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Sweating Bullets With CHASE MASON From GATECREEPER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  My name is Chase. I've seen in the band Gee Creeper or death metal
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  band from Arizona in the US, and we are coming over to Australia.
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  Returning to Australia. Rather, we came over for the first time last year
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  and played a couple of shows, and this year we're coming back playing I
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  think about ten shows and we will be with Cruelty from Japan and World of
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  Joy, who is from Brisbane. I believe that's correct, right, Thanks
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  for joining us today, Thank you all right, pleasure as you say,
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  bro. Gate Creeper returned to Australia this April for a run of shows,
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  starting in the Gold Coast on April fourth and going through Brisbane, Newcastle,
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  Sydney, Wollongong, Canberra, Melbourne, Franks and Adelaide and finishing in Perth
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  on April fourteenth. But my arithmetic is not that good, bro, But
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  I count ten shows in eleven days there like that sounds like a lot of
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  work. Yeah, yeah, it's you know, packing it all in.
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  We're going through a bit of a heatwave oaver here at the Momentbro, But
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  I guess that's not really going to affect you that much. Coming from Arizona.
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  Nope, not at all. I think we were there and fair I
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  think we were there in March last year. And yeah we when we played
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  in Brisbane, I remember being very hot everywhere at the moment. Yeah,
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  but we're we were used to that, so it'll be cool down by the
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  time we get over there, right, hopefully, mate, hopefully. Yeah,
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  so or chokes the Cybra Light. Ten shows in eleven days is a
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  pretty pretty big effort. So what sorts of things do you do to mentally
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  physically prepare for shows? All that so far from home? I mean we
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  have, we've been touring now for for several years. I think everybody develops
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  their own personal kind of plan or you know, their own person at way
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  of dealing with being on the road for for weeks at a time. For
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  me personally, it's it's an important part is getting your own You're getting your
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  alone time when you can, when you can, you know, uh sneaking
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  off and getting food by yourself, or you know, even something as simple
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  as having headphones in and kind of zoning out. And because for me,
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  like being around people all the time, it is just drives me crazy.
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  Not even the you know, the traveling part whether you're in a in a
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  in a van, in a bus, in a on a plane or whatever
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  it is. The travel doesn't really bother me, but it's just being around
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  people all the time that is a is the most difficult part for me.
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  So you just got to find your own, your own way to uh escape
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  all that, because you know, on tour, you're you know, you're
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  out there. You're on the road or whatever it may be for a couple
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  of weeks at a time sometimes, but you're only on stage for an hour,
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  you know, so the other twenty three hours you're you got to do
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  something else. So there's a lot of hurry up and wait, boredom,
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  you know, whatever it may be. So those are the kind of the
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  things that people don't really think about, but those are the things that you
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  really have to learn how to handle when you're when you're touring. Was said,
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  like it it's just over twelve months since you hear last, So what's
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  changed with the band in that time? Like how the show is going to
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  be different? Well, we have a new record. We even since the
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  last time, you know, we we we just finished our record last year
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  after we had gone to Australia, so pretty big change. I mean,
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  we're coming over on it before the new record comes out, but there'll be
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  new music out. We'll be playing some new songs in our sets that we're
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  playing there in Australia. Now a lot of people will sort of ask bands
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  what we can expect from them when they come out to him. But on
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  the flip slide, like what do you guys expect from you fans at crowds?
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  Like sort of anything specially you expect from them? Not really. I
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  mean I feel like we're a pretty uh just every normal Joe, you know,
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  every day, everyday guys, just normal guy type band. Our fans
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  are kind of just normal type people. You know, there's not like a
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  you know, we have some pretty dedicated fans, but there's not you know,
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  there's no gimmicks really involved of you know, there's not like a we
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  don't have a name that we call our fans or anything like that. And
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  I think that people just come to our shows and have a good time and
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  bang their heads and you know, they want to push each other around or
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  whatever they want to do. But however they want to get into it,
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  that's cool with us. And I think that we we put on a pretty
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  high energy show on stage and people respond to that with their own type of
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  energy as you make sure at the top. Mate, you've got Teikyo's Cruelty
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  in Brisbane's World of Joy and supports for the whole tool. So how much
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  do you know about those bands and why have you got them throwing video?
