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faetooth is a four-piece doom metal band based in Los Angeles, California. They officially formed in 2019, with Ashla Chavez Razzano (she/her) on guitar & vox, Jenna Garcia (she/they) on bass & vox, Ari May (they/them) on guitar & vox, and Rah Kanan (they/them) on drums. The quartet had already been friends for several years before the band's inception, instilling the confidence necessary to navigate personal vulnerability and vast musical experimentation.
faetooth possesses the ability to bewitch listeners through trance-inducing riffs, alluring melodies, and rich lyricism that ranges from mysterious to diaristic. faetooth’s music is about the nature of the self, the natural world, and all of its enchanting mysteries.
faetooth's Remnants of the Vessel was named 2022 Heavy Metal Album of the Year by Spin Magazine
Special co-host Aidan 'Ace' Volante. Aidan (they/them) is an artist-musician who lives in Oregon and is currently a vocalist-in-training.
Host: Ken Volante (he/him). Ken loves doom metal.
Band members in episode: Ash, Ari, Jenna
faetooth is available on Bandcamp, and all streaming services.
Follow @faetooth on your favorite social media, including Instagram and their YouTube channel
For a full list of links check out https://linktr.ee/faetooth
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Transcript
Introduction of Show and Guests
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You are listening to Something Rather Than Nothing. Creator and host, Ken Volante. Editor and producer, Peter Bauer. This is Ken Volante with the Something Rather Than Nothing podcast. And really excited to have Jenna, Ari, and Ash from the great band, Faytooth.
00:00:32
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Really excited to have you on, chat art and philosophy, and also have guest host, Aiden Vellante. He's a musician and metal head. So we've got a group of metal heads here all instead.
What is Art and Its Purpose?
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So just wanted to welcome you all to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Thanks so much for having us.
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Yeah, it's a great pleasure reaching you from down in LA. We're up in Oregon, up in Oregon. And I wanted to start the show by asking you about art. And when I ask artists about art, you spend so much time and you're so busy creating. You dedicate a huge chunk of your life to it. And one of the questions I ask is,
00:01:27
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What is art and what is it that you're trying to do with your art? And I was wondering, Jenna, your thoughts on art and what the heck it is? Oh, I'm sure you come across every time like, oh, that's such a loaded question. I think art is
00:01:55
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a language of expressing emotions. Maybe not a language that use words necessarily, but a physical, a visual language, just kind of manifesting what's inside.
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you find a motion to be a huge part of that in your thinking? I would say so, yeah. Ash, your thoughts on art?
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Yeah, like Jenna said, super hard question. It's funny, I studied art history. It's kind of like my bag. And I feel like that's one question that was recurring throughout my whole time doing that and never really was resolved. But I think art needs to speak to a larger kind of
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like a larger societal and cultural context that people can relate to. I mean, I think art isn't really doing anything unless it is trying to achieve something like beyond the artists themselves in that, you know, it's like helping someone or revealing larger like themes
Art as a Cultural and Therapeutic Tool
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in, I don't know, like a culture or society or something like that. I think it has to be active in that way. I think it's a really good like method of kind of like articulating
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articulating things that we can't necessarily in every day and revealing stuff through symbols or through more intuitive ways of communicating. I don't know if that makes sense. I feel like I'm sounding a little esoteric or something, but I think all good art has to speak to something beyond the artist who's making it.
00:04:18
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Yeah, no, I hear what you're saying. And I heard a piece in there as far as like trying, you know, it's the way of expressing things that it's a unique way of expressing things. And I found that the like complicated emotions and things like art, you know, can be expressed through art. Thank you so much. Yeah. All right. And
00:04:43
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This last one for arts and question, what is art to you? What's the importance of expressing yourself through art?
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Yeah, I've been surrounded by art my whole life. Both parents are artists in their own ways. And I think it's a therapeutic necessity. It allows you to connect with others, even your subjective opinion. And of course, the art itself is subjective. And I think it really serves as a cathartic release. And I think it leaves a footprint in this world. It's what you leave behind when you're gone. It's immortal.
