Invirulant, a Slam/Brutal Death Metal band from Arizona, have been at it for a short 2 years. As individuals, they have been active in other bands for years before, but this really feels like the Slam boss that other iterations won't be able to touch. The band's biggest criticism thus far has been songs that are "too long". To that I would say, who cares. I disagree, but honestly I know I listen to things much more attentively than the average person. Yeah, I said it; I think if you are saying the songs are too long, they are over your head, or you just aren't listening! There's way more to this than just repeated parts. Listen deeper.I was lucky enough to have the band answer some interview questions!! Enjoy the interview!
YOU GUYS ARE ARGUABLY THE HARDEST WORKING BAND IN SLAM. THERE ARE ALREADY SOME NOTICABLE DIFFERENCES FROM INDOMITABLE TO NECRO-THUGGIN. I'M WONDERING JUST HOW DIFFERENT OF A RECORD WE MAY BE IN FOR? MORE HIP HOP VIBES/SAMPLES? MORE TECH DEATH PARTS? MORE SLAMS?
Our next full length will be a return to the debut stylistically but without just regurgitating IWS. We have plans for both a slower and a faster release so it just depends on which we work on first (or which gets done first). The differences in sound mainly are coming from our own learning of production and writing. The lessons we learn each time compound as we go forward so you will notice a lot of refinements in the upcoming releases to styles we introduced in Necrothuggin. Derek can you elaborate?
First off, Thank you. We really appreciate you taking notice of that. I work my ass for this band haha. It is a very different but not very different record... I would say it is a more condensed version of Invirulant... You see, Necrothuggin was an experiment with song structure and our songs got a bit long and people told us... god did they tell us.. So this next release has much shorter songs hahaha. I think our half of it is like just over 5 mins. The riffs are still 90% brainless and 10% impossible and the 10% impossible is laughable, but there is this vibe to the new stuff... its more fun, more bouncy, I guess more hardcore influenced and just fucking heavier. This stuff will definitely be fun to play live. If you want more details on the next release coming this is a breakdown of each songs inspiration.
"Clangkpilled" was written in typical invy fashion and its actually a pretty old idea... like sometime back in like 2023. It has a lot of my personal influences in it. I was showing my love for Dying Fetus, Despised Icon, and the obvious Between The Buried and Me. But I added new stuff some nods to like Terror and the hardcore genre. But we also go super into slam and just the most no brain we have ever been.
"Psychosomatic Problem Solver" was written after I got done listening to "PeelingFlesh" on the garza podcast. I don't remember all of it but I know I was at work and I listened to that pod cast while finishing up and when I got home I just went into Derek mode. It is the only song so far in invy history to be 100% written by me with no input on structure, riffs, anything from the other guys. It felt like graduating slam school. haha IT IS BY FAR THE HEAVIEST THING TO DATE WE HAVE DONE.
WITH ALL THE RECORDING AND COLLABING, CAN YOU SAY ONE THING YOU'VE LEARNED TO NOT DO IN THE NEXT PROCESS? AND ONE THING TO DO MORE OF?
Great followup.
Don't do: force a song into a structure that it doesn't want. We have learned to not force something to be longer than it has to be. When a song ends it ends, period.
Do more: let the songs write themselves; ask your producer EVERYTHING upfront so you can deliver what's necessary for them to do what you want--ie, we have learned that if we do accent vocals or gang vocals to send more than one track of each vocal so our producer has the ability to pan them out and create a wider stereo image.
DEREK, I'M WONDERING HOW IT WENT TRACKING YOUR STUFF IN STUDIO IN VEGAS? WAS THIS FOR THE SPLIT COMING UP? CAN WE HEAR ANYTHING MORE ABOUT IT?
Yeah I was tracking for an upcoming split coming out in a few months actually. We have a pretty intense schedule of releases this year. If it was our release I could give more details so I am sorry about that. I can say it is not on inherited and it is more of us being the 2nd band on the split than us running the show but I believe things are being announced sooner than later. It is an honor to work with this band. Their vocalist does a ft on one of our tracks and its just AWESOME.
