Manuel Gardner-Fernandes (Unprocessed) on Modern Metal, Evolution of Guitar, Rain Music Video

let's start the podcast cuz dude I am so excited to talk to you man I I think you already know that I'm a big fan of your music uh I've been doing reaction videos since 2020 I'm pretty sure since I discovered abandon and uh dude I I fell in love with that song and you guys were just like you know progressive metal and Genty and I'm not doing a good introduction for people that are just joining the podcast right now this is Manuel Gardner Fernandez lead singer and guitarist songwriter to the band unprocessed uh but yeah dude you I just want to do like a little introduction on how I'm familiar with your music um but you know with the next record afterwards um gold you guys went into a different style and I'm still really enjoying the music but you actually hit me up for your newest album which is yeah and everything in between and um I can kind of see why you did with the song thrash that there's something about it that could be a little viral was there or something was there an intent to um get some traction for that song um actually not really um actually my B my bandmates hit me up like after I recorded and like wrote the the single that were like yo that that could be like a viral moment I was like yeah I don't know maybe because I was like not thinking about it in that way I just had like the idea of being like super slayy and but like clean guitar that was just like I don't know what why the song is called thrash it makes perfect sense yeah yeah we we at the uh we at the title like afterwards um because we wrote the lyrics and then then we were like maybe we should just call it the thrash just for the s i I love it because like when I first uh checked it out that part really threw me off you told me that there was like you know the bridge section was like one of the craziest sections they ever written I'm like okay so but I wasn't expecting anything like that and when I made the the video and then I I made a short form content for Tik Tok I'm like this has potential to pick up I can just tell and it did pretty well for views for me too as well like it's just something so unusual it's it's like almost faster than Trello picking on a muted riff and I don't know I think it's just it's so cool and unique I've seen people say it's a or like comments that it's a little bit polarizing some people seem to be like not really feeling it have you noticed that too um yeah a little bit like sometimes I go I scroll through like the comments and um actually like watched a couple of reaction videos but to be honest like your reaction video was like the the one that I really uh watched like throughout the whole thing um but uh no I I I mean I can I can I can guess why because the tone is like super different and the approach of like that that breakdown which is not really a breakdown like I never called it breakdown um it's just like a bridge um but it has like At first we got like this metal drumming and stuff like that with like the metal mix and then in the bridge we got this like trappy sounding um almost hip-hop sounding drums with like this cleenish a little bit disgusting guitar tone um so I mean it's not common but you know I just thought it was fun well the reason why I I saw it kind of like being polarizing too is because the tone it's just it's different than what metal heads are listening to and it's almost like I what I respect about it too is that it's trying to almost subvert the listeners expectations cuz were all so used to heavy low tune guitars for something like that but you kind of flipped its head on its script and I thought that was really cool I think things that are a little bit polarizing stand out a lot longer than something that's just going to sound like everything else so to me I thought it was really cool yeah thank you so much yeah um I think so too like I really like it and um like especially like in the whole modern like metal worlds everything I I don't want to be the guy that says like everything sounds the same it doesn't like nothing sounds the same almost I'll be that guy a lot of things sound the same um but you know like I I was not going for like this heaviest gayest guitar tone or like the most deep growling or whatever like the heaviest breakdown I just wanted to write something that felt like natural to me and I was like just having fun writing that um because we did that with gold actually like the the previous record like I I forced myself to try something that was never done before and I kind of failed at it because I was just like pressuring myself to do so you failed at it I mean not failed but I was I was like I was getting in a mindset what I was like not comfortable with because I was like always with like every song I was like yo I have to write something that is just like you know something really special and like something that was not like was not done before and stuff like that and if you write with that thing in mind it's just like it's not good and this is what was this is why I said like I was failing at at it because it was like the mindset that was just like completely off for me okay yeah like I know the last album gold was supposed like a big departure from your sound too um obviously with the tone being big like departure well not like a massive departure but obviously tonality wise was different what was like the main intent with gold because obviously you're talking about failing with it mindset but like what was the intent to with Gold's music like um it was different right yeah it was different and the intent was we we started writing or like I started writing gold in 209 or 2020 like right after artificial void and it was also that time where my Instagram videos popped off and um I was like gaining traction a little bit like as a guitarist and people like really enjoyed this Instagram 30 seconds music stuff and we tried to find