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From Carnage To Creativity: KING PARROT’s MATT YOUNG On Tour Burnout, Album Drops, And What’s Next · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: My name is Matt Young and I play in the
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  Speaker 1: band King Parrot do the vocals and yeah that's me weir,
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  Speaker 1: thanks so much.
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  Speaker 2: After smashing out a thirty three date tour across Europe
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  Speaker 2: and the UK with Pantera and Power Trip, how did
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  Speaker 2: that experience shape and or energize the band coming into the.
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  Speaker 1: New record Well, I mean, I guess initially it was energizing,
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  Speaker 1: but by the end of it we.
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  Speaker 3: Were pretty pretty well naked.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon, I don't know, it just seemed like at
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  Speaker 1: the end of this one, it just sort of the
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  Speaker 1: jet lag and the exhaustion from playing so many shows
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  Speaker 1: was was.
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  Speaker 3: Intense.
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  Speaker 1: It was crazy, but we had the best time. It
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  Speaker 1: was an amazing experience. It's you know, just one of
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  Speaker 1: those things that you're just kind of you have to
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  Speaker 1: pinch yourself sometimes and just goes it's really.
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  Speaker 3: Happening, you know. It was crazy. It was so awesome, and.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sort of you know, we've had had a month
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  Speaker 1: or so off now and just getting back into doing
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  Speaker 1: some Aussie shows and and there the records out and
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  Speaker 1: you know a week or so, a bit over a week,
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  Speaker 1: so it's exciting time for the band.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely crazy. Hey, do you remember your like the
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  Speaker 2: first King Parrots show and like to see where you
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  Speaker 2: guys are now? Is it crazy for you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I think we've done We've done things that
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  Speaker 3: we never even would have pitched.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we've done things that we never would
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  Speaker 1: have even thought were possible.
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  Speaker 3: And that's been just such a crazy experience. Even even
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  Speaker 3: in the first.
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  Speaker 1: Few years, we did things that we'd never even thought
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  Speaker 1: were possible, and it just seems to keep rolling on.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things, one of the things I'm
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  Speaker 1: most kind of proud of, is we've been sort of
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  Speaker 1: really uncompromising with the music and we've stayed very true
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  Speaker 1: to our roots and stayed like I think our new
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  Speaker 1: records easily the most extreme thing we've done. So it's
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  Speaker 1: great in the sense that we can, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: say that we've done that. You know, we've we've stuck
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  Speaker 1: true to our roots and gotten heavier.
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  Speaker 2: Really yeah, well, and it's definitely paid off. Was there
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  Speaker 2: a moment in your career with the band that you're like,
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  Speaker 2: holy shit, we've made it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's like, I don't know to find
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  Speaker 1: made it, you know, I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what that. I don't know what that
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  Speaker 3: means really, but.
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  Speaker 1: What I mean, I'm just grateful for the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we get to do this, and we get to do
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  Speaker 1: it regularly, and that people care and people seem to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the shows.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, the.
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  Speaker 1: New record and all the singles and videos stuff that
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  Speaker 1: we've released so far has been really well received. And
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we've got I just got the routing
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  Speaker 1: for our We've got this massive North American tour coming
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  Speaker 1: up at at the end of July, and I just
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  Speaker 1: got the final routing for it, all close to the
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  Speaker 1: final routing, and there's like fifty shows and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: holy shit, what do you.
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  Speaker 2: What do you guys do like for your downtime to
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  Speaker 2: fully like unwind in between shows? Do you get to
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  Speaker 2: do that or.
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  Speaker 1: Like while we're on tour or when we get home
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  Speaker 1: from tour.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when you're on tour, do you have downtime at all?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's not looking like we're gonna have much downtime
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  Speaker 1: on this next one.
