OV SULFUR: Clean Singing in Deathcore, Dimmu Borgir & Gatekeeping Band Shirts | Garza Podcast 70

Garza sits down with Las Vegas Deathcore band Ov Sulfur. Their new album The Burdern Ov Faith drops this Friday! ovsulfur.com
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Ov Sulfur is:
Ricky Hoover - Vocals
Chase Wilson -Guitar
Ding - Bass
Leviathvn - Drums
TIME CODES:
00:00 - Too Much Caffeine & Trash Energy Drinks
03:22 - Clean Singing in Deathcore
06:45 - Uranium & Juliya
08:26 - Dimmu Borgir & Synthwave
12:42 - Drummers Are Fun To Watch (Levi)
16:36 - Levi Joining the Band
22:27 - Kazoos, Bath Bombs & Novelty Merch Items
26:30 - Garza Loves Ov Sulfur & Vice Versa
31:51 - Ricky and His Infamous Click (Timing) Problems
36:35 - Meeting Band Members (AIM Chat and DMs)
40:50 - The Vision for the Band
47:45 - New Record (The Burden Ov Faith, 2023) & Band’s Success
54:20 - Emotional Music Video for “Earthen”
01:03:54 - Fanboying
01:06:10 - Gatekeeping Band Shirts & Vinyls
01:10:42 - Lorna Shore, Chelsea Grin
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[@OvSulfur]

Thank you so much for having us, and especially for the kind words about us and "Wide Open." You're a legend, and hearing you dig us so much is the coolest thing. Glad to be friends, man!

[@GarzaPodcast]

Love you dudes

[@estevanduran5588]

SHOUT OUT TO THE OV SULFUR BOYS 🩸🩸🩸🩸

[@mikemorris2625]

You guys seem so down to earth this felt like a honest and real conversation. I really have enjoyed your music. I hope to see you guys live, come to Denver.

[@OvSulfur]

@@mikemorris2625 Thanks Mike! Glad you think so. We'll be there with Chelsea Grin, Carnifex and Left to Suffer! Tickets here if you want to come: holdmyticket.com/event/409635

[@TimmyTurner421]

1:07:15 Ricky is hilarious 😂😂😂

[@trewormshepherd]

Thanks for having us bro, was such a great experience getting meet and sit down and talk, till next time 😈🤘🏻

[@sike1dj]

This band is fantastic. Love the newer stuff I've been hearing. Let's get an album out boys!

[@ShawtyWantAThug]

Ricky tearing up man it's good to have these conversations

[@rocioiribe5841]

the laughs in this episode were so damn contagious. thanks for that!

[@therandyness]

I love these guys so much they're so down-to-earth man. I can't wait to see them live again

[@namelesserv5419]

Great pod, great vibes throughout this whole episode, keep it up Garza!!

[@GarzaPodcast]

We are doing our best man. The schedule is getting relentless but thankfully the world has blessed us with coffee.

[@TimmyTurner421]

@@GarzaPodcast Mate you're absolutely killing it with the podcasts. You found a niche. For some reason nobody else gets all those extreme metal bands on a podcast format where you can really get to know them. Usually it's just 5 minute interviews without substance. Your podcast format however allows for proper conversations where you guys can have a profound discussion or simply goof around and nerd out. That's ace!

[@LP-ec7hw]

Loved all the laughs on this episode. Very contagious. 💥

[@kurtisbray]

I fucking love garzas podcasts man, as a huge metal fan & podcast listener, these are like god tier content

[@BirdOfHermes83]

I just found this channel last month. I got some many episodes to binge!

[@emersonr7481]

Just noticed the dude wearing a knights of the abyss shirt. Dragon pie played in my head immediately. Brought back so many memories.

[@tybodine5377]

I love these dudes, hope to see them live one day

[@Rob_Cary]

I used to get debilitating stomach pains at random all the time. It all stopped when I gave up energy drinks. There really is some terrible stuff in that. I switched to 5 hour energy years ago. It's a better burst of energy too. No jitters, no crash cuz there's no sugar. Also, I love this podcast. Keep it up!

[@ABRwtfBBQ]

Hell yea I can’t wait to watch this episode

[@samuelsanchez3213]

I saw these guys open up for Lorna Shore in Philly back in October and they were awesome!!! Come back to Philly!