ALSO ARE MATT'S PARTS WRITTEN SEPERATLY OR ADDED IN AFTER THE MAIN STRUCTURE IS THERE? IM NOT SURE WHAT IM ASKING. IS MATT BRAND NEW TO THE BAND? HOW IS THAT ADDITION FITTING IF SO?
Matty is the newest member to the band. He joined after the debut was done and after I had
written most of what would become Necrothuggin. He is a very beloved member and really is just an awesome guy to be around. Insane guitarist too. As for Matty's parts... well... I write the main riff and then I just kinda play around in my DAW with what I think the 2nd guitar should do. I send him stuff and ask him for ideas but its always me playing it and asking "is this dope or this" and him going "dude thats the sickest shit ever hell yeah" so I just kinda go off of that. As for how Matty fits in as an addition to invy. Matty is very easy going and understands I write A LOT. I hope to one day be able to get him to collab more but it just hasn't happened yet. As I am answering this I am working on music that is 3 releases away from Necrothuggin haha. Basically its unfair to ask anyone to keep up with me because we all live separate from each other so it is hard to really collab in person. Triston is the only person local to me and he and I actually did collab on the next NEXT release. I cant fucking wait for people to hear that one. we leveled up even more than we did on this one.
BRANDON SHOBE IS LIKELY ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE VOCALIST'S INSPIRATIONS. CAN WE HEAR MORE ABOUT HIS TECHNIQUES? OG GUTTURAL, ANGRY TURKEY, PREDATORS, ETC.... WHAT ARE HIS FAVORITES? WHAT ARE WE MISSING?
Thank you very much that's so kind and I love that you know my nomenclature. I can break them down for everyone:
Lazy OG: this is the bread and butter guttural of slam. think Cepho and Cerebral. Nauseating is doing it well too. its sort of a constricted burp that requires a lot of air flow and breathing control. my lazy og is mostly in the throat and I have been working on a modified lazy OG thatIi call the russian OG which has a lot more chirp to it. think eeggh sounds vs errgh sounds.
Angry Turkey: I love this style and the stupid name we gave it. It is a modified Travis Ryan style poly shape but projected from the throat like a guttural and not a scream. It's extremely loose in the throat and rattles the back of the tongue to create a throat clearing sound that is sustainable for vocals. The tongue is tucked into the lower corner of the jaw tight at the tip and allow the rest of the tongue to flap with the exhale.
Predators: I do Heinous Killings tongue trills on a normal guttural vocal. Think of trilling your R's in Spanish and just apply it to your guttural tone. I notice that the higher register vocals sound better than the lower ones in recording context. There's a lot of air moving on those and they usually only sound good in small bursts. The epiglottal 'death rattle' predator that is essentially a whisper version of what the girl in the grudge does and while they sound cool in recorded music I don't consider them to be predators. Those are closer to a cat purring or an exhaled version of a cricket vocal.
Main Guttural: My main guttural is NOT lazy og and is actually more of a false chord scream that is shaped in the mouth to sound like a guttural. Think of elysia or jfac lows but with a mouth shaping that you typically find in the lazy OG style. It's a very high pitched vocal but it is extremely loud and cuts through the mix. It does not layer well due to how overbearing the vocal can be. My voice naturally is nasally and high pitched and so its easy for me to stay in that range and just focus on making the "click" of the guttural more prominent and not necessarily just lower in pitch. This is the voicing you hear me use for most of the verse sections of our songs.
CAN WE HEAR MORE ABOUT BRANDON'S ELECTRONIC MUSIC PROJECTS? SAMPLING, VAPOR TRASH, ETC..
We could but why would you want to haha. I have experimented a lot with harsh noise and distorted sounds for a while as different aliases doing mostly pop stuff like vaportrap to lofi. Everything I generally do, and this drives Derek crazy, carries this gritty analogue feeling. There's always a static, a buzz, a hum, a glow and a glitch. I've gotten less heavy handed with it in invy but you can still see a massive influence in, for example, the samples in Necrothuggin (which are mostly my own voice, just distorted). I would like to give a s/o to all my futuregx.net family: Strolts, Dyz, Mabs and LSD are some of the dopest dudes I've ever worked with and are all insanely talented and I have had a lot of fun larping as an anime waifu music producer with them. you can check out Seasonal Waifu series by Empty Gestures on youtube for some lofi to exist to that I made around the time of Indomitable. It's a blend of sampled instruments, field sounds and random noises. The video is basically just me teaching myself video editing using old anime that I love. Lofi + anime should've made me a youtube bajillionaire but it didnt work. Still slaps though.
