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Rewinding Time With FOX & GENEVIEVE From TEMTRIS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Everyone. This is Fox from Tempers. I'm here with Genevieve's and we're with
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  you tonight talking about how upcoming release rewinding time. Fantastic to speak to you
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  again. Good to talk to you to Chris. Thanks your time. Are
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  hear you busy? Flying out? So like you went out and then flying
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  back in, then flying out again. I'm never ending cycle these days good
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  stuff. IVE got to say, how good is it that you guys can
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  actually hold up the CD and show it? Like too many people these days
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  are just going digital, but this old school you need something tangible. They
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  are. It's interesting watching people even shout out online about how a lot of
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  the younger bands are pressing CDs, and I think I sell out of CDs.
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  Why an't you pressing CDs? I originally just had to reorder more Chaos
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  Divine albums, which we only released twelve months ago, because I've sold out
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  already. Wow, order it. I don't understand why people don't do hard
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  copies, because a lot of people don't promote themselves as well as you guys
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  do. I think that's probably part of it. Yeah, I think it's
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  part of I mean, our era of music. You could say in a
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  way is a lot to do with. I mean, we grew up with
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  records, so the artwork was an important part of the whole experience in opening
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  the records and getting the inner sleeves out. So moving to CDs at the
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  time felt like a bit of a step down, but it still was a
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  physical product that contained the artistic imagery that goes with the whole package. And
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  we're a little bit older school in that way. I know modern bands probably
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  access that all through their video content things like that, but as Jens,
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  we still take this stuff to two shows and we are still We're still making
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  money and turn out lots of product that way, so it's still valuable for
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  us. And it might sound stupid, but I think the music loses an
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  essence of its soul when you just getting off the computer. Like if you're
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  looking out of you you can read through the lyrics, you can see you
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  they're thinking like it's it's just a it's a connection. I guess we'd rather
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  than just looking at and listen to it. It definitely makes the whole package
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  work. I mean, yeah, like you say, there's nothing more exciting
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  than getting your cet at the shopper in the mail and opening it and going
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  looking at the album covers, looking at the band photos inside, connecting those
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  people that you know through the parts and the story that goes with the music
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  that's written. So yeah, it's important for sure. Well, speaking of
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  albums, the one you have been holding up is your new best of Rewinding
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  Time, which's out June twenty eight. So you guys have released a few
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  albums over the years, but is it a different feeling releasing and best on
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  because you know the music's already out there. Yeah, it's over twenty year
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  career. It was very interesting even going back to the early stuff and re
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  listening to things and you have that sort of half sort of bull geez.
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  It was a bit rough back then when we started, and we definitely you
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  can hear the improvement over the years as you hope to hear, as both
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  the technology and their own skills in production has improved, but it was still
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  still go back and listen to the early songs and it was still difficult thinking
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  which songs we would we would include, because you go that you think,
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  well, the production might not be the most amazing compared to modern standards,
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  but the music itself still stands up quite well. Did you ever try with
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  the idea of re recording some of those songs and have an old song with
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  a new twist. We've got two of them on there actually have been re
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  recorded, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's there's been a
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  little bit of reproduction to try and keep them true to the original but still
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  balance amount a bit. The second album, Masquerade, probably suffered a little
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  bit from a very harsh production level at the time, so I did a
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  little bit of reworking with not so much the music itself, but just reapplied
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  the mix and moved a few things around to try and get the sounds a
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  bit better. Yeah, So, while are you going back through the tracks
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  and picking which once to go? Like most bands have put out best of
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  albums, you know, they've got twenty number one, so they go,
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  yeah, we've got to tell you that, we got to take it.
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  We've got to tell you that. But with you, guys, like your
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  core base of fans are great, but you didn't have massive sales and stuff
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  to go off, So what was your parameter for choosing what songs went on?
