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The Futility Of Existence With JOHNNY & RHYS From ESCARION · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  So I'm Reese I played bass in Scarion, and I'm Johnny I played guitar
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  and vocals in a Scarion. New album just came out yesterday, October thirty
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  first, and we're very excited to get this out into the world. It's
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  been three years in the making, very keen for everyone to have listened to
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  it and exciting times. Beattiful guys, Thanks for joining us tonight. Thank
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  you for having us by pleasure. As you say. Scarian released your sophomore
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  album, Towards the Future Existence only yesterday. I know it hasn't been too
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  long, but how's the early reception been for it? Been really awesome.
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  We've gotten two really good reviews so far, and yeah, everyone who came
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  and listened to it has loved it. We had an album launch party last
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  night. We actually hosted it where we usually rehearsed. We've got a few
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  friends to come down have a listen. We had some drinks and it was
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  great. Good. So, can you tell us a bit more about the
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  album from a musical point of view and what are you going for with it?
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  Well, so, with this album obviously coming off Pillars of the Faith,
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  our first album, having a concept of the Seven Deadly Sins and a
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  much more subjective approach to it. With this album, we've gone for the
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  concept again, but this time in a more broader sense. We're sort of
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  talking about side as a whole. We're talking about the objective view now,
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  we're looking out towards the future and the bleakness of that. Really, it's
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  very dark album, but nonetheless it's an awesome Yeah. No, I was
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  just going to say that. I think it's a very unique album. It's
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  very it's very different to the first album. It still has the heaviness,
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  but we also have the ferial sort of like cleans and atmosphere now as well
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  mixed in this album. We also recorded with seven shrink guitars, like we
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  use seven string guitars when the first album was traditional six. So there's a
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  bit of a shift in the songwriting process like that, And a lot of
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  the songs were written over COVID too Lockdowns one, So that should give you
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  an indication of like the style that we're riding in, just like the bleakness
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  of society eating itself during lockdown? Is that what it took three years to
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  do because he started writing then and you were sort of just we balancing it
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  out or what takes that long. Just a lot of thought process behind it.
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  Also, we had a lineup change. We got guy who plays keys
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  and sings. We're looking for a clean sing iron a keyboarders for a while
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  and we'll just put out the feelers that we put the feelers out. We
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  didn't know whether it was going to be something that we seriously considered, but
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  yeah, now it's We auditioned Guya and she was the one and done,
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  like the first person we auditioned, and we were like, she fits us
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  so well, so yeah, we just went with that and then it was
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  just a molding process of well, we couldn't record or practice twenty one,
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  so he took to about twenty twenty two to actually like fully start practicing and
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  learning the album and writing. So you mentioned that you've added progressive and someponic
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  elements to the sound. So why I decided to go down that path,
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  Well, we I feel like for us, you know, because we're you
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  know, you know, as musicians, like we all are on the same
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  sort of pages each other. We want to keep moving, you know.
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  With the first album being you know, very much death driven sort of music,
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  you know, hard hitting riffs and complicated sort of song structures. I
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  guess it's sort of the same with this album with complicated song strike. But
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  we wanted more. We wanted to add a bit more spice to our sound
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  as it's scary. We wanted to change for the better, you know,
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  get get a lot more, you know, flexing those musical muscles out there
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  basically you know the bigger lineup obviously, and you know, having the challenge
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  of writing these songs as Johnny has written for us and Lewis as well.
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  So it's it's I reckon it's been a good step for us, like going
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  in this direction. As Reese just said, it's just an evolution of sound.
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  We had what we had with the first album and very proud of it.
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  I thought it was awesome. I think it is awesome. But yeah,
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  just we all change as humans, and as we evolve as humans,
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  we also evolve as songwriters as musicians, and it just made sense for us
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  to go in that direction. And you mentioned introducing the clean vocals too,
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  like how did you go with that? Like it was a trial and narrator
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  sort of see how things fit and see what worked based for the band,
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  or did it happen seamlessly. It kind of act happened seamlessly. As I
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  was writing a lot of the songs, just some guitar throughout Covid, I
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  wrote, I found myself writing a lot more clean parts. And then I
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  was thinking a lot of them were extended, and I was thinking, either
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  we're going to keep it extended and get a singer, or we're gonna make
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  them a lot shorter and just have like malody on a guitar or another instrument.
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  And we were tossing and turning between a couple of different options, and
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  then we thought, as I said, we just put out the feelers,
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  see if anyone actually wanted to join, or if there was actually a possibility
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  of anyone merging with us. And Guia she came in first audition and she
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  was in the band. The cover artwork's awesome to guys like It features shadowy
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  figures in a dark landscape walking up a hill towards the large, foreboding looking
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  tree, Like, what's going on there? It looks great? But what
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  story is it? Other the story of the album? Yeah, towards it.
