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PODCAST: Episode 746 - Matt Young (King Parrot) Talks New Album, Chaos on Tour and The Future of Aussie Grindcore · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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  Kind of gave me the opportunity to be able to sort of delve into
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  other areas vocally. There's definitely a lot more
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  lows on this record, but I'd also feel like there's a little
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  bit more melody in the vocals a little.
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  But I just feel like I've kind of been able to get somewhere to
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  a different place with the vocals as well on this record.
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  What's up everybody, it is TV from ghostcoldman.com.
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  I'm super stoked to be once again joined by Yungi from King
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  Parrot. How you doing brother?
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  I'm good, man. I'm good.
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  Good morning. Good evening.
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  Whatever it is. It's evening in California.
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  It's the future or the past, wherever you are.
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  It's the future, man. It's Sunday morning.
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  OK, Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah.
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  Time travel through technology, it's sort of possible.
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  We're not quite at Star Trek yet with, you know, transporters and
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  things, but like, you know, energized.
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  But at least now we can talk, you know, I'm saying offline.
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  King Parrot is one of those bands that I've been very
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  fortunate to say Ghost Cult is supported and covered from the
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  very beginning here at Ghost Cult.
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  This is our 13th year. The band has been around, you
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  know, so many years. You know, it's and you're not
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  supposed to have favorites, but I gotta say, like King Parrot
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  has been one of my favorites and a favorite success story that
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  you guys kind of, you know, have continued to just achieve new
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  things and, you know, open the world up to your band and some
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  Australian grind corps. So Congrats, man.
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  From from the bottom of my heart, Congrats.
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  Oh, no, thank you very much. And, and, and you know, like,
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  thank you for your support over the years too, because I, I even
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  from the very first tour, I know you guys have been on board with
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  us and, and been helping us out like since, yeah, that first US
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  tour I think we did in 2014, you guys have been right behind it.
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  So, you know, we're very, very grateful.
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  And yeah, what a cool thing, man.
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  It's just been been such a trip, such a trip.
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  Right on and you guys are having a stellar year and the record is
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  not even out yet. A young Person's Guide to King
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  Parrot coming out this June from House Core Records.
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  You're repping the shirt. I love it.
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  You know, a fun place to start is even before you guys aligned
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  with House Core and Philip got behind you and and prompts to
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  him for just being a booster for the underground and bringing
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  these bands with him on these enormous tours.
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  Like, I don't think anybody envisioned how big this Pantera
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  Union could possibly get. But, you know, what does it mean
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  to you to have that support even now, all these years later, that
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  the that the label is behind you, Phillip is behind you.
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  You've been able to tour arenas, things that most grind corps
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  bands, except for maybe Napalm Death that I've never gotten to
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  do. Yeah, that's exactly right, man.
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  I was sort of saying that to someone the other day.
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  I was like, you know, on the on the last year to like, we just
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  got back from Europe. We did a whole bunch of shows
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  with Pantera and power trip throughout Europe.
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  And you know, we got to play at Wembley Arena, you know, just
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  like, what the fuck are we doing here?
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  You know, it was like there's like celebrities in the
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  audience, you know, there's like that dude, Jason Momoa turned up
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  to the show and you know, we got up and sang walk together and
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  stuff. And that was just like hilarious
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  stuff, you know? And you're right.
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  You know, it's we, we've had the opportunity as a, as a growing,
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  you know, predominantly growing core kind of band, I guess,
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  although we don't like to pigeonhouse, pigeonhole
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  ourselves too much, but that's sort of the most, that's the
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  biggest influence in our sound for sure.
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  Yeah, we've just had these incredible opportunities year
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  after year. And I guess it was that little
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  bit of uncertainty through the whole COVID time for everyone,
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  of course. But for us, it was like we kind
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  of separated a little bit as a band, so we weren't able to get
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  together much and it kind of looked a bit bleak there for a
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  little while. But coming back, getting the
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  opportunity to come back in the to the US in 2023, we've got to
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  do a bunch of shows with Pantera and Lamb of God on that little
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  run. And we did a whole bunch of
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  shows with weed eater as well, who have been great friends of
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  ours as well for for many years and some headlining shows around
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  the rest of the country. We played with spirit in the
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  room and filters eternal. And that really just sort of set
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  the fire under our asses again, man.
