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NECROFIER Transcend Into Oblivion: And Take Their Loyal Fans With Them · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: So you guys have been busy. Yeah, yes, yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: tell me what's been happening for you guys.
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  Speaker 2: The preparing everything for the album, I mean preparing for
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  Speaker 2: like the release, you know, like obviously everything else is
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  Speaker 2: already done.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, like we shot out like.
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  Speaker 2: The last music video, doing a lot of interviews for
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks, doing trying to plot like
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  Speaker 2: festivals and tours for the year.
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  Speaker 3: They say, all the behind the scenes stuff that.
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  Speaker 1: Like the stuff that makes the money, stuff that makes
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  Speaker 1: some money.
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  Speaker 3: It needs to happen, except it's not as fun.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, this is true. This is true. So when does
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  Speaker 4: your new album release? When's it dropped two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Or a little like Little Left and two weeks on
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  Speaker 3: the twenty seventh of February.
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  Speaker 1: Or some exciting exciting Yes, so twenty seventh's way sooner
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  Speaker 1: than what I thought.
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, it's one of those things. I'm like
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  Speaker 3: all them. This year is going to go buy faster
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  Speaker 3: than everyone.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in the older I get the more it's
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  Speaker 1: a different thing, and it's just it's terrible.
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  Speaker 4: Last year just went like that. But but are you're busy?
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  Speaker 1: And I guess you can't complain because bored and then
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  Speaker 1: you're you're not sitting around board, you don't get in trouble.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, boys, keep me busy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's exciting.
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  Speaker 1: So what our number album is is for net five
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  Speaker 1: mm hm the third Awesome Awesome.
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  Speaker 4: So plans to come down Under later.
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  Speaker 3: In the year possibly. I mean, I don't like it's
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  Speaker 3: been talked about, but I don't really.
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  Speaker 2: Know how to go about it, So I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: for like, honestly just don't know right now.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, hopefully, Yeah, I'm sure there'll be a few
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  Speaker 1: promoters out there wanting to jump on board and drag
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  Speaker 1: you out.
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  Speaker 4: We've got yeah, then we've.
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  Speaker 1: Got plenty of festivals that happened throughout the year and whatnot,
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  Speaker 1: which is always good for us. We love our live
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  Speaker 1: music over here. So tell me a little bit about yourselves.
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  Speaker 1: How did it stop, where have you been, where are
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  Speaker 1: you headed? And what's the the future predicts for yourselves.
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  Speaker 2: The started, I think eight years ago, okay, started almost
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  Speaker 2: as like it was just gonna be a musical project
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  Speaker 2: that was just like non playing live. Then it changed
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  Speaker 2: fast and then started becoming like an actual band appreviate
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  Speaker 2: like we were on season and miss for like our
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  Speaker 2: last couple of records, this records out of Metal Blade,
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  Speaker 2: Uh did a bunch of tours in the US and
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  Speaker 2: some festivals gone out with everybody from like a U
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  Speaker 2: Wanna to thirteen forty nine to Dance like that, some.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty big things. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: See as far as it goes, everything's going pretty well.
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  Speaker 4: Uh my sounds with Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Way it's still like, you know, excited for things. So
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  Speaker 2: it's uh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, that's what it's all about. If you still
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  Speaker 1: love what you're doing, then it's a thing. If you
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  Speaker 1: get paid for it even better, Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I take it your from musical backgrounds, yourselves coming.
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  Speaker 3: To the band.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like, uh so I've been in like some kind
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  Speaker 2: of like heavy metal ish doom bands and some punk bands.
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  Speaker 2: Our drummer, Dabber has been in everything from Motions the
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  Speaker 2: Slumber to Insect Warfare, just like all kinds of different stuff. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's been death metal bands and some things like that too.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, all has been. Yeah, we've always been playing music.
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  Speaker 3: For a little while.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, for sure. I can't imagine you just still picked
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  Speaker 4: up an instrument eight years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start a bit. Although some people like to think that,
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  Speaker 1: you know that the success just happens overnight, slid.
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  Speaker 3: You just started, a band's.
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  Speaker 4: Been doing it for a long time, the ones a
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  Speaker 4: vegan and I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean there's like a few occasions or stuff just kind
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  Speaker 2: of is right time, right place with some people, and
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  Speaker 2: it happens, but most like yeah, but I would say,
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  Speaker 2: but most of it is people have been doing stuff
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  Speaker 2: for a long time and eventually something exerts the right time.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, that's it, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think they like to tell everyone the fairy tale
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  Speaker 1: and yeah then then oh this has a bit too
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  Speaker 1: much hard work. It didn't happen. And that drop off
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  Speaker 1: you see, it happened quite a bit. But yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: what's your fan base like cells Oh young.
