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Living In Sin With TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS From KK'S PRIEST · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I'm still Tim Ripper Owens. I think no Kcase Priest k Case Priest is
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  we're pushing Kcase Priests this time we are today, mate, how are you
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  going, Jim? Thanks for joining us, brother, thank you, thank
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  you. Ripper Owens, back at you again as always. It's always nice
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  to talk to here. We we seem a top puite a bit now,
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  don't we. We do. We're old mates these days. It's good to
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  see. Yeah. Yes, so this time round, as you say,
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  maybe we are here to talk about Kykse Priest and you guys are preparing to
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  release your sophomore album, The Center Rides Again on September twenty nine. So
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  yes, you know you're pretty experiencing the music industry. Mate, So what's
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  this period like for you, like just waiting for the album to come out?
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  Like do you put a debate and move on or you get a bit
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  anxious or you know, I've done it so much now you used to be
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  really exciting and then you still releasing so many records like I do. Then
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  it loses a little bit. But but this one's back to being exciting again.
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  I'm really excited. This is two records in a row. I've released
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  with you know you and I talked about my solo EP, return to Death
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  Row. We did that, but uh, you know, so that was
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  a really exciting one. So I got back to back exciting records, and
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  I'm really excited about this kkse Priest released because Cinerides again is just a great
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  record. It's really really good. So I just cannot wait to get this
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  one out. Look, you said, man, look, you still release
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  music with other bands on your own solo stuff, But do you think there's
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  a more pressure and expectation because it is an album from yourself and KK Downing?
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  Oh, I think so. I think it is for me because I
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  wanted to be usually like my last one, It's all the pressure is totally
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  on me, and you want it to be good because it's your own.
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  But but I want this to be successful and good for Ken, you know,
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  I went it means a lot to him. He's worked really hard at
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  it. So I want to be I want it to be great and I
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  want to be on the top of my game. And so it's it just
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  adds a little bit, a little bit more pressure to it, you know.
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  Todate you release the singles. One more shot at glory rate the Whirlwind
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  and Strike of the Viper. So would you say, overall it they're a
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  good sonny representation of what do you expect? I do think so I think
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  each songs a little bit different. You know. The last three songs on
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  this record are are a little more epic. I mean, wash Away Your
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  Sins, the last song on the album is very epic. It's probably my
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  favorite. But I love it and I love the way each song has come
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  out, and they're a little bit different. And you know, Strike of
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  the Viper is such a great tune because it's just like two and a half
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  minutes of just writing your face right, actually heavy metal. But yeah,
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  I think it's it really represents the record of the first three songs. Yeah,
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  of course everyone out there knows Yourself and the Night, but introduced us
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  to the other three members of the band and tell us what they bring.
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  The sand well, you know on the other guitar with Aj, you know,
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  it's a friend of friend of ours and a friend of Ken's. Kin
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  has been friends with him for years and worked with AJ's band Hostile, and
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  and really he brings so much vocally too, and uh, you know he
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  came with writing you know, ideas and stuff, and he's such a great
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  compliment to Can guitar, and it's great to see those two. Tony Newton
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  on bass. Tony he's he's all over the place, first of all over
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  the place on stage, he's he's everywhere. He's he's just you know,
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  he's just crazy going everywhere, and his playing is so good. But he
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  also is smart with the with the music industry stuff and the mixing. You
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  know, he does the mixing for for Iron Maidens live records, and so
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  he's great with sound and so he brings a whole package. And the Sean
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  el Go on drums as a friend of mine, you know, I brought
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  in from Three Tremors and he's in Cage and does a lot of solo shows
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  with me and toured with Ross the Boss and and he's just an outstanding drummer.
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  And I'll tell you the band is so so put together and so talented,
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  and people can see that from these lives shows that we have, that
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  we've that we've that's out there now from all the concerts we've been playing,
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  and it's just a great band now on the surface. Made this may sound
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  like a pretty simple question, but I'd never think on it, like,
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  how do your manage to keep the old school metal DNA in your music despite
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  all the advances and temptations of modern music. Well, that's just what we
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  do. You know, you want to you still want to keep your ear
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  to things and make sure you you're not stuck in totally up in the in
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  the eighties and just try to do exactly that. But you have it isn't
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  our DNA. And this is what we do, you know, I mean
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  I sing the way I do and and with kkse Priestman K K. Downing's
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  writing with the songs, I mean, he's he wrote Juice pre songs for
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  over forty years and and now everybody knows that how big of a party he
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  was writing those monks because he just writes like kak. Some people say,
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  hey, that's stuff. These songs kind of remind me of Juwis priestm.
