laws real quick, Mom and Dad.
Can I have y'alls peacock again?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, I don't know if you heard me shuffling around
because you were talking about you guys's previous releases and
fun fact, listen if you can't see this because you
can't see the camera, but lik what I found?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Oh yeah, that was we released that before found footage
as a I don't know, I have a weird I
have a weird upset with analog, like I still like
VHS's right, and I like tapes like cassettes. So I
have a I have a vinyl collection, I have a
CD collection, and I have a cassette collection. And I
really always wanted to be on a cassette, so I
(13:01):
pushed for you know, per pushed for Perche to do that,
and Uh, I wanted something out before we finished the EP.
So we had those two songs, UH finished with so
I like that. I like that it's the only way
that you can hear uh any instrumental versions of our
songs because.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
There's also an instrumental on there that you won't hear
anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
So yeah, missing, Yeah, it's on I think that's on
side B or is it. I don't remember, but I
know that side A was the regular mixes and side
B was the instrumental, so i'd imagine missing tapes on
that one. Yes, Trevor wrote this really cool. It's almost relaxing,
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like it's like it's.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Like, uh, like a lounge version of like of Fall
of Humanity.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I think, yeah, it's like we're in a bank like
a transaction to humanity.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
In the background while my husband plays gcas.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
What have Oh. It's still relaxing, it's peaceful.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
No, I definitely know what you mean about the physical
media stuff. I collect tapes from bands so hear me out.
I always, if I can help it, I always buy
something from one band at every show that I go to,
just to make sure that I'm like, you know, doing
my part what or what have you. Plus if the
band is really cool, when I like their stuff, then
I'll buy their stuff. So I have like tapes and
(14:37):
records and CDs from bands that I've seen the lives
that were really cool or that you know, are my
friends that I really wanted to support. Some of these
tapes I have not looked at in a very long time.
But neither here nor there.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
We should have physical copies of the La Mush Tool
EP that's coming out. It's not going to be out
March third, like digitally, the EP will be on March
third on streaming services, but the physical copies will probably
be a week or two afterwards. We're doing CDs this time,
kind of like what we did with Found Footage, so
(15:18):
there's no cassettes this time around of any singles or anything,
and we're just gonna focus on CDs. But uh, yeah,
that should be out and we'll be making an announcement
as soon as that's you know, shipped me and ready
to be shipped and added to our band camp and such,
because that's where our merch story is. So yeah, we will.
(15:40):
We will have those physical copies ready because we are
doing a tour in July. I'm actually I was in
the middle of emailing a place in Philly about us
playing in Philly. But we're getting the dates solidified, but
we're going to be in Philly, probably Maryland, Virginia for sure,
in may be North Carolina in the month of July.
(16:03):
So it's gonna be a little East coast run.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
So I love that.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, it'll be Uh, I'm happy for it because we
didn't play any shows in twenty twenty four because we
were so focused on our personal lives and also getting
uh this record done. That that was the other thing,
like why it took us so long with this record
is like found footage we released or we worked on
before we were playing shows, so we had like all
the time in the world to do that EP. But
(16:32):
Lama Stool we were working on at the same time
as playing shows, and we were playing like relentlessly, like
I think like every week we had a show whether yeah,
and we were playing in Delaware, multiple shows in Philly,
we were doing North Carolina, like, we were traveling all
the time. So we Purge in one form or another,
(16:56):
has been through almost every state on the East Coast,
you know, at least once, maybe a few times. So
trying to schedule our personal lives, like we all still work,
you know, full time, that are you know, day to
day jobs, and you know, some of us have like
you know, other things going on, other music projects, and
(17:16):
like I know, Trevor does like a lot of music
video for people and such. So trying to just schedule
that it gets We needed to take a break from
the shows so we could finish our product so we
had stuff to play at the shows, because I think
all of us are getting tired of playing the same
found footage songs over and over again. Yeah, we're ready
(17:41):
to play new songs, I understand.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I so the last time that and it wasn't you guys,
but the last time that I saw Fight for Within,
I always mess with them and I asked them to
play a certain song and they're like, day no, We've
played that so many times. Please God No. I'm like,
come on.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I think that's where we kind of got with two songs,
Warrior being one of them. I know that personally, I'm
tired of that song because we wrote it back when,
back in twenty fifteen was when the song was released,
so it's been a long time and we've grown as
a band since then. I think what we do now
(18:26):
is a million times better. And half the people on
that song aren't even in this lineup of Prginal, so
it's it doesn't even feel the same, and there's just
there's just so much about that song that I'm tired of,
and but it's still our most popular song and our
(18:48):
cover that we do live of Recreant from Chelsea Grin.
