{"id":16877,"date":"2017-02-17T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16877"},"modified":"2017-02-15T20:07:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T01:07:55","slug":"blowin-wind-with-strikers-dan-cleary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=16877","title":{"rendered":"Blowin&#8217; Wind with Striker&#8217;s Dan Cleary: There are some younger bands that are super popular but they\u2019re just not doing the traditional style of metal.  I just think that on the spectrum of metal, there\u2019s a magnifying glass on a different area of it right now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For nearly 10 years now, Striker has been keeping the flag of traditional heavy metal flying high and proud.\u00a0 Considered to be among bands such as Widow, Holy Grail, and Enforcer as forefathers of the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal movement, Striker continue to fight the good fight for metal by putting out amazing albums and hitting the road with relentless passion putting on one of the best shows your money can buy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On their recent stop in Atlanta, GA as part of their Out for Blood North American Tour, I had the opportunity to talk to Striker lead singer, Dan Cleary.\u00a0 Dan is a really cool, soft spoken guy which was surprising to me being that he\u2019s such a madman on stage.\u00a0 Dan really opened up to me and we talked about all things Striker, what\u2019s the least metal thing about him, and his love of UFO\/Alien conspiracy theories.\u00a0 Enjoy this one and jam you some Striker while you\u2019re at it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan thanks so much for taking the time to do this interview.\u00a0 Do you like doing interviews?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No problem, Don. Yeah, I don\u2019t mind them at all.\u00a0 It\u2019s cool actually.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is one question you get asked so much that if you hear it again you\u2019ll kick something or someone?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think the only thing is when people are like, \u201cTell us about your band.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s like, damn dude.\u00a0 That\u2019s all over the internet.\u00a0 You can find that shit everywhere [laughs].\u00a0 That\u2019s just the most amount of explaining and it\u2019s all over the place.\u00a0 When we get magazine interviews where we do e-mail interviews, you just have to write all this shit and I\u2019m like, \u201cWe\u2019ve been around for 10 years.\u00a0 Where do I even start?\u201d [laughs]<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have a preference between e-mail interviews and person to person interviews?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I prefer talking person to person.\u00a0 It\u2019s less work for me and it\u2019s less like homework to just talk [laughs].\u00a0 I was doing some e-mail interviews in the van on this tour and I was getting kind of car sick looking at the computer screen.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>I missed you guys the last time you guys were here and I\u2019m so fucking pumped.\u00a0 What can I expect from my first live Striker experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just a whole lot of shred!\u00a0 It\u2019s been funny on this tour.\u00a0 I think people are really noticing the guitar playing a lot.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s just the songs that we picked that are just heavy with the guitar solos.\u00a0 We do that a lot of on this tour in particularly we\u2019ve been getting a lot of comments like, \u201cDamn.\u00a0 That\u2019s a lot of shredding.\u201d [laughs]<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have a particular song then whenever you see it on the setlist you\u2019re like, \u201cFuck yes!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, I actually like them all but I do like \u201cEscape from Shred City\u201d because I get to take a break while they play, take a leak, and come back on stage [laughs].<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you ever get pissed off when people accidently call you guys Stryper?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Laughs] Dude, it happens so much but it\u2019s kind of ok.\u00a0 At every single border crossing we come to we\u2019ll say that we\u2019re in Striker and they\u2019ll be like, \u201cOh, I think I\u2019ve heard of you guys from the 80\u2019s.\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019re just like, \u201cYeah man\u201d and they\u2019re like, \u201cGo ahead.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard of you guys.\u201d [laughs]<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>My good friend and site contributor Taylor saw you guys in Texas.\u00a0 She said that there were like five people there but you played like there were 5,000 there.\u00a0 Does it ever get hard to maintain that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think we\u2019re all on the same page that once you start playing, you\u2019re just into it.\u00a0 It\u2019s not super easy to just phone in a set.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s also just the style of music we do.\u00a0 This kind of music is fun to play and it\u2019s why we\u2019re on tour.\u00a0 We love to play.\u00a0 Sometimes we\u2019re tired but it just goes away after a bit.\u00a0 Tonight we\u2019re playing after just getting off of the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise and we\u2019re all pretty bagged from that [laughs].<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you guys have a blast on 70,000 Tons of Metal?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah.\u00a0 Being on that cruise ship was just totally crazy.\u00a0 It was just so weird to be like, \u201cOh hey.\u00a0 What\u2019s up Joey Belladonna\u2026 hanging out by the buffet?\u201d [laughs]\u00a0 It was crazy.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Striker has had some lineup changes.\u00a0 Are things a bit more solidified now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, this is the most stable it\u2019s been in a while.