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  There? I literally went online and asked the fans what they wanted,
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  and I actually had some interesting responses and it was hard for us to go
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  okay, we I mean we also went off like we put the Lives Become
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  the Truth off the Laugh Down even though it wasn't a single, a major
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  single we did with the film. We did do a lyric video, but
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  not a major film with just because that song literally every time we play Live
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  goes off. So it was like, you know, this is one of
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  the most loved tracks of that album, so we've put it on. And
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  that's how we sort of did that. With a lot of those tracks we
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  chose, people went, oh, you've got to have like this song kept
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  coming up like Milli Forever is a single, but everyone kept saying Forever,
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  forever, forever. So we're like, okay, the fans want that,
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  will give them that. So that's sort of how we picked Yeah, that
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  the tracks. In the end, I think, yeah, there's definitely an
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  element of connection to it that. I mean, all the songs that are
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  on this best of compilation, we've had a strong connection with Live. There've
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  been songs that have been the fans have responded to and requested again and again
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  and again and still come to shows now and say, when you're putting this
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  song back in the set because I'd love to hear it live again. I
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  love that song or that was the first time I heard you guys, and
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  I really enjoyed that song. And that's that speaks to us a lot,
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  and that builds our connection with those particular songs as well. So all of
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  the songs that have gone on to the album have that connection. There's there's
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  songs where we feel we've connected with the fan base very strongly through this music
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  and this song. Yeah, how about from a personal level, like you'd
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  be going back through some songs that you've probably even forgotten that you've done in
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  some respect, like did you still feel as connected to the older material?
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  I guess as you did back that. Oh look, you still I still
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  remember, like even the couple of tracks off Mask for eight album when we
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  recorded them, I was seven months pregnant with this, you know, big
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  belly, and I still remember being this year recording and thinking I'm going to
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  push out a baby if by any dad a photo shoot, but my daughter
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  was all of a couple of weeks old, and I'm trying to walk around
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  in a corset that I used to wear then, and you know, breshly
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  to baby in a course while we do a photo shoot rock it out with
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  the Horns. I definitely brought it back to memories about what we went through,
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  you know how long we've been going from what's happened over the twenty years.
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  And two of the tracks on this album actually re recorded when Wayne rejoined
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  the band Wayne Campbell, we went into the studio with Half and Redid Bullet
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  and Awakening and there on this album we recorded them to check out the studio
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  before we recorded our next album. So we've put those re recorded tracks song
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  because they're off the first album. But yeah, they've got that better mix
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  and sound, so they're you know, you look back at those things and
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  progression in history of what we did and why we did things, and it's
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  pretty cool looking back to everything and keeping with temptuous tradition. Like the artwork
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  on the on the album is just great, mate, Like Okay, it's
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  it's evil, but it's captivating. Like where do you come up with the
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  ideas for them from that? Was? Well, I had the idea of
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  putting all the album covers together, and he put it. He comes up
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  with a clever putting it together. So we've sort of I mean, even
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  from the early days, we had a theme behind it. I mean,
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  we grew up with icons like Eddie and Vic Bradlehead and all that sort of
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  stuff, So you think along those lines, but you don't want to do
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  that that belongs to our sort of icons of that ere we grew up aspiring
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  to. I grew up more hanging around with with comic book people and people
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  that were involved in that side of things, So there was there's always an
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  element of from my perspective, when we take the ideas, trying to turn
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  them into something that reflects our character and Temptress as the character that you see
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  on the when she one of the better expression appears on each of the album
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  covers, She's gone through our own personal journeys. So that's a that's a
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  running theme that we have throughout. Sometimes it can be a bit more difficult
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  to tell what she's up to than others, but there's always a background element
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  that we like to talk about. Each one of the album covers has its
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  connection to the overall theme of the album, and it has its own story
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  that goes with it. So she got ourselves a few grays after twenty years
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  or is she still looking good? Well, I mean, if you take
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  Chaos Toy Jan as the last release, she's quite robotic. Keep it up
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  with the times, Yeah, yeah, most of the parts have been replaced.
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  Like us, it's sort of that's funny. But we knew we had
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  this, we wanted to. We got offered when we went over to Europe
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  last year. We got offered to come back this year to play at Metal
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  Babes Festival, and I said to the guys, you know, oh,
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  we really need it. We can't. We can either record a single and
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  try and just promote that before we go over to promote the tour, or
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  we can what if we do another album? And we knew it was coming
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  up to that twenty years so I said to Fox, why don't we just
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  do a best of album for our reason for touring? And then good idea.
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  Everyone was like, yeah, that's a great idea because people want the
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  early songs and we didn't have the CDs available anymore. So this whole theme
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  came up with, Okay, let's do a rewinding time tour and then we'll
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  go on play some of these older songs on our tour in Europe and when
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  we come back, paying steal Assassins Festival. We'll play a couple of the
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  old tracks on there, and yeah, and then of course it all grew
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  from there. And then we got the grant as well from creating New World,
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  which is help pay for the whole thing better. That's good on you
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  guys, reward for effort. I say, yeah, yeah, you've also
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  got a new light of merch that's coming out to tell us about that.
