An Interview with Sean & Kelly Green of “Behold The Beloved: On Being Ministry Minded, “Harsh Realities” and My Beloved

Hailing from Central PA, Behold the Beloved has a sound that immediately recalls the hard-hitting riffs and memorable hooks characteristic of bands like Pillar, Kutless, and Disciple. Since their inception, they have produced multiple number one hits, three incredible full-length albums and had the chance to play at Loud and Proud Festival in Germany. We've seen them perform live on multiple occasions, including at The Junction Center alongside Disciple and recently Pillar, and on the Rockstar Stage at Uprise Festival. This is a band that you’re going to want to keep an eye on in the years to come! We had the opportunity to sit down with Sean Green, the lead singer and his wife, Kelly who heads up the women’s ministry My Beloved. We talked about the growth of Behold the Beloved, the opportunities to collaborate with amazing artists, and Kelly’s new book All That Remains.

Behold The Beloved is:

Sean Green - Vocals

Jeff Lehman - Guitar, Background vocals

Jason Stauffer - Guitar

Tim Kitchen - Bass, Background vocals

Sheldon Stauffer - Drums

Solid Rock Unplugged: For a little backstory, we were first introduced six or seven years ago when Behold The Beloved came to my church to do a worship night. I remember doing soundcheck and you guys started the first riff and I’m like “Oh man, I’ve got a congregation of old people coming!” I’m freaking out like “Is there any way you guys can play softer?” I think you guys switched out the drumsticks.

Sean: I remember this night, we switched out the drumsticks and we switched out some songs. We turned it back a little bit. I remember this night so much. I remember, we still make fun of Jeff for this night, because we talk about the people we meet at the merch tables. I’m like “Do you remember the place we went and there were two older ladies that were just hitting on you, Jeff? You get all the cougars!” There’s just these two older ladies and they just wanted to give him hugs. That was back before when he wasn’t really a hugger with anybody and now he’s gotten better. He’s just complimenting them. We all laugh, we still give him crap. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: Since those days, you guys have grown incredibly. You’re not just playing shows in Pennsylvania, but across the country. You’ve released two more full length albums. What has God taught you the most in the last five or six years?

Sean: What has He taught us the most? We’ve learned and we’ve grown so much. Our sound has grown, we’ve grown as artists. I feel like we’ve grown even in our spiritual walks, individually, but also as a group. The way we carry ourselves, the way we handle conversations with people. It sounds cheesy to say that God has taught us how faithful he is, but we see the opportunities that we’re getting, the doors that are opening in front of us for us to walk through. 

We see the bands that we’re around. At any point, we could drop tune our guitars more and play more metal riffs and put some screaming in our music to be what a lot of rock bands around us are doing. Maybe we’d be more popular, who knows? But we just feel like this is what God has called us to be. This is the sound that He’s called us to create, the lyrics he’s called us to write. It might now be the most popular style of rock, but it’s the style that He’s called us to be right now. 

I feel like because we are faithful to that and really have a heart and a mindset of “We’re going in this for ministry first and nothing else,” that we are getting these opportunities. We’re growing at the pace that we grow. And we’re experiencing the things we experienced. We’ve known you for seven years. Back then, that was our first record. In seven years, we’ve dropped two more records, and we've toured in Germany. That’s a lot to happen. I know people say “Oh, seven years is a lot.” In musicianship, seven years is not that long. I feel like only in the past four years has everything just exploded for us. We still have more growth!

Solid Rock Unplugged: You mentioned your albums. Let’s talk about Harsh Realities. What was the planning process for that album?

Sean: Should I admit that we don’t have a plan? No, it’s been really cool because I feel like every time we write a record, we learn new ways on the best way to write a record. Our first record, you can tell it was our first and there’s a lot of things we could have done way better. No Surrender came out and during that writing process, it was us five guys trying to write music together. It got a little heated from time to time. But we learned some things in that. 

In writing Harsh Realities, we started with the two singles we did with Josiah and Andrew [of Disciple] and learned some things in that co-write that we applied for the rest of the record. We’re like “You know what, Jason is gifted at writing.” So we gave him full ranks to start writing music. He writes all the music, but brings it to us. Then we, as a team, are like “This one speaks to us more.” Then we start going through the lyrics. Me, him, sometimes Jeff and Tim, but it’s mostly me and him, because I need to make sure it’s lyrics that I feel convicted of or I can resonate with, because I’m the one singing it. 

Then we work together, we just tweak a couple things. Then we get together musically and figure it out. So it went a lot smoother.  We took some of those things from Andrew and Josiah, like learning different co-writes, and we kind of applied that to that. Our game plan going into it was almost the same as in, you just write a bunch of songs and you get over 16, 17, 18, 20 songs and then you figure out which ones feel like they should go on this record. 

You pray about it, you sing the songs and then you find the theme. When you write that many songs and you like more than the ten you’re going to use, you start saying “Alright God, what’s the theme, because all of these are kind of going together.” Once we started getting “Toxic Lullabies,” and “Dear Martyr," we started finding an underlying theme of just the harsh realities of this world, things that people are uncomfortable to talk about, things that sometimes a church won’t talk about. We’re going through crap in this world, in society. So just the stuff that people go through personally or in this world that, it’s harsh, like “Hey, Harsh Realities!” So that kind of helped us narrow down what songs to put in. 

I love that balance that we have that we can literally call out some of the things that need to be called out, empower people with that. Bring recognition to things, as well as just talk about the things, like “Hey, Christians are humans too!” We can go through hard times, we can go through depressing times. And sometimes we can go through thoughts of suicide. So that’s where stuff like “Live Again” comes from. Sometimes things happen and we don’t know why. That’s where “Am I Broken” comes from. So songs like that, but we can still put kickers in there, like “Ready to Die,” and just kick the enemy in the mouth, “Untouchable,” “Power Play,” just have fun. We’ve still got those bangers and anthems. But the plan was “Here’s our songs, God. What’s the theme? What are the right ones to put on the record?”

Solid Rock Unplugged: What was your favorite part of doing Harsh Realities? Besides getting to work with Jon Micah?

