{"id":1947746,"date":"2025-08-07T22:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1947746"},"modified":"2025-08-07T22:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:00:40","slug":"how-paradise-slaves-lured-brock-lindow-back-to-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-paradise-slaves-lured-brock-lindow-back-to-music\/","title":{"rendered":"How Paradise Slaves lured Brock Lindow back to music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>On December 6, 2019, 36 Crazyfists played their final show. Celebrating their 25th anniversary as a band, they\u2019d booked a gig at local bar Chilkoot Charlie\u2019s in their native Anchorage. Stepping onstage, they were greeted by a packed room filled with friendly, familiar faces. In many ways, it was the best send-off they could\u2019ve hoped for \u2013 even if they didn\u2019t know it at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was time for me to do something different,\u201d admits vocalist Brock Lindow today. \u201cI\u2019m burned out from touring. I love all those [36CF] guys and have nothing but wonderful memories of seeing the world together, and they\u2019re incredible people. But there\u2019s no great story beyond that. I just didn\u2019t plan on making music anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-base\"\/>\n<p>Although 36 Crazyfists had reduced their touring in 2019, doing a short run in Australia earlier that year, time spent on the road was time Brock was losing with his daughter, with precious milestones missed while he was playing in different cities.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-solid border-y border-neutral-300\">\n<span class=\"font-article-heading block pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333]\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe pandemic had a way of making you step back and reassess,\u201d Brock says. \u201cThe road was always like this fantasy world. Getting the chance to play music outside of Alaska wasn\u2019t something I thought was even possible in the early days. So to be there, 25 years later, having seen most of the world because of my band, was something that blew my mind. I\u2019m extremely grateful for it, but I wanted to be more of a dad for my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Word of 36 Crazyfists\u2019 split broke in 2021. For a while, rumours persisted that the band would continue with a new vocalist \u2013 until December 2023, when guitarist Steve Holt posted on a Reddit thread where people were speculating about the status of the band: \u201cAt this point, nothing going on in the band now or future [\u2026] Never say never. Fists never die!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Either way, Brock was out. Between his co-host spot on Alaskan rock radio station KWHL\u2019s <em>Bob And Brock<\/em> show, and dad duties that saw him going to watch hockey with his daughter and driving her to her own games, his time was well accounted for. That is, until he received a text from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/music\/albums\/killswitch-engage-ranked-albums\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/music\/albums\/killswitch-engage-ranked-albums\">Killswitch Engage<\/a> guitarist Joel Stroetzel asking if he would like to contribute to a new album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told me that his younger brother was putting out a record and wanted to get a bunch of his favourite singers for each song,\u201d Brock recalls. \u201cI\u2019d do anything for Joel, so I agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-tgqtd3v7EaSW9LkFf5KLHf\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-tgqtd3v7EaSW9LkFf5KLHf slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just like that, Brock was back in the game. Becoming friends with Tyler Stroetzel over the coming weeks, the pair found there was undeniable musical chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt kind of just fell in my lap,\u201d Brock admits. \u201cI hadn\u2019t planned for it \u2013 I\u2019ve been playing with the same guys since I was 17 years old, pretty much. 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3.823-23.341V64.23c0-7.953-.484-14.17-1.448-18.65\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Building a new band from the ground up, Tyler brought in past and present members of Diecast, a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/a-beginners-guide-to-metalcore-in-five-essential-albums\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/a-beginners-guide-to-metalcore-in-five-essential-albums\">metalcore<\/a> group he played guitar in from 2013 to 2021, in the form of guitarist Jon Kita and bassist Brad Horion. On drums, they recruited Ryan Manning (Pentagram, Blitzkid). After Brock flew out to Massachusetts to hang out with his new bandmates, the songs were soon flowing and Paradise Slaves was born.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI forgot how much I need writing music in my life,\u201d Brock admits. \u201cI\u2019ve been writing journal entries and poetry as long as I can remember, but it was definitely a good time to be writing lyrics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bringing in producer Jim Fogarty \u2013 who\u2019s worked with the likes of Killswitch Engage, All That Remains and Shadows Fall \u2013 Paradise Slaves assembled their debut, <em>With Hell In His Eyes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all grew up on the same stuff,\u201d Brock explains. \u201cThe New England music, we love all of that \u2013 Killswitch, Shadows Fall, Unearth, All That Remains. But I also think there\u2019s a lot more hard rock, trying to scream less and be more melodic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That said, given Brock has one of metalcore\u2019s most unique voices \u2013 almost the missing link between Chino Moreno and Jesse Leach \u2013 it\u2019s hardly surprising that Paradise Slaves would sound a lot like 36CF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was definitely a mindset to try and not repeat myself,\u201d he says with a chuckle. \u201cI wanted it to be outside of the stuff I\u2019d been doing for so long. But I can\u2019t escape me \u2013 it\u2019s gonna be me, and emotionally charged towards something that\u2019s affected my life, because I\u2019ve never really written from a wordly, generalised perspective. I needed to find that fire, something that still makes sense to myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the more personal compositions on <em>With Hell In His Eyes<\/em> is Dreamers. Inspired by the difficulties he and wife Jade faced when she emigrated from her native South Africa to join him in Anchorage, Dreamers is a thumping, emotionally charged anthem in the vein of <em>Slit Wrist Theory<\/em> or <em>Time And Trauma<\/em>. It\u2019s also a handy reminder that Brock has long since mastered the art of writing absolute bangers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rules about not being able to leave while documents are processing meant she couldn\u2019t see her family for five years,\u201d Brock says. \u201cAlaska and South Africa couldn\u2019t be further apart, and I felt really bad about that, especially because her parents got sick during Covid. Thank God they were OK in the end! It was a huge hurdle for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although he\u2019s got a new band and a debut album out in the world, Brock isn\u2019t falling back into old habits. Paradise Slaves\u2019 live engagements are deliberately being kept sparse, and they\u2019re cherry-picking opportunities such as sharing a bill with Killswitch Engage and Fit For An Autopsy, and playing dates with Three Days Grace and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/five-finger-death-punch-bests-songs\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/five-finger-death-punch-bests-songs\">Five Finger Death Punch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a rule in the band: I\u2019m not gonna do months-long tours,\u201d Brock says. \u201cWe\u2019d do, like, one tour a year or even just one during a record cycle. I\u2019m happy that way. We\u2019ve all breathed a new life into each other\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for whether 36 Crazyfists are completely done-done, or just <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/slayer-albums-ranked-from-worst-to-best\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/slayer-albums-ranked-from-worst-to-best\">Slayer<\/a>-done, Brock remains pensive. \u201cI\u2019ve no plans,\u201d he says, before adding, \u201cBut never say never.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>With Hell In His Eyes is out now via Spinefarm<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" height=\"352\" width=\"100%\" id=\"\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" data-lazy-priority=\"low\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3acexfGPaiUiZu1h1G8ZMm?utm_source=generator\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.loudersound.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 6, 2019, 36 Crazyfists played their final show. Celebrating their 25th anniversary as a band, they\u2019d booked a gig at local bar Chilkoot Charlie\u2019s in their native Anchorage. Stepping onstage, they were greeted by a packed room filled with friendly, familiar faces. 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