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  Speaker 4: Crap.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like I think there's one day. It looks
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  Speaker 3: like there's one day off.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we might be able to sneak a couple
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  Speaker 1: we might be able to sneak off like another day
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  Speaker 1: or two off here or there. But at this point
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  Speaker 1: in it's looking like it's looking like we are plan
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  Speaker 1: pretty much every day. But you know, like if we're
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  Speaker 1: near something, you know, like we've seen cool stuff like
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  Speaker 1: in the when we've toured in North America. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we've been a neighbor Falls a whole bunch of times
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  Speaker 1: and done stuff like that. We've been to the Grand Canyon,
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  Speaker 1: We've We've seen so much stuff over the years. And
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  Speaker 1: but I think generally when we when we get a
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  Speaker 1: day off, we just like to maybe try and like
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  Speaker 1: invest in a nice hotel with nice comfortable beds in
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  Speaker 1: a pool or a spa or a gym or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, so we can just sort of just chill
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  Speaker 1: out mostly and have some good food. That's that's the
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  Speaker 1: most important thing. A good night's sleep's always probably the
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  Speaker 1: most important thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent said that you do seek that
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  Speaker 2: out when you can get it and use it, you deserve.
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  Speaker 3: It, totally, right, totally.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it can be few and far between, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, now we kind of we try and tour
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  Speaker 1: in vehicles like that we can sleep in with, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's that's that's helpful. You kind of get
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  Speaker 1: It's sort of a little annoying at the start to
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  Speaker 1: get used to trying to sleep in that kind of
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  Speaker 1: thing because you're bouncing down the highway, But once you
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  Speaker 1: get after a few nights, you get used to it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, yeah, awesome. And can you talk us
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  Speaker 2: through the emotions behind the recent track Get what You're
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  Speaker 2: Given and what it was like to record it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So that song is like, you know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a tribute to friends that passed and one
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  Speaker 1: friend of ours in particular, Boyd Sinnet, who who was
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  Speaker 1: our you know, he's like the sixth member of the band.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he did a lot of our artwork. He
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  Speaker 1: did a lot of our designs for our album covers.
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  Speaker 1: He did like two of the album covers, and he
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  Speaker 1: did the two EPs that we've released. And he's in
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  Speaker 1: our music videos. He's a collaborator on the music videos.
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  Speaker 1: He's always hopping out and you know, he tragically passed
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago now. And you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say like any of our songs are about
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  Speaker 1: any like it's hard to sort of go Our songs
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  Speaker 1: are just particularly about one thing. You know, there's always
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  Speaker 1: different I think there's always different things that sort of
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  Speaker 1: get put into the lyrics or different circumstances or things
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  Speaker 1: like that that I'll insert into lyrics, so it's sort
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  Speaker 1: of doesn't make them about one certain thing. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that song is definitely about grief and the grieving process
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  Speaker 1: and just trying to trying to work through that sort
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. I mean, I don't really writing songs and
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  Speaker 1: performing them live is a great way to process that
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  Speaker 1: stuff from my perspective, and it's like it's almost a
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  Speaker 1: therapeutic thing for me getting on stage screaming my ass
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  Speaker 1: off and singing these songs. And one of the funny things,
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  Speaker 1: like he's even singing songs that we wrote like seven, eight, nine,
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  Speaker 1: ten years ago, whatever it is, and they kind of
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  Speaker 1: sometimes they seem to take on there another meaning or
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  Speaker 1: a different meaning. And you know, there's definitely a few
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  Speaker 1: songs that we've done in the past that I kind
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  Speaker 1: of like, I'm like, wow, like that mean that song
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  Speaker 1: means something completely different to me now than when I
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  Speaker 1: wrote it, and even the lyrics mean something different. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting to see how things change over
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  Speaker 1: the years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy. I never really thought about it that way,
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  Speaker 2: and it must be so true. As an artist a songwriter,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're writing something a song in a frame
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  Speaker 2: of mind at the time, and then when you go
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  Speaker 2: to revisit them, as you said, they can have completely
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  Speaker 2: different meanings for you at that time.