Exploring 'Fairy Doom' and Band Identity
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Yeah, I love that. Really powerful. And I can totally, I can totally relate to that. Like being an artist myself, um, kind of the way that you put it was super relatable. Sometimes hearing, uh, other artists describe art, you know, kind of how they understand it. Um,
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Sometimes like I feel like it kind of reflects back onto me and I look at it in a different light. So yeah, thank you. Okay. What is fairy doom? Tell us, does anyone want to go tell us what fairy? I believe it. I believe what I'm hearing is fairy doom. It feels like fairy doom. What is fairy doom?
00:06:14
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Fairy Doom. Yeah, you go, you go. If you want the honest answer, Fairy Doom was something, I guess you would say, something quickly put together to put in an Instagram bio to separate us from the other acts that we, I guess, manifested from in our local scene.
00:06:44
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It sounded cool. It was the first thing that popped in my head sitting in my bedroom from at least the memory I think I have of writing it on our Instagram bio when we were first making a social media account after what are maybe two jam sessions. But I noticed that sometimes when you
00:07:09
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You coin a term or genre or niche thing like that people really connect to it and that's the last thing we would have expected for something like that but people want to know like well what is it and that's why we're here right now people want to know what it is and
00:07:31
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Now what we could say is it's our specific brand of art and music, our lyrics, our instrumentation, our melody.
00:07:46
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It's a magical poop of what we create, basically. Also, our name as well, because of course, Faye and Faye Tooth is the most obvious part. Just a way to connect up. I was going to add to that. I think Sherry June kind of speaks to our
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sonic aesthetic and then also like our more like thematic elements in our lyrics and like how we like learn music or we emerge like folklore with like more heavy genres.
00:08:26
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I was just talking to the producer and editor of the show, and he talked about a very different band, the Decemberists, and his kids referred to it as scary forest music. I love that. Well, the hazards of love, the hazards of love in particular, scary forest music. So I feel I'm in the forest with you, too. So there's a cousin relation there. I was going to say, it's like a distant relative. I'm like goblin punk. Yeah.
00:08:55
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create a genre of some sort of mystical element and then plus, you know, a random music genre and then boom, you got a new niche and people go crazy.
00:09:09
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Yeah, yeah. Tell, take us, take, take, take the listeners into like, you know, just, just what's going on for you. A recently recognized heavy metal album in the year and spin. And I know you've been getting a lot of attention and a lot of people listening to your music and say, what's going on? What's his Faye tooth? And, you know, jumping in
Art's Role in Times of Upheaval
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on it. What's, what's it like for you now as, as a band, like creatively or managing that and figuring out what's next, what's going on?
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I mean, it's pretty hard to say. I mean, I feel like we're the same band that we started with. We just really kind of honed in and developed our sound and our musical, strengthened our musical relationships, because we've been at it for a while, even outside of this project. But I mean, it's pretty, I don't really know what other word to say. I don't really use this word very often, but it's pretty radical.
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It was totally like out of left field. I think we once we started gaining a little more traction on our EP and invocation that came out in 2019. I think everything after that we were just like
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constantly surprised that our music was like speaking to people and connecting with people and I think it's interesting to hear what what they take away from our music because we all have our personal ties and even though they're like thematic with our lyrics and stuff or thematic with like folklore and stuff there's a little bit of our like own
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seeds of our takeaways in life in there but it's just really interesting to hear what people have to say and I think that is the most like insane thing to me. I don't know how to put it like people really do connect and I think it's just like so incredible and just baffling at the same time.
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Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, and it's it's it's I really wondered. I really wondered that and and just seeing the recognition. I want to say that.
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The album is gorgeous. That's the word that I would use. And listen to it sonically. What I did was I put my headphones on and put pillows over my head so it would be that immersive just recently. And I just want to let you know it's well-deserved recognition no matter what. It is a significant
Inclusivity in the Metal Scene
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album. Thank you. Thank you so much.