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  We were like, we've got to do a, we've got to do a new record.
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  You know, we have to do a new record.
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  So towards the end of 2023, we were like, we, we knuckled down
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  and we got the songs written and 2024 we did not first out here
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  in Australia with with Pantera and Lamb of God again.
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  And and then we can just kind of hit the studio for the rest of
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  the year and make sure that we were, you know, geared up for
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  2025, you know, so it's all all been coming out.
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  The the videos have been out and and the record will be be out,
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  you know, in about a month. Right on.
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  You know, with music journalists, by the way,
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  especially metal music journalists.
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  We have lizard brains. We have like Dino T Rex arms and
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  brains where we can't do anything unless it's given to
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  us. I do think that the new record
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  is probably the most grind record you've done because you
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  have done all kinds of other, you know, hardcore adjacent and,
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  you know, extreme metal. We are also big Spirit in the
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  Room fan shout out to Dennis. He's a good friend and a guy
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  we've helped support also love that dude.
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  And yeah, just phenomenal. Just, you know, phenomenal
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  amount of respect all around the board because I'm sure you never
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  anticipated as a band that you guys were going to like, you
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  know, get this like not to get this far, but just, you know,
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  get this kind of opportunity And you seized it.
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  And and I know the whole world had kind of a psychotic break
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  during the plague. And luckily it's hopefully we
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  don't go back to one the way things are going in my country.
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  But, you know, I'm like, please, no more.
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  I went like 600 days without a concert.
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  I was going to crawl up and shrivel up, you know?
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  Yeah. So I'm so glad we came back from
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  that. But yeah, man, I imagine that's
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  also why the break between records.
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  But it's not like you ever stopped working.
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  I know you said you guys were split up a little, but it feels
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  like up until then, like everybody, you guys were very
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  prolific. Like, you know, release,
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  release, release, you know, sometimes the EP a lot of
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  touring locally and abroad. So I think the work, the hard
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  work does pay off. I, I think that's, that's what
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  we're seeing here with King Parrot.
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  You know, I never asked you. This is just randomly popped
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  into my head like the name of King, like the name King parrot.
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  This might have come up in like a very early interview without
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  me at ghost called, but I know there's like a King parrot
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  falls. But you guys are from Melbourne
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  and not NSW where that is. I looked it up.
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  So I was like, what? Where like it's a cool name.
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  It's different. Where did that name come from?
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  Just randomly? I just like never thought about
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  asking you before. Yeah, right.
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  So I don't know. It was just a random
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  conversation with a, with a friend.
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  You know, there's a movie called Chopper.
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  I don't know if you've ever seen the Australian movie called
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  Chopper, right. So it's about this guy who was a
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  mass serial killer kind of guy who was a bit of a vigilante, I
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  guess. And he that great film with Eric
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  Banner. There's a scene in it where the
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  character Keith George, the guy who's sort of they're in jail
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  and he's the guy who's put he's putting the boot Polish in his
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  hair and trying to make his hair look all strange.
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  It's fucking ridiculous. And he calls Chopper a parrot.
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  He he he says, oh, you're a parrot talking.
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  And he's just, you know, they haven't a it's right before
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  Chopper stabs him in the face. And we were just watching it one
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  day in front of the house. She called the band King Parrot.
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  And I was like, yeah, that's that's I don't know, for some
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  reason it just kind of stuck. And I guess King Parrots are
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  notoriously kind of loud and annoying.
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  And I guess it's not too far removed from.
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  The sound, there you are, there you are loud and be loud and
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  annoying and leave them all. I think that's what y'all have
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  done. And you know, again, the, the
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  mute, the heavy world is better off for it.