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  Speaker 1: Totally, totally, totally.
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  Speaker 3: Does you know.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's one song that we play there's always been
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  Speaker 1: in our set things.
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  Speaker 3: We wrote it.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Disgrace Yourself. And yeah, the meaning of that
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  Speaker 1: song when I wrote it compared to what it meant now.
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  Speaker 1: It was like I was just singing in at rehearsal
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  Speaker 1: the other day and I was just thinking, Gee, this
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  Speaker 1: the whole all the lyrics and everything that it is
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  Speaker 1: is something totally different to what it was when I
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  Speaker 1: wrote it. And that's that's great, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, interesting. Yeah, And a young Person's Guy to
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  Speaker 2: King Parrot is your first full length album in five years?
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  Speaker 2: Why is now the right time to unleash the Beast?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess, I mean we just didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: wait any longer, really, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: We've we worked hard on the record most of the
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  Speaker 1: last year. We kind of got the writing done the
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  Speaker 1: pre production and all that sort of stuff, and it
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  Speaker 1: took some time to mix it. You know, we probably
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  Speaker 1: spent you know, maybe up to six months mixing it
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  Speaker 1: and just you know, mixing it, taking it away, going
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  Speaker 1: back listening again, changing a few things, trying to get
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  Speaker 1: the right guitar times, trying to get the right vocal drum.
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  Speaker 3: You know, all that ship, you know, all.
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  Speaker 1: All that luring ship that you probably don't want to
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  Speaker 1: hear about, you know, but it's all the nuances, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all that little all those little things that most people
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  Speaker 1: probably wouldn't even notice, but it's when you're sort of
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  Speaker 1: looking at everything under a magnifying glass, you kind of
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  Speaker 1: got to pay a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Attention to it.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, obviously, yeah, we didn't want to wait
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  Speaker 1: any longer to put out a new record. So here
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  Speaker 1: it is. You know, we've done a few singles, a
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  Speaker 1: few videos, and it's it's uh, you know, we we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be touring right over the top of when
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  Speaker 1: it comes out, so doing doing lots of shows around
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  Speaker 1: Australia on the weekends and then and then after it's
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  Speaker 1: sort of been out for a month or so, we'll
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  Speaker 1: be in the in North America doing doing fifty shows
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  Speaker 1: over there, twenty with Pantera and them on a Marth and.
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  Speaker 3: A bunch of headliners we're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: I just found out we're doing a bunch of shows
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  Speaker 1: with Weed Eater as well, who were our old friends
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  Speaker 1: and we've toured with quite a lot over the years.
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  Speaker 1: And we're doing a whole bunch of headlining shows that
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  Speaker 1: We've got a couple of bands, like a band called
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  Speaker 1: Squid Pisser who have members of Guy and which is
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  Speaker 1: really cool. Another band called Bong Andada who we've actually
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  Speaker 1: played with North America before and they're really cool.
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  Speaker 3: Du is the young band and.
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  Speaker 1: I really like them and I really like what they do.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's gonna be great to be able to
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  Speaker 1: get out there and we're playing. You know, the whole
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  Speaker 1: tour is sort of based around us doing the shows
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  Speaker 1: with Pantera and Mahama, but they don't play every day,
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  Speaker 1: so we will be playing every day, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much we might try and sneak a couple more
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  Speaker 1: days off in there, but as it stands.
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  Speaker 3: And what I'm looking at with our list there, it's
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  Speaker 3: like fifty shows.
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  Speaker 2: So that's insane. That is so insane. Is it. It
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  Speaker 2: must be nerve racking for you guys doing that many
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  Speaker 2: shows or are you guys all sort of like, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, just knowing what the thirty show, the thirty shows
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  Speaker 1: in Europe did to us, Like yeah, now title was,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is pretty ectic. But it's fine, you know, like,
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  Speaker 1: how can I complain? You know, like, this is what
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  Speaker 1: we love to do, this is what we this is
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  Speaker 1: what we signed up for. And just the fact that
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  Speaker 1: there's fifty promoters out there that are willing to have
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  Speaker 1: our band perform uh throughout America, to me is mind blowing.
