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ARKANGEL Blaze Forward With Explosive New Single Haunting My Dreams · HEAVY Music Interviews

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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Jake. I'm the vocalist from Archangel.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got a pretty big song coming up with
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Speaker 2: a feature with Mystique that drops on the fifth of September,
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Speaker 2: so we're pretty keen for that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Wicked, Thank you so much.
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Speaker 4: And can you take us back to the beginning of
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Speaker 4: how Archangel first came together as a band.
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Speaker 2: Well, it all sort of started because I was like,
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Speaker 2: I really wanted to learn to scream because I've always
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Speaker 2: like been like been of show since I was a kid,
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Speaker 2: you know. And then and I thought I wonder if
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Speaker 2: I could scream, and then yeah, slowly learned to scream.
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Speaker 1: And then once I learned to scream.
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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I should join I should make
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Speaker 2: a band, I should join a band, you know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And but I wasn't really in the scene.
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Speaker 2: I suppose you'd say, like I was just more of
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Speaker 2: a spectator, like I just go to watch shows and
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Speaker 2: all that sort of thing. So I didn't really know
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Speaker 2: any musicians at all. Yeah, so I was like, this
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Speaker 2: is pretty hard. So I put my self out on
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Speaker 2: all these Facebook groups. I did a cover of rot
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Speaker 2: by north Lane, which is shock and now I look
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Speaker 2: back at the video, it was so bad. I've tried
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Speaker 2: to delete every every little thing of it, like absolutely shocking.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I had a few little nibbles, but nothing
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Speaker 2: that sort of come through. And then I was like,
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Speaker 2: maybe I just start my own band. So I just
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Speaker 2: started looking. And there was one guy I knew I
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Speaker 2: used to be friends with his wife, and I was like, well,
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Speaker 2: I know that you play guitar.
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Speaker 1: I thought, let's just get together and see if we
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Speaker 1: can make something.
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Speaker 2: So that was with Josh, and then after that it
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Speaker 2: was pretty much it was just us too for a
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Speaker 2: little bit, and he's sort of showing me stuff and
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Speaker 2: I'm showing him stuff. And then I had a guy
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Speaker 2: I used to work with ree Chaut and said, if
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Speaker 2: you're looking for another guitarist, he said, this kid is
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Speaker 2: really really good and I was like, oh, well, we're
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Speaker 2: looking for a lead player and he said, well, this
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Speaker 2: guy's sixteen, but like he's crazy good, and.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh yeah, all right, and then he
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Speaker 1: sent me.
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Speaker 2: His well's pre It's funny actually because the kid tried
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Speaker 2: to add me on Facebook, but I didn't accept him
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Speaker 2: because I'm like, was his sixteen year old boy want
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Speaker 2: to add me on Facebook?
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Speaker 1: And then he's like, no, this is Harrison.
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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, okay, so I added him and
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Speaker 2: said and he's like, oh, I heard you looking for
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Speaker 2: a guitar guy, blah blah blah. And I said, oh,
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Speaker 2: send us a video of what you got, and yeah,
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Speaker 2: send this crazy video of him doing all this stuff.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm not a guitarist, but that
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Speaker 1: looks impressive.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, I send it to another guitarist and he
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Speaker 2: was like, dude, I've been playing guitar like twenty years.
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Speaker 1: He's like, I can't do that.
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Speaker 2: So I was like, hell, yeah, we just pretty much
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Speaker 2: hiding straight away.
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Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And around the same time the our my other guitarist, Josh,
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Speaker 2: he's like, I know, a drummer. He's not really in
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Speaker 2: anything at the moment, but we tried to get a
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Speaker 2: band going ages ago, and I said, oh, yeah, we'll
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Speaker 2: bring him over.
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Speaker 1: We'll have a chat and yeah. Then he pretty much
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Speaker 1: come over.
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Speaker 2: And then at that stage I was like, well, I'm
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Speaker 2: pretty much this is pretty much it, like, and we
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Speaker 2: weren't sure if you wanted to get a.
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Speaker 1: Bass player or.
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Speaker 2: Because we weren't sure on our sand to start off with,
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Speaker 2: like if we're just going to be sort of like
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Speaker 2: a metalcore like Old Scream and they can sing or whatever,
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Speaker 2: like on a bass player or something.
