On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the dark melodic metal band, Witherfall, while on Rhapsody of Fire’s “Challenge The Wind & Dawn of Victory 25 Years Celebration North America Tour” with Enforcer and Striker. Witherfall is currently supporting their newest album, Sounds of the Forgotten.
VIDEO INFO: Film Date - September 18, 2025 Location - The Forge in Joliet, IL
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They were thinking about putting the edible marijuana in here so no one would know it was edible marijuana.
Allegedly, I've seen him run around this whole entire bus in his underwear looking for crap.
I'm always the asshole that has to tell people what to do, and so I'm hated in general.
Bus, come on in.
Alright, what's up everybody? My name is Anthony Crawford, bassist for Woodifall,
and we're going to start this off by giving you guys a tour of the bus.
So here's our TV, which we've only used, I think, one time.
And it was because we were, um, what was it?
With the alien. What were we with, Jake?
Roswell.
And we were in the parking lot for a day.
I'm not making this up, by the way.
We were in the parking lot for a day in Albertson's parking lot.
This TV was our entertainment.
So we watched Hercules for some reason.
I don't know why.
We just watched Hercules all day.
So we're working on a second show at some point before we're done with this tour,
but so far Hercules has only been shown on this TV, so.
No, Charlie.
While you were watching Hercules.
Well, I mean, I didn't get to that part yet.
So Hercules was on, and we just enjoyed the show.
There's only one reason you watch Hercules.
Only one reason to watch Hercules.
I mean, who's in the middle of nowhere, man?
As you can see, we have a lot of cups.
I'm going to start off with this cup because I'm talking.
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a hardcore Ninja Turtle fan.
Our lead vocalist knew it as well, so as soon as I got on the bus,
the first thing he gave me was this Ninja Turtle cup that I haven't yet to use.
It's a souvenir. Thank you.
He gave this guy, our lead guitarist, the Chucky cup.
Oh, he's been using this one.
Chucky cup, and the reason why is because he looks like Chucky
when he's rambling through the bus late at night in his underwear.
Allegedly.
Allegedly, I've seen him run around this whole entire bus in his underwear looking for crap.
Allegedly.
It's our merch girl. It actually kind of looks like her a little bit.
So, yeah.
Also, yeah, just in case, of course we have our stuff.
You know, merch, stickers, things like that.
Don't forget the rumbles.
Oh, so our lead singer has a black cat.
It's very beautiful, by the way.
He couldn't bring his cat on tour, so he brought a substitute cat and left him up here.
So, he watches over us.
He watches over us with his green eyes.
And he judges Jake as he's rumbling around the bus.
He's just looking at him like this.
Tons of disapproval, sadness.
So, we'll start with the freezer.
I use this to rest my hand because I'm suffering from carpal tunnel
after being at Salt Lake in Denver with the altitude.
So, that's what that's for.
I think these have been in here before we even got on the bus.
So, that's probably for another van.
Check out the fridge.
Dude, where's all the wine?
Oh, well, we need to make a…
We have one bottle, so that's not going to work for today.
Dude, we had six bottles yesterday. Where's all the wine?
Some old food that needs to be thrown out.
Oranges, hot sauce that's missing caps, cheese.
Oh, sauerkraut. Very important.
Somebody left something out here.
I don't know what it was from the other night.
Oh, yeah. This is like…
Zero cents. What are these?
This is stuff you give people when they say,
hey, can I have a burger? You just give them that.
This is probably what a homeless guy gave us.
Probably gave us this after the show or something.
Or we're doing rituals out here.
Oh, yes, there is.
And, weirdly, it's actually pretty healthy for the most part.
You know, you got your nuts and…
That's because we ate all the cookies.
Yeah, he ramshacks through the cookies
looking like this guy right here, eating all the sweets.
But, yeah, I mean, you know, protein bars, things like that, you know.
For the most part, it's a pretty healthy van.
Try to be.
So, this is what happens when the lead singer
shares a bus with the band.
His boots has to be front and center of everything.
You see what I'm saying?
So, when he gets his boots to put them on for the show,
he should be like, yeah, I did this.
So, right here, too.
You keep all the shoes up here off the floor so no one…
So, us normal people, we have to…
Excuse me.
Us normal people have to improvise when we put our boots.
You know, we have to like…
Like, for instance, let me see.
