Oh man, is this year hot or what? I am not just talking about the killer summer temperatures, I am also talking about the wave of great metal albums that are coming in, especially from oldschool bands that deserve the love and support they've got. After 20 years of turmoil and delay, Nasty Savage from Florida have finally got their chance to get back on track with their upcoming album Jeopardy Room, which will be out on October 4th for the world to hear. I thought this was a great opportunity to chat with Ronnie Galletti, aka Nasty Ronnie, about the work and the release of their new album in October, but along the way we decided to chat about other things like the overall influence Nasty Savage had on many highly acclaimed Florida death metal bands that pay respect to their great mentor figure. I hope you will enjoy this conversation as much as I did, because Ronnie's words were nothing short of amazing, and highly inspiring to someone who loves and appreciates what they do. Stay nasty fellow Metal Knights and enjoy the thrill ride with our fellow Florida metal legend Nasty Ronnie.

Vladimir

Hi Ronnie, how is it in sunny Florida these days?

Oh man, it's pretty hot today, but it's Floria man, that's what we do, we got alligators, sharks in the water, the beaches, babes in bikinis, and there's Mickey Mouse, and a lot of good bands still trying to make it here.

Yeah, I mean, everytime I think about Florida, I think about my friend who came to visit his sister in Florida. Not a couple of hours passed, he saw a guy in a pizza restaurant throwing a chair at a rude customer, a lady at a bridge feeding alligators, and a crackhead walking past a police car and shouting "Keep on truckin'!". All those Florida man myths, they are true hahaha.

Oh man, we just came back from Brooklyn, New York, and you talk about crazy. Man, Florida's got nothing on that stuff over there in the city.

How does it compare?

Well, the traffic is worse, also congestion and parking, it's just crazy. Where we played is a part of town where the boat dots are kinda in this part of the city, and the fans that came there made a commitment when they got up and they wanted to come, because it's nothing that you just don't plan to do. Florida is easier to get around, but it's populated as well, I mean it's all the same but different, you know. The best thing is you are dealing with the people who love heavy metal and support metal bands, and that's why we are there for. It was great, we worked with good promoters. You know, people who really appreciate you being there, it's so important.

Collective commitment is always the winner, because it all pays off in the end and it erases all the hardships you've been through.

And you're from Serbia?

Yeah, and let me tell you about this place. We are very close to the mentality of Florida, but we don't have sharks and alligators, but we also have a lot of crazy people walking around every day, and the heat is killing us like 43 degrees Celsius, and you have a lot of car crashes and accidents happening like old people dying in the streets because the heat kills them.

Well, you know, I know one thing about Serbian people is they're very fierce, notorious fighters.

Exactly.

Like, in the United States. And, in Vietnam, they just scared the shit out of the Vietnamese, because they would cut their heads off and put them on poles all around their camp and the Vietnamese would be definitely afraid of the Serbians because they were fierce fighters. A friend of mine, the Serbian, David Perić, he used to produce my TV show with me. And he wasn't born there, but his family was from there. But I read about them and about Vietnam and how fierce fighters they were. So, you must have that in your blood.

Yeah. Because, it goes all the way back to when we were under the occupation of the Turks for 500 years, and then you have something like that basically, like battle born people just waiting for the opportunity to fight back. And you think about World War 1 and World War 2. I mean, we were one of the one of the biggest casualties in Europe, aside from Poland and France. And, of course, we also fought back, all of what is now former Yugoslavia. But I'm not surprised if there were Serbian people fighting in Vietnam. Like, just take into consideration when the NATO bombing happened in 1999, we shot down a stealth fighter, and it crashed near a small village. And, you know, people found parts of that plane all over and it was talked about constantly because it was like "wow". And now all of a sudden, we became very proud of it. So, you basically know what to think, man.

Yeah. And like I said, they were special troops. Like, you know, there were Australians there in different countries who all had their own troops to help fight in Vietnam, but the Serbian people, the troops that were there were very respected for being fierce fighters and to get the job done. So that's cool, man.

Yeah. Indeed.

So, did you hear the new album?

Yeah. Actually, my review was published today. This is one of the reasons why I invited you here because Jeopardy Room is just a month away from being officially unleashed into the world. And but first and foremost, I must say it's a well-done job for Nasty Savage, because this was a pleasant surprise for me. I mean, it's been 20 years since you released your last album "Psycho Psycho", and I think this is a real treat that the fans were craving for, especially because the band has gone through numerous lineup changes along the way until the album finally came to be. I mean, are you excited that the album is at last, being released after 20 years?