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Yeah, yeah. We're going to be listeners. We're going to be cutting in a little while so you'll be able to hear some of Faye Tooth. The track will be cut in two in a little bit. And at the end of the episode, we have another track. She cast The Shadow.
00:12:11
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One other question I want to ask related to art, and I hope the question is just too big, but I want to give you ways to get at it. Has the role of art changed? And I'm talking about recent events. I've done the podcast through the pandemic and this political upheaval and significant issues facing us with climate change and such. And I've had different answers.
00:12:40
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From guests about the role of ours and some folks who said shit is more important now than ever. It's the end times or Some will say look it's always been the end times, you know, so I was I was wondering just each one of you What do you think the role is art now and whether it's changed and I'll go to Ari first and
00:13:03
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Well, I truly believe that, you know, especially during like 2020 and after with the pandemic and the riots and political upheaval, you know, I know a lot of trends started with like infographs and like aesthetic infographs on Instagram and stuff, which as a graphic designer, I did a few for people. But I mean, art has always served as
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Like I said before, a subjective opinion and people agree and it's just a way people express themselves politically, personally, beyond that, emotionally.
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It's a key ingredient to expression and freedom of speech and, you know, however you take that, whether it's physical art, digital art, photography, like sculptures, all of that beyond that, of course, but, you know, they all serve as a speaking point for the current times and I think
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You know, looking back at, of course, like 1970s, 1960s, prior to that art, they're all reflective of the political time in the world. Yeah, I see that. Jenna, the role of art, is it different now? Is it just kind of, you know, art has its role and that's what it is. What do you think? Yeah, I would say it's always been significant.
00:14:41
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meet with current I also would go off of what Ari said in the recent since at least 2020 with the pandemic and the riots across the U.S. relating to the systematic you know police violence
00:15:07
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I would say specifically art done by marginalized folks, such as black and indigenous people of color is more significant. Not like as if more than ever, but it's important to look to certain artists and see the art that has maybe been
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overlooked. And music that's been overlooked in artists that have been overlooked due to just straight up, you know, racism or just privileges of other artists. And especially in certain kinds of music too where
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you would go back to something in the metal genre and see, like, looking into black metal where there's this, you know, serious issue with Nazism and fascism. There's so many awesome, like, queer black metal artists and, um, black metal artists that are like black, like black, black metal artists and queer, just awesome transgender black metal artists. I'm sorry, my tongue is going everywhere. Um,
00:16:20
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It's really like kind of, it's important to kind of flip the script on it and like take back a certain kind of music genres and art styles that have been kind of reclaimed for negative reasons, especially with like an uprising, you know, anti-Semitism and
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Just straight fascism, you see such a problem with it right now, especially like it's everywhere. It's all over social media. It's all over the streets. It's everywhere. And yeah, I would say, I guess, yeah, right now it's really important to kind of put the spotlight on different artists that are changing or not even changing, but making not even just old claims or anything, you're just simply being.
00:17:15
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Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much for that Jenna. Yeah, and there's something I'd want to add on to that. It's really got me thinking is.
00:17:27
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how something that I noticed that with as the metal community that we still need to work on is like being inclusive and being able to like realize that our favorite musicians who we look up to like aren't might not be the best people. Um, a big one for me is, um, uh,
00:17:50
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the Pantera fan base. Yeah. I see like posts about it and everything. Like I literally saw one the other day. And it was just it was just kind of talking shit on Phil and Selma, which honestly kind of deserves because, you know, I'm familiar. Yeah. Said some awful things. And then there's still people who will just blindly defend him. And I think that's like just
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an issue that, you know, something that really needs to be addressed and something, you know. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah, I was gonna say, it's just like, you know, I'm not like a Pantera listener, but I'm familiar with these issues and like sometimes we run into things I think we've talked amongst ourselves where like we run into issues where
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maybe a publication will want to reach out to us but
Creative Process Influenced by Friendships
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that publication has highlighted a certain artist that has been known you know along those lines to do something like that and you know it's retreading a line where you're like you don't want to associate with that and if if publications are going to still put these people on a pedestal or put them on the front page or something like do you really want to associate with that or do you want to try to highlight the other people that
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are doing even better are in current and not rehashing the same thing that's been done. We can appreciate the music. This is a complicated line a lot of people tread is the artist versus the art. And I think it's contingent for the person.
