This week’s episode of “The Sessions” with Renee Paquette features Brody King as a guest. Brody appeared on the show to discuss his wrestling career, including his current stint with AEW. Here are the highlights:
King discussed the authenticity of The House of Black’s performance:
“We have the same thought process when it comes to the world and how we conduct ourselves. We’re very much on the same page when it comes to that. So it makes it easy when we’re coming up with concepts of how we want to look and how we want to present ourselves. I feel like when it comes to AEW, we are delivering a product that they don’t have, and I feel like in wrestling, we’re delivering a product that nobody has. There’s people that have the spooky gimmick or whatever you want to call it, but this is authentic to us. This isn’t us putting on a costume pretending to like the music that we like. We have deep knowledge on all things of what we’re doing. Malakia reads all these weird, old books on witchcraft and black magic and stuff. I’m constantly reading comic books and playing Magic the Gathering and listening to alternative music. So it’s like, we never want to present something that we’re not actually involved in.”
Regarding Julia Hart’s addition to The House of Black:
“We all want the same thing and know the trajectory that we want to go in. Bringing in Julia was interesting, because, you know, obviously, on the outside, like a 19 year old cheerleader, makes no sense to be with us. But then like, she joins the group and it’s like, she fits in perfectly.”
“Even when it came down to making her music, my best friend Colin, he plays drums and writes all the music in God’s Hate, him and his brother have a million bands, but like they’re very well respected and known in the Hardcore scene. Their band, Dead Body, actually wrote the new House of Black theme. He wrote Julia Hart’ theme. He wrote the song that evil Danhausen came out too. So it’s like, he was like a massive wrestling fan too. He didn’t make it to be a wrestler, but to have his influence in wrestling now is really cool for him.”
“When he was making Julia’s music, he’s just like, ‘What do you want it to sound like?’ Julia goes, ‘Well, I like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.’ I feel like everyone just turned and it was, wait, there’s more here than we think. I think it was before All Out. So she came in at Double or Nothing. So before All Out, me and my wife took her to the mall to find something for her entrance gear. We’ve become like her wrestling parents. But she found this black dress and then she just picked up the hat, and she’s just like, ‘I really like this hat.’ She put it on and we’re just like, ‘Yeah, that’s it.’ Now people are calling her like Tiny Taker or whatever, but yea, she has this, like, Stevie Nicks vibe. She was like this bubbly, sweet cheerleader, and now she just has the most resting b*tch face on earth.”
King on who he wants to wrestle in AEW:
“Samoa Joe. Not to sound like a fanboy, he’s probably my favorite wrestler of all time. Stylistically and just the type of person that he is, the type of wrestler he is, the way he looks, I think that he is the perfect wrestler. I would just love to test myself against him.”
You can listen to the complete podcast below:
(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription)