I MUST SAY AS AN OLDER PERSON, BEING A FAN OF THIS MUSIC, BUT SOMETIMES NOT KNOWING WHY OR HOW TO EXPLAIN IT TO PEOPLE, YOUR ANATOMY PODCAST INTERVIEWS WERE VERY RELATABLE AND I APPRECIATED HOW HONEST YOU ALL WERE. IT'S COOL THAT YOUR MAIN WRITING PROCESS SEEMS TO BE BRANDON HUMMING PARTS FOR EVERYONE TO LEARN. IM SURE THERE IS MORE TO IT, BUT HAS THIS CHANGED SINCE THE FULL LENGTH AND NOW NECROTHUGGIN?
Derek is taking a lot more of the writing on going forward. When we first started Indomitable we (Triston and Brandon) were essentially teaching Derek to slam. In Necrothuggin it was more of a collab and in the new stuff Derek has taken over almost entirely on the writing process. Typically now, he will circulate a riff in chat and we will all hum comments and he will crank out what we envision almost perfectly now. It's becoming uncanny but great for our pace and productivity. Derek can explain better.
I am honored that you took the time to watch both of those interviews. So thank you for that. Our writing process has grown and changed for sure. The debut was really me flying by the seat of my pants. Shobe and I had started writing like 3 or 4 songs that would be on the debut before Triston got involved. He was a big help once we got him working with us. Dehumanized wouldn't be the track it is without Triston. WE WORKED SO HARD ON ANTHROPATHIC AND NO ONE LISTENS TO IT... it hurts our souls hahaha. But yes a lot of the writing process for the debut was us sending each other voice messages and joining discord Calls. If you didn't know we wrote the debut in 2020. So covid had us all at home. I think every song on the debut has something from Shobe saying "do dodo dooo" and me going "oh like this?" and him going "YEAH" and those parts are the ones that get the biggest reactions from the fans or the crowd. He WAS in Necrambulant so he knows what the audience wants I guess haha it helped make my job easier having a team like him and Triston. The debut was a very collaborative effort. So by the time I was writing Necrothuggin I had gotten a solid idea of how I play SLAM and a much better idea of what INVIRULANT is. NUMBER ONE THING: Invirulant has to feel like invirulant. If it doesn't then it has to be changed till it does or it gets scrapped. I have so SO many ideas that are basically full songs but they didn't make the cut. So Necrothuggin was waaaaaay more of me having freedom, but also not having freedom. Still we wrote Necrothuggin basically the same way but the guys had less input to give to me because I was better at my job. They became more like a filter for completed ideas than someone writing riffs with me. On occasion one of them would be on stream or something with me and we would get one of their ideas in the mix. Triston has a whole ass riff in the death of slam haha. So... on this NEXT RELEASE. I had graduated even FURTHER. To the point where one of the songs IS ENTIRELY WRITTEN BY ME. I am so proud of myself. I graduated from slam school :) But the basic formula for writing invy is Derek comes up with idea and we change it or work with it till it feels like invy. Or I just 360 no scope it and do a flawless victory and bam it's perfect first try. That was a bunch of gamer talk for doing something perfectly. Oddly enough the thing that we collab or work most on is the drums. We don't have a drummer and so we all kind of put in our thoughts on what drums would best suit a section.
PLAYING ANY OF THE BIG FESTS THIS YEAR?
Something will be announced in Washington Soon. Then the first annual Sonoran Slam Fest in Phoenix, the Desert Death Fest 2 in Tucson, and the Paul Benson Benefit in Scottsdale. We played CDF last year and while it was an incredible experience it was tremendous impact on us monetarily so unless we can tour to the show or get a high enough guarantee to cover travel, I don't know when we will play another one of those bigger fests. But again... Chicago Domination Fest was a fucking incredible experience and we thank Miguel for the incredible opportunity.
WRITING FOR A NEW FULL LENGTH YET?
We are ALWAYS writing. A full length (and more) may come sooner than you think. Derek take it away.