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But I think we don't need to put certain people on pedestals anymore is what I'm trying to get at. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. And I really appreciate your comments. You know, it's round representation. And one of the interesting pieces I've had.
00:20:02
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16 indigenous guests from over 20 tribes. And I asked them the question is, what's going on now? We're seeing more TV shows, Rutherford Falls, reservation dogs, we're seeing more music.
00:20:18
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you know, does this feel good? You know, they feel it's going to go away. And one of the things I've gleaned is that there's a real vibrant movement for inclusion that, you know, there's hope in that things are progressing in that way. I even had one guest say, well, I was like, when do you know
00:20:42
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that you've made it like culturally and she was like if they show an indigenous family at a McDonald's commercial like I just like seen myself for the first time like at McDonald's it's so it's yeah it's like it's it's it's um ash we've had you chomping at the bit here uh with the question what is what is the role of art do you see it as being any
00:21:08
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Any bit different nowadays, or has it kind of held its position over time? Yeah, I mean, I think I'm definitely leaning towards the latter. I think it's always been pretty essential. I think if anything, now, I think it's important to like
00:21:24
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have a sense of organization within art spaces, specifically with, I think what we've seen in DIY and local music scenes has probably been the most powerful that I've experienced being an artist in the city. I think as much as one artist can do with an individual project or album or song or release, it's only augmented when there is a community that's supporting
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So I would maybe say more so than art, it's important to have a support system and network of artists who are able to speak to cultural moments as they happen and as we all collectively deal with it. Yeah. Yeah, thank you. A question before we cut to the track.
00:22:23
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One of the things I was wondering is about
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You've worked, you've all worked together, collaborated together for a bit of time, and can any of you speak to just... I can hear it. I would assume it in your output and how you described it. But what is it about the collaboration and what you, Faye Tooth, had going into, say, recording this new album that you had there? We can hear it.
00:22:56
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How does that contribute to your relationships and in your creative endeavor?
00:23:05
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Sorry, I was waiting if anyone was gonna go I mean we've known each other like personally I want to say I've known ash for nine years this year I've known Jenna for about Seven or eight and our drummer raw around that same time seven or eight and I think we
00:23:33
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you know, started out as friends in the creative community. We met our drummer, Ra, at a show, and I met Ash at school. And through Ash, we met Jenna. And then I think just beyond that, we experimented. Sorry, my cat is like rolling all over my table right now. It's a cat friendly podcast. It's happened many times. It's fine.
00:23:59
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Okay, good, okay. Yeah, she's on her back right now next to the computer. Anyways, where was I?
00:24:09
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uh we've had a you know a really I don't want I want to say like honestly juvenile like project before this it wasn't very like really anything we were just very like not adults yet just explain experimenting like you know being in the punk scene where we grew up and I think that really reflected on us at the time and you know that had its moment and then one day we were just like let's
00:24:35
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freaking jam. We haven't done that in a while. This was like a couple years prior.
