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The Struggle Is Real With DAVE MATRISE From JUNGLE ROT · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I am Dave Atrice for the band Joel Right, uh be coming over there
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  soon in Australia in the next two weeks, and we're getting ready and we're
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  excited as hell for a first time to be there. Hell yeah, Dave,
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  thanks for joining us this one. And brother, Yeah, good to
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  see you. I'm excited. I'll get all right. So does you say
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  jungle right? I'm making your first ever trip to Australia next month to play
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  a stringer shows with Roddy and christ starting in Brisbane and made the first before
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  going through Sydney at Canberra and two or three shows in Melbourne too, I
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  believe. So it isn't far away. Maybe are you pack? Get ready
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  to go? I'm going to start tomorrow. Actually I mean running down the
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  list tomorrow and I'm gonna start doing it and start mentally prepare myself. That's
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  the hardest I got to mentally prepare myself for their flight. I bet not
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  just a flight made the shows. Like from my reckoning, you've got six
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  shows in six consecutive days. Either your booking agent doesn't like you or you
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  guys are in a hurry. No, that's how we like it. We'd
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  rather be playing every night. Man, when you when you're on tour,
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  you want to play every night because if you're not, you're going to spend
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  money. So we'd rather try to make some money and work every night.
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  You know, Am I actually talking to a smart musician? You were supposed
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  to come out last April, mate, but that chield got postponed, so
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  you must be really looking forward to twelve months later. Like, I know,
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  it's a bummer and these things happened with tours getting postponed, but you
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  just work yourself up to do something for the first time and then all of
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  a sudden you're like, oh, I ain't going. We'll go next year
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  exactly. But we knew it was going to happen, you know, Anthony,
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  from your booking. You know you had to ticket's already bought, so
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  we just had a year to use them. So we do coming no matter
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  what it happened to mind up perfect. The timing was right with writing christ
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  and I think we got one short suffocation in New Zealand, so the timing
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  was perfect. This time is gonna work out well, yeah, And speaking
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  of your first times, this is going to be the band's first time touring
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  ast right, So Are you the sort of guys you'll talk to people that
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  have been here before to find out what to expect and sort to get ready
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  for it. Are you just coming out of your cold and slay and hit
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  me with your best shot. We're just coming out cold and hitting us with
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  the best shot, and we're you know, this is whatever we're heading for,
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  it's exciting because we've never been there, so whatever it is, we're
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  ready to take it on, you know, A on the flip side of
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  that coin, bro Like, people out here won't know you too much about
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  what you expect from Jungle Ride either, so tell it. Tell us what
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  we expect firstly and running through like I keep it called Jungle Rod Live Show.
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  If there's any such thing as a typical shame, well as I can
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  say is we're the real deal. We're a real old school doth metal band.
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  I don't know people ever seen a real school old school death metal band.
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  Were the real deal and usually a typical show. You know. I
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  brought, you know, a lot of violence, a lot of headbang,
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  a lot of old school pits, and that's what we bring when we play
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  our music by a chanting too. I like chanting. I'm into that a
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  lot too, A lot of chant A lot of chanting guys in like channing
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  crowd, chanting back with you when you sing. You know, just don't
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  go right joke topical Hey, you know you know a lot of that,
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  man, I'm into that old school stuff. We'll put that call out there,
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  mate, We'll try and get as many people gone on as they can.
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  Now you're coming over. As we said before with Rotting Christ mate,
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  so as it's a brutal double act. Man. So why do you think
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  us two bands in particular make good touring partners. I think it's a good
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  package because we're completely different. You know, you got death metal band and
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  you got you know, writing Christ. What do you label them as.
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  I mean, they're kind of like a rock star, man, They're just
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  an amazing band. I think for us it's really something special because we get
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  to play in front of a different crowd, you know, showcase ourselves in
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  a different audience, and that's what we like doing, trying to win them
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  over one by one, you know, every night, and that's what we're
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  looking forward to. They like with the mentality, I guess Broy, like,
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  what do you go like you're opening for Ronning Christ, Like, do
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  you with no disrespect to the main band, but do you guys go out
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  there to try and kick their ass every night? Or are you going out
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  there just to warm the crowd up and have fun. We're gonna go up
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  there warm the crowd up, man, and that's our job, is I
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  mean, but we're gonna bring it as well too, you know, we're
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  I like playing with them. You know, they're really very production band.
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  You know, they're gonna have a lot of production going on. I know
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  they're seen it before. They're great, and then you got us. We're
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  more of a plug and play band, and I like that. So it's
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  just gonna make us a lot more rare. We're just plugging and playing and
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  just throwing it down the throat. Now you mentioned just before the Rotten Christ
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  are a difficult band to label, but you guys yourself us got a lot
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  going on musically, Like your music blends old school thrashed with the death metal.
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  There's crossover and crouss punking there. Like where did that sound come from?
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  Initially? Like when you got started, I couldn't imagine that everyone was
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  doing that, you know, Like, did you sit down and have a
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  meeting and say we want to do this and this or did it just come
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  together? I think it just came together. That was a little bit of
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  everything the recipe, you know, like a freaking style we are. We
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  got a little bit of everything. You know. I grew up on Lake
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  Obituary and SLD you know, all that stuff, and it's kind of that's
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  kind of what we are a little bit of that, you know, and
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  that's what I kind of feel us. You know, how about during like
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  the writing process made like how do you find the balance between all those influences?
