Butcher Babies are everywhere, they have had a mountain of press but they have only now released their debut full length? Why have they made such huge waves? Their sinister presence, undeniably talented and heavy music and the fact that their two singers are insanely hot females with massive talent, that’s why. During a recent stop on the Metal Mayhem tour Heidi Shepherd and Chris Warner took a few minutes took talk about the massive dirge that is their debut record, Goliath.
An interview with Heidi Shepherd and Chris Warner of Butcher Babies.
By Jeffrey Easton
Metal Exiles: You guys are out all summer on the Metal Mayhem Tour. What is your plan of attack to make the fans remember you?
Heidi Shepherd: Just being ourselves on stage and we are known for being a bunch of party animals so we have a sick time on stage. As long as we are having fun on stage everybody else will too.
Metal Exiles: How were you able to put two volatile singers in the same line up and make it work?
Heidi: That’s simple because you could not as for a better combination that Carla and myself. We are like the Spice Girls on crack and having us fronting the band has helped our progression and also the publicity that the band has drawn because of it has been through the roof.
Metal Exiles: Your about to drop your Century Media full length review but you guys have had a massive amount of press already. Do you think having two females up front is the reason?
Heidi: I do not think that is the reason, I think it’s because it is something they haven’t really seen before. I cannot recall a dual female fronted metal band before us. We are touching new ground here which people wanted to be a part of and we are more than welcoming to that.
Metal Exiles: Shock Rock has had many faces so what can you add to that to make your fans stand on edge?
Heidi: People say that we are but sometimes I do not see us that way. I think people are just shocked at a couple of girls acting the way that we do, I think that’s what’s mostly shocking. Besides Wendy O Williams, I haven’t seen a female do anything shocking in music in a long time. This is really who we are but with the blood, the theatrics and the horror, those are things that we love, it’s what we are about. It’s part of our character, it is who we are when we jump on stage so it’s not for shock, it’s just how we feel.
Metal Exiles: How do you feel when you are on stage beating the shit out of your drums?
Chris Warner: I am having the time of my life and being with four best friends on stage is all I need.
Heidi: The best thing about Chris is that he has been in bands his whole life and he has done great things but to have him in our band is huge for us because he is an amazing drummer.
Metal Exiles: There have been some pics floating around of you guys performing topless with electrical tape covering you. Are you ever concerned that people will see those and judge you before they hear a single note
Heidi: We haven’t done that for a few years and it was an ode to Wendy O Williams. She left us early and we wanted to continue what she started because she was the first female in metal to do what the fuck she wanted to do because she did not care. It’s funny that those are the pics to surface but it doesn’t matter, people are going to think what they want to think.
Metal Exiles: Goliath is an angry, pissed off record. Who pissed you off enough to write this?
Heidi: Goliath is something that we have held inside us for a long time. I have a green binder that I have all of my writing in and I have had it since I was 12 so anything I have ever experienced in my life is in there and that’s where we pulled a lot of the material from. A lot of things on this record are things that most people go through and we just turned a negative into a positive.
Metal Exiles: Explain Magnolia BLVD.
Heidi: It’s about people moving to Los Angeles with a dream and the city swallowing them whole. People lose their focus in life and it can happen to anybody that goes there and gets wrapped up in the scene.
Metal Exiles: What stands out on the album that’s really personal to you?
Heidi: There is a lot of personal stuff from the whole band on the record but Chris started The Mirror Never Lies.
Chris: That song is pissed off, when you are looking at yourself in the mirror and you are questioning things you did, it is just inner turmoil and you just get frustrated with yourself.
Heidi: In Denial is very personal to me and you can really hear it on the record. I wrote it about a recent experience in my life and while we were in the studio I was sitting on my knees screaming into the microphone and I just started crying. It was such a release for me and all of those emotions I was carrying from that experience just came pouring out when I was singing it.
Metal Exiles: I Smell A Massacre?
Heidi: That is a song that we wrote after the Sandy Hook incident. There are so many things in the press these days about these massacres being caused by gun control or mental illness. I believe it starts in the home with how the parents are raising their kids. Parents are raising their kids to be bullies, raising them very shitty, neglecting them, that is where it stems from. That is what is what Goliath is about in general but I Smell A Massacre is in the mindset of that incident. Goliath is about that villain in your life and you can make the decision to become that bully or you can change and not turn into Goliath.
Metal Exiles: You talk about the frustrations in your life but you beat the shit out of the drums. How can you be frustrated?
Chris: That’s what helps me, beating the shit out of the drums. There were situations in my life but Heidi and I ended up getting together, we(and the band) wrote them out and I just got it out of my system. I had these feelings in my system but with writing and beating the drums I got it out of me.
Heidi: Playing live shows with all of us going nuts on stage, we are all so much nicer because we get to do that. I think this has saved me from chopping up many people and going to jail.