00:24:43
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We just started out on a jam session and I think our initial connection was really rooted in creativity and music and our own personal friendship connection and I think we really leaned into that and we all share the same music taste or at least generally beyond that and I think
00:25:07
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it just really blossomed from there, which is like really cheesy to say, but it's true. We just really trusted in each other. And we just kind of ended up with our first EP, which was like, you know, very early on, like literally first four songs we wrote, we just immediately put them on there. And then after that, we, you know, the mid pandemic,
00:25:31
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We were like pretty early. I don't even think Ash was like 20 yet. Maybe. I don't remember, but you know, we were. I think I was 18. You were 18 in the pandemic. Yeah. So we were just like very early adulthood. Like I'm still early adulthood. I'm only 20 right now. But, you know, I think that really gave us an opportunity to
00:25:58
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experiment with our, is this a word, developmentation? It is now. Yeah, I just think it really allowed us to, you know, start with like a fresh sound. And I think once the pandemic hit, we started really like taking it
00:26:22
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even more seriously and really pulling from our personal influences and still with trusting each other and our music tastes and our own connection to each other.
Inspiration Behind 'La Socieres'
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And then the album was born based off of even experiences of each other that we knew each other when we were going through it. So I think it just really adds another level of
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connection to our own songs and to each other's songs like when they're brought up in a writing session. That's it. Yeah. No, it's great to hear that. And I think when
00:27:04
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Like to see an album like this come out, there has to be something before that's enmeshed with multiple people. And that's really a great thing to have and cherish. Okay. One of the things that happens when I have bands on is I always want to get to the music. I always want to talk and get to the music.
00:27:26
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going to cut to a track or listen over head to La Saucier, which I believe is your second single off this album. Is that correct? Yep. Okay. And the first was Echolalia. So this is the second release of Faye Tooth, La Saucier. We'll go to song and we're going to chat about song and music a little bit more with Faye Tooth.
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I can't kill it with a bright attack
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It's just the day
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She did it, she write it down
00:33:42
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Thank you, Fate Tooth, for La Socieres. Incredible, incredible, incredible track.
Vocal Techniques in Music
00:33:50
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I'd read that it was possibly inspired by a cult film, The Belladonna's Sadness, is that correct? Yeah, that song is a direct, I guess you would say, train of thought verse while watching the film, Belladonna's Sadness, at least its earliest incarnation, because
00:34:12
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For those earliest lyrics for that song were written those like as our fifth song pretty much And then it evolved over time like over a year or two, you know pandemic times But yeah directly Based on that film and my reaction to it maybe a slight narrative shift but
00:34:39
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Yeah, that was, that's pretty much my train of thought. Yeah, and that's, I think it was 73, so 50 years old on that. I looked up and saw that a bit as the inspiration. Thanks for telling us a bit about that. Yeah, and I had another question regarding
00:35:07
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Vocals I was just but asked when he all just about it, but I looked into it a little bit more It seems like each one of you does vocals in some regard and I really really like the screaming on it and I'm screaming myself and I was just wondering like
00:35:31
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Like, uh, how did you, how did you learn? Like, like, was it like on your own or I took lessons. Um, but yeah, I guess I just wanted to see like what other ways, you know, people have learned because, I mean, it's, I mean, in terms of like learning, you know, there's no like screaming choirs or anything like that. Very little, like.
00:35:59
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Wasn't there one on AGT on America's Got Talent? I think there was one. Was there? Yeah, that's right. With the guy in the corpse paint and everything. Yeah, sorry. I was like, wait, wasn't there? Yeah, I can picture it in my head right now. So yeah, just like wondering how y'all learned how to scream. So on that song specifically, there's
00:36:28
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uh there's like three different vocals on there and it's really challenging um but basically as for me personally um i have
00:36:40
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I kind of, the way I think of it is that I was a really weird kid and I was always screaming. Like just, I was a really odd kid. And my sister, I have an older sister, she's eight years older than me. And she is basically who got me into heavy music. My mom basically one day was like, hey, Jesse, this is my older sister, can you please like put some,
00:37:08
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music on Jenna's iPod from your iTunes. And she was like, I remember sitting in our back office in the computer room, basically, and she would go through each song. She was like, is this OK? And I'd be like, yeah. And then she would look shocked because it would be like Lamb of God or something. It was like really early 2000s, you know, metal. And she was she was a cross pong. But she had a really like vast music taste.