a way to combine that like the the band thing and the the the guitarist Instagram okay we just combined that because we thought that's the way to go um and it probably I would probably talk about it a little bit more positive if that time frame of gold like the the the the songwriting process wasn't three years because it it came out last year but it started like 2020 because we had so many fuckups with the label and like team wise and everything was like during Co everything was kind of shitty yeah and um it was just like and we had way too many songs that made it on the record it was how many songs on the 16 and they all sound like completely different yeah even like mixing and mastering wise and this is I don't know this is why we this is why it's just like I don't know it's weird to me like that record is weird to me I'm not I'm not going back and listening to that record because it reminds me of like a time where everything was like super difficult interesting okay yeah I I didn't I had no idea you would have that kind of reception to your latest well not latest record but I mean the record prior right it still seems still kind of new think I never I never talked about it this is probably the first time that I like say something like that about the record but it was but it's the truth you know like there's no point in hiding it it was [ __ ] um not the record is [ __ ] but like the all the the process and like the the circumstances we've been through uh during that time was you know was a little bit difficult yeah no I I get that but also you were talking about label issues um can you disclose like problems that you had with the label um not really like I don't want to get to like too detailed into the topic because I don't want to like I don't want to [ __ ] on the on the label but it was just um we had different approaches okay let's let's say it like that we had different approaches um when it came to the songs and we had different approaches when it cames to when when it comes to like organizing ourselves and promoting ourselves oh so a lot of the marketing aspect oh yeah okay well what are you doing are you like independent now with the new record completely yeah okay so what's like the marketing that you're trying to do with the new record then oh go with the flow yeah we have like we have um the management team and we working with our management like really really really close and that's it basically um when it comes to that record and it's so good like that the moment that we put out thrash was not oh my god um it was more like yo I'm like really excited about that now like I'm really excited about that that that was I start I started writing uh the record as soon as we came from like the the first US tour and the tour that we did with plenty uh a last year and it was October and I started writing immediately after we came from home from tour yeah so why did you have like a lot of like creative ideas flowing since the tour oh yeah yeah the the first thing that came in my mind was like I want to I want to be heavy again like really heavy I want to do something like really evil and dark and um yeah that was it and then um I started writing it on October last year and we had the songs done probably like I don't know a few months after because we were like so hyped yeah no I'm hyped for you guys too because with the new record it's obviously bringing back the heaviness too and you know he Heavy Music it doesn't necessarily make it better when it's heavier but you know hearing your style of I don't even know what to describe your music it's like Progressive math Rock you know very guitar driven and you know there's already bands like plyy that you mentioned pfia that have these certain like Jazzy maty styles to their music but you bring the heaviness and so a lot of metal heads like myself are just like I'm absolutely eating up all the new singles I'm loving what you guys are doing and uh I yeah like I said I'm really hyped for the new album is there like a specific song that you haven't released yet that you're waiting for people's feedback on oh absolutely all the all the songs that are not singles because in my opinion the singles are still we picked the singles for a reason because it kind of and we didn't do that with gold but we do it now so that um it's like kind of the bridge between like gold and what we did with artificial void and like even the first record with the modern sound and there are songs on the record that are like really really really heavy like no clean singing heavy oh what yeah um so I'm like stoked about I'm stoked about like that song and these songs and then like even songs where it has nothing to do with like playing fast on the guitar or like doing like super intricate or like technical [ __ ] it's just like pure about like emotions so like really really stoked about that because I wanted to yeah I want to see the the people's faces and people's opion opinions about that song because this is something like this is a side that we never showed actually this is like a you were talking like more like emotional ballad like that song was more clean saying uh no actually like the songs um that are like just just about emotions even if it's just like heavy emotions or like super angry or like that these emotions okay aggressive emotions all okay yeah because like artificial void still had a lot of that had a lot of experimentation too oh yeah yeah it was absolutely it that was a progressive metal record 100% what do you hope to like achieve with unprocessed music like obviously you just kind of want to write whatever you're feeling uh but is there like a bigger picture to maybe be like you know maybe a Prague metal band that I don't know incorporates technical plane or is there something that you see bigger with the Bandon processed yeah pretty much like for me it was like always about um uh bringing like it is for me it is like always about