Well, I mean, yes, for sure. And it's something we always wanted to do, but, you know, we got together after a long time to do "Psycho Psycho", because a record company guy David, who was working with Ben, and he worked with him for Gardy Loo, so I got to meet him and I said "Hey, how about another Nasty Savage record?". He was like "Oh, hell yeah. Let's do a Nasty Savage album". So, he paid us a lot of money to get back together to do this, and then paid for the production. So, we're committed to do that, and we all wrote the songs. David lived in Tennessee, we did "Psycho Psycho", and pretty much that was it, man. After that, not much happened, and as far as the record company, it didn't do much promotion and marketing, and he was more of a fan, you know. So, we went on a hiatus, and then every once in a while, I'd get opportunities to play a show here and there or a festival, so I try to convince the guys whether it just wouldn't happen. And then David Austin said "I'll do it" and then we acquired another guitarist Pete Sykes, he's on Jeopardy Room, and Jim Coker. And those guys jammed before in Contorted and Brutality, and they're shredder guys. And then we got Richard Bateman when he was still alive and, you know, God rest his soul, RIP to Richard, but he jammed with us, so we started doing festivals and shows, and that went on for about 5 years. And then we played Mexico a couple years ago, and after that, David quit. He just said "I'm just done with this. I still love you guys, but I'm just done". But at that time, before that, we actually went in the studio and started to work on some songs that we wanted to shop them around but that's a pain in the ass sometimes having to shop it around and all that. Then you gotta invest in that and then get the time involved. So, we did that and we started, we didn't quite do the lead tracks yet and then it just fell apart, we just didn't do it. And, you know, then Dave quit, but I said "You know what? We're not done yet". And I said "Pete, who do you have got?". And he said "I know a guy", and then he called Dave Orman. Dave Orman got on board, at the same time Richard was gone, then we got Scotty Carino who played with Death and Fester and a few other bands, and a great bass player. Scotty had back problems, so he took a bow out. We acquired Kyle Sokol who plays with Nocturnus as well, and he's a really good guy. So then, we had a new band together, and one of my goals was to do a record. So, I knew Frank from FHM records, and he's from Germany, but he also has a house here in America in Florida, in Port Charlotte, and he also rides Harleys and motorcycles, and I have motorcycles and do Harleys. I published a Born to Ride Magazine, the Harley Motorcycle Magazine here in Florida, and I did the TV show Born to Ride for 29 years. And I produced 1314 TV episodes.  I'm a producer, man, I always have been. Anyway, when he would come to town, we'd go out riding, he'd come up and meet me, and then I'd take him out in the phosphate mines in the back roads of Florida, you know, in the jungles and stuff to see alligators or whatever it may be, bald eagles and just nature out in the middle of nowhere. And, so he came one time. Last time he came, I said "Just come to my house, spend the night. We'll get up early and we'll leave from here". So, he said "Oh, great". I made him a big breakfast, you know, and then we took off. But at breakfast, I said "You know, I think we just need to do a Nasty Savage album". And he was like "Oh, hell yeah", because he's a fan, but he didn't know what he was getting into because he didn't know what we were gonna sound like or his investment, whatever. And we went to lunch that day after riding for about a couple of hundred miles, and I sat down and we worked on it. I said "All right, let's do this. Let's figure this out". We made a deal. I was able to tell my guys "Hey, man, we're doing a record deal and we're gonna sign a contract and he believes in us, man. He's given us an opportunity when no one else did. And, he believes in us". So bottom line, when we were done with the recording and he got the master tapes, he left me a message on the phone. He said "Ron, I had high expectations, but you far exceeded my expectations". So, I mean, that made me feel really good that Frank was happy with it. I was so excited to tell the guys "Hey man, these are new young guys who, you know, wanted to be a part of something. They're already fans of Nasty Savage, but now to be able to be a part of the next generation of the new chapter of Nasty Savage". I wasn't going backwards, man. And I had a lot of anxiety because I'm the only original member. So, the people were gonna say "Well, it's not really Nasty Savage without this guy or that guy". As long as I'm in Nasty Savage, there's still a Nasty Savage, and that's my mentality. So, I just brought in some new guys. I mean, I love everybody who's been in the band. They're like children, your songs, your records, your members, you love them all equally, you know, but you gotta deal with what's in front of you and not the rear of your mirror. So that's where I was at, man. So, I wanted to fire these guys up and I told them "It doesn't matter what we did in the past. I'm leaving it up to you guys. It's in your hands.It's in your hands to take this next chapter, man. It's an exciting time, but if I'm not then I don't write music. I'm not the guitarist. You guys are. This is what I want. I want it faster. I want something heavier. We wanted to try some different stuff, you know, maybe more speed metal". So, they were like "Well we know we got big shoes to fill, and we're gonna try to keep it true". I said "Don't worry about keeping it true, man. Take it to another level". But I think they kept it true anyhow, and then I give them song titles, and I go "This is a title, Pete. Schizoid Platform. What do you think, man? Give me something crazy." Then I just do that with each song, and then they mould the songs, give them to me and then I'd start working with them on where to sing and putting my lyrics in and starting to write. So, it's exciting, you know, 20 years like you said, 20 years it's been and it seems like just yesterday, man. That's how fast time goes by. And when you have opportunities in life, make the most of it, man. So, I'm making the most of it, enjoying it very much.