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Speaker 1: But then we sort of it's just the way. We
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Speaker 1: just kept sort of pushing and then went.
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Speaker 2: To a producer, which was Ironing from Ocean Sleeper, and
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Speaker 2: the end of that first couple of days with him,
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Speaker 2: I'm like, Nah, like the heavier that we wrote, the
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Speaker 2: more that we liked it.
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Speaker 1: So it's just like, I'm pretty pretty cool just with
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Speaker 1: keeping it like this.
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Speaker 2: Like I was like, because we got to a part
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Speaker 2: where II was like, oh, we could probably do like
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Speaker 2: a singing chorus part, and I think that was like
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Speaker 2: a defining moment for us because I was like, I
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Speaker 2: don't really want to.
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Speaker 1: Be like a screen the verse sing the chorus like
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Speaker 1: a band. Like I was like, I want it to
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Speaker 1: be more of a like I like singing and stuff
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Speaker 1: as well, but it's like.
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Speaker 2: I like the the flow of something that it's like
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Speaker 2: we could just screen the whole song and then have
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Speaker 2: another song. And we had this like pretty part where
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Speaker 2: it's just you want to put like some clean vocals
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Speaker 2: over that, which I feel like it brings more meaning.
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Speaker 1: To it sort of thing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
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Speaker 2: So I think that's sort of and that's pretty much
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Speaker 2: how I would sort of all come to fruition all
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Speaker 2: that that big long story.
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Speaker 3: No, no, that's awesome.
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Speaker 4: So it did take you a while, as you were saying,
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Speaker 4: to fincial sound, but once you did, like you said,
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Speaker 4: I think you guys have nailed it too, especially listening
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Speaker 4: listening to your latest single, it is mostly just that
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Speaker 4: screen that you do, but it's it's not jarring because
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Speaker 4: you're not adding you know, softer vocals in there from yourself.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 4: What was the visional goal when you guys first started, sorry,
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Speaker 4: and how has that changed to today?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 2: I think it's weird because in the way that I
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Speaker 2: always sort of wanted to do it, Like I said,
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Speaker 2: it was at the start it was very much like
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Speaker 2: I wonder you fucking scream? And then I learned to scream,
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Speaker 2: and I was like, I'd be cool if I was
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Speaker 2: in a band. And then I got into a band,
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Speaker 2: and then I was like, oh, it'd be cool if
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Speaker 2: we could play shows, yeah, you know, and then I
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Speaker 2: was like, oh, it'd be cool if we went to
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Speaker 2: like a proper studio and recorded just one single.
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Speaker 1: Because I was like at.
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Speaker 2: The start, I was like, oh, like, I've I've downloaded
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Speaker 2: logical'll just we'll just recording that and I'll learn to
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Speaker 2: mix myself and all that. And then once I looked
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Speaker 2: into it, I was like, oh Na, this is a
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Speaker 2: this is a big process.
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Speaker 3: That's it. That's it, because it's like.
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Speaker 2: When you start, well people that don't know anything about
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Speaker 2: band sort of stuff, it's like you just think, oh,
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Speaker 2: you just get a group of guys together, you go home,
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Speaker 2: you recorded into your computer, and then boom, put it
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Speaker 2: out to Spotify and that's it. And that's not the
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Speaker 2: case at all. It's such like a long process with everything.
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Speaker 2: So I think it was yeah, just baby steps at
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Speaker 2: a time that we saught. I was like, oh, let's
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Speaker 2: just learn the screen, get in a band. And then
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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I just want to play shows.
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Speaker 2: And now it's like, oh, I want to play bigger
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Speaker 2: shows and I want to eventually go overseas, and like
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, in your head's just like oh.
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Speaker 1: I want to do this and this and this and
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Speaker 1: this and.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah that's awesome. So there was no real main
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Speaker 4: goal in the beginning. It was just what can I
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Speaker 4: sort of do? What can we do next.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was pretty much very much the thing.
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Speaker 2: And then we just started getting a bit of like
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Speaker 2: a little bit of hype behind us, I suppose, and
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Speaker 2: a few people like, oh, these guys aren't shit, like
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Speaker 2: this is right, and then I think a bit of
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Speaker 2: self belief comes into it after a little bit of
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Speaker 2: a while, and then just learning to do things better,
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Speaker 2: Like each release, I think we've learned something from the
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Speaker 2: last release. Each song we write, we become better at songwriting.
