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The Abrasive Nature Of Music With TOMYE & ASH From THIS POINT FORWARD · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Yeah, so a bit about the band. So how did I say this.
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  We're a fairly new band in the eyes of the public, but we've
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  actually been around since like October twenty twenty because during the lockdowns and all that,
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  we couldn't really get moving. We couldn't really do anything until after the
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  lockdowns ended, so we didn't actually start doing anything until maybe that twenty twenty
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  two. Yeah, so who we started recording I'm Still and Famine, and
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  then last year we started recording Corrosion and our other single. So it's been
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  a slow process just because of all the hoops that we had to jump through.
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  You know, we kept getting lined up changes too, because like the
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  instability of just because we tried to do something during lockdowns and COVID and all
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  that, the instability of it made it very hard for us to progress and
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  actually do anything. So we kept having members come and go and it was
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  just very hard. But I'm glad. I think we finally we've gotten some
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  very decent people that we get along with, all great musicians, and I
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  think that now that we've pushed out a few singles, things are starting to
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  actually remove for us, so hopefully we can kind of continue that beautiful guys.
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  Thanks. Who else have we got here? Tommy? I played drums.
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  I put up a post on a Melbourne Music Forum thing saying like I
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  was looking for certain members to be in a certain band, and yeah I've
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  met Ash and from there we just met other people and now we're here,
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  so fantassic. That'll do us, guys, were good today, a little
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  bit better. But the real reason we are here is a band. This
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  point forward our premiering your new music video for the song Corrosion by Heavy on
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  Tuesday, July sixteenth at five pm. Like, how feel about it,
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  guys, It's been a bit of work together here. Oh yeah, excited.
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  I think this since the first time the band has ever gotten any sort
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  of you know, decent coverage. Sure, thanks to Tom for that,
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  because Tom was the one who obviously reached out and organized all this. And
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  thank you for giving us a chance as well to actually premiere us on Heavy
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  magazine. Pleasure. Yeah, yeah, it's to be hone, Like,
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  we've seen Heavy Magazine for years and you know, we've always like be like,
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  oh maybe one day we'll do something, you know, like so it's
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  good so hopefully we can help you guys. But tell us a bit more
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  about that about this song, I guess from a musical point of view and
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  what you're going for with it, you're you're you're the key writer, you
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  know. Yeah, So what what we were trying to do initially as a
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  band, as we were trying to bring about bring back post hardcore as the
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  genre because we we really enjoy collectively as a band, we really enjoyed the
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  old school sound of post hardcore. Not too old school, but I'm talking
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  about back in the twenty tens. That's when I really got into post hardcore,
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  and we really wanted to bring back that sound because we found that a
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  lot of post hardcore bands have started moving away from that sort of sound.
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  Yeah, and we want to bring that back. And we are not at
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  all opposed to newer elements of music and the evolution of post hardcore. We
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  just would like we we missed that nostalgia, you know, of that sound,
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  and we just we we kind of wanted to bring that back along with
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  the new elements, you know. And just really for me, it was
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  more of like, if I can't find that sort of music, I'm going
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  to make that sort of music. Yeah, I've been into post hardcore for
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  longer than that. Actually, I've been sort of like dabbling in it since
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  like two thousand and four. And yeah, like I like started off with
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  like bands like they used and didn't get away playing like Australian, you know,
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  but with their whole Conversation EP, which I love, and like even
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  earlier than that, you know, like behind Crumbs and Eves even as well,
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  big big inspiration for us, and you know when I was my old
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  band, like, they were so so kind to us and like roagi for
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  us and stuff at like punk Fest and things like that. So yeah,
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  there's been a good time and I'm glad to I wouldn't say we're like maybe
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  the only band doing post hardcore at the moment. I'm sure there's plenty out
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  there that are, but I mean, like I'm not so much directed at
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  the sound that we miss in love from those those days got on way,
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  you know. So yeah, yeah, that's what with Famine and Unstill and
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  then with Corrosion obviously it's a slightly heavier song than our first two singles,
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  and I think that the reason for that is because over the years I've kind
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  of kind of my my taste and heavy music have sort of expanded and instead
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  of just post hardcore, started listening to metal core and you know, all
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  the other core genres that are out there, and I like to dabble in
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  a bit of metal core as well because I just really enjoy that heaviness as
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  well. That post hardcore doesn't really sort of it's not the same amount of
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  heavy in my opinion as metal core. So but like it's sort of an
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  amalgamation. So Corrosion is an amalgamation of what I love about post hardcore and
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  what I love about metal core, and sot of just putting the two together
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  and still get that melodic sound, that melodic post hardcore sound with the riffs
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  that are present in our previous two singles. Right now. You did mention
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  it in the press race as well, that Prosian is a heavier song than
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  the other two. So it's heavier song today. So how are you describing
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  heavy? Like? Is it in terms of conchanda? Is it in terms
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  of breakdowns? Like how we describe it heavy here? Yeah? Just the
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  amount of riffs that isn't it. I would say there's a bit more chugging
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  going on in that, a bit more screams. It's probably our most scream
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  heavy song. I would say most double kicker film as well, like but
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  not not solid double kickers. It's just like random, like sporadic ones here
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  and then I wouldn't say random, but you know what I mean. I
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  think production wise as well. Production wise, we've really stepped up for Corrosion
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  because we decided to go with someone who is well known for producing heavy music
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  in our current industry. I think you know Chris Slalik from wind Waker yep.
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  Yeah, so he's very very popular because he does such a good job
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  at producing these heavy tracks and he made the song sound. I have to
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  credit him because honestly, it would not sound the way it sounds if it
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  wasn't for his production. So a lot of heaviness also comes from his production
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  as well. Very cool. Now we actually premiering the film clip, but
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  I know you guys have put a lot of time into this and getting it
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  right. So how does a film clip relate to this isl Well, what
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  we liked about Erosion is so Tom. Actually I'm going to credit Tom for
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  this because he actually started designing sort of cover art for the Sun. Yeah.
