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A New Chapter Begins With DAN And WAYNE From SOUND AFFLICTION · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: There this is Dawn from Sound Affliction and.
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  Speaker 1: Wayne, I'll do myself myself.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right, go for it.
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  Speaker 3: Good Wayne On the yellow guitarist and probably the best
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  Speaker 3: looking member of Sound Affliction.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess we've got well our new single coming
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  Speaker 2: through ex Music this Friday, sober. Yeah. It's really exciting
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  Speaker 2: to get some new music out there, and we're the
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  Speaker 2: lyrics video they're coming with it as well. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're looking forward to seeing what we can do with it.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for trying to say it's been a while between
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  Speaker 4: drinks certainly.
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  Speaker 2: How yeah too, guys.
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  Speaker 4: So, as you mentioned, sound of which will release your
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  Speaker 4: new single so by this Friday, April the twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 4: So how you feeling about it?
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  Speaker 5: Good? Really good and excited.
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  Speaker 3: This one's been a long time coming, mate, So there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of passion, a lot of.
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  Speaker 5: Time into it, and it's great to be releasing this week.
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  Speaker 1: XT visit.
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  Speaker 5: So this is this is a real way of looking
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  Speaker 5: forward to it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh bad, So you can it dive into the track
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  Speaker 4: a bit more from a musical point of view for us,
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  Speaker 4: I guess and tell us what you were going for
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  Speaker 4: with it.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of those songs I think. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: came with a bit of a demo track a while
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  Speaker 2: ago on it and we all thought, now, it's not
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  Speaker 2: a complicated song, but it's nice, simple but it's got
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  Speaker 2: that catchy, real drive to it as one of those
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  Speaker 2: that knocked together quite quickly, came together quite quickly, flicked
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  Speaker 2: over to Maddie who does all the lyrics, and he
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  Speaker 2: was going through a bit of a rough patch at
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  Speaker 2: the time and sort of poured his heart out on
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  Speaker 2: the on the vocals, which gives it its own sort
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  Speaker 2: of haunting melody, I guess to it. So it's one
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  Speaker 2: of those songs you know, we thought it could be
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  Speaker 2: good for us, you know, it's it's got a got
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  Speaker 2: a good feel to it, and yeah, it just everyone
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  Speaker 2: likes it, and everyone likes how it came out, and it.
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  Speaker 4: Touched on it there by like little listen to this song.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds like it's got a deeper, more personal meaning.
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  Speaker 4: So what's what's the story behind sober?
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  Speaker 2: So the words I'll quote Maddie on this keep asking
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  Speaker 2: what what does it actually mean? And his words are
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  Speaker 2: it's a reflection of losing a person that you hold
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  Speaker 2: deer in life and facing the reality of moving forward
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  Speaker 2: without them. So he was going to build a rough
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  Speaker 2: patch when you wrote this and pretty down by the
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  Speaker 2: sound of it, and have a few things going on.
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  Speaker 2: And it was one of those time and place moments
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  Speaker 2: where he was able to write a song that fit
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  Speaker 2: with with music and the lyrics and it just came together.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I've got to say with songs on this guy's
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  Speaker 4: like it's essentially a baland but it's a power ballad
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  Speaker 4: like but songs like this can quite often sort of
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  Speaker 4: just become dreary and you know, in a little bit style.
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  Speaker 4: But you guys have managed to there's quite a few
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  Speaker 4: parts in a way up the tempo just slightly for
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  Speaker 4: a little bit and then you pull it back.
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  Speaker 1: Like how how difficult is that to get right in
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  Speaker 1: a song like this?
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  Speaker 4: Like no one when to up the tempo and when
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  Speaker 4: to bring it back and not go overboard with things
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  Speaker 4: like that.
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  Speaker 5: I think that one just blowed naturally, really.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Dan really wrote the music for it, but
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  Speaker 3: that one, it just even when we started playing from
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  Speaker 3: the way it go, it flowed.
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  Speaker 5: For us really well. Yeah, I really think it is
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  Speaker 5: that difficult at all. Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't overthinking.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it was more just it came and
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  Speaker 2: it really didn't change too much from the digital demo
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  Speaker 2: to what it is now. Apart from the production we've
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  Speaker 2: we've got keV Brown who's playing bass with us doing
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  Speaker 2: the production on the stuff, and he's a really good,
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  Speaker 2: good guy and he's been able to make that make
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  Speaker 2: it sound pretty huge as well.
