#1023 - I Prevail - The Trades You Make to Live Your Dreams

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 164 minutes

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Summary

Eric Vanlerberghe is a vocalist, songwriter, and founding member of the band I Prevail. Gabe Helguera is a drummer, and co-founder of Drum Beats Online (DBO), and a member of the band I Prevail From the outside, the life of a heavy-metal band seems larger-than-life. But behind the scenes, the truth is far more raw. Eric and Gabe of I Prevail share what touring is really like and how the metal/rock scene is shifting right now. Expect to learn what’s happening with the rock & metal scene is music right now, what the process of writing records which deal with deeply emotional personal topics as a group is, the biggest misconceptions about being a “heavy” band in 2025, how worried the guys are about the future of streaming and AI music, what life is actually like on the road for a touring successful band, whats next for I Prevail and much more… Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get a Free Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Get $100 off the best bloodwork analysis in America at https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom Get a free bottle of D3K2, an AG1 Welcome Kit, and more when you first subscribe at https://ag1.info/modernwisdom Get a Free Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why did you get deep-throated by confetti?
0:05.0	That is up-to-date research right there.
0:07.4	Yeah, wow.
0:08.0	I respect that.
0:08.6	Yeah, so, yeah, Gabe really crushes it with our content and comes up with some awesome ideas.
0:15.1	And we kind of pitched some and throw it into a pot.
0:17.4	And we came in for a content day and wrote this whole script up and it was for this
0:22.6	giveaway we were doing and he had written in the script that he was going to get pie in the
0:25.9	face and then Dylan shows up and I don't know he just changed his mind on the spot was like
0:30.0	yeah Dylan's going to get pie I got to be the guy behind the camera so someone else has got to
0:33.4	take the pie so we piled Dylan in the face quite a bit. And from from that night, Dylan
0:40.7	plotted his revenge for pie and confetti in Eric's face. Yeah. And I got a, you know, shout
0:47.6	out, We Came as Romans, because they went along with it. We get into their trailer and I get a text
0:52.0	and they have this ritual before their show. It's Whiskey Time. And they go, you know, have this little ritual and like, get to the trailer now at whiskey time. So I'm walking in going, whiskey time, whiskey time, pie. Pie it again. And now I can't see in my mouth open. And I'm just like, whiskey time. And as soon as I said time, I couldn't see anything. I just got a mouth full of I didn't know what. And then, yeah, I couldn't breathe for a little bit. And the uvula in the back of my throat turned into a disco ball. It was like, it was pretty great. Title of your autobiography? The youthful of I don't know what. I trademarked that I'm taking that.
1:28.0	Yeah.
1:28.8	Well, I don't know, I feel like having a confetti bucocchi is a good way to
1:34.2	start a show.
1:35.8	Yeah, yeah.
1:36.4	I think it might have to be a ritual, just not on me this time.
1:39.2	Dylan's, Dylan, you're owed one.
1:41.1	There's going to be some behind the scenes warfare, for sure.
1:45.0	This will start a two-year war.
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