Yeah. It's crazy because you've been through a lot of turmoil, but it's great to hear that there was a good chemistry around that working process when the album was finally being shaped into what it became. And, you know this is your first album with the newly formed lineup. And, the new members really proved their worth because it truly is baptism by fire. And I mean, what can I say? There's a lot of things that I like about this album, because the songwriting has a very good balance between aggression and atmosphere, where the band's heavy thrash metal delivery really expresses a variety of ideas from beginning to end. I mean, the entire album is great, but the standout examples for me are, "Southern Fried Homicide" and "Aztec Elegance", and, of course, I would even say "Blood Syndicate" because it kind of gives a throwback to "XXX" back in the Indulgence and Abstract Reality days back in 1987/1988.

The "Blood Syndicate" song, man. I brought in the chick to kinda do like Luna did with "XXX". We might have overdone that a little bit, but I love the beginning. But anyway, when it breaks into that fucking rhythm, man, it almost sounds like old school Exodus or something. It's so cool, man. And that's what I really dug, because I think we dug deeper into that choppy heavy guitar, the things that really make your head bang, you know. "Aztec Elegance" is a song that Dave Orman wrote, he wrote "Blood Syndicate" and "Southern Fried Homicide". But I always had a title, I said "Man, I wanna use this title, Southern Fried Homicide" because when you write, you wanna rhyme, but you wanna rhyme with cool shit, then that means something or something to you enough to get other people wondering what the hell is this about. Because I'm not writing about "the red door is red, the green door is green", you know, I'm gonna twist your mind, but I'm gonna write it for myself like philosophers would do, or poetry in an abstract form as I've always kept that style. I've matured as a songwriter, but, you know, "Aztec Elegance" to me is almost like Asmodeus. It's telling a story, and I always wanted to tell the story about the Aztecs and the Mayans and the blood gods. You know, they sacrificed people for the Sun God so their crops would grow, they just wanted rain, man. They would go to farther extremes, and then I saw the movie Apocalypto. I got with David Orman, I said "Dude, I got a song for you. I wanna do this thing", and first I was going to call it "Apocalypto", and then I changed it to "Aztec Elegance" to give it a little more of a cool feel to it. And I said "I want some kind of Spanish guitar at the beginning, you know". He's looking at me like "Spanish guitar? What are you talking about?" I go "You know, Spanish guitar". So, he came up with that eerie sounding guitar, and when I heard it, I said "That's exactly it". I didn't know what I wanted, but I knew it was something. And then I love when it goes "Apocalypto!". It's just kinda hypnotic, man. The way it came out and then "People of the banner of the Sun".  You know, they worship the sun. I wanted to drive that horror into your head, to feel the horror, the horror of what's going on. So that's like a real storyline. And "Southern Pride Homicide" is just a song that David and Scotty at the time didn't like that title. They were like "Oh, I don't like that title. That's dumb". I said "Dude, I love this title, Southern Fried Homicide". And it doesn't necessarily mean about murder and killing. It could be about your mind in southern fried homicide or thinking it could be anything that you want it to be. I can't put it to die, like "Southern fried homicide, her disguise with icy eyes, prior desire, fever believer, sadism is the art of the teacher". You know, it's like, what does that mean? You know, that they're cool words that rhyme, but it's poetic in a way. So, I let other people kinda search out what they're looking for, but the rhythm will set you free, man. The music is what drives me to create. And it's so cool that I probably connected more with these guys than any other time I've ever recorded. I was really more of a part of it, and it really was exciting.