like a you can see it as a movie all songs have something cinematic to it and I was like always the biggest fan of like movie soundtracks and stuff like that and um I always picture our songs as like in in in movies and um this is actually what I wanted to do and this is why I actually found it and processed way back because I just wanted to write like heavy soundtracks and the first songs I did um 10 years ago or something um with that band they had nothing to do with like a technical approach actually really yeah they were just like they were like pretty simple in a way um but with like Electronics dark Ambience and stuff like that it was just like more about a movie soundtrack than like being super technical with guitars well like I feel like even your song it's not as old but like dead rose I feel it's like extremely cinematic yeah like it's got like a big bass drop and everything okay so like you're hoping to it maybe even possibly write cinematic progressive metal music maybe yeah I don't know um yeah maybe maybe that like it was just always about like uh yeah cinematic stuff and like emotions and stuff like that but the the technical aspects they came like with like the really technical aspects they came with artificial void in 2019 2019 yeah I love that record is there like uh certain composers that you're heavily inspired by like movie wise yeah yeah um I mean everyone is saying that but the big boss hunt simma for sure wh which one sorry Hans simmer oh Han Zimmer yeah yeah yeah he's a German guy he like he writes all the stuff for like he wrote parts of the Caribbean you wrote like the uh Inception andilla movies uh John oh my God wait a second Noam John John Williams or Howard the guy that wrote six sense oh is it John Williams is a Jurassic Park right yeah wait a second what is it James Newton Howard yeah James Newton Howard not John yeah James James Newton H he's super sick and um yeah like I'm I'm so out with names I really like I just uh know the the movies but yeah movie are like my inspiration Source number one for sure interesting yeah I totally yeah forgot it's Germany for you too like you're from Germany like what time is it right now for you uh uh we got half P 8 oh man okay I'll try oh 8 PM p.m yeah okay well I'll try not to keep you up too late man but uh dude no actually like I'm I'm I'm energetic yeah you're good to go I love the sweater I forgot to comment on the sweater the review sweater I feel like I should have a sweater that says reaction but dude that was that that would be sick yeah I should monetize that yeah you got do you have like merch uh no I don't I actually had a metal BB uh merch and my old slogan was let's [ __ ] do it right that was my old slogan back in the day and I remember uh having these like yoga pants for like um girls like for active wear right and it said let's let's [ __ ] do it on the waistband right above the ass and then I realized oh wait that's maybe not a not a good thing to sell the placement of that yeah so yeah merch is not uh not right now man maybe one day yeah I mean I was like beside like the whole unprocessed merge like I was having my own merge and that merge looks like whatever so it's better to have like no merge than like [ __ ] merch right yeah and well actually speaking of merch he actually did something really clever was found a way to monetize um the like controversial um Jared dyes incident right that was smart I thought that was really clever for you to do that yeah I mean um it was it is basically like what is it what was it like handstone glitch like that yeah we just pressed that on the shirt and we were like people probably wanted to buy that shirt so we were like okay but I asked him before that like I was like I I I didn't want to be an [ __ ] about it I asked him about like yo what do you think um is it cool because it's just like it is built on something that is like kind of you know yeah so I asked and he was like cool about it so we did that yeah I figured like you guys would be cool too I feel like the internet tends to blow things out of proportion sometimes too right I mean it was it was a tough time like um I remember like I was was on tour like at the first UK tour with a band called we were touring with heart of the coward you know them yep yeah um and it was our first not our first time but like the the first time we've been touring the UK um and uh yeah then these all these videos popped up and I just remember that David our BAS player he was like watching a video and I was like yo what is that and there he was like yo there are like a lot of people and a lot of like famous YouTubers talking [ __ ] about you right now I was like [ __ ] okay then I talked like I didn't talk at L for like three days because I was just so in shock I just had like the uh the the iess signing and like all the companies that were like working with me and were like willing to do like cool [ __ ] with me and because I was like so new the whole like the whole industry I thought like that's it yeah like I'm done so yeah how' you I'm trying to remember what happened at the end of that did you make like a video kind of I think I saw something I'm just trying to remember yeah I did um what did I do I think I did these tracks that or like these clips that they accused me of Faking it I just played them live but like 30% faster I me not try probably sounded like [ __ ] but uh no I don't know like I and I did a statement video like I I posted like a video and wrote something in the caption like yo guys that is not what I did like I did pre-record for sure but I didn't sped anything up yeah well you know any publicity is like kind of good publicity at the end of the day were you able to get some traction out of that oh yeah absolutely I mean that that that sentence right there like um even like my bandmates said that to me like there's no bad publicity but when there's like something going on like that you don't believe