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  Like is it trial and error? Like how do you know when you've
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  gone too far with one style and not far enough with another? But I
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  think for us, over the writ and it's off field, we kind of
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  just feel it out and uh, you know, we keep going to it
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  feels right, and when it feels like it's finished, it's when it's finished.
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  You know. We kind of don't really spend too much on time on
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  trying to write too long a songs. We like them, you know,
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  three three and a half minutes and then cat it in that timeframe just to
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  let them just you know, dissolve it all enough and then give them more,
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  you know, give them a break and give them another three minute,
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  you know, I like I like that length on he goes really our old
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  school mate, I reckon. There's a few younger bands these days could take
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  a bit of a bit of a tip from that. Just get it,
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  just to stick to the basics and don't fuck around. Yeah, yeah,
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  that's what we do pretty much. They going back in Tibro like Jungle Rot
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  started back in nineteen ninety two, but you joining it ninety ninety four.
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  Mates, So what was what was your early vision for the band back then
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  and how's it changed since the early visions were doing just what we're doing now,
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  you know, you know, playing some of these places like Australia and
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  all these biggest festivals that we've been doing over the years. That was the
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  vision. I always tried to take it as far as you can and change.
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  Why we really hadn't changed much because I since I joined the band,
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  I took all the writings, pretty much all the writing, and that keeps
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  it, you know, pretty much jungle right the way we are, you
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  know, because I'm handling most of the duties on writing, and I think
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  that's what keeps the recipe going like, over that thirty plus years have been
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  in a band that, mate, Like, there's been so many trends coming
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  down in to the music industry, so much bullshit going on in there,
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  but you guys have stuck true to your DNA. I guess, Like,
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  but how difficult is it surviving and existing as a band when you refuse to
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  conform to what everyone else is doing? I know what you're saying, man,
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  because that's been like, you know, the saying of our career.
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  You know. But you know, I've always said, you know, not
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  to use any band but like Slayer, A band like Slayer, they've never
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  changed their whole career. You know, it's not easy to do, you
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  know, It's so easy to change from the flavor of the month or what's
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  hot and what's not. And it's not either to stay true to yourself.
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  And I think more bands should be applaud to do it. You know,
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  you made an identity of what we are with our name and our sound,
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  and you know we want to keep it. That's who we are. And
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  you released your eleven studio album were called Arms, back in twenty twenty two.
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  Mate, So how would you say, like we've we're talking about you
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  guys sticking to your roots and nah who you are. But how would you
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  say Jungle Rocks sound I guess is growing or changed over the course of your
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  eleven albums. I think it progressed. Every album progresses more just been writing
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  wise, Rift Rise, you know just lyrically wise, just everything production wise.
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  I think you always want to top the last one. But like I
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  said before, most of it's always gonna sound like drunk and wrap because of
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  the writing. But you know, I think everyone's better than the last one.
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  I mean, and that's our goal is to try to make the next
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  one better than the last. That's what that's what we like doing. Now.
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  You mentioned your role in the writing process for the music for the band,
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  right, so after thirty years, I guess of writing in eleven albums,
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  might like, does it get easier or harder to come up with new
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  fresh materials the more you're at Easier, I mean, because we know what
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  we're doing, We got a former that works, and it just comes that
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  much faster. You know, I'm always picking up the guitar writing riffs.
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  It just seems like it's some guitar players can relate to me. You can
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  just pick up the guitar and you can start writing. You know, I
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  could just start writing riffs and the ones that stick to your head you remember,
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  and then you just start building them up and recording on your fall.
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  Before you know, you have ten changes twelve, fifteen, twenty, and
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  then eventually it just comes together. It makes a song. I mean,
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  it's a beautiful thing. It is. The will be out here in May
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  as we say, mate, But there's a smash and grab run the shows
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  while you're in Australia. So what's the next Vajunga rod off of that night?
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  What do you got planning for the rest of twenty twenty four. We'll
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  come back from that and keep righting. We got a month to write and
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  then we're heading to Europe for like six six weeks or even June. We
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  get back in August and then we got a month to get ready to go
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  in the studio September and then start all over the first and first of the
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  year and twenty five sick a continual cycle in it, the cycle of metal.
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  Could you ask, Yeah, it's exactly what it is. I mean,
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  we'll probably release it in the spring of twenty five and then get back
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  out there. But it's really amazing. You know, we're in the band
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  and you you take twenty five already. You know, when when you plan
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  ahead, it's amazing how fast the years we come. Because you're planning six
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  seven months ahead, so the years go so much faster than they normally do.
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  It's not going to take another thirty years to come back at it to
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  Australia, that is it. I hope not. I think. I think
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  when we come out there, we're gonna win over the crowd and I think
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  we're gonna hopefully make a demand for it and we'll be back during twenty five
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  as well on the new album and station. Dave, Well, thanks very
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  much for your time. I just to refresh everyone his memory. Jungle Rot
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  will be here with Rodney Christ from May the first, going to all the
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  capital cities, so check out your socials and grave yourself a ticket.