On Tuesday’s Loudwire Nights (Jan. 30), comic Luke Severeid frolicked with host Chuck Armstrong to rejoice rock and roll and comedy — two worlds he is aware of loads about.
“Actually, all these metallic jokes, I have been engaged on [them] for years and I’ve solely not too long ago began to place them on-line, after which impulsively a bunch of dorks are similar to, ‘Oh, that is me,’ and I used to be like, ‘Oh, that is been me the entire time,'” Severeid advised Chuck.
“I ought to have been speaking about this sooner.”
Severeid has been doing stand-up comedy for 12 years and admitted it wasn’t one thing he was that fascinated by as a younger child.
“Metallic was a fixation for awhile there,” he mentioned. “I attempted to play in some bands [as a] bass participant, however I haven’t got as huge of arms as I want. You might want to be a gorilla to play.”
After realizing he was all the time the man on the occasion making an attempt to make everybody else giggle, he determined to leap into some open mics.
“I used to be like, ‘Nicely, do not it’s important to be well-known to do this,’ after which I spotted, ‘No man, you simply go to a bar and put your title on the checklist and yell at some folks midway to blackout and also you get the dopamine in your mind.'”
When Luke Severeid Began Loving Heavy Metallic
Severeid mentioned he by no means enjoys answering the query of who’s his favourite band as a result of it is seemingly unimaginable — and it might probably change so typically. However he did speak to Chuck concerning the bands that had been his gateway into changing into a legit metalhead.
“Each summer time we would go right down to Cannon Seashore in Oregon and there is this Christian convention middle for youth group and stuff like that,” he recalled. “It was in between seventh and eighth grade, some children that I used to be hanging out with, they listened to 9 Inch Nails. That was the primary time I might heard music with a chew to it as a result of my dad and mom, they did not take heed to music in any respect. They’re very good, odd folks, however I grew up in a home with no music enjoying.”
From 9 Inch Nails, he received into Slipknot after which bands like Slayer and Pantera.
Actually, Severeid was at Pantera’s closing U.S. present earlier than they broke up.
“I used to be nonetheless pretty nerdy however sort of moving into metallic,” he mentioned.
“I keep in mind I used to be ready exterior to enter the present and I used to be hanging out with my buddy and I simply look over and I see a thin white man carrying a T-shirt operating and yelling ‘SLAYER!!’ after which he jumps up and dropkicks one other dude on the concrete.”
What Else Did Luke Severeid Talk about on Loudwire Nights?
- What it was like rising up in a non secular family and the way that is affected his comedy
- How his Mother made him the heaviest quilt he is ever owned
- Why he is shifting to Pittsburgh and why it is a actually good factor for his future as a comic
Take heed to the Full Interview within the Podcast Participant Beneath
Luke Severeid joined Loudwire Nights on Tuesday, Jan. 30; the present replays on-line right here, and you may tune in stay each weeknight at 7PM ET or on the Loudwire app; you may as well see if the present is accessible in your native radio station and take heed to interviews on-demand. Keep up-to-date with every part getting into in Luke Severeid’s world by following him on Instagram.
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