Sean: Well, I didn’t really work with Jon Micah. We sent the stuff over to him, we told him what he had to sing and then he did. Should I take out working with Josiah and Andrew? That was a huge thing, that was a cool thing. We never thought of co-writing. We thought it was cheating. I mean, we write our own music and do it all! We just felt like co-writing maybe it just brings new ideas. And it did! It opened us up and it taught us things. So if we’re adding those two, I say working with Josiah, for me, was my favorite. He actually opened my vocal range, working with him. He is a gifted individual. I spent a couple days with him when we did the singles. When I went back by myself to start doing the whole record, he already knew my vocals. He’s an encourager but he also pushes you. I was like “I don’t think I can hit this” and he goes “No, you can.” So working with him definitely made me a better vocalist. So that would be my favorite.

If we take them out of the equation, what would be my favorite part besides hanging out with those guys? I think my favorite part - I don’t have favorite parts in the writing process. Really, I hate writing music. I just want to go play it. And I want to see how it impacts people. I think Harsh Realities, a lot of those songs impacted me more than other songs and other records. I think on other records is like “Oh, this is a good song. Like I can feel this.” This one, like a lot of songs were very, even more personable. Things I’ve seen in my life and our marriage and it was deeper. It was more personable. So I enjoyed seeing it come together.

Solid Rock Unplugged: And then “Heartbreak,” we’ve been hearing that on WJTL [FM 90.3]. What was it like the first time you heard “Heartbreak” or heard your song on normal radio programming, not just on “Some Sort Of Rock Show” but WJTL programming?

Sean: So throughout the years, if we would hear it on morning radio, it would be on Friday mornings when [John Stafferi] brings one song. That was always cool over the years, but I reached out to John and said “Hey, do you think WJTL would play ‘Heartbreak?’ It’s a ballad, it’s a soft song. It means a lot.” He goes “Well, I don’t control any of that, this is who you should talk to.” So we emailed her and just kind of said “Hey, is this a possibility?” She said “I think the listener is looking for something a little more edgier. This isn’t too far out there and I love this song. We love supporting you guys, we’ll give it a go!” 

To see it on the playlist four or five times a day, it’s very encouraging. Because that’s the market we want to get in. We really want to show people who don’t normally listen to rock that our style of rock is different. We’re trying to make worship music that doesn’t feel watered down. We want to make worship music that is true and encouraging and uplifting and challenges you. It makes you look deep within to see the nooks and crannies that you’re not working on with God, that you’re kind of just pushing aside and really make you challenge yourself to work on them. So yeah, it blows my mind that we have a song on morning radio. It’s a good start. I love it. Let’s get more!

Solid Rock Unplugged: Talking about this new record and getting in the nooks and crannies, it makes me think of “Dear Martyr.” A lot of people think about sending money over to help missionaries, but we as the church have a hard time comprehending the harsh realities that these missionaries are facing. What inspired you to write this song?

Sean: Like I said before, Jason writes all the music. It was all Jason. He brought it to me, though. I think he was encouraged because the first record, we have “Trenches.” That was our first diving into writing a song for the church. So when we started talking about this record, he’s like “I want to write a song where we go deeper. And can we go farther? And can we go just bold and blatant and talk about the most uncomfortable things?” He’s like “I really want to write a song for the persecuted church.” He just had one hook in his mind. It was like “This one’s for the saints.”

So that’s where it started, and I was like “Do it, go for it. I’m behind you.” As we started going through some of it, like how am I going to sing this live that it’s not awkward? How are we going to put this on a record that it’s not weird? How can we do it that it’s tasteful. This was a really hard one to write when it came to finding the right lyrics, because we want to bring awareness to the persecuted church. We want to make sure that we do it justice. But we also want to make sure that it’s in a way that’s tasteful, that it encourages the listener, it brings awareness to the listener but at the same time, it doesn’t scare them. It doesn’t bring a fearfulness to anybody. There was a lot of tiptoeing around certain things, like how bold do we go with certain lyrics and I think we pushed it to the line. 

[Jason] really did his homework. He reads books, he reads a lot of books when he starts writing a song. He’ll read, which I’m not a reader. I’m glad he has the will to do that! Because, he wants to learn the history of things, learn the lingo of it. He did a great job with that. We have lines in there that kind of pay tribute to the Voice of the Martyr, in the bridge, that’s a deep book and those kind of things. So I love that we go to do this. 

It’s cool, because the song is not for the listener. That’s like second. It’s literally for those who are out there dying for their faith. This is just for them. To make it in a way to be like this song is for the saints, but as Christians here right now in the safety of the room where we’re all having fun in a show, let’s encourage you to pray for these people, don’t ever forget about them. This song is a reminder that we are living comfortable lives, even though we say “My life sucks,” or “Crap, it’s crazy out there!” Well, think about it. This is real life. I talk about it on the stage all the time. People kind of say “I read the books back in the day, like they used to hunt down Christians.” You know, that’s not back in the day anymore. It’s everyday. So just to remind people that just because you’re not seeing it right in front of you, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: Especially with the news about Nigeria, with all of the Christians being martyred over there. Like you said, it’s not back in the day. It’s today.

Sean: 100%. We like to believe that all our songs came from God. We put work into creating it, but this song specifically got written, got finished, recorded, mastered and when we released it, it was the exact same time that public stuff was coming out about Christians in Syria being crucified on the roads. I’m like, this is definitely a God thing, having this song ready to be put out, to be the next song, just as that’s coming out. People are hearing about that. It happens all the time, but in the past you don’t always hear about it. It’s kind of nonchalant, push aside, you have to dig deep. But now we’re living in a time where it’s being brought forward a little more. I’m glad it’s being publicized more because it needs to be. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: With the new album release, are there any plans for a tour?

Sean: Oh man, do we have to? Can we just stay home? Yes, we did release a new record. Is there going to be a tour? Yes, but I just want to clarify. Some people think touring means we’re gone for months, like, we’re not Skillet! We don’t have a 100 grand every time we play somewhere. Bands like us and even Disciple, it’s hard nowadays to find shows to put tours together. It takes a lot of hard work because it also takes venues to have funds to be able to put on shows. So are we going to tour? Yeah, obviously every year we tour. But our touring looks like putting together weekend runs, a Thursday through Sunday doing four shows in a row. Maybe put a week or two weeks together with a couple days off in between traveling.

Right now our set list has a lot of Harsh Realities songs in it. So next year, we’ll swap it up. We’re going to add a new one in and add some things. We’re already booking for 2026. And we’re booking our own tours. We tested out a weekend run where we put together, it was us, Relentless Flood, and From Ravens to Doves. So we are going to put together a Harsh Realities tour run for a couple months, but it won’t be in a row. It’ll be from this month to this month, here are select weekends that we’re looking to book. And we’ll bring a certain package. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: Because outside of this, you all have full time jobs. So it’s not like you can just stop what you’re doing for a month. 

