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The Second Coming With JACKSON MARSHALL From RIGHTEOUS DEATH · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Righteous Death.
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  Speaker 2: The new album's coming out twenty third, which is a
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  Speaker 2: few days away this Monday, and all I can say
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  Speaker 2: is I've been working with my singer Johnny cripp from Melbourne,
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  Speaker 2: and after six months of him coming into the fold,
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  Speaker 2: it's been really awesome to actually get these tunes which
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  Speaker 2: I've worked on the last four years out.
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  Speaker 1: That's the world will be.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us today, Jackson, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you man, Absolutely pleasure. So, as you say, Righteous
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  Speaker 4: Death release your second album, appropriately titled two on December
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  Speaker 4: twenty third, So how do you feel about it?
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  Speaker 1: Dude?
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty damn excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's been way too long since releases in my head.
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  Speaker 3: And just inching to get it out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, been itching man Like.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny because I've had the whole album pretty much
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  Speaker 2: completed the way three months now, so it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: cool to actually get it out there with a few
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  Speaker 2: singles we've preached the Lies, Born Again, Fools and Total Darkness.
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  Speaker 4: Oh so, tell us a bit more about the album
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  Speaker 4: from a musical point of view and what are you
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  Speaker 4: we going for with it?
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  Speaker 1: Well? With this album.
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  Speaker 2: Like the first album, the first album took a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a black metal ten because I was really influenced
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  Speaker 2: by Mayhem at the time, especially after watching the movie
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  Speaker 2: Lords of Chaos. So originally the concept with the second album,
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to stray more away from black metal, but
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  Speaker 2: still keeping some elements from the first record, so in
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  Speaker 2: that I was listening to heaps of children at bottom,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of corn, and a lot of satiric con
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  Speaker 2: pretty much throughout the whole tracking of this album musically,
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  Speaker 2: so you'll definitely hear ellen, it's a slam death, black
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  Speaker 2: and doom metal throughout it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you mentioned the singles before, but you've released
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  Speaker 4: Born Again Fools, Preach the Lies and Total Darkness. So
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  Speaker 4: are they've got sonny representation of what to expect or
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  Speaker 4: they just crash your surface?
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  Speaker 2: They are what to expect on the album Born Again
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  Speaker 2: Fools is more slam metal in my opinion, which strays
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  Speaker 2: away from the.
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  Speaker 1: Whole black metalness of the first record.
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  Speaker 2: But Total Darkness that was the first official single and
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  Speaker 2: four years I've released and I really wanted to put
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  Speaker 2: a shine on black metal still while doing this album,
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  Speaker 2: Like I think, it's pretty much four of my favorite
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  Speaker 2: genres within the metal subgenres pretty much all together in
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  Speaker 2: this album.
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  Speaker 4: And so did you like sit down with a with
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  Speaker 4: a set path that you wanted to follow or did
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  Speaker 4: it sort of come together more as the album progressed.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to set path it originally, Like all the
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  Speaker 2: songs are reading on this album. The track listing is
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  Speaker 2: literally the same as when I recorded the song, So
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  Speaker 2: the track one is literally the first track I recorded,
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  Speaker 2: maybe about three years ago musically all right, yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: for that that was me trying to straight away, but
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  Speaker 2: I thought that in the middle of the album, let's
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  Speaker 2: put some of my black metal influence throughout it. Then
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  Speaker 2: it comes out on the other end with more of
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  Speaker 2: a doom sort of sound, so it does cover up
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  Speaker 2: to the door open for album three.
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  Speaker 1: There.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we'll talk about album two before we get the
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  Speaker 4: album three, mate, because we got to promote that one first.
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  Speaker 4: Oh hell yeah, As you mentioned before, it's the first
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  Speaker 4: of feature new vocalist Johnny crypt So tell us a
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  Speaker 4: bit more about him and what he brings to Righteous Death.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Johnny Crypp, I've had him as a mutual friend
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  Speaker 2: for maybe two or three years on Facebook and he's
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  Speaker 2: been in a few bands down in Melbourne and he's
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  Speaker 2: worked on a few solo projects, and there's one called Sloth.
