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Embracing The Sunshine With FUMING MOUTH · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I'm James, I'm playing drums, I'm Pat and I'm on bass. I'm
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  Mark and I'm the singer and guitarist and we are Fuming Mouth and we just
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  put out a new album called Last Day of Sun on Nuclear Blast Record Records
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  with some exclusive variants from Triple B Records. Oh Scott for joining us today,
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  Thank you, Thank you all right, pleasure such you signed my fear.
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  Mid Mouth recently released the lightest album, Last Day and Sons and that
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  doesn't mean that long. But how's the only reception, babe? Good?
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  For the most part, I'd say everyone has their own opinions. Though,
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  Yeah, it seems like the live reception has been good. I feel like,
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  you know, I've seen people singing along some songs and you know,
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  reacting to the music. That's been cool. Oh tell us a bit more
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  about the album from a musical point of view, guys. Is what you're
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  actually going forward with it just something you know, really heavy, really brutal,
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  truly metal, and you know, beyond just death metal, uh,
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  into worlds of heavy metal, you know, and and belong both beyond that
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  into some more like melodic territory that you might hear, but ultimately really bringing
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  it back to you know, big bands like Judas Priest with great guitar solos
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  and uh and making it more of a dynamic album than just you know,
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  one low tuned, brutal death song after another. You released the singles I'll
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  Find You in the Solence Beyond Lives, so just say, if that's all
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  anyone's heard of the band, You say those two songs are good slight representation
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  of the album, No, not really. I think it's really hard for
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  like one song to represent the album, especially with singles. And that's because
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  this is a concept album, and with like a concept album or it's a
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  loose concept so you know, it's this kind of area where it's hard to
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  really represent the whole album as one when it is kind of a front to
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  back thing. You know. I think a song like out of Time or
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  Postfigurement or the Sign of Pain might even like represent the album better than I'll
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  Find You or the Silence Beyond Life. And this one's to you a bit
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  more so March, But the album centers around your battle with the cute my
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  alloid Luke Amian. So can you go into more detail as to how heavy
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  to the album, Well, the album was written before that, but you
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  know, in three weeks, you know, leading up to going into the
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  studio, I got diagnosed with it. And it's one of those things where
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  it just kind of became my whole life every day where I had to fight
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  against it, you know, and you know, I went from being able
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  to work to having to go and be in the hospital all day long and
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  you know, totally changing my my life up. So it all of that
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  impacted the record. All of that impacted you know, a lot of the
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  writing. There's only one song on the album that's truly truly about it,
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  and that's a song called Kill the Disease. Would you say I've rolled the
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  album? Got a message of hype or despair? Oh hope. The whole
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  thing is like, there's no other way. It's about hope. The whole
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  thing is very dreadful. It is very dark. It is very looming.
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  But just like the album art, there's a monster in front of the sun.
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  The reality is the sun is still there. It hasn't gone away.
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  It just you just think it is because there's a problem in your way.
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  And the whole the whole point is it's kind of like a horror movie,
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  like uh, even Nightmare on Elm Street. When they start to not think
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  about him, he you know, loses his powers and then that's a similar
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  thing. So it's all about once you have that hope, then you know
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  you can combat that monster and overcome it and realize that the things that you
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  love in life are still there. I think sonically that's represented in the song
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  Postfigurement in this one guitar lead that the album was recorded with Kurt Baluba Conversion
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  Our God City in Salem May That place has got a lot of history in
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  so many ways, So how did recording there actually impact the final album.
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  I think recording there was just one of those. It was in October.
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  It was Halloween season, so there's tons of people around, so it felt,
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  you know, it had themes from the album, like claustrophobia, too
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  many people, you know, a city scape, and also Talloween, so
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  everyone was dressed up, so it almost had like a kind of a creature
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  kind of vibe to it. And I think just Salem, Massachusetts being the
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  area of the Witch trials and I think that influences too. You started Feel
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  of Mouth back in two thousand and third, endguys, so what was the
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  musical climate like back then they gave birth to the band, and where did
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  you fit in? Initially Few Mouth didn't fit in anywhere. Initially we were
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  playing, you know, it didn't matter if it was hardcore shows, metal
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  shows, punk shows. It really just like did not fit in. And
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  you know, the band was lucky enough that there were other bands around that
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  also didn't fit in, and we were kind of like island of misfit toys
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  and we just focus on making good songs. And you know, as time
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  went on, the years went by, I think the songs got better and
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  I think it just actually started connecting with people more and more. What were
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  your early goals in the early vision for the band and how have they changed
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  into ten years since the only original vision was to put out a good demo
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  of four good songs, like a good metal demo. That's really what I
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  wanted to do at the age of twenty two, and I hadn't really done
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  that, you know. I felt like I hadn't added to the cannon of
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  metal at all, even in my certain way, you know. And that's
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  the beauty of hardcore too. It's like it teaches you to do things on
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  your own that you could be a part of this and I took that ethos
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  and I really applied it to metal and that was it. That was the
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  only goal was to put out a four song demo, have it be really
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  really motor charged, one ripping solo in it. It had some clean parts,
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  and beyond that just riffs home, you know, just rifts and rifts
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  and rifts. And there was like no goal to be a big band.
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  So it's it's funny you flash forward ten years and we're on Nuclear Blasts,
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  They're the biggest label and metal and it's just yeah, it's it's definitely it's
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  been a journey and it's been surreal since those early days. Man, ten
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  years, it's a long talk in music days might say, what have you
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  always learn about yourselves and your music ever that ten of age? Jenny,
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  What do you guys think in the past ten years? For me personally,
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  it's just going through the underground and meeting new people, you know, That's
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  how I got hooked up with Mark and the guys. You know, it's
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  just it's all community and you just kind of expand, you know. So
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  over the last ten years, I've just been expanding in that way. You
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  know. Musically, I meet other people that change the way that I play
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  and feel and think, and it's awesome, you know. Progression. Yeah,
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  I would piggyback off that and say, like, if you really love
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  a kind of music, you can study it and you can apply yourself to
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  it, try to teach yourself about it on your own. But a lot
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  of a lot of like you know, musical realities really set in when you're
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  with other people, whether that's like playing or writing together or doing something in
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  like some sort of musical community. That's like really where the uh trying to
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  stay here? That's really where like, uh, you find out what it
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  works and what doesn't. The album's out now, guys, what's next.
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  You've got a bit of a troll playing for it, dude, touring on
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  it. We're gonna play some shows on it, gonna play some festivals.
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  We just announced a pretty big one today that we're gonna be playing with machine
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  Head and Motley Cruez playing as well as and Judas Priest. So, uh,
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  just going on a bigger and better things. Yeah, y cree last
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  night actually they still got a round. Yeah, yeah, They're played in
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  Brisbane. It was I've been a lot better than what I thought. I
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  wouldn't want to reports for it. That nawed. It did really good.
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  That's too cool. Alright, before we go, guys, we started up
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  read new Spotify playlists through heavy to help our listeners get acquainted with bands a
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  bit more so using your own songs. Give me a song for a playlist
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  to get the party started, want to save your marriage and want to potentially
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  end your marriage from our own songs. I wanted to get the party started.
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  I think would be nothing to bleed. What was the second question?
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  Save your marriage? I'll find you of course it's a love song. Well
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  and one that could potentially end your marriage. I'll find you again. Yeah,
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  and and the marriage I don't know, leaving euphoria, Oh yeah,
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  definitely beautiful. Guys. All right, well, thanks very much for your
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  time last day if sun is out now and be our listeners before the University
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  of the crack an album, guds to gratulations and nice to lock with the
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  future. Thanks man, Thanks Chris, You're dying