Skeletal Remains - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2054 - video Dailymotion

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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 death metal band, Skeletal Remains, while on "The Vortex of Violence Tour" with Warbringer, Allegaeon, and Summoning The Lich. Skeletal Remains is currently supporting their newest album, Fragments of the Ageless.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - April 2, 2025 Location - Reggies in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH SKELETAL REMAINS: Facebook - https://facebook.com/SkeletalRemainsDeathMetal Instagram - https://instagram.com/skeletalremainsofficial Twitter - https://twitter.com/s_remains  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  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:41 Driver's Area 03:58 Middle of the Van 08:11 Back of the Van 10:04 Trailer  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" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage.

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00:00Yo, what's up? Chris here.

00:12Rustem from Skeletal Remains.

00:14Yeah, we're currently on tour on the Vortex of Violence with Warbringer,

00:18Legion, and Stimony in the Lake.

00:20And, yeah, we're here at Reggie's.

00:24What are we touring? Our new album, Franklin's of the Ageless.

00:27Yeah, welcome back. It's good to be back on this one.

00:30We're going to show you quite some upgrades that we have now.

00:33It's a totally different rig, and, yeah, I hope you guys enjoy it.

00:37You want to check it out?

00:39Alright, welcome to the driver's area of what I like to call the Dick Van Dyke.

00:43Beautiful van that we have here, our wonderful 2000-something Sprinter.

00:47This is Skeletal Remains' home for not only this tour, but several others at this point.

00:52So come on down.

00:54This is our driver, Kyler.

00:56He's usually the one doing all the drives.

00:59He'll help out when it's super long drives.

01:01But, yeah, this is his area.

01:03Pretty much. This is my office.

01:05That usually leaves music choice up to me, too, but we just stick to the classics.

01:09Steely Dan, Lady Gaga, Men at Work, Cryptic Lust by Eternal.

01:15Been listening to that one a lot.

01:17Usually just run albums, and these guys sleep while I listen and drive at night.

01:20Or sometimes we watch TV. We have a TV up here, and we have this cool fucking shade.

01:25So we're normally about 99% sleeping in the van now, so it's like, yeah, these are crucial.

01:33You know with the sun, waking up in the fucking morning.

01:35You don't have the sun hitting your face.

01:37So this is my office.

01:38Some key elements to surviving these long night drives on a tour like this.

01:41Various forms of caffeine.

01:43We got Red Bull coffee from said truck stop.

01:47Nicotine gum, which is crazy.

01:49Also, nicotine vape, cigarettes.

01:53That's the secret. Those are for the big ones.

01:56Gotta knock those out.

01:57Yeah.

01:58That is my secret to handling the long drives for Skeletal Remains.

02:01Yeah, we also have a pretty cool bed that we sometimes use when we have a bigger crew.

02:06Like a sound guy that, like, kind of specifically made for this bed in the forms around the shit.

02:12We just inflate it, and I think these are the ones that...

02:15Yeah, on the last tour, that's how I slept.

02:17So every now and then we pull in, inflate kind of a T-shaped bed that fits between the buckets,

02:21and sleep kind of cockeyed in here.

02:23Yeah, and that's what these things are crucial for.

02:25Because, yeah, with somebody sleeping up here, it's like...

02:27Gotta lock it out.

02:28Yeah.

02:29But, yeah, that's pretty much it.

02:30We got some tea.

02:31I mean, yeah.

02:32We use the...

02:33I'm mostly the one that drinks it for my vocals here and there.

02:36But, yeah, I think that's pretty much it.

02:39Just a bunch of random bullshit gibberish shit, but, yeah.

02:42What do we have in the door here, Rusty?

02:44Well, this isn't quite in my area, but let's start with the shoe refresher spray,

02:49which, honestly, doesn't do a fucking thing.

02:52Can I say that?

02:53It does absolutely nothing.

02:55You know, for everyone's feet.

02:57I'm not going to point fingers.

02:58It's all right.

02:59We all have feet.

03:00We all poop.