Everyone always wants us to play that and we My god,
I've gotten to the point where I want to find
a different cover. We do one.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I don't think we're ever going to not be able
to pay that song. Everyone wants us to play.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Record the play Records Perdi wil is trying to pick
out a new song to play for their cover and
their sets. Send them your requests. Send your request to
Josh and.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I'm pretty sure this tour will probably for an encore
have Recreent.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But well there were covers because we didn't have enough
material to like fill a whole set, and now that's
where we do, so we don't have to do a cover,
but I didn't request we'll we'll consider it.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I really want to do for the third record cycle.
I really want to do all when Worlds Collide by Power.
I really want to do that mhm, because I think
we kill it.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Could it could be a vibe, it could be a
vibe bringing it back. Yeah, And speaking of songs and
track lists and such, I w to know what you
guys's favorite song on this EP is. I have a
personal favorite, but I want to know if our thoughts online.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I'll let Trevor answer first, because I might pick one.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
They're all so different. I like Unbidden that sounds complete,
like totally different from any other song on the album
because I did that song like almost only with my mouth,
only with mouth noises, So all the sense on that
are you going like? He's like a bocoder to make
(20:37):
all the all the all the drumming and stuff. So
it's people will understand when they when they listen to it.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
But I love it because it reminds me of the
band Health, which I'm on a huge kick with the
last two years. I love that band so and that's
like our third record is going to have some of
that in it too, So I like that. So I'm
but it's pretty good for me.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I really enjoyed the last song. It's a really like
poppy metal song. It's almost yeah, it's a it's very
uh that's the.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, that is something I appreciated about the EP was
that there were moments where it would the vibe would
completely change and I was like, oh, okay, all right,
I'm here for it. But it's still it didn't feel like,
you know, like albums that are like just straight up
all over the place there's no cohesion whatsoever. It still
(21:45):
felt cohesive to me. It didn't feel like it was
just a random collection.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, it's it's definitely has Each song has its own
identity for me. My favorite is the Horde. I know
it's the first track on there, but it starts off
the most aggressive, very almost slip knot. It's it's it's
it hits you hard. It's so aggressive. There's a really
(22:13):
cool base slide, which I'm always a fan of doing
live and everything is Trevor's. Trevor's probably taken those base
slides out of them like almost every rip library. Yeah,
Like I always do base slides for some reason, and
we kept it for like, I think we have a
base slide and found footage. But I'm so glad there
(22:36):
was a base slide in Lama Stool like and it's
like the first thing, so it's like, hell yeah, I
like that song the most. The second one, it would
be close. Second would be Newly Crowned Queen because I
feel like that one. If you're going to sum up
the record in one song, it would be that one
(22:57):
because it does have the cleans, It does have the
the sentimental like you know, central clean singing and such
to it, but it also still has that violence to it.
It definitely has that blend of like progressive genta I
dare say with the death core you know, yeah, yeah,
(23:22):
apparently death core is like a hot topic right now.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
It's it's a hot mess, but you know what it's
It's okay, it's gonna be okay.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I don't know what you would call us because I've
always said, like, you know, obviously our our roots are
in like deathcore, a metal core, but we also have
like this black metal element. We have definitely a progressive
element where uh, like Trevor and I are fans of like,
you know, like bands like the Contortionists, the Faceless, and
(23:54):
you know, even Bornovo Cyrus, which we were definitely uh
compared to with found footage like that, they have progressive elements,
and so I think we've always had like you know,
like the core you know, sounds like metal core, death
cord but there's also the prog influences. But it's definitely
(24:14):
I wouldn't even call it necessarily a technical metal band
because it's that's not on the forefront. It's it's in there.