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  Speaker 2: And when I was looking for a singer, I asked
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  Speaker 2: for people teas inbox me. They email addresses, so I
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  Speaker 2: sent a number of demos out with Johnny. When he
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  Speaker 2: first sang in the track I got back was total darkness.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, this is really cool. He really captured
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  Speaker 2: what I really wanted. He did enough for me to
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  Speaker 2: play with on the post production to get sound really good,
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  Speaker 2: and throughout the whole album he never had to do
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  Speaker 2: any re.
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  Speaker 1: Retakes right very ray.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, and he's pretty much nailed the whole mythologicalness
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  Speaker 2: of the first record, which I've put into this second record.
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  Speaker 1: So I told you to keep like a dark concept.
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  Speaker 2: Let's keep it the righteous deaths by the dark occultness
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  Speaker 2: to it, and he pulled it off that I could
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  Speaker 2: have expected.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the main difference between this album and Rituals.
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  Speaker 4: Rituals featured a whole host of guest musicians, didn't it,
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  Speaker 4: whereas this one is all the one singer.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, correct, I don't even do backing vocals on this record.
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  Speaker 2: There's a few tracks are aptitute lead vocals on the
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  Speaker 2: first record, which is really my downfall for as a musician.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a strong singer. If I ever play live,
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy to do backing vocals and play the acts.
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  Speaker 4: You are known more as as a guitarist, but you
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  Speaker 4: play all the instruments on the album.
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  Speaker 3: Is that correct?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? That is correct, man.
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  Speaker 2: And over the course of the last three and a
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  Speaker 2: half years tracking this record, I've done drum tracks in
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  Speaker 2: two different studios and compiled it through my door, which
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  Speaker 2: is my recording rig. And there was a few a
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  Speaker 2: few songs where I used the plug ins, same plugins.
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  Speaker 1: From where I tracked on the real drum side, programmed
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  Speaker 1: a few elements throughout the record as well.
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  Speaker 3: So you're busy throughout it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh damn, man, it let's just say a few years
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  Speaker 2: work kind of went into Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Why the decision to do it all yourself instead against
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  Speaker 4: session musicians? In is that more because you want to
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  Speaker 4: keep the sound you've got here on the record.
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  Speaker 2: Or I I originally when I first came up to
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  Speaker 2: Queensland number of years ago, now I was gonna look
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  Speaker 2: for musicians to work with, but I didn't realize that
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  Speaker 2: in that time I was going to lose my music
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  Speaker 2: gear In saying that I very much came here with
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  Speaker 2: two out of ten guitars, a bass, and my computer
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  Speaker 2: and my recording in a face. So I kept my
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  Speaker 2: recording gear. I didn't have an AMP to my name.
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  Speaker 2: So in saying that, I never went out to really
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  Speaker 2: look for musicians based on me not having the gear too.
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  Speaker 2: But in saying that now like I've got the gear
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  Speaker 2: and all that, and this year, especially over the last
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  Speaker 2: few months, I've been getting out about jamming with a
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  Speaker 2: few local musicians, trying to get Saying together twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: Oh cool.
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  Speaker 4: Back at the start of the band, like you founded
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  Speaker 4: in Righteous Deep yourself in June twenty twenty, So what
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  Speaker 4: was your early vision for the band and how has
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  Speaker 4: it changed since?
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  Speaker 2: I guess it's stemmed from my solo career, like my
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  Speaker 2: talel and my solo career kind of in twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: But during COVID in twenty twenty, I had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of time at home and a lot of times my
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  Speaker 2: music year ed my recording siu Asian. So since I
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  Speaker 2: lost part of my so I had two jobs at
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  Speaker 2: the time, teaching guitar and working in a local music store.