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Speaker 2: It's like it's just that addictive thing of seeing you progress.
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Speaker 2: So it's like that's pretty much.
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Speaker 1: The main of it.
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Speaker 2: Like everything being in a band is what I love,
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Speaker 2: like like from the dark art to the traveling and
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Speaker 2: playing music and getting to meet other musicians and like
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Speaker 2: just being a part of not just watching bands, but
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Speaker 2: like being a part of the whole thing together. I
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Speaker 2: think is like a thing that I just love.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, definitely I can see that.
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Speaker 4: And talking a little bit more on your success as
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Speaker 4: a band, Your debut EP made a big impact with
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Speaker 4: over two hundred and fifty thousand streams.
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Speaker 3: Did that early response surprise it?
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 2: I think each release surprised us more as we went
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Speaker 2: I think it was like we got obviously better at
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Speaker 2: promoting and learning what works and what doesn't work and stuff.
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Speaker 2: But I think it's just like a lot of a
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Speaker 2: lot of people and then in like slightly bigger bands
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Speaker 2: than us that are like, oh, these guys aren't shit,
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Speaker 2: you know, and we sort of because at the start
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Speaker 2: we're just like, oh this we think it sounds good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's like, you know, I know what anyone
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Speaker 1: else would think.
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Speaker 2: But then, like especially we had a show a last
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Speaker 2: Darkfest first one, and that was like the crowd went
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Speaker 2: absolutely stupid when we go on, and like seeing everyone
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Speaker 2: sing and scream the words back was like the craziest
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Speaker 2: because that's still pretty much the only time that's happened
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Speaker 2: at that, Like that amount of people sort of singing
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Speaker 2: screams back at you. I was like, this is such
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Speaker 2: a crazy feeling. So it's just like getting little snippets
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Speaker 2: of like of what it's like on the other side,
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Speaker 2: I suppose to being the person singing screaming the lyrics
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Speaker 2: back at my favorite artists. So it's yeah, super surreal,
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Speaker 2: but yeah, super cool thing definitely.
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Speaker 3: And how long ago did you guys start?
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Speaker 2: Well, we formed December twenty twenty two. That's when we
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Speaker 2: sort of had all four members, but we didn't.
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Speaker 1: Really do.
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Speaker 2: I think we're still trying to figure out like what
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Speaker 2: being a band meant at the start, like what to do.
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Speaker 1: And I.
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Speaker 2: Was like, I'm still a massive pan of ocean sleeper
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Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, I only does like recording
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Speaker 2: work and stuff. And so I was like talking to
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Speaker 2: him a little bit and saying, you know, what should
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Speaker 2: you know, do we come in or like what's what's
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Speaker 2: the sort of the process with that, and he was like, yeah, look, I.
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Speaker 1: Can help you do a debut, Syne.
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Speaker 2: He said, come in and show me what you got,
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Speaker 2: bringing your demos and everything like that, and then yeah,
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Speaker 2: pretty much went in there because we sort of have
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Speaker 2: like Josh is a little bit older. He grew up
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Speaker 2: with like Bullet for My Valentine and all them sort
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Speaker 2: of like hru and all that sort of stuff, and
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Speaker 2: then Harry.
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Speaker 1: Leg guitars.
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Speaker 2: He's like his favorites like Lorna Shore, Slaughter to Prevail
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Speaker 2: and like all the newer sort.
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Speaker 1: Of death calls sort of acts.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So like sometimes Josh should write a song and
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Speaker 2: Harry would write a song and they'd be obviously very
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Speaker 2: completely different. Yeah, so then it was more by one
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Speaker 2: bringing both of everything together.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then.
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Speaker 2: I was even like I knew that I wanted to
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Speaker 2: sort of scream a certain way and then have that
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Speaker 2: in there as well. So we just all sort of slowly,
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Speaker 2: oh yeah, we like that. We you know, we like this,
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Speaker 2: and then sort of went together like.
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Speaker 3: That, mashed it all together.
