Crobot
Frontman Brandon discusses their new release "Feel This" with Brock. Is it the most Croboty record Crobot has ever made? Is Croboty the only word Brock makes up in this interview? Where in the world is this being recorded at? And 4 out of 5 Croboters still live the rockstar life. Who it the odd man out? Find out now.
With tens of millions of streams, countless shows, and acclaim from the likes of Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Kerrang, BBC Radio, SiriusXM Octane, Loudwire, Guitar World and many more, Brandon Yeagley [vocals], Chris Bishop [guitar], Tim Peugh [bass], and Dan Ryan [drums] realize their vision like never before on their fifth full-length studio album. The release follows 2019s Top 10 Heatseekers album MOTHERBRAIN, whose cumulative streams have surpassed 30 million. Twenty-one million of which were for the goliath single "Low Life," a Top 10 single at Active Rock radio, with a 29-week run on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.
"Feel This is the record we've been wanting to do ever since we started," exclaims Brandon. "We've always thought of ourselves as a live act," he continues. "When Jay Ruston described his process of recording, we were beyond excited about getting in and getting our hands dirty. It involved performing live as a unit and finishing all instruments on a song before moving on to the next. We recorded 16 songs in 21 days, which is a feat in itself."
They made waves with Legend of the Spaceborne Killer [2012], Something Supernatural [2014], and Welcome To Fat City [2016]. However, Motherbrain [2019] represented a high watermark. They've crisscrossed the U.S., and The World, in road-warrior style, playing with the likes of Anthrax, Black Label Society, Chevelle, Clutch, Volbeat, Halestorm and more. They've lit up festival bills and the annual Shiprocked! Cruise, Rocklahoma, Aftershock, and the Jericho Cruise alongside others. "We tour the pockets off of our pants and sleep in our van for half of the year. To some, that may seem like misery, but to us - it's Heaven baby!" the frontman says.
In 2019 when Covid-19 punched The World in the face, the Global Pandemic descended upon us. Chris and Dan hunkered down in Austin to jam and cut demos, sending ideas to Brandon back in Pennsylvania. 2021 saw the boys enter Orb Studios in Austin, TX with producer Ruston [Stone Sour, Anthrax, Avatar]. Since the world has begun to open up, the band have not stood still. The Rat Child EP was released last summer and featured a mighty cast of Frank Bello [Anthrax], Howard Jones [Light The Torch/ex-Killswitch Engage] and Stix Zadinia [Steel Panther].
You'll feel rock 'n' roll comes to life in Crobot's hands. "We never want to make the same album twice," Brandon leaves off. "There is something for every Crobot fan out there as well as newcomers. At the same time, we're having fun. We want to be taken seriously, but not too seriously—because this is monkey hour after all." "That's the fucking line right there," agrees Bishop. "We want you to walk away smiling. If I can make you smile, I've done my job."
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Motionless In White
Long time friend of JJO Chris Motionless joins Brock to talk about their latest release "Scoring The End Of The World." After he hints at a voice over gig for Brock, they take a deep dive into the writing process and time spent on the creation of the new album. Plus someone agrees to take a punch from Mike Tyson. Wonder who?
Latest Release: Scoring The End Of The World
Track Listing:
- Meltdown
- Sign Of Life
- Werewolf
- Porcelain
- Slaughterhouse (Feat: Bryan Garris)
- Masterpiece
- Cause Of Death
- We Become The Night
- Burned At Both Ends 2
- Broadcasting From Beyond The Grave: Corpse Nation
- Cyberhex
- Red, White & Boom (Feat: Caleb Shomo)
- Scoring The End Of The World (Feat: Mick Gordon)
Motionless In White harnessed the power of an unholy union between industrial metal dissonance, spellbinding gothic pop bombast, and big screen-worthy iconography to emerge as 21st century rock’s most iconoclastic and cinematic force. Climbing out of the shadows of the rustbelt in Scranton, PA, the group have tirelessly earned the undying allegiance of a devout worldwide audience one record at a time. With over half-a-billion cumulative streams and views to date, they have notched three consecutive Top 5 debuts on the Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums Chart and Top Rock Albums Chart with Reincarnate [2014], Graveyard Shift [2017], and Disguise [2019]. The latter spawned the inescapable “Another Life,” which tallied over 100 million streams and counting. Not to mention, Jonathan Davis of Korn, Maria Brink of In This Moment, and Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth have welcomed the opportunity to collaborate. After countless sold-out gigs and festivals, they co-headlined the Trinity Of Terror Tour, selling out venues coast-to-coast. However, everything set the stage for their 2022 opus, Scoring The End of the World. Right out of the gate, the single “Cyberhex” trended Top 10 on YouTube, while the follow-up “Masterpiece” lit up streaming platforms. With guests as diverse Bryan Garris of Knocked Loose, Caleb Shomo of Beartooth, and video game composer Mick Gordon, the album finds the group’s vision magnified wider than ever before with no shortage of teeth, fire, and blood. It’s the dawn of their biggest chapter yet.
