Opiate is: Shaurya Rajbhandari ‘11, Eliyah Afzal ‘11, Sam Peterson ‘11 and Alan Driggs ‘11.
Sam Peterson: I guess we're all here. I'm Sam Peterson, and I play lead guitar and rhythm guitar, possibly metal vocals
Alan Driggs: I'm Alan Driggs, and I play lead bass
Eliyah Afzal: I'm Eliyah Afzal. I mostly play guitar and vocals
Shaurya Rajbhandari: I'm Shaurya, I play the drums.
SP: And we're all in the class of 2011.
EA: And we major in metal.
EA: One of the main reasons I'm awesome is because I was chosen to be awesome. When I was about 14 or 15, I was on top of a large mountain. And as I stood and gazed at the foggy skies, they blackened, and a light rain fell. And I heard the voice of one of the mighty gods, and it said: "You must play metal."
SP: I have far more mundane reasons for being awesome. My dad and I listened to a lot of Rush and a lot of Metallica when I was a kid. That kind of sets a precedent, so for the rest of your life you have to play awesome music.
SR: Well, what would you rather do?
EA: Do I just want to be a student? Or take dance classes or whatever everyone else does?
SR: Guys, it's a self-preservation thing.
AD: I spend most of my time watching live videos of bands. I see videos of Metallica and other bands and I say, "I wanna do that, I wanna do that well." But I want to do that in my own way.
SP: But there's still a lot of hero worship involved.
AD: Oh god, yes!
SP: We just have to sacrifice our goats to Alexi Laiho.
AD: Eliyah wouldn't wear his guitar so low if he hadn't watched pretty much every metal video.
EA: Basically, that's what I aspire to be. I aspire to be like Skwisgaar, from Metalocalypse. It's like seeking perfection. Like, you can't be so Christian that you're actually Jesus. You can't actually play good enough to be Skwisgaar, but you're supposed to try. That's our mission, and I feel like I've been charged by the gods and that's what I have to do. Are you gonna just refute your own destiny? Work against your soul? You can't really do that.
SP: Question: which gods? The Olympic ones, or the Norse ones?
EA: I don't know, it just sounded really powerful.
SP: Let's go with the Norse ones.
EA: I don't know about those other Grinnell bands. Maybe they can be really good, or maybe they can solo really fast, but they don't have distortion! ‘Cause remember, there’s that Who song, 'Pure and Easy': There once was a note, pure and easy/and it was distorted to create the world./We're living in the static of god's eternal note.
SP: Is that what they say in the song?
AD: That is an awesome song.
EA: Oh yeah, we've now come up with a name!
SR: We’re Opiate now.
EA: Because we are addictive.
SP: You see, religion is the opiate of the masses. But we are the religion of the masses. No, religion is the opiate-- basically, the end of the story is that we are the religion of the masses. Our masses. Something like that.
Sam Peterson: I guess we're all here. I'm Sam Peterson, and I play lead guitar and rhythm guitar, possibly metal vocals
Alan Driggs: I'm Alan Driggs, and I play lead bass
Eliyah Afzal: I'm Eliyah Afzal. I mostly play guitar and vocals
Shaurya Rajbhandari: I'm Shaurya, I play the drums.
SP: And we're all in the class of 2011.
EA: And we major in metal.
EA: One of the main reasons I'm awesome is because I was chosen to be awesome. When I was about 14 or 15, I was on top of a large mountain. And as I stood and gazed at the foggy skies, they blackened, and a light rain fell. And I heard the voice of one of the mighty gods, and it said: "You must play metal."
SP: I have far more mundane reasons for being awesome. My dad and I listened to a lot of Rush and a lot of Metallica when I was a kid. That kind of sets a precedent, so for the rest of your life you have to play awesome music.
SR: Well, what would you rather do?
EA: Do I just want to be a student? Or take dance classes or whatever everyone else does?
SR: Guys, it's a self-preservation thing.
AD: I spend most of my time watching live videos of bands. I see videos of Metallica and other bands and I say, "I wanna do that, I wanna do that well." But I want to do that in my own way.
SP: But there's still a lot of hero worship involved.
AD: Oh god, yes!
SP: We just have to sacrifice our goats to Alexi Laiho.
AD: Eliyah wouldn't wear his guitar so low if he hadn't watched pretty much every metal video.
EA: Basically, that's what I aspire to be. I aspire to be like Skwisgaar, from Metalocalypse. It's like seeking perfection. Like, you can't be so Christian that you're actually Jesus. You can't actually play good enough to be Skwisgaar, but you're supposed to try. That's our mission, and I feel like I've been charged by the gods and that's what I have to do. Are you gonna just refute your own destiny? Work against your soul? You can't really do that.
SP: Question: which gods? The Olympic ones, or the Norse ones?
EA: I don't know, it just sounded really powerful.
SP: Let's go with the Norse ones.
EA: I don't know about those other Grinnell bands. Maybe they can be really good, or maybe they can solo really fast, but they don't have distortion! ‘Cause remember, there’s that Who song, 'Pure and Easy': There once was a note, pure and easy/and it was distorted to create the world./We're living in the static of god's eternal note.
SP: Is that what they say in the song?
AD: That is an awesome song.
EA: Oh yeah, we've now come up with a name!
SR: We’re Opiate now.
EA: Because we are addictive.
SP: You see, religion is the opiate of the masses. But we are the religion of the masses. No, religion is the opiate-- basically, the end of the story is that we are the religion of the masses. Our masses. Something like that.
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