it in the first minute yeah because it's just like you just you're just kind of scared and I was like super scared yeah especially if you're getting new endorsement deals from ianz and things like that too that makes perfect sense yeah do you have a signature ianz I a signature uh no it's just the custom one the pink one right right yeah yeah yeah okay I got like a couple of like yeah the pink the golden pink colors I like kind of my my colors but yeah we will see what happens in the future right well I've noticed even your guitar playing um you're Incorporated like a lot more thumping and um I'm trying to hybrid picking right and uh is there you know I feel like the guitar world is constantly evolving more and more and have you ever experienced like I'm sure you have but do you ever experienced Plateau as a guitar player where you just feel like you're not really learning anything new yeah yeah pretty much how do you like overcome that uh I don't overcome it I let it in actually yeah and yeah because it's a good thing it's just like it is like a I always say like it's it's like a burnout like if you feel forced to do something or if there's just like something that where you're stuck in a way um just give you the the rest that you deserve and try to like I don't know I I think there's a reason why you like stuck with something even if it's just like only guitar techniques and then just play with those or like compose something else and then it will naturally evolve at some point that you will do something new that's true it does naturally evolve too but is there ever like certain styles that you want to maybe incorporate and you haven't had the time to do it yet oh yeah absolutely there's a ton um and like even in in other like jaras um because there are like so many new techniques and like jarus I I I didn't even touch on because I'm like so afraid to do it like what exactly um like high speeed shading that stuff is like so that stuff is so weird to me highs speeed shredding you mean just like John pushi kind of like yeah yeah well I feel like one of your newest songs um I'm backbone right blackbone yeah blackbone I feel like is like you're pretty much on the verge of that to me the average listener seems like it's speed picking like extremely fast shredding I mean you got passages but like there's like speed picking on all six seven eight whatever strings like jayon Richardson or something that that [ __ ] is weird to me like I didn't I I would never play Jason Richard in Solo it it you're what's interesting about your guitar playing too is that you're so like you're obviously extremely fast with both hands but for me like I always feel like I notied how fast your right hand is which a lot of like you know casual guitar or casual people might not pick up on and I think thrash was such a good example of how fast you are with your right hand yeah um that came from metal like I'm not going to lie about that James Hatfield was my was my hero oh yeah he always like had like a really strong right hand like the pr and stuff like back in the 80s damn dude that was no he was like my big inspiration uh number one as I was like a kid I grew up with Metallica like I played all the I tried to play all the songs except the solos I never played any solos so yeah and now you can rip the solos I mean I'll try yeah you'll try is there like uh uh certain genres that you like obviously with the last album gold and even with the new album like you're hearing a lot of pop but is there like certain genres that you want to add into unprocessed music and maybe you're kind of worried to do it because it might be a little bit too far to left field um I mean we tried like loots of stuff in Gold um so I'm actually I'm actually good for now with like other jwes I I actually wanted to head more into the metal world with like newer stuff um because yeah like even we tried adding like rot and and Latin stuff into like some demos and there was like a certain point like where it was like H I don't know like that that I think that would be cool as some ratone with some metal yeah I don't know it's ballsy but uh like even like bands like uh sleep token are really blowing up and they're putting other genres of music into like their form of like metal right and I think it's just it's cool and I really like what you guys are doing too because it's not um it's not typical metal right yeah your newest single that just dropped sounds like more again math Rock I don't even know what to call it right until we get a breakdown then it becomes like oh here's a metal section right and I I think it's just really cool because maybe you can like pull in some more non-metal people and actually introduce them to metal music and almost like a Gateway band right yeah yeah pretty much like there were like a lot of people that were like with thrash and black bound and out glass I like yo this is a bit too heavy for me yeah see I think that's Co you're challenging listeners too though right yeah that's cool I like that well like um I've been talking about your guitar playing and just um like obviously you're amazing guitar player but the fact that you can actually sing and scream too is such an insane skill set that you have so when it comes to the new album thank you um you're welcome but when it comes to the new album like do you have you tried new vocal techniques to incorporate to the new record oh yes like listen to all the choruses I never did that before and I was so afraid like thrash the chorus to thrash like this this almost Chester Benning like yell in the beginning um and that was hard but I had to do it and so I sang All the linking Park uh choruses I tried to cover them so I was like getting this technique um but I never did that in the past so that was challenging like vocal W wise that record was like the most challenging for me really till dat yeah absolutely 100% what about when it comes to the harsh vocals um