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Ignorance Is Bliss with ADAM HOLLAND From ARCHIVES · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I'm Adam from Arcaves from Northern Ireland and our album No Blessing Ignorance is out
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  on June seventh, which is this Friday. That it is, my friend.
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  Thanks for joining us today, Adam, thank you rabbling me no wise.
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  As you mentioned, Archives are set to release a new album, No
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  Blessing Ignorance on June the seventh. So how are you feeling about it?
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  Pretty excited? Feels like it's been a long time common in all honesty,
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  because we've been kada mousing the boat back and forward and taking our time with
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  us one because we kind of rushed the last album a bit. I think
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  we just couldn't wait to get it out, you know who kind of took
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  your time, heard a bit more and stuff and tried things out. So
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  excited to get it out there now finally. Yeah, I tell us a
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  bit about the album from a musical point of view, and what are you
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  going for with it musical point of view? Yeah, Well, our guitarist
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  Jerk wrote most of the stuff, and I think what we were trying to
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  do was throwing a few different elements this time compared to like the last album.
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  I think it was. It was good, but it was all kind
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  of it kind of had a similar thing going on to it, whereas I
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  feel like on this album is more there's a couple of songs that are a
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  bit different from the last one and things like that, you know, and
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  I guess we were just trying to have a bit of fun with it really,
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  you know. Yeah, you've released the singles Make That Mistake, Nice
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  Sweat, Self Inflicted, and Matriarchs, So overall they good sonic representation of
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  the album or is there a bit more there offer? I would I would
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  say they're a pretty good representation. I would say the single we have coming
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  out on Thursday, shark Pit, I think it kind of would tie them
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  all in together, and then you know fully what the album's like, you
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  know, because it has a few more kind of chaotic sections and it.
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  But yeah, overall, yeah, well, once the album comes out,
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  people will be able to get a hold of it on the on those streaming
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  platforms and stuff. So pick three songs off the album for someone who's never
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  heard of Archives before, three songs to listen to to give them the best
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  introduction, right, Oh, I would say probably start Self Inflected, then
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  maybe Make No Mistake on Matriarch, I would say it's it's hard to pack
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  the to be honest, so you sort of touched on a few little changes,
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  may be can we go a bit deeper on this one, like how
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  do how does how does No Bliss and Ignorance differ musically to your debut album
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  Decay Well, To be honest, I think we just thought about it a
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  bit more. Like there was there was times in the studio with the first
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  album where we just kind of just put stuff Darron and went right, that
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  I'll do onto the next thing, Whereas I feel like this time, we
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  kind of like we had hard whole songs finished and then we kind of you
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  know, took it back and thought about it for a week or so and
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  then went back to the studio and went right, we'll take this out move
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  that kind of we just messed about it, about with it a bit more
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  and kind of, I don't know, just tried to do stuff that was
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  a wee bit more out of our comfort zone. Yeah, And it's like
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  pushing the boundaries a wee bit more with certain things, like but I'm pretty
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  happy with her it's turned out. To be honest, it would be as
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  you should be making He's a fucking cracker of an album, right pracer of
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  an album. Now, I noticed there's no song on their cord, No
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  Bliss and Ignorance, so it means the title must have a little bit more
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  significance. Yeah. Yeah, Well, I think I came up with the
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  idea for the ALB before I think we'd even I think we maybe written one
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  song or something like that. But the idea behind No Blessed and Ignorance is
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  obviously the expression ignorance is blessed, But I wanted to write a load of
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  different topics of things where if you're ignorant to it only damage you in the
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  long run. Yeah, Like, for example, there's stuff on there about
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  like where we're from. There's like there's like a time where we're from where
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  there's a lot of like drug problems and stuff, and you can't really,
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  in my opinion, you can't really ignore it because it is destroying lives and
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  things like that. And there's other things on there that's like a bit more
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  world topic and kind of stuff like that. So kind of situation where if
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  you know only to be harm right, you guys are described as a medical
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  band. You know, your press releases night but the listener of the album
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  that there's so much more going on, like you draw from a much deeper
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  job ful music. There's elements of hardcore in there. There's I've got to
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  say, hardcore is probably a lot better representation on this album anyway, Like
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  you guys don't fuck around? Yeah, thank you very much. Man.
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  Yeah. Well, it's kind of like I feel like metal core in a
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  way now is it's kind of a very blanket, blanket statement where it's like
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  it's very like I would say, arguably, yes, we are a metal
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  core bomb, but me personally, like I do listen to a lot of
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  hardcore and stuff like that, and I sort of agrew up listening to that
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  and a lot of the other guys like Sure, for example, he's listened
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  to all sorts of stuff, Like his influences aren't just straight metal core either,
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  you know. But I guess it is a broad term now more than
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  other genres are. I think, you know, it's just an easy leabel,
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  you know, isn't it. I've got to say, right, Like,
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  to listen to the album, like you're you're angry as fuck on that
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  album, but to talk to you in person, you're not such a bad
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  break like I was expecting this big ogre coming out with dripping fucking ship.