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  Let's be annoying till we can't be anymore, right?
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  Because one of my favorite interviews ever, I interviewed
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  Devin Townsend and I asked him about what music he listens to
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  when he's not doing music. And he's like, well, I make
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  music that like definitely encroaches and imposes on
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  people. So when I listen to music, I
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  don't want to be imposed on, but I want to bother people with my
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  whatever it is I do. I want to just bug people to
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  notice me. And I was like, dude, that's
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  brilliant. Like I never thought of it that
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  way. Like, you know, I make, I'm back
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  to making music for the first time myself in a long time.
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  And I make pretty heavy music. I listen to a lot of heavy music
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  and stuff that's not. But I was like, that's like that
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  has stayed with me for a long time.
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  I was like, that's really wild because like most of us, we like
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  heavy music. We listen to heavy music, We
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  make heavy music. Like that's kind of our thing.
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  Right. But it's kind of interesting
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  that he had a different take on it.
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  What a what a what a wonderful guy he is.
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  But yeah, man, this records, like, I don't think people are
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  ready for it. It's going to kill them.
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  They're going to kill their ears in a good way.
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  They're going to be cranking it up.
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  I love the album cover is like very chill and like, oh, like a
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  very, you know, like unsuspecting.
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  And then the music is just OK, 123 go and there's no let up on
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  the whole record. There's no there's no you took
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  the chill out if there was any ever.
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  Like there's nothing, which I love.
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  It's real fast and to the point, which is, you know what we want
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  from y'all. So yeah, I feel like it is the
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  most grindy record you've done that wasn't a little bit
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  different and different stuff in it.
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  What do you think about that? Yeah, yeah, I agree.
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  I think it's the most, I could never use the term polished when
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  it comes to King parry because that just wouldn't be right.
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  But if there was a most polished thing we've done, it would be
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  this. But on the other hand, it's also
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  the most abrasive, harshest, brutal but type album that we've
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  done. And that there's a few reasons
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  behind that. I think songwriting wise, you
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  know, we just we took our time, but it was it was quite
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  concentrated when we did it. You know, we kind of got it
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  done. You know, when we started
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  putting all the ideas together and writing and all of that sort
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  of stuff, we kind of got it done.
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  We got it, we got it nailed and and we jumped straight into pre
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  production. So we've got what kind of
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  happened in quick succession, which was fantastic.
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  And then when it came to the recording process, we we used to
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  go into the studio on the other records and just do a punk rock
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  style, you know, just record it and get the best take and
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  whatever. We never like mapped out the
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  songs with a click track or anything.
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  So the reason that why I say polished is because we click
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  tracked everything on this record and and then sort of
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  built it, you know, off the off that.
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  So we got the drums down and then we then we did the bass and
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  the guitars and all of that sort of stuff and then the vocals at
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  the end. But it was, it was a different
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  process in that regard. And it sort of gave us a little
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  bit more flexibility on the back end with the mix and all of that
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  sort of stuff to try and get it to a point that was sounding
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  much more like professional and, and, and, and, and step up.
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  But also really making it abrasive as well and, and, and
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  harsh and, you know, but it kind of gave me the opportunity to be
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  able to sort of delve into other areas vocally.
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  There's definitely a lot more lows on this record, but I also
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  feel like there's a little bit more melody in the vocals a
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  little. But I just feel like I've kind
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  of been able to get somewhere to a different place with the
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  vocals as well on this record. So I was really sort of happy
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  that I had such a great engineer with Luke Walton at danger.
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  Tony we hadn't worked with before.
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  He kind of just guided me through and was very supportive
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  in the in what how I wanted to do it, how I wanted to layer it,
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  and then giving me really good feedback around, you know, maybe
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  we should try this or do something different here.
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  And it was just an awesome process all around, you know,
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  right? On Youngie helping me out with
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  my segues because he's an expert at these things.
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  I wanted to talk about your vocals.
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  I thought you did a marvelous job.
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  It is a it is a little tuned up and different.
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  I like that you were like not polished, but just better.