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  Oh, do you want to talk more about this? Tom? To
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  you know, so, I know, I was just designed coming up with
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  different ideas and stuff to like work on for the cover art, and we
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  had many ideas, and I kind of wanted to go with like a horror
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  sort of vibe just because we feel that this song maybe you know, maybe
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  not it's lyrical content or whatever. It isn't like super related to horror or
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  anything like that, you know, but at the same time, the song
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  has a very like sort of dark, gritty feeling, so I wanted to
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  go with that sort of design and from there on, and we kind of
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  just decided that we go for like a heavy sort of like heavy dark and
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  horror vibe tone for the video clip, for the like the promotion all that
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  sort of stuff, and be like centered around a horror vibe. So when
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  we came to do the music video, we were very limited in what we
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  could do with the music video because of budget constraints. We just spent so
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  much money on the actual songs themselves and everything like that, and you know,
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  our band isn't the most well off money wise. You know, we're
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  pretty uh, we're pushing it sometimes, you know, we all are.
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  By yeah, and like, h of course it's I'm sure every band wrestles
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  with that too, you know, but yeah, we seem to wrestle with
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  a lot more. I don't know, it feels like I'm wrestling a giant
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  bear. I'm Alex a terrible I'm sort of the prevailer of us all of
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  a sudden. No. But yeah, Like so we went with the horror
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  vibe and we like, did this like sort of cool idea for a music
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  video. We've got a really cool like abandoned warehouse and all that, and
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  it's like covered in graffiti. It's dirty, it's dingy, it's dusky and
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  dark as well, and we wanted a very dark, cold, bluish sort
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  of tones of music GEO two, which helps add to the horror vibe.
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  And while Ash hasn't seen a fully finished product yet, you will after this.
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  Hopefully she approves, because if not, I'm working on d again.
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  So but yeah, I mean, what do you think about that? Is
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  that good explanation? Ash? Yeah, fantastic. I think that once I
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  saw Tom's vision for you know, the whole horror element, I really got
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  on board. I'm like, yeah, that kind of works with the song
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  because the song itself is about the breakdown of relationships, like whatever relationship it
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  is, friendship, you know, you know, a love relationship. I
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  think that there's a really really sad but there's really sad but very very possible
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  chance of any relationship just breaking down just like that. You know, like
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  someone you thought you've known forever, someone that you you fully trust, and
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  then you know they either betray your trust or you realize in the end that
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  they're not who you thought they were. You know, I think all of
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  us have had to relate to that too, you know, like I've had
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  a lot of people in my life that I would think were my best mates
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  and stuff, and now we're on mates. You know, yeah, I
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  think you know, unfortunately, yeah, because it's just basically talking about how
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  reallyationships breakdown and corrode and you know, it's a really sad reality. But
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  I'm sure that everyone can relate to it because we've all had to go through
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  that at some point. So having that theme of corrosion and just the horror
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  element and you know, the breakdown of things, and I think that everything
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  just kind of went well together in terms of the vibe. Yes set mentioned
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  the previous singles Spamming and I'm Still So Together, You've got three songs out
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  now, So have they stand alone singles? Are they part of a bigger
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  album? MA rep picture to you explained this, Tom, Yeah, just
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  because I kind of had the vision of that. What we're going to do
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  is going to release all the songs separately, the singles, and then at
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  the end give people an option to purchase it all in one EP. But
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  we're going to add on a bonus two tracks or maybe something like that,
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  just to make it more worth people's while if they've already heard all the songs
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  and stuff. You know, we want people to get something new out of
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  it when we do launch as our full package. You know, we'll be
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  doing that eventually, we will be releasing it as a pool release, but
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  at the moment it's just going to be singles up until we see the ape's
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  ready sorting, you know. So here, Sorry, sorry gone, Like
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  I didn't I feel oh now, I was just I was just going to
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  add to that. So the reason why we're releasing all these singles at the
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  moment is because we are fairly unknown, banned, Like, we're not really
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  well known. So I think the best way to get attention and to capture,
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  you know, sort of an audience is to release these songs as singles
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  and then once we've got a bit of a following to then all right,
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  here are these singles that we're gonna present to all of you who already know
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  us, Like this is all of it in one package for you. So
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  that's what we were planning on doing with that. And the other thing that
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  we've urged is now is like if we can get every song as a single
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  pretty much off the AP, that everyone's going to know every song back to
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  front off that EP, rather than a lot of songs getting lost in the
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  shuffle with the other songs or you know, songs that don't grab people at
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  first might grab them later, rather than them having them go back to the
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  CD and put it in or whatever, or you know, pull it up
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  on their iTunes or whatever and listen to it again. And I think it's
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  just like we want, we want the attention on every song, not just
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  songs to get lost, you know. So yeah, that's smart thinking,
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  guys, very smart thinking. It's all Tom. He's their genius when it
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  comes to the marketing stuff. I'm mutually horrible at that. Ah that Mu's
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  got to be good at today. Yeah, i'm I'm. I love writing
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  and I love recording and performing, but when it comes to that sort of
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  that side of the band, I think I leave that to Tom. Yeah,
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  I love it. I love it very good, guys, Right well,
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  thanks very much, good time. It's been a pleasure getting to know
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  you. The single Corrosion From This Point Forward, premieres by a Heavy Tuesday,
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  July sixteenth to five. I can't top it on the video because I
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  haven't seen it, but the songs are cracky, guys, So congratulations and
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  best of black with it. Oh yeah, I really appreciate me. I'm
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  really on it that you like it.