At some point, the DA called me, and said, Your brother bench warranted. Vext eventually joined another bandSnot. Id previously been in two or three other bands, and one famously derailed, and being with the guys in Snot really changed my perspective on what a professional band could be, because theyre a family. That period of my life was just very interesting. It was pretty crazy. Or just certain people? Vext has continued that mentality of doing anything for others when he joined Bad Wolves. tips@metalinsider.net. And we were just two shot people. At one point, Vext was told that the hitman who had been hired by his brother had himself been killed, and so Vext briefly felt safe. I hear so many people tell me, "Hey, you guys made me feel comfortable in this world." I told the judgenothing in the judges power will ever make my family safe because hes not capable of giving this person the death penaltyAnd he tried to attack me in the courtroom, and he was subdued by the police officers.. It never got to happen. Homeless , intoxicated and desperate, he repeatedly hit me on the back and sides with the weapon as I tried to shield myself from the blows. It hurts a lot because I love him and hes wrecked his life and nearly took mine. The track is the sixth of eight singles and is being released as a limited edition 7 vinyl via Tarjas website. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Vext is the lead singer and lyricist for the band Bad Wolves. You have to create a sense of independence for yourself. Because when we are in that state of self-termination its so deafening. Therefore, normality meant violence and mental illness to Vext so he would seek mentally sick women. Vext was forced into a witness protection program. And thats the most powerful thing about altruism. Its little surprise, then, that the answers to these 13 simple, innocuous question, werent actually so simple or innocuous, When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?I wanted to be in a band since I was 13 or 14 years old. He would hurt the family pets and beat up the family members. I was in a place where all of those regulations and rules of survival were no longer necessary and didnt applythey were a hindranceWhere Im from in the time I grew up, if somebody is at a bar and looking at you too long, it means somethings going to happenlike someones going to get stabbed or theres going to be a fight or someone might have a gun or whatever. He does adolescent and young adult mentorship, and he helps people that have failure to launch in kind of learning life skills, whatever deficit that his clients have. Although Vext started experimenting with alcohol at 12, by the time he was 15, he had graduated to weed, ecstasy, and mushrooms. Vexts brother was eventually convicted for attempted murder and received a 17-year sentence. I left California and went to Florida and stayed in the studio to record music with friends. Jinjer from Ukraine is one of my new favorite bands. Tommy:Remember When is a song about my relationship with my twin brother. But I know he is very sick and I pray to god that he can get the help he needs to get clean and sober. Soon, Vext sought out any opportunity he could to give back to people. Ive been kicked out of everywhere!, Have you ever been in a fight?Yeah. It was very, very strange. And then the process of healing has been what happened between our relationship has a very heavy hand in how I became a sober companion. Your cover of the Cranberries' "Zombie" has been one of the biggest hits of the year. And I was drinking and smoking weed and when I was 15 or 16 we found out about acid and started taking mushrooms and ecstasy. A new study found that negative words in headlines made people more likely to click on them. I wasnt the only person going through it. I dont know what any of these people are talking about. Bad Wolves kick off their next chapter with frontman Daniel 'DL' Laskiewicz via their new single and video Lifeline. And so she would be acting frantic and panicking, and then he would be like, I dont know whats wrong with mom. And then wed come over and shed be like hysterical and hed blame it on my mother. So what does it matter what her gender is? Ive been in hundreds of fights, probably. I was kind of insecure as to whether it was good enough to be on the record and released for others to hear, and when she responded that she wanted to sing on it we all felt really honoured. Does it help you stay more grounded? He stayed involved as a drug dealer and became addicted to drugs. So there are times when Im at a bar in LA, and someones looking at me because they dont know who I am and theyre just staring cause people stare. Just as bold as their music is the life of frontman Tommy Vext. Their album is off to a promising start, thanks to their first single, "Zombie." Even though weve all been in separate bands, theres this real sense of family and camaraderie and we can lean on each other. Hes pretty famous. I got kicked out of a bar, The Salty Dog, in Brooklyn, which is like a cop bar, because I poured out a line of cocaine on the bar table and just did a rail in front of all the cops at the bar while they were off-duty. Most certainly. Youre a drug addict. Or the restraining order that followed. Bad Wolves frontman Tommy Vext shares his stories of near-death experiences, Instagram addiction and cleaning up dog poo, Although Bad Wolves are best known for their cover of The Cranberries Zombie, the heavy metal supergroup are determined to make it on their own terms. And no matter how far away I moved he still got me, Vext lamented. Its been an emotional rollercoaster, but a sweet one at that. I felt like I had betrayed him, Vext recalled. And perhaps more importantly, how did he find his way out? You just keep going. He wanted me to help him murder this guy PeteHe wanted me to help him murder my own boss. | So thats something that I actively have to work on, and the fear is that I wont be able to get on the other side of these things that were done to me as kid and these circumstances that I had to survive and