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Speaker 1: That's all it all together. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And how about for you? What are some of
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Speaker 4: your influencers.
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Speaker 1: Changes all the time.
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Speaker 2: I'm like one of those people where I don't have
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Speaker 2: one singular favorite band. I just get mad on one
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Speaker 2: band and just smash it until I get sick of it.
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Speaker 1: Then.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like I've always been since sleep Token. Sleep
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Speaker 2: Tokens obviously a very big influenced love Token. Like it's
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Speaker 2: funny because I really like some softer sort of stuff
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Speaker 2: like sleep Token. Even President, their new stuff is like
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Speaker 2: incredible love President, but like I love Lorna Shore and
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Speaker 2: some of Slaughter's new stuff as well, sort of tail,
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Speaker 2: you know, even falling reverses newer sort of stuff. It's
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Speaker 2: an Ocean's a Alaska is another big one that I'm
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Speaker 2: really vibing at the moment. Like since the new vocalist
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Speaker 2: hopped on, Like I just love their new releases, so
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Speaker 2: I'm so keen for that album. Yeah, and and I
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Speaker 2: think that was like also a part of learning what
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Speaker 2: music I like. So that's like, hey, can we sort
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Speaker 2: of make like a heavier version that's sort of like
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Speaker 2: a little bit sleep token ish president with like the
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Speaker 2: synse and the sort of softer parts, but then it's
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Speaker 2: like brutal, like its launa or slaughter or definitely you
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Speaker 2: know something. And Ocean's Alaska is actually a pretty good
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Speaker 2: example of that because they're sort of like death course
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Speaker 2: screams with probably a little bit more singing, but like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I really like that sort of contrast.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they've got that balance. And you guys are really
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Speaker 4: trying to make your own sound.
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Speaker 1: Which is yeah awesome, And that's that's the thing.
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Speaker 2: It's like trying to create what music I want to
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Speaker 2: listen to, you know, like the perfect mix of music
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Speaker 2: sort of thing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's it.
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Speaker 4: And how has the Australian have you seen embraced Archangels
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Speaker 4: so far? Both fans and other bands?
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, super good.
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Speaker 2: Like we've played with a lot of bands now, like
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Speaker 2: we've been on the road for pretty much a year
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Speaker 2: Nelly on the Dot and I think we've played nearly
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Speaker 2: thirty shows or something like that, and it's just through
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Speaker 2: like this span knows that band and they're like, oh,
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Speaker 2: you guys should get these guys. And then it's so
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Speaker 2: we've just met so many bands and so many different
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Speaker 2: music and yeah, it's just like for the most of it,
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Speaker 2: there's so many positive bands that are there at the
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Speaker 2: front and clapping.
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Speaker 1: And head banging and.
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Speaker 2: Getting into it, and that's that's pretty much what we
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Speaker 2: what we're doing it for is just the the love
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Speaker 2: and the enjoyment that like some of the best shows
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Speaker 2: that we've played haven't been to many people, but like
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Speaker 2: have had so like so many of the band members
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Speaker 2: just having fun. And I'm like like even some of
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Speaker 2: our bigger shows, I'm like, it's actually been better than
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Speaker 2: some of the bigger shows because it's like it's just
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Speaker 2: the energy and everything.
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Speaker 1: So it's like I've just learned that.
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Speaker 2: To me, it's like obviously, you know, you always strive
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Speaker 2: to be bigger and better and bigger stages and everything
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Speaker 2: like that, but it's I'm really enjoying everything at the moment.
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Speaker 1: Like if it's a good vibe.
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Speaker 2: It's a good vibe whether it's you know, twenty people
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Speaker 2: or two hundred people, it doesn't it doesn't really matter
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Speaker 2: to us as long as we're having a good time,
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Speaker 2: really definitely.
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Speaker 4: And something important that you've probably learned yourself through doing
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Speaker 4: this is it's about being positive, like you said, and
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Speaker 4: maintaining positive and good friendships with the bands that you
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Speaker 4: go on with, because otherwise you won't get very far
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Speaker 4: if you don't know, if you're not if you're full
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Speaker 4: of yourself and all of that, it's just usually doesn't
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Speaker 4: work out too well.
