The Back Lounge Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Unleash The Archers vocalist Brittney Slayes joins me for Episode 28 of the Back Lounge Podcast! The powerhouse singer talks with me about becoming a Mom, balancing parenting with the band, the new album, upcoming tours, and the drama that recently surround them (and other bands) for utilizing A.I. with their art, which leads to a bigger topic of how people treat each other on the internet.

Lighting Director Carrie Heisler joins us for Episode 18 of the podcast to give us a behind the scenes of what it's like to be lighting up the Detroit Redwings and Detroit Pistons on a nightly basis. Carrie recently went viral in the metal community for programming lighting entrances for the Redwings with a lot of popular deathcore, death metal, and grind bands, which is something that has never happened in the sporting world.

Vocalist Kevin Ratajczak from the German metalcore band Electric Callboy joins us for Episode 17 of the Podcast. The band is already back in the studio, and Kevin took some time away from recording to talk with us about upcoming tour dates, the success of their latest album, keeping yourself grounded on tour, what music our kids like to listen to, ancestry, and so much more.

Suicide Silence guitarist and founder Chris Garza joins us for Episode 16 of The Back Lounge Podcast, in one of the most authentic, real, and brutality honest conversations I've ever had with someone in the music industry. We talk about the beginnings of Suicide Silence and how they helped create an entirely new genre, their successes and failures, how they've had to get uncomfortable as a band and work on themselves, their future touring, their upcoming record, and how they refuse to let any band deliver a better show than they will.

Future Palace vocalist Maria Lessing joins in for Episode 15 of The Back Lounge Podcast!

Guitarist/Content Creator Nik Nocturnal joins us for Episode 14 of The Back Lounge Podcast for some discussion on his Trap Metal project, his upcoming album with Termina, recently traveling to New York, creating content, and we had a ton of laughs along the way!

Guitarist Lucas Gabb of UK Metal act InVisions joins us for Episode 13 of The Back Lounge Podcast!

In a last minute episode that I honestly didn't think was going to happen, Christopher Bowes, the brains behind Alestorm and Gloryhammer, joins us for Episode 12 of The Back Lounge Podcast! We started off pretty casual, and the more the episode went on we just started getting off the rails and had a ton of laughs talking about stuff like German Gangster Rap, how weird but amazing tour bus drivers are, getting drunk at country concerts, writing songs for dogs, buying a pet giraffe, and how wild it is for Chris to live in the US now.

Elizabeth of The Charismatic Voice joins me for Episode 12 of The Back Lounge Podcast! This was filmed towards the end of her pregnancy before her and her husband had their child, and we spent some time laughing up parenting stuff since I have a young daughter as well. We also talked about all of her vocal education, traveling, how she developed her YouTube channel, and even talked about some of the daily things we go through creating YouTube content.