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  And I like that that I I had that in my notes as well.
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  Listening back to the record a few times the last few days and
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  when I go to do an interview, I go listen back to everything.
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  So I really am going back to 2012 and I went back to the the
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  previous record and like, yeah, there's definitely some growth
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  there and you want to get better, you want to improve.
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  You know, obviously you've had mostly the same line up over the
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  years, which is astounding for any band.
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  I know we had a change with the drummer.
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  Do you want to talk a little bit about that coming like the last
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  few years? Yeah, Yeah.
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  So we we've just, we've just got a new drummer on board.
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  You know, we could just sense a little there was something that
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  there was just a change that needed to happen with with our
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  old drummer Todd. And we, we just opened up the
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  conversation and we decided it was best sort of part ways,
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  which is kind of not ideal coming into a new album cycle.
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  But it's just these things happen, you know, you know,
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  people's priorities change and, and things like that.
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  And we just opened the conversation up and we were sort
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  of amicably able to sort of just go, OK, well, that's, that's
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  we're going to, we're going to part ways.
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  And, you know, we'll always be brothers and friends and all of
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  that sort of stuff. So it's no, there's no hard
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  feelings there at all. But, you know, I'm the kind of
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  guy that likes to go out to shows a lot.
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  I go and see a lot of shows around Melbourne and go and
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  check out the local scene and, and yeah, there's this one guy,
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  Max, he was now our drummer who I thought was a phenomenal
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  talent. He has got amazing feel and
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  groove. But he can do all the Blasty
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  stuff, he can do all the thrashy stuff, he can do all the punk
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  stuff. He's just one of those guys
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  that's able to absorb music. And I, I mean, I think it's one
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  thing to be able to absorb the music, but then it's another
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  thing to be able to actually perform it, perform the shit
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  that you absorb. You know, like I can absorb
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  music, but it doesn't mean I can necessarily perform it.
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  But this guy hears it and plays it.
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  You know, he's one of those kind of musicians where you go, fuck
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  you, man. You can do everything, you know,
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  you know, we can play guitar, you can play bass, he can play
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  the drums. He's, he's an incredible fucking
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  drummer, man. It's, it's, it's amazing.
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  And he's also a sound engineer. So that's really cool in that
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  sense. And, and, you know, since he's
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  come on board, we've been sort of jamming the last last month
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  or so. And all the songs, even all the
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  old songs that we've sort of written from the Todd era, from
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  the last few records. Max is putting a whole different
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  spin on him. And he's got this groove and
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  this feel that we haven't sort of experienced since the first
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  record when we had our original drama.
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  So we, we kind of just enjoying going back through the back
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  catalog now and just playing this stuff with this new energy.
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  That's been amazing, man. So we've we're just enjoying
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  that at the moment. We're going to be enjoying
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  getting out on the road next weekend for our kicking off our
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  Aussie tour. And then just sort of seeing
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  that, seeing where it takes us. And obviously I just want to
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  ride again now. I just want to do another record
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  straight away. Lovely.
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  Well, after that break of, you know, whether on purpose or
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  unfortunately not like in most bands, I'm excited to hear that.
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  And of course, you know, again, the bat, I think a lot of fans
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  when they hear you the first time, that's the thing they
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  gravitate to and they they latch on to.
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  But you know, I think it's important.
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  Like, you know, the first fan of your band needs to be all needs
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  to be you guys, because otherwise it's not fresh
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  anymore, right? And then you you know, you never
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  want to be in that band where you know, you don't like doing
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  it or like, Oh no, I have to play this song again.
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  And so a new member who hears things a different way and maybe
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  interprets a different way changes how the rest of you
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  who've been together a long time perform it.
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  Maybe it changes a little in a in a fresh way.
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  You know, ask Philip how many thousands of times he's had to
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  do walk or a new level. And I'm sure he loves doing them
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  because now, like, you know, they're they're getting their
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  flowers and touring Metallica and arenas and stuff, which they
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  didn't do much of back in the day other than festivals.
