Warm Gadget

Colten:  It’s definitely Tim and I's band for sure but we’ve had several other guys / players in the band over the years.  It’s kind of a revolving door situation.  My brother Austin has been pretty involved over the last few years playing bass live and helping with some drum programming.  Our friend Billy has been doing our mastering and I also had him play some guitar on one of the songs for "RITUALS".
Tim:  Yes. Colten is the heart and brains, I am the bleeding mouth, Austin is the backbone. Warm Gadget is a three piece torso creature. We are hoping to continue the revolving door phenomenon and get a guy to go “Oooowha ah ah ah” on a future recording.
Colten:  “3 Piece Torso Creature”. Next album title! 
Colten:  We both had a love for bands like Godflesh, Ministry, Skinny Puppy and Killing Joke but also love Horror Film Scores so I think with this band we thought it would be exciting to somehow blend all those influences together.  It was also a breath of fresh air just programming drums and not having to wait around for a fucking drummer.
Tim:  We were both still parts of our different “Main” projects at the time, and having something that was completely different (for me) to work on was a fun, free feeling way to express a different side of writing, playing and working with someone. Plus, we just knew that we had what it would take to really make it, man….
Tim:  Life, other projects and outside elements. We weren’t able to go out on the road and playing in our area wasn’t really an option either...We didn’t / don’t remotely fit into the genres that get booked around these parts...
Colten:  To me "RITUALS" just refers to the songs themselves.  Each song being a Ritual itself.  
Tim:  Each song as a ritual, our daily lives, the way we carry ourselves and interact...The traps that we constantly set up and fall into, the traps we lay for others...It’s all cyclical, it's done by every human that has ever existed. Dating...Food...Consumerism...Sex and addictions... If examined or even looked at through the eyes and perceptions of an outsider who isn’t a part of what we are, everything we do is ritualistic.

Colten:  The picture was taken on one of the many nights we worked on the EP and when I glitched it out it just had a look that I thought fit the vibe of the EP.  I just kept coming back to it.
Tim:  It doesn’t necessarily coordinate with the themes, but it’s a sharp, stunning photo and can be viewed and seen differently by each person who looks into it. Some may easily associate it with the sounds they hear. Some may be led to a question by the choice. If they are hearing, seeing and contemplating it, that’s about the best thing we can ask for. We do have a tendency to leave our expressions open ended for interpretation. There may be an alternate cover design for different physical release formats. 
Colten:  Definitely going to do some alternate cover art for physical releases!
Colten:  I would have to say 'Full of It'. I just like the intensity of it.  It has a weird structure to it and it’s just really harsh sounding. 
Tim:  'Full of It'. We had never recorded a track that felt this way. We’ve had some pummeling stuff, but not the same feeling... Hearing the demos had me imagining standing on railroad tracks while a train made of pure black emotion came throttling toward me, and all the while the sinister conductor was blasting a Jesus Lizard cassette tape and a recording of people being tortured simultaneously .  Felt pretty wicked when I initially heard it! 

Colten:  Snowbeasts did exactly what I was hoping they’d do.  They gave it this dance-y, EBM kinda vibe. 
Tim:  Witch Eyes kept the overall structure of the song, but twisted it, flattened it and boosted it in the way that they do. Definitely gave it a different feel and aesthetic.  Part of me wishes we would have just recorded it that way to begin with. Ahaha.
Colten:  Definitely another EP already in the works. We’re also working on videos so we’ll have some music videos out soon.
Tim:  Probably just rehab for me.
Tim:  Just wanted to mention that Charles Manson did not actually (physically) murder anyone. Thank you for the interview. Cheers.

This interview was commissioned through our Ko-fi page.