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S4 Ep25: Christian Heavy Metal Artist Jason Wayne

Magic Making Mischief Season 4 Episode 25

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This week on Magic Making Mischief, we get to speak with #christian heavy #metal #artist Jason Wayne! This #musician is a singer and songwriter full of heart and soul! Drown The Planet has at least one EP that I found out…maybe two, along with some singles. Learn the stories behind him and his songs on 16JUN at 7PM CT! 

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SPEAKER_04

Hey magic makers. I'm Mom Virella and I love the fact that there were pictures from Kimokwai in our new intro, by the way.

SPEAKER_01

I'm Yukita Cosby, guys. Good to see you again. QG Jones here. I'm loving the atmosphere.

SPEAKER_03

I'm CJ Peterson. Welcome to Match. Make your wish to mischief. Get your wands to the ready because we solemnly swear we're up to no good. And ladies, you are welcome. Yay! I'm the magic behind the mischief. We have Jason Wayne, guitarist with Drown the Planet. We're so excited to have him on today. We have lots of listeners and lots of that going on. Yes, I I did a little play with the intro in case you missed some of the cool pictures. Yes, we have a couple of pictures of Kimokawaii behind us. We have pictures of all four of us. I was finally able to put into the introduction. And I changed one of my pictures of Super Hubby and I with the um Star Wars cosplay that we were able to finally get on there. Yeah, I did a little bit of magic of my own.

SPEAKER_02

Speaking of Super Hubby, he already says hi all.

SPEAKER_00

What's up?

SPEAKER_03

Why is it not going? There you go. Double the love for Super Hubby. There we go. All right. So we're so glad you're here.

SPEAKER_05

Hello. What's up?

SPEAKER_03

We're super happy to have you on. Um, so you have a group called Drown the Planet, and you are the guitarist, correct?

SPEAKER_00

Yes, that is correct.

SPEAKER_03

Would you share about them, please?

SPEAKER_00

And you uh Drown the Planet is uh a band I started when I was um I don't remember, but it was 2019. I don't know how old I was. But uh I sing for the bands and I write all the guitar parts and drum parts and whatnot. But I I find myself often writing the most about just like struggles I've gone through personally. So uh I know a lot of a lot of bands write about like fictional stuff for fun or or even write about God and and whatever, but for me it's mostly about my experience in life, you know.

SPEAKER_03

I know I saw one of the songs, um, I think it was called Ghost.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

That one really got me.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Um did you want to share about that one?

SPEAKER_00

Sure.

SPEAKER_03

That's an example, one of the ones that they can understand what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that that song Ghost is about my best friend who passed away from uh ruptured arteries in her lungs, and um it was obviously very dumb and lame to go through that. So uh it took me a while to finally write about it because I spent a long time just isolating after that happened. Um and that was like almost five years ago now. So uh I just released Ghost last year um after almost four years of just sitting on it, you know. Um but it's kind of just a uh a letter to her saying I miss her and she was super awesome, and you know, it's just a song about loss, really.

SPEAKER_03

But that that would be kind of as an example of what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_04

You're screening it. Yeah, yeah. I think I used uh I I did a I did a video of like a little ad and I used y'all's song uh Liars on it today, too.

SPEAKER_00

So heck yeah. I like that one, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_04

I love I love how it starts off like because it starts off really heavy and then it like slows down a bit, and I'm like, that was a cool start too.

SPEAKER_00

Heck yeah, thank you so much. Yeah, I love how that one came out.

SPEAKER_03

Now, how did you come up with the name Drawn the Planet? Because I know it's connected to something else that you um actually have titled the Ark. So can you explain the two of those and how they're connected?

SPEAKER_00

Uh so the Ark is my parents' house that I host concerts at every now and then. Uh and Drown the Planet was uh the name came from the story of Noah's Ark and how the whole world was flooded and all life drowned, literally. Um, so it's like it sounds cool and metal, but it's also biblical, you know.

SPEAKER_05

Love it.

SPEAKER_00

So with the house shows, I thought it'd be cool to give it like a name instead of just calling it the Wayne House, you know, or whatever. So I was like, let's call it the Ark. We could have it tied to the band name, and we're uh we're we play every show there anyway, so thought it would make sense. And people don't really pick up on it because a lot of people don't know about it, but the people who do know are like, Oh, that's cool.

