Spencer Charnas "Ice Nine Meat, Greet...Security Threat" (Episode 3)

Welcome to SCREAM DREAMS - The Nightmares That Shaped Us! SCREAM DREAMS is the show that delves into our most vivid dreams and nightmares, and how they affect our lives and work.
Our hosts are Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier, Return to Nuke 'Em High), James A Janisse (Kill Count, Dead Meat Podcast) and Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, Suitable Flesh).
Episode 3’s guest is musician, showman and horror aficionado SPENCER CHARNAS, front man and mastermind behind the band ICE NINE KILLS. Hailed as “one of the most unique acts in metal right now,” the band’s growing legion of devoted "psychos", popular high-concept horror-themed videos, and interactive theatrical shows, has them playing alongside Metallica on their latest US tour, and selling out venues nationwide.
The band’s latest deluxe album Welcome to Horrorwood: Under Fire is available now on Fearless Records at found.ee/WTH_UnderFire
In this episode…
Spencer talks about one of his greatest fears - flying - and some scary incidents he has encountered in the air. We get an exclusive telling of his mild air-rage incident that nearly turned into the worst kind of trouble for him. Catherine recounts her terror of roller-coasters, which may or may not derive from the FINAL DESTINATION movies. And how her dog Luna may or may not be a bit of an a-hole!
We find out the scary movies - known and not so well-known - that shaped Spencer into a huge horror fan, and his favorite horror franchise. Plus the pros and cons of guys going 'full tuck’ on-screen. We discuss Spencer’s childhood toy, and small kids who play with horror toys. Spencer talks about how music - and lack of music - creates suspense in movies, about seeing young kids and babies at Ice Nine Kills gigs, what NOT to write in an autograph to a pregnant woman, and his reasoning for launching a horror convention of his own.
Finally, in this week’s Side Barb, we play a game specially written by Catherine for our rock star guest, and Spencer reveals a talent for accents and impressions!
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[@andicca23]

this was so amazing :D I thoroughly enjoyed it

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

So glad to hear it! Hope you'll tune in again!

[@andicca23]

@@ScreamDreamsPod oh sure I will! ❤️

[@costanzaechelon]

new drinking game: take a shot everytime Spencer mentions Xanax in the first 15 minutes

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Scream Dreams is not responsible for what might happen if you do this 😅

[@jesseleon8881]

Either Spencer is just chill AF or he’s high as a kite lol. I love this dude 😂

[@wesjall]

Why not both? 🤷‍♂️

[@BombtrackRebel]

It’s the Xanax haha

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

haha!

[@anarky9745]

I'm pretty sure he's just like this lmao he's the same in all his interviews

[@ReINKarnate1]

Spencer's accent during that MadLib is so fucking hysterical, I need this shit animated or acted out or something

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Maybe we'll try that further down the line!

[@jamesgreen4171]

He’s from Massachusetts 😊

[@Poptartkitten13]

Have him on again when you can. I love his weird ass. Could listen to him talk aboit literally anything for hours.

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

He's the best!

[@thecrowsflyaway3473]

Spencer has INSANE himbo energy

[@kylieclark6073]

Ice nine kills is the biggest reason I got into horror

[@Kevmaster2000]

Most of us are only into them because of their horror movie songs, but you’re the opposite.

[@AnnRose142]

I liked horror before I knew INK. BUT I haven't paid much attention to the classics before INK. 😊

[@cjkilton815]

Same

[@isaacmontoya9636]

I’m a horror fan always but Ice Nine Kills got me back into Metalcore 😎

[@DisembodiedScreams]

Had a feeling he’d be next. Spencer seems like such a cool guy. Ice Nine Kills is an amazing band. My son and I both love their music.

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Yes, he's one cool dude, all right!

[@dreamghoul_1992]

Spencer is so beautiful and eloquent. I saw him in the Hallway at Silver Scream and he sang the name of his friend as he greeted her and it was honestly incredible. I was too nervous to say "Hi" though. I loved his shout-out to Spooky World, it's 25 minutes from my house and I go there every year💕

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Glad to hear it's still going strong!

[@ReINKarnate1]

OH FUCK THEY GOT SPENCER, I'M SO FUCKING EXCITED FOR THIS

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

YEAAAHHHH 🔥🔥🔥🔥🎉

[@ReINKarnate1]

Spencer is just the coolest man and I fucking love Ice Nine Kills SOOOOO much and I love that this gives us a lot of Spencer Charnas fun and some more insight about him

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

thanks for tuning in!