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  Speaker 1: M hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because when it first started, like I sat back
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  Speaker 4: and I thought, I here we go again.
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  Speaker 1: Another fucking love song, A lot of soppy one.
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  Speaker 4: But like I said, I really like the way it
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  Speaker 4: gained in intensity briefly and then pulled back in like
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  Speaker 4: it's sort.
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  Speaker 5: Of it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was a soppy ballad, but it was a tough
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  Speaker 4: soppy ballad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's funny because when we first started looking at well,
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  Speaker 2: what's the next release going to be? It was on
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  Speaker 2: the list, but it necessarily wasn't at the top. But
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  Speaker 2: talking to Tim at ex Music, he was like the
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  Speaker 2: one who kind of said, no, I think this one
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  Speaker 2: needs to go first. So we sort of listened and Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's go for it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I guess the big question, guys is is
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  Speaker 4: Sober a standalone single or is it part of a
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  Speaker 4: bigger album picture.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's definitely part of an album. We've been plugging away.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it seems like forever pulling this thing together. Whi's
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  Speaker 2: going to be eleven song album. Tentatively hoping we'll get
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  Speaker 2: it out there September time. We've got the first three
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  Speaker 2: singles lined up ready to go, all done, dusted, videos
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  Speaker 2: and things all in the bag. So really, please do
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  Speaker 2: plan to get the band going forward.
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  Speaker 4: Now I know the answer of this one because I've
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  Speaker 4: got a bit of a history with you guys. But
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  Speaker 4: it is Sober, a good, good sonic representation, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: So what we expect from the whole album, that's a
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  Speaker 1: good question.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of diversity in the album
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  Speaker 3: as well, Like there are some songs that are a
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  Speaker 3: lot heavier and get a lot harder, and there's a
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  Speaker 3: couple of songs that are along the lines of Sober
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 5: So it's very dynamic what we do.
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  Speaker 3: And that's kind of what's I think kept all us interested,
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  Speaker 3: but kept our you know, our audience is interested too.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, there's there's some heavy stuff coming to really
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  Speaker 3: heavy stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Nice what too, is that track too to introduce the
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  Speaker 4: album to the world.
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  Speaker 1: Then, I guess, oh, good question.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was one that we're all quite passionate about.
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  Speaker 2: It's one that we've we've come to know really well
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  Speaker 2: and originally, you know, go back a couple of years
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  Speaker 2: tart ago, we were playing around with that song. We
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  Speaker 2: really thought it could be a good single. But there's
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  Speaker 2: also a track called Devil in Me, which was the
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  Speaker 2: first one we recorded from the album, and it just
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  Speaker 2: sounds great and we thought, oh, that would be the one,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a lot heavier. But yeah, I guess it
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  Speaker 2: just sort of came together and you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: a good, solid song. Hopefully it introduces a bit of
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  Speaker 2: light shade. At the they were hard rock band. We've
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  Speaker 2: got some heavy parts, we've got something, but Matty's vocals
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  Speaker 2: keep it in that sort of melodic zone, not too
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  Speaker 2: heavy and not too light, so it kind of gives
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  Speaker 2: a good representation of it. I think.
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  Speaker 5: That should appeal to a fairly large audience, I think.
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  Speaker 4: And then then it's that sort of the thought process
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  Speaker 4: going into like choosing the first song from an album
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  Speaker 4: like something that would appear to a wider audience more
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  Speaker 4: side than something than you guys personally favor.
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  Speaker 2: Probably a bit of both, I think, trying to find
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  Speaker 2: that happy medium. I mean, the next sort of singles
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  Speaker 2: we've got, We've got hopefully Sober coming out this Friday,
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  Speaker 2: and then we've got Devil and Me about eight weeks later,
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  Speaker 2: and then the next single like that is leave a
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  Speaker 2: Light On. Now that song, if you'd asked me twelve
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  Speaker 2: months ago, I would have thought now, it probably won't
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  Speaker 2: be a single. But the way it's come together, it's
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  Speaker 2: a really good song and kind of shocked us a bit.
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  Speaker 2: This could actually be good because it shows showcases a
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  Speaker 2: lot of diversity in the band.
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  Speaker 4: Now, you guys recently signed with Ex Music as well,
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  Speaker 4: which is it's a growing label with an impressive roster.