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  Speaker 1: That's insane. So I'm just incredibly grateful for that opportunity
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  Speaker 1: in itself. That's it's nuts.
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  Speaker 2: It is insane. And you know what, especially for an
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  Speaker 2: Aussie band as well, I feel like it is harder
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  Speaker 2: for Ossie bands to gain international success. You guys have
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  Speaker 2: done that. Do you have any advice or do you
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  Speaker 2: know why you guys have been so successful overseas for
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  Speaker 2: or do you have any advice for any Aussie bands,
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  Speaker 2: I should say, looking to break into that market.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I guess it's one of those things that
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  Speaker 1: you just got to really be trying try and be
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  Speaker 1: true to yourself and do what do what's uniquely you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean when you get over the places like America
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  Speaker 1: and Europe and stuff, and you see how many bands
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  Speaker 1: are over there, like it's insane. It is insane, the
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  Speaker 1: amount of bands and the different scenes and all that
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  Speaker 1: sort of stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: In America, it's it's nuts.
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  Speaker 1: So and then you think about how many bands are
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  Speaker 1: in Australia that are trying to break out of Australia too.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many, and so you've really got to do
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  Speaker 1: something different. You've got to be able to sort of
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  Speaker 1: stand out, and you've got to be able to put
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  Speaker 1: on a live show that people want to see, and
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  Speaker 1: you've also got to have the songs that people want
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  Speaker 1: to hear.
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  Speaker 3: And to get.
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  Speaker 1: All of those chuck all those things in the melting
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  Speaker 1: pot and to try and get it right. It can
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  Speaker 1: be really tricky, and you know, you could just be
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  Speaker 1: slightly off on one thing and it won't won't translate well.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the originality thing is the most important thing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when you're looking at genres like grindcore or
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  Speaker 1: thrash metal or death metal, like it's so very easy
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  Speaker 1: just to be generic, you know, and fall into that
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  Speaker 1: sort of generic kind of category, I guess, and you've
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  Speaker 1: got to have something that stands out, you've got to
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  Speaker 1: do something different. For us, I think we've been blessed
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  Speaker 1: in the sense that we've always had our own kind
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  Speaker 1: of sound with the songwriting and with the vocals and
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  Speaker 1: the way that it's and the way that we kind
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  Speaker 1: of bounce between super high intensity and then like super
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  Speaker 1: like kind of groovy parts. That's been something that we've
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  Speaker 1: done well, I think, and that sort of helps set
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  Speaker 1: us apart. So then we've had the music videos, which
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  Speaker 1: have been a real bonus for us, where we've done
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  Speaker 1: like ridiculous music videos and people have kind of latched
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  Speaker 1: onto that, and then our live show as well, Like
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that's where we kind of do our
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  Speaker 1: best work. So we've been lucky in that regard. But
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  Speaker 1: I know it's not that and it hasn't been easy.
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  Speaker 1: We've worked incredibly hard at all of those things, so
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, getting elements, all those elements together,
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  Speaker 1: it is kind of challenging, but it's if you really
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  Speaker 1: want it and you really want to do it, then
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  Speaker 1: you know, you apply yourself and you just keep trying
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  Speaker 1: and getting better and doing better work and hopefully the
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: ducks line up and people did it and the where
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  Speaker 1: you go. But yeah, it's certainly it's not for the
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  Speaker 1: faint heart, and that definitely.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like you can't just rely on one thing,
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  Speaker 2: like say, great live performances. You can't just rely on that.
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  Speaker 2: It's all going to be sort of everything coming.