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  Speaker 4: New in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of like all over the place, but I
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  Speaker 2: would say mostly like not super young, but not old,
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  Speaker 2: like somewhere in the middle.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, pretty easish like you Yeah, I got
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  Speaker 3: it right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're still finding yourself in a few playlists
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  Speaker 1: a here and there that give you some instruction.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, some of that stuff happens, like but like you know,
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  Speaker 2: like we're not like by any means like a.
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  Speaker 3: Some kind of hip younger band in that right kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of thing where it's like whatever I mean, ye get
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  Speaker 2: me wrong, trending on TikTok right now, So you never.
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  Speaker 4: Know, That's what I mean. Do you never never cease
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  Speaker 4: to surprise me?
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  Speaker 1: What ends up on these young kids playlist that I
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  Speaker 1: think is new music and it's like it's been out forever,
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  Speaker 1: but okay, gives it to.
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  Speaker 4: Me a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's been happening where it's like kind of
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  Speaker 2: crazy where it's like, what's really happening? Like what are
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  Speaker 2: all these people doing at this show that I've never
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  Speaker 2: even seen before. I mean, it's good for the bands,
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  Speaker 2: it is, it is.
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  Speaker 4: And they you know, they know all all the tracks
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  Speaker 4: and they look in hard. It's kind of great.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a phenomenon that it seems to be happening
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  Speaker 1: across across all the genres. And I'm seeing it quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit, which is always was never Sea System amaze me.
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  Speaker 1: And it's good for yourselves, you know, especially yeah there
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  Speaker 1: and then they by tickets and company shows.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, everything it all worked out. It's just kind
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  Speaker 2: of when it happens, it's uh, surprise, like what what's
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  Speaker 2: going on?
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: That's good, awesome, awesome. So how would you describe yourselves?
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  Speaker 1: It was the genre of music. What's do you do?
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  Speaker 1: You find your look into a specific genre or you're
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  Speaker 1: a bit hybrid.
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  Speaker 3: I mean what I would say.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're a black metal band, and we draw
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  Speaker 2: from like a couple of different you know, like influence
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  Speaker 2: and things like that, but at the core.
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  Speaker 3: Of it's just for black metal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, traditional, there's other stuff, but yeah, but it's like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for the most part, that's I would say,
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  Speaker 2: that's what.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so many new subgenres these days, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just I hear the most bizarre as things sometimes. I
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  Speaker 1: think I had one the other day was described as
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  Speaker 1: egg punk, and I'm like, oh, that's supposed.
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  Speaker 2: Some kids stuff. When it starts getting into that, it's
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  Speaker 2: like highly entertaining. I'm like, oh, I think some of
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  Speaker 2: that it doesn't even seem to be like a new
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  Speaker 2: like an actual subgenre. It's just kind of like what
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  Speaker 2: they call a certain thing instead. I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 2: it ends up being a subgenre, but it's like a
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  Speaker 2: time and place of like this is what they're calling
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  Speaker 2: this now or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and it gets hard to a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it's some you know, synth punk and synthmental. It's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it kind of well sounds the same in a way
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  Speaker 1: if we stepped back a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like it ends up being the same kind
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  Speaker 3: of stuff and this and that, but it yeah, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean if it makes you groove and people enjoy it,
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  Speaker 1: then that's all that matters.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 1: I do find the sub John is quite interesting and
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  Speaker 1: I have a giggle from time to time. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so new album comes out, You've got tours planned for
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  Speaker 1: the States?
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  Speaker 4: Do you later in the.
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  Speaker 2: Year working on some stuff and nothing's announced yet. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to Europe but that's not announced yet.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, so.
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  Speaker 2: Like all still, I'm planning fun things where it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you're cool, let's figure this out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's it's in the in the pipeline only
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  Speaker 4: works except.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing like nothing to be just yeah yeah, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: that's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: That's good to know that you've got something to look
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  Speaker 4: forward to. So how long were you guys?
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  Speaker 1: Was it studio that you spend most of the time
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  Speaker 1: putting this album together?
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  Speaker 2: We've I mean we worked on the songs beforehand and
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  Speaker 2: then kind of like we we worked on the songs
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  Speaker 2: beforehand and then kind of like we did some stuff
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  Speaker 2: at at our drummer studio and then we recorded like
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of other things at a bigger studio.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of some the sense and things afterwards, a
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  Speaker 3: different one and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: So a little bit, I mean spend a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more time than say just us going to the studio
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  Speaker 2: like we've done in like previous ones.
