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D.P. return to death row Wow look at that school old school school brutal brutal it is produced by Jamie Jamie just that's exactly what we were going for man I mean you know I've said this a bunch about the Motorhead crews and Jamie I did his podcast it's like man we got to do a record you got to use that heaviness like on jugulator and on you know what was that other band I had beyond fear and I have so many bands I can't remember and so ten years later first of all he did the D. Snyder record since then and then I was like man those things are fantastic I mean that those D. Snyder records were so good I love D and I love twisted sister in the 80s and I was like man this is great so anyway see I did his podcast probably to promote the KK's priest record and he's like okay 25 years of jugulator is coming up we've got to do it man and he starts sending me ideas and was like this you know listen guys you're only doing six songs so you know we're gonna do a ten full-length record coming up probably obviously it's gonna have more flavors you kind of get a taste of it there's three fast heavy songs on this record especially and I can't imagine out of the ten song records or any more but this record is great and it and it came together so fast like vocally I just I've sang these songs and flew through a man he would laugh he would laugh they would send me ideas and send me the songs they would be in the studio after I did one song and another one then he's like in the morning he'd send me one or even at night and by noon the computer would ding in a studio and they would go there's Ripper's vocals he's done it was no fun you know because it's just you know there's a it's like you said it's heavy but it's still melodic the vocals are you know me when people I laugh we've talked about this ton in the past people always go you're trying he's trying to sound like this guy this guy every time I hear me sing I don't think there's anybody that sounds like me you know I sound like me you know and yeah and this is you know it's it's it's a throwback you know when I grew up I listened to priest maiden deal metal church sabotage but I also one of my top favorite bands was anthrax and testament and you know metallic and slayer so I had all that kind of and when you have a voice like me I pretty much can sing whatever's thrown at me and it fits but this just sounds this was perfect I was so in love with it when I started doing it yeah you know what I take away from listening to it you know I would say this is you know what it's kind of less of the priest the falsettos and more of the singing right I think you're you're actually just singing more and you know probably a new revenge meets K case priest sort of in somewhere in there you know beyond fear because you know it's funny about the beyond fear record besides scream machine yeah that that was the last song written to actually kind of prove a point when I wrote scream machine was like you know priest should have me right with them and then I wrote scream machine to go here's a song that priest should have had right had me right with him but the rest of the song everybody's record everybody was complaining there's not that much high notes you know every record I do is different and high notes are there's great high notes on this on this new EP and it's in the background it's just not high singing it's more high notes and high screams my my falsettos and high notes right now are my voice in general and my high notes especially are better than they've ever been in my life I mean I can't I don't know what happened I don't know if it's the you know I finally started doing crystal meth or whatever it may headline right there the crystals must be good for no so this record you know who knows on the next maybe more high stuff but what I like to do is sing high notes I mean I like to sing anyway I've said this even to you guys before I I'm singing with versatility and in characters I mean I grew up listening to Dio and Halford and sabotage so I like to sing not just one way whether it's a death metal thing underneath of it high notes on top of it you know whatever it needs I love to do it well it's a perfect example right and your revenge you're actually just I kind of like it when you're just singing and you just kind of you know space out those highs right those died though the head voice kind of falsetto I like this I think you brilliantly sing on this album I think it's not that we're promoting this album today but I'm double I always talk about that I'll want to do these interviews for this new one because silent cage sounds like a song that should have been on the new revenge record it really sounds like that kind of tune but the singing on this records a little more aggressive it but it also has tons of vocals that sound you know similar to the to the new revenge record I mean as I've gotten the order the problem is you get penciled into singing high notes you know everybody looks at me and say and then they compare you to other people I'm like I'm pretty certain like oh he sounds like Rob I'm pretty certain there's people doing high notes before Rob Ian Gillin and other you know what I mean the hell Dion and the Belmont Dion was singing Frankie Valley huh Frankie Valley in the four seasons yes you know what I mean so it's but I I love to just sing however this what the song needs you know and if you can hear my career I mean listen I've never sang so many high notes it into three tremors it's a scream fest but it's purposely done