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  But like, yeah, man, it could be AI know it could be a drag.
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  I once had a band for a long time and we were like 7-8 years
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  later doing the same couple of songs.
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  And you know, I love doing them because they were my songs.
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  But I was also like, is everybody hating this out there?
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  Like can we do some new shit? Because like, they must be
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  bored, man. Like even though I love this
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  song, I can't, can't play it every show.
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  It would be killing people, killing the vibe, you know, you
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  know, So yeah, I, I, I, I, I noted the production.
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  I love the brevity of the record.
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  It's just what it needs to be. I start feeling, I don't know,
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  like, you know, what's an EP, what's a you know, in what's an
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  EP, what's an album in punk or grind core or hardcore metal,
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  you know, after about 40 minutes, I start to like what's
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  going on here, unless it's a really excellent record, I start
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  to lose track. And my podcast partner is fond
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  of saying like 42 minutes is the optimal amount of music for a
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  new release of any kind. So we we fight about what is a
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  record and what isn't because he's like Mr. Vinyl, but and and
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  how wild that in the time of King Parrot Vinyl has made a
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  huge comeback. Cassettor thing.
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  You might be able to get an 8 track of this record someday.
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  I don't know what other format is going to come back.
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  The Victrola will play. We'll do like Russia and we'll
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  make records on X-rays and spin them on X-rays someday if we run
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  out of the petrol for the vinyl, right, The the you know, the
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  different colors in the molds and stuff.
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  But it's super cool. Like, you know, I think house
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  court, like I said, has done a great job, not just Philip
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  personally supporting you, but putting this record out, you
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  know, in the world and and I must be super cool to be able to
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  get a vinyl. I'm sure you never anticipated
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  having a vinyl of your band in ever.
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  Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's been one of
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  those things I think from the first record, like when we put
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  that out in like 2012, I think we just put it out on CD and
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  digital, I guess. And then then that's sort of
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  kind of when maybe it was around that time or just before the
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  Divine resurgence kind of started.
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  And I was like, we have to put that, we have to put it out on
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  on vinyl. So we did a pre-order for that
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  first record and I think we ended up getting 500 copies or
• 17:53
  something and we sold a ton of them like straight up the bat.
• 17:56
  And so that was like, that's when I was like, well, that's
• 17:59
  great. Everything's got to be on vinyl.
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  It's and it's so cool. I love vinyl.
• 18:02
  I'm a big collector myself and I have way too many records.
• 18:06
  Nice. What's your favorite single
• 18:08
  vinyl record you own? I'd love to know.
• 18:10
  One that I always go back to is when is The Who live leads, you
• 18:17
  know, just a classic live record.
• 18:19
  It's got great energy. It's one of my favorite,
• 18:22
  favorite albums of all time and I love listening to that.
• 18:25
  And another one that's close to my heart that I always have to
• 18:29
  mention because my my father gave it to me.
• 18:32
  Well, well, I don't know if he actually gave it to me or I
• 18:35
  stole it, but it's ACDC Dirty deeds done dirt cheap.
• 18:40
  That was that was something that I grew up with as a kid.
• 18:43
  My old man always had that plan and it's just a special record
• 18:49
  for me. Although Power Ranges, my
• 18:51
  favorite ACDC album, Dirty Deeds, has a special.
• 18:53
  Spot. Nice one, nice one.
• 18:55
  Those are great. And I've been told once again by
• 18:58
  my partner there from my other podcast that the Aussie and the
• 19:01
  New Zealand presses of the original ACDC records with Bonn
• 19:05
  are phenomenal. I got to go visit him and hear
• 19:08
  him because he has them and I don't but.
• 19:10
  Yeah, yeah. Amazing man, amazing stuff.
• 19:13
  Just to just to wrap things up. So I know you guys are heading
• 19:16
  out on the road, which is why we're doing this interview now
• 19:19
  ahead of the record a bit. And you know what else is on tap
• 19:22
  for you for the year? Do you have anything you can?
