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Marching Into Battle With GUS HART From BIFTER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Guthrim Bifter.
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  Speaker 2: We're Doomslige band from Sydney and we're putting out our
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  Speaker 2: first track off our upcoming record. The single is called
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  Speaker 2: March of the Imp and the record's going to be
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  Speaker 2: called First Impressions of Hell, which that will be coming
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  Speaker 2: out in full around April.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, fantastic, thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Man appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: As you say.
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  Speaker 4: Man our premiering the music video for your new single,
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  Speaker 4: March of the Imp via Heavy on February eleventh, with
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  Speaker 4: a single being released on this Friday, mate, So how
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  Speaker 4: you feel about it?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we're stokes mate.
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  Speaker 2: It's been as you know, in this biness, it's a
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  Speaker 2: long time coming when you start recording to when you
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  Speaker 2: start putting stuff out. So it's been a long road
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  Speaker 2: and we're super proud of what we've what we've managed
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  Speaker 2: to produce here with this upcoming record. So we're often
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  Speaker 2: to get it out on Tuesday. To be honest and tell.
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  Speaker 3: Us about the song from musical point of view and
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  Speaker 3: what are you going for with it?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So much of the Imp is pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: Our mats in Mourner's described it as a sort of
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  Speaker 2: dungeon sludge and it's kind of a it's a kind
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  Speaker 2: of a cool little song, just it kind of builds
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  Speaker 2: from the start to the end, but it's essentially describing
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  Speaker 2: a story of a battle between the human beings and
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  Speaker 2: the ungodly creatures that are the imp And we've got
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  Speaker 2: we've got two vocalists in the band, Rory Anstrak, and
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  Speaker 2: they do a really cool like what do you call it,
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  Speaker 2: like back and forth in between the verses to this
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  Speaker 2: gribe the story. So yeah, it all kind of builds
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  Speaker 2: up to a really heavy, sludge ridden ending.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's not a song. It's not a TikTok song.
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  Speaker 2: We can sort of just listen to the first five seconds,
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  Speaker 2: but I definitely recommend taking the whole journey nice.
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  Speaker 4: And the music video must be pretty special too, mate,
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  Speaker 4: if you're making its way to next four days for
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  Speaker 4: it's what's so good?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we actually had a thick time filming it.
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  Speaker 2: We filmed it out I from Malabarre in New South
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  Speaker 2: Wales here and we filmed it out one of the
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  Speaker 2: old war tunnels from around where I grow up. So
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  Speaker 2: it was pretty special for me to film out there.
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  Speaker 2: And we made a really cool storyline which we'll leave
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  Speaker 2: for We'll leave for Tuesday. But our videographer, man Cal Cinema,
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  Speaker 2: that has just made like a phenomenal little clip for us,
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  Speaker 2: which is just the perfect amount of tongue in cheek
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  Speaker 2: balanced out with some fucking some really heavy riff and
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  Speaker 2: doom scenes and some some bit of murder, bit of violence,
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  Speaker 2: and it's all but it's all a bit of fun
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  Speaker 2: in the end. So yeah, we just can't well to
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  Speaker 2: put it in perspective. We filmed it all in one
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  Speaker 2: day and like Cal was so excited about the project
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  Speaker 2: and how fun it was to film that he went
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  Speaker 2: home and just edited the whole thing in one night.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we're really happy with it, and we think
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  Speaker 2: it just like accentuates like the album in general, and
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  Speaker 2: like the viber going for it. So we've sort of
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  Speaker 2: come out hitting with one of our heavier, heavier tracks
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  Speaker 2: to start for the first single because we just wanted
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  Speaker 2: to hit the ground running nice.
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  Speaker 4: Now, much of bes taken from your new album First
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  Speaker 4: Impression to the Hell, which comes out in April.
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  Speaker 3: So is it a good sodic representation of what do
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  Speaker 3: you expect?
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  Speaker 1: It is? It definitely is.
