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Interview with Cody Hanson and Marshal Dutton of Hinder

Published

7 years ago

May 28, 2017

Ron

INFIDELITY, CRASHES… YET HINDER IS HERE TO STAY!

Baltimore Soundstage May 22nd 2017

Hinder made its way through Baltimore today leaving a trail of star crossed women in excitement, but still managed to keep the men entertained as well with a good ole rock and roll show. Empire Extreme got to hang out with drummer Cody Hanson and singer Marshal Dutton before they took stage tonight.

Empire: How’s the fan crossover been like playing with NonPoint?
Cody: We didn’t know what to expect coming into the tour, every band on this tour is quite a bit heavier than we are. Once we started preparing for the tour and going through the catalog we have quite a few songs that are heavy, we can hang in there live. People just come to hear a great song and just sing along.
Empire: How’s the band going now that you have the a new vocalist?
Cody: It’s great to have another guy on board that completes the team. Someone who pulls their weight, contributes fully, and cares about the band and the fans as much as we have. Having him around has made more efficient and allowed us to become happy and enjoy what we do again.

Empire: How was the process for you coming into the band?
Marshal: I just kind of filled in for a while.
Cody: It’s funny we would come to him and ask what do you think about this guy? Or should we try this guy? We stopped one day and said what the hell are we doing, why are we looking for someone, the guy we want and need is right there. We kinda had to convince him a little bit.
Marshal: I was a little nervous. Filling in was one thing, but assuming the role was very intimidating at first. I was afraid people would throw shit at me, but they didn’t , the fans were sweet and supportive.
Cody: You always have your tough guy haters behind a keyboard, but for the most part the fans that come are having a good time.

Empire: That’s one of the questions I was going to ask. What do you guys think about all the hatred for the band? And does it affect you any?
Marshal: It use to, but there’s no sense into reading a bunch of shit that’s going to hurt your feelings from some asshole that would never say that kind of stuff to your face.
Cody: I use to get pretty riled up, the turning point for me was when we got into our bus accident last year and we had a guy reach out online. He said “I really wish you guy would have died”. I was like wow. Fuck this, some people just suck and that’s that. It’s best to ignore all the bad people and focus on the good.

Empire: You touched on it a little, but how was the experience of the bus accident and how has it made you grow as a person?
Marshal: It was very traumatic, getting back on a bus. We cancelled the tour and didn’t go back into that till after February and this was in November. Just getting back on the bus and laying there and every time we hit a bump or rumble strip or hits the brakes, we tense up and wonder if we are going to impact again?
Cody: For me it still hasn’t gone away. If the bus is moving most of the time I’m still awake. It’s pretty scary man but you got to do what you got to do.
Marshal: I was actually lucky I was still in my bunk when we impacted. I woke up from the yelling upfront in the lounge and could hear the bus driver yell to get ready for impact. We hit the guard rail and the whole bus buckled, the roof buckled in. It was terrifying like a bomb went off. Then I was like are we sideways on the freeway are we going to get hit, should I brace for another impact.
Cody: We didn’t know what we are going to see, our driver he took the worse of it. There’s nothing to protect the driver. Luckily he was alive and they were able to get him out of there. He was screaming though, he was in a lot of pain. He ended up crushing all the bones in his legs and hands, broke all his ribs, couple of our guys broke ribs. That was our second one in two years we’ve been through. We have been through some shit in the last few years.

Empire: I saw something about you being in the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, how did they come to be and how was it?
Cody: It was awesome man, they just reached out to us, they gave us the rising star award. We’re along side a lot of talented musicians, I think Carrie Underwood just got inducted couple weeks ago. There’s a lot of talent that come out of Oklahoma that people don’t think about, It was a huge honor.

Empire: When you recorded “Lips of an Angel” were you expecting it to be a huge hit?
Cody: You have a good idea of what a hit is, but you never really know. Sometimes it the song that makes the hit, but a lot of times it the team that’s behind it. There’s a machine, a label, and money that makes it.
Marshal: Wasn’t there something that the label didn’t want to put that song on the record?
Cody: Yeah, our label thought it was a B side and didn’t want to put it on the album. We had to fight pretty hard just for it to make it on the album. Then when the album came out, they watched all the sales and that gave them a strong indication.

Empire: What’s been your favorite venue on the tour so far?
Cody: Machine Shop in Flint is always fun, we played that a few days ago. We had a good show in Juliette.
Marshal: The show is Wisconsin was cool. It was like an old church school house. The venue was in like the chapel bunch of classrooms.
Hinder came out on stage and the crowd loved it. Marshal is a natural born entertainer, commanding the stage and the audience, while Cody played the drums with precision and his curly hair bounced around. There was one girl in the crowd that was super excited to see the band, screaming out loud to the band and singing all the songs. Hinder played a good collection of songs from their five albums and a new album coming out. Pulling out songs from their first album Extreme Behavior the audience was loving the old school sounds of Hinder. While playing “Lips of an Angel” and “Get Stoned” Marshal got closer to the crowd and even took some lucky ladies phones and recorded himself and the band playing the songs. While walking around the stage, he also recorded the phones owner singing the song as well. This was my first time seeing Hinder and even though they are not everyone’s cup of tea, Hinder is high energy, fully entertaining band that is deserving of the spotlight.

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INTERVIEW WITH MERCURY OF PRIEST

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2 days ago

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Empire Extreme got to sit down and talk to Mercury of Priest when the band came into PA at LoveDrafts.