Kelly: And families!

Sean: Yeah, it’s a lot. But it’s worth it. I feel like Christian rock is on the rise. Christian rock dulled out for a long time. I think right now, it’s slowly picking back up. But the funds need to be there. If we can get churches and venues that want to book Monday through Sunday, I’m game. I will leave my job and I will go. So we’re not against it, just the funds need to be there. The venues need to be there to make it happen. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: Your last tour was the Pokemon themed tour, right? It was you guys, Relentless Flood, and the Protest. 

Sean: Yeah, The Protest put that together. The Gotta Catch Them All tour. That was fun!

Solid Rock Unplugged: So over the past few years, you’ve done “Come Alive” with Kevin from Disciple. You’ve done “Am I Broken” with Jon Micah from Kutless. You just did the show with Pillar. How crazy does it feel to be playing alongside some of the giants in Christian rock, just getting the opportunity to share the stage and the mic. How do you not fangirl in that situation?

Sean: No, it was hard! I ain’t gonna lie. If we break it all down from day one, working with Disciple, that was the coolest thing ever. But since day one, all of us guys get together and we always go “This is our chance to show that we belong, that we have a calling, that we have talent, that we love to do what we want to do.” We’re not looking for fame. We always go into these situations trying to be as professional as possible. Learning our role where we’re at, any time we’re opening for a big band. We go in there to get the crowd going, because that’s our job as the opener. Let’s get them ready for the headliner. In doing that, it shows that you do your job well and you’re not there to just take the spotlight. We always go in and try to be professional, but also learn. Let’s ask the right questions. Let’s learn from these guys. 

But yeah, I can’t believe that I’m living the life that I’m living. When we got Kevin on the song and we eventually at the Junction Center got him to come out, it was one of the coolest things that ever happened. I admire him. I do talks in the middle of my sets because of him. A lot of artists do! I didn’t handle that moment the best. I always tell people to take that moment. I was like “Stay professional, stay in the song.” And I didn’t interact with him. I should have interacted with him! I couldn’t get in the mode of “Have fun with this!” No, I was just like “He’s out here. Don’t make him look bad. Focus!” So I wish I could redo that. But I just recently did that with our buddy Marshall from Relentless Flood. We brought him out on tour with us and he was singing “Am I Broken” with me, instead of Jon Micah. I could just play around and we interacted more and I had such a blast. Like, that’s what I need to do. 

But yeah, asking people like Jon Micah, “Hey, can you sing on this song?” And he checks out the song and for him to like the song and agree to it. That means the world to me! Those are the bands. Those are the big bands, the giants that I listened to that played a huge act in my life, Kutless, Pillar. Then to be around those guys and see how normal and cool they were. Sometimes you don’t want to meet your heroes. In our industry, there’s not a lot but there’s some I’m like “Yeah, you could do better bro!” 

But Pillar, man, all those guys were so kind and so genuine. They spoke a lot of encouragement to us. To just play two shows with them was such a highlight. But you’re right. They are monsters, like when Christian rock was up there and the thing. Those were the guys carrying the torch. It’s just cool to see who they passed the torch to and you just want to show them that we’re trying our best and we’re really doing this for the reasons that they did it. The reasons they gave it their all, that’s why we’re giving it our all now. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: I remember being at the Junction Center when Kevin came out, because I was standing next to my wife and she’s like “Do you think Kevin will come out?” I was like “No, he doesn’t really do that” and then we saw him come out. We were all like “No way!!”

Sean: We’ve been blessed. Like you said, Kevin doesn’t really do that a lot. It was two years after “Come Alive” had been out. I’ve had many conversations with them at many shows and I said “Hey, I’m asking you again. And if you say no, totally cool. I don’t hate you. That’s fine, I understand. I’m just letting you know that I’m a persistent person. Every show that we are together, I will ask you!” He always talks about “I don’t want to mess it up for you. I don’t want to make your set look bad. I can barely remember my songs!” I said, “Kevin. I will write it on a giant poster board and lay it on the floor!” and he goes “All right, if you do that, I’ll do it.” 

So Kelly ran out and bought a poster board and I wrote out his parts and I laid it on the floor of the stage. We talked about it as he came to me during soundcheck, he’s like “All right, you wanna do this?” I’m like “Yeah!” But yeah, he doesn’t do that and same with Jon Micah. How many songs do you see Jon Micah featuring on? It’s very hard to find them out there. To say that we’re blessed is, I think, an understatement. It’s crazy the things that have happened to us and for us and it’s all God. It’s like, normal people can’t do this. I’m just a Joe Schmoe. There’s no way I’m doing this, it’s a God thing. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: So what you’re saying is next record you’ll have Trevor from TFK on?

Sean: And I tell you we’ve already worked on that for this record. It’s one of the things on our bucket list, let’s just say that!

Solid Rock Unplugged: Well, you guys did a wonderful job with the Pillar concert and Uprise Festival and all the other times we’ve seen you. You guys have always laid it out there. You stay firm in what you believe, you give it one hundred percent. But there’s so much more to the ministry than the band. Kelly, you just finished a women’s retreat with My Beloved. What was your drive to start My Beloved?

Kelly: My Beloved is a women’s ministry that is underneath the band Behold The Beloved. So my role with the band, I do all the management, all the administrative behind the scenes. If you email us, you will probably get an email from me. I also run the merch table. That is the best way that we meet our people. That’s the way that we can talk to them, hear their stories, pray with them, or they just want to support and buy merch. So what I was finding is that I would have these really incredible conversations, with people in general, but especially with women. I’m just not that type of person to go ok, I’m going to hear your story, pray with you, we’re going to cry together and then say goodbye. 

Sean: That’s what I say to people in line!

Kelly: No, I’m not that type of person that can hear something like that and not check in. So what I was finding is that I was checking in with these people, when we’re coming off their shows, off the road. We’re on the road all throughout the year, just to keep up with them. They would continue to come to different shows, then I was finding that a lot of those same women were going to the same shows. They were finding community together and we were just talking. I’m like “what if we have a women’s ministry?” I don’t know of any other band that has a women’s ministry, so that’s how My Beloved got birthed, kind of from that. 

Some of the different things we do, usually at the end of the summer, we do a book study then we do our retreat. To do the retreat, we ask that you go through the book study. It can be between like six to eight weeks over Zoom, because again, a lot of us are so widespread. We travel all around the US and so we just meet a lot of different people and we can’t all meet in my living room. That would be pretty amazing if that were the case, to have a whole bunch of women over here. That’d be great! 

