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In The Throes Of Death With TOBIAS GUSTAFSSON From VOMITORY · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Just stops on the drummer of Vomitory from Sweden.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic mate, Hell are I I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just having my morning coffee here.
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  Speaker 2: Nice, I just said my afternoon. Ally, I'm feeling fresh
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 3: Arbority release your new album in Death Throws on April.
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  Speaker 2: The tess mate like, not far away now, how are
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  Speaker 2: you feeling it?
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  Speaker 1: I feel I'm feeling great about it. Can't wait till
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  Speaker 1: us out. We're We're going on tour tomorrow on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: The first show on this tour is in Berlin, Germany,
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  Speaker 1: and so the album will be out when we are
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  Speaker 1: on the road. So it's gonna be nice to play
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  Speaker 1: a couple of new songs from the new album and
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  Speaker 1: to be able to offer it to the to the fans.
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  Speaker 2: Would be second. You tell us bit more about the
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  Speaker 2: album from a musical perspective. Mind, what you're done for
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  Speaker 2: with it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think we we continued on the same path
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  Speaker 1: as we did on our previous album, our comeback album
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  Speaker 1: called All the Heads Are Going to Roll, So we
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  Speaker 1: we continue writing in the in the same way, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and but in hindsight, this new album turned out a
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  Speaker 1: bit more intense than the previous one, I think, which
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  Speaker 1: is not a bad thing or that metal band.
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  Speaker 2: Can you explain intense? What do you mean by intense?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's it's not it's not necessarily faster.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know, it's more intense. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how to describe it. Really, it's more maybe it's more
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  Speaker 1: fast parts and like, for instance, the opening song Rapture
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  Speaker 1: in Rupture, it's really that's really intense. It's like no no,
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  Speaker 1: no space for to take your breath anywhere, just full
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  Speaker 1: on smash smash. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 3: Your nearest guitar star Christian contributed the title of four
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  Speaker 3: songs on this album, right, So what what did have
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  Speaker 3: in him there bring to the stand?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he has his own way of writing, as everyone does.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he has been a Vomitory fan for many
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  Speaker 1: years before he joined the band, so he knows what
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  Speaker 1: we're all about. So he knew what too, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he knew what the framework is. So but he he
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  Speaker 1: had some really cool ideas that he they he brought
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  Speaker 1: brought into the band and for instance, the intro thing
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  Speaker 1: guitar intro thing for the title track in Death Throws
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  Speaker 1: is really cool, which also that part is also incorporated
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  Speaker 1: later in the song, which is a really cool thing
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  Speaker 1: I think. So, yeah, it's been great to have him
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  Speaker 1: join the joining the band and too and that he
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  Speaker 1: contributes contributes with that much material, that's that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you again used Giandis for the album artwork
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  Speaker 3: made and he's come up with an awesome design.
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  Speaker 2: Say, how does that tie in with the with the
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  Speaker 2: roll theme of the album.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's it works really well. We it's
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  Speaker 1: the same artist that made our the cover art for
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  Speaker 1: our previous album, Gianni's Nakos of Remedy art design from Greece.
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  Speaker 2: We had.
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  Speaker 1: We had had a had a couple of ideas that
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  Speaker 1: we sent to him that what we wanted in the cover,
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  Speaker 1: and we also sent him the the lyrics for the
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  Speaker 1: song and then he he took his his own ideas
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  Speaker 1: into it and yeah, the outcome is pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so coming.
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  Speaker 3: Back a bit made like After forming in ninet eighty nine,
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  Speaker 3: Vomitory delivered eight killer albums between nineteen ninety six threey
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  Speaker 3: eleven in Build a Loyal Fan basically entrench yourself in
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  Speaker 3: the death metal scene, but then disbanded in threeenty thirty
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  Speaker 3: in mates. So at that stage, did you fill out
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  Speaker 3: the band still at unfinished business?
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  Speaker 1: Not At that stage we had in twenty thirteen, we
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  Speaker 1: were definitely finished. That's why we quit. And yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: plan was never to reunite. We in twenty thirteen we
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  Speaker 1: felt that we had reached the end of the line
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  Speaker 1: and that was it. So and by then we had
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  Speaker 1: been an active band for twenty four years straight, so
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  Speaker 1: the fire was gone and we were done. That's that
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  Speaker 1: was my feeling at least. So then shit happened and
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  Speaker 1: we made a one off reunion show in twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: and that led to another thing, and then now we're
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  Speaker 1: here two more, having made two more albums.