[@thehorrorwombat]

Spencer’s the reason I got into metal. Can’t wait for this episode!!

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Can't wait for you to hear it!!!

[@dtadex]

SAME

[@Millipede_party]

I love his little ‘yayyyy’ 😩😭

[@icedragon936]

That was amazing and Spencer is so funny it should be illegal to be that naturally funny😂😂💜🖤

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

he's the best!

[@Oooky_Spooky]

if you guys end up making merch, you definitely GOTTA call them "fright lights"...it would be too perfect 💡

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Taking notes......

[@KamdynDoty-Balch]

I saw James from dead meat and Spencer from Ice Nine Kills and I just subscribed because of that

[@Gottalocktfin]

“We killed one of the kids with the propeller” 💀💀

[@lennylaserdiscs]

This has been such a treat every week. Such a great vibe.

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Thank you!!!

[@horrificgrave]

i relate to spencer on the final destination thing, i’ve watched every single movie and now i have bad anxiety that anything and everything is out to kill me

[@annabelledoesstuff]

I lost it at “My squirrels are hungry for flesh” XD

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

We did too haha

[@LaurenKaminski]

Spencer is funny,talented & hot AF! I can’t wait to watch this episode right now! Thanks for having him on!❤❤❤🤘

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

thanks for tuning in!

[@GoriestPunk]

I have always Love Horror stuff. The Misfits is big thing in my life! A year ago I decided to Google to see if they were Horror Style metal bands. That's when IceNineKills popped up. Now I listen literally! Everyday!!!

[@jammo1031]

Totally agree with Spencer, the opening to When a Stranger Calls is terrifying! Loved this episode guys! Spencer is always a joy to listen to, hope you can have him on again some time!

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Keep watching and maybe we will!

[@npenta551]

Gotta get the director of Terrifer in here. His nightlight is Art on a tricycle for sure

[@owentownsend4184]

Such a great and funny episode!! I really love the banter of this podcast, all 3 episodes feel like friends just sitting around talking about the things they love ( and dont love with the nightmares). Can't wait for more!!

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Thank you so much for listening! We love that it's resonating with you!

[@_RamenNoodz]

Spencer is a talented dude and brought such a great vibe to this episode. Love the show and I can’t wait to see where it goes in the future.

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Thank you so much for tuning in!

[@ODDZVC]

INK brought me to you guys bc im obsessed but consider me a subscriber. Awesome podcast concept. ❤

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Thank you so much for subscribing. We've got some awesome guests coming up. Hope you enjoyed the Spencer interview - it's a fun one!

[@VinylCollektor23]

Thanks guys! This was quite the treat after a day of dental work. INK is killer live and Spencer was super cool to meet.

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Glad to give you some entertainment after your dental work!!!

[@hamzadawud]

I'm just now catching up on this podcast after sleeping on it at first. It's always a pleasure when Spencer is on a podcast, because he drops the Massachusetts references that I live for. Spooky World was awesome! I also really enjoyed his story about the plane; it had me cracking up.

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@TerrifiedState]

At this club the greens run red!!!

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

so good!

[@SwarmOfBeees]

I am so happy right now!! I found INK through Dead Meat so this is everything to me

[@dethincarnate1149]

Loved Dead Meat's interview with Spencer but I'd love to shout out Drinks With Johnny and they did essentially a horror March Madness with Spencer, probably inspired by Chelsea and James but it was just a fun listen if no one has heard/seen it

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

we'll have to check it out!

[@ElizabethThompson-tj7qw]

Spencer saying Tucker Carlson would like Buffalo Bill's blankets...respect the attention to detail. And a solid joke. Oc

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

haha right?

[@MsTonic625]

Such a goober, I love Spencer! 🖤 😂

[@rollingmetal949]

Spencer seems like such a lovely guy

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

he really is!

[@rollingmetal949]

@@ScreamDreamsPod sadly didn't get a chance to meet him after Ink show here in Finland but hopefully within year or two getting another chance

[@devincrawford6383]

Ice nine kills is one of the greatest bands in rock history every song is nothing but bangers the silver scream 1 was my first introduction to the band and I instantly got hooked and then the silver scream 2 is a s tier album and it’s even better then the first one this podcast is awesome I subscribed instantly can’t wait to see who else you get on hear

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

What are some other musicians you'd like to see on the show?