So we meet over Zoom and we end it with a retreat. We always go to the Poconos and it’s such an incredible time, just being in person. We just kind of recap it, but also have incredible fellowship with one another, have so much fun. Two weeks ago, we had the most incredible time. We were actually up to probably about 4:30 in the morning, which I don’t want this to be a deterrent for people, please don’t not come! But we were literally praying over one another and it was probably just one of the most beautiful things just to see the Holy Spirit, honestly. So that’s been really incredible!

Then I just offer our hub on the Facebook page, where I share some different encouragement throughout the week. I also offer a Spring Bible study, again over Zoom, because most people don’t live in the area. That’s really the mission, to bring community and have fellowship with one another and a lot of those women, we meet at the shows with Behold The Beloved, concerts, festivals, whatever it is!

Solid Rock Unplugged: Along with that, you also released your first book, “All That Remains.” Was this a lifelong dream or just something that was on your heart?

Kelly: So yes and no. Yes, I have thought about writing a book for a really long time, but I never pulled the trigger because I knew I had a lot to say, but I didn’t know specifically what. Sean, a few years ago, had been really encouraging me, “You should really write a book!” “No.” “You should really write a book!” “No.” So we did this song and dance for quite some time. And with him honestly really encouraging me, I started sharing a little bit more publicly through Substack. Just kind of collecting some different thoughts from my life and the things the Lord has taught me and I just decided “You know what, I’m going to start writing.” And that’s what I did. I just started brain dumping, writing everything down. 

The book is called “All That Remains: Finding Wholeness Through The Wreckage.” It’s kind of a mix of my story and the things that I walked through and that the Lord has walked through me with. But also kind of how it relates and can relate to your life and the walk that you are having with God. It’s not a memoir, but more of a Christian living/devotional book. It’s perfect for small groups. If you have a small group, it’s awesome. We have three or four questions, reflection questions, that can just be for you or for your small group. Then I always end with scriptures and a prayer. So when you go through the chapter, you’re just not like “ok, that was a great chapter.” It really gives you time to reflect back on what you just read and how that can apply to your life. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: What was that process? How long of a process did that take? 

Kelly: I started writing sporadically for it, but then I really dedicated a lot of time. I want to say maybe like six or seven months that I wrote and maybe six of those months were pretty dedicated. We have an eight year old son, so I don’t currently work a full time job. I do the behind the scenes things for the band and My Beloved. So I really do have the freedom and flexibility to be home to be able to do that. 

I would drop my son off at school, come home, kind of do a little thing to get into writing mode and I would just go in my office and honestly just type for about four or five hours. Then it would be time for me to go and pick him up from school. I really tried to dedicate as much time to it as possible, especially when I felt inspired and felt like “ok, I have a lot to say.” Because there were definitely times where I couldn’t think of any words coming to my mind because I’ve literally put them all right here and I can’t think of anything. I can’t formulate this sentence any more. So that’s really what some of the writing process was within that. 

Sean: But then the last month or two was all of the random detailed stuff.

Kelly: So then in the last few months, it got sent to an editor. They read through it and sent it back, sent back questions or things to fix here and “Do you want to clarify this” and just kind of that editing process. I took a few months to do that and I had Sean read through it, which he’s not a reader. That was a huge thing. I’m a reader, I can read four to five books at a time and be cool. But he is not. And then I sent it off to some really good friends that know me, know my story. Some of them have walked through some of those things with me, just wanting to make sure that the story brought clarity and that it was also true to me and true to the things that God has done in my life. 

Sean: Yeah, it was good to see you giving it to some friends. She gave it to some friends who actually are going through their own walks of wreckages or whatever and trying to find God in the midst of that. So it was great for them to read it and see if they could resonate with it, to make sure that it wasn’t just an autobiography of Kelly. Which when I read it, it was well balanced. She gets to set the tone of what she’s saying, but then takes it away, out of her story, and makes you think about your story. So yeah, artwork, everything got done. I’m just like “What’s next?” But I was proud of her, I’m still proud of her and it’s crazy. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: I want to thank you guys for giving us time. Getting to hear your heart for your music and hearing about My Beloved and the direction of that ministry and the book. Any last comments or last encouragement that you want to give to anyone reading this interview?

Sean: I would always say don’t ever think that you can’t, that you’re too small for something big. I would say reach for it, strive for it. My rule is always dream it and do it and go for it. The worst people can say is no. Always shoot your shot and go for it and if it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be. I think that’s what we’ve done this whole journey. It started from being a part of a band to then seeing a need and an opportunity to see that there’s leaders out there and women that need leaders beside them and creating a women’s ministry. Who cares that we’re a rock band? We’re a ministry first. We went from a women’s ministry to then we have an author and we have this and that. We have our own record label, all these things. It kind of piles up. 

You never think that you could do certain things that you’re doing, but unless you just go for it and believe in yourself, knowing that you can do whatever you want to do, as long as you have God’s will. You have God with you doing it, you’re not doing it by your own strength. You’re not just a small fish that can’t swim in a big ocean. Go ahead and swim that ocean. Swim that ocean. No, do it for real, if there’s something God lays on your heart and it just seems overwhelming and too big, it’s not. He’s laid that on your heart for a reason because he believes in you, he trusts you, and he will give you the strength and tools that you need to do it. Because it’s his plan, it’s something that he wants done that He has chosen you to do it. That means that He believes in you. 

So that’s how I like to look at things, that’s why I feel like God has taken us from A to B to C and we’re living the life that we are, that is bonkers. We know there’s more to come, so as long as we work hard and believe that He’s behind us and with us, we believe things are going to just get better and better. So that’s what we want to give to the reader, just go for it. Don’t ever think that you’re too small, you’re too worthless!

Check out Behold The Beloved on Facebook, Instagram, and Spotify. Keep an eye out for tour dates in 2026!

An Interview with Matt Greiner of August Burns Red: On Recording New Music, Maintaining Authenticity, and Christmas Burns Red

Matt Greiner (Left) - Drummer for August Burns Red

Solid Rock Unplugged: What has been the biggest difference between where August Burns Red started to where you are now?

Matt: Great question. The biggest difference, well my mind goes immediately to all the ways that they’re the same. Because there are a lot of similarities. I’m in a band with the best people, the hardest working, talented and in it for the right reasons. Meaning we’re not going to settle and we’re not going to do things with half of our energy. We’re going to give it everything. 