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  Speaker 1: Together totally right and that and that willingness, and they're
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  Speaker 1: wanting to improve all the time. Yeah, I want to
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  Speaker 1: get better. I want to be a better vocalist. Our
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  Speaker 1: band wants to get better all the time. And that's
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  Speaker 1: that's something that we've you know, said about doing. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe that, you know, on this new record you
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  Speaker 1: can see that. And we're already thinking about the next one.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, now that COVID's done and all that ship
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  Speaker 1: and we can tour again and play and yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: just want to keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, wicked, that was going to be one of my
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  Speaker 2: questions later after this album. Is there more So I'm
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  Speaker 2: glad that you answered that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking about doing you know, we've got we've
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: been there's been some talk about doing like a cover
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: ZP or something like that. We really like that have
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  Speaker 1: influenced us. So we've definitely been talking about that.
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  Speaker 3: And then.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like we're starting to you know, we've we've started
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  Speaker 1: writing riffs already for the next record.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's that's already underway.
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  Speaker 2: Wicked And talking a little bit more about your influencers.
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  Speaker 2: What about for you? Who are some of you? I
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  Speaker 2: know you've probably been asked this a million times. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: but who are some of your influences?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: When you go back to when I look back throughout
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  Speaker 1: the whole, like just going over the years. Early on,
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  Speaker 1: I would say all the you know, Bond, Scott, Brian Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: Ozzie Osborn, all of that stuff is they're all you know,
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  Speaker 1: Rob Halford, all of that stuff. And then getting further
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  Speaker 1: along the track as I got into like heavier stuff,
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  Speaker 1: I'd be lying if I didn't say, like bands like
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  Speaker 1: Guns and Roses and Motley Cruze weren't an influence when
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  Speaker 1: I was much younger, but I kind of moved.
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  Speaker 3: Onto that.
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  Speaker 1: Then you know, you know, Slayer, Sepal Tour, Pantera and
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  Speaker 1: then he and then getting into like once you sort
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  Speaker 1: of get once I you know, you know, found Metallica,
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  Speaker 1: then got into Slayer and Sebal Tour Pair Terror when
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  Speaker 1: I was younger. That kind of opened the doors to
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  Speaker 1: all the death metal stuff. So then I was like Obituary,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Cannibal Corps, d Side, all that stuff, and then getting
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  Speaker 1: into that, and then I'm starting to become more familiar
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  Speaker 1: with the Australian scene. In the nineties, it was bands
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  Speaker 1: like Damage, Bean Flippers, used to Execution, Blood Duster, Bremla
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: and Alchemists, all those christ bait bands like that that
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: had a big influence on me.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: As I was sort of.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Started playing in bands and getting down in Melbourne and
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: doing all that stuff. I was heavily influenced by the
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Australian scene. Dread Nought were a big influence on me
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: early early days as well. And I mean now the
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: old bass player from Dreadnought Squizz is the guitarist thinking Parrots.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: So that's but I mean, I'm into everything from like
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: hardcore punk stuff, punk rock, black metal, death metal, grindcore. Obviously,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I love stone of rock stuff. I love bands like Clutch,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: one of my favorites. I listened to everything. I'm not
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: sort of I'm not tom I'm an open book and
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I like to I'd like to be influenced by lots
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: of different stuff. You know, I've been I'll be with
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Acid Bath reforming. I've been listening to that again and
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: we're actually playing a show, like our first show on
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: this US tour is.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Going to be with Acid Bath and Pentagram for foxs
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: sakes in New York.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: So I saw that crazy.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: It's insane, you know.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I was just sort of looking at the dates and thinking, know,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: when we're on tour with Pantera over there, maybe I'll
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: be able to see Acid Bath.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: And then I saw that show that they had in
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: New York and it only had one support on it.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: So I asked the question.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: With our booking agent, and the next thing I know,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: we were on the show.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, Wow, that's amazing, and isn't it funny?
