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00:00Okay, we're going to play a game with the guys from Return to Dust.

00:04What are the names of all the guys in the band that I just met?

00:07Okay, Graham, Matty, Sebastian, London.

00:11A plus.

00:13All right.

00:15That's enough. Wrap it up.

00:17How are you guys doing? Good to see you guys.

00:19Good, man. Yeah.

00:20Yeah, where are you guys from?

00:22Southern California?

00:24Yeah, LA-based.

00:25Me and Matty grew up in Texas.

00:27These guys grew up in California.

00:28California, we all met up in the sunny LA area and been a band for a couple years now.

00:36I was going to say, 2022, if I'm not mistaken, right?

00:39That's pretty cool.

00:40Now you're out here playing big shows on this big tour.

00:43Yeah, pretty crazy.

00:46Put that microphone in his face right there.

00:48Pretty insane.

00:50Yeah, dude.

00:51I mean, we were literally playing house shows and just whatever, bar gigs,

00:55like whatever we could get, like a year ago.

00:59What was the thing that turned you guys around and got you signed on these big tours?

01:05What was that?

01:06Well, our initial tour was, our very first tour was with Chevelle.

01:10Okay.

01:10And I feel like it definitely snowballs.

01:13Like once you get on one, you start to just, you know, your name kind of circulates in the touring world.

01:19And, you know, some bands start to kind of realize that you're real.

01:25You know what I mean?

01:25And we just try to put on a hell of a show.

01:29And we've been lucky enough to get on a lot of great tours.

01:33So, and here we are on yet another great tour.

01:37And for those that have never heard of Return to Dusk before, you know, I describe you guys like this.

01:43And you guys can tell me if I'm wrong.

01:44You may have heard this a million times.

01:46Alice in Chains meets Helmet and Screaming Trees.

01:49That is like what I hear from your stuff.

01:51That's a good one.

01:52I dig that.

01:53Love all those bands.

01:54Well, I mean, is it accurate?

01:54I mean, inspired by all those bands for sure.

01:57Yeah.

01:57And I like their deep cuts.

01:59I like that you got the Joshua Tree, like the desert thing of Josh Hame and like Screaming Trees and all that.

02:05And Helmet with the riffs.

02:08And I mean, even our, hi, Adam.

02:11Peek-a-boo.

02:13Good Canadian.

02:14And then like the chuggy, you know, riffs of Helmet.

02:16Like our producer even works with Helmet.

02:18So he's like highly involved with Paige and all that stuff.

02:21So it's cool.

02:22Yeah, that's a great comparison.

02:23And Alice in Chains, obviously, huge inspiration with the duo vocals and stuff.

02:27Yeah.

02:27So I was going to say, are all you guys into all that stuff?

02:31Yes.

02:32And how do you find each other that are all into the same thing?

02:35Like, you know, there's famous stories about Metallica and how they form and stuff.

02:37Like, how did you guys form?

02:38So Graham and I, like you said, grew up together in Texas.

02:41We went to middle school together.

02:43We've just always like been playing songs together.

02:45Not like in a band, but just acoustic guitars.

02:48Like we'd always sing, harmonize, like sing our favorite songs, that kind of stuff.

02:51And there was this like coffee shop that we were performed at every Thursday.

02:55And it was just, you know, a way to just...

02:57So it would be like kind of a Lane and Jerry type thing, just like kind of just playing around?

03:02Sure.

03:02Yeah.

03:02I mean, we just messed around a lot and didn't really think anything of it.

03:06And somehow, just long story short, found ourselves in a studio in Los Angeles with our buddy and Jim Kaufman, who's our record producer.

03:16And he convinced us to drop out of college and move to L.A.

03:20And so we did.

03:21We quit our day jobs, like all of that, and moved across the country.

03:25And that's when we met these guys and how we met them.

03:29I mean, Seb, you want to go?

03:30Sure.

03:30Yeah.

03:32I was like about three and a half years ago.

03:35I was on a walk with my mom.

03:39My mom one day was just like, oh, let's go on a walk.

03:41I was like, all right, sure.

03:43And just down the street from the little town I live in, in California, they were just jamming in their garage with our drummer at the time.

03:54And then my mom was like, oh, you hear that?

03:57Like, let's go listen.

03:59And then just we're standing outside the garage door listening to them.

04:02And my mom was like, knocks on the door.

04:04And I'm like, oh, jeez.

04:05And then they come out.

04:07And my mom's like, my mom does all the talking.

04:10She's my manager at this point.

04:12She was like, oh, he's a guitar player.

04:14He loves metal music and Metallica.

04:15You guys should totally jam one day.

04:17And then I just exchanged numbers.

04:19And then like a week later, we jammed.

04:21Man, I'll tell you what.

04:22I've done a lot of interviews, maybe a thousand.

04:24And that's the most metal story I've ever heard.

04:26My mom got me hooked up with a band.

04:28What about you, London?

04:30How did you get hooked up?

04:30Was your dad walking down the street?

04:33Yeah, I was actually walking my dad down the street.

04:38I was working with another band that our producer, Jim, was doing at the time.

04:43And they needed a drummer.

04:45Just stepped in.

04:46Been here ever since.

04:48Now, I was just talking to Ben Burnley from Breaking Benjamin.

