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Mayhemic Resurgence: An Interview with MORTAL SIN’s MAT MAURER · HEAVY Music Interviews

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Matt Moore from Mortal Sin Vocals, and here we are.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: Look at this, 40 years later, still going.
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  Speaker 3: And still looking good too, mate, may I say.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Bunch of old bastards.
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: Too easy, man.
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  Speaker 3: Mortal Sin have returned home from a successful European assault,
• 0:21
  Speaker 3: undertaken a co-headlining tour with thrash legends Flotsam and Jetsam,
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  Speaker 3: starting in Brizzy on September 30th and hitting Adelaide and
• 0:28
  Speaker 3: Melbourne and finishing in Sydney on October 3rd. You've been busy.
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  Speaker 3: You're late, mate. Are you even going to have time
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  Speaker 3: to unpack from the last trip before you take the
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  Speaker 3: next one?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just leaving the bags packed, mate. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Probably be easier.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. No, it's been good, man. We never... When
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: we started.
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  Speaker 2: talking about, you know, doing something for the 40th anniversary
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: of Mayhem of Destruction, we were only thinking of doing
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: Sydney and Melbourne.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we.
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  Speaker 2: Got somewhere between 45 and 50 shows we've done so
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  Speaker 2: far this year.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been fucking crazy, mate. Crazy busy. Fuck, yeah.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: Down to a minute.
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  Speaker 3: More to sit and flotsam and jetsam across past internationally
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  Speaker 3: on European festival stages over decades, mate. But what's it
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  Speaker 3: like to finally bring that shared history back to your
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  Speaker 3: home church for Australian fans?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, it started off when Kidding Intent
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  Speaker 2: did a small tour with Flotsam, not last year, I
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  Speaker 2: think the year before. And I said to Chris, mate,
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  Speaker 2: get them to come to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Get them to come to Australia. Talk to them. See
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  Speaker 1: if they'll come.
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  Speaker 2: And he came back and said, yeah, they'd be keen, man.
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  Speaker 2: So that was the start of it. And it's taken
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  Speaker 2: this long to.
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  Speaker 1: You know, put it in fruition.
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  Speaker 2: And now, yeah, what a tour. This is going to
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  Speaker 2: be really awesome, man. Awesome lineup.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Even just like four great bands, you know. If anyone's
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: a Thrash fan and they miss out on this, mate,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to miss out on probably the show of
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  Speaker 2: the year, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually glad you mentioned that because the next thing
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say, you've thrown down a brilliant
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  Speaker 3: challenge to the community. And by saying if you're a
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  Speaker 3: Thrash fan and you've not come to this show yet,
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  Speaker 3: then are you really a thrash fan?
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  Speaker 1: That's it, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: With a package like this, mate, like, it's damn straight.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't go, you may as well just rip
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  Speaker 3: your medal badge off and stay home forever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hand in your battle vest, mate, and retire.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's Flotsam's first time over here too, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 2: How is it that 40 years have passed and they've
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  Speaker 2: never come to Australia? They said that they've tried to
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  Speaker 2: come a couple of times or, you know, just things
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  Speaker 2: just didn't work out, timings and, Even this one, we
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  Speaker 2: kind of had to wait for the album to come out,
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  Speaker 2: which that was just released last week or whatever. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think coming over here on the back of an
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  Speaker 2: awesome new album, that's going to be great.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 3: I think the other component to that too, bro, is
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  Speaker 3: the fact that you've got some good Aussie, but like
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  Speaker 3: it's a co-headline and show with yourselves. And there's some
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  Speaker 3: good Aussie bands on there as well. Like if people
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  Speaker 3: don't support shows like this, it doesn't give bands incentive
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  Speaker 3: to come over and do it again. So we're missing
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  Speaker 3: out on the music. The local bands are missing out
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  Speaker 3: on the support. So it's, you know, like it's not
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  Speaker 3: just a case of you're missing out on a good show.
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  Speaker 3: You're actually contributing to the sustainability of Australian metal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, it's, I mean, we're bringing them ourselves. So
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  Speaker 1: we're like, we're the promoters.
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  Speaker 2: So, Yeah, we honestly, we need everyone to show up
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  Speaker 2: in force because if we do really well and sell
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  Speaker 2: out some of these shows, we'll bring somebody else. You know,
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  Speaker 2: let's bring Forbidden. Let's bring Sacred Reich. Let's bring Metal Church,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So I think it's a good opportunity for all,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the whole of Australian Thrash fans to get
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  Speaker 2: on board and support it and make sure we give
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  Speaker 2: Flotsam and Jetsam a really big welcome. And yeah, as
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  Speaker 2: you say, If it goes really well, mate, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of bands are going to be saying, oh, well, fuck, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we want to go to Australia too.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, that's always been.
