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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I feel it, I wish I could have I would be there, but I can't, I don't know Yeah I would, just bury that in my bed I feel it, just bury that in my bed I wish I could have I would be there, but I can't, I don't know There's no other There's no other guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo guitar solo распquin highway распquin highway was the place where we'd all go And our next race, the shop that we'd all let it roll, let it roll Let it roll, let it go Let it roll She's get up and we're really laying it down Let it roll Let it roll Let it roll Los Angeles and the rest of the world You're listening to a special, special very manic broadcast of the very manic Jimmy Cab Show. I am your host, Jimmy Cabs Broadcasting live from beautiful downtown gentrified Los Angeles You know why you're here Conan England's finest and most heaviest band since Cream has just arrived to Los Angeles Tonight they will be playing Strike That. Tonight they will be decimating the complex in Glendale with fellow conspirators, Serial Hawk and our own local heavy hitters Yitera Make sure you get out there, pick up your tickets because this is going to be a great show Chester, are you excited to have Conan here? Absolutely excited Are you excited to have Liverpool England's caveman Battle Doom Masters here in downtown Yeah Los Angeles It's really great to have you guys here I'll be manning this solo tonight so no Lost Johnny or Scott Peterson for Cryptic Slaughter Let's get into what we just heard there The opening block Chester, please turn that off Try not to be nuts We just heard Abath Abath will be playing Well, what you heard there was Winterbeak Chester, please turn that off. Try not to be nuts. We just heard Abath. Abath will be playing There was Winterbeak Abath from the Albeth album Abath is going to be coming to Los Angeles March 28th at the Regent with High on Fire, Tribulation and Skeleton Witch That's another amazing show And what a coincidence After that we heard High on Fire with the track off the new record Luminiferious That track was entitled The Black Plot Now you know why I have co-hosts to read these fucking these playlists Chester, do I sound like I have dyslexia or like I went to high school and the bar door was closed? Yeah, man, you're fucking it up pretty good Thank you very much After that we heard Old Metal Old Metal from some young metal titans from Brazil Power from Hell Power from Hell is going to be coming in Los Angeles I'm telling you, there's some great shows coming here April 1st, they're going to be playing with Witch Haven and Old Coven That is also a Church of the Eighth Day extravaganza happening at the complex Make sure you get those tickets as well And then we ended that segment with The Black Plot And then we ended that segment with The Black Plot And then we ended that segment with Let It Roll from UFO And that's off the Fawcett record UFO is also coming to the City of Angels Two dates March 24th at the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills I don't know where that's at but I guarantee you they have Mexican gardeners in that neighborhood And then the 25th at the Whiskey A Go Go And then the 25th at the Whiskey A Go Go Make sure if you have tickets for that I believe both shows are sold out But you know, there'll be There'll be some scalpers out there that are also protesting the Trump The Trump rally So you can get your tickets and also talk shit about Trump Alright, this is very interesting A lot has been going on the past couple of days But I'm sure you don't want to hear any of that Because Conan is going to be playing tonight And we're going to have them here in a couple of minutes They just arrived, they played last night in Phoenix And I heard that show was amazing So we're going to be taking care of them Having them relax and chill out In the meantime, I just want to stress three things real quick It's interesting that With these type of shows You know, there's always a form of excitement There's always a A real Exciting energy That comes when these amazing bands come to the City of Angels So please, please, by all means When you go to the show Make sure you rock out, have a great time But be courteous to the elderly Older, heavy Music attendees Like myself, you know I already have a sweating profuse problem I don't need you to drip all over me Especially These kids that just for whatever reason Just, they want to fucking just Drench all over me, please I'll be accompanied tonight by my lovely SS She-Wu Please, please don't yell in my face Things like fuck Jimmy Cabs Or other, you know Just insulting things Go enjoy the show, buy merch You know, buy some adult beverages Don't drink around the fucking corner like you're fucking 16 And attract law enforcement Behave yourselves Come on, amazing shows are coming to the City of Angels The world is coming to an end Trump will soon be president Let's just go out with a fucking bang Let's have a great fucking time Chester, are you in agreement with that? Yeah man Right, right, I mean come on There's no need for none of these shenanigans Let's go and have a great fucking time And by all means, let's welcome Conan To the City of Angels properly With that, Chester How can people, cause for whatever reason Whether it's the good cannabis that uh That's out there or just you know The school districts are just failing miserably People cannot log in properly How can