00:37:36
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So I was listening to that stuff when I was like 10. And as for starting to do the vocals, like kind of mimicking it, it really started with
00:37:48
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Kind of more grungy bands, like a band called Babes in Toyland. I really liked the singer, Cat Bieland's voice. It's like this really ugly kind of like stepping on a cat scream. Not really a metal screen though. It's kind of just like really chaotic. And I was like, oh, like, I think I can do that. And so I think maybe a couple of years ago, people years ago at this point, probably 2017,
00:38:18
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as when I was like, okay, I'm gonna try doing this. And so I was just basically copying vocalists I like, and it was definitely not anywhere near what the quote unquote, right way to do. I was definitely shredding my voice until like down the line, I was like, you know, starting to do it actually regularly. And I was like, oh, I can't feel like I'm gonna black out every time I'm doing this. So I think it was just like a mixture of
00:38:49
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some TikTok dude, I forget his name, that was kind of giving screaming tips. And then... David? Yeah, probably him. Extreme Vocal Institute. And just incorporating just like basic vocal warmups into it. And so just kind of figuring out what works for me and doesn't hurt anymore. And I've, in the last couple of years, basically,
00:39:18
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I've tried my best to improve, especially in live settings, because now we're doing it more as we play more live. And then when it came to when we recorded our album,
00:39:31
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Because I can't really listen to our EP that I consider a demo at this point. It's very novice. Yeah, I agree. It's so far. Just is when our producer, Joseph, really encouraged me to do some more vocals that I wasn't necessarily comfortable or tried before in any setting at all. And so those were the first times where I tried much lower screams.
00:39:59
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I kind of credit him to kind of pushing me and not pushing me to like, I'm in pain, but like, he was like, you can you can do that, like, just do it. And so that's kind of the history. Sorry for the tangent, but there was kind of like, over time, I was like, OK, let's push myself to try this. And now the latest one is let me actually try to learn how to sing.
00:40:27
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yeah yeah totally um i get that with um you know kind of needing that motivation to to kind of go more like all in with um vocals like personally with with me um for the longest time when it came to like anything singing like it would or screaming or whatever it i had this barrier that i kind of set
00:40:52
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Um, in front of myself that I was just like, Oh, well, I don't want to, I want to, I don't want other people to hear me cause they're going to think blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Um, and like only really recently, um, when I've, I'd say it's been over like the past six months. Um, started learning how to do all this thing and screaming and stuff. And probably over the last like month or two is when I've actually started to kind of knock down that.
00:41:17
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that barrier. And it doesn't seem like much at first, at least in my experience when it comes to kind of knocking that barrier down. But I feel like once you get used to it more over time, it just it feels just like a lot more like, at least in my case, it feels a lot more like therapeutic, just being able to kind of like let those kind of
00:41:43
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Sounds come out It can be a very primal and at the same time healing Sort of thing, you know, yeah, yeah I am and
Philosophical Insights on Existence
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and thanks. Thanks Satan and thanks for the discussion about about vocals I I wanted to um, I
00:42:07
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uh... get to on the big philosophical question as the basis of the show which uh...
00:42:14
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is why is there something rather than nothing? And I want each of you to take a stab at it. And so I don't know if I should should call out anybody because then you might take exception to that. But Jenna, why is there something rather than nothing? Sorry to pick on you. It's fine. Why is there something rather than nothing? Well, wow.
00:42:45
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something rather than nothing um i think if you don't have something then you have nothing there you go yeah ash you want to take a stab yeah why i there i would say there's something rather than nothing um
00:43:16
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So we all learn, probably. Why not? It's the way it is. There she goes. Ari. I mean, there's something rather than nothing because I think we just started out as primordial soup.
00:43:41
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And I think that beyond that, we learn to communicate, survive, create, feel. I think, you know, life, I mean before life even, I guess you could say like inanimate objects or something. They just exist. They're just pieces of matter in this crap hole of life.