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  Speaker 2: The case, though, you know, hasn't it, over the past
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  Speaker 2: 40 years, you know. If we don't support something, then, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: nobody's going to want to come here. So, yeah, let's
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 3: I love the way you've kept it a brutal lineup too,
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  Speaker 3: like yourselves, Flotsam, Hidden Enchant and Live. Too many people
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  Speaker 3: these days are trying to diversify lineups and have something
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  Speaker 3: to suit everybody. But this is just going to be
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  Speaker 3: brutality from the start to finish. And it's fucking good
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  Speaker 3: to see, man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You got the two new school bands and the two
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  Speaker 2: old school bands. It is diverse, but in thrash, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So I get what you're saying. You know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: like it when.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you want.
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  Speaker 2: To go see a thrash band and then all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden there's like a metalcore band or there's something
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  Speaker 2: else on it. It's like, I don't want to see
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: that shit. I don't want to, you know. If I'm
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: a thrash band, I want to see thrash bands, you know.
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: So, yeah. Exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: It's good to have people that play the music putting
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  Speaker 3: the shows on because you understand stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Man, nice.
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  Speaker 3: Now, since you have a big live return of Froth
• 5:15
  Speaker 3: and Fury in January, man, you've added Sydney drummer George...
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: Delaney Collis to.
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  Speaker 1: The road crew.
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  Speaker 3: So there was this energy locked in with a classic
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  Speaker 3: foundation of the band from before.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect fit, man. Perfect fit. Yeah. When we started looking
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  Speaker 1: for a new drummer.
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  Speaker 2: We knew what we wanted and we knew what we needed.
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  Speaker 2: And George was first choice. And so we were lucky
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  Speaker 2: that he said yes straight away. So, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: took him a little while to learn the songs, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Some people, you know, you listen to Mortal Sin songs
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  Speaker 2: and they all sound really great, but there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of technical stuff in there as well. So it was
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a challenge for him to get
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  Speaker 2: the songs down really tight. But once he locked all
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  Speaker 2: that in, man, he's a beast behind the drums and really,
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  Speaker 2: really lifted the band, really given us.
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  Speaker 1: The sound that, you know, the basis for what we need.
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: And yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Really, really pleased with how it's all turned out.
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  Speaker 3: Well, now, you sort of touched on this a little
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  Speaker 3: bit before, man, but, like, you returned to the stage
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  Speaker 3: after announcing shows for your 40th anniversary of Mayhem Construction
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  Speaker 3: last year, but you initially pitched the anniversary run to
• 6:32
  Speaker 3: Andy and Nathan, just you wanted to get out of
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: the house and see a local show. Like, if you
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: hadn't known that it would have turned into something this big,
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  Speaker 3: would you have said thoughts about suggesting it?
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  Speaker 1: Um, no, not really.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's... It was good. It was kind of
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  Speaker 2: validation that, you know, doing this was important to not
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  Speaker 2: only to us, but it was important to Australian fans,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Like we sold out Sydney, we sold out Adelaide,
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  Speaker 2: we sold out Melbourne. That means something, you know. That
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  Speaker 2: obviously means that people wanted to see us again. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of people, you know, we heard so many stories
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  Speaker 2: from people saying, oh, we never thought we'd see you
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  Speaker 2: guys again, you know. And even younger people, 18-year-old saying, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've heard so much about Mortal Sin, but
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  Speaker 2: to finally get to see you guys on stage is
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  Speaker 2: freaking awesome, you know. So, yeah, the generations are there now,
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  Speaker 2: you know. There's, like, three generations of Australian thrash fans.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the timing was actually really good and, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the support's been awesome.
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  Speaker 3: How'd you go on that first show back, man? Like,
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  Speaker 3: did it come back to you straight away or did
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  Speaker 3: you have a bit of stage fright? Like, was it... No, we.
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  Speaker 2: We always said, you know, after we got George in,
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  Speaker 2: we said, look, we can't go out and just look
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  Speaker 2: or sound mediocre, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, because people will just go, yeah, they're all right.
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  Speaker 2: We had to work really hard on everything. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we had to work so hard to get really tight
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  Speaker 2: and go out there. First show back to festival, fuck.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be thrust straight in front of a
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  Speaker 2: whole bunch of people. We have to be amazing. So
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  Speaker 2: that was the challenge. And we set ourselves to that challenge.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we did, you know, we hit the
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  Speaker 2: nose on the button, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, it was good.
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  Speaker 3: It's easy to set those challenges over, but when you
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  Speaker 3: get back on stage after not doing it for so long, like,
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  Speaker 3: how was it for you? Like, did it come back?
• 8:41
  Speaker 3: They say it's like riding a bike.
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  Speaker 1: Like, is it?
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  Speaker 3: Or did it?