Motionless In White are Chris Motionless [Vocals], Ricky Olson [Guitar], Ryan Sitkowski [Guitar], Vinny Mauro [Drums], and Justin Morrow [Bass].
Dorothy
Dorothy discusses the incredible real life event that inspired the title of their latest release "Gifts From The Holy Ghost." She also discusses music that inspires her and how she hopes to do the same for others with her songs. Brock also gets is first "neither" and his first "both" in the Rapid Fire round.
Dorothy Martin’s life changed forever when she was forced to face death on her tour bus some three years ago. After her guitar technician had taken an overdose, and the light began to lift up and out from his body, Dorothy instinctively began praying for his survival. While he may have temporarily died, the technician was astonishingly, miraculously restored back to life as Dorothy and her crew formed a prayer circle near his body. It was this moment that seemed to bring Dorothy to life too. She was gifted a rebirth with a divine intervention that caused a radical and spiritual awakening in the singer, the result of which can be heard on Gifts From The Holy Ghost, Dorothy’s third studio album as front woman for the pseudonymous, blues-rock band Dorothy. Gifts From The Holy Ghost is the album she’s always wanted, and has perhaps been destined to make. Born from a sense of divine urgency, it is Dorothy’s most bombastic and gloriously, victorious rock and roll work yet. Each song built on triumph—the unshackling of chains, the slaying of demons with a sword of light—the album is a healing and remedial experience, made to unify listeners and point them towards a life full of purpose. It is Dorothy’s greatest gift yet. “This album had to get made, I felt like I had a mission,” she said.
Memphis May Fire
Combing worms out of his hair is one of the many topics Matty Mullins discusses with Brock on this episode of DNM. He also takes us through the entire process of writing, self producing and making the videos for MMF new release "Remade In Misery." Hair products, John Travolta and of course a round of Rapid Fire are covered in this edition as well.
Four-piece rock band, Memphis May Fire, channel a generation's worth of angst, frustration, and pain, with a
focused blend of gigantic melodic hooks and crushing aggression. Even after topping Billboard's Hard Music
Albums chart and breaking into radio's Active Rock Top 20, Memphis May Fire refuses to sacrifice who they are or
the people who made them. In fact, Remade in Misery, their seventh full-length album, is the heaviest Memphis May
Fire record yet.
Coheed and Cambria
Marvel or DC? One of the many tough questions Brock asks Claudio of Coheed. Plus a deep dive into their latest release "Axis II: A Window Of the Waking Mind."
Which continues the Story Of "The Amory Wars." Does he know how the story ends? What roles do he and his writing partner, his wife, play in its creation?
Also...Batman's belt? Or Iron Man's suit? Which one would Claudio be more productive in?
If you’re a fan of basically any music genre involving a guitar, 2022 feels like a year for looking back. Depending on who you talk to the pop punk revival is in full swing, followed closely by an emo revival and possibly also a post-hardcore revival quietly (read: loudly) waiting in the wings. It would be tempting for a band like Coheed and Cambria – whose groundbreaking first album “Second Stage Turbine Blade” turns 20 this year – to revisit the sounds of genres they helped pioneer. But making the same album twice just isn’t in their blood. It never has been.
"I've always thought of us as sort of the oddity, the underdog,” said frontman and guitarist Claudio Sanchez. “Why follow trends [now]? I just wanted to write a record that was right for Coheed in 2022. We're still breaking ground.”