that way it's purposely made to be over the top screaming metal you know something like a new revenge or the you know the new KK's priest is gonna be killer man it's it's heavier and but anyways is I can't be any happier yeah the new ones the new one a lot of vocals remind me of stuff from this solo EP there you go so I can't wait to get it but this doing the solo EP I'm excited to start working on the next ten songs for it you know so it's the band is fantastic and you know Jamie's ideas it's been great you know listen to the album I you just answered the question I had because you know we're all getting older we were talking before we started taping you know and and I'm listening to this album when you're screams your voice it's it's unbelievable you know we're we're getting older you're still able to do it so we we know the reason now it's crystal meth but yeah it's surprising just to say it is that I was gonna you know because that stuff just works wonders I mean listen mind the doctor prescribed I mean he's on the corner of 6th and 7th Street but well I know but I yeah listen my voice it's funny because I kind of lost it for five or six years and just wasn't up to par you know probably 50 40% I could still get things done but it was like pulling teeth now I have no fear of walking on stage I just did in the summer this is when I know it was back I went on a Latin America tour at 16 shows like 18 days and it was brutal on every night man my voice was just like I said especially the high notes when you come to the concerts now they're probably people are probably thinking oh my god just stop singing high notes because they just go longer and stronger and I'm like I'm just going off because again like I said people want to hear that right there's some people they're like that's that's what I want to hear and there's other people that want to hear that heaviness but my voice feels as good as ever I've been singing so much in the studio for I just did a couple merciful fates songs for somebody and what what's the song Satan's seems fall Satan's fall and I I'm thinking it's alright you know it's probably okay because I don't want to sound like King Diamond high notes I don't want to sound like as low as I want to still be my regular voice I don't want to be you know I want to be different but I sent it to the guy need any message back he's like this is the best merciful fates song version of it I've heard will you do another one I'm like okay you know it's up but it's in the past I would have been like hmm man I don't know about them high notes now the high notes come out on the first take every high note like on the EP when I did him battled and it's got to him it's got the high note first take on every single one I doubled them take on every note every time so I'm just like well I'm saying this and tomorrow I'll get the Canadian jinx and I'll probably lose my voice so now like if you case let's say your case of Canadian beer it'll it'll fix everything I'm gonna I don't drink that much but that would be a nice treat I know the taxes and the shipping will be really expensive I can probably buy about this but I just buy it at the local grocery store and I'll say you guys you can pay me the money and I love you Midwest guys you know we had Mark Barlow on about probably a year ago at the same time around the Christmas season and you guys always have the tree and the decorations and it's always nice to see I'm at my my brother and sister in law's house right now I don't have you know once I started doing crystal meth I don't have anything he's living in a car okay so you have this EP now you're coming out with another album of ten songs that that's the announcement right yeah so is it gonna be within the same sort of style you know just a continuation of what you're doing or you're just completely going to lend you on us or what let me tell you something first I'm at my brother's sister in law's house but my house does have Christmas decorations can I just get that point out there yes oh and I don't want to sound grumpy I'm just here it's fine to make sure you know okay what was the question again because I talked over you like the question was about your PayPal account now you want to send us money okay the next album it's gonna be ten songs is that a continuation of what you're doing or you're just gonna sort of go off on another tangent no it'll be this you know again there'll be more layers because there's ten songs you know I think this one we wanted to come out of the gate pretty brutal anyways but I think a great idea that you can get is you know there's gonna be a fat some fast songs on it's gonna have some old kind of thrash and heavy metal and but then when you'll have songs like Silent Cage my favorite is Heroes Dare that's my favorite song on the record because it just kind of depicts it all you know it's kind of right in the middle there and it's heavy but I you know it really it's one song at a time you know you kind of there's nothing that can't be on it is it done is that album done the ten songs are you have you written the songs yet no but they'll go those guys are writing stuff now Jamie and you know the band guys Nikki Nikki Belmore and Charlie Belmore on Nikki's Nikki is on drums and it and produced it and then his brother on guitars and Christopher Baudet is on bass they will start putting it together and they'll send me some stuff and but they I know for a fact they have songs written already so you're right you're writing you're writing the lyrics I was all right you know I'll write some lyrics Jamie's