Interview with Get Dead

We had the pleasure of interviewing Get Dead over Zoom video!
Ask the members of Get Dead how long it’s taken to release their new album, and they’ll probably say, “Forever.” Even though the San Francisco band started recording it more than two years ago, Dancing with the Curse (Fat Wreck Chords) feels perfectly timed for now.
Look no further than the song “Pepperspray,” written long before the protests of summer 2020. The band had begun collaborating with activist-artist collective Indecline on a video before the George Floyd protests erupted. If there was any time to share the message of “Pepperspray,” this was it.
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We wanted to just be able to cut through the noise and have some kind of impact,” says vocalist Sam King, “and to try to let people know that what they're doing is okay, and people are behind them.”
Get Dead rolls only five deep-King, guitarists Mike McGuire and Jeremy Korkki, bassist Tim Mehew, and drummer Scott Powell-but Dancing with the Curse sounds like an army. Produced by D-Composers (Fat Mike, Johnny Carey, Baz Bastien, Yotam Ben Horin) and Chris Dugan (Green Day), its 12 songs build on 2016’s Honesty Lives Elsewhere without rehashing it.
While Dancing with the Curse features Get Dead’s signature NorCal punk sound, balancing bombast with up-picked bounce and dirt-smudged acoustic songs, listeners will notice some curious moments. Subtle electronic flourishes lurk in songs like “Disruption,” “Glitch,” “Confrontation,” and “Take It.” The album opens with an atmospheric intro built on King’s gravelly voice and hip-hop-inflected cadence-a happy accident.
“I was supposed to be sending Fat Mike a new demo for one of the songs,” King says. “I ended up sending him some of my stuff that I just screw around with at home because I used to do hip-hop stuff. I sent that to him, and he really liked it. He’s like, ‘We're putting this as the intro.’”
These sonic detours suit a band that isn’t known to stay in one place for too long. “Our first EP was hardcore, and then the next one was straight acoustic, almost country shit,” King says. “We get bored easily if we were just to stay the same thing.”
And after writing Honesty Lives Elsewhere in the aftermath of a friend’s suicide, Get Dead was ready to move on.
“I don't think anyone really realized that it was happening, as much as it was a way that we were processing what happened,” King says of writing Honesty. “It just so happened that we were supposed to be making an album at that point. That one was a bummer, man. This one, it's a lot more upbeat, more along lines of how we normally are.”
Reaching that place was a process. Get Dead originally recorded with Chris Dugan, but then Fat Wreck Chords co-founder Fat Mike heard the songs. “He was like, ‘Naw, you guys can do better than this,’” King says, laughing. So the band decamped to Six Floggs Studio in LA to continue with D-Composers.
“Chris did an amazing job. It sounded great, and we were super psyched on it,” King says. “Mike knows how to keep us on track with our stuff and just call us on our bullshit. I’m glad that he and those boys had us do what we did to it because it got way better. But it’s been a long journey for sure.”
Yet a worthwhile one. Dancing with the Curse is Get Dead’s most self-assured album yet, one perfectly suited to the times: raw, energized, frustrated, but ultimately unbowed.
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[@jaredgruttadauria8072]

Thanks for the interview, explains a lot. First time I’ve heard of these guys was recently, Live at Fat Mike’s House. They sounded incredible live.

[@derekmatuja583]

Best newer band in Punk. Hands down.

[@DDT979]

These Guys and PEARS are keeping punk alive!!!! People continuously tell me punk is dead, and i just laugh, then blast Comfortably Dumb from Pears, or anything from GetDead and tell them to shut the F up. Love these guys, 2020 was alot easier to swallow with GetDead

[@derekmatuja583]

Agreed 100%

[@williamz7011]

That Pears album is unbelievable. I heard their earlier stuff and thought it was pretty good, but didn't really find myself going back to reslisten. But that self titled album is one of the best things I've heard in punk rock in a long minute

[@madsrasmus]

Love Sam and Get Dead, new album is a masterpiece:)

[@AcidropOSY]

Seth is the man, and got them good Irish bars

[@OscarmfRoth]

Hell yeah, seth is dope as shiiit, good interview. Get dead put out the best album of 2020 for me..