\u00a0 We had a good group of guys early on.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was it that made things fall apart with them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s easy to get discouraged earlier on.\u00a0 When we first started, the shows weren\u2019t as big.\u00a0 Now we\u2019re doing some bigger tours and I think that maybe it\u2019s a little bit more rewarding.\u00a0 It\u2019s tough to stick it out but the group we have now is really solid<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did this solidity come through for you guys in the process of making the new album?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah.\u00a0 It was like fairly painless doing this album.\u00a0 It was easy to do.\u00a0 Everybody is one the same page so that made things really easy.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>You have a new album coming out at the end of the month and it\u2019s just called Striker.\u00a0 It bugs the fuck out of me when bands name their later albums self titled.\u00a0 Did you just run out of ideas?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[laughs] Well, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 To be perfectly honest, it\u2019s more that we wanted to get artwork done in time.\u00a0 We had an idea for the artwork and we were just like, \u201cThis could be called anything\u201d so we just decided to call it Striker.\u00a0 Lots of bands do that and we think it\u2019s cool [laughs].\u00a0 We don\u2019t have a song called \u201cStriker\u201d yet.\u00a0 I always thought it was funny that the band Blue Murder had a video.\u00a0 It\u2019s like they were saying, \u201cWe\u2019re Blue Murder.\u00a0 This song\u2019s called \u201cBlue Murder\u201d off of the album Blue Murder [laughs].\u00a0 It\u2019s just super funny.\u00a0 We should\u2019ve done a \u201cStriker\u201d song but we fucked up.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stand in the Fire was the album that really pulled me in as a fan.\u00a0 Did that album bring you guys a number of new fans and if so, what do you think it was about that album that drew people in?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That was the first album we did independently so we threw ourselves into it a lot more than before.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s so surprising to me because you think it would be the other way around in that more people would\u2019ve heard of you being on a label.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it\u2019s a weird thing.\u00a0 Being on a label, we thought they were going to do all this shit for us.\u00a0 You just sit back and wait a while for them to do anything and they don\u2019t do it.\u00a0 You have to work twice as hard as a band and then the label just takes your money.\u00a0 We weren\u2019t contractually obligated to work with the label again so we just decided to do it on our own.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been able to save some money to be able to fund things ourselves.\u00a0 If you\u2019re smart about it, you can make enough money.\u00a0 Anybody a label is paying you can pay them as well.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>And you can probably get the fucking job done better.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Exactly.\u00a0 Usually if they\u2019re working directly with you, it\u2019s easier and they\u2019re more accountable to the band since we\u2019re the ones paying them so we\u2019re like, \u201cYou better fucking work.\u201d [laughs]<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>You actually have one of the best PR people working for you in Jon Freeman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, he\u2019s fucking great.\u00a0 We hooked up with him through Napalm Records so we were just like, \u201cWhy don\u2019t we just hire that guy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>I love that you have a song called \u201cPhoenix Lights.\u201d\u00a0 Are you a UFO\/Alien buff at all?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah.\u00a0 I got pretty big into conspiracies and shit for a while.\u00a0 I got really into it but after a while everyone starts rolling their eyes at you because you\u2019re \u201cthat guy.\u201d The most brutal thing about that is that the more you read, the more conflicting theories there are about stuff.\u00a0 It\u2019s like every angle is there so it\u2019s like, who knows?<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man, we could talk about this shit for hours!\u00a0 I\u2019m so into Ancient Aliens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[laughs] Yeah, dude.\u00a0 That\u2019s where that all came from.\u00a0 We used to watch that while on tour.\u00a0 I just thought the story of the Phoenix Lights was a cool story.\u00a0 Nobody knows what it was but it\u2019s fucking sick.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>You should do a song called \u201cThe Battle of Los Angeles.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[laughs] Oh hell yeah.\u00a0 We could just have one on every album just like some sort of alien trilogy.\u00a0 You know there\u2019s that one story of a UFO landing on some military base in the UK in the forest?<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yeah, apparently some military dude touched the UFO and his brain got embedded with binary code.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was probably doing acid in the forest [laughs].<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>You guys are touring the US in the midst of all this insanity with this Orange Goblin now running our country.\u00a0 What\u2019s your take on this shit storm that\u2019s occurring in the US right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know to be honest.\u00a0 It\u2019s a really strange thing actually.\u00a0 The first show we played on this tour was in Seattle which is a pretty big hub for liberal thinking.\u00a0 I was talking to some people after the show and they were saying how fucking terrible it is.\u00a0 Then we go down to Texas, are the complete opposite but still at our show and it\u2019s really weird.