they log in and hear the show Or call in? All they have to do is just go to weplayradio.com If they're on their computer The video will just start playing You don't have to do anything If they're on their phone and they want to watch You'll see a little video box With an arrow that says play Touch that And you'll be able to watch the show On your phone If you're on your phone and you want to log in Just dial 1-800-893-9562 If you miss this shit Then just go to iTunes And download it As soon as it's posted online Or go to weplayradio.com And you can download it anytime Sounds pretty simple Sounds pretty basic But again, you know, they're obviously Whether it's the educational system LAUSD man Right, charter schools all the way So if you're having any problems If you can't seem to figure it out Just take a time out And just realize that a five year old Can do this, okay? So maybe you might want to put down the bong Or whatever and just, you know, concentrate Alright, we're going to be giving away A pair of free tickets to see Liverpool England's The heaviest band Calling in tonight for free That's correct, for free These tickets are courtesy of that very sexy Obese, hard working promoter Church of the Eighth Days Dan Dismo, so please by all means Buy the guy a drink when you see him Alright? Make sure you call in when I give out That specific time to call For those tickets, don't text me Don't write me a letter, don't come to my fucking house Make sure you call The show during the broadcast and we'll give you A pair of those tickets courtesy of Church of the Eighth Day With that, let's Start the show, Chester Hit it! 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We'll be right back. downtown gentrified LA and experienced our traffic. How did you enjoy our traffic on a Sunday afternoon? It was cool, actually. The traffic was okay. We've met like six weirdos within one minute. That's okay. Not including you guys, I'm sorry. Like, outside Starbucks seemed to be a little bit... Oh, yeah, that Starbucks. You know, isn't it amazing that here in downtown Los Angeles, this is prime real estate, but at the same time, it's like bizarro world, man. You walk out and there'll be a dude walking his dog and there'll be like fucking 20 mental patients right outside at the Starbucks. It's like London. But you're from Liverpool. I mean, you're familiar with that. That's a hard city as well. That's a real city. I mean, you know. Liverpool's nice. It's fine. I don't think Liverpool is as intense as Los Angeles. I don't think anyone could ever claim that. Richard's from Cardiff and Wales. That has its fair share of problems. And Renata's from Seattle. Oh, yeah. You know what? Why don't we introduce ourselves first? Conan is here. Please, by all means, feel free to introduce yourselves. My name is John Davis and I play guitar. I play guitar and sing. I'm Rich Lewis and I'm the drummer. You are the basher. You are the basher. Look at how civil and how proper you look, man. But when you play. But when you play. I'm glad you think so. You're so fucking monstruous. Whoa, whoa. I got questions for you. Oh, yeah. The lovely Renata. Please introduce yourselves. I'm Renata from... Oh, but I play bass in this band, right? Yeah. Yes, I think so. And you're from Samothrace, which is another amazing band from up north. I play guitar. How did you become a part of this tour here with Conan? Well, last year, Samothrace toured with Conan a whole U.S. tour. And we became friends then. And me and John actually started a little, like, distro company for band merchandise over here. And we've just been in touch. And when Chris said that he couldn't do this tour, John asked me if I could oblige. And, of course, I wanted to. What a perfect fill-in Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, for this tour because not only she's very lovely, but she fits right in. Yeah, totally. She fits right in. I mean, Samothrace. I mean, that ain't no, you know, fluff piece there. No. She fits right in. And also, at the same time, the energy. Because it's very rare for bands when they, it's very rare for bands like yourselves that are a three-piece that have such a tight unison when it comes to this type of music. I mean, it's almost, I don't want to use the word perfect, but that's what comes to mind. It's just so in touch. And then when there's a member missing, it seems like the mechanics ain't working. But what a, what a perfect fill-in there. The machine keeps rolling. Let's talk about the U.S. tour. You've been on the U.S. touring. Huge country here. Yeah, totally. Different demographics from New York to Texas to all, it's all different. How are they embracing the doom beast that is Conan? Are they getting it? Are the U.S. audiences getting it? Yeah, totally. We came over here in May last year, like Renata's just said. And that was, that was a cool tour. But this time around seems that the crowds are slightly bigger. The crowds are slightly more receptive. They seem to recognize their material. See, when you get up on stage and start playing a riff to a song, you know if people within five seconds know you because they'll get into certain songs. Like we've got a song called Hawker's Weapon, which is a little bit like our Smells Like Teen Spirit. And as soon as we kick off that riff, everyone seems to go a bit mental, crazy, sorry, or whatever the politically correct word is. And on this show, we keep it real, man. Mental is mental. Say what everyone. But yeah, the tour's been fucking