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  Speaker 3: So when you had that reunion show in two thousand
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  Speaker 3: and seven eight, did you plan on actually reforming after
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  Speaker 3: that or did you all go into it to see
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  Speaker 3: how things go and make your mind up after.
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  Speaker 1: Well, when we did that show, we were a few
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  Speaker 1: years had passed since the since the breakup, and then
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  Speaker 1: we after that show, we were like, wow, this was
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  Speaker 1: really fun, and we said that maybe we should keep
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  Speaker 1: the door open for more live shows in the future,
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  Speaker 1: just to do live shows, no, not to come back
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  Speaker 1: as a real band, and then Eric came with the
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  Speaker 1: idea that we should make a temporary reunion during twenty
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  Speaker 1: nineteen to highlight the thirtieth anniversary of the band, which
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  Speaker 1: we did, and we played a lot of live shows
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  Speaker 1: during that year, and the plan was to only play
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  Speaker 1: live shows and during that year and then put the
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  Speaker 1: band back into the grave again, but we got so
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  Speaker 1: many requests so we had to turn a few offers down,
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  Speaker 1: so we decided to extend this temporary reunion into twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty so we could play some more shows. But then
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic hit the world, so everything was put on
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  Speaker 1: hold and we were waiting, if you know, to since
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  Speaker 1: shows got postponed or canceled, and we didn't know what
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  Speaker 1: to do because we couldn't really do thirtieth anniversary shows
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  Speaker 1: after thirty two or thirty three years, so it Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So it was during the pandemic that we decided to
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  Speaker 1: to get back together as a real band again to
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  Speaker 1: release albums and go on tours and like we did
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  Speaker 1: in the in the old days. Yeah, because we enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: it so much playing live again during nineteen, so we
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  Speaker 1: said let's let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah cool and all heads again.
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  Speaker 3: A role came out in twenty twenty three made and
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  Speaker 3: it proved that Vomitory It lost nothing in terms of musicality.
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  Speaker 2: And you strength the character.
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  Speaker 3: But internally, how important was that album for you have
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  Speaker 3: a sort of come back album.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it was, of course very important, since we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, come back and be an active
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  Speaker 1: band again, and it was important to have a really
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  Speaker 1: really good album since I guess that bands that do
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  Speaker 1: this kind of thing, that they come back, it's very
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  Speaker 1: important to have a very strong album or else you
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  Speaker 1: lose your credibility instantly. I think, yeah, but I think
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  Speaker 1: we we we made a great album with All Heads
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  Speaker 1: Are Gonna Roll and apparently fans loved it, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the reviews were overwhelming everywhere. So yeah, we're really happy
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  Speaker 1: with that, I said.
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  Speaker 4: Because of the success of that album, like, was it
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  Speaker 4: champion to rehash what was obviously a winning formula on
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  Speaker 4: that foreign Death Right, So it was important for you
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  Speaker 4: to sort of change up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: No, we didn't really change up much, but what we
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  Speaker 1: did change a little bit from our old albums for
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  Speaker 1: All Heads Are Going To Roll was that when we
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  Speaker 1: started writing for that album, we decided to try to
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  Speaker 1: focus more on writing strong choruses in the songs and like,
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  Speaker 1: and also work a lot more on backing vocals. So
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  Speaker 1: that's something that differs a little bit from our previous albums.
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  Speaker 1: I think so we were we wrote, we were a
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  Speaker 1: lot more conscious to write like the chorus thing in
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  Speaker 1: in in the songs, and I think we pulled that
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  Speaker 1: off really well. And we had the same same mindset
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  Speaker 1: for this new album as well as we did on
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  Speaker 1: on on the previous one. So but also uh, and
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  Speaker 1: we had Christian coming in and contributing with his stuff,
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  Speaker 1: which also made it a little bit more interesting interesting,
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks very much for your time.
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  Speaker 3: In Death Throws is out April the tenth, so best
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  Speaker 3: of luck with it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much.