Every aspect of the band, you give everything. Not just the music, not just the performance. But the merch designs, the tours, and what mode of transportation we’re using to get to the airport. Like, we’re critical of everything and we think through everything. Because you have to for business and we’re supporting our families, five of us. We all have families to support. We all have a mortgage to pay and we get to do this band. 

We get to do this after 23 years of doing it, which means on one hand it’s a tank and on the other hand it’s very fragile, because we look around and see all the bands that aren’t here any more. So what’s the biggest difference? I think it’s who’s not in metal any more, who’s not around. Man, I’m so grateful we are. We are really fortunate as a band to still be putting out music and still be touring. Still have fans show up to our shows and mosh and sing along and buy our merch. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: Speaking of merch, I don’t know whose idea it was to bring back some of the old throwback t-shirt designs. Great idea! I got the Smokey The Bear shirt that says on the back “Only You Can Prevent Horrible Music.” So many conversations get started because of that shirt!

Matt: Yeah, I think we came out with that shirt in an era of metalcore that seemed like things were just very fluid. No one really wanted to do the 2003 metalcore any more. But no one knew where it was going, so there were all these kind of watered down styles. That was around the Rescue And Restore, which is how I see the messaging behind that album. It’s like “Dude, metal’s awesome!” We’re not going to just let it die, let it change and let it go somewhere we don’t really love. We’re going to stick to our roots and do what we want to do, not follow the trends.

Solid Rock Unplugged: Going through the writing process, what are your biggest influences when you’re writing new music?

Matt: My answer is really boring and I know that. I don’t have a whole lot of musical influences that creep into my playing when I’m writing drum parts. The biggest influence by far is what JB and Dustin have tabbed out in our program called TabIt. We send our songs over a program called TabIt. It’s all MIDI. So numbers represent notes and beats. They represent songs, so snare drum is 38, I had 42. Then you have the guitar tab for the guitar line and you have all zeros so it’s open chugs. They send everything to me that way and I look at the drums and say “ok, this is the idea they have for it so far.” That’s the most influential.

Because I’m looking at what they think would fit really well here. What do the drums do here that sells the song to the band? If I'm writing the song on guitar and I want to put drums in, I want to make sure everyone likes the song. So I’m going to write drum parts that make it sound cool and extreme and heavy and like all the different feelings. So I'm sitting down and I’m going to first look at that. Usually they’re amazing ideas. Honestly, really cool ideas and what I’ll try to do is improve them. Maybe the parts are really cool. I’m going to try to beat it. 

That’s really our mentality as a band, it’s who has the best idea, lyrically, on the strings, on drums. It doesn’t matter what your position is in the band, I’m going to beat what’s there. If you don’t, then the thing that is coolest wins. It doesn’t matter who wrote it, doesn’t matter who tracks it even. Who wrote the best thing wins and they don’t win a prize. They just win. Their idea is what ends up on the album. That’s winning. Then August Burns Red calls it a song. It might be JB’s song, but everyone’s humble enough to say this is the band’s.

What if the US politics looked at ABR and said “Let’s try to model what we’re doing based on five guys that all think differently, live differently, believe differently, act differently, and let’s just see how it goes!” I mean, it takes time and it took some growing pains, but I’m really grateful to be in the band. It’s such a well-oiled machine. I look at the world around me and think gosh, people are so bored! People are so upset. They’re so bitter. They’re so resentful. They don’t get along with anybody, like their own kids, their own spouses, their own friends. Defriending people on Facebook because of some guy that got shot in the head. 

If people had a drum set to play, whatever that might be for you: hiking, reading, sewing, golfing, fishing. If you find something that really fulfills you, when someone cuts you off in traffic, you don’t throw your middle finger in the air and lose your cool the whole way to work. It’s fine, it’s totally fine. I’ll be a little bit late. You know what I mean? It just cools you down, it centers you. I wish everyone had that sense of fulfillment because I know when I don’t, I”m not a great person to be around. 

My wife will say “Matt, you haven’t played in three weeks, I can tell. Go play drums!” I’m like, “I’m fine!” 20 minutes later I come upstairs like “I’m a new man! I’m a new man, what happened to me!” What is it, you know? You have to ask yourself, what is it that I’ve been procrastinating, putting on the backburner. Because that might be the thing that I should be pursuing and prioritizing and actually working on. I do it all the time. I go mow my yard instead of playing drums. Why? Because I have immediate gratification when I mow the lawn. It’s easy. It’s relaxing. What’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done? This. What’s the most fulfilling thing I’ve ever done? This. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: Speaking of the new album, what should we expect? Any themes, any stories that go behind the album?

Matt: Sure, I can’t talk about the lyrical content of the messaging and to be honest, I actually don’t know that much about it. I’ve been so invested in the drums, the drum factor. Coming up with cool parts that rip and fit the music. I can speak from a musical standpoint, the band really rooted in writing the music first. And the lyrics and vocals come later, like a layer cake. It’s up here. Now obviously vocals are eventually the most prominent thing, but musically, there’s so many hundreds of hours that go into this song. 

It’s funny when we get asked “What kind of lyrics or what kind of message do you guys want to say?” That’s kind of like me as a drummer hearing “What kind of heads did you use?” It’s more than that. Obviously, it’s the most important part. But at this stage in writing and recording it, it’s such a peripheral thing to me, because there’s so much that goes into the music. I will say Jake is absolutely destroying it. He’s working his tail off. So is Brent, helping him come up with patterns. So is Grant, helping him, pushing him. I think he’s pushing himself in a big way. 

I think we all are pushing ourselves. We are looking at AI and saying “Ok, people are going to start to wonder what’s real and what’s not.” We’ve been asking that for 15 years with metal, because everything’s fixed up and doctored and beat detected and perfected. We like that sound but now it’s to the point that we don’t really like it anymore. 

We especially don’t like the idea that you can just tell Suno to make a song and ten seconds later it spits out a metal song that sounds ok. So we’re trying to get our best performances instead of having to fix everything up and make it sound over-the-top glossy and fake. Musically, we are returning to our roots in some ways. There’s some speed and there’s aggressive, just bites your head off kind of breakdowns. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: So you’re going back to that Messengers-type sound?

Matt: I would certainly say some parts are. Constellations for sure. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: Are you halfway through the recording process?

Matt: No, we’re two-thirds of the way through. I have four songs to track on drums yet. Guitar is almost done, vocals are pretty far along. 

