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Respect Through Music With RYAN KNIGHT From THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I'm Ryan Knight from The Black Dahlu Murder. I play
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  Speaker 1: rhythm man, lead guitar at times, and we have a
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  Speaker 1: new album coming out called Servitude, comes out September twenty
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  Speaker 1: seventh of Metal Blade Records.
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  Speaker 2: Yatiful, Ryan, thanks for joining us the Savening.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, thanks for having me my pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: So, as you said, The Black Dahli and Murder wrote,
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  Speaker 2: Murder release your tenth studio album, Servitude on September twenty seventh. Pray, So,
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  Speaker 2: how are you feeling about it?
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  Speaker 1: Good? You know, we've been living with this thing for
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  Speaker 1: almost a year and as the time ticks down, it
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  Speaker 1: feels like eternity or ready for this thing to come out,
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  Speaker 1: and we yeah, we really think everybody's gonna enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: How do you go with something like that? Mate, Like
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  Speaker 2: it's been finished for about a year, Like you say, so,
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  Speaker 2: you sort of you think about things you could have
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  Speaker 2: done differently or could have changed with it. What do
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  Speaker 2: you put it to bet in that period and just
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  Speaker 2: sort of move on, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes, Yeah, for sure, I feel like this time, at
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  Speaker 1: least on my end, no, I feel pretty solid about it,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I feel like for me, like every record,
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  Speaker 1: like I never give anything I do a hundred. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I would never score it like it's a score, But
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  Speaker 1: like this one, I'm pretty pretty happy with, pretty happy with.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, no no regrets for me on this one.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, so can you dive into it a bit more
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  Speaker 2: from a musical point of view for us and then
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  Speaker 2: tell us what you're going forward it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this is gonna be This is the
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  Speaker 1: first record with Brian, who formerly was the other guitar player.
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  Speaker 1: He's moved over to vocals, so this is huge record
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  Speaker 1: because of that. So first very obvious change. This is
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  Speaker 1: also the first record that me and Brandon ellis the
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  Speaker 1: second guitar player who also plays the lead an rhythm,
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  Speaker 1: first album we've been on together, even though me and
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  Speaker 1: Brandon have known each other, you know, quite quite a
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  Speaker 1: long time now. And let's see and this is the
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  Speaker 1: first record where everyone's gonna hear basically the guys that
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  Speaker 1: have written for Black Dollar Murder, so me or Brian,
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  Speaker 1: myself and Brandon is the first record where you hear
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  Speaker 1: all of us writing on one record. So it's maybe
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  Speaker 1: you maybe you could say this is the most diverse record.
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  Speaker 1: Three big, kind of big things that make this record,
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  Speaker 1: you know kind of like maybe special.
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  Speaker 2: Like today you released his singles Man this Hand and
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  Speaker 2: optim Off might say decided it overall, they're a good
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  Speaker 2: sonic representation. What do you expect?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think after math we put it out first.
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  Speaker 1: It's just kind of got that sort of classic iconic uh,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want to say. It's just kind of got
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  Speaker 1: that classic BDM sound, And we kind of wanted Brian
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  Speaker 1: wrote that song, and we kind of just felt like
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  Speaker 1: that was a good first representation of this record, just
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  Speaker 1: because you know, has the classic sound. We wanted to
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  Speaker 1: like kind of reassure people like, hey, we're still you know,
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  Speaker 1: the same band, still gonna sound primarily like this, and
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  Speaker 1: UH felt like that was a good first single to release.
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  Speaker 1: Mamma's Hand is a song I wrote, uh kind of
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  Speaker 1: like during COVID for kind of like a completely different
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  Speaker 1: project from BDM, and Uh, I would probably say it's
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  Speaker 1: definitely one of them our most different songs. Has some
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  Speaker 1: stuff in the band's never done before. When I had
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  Speaker 1: that song demoed out, I shouted to Brian, I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think about this track? It's kind of different,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, and he Brian listened to it and
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  Speaker 1: liked it, so we decided to use it. So and uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they both had really good reaction, so we're very happy
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  Speaker 1: with that.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, so, as you mentioned, this is your tend studio album, right,
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  Speaker 2: So would you say that by now Black Dollian Murders
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  Speaker 2: found your own set sound or are you still experimenting
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  Speaker 2: to a degree?
