Caster Volor would like to welcome you to their industrial theatre. A live experience that is half monster and half machine, some might call it a nightmare and some a dream. An over the top macabre celebration of hedonism and excess where in studded leather, satin, and lace they are dressed.
A vaudevillian opera with a heavy metal engine running on sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’roll that burns with 300% more hellfire than hell. A shot of 200 proof raw, raunchy, and in your face animalistic intensity with no chaser. Your only Lethal Dose 100 for having a good time all the time. Born from the result of a musical orgy between Alice Cooper, Gun’s n Roses, Iron Maiden, and Queen; Rammstein directed and choreographed this scene. Raised by the Beatles and Rolling Stones, worshiping Judas Priest with Motörhead in our bones.
In this interview spotlight, I chat with Caster Volor about the latest project, challenges, technology and more.
Full Q&A along with links and music below.
Where are you from and what style of music do you create? (In your own words, not necessarily in marketing terms or by popular genre classifications.)
Caster Volor is from Minneapolis, MN and we consider our style hard rock & heavy metal. We take in influences from all over the spectrum of music. Whether it’s classical, or 60’s-90’s rock, pop, disco, ect. we find some element that we enjoy from these styles and we incorporate it into our style of rock ‘n’ roll. It’s called the Freak Show for a reason.
What led you down this path of music and what motivates you to keep going?
Caster Volor all started with the lead singer Caster who was heavily inspired by Marilyn Manson (being a 90’s kid) and wanted to be like him. Manson did what he wanted, when he wanted. He was the big rock-star that people loved and hated. As Caster’s influences grew, so did the band to what you see and hear today. The motivation comes from the music that is written and the success of the band. As we write songs that we love more and more, we push harder and harder to make them known thusly the fan base grows. As the fan base grows, our stage show/performance has to grow as we love to entertain, so we improve that and the cycle continues. Caster Volor is motivated to make a change in the music scene and music business. We fight for rock ‘n’ roll.
How is this new release different than previous ones? Were you trying to accomplish anything specific?
A Prelude To The Freak Show – EP (2018) is our first release. The purpose of this 5 song EP was to finally have our sound heard in a way that fans could take home with them. We had been playing shows for a while, but didn’t have any music out. This album is a prelude to what we have coming next. It has some of our best and favorite songs, but as we mentioned, the songs are going to get better and better with each album release.
Name one or two challenges you face as an indie musician in this oversaturated, digital music age? How has technology helped you (since we know it does help)?
The issue isn’t with everyone making music and releasing it because everyone thinks they’re a musician, it’s that funding a band is not easy. As an indie artist, you have to take care of everything from writing, funding, booking, managing, lodging, entertaining, networking, promoting, marketing, ect yourselves. That’s the biggest challenge as an indie musician. But if we begin to talk about how saturated it is, then my biggest concern is the lack of professionalism. Bands playing for “exposure” or bands “paying to play” or bands “selling tickets for a promoter, so they can play with a national act” or bands “not promoting their shows or being serious about it” this makes us sick because if the majority of groups do this then that will set the stage for the music scene and bar/venue owners won’t take indie artists seriously. I wouldn’t. A lot of cities, don’t pay bands well because they don’t want to lose money, it makes it harder for the good bands to negotiate.
Technology has helped because we have been able to distribute our music world-wide, so there is no limit as to who can listen to it.
What was the last song you listened to?
Auslander – RAMMSTEIN
Which do you prefer? Vinyl? CDs? MP3s?
Vinyl sounds the best, but MP3’s are convenient.
How about this one…. Do you prefer Spotify? Apple Music? Bandcamp? Or something else? Why?
Apple music. It seems to have the most content.
Where is the best place to connect with you online and discover more music?
We have it all and we’re everywhere. All sites are monitored daily.
Connect:
- www.castervolor.com
- www.facebook.com/castervolor
- www.instagram.com/castervolor
- www.twitter.com/castervolor
- Snapchat @Caster Volor
- Discover: Apple music, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, ect.
Anything else before we sign off?
Check out Caster Volor on any of your desired social sites or music platforms you will not regret it. Join the Caster Volor family today.