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  Speaker 1: It sort of is.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to have that confidence within yourself. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there may have been one of the other members who
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: was shitting himself.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: But, you know, we're... We're professional musicians, mate. It's a job,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, if you're a tradie.
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  Speaker 1: You don't walk onto, you know, a new big job
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  Speaker 1: and go, shit, do I remember how to do this?
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  Speaker 1: You just do, man. It's, you know, it's in your blood.
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  Speaker 1: It's in your heart.
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  Speaker 2: And, yeah, you just go out and do it because
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  Speaker 2: it's what you love, you know. When you love playing
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  Speaker 2: and when you love playing those songs, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think Mortal Sin has, it's really strange to say this,
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  Speaker 2: but we have a place in a lot of people's hearts.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of thrash fans in Australia, we sit there.
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  Speaker 2: They always talk about, man, I bought your album when
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: I was 13.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: I first heard Mortal Sin back then.
• 9:55
  Speaker 2: And you know everybody's got a story about Mortal Sin
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  Speaker 2: and man that means so much to us it's something
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  Speaker 2: you cannot explain that feeling of pride when you know
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  Speaker 2: you hear these stories you know and like sometimes you
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: know the people are a little drunk but you know
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: you're hearing all these stories and And they're saying it
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: from their perspective. And sometimes they're the same and sometimes
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: they're not. They're all different. But it's their story, man,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And it's like we're part of that story.
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  Speaker 2: That's really strange to us, you know. But it's, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: definitely something that you feel a lot of pride of with.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: Fuck yeah, bro. Fuck yeah, man.
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  Speaker 3: So the recording for Mohamic Destruction began all the way
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  Speaker 3: back in July 1986, man. When you play those tracks
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  Speaker 3: live today, do they feel like a time capsule or
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: have they sort of taken on a completely different energy
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  Speaker 3: over the years?
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, some of them have.
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: Well, they've all got a little bit of different energy,
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: obviously because they morph or they evolve. But, yeah, it's
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: a strange kind of feeling that people still talk about
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: something from 40 years ago, you know.
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 11:10
  Speaker 4: It music is that it's it's that kind of thing
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  Speaker 4: like you the only other thing you can kind of
• 11:16
  Speaker 4: compare is maybe sport you know someone will talk about
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: oh the 1986 grand final you know they all they
• 11:22
  Speaker 4: remember those sort of things and and music's yeah it
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: it touches people in different ways and yeah when you
• 11:32
  Speaker 4: hear those kind of stories where oh this song got
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: me through my teenage years or You know, things like
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: that makes you feel so proud, man.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like it's an honour and a pleasure from
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  Speaker 2: our perspective to be able.
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  Speaker 1: We wrote those songs, you know.
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  Speaker 2: We're now performing all those songs still 40 years later
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  Speaker 2: and still people are going, wow, man, we love this stuff,
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  Speaker 2: you know. When we played in Europe just this month,
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: People travel from all around the world.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like you hear a different accent. You go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: where are you from? Oh, I come from Colombia to
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  Speaker 1: see you.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, what?
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean? You come from fucking Colombia?
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, someone came over from England to see
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: us in Berlin and a couple of those German shows.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: It's like, because we didn't play in England. He's like, well,
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: you didn't play in England.
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: So I'm coming to you, mate.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: You know, it's like, oh, fuck.
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: Thanks, man.
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we've got a really, really strong following and
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: they just love us, man, you know.
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: I won't say I don't know why, but, you know, it's... Humbling.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's definitely humbling, you know, and I mean,
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: for me, little old me, you know, just this guy
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: from the western suburbs, you know, like become the singer
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  Speaker 2: of probably, you know, the biggest thrash band in Australia.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: It's like, that's a weird feeling too, you know. When
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: you talk to people about what you do, you know,
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: you say, oh, you know, I work in this job,
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: but oh, I play in a band as well. Oh, yeah,
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: what band? You know, oh, Mortal Sin. They go, oh,
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: I've heard of Mortal Sin. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So that's, yeah, that's a weird feeling, man. It's a
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: great feeling, but yeah, strange.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: Wear it with pride, brother.
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: You fucking earned it.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: So going back to the album again and relearning some
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: of the songs that were written so far back, were
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: there any songs that maybe the first time around you
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: weren't so impressed with, you know, didn't feel it, but
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: this time around with the benefit of age, I guess,
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: and wisdom, like, they mean more to you?
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: Not really. Not really because, you know, we've always played
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: those songs. You know, when we decided.
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: To do the whole album for Keep It True, you know,
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  Speaker 2: learning some of the songs that we hadn't played live
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: for quite a while, yeah, that was pretty cool because
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: you get to, you know, you feel a little bit
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: more respect.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of things. Like, oh, why didn't we play these songs,
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  Speaker 1: you know?