that at the end of my life Ill be alone. Did you ever feel like quitting? And he encourages others who are contemplating suicide to learn the lessons from his near attempt, and how he changed things. So he hit me from behind, cracked my skull open. Yeah, there were definitely tears in the studio. Metallica, Pearl Jam, Mtley Cre, AC/DC, Green Day and more pay tribute to the late, great Eddie Van Halen. It was during this incident that Vext had his near-death experience. Your email address will not be published. And then youre going to blow it. Whatever lands in the world of music is something I'm likely interested in. One way of challenging the stigma of mental illness is when prominent artists share their struggles with mental health. And then he would act completely sane. My adopted parents were on a waitlist for two years. And everything changed. We wound up breaking upWe were both drinking and using and it was falling apart. Vext had hoped this would bring him reliefbut he was wrong. [6] Specifically, the song was inspired by the fact that his brother attempted to murder Vext. I wasnt allowed to be on social media. FREE TOMMY! We dont talk, but I worked for him a couple of years ago and would live in his house. We have a lot of North American dates and festival tours that take us through to the end of the summer, and after September theres room for us to potentially do some shows over there. And Ill throw a bottle in someones face and then all of a sudden its like chaos. He is currently serving a 17-year sentence. Has writing a song about it been a cathartic experience for you? His father especially would excuse the behavior even when Vexts brother hurt everyone else around him. When my friends in the industry found out what had happened everyone started to pitch in. What happens when we die?Ive been dead. Theres this understanding, whereas in show business if you do that people start to make their own opinions about it, and I think what the band did was very honourable, very respectful and very dignified, and I commend them. You guys are playing a lot of the big rock festivals this summer. His name was Derrick. Id watch these documentaries where he was always in the middle of nowhere digging holes and I thought that was a cool job, but Im glad I didnt become a palaeontologist. I liked the common themes that they all had, but Im also a big fan of the natural law and science. Doing one-on-one and group therapy and kind of dealing with PTSD from that situation I think I kinda reopened some childhood traumas too, which I worked through. Listen to the track below: Host, the new dark wave project from Greg Mackintosh and Nick Holmes have unveiled a video for their latest single, My Only Escape. The track is taken from their debut album, IX, out February 24th via Nuclear Blast. So its something that was very personal, and it happened, obviously, eight years ago; it took me eight years to be able to write this song. Given the tragic circumstances of Dolores' passing right before contributing vocals to Zombie, has having the song out there and touching so many people helped you to deal with that loss? Believe me, were doing our best to get to the UK and Europe as soon as possible. He would have certain anxieties like driving too far away from home at some point. And I know Justin Bieber. And I think that I found a job that, by being of service to other peoples families, if I was able to help them heal, it helped me heal a little bit every single time I could help somebody else because ultimately, I could never save him. It's easy to make a "brutal" or totally nondescript music video these days, but Bad Wolves isn't about that. 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Thats what friends do. And they paid me to stay with him all of the time. I was like, do you think it would be okay if you sent her this song for her approval?' Vext was convinced he would leave his problems in New York, but realized that he took the violence with him, including an incident in which he attacked Divine Heresy guitarist Dino Cazares. We dont have anything set up yet. You don't need to grow up in a perfect family to be emotionally happy and healthy, but your family must be "good enough.". The tough journey to becoming the man he is today even inspired him to co-write his biography. Or Divine Heresy. It was never like, "I need to be this level." We threw concerts to raise money for artists and creative people who couldnt afford rehab., Vext then met Earl Hightower, who Vext credits with further educating him on being a sober companion. And theres not a lot of that in metal. He felt comfortable and peaceful until a voice said to him that he did not have to stay. You may remember Tommy Vext as the former vocalist of Bad Wolves. Basically on the evening of Sept. 19th I was leaving my apartment in Brooklyn to visit my sister and was struck over the back of my head from behind during an attempted robbery. More, he felt guilt at having testified against his brother. Within two weeks she was in London ready to record, and it almost felt like a dream come true. 30. Its like the Pantera lyric ["The Underground in America"], "We thrive on whats stronger than most of the world." We actually had Austin [Dickinson] from As Lions sing two of the shows for me so I could recuperate., If you had the power to turn off the internet, would you do it?For everybody? The two boys and an adoptive sister had the love and affection of their stay-at-home mother and veterinarian father. He also went on to say that [ Vext] and his team of lawyers have been trying to extort In 2010, Vext recounted his near-death experience saying that he did not see any of his family members who had died. Its flattering to me. And we both took separate directions in life. These girls are naked! and Im just like Oh my God., Why should people listen to N.A.T.I.O.N. This just further concludes that doing hard drugs like crack cocaine, PCP & heroin is a one way ticket to jails, institutions, or death. And Im actively in therapy for major, excessive childhood trauma and adult trauma, and for