It's just not like we have to do something in
odd time signators. It's like, if it happens, it happens,
whatever's best for the songs.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
But have any really odd time signatures.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Yeah, we usually play on the offbeat if we ever
do anything like that.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah, like the Dotted Quarters.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Yeah, but yeah, everything, every song, it has its own
identity on this trail, on the on the track list,
and each one of them kind of go into each other.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
We did that with the last record, where it was
like almost like one so here thought, and we wanted
to do that with this one, and we want to
do it with the next one. I think that's that's
probably why, like I Love I was doing EPs instead
of full length albums right now, is because each each
song is its own story, but it's all based on
(25:16):
one theme. So conceptually and thematically, it's a concept record,
but it's not in the same thing of like, oh
it's one long story. It's almost like the VHS movies
like where each story, like each film contains, you know,
anthology of different stories, but they're all like linked somehow
(25:38):
or some way to like an overarching thing. And I
think that's where we're at right now. Found footage, found
footage horror movies, Lama Stool, It's Vampires, vampire movies.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
I Feel You, I Feel You, which actually inspired me
to ask a fun question. I was curious, So if
you could write a song for any movie, Like if
you could like get on the time machine, go back,
go see a movie and be like, I want to
write a song for this movie, what would you pick?
(26:12):
What would be the movie you don't You wouldn't want
to write a song for Josh might be frozen.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Uh. Well, scoring films is really like, well got me
into music. It was like the music that was in
films that like made me want to do music, and
I originally had wanted to. That's what I wanted to
do for my career, was to score films for score
music for films. Oh, I feel like we're kind of
doing that now because lots of our songs are just
(26:45):
like Josh's lyrics are like inspired by movies that he loves.
So it's like we're already kind of choosing movies already
and writing about them. But if I wanted a song
to be in a specific movie, yeah, I don't know.
(27:08):
To think Napoleon Dynamite was like the first movie soundtrack. Yeah,
I really wanted to know who did the music for.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
It's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I'd write a music.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Maybe I'd write a song for Napoleon Dynamite.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I gotcha. I'm a huge fan of Scott Pilgrim versus
the World, the overall movie, not the character Scott Pilgrim,
because we all know Scott Pilgrim is not a good person,
trash trash, terrible human being. But I mean, LOOKI his
band kind of slapped a little bit. Was okay, this
(27:49):
is a vibe I can get down with this.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yes, of course, that whole movie is hilarious, and it's
even more hilarious because it didn't age super great, but
it's that's what makes it hilarious. But as we all know, again,
I am not a Scott Pilgrim scan, don't cancel me.
I hate him as a person, but the movie is funny.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
When the movie came out, were we supposed to like
like Scott Pilgrim? Or was he always was always supposed
to be.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I didn't think about it that way because I watched
it when I was younger, So at first I was
just like, you know, like you don't know, so you're like, oh,
this dang, this guy just in a shitty situation. And
then you grow up and experience things in the world
and you're like, oh, no, Scott, what were you thinking?
What is wrong with you? So I'm definitely at that
(28:41):
point I am nah, homie, Homie needed to get himself together.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
We're done. We're done with Scott Pilgrim. Did you want
to tell us what your favorite song in the record was?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
It was the first one.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
The hord. So that intro is two hundred tracks of me.
I'm the crowd in the beginning saying no, God, No
save us. That's like of me, just like we originally
wanted it all let's say Josh's back, but we to
doing to be doing the chanting, but it ended up
(29:16):
just just being me. Two hundred tracks of me.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
The voices or the voice your voice.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
So I pitched them up because I can't get that high.
I can't really sound like a but no, they're all
I didn't like copy. I wanted it to all sound
like a real crowd, so it was just too man
tracks of me staring at different positions at the microphone
chanting it.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
When you're talking about the no God Can Save.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Us the intro to the EP.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
Yeah, that that started because that riff the damn d
I couldn't figure out what I wanted to write lyrics
over that, and then I remember the no God can
save Us.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Thing and I was like, man, like that that fits perfectly.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
It's it came out great. That's really cool the way
that you did it. I think it turned out really nice.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Thank you. That's whattell is just one person.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
You can't not to me.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
When I listen to it, I just hear myself. But
I'm glad that other people can't tell.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I know I do.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
No. It sounds like we're we're hot shit, like people
people like are on scream and none. I want there's
a T shirt eventually. I don't know how we'll do it,
but I want to do that. We're like a stick
or something because it's such a cool, uh, such a
cool moment in the EP.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
So I'm an advent collector of bandstickers that I won't
stick to things because I don't want them to be ruined.