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Just going back to your point about like the music
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: you grew up on was pretty heavily American influence or
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: you know, influence from the UK as well. I had
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: this growing up. I don't know if you did, but
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I started out listening to, you know, all the bigger
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: metal bands that everyone knows, and then I started discovering
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: the Australian metal bands and I was like holy shit,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: we've got some good bands here.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, totally, totally. Yeah, I've ever nursed in that.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: When I was like when I was probably about fourteen
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: or fifteen years old, I started.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: You know, this is a long time ago.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: You know, I was writing letters to bands like I was,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: you know in snail male kind of tape trading and
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: doing all that, getting cassettes and T shirts and all
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. Just taking a risk on bands,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: you know, like getting mail order catalogs and fanzines and
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: things like that where they would put addresses or po
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: boxes in there, right letters to bands. I've still got
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: like a folder somewhere with all the letters that I
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: used to write to all band members and stuff.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: So awesome. Yeah.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was very committed to it all when I
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: was younger, for sure.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely. And you've got a mix of intimate
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Aussie venues at massive international stages coming up. Do you
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: prefer one over the other?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean it's yeah, it's too sept I
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: like both. I don't prefer one over the other. I
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: just I like the experience of being able to do both.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Sometimes.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I guess when you're playing those bigger places, you kind
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: of get into this sort of groove with it, I guess,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and it's it's very comfortable.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: You've got so much room to.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Move and you've got you know, you can hear everything
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: really well. You're using these amazing PA systems, state of
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the art gear and all that, and then you know,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the next night you're in a dive bar to one
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: hundred or two hundred people and the PA is clapped out.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: You can't hear yourself. Yeah, I mean much of them might.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's fine, it's just it's just
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: it's just what you do. You know, Like we're an
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: underground metal band, Tom, you know, it gets cool opportunities
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: to do this bigger stuff as well sometimes and we
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: just we just take that in our stride and feel
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: grateful that we get to do it. And then we
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: get back to doing the clubs and stuff as well.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: And you know, I mean we're like ten to fifteen, fifteen,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: almost fifteen years into the band, and you.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Know, it feels like it's going better than ever. So
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: that's that's great.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely. And with the bigger venues, do you
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: ever do you ever get a freaked out a bit
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: by how many eyes are on you or that doesn't
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: phaze you at all.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Uh well, I think not really.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I mean when we first started, like we started, we
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: got the opportunity to do a few really big shows
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: early on.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: We did.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I remember we played it Hamasonic in Jakarta and there
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: was a lot of people at that. There must have
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: been I don't know, maybe ten fifteen, twenty, I don't
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: know how many people. It's hard to tell, but it
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: was a lot of people. We did sound Wave, I
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: mean we got we got a gig. We played at
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: sound Wave, I can't remember, maybe twenty fourteen, uh, and
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: we got we got put in front of like some
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: band canceled and we just kind of got asked to
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: fill in and play this slot and they gave it
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to They gave it to us, and I think we
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: played like after go Jira and like maybe before Mastadona
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: or something like that, and there was so many people there. Yeah,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: it was like it was like and it was just
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: one of those things. I think one of the bands
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: pulled out and we just they just said, hey, King
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Parrott played there, and we're like, yeah, yeah.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no time to be nervous. He just got into
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: it and.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was insane.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: It was that's so crazy.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: And yeah, like to answer your question anyway, like we've
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: been doing that stuff for a long time, and we've
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: had the opportunity to play some big shows. We've done
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: sound Way, we've done Download, We've done like lots of
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: different festivals are not first, and then we've played lots
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: of stadium shows.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: We've been supporting pan Terra since.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty three, so we've done a bunch of shows
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: with them over there, and we've done a bunch of
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: shows with them here and in Europe, and.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Now we're going back to do more in the States.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: So you know, those shows are typically between ten and
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: fifteen thousand people. So yeah, it's fine, I'm okay with
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: it now, good good.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Sorry, can you tell me how what the time is?