a wizard at everything I mean the guys you know he'll send me vocal ideas not be like that's so good he's such a good singer too it's kind of kind of amazing so he'll send you and I like it this way because I want to make the best record so I like to write I like those guys to write it's pretty amazing to see what they what they've done on that first record it was fantastic so your new nicknames one take Tim one take Tim and that's that goes for just not singing over and out Owens yeah I really like the night take it back because it's got that sort of tribal mosh pit kind of vibe you know you could see a mosh pit sort of like you know just everyone just kind of going to that tribal thrash beat right yeah yeah and I like Silent Cage because it's the big hit of the album we'll call it that that big if there was a radio hit that would be it yeah right you know and actually the whole thing's great it is more thrashy it is more thrashy it in general especially well guy while we're alive was a fantastic opener right so that that was the first one I sang to in that high note that was like it starts with that ripper high note but you know the night take it back which I always want to call it take back the night because that's that was what it was originally called and it that when the guitar saw if it reminds me a mega that just had this whole mega that five so that one was the one that actually I it took me a little more to sing it more because I wanted to make sure because it's so fast but I wanted to be kind of kind of a mixed beat the verses between clean and raspy at time so I had to mix it so I actually send them a version and then I redid it and send I got a different mic and send them another version and but but yeah that's it's you know it's funny people I think Silent Cage gets a lot of favorite votes but heroes dare gets a lot of favorite votes and the title of it return to death row votes from people let's talk about this album cover it's all the slack you're getting on this I love it I love the album cover it's it's car it's got that cartoon sort of dark cartoon vibe to it right whose idea was it well at first of all it's probably the best besides everybody going with the shocker thing and originally that wasn't the idea the originally he sketched out me in an electric chair I mean what if you put someone in an electric chair and that's to cover the album unfortunately if you don't if you wouldn't have put the orange jumpsuit on I guess but then it becomes oh it looks like shocker well then it became tribute when he did the orange jumps you go let's kind of make it this vibe it's probably the most the best received album cover I've got brilliant it's brilliant and I'll bring it down for you so you've got two army guys right with two rifles yep on one side you got the guy with the vaccine on the other side right or whatever it is I guess the lethal injection but you're on an electric chair I don't know why you'd get a lethal injection and then you got the sort of like the the politician sitting on the left hand side well I think they're making and a noose don't forget the noose I think they're just gonna make kill me I guess I mean yeah I want to make sure you're gone and try to kill my career for ages so I guess they're just trying to make sure that they get it um no it's great Dan Goldsworthy is the artist and I wrote they sent me to sketches first I thought man brilliant this is gonna be great you know it's it was great I have it I like to release it and then this is what's funny is I was recorded I recorded and battled and I went directly to the Latin America then I shot the video on the first show which I didn't even know the song hardly because I just recorded it and left and then he Jamie says we need you to take pictures of your face because we want to he wants to draw it on on the thing and everything so I went into the bathroom in my hotel and I had some with my hat and glasses on because it's kind of my look right um you know did that then I took the hat off then I put the hat on I had sunglasses and Jamie goes he's not going to use the hat and sunglasses or the sunglasses nobody is in an electric chair with sunglasses on and I said I am I didn't say that. Dan that's what he worked up and it's great because I wear these Dylan sunglasses and they're a fantastic company Dylan Dylan Optics and they're like frosted and they're great and so he made them and they look just like it then he shows me and I'm like hey you forgot this I didn't have this tattoo and I said you forgot this tattoo and this you know you should put them and then he sends me back the new drawing and it's got the tattoo and the stuff and I'll tell you it was I'll tell you where you can see the artwork really good if you watch the video the the lyric video of Return to Death Row on yeah it that video is so such a it's one of my favorite lyric videos it's got the artwork and it's got everything's done it's so good man it's really great I'm sure there's probably some people upset that somebody's holding a gun but then on the other hand I can get with those people say well the other guy's getting ready to give me a he's vaccinating me like that's right so that's a good thing yeah like you know that's my booster oh my god okay um KK's priest so we spoke to a Les Binks uh I know KK's made some release uh he's sent some statements out that you know he's he's in the process of I guess finishing the album uh where are you at have you done your vocals for the new KK Priest album I have I just finished the last one a couple days I'm sure I'll have