Where to Find Faytooth's Music
00:44:12
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I want everybody to know how to find your material, how do the listeners interact with your art, find your tracks. Can you let folks know about that? Does anyone want to go?
00:44:34
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You got it. Okay, I got this. All right, here's a long list. Our music is available at faitooth.bandcamp.com, Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Pandora even, SoundCloud. There's a couple in there. Oh, YouTube Music.
00:44:54
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you can find us for announcements at instagram at faitooth twitter at faitooth youtube at faitooth tiktok at faitooth and any other accessible links are available at linktree slash faitooth or linktree.com slash faitooth so
00:45:15
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Oh, wait. Is there no .com in Linktree? I don't think there is. Scratch that. It's link.e.e/.baytooth. There we go. Awesome. So that's where all of our links are. They lie in that
The Demand for Physical Music Formats
00:45:29
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Linktree. So if anyone wants one shot for everything, it's in there. You got some merch through Bandcamp and stuff?
00:45:39
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Not currently at the moment. I print everything. I just haven't had the time to keep up with the demand. It's a very growing demand, a fast growing demand. But we have cassettes up there. I think they're sold out right now, but they will be coming back. I believe we'll have EP cassettes soon. And when the vinyl is out, it will be on our Bandcamp.
00:46:02
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Oh, incredible. I've seen, uh, up here in the Pacific Northwest has been a huge kind of interest in, uh, and it's been part of the metal scene for a while with cassettes, but seeing cassettes and CDs and BHS tapes, uh, rather than just a niche or a return, it's like, there's a.
00:46:23
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hankering for the thing, for the physical thing. Yeah, yeah, immortal. Do you feel that as well? I mean, I think something around the digital that you can access the digital, but I've just been surprised and fascinated by the market for the physical objects, a whole CD market, again, up in the Pacific Northwest, which was
00:46:44
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Really not fathomable like I don't know my experience a couple years ago. You see that demand for the physical stuff that you put out Definitely Yeah, definitely.
Conclusion and Impact in Metal Scene
00:46:57
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It's pretty wild That people want to buy it and keep it forever or at least it exists in the world forever It's pretty wild to me
00:47:07
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Yeah, um and everybody the the album, uh, we've been referring to remnants of the vessel, uh with the band, uh, uh feytooth getting a lot of well-deserved um well-deserved recognition, uh, like like I said before I um i'm a big uh doom metal fan, um when I moved to the pacific northwest from the midwest I didn't know The extent of the metal culture here and once I arrived I I just felt
00:47:37
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Wonderful and at home and and and so I really appreciate about this scene I just want to let you know as a band. Um, I adore the genre. I adore what what what you do. So, uh I don't withhold my excitement to be able to talk to faitooth and um And uh aden valante here is a co-host and musician as well. It's a very very exciting uh conversation for us to talk to you right now too and um
00:48:07
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Wishing you all the great success and hopefully be able to see you swing by up in the Pacific Northwest, Portland, Seattle. I'm sure everybody will be demanding you, so we'll search you down. And for listeners, all those places, as far as you can find the podcast with Faye Tooth on Apple, Pandora. I found out that Pandora is still, I think, the number one streaming service in the US.
00:48:36
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I found it so strange because the podcast took off on Pandora for a while. Pandora still exists, but the amount of subscribers when they first started, they still have more subscribers or that might have changed. You can find it everywhere. Wanda, thank you, Aidan, and thank you, Ash, Ari, and Jenna for coming on the Something Rather than Nothing podcast.
00:49:04
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Keep up the great work. Thank you so much. Thanks for having us. Yeah, thank you. Yeah. And thanks for the music. And folks, just so you know, the track will end up going out with on this episode is She Cast a Shadow, another great track from from Faytooth. Thanks so much. Thank you. Thank you so much.
00:52:09
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Let them out!
00:53:31
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This is something rather than nothing.