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I've gone.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Past seven twenty three.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Okay, I've just got a couple more.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: And it's easy, okay.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Cool For someone picking up a Young Person's Guide to
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: compare it as their first introduction to you, guys, what
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: message or experience do you hope they walk away with?
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Well, it's kind of hard to say when you play
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: this kind of music. I mean, I think, well, the
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: artwork itself is kind of ridiculous for the kind of
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: music that it is. So ye that was that was
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: an intentional kind of high in a way. But I
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: think when you put the album on itself, it's sort
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: of ripped straight in and it goes straight to the
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: jugular and I hope people can hear the effort and
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: time that was span into the into crafting the songs
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: and two making a really sick, well produced extreme metal record,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: you know, and there's a lot of different feelings and
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: emotion in it, but which is you know, to the
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: untrained ear, it might just sound like.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Noise.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: But I think people that are into extreme metal, they'll
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: be able to listen to it and hear lots of
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: different influences, lots of different sounds, but something that comes
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: together and is.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Uniquely what King Parrot is. You know.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: There's elements of you know, power violence and high coore
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: punk stuff in there, there's rock and roll stuff in there.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: There's some cool like solos and stuff on this record
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: that we haven't really done lots of in the past,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and then there's just some really good songwriting. You know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I think from my perspective, it's I'm proud of it.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been lucky enough to listen to it already.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: And what you said, like, I totally agree. Like, on
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: face value, with the music that you guys make, it
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: could be interpreted as like, oh, yeah, it's just noise,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: but it's not. And especially with this album, you can
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: hear the influencers in there. And then if you get
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: into the songwriting, like you said, the lyrics, like it's
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: really textural that it's very deep.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, I appreciate you saying that, thank you.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, it's great, and I think as well,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: it does really build from your previous albums as well.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Like you said, it's there's not one previous album of
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: yours that I could really be like, yeah, it sounds
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: exactly like this album. It's it's its own.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And I think and that's that's like I said,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: before you know it, we've been kind of being oh,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: we've probably got our sound. You know, we sound like
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: King Parrot, Like you listen to it and you go,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: that's King Parrot, Like, you know, we kind of sound
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: like that, so you wouldn't really mistake us for any
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: other band. And I think that's like that's a great
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: thing for us because then we can just kind of
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: we can journey out into other areas and pull that
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: stuff in and make it our. So I think we're
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: really grateful for.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, you've refined your sound and you, as you
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: just said, you sound like King Parrot now and it's yeah.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: And And what's the coolest or strangest fan interaction you've had?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Is there any weird things that you've been given?
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I can imagine.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, far out the strangest. Let me think, let
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: me think, Well.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: There's been a couple of incidences.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Where we've had I remember we played at this like
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: outdoor show. It was like a minifest kind of thing
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: up in Cologna in Canada, uh huh. And I think
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: there was lots of people doing acid or something like
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: that there for sure. And this woman just came up
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: on stage and she just took all her clothes.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Off and she was naked. It was like it was
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: like I was kind of taken back.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, I just I wasn't
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: expecting that she just took all her clothes off on stage,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: like totally naked.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: I just took a few steps back and just she
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: was dancing around.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: You must have been totally wasted, and I just I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: just stood back and let her dance and she ended
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: up just like getting off the stage. But that was
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: kind of weird and confronted. We were in stitches, you know,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: trying to play this music and chicken stage.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: That was hilarious. It was.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: It was yeah, it was like an outdoor festival kind
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: of thing, and yeah, it was pretty strange.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: And then one other time.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: We were in I think it was in Hobart, maybe
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: in Tazzy and uh yeah, and this guy got got
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: naked on stage and he took his clothes off and
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: he was yeah, and he went to stage dive and
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: he just everyone moved out.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: The way ship so hard, and it.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Was it was just like no one wanted to catch him. Yeah,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: it was like it was packed, but you know, sometimes
