How the hell are you guys?
Mucho (M): Great man!
Buddy (B): It's another amazing weekend with good times for sure! It's cloud nine as always, Psycho never holds back.
M: Great bands and friends all over the place.
B: Exactly, all of our friends are here.
Of this crop of doom metal festivals it feels like you've played everyone, which is your favorite?
B: Definitely Psycho. Electric Funeral was fucking rad. That was a lot more relaxed. There was a lot of homies.
M: Psycho is more overwhelming. That's what makes it cool though. You have all your best friends here there. Meet anyone here and you become friends right away.
B: That's how all metal fests are, everyone is brothers no matter what. Maybe it's just our band but we make friends all over. It's just fun.
So everything seems to be riding well for The Great Electric Quest!
M: Except the bus. We were close to raffling it off for this festival.
B: It's currently dead in the parking lot.
We were talking about the family vibe of this festival, how does it feel to talk to the owners dad who just kind of randomly said hi just now?
B: It's fucking awesome. He's just really cool. You've got the Juett's from Motherships parents. They are family, they always put us up. There are plenty of people like that here.
It's never weird when the parents get involved?
B: It's great.
M: It's good for whoevers running the event. The Mothership parents always come through and support. Once you talk to them thy start to get into the bands. They don't just come to support your kids.
B: You can see them enjoying themselves.
Why do you think there is a multigenerational appeal to this music?
B: It's just easy!
M: Parents grew up with Black Sabbath and stuff, that's where this music comes from.
So you have a new record coming out... tell me about it...
B: It's a million times better than the first one production wise. We feel like the mixes are getting insane. One of the guys from Duel has been doing the mixing and he keeps sending us mixes. He thinks its done but we're at Psycho so we can't listen in. It's the best we've heard from our band. It's like when we hit the pool stage – it sounded sick
M: We are hoping to release it by the end of the year too.
B: We want to get it out by Christmas for sure.
Mucho (M): Great man!
Buddy (B): It's another amazing weekend with good times for sure! It's cloud nine as always, Psycho never holds back.
M: Great bands and friends all over the place.
B: Exactly, all of our friends are here.
Of this crop of doom metal festivals it feels like you've played everyone, which is your favorite?
B: Definitely Psycho. Electric Funeral was fucking rad. That was a lot more relaxed. There was a lot of homies.
M: Psycho is more overwhelming. That's what makes it cool though. You have all your best friends here there. Meet anyone here and you become friends right away.
B: That's how all metal fests are, everyone is brothers no matter what. Maybe it's just our band but we make friends all over. It's just fun.
So everything seems to be riding well for The Great Electric Quest!
M: Except the bus. We were close to raffling it off for this festival.
B: It's currently dead in the parking lot.
We were talking about the family vibe of this festival, how does it feel to talk to the owners dad who just kind of randomly said hi just now?
B: It's fucking awesome. He's just really cool. You've got the Juett's from Motherships parents. They are family, they always put us up. There are plenty of people like that here.
It's never weird when the parents get involved?
B: It's great.
M: It's good for whoevers running the event. The Mothership parents always come through and support. Once you talk to them thy start to get into the bands. They don't just come to support your kids.
B: You can see them enjoying themselves.
Why do you think there is a multigenerational appeal to this music?
B: It's just easy!
M: Parents grew up with Black Sabbath and stuff, that's where this music comes from.
So you have a new record coming out... tell me about it...
B: It's a million times better than the first one production wise. We feel like the mixes are getting insane. One of the guys from Duel has been doing the mixing and he keeps sending us mixes. He thinks its done but we're at Psycho so we can't listen in. It's the best we've heard from our band. It's like when we hit the pool stage – it sounded sick
M: We are hoping to release it by the end of the year too.
B: We want to get it out by Christmas for sure.
Songwriting wise how did it grow?
