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No Regrets With DANNY CASE Of FROM ASHES TO NEW · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Well don't we do. Wait Bernie Head, we love um Danny from the
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  band from Ashes to New We got a new album called Blackout coming out July
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  twenty eighth. I think it's um one of our best records ever. I
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  think our best record ever. Uh, it's really heavy, It's got some
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  great choruses. We really wanted to take the heavy into the next level,
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  so there's a lot of intensity in the vocals and great breakdowns and uh,
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  really heavy drums. Um. We're stoked about it. We can't wait for
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  everybody to hear it. Go pre download, pre save all that good stuff.
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  It really helps out our first week no Verse. Beautiful Donny, thanks
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  for joining us today, brother, thanks for having me all right. As
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  you mentioned from us is did you release your latest album, Blackout on July
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  twenty eight? But how do you feel about it? Make this place out
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  like? Do you get nervous, anxious, excited? Definitely excited? You
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  know. I I'm really confident in what we did with this record, and
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  we're seeing such an amazing amount of growth from the tracks that we've already released.
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  So once this album drops, we think it's going to be a real
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  game changer for the band. Well, now you can touch on this a
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  little bit of the intro map, but can you got a bit day before?
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  It's like, tell us a bit more about the album from a musical
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  point of view and what you're gone for with it. Yeah, So we've
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  been comparing it a lot to essentially being a quote unquote prequel to our first
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  album, Day One. Man. It's because when we were writing this record,
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  it was early twenty twenty one. You know, the lockdowns had started
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  to end for us at least, and tour still hadn't come back, but
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  we were writing and so like you know, it was in your face every
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  day. One of the first songs we worked on was Armageddon, and it
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  was just because like it seemed like every day was the end of the world.
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  So that that was the song that came about early on and we were
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  like, hey, I mean we have our very first record, Day One.
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  The art on it has a kid on a new planet looking back at
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  the old planet as it is falling apart. So why don't we take this
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  record and make it where the kid is on that old planet before he leaves
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  and he's reaching for that new planet. Because another thing that we were trying
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  to do was capture the same kind of heaviness that the band's first album had.
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  We wanted to take a step back and look at you know, what
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  do we really want to do, what do the fans really want from this
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  band? And we found that we really enjoy writing having music and that that
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  was what put this band on the map. So we were like, let's
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  go heavy. And then it also just tied in together with the music that
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  we were making that kind of it was like an apocalyptic record almost, so
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  we were like, this would be a perfect time to like just make this
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  a prequel in a sense. So that's kind of like the basis of the
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  whole album. It's heavier, stark, or you know, we wrote a
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  bunch of lyrics where we were in the pandemic and and that is the kind
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  of concept for the album. But did you always plan to sort of have
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  a prequel to that album? What does it something to just sort of kind
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  of a bad bud chance? So are you doing this one? It just
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  kind of came out that way. You know, we never really intended to
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  do that. We we ly looked at day one and we were like,
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  you know, people really like this band for the heaviness that it brought,
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  and we felt like we wanted to get back to that because we enjoyed heavier
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  music. Not that we wanted to go back to the same style, but
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  we wanted to have the same level of intensity. We still wanted to move
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  forward artistically, but to but to bring about that heavy side of the music.
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  Um. So, upon doing that, and then you know, getting
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  in the studio and writing lyrics about the end of the world, you're like,
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  man, this kind of fits in, so let's just do it.
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  So it would you say, you about because you've done the two of all
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  the albums that White conceptually by would you say it's a zero or hot of
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  writing to a concept or precul save playing well considering you're kind of already just
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  doing it by a chance, it wasn't too hard, and it is kind
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  of a loose concept. It was just what the art was based around and
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  what some of the lyrics were based around. But it is a kind of
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  a loose concept. It's not strict. There doesn't have to be like a
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  storyline behind each song. Um we just wanted to have a kind of just
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  kind of a loose concept that would that would tie it into earlier distography.
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  So, um, we didn't struggle really with with the lyrics in that sense.
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  We just kind of put out whatever we uh, we're feeling, and
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  a decent amount of it fit into that concept. And you've released the singles
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  Imigated and hot Ike No it may hype me too and until We Break,
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  So I would you say they're a good sonny representation of the album as a
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  whole. Yeah, it's yes, I would say absolutely, because there are
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  some there's a couple of songs that are a bit more mainstream and I guess
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  radio friendly, and then there are some songs that are just balls to the
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  wall heavy. That's so, it's just so much half the album released in
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  singles. Might say that's going to be a good indication of the strength of
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  the songs that you've thought on the album, Say for sure, for sure,
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  and we still feel like that. There are several songs that we would
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  put it at the top tier of the album that have not come out yet,
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  so we're excited to have those come out soon. Good and you jouring
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  the band back from twenty seven eight mates, how was a change and involved
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  since seen? Would you say, yeah, Yeah, I joined uh like
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  the middle of twenty seventeen. I came in and was just trying to do
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  my best to fit apart and bring the band's vision to life for the record.
