It’s no secret that Stranger Things star Jamie Bower loves heavy music and in a recent feature with Rock Sound, he shared the playlist he was listening to while getting into the Vecna character for the 5th and final season. “Knocked Loose’s ‘You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To’ is all over it”, he said. “The Counterparts record in recent weeks and recent months. I’ve gone back to Architects again. A lot of Better Lovers. I love all the bands that they were in beforehand and love this new project. There’s a bit of Many Eyes within there as well. I went back to Sunn O))). I’ve gone back to Norma Jean, just because I can put it on and I can really feel it. Then venturing into Chelsea Wolfe and that more folk and black metal stuff that reminds me of the space in which I can be in and the spirituality of it.” Knocked Loose was a particular favorite according to Bower: “It’s funny because I missed out on the Knocked Loose two-track EP that they had done before the album. I discovered that last summer whilst I was riding my motorcycle. ‘Laugh Tracks’ was one of the albums that I had on the first time I did Vecna. Then I fell into other spaces within that sort of sonic landscape. But I’d missed out on that EP and I remember finding that, listening to it on my motorcycle and getting f***ing pulled over for a ticket. Not only am I putting in my personal best on a running machine, I’m also f***ing putting in my personal best in terms of a speeding ticket as well.” “So when the album came out, I was super f***ing stoked for it. We had some amazing PAs this year on the show and I would have Knocked Loose playing on my headphones, because the thing is with Vecna and the costume and make up, I can’t put earbuds in. The only thing that will work is my ginormous over-ear headphones. So I will walk onto the set wearing headphones, listening to this music, and I will hand over my headphones, obviously, because I can’t have them in the shot. So I’ll hand them over, but I don’t pause the music because my f***ing fingers are fucked and I’ve got all this fucking makeup on. But I remember one of the PAs looking at my f***ing headphones and being like ‘I couldn’t stop the music. It was so f***ing loud, I had to walk off set’. But yeah, Knocked Loose I think, particularly this year for me, was something that we ventured into quite heavily.”
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