Yeah. It's great that as hard as you focus on the songs, that there's a real natural flow. And you guys are at this point highly experienced songwriters, and you've achieved a lot, through the last 3-4 decades, since the band came to be. And so far, what you've been through, it's good that you can still have that overdrive, that creative overdrive. And, also on top of that, one of the things that I really liked about this album was that it includes the re-recording of "Witches Sabbath", that classic Nasty Savage song which has been around since the Wage of Mayhem demo. And it's very well done in this kind of newly improved form. And, were you really looking forward to finally including this song on this new album?

Well, you know, it's a great question. It was very important to me when I knew that we were gonna do an album, and I was the only surviving member. What are people gonna think? You know, is it just the Nasty Ronnie Band, or is it even gonna sound like Nasty Savage? Is this a crime that he's trying to do this shit without this guy or that guy? So, I knew I had to back it up with the music, and I accomplished that. I knew I had some good players with passion and energy and the wanting to make something happen and create together, you know. So, I knew that, but I had to bring in some other ideas. And one of the selling points, even to the record, I came to Frank "We're gonna redo Witches Sabbath. We're gonna redo the song from the demo tape". It's never been recorded. I wrote it with Fred Dregischan, our original bass player, he really was a mastermind back in the day of the first album. That progressive music style like Iron Maiden-ish, there's a lot of cool stuff in there, it was like a genius, man. And we lost Fred after the first album. So, I said "I wanna re-record Witches Sabbath, and I'm gonna call my friends in Obituary, John and Donald Tardy, and I'm gonna get them to play on this record on this song". So, it's like a really powerful negotiating thing that I had, and I didn't even have their answer yet, but I knew that they would do it. I asked them. So, I think he goes "Oh my god. That would be great". So, we've got Donald and John. Did you know that John Tardy and Donald Tardy are on that song?

The funny thing is when I got the press release info, I didn't even know that they were part of it, they weren't even credited on the Metal Archives. So, this is actually very impressive information because even I'm actually quite surprised.

Yeah. And I actually had read 2 reviews and neither one noticed or mentioned Obituary's Donald and John Tardy. And I'm like "Damn. They didn't even mention that on Witches Sabbath". So, I called the record company today and I said "Dude, we gotta do another press release and let people know that they're on this and they're gonna put a bunch of stuff out there too". They just haven't done it yet. But getting back to the story is when I knew we were gonna do this, I knew that since those guys have always respected Nasty Savage, and I respect them. Matter of fact, when I was young at my parent's house in the 80's, in the early days, my mom said "Ron, there's 2 boys at the door. They wanna talk to you". So I go to the door, and there's these two kids who are on bicycles. And they go "Hey, are you Nasty Ronnie?", I said "Yeah?", and they said "Well, we're John and Donald Tardy, and we wanna know how to start a band". They came to my house. They searched it out. They found out where I live. They rode there on their bicycles and knocked up on my door and asked to talk to me personally. I'm like "You guys are brilliant, man". I said, "I like you guys, man. Let's talk". And I took them to Olympia Springs, this park here with a big spring. Anyway, we threw the Frisbee for about 5 hours, and I took them in my Chevelle, I had a 70's Chevelle hot rod. I made an impact on them, and then they went on to start Executioner and then made it Obituary and be total mega successful by being smart and talented and precise strategic. Man, I respect them so much. But they put us in that video "10,000 Ways to Die". That, I mean, how respectful is that? That video has got over 7,000,000 views, I think. So, they helped us throughout the years that we weren't doing anything. They were paying homage, and then they put us in the book, I think there's a whole chapter about Nasty Savage. So, I just said "Man, now I can return the favour to show my respect, and I'm gonna ask them". And I got them to do it, and they delivered for me. I get John's vocals and in the original Witches' Sabbath, I go, "Oh, oh, Black Masses at the Witches Sabbath". So, I let him do his vocals first, then I got the tape. When I heard his, I said "I'm not going there, man. I'm not even gonna do the highs". That's him doing it. So, it's like, that is John Tardy and Don playing the drums on the whole drum track. And I mean, they don't do that for anybody at all. They never do that shit. They said it. They said "We get asked all the time and we never do it because we just don't do that. But for Nasty Savage, we're all in". I've videotaped the whole behind the scenes in the studio, interviews with each band member, the directors, everybody involved. And then I also went to their studio and interviewed the brothers and they gave a great interview and talked about the inspiration of Nasty Savage and why they wanted to do this. I love the organ sound too. That's the deal. I want to add the organs right there, like funeral sounding organs. And I think we took a classic song and made it an epic song with the help of Obituary, and we need to correct that problem we just spoke about.

