{"id":17076,"date":"2017-05-10T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17076"},"modified":"2017-05-10T06:51:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T10:51:19","slug":"interview-with-municipal-wastes-ryan-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17076","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Municipal Waste’s Ryan Waste: “Judas Priest was the first band that I got obsessed with. Screaming for Vengeance is probably the one that made me say, \u201cWow. This is what heavy metal is.”\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Municipal Waste is back and after much demand from their diehard fan base, the band is set to release their long awaited new album Slime and Punishment.\u00a0 Municipal Waste recently took a whole fucking day to drink some coffee, nurse their hangovers, and do full day of press.\u00a0 I had never spoken with Ryan Waste before so I was pretty fucking pumped to do so.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ryan is a killer fucking guy and is a real salt of the earth kind of dude.\u00a0 We talked about Municipal Waste\u2019s new album, his other band Bat, collecting records, and why the band Toto is more metal than most metal bands.\u00a0 This interview was an absolute fucking blast and I hope you all dig the shit out of this one!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ryan, thanks so much for taking the time to talk today.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hey man!\u00a0 No problem at all.\u00a0 It\u2019s cool to talk to you.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve talked to Tony like 4 times already and today will be the 5th<\/sup> so it\u2019s nice to finally talk to someone new from the band!<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Laughs]\u00a0 I hear ya man.\u00a0 Thanks for having me.<\/p>\n

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What question do you get asked so much that if you hear it again you’ll punch Tony Foresta in the tits?<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Laughs] Well, I haven\u2019t got it in these interviews yet but it\u2019s \u201cWhat\u2019s the craziest thing you\u2019ve done on tour?\u201d\u00a0 I would just start making up shit and everyone believed it.\u00a0 Every interview you read, if you see that question, it might not have happened dude [laughs].\u00a0 It does always seem to involve celebrities to be honest.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been five years since the release of The Fatal Feast.\u00a0 Was that break just something that was necessary for you guys to come back strong?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, everyone thinks that everything is planned which it\u2019s not, especially in this band [laughs].\u00a0 We\u2019re all creative and we all need to spread our wings.\u00a0 A lot of us have other projects.\u00a0 That\u2019s not necessarily why we took a break but when you\u2019re touring non-stop and putting out records in between, it\u2019s going to burn you out.\u00a0 We just fell into this cycle and it was starting to feel like a forced routine.\u00a0 We were still doing it but it just didn\u2019t seem like the music was coming out as inspired as it should have been.\u00a0 We never stopped writing.\u00a0 We just kind of took a different approach.<\/p>\n

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Municipal Waste has also added a 2nd<\/sup> guitarist, Nick Poulos to the fold.\u00a0 How has that changed things for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s so easy.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been working with this guy for almost 10 years like in every other band we\u2019ve played in together.\u00a0 We understand each other\u2019s playing.\u00a0 He\u2019s got to follow me [laughs].\u00a0 He puts my guitar in my monitor and I just play what I\u2019m doing so as long as he\u2019s following my shit we\u2019re fine.\u00a0 I tried to put in my monitor on stage right but after one show I just took him out of monitor [laughs].\u00a0 It\u2019s actually pretty seamless and if anything it\u2019s better.\u00a0 For leads, I love it because now I can just handle rhythm.\u00a0 I do some of the old leads and we trade off a little bit but he\u2019s going to be taking the brunt of the lead guitar from here on out.\u00a0 We were never really a lead guitar band because I\u2019m actually a bass player playing guitar so I like to focus on rhythm.\u00a0 Just to have someone playing lead now, I\u2019m like, \u201cHe\u2019s got the job.\u00a0 I\u2019m off duty.\u201d [Laughs]\u00a0 There are plenty of reasons why it\u2019s good.<\/p>\n

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During that break, you had your own thing going on called Bat which was fucking incredible.\u00a0 How did that come to be and will we see more from Bat in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks, man.\u00a0 I\u2019m in the thick of it with them.\u00a0 We\u2019re going on tour after the summer on the West coast.\u00a0 We\u2019re still writing stuff and we have a new EP coming out.\u00a0 There\u2019s no rest for me.\u00a0 Bat is like the old man band I want to do, like Motorhead.\u00a0 I want to grow old playing bass with that band so you\u2019re going to see Bat sticking around for a long time.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019d love you to bring Bat to Atlanta.\u00a0 I need to see you fuckers live.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, we definitely need to play Atlanta.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got some other people there that have said the same thing so we\u2019ll definitely make that happen.<\/p>\n