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  Like I think they kind of remind you of K. K. Downing.
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  You know, this is a guy writes that. But this is what we
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  do. And you know we're not young, We're not we're not out there
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  reinventing the wheel. You know, we're we're we're metal heads. We write
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  what we do and this is you know, it's it's it's too late in
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  the game to try and do something totally different, but you got to stay
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  fresh. And this new record is so it's got that connection with old with
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  the old school and new school and new sound and aggressive, a lot of
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  layers. So you know, you want to you just want to make the
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  best records you can really and itself of course yourself and KK played on two
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  Judas pre studio albums together with the Jugulator and Demolition Mate. So how is
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  the process different back then? Writing together's for what it is now, but
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  I can you know, we this, you know, I think the difference
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  now is we're more of a We're more of a team. I think though
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  he knows what the expect and he just says, do your thing, here's
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  what I got, here's the songs, and I do your thing. It's
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  but being together is just like old old times, you know. It's we've
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  always maintained our friendships, so being together is just it just feels natural to
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  be together. Uh, it's just on this record, we really all of
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  us get to put our own thing into it. So it's it's you know,
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  I've been around for a long time now. I mean I was newer
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  back then, so I was singing exactly kind of what they wanted me to
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  sing. And now he just gives me the ideas and I run with with
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  my version of his ideas. Just the old chemistry comes straight back with you
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  and him in the studio or do you have to sort of work out it
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  before the album? Well? This this, this album I actually recorded at
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  my house in Ohio. I recorded, I recorded there, so he So
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  I think it makes it so much better myself because I got to spend a
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  lot of time sitting in my studio and taking my time and doing things over
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  again or different or changing it and putting layers on it. So I think
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  that's the big difference with this record. So after the album drops, somebody
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  head up for running shows in the UK and Europe, So tell us about
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  those. Yeah, the shows were great, I mean, and festivals are
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  usually harder to start off with, you know, when you're festivals are harder
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  shows to play than your regular touring shows. But they were just amazing.
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  I mean, the crowds were unbelievable and singing the k case pre songs and
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  it's really really went over even better than I've ever thought. I mean,
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  we sound just great, and the band's playing great, and the stage show
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  and the Pyro. I mean, I'm really looking forward to touring the world
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  with it. I mean we're trying really hard to put shows together, so
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  it'd be nice to get to Australia and do a k Case Priest run of
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  shows. I mean, it's it's been really great. I mean the crowds
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  have been unbelievable, very cool. All right, Well, before we let
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  you go started up our three Spotify playlists based on the artists that we speak,
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  so using songs from any band that you've played with, including stolo stuff.
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  Can you give us a song for a playlist to get the party started,
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  one for a playlist to save your marriage, and one for a playlist
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  that could potentially end your ridge, a song that would start a marriage and
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  end a marriage. What you said, want to save a marriage and want
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  to end a marriage? I want to save a marriage. Well I would
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  say, yeah, that's sets uh. I guess you would you could pick
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  one more shot at glory to save a marriage, and then I would say,
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  yeah, I I guess if I was gonna to end it, I
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  would just play wash Away your sins. If there was a song that says
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  fuck you cunt, that would be money much all right, too much song
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  in Australia. Listen, I would say my favorite words ever. Wait,
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  I'm drinking coffee out of a cunt mug. And and just I'm sitting and
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  Australia right now in the inktomba. Yet my girlfriend's drinking coffee out of a
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  cunt mug in the mountains. So I'm almost like an Australian now, very
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  good to hear, brother, All well, thanks very much for your time
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  to night him. It has been the pleasure as per usual, Maiden.
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  Hopefully you do bring kk's priests over here Shorely and we'll get into a few
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  shows with you. Yeah, Chris, always good talking to you. And
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  again hopefully I'll get your way and we can hang I know we say this
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  every time we do an interview, but next time hopefully we'll come come your
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  way and we'll hang out. Yeah, it's good to me, brother.
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  You continue to take hand, mate, and keep smiling. All right,
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  you got buddy,