[@Alannaki4970]

Awesome pod cast!! I just checked these guys out. Really good stuff! 39:39 Yeah.. I remember "Pay to Play". It still happens unfortunately.. My band "HEAVE" did that for "Psycroptic", "Decrepit Birth" and "Fallujah" here at "The Whiskey a go go" last year. And then back in the day, when I joined a band in high school called [Omitted]. An "LA Hood" version of "Suicide Silence" and "Cannibal Corpse". Back in the day we paid to open up for bands like "Volumes" and "Glass Cloud".. Also at "The Whiskey".. With a $500 "Pay to Play" deposit fee where they give you tickets that YOU and the band have to sell or else they pocket the deposit money. Then you have to give back the reminding tickets to get your deposit back before you play on stage. It's great opening up for cool bands but the price needs to come down or the venues need to stop pocketing all the money. Venues even ask for a percentage of the band merch sales. Even with selling a lot of merch, bands today still struggle. Then you have venues that completely ignore the local metal acts in general like "The House of Blues" (Sunset location gone!) and "The Wiltern". Maybe back in the day "The Key Club", Old "Knitting Factory", were more open to having local metal acts here in the "Los Angeles/Hollywood area" but those places are gone now. Hopefully it can change so more heavy acts get a chance to get out there. Stay Brutal!

[@PickleBack88]

WHAT A BAD ASS INTERVIEW!!1! So damn good.

[@riazkureshi6426]

I’ve watched a bunch of your interviews, and these guys seem like they’re best friends lol you gotta love that. I’m gonna check these guys out

[@bradfoster8146]

These dudes have the best connection between each other. Like they're all best friends. Saw them live in Baltimore, and they were INCREDIBLE

[@TimmyTurner421]

Great guys. Been listening to them since the beginning. I knew they would get huge because they have an original sound that exceeds genre boundaries

[@BirdOfHermes83]

Sorry for you loss! It's an amazing song and video.

[@wulfweard9712]

Ricky Hoover is a fucking legend. He doesnt get the respect he deserves for his days in suffocate. All the success Ov Sulfur sees is truly deserved.

[@dastardlygonzo]

I saw Dimmu Borgir twice at little venues back in the day and they were so awesome. If/when they come back, I'm definitely seeing then again.

[@9deadBand]

Nicest guys ever!!! 🖤

[@kingraven4844]

Got a shoe singed by ov sulphur when I seen them with Lorna in Detroit these guys are fr some of the nicest guys ever

[@that1guy620]

Met Ricky wayyyyyy back in the day when Suffokate toured with ABACABB and Sworn Enemy. He's a cool ass dude

[@BirdOfHermes83]

You can do whatever you want in deathcore. No ones stopping you.

[@BirdOfHermes83]

Oh, and come to Canada soon! I want some merch!

[@jacobmorris7693]

Great episode. TONS of laughs, but really tough to see Ricky getting so emotional. Mad respect & love for this band!

[@HughG_Rection416]

(SIC) video. Ricky and Mitch had always been my 2 favourite vocalists ever since I started listening to deathcore in around 2008. Glad to see Ov Sulfur killing it.

[@onlinemanke409]

This shit made my day 🤘🏻 gonna listen to the new album now

[@shredhead4604]

28:45 haha this was a good one Garza 🤘😆🤘🎸

[@cyky9241]

Ov sulfur is such a great band

[@aonghasshearer-boyd1557]

I LOVE Ricky's vocals on the Bludgeoned tribute

[@zekejohnson5752]

Badass interview. Saw dimmu borgir with devildriver,Kataklysm, and unearth in San Antonio back in the day at Graham Central Station. Love the Ov Sulfur sound. Can't wait to check you guys live one day

[@TexasLiveMetal]

I was there! Damn time flies. I remember devildriver got their set cut early after like 4 songs because of the moshpit, so they made everyone pit before they got off, and security couldn't control it, lol

[@zekejohnson5752]

@@TexasLiveMetal Yeah bro that was badass. Love the energy devildriver brings. Saw devildriver open for gwar one time at the house of blues, and security was trying to stop the moshing. That didn't happen they got caught up in meet the wretched lol

[@thedootslayer216]

The Boys!

[@SuperBrandonRTR]

Ricky and Chase rule! love the band!

[@edward.constantine]

I saw these guys, Left to Suffer, and Carnifex in Kentucky. It was a fucking experience.

[@ptr_grin]

Levi is so effortlessly funny 🤣

[@fallingawake5706]

ICS Vortex is easily best cleans ever in metal and his parts are my favorite parts in most of the dimmu songs he sung on. His stuff with Arcturus was also very good.

[@AndrewJShirley]

Loving your podcast, so much. Love that the guys are talking about Synthwave. Bands to check out Perturbator, Carpenter Brut, Dance With The Dead, Gost.

[@buddykaiser2380]

Kazoo Core

[@MetalPhantomX]

Suicide Silence are definitely undeniably pioneers of deathcore

[@jakeraabe4536]

seen dimmu with behemoth and keep of kalessin open for them in a smallerish venue in columbus and got to meet all of dimmu except shagrath..... vortex made me look so small such a big dude with a big voice

[@rubberpenguin]

THE HOMIES

[@slxxpyhollow]

Idk why you guys are acting like they're the first deathcore band to use clean singing. Literally, that's what metalcore is.