awesome. Actually, we're like in the last third of it now. Yeah. Sadly, but we've, the tour has been, has been great. Isn't it incredible what a difference a year makes? I mean, when I saw you play last year, there was, there was already an anticipation. You already had an audience that was waiting to experience this live show, which is the Conan experience. And a year later, and it's just blown into a whole other demographic that are going to be attending tonight. And as you mentioned, they're coming to your shows. Yep. What I like about bands like yourselves is that you stay to the true core of what it is you do. And when you start opening up to other markets, especially here in the United States and abroad, where this type of music is becoming more and more popular, more and more marketable, more and more different audiences are coming in. What I like about bands like yourselves is that you retain that true integrity and you keep it the way it's meant to be. Be that as it may, how is it that you keep yourself from not strain and keeping the music not become mundane? Because you don't change dramatically. You're not, but it just, every album just seems to show a progression and a growth in the right way. How do you do that? Well, as a fan of music, I think we all have our bands. That helps a lot. Everyone always says, oh, their first three albums were the best. Or first, you know, you've, I mean, I personally, a lot of my favourite bands, I prefer their early material. And I think a lot of people tend to say that. Not with every band, but, and in writing the music for Conan, one thing that we've always been conscious of is that we don't have people just saying that about us. We always try and stick to what we're good at. We don't, we don't throw in too many surprises. But we actually, every time we work hard to show that we've gotten better at what we can do. We did that with Blood Eagle. That was a clear progression from Monos. Monos is a clear progression from Horsewhip Battlehammer. And Revengeance is a clear progression from Blood Eagle. You know, the riffs get slightly more complicated. The time signatures get a little bit more interesting. Obviously, Rich joined us before we recorded Revengeance. But he'd been in the band for actually a little while. By then, because we'd toured a few times already, hadn't we? So, recording Revengeance was a very, like, a very easy process. And we were able to incorporate Rich's playing into our style more because up until then we had quite like a ploddy, one-dimensional almost kind of, like, we were trying to break out of that with songs like Foehammer and Horns for Teeth of Blood Eagle. And we were starting to move in that direction here and there. But, when Rich joined on drums, we were able to make more of that sort of feel. And, you know, we got like, well, the song Revengeance itself is a perfect example of just how we can blend Rich's more aggressive drumming technique in with our own established sound. And it's like the perfect blend of those two things and the song Throne of Fire, which opens the album that we're working on. That's just a Nirvana riff rehashed into a fucking Conan song. I admire your honesty there. Yeah, I mean, we haven't copied any particular Nirvana riff, but definitely had them in mind when we were jamming that song. Yeah, you don't want Courtney Love coming after you with fucking lawyers and shit, man. She loves drama, dude. You don't want to say that. Or a shotgun. No, I wouldn't say no more. What I like about bands like yourself, as I mentioned before, you really, I always said that when there's an underground current, there is something under that. There is something under that underground current because everything surfaces to the mainstream. Everything becomes, you know, it evolves. It becomes exposed. There's, I would say within the last 10 years, there's been this music revolution going on of artists like yourselves that are really incorporating, and I don't want to date anybody. I'm sure I'm the oldest one here, but they incorporate the old school element of music, which is, let's get on stage. Let's turn up the amps. Let's just, let's jam and play. Yep. Not a performance. I'm one of those guys that when I go see some of these artists now, I fucking lose my, I lose my, my attention span because it's a performance. You know, even the choreographed headbanging, all that bullshit. I like to see musicians get up there and just do the old school rock and roll style. Just turn up the amps and crank it out and not try to be all perfectionist. You know, not fucking looking at the side spazzing out because, you know, the engineer, the soundboard guy's fucking up. Yeah, yeah. Just fucking rock out, man. I used, I used the metaphor cream. I don't mean to offend, but what I, what I meant by that is if you really watch old videos of cream, it's just amazing what they were doing. When I compare, when I think of Conan, I saw you last year. That's what I, the image that came to mind because it's three individuals that really are in unison with yourselves, but you also acknowledge the audience, but you're not playing to the audience. You're playing for yourselves. Nothing wrong with that because when you're playing, you're playing for yourselves. That's a real show. That's worth, that's worth the ticket price. Yeah, totally. You can see the band enjoying themselves. My question to you is one of the things that I respect your band about is how do you transfer that energy which is live on stage into a