SPEAKER_04

So I think it's super I like that. I like that a lot. Y'all are y'all aren't playing at the house right now because y'all are out touring, right?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, we're on tour right now. Uh we played uh Topeka, Kansas yesterday. We're in Salt Lake, Salt Lake, what the heck? Uh Kansas City, Missouri today. Uh, and then tomorrow will be in Illinois.

SPEAKER_02

So when are y'all coming to the uh Houston?

SPEAKER_00

I have a lot of friends in Houston that want to play with me. Um, and I don't really want to do it without them, you know.

SPEAKER_05

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_00

And it's it's hard to get our schedules to align. Yeah, Dallas too. Like all the Texas, all the big Texas areas, I have homie bands in that I want to do shows with them. Uh, but it's just hard to get our schedules to align because I'm always touring and they're all in school and work and stuff, so it's it's just hard. But I don't want to do it just by myself, you know.

unknown

Of course.

SPEAKER_03

Now you're also currently touring with another band, Seventh-day Slubber. How did that happen? Ooh.

SPEAKER_00

Uh, they posted on Facebook that they needed a guitarist, so I was like, yo. And uh they called me.

SPEAKER_05

Awesome.

SPEAKER_00

And we made it happen.

SPEAKER_03

Nice.

SPEAKER_00

That's the powers of technology. Heck yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Now that's just like a brief thing, right though, right?

SPEAKER_00

A what?

SPEAKER_03

That's just a brief thing.

SPEAKER_00

But it's a good uh I mean I've been with them for almost a year now.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, cool.

SPEAKER_00

So it's like for me, Seventh day is my job. Like they're they're what pays the bills, but it's also awesome because it's literally my dream job. I get to play guitar every night and uh get paid for it, and they take care of me. But they're also a Christian band, so I get to minister at the same time and use my talents for God, which is like literally best case scenario. So uh it was starting out as a brief thing. Like I was originally just gonna do like October, November with them, and then uh I mean it's June now, I'm still with them, so it's it's turned into more of a long-term thing.

SPEAKER_02

Nice!

SPEAKER_04

That's awesome. I used to listen to them in high school too, so that's really awesome.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I love them, they're great guys.

SPEAKER_02

Nice.

SPEAKER_00

I'm self-taught actually, with everything. Nice, nice!

SPEAKER_04

So is that is that so what inspired you to start doing music like this?

SPEAKER_00

Uh, my dad was in a band when I was little. Um and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. He had fan or he had friends that were also in a band. So uh it would there would be a bunch of shows where it was my dad's band and then his friends' band that are always playing together, and I was just always there thinking it's the coolest thing ever, you know. Uh so I've just always wanted to do it. But uh and and I feel like church had a big part in to play in that too, because like the live worship, I was always just so interested in it, you know what I mean? I I always wanted to be able to do that, so I've just always that's all I've ever wanted to do since I was little.

SPEAKER_01

That is so awesome.

SPEAKER_03

So you put your heart and your soul into the writing because you you actually write and record all of Drown the Planet's music.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

How neat heck yeah.

SPEAKER_04

I think that's super cool.

unknown

Thank you.

SPEAKER_04

How many songs have you written?

SPEAKER_00

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01

That many. Uh congratulations.

SPEAKER_00

So are you talking about like just ever wrote or released?

SPEAKER_04

Released. How about how many have you released? Yeah, we'll see.

SPEAKER_00

Released?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

With Drown the Planet, I think I've released I've done I've done four EPs.

SPEAKER_03

Didn't one just come out yesterday?

SPEAKER_00

Uh one came out last week and it was six songs. Uh, and then I have two five-song EPs and then a four-song EP. So that alone right there is 20 songs, plus a bunch of singles, so probably 30 songs that are released with with Drown the Planet.

SPEAKER_04

Ayo. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00

Heck yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Very cool.

SPEAKER_00

It's been a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_03

Awesome. So, what's next for you?

SPEAKER_00

Uh, so we just did the new EP, Bless the Cursed, uh, last week. Um, and we're working on finishing a full-length album, which will hopefully be October-ish. Um, I'm not sure yet, so don't hold me to it, but we'll see what happens. Um we'll have like Fearless Fear Me on there and Liar Trader on there and a couple others, and I'm working a lot with uh the guys in Disciple and Seventh Day and Amongst the Giants to just kind of make these songs as cool as they can be. So I'm working I'm working with a lot of people to make this album the best it can possibly be. So I've never done a full-length album before. So I've always I've always wanted my first album to be like perfect. And uh the issue I have is I can never like commit to it um because I sit on it for so long and then end up like not liking it anymore or changing my mind, you know what I mean? So it usually ends up turning from an album into an EP, which I use that's what I've always done. Uh the Are You Ready to Be Free EP was gonna be an album, and this bless the curse EP was actually also gonna be an album, but I ended up bowing out of it and just doing an EP instead. So uh I talked to the guys and we're like, yeah, let's we have we have a good amount of songs ready to go, let's just finish them and make it an album. So we set ourselves a brief deadline and hopefully we stay true to it.

