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On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the doom metal band, Spirit Adrift, while on The Decibel Magazine Tour 2026 with Cryptopsy, Necrot, and Blood Monolith. Spirit Adrift is currently supporting their newest album, Infinite Illumination.
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Film Date - May 23, 2026
Location - Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL
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VIDEO SUMMARY:
00:00 Introduction
00:33 Skip Intro
00:54 Driver's Area
03:29 Middle of the Van
07:11 Back of the Van
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On this episode of DTB’s “Bus Invaders”, we take you inside the touring vehicle of the doom metal band, Spirit Adrift, while on The Decibel Magazine Tour 2026 with Cryptopsy, Necrot, and Blood Monolith. Spirit Adrift is currently supporting their newest album, Infinite Illumination.
VIDEO INFO:
Film Date - May 23, 2026
Location - Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL
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YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus
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VIDEO SUMMARY:
00:00 Introduction
00:33 Skip Intro
00:54 Driver's Area
03:29 Middle of the Van
07:11 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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00:00These are very good for, you know, relieving oneself.
00:04Somebody allegedly on the tour. Definitely not us.
00:34Hey, what's up? It's Nate from Spirit Adrift. I'm here with Bus Invaders.
00:38This is our beautiful Ford Transit van that is keeping us safe and making the gigs on
00:43the Decibel Tour this year with Cryptopsy, Necrot, us, and Blood Monolith.
00:49This thing gets us around pretty good.
00:51Here we are in the driver's seat. This van is super nice. For people who don't know,
00:57we're not even supposed to be on this tour. We got asked six days before the tour
01:02started because our guitar players, other band Fulci, their visas did not come
01:07through. He's the only American in the band. I was indisposed when 20 Buck Spin, our
01:14label, and Decibel Magazine were texting us asking if we could do the tour. So first
01:19person I talked to when we got the offer was my wife who's back in Texas battling
01:24cancer. She said, you have to do it. We looked at the dates of her treatment. A bunch of stuff
01:29happened that just kind of opened up a perfect window for us to do this. I was running around
01:34Austin at the time. By the time I got home, she had already found this van. My wife Nicole
01:39was the best, man. And she was like, I hope this is good. For the record, I don't want to,
01:46you know, demystify my rock star status. But this is the nicest van I've ever toured in. So thanks,
01:53Nicole, for finding me. So the drive to the first show, most of the band flew. My drummer, Mike,
02:01and I did the whole drive from the Austin area to Worcester, Massachusetts. Got stuck in tornadoes
02:06and flash floods and all kinds of stuff. Made it. On this tour, we do have our jack of all
02:13trades,
02:13master of none, Dylan, doing merch, tour managing. He does the vast majority of the driving. But then
02:20we like to party. We got a couple sober guys. So Jason, our guitar player, usually be co-pilot.
02:26But at night, they switch. Jason will drive. Dylan will co-pilot and DJ because drinking and
02:33driving is not cool at all. Having fun on tour is cool. But you know, we keep it safe,
02:39keep it legal, keep it conscientious. As far as music, it just varies. We listen to a lot of sad
02:44stuff. We listen to a lot of Steely Dan and old country. But you know, we'll listen to like newer
02:51metal records that are coming out and see what's going on with that. It just, it's all kinds of
02:55stuff, man. Anything that is the right vibe for whatever we're going through. Jason, I think it's
03:02Jason's got the Fellowship of the Rings. Our boy Dylan, tour manager, is a big anime guy. So
03:08he's picking these up. We all have books. I have a bunch of spiritual stuff back in the hole,
03:12as we call it, which I'll show you momentarily. We're all always snacking. We have a vegan in the
03:19band, Sonny. So he's always going to Whole Foods. He just disappears and keeps a good stash of like vegan
03:24goodies and healthy stuff. That's it for right here, pretty much.
03:28The midsection of the band. These are very good for, you know, relieving oneself if you're doing
03:36crazy long, long drives, which there's been a lot on this tour. I've got all kinds of crap here.