stereo recording environment because the record itself makes me want to fucking hit something. How do you do that? Because it's a studio. Yeah. You know. It's hard. I think the trick is getting a good producer, isn't it? What do you think? Basically, yeah. Dude, you bash on those fucking drums sick. How do you get the energy to bash on those drums because live, it's a natural thing. Probably about like 16 hours a day sleep. That's a great answer. That's a hard answer. Eight hours a day farting. But do you know what I mean? There's so many bands that they really capture it live and then when they go into the recorder studio, you're like, who is it? What is this? Yeah. You can see those bands a mile off. And that's sad for them. That's their problem. For us personally, we really enjoy what we do. You know, music is actually at the centre of all three of our lives. And I mean that. Renata, even though Renata wasn't there at present during the recording, you know, during the live performances. Renata is a life of the same as the rest of us, you know. But in terms of the recording process, it's down to the producer really, I think, to translate. It's, when we play the songs in the studio the same way we do on stage, you just sweat less. That's all it is. It's the producer's job then to make it sound like you're playing on stage and keep it all together and make sure the dynamics are right. Have you ever had a producer try to interfere with this process and try to give you like, you know, the fucking masterful advice of maybe you should do this or that and stray from that agenda? Or have you been working with people that really just understand what's going on? Well, yes. We've, we've all, we've only ever recorded with Chris. Chris Fielding, our bass player. Oh, well then that explains it perfectly. He's been our producer since day one. Yeah, so then he knows organically what it's all about. Yeah. So it was like every recording with him it's been consistent and, you know, the approach has been consistent. We've used the same amps on most of the recordings. In fact, I use the same guitar on this album as I did on, on Horseback Battlehammer back in 2009. Nine. So we, we like to keep a lot of things consistent in the studio. I think that's important because if you keep messing about trying to just like tweak things because you think it's going to improve stuff, that doesn't always work. But for me, the key thing is the producer. Yeah. It is his or her job to make sure that what you're doing on stage, or sorry, what you do in the studio can excite people as much as it does when you play on stage. I don't think it's easy to do. I have so many questions for you, man. I know time is limited. Real quick though, this is something that's always intrigued me of artists like yourselves. Also, creatively, and imagine, and creatively where you have gone with your music from imagery and what have you, there's always seems to be some sort of a corner, a creative cornering, so to speak, where artists, when once they start off with, I know that you, or correct me if I'm wrong, I know that every album is on its own. It's not like an ongoing story, or is it? It's not. You're right. There's a misconception of that though. There's, you know, aside from, you know, fucking conspiracy theorists bringing up all this other stuff, is that there's a story there. And I'm sitting there, you know, late at night reading your fucking lyrics and looking at the image and trying to figure out the story. There is no story, correct? Every album, it's on its own? No. There is a story, but I'm not going to tell anyone what it is. Really? Yeah. It's a secret. I can't say. Let me ask, let me ask you this. Does it inspire you creatively to keep going on when you're writing? Yes. Writing the lyrics, like, when we're writing the songs, I find it a lot easier to come up with riffs even when we have a song name. Even just a name. Like, we wrote a song about Gandalf's sword and it's called Foehammer, Glandring and Elvish, whatever, Elven or whatever. It just sparks the creative process. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's call the song Foehammer and then you can write a whole song. I guess that's not how a lot of people do it. They might come up with a riff first and then say, oh yeah, that sounds cool. Let's make it about Gandalf's sword. But a lot of the time, for me, it's like, I like, when I'm coming up with lyrics, I always like to have the song name first and then almost like everything else follows from that. That's just the way I do it. I don't know, it's a bit, but like, I like to have just like, you can watch a movie and there can be five seconds in a movie that you can write three songs about. Yeah. There can be, there can be a scene in a movie that never happened but you wished it did. You can write a song about that. You could do that forever. And actually, it's like really, it's almost like a limitless source of material, the sort of stuff that we write about. You know, it's all about like old movies, computer games, all that shit. It's really easy. But let me come in, let me understand you though because in an age where the youth and also older demographics, they're so addicted to this. I'm holding my iPhone. Where's the video? You know, they're so addicted to this. The attention span is no longer there. There are so many artists that have given up on being creative in regards to from the album covers to lyrics because they're like, no one gives a fuck. They just want, you