{"id":23110,"date":"2022-10-05T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=23110"},"modified":"2022-10-17T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:33:25","slug":"camosun-students-band-hail-the-void-rocks-one-degree-of-separation-from-ozzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/10\/05\/camosun-students-band-hail-the-void-rocks-one-degree-of-separation-from-ozzy\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun student\u2019s band Hail the Void rocks one degree of separation from Ozzy"},"content":{"rendered":"

26-year-old Dean Gustin thought he had it all figured out. A few years after earning his Red Seal from Camosun, he was really happy working with sheet metal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a good union job and I was a union trustee and then everything kind of fell apart,\u201d he admits. \u201cI was in a lot of pain and I couldn\u2019t be on my feet all day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gustin says that a bad back forced him to rethink his career path, so he returned to Camosun for the fall semester with hopes of adding some science to his skill set.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just started the Mechanical Engineering Technology Access program,\u201d says Gustin. \u201cI hope to move up into the tech program next year starting in September, but this is done in April.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun student Dean Gustin (right) plays bass in doom metal band Hail the Void (photo by Chase Fraser).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s a fairly common story; it\u2019s Gustin\u2019s side hustle as bassist in the local doom metal band Hail the Void that is more noteworthy. It started out when Gustin met the band and found out they were looking for a bass player. He had always been a guitarist but thought it was worth a shot, so he auditioned and things took off in a hurry. Gustin says his bandmates soon asked him to book a week off to record an album.<\/p>\n

\u201cWow, I did not see that coming,\u201d says Gustin. \u201cI didn\u2019t think we\u2019d be recording. I just grew up jamming in people\u2019s garages for the past 15 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once they released their self-titled debut in 2020, Gustin says it was put into several Spotify lists.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was underground at first and then it ended up getting thrown into the doom music mix and we ended up winning best debut doom album for 2020 [at the Doomed and Stoned Awards],\u201d says Gustin.<\/p>\n

This all happened during COVID lockdown. The band couldn\u2019t play any shows so they recorded a live video and the story took an incredible turn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was under 500 views but Ozzy Osbourne\u2019s bass player [Rob \u201cBlasko\u201d Nicholson] saw the Live at Silverside Sound video,\u201d says Gustin. \u201cBlasko reached out to us and said, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m partnering with Ripple Music. I like your band and I\u2019m wondering if you guys would like to do an album with us.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Hail the Void jumped at the chance and Gustin says they were given a year to come up with another album; they recorded it in August 2021 and it\u2019s going to be released this coming February. The band is two years old now but because of COVID, they only recently played their first show in Vancouver, and their first Victoria gig will be at the Carlton Club on October 28. Hail the Void is in talks with their label for booking a tour for the summer, according to Gustin.<\/p>\n

Still, Gustin says he had lots of friends who were in bands and he saw the chaos in the lifestyle and really didn\u2019t want to be a part of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t want that in my life,\u201d says Gustin. \u201cI got bored and I had this opportunity to go and try out and we started jamming and fell in love. Something came to life when we picked up our instruments and it fell apart when we traded instruments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gustin says he\u2019s excited about the band but he\u2019s pretty open with his bandmates about his priorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got to put school first,\u201d says Gustin. \u201cI\u2019ll have to juggle it a bit but I need to prioritize my life. Who knows? Maybe the music thing will take off, but I think we have to sell more records than the genre will allow, so it\u2019s always going to be a passion project.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

26-year-old Dean Gustin thought he had it all figured out. A few years after earning his Red Seal from Camosun, he was really happy working with sheet metal. \u201cIt was a good union job and I was a union trustee and then everything kind of fell apart,\u201d he admits. \u201cI was in a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october-5-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23113,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23110\/revisions\/23113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}