{"version":"https:\/\/jsonfeed.org\/version\/1","title":"Sky Of Ghosts","home_page_url":"https:\/\/www.939waby.com\/blogs\/sky-of-ghosts\/","feed_url":"https:\/\/www.939waby.com\/blogs\/sky-of-ghosts\/json","description":"Sky Of Ghosts","items":[{"id":"o186-2149-6a843361c39d2","url":"https:\/\/www.939waby.com\/blogs\/sky-of-ghosts\/post\/sky-of-ghosts\/","title":"Sky Of Ghosts","date_published":"2026-08-18T10:26:00+00:00","summary":"At WABY, Hard, Heavy, and Loud is the lifeblood \u2014 and Sky of Ghosts fits right into that pulse. I stumbled onto the project through my\u00a0friend\u00a0Jay Wells\u00a0L\u2019Ecuyer. After stepping away from music to build a career in comedy and raise a family, Jay has come roaring back with a new project that channels everything he loved about metalcore while digging into deeper, more personal territory.","content_html":"<p><meta charset=\"UTF-8\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>At WABY, Hard, Heavy, and Loud is the lifeblood &mdash; and Sky of Ghosts fits right into that pulse. I stumbled onto the project through my&nbsp;friend&nbsp;Jay Wells&nbsp;L&rsquo;Ecuyer. After stepping away from music to build a career in comedy and raise a family, Jay has come roaring back with a new project that channels everything he loved about metalcore while digging into deeper, more personal territory.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Who is the best band or artist you&rsquo;ve seen live?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>My favorite shows ever have been those Legion Hall or Church basement metal\/hardcore shows in my hometown&nbsp;of&nbsp;Welland, Ontario. Such amazing bands like In These Walls, A Day and a Deathwish,&nbsp;and Murder Thy Maker. This&nbsp;was&nbsp;back in 2002-2004 and I was a teenager so they just opened my eyes to this music and I never looked back. Notable concerts from bigger bands have been Misery Signals, Between the Buried and Me,&nbsp;Alexisonfire, and Lamb of God.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Sky of Ghosts brought you back into the musical world. What were you doing previously, and what sparked the creation of this project?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>I was in a local metalcore\/emocore band in high school called &lsquo;Deceived&rsquo; but we disbanded in 2004 (when I was still 18). I went on to do live comedy, writing, and acting for the last 22 years &mdash; which I do as my&nbsp;full-time&nbsp;job. I write for Cracked, booked a couple commercial auditions, and have sold a couple full-length screenplays. My love for metal and hardcore was always there though. I did live sketch comedy with sketches like &ldquo;Metal Zumba,&rdquo; &ldquo;A Canadian Mosh Pit&rdquo; (where we apologize&nbsp;every&nbsp;time&nbsp;we bump into each other), and an impression of a metal band with severe Daddy issues. I&rsquo;m in pre-production on a film now about these early 2000s band shows so fingers crossed it gets made!<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ehdAtLqjbdA?rel=0\" style=\"top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"accelerometer *; clipboard-write *; encrypted-media *; gyroscope *; picture-in-picture *; web-share *;\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p>I moved to Latham, NY from NYC 4 years ago and my&nbsp;next-door&nbsp;neighbor Nick Perry told me he makes this kind of music. He was in bands like this growing up too and he&rsquo;s insanely talented. I always wanted to get back into it, and just thought of it as a fun little &ldquo;dad garage band&rdquo; type thing&nbsp;since&nbsp;he has 2 young kids as well. When our first song &ldquo;Life Leaves&rdquo; came out in January 2026, it was better than we expected, and we had a ton of fun doing it, so it just snowballed into more music!<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>What does Sky of Ghosts allow you to express&nbsp;that past projects&nbsp;didn&rsquo;t?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>I&rsquo;ve solely done comedy for so long, and although most people think that&rsquo;s the most terrifying thing ever, I actually have an easier time with it than showing genuine emotions and &ldquo;being serious.&rdquo; I can hide behind jokes like &ldquo;oh this is just frivolous nothingness&rdquo; but putting out deeply personal songs about the loss of a friend and PTSD was terrifying. Years of therapy helped me be able to talk about it and I was ready to lay it all out there. I like &ldquo;being serious&rdquo; and these songs have been really therapeutic.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>What bands&nbsp;or artists&nbsp;influence the sound that drives Sky of Ghosts?