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  Speaker 2: But I also think the best thing about the album
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  Speaker 2: and about BIFTU sound in general, is that, like we're
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  Speaker 2: pretty unique in we kind of we weave a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a tapestry in between different genres, especially like within
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  Speaker 2: one song we could be go. We pride ourselves on
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  Speaker 2: doing some cool changeups, whether it be like old school
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  Speaker 2: traditional doom riff breakdowns or like utilizing our two vocals
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  Speaker 2: to like really give a sludgy edge to some of
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  Speaker 2: our breakdowns, Whereas we've still got some fast stone of
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  Speaker 2: rifts in there as well, and we kind of pride
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  Speaker 2: ourselves on blending all that together, and that's what you're
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  Speaker 2: going to get in the album. It's like it we
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  Speaker 2: try to make it kind of metaphorical, like first impressions
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  Speaker 2: of Hell, you've just died, You're at the gates. That's
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  Speaker 2: essentially the artwork of the record, and that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: what we wanted it to metaphorically be like you're holding
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  Speaker 2: that record and you're about to go on a journey
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  Speaker 2: and if nothing else that this record definitely is that.
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  Speaker 4: First impression. As the Hell is actually a concept album
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  Speaker 4: as well. Bro So run us through What's Happening?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, as I just mentioned, we've worked with rock sadistic,
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  Speaker 2: this old school heavy metal artists from Sydney. He's just
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  Speaker 2: been an absolute legend for had a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: meeting with him about the concept of it and what
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  Speaker 2: I wanted out of the art, and he just made
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  Speaker 2: this amazing oil painting for us of this like dude
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  Speaker 2: at the Gates of Hell, just like surrounded by all
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  Speaker 2: these like hell demons and shit. So it's like it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of like when you're holding that record, we wanted
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  Speaker 2: it to be like you're transforming yourself into that person,
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  Speaker 2: like you're standing at the gates You're about to, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: undertake that journey. And yeah, we've got like samples and
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of cool stuff like mixed in throughout the
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  Speaker 2: whole album as well, which kind of makes it, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a bit of an atmosphere as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just like a couple of songs strung together
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  Speaker 2: like it's Yeah, it's a full concept runner.
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  Speaker 3: Is it about one man's journey into Hell?
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  Speaker 1: Basically, Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: It's just one man, like one man or one person's
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  Speaker 2: as soon as you've died, it's like you're at the
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  Speaker 2: gates of Hell, and like every song kind of drifts
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  Speaker 2: in and out of genres, and even as I mentioned before,
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  Speaker 2: within the song, we shift between genres and that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of our songwriting style. So I think it gives it
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  Speaker 2: like a really like how do.
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  Speaker 1: I describe it, Like like.
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  Speaker 2: A movie style, like like you're reading a movie score
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  Speaker 2: or something, and it's like moves through stages as you
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  Speaker 2: go through the record.
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  Speaker 3: Where as much of the infit into the screen.
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  Speaker 2: Much to the IMP is the first song on the
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  Speaker 2: second side, so it has a pretty haunting little what
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  Speaker 2: did I say before the sample intro to the second
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  Speaker 2: side of the record, and then that's the first and
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  Speaker 2: then that kind of Yeah, as I said, we kind
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  Speaker 2: of flow up and down in between some heavy dooming,
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  Speaker 2: like heavy dooming, slow paced sort of i'd say doom
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  Speaker 2: sludge tracks mixed in with some like stone of rock
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  Speaker 2: heavy but fast, faster riffing stuff. And we also have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of interplay between the vocals as well, with
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  Speaker 2: like Rory taking the lead on some songs, Shrek takes
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  Speaker 2: the lead on a few of the other songs, but
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  Speaker 2: then they work together on a few, like on much
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  Speaker 2: of the IMP as well.
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  Speaker 4: So does it make it difficult decided what singles to release?
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  Speaker 4: Because they all tell different parts of the story, like.
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  Speaker 2: That was that was definitely a big factor in it
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  Speaker 2: because we got there's a lot of like that's one
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  Speaker 2: thing about the album. Everyone's really proud of, like all
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  Speaker 2: the songs. So we a real hard time like picking
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  Speaker 2: what would be best, especially for a single as well.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, oh, don't want to put the seven minute
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  Speaker 2: super doom track that's belly called Belly of the Beast
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  Speaker 2: like at the end of which is at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the record, and probably like it's probably one of
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  Speaker 2: the best tracks, but maybe not suited to a single.
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  Speaker 2: But then we're like, we still don't want to go
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  Speaker 2: and put it one of the two to three minute
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  Speaker 2: like tracks out there, because we feel like maybe that's
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  Speaker 2: not enough time to really grasp like what we're going
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  Speaker 2: for on the album.
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  Speaker 1: And like in terms of.