\u00a0 We have a real outside perspective of it all. We see all the American stuff and get a lot of the same TV in Canada.\u00a0 It seems like rural people are tired of being shit on but on the other hand, nobody voted [laughs].\u00a0 I saw where something like 46% of the people didn\u2019t even vote so how you can you complain at all?<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>What role does metal music in general play in trying to keep some sanity in our world right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I kind of like both.\u00a0 Obviously I listen to a lot of Megadeth and stuff like that.\u00a0 For what we do, I don\u2019t think that politics bother us as much as it does some other people.\u00a0 The music we love the most is like Manowar.\u00a0 They\u2019re not out there singing about politics.\u00a0 It\u2019s just fun music.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>You guys have been at this for nearly 10 years and are even considered part of the early NWOTHM movement.\u00a0 How does it feel to be considered part of a whole new metal movement?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it\u2019s really cool.\u00a0 I remember when we were in the studio recording our first EP, our buddy had just brought the first Enforcer album over and we listened to it.\u00a0 It was so sick.\u00a0 We don\u2019t want to be called retro but at the same time, that was the thing with the label.\u00a0 All the ads were retro, retro, retro 80\u2019s fucking whatever [laughs].\u00a0 I mean, we love that stuff but it\u2019s not purposely geared towards that.\u00a0 That\u2019s just the type of music we end up writing because that\u2019s the type of music we listen to.\u00a0 It just comes to us organically which people notice.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s why I love that whole tag of New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal.\u00a0 As much as I hate genre tags, it\u2019s such an appropriate title for what bands like Striker is doing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One thing we never really did was dress super 80\u2019s like Enforcer and Skull Fist.\u00a0 Those guys are really going for that.\u00a0 It just sort of never fit with us.\u00a0 We don\u2019t dress like that outside of the band.\u00a0 It just wasn\u2019t authentic for us to do that.\u00a0 I think that was part of that \u201cretro\u201d thing.\u00a0 If you dress like that, you\u2019re going to get labeled that.\u00a0 You\u2019re wearing a Halloween costume at that point since its so clich\u00e9 now.\u00a0 I\u2019m down with it though and I think it\u2019s cool but it just doesn\u2019t fit with how we are.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ok, let\u2019s go back in time a bit.\u00a0 What was it that made a young Dan want to play music?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first thing really was that I liked playing guitar.\u00a0 The kind of guitarists I was drawn to was the shred stuff.\u00a0 We were always listening to classic rock and then I got really into the Shrapnel Records stuff like Cacophony.\u00a0 It\u2019s all super guitar stuff but it\u2019s also like good classic heavy metal.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>But you\u2019re a fucking powerhouse singer.\u00a0 When did you find that voice?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[laughs] Thanks.\u00a0 Well, I was in choir for a bit when I was a kid but I don\u2019t know if that counts.\u00a0 The only reason I started singing was because nobody else wanted to.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t sing and play guitar at the same time so I just said, \u201cFuck it.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just sing.\u201d\u00a0 At the time I was in another band playing guitar and that band disbanded and then Striker was the one.\u00a0 I feel like a lot of people get into it that way.\u00a0 They start out wanting to play guitar and for whatever reason they do something else.\u00a0 I was never really looking to be a singer.\u00a0 Sometimes is sucks [laughs].\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to be a singer, especially being on tour when you get sick.\u00a0 It\u2019s so easy to fuck yourself up.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you still play guitar a good bit?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah.\u00a0 I still write a lot of riffs and I\u2019ve done some solos on the albums.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you could sing for any metal band for just one night, who would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, Iron Maiden.\u00a0 We actually did a cover band where we did all of Live After Death.\u00a0 We practiced for a couple of months and did shows and we never did it again for whatever reason.\u00a0 It was sick.\u00a0 It was so much fun.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you could have dinner with any singer alive or dead who would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Man, that\u2019s a hard one.\u00a0 I feel like I would probably have steak with Dio [laughs].\u00a0 It\u2019s funny because I\u2019m drinking a Guinness right now because there\u2019s this old video of Dio in the studio just hanging out and drinking a Guinness.\u00a0 I was like, \u201cDamn.\u00a0 I guess I should drink Guinness.\u201d [laughs]<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last year, some of the elders of metal were making comments about there not being any bands to carry the torch for them when they\u2019re gone yet I\u2019m talking to one right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think a lot of people don\u2019t get that metal is super popular right now.\u00a0 There are some younger bands that are super popular but they\u2019re just not doing the traditional style of metal.\u00a0 Like metalcore, it\u2019s the same spirit there.\u00a0 I just think that on the spectrum of metal, there\u2019s a magnifying glass on a different area of it right now.\u00a0 I mean, those bands are out there doing it and playing huge shows.\u00a0 Bands like Avenged Sevenfold and Volbeat are fucking huge and playing stadiums where we\u2019re from.