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  It just we wanted to represent towards a feudal existence, so all these
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  souls moving towards a final destination and it's bleak, so like a bleak destination,
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  but also, Guya really wanted us to have like a little bit of
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  a glimmer of hope. That's why the tree is kind of outlined by a
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  bit of a light. So it's like moving towards a very bleak destination,
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  but there is like a slimmer of hope for humanity, and that's what it
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  sort of represents, even though, like a majority of the album lyric wise,
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  is very bleak and very dark, but there's that small glimmer of hope
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  in the album cover just for just for our audience safety a little bit there.
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  It's just a touch. Yeah, yeah, it's touch. And at
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  the same time as dropped the album, you also dropped the single zeit Guy.
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  So just say that's all. Only one said a a scarion. Would
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  you say that's a good stunt of representation of the album? Oh, hell's
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  yeah, absolutely it is. I mean, you know, I I we
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  definitely wanted Zeitgeist to be sort of a standout songs as well as the rest
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  of them, but with Zeitgeist, you know, it features what should be
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  the standard of the Scarry now, which is basically, you know, bleak
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  lyrics, lots of heavy riffs, and you know, we have both the
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  the equal standing of you know, Johnny's vocals and guys vocals, and if
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  you listen to the chorus, you get a nice molding of you know,
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  Johnny and Guy together and it sounds so great. I did the lyric video
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  for Zeitgeist, and I just couldn't stop like listening to the chorus. Even
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  though I had listened to it over and over again and I arsed it over
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  and over again, I just couldn't stop listening to it. It was absolutely
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  divine. I loved it. I loved it, and yeah, I think,
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  you know, even Zeitgeist is sort of a representation for what we should
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  be writing in the future, you know, more marriage of these vocals going
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  forward. It's it's really exciting. Actually, even though, like, whilst
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  doing the lyric video, I was just like, because there's a bridge bit
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  in the song and Johnny's during the bridge he sing He's singing a lot of
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  lyrics, and I'm just like, why did you write so many lyrics?
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  I was getting really angry, no reason, because they're great lyrics. I'm
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  just like the timing of it. I'm like, no, he doesn't say
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  that they're no, No, he does say that I added, ah,
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  that's the name of the game videos. Lyrically, Zeitgeist is my favorite song
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  of the album. Lyrically, it's my favorite lyrics a lyrics that I've ever
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  written. It's there's a lot of double and triple meanings with the lyrics within
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  Zeitgeist. I like to write cryptically, especially with my lyrics. A lot
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  of lyrics are very cryptic, so there's like double and triple meanings in some
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  lines. It's really it's really fun, and I like to even hide it.
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  Like even like there's a line called instacle in This Inventor which is Latin,
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  and it's lastly Latin for a verse in the Bible which says in filth
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  it will be found, and also in Genesis, apparently God made humans out
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  of dirt and another word for dirt is like filth, so it's like in
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  humanity it will be found. So it's like there's it's buried between from like
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  the service level with Latin sounds cool, but then it's buried under like a
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  Bible, like a line that's in English, which is also a Bible verse,
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  which is also another metaphor reference to humanity. So there's like actually like
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  a controllable, like you know, level to just one line. So I
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  like to write a lot like that. I like to make it cryptic,
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  mystical. You need to do a little bit of digging to actually get the
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  true meaning behind some of the words and the lines within songs. And that's
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  why I really like Zeigeist. I spent a lot of time sitting there actually
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  crafting the lines making it sound poetic as well just by itself. So made
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  the lyrics sound like really poetic play even put them into the music. That's
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  what's the facial existence is out now does So what's next for a Scarion Wild
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  gigs? We I and the band, you know, really I want to
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  get out there and do some gigs. We've got two gigs lined up.
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  We've got one in Bala rat on tenth at Bolta with all of Resists,
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  and we have the eleventh straight pretty much to day after some resounds and studios
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  with Hybrid Nightmare, and then after that we are looking to find a Melbourne
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  gigs to launch this album. We really are hoping to find a venue that
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  will take us or a band that will take us as well to watch this
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  thing. We really want to do that and we are looking forward to doing
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  that. So yeah, gigs, gigs, gigs basically yeah gigs, and
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  we're going to start writing album number three, hopefully around January, I think
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  Betty Boys. Yeah yo, Well, thanks very much for joining us today.
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  It's been a pleasure as again to know. The album Towards the Future
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  Existence is out now. It's gigs on the tenth of eleventh of November.
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  So check out all the socialism. Keep up with what's going on. We
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  know what we're running to. Still we keep up the incessant pace. Bose
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  the blood start we have kept on. I don't ends anybody victim to the
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  smoke of ourselves effacement, unwinning a cruity doctor as we pulled the wood to
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  the future. God die that strays. Okay, I don't say you all
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  say all go die, what work say? God? My god? That's
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  all right? Bad day day you bred lotto never raised all for y'all.
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  waity waiting out your nay very old. It's mo Yeah, So I'll I'll
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  say yeah, I'm gonna die. Yeah. If we walk, well,
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  it just go right. So say I'll time every six time try to want
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