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  We uh, we've been aware of Cruelty, I don't we haven't met them
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  yet, but they have toured with some of our friends bands and you know,
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  we here heard a lot of good things, so we are excited to
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  have them and uh, World of Joy. I believe that came off of
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  recommendation for the from the the local Australian promoters or booking agents or whatever,
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  and they kind of, uh, you know, made that happen and that's
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  who they suggested that would be a good fit with our our two bands Great
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  Creep recently. Also I saw with nicolear Blas Ricos Mine. So what sorts
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  of things is that I been up for you as a band. It's just
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  you know, it's a it's a new label with a huge reach and you
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  know they're they're based in Europe and they have a huge reach in the US
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  and in and in Europe, and that's something that we really wanted to focus
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  more on for this album, is you know, touring in territories outside of
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  the US, which we've done countless tours in the US, but we're still
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  going to some places for the first time, like before we come to Australia,
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  we're going to Japan and other you know, some other Asian countries for
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  the first time. So I think that with Nuclear Blast it's going to help
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  us kind of expand globally and have our music more available to people all over
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  the world. And you mentioned earlier you've got a new album come down this
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  year, which will be a first through Nicolae Blas. What can tell us
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  about that? Is it what fans would expect for the band or is there
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  a different side direction. We're trying some different stuff, but there it's not
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  like, uh, too far from what we've already been doing. I do
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  think we have kind of a new direction. But I've always said that,
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  you know, our our influences have been the same since the beginning, you
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  know, our core influences that have always been there, and as time goes
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  on, we're not really removing any of those influences. We're just adding we're
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  on top of that. So we're always adding new elements of different stuff,
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  whether it's different types of h you know, guitar leads, or different songwriting
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  arrangements. We're always influenced by new things, and that's just in addition to
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  what we're we're already about. So I think the record is just an evolution
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  and it's uh, there's some emphasis on having catchier songs and you know,
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  doubling down on some of the you know, things that were memorable about our
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  last records, and and also going into it, we we had the the
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  vision of writing songs that we could see ourselves playing on like a big stage
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  at like an outdoor festival or something like that. So along those lines,
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  like you released your debut album Sonari and Depth Revation in twenty sixteen, followed
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  by Deserted in twenty nineteen, So how's your music changed great over those albums
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  to the one you're already working on. We've just gotten better, you know,
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  like we've gotten better as musicians, gotten better as songwriters. We've toured
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  a lot and learned a lot from touring with bands that we like, you
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  know, learning how they do things in all you know, whether it's a
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  live performance or you know, talking to them about songwriting, or me talking
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  to people from obituary about you know, the vocals or you know the riffs
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  or whatever it is. We're we're always we're always learning. So I think
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  at this point we're just gotten better. We're getting better at writing songs together,
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  we're getting better at working together. I would say that this album is
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  the most collaborative effort that we've had, and uh, yeah, I just
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  think that we're evolving. And like you say, for example, for myself,
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  you know that our voc my vocals, I think I've gotten a lot
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  better since our first record. I didn't really know what I was doing when
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  it ever started, you know, and I've had years of experience in getting
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  better at it. So I think that my vocals on this record are definitely
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  better than they ever have been in the past. Right, all right,
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  Mabel, thanks very much for your time today. Kate Creeper hits Australia from
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  April fourth for ten date skyn the whole way across the country, so we're
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  looking forward to catching it in a couple of months, right. I mean,
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  if I see out the show, make sure to come and say hi.
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  I'll come to the Brisbane one night. I'll live in Brisbane, so
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  i'll pop in and we'll have a beer. All right, man, I'll
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  see you there, all right, Right, take it.