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The Side Effects Of Sin With ELIAS & JAMES From ANOXIA · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Elliots guitars from Anoxia, got James on bass, and we've
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  Speaker 1: got our debut album.
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  Speaker 2: Revel In Sin, out in a week the seventeenth of April. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, As.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned at least your debut.
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  Speaker 2: Very excited.
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  Speaker 1: So we released our EP on in February twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: just a little while now. We've just been touring a lot,
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  Speaker 1: playing a lot of shows, took some time off to
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  Speaker 1: right and came up with revel In Sin. So very
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  Speaker 1: excited to We feel like it's the next level in
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  Speaker 1: our progression as a band and just as musicians writing,
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  Speaker 1: just growing, fusing our death metal style, ultimol death metal
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  Speaker 1: style with some thrash metal elements as well.
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  Speaker 2: James came on board last August.
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  Speaker 1: In the finalization of the writing stage as well, so
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  Speaker 1: he'll be on deck four the albums.
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  Speaker 2: Also know we're excited, nice.
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  Speaker 4: And can it tund us a bit more about it
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  Speaker 4: from a musical point of view and what you're actually
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  Speaker 4: going for this time?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, So.
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  Speaker 1: We're all about the old school early nineties US death metal,
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  Speaker 1: so we're just building on that. The EP was four songs,
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  Speaker 1: which we're proud of. The album is just us leveling
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  Speaker 1: it up a bit in terms of speed, diversity, dynamics.
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  Speaker 2: So very much in the vein of the.
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  Speaker 1: EP, but just a few notches up from where we
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  Speaker 1: left off, so very much in the death Morbid Angel
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  Speaker 1: suffocation type of sound. Got lots going on, there's just
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  Speaker 1: different dynamics fast in some paces, slow, just changing it up,
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  Speaker 1: but all about those hooks and just keeping it intense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Cool released a single Rule by Cold Steel, So is
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  Speaker 4: that a good sonic representation of what to expect or
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  Speaker 4: is that just.
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  Speaker 3: One of the layers?
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  Speaker 2: Well, James answer this one.
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  Speaker 5: Actually yeah, Well that's actually the perfect song to choose
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  Speaker 5: because during the mixing process, we mixed all of the
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  Speaker 5: levels and all of our turns off that one song,
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  Speaker 5: and then we copied that over to the rest of
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  Speaker 5: the album. So really what you're hearing is this sound
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  Speaker 5: we went for for the whole album. So I think
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  Speaker 5: it really is the perfect total sound and mix. And
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  Speaker 5: it also in terms of the writing that we went
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  Speaker 5: for on this album, being just that bit faster, maybe
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  Speaker 5: that bit more technical, and just keeping our old school
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  Speaker 5: sound nice.
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  Speaker 4: So the album actually opens with the title track Rebellions
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  Speaker 4: in Mate, So why choose that song?
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  Speaker 3: To represent the whole body of music, Like what was
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  Speaker 3: so special about that one?
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  Speaker 1: So I think that was one of the ones when
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  Speaker 1: we brought it into the rehearsal room to start building
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  Speaker 1: on it, it was the one I think that caught
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  Speaker 1: our attention first, just because a lot going on. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of thrashy parts in there, and there's just
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  Speaker 1: that slammy, groovy hook in there, so just quite diverse
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  Speaker 1: with what's going on, really catchy in terms of how the.
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  Speaker 2: Lyrics are delivered, just the.
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  Speaker 1: Differences in riffs as well as that there's a cool solo.
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  Speaker 1: It's just really catchy, but also straight in your face
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  Speaker 1: and pummeling. So we thought it'd be a good single
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  Speaker 1: because of how catchy it is and how diversity is
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  Speaker 1: with what's going on musically.
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  Speaker 4: You sort of touched on this a little bit, guys,
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  Speaker 4: but I want to elaborate a little bit further, like
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  Speaker 4: how does Ravellin send different musically to Languish and Suffering?
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned progression a few times, man, how specifically.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my pustling to James just being I guess when
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  Speaker 1: you're in the band, just fresher set of ears and
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  Speaker 1: eyes just yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I guess it's also really dialing down on
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  Speaker 5: that old school sound, like it's constant rifts and there's hooks,
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  Speaker 5: and there's you know, really you know classic elements that
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  Speaker 5: you hear in those old school death Finittel albums. And
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  Speaker 5: I think it's a progression from what we wanted from
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  Speaker 5: the EP, Like what the album is really covers what
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  Speaker 5: an Oxya wants to be, I guess heard as So
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  Speaker 5: that's how I would say we progressed musically as a
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  Speaker 5: band from the EP as well. And then yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: mean having to write a whole album versus just an
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  Speaker 5: EP is also a massive step up as well. A
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  Speaker 5: lot of that's from a list as well. Pretty much
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  Speaker 5: all that's from a Lias coming in for me with
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  Speaker 5: everything pre written, I just wrote all my bass on top.
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  Speaker 5: I put in my own elements and put my own character.