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You are an avid vinyl collector.\u00a0 What is your most coveted piece?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Man, there are so many.\u00a0 I can\u2019t put just one aside.\u00a0 I was just talking to someone the other day about this.\u00a0 There\u2019s a Holy Grail record that I don\u2019t have that I\u2019m looking for.\u00a0 It\u2019s this band from the UK called Slander and they put out a record in 1990 or \u201991 called Careless Talk Costs Lives and it\u2019s the hardest shit to find.\u00a0 They limited it to like 500 copies.\u00a0 Records that came out on that cusp year are pretty hard to find because there wasn\u2019t a lot of vinyl being put out.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen it go for at least $200 bucks or so.<\/p>\n

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You could go the <\/strong>EBay route of if you\u2019re like me, you\u2019d rather find it in person.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s me.\u00a0 I like to find stuff in person at record stores.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a big internet record buyer.\u00a0 I did try to buy it online once though.\u00a0 I try not to go over $100.00 when I\u2019m buying a record but I offered like $130.00 and someone ended up buying it for like 200 and something bucks.\u00a0 It\u2019s just crazy.\u00a0 They won\u2019t even re-issue it.\u00a0 Sometimes I\u2019ll just settle for a re-issue so I can have it on vinyl because I DJ in bars.\u00a0 I bring my records with me.\u00a0 I flew my records to LA two weeks ago.\u00a0 There was like $1,000.00 worth of shit in my carryon just so I could spin records in two bars in LA [laughs].\u00a0 That\u2019s how much I care about them.\u00a0 I mean, I care about my records living and breathing.\u00a0 I like using my records.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care about keeping them in mint condition and filing them away like a fucking nerd that never wants to touch their records [laughs].\u00a0 I like to take them out to bars and play them for people.<\/p>\n

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I had a holy grail as well.\u00a0 Mine was the Captain Beyond debut album with the 3-D cover.\u00a0 You can buy one on <\/strong>EBay any day but I held out and after like 7 years I finally found a copy in a record store here in Atlanta.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh man, I have that one too.\u00a0 \u201cRaging River of Fear\u201d is the fucking jam on that album.\u00a0 That record is just awesome.\u00a0 I found that one in a store also.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad you found one, man.\u00a0 It\u2019s so great.\u00a0 It\u2019s like Deep Purple on crack with Jimi Hendrix on guitar.<\/p>\n

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What was the metal band that changed your life and made you say, \u201cI want to do that\u201d?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Probably Judas Priest.\u00a0 That was the first band that I got obsessed with.\u00a0 Sad Wings of Destiny is my favorite record but I remember getting Painkiller when it came out.\u00a0 Me and brother bought that album and that\u2019s obviously that next level of Priest.\u00a0 It\u2019s funny.\u00a0 The stuff I liked early on is probably the last stuff I listen to now.\u00a0 Of course I still love Painkiller but it\u2019s the speed metal version of Priest but it\u2019s that early Priest stuff that I really latched on to.\u00a0 Screaming for Vengeance is a lot more accessible but that\u2019s probably the one that made me say, \u201cWow.\u00a0 This is what heavy metal is.\u201d\u00a0 That intro\u2026 you just can\u2019t fucking beat that.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s funny because I feel that way about a few bands like Whitesnake, Deep Purple, Scorpions, and Priest.\u00a0 When I was a kid I thought their early stuff sounded so old but now that I\u2019m old, I find myself loving their earlier chapters way more than their later years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scorpions are up there for me too, big time.\u00a0 Yeah, the 70\u2019s stuff is always better.\u00a0 It takes you a while to get into it because we were around in the 70\u2019s to hear it.\u00a0 Whitesnake and their songs, \u201cOutlaw\u201d and \u201cLovehunter.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s my jam.\u00a0 I think you\u2019ve got to grow up and become an old man, or at least an old man at heart, to start really appreciating the older stuff.\u00a0 I know these younger chicks in their 20\u2019s who worship Whitesnake, Tank, and Deep Purple and I\u2019m like, \u201cDamn.\u00a0 Where were you when I was growing up?\u201d [Laughs].<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s because these younger folks have the internet and YouTube and we didn\u2019t have that shit growing up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, we did not.\u00a0 We had to go out and go to a fucking store and buy it and then check it out for the first time after buying it.\u00a0 I remember when they started putting in listening stations and that was a crazy thing because usually it was a crap shoot when you were buying an album.<\/p>\n

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I remember buying those \u201cNice Price\u201d records and taking it home and saying, \u201cMan, I hope this doesn\u2019t suck.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Laughs] Yeah.\u00a0 That was the beauty of it.\u00a0 We were taking a chance and it was kind of dangerous.\u00a0 Now, everything is at your fingertips and there\u2019s no danger to it.<\/p>\n