that is like a little bit more easy um because I can try things out like even like on tour touring is for me trying new things with my cural screens and stuff like that yeah sometimes sometimes it can sound like super [ __ ] funny when I like when I do fuckups like I always look to David because he's also like doing screams and stuff like that and even in the new record he has some passages where he's do doing screaming stuff okay and uh we always look at each other when we do like the the the the the scream passages where we know we can improvise a little bit with the techniques and sometimes as just is oh my God I laugh so hard because it's it can sound really really [ __ ] funny if you mess it up true yeah well I can't scream so it always sounds stupid from my end but uh you know I was going to I forgot to ask this question actually about going back to guitar playing but like I've always I have this conversation with like uh my dad or other people who are more you know they uh they enjoyed like the class Classics like Jimmy Hendrick and Eric Clapton and things like and guitarists like that and I feel like my own opinion is that guitar players are better than ever right now and because with the use of technology and how we are so much faster at learning do you kind of understand where I'm coming from or how do you feel about guitar players 100% 100% 100% I think that's exactly the reason why we have so many good guitarists nowadays um and I think it's a good thing and people should try to understand that um like imagine the 80s like the Shred the shred um age and as that came up for the first time my dad told me like everyone was like this sounds like [ __ ] it doesn't have any Soul it's not music uh listen to that from like my age was like in the 50s or 40s whatever and it will be like that always every time something new comes up that will be people like yo this is like Sol is or um that's not as good as like in the 80s or 90s whatever um uh long story short I think guitarists nowadays are better than ever yeah so we got to tell these uh Boomers like my dad who's wrong here but yeah no no but seriously no it's just because you're like with you can watch other YouTubers and you can watch what other people are incorporating to their guitars playing and then like add it to your own and then you just constantly add more to it and I feel like even more um like a more of a Hot Topic lately is like the use of ai ai is another thing that's like being incorporated into music and even pushing um creators and musicians harder do you how do you feel about AI being incorporated into music because people are like coding gent bands like there's literally 20 hours of gent music that you can find on YouTube because it's all coded does that worry you yeah does that worry you at all or you just like no I I think I I mean I believe that um because Jen jens's uh I mean it is it is you can kind of calculate that a little bit because it's just like it has something to do with like a lot of math and stuff like that and even the production sounds kind of digital so I think yeah makes sense because like obviously L's like get good drums right you can program the drums and then um basically a coder will just take all these samples and throw it into this algorithm and it'll just spit spit out music and just a a weird thing to have like some artists can use it if they're having like you know I've heard discussions around like writer block right if someone's having issues they can use AI to help them figure writers block especially when it comes to lyrics with chat GPT right oh yeah absolutely lyrics hilarious that that is really a game changer so have you used chaty uh no we haven't we haven't used chbt but um because no David would never like he's the main he's the main lyric writer and he would never he's like he's really picky about the lyrics which is a good thing but in my opinion people should just like do whatever like I don't care if there's like the next gry nominated AI artist or if people use like AI images for the album cover or like even the lyrics like I don't care um if and in my opinion if people like want to want to want to work with that and it turns out super sick why not um I'm not sure if it would be something for me though because I really like the process of getting into it yeah and it'll always miss like lack the human touch right because actually this is a good segue into rain because because I watched the behind the scenes of rain and um it was like one of the most emotional songs you've ever written and uh I was just kind of curious cuz I didn't feel like I I got it like completely through that video but like what made that song so emotional uh well it's just like the the the story itself it's just like a very heartbreaking song um um because it has like the most vulnerable theme and emotion of all time which is love if you could say so um so yeah and it's a like real story like it was a real story for me so that made it like more emotional and yeah and I didn't see the comments I only saw like one person say that there was like some backlash online for the music video was dude yeah absolutely yeah like yeah I think it was not on YouTube YouTube was like fine but it was like my Instagram which was wow that that [ __ ] was stupid I actually I think I lost like 30 13,000 followers 13,000 yeah okay crazy right um it's cra crazy because I like there was I I we didn't understand the point because like we were like oh whatever um we just made the video and it was like it wasn't even sure if I was like in a video or if we we would we would have like casted a girl even like but then we were like okay um we we made because it was like a real story and that love story during that time was with a boy so I was like okay let's just like try to recreate it but um and people were like thinking it was like more of a coming out thing which completely was not it was not a coming out video it