Crisis Averted With WEDNESDAY 13

Interview by Kris Peters
Wednesday 13 is arguably one of the hardest-working musicians out
there. From his solo project to celebration tours featuring
Murderdolls songs, Wednesday not only lives the excesses of rock
and roll debauchery; he sets the bar as well.
Each of his musical undertakings, including Frankenstein Drag
Queens From Planet 13 as well as Murderdolls and Wednesday 13, have
the same menacing undertones of gore, horror and theatrics, but
despite the obvious similarities, Wednesday 13 is much more than a
one-trick pony.
Blending the above elements with punk, humour and a ghostly sense
of the macabre, Wednesday 13 has his roots deeply embedded in hard
rock but transcends the barriers of a plethora of styles and genres
that combine to make his music a necessary evil in a world growing
increasingly sterile.
2022's Horrifier was met with widespread media and public
adulation, but these two things have never mattered when it comes
to Wednesday's musical output. It is more about the sense of
ambivalence and the irresistible thread that binds everything
together that keeps the fire in Wednesday's cauldron burning.
Such is his contribution to music that Wednesday could easily be
forgiven for playing it safe with each new album cycle, but in true
Wednesday 13 style, safe was the furthest thing on his mind with
his new album Mid Death Crisis, which will be unleashed on April
25.
More a step back into the things and a time that gave birth to
Wednesday's musical psyche, Mid Death Crisis benefits from
production by Alex Kane (Life, Sex & Death, Enuff Z'Nuff,
Antiproduct) and a mix courtesy of Steve Evetts (The Dillinger
Escape Plan, Prong, DevilDriver) that devilishly encapsulates the
musical strengths of both while remaining quintessentially the
afterbirth of Wednesday 13.
Wednesday spent some time with HEAVY to discuss the album in
greater detail. We started by asking if he is confident heading
into the album release date.
"Very confident," he replied without hesitation. "With my last few
albums I put out, I didn't know if the audience was going to like
it as much as I did. And when I was experimenting from albums like
 Condolences and Necrophaze and all those records, I look back
now and those are the experimental records because I did some
different things with them. And those were ones I took some chances
with, and I wasn't sure if the audience would like them. But they
did. This is the one record where I feel pretty confident that
they're going to like it. I know it's hit all the bases with what I
was trying to go for."
The album is widely touted as a return to Wednesday 13's musical
roots, an opinion we put to the man himself.
"I think so," he measured. "After COVID and everything, I had a
little time to look back on my career and 20 years of doing
Wednesday 13. And I just kind of looked at the whole career and
went, well, what do you like best of all this? I started looking at
it all, and I went, well, where I started was the most honest and
real place for me. And that seemed natural. And I kind of went back
to that look, and I went back to that sound, and it was easy to do.
It just felt right, and this is more of a hard rock record than it
is a metal record, but it's not just like I tried to imitate my
first record or anything. It's just in the same spirit, and I feel
good about it, like I did on that first record."
In the full interview, Wednesday 13 described Mid Death Crisis as
an energetic experience, carefully structured to reflect a live
performance, and emphasized that sonically it encapsulates his
career and aligns with fan expectations.
He highlighted the song When the Devil Commands as the lead single,
crafted to appeal to both existing fans and new listeners, with
lyrics inspired by his childhood experiences during the Satanic
Panic. He discussed his songwriting philosophy, focusing on natural
inspiration from classic horror and pop culture. Additionally, he
spoke about his collaboration with Taime Downe, noting its
significance due to his admiration for Faster Pussycat. We spoke
about his song titles and where they come from, coming up with
fresh sounding material the more you write, future and current
tours and more.

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