know, they want what they want. We'll feed it, get a check. You know, I find it interesting that, you know, that a 45-year-old man like myself has the exact same thing in common with a 16-year-old Conan fan who they're sitting there analyzing your record. It reminds me back in my day when I'm looking at the Iron Maiden record going, who the fuck is this? Yep. And that is the beauty and the connection and the relationship of music. There was a time where maybe because of the decline of vinyl and the big corporations and the mass media videos where that relationship got strayed. You know, there was a relationship just as pure as like a marriage with someone where you went into a record store and you went on a quest on a journey. No internet. This looks interesting. That has, in my opinion, had died and bands like yourselves are resurrecting that old school because even though the internet's and mass media or whatever, you know, there's kids nowadays that they know who you are and what you're doing and what's happening. But when they get home and they purchase that CD or record, it's a time capsule back to that era of analyzing and really letting go and while they're doing it, they're also being involved with the music in the background and that's what it's all about, man. So I commend you for doing it. No, thank you. You hit the nail on the head. Like, I remember, I mean, Iron Maiden are a classic example of a band who have great album artwork, aren't they? You know, not since Iron Maiden had I been as blown away by artwork as I did when I first saw the cover of Surrounded by Thieves by High on Fire. Right. Right. And the guy, it looks like it's straight out of the old Ralph Bakshi Lord of the Rings movie from the 70s. I remember being blown away by that and they were a big influence earlier on. Don't get me wrong, there's backdraft too. Like, there's a bad side story too. I remember looking at a Yes record going, what the fuck is this? I give up. Yeah. But yeah, you hit it right on the nose with the Maiden, man. It just took you to a whole other journey. Totally. All right, Conan's gonna be playing tonight. For those of you that have not experienced this, I must say, number one, it is not for the weak. Number two, please, no man buns. It's gonna drive me fucking nuts. Get out there and experience real live music. There's no such thing as demographics when it comes to Conan. You know what you're gonna get. Loud, rude, and raw. Let's keep it old school. Let's really enjoy the show. Put down your fucking iPhones. Let's embrace it. Serial Hawk and Yidra are also co-suspirators of this amazing music. It's all going down at the complex. Get out there. I'm gonna give away a pair of tickets right now. Chester, what is the phone number to call for these pair of tickets? 1-800-893-9562. Say that again because I know somebody was packing a bowl. 1-800-893-9562. All right, there you go. Snatch them up. Let's get into some more music. Hit it. 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No. No. We probably will be when we get our touring out of the way, but we've not really discussed it yet. You guys are a real touring band. I mean, let me paraphrase that. There are bands that go on tour, but it's not a tour. You guys are constantly touring, constantly playing. Yep. How do you do that? How do you keep that energy going? Actually, enthusiasm is the main ingredient, I think. As long as you're enjoying it, then you'll always find a way to do it. So you love everything that goes along with touring? Yeah, everlasting. From point A to point B and in between? Everlasting. Really? Everlasting hangovers, no sleeps, more assholes, everything. The whole thing is enjoyable. It must be rewarding for you. One of the benefits of bands that go on tour, there's so many bands, I don't want to mention, but so many bands that bitch about touring or they put up a fucking track on their fucking social media page and they let that do the work. Real bands get in a band, they get on tour. One of the rewards must be you seeing your audience expanding and growing. I mean, as we discussed before, just from last year to now, last year you played the Psycho Fest. I could just imagine. I could just imagine now the growth in that. How rewarding is it for you to see your work, your work and what you put in on the road coming back to you? It's really rewarding, actually. I mean, we've been touring now. Well, this is our first tour for this album, but the only real break we had was when we recorded the album. Prior to that, we were recording. We had a UK tour in June last year. We had the US tour with Samoth Race and TAR in May last year. You know, we had less than 24 hours rest between the start of the US tour and the end of the European tour that we did with Yufa Mamet. And before that, we were touring and doing little shows here and there. We just really love being busy because, well, we get a lot back from it because we enjoy playing music. Yeah. That's the main thing. We enjoy playing music. What inspired you to play music? What was it that hit that spark that made you say, I want to do that? Well, do you know, me personally, when I was almost 15, maybe I was sat at home, lunch hour during school time, eating curry, fried rice and chips with my friend Will Halliday. And I remember I was just learning to play guitar at the time. And I remember hating school. But I knew I had to do so well so I could go to university and all that bullshit. And I remember saying to him, you know, fucking, when