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  It was The Future was the first album that I was a part of,
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  and that was a much more i would say, mainstream approach to the
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  band sound. And then after that we went and worked with a couple of
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  different producers for Panic the record UM and I think we we kind of did
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  some exploring on that record, and I think that's what led us to wanting
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  to go the heavy route on this new record. Um. Panic had such
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  a great success the song, and you know, we enjoyed doing it,
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  and we we wanted to kind of explore that route more. So. I
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  feel like the band kind of went from a mainstream sound to an explorative sound
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  to dialing into a more heavy sound on this record. And as you said,
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  this is your third album with the band, mate, so do you
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  think you're grown into the role mole with each album? And so how much
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  more growing have you got today? Yeah? For sure? I U the
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  first record was was completely like just kind of sitting in the passenger seat and
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  kind of doing whatever was needed of me to get the record where it needed
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  to be um I helped a bit more with with Panic and felt a bit
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  more comfortable. And then on this record, I feel like I really got
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  to uh sing and sound the way I've I've always wanted to sound. We
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  did really heavy layering with the vocals that that grit on my voice is really
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  intense, so a lot of the singing sounds like I'm just like shredding my
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  voice, right, So we really wanted that heavy sound and I've I've always
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  loved that that kind of style of vocals, so um our producers were right
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  and really helps capture that. I think at this point, you know,
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  the band has grown really well together, and at this point where you know,
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  one solid unit and from Mush and You you're a band or blend Higgs
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  stalls and genres like for new metals or rut metal as ultra ended metal,
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  hood rock like Seann. I hear a few more than them. I'd say,
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  how does it all come together? Yeah? You know, sometimes it
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  blends and then other times we have moments where it really sticks out into the
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  different genres. And I think that's the cool thing about having different genres in
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  your music. Monster and Me as a song on this record, that the
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  few people who have heard it really really enjoy it because it is such a
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  departure from I would say the rest of the music that we've done. It's
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  super super hip hop heavy. It's like ninety percent rap, and then the
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  one repeating part in the song is just a screaming part, so there isn't
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  even any singing in it. That's an example of like us kind of really
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  showcasing and highlighting one aspect of our music, whereas something like I would say
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  Heartache is more blended, where it's like it all kind of seamlessly works together.
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  So it really depends on the song. Sometimes we kind of make it
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  all blend and mold and fit in together. Other times we make the certain
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  style or genre really stick out in certain parts. And how do you know
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  the ballance minde like, how do you know what? Are you gone too
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  far or you stay not a little bit with that? That's the cool thing
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  about music. I don't think that there are any rules. You can kind
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  of do whatever you want and then you know, if people hate it,
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  then they hate it, and if people love it then that's cool too.
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  There's really there's really no wrong way to do it. We just kind of
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  base it off a feel and what kind of sounds and feels right to us,
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  And so far, I feel like that's been working really well. You
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  know, other times we have to go against their gut because maybe one person
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  likes it a certain way and they feel really strongly about it, and then
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  other times like it's a collective like yeah, this is really what we're feeling
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  here. Um, But I don't think there's any wrong way to do it.
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  Yeah, there's so many stalls. There's so many things you can draw
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  from my like, how much more means you feel grife to you? Reckon?
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  There is batches teenage, you have so many different why is he could
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  go? Yeah? You know, I think that's the beautiful thing about music
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  is that there is no finish line, you know. There it's you're always
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  gonna be growing. It's always gonna be new music coming out that you know
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  might inspire you or might change your taste, et cetera. And there's always
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  music that you just haven't discovered yet that's been around that can change your taste
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  and your your influences and all that stuff. So um, this I think
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  this band, in any band, can always grow, can always change,
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  and can always evolve into something else. Um, we definitely want to stay
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  true to the to the band's nature and to its loans, but there will
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  I think there'll always be moments of growth throughout our records where we implement something
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  new or are influenced by something else that we wouldn't have included before. And
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  I think we'll always continue to do that just because like that, that's what
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  makes music fun. It's just expression. So we always got to express whatever
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  our influences and our inspirations are, and that is ever ever changing. My
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  Blackhead comes out into a lot of twenty eight to night. But what's next
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  for formations to new after that? If you got plans to the rest of
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  the yeah, yeah, we're we're looking at trying to put together a tour
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  towards the end of the year. We don't know what that looks like quite
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  yet. We got ship Rocked early next year, which is like a rock
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  festival cruise, which is a really awesome cruise, and we're hoping, hoping
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  to come to Europe at some point. We don't have any plans for Australia
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  yet, unfortunately. I wish I could say otherwise, but we will have
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  to get down there. Sometimes soon um, but that that's it for now.
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  You know, the album drops, we're gonna try to put together a
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  tour on it. You're gonna hit ship Rocked and then hopefully we'll be able
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  to hit um year up after that. We're trying to put something together.
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  So all right, well, thanks very much for youture on that. I
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  don't mean a pleasure spake. Why mightn't best luck with the album you're gonna,
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  like had his twenty eighth of July, I say, get around it.
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  What don't we do it? We're burning that before we love with something
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  stupid. It's so confusing. Now we can let us to what the New
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  say. But maybe ruining in on that is part of being new. The
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  were richest booty and our evolution. No use some running from something that you
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  can't escape us. What you wanted, this sin, your fucking blood.
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  You gotta decent now you love it? And there was there really in the
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  face of our annihilation. It's the lady wait and wake away the time,
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  my time, wild drums and times, the rise and the lad Father to
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  run away from me. Living in the mind. Ain't so everything is spicily
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  star sign that the destruction and emotions. We witnessing is related. We build
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  explosive emotions and then we just take in need and we played Roulet with fo
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  clips. Then we go to the brand of fucking losing my sh There's a
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  solution. I hated it. I keep taking it. I'm feel the money
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  and I'm breaking the fucking bud by. The fuck that the whole world cup
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  to me that I did the places, that he was just the person of
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  the ground. When choose, I say, didn't this Ley know this the
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  burning light? Time? We will the time black got a rise as the
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  lake we made father to run away from me. Ain't everything is broke?
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  It slightly? Ain't the song god side at the time, I jetty the
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  city has to live in the wall wide sometimes desides today far eye lights time.
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  We welcome the darkness. We made a home for the harlest living in
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  the manly. Ain't time to starlight? I don't know where everything is.
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  It's Icily at the star wid the sun time, and it's all get