SPEAKER_04

Sweet. How many songs does it take to make a full album?

SPEAKER_00

So technically on Spotify at least, uh an EP is four, five, six songs, um, and a single is one, two, three songs. Uh, but an album is seven songs or more. So uh, and I I don't really want to do a seven-song album because I feel like that's a cop-out. I want to do like an actual 12-song, 13-song album that's a full piece of art.

SPEAKER_02

12th for the bonus track, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. So that's what I've always wanted to do, and I've just never been able to actually commit to it. So this time I'm gonna actually do that.

SPEAKER_03

Ooh, are you gonna pull from some of your other um EPs for this, or is it gonna be Yeah?

SPEAKER_00

It'll be a little bit. Uh so Disassociate will be on the album, which was just on the EP. Um, I was thinking about throwing Vile on there as well, but I feel like Vile is too heavy for the album. Uh, just because I want the album to be cohesive front to back. I want people to receive it well. Um, and this associates heavy, but I feel like it's heavy in a different way. It's still like it's still catchy and gets stuck in your head, you know. Vile is just kind of very chaotic and out there. So I I might scrap that song for the album, but I have replacement songs for it. Uh, but when I see you was a single, and so was Fearless Fear Me and Liar Trader. Um, so those will be uh probably on the album as well. Um well, not probably, those will definitely be on the album. Those are so that alone, right there, is uh five songs that are already released that'll be on the album. We're just finishing up all the unreleased ones that we're still uh polishing and making making perfect, you know.

SPEAKER_03

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I'm excited.

SPEAKER_02

Super Hubby has a good question. What do you listen to when you're writing your songs? And I'm gonna piggyback off that and ask to make it a two three-parter is what is the the song that took you the longest to write and the song that took you the shortest amount of time to write?

SPEAKER_00

Uh I don't really listen to anything when I'm writing. Uh most of the time when I start writing, I'll be doing whatever. It just kind of happens randomly. Um I could be at Walmart shopping and a melody will pop into my head that I'll like start expanding on, and if it gets far enough, I'll pull my phone out and start jotting down notes and stuff. But I don't really like sit down at six o'clock from and I'm like, oh, I'm gonna write from six to eight. And it's you know, like I don't really it just kinda happens on its own whenever, you know. So I'm not I'm not yeah. But um I think the song that took me the longest was I think I think Ghost. Well, not really actually. I wrote Ghost pretty quickly, it just took me a really long time to actually like record and release it because it was so like emotionally heavy for me. Um But I think I mean to be fair, I feel like most of my songs come together pretty quickly because whenever I get inspired to do that first couple lines, I usually sit there and finish it. Um it'll be very rare that I start a song and be like, alright, I'll come back to it later. Like usually I sit there until I get it done because I want to. Um, and then it just sits in my phone as a bunch of lyrics until I finally record it. But uh usually it comes together pretty quickly. I don't find myself spending a ton of time on a particular song, other than I feel like gone might have been a lot of time with the music. Lyrically, gone came together pretty quickly, but the music I spent a lot of time on trying to perfect it and make it good because it I wanted to do like a five-minute track, but I didn't want it to be repetitive and boring and redundant, so I tried to like really get creative with the guitar lines and stuff. And I spent some time on that, but uh it even then it wasn't super duper long, you know. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_03

When you get the songs, do you get like the lyrics and the music, or do you get them separate? Do you get them both, or sometimes do you just get stuck with both of them? Like I know we're not an author, so like sometimes sometimes I'll get a scene, sometimes I'll get the whole thing, sometimes I'll get you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00

Right. Uh yeah, it's it's kind of case by case for me. Um I feel like most often I'll find myself with lyrics first, and then I write the music around that. Um but there's there's a couple times where I've had a riff idea that I turned into a demo and then wrote lyrics to that. But I that's usually harder for me to do. I usually have lyrics first and then a riff idea that I just build off of. Um But Fearless Fear Me and Liar Trader both started as just a 30-second guitar riff, and then the lyrics came afterwards. Uh, but that was that was uh very different from what I normally do. But I was also working on those songs with some guys in Disciple, so it was a different writing process than me just doing whatever, you know. We were like we had a more set schedule of like studio time and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, so I've gotta ask about this because I've got your some of your Instagram up here. So tell me about the pyrotechnics in the show because you got fire and you're over here playing at the same time, and it looks epic, I gotta say. Like those pictures are awesome.

