Caleb Shomo is the guest on the latest installment of the SPIN Presents Lipps Service podcast, speaking with host Scott Lipps about his journey from the Ohio music scene and Attack Attack! to becoming the frontman and creative force behind Beartooth.

Shomo also discusses publicly coming out and how that changed the way he approached Beartooth’s new album, Pure Ecstasy, plus the role Jordan Fish played in encouraging him to make the record as personal and honest as possible. The conversation winds down with Shomo’s list of his top five heavy bands of all time and his five favorite new pop artists.

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On the previous episode of Lipps Service, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello went deep about everything from his earliest musical influences to his latter-day work with Audioslave and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

Since it began in 2018, the acclaimed podcast has featured many of the biggest voices and personalities in music, including exclusive interviews with Anthony Kiedis, David Lee Roth, Hozier, Maynard James Keenan, the Police’s Stewart Copeland, Billy Corgan, Mick Fleetwood, Nikki Sixx, Charli xcx, Perry Farrell, the Kills and many more. Every few weeks, a new episode of SPIN Presents Lipps Service is available wherever you listen to podcasts.

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