[@ElizabethThompson-tj7qw]

Thank God I had off today!! Already smitten with this❤

[@torigroves1048]

45:21 When I was in high school there was an exchange student whose name was Elias, pronounced like that!

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

!!!!

[@thingstorotyourbrainz]

Fantastic content. That was terrifyingly terrific

[@deejaymcrae7766]

So I can tell you what happens if you play your baby metal music while you’re pregnant. My husband and I did the experiment of playing the baby everything from classical, to metal, to country, to film scores. Ice Nine Kills was one of the particular bands we played. She is only six months but loves nearly all the music we played her in the third trimester. However, our daughter will not sleep or calm down when upset unless we play Ice Nine Kills. Both of our our Spotify listening histories are 95% Ice Nine Kills now. Very thankful we get to listen to a favourite band and are not stuck listening to nursery rhymes.

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Oh my goodness! We love this!

[@deejaymcrae7766]

@@ScreamDreamsPod We are taking her to see INK for her first birthday when they come to Sydney in November. So excited for her to see them live and meet them at the meet & greet.

[@caseyentrekin3658]

That was a fun watch/listen! Spencer is such a great storyteller and fun person to meet in person. Catherine and James are such great hosts as well! The ideas and segments are great!

[@horrorwood_pine]

I LOVE IT SO MUCH, IT'S SO COZY, IMMA EXPLODE 😭😭😭❤️🔪

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Don’t explode!!! How will you listen to next week’s episode? 😱

[@Jenc1997]

Spencer is so charismatic!

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

He is quite the charmer!

[@GhostlyGrimoire]

This is so fucking chaotic and i'm so here for it hahaha

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

You can tell they're all good friends

[@evanmontoya1682]

Thanks!

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

You bet!

[@Xv4mpir3b0yX]

@50:19 At Silver Scream Con 22" there was a party of people for a wedding staying at the hotel that sec was being held at and they had to deal with people in consume and things and you can see the faces on them that they did not like it one bit. there was this one guy in a Michale Myers mask and a speedo walking around and you could tell that they didn't like him either. I was waiting in line for Spencer and he was walking around the line.

[@stevenford494]

Spencer is so cool!

[@daniellefox3510]

Such a great interview

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@TwoEyes07]

I love him so much 😭 this video is so perfect

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

We do too!

[@user-id1hm9mp8u]

Scream Dreams Episodes always better than the last! Great creative team. It’s what Nightmares and Dreams are made of!

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Thanks for listening!

[@sweet666x]

spencer made me laugh so much! loved this episode

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

He's so funny!

[@Darthkow]

LET'S GOOOO THIS WAS AWESOME 🖤🖤🖤

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

thanks for tuning in!

[@user-nl4nh4sl7h]

Good morning!

[@uchihatobi6017]

I love the collabarations we're getting between Ice nine kills and Dead meat, they are the ones that introduced me to horror, and I love it

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

They also collab with Catherine- it's so cool that they're all friends!

[@MJ_INK]

This was a great one!

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Thank you!

[@mrimpressoo]

Yay! Spencer!!!

[@ghostofnoface1546]

Spencer is a Siren

[@BarrettBro1992]

James please make more content with Spencer. I fucking love him. He’d be such a dope friend to have.

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Thats the dream!

[@brico9785]

I love roller coasters and I always go on them with my dad all the time. My mom was too scared and I’ve been on hundreds of them and when we took our kids this summer to Florida my oldest daughter loves roller coasters too. We went on the raptor coaster there, and when it ended me and my daughter, both were like never again that roller coaster is terrifying. I felt like I was in a fly out of my seat the entire time it was actually on the roller coaster at one point we both looked at each other at the exact same time because we both thought we were gonna die.

[@theletstalkhorrorchannel]

Another fun episode y’all

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Thank you! :D

[@ReINKarnate1]

YES YES YEEESSSS I FUCKING LOVE THIS SO MUCH

[@dash-x]

Awe love hearing the flowers and recognition of my gd father. I did a part in one of his films as a last minute favour for him. I won’t say, but it does involve klowns. I have some really funny stories about him and his good pal Stan Lee. He was such an incredible and gracious soul✨🖤✨🩸

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Love stan lee!