We have plans for one... we have the title and everything but the long story short is the music industry has changed and dropping singles or EP's more frequently will get you a far better response because it keeps you on peoples minds. We dropped 2 singles then our debut and honestly numbers went up then just fell down... people listen to new stuff and then if they like it they stay if they don't they move on but if you are constantly dropping stuff you are constantly getting exposed to a new audience. Sadly the name of the game is Spotify Numbers. Facebook Follows. Instgram likes. Your online presence is a huge factor of if people take you seriously. So another full length is planned... but it'll probably be 2025 because we are fully booked this year on releases all the way to November.
ARE YOU GUYS FANS OF HIP HOP? WHAT ARE SOME FAVORITE ARTISTS.
OH FUCK YEAH!!! I listen to all music, all genres, and I love a few artists in particular for each and every genre. For all things Rap, Trap, Hip Hop ect: Waka Flocka Flame, Rae Sremmurd, French Montana, THE HOMIE TONY SLAM, XZARKHAN, Kanye West, Jay-Z, N.W.A AND ALL AFFILIATED MEMBERS, Deathgrips, Jarren Benton, Black Bear, Hopsin, Keith Ape, Rich Brian, OUTCAST, Tech N9ne, WU-TANG CLAN, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Eminem, D12, LUDACRIS, Whiz Khalifa, Tyga, RUFF RYDERS, DMX, PINK GUY, Machine Gun Kelly, Mos Deff, NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Gucci Mane, Kendrick Lamar, Ashnikko, Doja Cat, Bhad Bhabie, Childish Gambino, Connor Price, Dax, Drake, Immortal Technique, Kitty Pryde, Lil Debbie, Kreyshawn, NF, Sludge Door, XREIGNOFTERRORX, RMR, Robin Gan, Lil Wayne, Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow, MOMO of TWICE, SXMPRA... and I think that is everyone... I scoured my computer and my spotify to find everything so If I left something out my bad. Triston?
Yes, we are all individually huge fans of all types of hip hop and rap music. Triston loves Hopsin and Rich Brian. We are also all fans of electronic music in general. Triston recommends KOANsound, Dino Safari, Joe Ford, Seven Lions and Virtual Riot. what about you Shobe?
I am a huge fan of flocka. I got to party with him on my birthday one year and I absolutely loved it. He is everything you think he is. everything from salute me or shoot me to flockavelli 1.5 is full of bangers. I also am a fan of Lil B and borrow a lot lyrically and stylistically from him. he is a genius.
LETS TALK SAMPLES. ARE THESE MAINLY JUST PULLED FROM FAVORITE MOVIES OR VIDEOS OR CULTURAL REFERENCES? IS THERE MUCH MORE TO IT? IS THERE A STORY OF A SAMPLE OR INTRO IDEA THAT ENDED UP NOT MAKING THE CUT?
Samples are kind of a weird subject. Sometimes the clip will change the song and other times the song kind of dictates the clip. Other times we will write entirely based off the clip. Derek?
When it comes to samples we had clips that we wanted to use on the debut but we were figuring out who we were and what was expected of us... when it came to Necrothuggin I just had some spots that I really wanted to convey imagery and create an ambience to the tracks. But I had all the samples and stuff before we had lyrics and I don't know if everything really fit haha... Invirulant is a zombie theme there is no really getting away from it, but at the same time we don't feel at home with the serious clips, so from the start we were like here's event horizon ha just kidding its trailer park boys. We will continue to do as such... but we are leaning into more so using clips for media and property's that make us laugh. Especially on all future releases... we got some fucking bangers for you all. If you aren't crying laughing before the track hits we failed.
NEW SHIT WILL HAVE MORE OF A FOCUS ON LYRICS? WHAT ARE THE LYRICAL THEMES? IS THE WRITING MAINLY BRANDON?
Brandon handles all the lyrics primarily but we chime in with ideas and stuff. I got a few lines in on the next NEXT release and I am stoked. All I will say is "slaying fakes, making bank, reppin ckb" is my input.
I know we have a very strong influence from Flocka and what he created with his catchphrases, identity, and music. We really are a slam, trap, beatdown, hybrid. Shobe can tell you more.