Butcher Babies will be one of the most talked about bands in 2013, do not be denied the full experience of Goliath.
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An interview with Heidi Shepherd and Chris Warner of Butcher Babies.
By Jeffrey Easton
Metal Exiles: You guys are out all summer on the Metal Mayhem Tour. What is your plan of attack to make the fans remember you?
Heidi Shepherd: Just being ourselves on stage and we are known for being a bunch of party animals so we have a sick time on stage. As long as we are having fun on stage everybody else will too.
Metal Exiles: How were you able to put two volatile singers in the same line up and make it work?
Heidi: That’s simple because you could not as for a better combination that Carla and myself. We are like the Spice Girls on crack and having us fronting the band has helped our progression and also the publicity that the band has drawn because of it has been through the roof.
Metal Exiles: Your about to drop your Century Media full length review but you guys have had a massive amount of press already. Do you think having two females up front is the reason?
Heidi: I do not think that is the reason, I think it’s because it is something they haven’t really seen before. I cannot recall a dual female fronted metal band before us. We are touching new ground here which people wanted to be a part of and we are more than welcoming to that.
Metal Exiles: Shock Rock has had many faces so what can you add to that to make your fans stand on edge?
Heidi: People say that we are but sometimes I do not see us that way. I think people are just shocked at a couple of girls acting the way that we do, I think that’s what’s mostly shocking. Besides Wendy O Williams, I haven’t seen a female do anything shocking in music in a long time. This is really who we are but with the blood, the theatrics and the horror, those are things that we love, it’s what we are about. It’s part of our character, it is who we are when we jump on stage so it’s not for shock, it’s just how we feel.
Metal Exiles: How do you feel when you are on stage beating the shit out of your drums?
Chris Warner: I am having the time of my life and being with four best friends on stage is all I need.
Heidi: The best thing about Chris is that he has been in bands his whole life and he has done great things but to have him in our band is huge for us because he is an amazing drummer.
Metal Exiles: There have been some pics floating around of you guys performing topless with electrical tape covering you. Are you ever concerned that people will see those and judge you before they hear a single note
Heidi: We haven’t done that for a few years and it was an ode to Wendy O Williams. She left us early and we wanted to continue what she started because she was the first female in metal to do what the fuck she wanted to do because she did not care. It’s funny that those are the pics to surface but it doesn’t matter, people are going to think what they want to think.
Metal Exiles: Goliath is an angry, pissed off record. Who pissed you off enough to write this?
Heidi: Goliath is something that we have held inside us for a long time. I have a green binder that I have all of my writing in and I have had it since I was 12 so anything I have ever experienced in my life is in there and that’s where we pulled a lot of the material from. A lot of things on this record are things that most people go through and we just turned a negative into a positive.
Metal Exiles: Explain Magnolia BLVD.
Heidi: It’s about people moving to Los Angeles with a dream and the city swallowing them whole. People lose their focus in life and it can happen to anybody that goes there and gets wrapped up in the scene.
Metal Exiles: What stands out on the album that’s really personal to you?
Heidi: There is a lot of personal stuff from the whole band on the record but Chris started The Mirror Never Lies.
Chris: That song is pissed off, when you are looking at yourself in the mirror and you are questioning things you did, it is just inner turmoil and you just get frustrated with yourself.
Heidi: In Denial is very personal to me and you can really hear it on the record. I wrote it about a recent experience in my life and while we were in the studio I was sitting on my knees screaming into the microphone and I just started crying. It was such a release for me and all of those emotions I was carrying from that experience just came pouring out when I was singing it.
Metal Exiles: I Smell A Massacre?
Heidi: That is a song that we wrote after the Sandy Hook incident. There are so many things in the press these days about these massacres being caused by gun control or mental illness. I believe it starts in the home with how the parents are raising their kids. Parents are raising their kids to be bullies, raising them very shitty, neglecting them, that is where it stems from. That is what is what Goliath is about in general but I Smell A Massacre is in the mindset of that incident. Goliath is about that villain in your life and you can make the decision to become that bully or you can change and not turn into Goliath.
Metal Exiles: You talk about the frustrations in your life but you beat the shit out of the drums. How can you be frustrated?
Chris: That’s what helps me, beating the shit out of the drums. There were situations in my life but Heidi and I ended up getting together, we(and the band) wrote them out and I just got it out of my system. I had these feelings in my system but with writing and beating the drums I got it out of me.
Heidi: Playing live shows with all of us going nuts on stage, we are all so much nicer because we get to do that. I think this has saved me from chopping up many people and going to jail.
Butcher Babies will be one of the most talked about bands in 2013, do not be denied the full experience of Goliath.
Official FB Page
BUY Goliath!!