SPEAKER_00

It's pretty crazy. Um, some sometimes it's I think it's cool. I think it's really cool because it makes the show feel bigger. Um, and it's just like that wow factor, you know. But uh it's also kind of it bites us in the butt a little bit sometimes because um we have to like caution tape off the front area so people don't come too close and stuff, and then people are like 15-20 feet away from the stage, which is fine, you know. But I I feel like I feel like the power technics they're really cool, but I sometimes I just prefer for everyone to be like right up front, right in front of us and hanging out, rocking out. Uh so it just depends on the room, I guess. Uh sometimes we don't do it if the ceiling is too low.

SPEAKER_05

Right.

SPEAKER_00

But it's a it's a lot of fun. It makes for good pictures and good videos.

SPEAKER_02

It does.

SPEAKER_00

It is hot though.

SPEAKER_01

I have a lot of fun. I don't expect it to be cold, so yeah. I have a question for you. Um you're touring, right? So and you tour a lot. What is your favorite place so far?

SPEAKER_00

That I've been to?

SPEAKER_01

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

Um, like favorite place I've been to or favorite show I've played?

SPEAKER_01

Like uh a favorite city that you went to and why? Okay, favorite like what gave you the most high energy that matched y'all's energy. What Yakita said.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, I don't know if this is like a bad answer or not. I would probably say like Arizona, just because that's my hometown. So we have like the most fans there, and that's like the the biggest shows we play are normally Arizona, and that's cool. Uh they always dig it, it's always an insane time. Um but I just recently uh about a year ago I moved to Tennessee. Um, and so Drown and Planet has done way less shows because of that. Uh plus I got the seventh day gig, so I'm busy with them a lot all the time. But uh with Drown, uh all the members kind of dispersed, and we were in a season of like just kind of on a break for a while. Um so but we just we just played Arizona last week for the first time in months and months and months. Um, and so that show was huge. There was a ton of people there, and they knew the words, and they were jumping and moshing, and it was like it was so awesome. So I think Arizona is my favorite place as far as like energy goes.

SPEAKER_01

And the reason why is hometown energy. I get that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so much with all my friends. We built a fan base there for five years, playing there consistently, and so we're Arizona. Yeah, like yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I actually have family in Arizona too, like Tempe area, so that's really close to me.

SPEAKER_00

I'm in channel.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, cool.

SPEAKER_00

Heck yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Do we have comments? We have a few. We got yeah, happy metal for the win. Woo! Love metal, awesome guest.

SPEAKER_00

Heck yeah.

SPEAKER_02

And tell everybody that he said hello. So hi. And of course, get your wands, ladies. Jeremy Vanders. Insert commercial here. Jeremy Vanders wants Maker of Beautiful Wands since 2024. Yes, we have all the additions, including the newest and the cutest, in my opinion. I think it's adorable. Is Juju with her cute little fairy mermaid unicorn wand. Unicorn is she is our mythical unicorn. She is our Hufflepuff, our Huffle Babe.

SPEAKER_04

I'm gonna bounce back to your Instagram for a second. So if y'all don't follow him, y'all ought to. I know you haven't done any of these in a while, but I think these are so fun. He does these get ready with me for church videos. And I love the fact that it's all about you know, God doesn't judge you by what you're wearing, and so he'll just kind of like talk. Those who are watching, if you're not watching, you should you should come out on the video watch because he's just fun. I love it.

SPEAKER_02

So I'm gonna go ahead and call one of my favorite uh people that we've had on here, Magdalene Rose. Well, she said, God loves his ravens and his dubs.

SPEAKER_04

Period. Love that. Love that. Also, I love your bat tattoo, by the way.

SPEAKER_02

I just mentioned obsessed with bats. I'm sure she's been so hard this entire time. She is the vampire of the group.

SPEAKER_00

Heck yeah. Yeah, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_02

She's batty for bats.

SPEAKER_04

They're on my headband too.

SPEAKER_01

She's obsessed with bats like I am with unicorns and pink. It's absurd. It's absurd.