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  Speaker 2: So, but yeah, when you get people like In Europe,
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: we had a 70-minute set, we had a 60-minute set,
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: and we had a 45-minute set because we, you know,
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: playing different shows, you've got different times. And sometimes when
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: we played the 60-minute set, we might have dropped into
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: the fire or something like that. And, you know, you
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: get people saying, oh, you didn't play into the fire, man.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, well, we normally do.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: We wanted to.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we wanted to.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: But, yeah, it's those kind of things that it's really
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: hard trying to come up with a set list that,
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: you know, you're that you want to play and that
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: people want to hear.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: So, yeah. Yeah.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: Speaking of set lists, I suppose, bro, you're going to
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: be playing a different one on this Flotsam tour than
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: what you did on the anniversary tour?
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Well, we've got a bit shorter time. We've only got
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: 55 minutes. So, yeah, we have to cut a couple
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: of songs from our 70-minute set. So, look, as everybody says, oh,
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what you play, man, we're going to
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: love it anyway.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: So, yeah.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty cool.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe next year we might change it around
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: a little bit. We might do some different songs. But
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: for now, we've got this set so tight that we
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: wouldn't want to change it. You know, we're pretty much
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: on fire at the moment. So let's just play the
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: ones we know.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: So by virtue of the fact you just said maybe
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: next year, does that mean that this– this reunion is
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: going to continue beyond?
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got offers for some festivals for next year,
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: some really big festivals. So we had a good time.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: We didn't kill each other. We enjoyed each other's company.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: We looked out for each other.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll definitely keep going.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Whether we write new music or not, that's to be discussed,
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: which it's probably, you know, 95, five percent that we
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: will um yeah we we've got a we've been so
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: busy that we haven't really had time to sit down
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: and talk about what's next so once once we do
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: these um flotsam and jetsam shows we'll we'll do that
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: we'll sit down and maybe around christmas time you know
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: have a bit of a christmas dinner all together and
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: you know sort of reflect on what we did and
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: talk about what we can do.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: You know. I think we've got a good enough.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Unit now that the.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Tour in Europe this year was kind of like a
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: bit of a taster.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: It was a bit of like, you know, we need
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: to let people know that we're back again.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: It's going to take time.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: So next year, you know, maybe getting on some bigger festivals,
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: hopefully getting back on Wacken, that sort of thing. We'll,
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: you know, got to keep raising the profile like every band,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: you know. Even though we've got a decent profile to
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: start with, we've got to start again, you know. A
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: lot of people still don't know that we're back, you know.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I've seen a few forums here and.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: There where people still sort of talk in past tense. Oh, yeah,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Mortal Sin, we're really good.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: And then someone else might write a comment, oh, they're
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: back on the road again, bro, you know. Oh, really? Oh, awesome. Yeah, so.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: It's still going to be a lot of hard work, but, yeah,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: obviously doing this thing with Flotsam and Jetsam, I think,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: is going to be really good because, you know, there
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: might be, even in Australia, there might be sort of
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: trash fans that are into, you know, a lot of
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: the international stuff that maybe the young guys haven't heard
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Mortal Sin, never seen Mortal Sin, you know.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: I guess as a bandmate, you guys have got a
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: great legacy in your tour of Miami Destruction now, so
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: when you're talking about the future and thinking about doing
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: another album, does the thought process come into it that,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: because people are so judgmental these days now, like if
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: you made another album and put it out, people are
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: going to be judging you on that now rather than
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: loving what they know of you from the past and
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: sticking with that, do you think that makes sense? Does
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: that come into the equation?
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, look, it's the same no matter when you bring
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: an album out, you know. Yeah. It's the same for
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: every single band.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: You've just got to hope that you write something that
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: they'll love, you know. And the main part of that
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: is you write what you love, you know. We've just
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: got to write a Mortal Sin song and that's pretty
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: much it, you know, because, I mean, all the songs
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: that we've written so far are everyone loves so we
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: just got to keep doing it you know uh which
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: it's hard you know from from my perspective uh you
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: know writing the lyrics and stuff like that it's a
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: huge challenge for me and yeah i i guess a
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: lot rests on how everyone feels about writing you know
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: i mean it's been 15 years since we wrote an
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: album what is it going to be a leap year
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: apart or is it going to be a closeness to
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: the last album.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Or is it going to be a mix of everything?
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Who knows, man? We just chuck everything into a pot,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: mix it up, see what happens. Hell yeah.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: We can have some mortal sin stew. Thanks very much
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: for your time, bro. The tour with the Flotsam and
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Jetsam Hidden in chat and live eye kicks off september
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: 30 where can people get tickets from bro.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Uh from our website mortals in band.com or churches of steel.com
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: uh and the ticketing places the venues uh just just
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: search brother search on the net that's what we have
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: google for