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Double Trouble On The Menu Down Under With DEZ FAFARA From DEVILDRIVER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up. This is Dez from Devil Driver.
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  Speaker 2: We are coming down Under with our good friends Cradle
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  Speaker 2: of Filth on a doubleheader co headline run. Last time
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  Speaker 2: we did this, it's sold out in the United States,
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  Speaker 2: so come get tickets real quick.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be a throwdown. You're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: want to miss. Hope you come out to the host
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing everybody man about us.
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  Speaker 3: Australians always love a good writown. Brother, thanks for joining
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  Speaker 3: us today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I love coming down Under. It's been a
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  Speaker 2: minute and I'm looking forward. It's been a minute with
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  Speaker 2: Devil Driver, I should say, so. I'm looking forward to it,
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  Speaker 2: especially coming out with AJ. He's a great family friend,
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  Speaker 2: good man and.
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  Speaker 4: Dave my friend.
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  Speaker 3: So, as you say, you are coming to Australia's for
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  Speaker 3: a co headlining tour with Cradle of Films, starting in
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  Speaker 3: Brisbane on July the ninth, then in Sydney and Melbourne.
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  Speaker 3: I am finishing in Perth on the rather sixteenth.
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  Speaker 4: Made.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know about you, brother, but I am excited
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  Speaker 3: as fucked right now.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, we're really excited.
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  Speaker 2: We're going over the setlist last night with the band
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  Speaker 2: deciding like what we were going to play going over production.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a good time.
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  Speaker 2: And when we first started talking about it, you could
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  Speaker 2: feel the energy in the room from both of the bands.
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  Speaker 2: It was like, let's go do this. So it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a great time. Very much looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 3: As you mentioned before, Bright, you have done this before
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  Speaker 3: through North America as the Double Trouble Live Source.
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  Speaker 4: So does it live up to its name made? Is
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  Speaker 4: it Double Trouble?
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  Speaker 1: It does? Man, it's a one two punch, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure that there's going to be other bands
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  Speaker 2: added to the bill as well, but we wanted to
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  Speaker 2: get this out there right now, get ahead of the
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  Speaker 2: curve and let everybody get tickets before.
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  Speaker 1: We make some more announcements.
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  Speaker 2: But this thing, I'm telling you last time we went out,
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  Speaker 2: it's for some reason the bands they work together really well,
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  Speaker 2: like we're so separate musically, but it is it's a
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  Speaker 2: one two punch that when you get done with the gig,
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  Speaker 2: you're walking out gone. Okay, that's a proper heavy metal show.
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  Speaker 4: So where did that idea come over?
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  Speaker 3: Because it's not like, you know, you have to sit
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  Speaker 3: around having the beers as if someone is going to
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  Speaker 3: go I already think Prayvor Filter, Devil Driver les down
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  Speaker 3: a ride together. Like, like you say, it's not a
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  Speaker 3: likely pairing. Where did the idea come from?
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  Speaker 1: You know, back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: It actually came from a bunch of agents that knew
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  Speaker 2: that I work with Danny, that Danny and I were friends,
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  Speaker 2: that we've listened to each other's music for years, and said, hey, you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys should get together and tour. And I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: very strange. Thirty years, we've never toured together.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, of course we've done festivals and and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, things like that, but we've never got it
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  Speaker 2: together and toured together. So when we did it in
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  Speaker 2: the States, it was it was an absolute crusher.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you two.
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  Speaker 3: Go the bands down on the ride together. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: which band's the biggest pranksters?
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  Speaker 4: You got up to the.
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  Speaker 2: It's always crazy at filth man, Yeah, they're pranksters. They're pranksters. Like,
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  Speaker 2: we're not the kind of band that on the end
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  Speaker 2: of the tour. You know, it's customary to come out
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  Speaker 2: and mess with the band on tour, I mean on
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  Speaker 2: stage that's going on after you or before you. We're
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  Speaker 2: not a band that's ever really done that. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: let's just do the show, let's do it. But they
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  Speaker 2: always come out do something crazy to us, like you know, so, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They're the pranksters for sure.
