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\u201cSo having that kind of team behind us gives us a bigger platform to stand on, and for me the whole point of being on this label is to get our music and get us in front of more people that have maybe never heard of us before. I say this all the time, we have a million fans out there they just don\u2019t know it yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Release: \u2018Condolences\u2019 showcases WEDNESDAY 13\u2019s growing obsession with the world of heavy metal and its endless possibilities for exploring tales of horror and violence. Produced by renowned studio guru Zeuss, new songs like anthemic first single ‘What The Night Brings’ and the pile-driving ‘Blood Sick’ still exhibit a dash of B-movie weirdness and are full of WEDNESDAY\u2019s trademark twisted lyrics, but where previous albums were rooted in the worlds of punk rock and glam metal, \u2018Condolences\u2019 is a full-on modern metal record with gigantic balls and the attitude to match.<\/p>\n

In what was my 500th<\/sup> interview I\u2019d done for MTRBWY, I caught up once again with Wednesday 13 who I\u2019ve had the chance to talk to five times over the years, this time to discuss \u2018Condolences\u2019, creating new music, videos, joining Nuclear Blast, touring, and much more\u2026<\/p>\n

It was only a few months ago that we caught up, but here we are with a new album coming so let\u2019s catch up on all things \u2018Condolences\u2019 what are the feelings like for you leading up to a new release?<\/strong>
\nOh I mean every time you put a record out it\u2019s always a really exciting feeling, you can\u2019t wait for it to get out and you can\u2019t wait for your fans to hear it. This one in particularly we\u2019ve had done for quite some time now, we finished recording this record back in September and then we shopped it around to get a deal and we didn\u2019t get our deal until the first of this year so that kind of put a little delay on it, but so for us it\u2019s been a little while longer waiting for this record to come out for we\u2019ve just been like caged tigers, we can\u2019t wait for this thing to come out and for our tour to start. So yeah, it\u2019s been a while and we\u2019ve put a lot of work into this record, our last release was January 2015 so yeah this is our new one, we\u2019ve put everything we had into this record we spent three months writing and recording it and that\u2019s all we did for three months and I think when people hear it they\u2019ll see that we spent a lot of time on it.<\/p>\n

Did you set out with a goal of how you wanted the album to come together or was it something that evolved as the creative process started working?<\/strong>
\nThe thing that I\u2019ve kinda learned for me over the years is to never really have a complete solid idea of what it\u2019s going to be because every time I record a record it always kind of changes in the studio and things are sort of picked to life, so I kind of go in with ideas of what I want to do and try and achieve those and then I get those ideas done but I don\u2019t say \u201cit has to be just like this\u201d because it never turns out just like that, but it\u2019s good to go in with ideas and see what happens. For this record for example I knew it was going to be heavier I wanted it to be a heavier record and that\u2019s why we chose our producer Zeuss to do that, he could get that sound for us that we needed so with ideas like and overall I can never tell how a record is ever going to turn out, this record is gone beyond darker and heavier than I ever thought it was going to be but that\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n

What did this record allow you to do when making it that you feel you haven\u2019t been able to do on any of your albums previously?<\/strong>
\nWell this one has so many different elements to it and this is the first record we sat down as a band and sat in a room and wrote these songs from scratch for the most part, so that was different from the past because normally I just pass them the demos back and forth and we just got in the studio and just do sort of what I created and this time it was more of a group effort, so that was definitely different this time. Then added in our producer Zeuss, that\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve had a producer on a Wednesday 13 album so that definitely kind of freed the reins for me, I didn\u2019t have to sit there and overthink everything, he was the judge and jury for the band, he\u2019d say \u201cOK that\u2019s cool, good enough\u201d where for me I\u2019m that kind of guy that doesn\u2019t know when to stop recording or adding stuff, if it was up to me and I was producing that record we\u2019d probably still be working on it right now saying \u201cI need to add this\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Was it hard to keep your mouth closed sometimes when he was working?<\/strong>
\nNo, this was a really easy recording process, we were all on the same page and it was good there was never any bickering or weird stuff.<\/p>\n