Disclaimer: This interview took place at the end of October. August Burns Red has announced they have completed recording the album. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: For people who are getting ready to see you guys at Christmas Burns Red, could there potentially be a new song played?

Matt: No, no definitely not. There won’t be any new songs anywhere, online or heard, until next year for sure. Yeah, next year is going to be a great year. So much to look forward to next year!

Solid Rock Unplugged: Speaking of Christmas Burns Red, how did that get started? I know it started as the CI Christmas Show and then it’s kind of morphed into this two-day extravaganza of metal.

Matt: We wrote Carol of the Bells and recorded it with Messengers back in 2007. We started playing it live, I think that year, at the Chameleon Club. CI Records did their Christmas show. We started doing Christmas songs every year - just one! We recorded Sleddin’ Hill in 2012. We thought “Man, this is fun!” Now we have a Christmas album. People are coming out every year. We’re wrapping gifts. Jake’s dressing up as Santa Claus. 

Eventually we’re like alright, let’s just make our own festival. We’ll make a weekend festival like a destination so that bands can come here and experience it. It’ll be awesome. They can just stay in the hotel where we’re having the show, in the Convention Center. We’ll have a bunch of our friends come out and play and that’s exactly what we’ve done.  It’s been so cool.

Solid Rock Unplugged: I’ve noticed in the past couple of years, you guys have taken the chance to pay respect to Thrill Seeker, Messengers, and Constallations. This year you guys are celebrating both 20 years since Thrill Seeker and 10 since Found in Far Away Places. It doesn’t feel like it’s been 20 years since Thrill Seeker!

Matt: I think it feels like it’s been 20 years. I remember it. I’m very fond of that time of my life. I remember it really well actually. But to think it was half of my life ago, it makes me almost think “Boy, that was half of my life before it.” That seems like way too big of a chunk to be before Thrill Seeker if I’ve lived the same amount since. Which I guess just means that 20 years have flown by since Thrill Seeker.

Solid Rock Unplugged: Will we be getting an August Burns Red Christmas song this year?

Matt: I don’t know. I know that we are working on new songs currently that are not Christmas and that’s filling our plate pretty full. So I think it’s safe to say we’re focused on the album for next year. Which next year’s going to be a big year. We have some really cool touring next year. We obviously have the album to look forward to eventually. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: How was it touring with Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine this year?

Matt: This spring, yeah it was cool. I never really knew about Bullet For My Valentine. I knew the name, but I never listened to them. I’d heard the one song because it was a big song. Man, I thought they were such a good band live. They are tight. They sound great. Jason’s an awesome drummer. I really liked touring with them and Trivium.

Same thing, I never really listened to Trivium. I of course knew the name, I knew they were a big band, and knew they were shredders. But I would say that tour was somewhat easy because we played second of four. We played a shorter set and we played big rooms. We didn’t really have to work to get crowds in the door. We did do our best to win the crowd that came. So I will see how much it benefited the band next year when we get out there and start touring again. See how many people come back. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: What should fans expect from this year’s Christmas Burns Red?

Matt: Pretty much the same look and layout as they’ve come to expect. If you’ve been to CBR, you know it’s in the Convention Center. We dress it up in a very festive look. We try to up our production every year and make it bigger and better. As far as the bands, you can see those on our Instagram or website, christmasburnsred.com. You can see who’s playing. I honestly don’t have all the bands memorized because I’ve been busy writing and my brain’s full of information. I’m personally excited for Animals As Leaders above all. I really like that band and it’ll be good to see Tosin [Abasi] again and Matt Garstka. Some of the most talented dudes out there. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: Is there anything else you’d like to share?

Matt: Thanks for having me on Solid Rock Unplugged! I’m looking forward to Christmas Burns Red, I’m looking forward to the new album. I’m looking forward to 2026. Thank you so much to everyone that supports our band. We could not do this without you. You know that, we know that. We don’t forget that. We don’t take it for granted and we’re really grateful. 

Check out August Burns Red on Instagram, Facebook, and Spotify. For tickets to Christmas Burns Red on December 12 &13, go to christmasburnsred.com. Get ready for brand new music in 2026!

Keep your eye out for a special Christmas Burns Red 2025 Guide, dropping TOMORROW, 11/24!

An Interview with Brotality: On “The Body,” Song Inspiration, and HeartSupport

A fun play on words, Brotality began as a musical project between two New York based brothers, Bryce and Reese, and a friend, Liam on drums, replaced by John Haring in 2022. With looks reminiscent of 80’s hair metal bands, this thrash and groove metal band has been rocking and touring the country since 2016, including locally at Creation Festival. They released their first full-length album, Worldwide Desolation in 2021 through Rottweiler Records. The Woods Will End You was released in 2022 and their most recent EP release It Feeds in 2024. New music is on the way, with their new single, “Blasphemy” dropping earlier this summer, and a new single dropping on Friday!

In addition to the band, both Bryce and Reese work for HeartSupport and are passionate about helping every person know they matter and are here for a reason, a cause that Solid Rock Unplugged truly believes in. Next month, Brotality will bring their piercing guitar riffs and heavy metal screams to Furnace Fest in Birmington Alabama. We had a chance to catch up with the guys at Uprise Festival 2025 and discuss the new single, their work with HeartSupport and the insane opportunity to play Furnace Fest.

Brotality is:

Bryce Maopolski - guitar, vocals

Reese Maopolski - bass, vocals

John Haring - Drums

Solid Rock Unplugged: The first time we saw Brotality was at Creation Festival 2019 on the Fringe Stage. How have the past five years been?

Reese:  It’s weird to think about five years in the scheme of like, a whole band who’s been at it for decades. You can maybe narrow it down, but I feel like our whole Brotality history, most of it is in those five years. Most of the music we’ve released, two full albums, an EP, more music being released right now. All of that’s been in five years. 

I mean, personally too, all of us graduated college in the last five years. It was us being in education for most of that time. I graduated high school in those five years, then college, now we’re working jobs while doing the band, so a lot of life changes personally in those five years too.

Bryce: I think it’s also changed how we kind of work together in the band over the last five years too. Because the writing process would be - I’d come with a riff, put it together, and then we’d kind of build from there. But nowadays, I’ll still start a lot of songs with riffs, but we write a lot more collaboratively. I feel like it is a unit of the three of us together, writing what we write now, rather than just “hey, here’s a bunch of riffs, let’s put drums and bass on them.” I think that’s how we’re exploring more of our sound.

