The Crimson Armada - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2150 - video Dailymotion

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Become a member (it's FREE) at https://digtb.us/signup Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch  On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the metalcore band, The Crimson Armada, while on tour with Heavy//Hitter, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and Lilith’s Demise. The Crimson Armada is currently supporting their newest single, Eternal Thrall.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - October 26, 2025 Location - Beat Kitchen in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH THE CRIMSON ARMADA: Facebook - https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569667141928 Instagram - https://instagram.com/thecrimsonarmada.metal Twitter - https://twitter.com/TCAband  FOLLOW US: Website/Email List - https://www.digitaltourbus.com/#/portal/signup YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltourbus  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:39 Skip Intro 01:24 Driver's Area 05:44 Middle of the Van 08:42 Back of the Van  ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS: Digital Tour Bus is your backstage pass to your favorite touring artists! With daily video releases, we cover all genres, and have had the pleasure of featuring the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Twenty One Pilots, Megadeth, MGK, Papa Roach, AJR, Pierce The Veil, Simple Plan, A Day to Remember, and thousands of others over the past 15 years. "Bus Invaders" takes you inside an artist's home on the road, "Cooking at 65mph" showcases the culinary skills of artists on tour, "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage, and "Stage Threads" dives into the meaning and inspiration behind the clothing artists wear during their performances.

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00:00Women want me, fish fear me. Very metal.

00:03Some wet wipes. You're going to need these.

00:06A raccoon got into the van and just kind of didn't know what to do.

00:12He had never been in a tour van before.

00:30Hey, we are the Crimson Armada. My name is Sode. I do vocals.

00:44My name is Stefan. I'm Rhythm Guitar.

00:46And this is Digital Tour Bus.

00:48We're on tour right now with heavy hitter Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Lilith's Demise.

00:55It's East Coast and South.

00:57We're about halfway through. We're entering the last half of the tour.

01:02We're here in Chicago at the Beat Kitchen today.

01:05This is our van. Her name is Sheba.

01:07It's technically not our van.

01:09We borrowed this van from our good friend Sean O'Shaughnessy from the band's Denialist and Inferia.

01:16So shout out, Sean. Thank you for renting this van to us and hooking us up and helping make the tour happen.

01:22Thank you, Sean.

01:22Yeah, so me and Sode are not the drivers by any means.

01:26We are both terrible at parking the van.

01:28So we are not the people that are doing the driving most of the time.

01:31It's actually our TM Chandler.

01:32He does photos for us, too.

01:34He's done stuff with Chevelle, DPS, Dead Poets Society.

01:40I don't know. They're really good bands. Escalation and Alexandria, too.

01:42But as far as driving, he honestly has been a tank with it.

01:45He's been doing most of the work, honestly.

01:47And he does our merch.

01:48And he does our merch, too.

01:49And pictures.

01:50He's got his hands full.

01:51And he wipes our butts.

01:52Yes, he does that, too.

01:53Yeah, sometimes we'll wipe his nose.

01:54He changes our diapers.

01:55And that's snot off our nose, too, you know.

01:57He's like our mom, so.

01:58But he's doing most of the driving.

02:00And, you know, as far as entertainment goes, we've been just listening to a lot of Hayley Williams, funnily enough.

02:04In between the whole metal thing, we've been enjoying Hayley Williams.

02:07Yeah, ego death.

02:08And I've been listening to some Military Gun on the Road.

02:11Been listening to some Modern Color.

02:13Counterparts, too, as well, too.

02:14But, yeah, it's just keeping ourselves busy with these drives in between.

02:17They haven't been that bad, but I think the longest one's been, like, nine hours or something.

02:21Yeah, nine or ten hours.

02:22Nine or ten hours.

02:23Jackson's been listening to Minecraft music.

02:25Yes.

02:26Yeah.

02:26Hyper Pop.

02:27Yeah.

02:28And, you know, stuff that kind of makes my head hurt a little bit.

02:33He keeps eating lava chicken every single day, and we're just like, bro.

02:36We told him he's going to have to lock him in the trailer, so.