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  Speaker 4: What's the craziest thing, you know?
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  Speaker 2: They they they get costumes right, and they come out
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  Speaker 2: during like a crushing part to the set and come
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  Speaker 2: come march around the stage and in different costumes.
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  Speaker 1: And shit, and you know it.
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  Speaker 2: It throws you off your game a little bit, makes
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  Speaker 2: you smile when you're when you're you know, meaning to
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  Speaker 2: be hard and just in there and finishing a set.
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  Speaker 1: But it's it's great, it's great fun. Right, don't do
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  Speaker 1: that to me this time, Dan.
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  Speaker 4: You know it will?
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  Speaker 1: I know you will. I know you will.
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  Speaker 2: If anybody knows Daddy Filth, he's got it. He's a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful human being. He's got a great sense of humor. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's a great prankster. And you know, no doubt I'm
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  Speaker 2: in for it.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned the Devil Drive a live on stage.
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  Speaker 3: You guys are full of aggression and energy and Kradler
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  Speaker 3: Filth the most cinematic and with a theatrical elements. So
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  Speaker 3: you have to work together, like with a set list
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  Speaker 3: or anything to make it a cohesive modern musical.
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  Speaker 4: You's just got to have the investment in.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question.
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  Speaker 2: No, Like, it's not like Cradle of Filth is adjusting
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  Speaker 2: their set with what they do or we are. We're
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  Speaker 2: just trying to put together the most crushing set we can.
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  Speaker 2: We've got, you know, maybe an hour, maybe an hour
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  Speaker 2: five on stage, and it's gonna be crushing all the
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  Speaker 2: way through. If you've seen Devil Driver live, you know
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  Speaker 2: we don't stop. It's it's go time from the time
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  Speaker 2: we hit And I'm not really a talker. I mean
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  Speaker 2: I'll stop and say hello and and there's pleasantries obviously,
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  Speaker 2: but it's like give me the microphone, let me go.
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  Speaker 2: And especially now right, i haven't been down with Devil
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  Speaker 2: Driver in a while, and I'm itching to play down
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  Speaker 2: Under with Devil Driver. So we're going over the setlist
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  Speaker 2: last night. We've got a bunch of surprises, maybe maybe
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  Speaker 2: some stuff that nobody's ever heard before. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: yet and it's gonna be great. We're bringing a cameraman
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  Speaker 2: down to make sure that we capture all the goodness
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  Speaker 2: that is Australia because you guys are an amazing crowd,
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  Speaker 2: like anytime we've ever played down there, Like sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: figure I might have to stop the show because it's mayhem.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll we'll see how this goes. We'll see how
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  Speaker 1: you go.
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  Speaker 4: That the challenge is being thrown down.
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  Speaker 1: It has been thrown down, The gauntlet has been thrown down. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: definitely bring it. I mean, this isn't something you want
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  Speaker 1: to miss.
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  Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of a lot of bands
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  Speaker 2: in the territories and stuff at this point right now,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of tickets on sale for a lot of bands,
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  Speaker 2: but this is not something you want to miss. And
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  Speaker 2: it's never gonna happen again, right like once we did
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  Speaker 2: it in the States. We we did it in the
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  Speaker 2: States and that was it. So we're bringing it down under.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna crush.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned the fact this is co headline.
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  Speaker 3: We'll say, is that just a word or does it
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  Speaker 3: mean that you buy buying full sets than ultnatigaht n.