You know, this is a normal person's boot.
This obviously is not a lead singer's cabinet.
All right?
We have to improvise.
Excuse me.
Here's my boots.
Got to improvise.
You know, I have to put my boots up there with the plates.
Joseph's boots?
No.
Front and center on top of the freezer where everyone can see them.
In that big black cabinet behind the rumpus,
there's more boots as well and a purple trench coat.
This is…
Sorry.
Sorry, rumpus.
Sorry.
Sorry, rumpus.
There's a lot of stuff in this place, man.
Yeah.
He gets a whole entire cabinet to himself.
I've got my wardrobe.
Here's my wardrobe case.
This wardrobe is insane.
Same pants every day.
You don't want to get clothes stuck in here.
Let's see.
It's probably neat.
I think they were washed in 20 seconds.
Yeah.
I think the last time you saw me, it's the last time these were washed.
They're going to just implode one day.
Anyways, my wardrobe case.
Yeah.
Yeah, so we have to, you know, continually improvise and make space,
stuff like that, so…
Yeah.
So let's take a look and see what's in the drawer.
What do you got here?
So this is our latest album that released.
Sounds of the Forgotten.
So make sure you guys check that out.
This is 55 minutes of music.
Please play our product.
Melodic rock and roll mystery.
Anything you want to add to this?
Well, this one came out, what, 20…
Shit, what year are we in?
2024?
So, brand new one.
This comes out when we're still on tour.
Welcome to the Witherfall office.
I'm like the singer and sometimes tour manager.
I'm always the asshole that has to tell people what to do,
and so I'm hated in general by everyone on the tour.
Thank you.
Well, this is because we're a bunch of smelly dudes,
so that's a nice nutmeg candle.
This is our pet pumpkin,
for which Jerry Hirschfeld,
he drew a really ******* disturbing face on it.
I don't know why.
We have a lot of time on our hands.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's another mascot too.
What the **** is this?
Bart.
It seems Bart.
I don't know how that happened, but…
I know exactly how it happened.
It was while we were watching Hercules.
Yeah, there was no edible marijuana involved in that at all.
In fact, they were thinking about putting the edible marijuana in here
so no one would know it was edible marijuana,
but they're still my gummies.
Hopefully, or I'm going to be dead when I get into that bunk later.
This is my nail polish.
It's really good.
These tennis balls are for when we're really drunk
and we want to practice our knuckleball pitches.
And these are all the drives for all the shows,
because hopefully we can get some live material out of this,
which we have nothing yet.
Well, pretty much this is for the equipment.
So, we kind of had to transition some of these bunks into a little storage.
So, we're not towing the trailer on this tour.
So, technically, we're storing all of our stuff here,
which actually works out because, I mean,
I don't know how you guys are going to do this,
but it worked out, you know what I'm saying?
So, we put our stuff here and we sleep over here.
These are our living quarters.
So, since we're over here, this is my bunk.
Literally, this is my bunk.
Clothes, towels, typical stuff, you know, chargers, whatever.
I think this is Joseph's bunk.
Yes.
Yeah, it's a mess.
There's a monkey in there.
Yeah, so, you know, they're bunks, you know what I'm saying?
They're all labeled, too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Joseph, his name is JM666 for some reason.
And the ellipsis.
This is Chris, our drummer.
So, the guy is Jerry.
He's the keyboardist, guitarist, and vocalist.
So, this is his bunk.
This is the lead guitar player's bunk.
Our merch girls, and this is my bunk.
So, you remember when I was saying our lead singer puts his shoes on the freezer?
Well, he puts all of his stuff right here, too.
And I don't know whose shoes these are.
So, yeah.
We managed to, I mean, for the fact that it's like, I don't know, six or seven people on this bus,
we kind of managed to keep it a little clean, if you want to call it that, to the best of our abilities.
So, this shower is a lifesaver, because after every show, we get to shower.
It's not common on the road.
It's very hard to take showers.
You have to find places, you have to find gyms, you have to run around.
Oh, and this is the toilet, bathroom, you know.
Alright, thanks for joining Witherfall on Digital Tour Bus.
Yeah, go to our website, witherfall.com, and we're sorry for the mess.
Oh, and buy one of these hats while you're there.
Yeah.
Pick up our latest record, Sounds of the Forgotten.
Luckily, you can't smell through the camera.