me one of the most difficult things in my adult life has been separating the past in order to have long-term and fulfilling relationships with trust. We know that the plan was for Cranberries singerDolores O'Riordan to join you in the studio. Doc: From my background, I was in a band called God Forbid that for our era was kind of known as "the black heavy metal band" for that time. And she would lock herself in her room. That doesnt include rigidity its malleable and it changes and undulates, but thats my experience of when you die., Wheres the best place youve ever been?Thats an interesting question because there are many, but the only thing that is the same about the best places I've been is that I was completely in the moment when I was in those places. He received a call from someone who needed his help. There are other people interested in metal now that maybe werent traditionally. Tommy: People ask this stuff, and I dont know where theyre getting their information from. I got home from the tour, and the cops showed up at my place, and I went down to the district attorneys office and they played me tapes of my brother hiring a hitman to take out a contract on my life, Vext explained. And he was in this punk-metal band in the city. And he had gone to the mall to rob my motherbut security came and hed left. I was in Brooklyn, at an above-ground platform so that if the train didnt kill me, the fall would, he explained. And we met a couple of times a week for weeks. Vext, at one point, filled in for Five Finger Death Punch and was on the road with Moody as his sober coach. Theres that pressure, and then theres the concern for your friends on top of that, and I really, really commend him and his band on what they did, because thats a different story. (laughs) Yeah, if I had the power to turn off the internet I would make it so that my girlfriend couldnt see my Instagram, because I follow a lot of photographers and other models and she doesnt like when I Like photos of other chicks. We even talked about doing a Divine Heresy reunion and reached out to Dino on the 10-year anniversary, but he was just not into it because he was doing his own thing. And so I think for us its kind of the healing thing, and I think that by taking the song and introducing it to newer generations who never heard the original, and by also giving it to people who may love the original and also enjoy this one, it helps us kind of heal from that whole situation. "Our Zombie cover has become this kind or responsibility, to carry Dolores' legacy and pay tribute and homage to her". Ive known John for 11 or 12 years, Snot and Devildriver toured together years ago, Doc and I have been working on projects since we were in our early 20s. Emotion regulation is our ability to understand, process, cope with and express our emotions. My father will probably be dead. Nobody cares. And while I dont think we should just have people there as a token or have someone of this identity to kind of check a mark, I do know for a fact that representation matters in the aggregate. And then obviously, tragically, it never got to happen. Send us a message at: And we forget about that., Whats the funniest rumour youve ever heard about yourself?I dont know! It was Sonny in Snot who took me aside and started to help me, because he saw that I was struggling with drugs and alcohol pretty badly at that time, and ultimately I wound up getting sober during my tenure with the band.And you also do some motivational speaking stuff? And it was a kid on the other line, and he was crying. Ive seen Death Punch play in front of 300,000 screaming German fans on like a Wednesday. We went to class, had really good grades., And yet things changed for Vext as he witnessed what he described as the deterioration of his brothers mental health. ", It was toughbeing an adult male and having my friends buy me a sandwich every day.. Six years ago, Tommy Vext had resolved to take his life by stepping in front of a moving train. And he said, You know that hes sick. Thats when I learned that my brother is exempt from the rules because hes sick., Vext feels that this cycle of violence and enabling resulted in the destruction of his family. I was in London at Wembley Arena to see Five Finger Death Punch, and our managing director of the U.K. office, Dan, is a family friend of Dolores, and he had heard our rendition. And a couple days later when he called me and said, she thinks the track is killer, she loves the song, she wants to sing on it, and we were like, wait, what? And I ended up on my guitar players couchSonny from Snot. He started writing music in 1978 and has been in the industry since the late 80s. Bad Wolves' Doc Coyle and John Boecklin have opened up about their recent split with frontman Tommy Vext. And for whatever reasonI dont know whyI picked up the phone. Tommy: Shes the master, I am the student. I stepped in for a band, and Im mixed race. Most of our friends parents drank. He began his career as a sober companionan individual who stays with people in recovery as they struggle with their addiction. What have you been up to musically? During the time he had been estranged from his brother only to find that his brothers violent behavior had become more common and dangerous. And where I come from, you dont rat. And I would take pills to wake upand I would go onstage, play the show and I couldnt calm down, he described. The incident did not end there, as Vext assumed that his brother would try to steal from their sister, who lived in a nearby apartment. How was that experience for you? I went to a lot of meetings and stayed sober. She relapsed on heroinlost the pregnancy, almost lost her own life. So ultimately, I think there was kind of a silver lining in going through that.Did you have to testify against him? Im like, You want us to go kill a guy with a wife and two kids and works for a living because you were an idiot and tried to rob his store? And he was like, Yeah. And I was like, No. And I told him he had to leave and I asked him to walk outside. I wound up in a situation where I was