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  Speaker 2: I lost my guitar teaching gime for example, where I
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  Speaker 2: can't do one of our lessons. So I had more
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  Speaker 2: time on my hands to put back into my music
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  Speaker 2: for once after like throughout my whole adult life. And
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  Speaker 2: in saying that, I guess it was during COVID and
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  Speaker 2: one night I was like, this, heaps of death going
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  Speaker 2: on in the world. I said to myself, it's pretty righteous,
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  Speaker 2: like not in a bad way, but I go right there, right,
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  Speaker 2: And it kind of stemmed from there, And since it
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  Speaker 2: was merging into a black metal album by mid twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 2: I was just like, yeah, rightestet's a Bible passage as
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  Speaker 2: well if you google it. So I was kind of like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this kind of is like the antimist of it, or yeah,
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  Speaker 2: righteous death was just a dumb thought one night came
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  Speaker 2: to mind, and now I've got two albums behind out.
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  Speaker 4: But without going into he tells mate, like, you caught
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  Speaker 4: it a bit of controversy early on in your career,
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  Speaker 4: like in hindsight, would you have done things differently?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, dude, I got for the time, I wouldn't do
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  Speaker 2: it now.
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  Speaker 1: As a human, I was a bit naive back then.
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  Speaker 1: I will admit I was naive a few years ago
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  Speaker 1: compareds Now and I think that comes with age does.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed it does, But no, with this release, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: want any controversy surrounding it. I wanted the music to
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  Speaker 2: speak for itself. I guess the controversy was back in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty when the cathedral went on fire. It was
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  Speaker 2: literally the day before or two single release of Righteous Death,
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  Speaker 2: So it was kind of like a light went on
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  Speaker 2: in my head when I had the news.
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  Speaker 4: But it's one of the focus is just on the music, Like, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you're confident enough in the music now to let that
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  Speaker 4: speak for itself.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: Man. Yeah, I hope that dance to the listeners as well.
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  Speaker 3: We've all been through the controversy made us.
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  Speaker 4: How you come out the other side that matters, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: A hundred percent? Man?
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  Speaker 2: Like, I wouldn't change my life now, but I've got
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  Speaker 2: it to me years ago.
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  Speaker 1: It was a bit different period.
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  Speaker 4: So was there any planners to take Righteous Death? Are
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  Speaker 4: you still just a studio project at the moment?
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  Speaker 2: At the moment, I'm trying to get out of the
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  Speaker 2: studio world in twenty twenty five, I really want to
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  Speaker 2: see Right's Death at least through a debut show of
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  Speaker 2: some sort so whether I have a few sessions of
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  Speaker 2: musicians behind me and fly Johnny up or Dor show
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  Speaker 2: in Melbourne. I hope that there's definitely a debut rights
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  Speaker 2: bet show throughout next year.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Broan, just say someone's near to the band
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  Speaker 4: here in this for the first time, like out of
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  Speaker 4: your whole catalog.
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  Speaker 3: Give us three.
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  Speaker 4: Righteous Death songs that they can listen to you get
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  Speaker 4: to know the band better.
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  Speaker 1: I'll definitely say Death, Hate and Pain from.
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  Speaker 2: The first record, and I'll definitely say Born Again Fools
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  Speaker 2: from the new record. And for something a bit different,
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  Speaker 2: a down through tune tribute to the Prince of Darkness himself,
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  Speaker 2: mister Crowley, Beautiful Rowan, Where can people find out more
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  Speaker 2: about the band or get themselves copy of the new album?
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  Speaker 2: The new copy of the new album, I'm hoping to
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  Speaker 2: get some actual copies made up physcal copies made up
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  Speaker 2: early next year, but on the twenty third it will
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  Speaker 2: be available across every streaming platform.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful mate, all right, Roy, Well, thanks for you.
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  Speaker 4: Tom Jackson had been a pleasure talking about of the
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  Speaker 4: album two, which is Righteous. Their second album is out
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  Speaker 4: December twenty third. From what I've heard of it, she's
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  Speaker 4: a cracker mate, So congratulations from all done and all
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  Speaker 4: the best dude.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks again, Chris, much appreciated,