\u00a0 In terms of like thrash metal, I don\u2019t think a band can get that big because the spotlight isn\u2019t on that genre anymore.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think it might also be a lack of \u201cear to the ground\u201d or something like that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah.\u00a0 I mean, fuck, everybody gets that way after a while.\u00a0 Like how you might listen to the same albums over and over again.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to find new music unless you\u2019re really trying to find new shit.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to just say, \u201cWell, I\u2019ve already got 100 albums, I\u2019ll just listen to one of these.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>It just drives me nuts when I see bands like you guys, Holy Grail, and Enforcer out there killing it and then Judas Priest takes out a band like Steel Panther as their support act.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it\u2019s all about money.\u00a0 A lot of this shit is.\u00a0 Man, we\u2019d love to open for those fucking bands like Iron Maiden but man, it\u2019s probably a buy on tour (when an artist pays to open for a band) and it probably has nothing to do with Iron Maiden.\u00a0 I mean, in the end it\u2019s a business.\u00a0 It would be really cool if those bands were able to put their foot down and pick their own opening bands.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you ever thought about what a Striker show would look like if you guys were headlining an arena?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[laughs] Oh yeah.\u00a0 Man, we would want to do something like Iron Maiden, Dio, shows like that.\u00a0 Crazy stage set ups with a dragon coming out of the stage and shit like that.\u00a0 Something like that would be so sick and bad ass.\u00a0 We\u2019d want to do something totally ridiculous like that.\u00a0 When we opened for Metallica in Edmonton, their stage was insane.\u00a0 It was fucking great.\u00a0 Good for them for pushing the boundaries of what a stage show can be.\u00a0 They\u2019re still interested in putting on an awesome show.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting to open for Metallica in an arena is pretty fucking huge.\u00a0 What did you get out of that experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That it\u2019s really sweet to play in an arena [laughs].\u00a0 It was crazy.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>I bet your merch sales were pretty good that night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[laughs] Yeah, they were pretty good.\u00a0 The Metallica guys were super chill.\u00a0 They just let us do whatever.\u00a0 They came by and talked to us a whole bunch and they signed my guitar.\u00a0 Man, people shit on Metallica but they were so nice.\u00a0 They talked to us the whole time.\u00a0 Maybe that was part of their agenda or something but it seemed pretty genuine.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the least metal thing about you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That I love listening to rap music.\u00a0 I mean, I think that anybody who grew up being a teenager in the late 90\u2019s, early 2000\u2019s, rap was huge and as a kid I was just sucked into it.\u00a0 I really enjoy it.\u00a0 It\u2019s just different.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s nice to not listen to metal, especially if you\u2019re touring and you\u2019re always listening to it.\u00a0 Sometimes you just need a break and need to listen to something totally different.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s play word association.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to name 5 singers and I want you to tell me the first word that comes to your mind.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Bruce Dickinson<\/strong>: Garbage bag pants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geoff Tate<\/strong>: Saxaphone<\/p>\n<p><strong>Udo Dirkschneider<\/strong>: German<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vince Neil<\/strong>: Simon Fallon, our guitar player [laughs]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Axl Rose<\/strong>: White leather jacket<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is one metal album that nobody should ever go through life without owning?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Street Ready by Leatherwolf.\u00a0 That album is so sick and nobody knows about it.\u00a0 It took me forever to actually listen to it.\u00a0 It\u2019s such a mountain of work to get through all of these old 80\u2019s metal bands.\u00a0 That album just shreds so hard and I feel like they were victim of bad timing or something.\u00a0 I always feel a connection with those guys because I saw a YouTube comment that was like, \u201cI saw this band play to 5 people in 1989 and it was awesome.\u201d\u00a0 I was like, \u201cDamn.\u00a0 Everybody goes through that.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s just the nature of what it is.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>If Hollywood was to make a movie about you, who would play you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brendan Frasier!<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>If I wasn\u2019t a musician, I would be _________________.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would want to work in a studio.\u00a0 I mean, I\u2019ve thought about it before but I would love to work in a studio.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lot of work and you really have to be a nerd about it.\u00a0 I recorded our last two albums and it\u2019s a lot of work but I didn\u2019t mix it.\u00a0 That\u2019s some hard shit to do.<\/p>\n<p>==================================================<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan, this was fun dude.\u00a0 Thanks so much for doing this interview and good luck on the rest of the tour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Right on, Don.\u00a0 Thanks a lot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on Striker, head over to <a 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