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  Speaker 5: I put a bass solo in there and some tappy elements,
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  Speaker 5: so I definitely put my own mark on it. But
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  Speaker 5: a lot of that, all that writing, the riffs of
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  Speaker 5: everything as songwriting, that's that's all I ast. So it's
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  Speaker 5: definitely a big step up from just a simple EPH and.
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  Speaker 4: As a band, like what's your thought process going into
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  Speaker 4: your first album, like do you paint things now, Like
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  Speaker 4: do you sit and listen to EP and rip it
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  Speaker 4: apart and find what worked and what didn't and then
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  Speaker 4: try and take that through to the next one, or
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  Speaker 4: did you just treat it like a fresh body of work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a bit of both.
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  Speaker 1: So we look back at the EP, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: what worked, what didn't, what the strengths were, and then,
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  Speaker 1: because an album requires a lot more diversity, MB just
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  Speaker 1: a longer product in itself, what we wanted to include,
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  Speaker 1: what we want to grow on. So there are those
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  Speaker 1: hooks from the EP, but then there's things that we
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  Speaker 1: haven't done before, like just some really really fast parts
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  Speaker 1: and then just a long song that has big outro
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  Speaker 1: just to finish the album off.
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  Speaker 2: There might be a bit of a spoiler there, but.
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  Speaker 1: Just different elements and flavors that we could put in
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  Speaker 1: because time allowed us to as well as having the
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  Speaker 1: ability to take a step back and solely focus on
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  Speaker 1: writing with the EP, it was different because you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to get your.
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  Speaker 2: Brand out there and your name out there.
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  Speaker 1: We were playing shows whilst in the recording and mixing
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  Speaker 1: phase as well, so it was a combo of trying
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  Speaker 1: to do both. Whereas the album allowed us just to
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  Speaker 1: step back and just solely focus on a product that
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  Speaker 1: a we're proud of and put.
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  Speaker 2: Every bit of energy we put into it.
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  Speaker 1: But then we could do that and then step back
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  Speaker 1: after let it go through mixing, and then solely focus
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  Speaker 1: on touring and promoting it far and wide, which is
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  Speaker 1: the aim.
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  Speaker 4: Now, yeah, nice, and you mentioned a few bands before too,
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  Speaker 4: but you give your sound as being compared to Morbid Angel,
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  Speaker 4: Suffocation and Death. But as I had a band sort of
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  Speaker 4: trying to make them mark in the death metal scene
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  Speaker 4: like there. Obviously the bands are going to influence you,
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  Speaker 4: but how do you put your own it on things
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  Speaker 4: to make the music more more your own?
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  Speaker 1: I'll start and I'll pass it on to James. But
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  Speaker 1: at least from my perspective, what helps us as a
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  Speaker 1: band is we got our core group of bands that
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  Speaker 1: the four of us love and just listen to a lot.
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  Speaker 1: But then we all have our own bands that each
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  Speaker 1: one goes off to and listens to, so kind of
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  Speaker 1: changes it a bit in terms of how we approach
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  Speaker 1: and write things and maybe creative ideas.
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  Speaker 2: But we look at the bands we love as a
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  Speaker 2: building block.
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  Speaker 1: But then we also look at what we want to do,
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  Speaker 1: so we all love death metal, but we also love thrashy,
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  Speaker 1: fast stuff as well as combining those two.
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  Speaker 2: But with our main aim is just to keep the
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  Speaker 2: songs catchy.
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  Speaker 1: We've been told through punters and just peers that the
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  Speaker 1: number one thing that keeps people hooked is that our
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  Speaker 1: set list and our music is quite catchy, which can
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  Speaker 1: be rare for death metal. Death metal usually just purest
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  Speaker 1: fans and very nitpicky fans, which is great, but then
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  Speaker 1: also it's quite refreshing just to hear that our songs
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  Speaker 1: are catchy, even from people that wouldn't necessarily listen to
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  Speaker 1: death metal.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 4: Now, you guys are also recently managed by your mate Booking,
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  Speaker 4: so tell us a bit about that and what that
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  Speaker 4: opens up for you as a band.
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  Speaker 2: Give James.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is just a really good opportunity for us
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  Speaker 5: as a bed to just have that extra level of
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  Speaker 5: support behind us, and it's also another layer to help
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  Speaker 5: us be viewed more professionally by other people, because we
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  Speaker 5: all know within ourselves that we're very professional. We all
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  Speaker 5: have the same goal, but finding that fifth number as
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  Speaker 5: such to really push us forward when it comes to
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  Speaker 5: booking domestically, booking on larger tours, booking with other booking,
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  Speaker 5: and then bigger goals like going inter national, go to
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  Speaker 5: Japan and go to Europe. That's that extra layer that
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  Speaker 5: we've been eating, which is just it'll really allow us
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  Speaker 5: to open up to a bigger audience at a bigger
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  Speaker 5: market and just really hit the professional level we want
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  Speaker 5: to be at.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking of turn, you guys have got the album tour
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  Speaker 4: coming up from April to sevent eight, so tell us
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  Speaker 4: about that and where you're going.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So seventeenth of April is the release date of
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  Speaker 1: the album and coinciding with that is our Melbourne show,
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  Speaker 1: so that's going to be Sick.