So whenever y'all put stickers out.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Let me know, yeah, like a stickers, I'm like the opposite,
Like my permits is just covered in the sticker.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I have one that's over. It's over by the sink,
so I'm not gonna go get it. But it has
like a bunch of band stickers. And there's a lot
of bands on there that aren't even a band anymore,
bands like Corey Tolbert's old Bandlyment configuration. There's stickers on there.
(31:25):
M a couple of other we have.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
We have shirts from like festivals we've played at that
were composed of mostly, if not all, local level bands.
And uh, it is funny to look at because I
think that Adam, when we first started, I think the
only two acts that are still around that we grew
(31:50):
up with was X Case Scenario Impulses. That's it. Like
like every other band that I could think of as
broken up called it quits or turned it into some
other kind of form or function like so, I don't know,
it is funny to see that, Like it kind of
(32:14):
makes me feel old a bit, yeah, I mean theoretically, yeah,
because we started, like I said back in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
So we've gotten to see a lot of bands come
and go, and now I try and keep my ear
to all the scenes that we're involved with. But it
is a little challenging at times because Anthony moved to Florida,
I moved to Kentucky, Trevor lives in Detroit now, and
Jack lives in Virginia still. So we do all of
(32:48):
our record like, thank god, all of us have our
own home studios.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
That's good. I feel like there's a lot of bands
that do that. Like where everyone is excuse me, everyone
is spread out and you kind of have to work
pretty much online. I think as long as you're dedicated
and you know, you have a structure of how you
want to get things done, then it usually turns out
(33:16):
fairly well and you're able to release and you know,
communicate and get things out.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
So right, that's why it's a big deal for this
record to do do well. Also because the more streams,
the more merch we sell everything that it supports us
for expanding to bigger and bigger shows and tours because
right now, like part of the reason why we're focused
on the East Coast is this is our first time
(33:45):
since we've all moved away from each other that we're
going to do a tour, and so we're kind of
we're playing on the East Coast because it's a happy
median for all of us to meet up. I mean,
I know Trevor and I don't technically live on the
East Coast anymore, but it's not that wild for him
and I to drive to Philly and then go down
(34:05):
the East Coast Strip. And Anthony living in Florida, he
drives all the way up to Philly and then he
starts slowly but surely going back home as we go
during the tour dates. The same thing with Jack. He
lives in the center of it, so he's just he's
sticking around that area. So it's it's easier for us logistically,
but it will get easier for us logistically if we're
(34:29):
a bigger deal. So to his record does well, We
put a lot of time into it.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
So you should do like like a weird rhombus shape
of like every like the states that y'all live in,
and just like go in like the shape of right.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
We talked for hotels too, We just like go to
each other's home states and.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Well, that's part of the reason why. That's why it's
so easy for the East Coast right now too, is
because I can just stay with my cousin, and Anthony
stays with his family there, and you have family in
Maryland and Jack gets to just sleep in his house.
So but you're right, it is cost effective and we
(35:11):
will probably do that next year. Unfortunately, I didn't get
us any real shows for Kentucky, which is where I
live right now, And when I was about to start
networking and trying to figure that out, I had gotten
into a car wreck. So I'm finally healed and walking again.
But that was part of the delay with this record too,
(35:31):
was Trevor was waiting like a month or two for
me to send bass tracks and I couldn't. I couldn't
play bass because I couldn't support the weight of a
bass guitar on my broken hip, and I couldn't stand
up to record my vocal parts, and so it was
kind of like a Yeah, how dare I drive into
a tree going sixty miles per hour? I can't believe
(35:52):
I'm alive.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I'm very glad that you were alive as well.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Yeah, I'll think about it.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, no, please don't do that again. But we're definitely
glad that you are recovered and that you guys are
on the road to putting out new things and going
on going on tour in July and all the things
that you guys have planned for the year. I'm definitely
excited and I'm so glad that y'all are back.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Absolutely, that being said, gentlemen, it has been so great
talking with you and catching up and again, welcome back.
I was so glad to have you back on and
I cannot wait for listeners. I can't wait for y'all
to hear this EP. It's gonna slap. You're gonna love it,
and if you don't out come find you. Thank you absolutely.
(36:52):
Of course, of course, listeners, you know how we get
down over here. You know, we always support the homies
to make sure you might comment, share, subscribe, all that
good stuff to Partly, we'll go to shows and we
have them buy March when they have it. You guys
know the drill. Gentlemen, it has been real.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Thank you so much, thank you, thank you,
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