With a new album of course I have to ask when you\u2019ll be coming back to play it for us?<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s a good question, I hope sooner than later, I know that when we were just there recently on the acoustic tour I was speaking to the promoter there and I said I definitely wanted to come back, I hope we can come back at the first of the year and I hope we can work Japan in with that as well and so hopefully we can do all that. Australia\u2019s been really, really good for us and it was cool to come back and do the acoustic thing but I really want to come back with this new record and new show that we have because we\u2019ve taken the stage show up a notch just the same way we\u2019ve taken the sound of the record up.<\/p>\n

I was going to say, in speaking to you many times before, I know you\u2019ll already have ideas for the tour, any little secrets you can share about what this show might entail?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s gonna be bigger and weirder than anything I\u2019ve done before, we\u2019ve got a new lighting show that we\u2019re working in and stuff that I\u2019ve never really done before I\u2019ve just kind of used my house lights but there\u2019ll be a full on light show this time, all new stage risers and lots of new toys for me to play with on stage props and masks, all kinds of weird stuff it\u2019s gonna be a lot of fun, I\u2019m super excited about it.<\/p>\n

The one question I get asked constantly when I speak to you is when can we expect a live DVD?<\/strong>
\nWe have a DVD that we sell at our live shows, nothing at retail or anything just something we have at our live shows and will be available on our tour and it\u2019s basically a compilation of live stuff and backstage stuff it\u2019s a two hour almost behind the scenes of touring of touring all over Europe and The UK between 2011 and up to earlier this year. So it\u2019s just like all our funny Vine videos and stuff like that it\u2019s a two hour Vine video with concert stuff in there, so it\u2019s really cool and we\u2019ve been working on it for a while, so it\u2019s just something we\u2019ll have at our merchandise.<\/p>\n

What are you hoping this record may allow you to do as an artist that you still haven\u2019t yet been able to do?<\/strong>
\nBeing on the label Nuclear Blast has definitely given us a bigger platform to stand on and we have a bigger team behind us to do more things, you know I\u2019ve been doing this for quite some time now and doing it DIY for many years and now I have a team like Nuclear Blast and with the roster they have, they have everyone from Slayer to Lamb of God to Machine Head and some of the biggest acts in metal, they\u2019re pretty well respected and they have a lot of clout. So having that kind of team behind us gives us a bigger platform to stand on, and for me the whole point of being on this label is to get our music and get us in front of more people that have maybe never heard of us before. I say this all the time, we have a million fans out there they just don\u2019t know it yet.<\/p>\n

When you look back to your beginnings what\u2019s the one thing or piece of advice that you\u2019ve brought along with you for the ride that you still do to this day?<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t know, I\u2019ve definitely watched and observed a lot of things and I don\u2019t know if there was any one thing or advice I\u2019ve just sort of coached myself *laughs* my life has just been you\u2019ve gotta give it all in this business or you\u2019re getting get up and out of it, so I think one of the things that has just allowed me to stay in the business for this long is the self-knowledge and observing and learning from my mistakes and stuff like that, but if you want to survive in this business you\u2019ve got to become a target, you\u2019ve gotta give it everything and be willing to lose everything to do that and I\u2019ve done all of that.<\/p>\n

So what does the rest of the year have in store for you?<\/strong>
\nLots of touring, it\u2019s been crazy busy so far and the record\u2019s not even out yet, we just filmed our fourth video last weekend and I\u2019ve just confirmed our European tour for the fall, getting our US dates for the fall, just a lot of touring, I think we\u2019re going to have August and December slightly off from touring but we\u2019ll be busy we\u2019ll still be doing stuff. Yeah, a lot of touring and the first of the year will be starting touring again. That\u2019s what we do, that\u2019s what we love to and that\u2019s where we\u2019re the best at it is playing live I think and putting on a show so I can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n

Fourth video? Are you going to be doing a video for every song on the album?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s looking like it could be at least half the record right now of doing videos and they\u2019re turning out really cool, the newest and fourth is the title track to the album and it\u2019s a really, really dark video, I created my fake funeral for this, so it should be interesting. We put a lot of time into this video and it\u2019s definitely one of the weirdest things I\u2019ve ever done, being at my fake funeral watching all my friends and band put flowers on a casket was pretty bazaar.<\/p>\n

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From:\u00a0<\/strong>Hollywood, CA, USA<\/p>\n

Band Members:\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday 13<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.officialwednesday13.com
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\nLatest Release:<\/strong>\u00a0Condolences (Out Now – Nuclear Blast)<\/p>\n

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