04:51And obviously, you know, he grew up on Alice in Chains and all this stuff.

04:54And he's a big influence on his life.

04:56But you guys are obviously a lot younger.

04:58Where did you discover Alice in Chains?

05:00Like older relatives?

05:01Or where did that come from?

05:03Yeah.

05:04So, I mean, when I was...

05:06I'm sorry if, you know, they hear this.

05:08But we were in middle school listening to their music.

05:10Like Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin and that stuff.

05:13Yeah.

05:14And that's what got me into rock initially.

05:18And then as I fell in love with the genre and kept digging further and further,

05:23I found the old 90s bands and just kept, like a domino effect,

05:26just kept falling in love with different bands.

05:28And you know how it is.

05:29Whenever you, like, listen to rock metal for the first time,

05:32it really, like, strikes a chord in you.

05:34Of course.

05:34And you just want to do the deep dive and listen to every single band.

05:37And that's what happened to us.

05:39And honestly inspired this whole band.

05:41Like, made us want to do what we're doing right now

05:43and bring it to a new generation.

05:45Yeah.

05:46So, Graham, what do you guys have lined up for the rest of the year?

05:49You got this tour here.

05:50You going to record any new stuff?

05:52Got anything written?

05:52There's another tour before the year ends.

05:56Can't say what it is yet.

05:57Okay, another big tour.

05:59Under legal contract.

06:02They will know.

06:05Yeah.

06:05So, there's another tour.

06:06Super exciting.

06:08Staying on the road.

06:09Staying busy.

06:10Working on more tours for next year.

06:12Working on overseas for next year, which is super exciting.

06:17We've never been anywhere other than the U.S. at this point.

06:21Three of us.

06:22Five of us.

06:22I never have either.

06:24Hell yeah, dude.

06:26Yeah.

06:27And we're kind of always just working on new music.

06:29Anytime we can find some downtime and we're back home, we try to get in the studio and

06:33just record some new stuff.

06:35So, I mean, you can look out for it all.

06:40We just dropped an EP.

06:41If you haven't heard it yet, go check it out.

06:44It's called Speak Like the Dead.

06:46We're really proud of it.

06:46Why an EP and not a full record?

06:52I think after...

06:56So, we released a self-titled and I think we just wanted to pack a tighter punch and be

07:03a little bit more concise about the next thing, you know?

07:07And I think a six-song EP does that really well.

07:10And, yeah.

07:14Where in Texas did you guys grow up?

07:17Midlothian.

07:18Whereabouts is that?

07:19South of Dallas.

07:20Okay.

07:20So, you don't sound like a Texan.

07:23Oh, yeah.

07:24We do not.

07:25Pardon me.

07:26Let me tell you.

07:29We have it in us.

07:30Yeah.

07:30We can pull it out in a moment's notice.

07:32Hell yeah, brother.

07:34Maybe it's started on stage in Detroit Rock City.

07:37I'm like, what in the Sam Hale's going on, Michigan?

07:40Hell yeah, brother.

07:42One of my friends from Nashville likes to say, gad-dum.

07:45You guys say that down there?

07:47Yeah.

07:48Dagnabbit.

07:49Yeah, dagnabbit.

07:50I thought maybe you grew up in Texas by the Dangerous Toys guys or anything like that.

07:55Dangerous Toys?

07:56Yeah, I don't remember them.

07:57No.

07:5880s rocks.

07:58I am, though, interested in whatever the Dangerous Toys are.

08:03Yeah.

08:04You should go down a rabbit hole with those guys.

08:07Dangerous Toys.

08:08Man, I was telling Ben that I saw Alice in Chains for the first time on the Clash of

08:13the Titans Tour in 1991 with Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth, and nobody knew who Alice in

08:18Chains was.

08:19Yeah.

08:19Sick.

08:19So sick.

08:20Yeah.

08:21And that was the first time I ever saw him on stage.

08:22I think Lane a few times played the shows with his hoodie on, like, what's the kid from

08:27South Park?

08:28He just pulled tight.

08:29Yeah.

08:30You know?

08:30Yeah.

08:31Because people would be throwing stuff up on stage at him, so.

08:33Damn, Ben.

08:34Thankfully, I haven't had that experience yet, which is kind of a shame.

08:36I feel like we need to get humbled, you guys.

08:38Everyone's been so nice to us thus far.

08:40Someone's got to tell us we suck.

08:41At least one third time he's sick.

08:43Well, it's not going to be me, because I dig you guys.

08:45I'm like, oh, you could be the first.

08:46No, I don't want to be the first.

08:48I like you guys, so.

08:49I feel like crowds were bolder back then.

08:52Like, you don't get that nowadays.

08:54Like, people, if the crowd's pissed off, you won't know.

08:58Yeah.

08:58Yeah, everyone's too nice.

08:59We got to get more honest and more mean.

09:02All right?

09:04Let me tell you something.

09:06This is the worst interview they've ever done.

09:10Well, you guys, thanks so much for stopping by and talking with us.

09:13And also, thanks for playing Riff Fest and safe travels with the guys from Breaking Benjamin

09:17and Three Days Grace.

09:18Return to Dust right here.

09:20London, Sebastian, Maddie, and Graham.

09:23A plus.

09:23Oh, yeah.

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