was just like a music video and a song and I act and that's it and people didn't people and even if it was like uh or even even it was like a coming out video I didn't get like the backlash but I think in my opinion what I saw and I didn't want to like [ __ ] on [ __ ] on like a a a country or a specific country or whatever like but the most people that uh unfollowed me or like wrote [ __ ] about that had like a Catholic and a very Christian background um because I have like a lot of people that are following me from like Brazil or jakata or like you know maxico so I kind of get it but I was like still a little bit in shock because I don't know it's whatever you know it's just it's super interesting too for because like I feel like metal and specifically even like Progressive music is like you know it's Progressive right so I thought that maybe the mindset is changing a little bit and becoming like even more open minds and stuff like that but uh when I hear stuff like that that's like uh 13 ,000 or 18 no 13,000 followers right 13 13,000 yeah it was 13 yeah that's insane but at the same time were you able to get the opposite of people that are like you know happy with the video Even though you're saying it's not about coming out it's more just a love story but for people who are just seeing it on first glance were they able to actually like confide to you and just appreciate what you did too at the same time oh yeah absolutely like a lot of people were like messaging me and us and they were like yo because of rain I finally had like the guts to like come out to my parents and stuff like that which is a good thing that's so cool that's that's so sick um and yeah dude but opposite people were so intrigued by the fact that I was like having a girlfriend right after that that they were like it was then it happened the opposite happened which is I don't know it is so weird people dude people it's it's incredible but yeah whatever I know I know I'm on I'm on the internet all the time I have to deal with a lot of people uh saying things taking words out of contacts and all that stuff so I I I understand to an extent but uh from my end I just I think it's really cool and bold to do something like that in in the scene where I feel like like I said I feel like it's getting more open-minded but when you tell me stories like that about how much people you lost it makes me kind of reflect that oh maybe no it's not as open-minded as I thought which is weird because I feel like your music your demographic should be for people who are open-minded right yeah I mean should be yes well at the end of the day you don't want them you don't want them following you anyway if they're going to be like that yeah I mean it was just like it's good that these kind of people not you know following me and you know it's a good thing because if people think that way like I really don't care about those so it's a good thing you know yeah well it's it's cool that you make you know really awesome Progressive music but also have um almost yeah kind of a bold music video to put out too I think yeah a huge amount of respect for doing that where you know many other artists will probably be too shy to do something like that yeah maybe I mean for us it was like just art in a way I mean it was personal in a way but it was also art and um but you know if people love the song that's the goal and even further if people have the guts to like do something to their life that is really positive about like coming out to their parents or like coming out to their friends that's even better yeah and if people if people love that song and go to a show and enjoy the evening that's you know that's the goal this is why I do that [ __ ] you know it's sick putting a dent in the universe is an expression I like to hear yeah so you know I think it's cool um what are your like uh I'm curious to know on a different topic it's just like what are your thoughts on the modern music scene today um I guess to give some context I feel like for me I I think this year is really good for music and specifically like the metal genre I think it's becoming more open-minded and uh it's getting more Dynamic I guess and um I'm just curious to know what your thoughts on the metal scene today or just music in general and what you've been enjoying and things like that oh yeah I mean we can divide like between metal and uh music because um but when it comes to like music itself I think I think the music now for like Personal Taste we're just talking about personal taste here for me now I think the music now that is like on the radio and like the pop side of things are way better than like 10 years ago or like 15 years ago because like 15 years ago or 10 years ago the like it was kind of trashy like this a house beats with like Neo and Aon and like Lady Gaga and K Perry and stuff like that I didn't [ __ ] with that to be honest you need a couple drinks it it sounded like plastic but it's still fun it has the emotional value for sure but now um I have the feeling that that pop music is a little bit more natural again like the Harry Styles record or like the T Taylor Swift record or like you know so that is pretty pretty dope and when it comes to rap I don't know um there's like always like there's also like two sides of it like I really enjoy some like the really sick sounding like trap Beats by like tra or like um ASA Rocky and stuff like that but that there's also like this autotune everything sounds the same I just scream into the mic and let's see what autotune does to your voice music yeah which is I don't know I don't [ __ ] with that but um yeah well I think it's evolving and I like the I like what is happening right now to the music industry yeah no I agree especially I love Harry Styles too I'm not big on I'm not a Swifty but maybe I haven't listened to Too Much Taylor Swift but I'm also curious like your thoughts on like the metal scene currently uh yeah