I'm older, I'm definitely going to play in a band. Yeah, and I want to tour with a beautiful woman like Renata. Well, yeah, of course. Yeah, right. Yeah, I'm a beautiful man. Touring helps when you have an attractive woman, you know, on the road with you. Well, you're talking about Aubrey, right? We're having, everyone in the van is beautiful. That's right. In their own way. Some more beautiful than others, obviously. By the way, I would love to know your moisturizing technique because you're very well moisturized. Sweat. Yeah. It's like, what's it called? Lubriderm from a tattoo. Some of it got on the forehead then for a moment. No, it's cool. Yeah. You have to tour with the right people. It has to be fun. Absolutely. Uh-huh. And like, it's almost like in for a penny, in for a pound. Yeah. There's no, when you just mentioned there's some bands go on tour and it's like it's only going on tour for a few days. You can see that perhaps their lifestyle limits them in that way. And I worry about bands like that. But if they're happy with that, then cool. But we are at the point where we're in like a cycle of releasing, recording, touring. That for us, actually. Is really, it feels like home. It feels like that's how. It's the machine, man. It's the machine, but you got to make it feel like. You got to feed it. You got to make sure it feels natural though. You don't want it to start feeling like you're on a treadmill. And we've avoided that so far. You know, the writing process is always fun. The recording process is always fun. Touring's always cool. I think it has to do with your attitude. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. You guys have fun with anything you do. Uh-huh. Yeah, we do. It's true. I think. I think. I think. One of the things that's important to mention is what you stated earlier is that you are all music fans. Uh-huh. You can't go into this with the mentality of, I want to be rich. Oh, God, no. Or, you know, I want to be a wrestler. No. You go into this because of the love of music. And then it's a natural progression. Yeah. To play music and create and then get on the road and play for an audience. Yeah, totally. I mean, I was telling you my story there from when I was like. I was like a teenager. And Renata's been putting on shows and being in a band since she was a teenager. Rich has his own. You've been playing music since I'm old. Yeah, I've been playing metal since like 13 or 14. But I've been playing drums before that. Who inspired you to play drums? Oh, that's a tricky one. Because you're a basher, man. Cheers, man. Yeah. Well, I got like a lot of older brothers at home. They all play a bit of guitar. So what, did they give you like, you know, like the fucking. Little toy set, man, you know. Did they tell you, look, you got to worship Bonham and, you know, or. No. No, they actually, one of them actually taped War Pigs onto a cassette for me. Wow. And said, I can learn that, boy. So I had to go. Yeah, that's what inspired me mostly, I suppose. Yeah, you know what? You should fucking thank your brothers because you're a basher, man. Thanks. Cheers. This is always something that's interesting to me when it comes to bands like yourselves that are labeled. Okay. You know, you have mentioned yourselves. I don't know if you're serious or not. But it's Caveman Battle Doom. Does it bother you that everybody's so preoccupied with, what are you? What is the label? What would you, instead of just like, well, listen to the fucking music. Yeah. Right? Just enjoy what it is. Or here's another question on top of that. Does it bother you where your audience is more preoccupied? I'm going to go see Conan because they're a doom band. Instead of, go see him because the fucking album's rad. Yeah. Yeah. Like, we've... You feel me? I mean, or is it just old men ramblings over here, you know? No, you've definitely made a really good point. Like, I mean, my own personal take on it is that there's always going to be genres. And there are bands who get put in there by the press who don't ask to be put in there. And then all of a sudden, that's what you are. Now, we... Oh, are you saying it's my fault? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm just kidding. No, no, no. Like, what? Yeah. And Battle Doom actually was a joke initially because... That's what I thought. Uh-huh. On our very first show, which was in Corova Bar in Liverpool City Centre back in 2007, the tour poster, which was done by John McNulty and Gemma, who is now McNulty, they're a married couple. They did the show and they're like Conan. I think it's a caveman doom or primitive battle doom or something like that. So they're in the band called Cult Blood now, by the way, who are very much... They're very much that sort of music as well. Right. And when we first recorded Horsehog Battlehammer, our first label we recorded on CD, which is Aurora Borealis Records in London, and he labelled us caveman battle doom. So we thought, well, yeah, fuck it, why not? But since then, you know, it's almost like it's fashionable now to be a doom band. And people use the word doom as a verb now, a doing word. Doom on. You know, keep calm and doom on or... Doom on. Those are the same motherfuckers that wear fucking man buns and all that shit too. I sometimes do. I would never wear it out, but I do as a joke sometimes, put a man bun in just to send photographs around as a joke. But only because I know it looks stupid. If you wear one of them and you go out with it, then that's obviously your