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Subscribe to DTB at http://digtb.us/subscribe Become a member (it's FREE) at https://digtb.us/signup Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch  On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the industrial rock artist, Mortiis, while on tour with Brighter Death Now, Sombre Arcane, and Malfet. Mortiis is currently supporting his newest album, Throe.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - September 11, 2024 Location - Reggies in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH MORTIIS: Facebook - https://facebook.com/officialmortiis Instagram - https://instagram.com/mortiisofficial Twitter - https://twitter.com/Mortiis  WATCH MORE BUS INVADERS EPISODES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MztYJ9_HhqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMK8JjLtNQs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgqJl6B7y8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPwQrkP9P6I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIo5Gl05wsM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5GBEnuIReA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SBs_6YHwbM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7PXoVYZT7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tCh1ejj8wI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mup59tbHxg  FOLLOW US: Website/Email List - https://www.digitaltourbus.com/#/portal/signup YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltourbus  WATCH OUR DIFFERENT VIDEO SERIES: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7_ByKsuzBlHLw8Z9vlvMHpo https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7-qmqFF3X8-CewdMmig-D2a https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs78kkdygO4-67vxS4u5P6Qh7 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7_eKAu5-RHLaIhZD07cL_iy https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7-w9-ii7pFxKrqa3Fd6zEh3 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7_mIDoSuZmgzJTkhh522ZIE https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs78fQYYOLfFfCOFJOxTRfg-e https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB710EB72989541BB https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs795mjUgkfdK7YuWgwd5cluo https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7-9mycmBW-MljwWxKzQdQt2 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPSOX00TLs7_w6rQHnI6TBq-tjXQsQ5lt  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 01:05 Driver's Area 04:24 Middle of the Van 09:54 Back of the Van  ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS: Digital Tour Bus is your backstage pass to your favorite touring artists! With daily video releases, we cover all genres, and have had the pleasure of featuring the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Twenty One Pilots, Megadeth, Machine Gun Kelly, Papa Roach, and thousands of others, over the past 15 years. "Bus Invaders" takes you inside an artist's home on the road, "Cooking at 65mph" showcases the culinary skills of artists on tour, and "Gear Masters"

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00:00Yeah, hey this is Mortis, I'm currently touring the US, first time since the pandemic, I haven't

00:18been here for four years now, once again in a van, very luxurious, so yeah, touring with

00:26my friends in Sombra, Arcane, Bride of Death Now, a bunch of local supporters, very cool,

00:32Mouth that's going to be joining in a few days, and yeah, traveling across the US, doing

00:36this sort of Dungeon South kind of thing, which I did that 30 years ago, and we've sort

00:43of backdigged it, you know, for the past few years, kind of having fun doing that, that's

00:48about it man, I mean, you know, put an album out a few years ago, still kind of pushing

00:53through that, and yeah, enjoying life in a fucking white tiny van, luxurious.

01:03Well I am not the driver, I think everybody should probably be relieved that I'm not,

01:08you know, I've been driving for a long time, but I wouldn't trust myself on these American

01:11roads, you've got weird ways of instructing people how to drive, it would confuse me,

01:18and we would immediately probably get into an accident, so, so far, pretty much all the

01:25driving's been done by Josh from Sombra, Arcane, good driver, it gets us there early, to put

01:32it that way, I have an app that my whole family has, so they can follow me on the road, you

01:37know, and three times so far, my wife is just sending me these messages, she's looking at

01:42us from Sweden, going like, you're going a bit fast, it's fucking hilarious, and I've

01:49been defending Josh, yeah, he's a little sharp in the turns, you know what I mean, the shit's

01:53just falling over in the back, I've been kind of worried that the CD's gonna break or something,

01:59so far so good, I mean we had a bit of a close call today, I think he got into a turn so

02:05fast we actually went across two lanes, not so good, we got a little lucky there,

02:10might have to have a conversation about that later, but I mean he's a good driver apart from

02:16that, you know, great guy, usually Shane will do the shotgun with him, Shane's his bandmate,

02:24you know, they'll both do this kind of like back and forth keyboard thing, it's a very cool show

02:29actually, and yeah, unfortunately I'm missing it because I'm getting ready for the show,

02:35but big mess, huge mess, basically, you know, I stopped drinking about, well, about a month ago,

02:44I decided to drop out of the whole alcohol thing, because I was turning into an idiot,

02:48so my sort of tour diet is basically fruit and Red Bull, the other guys, I don't know even what

02:57this is, it's some kind of, I don't even know what the fuck this is to be honest with you,

03:01I mean it's like orange Red Bull, whatever, Josh drinks it, Liquid Death, it's someone trying to