metal scene uh it's it's weird for me now because firstly like what I like about it is the production value is insane like everything sounds topnotch and the vocalists are getting better and better like every everyone is getting in better but what I really dislike heavily dislike and miss about like modern metal is the riffs like I I listen through like the top metal records from this year and last year and I was like yeah this is good [ __ ] but where the [ __ ] are the riffs this is my problem all the time when I review a lot of metal and people are like so hyped about it like the like I don't know I don't get it like maybe I'm and maybe I'm turning into Boomer yeah I know no this is not a boomer opinion uh but yeah I'm I'm missing riffs like I miss guitar uh stuff like not even like the technical as whatever like it just Rifts in general like what like what for example like Metallica right or yeah whatever I mean the the the the biggest records like of this year and last year that were like just cords or like chugging 02012 with like rhythmic patterns but there was like not a riff riff like Metallica riff or even if it's like The Architects RI from like the the one song I'm Not Doom yeah like even that riff like metal core Rifts that will make like five six seven years ago like I don't I don't hear that right now yeah it's a lot of use of like effects and pit shifters to make it as low as possible where it almost sounds like Bridge cables flopping you know absolutely absolutely like the the the one or like the latest record that had to do something with modern metal I really really loved was the loath record um because that one had Rifts you know bro yes you are saying everything that I've been saying I want more riffs and the Loa record is uh I let it in and took everything I think is one of the best records to hit the metal scene in some time yeah um yeah we need more of that for sure um but yeah yeah no I totally agree and okay well you know if you weren't doing music I always like to ask this question actually if you weren't doing music what would you be doing right now not doing music yeah not doing music what would you be doing oh oh [ __ ] dude that would be a criminal for sure what like that I have no t at all like in other things music is the only thing I can do I'm capable of I probably like Rob bangs or something sorry well it sounds like music saved your life I get what you're saying just uh that wasn't the answer I was expecting but yeah uh no I would probably just travel and do like work and travel around the world and see something because I would I could never sit in an office and do that one work till I die or till I you know retire and then die yeah well did you go to university or anything and um I tried yeah well what were you trying to study um I studied uh a little bit of physics right after I failed school um uh but that was nothing for me then I set a little bit of music and that was nothing for me and then uh we put out artificial void and then I was like okay I can do something with music now um but yeah I I don't know yeah well physics is a lot different than being artistic I think some people are just naturally born artistic and uh to be put into like the normal Workforce corporate 9 to-5 is never going to be fulfilling yeah I even had the problems with like going to school like at a certain point like I failed so many classes I had to repeat so many classes I was still 20 and I was in school oh really e yeah yeah um and then uh I got I think I got Ani with my math teacher and then I said something really bad because she was like uh she was um she was I think she was like in discussion with like a student and she was like really bad to her and I stood up for her because I I I do not like that when someone you know is taking advantages of like someone who's like way smaller and more vulnerable and I said something and then I was like then I uh then I had the information that she was having something with like the the principal of the school and they both didn't like me and then it kicked me from school really yeah that was Heavy yeah it sounds like we were forced to uh kind of yeah I to do yeah absolutely no it was like that was never a plan B for me that was like always plan a yeah no that's cool and dude I'm so excited for the new album too I'm just looking at the time in um yeah so we'll move on to the next uh section which is kind of just like the closing end of the podcast but um you know I just like to ask some simple questions just to get to understand you a bit better but I'm C I'm curious to just know like your top three favorite actually I'm going to do a little bit differently top three favorite non-metal bands easy Massive Attack um [Music] that was like a time I really enjoyed two records from Justin Bieber um because with the production and the singing I'm not sure if I would call him like favorite artist but I don't know and um non non metal can I check like can I slowly check my Spotify list yeah no go for it I'm really curious to know I thought Massive Attack was already a cool answer um oh there's Japanese breakfast and uh Japanese breakfast they like Loi or something it's uh more po but like really cool arranged and stuff like that I think I've heard them I just oh oh yeah there this artist she's like she was like writing a lot for Ariana Grande which I also really like and she's called Victoria Mon oh wait never heard of her Victoria mon or like KT malua but for me the first first answer is always Massive Attack yeah why is that oh I grew up with them like my parents always um they were like really big into the so my parents like even especially my my stepfather he was like really into like uh Industrial Music like really electronic like um ebm that is like really heavy but like non metal heavy but like really electronical heavy um and he also like he took me to a show and people were like dressed like metal hats they were like