problem. Do you enjoy the fact that, you know, you come from England, obviously. Yes. You come from England. Do you enjoy the fact of that? The notoriety that you're from England? Because there's so many bands that, you know, they come from other regions of the world, and it's really, okay, they're from Italy, they're from Russia, whatever, you know, Japan, whatever. But you come from England. Uh-huh. Do you notice, do you enjoy that? I don't enjoy it. And especially Liverpool. Uh-huh. You know, which is so, I mean, you know, we've been discussing the Beatles here with the recent death of, you know, the fifth Beatle. Uh-huh. Do you get that a lot in the press? Do you get that whole, like, how do you sound so distinctive? Because is it because you're from England, you're from Liverpool? I don't even know. Instead of saying, hey, man, you know, what did you rock out with? What did you listen back in the day? Because, fucking A, you got it down. A few, I mean, a few times I've been asked, like, in interviews, so what is it, like, what about, did growing up in Liverpool have anything to do with the music? No, not at all. I just grew up, I grew up in a regular working class house, you know, and I'm sure Rich did the same. Yeah, you know, I woke up, I ate, I shit, you know. Yeah, I did that. I went to school, you know. I just wanted to be in a band, so. But you just talk funny. I just talk funny, yeah. I got this funny, weird accent. Not, Rich has got a Welsh accent, which is, like, totally different to mine. And so we got the whole, like, British thing going on, and Renata's got the Seattle accent, so we're all cosmopolitan now. Well, you must relate to that, Renata, because, I mean, you know, a couple decades ago, during the whole PR explosion up there of every band trying to be the next big Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and then all these bands from. North America coming to your remote region. Oh, yeah. And then there's bands, you know, that have been up there forever, like, well, Poison Night is from Portland, but you know what I mean. Bands that have been there locally doing it underground forever, and what's the deal, you know? Yeah, I don't know. I remember seeing Kurt Cobain or Nirvana being interviewed on this. They brought out this video, VHS called Live Tonight Sold Out. And one of the interviews they had on there was he was talking about the music industry and about how much he hated the fact that, you know, punk explosion happened, you know, like every single punk band that played the gig anywhere got approached by a label and ended up getting signed. And I think in a very small way, that's kind of happening now with the heavier music, you know, because it's becoming more fashionable. And you see bands who've been around five minutes, so I've got a manager now, and it's like they only play like 10 shows a year, so all that bullshit. Like, I think it's attracting, like, it's starting to attract. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. flies that get attracted to different areas of music because they think there's going to be some honey there, you know. Right. And I think this sort of music should always remain underground in a way. I don't see the really heavy, quality heavy bands sort of becoming mainstream. Well, I mean, you know... Some bands, you can become successful, but you don't have to be mainstream. Like, you look at Sleep or High on Fire, who you would hold up as being absolutely amazing examples of a heavy band who does things right and wins because of it. And I think there's a lot of bands now chasing that. And a lot of people who aren't in bands who are trying to make money off the back of it. Well, what's funny is that they're chasing that, but if you really look into it, fucking Sleep, they've been at it for a long time. High on Fire's been at it for a long time. Yeah. You know? Yeah. They are like gods in heavy music. I don't mind. I don't have a problem with your music going to different demographics and selling. I mean, that whole 16-year-old subversive punk fuck, you know, capitalism thing. Oh, yeah. It's alive and well in me, but I'm also a realist. Hey, you got to eat. Yeah. I don't mind that. What I don't like is the mass contamination of the art that bands like yourselves are, where like, oh, well, now you're selling, so you need to cater more to this or stay with this. And as you mentioned, and as we discussed, each album, each Conan album has a progression. Each album grows. Each album satisfies that hunger to the older audience and to the new audience. But it stays true, and you don't sacrifice your integrity. And that is the secret there, my friend. Yeah, I think so. And that's why I commend you guys, all of you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That is the true secret there, you know? The true success is being true to yourself and enjoying what you're doing and everything else. Like the saying goes, you build it, everyone will come. That's it. Right? Yeah. All right. All of you should come tonight to see what we've been discussing. There are those who claim to be real, and then there are those who are real. Tonight, Conan will decimate those that are not real. Serial Hawk, Yidara. Or also close conspirators. Get out to the complex tonight. This is going to be an amazing fucking show. Not to be missed. This is the only Southern California date. Correct? Yes. Yeah. Please. Please. I don't know the geography. We're going to... Where are we going next? Oakland. This is the only LA date. Everyone's like, oh, Conan will play tomorrow somewhere else. No, no, no. This is what happened with these big market cities. Oh, they'll play again. They're playing tomorrow. No, this is the only Southern California date. Get out there. With that, Chester, take it away. That is strength, boy. That is power. The strength and power of flesh. What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? What is steel compared to the hand that wields it? 