• 19:25
  It is too soon to announce anything.
• 19:26
  Don't cause PR will. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 19:29
  But like, yeah, let me know what else you can share beside the
• 19:32
  record dropping and things like that.
• 19:33
  Sure, man. So we, yeah, we've just been
• 19:37
  like, I guess the last month or so since we got back from
• 19:39
  Europe, we've just been hard at it in the jam room with our new
• 19:42
  dramas, which is great. First shows next weekend.
• 19:45
  We're doing some regional stuff and going to some places that we
• 19:48
  don't sort of like, not a lot of bands get to here in Australia.
• 19:52
  We're doing that over the next couple of months on the
• 19:54
  weekends, which is, which is going to be great.
• 19:57
  And we'll just sort of slowly get our album out there and, and
• 20:01
  build some live chemistry with our new drama, which is going to
• 20:04
  be great. I mean, the chemistry in the jam
• 20:06
  room has been incredible already.
• 20:07
  So that's awesome. But you know, just getting out
• 20:09
  there and playing some shows will be awesome.
• 20:11
  July 25th is our first show in the US.
• 20:14
  We we were lucky enough to snag a spot on the On the Acid Bath
• 20:18
  pentagram show. In New York, which is going to
• 20:21
  be incredible. But the thing that I'm sort of
• 20:24
  most excited about is that our new drama Max who's he's only 24
• 20:28
  man and he's he's a he's a phenomenal musician and his
• 20:31
  first show in America going to be at Paramount Theatre in
• 20:35
  Brooklyn with fucking acid bath and pentagram dude.
• 20:38
  So I'm just like, I'm so happy for him.
• 20:40
  And then like a week later, we start with Pantera and I'm on a
• 20:44
  moth, which is, you know, those shows are obviously going to be
• 20:46
  monstrous. But I'm just so, so stoked that
• 20:49
  we've we've got like a show like that as our first show on the
• 20:53
  tour to launch our new record with acid bath and pentagram.
• 20:56
  That's going to be really cool. So yeah, it's that's all going
• 21:00
  on that that'll take us right through to September.
• 21:02
  And then I guess we'll do Part 2 of our Aussie tour when we get
• 21:06
  back and get to some of the places that we we're not getting
• 21:09
  to. We're talking about doing, you
• 21:11
  know, Adelaide and Perth and then it will go up to Brisbane
• 21:14
  and we get up around there. We're not doing that on this
• 21:16
  run. So we'll get to a few of the
• 21:18
  places that we're not getting to on this Part 1 of the tour.
• 21:21
  And then man, we're really excited just to start writing
• 21:24
  again. Now that we've got a new drama,
• 21:26
  it's like we just want to write. So we're going to get back into
• 21:29
  the studio pretty quickly and, and start jamming and, and
• 21:32
  getting some new ideas together. And, and then we'll just see
• 21:35
  what happens in, in the new year, whether that's recording
• 21:38
  or, or, or getting back on the road.
• 21:42
  Obviously, we'll probably try and do another couple of the two
• 21:44
  is, you know, be great to get back over to you guys in 2026
• 21:48
  and do a tour and, and, and back over to Europe as well.
• 21:51
  And then, yeah, we'll just see where it takes us.
• 21:53
  But umm, we're definitely feeling rejuvenated having a a
• 21:58
  young man come and join us on the drums.
• 22:00
  He's only 24. And like, we've just got this
• 22:03
  energy and enthusiasm for the band now that's been quite
• 22:06
  infectious. So yeah, it's great that we've
• 22:09
  got so much cool stuff coming up.
• 22:11
  Amazing, amazing. Nobody's happier about the Acid
• 22:13
  bath reunion than me. Believe me when I tell you.
• 22:16
  Oh man. Mungus Dax as a guy that used to
• 22:19
  yell into a stick and is now once again yelling into an
• 22:21
  electric stick in a band nobody is.
• 22:23
  Like. He's one of the best front men
• 22:25
  and lyricists and song makers ever.