to go back and we do a few things on them um maybe add some parts whatever I mean I sent a lot of vocals it's I really like it I mean and I'm the music I had was you know it's still needed guitar parts and uh which is already done because they just sent them to me early stages which they've already added stuff him and AJ's been in the studio doing it it's it's really close you know I mean now it's really in the mixing process I think and then you know producing the stuff and moving some stuff around but I actually really like it I think it's it it's uh next level from from the last one I think the last one was the perfect record I love this album yeah last year was on our list of our top 10 albums of 2021 I think it was great I think it's a great album you know and it grows on you over time this album like I think what I said to people guys is that when they would say what kind of sounds like priest and I think I told you this before but it's like no it sounds like KK downing I mean I don't I mean that's what he's written this next one though I think is that and beyond I think again vocally it's got a little heavier it's got tons of highs still but it's got just edgier vocals I think it's just you know it's got some melodic beautiful vocals um but it's just edgier I think and it was so I enjoyed doing this one uh a lot what was the initial feedback off the first time what did you remember most of a fan reaction off when the first KK priest came out uh the name stupid and um I still get uh you know you he's trying to sound like howford I'm thinking could you just get over that man I just yeah can we move on it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard I mean I've been singing forever and I just sound I just sing like me but but uh it was a really good response I mean people people really loved it you know and um it was nice to have that and I know kins you know excited would put he was excited putting that out and I know he's really excited about getting this next one out you know what actually you nailed it because I think even when you started sort of getting that success you know early on to the ice earth and priest you always had your own voice even though you sound you could do the howford stuff but you always had your distinct yeah I know that's ripper singing there you know that always you retain that at least that's how I hear it right because you can sing a song good uh and live especially I've prided myself on always singing good live doesn't mean you sound like that first just because you're singing them I mean it's just it's the strangest thing it's funny because when I was in priest the people who didn't like me because I didn't sound like rob howford they wanted so you put a record out you know listen people just love to complain I mean they complain that I wear a baseball hat then I take the baseball hat off on stage in her fist because I don't have the baseball hat on um they they say I have no range when I read people like he's not a good singer he has no range he's no good live I'm like have you ever if he doesn't put anything out he doesn't write anything he doesn't put his own record like what if I mean how many I put five records out last year I mean what else can I that's how I was gonna start this interview the heart is working man in the business ripper always I mean next next the next the blaze Bailey right he there's a there's a race that's going on there let's listen I make a living as a musician so I have fun doing it but it's it's fun to to finally put this ripper you know record out I mean really it's it's uh and the next year is going to be pretty swamped because um KK's priest is you know now we're finally going to put this record out and tour you know so the plan is to just tour non-stop for for a year or two when we talked to KK uh I guess it may be less than a year ago me and Alan he was telling us he was kind of working on the next album but there was still COVID sort of lingering right and yeah but but I mean are we talking about like okay there was one festival date that was announced at Alcatraz right the belgium festival which is fantastic yeah are we talking about just festival dates here are we talking about you know you're hitting the road north america europe well I think the plan is to hit the road I don't think he wants to just do festivals because you know you it's too hard you know it's fine for me to do festivals if I show up and there's a band waiting for me and then I can just jump on stage but you know it's just hard to just go and pop and do festivals here and there so I think it's the plan is definitely to to tour you know the plan is definitely to hit the road and and do stuff so hopefully it all comes together I know that you know we have an agency looking into that so it's all in the hands of everybody so I'm just hoping that you know none of us get monkey pox or whatever else is going to be the latest and greatest yeah I mean but remember from the album cover I'm vaccinated that's very good you're gonna be vaccinated you're not actually getting all my acting trying to get you all a vaccinated booster I've got them all I mean traveling like that going to different countries you know I do have you ever been to China you know it's funny I've only landed in China to connect to connect on a plane so I guess I have so I but I do like I did say the holiday and express one so I have Chinese food so that's kind of almost that's close it's really funny you say that though because touring solo and I get the different bands to to back me up in all these countries