Reese: Yeah, especially in the last year or two. This album we’re gearing up for is very much like that!

John:  You gotta remember that I interrupted the flow of everything by joining the band. After the first two albums, we started from scratch and now we’re in a good groove of things. And it’s pretty good, pretty efficient. I would say a well-oiled machine. I think we have a hold of ourselves. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: So you mentioned the full length albums and the EPs, with It Feeds, The Woods Will End You, and Worldwide Desolation. Out of everything you’ve released, what’s your favorite?

Reese: I feel like my answer is the classic, active musician answer, which is the newest stuff! I want to give a more interesting answer, like “nothing was like the second album!” or something, but I don’t know. I think that just as we grow as people, what we’re most passionate about is the most recent stuff.

So I think out of the projects that have been released, I think we’d all probably agree that the It Feeds EP is probably the one we’re most proud of. If we’re talking songs, not to speak for the guys, but I feel like “Blasphemy,” which we just released, and “The Body,” which comes out on Friday, the new song. 

John: Honestly, I think the first song we ever released was the best, and it’s all been downhill from there! (laughter)

Bryce: To give a little bit of a serious, different answer, I think The Woods Will End You. That album has a little niche of Brotality sound. We always talk in the back of our heads, when 2032 comes around or something, I’d like to do a 10-year re-record of it, tour and play the full album. I think because that one is a full album length, it has a little bit of a special spot and I love the way that album came together. Especially the second half of it.  

Solid Rock Unplugged: So how did you come up with the names of your albums? Is there a special meaning or was it just “let’s figure out what could be the most brutal sounding name?”

Reese:  For Worldwide, it was so long ago that I’m forgetting a specific answer or inspiration for that. For Woods Will End You, we went back and forth on a few possible titles. I forget the other ones. I remember we wanted it to sound cool, but also obviously have thematic reasons for it being there. Obviously, the album cover of Woods Will End You is this Wendigo creature. And the song, “Flesh Eater” is the forest. 

Throughout the album The Woods Will End You, I like to think of it as an overall concept album. So not a story about a character from start to finish, but each song is kind of a story on its own. Each one follows a character, most of the time, in a different part of the earth. So “Frost Empire” is in a cavern, a kingdom of ice. In “Glow,” it’s like the end of the album, someone summiting a mountain and seeing a valley on the other side. “Flesh Eater” is in the forest, an evil presence in the depths of a cave. So each song has its own kind of earthen setting like that. The Woods Will End You theme fits into all of that. 

It Feeds is just from the title track. I wish I could give more of an interesting concept name for that. Just because “It Feeds” is one of those singles, that’s kind of where that one comes from. Do you remember Worldwide, exactly the inspiration for that?

John: Weren’t you like sixteen or something?  

Bryce: We were also sixteen. I don’t remember. I’m sure it was very profound!

Reese: Definitely wasn’t just that it sounded cool!

John: If we just wanted to sound cool, we would have named the album like Monster Truck or something!

Reese: That’s the next album, we’re going to name it. Oh crap, I leaked it! Dang it!

Solid Rock Unplugged: So speaking of “Blasphemy” and “The Body,” the new single coming out this Friday, could you tell me the story behind those songs?

Reese: “Blasphemy,” at least lyrically, was a very topical thing for me. When we were writing that song, I had a lot of feelings and emotions around certain bands that were releasing music, especially in the metal scene. Using Christian imagery to be kind of intentionally subversive. It’s a hard line, because I think on one side, we have people in the Christian scene that if there is someone using the cross imagery and they’re not a Christian band, they’re just immediately denouncing what they’re saying or doing. 

I think it’s hard, because I don’t think that is necessarily the answer. I also think that hearing them out, but everyone needs to be coming from a genuine place too. So if you’re just going to use Christian imagery, I don’t know, to look hard or use this imagery because it’s not what you believe and you have problems with it. So they want to make the cross a symbol of fear, I’ve seen that being used a lot lately in metal. 

I feel like sometimes those visuals lack actual depth behind them. They’re kind of using it to be attention grabby and look cool and look hard. So “Blasphemy” is kind of me trying to point that out, but also acknowledging that, those people who have different perspectives than someone who’s Christian, it’s also valid and important to hear them out and understand the world they’re coming from. Instead of just shutting it down and denouncing their perspective. 

So it’s kind of this interesting middle ground, but that’s why the climax of the song is the line “Will you speak blasphemy?” It’s not me, just trying to point fingers, because I think there’s enough of that being done on both sides. Which isn’t helpful or productive. So, is there a place where we can just rightfully question one another, but from a place of humility and openness still?

Solid Rock Unplugged: So what was the inspiration behind “The Body?”

Reese: “The Body” is a little easier, I think. “The Body” is about separating the spirit from the flesh. I love that idea and recently, especially in writing for this new album, a lot of the lyrics are inspired by the ideas in Christian mysticism of the dark night of the soul and the idea of having to put the body to death to be spiritually enlightened. That idea just fascinates me, kind of like excising yourself from the physical world to be fully in the spiritual world. I just love that idea. 

“The Body” is specifically about that. It’s about being within your body, representing again the flesh and the physical world, and yearning for light beyond that. So much, to the point where it is like taking active action against the will of the flesh. 

Bryce: I think instrumentally, I don’t want to say the cliche that every metal band does where it’s like “it’s heavier, but it’s also lighter than everything we’ve ever done!” I do feel like with every release, we make music that’s more packed with emotion. I think a lot of times, with a song like “Blasphemy” or even with “The Body, that kind of shows its head with intensity, heaviness, super in-your-face music that has a lot of emotion behind it and it’s right there. But then I think there’s other stuff on the album that shows emotion in a totally different way, where it’s more of a catharsis or this big euphoria. There’ll be singles that have all of that coming out. 

We’ve all kind of been diving into the trenches of metal, and even a lot of non-metal stuff too, but getting into some bands that are doing crazy stuff like Nails, or End, Alluvial, Full of Hell. All of these bands that are in the almost avant garde side of metal. But then Bon Iver is awesome and we’ll listen to English Teacher and Yumi Zouma, and all of these bands that are indie bands too.

I think it all kind of comes together a little bit. Throughout our own listening, we’re listening to stuff that’s weirder and weirder all the time, so I think our own music brings a little bit of that in now. Definitely, I think turning up the dial on the emotion in our music has been a big refrain for the big new album. 