03:01Everybody poops.

03:02This looks like some sort of gaff tape.

03:03This is...

03:04Oh, it's gorilla gaff tape.

03:05Man, oh, man.

03:06You should be mouth taping.

03:07You only want to do nasal breathing at night.

03:09We don't want to be snoring.

03:10We don't want to be honking away, waking up our neighbors.

03:12So we take a strip of this.

03:14We put it over our mouth.

03:15That way, when we're on our backs, you know, we just have a little...

03:18And then, immediately, your mouth is taped.

03:21I'm obviously, you know, doing a facsimile thereof.

03:23But your mouth is taped.

03:24You shut the fuck up.

03:25There's no honking in the middle of the night.

03:27It's great.

03:28We love it.

03:29It's good for everyone.

03:30But continuing on, apparently, we played Detroit,

03:32because here is a moon mist flavored Faygo with real kick.

03:36You gotta watch out for the kick.

03:37But that, you know, we can go into locks.

03:39There's some sort of, uh, mobile urinal device.

03:43It could be, you know, it's, uh, it's anyone friendly.

03:45Any, you know, he, they, anyone can use this, honestly.

03:50Um, there's locks.

03:52There's screws.

03:53You know, that's, that's the long and short of it.

04:00Bang.

04:01Yeah, so this is, uh, I guess the middle area.

04:04Got some fucking, uh, practice amp here.

04:08These things rule.

04:09My guitar.

04:10Sometimes come in here and just, like, play, warm up, whatever the fuck.

04:14And then, uh, yeah, no, I think on this run, Kyler has been taking this here.

04:18We have, like, some mattresses in the back that we throw over,

04:20because these fucking seat belt things are killer on your back.

04:24So, uh, yeah, we throw a mattress over that.

04:26It's pretty okay, right?

04:28Better than the front seat.

04:30Yeah, better than the front seat.

04:31What?

04:32The pickle clown popcorn.

04:33What is that?

04:34Feel free, man.

04:35Talk about it.

04:36So, we picked this up in Canada.

04:38Actually, Destiny, our merch person, got this.

04:41Shout out to Density.

04:43Pickle clown popcorn.

04:44This shit.

04:45You want to talk about a kick?

04:46Forget the Faygo.

04:47This is going to give you a real kick.

04:49A real pickle flavor.

04:51Alright, we're back.

04:52We just got a train run on us.

04:54Anyway, so the real kick in this pickle clown flavored popcorn.

04:57It's great.

04:58It's delicious.

04:59Yeah, so we took care of this one.

05:01And then, uh, yeah, normally, yeah, it just depends on how big of a party we have.

05:07But, yeah, someone sleeps here.

05:08Someone sleeps in the front.

05:09And then, somebody sleeps here.

05:10Usually a smaller person, because you see that gap.

05:12But, we have a mattress that we throw over it.

05:15And it kind of helps.

05:16I hope it does.

05:17I don't sleep there.

05:18But, yeah, our merch person usually sleeps there.

05:21And, yeah, we have our TV.

05:23That's, like, super crucial for, like, the long drives.

05:26We should put some on there.

05:27We can't find a remote for it.

05:29I don't know.

05:30We haven't been able to find the remote for, like, the past two days.

05:33So, yeah.

05:34We watched the shit out of The Dark Crystal the other night.

05:39The Dark Crystal, a Jim Henson Productions classic.

05:42Wonderful.

05:43Practical effects.

05:44No CGI.

05:45This is pre, you know, whatever.

05:46What is it?

05:47Millennials?

05:48No, I'm a millennial.

05:49I don't know.

05:50Whatever after millennial.

05:51Go back.

05:52Extensive, you know, Jim Henson library.

05:54You're going to love it.

05:55Yeah, we've been watching that, uh, I don't know, a bunch of random stuff.

05:59Oh, we haven't told you about Mario.

06:02Here's Mario.

06:03Hey, what's up, everybody?

06:04How's it going?

06:05He just woke up, dude.

06:06Just woke up from a nap a little bit a while ago.