03:07make water cool, I don't understand it, I don't even know if I want to drink something called

03:13Liquid Death to be honest, but Shane drinks a lot of this, and there's a bunch of Coke

03:19Zero's that nobody wants, I mean that's it man, water, Red Bull and coffee, that's pretty much

03:27the whole thing here. They have this thing that they set up, I didn't pay attention to that,

03:32they're transmitting their Spotify into this, and basically listening to a lot of, well,

03:39it's been a little too much death metal, I mean I like old death metal, they listen to new death

03:43metal, that doesn't really work, I mean I like Repulsion, you know, I mean I like Autopsy and

03:46The High List and that shit, and War of the Angels, so we need to have a talk about that too,

03:50we need to have a whole big meeting about driving and music, but they also play cool music, I mean

03:57there's been some Tangerine Dream, and you know Vangelis, and Conquest of Paradise, you know,

04:01and stuff like that, and I don't know, like Venom and stuff, and that's totally fine by me,

04:07I mean now we're talking, you know what I mean, so it's good and bad, but you know,

04:13they're driving, they're doing a great job, so they kind of get the, you know,

04:17first dibs on whatever plays, so I'm not gonna get involved with it to be honest.

04:21So this is basically my designated area, I have a cup holder, that's about all the luxury I have

04:29this month. It's a very basic van, I gotta tell you, I wish, I was wishing, I was contemplating

04:38this, that getting a roll of gaffer tape or something like that, and just making like a

04:42pocket here to put stuff in. I haven't done it yet, I still have a couple weeks, maybe I'll do

04:48that. We have a fuckload of plastic bags here, they were for merch, but nobody wants them,

04:52so we have all these, and they're just sitting around. We're using these for trash bags now,

04:56so we got about 500 of those, I don't know what to do with them. So maybe, yeah, maybe I'll just

05:05build like a little pocket here to put some stuff in, it'll probably just fall down, so we'll have

05:09to see. Roger sits here, this is surprisingly clean at the moment, but every time he gets out

05:15of the van, there's like a whole shoe of shit right here, and I gotta brush it out, you know,

05:20the last one was like a bunch of chocolate, before that it was nuts, bananas, and I don't know what

05:28comes next, I don't want to think about it, who knows, man. Well, here's the thing, I mean, so

05:34we're still kind of early on in the tour, we're still sort of on the east side of the States,

05:39we haven't really had properly long tours, you know, trips yet, or drives, sorry. I mean,

05:47they've been down to four or five hours, that's nothing, you know what I mean, but I think in the

05:52next couple days we're gonna get into those, they're like eight or nine hour drives. I mean,

05:57in the past when I've usually done these van tours, like you try to catch up on sleep. Once

06:03you have a really long drive, it always means you get up really early in the morning anyway,

06:06you know, lobby call at fucking six o'clock in the morning or something like that, so if you're

06:11lucky you pass out in the van and never catch up on sleep, you wake up and you feel like your body's

06:15broken and it takes about an hour to fucking feel human again, but if you've been on a tour in a

06:19van, you know exactly what I mean, I think. And that's about it, and then, you know, we just talk

06:24a bunch of shit and then pass time and, you know, has breaks once every couple of hours. It's very

06:30boring. It's unbelievably monotonous stuff, you know, I don't... people think it's like a rock

06:38and roll lifestyle, it really is just a bunch of driving and shitty rest stops, whatever we call

06:43them, truck stops or whatever. Yeah, that's it, you know, you go in there, you take a piss, you

06:48wash your hands and you buy a Red Bull or something like that and you move on. So usually in the back

06:55here, it will be Arjan who is sort of TM-ing and doing merch at the same time, so he's got the

07:03whole seat and that dude sleeps a lot and I kind of envy him. I have a hard time falling asleep on,

07:10you know, in cars and planes and just sitting up and trying to sleep, it's really fucking hard to

07:15me. He just passes out, you know, so I can just lay down and he's gone. 30 seconds later the guy's

07:21out black, you know, he's completely gone. So I kind of envy him that. But I mean, he does a great

07:26job, I mean, he sorts out all the merchandise and then he kind of does the advancing and all that

07:30stuff, you know, so it's a very nice Dutch guy. He's got his own label and everything and yeah,

07:38he just kind of takes care of us, you know. I'm not the most organized person to be honest. I mean,

07:43I'm okay now that I don't drink anymore, I don't wake up hungover and it's an amazing feeling. I

07:48would recommend it to anyone. I sound like a born-again Christian now. Oh God, that's terrible.