That record is “Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind,” which releases on June 24th. It pushes the band’s sound in directions nobody could have seen coming two decades ago: from sparkling electronica to rock opera spectacle. “Vaxis II” also continues Coheed’s decades-spanning “Amory Wars” science fiction story, an undertaking that now encompasses nine albums, a multitude of comic books, novels, a trio of games, and a coffee brand. The new album serves as a sequel to multiple records in the band’s discography while retaining the accessible, emotion-packed lyrical style that turned songs like “Welcome Home” and “A Favor House Atlantic” into chart-topping radio hits.
There’s simply nothing else like Coheed’s fictional universe in music, with other bands only just now beginning to embrace transmedia storytelling in a way that’s come naturally to Coheed since their inception. In truth, Coheed got a head start not just on music, but pop culture in general; when comics were still considered the dusty domain of a subspecies of basement dwellers, Sanchez embraced the medium as a means of telling his superpowered sci-fi story. But even that approach came from a personal place: The characters of Coheed and Cambria represent his parents, and each entry in the saga chronicles his own messy, difficult journey through life.
Fozzy
Chris Jericho takes a moment to ponder leading all of north America, then pulls back the curtain on the making of their latest release Boombox. Does he know the actual name of the wheres the beef lady? Canadian Beer? US Beer? None of the Above? The answers to these questions and more will be revealed.
After touring the world and building a loyal fanbase for the better part of twenty years, Fozzy is the epitome of what a killer rock n roll band should be: catchy, groovy, hooky, sweaty and most importantly, a GREAT EFFEN TIME!
With five consecutive TOP 20 singles, Fozzy is steadily becoming one of the most successful bands on Modern Rock Radio, with their breakthrough massive smash song “Judas” achieving Gold Record status of 500,000 units sold in February of 2022!
Rich Ward is one of the most versatile, talented riff machines & songwriters in rock n roll today. Chris Jericho’s skills as a frontman are second to none and his vocal style & range are both powerful and instantly recognizable. The spirited drumming of Grant Brooks compliments the blazing solos of Billy Grey and the rock star energy of bassist PJ Farley. These are five seasoned pros, whose electricity and charisma light up every stage they play on and every crowd they perform for. As a result, it’s no surprise that Fozzy has skyrocketed into one of the hottest rock acts in the world today.
The band inched up the ladder after releasing four progressively popular studio albums in the 2000s. However, it was 2012’s “Sin And Bones”, which featured the hit single “Sandpaper” (over 4.5 MILLION views on YouTube) that found the band reaching a level of legitimacy that drew a mass audience to drink in their trademark heavy melodic groove. The album eventually reached #143 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart, but it was their next album, “Do You Wanna Start A War” (produced by Ward), released in the summer of 2014, that really blew the door open, debuting at #54 on Billboard and giving the band their first top 30 single in “Lights Go Out” which was blared in sports arenas nationwide.
But as much success as the band had enjoyed, nothing compared to the juggernaut of 2017’s “Judas” album. Released in May 2017, the aforementioned title track spent 5 weeks at NUMBER ONE on the highly influential ‘Big Uns Countdown’ on Sirius/XM’s Octane channel, amassed over 55 MILLION views for its video on YouTube, cracked the TOP 5 on the US Rock Radio Charts and is still heard by millions of fans worldwide weekly on TBS Network’s hugely popular “AEW Dynamite” program. The follow-up singles “Painless” hit Number 9 on the charts (almost 10 MILLION views on YouTube), “Burn Me Out” peaked at Number 18, “Nowhere To Run” cracked the Top Ten again and their most recent single “Sane”, (with its roller coaster themed video- one of the most thrilling & heart stopping ever made) landing at Number 8!
Now, with those massive songs in their arsenal and the new album “Boombox” cocked and ready to go, Fozzy looks forward to being back on the road for their Saving The World 2022 Tour. After sharing the stage in recent years with Metallica, Kiss, Iron Maiden, Avenged Sevenfold, Shinedown, Slash, Three Days Grace, Nickelback, Steel Panther & Buckcherry, Fozzy is stoked to storm back on the stage to bring good times and kick-ass tunes to their fans around the world… and elsewhere!
Halestorm
Brock talks with front woman and all around awesome person Lzzy Hale about the new release "Back From The Dead." We find out how people who have not died yet can come back, what it's like to work with two producers and just how much music they recorded and even scrapped in the making of this record.