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  Speaker 1: It's got bands like this and sisters.
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  Speaker 4: Dol Franken Bark, dreampiller Us Heaves the band signed on mate.
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  Speaker 4: So what what sorts of things does it open up
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  Speaker 4: for you as a band joining forces with someone like
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  Speaker 4: EX Music.
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  Speaker 2: I think for us it was a real great opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to get involved, like I said, with some great bands
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  Speaker 2: playing there on there and just seeing what those bands
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  Speaker 2: have been able. They're growing. They've been out during the
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  Speaker 2: support slots on some international things. So yeah, from our perspective,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like a great opportunity to join in with
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  Speaker 2: some of those things and get the music out to
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  Speaker 2: all why their audience, which is where we sort of
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  Speaker 2: we're hitting the ceiling ourselves.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly. Yeah, appeal to your audio. You have music in
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  Speaker 5: front of more ears.
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  Speaker 1: Always a bonus, isn't it now? I hope this is
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  Speaker 1: still going ahead.
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  Speaker 4: But you know you're watching a single at the Tribe
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  Speaker 4: in red Cliff that's part of Metal United down Under
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  Speaker 4: this Saturday, April twenty sixth, So tell us a bit
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  Speaker 4: more about that side.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, So we've got a call from the
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  Speaker 2: guy who was organizing that that show and said, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I know you've got a single coming out, how do
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  Speaker 2: you feel like doing lunch on that day? Perfect? If
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  Speaker 2: we can make it work, let's do it. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it came to really quickly, and yeah, it's just just
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  Speaker 2: good to get back out playing. You know, it's nice
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  Speaker 2: to play live shows and get out in front of
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  Speaker 2: an audience and to blow the co webs off.
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  Speaker 1: On bet And have you got any other sites coming
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  Speaker 1: up better than that one?
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  Speaker 2: At the moment. We we kind of haven't because we've
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  Speaker 2: been really focusing on getting this album wrapped up and
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  Speaker 2: getting a process going with that. So and then that
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  Speaker 2: that's what must be about eight weeks. I've got a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a trip overseas, so I'll be away
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  Speaker 2: for a while, so when we get back it'll be
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  Speaker 2: all all systems go. After that, I think.
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  Speaker 5: Looking forward to getting back up there mate, blowing some
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  Speaker 5: brains out.
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  Speaker 4: So that's the best place for people to keep up
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  Speaker 4: with Soundffliction order to listening music.
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  Speaker 2: I guess it's the usual. The Facebook page Soundfliction Band
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  Speaker 2: is the main main thing we use, and then Spotify
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  Speaker 2: and the usual corporates and the Apple Music and all
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  Speaker 2: the different pieces.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, very nice, very nice, indeed, Well, thanks very much
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  Speaker 4: for your time, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure catching up again.
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  Speaker 4: The song Sober is out this Friday with a music video,
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  Speaker 4: and it's a cracker of a cracker of a ballad
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  Speaker 4: my guys, Like I said, I generally switch off as
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  Speaker 4: soon as the word ballad comes up, but you guys
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  Speaker 4: have done al right with this one, so I'm looking
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  Speaker 4: forward to hearing the art stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks Chris, appreciate.
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  Speaker 6: Mm hmmm, I have thought anything.
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  Speaker 7: All that I wanted to be, got a beny imagination,
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  Speaker 7: never letting it every.
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  Speaker 8: I never got a fly, but there we were in
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  Speaker 8: that we were transcendentine. Don't just a sweet flew SOPAD.
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  Speaker 1: Got that.
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  Speaker 9: Out? You don't pay so.
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  Speaker 1: I never wanted to be the man that has come
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  Speaker 1: to me.
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  Speaker 8: Chios belavored, who knows why? Lone and empty to me?
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  Speaker 8: Now all I won't see much better version of me,
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  Speaker 8: free from two man, free from me, free from all
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  Speaker 8: that seemed to breathe to me.
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  Speaker 9: Oh my god, day don lay so so so crowd
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  Speaker 9: Dad's again? Sign that's a day that's over. Don't dad
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  Speaker 9: dank God play the so.
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  Speaker 8: So so.
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  Speaker 2: That.
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  Speaker 9: That's a reason. That's a take down. I don't talk
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  Speaker 9: so so soo