SPEAKER_02

I like foxes and fairies.

SPEAKER_04

And I'm the Slytherin too, so why does that make sense?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, you match. You're such a strange one.

SPEAKER_04

Yay. Oh funny. Okay. That's so funny.

SPEAKER_02

See, we got Ravenclaw over here, which is CJ. We have our author in. And she's an author, so of course. And then you got me, the Gryffindor. Hello. And our beautiful Huffle Babe, Juju. Yes. We have the entire uh Hogwarts.

SPEAKER_04

We've got all we've got the whole Hogwarts, yes. We have fun.

SPEAKER_03

Heck yeah. We actually put our houses, so you know it works.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, before we get too long into it, because we're getting closer. Uh, do you have any good stories from any of your your shows that y'all have done? Anything funny or anything awesome that's happened? Yes.

SPEAKER_00

Um yeah, actually, yesterday's show in uh Topeka, Kansas, um there was I don't know, maybe like 25-30 people there. Uh and it was, you know, it was a good time. But uh the it was a pretty decent sized room, so it just felt empty because everybody was kind of hanging out on the walls and in the back and stuff, and so I throughout the set I was kind of telling them like come up front and come hang out, and like let's party. We came all the way from Arizona, so you can come from that corner, and uh they they slowly surely warmed up to us a little bit. Um but we there was like a beam hanging on the ceiling, uh, and there was also a stool by the wall right under that beam. So we had like three songs left, and I was like, I'm gonna go climb on that beam. So I stood up I walked off stage and I yeah, I walked off stage and I stood on the stool and hung upside down from the ceiling, and now all of a sudden everybody's paying attention, they're crowding around and getting their phones out, and I'm like, where was this energy before? I had to do acrobats for you guys. It was really cool. Uh I did the like repeat after me section where I say a line, they say it back to me super loud and did a breakdown, and I started doing pull-ups afterwards, and and then and then they were all having a great time, and we played our last two songs, and it was awesome. They were all up front, they were jumping, and and then yeah, we we won the crowd over, and then everybody bought merch and it was sick. So that was fun.

SPEAKER_04

I should have saved it. I was trying to find the one where you climbed the scaffolding thing and were playing while up there, but I can't find it right now. But yes, it's on the Instagram somewhere.

SPEAKER_00

You gotta be. It's a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_04

Parkour!

SPEAKER_03

Yes, ha ha! Parcour! So, do you have any advice for somebody who wants to get into arc music because it's not an easy thing to get into?

SPEAKER_00

Uh shoot, I don't know. I would say just don't give up because I feel like every every person that has potential in the rock scene ends up giving up because they're not getting their results that they want fast enough. And I mean, if that like I could have given up drown multiple times with how slow we were growing, you know. Um, but I didn't because this is all I want to do. I want it really bad. So if you want it bad enough, just spend the money, spend the time, like invest in yourself, and it'll pay off eventually. Like if I if I had quit two years ago when I should have quit or could have quit, I would have been very it would have been a very easy excuse to just give up back then. Um because we were losing money all the time, nobody was listening to our songs, nobody was coming to our shows, you know, and it would it would have been very understandable to just quit, you know. But I'm super thankful I didn't. I kept going and now I'm on tour, and now I'm releasing records and stuff. So it's it's just one of those things like do you want it or not? You know what I mean? So if you're a beginner, if you really want it, just prove it by continuing to do it, even when it's hard to. You know what I mean? That's what I would say.

SPEAKER_03

Very cool.

SPEAKER_01

Well, thank you so much, Jason Wayne. Love that answer.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

We really appreciate your time. Uh learn more about Jason Wayne and Drown the Planet. You can look at Jason Wayne's Instagram. It's at Jason Wayne, J-A-S-O-N, W A Y N E, the number's zero two. You can also look at Drown the Planet, which is also on Instagram at Drown the Planet. Check them out. If you go to Jason's Instagram, you can actually, there's a link to tree right there. You can click on that and you can check out all of his stuff. You can check out their merch, it goes right over there. You can check that stuff out as well. Um, his EP came out last week. You can check that out. Um and learn all about him and all of their stuff and catch up on his EP and all of the stuff that's going on around him. Thank you for joining us. Um, next week we have it is a pre-recorded. We will not be ignoring you. It is Sally Seppiotti. Um Monster High! We are all in our monster high gear. Um, you will be checking it out. We are over time, so get your wands to the ready. Mombi, get ready to take us out of here.

SPEAKER_04

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