The show was amazing all the bands that we seen put on a great show for the fans. Vampires Everywhere killed it once again. Last time we seen Priest we only got to see them open for Powerman5000 and got like 6 songs, this time Priest was headlining and we got to see much more which I was excited to see.

Priest played a good mix of old and new and even a few songs off the album “Dark Pulse” which is out in May. We got to see 13 songs played and even Mercury come out into the crowd a few times and when they played “Obey” even blessed some of the crowd. It was great hearing songs like “BlackListed”, “Signal in the Noise”, “History in Black” and “Vaudeville”. It was such a great night of music and a great conversation with Mercury. If you get a chance to see this band play in ur town, it’s a must

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INTERVIEW WITH OF VIRTUE

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2 months ago

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Where does the band name come from? Wanting to be the best version of yourself at all times. The name is a reminder to hold ourselves accountable.

How is the music scene in Michigan? The Michigan music scene has always been vibrant and in my opinion, important. Do we get the credit we deserve? Absolutely not. But for the state that brought you Motown, Eminem, Lizzo, The White Stripes, I Prevail and so many other incredible artists – it’s kind of hard to believe that Michigan remains a hidden gem.

How’s the reception from the fans of the latest album “Omen”? It’s been incredible. From seeing people singing along at shows to us seeing new supporters of all different ages, colors, and creeds joining the journey. Omen has been a pivotal album in our career and we’re proud of it!

If you could tour with 2 bands, which bands would you want to tour with? Spiritbox and Bad Omens. They’re both making waves, changing who the metal audience is, and surely they’d be fun to hang around with.

Where do you draw inspiration for the lyrics? Honestly, the lyrics are our stories. The stories of our struggles, our trials and our tribulations.

What’s been your favorite tour or show? We just got off of a tour with our labelmates, Any Given Day. They treated us to a handful of sold out shows over in Europe, which at this point we call our second home. Those were great shows, but any show we’ve done in Europe is typically one for the books!

If you could bring back a dead musician, who would it be? Prince for sure. An incredible musician I would love an opportunity to chat or make music with!

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INTERVIEW WITH TWIN TEMPLE

Published

2 months ago

February 16, 2024

Ron

Being Married and being in a band together. Do you feel that makes it easier or harder?

We love to do the Devil’s work together so for us its a match made in hell.

What’s your favorite horror movie?

That’s hard to narrow down but the first few that come to mind are Rosemary’s Baby, The Devil Rides Out, Wickerman, The Devils Reign featuring Anton Lavey, Mario Bava’s Black Sunday, anything starring Vincent Price. We also got to see an advance screen of “Late Night with the Devil” featuring a very evil performance from our friend Dave Dastmalchian. We’re also looking forward to Bryan Fuller’s “Dust Bunny” and are positive it will be a new favorite. The list goes on…..we are huge horror fans.

Favorite Non Horror Movie?

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (which is horror/noir adjacent) and The Burbs (also horror adjacent…haha.)

All of Quentin Tarantino’s films- our latest favorite is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, because 1960’s LA…

What misconception of Satanists would you like to educate people on?

We’re not here to proselytize, force our beliefs on people, or educate people on them Selves, Satanism or anything else. If people are interested in exploring Satanism, we encourage them to do their research and question everything.

If you could bring back any dead musician, who would you pick and why?

We would have loved to do a song with Ronnie Spector who recently passed. Also would have been amazing to collaborate with Jack Nitzsche who arranged so many amazing songs.

If you could tour with any 2 bands, who would you want to tour with?

The Ronnettes & The Shangri-Las.

What has been your Favorite Tour so far?

The God is Dead Tour that we’re currently on is definitely the most evil and blasphemous tour yet. We find it very pleasurable to be able to continue expanding the rituals and seeing our nightmares come true on stage.

You were on “Dragula” with the Boulet Brothers, how was that experience?

It was a fiendish delight to collaborate with some of our fav monsters.

What was it like Touring with Danzig?

Another nightmare come true! We’ve both been fans for a long time and we’re obviously inspired by the wicked world Glenn has conjured. So to get to spend time with him and watch him live every night and to now call him a friend is completely surreal. He’s a legend— but was also one of the coolest, kindest, most unholy people we’ve had the carnal pleasure of touring with.

How’s the reception of the last album “God is Dead”?

Personally, we love the record and are very proud of what we’ve accomplished. As far as other peoples’ reactions…. we don’t know and don’t care! We pleasured ourselves and that’s what matters most.

What got you interested in the style of music you play? And how would describe your music?

We’ve always loved classic American music from jazz to blues to country to rock and roll and so on. We also love the pageantry of heavy metal and theatre. So for us it was a very organic culmination of our obsessions. Rock and roll has always been the devils music.

Have you visited the Satanic Temple in Massachusetts?

No we have not but Lucien did attend one of our rituals so we had a chance to share where we get our babies blood and all things Satan.

Have you had any bad encounters at shows because of the misconception of satanism?

No! We purposefully foster a live show environment where all are welcome, all should come being the most important person in the world which is themselves, whatever that may be. Even Christians! We believe music is meant to bring joy, transcendence… We just want to share the things we love; pink, rhinestones, big hair, great rock ’n’ roll, Satanic ritual, you know… but we have had churches assemble outside our shows, screaming through distorted PA speakers that God is not dead & wishing us all a “terrible time”. Why would their God not want us to have fun? This kind of behavior is only makes us more proud to be who we are and do what we love.