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It feels, it's, the guitar is there on its own, bang, drums are there on their own, bang, bass are there on its own, bang. And if you add like an extra guitar, then I can't bring as many amps on tour then. I've got to share my speakers with someone. I don't want to do that. No, seriously, no, you know what, you're right. You know, if you add an extra guitarist or what have you, then there's a different dynamic now. Yeah, we've become radio head and nose. There's a different audio dynamic, a different creative energy. And, you know, sometimes it could work, sometimes it cannot. And actually, you run the risk of bringing someone in who gets on everyone's nerves, and it's a waste of time. Oh, yeah. There's that risk as well. And contaminating everybody. Yeah, totally. I mean, we're easy to get along with. Toxifying. We're easy to get along with. That's because we feel very comfortable in our own, like, skins. Obviously, Renata's joined on this tour, but we know Renata anyway. So actually, it was a very easy decision to bring in someone new to the live. And being on tour, because being on tour with a new person. And proven and tested to be real. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. You know, someone who... Which is very important. Yeah, of course. And that decision has paid off. You know, so what may have happened if we'd have approached someone else in America? Yeah. Because don't forget, on this particular tour, you have to have a visa to play here. And it was only in, I think, February, when we realized that there was a clash with Chris. So we couldn't just bring someone over from England, because they would have to... Yeah, that whole bureaucracy. ...have a visa. And you can't just apply for that in three months. That takes several months. Yeah, that whole bureaucracy. There's loads of paperwork and cost. So even if that was what we wanted to do, which we didn't, we wanted to ask Renata, even if we... Say we didn't know Renata, we wanted to bring someone else along, then we would have to have had someone from America. And we don't really know that many bass players over here. Maybe Monty of Samothrace, perhaps. And one or two other people who may or may not have been available. Yeah, they may or may not have kind of fitted in with our thing on the road. So it's always risky bringing in someone new. And that's part of the reason why we'd like to just stay as a tightly knit three-piece, where we can all chat to each other about anything. And none of us take offense or what. We can all be a pain in the ass in our own little way, me mostly. And we kind of just let each other, let things slide. If there was four of us, maybe it wouldn't work out the same way. Well, thank you for entertaining that and answering that for me, man. I really appreciate the honesty in that. And I think you hit it right on the nose. There's an old saying, I'm sure there's a different version of it in England, but if it ain't fixed, if it ain't broke, why try to fix it? Yeah, exactly. People, same thing. What can the Los Angeles audience that has not seen Conan expect from you tonight? How would you describe the show? What can they expect? They can expect a surprising amount of... Yeah. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... was weak? I don't think if you compare our heaviest song prior to Revengeance you'd say Foehammer no Total Conquest Total Conquest that's another that's a banger as well isn't it? alright I'm talking shit I can't remember it'll be heaviest fuck okay bring earplugs bring earplugs and it'll probably be the heaviest show you've ever been to not just because of Conan but also because of Serial Hawk and Yidra also who I'm less familiar with but I'm looking forward to seeing and it's it's gonna be awesome we're gonna have a great time you heard it there one of the things that I want to say on behalf of everyone here in Los Angeles and the United States is thank you for bringing real music and showing the example of what real music is supposed to be thank you for being real thank you for coming in all the way from the road which was Phoenix to fight traffic into downtown Los Angeles to join us here on the very Maddox Jimmy Cab Show thank you thank you for being here you're welcome thanks for having us thank you thank you guys Revengeance is out on Napalm Records make sure you pick up that record and while you're at it pick up all the other releases prior to this one they're all amazing don't believe what he said they're all fucking crushing make sure you go out tonight and see Conan this is the only Southern California appearance let me stress that again the only Southern California appearance do not miss it amazing bands are playing on this bill as well Serial Hawk and Yidra and as Prime and as promised I am going to play one more song thank you for listening see you tonight have a great time cheers cheers cheers thank you! cheers cheers cheers cheers We'll be right back. 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