[@JustDaddySean]

Cannot wait to see this album live ! 🔥

[@BringinitBackwards]

We appreciate your support! :)

[@jeremyfrye3965]

Their fukin record RIPS!! I can't stop listening to it. Nice job!!

[@jamesgwarrior1981]

Been on a super huge GET DEAD trip lately. Thx for this interview . Campbell isn’t that Rancid territory? 🖤✊🏿🤎🤘🏾

[@user-nd9rt1tg6s]

Hell yea can't wait until a tour starts! Holy shit it's guna be fucking great!

[@TomTomTomTom538]

Seth is a cool guy, thanks for sharing

[@BringinitBackwards]

Thanks for watching!

[@mr.martyr8573]

Should say “Interview with Sam, of Get Dead.” Lol

[@BringinitBackwards]

🤔🤔🤔 I like that! Thanks, Mr.Martyr

[@palmtreecorpse]

Punk rock will never die but you will!

[@BringinitBackwards]

🤘🤘🤘

[@hoksilawanagi6420]

watching dancing with the curse, considering letting sam, you know. that i know this day.. and I was there! WhaHahaHWAahAahaaha'a'a...when that omino'u-sly crafty Genie kid came home~ the car doors clam, the voices, "SSAAAM!" crunch skip slide crunch , it was a country life Orchards were fields with Season'd Vines, Rototillers and Chainsaws and olDTractors hitched up with genuine steel&forged discs~ back then..curiosity was ingenuity and obscurity led benefit, A Vision Of the whoLe thrU the suM of thE pArts. and then there i was..maybe just 19 yrs old &7/8ths, looking through the ‘sun in my eyes’ squinty eyed into a world of yellow haze, as in, the sunset that early evening. ------the time when... this happened.--- SWAK the door moves, a body who is managing natures leverage & determination, pushed the door aside,-here's Sam-poof- Popped into a side room of the old shop~ the shop usually filled with Rough Tuff Shit H.O.G.philosophy era Bikers.~,straightened up & the now empty shop side office space haOfficehaha immediately became JamRoom When Sam stepped in, looking for the extension cord on His way, set down an amp a bass guitar flipped over a 5 gallon bucket and began fingering his stick. for You Sam ~ KF snickers~ ..You are ah an ode to long winded phrases!!! and FUknehiright Family WE ARE..smoke em~ burn em~ out run em.~..love Paula'lala...

[@gazpearce3700]

Fucken mint interview mate hope they come to Australia after this covit shit settles can't wait awesome band

[@welcometowarzone]

Nice Thank you 🙏

[@TomTomTomTom538]

11:34 when he said this kid Devlin, is that the MC Devlin from Mad conductor/No cash?

[@BringinitBackwards]

I will ask :)

[@user-nd9rt1tg6s]

@@BringinitBackwards yea MC Delvin was on my radar before I found Get Dead so it is cool if that's the kid Sam's talking about!

[@welcometowarzone]

❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@BringinitBackwards]

🔥🧡🔥🧡🔥

[@sewerslidemg]

great interview, you should get Cliff hanger of the Freeze

[@BringinitBackwards]

Good one! We will reach out to make that happen. :) We appreciate your support! :)

[@sewerslidemg]

@@BringinitBackwards fuxyeah

[@shanedcc4334]

Love Get Dead

[@brockmorrisontheshortround]

Sam is a Awesome dude .

[@BringinitBackwards]

thanks Brock!!

[@mattsheezy5469]

He looks so thin!! (...New Dope Habit?) I find myself listening to Public Enemy, 3rd Bass, EazyE, Ice T & Dr Dre more than punk too.

[@dustinsteckler7442]

They sound more like No Cash or Leftover Crack to me than anything.

[@BringinitBackwards]

leftover crack is amazing! Thanks for the feedback Dustin!

[@williamz7011]

How? How does Get Dead sound like Leftover Crack? Does not equate to me whatsoever