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WEDNESDAY 13

Interviewer – Sofie Marsden

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The Duke of Spook is back, bigger than ever, with a killer tour making its way around the world, and a highly anticipated eighth album on the horizon. Wednesday 13 took time out of his hectic schedule to chat about the big year that’s been 2019, and what is on the horizon.

On September 27th, Necrophaze will be released worldwide, an album that will please long time fans with the campy horror references, and also please more traditional metal fans. While Wednesday’s earlier records were more on the punk side of the musical spectrum, the evolution of the band has gradually shifted to the heavier influences. Wednesday explained how Necrophaze came to be.

 

“My first album came out in 2005, it’s almost 2020, many moons ago when I started doing Wednesday 13 the idea was there, but over the years I think it’s been something I’ve been crafting. It’s definitely something that’s been growing, like I’ve been building this Frankenstein monster and it’s finally where I want it to be. This album is like a new recharged version of Wednesday 13. With this album, it’s like painting a picture, start with a blank canvas then start painting it and go ‘oh cool we’ll add this little guy here and this little guy here’ you just keep adding to it and that’s the cool thing about recording, and at the end hopefully we’ve made a nice, cool scary monster picture for people.”

 

Australians are more than well acquainted with Wednesday 13, he makes an appearance every couple of years to bring his band of ghouls to terrorise and tantalise. Not only has the band had a consistent line-up for the past nine years (besides a drummer switch up), but this time around Wednesday has thrown some new variables into the mix, most notably on the new album, with a slew of guest appearances, including Alice Cooper, Cristina Scabbia from Lacuna Coil and Children of Bodom’s Alexi Laiho.

 

“Everything was added in later, I had lots of ideas that just morphed into what this album eventually became. I had wanted to have horror actors act out parts on the album and that got nixed. The only two people I had reached out to that I wouldn’t know if I would get a response from was Cristina from Lacuna Coil, and I always reached out to Alice (Cooper), I didn’t know if that would be possible with time, and he came back with a yes. He sent his part back straight away, and Cristina was the same way. We weren’t trying to build some kind of super record, just the guests ended up fitting, people helping us painting the picture. Christina really helped to add a new dimension, I’ve never had a female vocalist on any of my songs before, so I thought that’d be something different, that people may not expect”. 

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Those who follow Wednesday on social media will be well aware of his continuing health journey, including giving up alcohol, over the past eighteen months, which the frontman says has helped him a great deal on the road, and given him a new appreciation for touring.

 

“I’ve pretty much lived on the road since 2002, I’ve been touring, 9-8 months out of the year on tour, so it was easy to get into a routine of doing things that are just on tour. You sit around all day, sun goes down, play the show, drinking until 4am, rinse and repeat. I got into that mindset of that’s how it had to be. I didn’t have a switch to turn it off whenever I had time away from it. It just became too much, it wasn’t making me happier or more productive and so I stopped. As far as touring goes I had to make some adjustments, but like with anything it’s much easier to tour now sober than it is touring not sober, I know that. I don’t know why I put myself through such agony for the sake of being at the party 24/7. I can still have a good time. It wasn’t easy at first, it took a year, this is the first tour I’ve done that I really had fun, I was out of my shell, it just takes time as with anything. This has been a better choice for me, I feel better, I have more energy, and I think this new record showcases that”.

 

You can catch Wednesday 13 on tour with Static-X and Dope starting this week!

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