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  Yeah, I've actually got that before. I've played I've played gigs before,
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  and then I've come off seage and been selling T shirts and stuff, and
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  everyone's like, you're still like nas and quiet. It's like, yeah,
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  because I've got it all on stage. I'm too exhausted from what I did
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  on stage. I can't even talk. And I think one of the best
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  things I loved about the album BRO is like there was no ballot on there.
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  Like every band these days seems to feel they have to put a ballot
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  on there somewhere, but personally I them, you know, but like you
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  guys just it was balls to the wall from starting to finishes. It's refreshing.
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  Yeah. I think that's what we wanted, you know, we kind
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  of wanted it to not really have any doll points, you know. I
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  think we're really we're kind of like hyperactive and trying to make it that way,
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  really worried about it, and then when we actually got the whole thing
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  back and listened through the all thing, We're like, Okay, it's pretty
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  balls the wall the whole time, which is what we want. You know
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  you've done well with that. Wait a sudden, I'm here at Rye.
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  We don't know too much about Northern Ireland and a new music saying over there.
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  Br So you formed in twenty twenty in Northern Ireland, but what was
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  the musical clubate like over there? Like, now, where did you fit
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  in? Like? Is there many bands doing your sort of thing over there?
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  It's interesting actually because like we sort of formed during sort of all the
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  lockdowns and all that stuff. Beforehand, there was there was there's always been
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  a scene, right, But I feel like beforehand there was always a lot
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  of bands, but not many people going out to the shows. It was
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  maybe like one band would go out and see the other band and stuff,
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  and it was always cool. It was a tight, tight neck community.
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  But now I think post COVID it must have something to do with the fact
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  that there's been you weren't able to go to gigs for so long, right,
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  I feel like there's more people that are going out and attending all the
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  local stuff that maybe aren't even any band, they don't play instruments and stuff
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  like that, And I just feel like there's a better scene here now then
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  I remember there being anyway, you know. So it's it's pretty good.
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  It's I mean, there's not much else to do in Ireland apart from drink
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  beer and playing music, so it's a good clear. I was actually out
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  there on tour with a band with an acy DC tribute band about about seven
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  years ago, I think, And is there Maharaje Is there a count called
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  maharaj oh Maha? Yeah, yeah, we played there. There's a nice
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  little pub of that, a little downstairs live music area, and a great
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  time there is because I think there's about four hundred and fifty people there.
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  You guys are fucking insane. Wow. That's that's a really that's a random
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  tied feud ben and I love that. Yeah right, yeah, well that's
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  the only one I remember out of the whole I don't remember the name of
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  anyway. It was an acy DC tribute band called Akadaka, and we tour
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  it all all the way through Ireland and I've had the time of our lives.
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  There's just such a such a beautiful country. Yeah, it's good.
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  It's good fun over here. People are people are friendly, you know,
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  everybody wants the chart and stuff. You know, it's good fun. The
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  beer is good and the music's good, so what's not to love about it?
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  Yeah, exactly, girl. So he's going to be heading out on
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  any showers, are heading out the road to provide the new album. Yes,
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  we had a and I think it's about three weeks now. We're doing
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  the No bless and Ignorance to Her, which sort of runs a couple of
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  weekends. So we're going over to England. First, we're going to Bristol,
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  Luton and Norwich, and then I think we're home for a two weeks
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  and then we're going back again. We're doing oh where is it this time?
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  We're doing London anyway, We're doing Camden in London, We're doing Birmingham.
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  See how good my memory is here? Newport? Oh, there's one
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  another? Not again. No it's not even I don't think it is not.
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  But that would have been good if I get set out of all the
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  towns in England, that would have been amazing, to be fair. But
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  yeah, and then we're doing Dublin and Goal so yeah nice. And if
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  you guys ever been out this way before the Australia, yeah, I mean
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  we would, we would love to. I personally, I used to live
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  in Australia. A couple of years ago. Like, I love it out
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  there, but it was the cost of getting the bond out there. Is
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  sure I wouldn't get somebody else to pay for it. I would say definitely,
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  we'll be out there soon, but still working on that. Leave it
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  with me, mate, I'll see if I can talk somebody your daughter,
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  because I reckon you guys would be fantastic live. I'll get somebody else to
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  pay for it so you can come over here and I can see it.
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  Well, she's all right, animal, Thanks very much for your time that
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  I brought. The album No Bliss Ignorance is out this Friday during the seventh
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  and she's an absolutely fucking cracking album. Rosa, Congratulations and hopefully you do
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  fucking to the way took himself? Thanks to what chap you'll find you las
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  States. He's just gotting multiple last you're just saying no, you are,
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