• 22:28
  His recent solo record from January, by the way, is fucking
• 22:31
  phenomenal. I love that man.
• 22:33
  How funny for me so far this year, yeah.
• 22:35
  Yeah, that me too like that. I have not stopped listening to
• 22:38
  that record since it came out. OK, I, I don't even want to
• 22:42
  listen to anything else that he those seven songs are some of
• 22:46
  the yeah, record of the year for me, for sure.
• 22:49
  Yeah, It's incredible. It's it's had a profound effect
• 22:53
  on me, that album. And, you know, like, I think I
• 22:55
  read it, heard an interview he did a while ago, and it was just
• 22:58
  like, yeah, he just honed his craft for the last sort of
• 23:00
  however many years he's been absent from the scene.
• 23:03
  And I love that man. And yeah, obviously love that.
• 23:08
  Yeah. I'm over here on YouTube.
• 23:11
  Yeah, we've had, we had somebody at one of the first, at the
• 23:13
  first show. So we we're lucky for that.
• 23:16
  We have some people tight with that the NOLA scene.
• 23:19
  Just the last question because I always like to end these with a
• 23:22
  wild card and you've been amazing as always.
• 23:24
  I expect nothing less than the best from you guys as a as a
• 23:28
  future traveler to your homeland, what what non touristy
• 23:33
  thing should I do? Should I visit your hometown?
• 23:36
  You know, what should I do as a as a visitor, but not to do the
• 23:39
  most touristy thing, what should I do?
• 23:41
  I would say as a music fan, I mean, if you're a music fan, I
• 23:45
  think there's like there's a little stretch of pubs and clubs
• 23:50
  in Melbourne in, in the two suburbs that it's sort of inner
• 23:55
  city Melbourne. There's like a little stretch
• 23:58
  along this street called Johnson St.
• 24:00
  And if you love heavy music and, and live music and all that sort
• 24:03
  of stuff, there's like the Bendigo Hotel.
• 24:06
  There is like a really cool pizza place called Thin Slizzy.
• 24:14
  Yes, yes, right. You get some pizzas, there's a
• 24:17
  couple record stores in between. There's a BMX shop there's and
• 24:22
  then there's the Tote Hotel, which is like probably the most
• 24:25
  legendary punk rock venue in Melbourne that you get to.
• 24:28
  And then you can walk up a little further and get up past
• 24:31
  Brunswick Street and go to the old bar and there's lots of
• 24:34
  little clubs and pubs around there.
• 24:36
  So that's like it's maybe a touristy thing, I guess if
• 24:40
  you're a music like a heavy music fan.
• 24:42
  But I mean, as a, as a general tourist, you probably wouldn't
• 24:47
  avoid that place like the plague.
• 24:49
  But but for people like us, that's, that's probably what
• 24:54
  you'd want to do. Man.
• 24:55
  It's just just walk up that street and just just pop your
• 24:59
  head in and check it all out. There's some really cool stuff
• 25:01
  in Melbourne. Right on, hopefully some good
• 25:03
  record shops. I'm sure there are if you're.
• 25:05
  Oh yeah, I mean heaps, heaps and heaps, heaps and heaps, heaps.
• 25:08
  I love it. The Young Person's Guide to King
• 25:11
  Parrot is coming out in June from House Corps records, the
• 25:14
  list of people who have sang Walk with Pantera Yungi and
• 25:17
  Aquaman. Jason Momoa.
• 25:19
  Not too shabby, Sir. Always a pleasure, man.
• 25:22
  Thank you again for what you do. I'm really again just proud to
• 25:26
  help keep supporting you and you keep the flame going.
• 25:28
  And when you get to hear to hear to the States, it's either if I
• 25:31
  don't see you, someone from our crew will come out and cover one
• 25:34
  of those shows. I'm super pumped.
• 25:35
  Awesome man, it'd be great to see you in the flesh if we can.
• 25:38
  And yeah, take care. And thanks again for your
• 25:40
  support. We're always very grateful.