I can't believe I've never went to Japan or China and done something something like that you know because it's so easy to be done so I'm gonna have to get a hold of a manager to get me there. Anvil they went to China and there's a few other bands I mean I'm sure it's not easy you know dealing with promoters there and dealing with the locals like you know the the sort of the guys who are putting stuff together but I'm sure there's a lot of metal fans there. Well I've been there from Africa to you know Israel to you know just name it I've been anywhere you with Beirut you know just Dubai I mean as odd places that I've went traveled by myself to play shows so I'm you know China would be it would be perfect you know I would I got some friends Neil Zaza guitar player extraordinary local guy here he's been all over there so he goes here a lot that's cool that's cool what's on your Christmas reading list Tim you're a big reader I'm not a big reader I used to be a big reader but then with all these you know Netflix and all the other things that are out there now I've become lazy where I just watch I don't even know if I can read anymore because it's been so long so I you know I you know it's funny last thing I read was Ronnie Dio's book which was just fantastic such a great read sucked you in right away and you know so I but I'm not a big reader did you like the documentary? Well it's funny I just started I'm just finishing it today because I had to stop because my eyes were all teary I'm like I'm not getting on here because I'm at the end of it and I was supposed to go to the premiere and my girlfriend and I had something come up and I couldn't go and then I went on tour when it came out so kind of you know blew it and I just figured I better watch it now and just I think it's so good you know he's such a he was such a great guy Wendy's such an amazing person and it's it's amazing to watch it and sad in itself you know it was well done I saw it now and you saw it right I haven't seen it yet no oh you haven't seen it I was very well done very well done and you know what if you read the book if you read the book and you watch the documentary they sort of complement each other waiting for it to come out on vhs aren't you yeah beta beta beta max it's flashing 12 at his house I just you know the new the new EP which is on martyrstore.com martyrs oh yes yes we should say that yes dot net I'm sorry martyrstore.net Tim yeah the different combinations people can they still get those combinations like the t-shirt the what about that there's all kinds of bundles you know james loves to do that stuff and and a cool ripper hat you know I actually would wear it now because I don't wear any my merch when it said Tim Ripper Owens but I'll wear something now that just says ripper because it's a little different but I should have been wearing now he's gonna be pissed at me but um it's got all kinds of great bundles you know I was just getting ready to say that we actually have it you know on cd and vinyl but we also have it on cassette for sale and it's funny because someone says do you have a cassette player and said hell I don't have a cd player anymore but uh it's the bundles t-shirts um you know stickers uh little 12 by 12 poster things it's really it's it's got a great whole bunch and you got to scroll down because jamie has now moved all of his stuff up top because it's the holidays probably so jamie said we're putting Tim at the bottom oh fine and uh scroll down no I have to tell everybody first page I'm not so you have to hit view all and then keep scrolling and and you keep scrolling because he's got a lot of a lot of stuff up there but it sounds like you should be sending some money to some someone's PayPal account yeah get your back up to the top of the page that's right that's how it works that we know I bought I bought um am I all right now all coming did I look good okay yeah yeah I am not good say hi brows all right I um yeah I I ordered my record on um or cd on amazon I always order anything I put out I'll go to amazon or whatever and buy the cd and uh I ordered it like three weeks ago whenever I did it and I said you're gonna get it january 11th and I'm like what I mean it was like the day it came out or actually it was before the official day it was released so and so I messaged the guys and I had fans tell me the same thing man we just ordered there's it says january 18th so I messaged jamie and then they found out that the first batch to amazon got in they sold out oh that's good it'd been 30 but anyways uh no it was I had the same experience I hate to say this but in Canada on amazon I I you know I ordered it still waiting right so but it's okay it's okay I'm patient but which now we sent him a crapload more and then here's what's happened then I went and looked to buy it again and it said you'll get it december 20th or something and I went oh I'll buy it again because I want it I was just giving my parents and then even though I have them in in my in my room I the one that I ordered that was coming to january 11th moved back down now I'm getting it like tomorrow so it's kind of like oh okay so check yours maybe it'll change yeah yeah yeah uh you know one one album that me and Alan you know glorious burden I'm just gonna say that that was to me the vocal delivery of your career you know I mean yeah it's you know we we've talked about this many many times before yeah it's just it's just like that was like the highs the melody the just the brutality of it all that's for me and Alan if we have anything in common me and