B: We didn't write any songs for a long time but we have a studio now where we do campouts. We bring a projector and a crock pot to eat all weekend. We did one of those and the album came pouring out. We would get off work and jam for a few hours but it wouldn't sink in. So we just did this campout over a weekend and it worked out. We did four or five of those and it all came out. It's a lot of us jamming on ideas or like two of us jamming while the other two dudes are cooking or sleeping or whatever. All these elements came together.
M: It was all we had to worry about. You wake up in the studio with your instruments and it's ready to go.
B: As soon as you're ready you just need to turn on and go from there.
You have a schedule where you tour all the time and do all this crazy shit – how did you get to a point where you could do all of this?
B: It's super weird. It's like a disease and it's super draining. But you know how it is, you're so passionate about it that there is no choice. It's not a decision to be made. You see the opportunity and you pounce on it. You just have to keep the production going. There's always so much shit to do and places to be.
M: You have to have a belief in it. You need to see the future. That's what keeps you going.
B: Everybody wants it so bad. We will give up days at a time to do it.
The dedication of your band is...
B: It's not matched by many. The dudes in this band are fucking rad and I love it.
You said you see something in it Mucho, what do you see?
M: I just see us writing cool and good music that's meaningful to all of us. We really just wrote the album in one or two campouts. We didn't do it because we had to we were just comfortable to the point that we would do it when we jammed and it would sound awesome to us. It came out naturally. You can't do that with any band. If you want to be in a local band just to write music to do it then you wouldn't have the same passion we have for touring and playing live shows. That would be more for fun. It will always be fun but it comes with responsibilities and work.
B: The deeper you get into it... there's so much there for you. The opportunities are so fucking awesome. There's no decision. You don't get to step back. Playing live, seeing your friends, recording. It's badass.
Who do you model yourselves after?
B: There's plenty of bands but obviously Mothership are our good buds and watching them kick open the door has been amazing. They made it happen for themselves. They continue to grow. I texted them this morning, they are always at full throttle. That's motivating. You can tell they feed off of it as well.
B: We didn't write any songs for a long time but we have a studio now where we do campouts. We bring a projector and a crock pot to eat all weekend. We did one of those and the album came pouring out. We would get off work and jam for a few hours but it wouldn't sink in. So we just did this campout over a weekend and it worked out. We did four or five of those and it all came out. It's a lot of us jamming on ideas or like two of us jamming while the other two dudes are cooking or sleeping or whatever. All these elements came together.
M: It was all we had to worry about. You wake up in the studio with your instruments and it's ready to go.
B: As soon as you're ready you just need to turn on and go from there.
You have a schedule where you tour all the time and do all this crazy shit – how did you get to a point where you could do all of this?
B: It's super weird. It's like a disease and it's super draining. But you know how it is, you're so passionate about it that there is no choice. It's not a decision to be made. You see the opportunity and you pounce on it. You just have to keep the production going. There's always so much shit to do and places to be.
M: You have to have a belief in it. You need to see the future. That's what keeps you going.
B: Everybody wants it so bad. We will give up days at a time to do it.
The dedication of your band is...
B: It's not matched by many. The dudes in this band are fucking rad and I love it.
You said you see something in it Mucho, what do you see?
M: I just see us writing cool and good music that's meaningful to all of us. We really just wrote the album in one or two campouts. We didn't do it because we had to we were just comfortable to the point that we would do it when we jammed and it would sound awesome to us. It came out naturally. You can't do that with any band. If you want to be in a local band just to write music to do it then you wouldn't have the same passion we have for touring and playing live shows. That would be more for fun. It will always be fun but it comes with responsibilities and work.
B: The deeper you get into it... there's so much there for you. The opportunities are so fucking awesome. There's no decision. You don't get to step back. Playing live, seeing your friends, recording. It's badass.
Who do you model yourselves after?
B: There's plenty of bands but obviously Mothership are our good buds and watching them kick open the door has been amazing. They made it happen for themselves. They continue to grow. I texted them this morning, they are always at full throttle. That's motivating. You can tell they feed off of it as well.