06:08Having a fat burger here at Reggie's.

06:10What were you seeing?

06:11What have we watched?

06:12We watched that Dracula movie.

06:14I don't forget what it is.

06:15Oh, uh, no.

06:16What is it?

06:17Nosferatu.

06:18Nosferatu, yeah.

06:19We saw that a couple of days ago.

06:20I don't know.

06:21Soft.

06:22Yeah, it was alright.

06:23What else have we watched?

06:24A PAL show.

06:25We always watch a PAL show.

06:26That's a classic.

06:27Yeah, a lot of comedy stuff.

06:29Stand-up stuff.

06:30What, Pablo Francisco.

06:31We didn't get the fans.

06:32A lot of Pablo Francisco.

06:34That was good.

06:35One man, one way.

06:37Yeah.

06:38So, yeah.

06:39It just depends.

06:40It depends.

06:41And we also have this cool netting that we installed.

06:44And our good buddy Pat installed.

06:46Shout-out to Pat.

06:47He obviously didn't do a good job because it's always fucking falling.

06:52Um, anyways.

06:53Yeah, we use this for like, I don't know, we're on tour and it's like super hot.

06:58And we gotta leave the door open.

07:00We can't have the van running all fucking night.

07:02So, we'll throw this down and it just kind of keeps it cool and keeps the bugs out.

07:07But, yeah.

07:08We have one here and we have one in the back too.

07:10By the bunks.

07:11Uh, so yeah.

07:12We can talk about the bunks if you want.

07:14We have, uh, two queen beds.

07:17So, for the most part, all four band members sleep there.

07:22Mara's at the bottom.

07:24Rusty's at the bottom.

07:25And me and Mike are at the top one.

07:26I don't know why that is because we're probably the heavier ones, but.

07:29Yeah, I know.

07:30But.

07:31We're driving down the road and you hear like.

07:33And you see it.

07:34It's like.

07:35Yeah.

07:36Metal bending.

07:37And you're just like.

07:38Pull the covers up.

07:39It's alright.

07:40It's gonna be fine.

07:41But.

07:42No, it's cool.

07:43Um.

07:44I like it up there because the AC things are up there.

07:46So, when it's like super hot.

07:48The coolest it's got.

07:49I don't know about you guys.

07:50You guys get much of the AC out now?

07:51Down where you're at?

07:52Yeah.

07:53We get blown pretty good.

07:54It's nice.

07:55Okay.

07:56Just blowing each other.

07:57According to Mara.

07:58Mara says it's super hot for him.

07:59Um.

08:00Yeah.

08:01That's pretty much our bunks.

08:02Let's show you the back of the van.

08:03Yeah.

08:04Alright.

08:05So, this is the back of our van.

08:06Um.

08:07So, same thing.

08:08We got this little.

08:09Maddy thing.

08:10Who's here?

08:11Oh, it's Mario.

08:12How's it going guys?

08:13I wasn't wearing this.

08:14But yeah.

08:15We keep our.

08:16This is where I sleep here.

08:17Yeah.

08:18This is where they sleep.

08:19Me and Mike sit up there.

08:20We keep most of our like records and like CDs and stuff down there.

08:24Oh, this is crucial right here dude.

08:26Wipes.

08:27Oh man.

08:28You got.

08:29You got.

08:30We need these for sure.

08:31And we're probably about half way through it.

08:33I prefer the Walmart wipes myself honestly.

08:35I discovered this in 2018 while on tour with Hellwitch throughout Asia.

08:39It was fantastic.

08:40Luckily I did some research.

08:41Obviously not only into the food and the effects thereof.

08:43But the deliciousness of the food.

08:45And the fact that there's not really toilet paper anywhere.

08:48So you know.

08:49Unless you want to eat with one hand and not eat with the other one.

08:52I suggest you bring some wet wipes.

08:54Plus.

08:55Use water to clean your butthole.

08:56Why would you use dry paper?

08:57You got a hairy ass like mine.