[@dash-x]

@@ScreamDreamsPod He was just as Kind and grandpaly as you’d imagine. I nearly died when at a con he called me out. He thought he was being a supportive grandpa because he needed me to help him film and I had my cousins boyfriend who was technically accomplished help him. He told this massive auditorium I was a star when I only helped my Gd father in a pinch do a horror clown film. My brothers friend saw me on set and I begged her not to tell him too, but🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Awsten_Is_Turbulent]

He's so cute omggg😭😭😭

[@Metal.is.My.home12]

I seen them on the 22nd in reading pa that show was AWSOMMEE

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

Ice Nine Kills is AMAZING live!

[@Werewolf914]

I love Ice Nine Kills not only for the music that mixes my 2 favorite things Metal and Horror but that and they've got a great Community they've built up especially over on their Fan App They're also incredible Live I think the only band I'd rank higher just for sentimental reasons is Linkin Park but they're tied for first watching them Live is like watching a Play of a Horror movie can't praise them enough

[@sinematographynaction]

Spencer is awesome!

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

The best!!!

[@TheJustin905]

I'm the same as spencer with flying except I use lorazepam not xanax...lorazepam lasts longer. Movie that triggered my fear of flying as a kid was the movie ALIVE

[@kristie1929]

Why is he so pretty 🥺

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

XD

[@Yasmin-zf6eq]

Aweeee i missed the live

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

thats ok! we'll have more soon!

[@jager1679]

Dead meat got me In to ice nine kills and spencer got me in to metal

[@brico9785]

53:21 growing up in New England I have gone to spooky world and parks like that every year as far back as I could remember. There’s a place called witches woods where my uncle used to be one of the chainsaw ppl on the haunted hayride. And for a few years we didn’t know it was him and every year on the hayride he would run up to us and call us out by names and scared the crap out if us. It was so much fun. I didn’t realize until right now that that parks like that weren’t common all over the country.

[@mr.halloween589]

I love INK with all my heart

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

AGREED!

[@mr.halloween589]

@@ScreamDreamsPod YALL RESPOND?

[@user-hz5rr1ti2e]

❤

[@THEMERKINS]

Naked Gun and Carrot Top 🔥🥕

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

That's all you need!

[@jordanmills92]

I was obsessed with Lost when I was young….. that ruined me with planes. Nope.

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

10000 %

[@brico9785]

46:00 when my daughter was little, she was obsessed with sharks. She watched every shark movie ever from Jaws to those cheesy sci-fi one shark documentaries so when she had her fourth birthday party, she wanted it to be Jaws themed and all of my family was like oh that’s not good for a four year-old little girl and Im like deal with it that’s what she wants and that’s what we did and all of the gifts were shark based and I remember her favorite was a DVD that my dad gave her that was some stupid sci-fi shark movie that I can’t even remember the name of it but she used to watch it constantly and then we took a trip to the aquarium they used to have sharks there she was so excited to see the sharks, and when we went, the shark exhibit was closed, because of remodeling, which they didn’t post online when we bought the tickets so we had no idea until we got there that there was no sharks and she got so upset. She started crying. It was a good day except for that. And this past summer she’s 16 now we went to Florida and she was most excited to see the sharks at the aquarium. The day before we were supposed to go she ended up getting heat stroke and we took her to the hospital around 4pm and we were there until 7am the next morning. So we went back to the hotel and we told her we’re just going to rest today and skip the aquarium. because we did Disney for three days we had the day for the aquarium and then the rest of the week was supposed to be at Universal so we figured we’ll skip the aquarium and you can rest to enjoy the rest of the trip. She refused. She’s like going to go to the hotel sleep until 10 and we’re going to the aquarium and that’s what we did she powered through she saw her sharks and it was the happiest I’ve seen her the entire trip. She was so excited to finally get to see those sharks that she has been waiting since she was to see.

[@dellaj86]

Omg if twiztid and ink ever toured together that would be sick!

[@ScreamDreamsPod]

So sick!

[@Sachin_C10]

Barbara Crampton is just so beautiful & so sweet as a host! Both Heather Graham & Barbara Crampton looked so 🔥 in suitable flesh.

[@user-hz5rr1ti2e]

🎉

[@kericolston4492]

Xanax Spencer 😂