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  Yeah, we've everybody loves a hoodie of course and a T shirt, so
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  we've done We've done the T shirt with all the album covers on the cover
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  on the front, and it's actually got on the back of it. It's
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  got all the album releases from the beginning with the year it came out.
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  So I say, yeah, that's really that's a really nice touch. Yeah,
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  so we photos on there too. You've got like photos from over the
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  band's history. So here I notice, well that's actually in the in the
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  CD. I've actually we wanted it to make it a collector thing, so
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  it's actually got all the album launch photos in there. Gigs we've had with
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  friends that have come to shows, all their pictures are in there. Everyone's
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  faces and you're not sure how well it will show up on the camera,
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  but it looks like the beginning there. These are all photos from live shows.
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  It's awesome then to occasions, so people are in there, fans you
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  might be in there as well. Just what I wanted to have a photo
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  of the people that have put them in there as part of the history,
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  because they start then there from the beginning and have made it what it is.
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  You know, so you opened yourself up the potential problems over there.
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  Oh, Johnny's going to look at it and he's going to go where have
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  I come on there? You guys are also off to Europe in September,
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  studying the Netherlands. You go through Belgium, Germany, Austria checked slim Radia
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  on the twenty ninety to finish up like decent congratulations. Yeah, we're really
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  excited. We like I said, we got the grant from New South Wales,
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  which we were unexpecting. We were already going to go anyway, but
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  then we saw this offer coming up where our offering grants, we thought we'd
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  apply, which has taken the pressure off. As you know, a lot
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  of bands are canceling touring at the moment because the cops are just huge.
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  Flights are not cheap anymore, carfiral that stuff. And yeah, we literally
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  if someone even wrote on my tour why you're playing Sweden, I said,
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  give me a contact, so they did, and then Thomas reached out and
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  me and said, I'll give you a show. So then we were like,
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  okay, Sweden's added in the date and wants to play France. But
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  I just it's logistically fitting everything in. I know it's not as big as
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  Australia, but just at some point you've got to travel from A to B
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  and you actually need to stop and rest as well. Definitely, so we
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  fit it in as much as we can. There may be a couple more
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  dates added in there from different places. We've got a car from overseas who's
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  helping me out. So if you can grab a couple more shows, we'll
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  slap them in and announce them a bit closer to the date. We've only
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  really got sort of ten weeks and we're pretty much got to be packed up
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  and ready to go. So that's awesome, guys. And just say someone
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  is stubbled across this interview and they're watching it. Go there, this guy's
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  sound all right, give us three songs off your best of that people should
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  listen there if they know nothing about Temptress. Yeah, well, gee,
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  well Awakening is the first ever Temptress power metal traditional metal song. I hope
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  you could steal towards that one. That's pretty true and honest. You'd be
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  looking at tracks like lies Become the Truth, you'd be looking at forever,
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  and then you would probably go back into the back catalog and depending on where
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  your sort of musical tastes lie, because we tend to write more to the
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  music than stick to a particular style, so these a real sort of diversity
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  as you go further back. If I just take the two examples that are
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  on the Best of from the Shallow Grave here, one is Shallow Grave,
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  which is quite a doomy start and phoenix sort of song. It's got the
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  epic sort of feel to it. And back to back with that we put
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  your Time Has Come, which is can you describe that? It's short,
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  sharp, It's very rhythm and groove driven, even a little bit more sort
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  of New metal ish in its styling, so distinctly different tracks, and you'd
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  have to sort of I would encourage people to sort of dig around in the
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  back catalog a bit until you found that level of tempess that matched your your
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  likes and what you might to hear. Now, you didn't answer my question
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  at all, but I get where you're coming from. All right, guys,
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  the time would been the pleasure. The album Rewinding Time is out June
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  twenty eighth, and everything Temptress has ever put out his quality, So you
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  get the whole lot of quality in one hit. So well done. Shoot
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  us a message if you want to copy, kick up the tempress page.
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  The Tempress will have it up on the website to order from, or you
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  can hit me up and I'll organize it for you and post one out you.
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  You walk a book, stop chanting, see the bad, feel the
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  painting, painting the guy and we take God do we will? We come
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  to game? Oh you sir? It so got to get Yeah, I
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  don't know. No, father guy got no, don't thank God. Ray
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  he'll pay the game. No, we come to get so fonder. My
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  man go to you, go and wait, don't you gay? So I
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  think you out? No? So wait so wait no, so fas