It's really a heart touching story, because helping each other out, that's a very good approach in a metal scene, that brotherhood, that whole thing of not really like doing somebody a favour, but it's really helping somebody out because it really goes like full circle because you helped them and they helped you out, and then you returned the favour. And, you know, the funny thing is, a lot of people forget that Nasty Savage is one of the bands that came before the death metal scene. By now, everybody knows Florida as a capital of death metal, but you guys still deserve the recognition as one of the crucial bands that hail from there, especially since you influenced some of the bands that put Florida on the map for worldwide extreme metal fans, take example bands like Obituary and even Death. I mean, how do you compare Florida's metal scene in the 80's when it was still growing to what it represents today?

Well, I was thinking about that. And first off, the Obituary guys, it's not so much a "favour" favour. It's more respect and brotherhood and just the right thing to do. And that's why I respect those guys so much, because they're just so smart. And their business and they're brothers, and they just have done a great thing, and they have a great product, but they're smart. I'm taking notes now because the pupil is now the teacher. And I'm like "Oh, so how do you do the merchandise? And how much do you do here in selling? How do you work this?" I'm asking them questions that I really haven't done a lot lately. And I just talked to Glen Benton the other day for about an hour or 2 about what he's been up to. And we haven't spoken in a couple of years, and it was really good to catch up, you know, and so that was really cool. And getting back to your question: Okay, we started out in the early 80's just blazing a trail of mayhem, destruction, and more because we're notorious. We're a band that all these young kids were talking about. If I was a young kid and heard about Nasty Savage, I'd be right up front too. I think because we were into Savatage, and then the band Argus was another one, and Vengeance was another band that inspired me locally. So, we used to give them Argus bands like Holocaust, Angel Witch, all the New Wave of Heavy Metal bands, and then they'd learn a couple of songs, and they play them in their sets, they play at bars, so we're inspired by them. Then we break out. All of a sudden, Nasty Savage is born. BAM! Nasty Ronnie smashing shit, and, you know, cops are coming, the people are seeing all this crazy shit. Everybody's talking about this band. So it was like a snowball that kept growing and growing. Now in the crowd are people like Obituary guys, or Deicide guys, or Atheist guys, or Morbid Angel guys. You know, there's Death, Chuck and Kam, when they were Mantas, even before Mantas, when they were just metal fans. So, they were impacted by the mayhem, by the pure display of power that Nasty Savage did. So, what are they to do? These are guys grabbing their guitars, wanting to start a band. So how are they gonna make it? Not like us. They're gonna take it extreme, and then you have Venom. You know, we already have Black Sabbath, but I think Venom was a big inspiration to black metal and death metal. And then you have Possessed coming in the scene, and course, now these guys are going Morbid Angel. They were gonna be satanic and heavy. Deicide Death, Obituary, they were coming out of the woodwork, but they were inspired because of one thing, I think. They were familiar with that Florida based band Nasty Savage who impacted them. I'm proud that they took it to a whole nother level, and then with Morrisound Recording, then Jim Morris and Scott Burns started doing stuff with Sepultura, Destruction, and all these bands were coming into Florida to record at Morrisound. All the bands in Florida were just generating and generating, the metal scene was booming and then the death metal scene just blew up and they put us kind of in the back seat and then we were kind of on our way, not doing a lot. So, it was just an amazing time. So, where I'm at right now is I'm wondering who is the 3rd wave? And I'm looking at these new bands and I'm trying to see what's the next wave of Florida metal because, you know, we had Exodus, we had Slayer, we had Metallica on the West Coast in California. New York had Anthrax, MOD and SOD and stuff. In Florida, here we are in the jungles and the beaches coming out with this metal music and they're going "Who the hell is this?" Second wave delivered after we paved the way. They just took it to another level, man. And now the 3rd wave, these guys gotta work hard to gain their mark. And, you know, I'd like to really leave a legacy and help the 3rd wave, like a compilation or some kind of featuring, but they gotta get out there and prove it. We gotta find out who those guys are.