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I would definitely say yeah, we definitely know
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  Speaker 1: what our sound is at this point for sure. And
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, every time we go to
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  Speaker 1: write a new record, that's we're pretty much all honing
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  Speaker 1: in for the most part on that core sound. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's we're always trying to throw in some new influences
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  Speaker 1: and like some fresh ideas and that at this point,
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  Speaker 1: you know, on album ten, that's kind of the challenge,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to keep our core sound while kind of
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  Speaker 1: uh evolving the band. I guess you would say bit
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  Speaker 1: by bit.
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  Speaker 2: They just sort of touched on this bit before, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: But this is your first album back with the band
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  Speaker 2: since twenty fifteen's album A Bus Malls. It had to
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  Speaker 2: be tough coming back under those circumstances. But how was
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  Speaker 2: how was the whole process of reintegrating with the band
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  Speaker 2: for you.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta say it was. It's been pretty natural. Brian,
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  Speaker 1: Max and Allen I have. I was in a band
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  Speaker 1: with those guys prior for you know, quite some time,
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  Speaker 1: so I've played a lot of shows with them. I've written,
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  Speaker 1: uh quite a few records with them, so I feel
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  Speaker 1: pretty at home with those guys. So, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: guess probably the hardest part about rejoining was that most
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  Speaker 1: of the parts I play in all the old material,
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  Speaker 1: most of them are Brian's parts now because Brandon plays
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  Speaker 1: all my parts from when I joined the band. So
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  Speaker 1: that was kind of a challenge because as I was
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  Speaker 1: learning all the songs, I'm kind of in my subc
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  Speaker 1: not just remembering my old parts which are not my parts.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, other than that, you know, it's been it's
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  Speaker 1: been pretty uh pretty natural, I guess. Yeah, it feels
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  Speaker 1: just like coming back home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, as you mentioned, Brian has made from guitar to
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  Speaker 2: vocals to this album, so I know you kind of
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  Speaker 2: speak for him, but from your point of view might
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  Speaker 2: like how did he handle the transition.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's done really well. I mean, it's Brian's
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  Speaker 1: got like the biggest mountain to climb, you know, over
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  Speaker 1: any of us. I mean, he basically, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: the front man now, so you know, you're the guy
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  Speaker 1: that's got to like obviously you got to talk to
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  Speaker 1: the crowd or one's eyes are on you. You're kind
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  Speaker 1: of up there, not holding a guitar anymore, so you
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  Speaker 1: kind of kind of figure out something to do, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and then just you know, the the technique of it,
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  Speaker 1: and which I think, you know, I think when people here,
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  Speaker 1: especially this full album, they're gonna be pretty surprised because
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  Speaker 1: I think he did a killer job. But yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a role that he's doing great at. We've
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  Speaker 1: seen a lot of progress with him over the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of years that he's been doing it now, and
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, it's going to be just like Trevor,
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna see him evolve over time and over, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as we do more albums. So yeah, and.
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  Speaker 2: That has him said, because the vocals are a big
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  Speaker 2: part of any band mate, So is it is it
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  Speaker 2: Dan shaaltered to sound drastically very much having him and
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  Speaker 2: there singing.
