Burning Angel Interviews: WhiteChapel
Axis Evol
2016-10-24
7 Minutes In Heaven With...
Band: WhiteChapel
Person Being Interviewed: Ben Harclerode
Instrument: Drums
Latest Album: Mark of the Blade
Label: Metal Blade Records
Website: Whitechapelband.com
Person Being Interviewed: Ben Harclerode
Instrument: Drums
Latest Album: Mark of the Blade
Label: Metal Blade Records
Website: Whitechapelband.com
Axis Evol delivers another sick as hell band interview with Ben Harclerode of WhiteChapel! Catch them on tour now!
1. So give us some boring generic info about your band. Who are you? Where are you from? And how long have you been a band for... just sum up your Wikipedia page for any of the viewers here who don't know you!
Okay uhhh we are Whitechapel, we're from Knoxville, Tennessee.The band has been around for about 10 years and I've been with them for like 5 and a half. Uhhhhhhhh we got 3 guitar players! That's something people talk about. Yeah, it's different. Iron Maiden has 3 guitar players so that by default makes us cool. Right?
2. What are 3 records that you can't live without?
Oh jesussss I don't even know what I listen to anymore... that would take some thought.
It would honestly be like stuff I listened to as a kid you know? Like random Pantera records, punk rock albums I don't know. I mean you could probably just give me the live Pantera record? Uhm and I could just get down to that forever. I could apply that to all aspects of life. I listened to that when I was like 10 years old and it kinda just changed my existence.
3. What's the worst place you have ever had to stop and get food on tour?
OH JESUS. This was before Whitechapel in my old band called Knights of the Abyss. Uhm we were in Mexico City. We were with Emmure and Carnifex and we stopped at some gas station and you know gas stations are like the mecca of like all food terrible you know? Like the worst you could possibly get like 7 Eleven or Circle K so in Mexico City you can imagine it would be far worse than that. So IT WAS. I ate ... god I'm so uncultured what do they call sandwiches down there? It was some sort of sandwich and it had some weird cheese on it and we're in Mexico City and we're driving to Laredo. So I eat this thing after getting really drunk and got food poisoning and this bus we were in wasn't like a tour bus this was like a charter bus. Like old people go on tours in it and just rows of 2 and 3 seats all the way back. I was like laying in the aisle of the bus just like half my head in the bathroom like my body hanging in the aisle just miserable with food poisoning for like 13 hours or whatever that drive was? So that's it.. that was horrible. A Torta!!! That's what it was!!! I had a Torta in Mexico City and it made me blow my asshole and my face out simultaneously for 13 hours.
4. What would your porn name(s) be?
I don't know!!! I haven't given a whole lot of thought to that one... First names going to have to be Craig. Shit man I'm hitting a wall right now. I come up for porn names everyday for this guy * points at Craig* I'm just put on the spot I can't do it. * Craig asks his last name * Harclerode, DON'T say Harclechode I've been getting that my whole life and it isn't acceptable. Geez , I'm losing this one here ha.
CRAIG HARDEROD!!! That's it!!! Craig Harderod right here!
5. Who was your first celebrity crush? (or just crush in general if that's more interesting)
*sighs* I don't know probably Jennifer Aniston. I probably saw her back on Friends when I was a kid and thought "OOOHHH I don't know what my dong is for but somethings happening right nowwww , it's doing something" She's my girl man.
6. If you could direct a porn scene and have your band's music playing in it, what would the scene be like? (How many people would be performing? Where would it take place? What would they do? Etc.)
Sheeessussss. I feel like we would have to write some calmer music otherwise it would just be like... A snuff film? People would just be getting fucking choked and shot. Like .. people would die. You know there would be like a little bit of sex? Then a whole lot of killing , cutting and stuff. It would be like... " Hey , this is cool for a second and then like now people are dead." I feel like it would be like a BIG gang scene. Like gang snuff bang. Everyone fucking and killing each other. Full on zombie apocalypse , bats with fucking spikes through em.. Boners and blood!
7. Everyone who is reading this interview is taking a break from watching porn to find out about you and your music. What do you have to say to all the perverts out there reading this?
Uh, I mean like porn’s tight mannnn. PORN IS TIGHT!
Bonus Questions:
1. Favorite memory from the years Warped Tour?
AHHH SHIT. I don't remember anything are you serious? We've been out here for 8 weeks and it feels like 9 years but it also feels like 2 days. It's just all meshed. Probably like ... having massive smoke sessions on VoM's bus?
There's so many people on this tour that it's overwhelming that you can't even meet everyone on the tour but the hangs are honestly the best part and what I'm going to miss on this tour.
2. Favorite song that just gets you hyped?
From the set we're playing on Warped Tour right now would be "Our Endless War"? I think on the record it's called "Endless War" but the record is called "Our Endless War" So there's easy confusion there. But the songs just like... I don't know. I'm a punk rock kid I grew up listening to punk rock and playing that shit and that stuff went away so naturally I got fast playing punk rock beats and that defaulted to metal? So that Endless War song is just very punk rock tempo. its not like the really fast death metal stuff and it's not the like really slow beat. It takes me back to the days of my youth back when Warped Tour had punk bands on it. When like NoFX was the biggest band touring.