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  Speaker 1: So normally you would go in and as a band
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  Speaker 1: and like play it until you've got it right and
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  Speaker 1: then put it down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just kind of you know, like here is
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  Speaker 2: this is that, Okay, let's go do drums and vocals
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  Speaker 2: at the big studio and came back and added some things.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, because it's always interesting to do it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the two different ways. It's i mean getting in there
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  Speaker 1: with the studio with the band and you know, playing
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  Speaker 1: it out. It's you know, you can kind of get frustrating,
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  Speaker 1: you if you're not getting it right, but where are
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  Speaker 1: you playing your separate pieces and you've got a good
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  Speaker 1: producer and mixer and master that will put it together
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  Speaker 1: and we call them turn polishes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's true, depending on what's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's less pressure to be a mist you
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  Speaker 1: know when you get to going bit by bit, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it allows me more room to play. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's not so so much pressure on getting it right
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  Speaker 1: playing through the press run. That's just that's just my
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  Speaker 1: opinion anyway. It always always works different for everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, did you guys find it was a
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  Speaker 1: little less pressure for yourselves to do it that way
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  Speaker 1: this time?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like, I really like this kind of it
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  Speaker 2: gives us like a little more time to think some
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  Speaker 2: stuff out without overthinking it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and can control some things and.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit better than if you just kind of
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  Speaker 2: go somewhere and kind of you're at the wheel.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, definitely, definitely. I'm certainly a fan of it.
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  Speaker 1: But it's yeah, it's just said, it's also nice to
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  Speaker 1: get in there and shoot it out and see what
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  Speaker 1: comes as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a fun part about being studio.
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  Speaker 1: So so it took a little bit of time for
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  Speaker 1: you guys did get the album out, So like a
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  Speaker 1: year or so, how long was it all?
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  Speaker 3: We finished it, like I think last February. So it's
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  Speaker 3: been like a.
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  Speaker 1: Better year I guess yeah, yeah, nice, nice, and yeah
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  Speaker 1: that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Feel like, you know, it's like this record to me,
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  Speaker 2: like super old, So it's like weird to come back,
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  Speaker 2: like okay, here we go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's always it's interesting when that happens because it's you know.
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  Speaker 1: It's not I mean, it's good, but it's not representative
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  Speaker 1: of where you're at now. And you know, especially if
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  Speaker 1: you're still making Yeah, yeah, then you're gonna go.
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  Speaker 4: I remember how you play the songs, what are you
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  Speaker 4: going to? That's exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So Yad's obviously happy with that how came out.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm really happy with everything turned out, like mixed everything.
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  Speaker 4: So and you said before you were doing some music
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  Speaker 4: videos as well, how did that go?
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  Speaker 3: Those things went really well.
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  Speaker 2: We we did one with like a I did one
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  Speaker 2: like a really good one to some new guys that
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  Speaker 2: wanted to work with forever, and then and then we
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  Speaker 2: did one with like a long friend of like a
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  Speaker 2: friend I've been working with for a while, and then
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  Speaker 2: one of my friend that I haven't done.
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  Speaker 3: A video with in like ten years.
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  Speaker 1: But they all turned out great, excellent, excellent and sorry.
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  Speaker 1: What was the fame of the music VIDs? This's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: It's just kind of like live stuff mixed with like
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  Speaker 2: some small narrative that guy's got of like the first
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  Speaker 2: one that guy did, like some like some small animation
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  Speaker 2: or like still animation stuff with pieces Oh cool. The
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  Speaker 2: other ones just like a friends took some like video
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  Speaker 2: edits and some other things like mixed in with us
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  Speaker 2: playing live.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always nice to do. You can always have
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  Speaker 1: funting around with ours. I see you've put the vinyl
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  Speaker 1: collection behind you well too many?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what's what? What does your collection exist of? What
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  Speaker 4: have we got in there?
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  Speaker 3: Any? And it's everything from like old punk stuff to
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  Speaker 3: country records to black metal too. I mean it's it's
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  Speaker 3: all over the place.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 4: What's the most prized vinyl.
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  Speaker 3: I don't really know off the top of my head.
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  Speaker 2: I mean some of these records I've had since I
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  Speaker 2: was fifteen, so like, you know, some old punk stuff
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  Speaker 2: and some things like that.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, you'd have to have some absolute
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  Speaker 1: classics in there that you'd you'd punch.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's like a ton of like you know,
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  Speaker 2: Judis Priests and Iron Maiden and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: You know, just you know, all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it'd be fun having a dig through your collection,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure. Does it get much on the turon
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  Speaker 1: table or is it just sit and look?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just I mean not all of it because obviously
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  Speaker 2: it's like it was impossible to do, but yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: mean a good choice of it gets used.
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  Speaker 1: Like quite Yes, I'm kind of like the fact that
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  Speaker 1: I'm Vinyl's made of revival.
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  Speaker 4: Did you guys put you with this album out on Vinyl?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's the best. It's you know, I personally
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  Speaker 1: think it's got a better sound. He gets some good speaker.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it sounds good. Also, like I just like
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  Speaker 3: the big format of it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's piece of something you can hold and it's like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 4: You can hold onto it, you can go this is
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  Speaker 4: this is music.
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  Speaker 1: It's whereas you know, without that, it's kind of just
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  Speaker 1: on a screen somewhere and it's just not quite the same.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, I am I'm all for the Vinyl revival,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm loving. Sorry, yes, all right, well, look, thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for coming and joining us today.
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  Speaker 4: That's awesome. Take it away.