Alan it's the love of that album it's a special album I think it in your career I think the Gettysburg piece is amazing vocally I actually like framing Armageddon better I like the record really yes because it's it you know it was more me and some of those songs that you know I just think it's a better record myself but when you talk about some a few of the songs um but the Gettysburg piece the three days of Gettysburg I learned more making that record about history than I ever did in school and you know I'm teachers not anymore obviously they're not going to do this but I have teachers that tell me um they would teach they would play the the you know the Gettysburg songs to their class and they could learn it easier and they said they you know obviously they're they're never going to play ice shirts in their class anymore but um but uh they would do that it was always cool to hear it when the teachers would tell me that you know I thought it was pretty cool yeah yeah on a last note is there anything else you wanted to say yeah well you know anybody can can check out what I'm doing on all my social media pages facebook instagram um twitter snapchat whatever the hell it is you can get a home America's most wanted only fans page cameo cameo well I do have my cameo so you know that you whatever you need get get a hold of me on cameo and listen I'm going to tell you guys something I'm taking some time off so I'm going to plug something that I do when I have time off from the road I should rest right I should not do anything but I love the same people's music because I am a musician so they can get a hold of me at ripper vocals at gmail.com ripper vocals at gmail.com if they want me to guess on a song you know I do this non-stop all over the world I haven't been as much lately because I've been touring non-stop but it's so fun to do it I make a living doing music and then I get to do all I have versions of like death metal hardcore I did a song that they could check out from Jesus Christ superstar that's out I mean I've done so many different things so but they can just shout out but everybody spread the word about the EP yeah is there any project you you won't do uh yeah so I've been giving stuff that I won't do but uh well especially if they're not going to pay me enough but I um listen if it's a lot of money I'll do anything vocally he had to like throw that in at the end vocally yeah vocally the messages I would get now hamster whatever but I am gerbils I got a tube and a gerbil but listen I did a record that's out now you guys know pyramid uh it's um kind of like uh pro i just did a second record with him and that's how it was just a guest singer and uh I wrote a lot of the songs on that record with him you know so it was uh it's fun you know last year I did so many different records and it's just it's fun to do yeah any Canadian dates have you booked anything in Canada yet I haven't no I need to be nice to to get there um I'm like I said I'm gonna start being pretty busy so I'd love to do a little solo run through Canada like I do with the the drover brothers I'd like to do a solo you know and uh I just gotta make sure none of my band mates here are criminals because then I can't get in you know so yeah yeah I mean it's number one on the list listen you can't get in the Canada if you you know anything in the corner or something but when you live here it's okay but when you just can't get in probably coming back here I know our borders are very similar on on being strict you know so well unless you're coming in through the Mexican border then it's you know it's not quite as strict here well I mean you're you're I'm assuming you're you're you're pretty clean because if you're flying all over the world and they're letting you in you must be good to go right I don't have anything what's sad at a DUI from when they were 18 30 years ago you know you gotta get all you gotta pay all the stuff and get paperwork it's like come on you know I mean don't you got more to worry about than somebody you got a DUI 30 years ago okay yeah right yeah so I'm pretty I don't have it as of now the the Canadian whammy's probably gonna get me again I'll probably walk out here to luckily I haven't got you know because all my presence I got this year I've shoplifted so luckily I haven't gotten caught feeling any that's right and you've got a good doctor on the corner of what street again I think it was 8th and 7th and 6th and 7th street so he's good he's got a little cartons a hot dog stand but then he's you know he doesn't sell wieners if he sells good the good stuff he's got the good stuff yeah yeah yeah on that note just to make sure because I don't do drugs any and I very seldomly drink so that's probably why my voice is in good shape well you know and yes you listen to this album and you can witness how good a shape your voice is in that's for sure so well thank you thank you and congratulations on the weight loss too that's what we're talking about right before you got on yeah Tim's a awesome weight there you know he's on a 90 days in jail will do that to you all right man appearing appearing soon on television 90 days in jail or Tim Ripper Oren's yep can't wait to see you can't wait to see you with a KK's priest man I think that's going to be the highlight of the year wherever you're playing always good talking to you and let's do it person next time you bet all the best for the holidays oh we still got to take that picture of you in my kitchen with food like blaze yes we do remember that talk about it all right all right man talk soon bye