For the first time ever we are writing lyrics in slam that are resembling what the words say. I want to bridge the gap between brutal guttural and something you can sing along in your car to. Adding hooks in cleaner shouted vocals, callouts and gang sections offers something to listeners that breaks up the gurgle. I try to run the verses in my main guttural style and mix in cues for listeners to sing along like the word CLANGK. our lyrical theme takes a heavy dose of irony and self-awareness (as a slam fan) to appreciate. We are super aware that we are cringe and it's hilarious to us. We mock ourselves and the genre because we love this shit so much. As far as lyrical themes go you will notice that the new stuff has a lot more freeness to it and is less medical thesaurus. I will note however, that the first song in indomitable, slamophilic, ends with a rap section---so the influence has always been there but now we are less subtle about it. I pull a lot of vocal themes from the hip hop side because yelling about how cool you are and how everyone else sucks is really funny and fun. Compare that to corpse and gore worship which really isn't my thing. I would rather rap and say generic tough guy shit like "If you're not with the clangk then you're fucking dead" which itself is a few layers of irony at its core. here are some samples I'm particularly proud of that I think sum up the general vibe: "I AM THE CLANGK GOD. THIS IS MY CLANGK SQUAD. PUT SLAM IN THE MOTHERFUCKING GRAVE. SLAMOPHILIC SICKNESS, CALL IT NO BRAIN. KNOCKED SLAM OFF ITS MOTHERFUCKING LEGS. HATE DEALER CKB, CLANGK CLANGK!"
There's lots of inside jokes and easter eggs of clangk lore to reward listeners for reading into the lyrics--which makes for a song you can sing to yourself after its done playing. That is going to be the thing that separates us the most: having memorable hooks and repeatable lyrics not just reeeebreereeeee (although I still do intentionally write very select scat sections with no lyrics that I just mark as 'utter no brainery' in the notes because in slam sometimes you just really DO need a bree). An example would be "young clangk god in the slam game bussin/Masked up fella with an all white musket/on that og ree ree bree bree/put it on my clangk/OH WE OH WE OH OH [no brainery]" I will note that trying to actually say words has made the delivery SO much harder than it ever was without lyrics but I think the result is worth it.
The Death of $lam -
Invy hit the planet
in a quest for freshness
abominations have been loosed
this time by the invy ckb
as the cities burn
and the worlds in ruins
as for those who survive
everybody purge the weak
we bring the purulence
our style's impure
this rotting flesh the new allure
when invy hit the planet
spread seed to full completion
fuck shit up like the weekend
necrothuggin clangk contagion
this is a call to violence on everything
no brain hard fists
taking aim right at the next thing we see
invyckb
a viral curse, a plague upon the land
the death of slam in pain
well beyond comprehension
invy we keep things violent
stay clangked and necrothuggin
cant hear you bitch just keep walkin
play it safe no face mask on
invy hit the planet
in a quest for freshness
abominations have been loosed
this time by the invy ckb
as the cities burn
and the worlds in ruins
as for those who survive
everybody purge the weak
invirulant shit so putrificent
clangked out death pit
step up and get lit
no brain bullshit
slamophiles represent
never am was
fuck that
get necked
we bring the purulence
our style's impure
this rotting flesh the new allure
when invy hit the planet
spread seed to full completion
fuck shit up like the weekend
necrothuggin clangk contagion
this is a call to violence on everything
no brain hard fists
taking aim right at the next thing we see
invyckb
a viral curse, a plague upon the land
the death of slam in pain
well beyond comprehension
invy we keep things violent
stay clangked and necrothuggin
cant hear you bitch just keep walkin
play it safe no face mask on
I'M VERY CURIOUS ON YOUR FAMILY LIVES. I BELIEVE BRANDON HAS 4 KIDS? SLAMDAD INDEED. WHAT ARE OTHER MEMBER'S FAMILIES LIKE? TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR MUSIC/WORK/LIFE BALANCE.
Triston got nothing going on worth sharing yet. It's just him and Reggie against the world.
Brandon's life is super crazy. He has no balance but is working on it. Luckily with the nature of this project we can all work at our own time. As far as kids go--I have 5-year-old triplets and a 2 year old and they're all clones of me haha. I love being a father it is the most important thing I have ever done and has made me a better man than I could have imagined. Highly recommended, maybe not all at once though. Derek?