John: And monster trucks! 

Solid Rock Unplugged: So, in addition to “Blasphemy” and “The Body” coming out, anything else coming out soon, before the end of the year?

Bryce: Nothing solidified that I can give a date for yet. Probably!

Solid Rock Unplugged: But we’re expecting a new album early next year?

Bryce: I’m not exactly sure. We’re sitting on an album now. But the way the industry goes, singles are so huge, so we might be ripping a lot of those for a while. But we are sitting on a full album’s worth of music that we’ll be rolling out for the next 9 months.

Reece: I think it’s safe to probably say 90% that next year, the album will be out. 

John: Yeah, at some point. Unless we flop everything leading up to it! Which is perfectly possible.

Solid Rock Unplugged: Love the confidence!

John: I’m confident in the realism of it. We have a real shot here!

Solid Rock Unplugged: So, within the last year, Bryce and Reese, you guys have been brought on by HeartSupport. What are your responsibilities within HeartSupport?

Bryce: I started at HeartSupport in September of 2024. Actually, I started as an intern in January of 2024. Even before then, Brotality had a custom HeartSupport text number. We’ve done fundraising and stuff. So Brotality and HeartSupport go way back. But in January, I started interning and became staff in September. 

For my job, I’m in the development department. Half of my gig is working with donors, just helping to fund the organization, making sure there’s dollars behind our mission. The other half is working with bands, which is where I feel my bread and butter is. That’s what I love to do. 

So I get to work with all of our band partnerships and help encourage bands to open up, so that then their fans feel encouraged to open up. I’ve gotten to work with some freaking sick bands for that. That’s the part of my job I love. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: I’m sure you’re probably working with Christian bands, non-Christian bands. I’m sure it’s a full array of genres.

Bryce: Yeah, I work with Lacey a whole lot and Shinedown, Citizen Soldier, Breaking Benjamin, some cool bands! It’s an honor for sure. That’s the part of my job that I love. It’s definitely like “holy crap, this is my job! Like, are you giving me money for this?”

Reese: Yeah, I was volunteering there for a little while. After Bryce had gotten hired, I was a volunteer there, one of the support wall replyers, writing online encouragements, us and a few friends, just doing that as part of the volunteer group. Then in February, a position opened up, Program Assistant, that’s my role. My role is very ground level at HeartSupport. I do basically all the communications with our volunteers, specifically focused on our support calls program. 

The support calls program is where we encourage people to get on weekly phone calls with someone who’s been training to give peer support. Just listen and encourage this person, alongside them for a year. So, people that are struggling or just need someone to talk to, can reach out, apply to get support in this one-on-one connection. I’m in charge of finding people that are in the same time zone, same age range, and gender preference and I connect them together. 

I’m basically the person on staff who anyone in the program can fall back on if they have any concerns, questions, or things they need help with. There’s a lot that can come up in the course of a year, being one-on-one with someone. So yeah, most of my job is in communications with all of our volunteers. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: So why should people check HeartSupport?

Bryce: It’s free mental health support, using music as a catalyst to get people to open up. I think the most beautiful part of it is, 3 in 5 people don’t open up about their mental health, for that demographic, it’s so hard to find the reason to start. But even if a lot of people don’t feel comfortable opening up about what they’re going through, they will feel comfortable talking about why their favorite song matters to them. So if we can use that moment to actually get them real, trained support, that’s what we’re about. 

We’re really targeted to getting those 3 in 5 people who don’t usually open up, like real, trained mental health support. We’ve seen a lot of lives change because of it. Even with the HeartSupport number that we have at our merch table. We’ve seen people use that and been so thankful that there is a resource for them. It’s great to be able to use music, because it connects us all already. Like, use it and take that connection to a deeper level. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: Typically when you hear people with mental health issues, the metal community seems to be the one where everyone just clams up. Everybody wants to put on this hard face. Now that we have something like HeartSupport, people can start taking down those walls.

Reese: Yeah, absolutely. 

Solid Rock Unplugged: You guys get an opportunity that I am very jealous of next month. You get to go play Furnace Fest in Birmingham. Tell me about what you’re looking forward to with this opportunity. Are you excited?

John: I’m really excited to stop thinking about how we get there!

Reese:  Yeah, the logistics. All the logistics!

John: I’m really excited to be 10 seconds before we start playing, because that’s when everything is awesome!

Reese: Yeah, the two-day trip there and the two day trip back. That’s the only show we have booked for that time, because we’re all working and stuff. We still have to figure out logistics and stuff. 

John: It’s going to be so great, I know it. How can it be anything short of awesome?

Bryce: I think the cool part is that it’s one of the pre-shows. So it’s not the full Furnace Fest, but it’s the Furnace Fest pre-show. And I think that makes it a special level of cool, because I’ve always heard about how the pre-shows are packed. People are going crazy. It’s right before the festival even gets going for the weekend. So people are just stoked to be there. They’re energized.

We’re playing with a really mixed bill too. It’s like us and then a beat down band. Then later in the lineup is ISetMyFriendsOnFire, which is actual screamo music. Not like what somebody’s grandma would call us. So I think being part of a mixed bill and being able to kick it off with some heavy riffs, you know, real guitar amps, I think it will be really, really fun. 

And then we get to be at Furnace Fest with HeartSupport for the rest of the weekend, so it’ll be fun. I’m very excited. It’s such a cool lineup, so it’s going to be such a good weekend!

Solid Rock Unplugged: Anything else besides the new single coming out Friday? Anything else you guys want to push or get out to the fans?

Bryce: Follow us on socials! It is a weird time to be in the industry because social media does matter so much and it’s something that we are investing heavily into. I know it can be hard as musicians to take time away from wanting to create and put out art, but from the business side of things, social media is an incredible opportunity to get in front of more fans than we have reached just by playing shows. So we’ve been investing heavily into that. 

If you read this, check out Brotality on Tiktok, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, all that stuff. If you dig what we do, share it as much as you can. All that really helps, because even in terms of growing as a band, agents, labels, they care about numbers on those things. Any of that helps so so much. I think it’s best to be forward with that, because sometimes there can be this undercurrent of not talking about it or just complaining about it, but it is a legitimate thing that we’re trying to build. It’s a way you can get more stuff from us than if you just come out to a show!

Check out Brotality’s new single, “The Body,” dropping Friday, September 19th at Midnight! Look them up on all the social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.

If you, or anyone you know, is struggling with mental health - please know that you are not alone! Check out HeartSupport for help.