07:55But yeah, I have way more energy, so I'm actually a little bit more on top of things now than I

07:59used to be, so that's great, you know. But I mean, he still does a lot of it. It's kind of like a

08:05collaboration these days, I guess. The whole amazing space all to himself. Incredible. Yeah,

08:13you know, what seems to have changed a little bit since last time I was in the States,

08:20it's almost like a pure buyout scene here now. You just get a bunch of money in your hand,

08:26go and buy your own shit. There's nothing in the green room. Occasionally, there will be some

08:30waters or something like that and we bring that out because it's really good to have in the van.

08:34Stay hydrated, I guess. It's very cliche, but it's true. Unless you want to pass out or feel like

08:40shit, you know. I mean, get some water in you. Of course, Roger from Bride of Death Now doesn't

08:45necessarily go by that rule. He just picked this up about an hour outside of Chicago. Pabst Blue,

08:53that's like the trucker rewrite or something like that, right? I don't even, it's shit,

08:57it's like Budweiser or something. And he took it out and I'm like, dude, what are you drinking that

09:02shit for? You know, and he likes it, so hey, more power to you. So yeah, you just got a little stack

09:08under here. I'm not touching it. I mean, I'm still drinking. I miss the taste of beer. I like

09:13the taste of beer and that's the one thing I miss. So, you know, occasionally they will provide

09:18non-alcoholic. And I was very skeptical of that before because they never tasted that nice. You

09:23know, they taste like shit to me, quite frankly. But the ones I've been getting on this tour,

09:27I mean, they're actually getting better at it. They do taste nice. I'm so relieved. Like,

09:32I don't want to be this guy. I don't want to be the drunk guy anymore. I'm sick of it. My

09:36family gets sick of it. And, you know, they're more important to me than fucking alcohol. You

09:41know what I mean? So, but I've tried a couple of non-alcoholic ones and they're nice. So that's

09:46kind of cool. Yeah, that's my little back hole. So yeah, the back is now just kind of a mess.

09:55This is just stuff that doesn't go into the venues, like some personal stuff. Actually,

10:03that package right there in the back, those were vinyls that I bought on the previous tour

10:09that a friend of mine actually sort of stored for me for four years. We were supposed to have

10:15them shipped over to Europe and then it was like going to be like $600 or something like that.

10:19That was just ridiculous. So, you know, I'll pick it up on the next tour. It was four years later.

10:26But I got them now. I got to bring it back home somehow. I guess I'll just book an extra

10:31check in, you know what I mean? It's going to be like $60, which is okay. So yeah, I mean,

10:37at the moment, it's just a bunch of crap that doesn't go into the venues. Right. Yeah. So,

10:42you know, after once we've all packed up inside, carry all the crap out. Josh seems to be the guy

10:48with the brain. He's probably the best at Tetris. You know what I mean? Like he can get the pieces

10:54to fit. So he's in here literally sweat fucking pouring out of his forehead. Looks like he's

10:59taking a shower, like working hard, just getting everything set up. And it basically goes out to

11:04here. When they picked me up in New York about 10 days ago, the van was already full and we had a

11:12huge shipment of merch waiting for us to first show in Baltimore. And, you know, they opened

11:16the doors at the airport. I looked in and I was like, we're fucked, guys. We're absolutely fucked.

11:21There's no fucking way this is going to work. And we're all like, oh, my God, are we going to make

11:26it? But what we did was we actually, ahead of time, I bought a whole bunch of those big IKEA

11:31bags, those blue ones. And we just emptied all the cardboard boxes out and we got them into

11:36those those bags to get. It's way more manageable, you know, because it's all soft merch.

11:41We were able to just fucking squeeze it in. I mean, the van almost popped.

11:46We made it happen, which I still think is a small miracle, to be honest with you.

11:50It was literally out to here. It was pushing against the ceiling.

11:57It was all of the seats, underneath the seats, absolutely packed. You get some training in how

12:04to fucking pack a van when you're doing these sort of really small tours like this, which is good.

12:10It's good training. This is reality, to be honest. You know what I mean?

12:15Yeah. Hey, thanks for checking out the van, whatever there was to check out.

12:22This makes you interested in Mortis. The easiest way to check out Mortis, I guess, is mortis.com.

12:27That kind of takes you to a web store, which I guess I'm being a little bit of a

12:30commercialist by saying that, you know, but I mean, just do a Google search on my Instagram

12:34and Facebook. I don't know the address to my fucking Instagram or Facebook. It's like

12:38Facebook slash. Basically, I operate on Facebook and Instagram. Those are the two main ones.

12:45And it's easy to tell the fakes from the real ones.

12:48Just do a quick Google. It's right there. Or mortis.com. That's easy.

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