[@thisisnotmyrealname6990]

Slice the cake has shown cleans have a place in deathcore

[@chuies1314]

3 pre drinks a day dammmm

[@TimmyTurner421]

1:10:00 I'm the same. I listen to albums and love them but I don't look up song titles (unless it's a grindcore album because the titles are usually hilarious). If it's good it's good. Recently listened to three albums of The Red Chord and couldn't name you one song but I loved the albums. Annoys me when people act like knowing song titles is a requirement of being a fan of a band

[@rossh2386]

am i crazy or did i meet that dude tre at a worm shepherd show

[@trewormshepherd]

Lol I’m the guitarist/writer for worm shepherd bro so you did!

[@MatthewMan]

​@@trewormshepherd Are you also a member of Ov Sulfur?

[@PondersXBL]

What kind of mic stands are these? 👀 looking to get a desk mic stand for my sm7b and those look perfect!

[@beetleborg4171]

Get shrine of malice on!!!

[@reubenk7331]

The music they make is so freaking good. This podcast also had me laughing a ton 🤣 Also, gate keeping is bullshit. Just let people enjoy good music! 🤘 Edit: I think clean singing in deathcore is fine as long as it is done well too. There is so much hate and no where does it say you can't have cleans...

[@scottburnside3218]

hey bro...can u try to get a band called dragged into sunlight

[@TheSatanist13]

these dimmu fans are jealous of lovato for seeing Dimmu Bogir live probably.

[@rocioiribe5841]

Ok after my second rewatch, I caught you were talking to Bradley Zorgdrager aka Bradseed extraordinaire from Banger off screen. Have you seen his review of the self titled SS album? It did not hold back.

[@bradleyzorgdrager186]

Yep! I first connected with Chris after Scott from Carnifex (for whom I work) was on the podcast, and I asked Scott if he thought Garza would want to interview Ricky. Garza texted me and said he was interested, so I asked if I could call him and was very upfront about what I'd said about SS. I thought it was the right thing to do, to mention it in case he didn't want to do something to help my career after I had reviewed something that he had done negatively, which could have negatively impacted his career. I was very humbled by Chris' levelheaded response to it, we chatted for another hour and a half, and have been friends since!

[@rocioiribe5841]

@@bradleyzorgdrager186 and this is why you rule Brad 🤘

[@rocioiribe5841]

@Mezzymess8 you're right. Garza also rules that's why i love this podcast

[@stevenprice5681]

Chris are you wear a super joint long sleeve?

[@GarzaPodcast]

Alpha Wolf

[@jon81toy]

I love ov sulfer but wormshepard is one of favorites I hope tre is still in the band Metal as Fuck podcast though also Id drive you anywhere you want

[@trewormshepherd]

Still in the band bro! I appreciate the love for Worm shepherd as well hope you dig the new single 🤘🏻🖤

[@jon81toy]

@@trewormshepherd Fuck yeah and I have been rocking new ov sulfer album since release it is a banger

[@righteous247]

those dumb revolver videos brought me here.

[@Vooyasheck]

Here's some suggestion for driving music @chase: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKu9eJaYoJqlg9U Should keep everyone happy 😀

[@ericahosfeld7755]

did you eat alot of food anc learn music like me im a cook i try to eat food when possible

[@CosasVerdesQescupen]

Clean singing is fine but GOOOD clean vocals, ov sulfur is not the case of good clean vocals

[@n8y538]

Great band these guys are killing it, but I hate that edgy “we wanna piss ppl off” mentality. In my opinion clean singing just completely takes you out of deathcore that’s not deathcore anymore but that’s not to say the music is bad that’s not an insult. Deathcore is a genre many people, myself included, grew up with and hold near and dear to our hearts and it’s a genre that has never incorporated any sort of clean singing I hate to be one of those guys but there really is no place for clean singing in deathcore. It would be like Cannibal Corpse doing clean vocals and still calling themselves death metal it just doesn’t work. That’s not to take away from how talented these guys are they’re doing amazing but to me they’re just making Metal music at the end of the day it’s not deathcore.

[@anywhere_but_here]

just FYI, cleans have been in deathcore since the beginning, just off the top of my head: shapeshifter EP (2008) from the contortionist, triumph EP (2010) from lorna shore, bedsprings and bloodshed demo (2005) from salt the wound, awaken the dreamers (2008) from all shall perish, the list goes on. I think its silly to say ONE specific style of sound completely negates the genre, especially because deathcore is crossover of hardcore and deathmetal, and hardcore has plenty of "clean" vocals. You'd be hard pressed and look like a clown to try to argue any of those bands/releases i mentioned "arent deathcore".

[@slambo3164]

clean singing in deathcore is realy terrible and it doesn't fit

[@chrisg9573]

Definitely a fan of their clean vocals in deathcore so keep it up! 🤘