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  Speaker 2: I or Now we're not alternating, we're playing There's there's
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  Speaker 2: certain reasons that Cradle definitely has to finish, right and
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  Speaker 2: and I'll let their show speak for that, but you
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  Speaker 2: know it's it's just gonna be go time, man, and
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  Speaker 2: we get equal time. And we're about the same over
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  Speaker 2: there when it comes to people. I mean, Devil Driver
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  Speaker 2: has a massive draw. It always has been like a
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  Speaker 2: staple for us. Uh, there's some places like that, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like you know in the United States, it's La New York,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the UK for sure, Amsterdams, Germany. Right, But
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  Speaker 2: you start talking about Australia and you start talking about
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  Speaker 2: Devil Driver and it's like people know what's up and
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  Speaker 2: it's like a second home to me. And uh, I'll
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  Speaker 2: never take it for granted, right, So I'm gonna come down, ready,
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  Speaker 2: ready to go and humble the stage. And that's that's
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  Speaker 2: where we're at. And last night I was up till
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  Speaker 2: like midnight with my guys on the phone and going
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  Speaker 2: through uh you know, going through uh tour ideas and
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  Speaker 2: production ideas and set lists, and it's gonna be crushing
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  Speaker 2: from start to finish. We're gonna come out and it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be full speed ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Just say, somebody inexplicably is coming along to see Cradle.
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  Speaker 4: Of Filth and hey, I'm not a thing about Devil Driver.
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  Speaker 4: What three some of heels. Should they listen to you
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  Speaker 4: in order to get to know you better?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, that's a good question too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I would like to think that everybody that
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  Speaker 2: knows Cradle knows Devil Driver but maybe has not seen us, right,
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  Speaker 2: Uh and vice versa. Right, there's gonna be a lot
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  Speaker 2: of Devil Driver fans that have probably never seen Cradle.
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  Speaker 2: So man, that's that's a rough one. That's a rough one.
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  Speaker 2: Like I what I say is, if you're not familiar
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  Speaker 2: with the band, like, just go check out the catalog,
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  Speaker 2: right and find some songs that that that you prefer. Right,
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  Speaker 2: But we're gonna play some staples right, Clouds over California,
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  Speaker 2: end of the line, I could care less. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: those are like the staples. But we've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: up our sleeve when it comes to this, So we
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  Speaker 2: are going to be playing some stuff that I feel
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  Speaker 2: like you guys are going to be the first ones
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  Speaker 2: that are gonna get it on stage.
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  Speaker 3: I said, that's a good blood by Devil Drive over
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  Speaker 3: one of those bands like you haven't got any one
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  Speaker 3: particular two songs that define you as a band, Like, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: penalog is that consistent and good that everything's fucking good.
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  Speaker 4: So how the pinpoint QO with three songs?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, thank you for that. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: We try to make every album sound different, man, right,
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to be pigeonholed. H They they fans
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  Speaker 2: started calling us groove metal years and years ago when
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  Speaker 2: there really was no groove metal and when that terminology
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  Speaker 2: was not being used.
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  Speaker 1: Now, of course there's.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of bands that jump on that and hashtag
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  Speaker 2: groove metal, right, but we are like, you know, one
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  Speaker 2: of my favorite artists is James Brown, right, Like, so
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  Speaker 2: it's stuff like that, like we we make sure and
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  Speaker 2: keep it moving. There's a beat and it's and it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's fun to listen to, right and if
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  Speaker 2: you want to get in the pit, like that's it.
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  Speaker 2: It's aggressive music that you can go pit to and
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  Speaker 2: dance to.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. My Streets and album Dealing with Demons too.
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  Speaker 4: You came out in twenty twenty three. Might say you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have any new material for us on this two.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say. I can't. I can't say.
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  Speaker 2: What I can say is, uh, you guys will definitely
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  Speaker 2: be getting something on stage that no one's got.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, so right, Well, I want to push on
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  Speaker 3: that too much because we need something to talk about
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  Speaker 3: next time you catch.
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  Speaker 4: Up, brother.
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  Speaker 3: But Devil Drive will be out with Pride Love Phil
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  Speaker 3: from July to ninth. I know people say this all
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  Speaker 3: the time, but this show will sell the fuck out quickly,
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  Speaker 3: so make sure you get a ticket and the thanks
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  Speaker 3: be time.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see you Brisbane.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, tickets are already going quick, so I got word
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  Speaker 2: this morning, so everybody get on it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go. We're gonna be doing meet and greets as well.
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  Speaker 2: Can't wait to shake everybody saying like, come on out
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  Speaker 2: and meet us, pick up a T shirt and wear
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  Speaker 2: it around and let's go.