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>When I first approached Nick, we spoke about bands like Unearth, Misery Signals, and After the Burial. They&rsquo;re in the &ldquo;metalcore&rdquo; realm but lean a bit more to the &ldquo;metal&rdquo; side of things. Nick adds a few&nbsp;computery&nbsp;synth sounds in there once in a while that I think&nbsp;add a modern feel. His&nbsp;noodley&nbsp;riffs and solo on &ldquo;Life Leaves&rdquo; makes me want to go on an epic &ldquo;Lord of the Rings&rdquo; type quest, and he got more&nbsp;chuggy&nbsp;and brutal on &ldquo;Poisoned Grounds&rdquo; so I leaned into the toughness and darkness on it.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zOvHz6PxIPg?rel=0\" style=\"top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"accelerometer *; clipboard-write *; encrypted-media *; gyroscope *; picture-in-picture *; web-share *;\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p><strong>The Albany metal scene is alive and well,&nbsp;and WABY loves it.&nbsp;Are there plans to bring Sky of Ghosts to the stage?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>I&rsquo;d love that! I&rsquo;d also love just getting out there to see more shows. I have two small children at home and a&nbsp;full-time&nbsp;job, so my now-41 year old&nbsp;self sadly gets a little sleepy after story time with the kiddos. I&rsquo;ve seen some great shows at Empire and &ldquo;No Fun&rdquo; in Troy, but I really need to get out there more. We just released our second song ever, so it&rsquo;d be about an&nbsp;8-minute&nbsp;set so far. We have a few more in the works, so one day, when it&rsquo;s a fuller set, we&rsquo;ll get out there!<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>What do you think&nbsp;grabs a listener&rsquo;s attention most in&nbsp;a song&ndash; a killer&nbsp;riff, meaningful vocals, pounding drums, a nasty breakdown?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Personally, I love that mix of higher pitched noodling with the chugs. I guess you could call it melodic metalcore, and for me, no one does it better than bands like Misery Signals and Counterparts. There&rsquo;s this emotion is adds alongside those chest-filling chugs. That&rsquo;s the goosebump maker for me. As a writer, I&rsquo;m a huge lyric fan as well. Captivating lines that can create imagery in your head are the best. And those sick one-liners or mosh callouts before a serious breakdown. I think a good groove is important with metalcore too. Nick has this amazing riff at the 2:25 mark in &ldquo;Poisoned Grounds&rdquo; that gets my head bopping. It&rsquo;s a great mix of hard and groovy, if that makes sense.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Your Instagram is hilarious&nbsp;-&nbsp;your reels&nbsp;capture the everyday chaos of being an&nbsp;aging metalhead.&nbsp;What inspired you to start making them?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Thanks so much! Means a lot, man. While I&rsquo;ve put flashes of metal in my comedy over the years, I always thought of the two worlds as separate for some dumb reason. I&rsquo;ve made a ton of comedy reels on&nbsp;instagram&nbsp;for years now, and I think the &ldquo;Dadcore&rdquo; series you&rsquo;re referencing was my like 1400th&nbsp;instagram&nbsp;post. In writing this current band scene movie and hearing some kid call Vans &ldquo;dad shoes&rdquo; I realized that all my friends that love this music are in their 40s now. Something just clicked where that juxtaposition between heavy music and toddlers made me laugh. I&rsquo;m just lucky that it was &ldquo;the thing&rdquo; that popped off like it did,&nbsp;cus&nbsp;it&rsquo;s all so much fun to make!<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>We&nbsp;gonna&nbsp;have some beers at Luke&rsquo;s soon???<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Yes please! No lie, after I finish this interview, I&rsquo;m picking up my son from camp to go play with his son while he and I sip some garage beers! Come on by!<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Where should listeners go to get the most up to date news on Sky of Ghosts?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Instagram has been my focus lately, so please follow Sky of Ghosts and my personal Jay Wells&nbsp;L&rsquo;Ecuyer&nbsp;pages on insta for all the funny and\/or heartfelt hardness. Thanks a ton for having me, and I hope you and your fine readers enjoy our tunes!<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skyofghostsband\/\">Sky of Ghosts<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jaywellslec\/\">Jay Personal<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SkyofGhostsBand\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","image":"https:\/\/mmo.aiircdn.com\/186\/6a8433225f6e050f546.jpeg","author":{"name":"Joey Boots"},"_mobile_inapp_url":"https:\/\/www.939waby.com\/_app_pages\/stations\/5262\/blogs\/posts\/86106"}]}