“The Steeple,” the second single from Back From The Dead. “The Steeple” follows the album’s title track, “Back From The Dead,” released last fall. That track marked Halestorm’s sixth #1 at rock radio, and met rave reviews: Rolling Stone called it “a biting, cathartic howler about overcoming obstacles -- even death,” and Consequence praised frontwoman Lzzy Hale’s “powerhouse pipes” and lead guitarist Joe Hottinger’s “blistering solo.” Revolver declared it a “raucous, hard-rock rager about staying strong in the face of crushing adversity.”
Halestorm has grown from a childhood dream of siblings Lzzy and Arejay Hale into one of the most celebrated rock bands of the last two decades. Halestorm’s music has surpassed a billion streams worldwide. Called a “muscular, adventurous, and especially relevant rock record” by Rolling Stone, Vicious earned the band their second Grammy nomination, for Best Hard Rock Performance for the song “Uncomfortable,” the band’s fourth #1 at rock radio, and led Loudwire to name Halestorm “Rock Artist of the Decade” in 2019. Fronted by the incomparable Lzzy Hale with drummer Arejay Hale, guitarist Joe Hottinger, and bass player Josh Smith, Halestorm has earned a reputation as a powerful live music force, headlining sold-out shows and topping festival bills around the world, and sharing the stage with icons including Heaven & Hell, Alice Cooper, and Joan Jett.
Three Days Grace
Neal from Three Days Grace discusses their new album Explosions. As well as the lizard man, slapshots and Poutine. Helping the good folks of Kentucky. Bonus, if you listen, you will no longer have to wonder what a ketchup chip is.
Today, Three Days Grace share their new music video for “Lifetime” off their forthcoming seventh studio album, EXPLOSIONS (May 6th via RCA Records). The music video was filmed in the town of Mayfield, KY, which was devastated on December 10th, 2021 when an EF4 tornado tore through Western Kentucky. This hit home for the band, as guitarist Barry Stock lives in the area, and band taped the music video for the song in the town to raise awareness and funds to help them rebuild. Three Days Grace has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 of every ticket sold for their US tour dates will go to support tornado recovery efforts in Mayfield, Kentucky. Proceeds will benefit the Mayfield Tornado Relief Fund and Mayfield Independent School District.
The band shared, “Lifetime is about loss. It also speaks to the human condition to push forward and put one foot in front of the other even when you wake up and your world is turned upside down. Barry lives 2 hours to the north of Mayfield and when the tornado struck he not only knew people directly affected but days later found photos and debris in his own backyard; hitting, in more ways than one, close to home. The Mayfield community has shown hope and resilience in the face of unimaginable devastation. When we discussed how we wanted to visually portray this song the story of Mayfield immediately came up. We travelled down to Kentucky from Toronto in March. To see it all with our own eyes and to meet some of the families while overwhelming at times it was also a reminder to us and hopefully to all of you that while there is suffering there is also hope, resilience and strength around every corner all over the world.”
Papa Roach
He may be a terrible roadie but he is an awesome bass player. Tobin Esperance talks about Papa Roach's latest album Ego Trip. Will living in the same house with your band, and working with artists outside the genre create a great album?
Tobin talks about getting creative with the music and experience of making Ego Trip.
JACOBY ON THE MEANING BEHIND ‘EGO TRIP’:
“Throughout my life I’ve embarked on this constant journey to unravel this…thing,” begins Jacoby. “This eternal paradigm; this struggle between the light and the dark. I see it alive in the world and it’s something I’m constantly trying to find balance in with regards to my own life. Who is at the wheel of my ego? Is it the high-frequency version of myself, the one who is more spiritual and self-aware, or is it the low-frequency version who can be selfish, self-centered and self-seeking? Throughout the process of making this record, we had some really profound conversations about life, who is at the helm of our egos and what it is that drives and motivates us.
I suffer from a painful self-awareness at times, but I feel that awareness is what aids progression in my life, and allows me to be a more empathetic and compassionate human being. When I work on myself, I become more available to others, yet I have an ability to shut down and isolate myself just as often. It’s like in the song ‘Liar’, where I talk about there being a good wolf and a bad wolf: ‘Gotta starve one, gotta feed one.’ I often look back at the places I’ve been and the decisions I’ve made and doing so allows me to see which wolf I was tossing the meat towards. We had some pretty powerful breakthroughs. It helped me to realize that when you’re making a record, each song is just another element of the ego expressed.”