03:42Red Bull. Yeah, gummies. You called it, bro. Those are probably Mike's. Mike, our drummer,
03:49usually sits here. Sonny usually sits here. And I made like a hotel room in the back that we refer
03:56to as the Hole, which is where I spend the majority of my time. Sonny's watching a lot of documentaries
04:03and stuff. He's really into Ween and I think a new Ween documentary just came out. So I saw him
04:08watching that. Watches Gigi Allen concert footage and who knows what. I look up and see all kinds of
04:14strange stuff going on on the phone. I don't even know how this works, man. It's beyond my
04:20understanding. Welcome to the Hole. So this is a Bandigo rental. They're a great company to work with.
04:28Always been super cool. I've been working with them forever. And there's an option that you can
04:33remove however many seats you want. So we chose to remove every possible removable seat because it
04:40still fits like eight people or whatever. And when I got this thing home, I was hoping and praying
04:46that my favorite twin mattress I've ever had, memory foam, would fit. And clearly it fit perfectly.
04:53But then, you know, I was getting a little hot back here. So I have these things. As you can
05:00see,
05:00I did a little engineering and zip tied them to the air conditioner vents. So we have privacy curtains
05:08that are also kind of like a vibe enhancer, you know. My favorite thing about the hole is
05:19when we were in Georgia, I found these mortars and allegedly somebody's been indiscriminately firing
05:27off mortars at the end of every show in every city that we've been to. It's not us, but it's
05:32somebody
05:33allegedly on the tour. Definitely not us. Well, actually the other coolers in the venue, uh, trail mix,
05:42banan, gotta always have a banan. We love these chomp things. They keep giving our friends Necrot the
05:50wrong kind of tequila. So they just keep giving it to us. So we have that allegedly. Uh, oh,
05:57this right here, secret, if you're a vocalist, it's, uh, loquat syrup, Chinese loquat syrup. And it's the
06:04best like vocal, uh, just repairs your throat. Like it's just, it's amazing for, uh, for vocal recovery.
06:14Waters, stuff like that. Uh, we did have our back window just exploded randomly on the interstate,
06:22not cause of the mortars or anything. Uh, I think it was maybe like a rock shot up off of
06:29the back
06:30tire, maybe bounced off the trailer and then exploded the window. Um, so I just sat up very calmly
06:38and said, Hey, the window's gone. Uh, and we just got that replaced. So that's nice. It's been three days
06:44of
06:45being like in a wind tunnel back here, eating dust and huffing exhaust fumes and stuff like that.
06:51So I'm very glad that we were able to get that fixed. We will switch up on, um, who's back
06:57in the
06:57hole, depending on how everybody's feeling, you know, but it's, I mean, we basically have like a,
07:03a traveling hotel room. All the bands are, are really getting along. A lot of us are old friends.
07:08A lot of us are new friends. I don't know who did that, but we've been getting Cryptopsy's
07:13vehicle pretty good. Their drummer flow is awesome. Legend. One of the best drummers ever.
07:18Every time I see them, I have to sing a pro jam song, even flow. So I graffitied theirs up
07:25with that.
07:27Uh, not much going on with the back, just luggage, uh, spare merch, stuff like that toolbox for like
07:36any kind of repairs, uh, with a trailer and everything like this. This is our trailer.
07:43Pretty small, but most of the bands are sharing gear. So, uh, we're able to fit everything we need
07:50in there. Pretty much it for the bag. Okay. So once again, we're out here on the decibel magazine tour
07:562026. We are promoting our new record, infinite illumination, which is actually the final spirit
08:02of drift album. So go check that out. If you haven't, uh, we all play in other bands. I got
08:08another
08:08project called neon nightmare. I'm working on that stuff. There are drummers in 8,000 bands.
08:13Everybody's in a bunch of bands. Jason's in full chief. They're super busy too. Uh, so check all that
08:19out. And yeah, most importantly, our new album, infinite illumination. We're all
08:23very proud of it. And, uh, if you haven't heard it, give it a listen.
08:41We'll see you next time.
08:45We'll see you next time.
08:49We'll see you next time.
08:52We'll see you next time.