08:58I got Chewbacca going on down there.

09:00So you don't want to get little bits of paper.

09:02You know.

09:03You get intimate later.

09:04You're finding stuff.

09:05What's going on.

09:06Wet wipes.

09:07Yeah.

09:08Welcome to the future.

09:09One more thing that's crucial.

09:10When you're sleeping with somebody who snores a lot.

09:12You got to keep one of these on you at all times.

09:14Dude.

09:15Gets a little too loud.

09:16You just crank it up dude.

09:17And you just fucking quiet right there.

09:19Gotta keep it with you at all times.

09:21Yeah.

09:22That's pretty much it right?

09:23What else do we got?

09:24Oh we have this.

09:26Which we sold from Warbringer last night.

09:29Nah.

09:30Just kidding.

09:31They forgot it.

09:32And we drank most of it.

09:33So don't tell them.

09:34Yeah.

09:35You want to talk about the results of that experiment?

09:40I don't know.

09:41I don't remember.

09:42There was vomit in the van.

09:44It wasn't any of us.

09:45Oh that's right.

09:46I forgot about that.

09:47We cleaned it.

09:48Don't worry.

09:49You guys didn't see that.

09:50Yeah.

09:51That's our van man.

09:52Well actually we keep a lot of stuff in here.

09:53Because most of the stuff is usually packed with merch.

09:56And we don't take everything in obviously.

09:57Because there's so limited room in there.

09:59So.

10:00You want to check it out inside?

10:01Yeah.

10:02There's some stuff in there.

10:03Yeah.

10:04Normally.

10:05Loading.

10:06It's usually.

10:07I mean.

10:08It's supposed to be all of us.

10:09But normally that's not the way it works.

10:10Somebody's always missing.

10:11And I think Mike's the one that usually takes care of arranging and like Tetris and everything.

10:21He's got a good system down already.

10:23Tetris trailer troll.

10:24For sure.

10:25Mike.

10:26Big shout out to Mike.

10:27Tetris trailer troll.

10:28Every time.

10:29Killing it.

10:30Yeah.

10:31But uh.

10:32Yeah.

10:33This is what we're running with.

10:34I think last time we were here.

10:35We had something a little bit smaller.

10:36Like this one here.

10:37This thing.

10:38Yeah.

10:39This thing's awesome.

10:40Now we can pack so much stuff in there.

10:41You'll see.

10:42The penis that my son drew on this that looks like a whale.

10:45So he came with us for two shows.

10:47And my son drew his first van penis.

10:50You can't really see.

10:51But it looks like Moby Dick.

10:52So it's fitting.

10:53This is uh.

10:54As far as like most of our back line.

11:00Um.

11:01Actually we're not.

11:02We're sharing with uh.

11:03We're using uh.

11:04Some of these caps so.

11:05Our caps are still in there.

11:06So these are the beds.

11:07We normally use like on those benches.

11:10You know for people to sleep.

11:12Um.

11:13We got this cool AFI.

11:15Uh.

11:16Box that we just bought before this tour where our fogs go in.

11:19Um.

11:20And yeah.

11:21We got this jack too.

11:22Just in case we get it flat.

11:23And the rest of this stuff is just a bunch of.

11:25Yeah.

11:26Bunch of merch.

11:27And bins.

11:28And.

11:29Gotta have a spare tire.

11:30For the trailer.

11:31But yeah.

11:32That's about.

11:33That's about it man.

11:34So.

11:35Yeah.

11:36Thanks for watching.

11:37Um.

11:38Yeah.

11:39We're currently on tour.

11:40Uh.

11:41Vortex of Bollas.

11:42Still got like.

11:4310 days left.

11:44I believe so yeah.

11:45Um.

11:46And yeah.

11:47We're promoting our new album.

11:48We've been pretty fucking busy.

11:49So I'm sure.

11:50We'll come around again.

11:51And yeah.

11:52I hope uh.

11:53Hope you guys enjoyed it.

11:54And hope see you at an upcoming show.

11:55Be there or be octagonal.

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