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  Speaker 2: The mixing and just the vibe we got off much
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  Speaker 2: of the imp in the studio, Like I think that's
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  Speaker 2: what it came down to, just the the heaviness and
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  Speaker 2: just the the duel into play between the vocals that
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  Speaker 2: we achieved on that track. I think that was like
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  Speaker 2: kind of what made us decide in the end to
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  Speaker 2: put that out first. And just come out swinging.
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  Speaker 4: And so when it comes to playing them live, are
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  Speaker 4: you going to have to play the songs in chronological
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  Speaker 4: order from the album or would they still make sense
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  Speaker 4: out of order?
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  Speaker 5: Ah?
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  Speaker 1: No, they feel they're not.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like, Yeah, you don't have to listen to
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  Speaker 2: him in the album order to get the vibe of
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  Speaker 2: the theme.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of just like thematics throughout the songs.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, definitely you were able to listen to yeah,
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  Speaker 2: any songs that you want really as in our live show,
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  Speaker 2: we do have a few that link up like the album,
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  Speaker 2: but we also have changed it around a bit just
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  Speaker 2: to make the flow of the live set a little
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  Speaker 2: bit better.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, either.
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  Speaker 3: Way, speaking a libro, you've got a big couple of
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  Speaker 3: months coming up.
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  Speaker 4: So we're going to start with your first international support
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  Speaker 4: for Sweden's Green Leaf on February twenty second.
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  Speaker 3: Mate, that's just that's going to make you pretty happy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh mate.
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  Speaker 2: We were stoked when we got the call up for
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  Speaker 2: that one and shout out to Anthony from your Mate
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  Speaker 2: Bookings putting us on. I actually sent him the first
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  Speaker 2: mixes because he was looking for supports. He announced the
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  Speaker 2: show and I was like Oh, I know, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to have to get him quick. But we only had
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  Speaker 2: the mixes of the album, so I shot them off
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  Speaker 2: to him and he was like because he was, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just stoked with it and gave us some really good
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  Speaker 2: feedback which got us even more to like get the
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  Speaker 2: masters done. So he essentially decided to give us a
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  Speaker 2: crack off that. And since we've got the masters of
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  Speaker 2: the album back and we've been like trying to pick
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  Speaker 2: up a few gigs and build this little record tour.
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  Speaker 2: It's stuff's just been coming out of the woodwork since then.
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  Speaker 2: So very stoked with how the live shows are going.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 4: And you've got a few other live shows coming up too, man,
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  Speaker 4: you want to tell us about them?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Man, We're actually gearing up to play the official party,
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  Speaker 2: the official after party of the Belco Bowl Jam in
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  Speaker 2: two weeks, which is down in Canberra.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the biggest.
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  Speaker 2: Skateboard competition in Australia pretty much. It's been running for
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  Speaker 2: twenty five years, so we're like super privileged to be
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  Speaker 2: playing the official after party for that.
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  Speaker 1: It's just going to be absolutely loose. We cannot wait.
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  Speaker 2: And then after that we've got the Green Leaf one
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  Speaker 2: then we've got in March. We're playing a Sydney show
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  Speaker 2: at the Botany View Hotel on March the eighth with
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  Speaker 2: scum Fu and Nunchucker Superfly. Then we are getting a
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  Speaker 2: few tour shows to be announced upper Coast and a
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  Speaker 2: few rural shows locked in for late in March. Then
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  Speaker 2: April rolls around and we're getting up to Queensland hopefully.
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  Speaker 2: We're just confirming a show early April up there as
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  Speaker 2: we speak. And then we've got Sunburned Stone and Doom
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  Speaker 2: down in Melbourne, the ultimate festival for us pretty much,
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  Speaker 2: and we're dropping the full album there, so nice on.
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  Speaker 4: That and the best face for people to follow Bifter
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  Speaker 4: and get hold of your stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Ah yeah, you can check us out either.
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  Speaker 2: Just I'd say, just go to our Instagram, dot com
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  Speaker 2: slash Bifter band and then we've got link tree link
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  Speaker 2: there you can find We're on Spotify, Apple Music. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to get the band camp up and running with
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  Speaker 2: our new merch shortly and you can find all the
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  Speaker 2: links on there.
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  Speaker 4: Fantastic Gus. Well, thanks very much for your time Brabian
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  Speaker 4: to play you're speaking with you. The song March of
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  Speaker 4: the Imp is out this Friday on your streaming platforms.
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  Speaker 4: The single will be on the music video will be
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  Speaker 4: premiered Ya Heavy on Tuesday at midday, So keep an
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  Speaker 4: eye out for all of that.
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