VARIALS | Garza Podcast 54

Varials is an American hardcore punk band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We talk about the after-life, quitting college to be in a band & much more!
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Varials is: Mitchell Rogers, James Hohenwarter, Mike Foley, Sean Rauchut & Shane Lyons
TIME CODES:
00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Quitting College Is The 1st Step To Being In A Band
16:09 - Orthodox & Boundaries
21:05 - Mitch Singing Full Time
30:05 - Taking Things For Granted
34:06 - Scars For You To Remember
40:19 - In Darkness Writing Process
44:06 - Demons, Ghosts, Spirits & The Wizard
55:26 - Ross Robinson Vinyl & Listening To Music High
58:48 - Hip Hop Influence, Joey Jordison, BMTH & The DOOM Soundtrack
01:04:02 - Fender 7-String
01:08:43 - Turnstile & Future Of Heavy Music
01:12:01 - Lorna Shore & Knocked Loose
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[@bunnysniper007]

Completely avoided the Travis question lmaoooo

[@stevenwilliamson4852]

"What happened to Travis if you don't mind me asking?" *Fully evades the answer 😂😂😂🍿

[@bunnysniper007]

I noticed that too

[@soothingaloe]

Dude blew out his voice and couldn’t tour anymore, probably cited “creative differences”. Which is probably true because In Darkness sucked lol

[@calsadowski3230]

@@soothingaloeif you think in darkness sucks you just have poor taste in music

[@blvckdxvth]

@@soothingaloena they were being racist and he didn’t want to deal with it. that’s why they dodged the answer like nero dodging a bullet

[@Decapiated]

​@soothingaloe it's definitely still much better than this bands last album, straight up over produced trash. These guys haven't been good in ages man

[@tonist.7136]

This podcast needs to blow up. This is too good.

[@geddyleesowlnose]

they need the rub from HardLore

[@crb6852]

it'd be awesome if you got Tallah on sometime. that would be the craziest interview ever it'd be sick

[@GarzaPodcast]

I will check them out!

[@everrest8830]

@@GarzaPodcast they don't play to a click or record to a click and remind me of the new generation slipknot. Also drummer is the son of Mike Portnoy.

[@jbasti227]

@@GarzaPodcast You’d love them dude. One of if not the best modern nu metal band.

[@randerins]

oh fuck yea!

[@nick-alias]

Just seen them. I actually put $100 aside to spend on merch for another band but these guys were so raw and awesome they got my $100

[@gabrielgunnzalez]

They avoided the question about Travis hard lol.

[@draleigh8881]

chris you gotta tell the varial guitarists that they can buy baritone replacement necks for their fender guitars.

[@jakebellaire]

ayeee big shouts to Belie My Burial. PGH represent. Speaking of Church venues... Pittsburgh has like 3 of them

[@GameJunctionMedia]

Dope!

[@reubenk7331]

What a wild ride lol. These guys seem, pretty awesome. Checked out a couple of songs and they were sick.

[@jacques_laconic7091]

Hell yeah Troc mention in the first 5 min

[@anthonywallace1676]

Heavy metal podcasts change the game this shit is really gonna help the people in the business alot people who would never usually get a platform

[@HoshiFanatic]

Went on tour with these guys back in 2015. Cool dudes.

[@shredhead4604]

Same, sucks their original vocalist left I actually thought the last album he’s on was awesome and they found more of their sound along with the familiar gnarly raw heavy down tuned riffage that is sic ha, BUT new vocalist held his own with new album, and doesn’t sound bad at all. Think he fits with them. 🤘

[@samburnett7802]

Getting some young randy Blythe vibes from the singer, same sorta area as LOG I spose

[@-orlandogx-]

yo Mitch have good musi taste

[@ericneedham6032]

The band was so much better with Travis 😢

[@I-DEPRESSIONIST]

Yes

[@dissonantgrooves]

really curious what the blurred out shirt logos say

[@GarzaPodcast]

Boundaries

[@HEELDAVE4LIFE]

Bro Boundaries from CT sooooo goood

[@Dismal626]

​@@HEELDAVE4LIFEboundaries is a better varials 🤣

[@HEELDAVE4LIFE]

@@Dismal626 they don’t sound the same at all lol

[@spoonerluv]

Two sides to every story lol. Travis says he left the band because they launched a BLM t-shirt for charity, but they casually use the hard R normally. He couldn't stick around for that.

[@dylandistance]

I feel like this is not quite true as Travis had already exited the band before the Shirt announcement. Travis tweeted a reply to Varials implying that the other members would engage in racial/ableist slurs towards minorities and affected demographics. My opinion is that Travis was trying to save face but the blatant intolerance and hypocrisy that was yet to be spoken about due to privatization of conversations. I was a fan of Varials but the lack of an actual statement was enough for me to not listen to their music or support them until one is made. It's very sad that they choose not to respond given their platform.

[@kingdick8390]

They sure didn’t say much about the Travis thing lol

[@iletthedevilin828]

@@kingdick8390 I dont really blame them for not saying much about the Travis thing. Whatever conflict that went on between them behind the scenes isnt really our business, and as fans I would argue it would be better if we didnt speculate around that.

[@stevenwilliamson4852]

It wasn't because of the shirt but yes it was the N word thing. I remember when he quit everyone was messaging each other that day talking about how he quit because members of Varials had said the N word.

[@calsadowski3230]

@@stevenwilliamson4852this is so unbelievably false. I don’t know how you made this story up in your head but to spread this misinformation is just embarrassing.

[@YaBoyJRock42069]

Varials is soooooooo NOT good anyway.

[@user-pp7bv9ec5w]

EVERYONE IN THE WORLD WANTS THAT STRAT!!! I WANT 2

[@GarzaPodcast]

I’m working on it. Tough getting Fender on the metal side. The right side…haha