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Master Of Ceremonies With GLEN BENTON From DEICIDE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  The more I'm one from the side and uh yeah, I got working out
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  banished by sending beautiful Glenn. Thanks for joining us today right now, Thanks
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  for having me. Oh So, the Side's thirty eighth album, Banished by
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  Siddon came out last month, mate, So how's the only reception been for
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  it? Pretty amazing, man, everybody's kind of a lot of people losing
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  their ship on it. You know, tell us bit about it from a
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  musical point of view, Bright and what what are you going forward it?
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  Well, I mean we're just like you saying, Man, we went through
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  the whole COVID bullshit thing with everybody else, and we had a lot of
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  time on our hands, so we put together a record. We were on
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  our contract, so we were just kind of like writing for the front of
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  it. And as we said, it is your third eighth album. Might
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  say, does it become easier or hot at it? Just sort of come
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  up with new material the more you put out. I guess I think when
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  you don't have anybody breathing on your back, I think it's really it's a
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  whole lot easier. You know, you don't have a record company bothering you
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  or people calling up every day harassing you and giving you time limits and trying
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  to rush you for this and that. I mean, we just did it
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  on our own time and our at our own pace, at our own speed.
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  And yeah, man, when you know, it just came together really
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  well for us. And timing of everything, yeah, quite of the sign
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  and the press release that musically that the album is to thrive back to the
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  naughty, naughty stall of the band, Like hou say, I don't know
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  about that. I just think that, you know, we recorded it in
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  a way. I think a lot of people hear that, you know,
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  they think when they hear it, they think of the old sounds and you
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  know, from the past, and that I just think it was the way
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  we recorded and we got more bad, I got more away from the whole
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  pro tools automation sound. It went more to a real live amplifiers and and
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  no plug ins, no modeling, that's really amplifiers, real microphones, and
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  recorded a record like you used to record. Yeah cool, for the benefit
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  the people like me bro don't sort of really understand too much about that recording
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  process, like how how does how does it different? Like you say,
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  any wanted to go for the for the live amplified sound rather than with pro
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  tools. When you use pro Tools, it's it's really easy to cut and
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  paste, you know, play a part and and just cut and paste that
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  part all over the record or all of the particular song. And with what
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  we're doing is more like more or less like you're playing the parts all the
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  way through the song. You're not just you know, playing I mean,
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  we use a little bit of that here and there, but it's with pro
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  Tools you can there's a lot of plug ins that you can pick to use,
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  like effects, guitar amplifiers and cabinets, you know. I mean you
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  can model an AMP sound through your Pro Tools program out of your computer.
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  And what happens is it starts to sound like elevator music. After a while,
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  it just sounds so mechanically made, you know, and it just kind
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  of loses that you know, that genuine you know feel and sound. Right.
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  So in essence it is is it's sort of more or less like you're
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  on stage playing it and it's getting recorded that way rather than together. Yeah.
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  Yeah, our sound guy, our sound guy to tracked us and that,
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  and so I mean you're getting a live D side sound, you know,
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  that's really what it was, and it took a lot to keep that,
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  you know, from getting away from us as far as mixing and mastering
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  and that, losing that the compression and that. So it took a lot
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  to keep everybody on board with the way I wanted it to sound. Well,
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  So can we go back to the early days of D Side bro Like
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  you started the band back in Tampa, Florida in the late nineteen eighties,
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  So what was the music of climate like that gave birth to the band?
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  And then where did you fit in? Initially? For me, man,
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  I was down here for you know, we had badly nasty. Savage and
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  Sabotage were like the first two band metal, real metal bands in this area,
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  you know. And I would go to those shows when I was a
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  kid. And then what was your early early vision for the band? I
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  guess? And then how's it changed since? I mean, I'm just like
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  I say, I don't think. I don't know, Man, I never
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  thought I would still be doing this at fifty seven years okay, So I'm
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  just really appreciative of the fact that I'm still healthy and I just still do
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  this. And sorry, as a vision of the band, man, it's
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  always been just what I sing about, man, you know, I mean
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  what I do and that I mean, we just always want to just trying
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  to keep the thing as heavy as as possible and just you know, keep
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  bringing people back to what we do. So You're not any naughty. Self
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  titled debut album really shook things up in the music world, right, Like,
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  was that your intented the time? I mean, you're looking to sort
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  of come out and make make a difference. I guess, so were you
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  sort of more just doing it for yourself? Yeah, I mean that record
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  was just like the record we just did. It was like one record that
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  we will for ourselves. We were we didn't have a record deal then.
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  I mean, we wrote a record worth of material and it was good,
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  you know. I mean we had time to really play with it, modify
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  it and make it right. And when you have that kind of time and
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  no pressure on you and that, you can do pretty good things. Man,
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  you can do some amazing things. So thirty five years is a long
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  time in the industry. Bright There's been lots of trends coming going that time,
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  but day Sides always stayed true yourself and your music. But have you
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  ever been tempted to sort of change it up in all to fit in with
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  the changing times did and everybody be crying about that too. So you don't
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  want to sing about you know? I mean, what's it really left to
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  sing about that hasn't been sung about? Right? Think about? Right?
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  Am I gonna sing about getting my heart broken? Or singing about you know,
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  how fast my car is or how ugly my wife is? I mean,
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  what do you sing about at this point? You know? I think
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  if you just stay true to yourself, I think you'll have a lot.
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  I think that's part of key to my longevity is that I've never abandoned when
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  I started. Yeah. True? So what's next to Day's side by?
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  You gotten any shows coming up? We're going to be going to Europe in
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  July and uh US Canada in September, and then we're going to go to
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  South America and some festivals coming back. I think we're gonna do a seven
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  week run in April twenty five in Europe, and yeah, I would like
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  to come down and back down Australia and do some shows. Man. Just
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  I need incredible you know, incredible promoter down there to handle it, you
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  know, and if so, they can contact our agency or whatever that would
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  we really consider coming back down doing another run. Last time I was there,
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  I didn't really have a good time because I was going through some personal
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  ship and so I didn't really get it. I didn't get a chance to
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  enjoy myself like I did the first time I was there. Oh, let's
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  see if we can get you back at Mike and Ben's brother. I'll come
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  down and need some seafood and chase some kangaroos. It was like fun to
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  me, broll, thanks very much, be talking. I was then,
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  Uh, the album Seeing is out now and she's a cracking so best of
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  black Brown. Hopefully we see you down. Yeah you well man, thank
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  you very much. Thanks for having me. I appreciate that throughout it all
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  they can take. I can't have my father's side, so not a lot.
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  But it's like, uh you lot o s S. Turns out fight
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  versus speak, got so tarking out flatbout Thursday far thirstreak the world wayfore goods
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  stop. Oh that's upside. Post six s S SAP time So time out,
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  fight up time, so talk out fi