Yeah. And on top of what you said, how everybody in Florida looked up to you, I think you really deserve a very serious documentary about Nasty Savage. Just like Anvil with their own documentary, where you see all these great musicians talking about how the band was very great and that it's a very sad story that they didn't get big. And I think Nasty Savage also deserves that as well, because of the legacy that you left behind and because of your work still being appreciated today by a lot of old school heavy and thrash metal fans. I'm about the self-titled debut, Indulgence and Abstract Reality, also Penetration Point. But, also on top of that, I think we need a big studio to really read this interview and take this documentary idea into consideration. Also, I have one last question and this comes from my personal: I know you still have your spiked signature spiked leather mask that you wear on stage, but do you still have that full on leather outfit that you wore in the 80's?

Oh, man, I do not. I let the wrestler Kevin Sullivan borrow it one time. Never got the shoulder pads and the breastplate, and he had the mask, and I just never got it back. But I grew out of that stuff and you just kind of evolved. Now I'm more simplistic with that kind of deal. Not so much image, it's more of the performance, but yeah. When you mentioned the band Anvil, Anvil was one of my inspirations, that Metal on Metal. Those things are so cool and I love them, Saxon, Holocaust, Angel Witch, old Scorpions, the Lonesome Crow album, early Judas Priest, Rocka Rolla and Sad Wings of Destiny, and then AC/DC with Bon Scott was an inspiration, or Ronnie Van Zandt from Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jim Morrison from the Doors. It's just a lot of different people, and to me, the performance is all about the music. The music makes me do what I do. And we just played in New York and we got some killer photos from there. I just saw something, man. The mayhem, the blood, smashed TV sets, and flowers, you know, broken glasses all over the stage. It looked like a bomb went off, man. Not to say that a bomb went off because that's not a good thing to say, but it looked like a war zone. That's not good to say either hahah. It just looked like mayhem just happened.

The thing about Nasty Savage is that the word "mayhem" is exactly the word that describes the music that you guys make, the performance that you do, and what you leave behind. It really is, as the title of the demo says, Wage of Mayhem. And I think it's a proud title to carry on for all these years. Thank you so much Ronnie for taking your time to do this interview. I'm personally really looking forward to the release of Jeopardy Room, and I really wish the best of luck to you and the rest of Nasty Savage. And just as a last note, are there any final words you'd like to say?

Well, Vladimir, I can't thank you enough because we're talking, you're in Serbia, I'm in Florida, and we're talking. I didn't know you yesterday, I know you today, and there's one thing that brought us together, brother. It's heavy metal. It's music. It's the power. The rhythm will set you free. It doesn't matter where we come from, what colour we are, what race we are. It doesn't matter, old or young. Now they're bringing generations, their sons and daughters to see us. It's all about the music and celebration of the time we're together. Whether we're on stage, it's a celebration that cannot be taken back. So, I'm gonna give you everything I have. I'm gonna burn images in your brain, and the music's gonna give you that power thing. And it's just an exciting time for me when I'm on stage, relating to the people, and, it's just so important to celebrate the time we have together, because like it says in "Southern Fried Homicide", "Joy and sorrow, today and tomorrow. What greater crime than the loss of time? What greater crime than the loss of time?" Don't waste the time, people. Make the most out of every day, and everything will be alright. Have faith in your heart and the people around you. Give value to your people. Give value to your relationships with your boss. That's the only person we really have to deal with. Are you happy with that person? Yeah, it could be Satan in it, it could be Satan in high heels, man. You could be looking at yourself, you never know. So, I just wanna say Thank you, and I'd encourage anybody to join our fan group, and you should too. It's Nasty Savage Metal Knights, just go to their Facebook group and share your stories, share your photos, your memories, anything. It's all about Nasty Savage, Nasty Savage Metal Nights.

Will do. And the last thing I wanna say is the day when the album is officially out, that's when I'm celebrating my birthday. My birthday is actually on October 4th. So, celebrating with the release of Jeopardy Room.

Oh, that's killer. And how old are you gonna be?

I'll be turning twenty-six.

Oh, you sound young, but you sound old school as well, like you have knowledge and the true passion of the force of the 80's and the history of music and metal. And I really appreciate that from someone as young as yourself. And keep doing what you do, because what you're doing is so important to not only Nasty Savage, but to all the bands that you help along the way. The smart ones will always appreciate what you do and acknowledge it. Sometimes they just take it for granted, so you have to do what you have passion for, and you're doing it, man. And it's very important to me to be here with you today, and I appreciate it. And thank you so much for your support at such a young age of 26. I'm 62. I'm gonna be 63 in December, and, you know, I just wanna wish you a happy birthday, and we'll be playing in Germany on that day at the Keep It True Festival. So, man, I mean, it's great that we have youth that believe in old school and are smart enough to research and know the history of what they're really talking about.