02:41But other than that, we just got, like, a ton of trash.

02:43As you can see, we're not very clean people.

02:46No.

02:46Speak for yourself.

02:47Yeah.

02:48I'm honestly not.

02:48We are very clean, but we didn't have a lot of time to prep this van for tour.

02:53So we kind of got it as is and cramming five guys in here.

02:57It's just, it's difficult to keep orderly, but we try the best we can.

03:02So this stuff is only here temporarily.

03:04We've got a towel because I need to take a shower after this show because the B kitchen,

03:10it gets hot in the kitchen.

03:12So I'm going to need a shower afterwards, and these are some sweatpants to change into afterwards.

03:17Here's the hat that I usually play shows in.

03:20This was a gift from Kira.

03:22It says, women want me, fish fear me.

03:26Very metal.

03:27This is a massage gun.

03:31This is actually Mike's.

03:33I have been hogging this quite a bit because being in the captain's chair, I'm a little cramped here for the most part.

03:40But this thing is amazing.

03:4120 bucks on Amazon, cures all your ailments.

03:46I recommend the bullet attachment.

03:51And we've got, you know, some nap, paper towel, or yeah, napkins.

03:57Here is some halal falafel.

04:01I think that's from Brooklyn.

04:02This is from Brooklyn, yeah.

04:03So this is on tour with us thanks to Chandler.

04:06That's really not his fault.

04:07It's just been tucked back there, and we haven't had a chance to clean.

04:11And some hooks.

04:13So when we sleep at night, we can hang up a sheet.

04:17Let's see, what else do we got in here?

04:19This is a Nutella cookie thing.

04:22This is actually Stefan's.

04:23Where'd you get this?

04:24I think I got it at, like, Sunoco or something.

04:26Those are the best, though.

04:27Sponsor me, Nutella.

04:28Yeah.

04:29Let's see what else.

04:30Oh, here's some cool stuff.

04:31Here's a LeBubu.

04:35Insert a LeBubu sound.

04:36LeBubu.

04:37LeBubu.

04:38I don't know what this is.

04:40That's, uh, is that Pom Pom Perrin?

04:42This is Hello Kitty.

04:43Yeah, it's Pom Pom Perrin.

04:44These came with the van.

04:45They were hanging here, but they obstruct our, you know, our vision.

04:49So they're hanging down here in the side.

04:52Let's see, what else do we got in here?

04:54So we got some pumpkin bread that Michael's girlfriend Kelsey made.

04:59Fantastic to snack on.

05:00Very good, very good.

05:01A windshield cover to, um, lock the sun out when we sleep.

05:07Um, let's see, just grab some stuff and, uh.

05:11We got a power inverter to make sure all of our phones are charged as well, too.

05:14This thing is actually so clutch.

05:16It goes through the entire van, so even the people that are in the very back actually get

05:20to charge their phones, too.

05:22So no one has a dead phone when we show up to a venue, and it's really nice.

05:25Um, I unfortunately forgot my brick the first couple days of the shows, so I unfortunately

05:30did have a van, a dead phone entering the van use, so that was not fun.

05:34This is just a, um, oil change receipt.

05:39Nothing interesting there.

05:41Into the middle section.

05:42Um, we got some snacks, um, courtesy of Stefan's mom.

05:49Shout out, uh, is it Leslie?

05:51Yep.

05:51Yeah, shout out to Leslie.

05:53She, um, um, took care of us.

05:55She lives in Baltimore now.

05:56And she gave us a lot of, uh, some Gatorade.

05:59Um, we got some bread and some crackers.

06:02Um, we got a, a large, uh, patch menthol pain-relieving patch.

06:08Uh, as Michael busted his foot.

06:11I think this is for him.

06:12Is that right, Mike?

06:13Yeah, sure.

06:14Oh, you just now tell me about that?

06:18You went here.

06:18Can you hand this to us?

06:19Yeah, right on.

06:20All right, so this is Chandler's bench.

06:22Um, and you can see my cheetah blanket back there.

06:26Uh, we share, we share a little bit of this space because, um, we didn't have time to prepare

06:31bunks.