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  Speaker 1: So Brian's voices it's different than Trevor's, but it's weird
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  Speaker 1: at times. They're very similar. Like, I mean, I've listened
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  Speaker 1: to this record, this new record, a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: since I've been living with it now for a while,
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  Speaker 1: and there's it's weird, like sometimes I'll have it on
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  Speaker 1: the background, I'll almost for like, for like a split second,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, yeah, this is Brian, you know. So
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  Speaker 1: there's times where I feel like he sounds very similar
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  Speaker 1: to Trevor more so kind of like on the early
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  Speaker 1: Black Doll albums, but also Brian very much. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's got his own thing going. He's definitely not trying.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Brian knows he's not Trevor's. He knows, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's got he's developing, he's doing his own thing. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's very much keeping the lyrics sort of true to
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  Speaker 1: what the band does. You know, the band tells like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stories like horror, science fiction or fantasy
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  Speaker 1: or you know, all types of different topics. So he's keeping,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the lyrics pretty true to what we do.
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  Speaker 1: But overall, yeah, I mean, he's doing his he's doing
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  Speaker 1: his own thing.
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  Speaker 3: This light.
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  Speaker 2: I've had your first show in Detroit in October of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, mates, so that must have been a
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  Speaker 2: pretty emotional show for Alias.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that one was definitely I mean, yeah, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: the first time like we kind of all united on
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  Speaker 1: stage without Trevor, and that was like a definitely like
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  Speaker 1: a heavy, heavy night. I will say, you know that
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  Speaker 1: the vibe of the crowd, I mean it was absolutely
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  Speaker 1: packed and sold out that night, and just the vibe
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  Speaker 1: of the crowd was just hard to explain. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like everybody in the building could feel it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you could tell that everyone was kind of feeling the
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  Speaker 1: loss of Trevor, but at the same time like sort
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  Speaker 1: of like rooting us on as a band, and it
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  Speaker 1: was a bittersweet. I guess you would say that was
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  Speaker 1: also like personally for me, like my ship first show back,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, there's a bit of nervousness going on there.
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  Speaker 1: But but yeah, overall, that was a really good, good
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  Speaker 1: send off and just yeah, great show.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose having a crowd reaction law that too, Like
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  Speaker 2: if anyone had any doubts about continuing a proud reaction law,
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  Speaker 2: that would have just set him set him back straight
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  Speaker 2: away and given you imagice with it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think like, you know, once we played
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  Speaker 1: that show and then once we did a couple of
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  Speaker 1: tours the following year in twenty twenty three. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like that was sort of like a period, you know,
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  Speaker 1: looking back now of like you know, we could have
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  Speaker 1: you know, we said, yeah, we're going to continue on,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean, like realistic, I think it was very
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  Speaker 1: important for us to play that show and do those
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  Speaker 1: couple of tours because I think I feel like after
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  Speaker 1: all that we were really solid, like, yeah, we can,
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  Speaker 1: we can do this, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Servatue comes out on September the twenty seventh, Mate
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  Speaker 2: say What's black? Dahlia Murder got planned for the rest
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four and beyond.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, here, in just about a month, we're about to
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  Speaker 1: embark on a US and Canadian tour. It's gonna be Us,
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  Speaker 1: Dying Fetus, Spike, Angel Maker, and Vomit Fourth and it
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  Speaker 1: should be a rager, you know. I feel like there's
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's a lot of different sort
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  Speaker 1: of metal represented there. I mean, you got us, but
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  Speaker 1: then you got like legends like Dying Fetus that've been around.
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  Speaker 1: Then you got like angel Maker and SPIKEE. They're kind
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  Speaker 1: of you know, they're younger bands. Hopefully they're gonna bring
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  Speaker 1: they'll bring in like a younger audience. Maybe they'll even
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  Speaker 1: bring in some people that don't even know who we are.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're always trying to get new fans and
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  Speaker 1: then vomit. Fourth is really cool. There another like sort
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  Speaker 1: of younger band and you know they kind of throw
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  Speaker 1: it back old school. So there's just like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of differ a lot of different things happening, which hopefully
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  Speaker 1: will draw a vast array of people to the show.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, all right, well thanks very much for your time today, mate.
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  Speaker 2: Serber Tudi is out September twenty seventh. Boys have been
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  Speaker 2: hitting the road, so catch them where you can. Near
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  Speaker 2: you soon.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and yeah, thanks for the interview. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: having me.
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