basically drinking while I was taking diet pills to go onstage. He recognized me at a show and we started talking and I gave him my number. He destroyed my family, my father. I was rushed to the hospital, and I died. The fascination wore off later, and he thinks it was for the best because he would not have ended up dating a fitness model. I actually have started working in recovery and working as a solo coach and helping other people to get sober and deal with their issues since then. We had started having physical altercations and it was time to stop.. We talk about a lot of issues: from police brutality to the kind of subversive underlying veneer of racism that were seeing a resurgence of, from the opiate crisis and drug addiction to some more personal stuff. My mother called and said Hes having a bad day which was family code for your brothers losing his mind. She said dont let him into the house if he comes to the houseMy family had hidden from me the extent of what hed become, so I was like Yeah whatever. My mother was staying with her boyfriend that night. 1 on Mainstream Rock Songs Chart", "Bad Wolves' Tommy Vext on the Harrowing Story of 'Remember When', "BAD WOLVES' Video For "Remember When" Is About Tommy Vext's Brother Trying To Kill Him", "Bad Wolves Release Acoustic Version Of "Remember When", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Remember_When_(Bad_Wolves_song)&oldid=1018148841, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 16 April 2021, at 14:37. How do you even begin to process something like your twin brother trying to kill you? According to Vext, his brother received several diagnosesincluding bipolar and obsessive compulsive disorderas well as a very chilling prediction from the doctors at Holliswood Hospital, a psychiatric facility where his brother briefly received evaluation and treatment. My father was sober for 20 yearshe wound up going to the bottle. The acts toured together a number of times over the years, and ex-Bad Wolves singer Tommy Vext even filled in for Moody following a mid-tour, on-stage meltdown in But as he explained the story of his life, it became clear that he attributes a great deal of the hopelessness he felt when he was suicidal to his relationship with his familyparticularly his twin brother. Most people are saying, 'I came here because I heard Zombie, and this is fucking amazing.' I moved back to California. First, despite all that had occurred, Vext felt guilty for turning in and testifying against his brother. The worst thing you could do is be a rat.. He had gone into my neighbors garage and stolen a crowbar, hid in the bushes, and fractured my skull, Vext recalled. He had become accustomed to seeing people being stabbed for such behavior; thus, he grew up quite guarded. I managed to get on my feet and throw him off of me. How do you react to people who say that rock isn't doing well? A lot of musicians dont want to work people in bands dont want to get a job but theres this phrase All work is honourable and its something that Ive always said and its the truth. And it saved my life. I think were all here for a reason, and were all here for a purpose. "But I look back at that and it might have been the most humbling quote-unquote worst job ever. And I think that ultimately, the only reason we decided to release the song is because we donated the proceeds to her three children. So my brother runs out, goes to the hospital, get stitches as a John Doe, and went about his businessHes so insane that when he goes on these manic episodes and hes up for days he doesnt have any idea what hes going to do.. Everyone has been really positive and supportive about the whole incident. The show, on Sunday, November 28, will feature performances from God Forbid, Mutiny Within, Empyreon, The Judas Syndrome, and more (click flier on the right for full details). But hopefully, we keep moving to a place where its not something that has to be mentioned all the time, or that thats the main point as to why that artist is there. "[8], While AntiHero Magazine described the original song as heavy metal,[1] a separate acoustic version was released in February 2019.[9]. Sep 29, 2021. There was a lot of anticipation because I was really excited, and I had no idea what would happen. And it happened all really fast. And I just decided I was going to commit suicide., Vext felt horribly on two levels. In 2009, Vext decided to make a change, and began his path to sobriety. And one thing he talks about is that for him, generally, race isnt an issue, that weve come far enough that you can have someone who is talented, who is great at what they do, and who they are is kind of supplemental to whats going on. What kind of shape are you in now? I was hospitalised for two days but we didnt cancel the shows. I think you have massive bands like Sepultura who came from Brazil and basically changed American metal. When I grew up every metal show I went to, it was predominantly white dudes in the audience and onstage. I was managing a bar and I caught my boss having an affair with one of the bartenders and I got fired, Vext described. I quit the music industry for a year to focus on sobriety. Youve always been a drug addict. The prevalence of substance use contributed to Vext starting to drink and use drugs at an early age. And she got pregnant and she wound up losing the baby a little after six months pregnant. Its temporary, its going to pass, Vext described. ", Two broken homeless people figuring it out.. He would have really violent outburstsHed hurt family pets, hit my sister and my mother and myself, Vext recalled. So Id have to have cocaine to come back upA few times Id make the mistake of having methamphetamineId have to take Xanax or Valium or something to pass out. He started performing what appeared to be rituals like touching surfaces a certain number of times and having anxiety attacks that would cause him to drive miles away from home. The insecurity of moving and being on my ownit made me hyperaware and hyper-aggressive, Vext explained. 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