Oh man... well the economy was so bad that my parents needed me to move back in with them to just survive. Arizona really got hit with this insane inflation in our housing market. Their rent went from 900 to 1600 with nothing fixed, or added to the property. We are all just happy to have a roof over our heads but it's bad in Havasu right now. So no wife and kids for me. I haven't had a gf since November 2021 and I don't know, I want to date but in general I'm so fucking busy with invy that I don't know if I could dedicate time to someone and they would have to be cool with how much money and time I invest into invy and that's not always something a partner understands or respects. But yeah I live with my Mom and Step dad and our dogs beau and griffin. I write and compose music in my room/lil studio and I work a delivery job to keep my family from being homeless. It's nice seeing family all the time. Sometimes we butt heads but I mean it's family and you have two men living under the same roof. I just try to keep the peace and keep to myself. But I greatly enjoy spending time with my mom. Taking her out to get food, going and seeing movies, watching one piece together. My dad died in 2010 and My mom isn't the healthiest person. She has a long list of medical problems and I just am happy to have her around. to be honest balancing everything is pretty tough because I am actually mentally disabled and on social security disability for generalized anxiety disorder. Before my parents needing me to move back in and help pay bills I had not worked since 2014. I have a few other mental disabilities including being autistic... but I get by with a little help from my friends <3
IV'E HEARD YOUR STUFF REFERRED TO AS ZERO IQ SLAM, CAVEMAN SLAM (A TERM FIRST COINED BY BEN MARTINEZ, EARLY BASSIST OF CEREBRAL INCUBATION), OR BRAIN-DEAD MUSIC. ARE THESE GENERALLY ACCEPTED? HOW WOULD YOU GUYS DESCRIBE YOUR SOUND?
WE LOVE CEREBRAL INCUBATION SHOUT OUT TO THE HOMIE ANDREW <3 As far as the ZERO IQ CAVEMAN SLAM, we wear that NO BRAIN flag proudly. We are ANTI BRAIN. haha. the brain isnt just dumb or dead, we are completely lacking all braindom. but on a serious note, we embrace any kind of hilarious coined term (its good for marketing) in general we are just writing death metal that's slightly hard to subgenre so any of those descriptors are close enough to work. As you've notice already we have put a particular focus on putting influences from hip hop and hardcore into this SBDM project. We love caveman a lot. Knuckle dragging, jaw extended, cross eyed, and still gangster. So when we debuted our sound was described as ARIZONA SLAM GRIND, and we had a banner that said that and Shobe made one that said Necrothuggin and that's kind of where we are.
We incorporate: Slam, Gore grind. Brutal Death, Hardcore, Beatdown, Trap, and more into our sound. So with that information I would say we describe our sound as Invirulant. A mesh of all of those genres. We also like the nods to myspace slam. That golden era 2000's vibe is a good descriptor too. Like we don't really see or hear anything like us out there... which makes us stick out in both good and bad ways. Brutal death guys think we aren't brutal enough. Slam guys don't think we are slam enough, hardcore guys don't even know we exist... deathcore... that's it... that's the joke. But it's a process, you find your audience ya know and then you build your family. We have some awesome Day 1 people in our camp and we welcome anyone and everyone in the CKB.
IT ALMOST FEELS LIKE THERE IS A NEW-GEN WAVE OF SLAM HAPPENING, LED BY THE LIKES OF INVIRULANT AND PEELINGFLESH. SLAMS WITH A LOT OF HIP HOP GROOVE AND INFLUENCE. WOULD YOU AGREE WITH THIS AND WILL WE SEE EVEN MORE GENRE BLENDING?
We are just a part of the spectrum. Slam has always had a lot of groove and hip hop influences. It's definitely becoming more apparent in the new stuff as more hardcore and deathcore bands adopt slam. Now the influences are much more prominent and up front. The rise of hardcore is also a huge reason why we see more of the influence seeping into all other forms of metal, slam included. look I just said I love cerebral... BUT I LOVE PEELINGFLESH AS WELL. To even be in the same conversation as them is awesome. I had already written the debut fully when I first heard PF but they were definitely a huge influence on me. Not in like riffs or anything but mindset. I could blend hardcore, and rap, and all of these things and make BANGERS.