all dressed in black and stuff like that and that was like really wow okay and um they listened to like Dees mode and the Cure and stuff like that so okay cool yeah probably like yeah Massive Attack deepish Mode and the Cure cool yeah yeah those are all solid picks now uh what are your top three favorite metal bands oh my God that's heavy that's really heavy oh oh my God okay so I have to do that because like there's an emotional value to Metallica yeah but when it comes to like playing and you know whatever like I don't know it's not Metallica but the emotional value has Metallica um when it comes to like modern metal I would say bale of Maya okay cool um like matriarch and false idle W like one of my favorite records and uh death tones nice yeah yeah well uh what are top three favorite um bands you would like to tour with [Music] kir that would be sick they put on like a wicked show oh wow it's always these questions that are always toughest for musicians to answer yeah putting you on the spot I would say gajira oh corn yeah corn yeah I love corn I love new metal like I'm a big new metal guy wow I never actually would have expected that with a judging by unprocessed his music I know this is why I'm like telling like all the people are asking me about these like yo proc and like lots of noes but I was like never a fan of lots lots of nodes wow I grew up with like simple simple music like the new metal era like pod slipnot corn Metallica Mega Death like these are like my favorite bands and um Massive Attack Massive Attack doesn't have like there's like tracks for Massive Attack there's like only [ __ ] one rud node and it's just like all about Ambience and like the vocal Melodies and the production and the production effects and that is what gets me going and not like lots of notes which is kind of weird because I playing in process and this is what I'm doing like this is what I love to do but when I listen to something it's not that I think that's what makes your music sound even more unique is that you don't you have like different influences but your your style is different you know like um even like will Ramos right will Ramos apparently like he doesn't even listen to a lot of metal but people look look to him for like the demon vocals right so it's just kind of interesting um yeah but yeah so I guess you know I'm just going to ask like uh a simple last question but uh top three favorite foods oh damn I'm also simple with that one pizza um I really enjoy when I'm like in the US my favorite thing and probably the the only favorite thing to do there is eating Mexican food um have you had real authentic like Mexican food in Mexico uh no not yet I'm half Mexican so I have family there oh really yeah I know I I I'm very white I know but and I'm very Canadian sounding but no I'm H I'm half Mexican but the food there is insane yeah looking forward to it like I will be The First Time in Mexico next year yeah you will be yeah yeah so that is um that's cool yeah uh Pizza Mexican food and German food well what's a good German dish schnitzel oh yeah oh yeah dude I can eat schnitzel all day I I don't think there's I'm from Toronto so I don't know if there's a lot of good schnitzel places around me oh probably not not yeah yeah you're from Toronto yeah and you're yeah you're coming by what um when's the tour again April April till May April to May so you and you haven't announced uh any supporting acts yet right okay uh actually not because we didn't have I mean we we we don't know yeah well that's what I kind of assume but I'm sure there probably might be but um that's probably going to be another announcement from you guys down the road yeah absolutely yeah um yeah was we were like always thinking about it and it's like so hard um but yeah we'll see um and I think it's like always like a good thing for us to like post ourselves in there with like any support uh so we can see like because it's the first US headliner like it's the first headliner in general that we're doing in the US so it's funny to see like how the the sales are going yeah only with in process without like any support so yeah and have the has it gone on sale yet I'm sure it has right we had one update which looked pretty promising for like a few days um yeah and really like I'm really stoked like I really love I love um headline shows because I always have the feeling when there's like when we are like in support I have to prove myself even more yeah and when we are doing like headline shows I know the people are there for like I'm processed and I can be a little bit more chill yeah no I get that because like uh they're there for you yeah yeah dude I I'm so excited for the tour um yeah and ALS also I'm very excited for and everything in between which is December 1st right oh yeah dude I'm also like super excited like I'm really really excited yeah are you uh following a lot of like um the reaction videos as soon as they go up for like a new song a little bit yeah a little bit um here and there like um but yeah always watch yours though that's that's cool and I watch I watch Nicks um yeah Nick he did a good job of like calling you like the what is it Loi it's like Lawrence Shore but lowii or something yeah like his re his reaction to the Riff breakdown was hilarious yeah you know he's funny he's a good guy but yeah dude I don't want to I don't want to take too much of your time up um but uh again I'm super excited for the album and the tour uh coming out very soon but I just want to thank you again for coming out and hanging out with me on this podcast yeah absolutely thank you for having me that's cool yeah no worries man but uh enjoy the rest of the night okay and I'll I'll try to see if I can find some good schnitzel oh yeah you should do all right peace out man thank you oh

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Length: 61min 41sec (3701 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 07 2023