3. Favorite band to tour with?
Oh geez there's so many. Let's see , I don't know. Again that's like picking out my favorite record. We did a U.S. tour with Dees Nuts one time and they are this Australian band. Probably the most fun group of dudes I ever met in my entire life they're ALWAYSSSS drunk. These guys party.. great dudes. Uh Suicide Silence is a lot of fun, Carnifex is a lot of fun. Uh iunno it's weird my social life is really on tour. I just wait til I go on tour and see all my friends and party with everyone you know? Just bro down.
1. So give us some boring generic info about your band. Who are you? Where are you from? And how long have you been a band for... just sum up your Wikipedia page for any of the viewers here who don't know you!
Okay uhhh we are Whitechapel, we're from Knoxville, Tennessee.The band has been around for about 10 years and I've been with them for like 5 and a half. Uhhhhhhhh we got 3 guitar players! That's something people talk about. Yeah, it's different. Iron Maiden has 3 guitar players so that by default makes us cool. Right?
2. What are 3 records that you can't live without?
Oh jesussss I don't even know what I listen to anymore... that would take some thought.
It would honestly be like stuff I listened to as a kid you know? Like random Pantera records, punk rock albums I don't know. I mean you could probably just give me the live Pantera record? Uhm and I could just get down to that forever. I could apply that to all aspects of life. I listened to that when I was like 10 years old and it kinda just changed my existence.
3. What's the worst place you have ever had to stop and get food on tour?
OH JESUS. This was before Whitechapel in my old band called Knights of the Abyss. Uhm we were in Mexico City. We were with Emmure and Carnifex and we stopped at some gas station and you know gas stations are like the mecca of like all food terrible you know? Like the worst you could possibly get like 7 Eleven or Circle K so in Mexico City you can imagine it would be far worse than that. So IT WAS. I ate ... god I'm so uncultured what do they call sandwiches down there? It was some sort of sandwich and it had some weird cheese on it and we're in Mexico City and we're driving to Laredo. So I eat this thing after getting really drunk and got food poisoning and this bus we were in wasn't like a tour bus this was like a charter bus. Like old people go on tours in it and just rows of 2 and 3 seats all the way back. I was like laying in the aisle of the bus just like half my head in the bathroom like my body hanging in the aisle just miserable with food poisoning for like 13 hours or whatever that drive was? So that's it.. that was horrible. A Torta!!! That's what it was!!! I had a Torta in Mexico City and it made me blow my asshole and my face out simultaneously for 13 hours.
4. What would your porn name(s) be?
I don't know!!! I haven't given a whole lot of thought to that one... First names going to have to be Craig. Shit man I'm hitting a wall right now. I come up for porn names everyday for this guy * points at Craig* I'm just put on the spot I can't do it. * Craig asks his last name * Harclerode, DON'T say Harclechode I've been getting that my whole life and it isn't acceptable. Geez , I'm losing this one here ha.
CRAIG HARDEROD!!! That's it!!! Craig Harderod right here!
5. Who was your first celebrity crush? (or just crush in general if that's more interesting)
*sighs* I don't know probably Jennifer Aniston. I probably saw her back on Friends when I was a kid and thought "OOOHHH I don't know what my dong is for but somethings happening right nowwww , it's doing something" She's my girl man.
6. If you could direct a porn scene and have your band's music playing in it, what would the scene be like? (How many people would be performing? Where would it take place? What would they do? Etc.)
Sheeessussss. I feel like we would have to write some calmer music otherwise it would just be like... A snuff film? People would just be getting fucking choked and shot. Like .. people would die. You know there would be like a little bit of sex? Then a whole lot of killing , cutting and stuff. It would be like... " Hey , this is cool for a second and then like now people are dead." I feel like it would be like a BIG gang scene. Like gang snuff bang. Everyone fucking and killing each other. Full on zombie apocalypse , bats with fucking spikes through em.. Boners and blood!
7. Everyone who is reading this interview is taking a break from watching porn to find out about you and your music. What do you have to say to all the perverts out there reading this?
Uh, I mean like porn’s tight mannnn. PORN IS TIGHT!
Bonus Questions:
1. Favorite memory from the years Warped Tour?
AHHH SHIT. I don't remember anything are you serious? We've been out here for 8 weeks and it feels like 9 years but it also feels like 2 days. It's just all meshed. Probably like ... having massive smoke sessions on VoM's bus?
There's so many people on this tour that it's overwhelming that you can't even meet everyone on the tour but the hangs are honestly the best part and what I'm going to miss on this tour.
2. Favorite song that just gets you hyped?
From the set we're playing on Warped Tour right now would be "Our Endless War"? I think on the record it's called "Endless War" but the record is called "Our Endless War" So there's easy confusion there. But the songs just like... I don't know. I'm a punk rock kid I grew up listening to punk rock and playing that shit and that stuff went away so naturally I got fast playing punk rock beats and that defaulted to metal? So that Endless War song is just very punk rock tempo. its not like the really fast death metal stuff and it's not the like really slow beat. It takes me back to the days of my youth back when Warped Tour had punk bands on it. When like NoFX was the biggest band touring.
3. Favorite band to tour with?
Oh geez there's so many. Let's see , I don't know. Again that's like picking out my favorite record. We did a U.S. tour with Dees Nuts one time and they are this Australian band. Probably the most fun group of dudes I ever met in my entire life they're ALWAYSSSS drunk. These guys party.. great dudes. Uh Suicide Silence is a lot of fun, Carnifex is a lot of fun. Uh iunno it's weird my social life is really on tour. I just wait til I go on tour and see all my friends and party with everyone you know? Just bro down.