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  Speaker 2: We're playing with were Wolves and Moream.
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  Speaker 1: And Grave Peeler to get things going, and then playing
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  Speaker 1: Canberra a couple of days later with Mooriam, Vexation.
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  Speaker 2: And Black and Dread.
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  Speaker 1: Then we are a couple of weeks after that we
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  Speaker 1: play our hometown Sydney show with Vexation, Horisoness and Old
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  Speaker 1: Goat Smoke which will be Sick and bring that just
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  Speaker 1: to launch the album as well as the social media promos.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just good to tour it, support it and
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  Speaker 1: give it views to people that might not necessarily have
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  Speaker 1: seen it or seen us before. And then off that
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  Speaker 1: where I'm going to do nationwide tour with Vexation and Atheist,
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  Speaker 1: which will be sick as well.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking of people not maybe seeing you guys before, made
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  Speaker 4: run as through a typical and NOXI your live show.
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  Speaker 3: What do we expect from you guys on stage?
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  Speaker 2: There you go for a James.
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  Speaker 5: Well Alias is sort of the stage juggernaut. He will
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  Speaker 5: he will stand there and he will focus on playing
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  Speaker 5: tight playing. He doesn't move a lot, but that's more
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  Speaker 5: of just a physical limitation from Joey. You could expect
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  Speaker 5: plenty of head back head bagging, plenty of a helicopter headbagging,
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  Speaker 5: and he will death stare you in the face and
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  Speaker 5: he will make a p out moved like a cauldron.
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  Speaker 5: For Marco, he's just got that really old school drumming
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  Speaker 5: style that is perfect with his band because he's been
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  Speaker 5: around for for quite a long time now thirty plus
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  Speaker 5: years in the scene, so you could always expect just
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  Speaker 5: kill a drumming and being on time. And then for me,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sort of a blend of Elias and Joey. I
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  Speaker 5: will headbang and I'll and I'll get the crowd going,
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  Speaker 5: but I'll also sit down and I'll focus on the
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  Speaker 5: riffs and be on time. And yeah, I think as
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  Speaker 5: a group, it really just you know, pulls the whole
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  Speaker 5: route together.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Friday, you go, guys. I've got a new
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  Speaker 4: segment I'm introduced called photo Bombs. So basically before we speak,
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  Speaker 4: I troll through social media and I'll find a couple
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  Speaker 4: of photos that I want to ask a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more about. So what I've come up with is what's
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  Speaker 4: going on in made like? The dog doesn't look like
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  Speaker 4: it's too fucking happy?
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  Speaker 5: Ah. Yeah, this was we were recording drums outside of
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  Speaker 5: the Bread Recording studio with with the bed and this
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  Speaker 5: was just this dog across the road. And yeah he
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  Speaker 5: was he was eyeing us up, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: But he went over to try and paddim because he
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  Speaker 3: was on the off.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, there's a fence, so there's a there's a
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  Speaker 5: there's only a small level of trust I have for
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  Speaker 5: a dog that's behind a fence. But he was I
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  Speaker 5: think he just wanted some food, to be honest.
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  Speaker 3: There beautiful dogs, aren't they Huskies? So so good all right?
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  Speaker 4: And the other one I found this right here. Looks
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  Speaker 4: like a fucking hell of a time.
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  Speaker 2: That was fun. So that was.
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  Speaker 1: About just under a year and a half ago. We
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  Speaker 1: played a boat show with It was of Cold, it
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  Speaker 1: was King Parrot, it was Dark Horse and ourselves and
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  Speaker 1: I was just with all the bands and the crew
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  Speaker 1: after after the day had wrapped up, when we're heading
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  Speaker 1: back to unload. So that was just a sick show
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  Speaker 1: along Sydney Harbor, played right before King Parrots, so it
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  Speaker 1: was different, but also in the sense of seeing people
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  Speaker 1: CrowdSurf and circled death and whatnot and washing just on
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  Speaker 1: a boat on the Sydney Harbor on a summers day,
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: What about down in front of air Is he dead?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Uh no he's not. He could actually be. That's Tom.
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  Speaker 1: He ran the day, did a great job on that,
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  Speaker 1: so I think he's just puffed after just a.
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  Speaker 2: Day of smashing out organization and all that.
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  Speaker 5: I actually I actually took that photo, so there go
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  Speaker 5: a spirit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah mane, Well, thanks very much for your time, guys.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a pleasure revel in.
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  Speaker 4: Seeingeys out April seventy, followed by a tour around US
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  Speaker 4: awaken people to find out more or to get your stuff.
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  Speaker 2: They can go through our Facebook, our Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: Our instagram is a link in it as well to
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  Speaker 1: all our other pages, even just YouTube leef websites, merge,
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  Speaker 1: whatnot starting point for them and yeah,