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: it's hard to move out the way, but they all
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: got out of the way.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: And it just it was like, oh my god.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: There's something about King Parrot clearly that makes people to
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: take the clothes off, right.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well that happened a few times, that's for sure.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: And then when it comes.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: To gifts, well, I don't know, I mean I mean,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I'll show you this thing.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not real. If someone made me this skull.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: What into the air like and it's like it gone
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: an Australian crown or coat of arms or whatever.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: That's a weird thing. That was kind of weird. I
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: was like, I wasn't expecting it. Oh, I wasn't expecting
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: a skull, but then I got a skull. I mean,
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: I remember like we went on tour in.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: The States in twenty twenty three and this war woman
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: messaged us and said, hey, I've got some gifts for you.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: We're in Detroit and we will put parking out in the
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: front of the venue in our in our boss and
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: she said, I've got some gifts for you. I want
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: to bring some gifts over. And I was like, okay,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: well we're parked out the front, just coming knock on
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the door.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: We're just sitting in the bus and.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Put this hamper of all this food and all of
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: this all this stuff like some like some alcohol and
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: maybe some weed, I don't.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Know, things like you know, like some Detroit socks.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: And and some like a hat and a beanie and
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: T shirts and all of this stuff like from Detroit.
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: And I was like I like things like oil and
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: food and candles and just all the cool things.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: And I was like, that was so fucking cool. And
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: that shit happens a lot over in America, Like people
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: are very grateful for you to, you know, come from
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Australia and to play, and we've always had such great
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: experiences over there with the hospitality and and just the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: way that they support stuff. It's a lot different to hear,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: you know, Like in Australia, I feel like sometimes people
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: can you know, you get the tall poppy syndrome kind
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: of thing, you're doing really well, they want to.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Chop your head off off.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's it.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: And in America, like it's sort of more like you're
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: doing well, they want to they want to push you up.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: And I think that's a really cool thing.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely, how sweet. That is so lovely. But yeah,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: at the same time where you're like, oh, don't buy us,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Like do you feel a bit I don't know. I
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: don't know if you feel a bit funny receiving a
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: lot of gifts or is it just whatever.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: It's totally cool, you know, I mean, yeah, it's it's
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: you know, it's not it's not the good slamor that
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: people think it is when you go out on tour.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: So when people do nice things for you, it's I'm
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: full of gratitude and and really love love that stuff.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: You know, it sort of makes you feel makes you
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: feel good when you're kind of missing home or whatever,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: when you're home seeking stuff. So when nice people want
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: to do things for you, it's it's it's it's really cool, thoughtful.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, last question, You're stuck with a tour bus for
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: days with one snack, one movie, and one album. What
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: are your survival picks?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, so one snack, one movie, and one album. All right,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: well let me think about that for two seconds. One snack,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: one snack.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: I'm not much of a snacker really.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I've tried to stop the snacks the because when I
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: start snacking, well, I mean, in the past, it definitely
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: would have been Reese's peanut butter cups. It's definitely in America.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Those little bustards get me every time. One movie, well,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I've always loved I've always loved Reservoir Dogs, so or
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: maybe I'll go with Reservoir Dogs.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Great film. It's always it's always.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Ridiculous, no matter how long it's been between watches of it.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: I always enjoy that movie. Yeah. One album, Well, I'm
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: gonna go with Power Aide j C d C.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, classic.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Absolute classic. That's my favorite a CDC record.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Oh fucking Wicked Choices. Man, it was so nice to
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: meet you young. Thank you so much for your time today.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: We're loving the new album that's tour.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Angela. I appreciate your time and
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: thank you so much.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: For Uh God, SOB I got t do talk play.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: Oh oh, now that's why I went down on my
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: sad Oh why showing?
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Don t joy overs?
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: I want John down by T want so tat all
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: a sad tis showing story, don't say pro boss over us,
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: watch shoun down go want so tie aside? Well, don't don't,
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: don't
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Do