06:31You might have seen those in some other vans.

06:33Um, and the ceiling here, um, the story behind this is, uh, a raccoon got into the van and

06:42just kind of didn't know what to do.

06:45He's not, he had never been in a tour van before.

06:47So he was, you know, climbing everywhere.

06:49I wasn't present for this is just what I was told.

06:52Um, but that's why the ceiling is the way it is.

06:55I do get a rain shot.

06:56Uh, if you lay, if you're laying down and you look up, it kind of looks like, um, so

07:02if you turn the camera, uh, so like these two are the eyes, it kind of looks like the

07:08ghost of Osama bin Laden.

07:12So I just got some essentials.

07:14I got some clothes pulled out for tonight after we go to a pee fit and shower.

07:18Um, got some of my girlfriend's stuff.

07:19She's currently on tour with us right now for a couple of days.

07:21She's going back home tonight.

07:23Got my bluey blanket, bluey and bingo.

07:26Shout out.

07:27Um, I dropped, I had another blanket, but I dropped a ton of cookout sauce on it and

07:31it's like disgusting now.

07:33So, um, yeah, I have this now and pretty basic stuff.

07:37I just got some shoes, some clothes, some extra groceries right here, some snacks.

07:41It's kind of a mess right now.

07:42I've got some like my girlfriend's stuff right here too, but yeah, pretty comfy.

07:47Yo, what's up?

07:47It's Jackson.

07:48We're on tour right now.

07:50And this is my, my MTV cribs as of right now.

07:53All I really have is my, my pillow that I bought at Walmart and my Hello Kitty blanket

07:59that I also bought from Walmart.

08:01Um, all I really have is just clothes for whenever the time comes.

08:05Like this Knocked Loose hoodie.

08:06Pretty dope.

08:07Shout out Knocked Loose.

08:08Um, I have a Squish Mellow that my girlfriend, Abby, gave to me.

08:12Um, it's my, it's the thing I snuggle with every, every night usually.

08:15Um, not, not, not too much going on here.

08:18Um, my Croc, I don't know where the other one is, but I have my Crocs over here.

08:22I also have my Switch right here.

08:26Play some Smash Brothers, um, some Mario games also.

08:30And honestly, that's about it for me.

08:31I just chill on my bunk, look on my phone and make some music.

08:34It's pretty straightforward.

08:36So, yeah, pretty bland.

08:38What's up guys?

08:38It's Michael here.

08:39I play guitar.

08:40And as you can see, I'm also a professional Pokemon master.

08:44So, I'm out here trying to catch them all right now.

08:46That's usually what I'm doing on tour.

08:48I've got about 40 hours in this game.

08:51And, uh, yeah.

08:52Let's see what else we got going on here.

08:53Got the BioFreeze.

08:54We've already discussed that.

08:56I jacked my ankle up pretty bad.

09:01Gotta have those meds on you.

09:04And the power brick because some of us come prepared.

09:09Let's see what else we got down here.

09:12Got some glasses.

09:13I want to try and be as cool as soda on there.

09:18Got a bunch of snacks too.

09:20But as you can see, these are all down here.

09:22Got some peanut butter crackers.

09:24Got some trail mix.

09:25Try and stay a little bit healthy.

09:27This is a gift from our friend Nick.

09:28Shout out Nick.

09:29He's awesome.

09:30He gave us some Nutty Buddy, some Slim Jim, some wet wipes.

09:34You're going to need these.

09:36Some apple butter, some Bird's Bees, all the good stuff.

09:39Some chips, peanut butter, rice crisps.

09:41And the most important tour essential is Crocs.

09:45You've got to have a shower shoe, and these are the best.

09:49Yeah, that's about all I got.

09:50Thanks for watching everybody, Digital Tour Bus.

09:53We are the Crimson Armada.

09:55You can check out our music on all streaming platforms.

09:58And we'll see you in your town soon.

10:01We'll see you in your community.

10:10Yeah.

10:11Yeah.

10:12Yeah.

10:13Yeah.

10:14Yeah.

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