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I loved how you said earlier that you have to get old to appreciate that classic stuff.\u00a0 Is it kind of weird that with Municipal Waste being around for almost 17 years, you guys are pretty much the \u201cold dudes\u201d to a younger generation?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, we\u2019re old [laughs].\u00a0 Its nuts but honestly it makes me feel young playing Waste stuff.\u00a0 I started it when I was 20 and I have to harness that energy to keep it in the same formula.\u00a0 I don\u2019t listen to a whole lot of thrash metal; hardly at all.\u00a0 I know it all because it\u2019s in the back of my head and I can play it but I\u2019m not constantly being influenced by it like I was when I was younger so you have to re-harness that energy which can be hard sometimes.<\/p>\n

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You have quite the social media presence and we were talking about how the \u201crock stars\u201d of today don\u2019t have that anonymity that those of our generation had because of the accessibility.\u00a0 Do you kind of wish you could live that \u201crock star\u201d role even just for a bit?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that I would want to be a rock star; I just think it was such a simpler time back then.\u00a0 Today everyone is just staring into their phones and it\u2019s kind of disgusting.\u00a0 We\u2019re all guilty of it though; even the people complaining about it are doing it too.\u00a0 I grew up in the 80\u2019s and I remember a time without that so it would have been cool to be an adult back then.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m just so tired of seeing people watching full shows from behind their phones.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, I don\u2019t get all those people who film full shows on their phone.\u00a0 You\u2019re never going to go back and watch that.\u00a0 You\u2019re losing the experience.\u00a0 How often do you say, \u201cMan, I\u2019ve got to check out that iPhone video from the Iron Maiden concert?\u00a0 It\u2019s gonna be great!\u201d\u00a0 Never.\u00a0 Just sit there and fucking sing along and enjoy the show.\u00a0 That\u2019s what\u2019s great [laughs].\u00a0 I think a lot of it is also a bragging right.<\/p>\n

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What is the least metal thing about you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh wow.\u00a0 I mean, I listen to a lot of AOR and soft rock stuff but to me, that\u2019s metal because it\u2019s clean vocals [laughs].\u00a0 To me, clean vocals are very important.\u00a0 I love audible vocal harmonies and stuff.\u00a0 I have every Stryper record but that\u2019s metal.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know man.\u00a0 I just kind of live and breathe it.<\/p>\n

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I always tell people that I feel that the most metal thing you can do is to be openly honest about your varied taste in music.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Exactly!\u00a0 Like when people say, \u201cguilty pleasures\u201d, I don\u2019t get that.\u00a0 None of them are guilty for me.\u00a0 I love Toto.\u00a0 I have every Toto record.\u00a0 They\u2019re one of my favorite bands.\u00a0 I guess you could say that\u2019s not metal but man, if you dig deep into that band, there\u2019s even some metal in there [laughs].\u00a0 What people think is metal is fucking frat bro shit.\u00a0 This fucking \u201cthrowing the goat\u201d Satanic shit.\u00a0 That\u2019s not metal.\u00a0 Hell, Toto is more metal than that [laughs].<\/p>\n

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I just want to know when it became a thing for all the guys who beat me up in high school for liking metal all ended up as metal bands.\u00a0 Like all those meathead bands like Five Finger Death Punch and All That Remains.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Laughs] Oh yeah.\u00a0 Man, that\u2019s the least metal shit.\u00a0 Those fucking dumb bands are the least metal.\u00a0 Being a fucking tough guy is the least metal shit you can do.<\/p>\n

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Ryan, I want you to finish this sentence.\u00a0 If I wasn\u2019t a musician, I would be:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A director.<\/p>\n

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Like a porn director?<\/strong><\/p>\n

[laughs] No, like in film but there will be tits in my movie [laughs].\u00a0 Tits need to be in more movies.\u00a0 Remember when we were younger and they were always in the first scene of an R-rated movie?\u00a0 That\u2019s when you knew you had something good.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been writing a script for a long time and it\u2019s my one life goal to pull it off.\u00a0 I\u2019ve worked on a couple of movie sets and its hard work; a lot harder than being in a band.\u00a0 It\u2019s like 14 hour days and its hard work.\u00a0 I feel like I\u2019m kind of a director anyway because I\u2019m kind of a control freak, OCD person.<\/p>\n

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Ryan, this was a fucking blast dude and I\u2019m so glad we had the chance to finally talk.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, me too, Don. \u00a0Let\u2019s do this again sometime for sure.\u00a0 Thanks a lot.<\/p>\n

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