Because to us a Banger is a banger. We don't care what genre it is. K pop, Trap, Slam, Hardcore. You know when a track fucks and when it doesn't. But to answer your question. We all fully agree that genre blending is happening. My favorite thing right now is hardcore kids have adopted Slam and have taken it back for the youth culture and Slam is in a better place right now than it ever has been with tons of new bands and people coming out like Desoectomy, PeelingFlesh, Snuffed on Sight. We love the fresh blood and the fresh takes on something that became so by the numbers and boring. By the way, if you haven't heard yet Orbital Gate (Evan Van Dyne) just dropped a track with an actual rap artist called Sludge Gate and it has HEAVILY influenced how I see Invirulant in the future. This next release is a pretty straight forward release but the one after... we show our next stage in evolution.
DO YOU THINK WAKA HAS HEARD THE COVER?
I fucking hope so. I don't know if he has cause he probably would've reached out cause we know Flocka don't fuck with no weak shit. We were reached out to by Flockas's team on instagram I believe and they told us that they would get it to him. But we have had no direct communication as far as I know. But in general everyone who matters has loved the cover and said nothing but nice things. OUR DREAM WAS TO GET FLOCKA TO FEAT AND DO A FULL ON NEW VERSE... but maybe that can happen in the future who knows. Flocka is dropping heaters again after being out of the game for a while. It would be the BEST surprise for him to hear our tribute to him.
I THINK I RECALL DEREK BEING A HUGE AKIRA TORIYAMA FAN? MY CONDOLENCES ON THE LOSS OF ONE OF YOUR HEROS! CAN YOU POINT PEOPLE TOWARDS ANYONE OR ANYTHING SIMILAIR TO HELP THEM MAYBE STEP INTO THAT WORLD, IF THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN INTO DBZ?
Yes I am a huge anime fan and that all started with Dragon Ball Z. I completely broke down at work when I found out on March 8th That Toriyama-San had left us... So thank you for your condolences. I read some wonderful things said by his friends and colleagues including the VA of Goku, and Oda the mangaka of one piece. The entire world has come to a stop it seems. Toriyama was more than DBZ. He worked on video games, and a few series. His influence touches every corner of the earth. Every media. He brought anime to the world in a way that no manga or anime had done before. He set the stage for everyone after him.
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Nothing will compare to Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. If you want to get into anime and you like seeing people fight through adversity, lose, get stronger, never give up, and conquer all, then watch dragon ball z. If you want to know the orgins of Goku and where it all started watch Dragon Ball. I personally prefer Dragon Ball over Z but that's because it is just a more comfy show. I am a huge slice of life fan. Also you watch Goku in real time mature, grow up and find himself. So go on the Mystical Journey and gather the 7 magic balls to make your wish come true. With nothing but love and the utmost respect, Rest in peace Toriyama san.
TRISTON IS A SELF-PROCLAIMED HIPPIE, BLUEGRASS LOVING, CLASSICAL GUITAR TRAINED SLAM EXPERT! WHO IS THE BEST SLAM BAND OF ALL TIME? WHO PIONEERED THE STYLE? WHO IS DOING IT BEST?
Don't forget left handed. LOL The best slam band of all time is an INSANE question. It's hard to pinpoint who pioneered "slam" a lot of people would probably point to the same things everyone is used to but I think it matters what your perspective is. It's safe to say most people would point to Suffocation or Devourment, maybe Epicardiectomy iykyk. as far as who is the best? Fuck me! That's the most difficult question. If i had to be forced though to listen to one album forever it would be Gravitational Distortion. I have to give a shout out to my boys in PF and Desoectomy. It's unfortunate, but like EDM most of the best underground deep shit doesn't last and just disappears after a release or two--stuff like Human Cordyceps and Internal Devour so it's important to support it while it's there.Thank you so much to Invirulant for answering these questions so thoughtfully! Check out the links below!
INVIRULANT
INHERITED SUFFERING RECORDS
SLUDGE GATE
FUTUREGX
EMPTY GESTURES - SEASONAL WAIFU VOL. 1
DRAGONBALL Z
GRAVITATIONAL DISTORTION
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