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Speaker 2: And this is the thing I think of it is
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Speaker 2: probably the biggest shock is it's not that it happens
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Speaker 2: a lot, but there's certain you know, certain times where
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Speaker 2: you're like, oh, you know, these people may not get
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Speaker 2: as many shows, and like other people may not get
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Speaker 2: many shows. But then if you play with them and
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Speaker 2: they're like this, or they're just not even there to
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Speaker 2: watch any of the bands, you know, and they just
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Speaker 2: rock up just before they play and then leave just
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Speaker 2: after they play, and Hi seeing it, blah blah blah,
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Speaker 2: which is like it's it's all up to you what
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Speaker 2: you want to do. But it's like people aren't going
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Speaker 2: to be like, oh, we want to you want to
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Speaker 2: get these guys again, you know, like that's it. We're
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Speaker 2: very much a band that it's like we always come
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Speaker 2: before the first band plays and we leave after the
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Speaker 2: last band and we congratulate everyone on there because it's
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Speaker 2: just but it's just creating a good atmosphere and that's
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Speaker 2: what we want to plane. It's just like to put
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Speaker 2: the egos aside. Like I'm I'm thirty four, so it's
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Speaker 2: like that ego part of me.
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Speaker 1: Died years ago. Now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's like for me, it's just it's just
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Speaker 2: enjoying it as much as I can.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty much while we're all doing it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome. That's so good. And now moving on
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Speaker 4: to your Lady's release. How did the idea for Haunting
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Speaker 4: My Dreams come about?
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Speaker 2: Well, Harry does a lot of our writing, and he
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Speaker 2: was he was mad at writing this next one straight
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Speaker 2: after the EP and showing us different parts and like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: this is pretty cool. And I got onto mystique because
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Speaker 2: she's got the almost famous club and she was saying
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Speaker 2: for bands that need a little bit of help promoting
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Speaker 2: or anything like that. Like, have a session with me
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Speaker 2: and we can talk. So got on a zoom with
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Speaker 2: her and we had such a great chat about what
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Speaker 2: we could improve on or instant things that she was like,
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Speaker 2: you know, you guys could do this or that or
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Speaker 2: this or that, and it was just like, Oh, they're
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Speaker 2: all great, you know, great ideas. And she gave me
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Speaker 2: like this big PDF of all these different ideas and
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Speaker 2: things to do for the bands and collabs and yah.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, just overload with all this information.
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Speaker 2: But then I was like, collabs is such a such
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Speaker 2: a big one that you can that you see heaps
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Speaker 2: of bands really well. And I'd always wanted to work
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Speaker 2: with Mystique because it's like we've done I've followed her
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Speaker 2: for years and we've had we're very since heavy, we
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Speaker 2: love our sins and she's amazing at all that.
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Speaker 1: Sort of stuff. So I was like, always had in
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Speaker 1: the back my mind, I'd love to work with it.
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Speaker 1: And then yeah, she listened to a few.
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Speaker 2: Of our tracks and she's like, you guys, actually I
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Speaker 2: love some of these tracks and I've been jamming them
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Speaker 2: and blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: And I forget how to come about.
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Speaker 2: But we're pretty much like, oh, well, do you want
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Speaker 2: to jump on this next song together? And then she
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Speaker 2: was down for it. So then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: it was in the writing process, we went seeing Callen
18:26
Speaker 2: and she's worked with Callen as well, so it was
18:29
Speaker 2: it was just yeah, it just worked out perfectly. So
18:32
Speaker 2: pretty much we did like most of the song and
18:35
Speaker 2: then sort of sent it to her and then Mystique
18:38
Speaker 2: just put her flair on it and she just kept
18:41
Speaker 2: cooking over it and then just kept sending it back,
18:44
Speaker 2: and each time we got it back.
18:45
Speaker 1: I was like, this is yeah.
18:48
Speaker 2: And we loved the song before Mistique jumped on it,
18:51
Speaker 2: but then when she did it, and she's like, oh,
18:53
Speaker 2: do you mind have produced some vocals and I was
18:55
Speaker 2: like yeah, go go nuts, like do whatever you want. Yeah,
18:59
Speaker 2: and she sent like the vocal takes back as well,
19:02
Speaker 2: and we're all just blown away.
19:03
Speaker 1: We thought this sounds this is really good.
19:07
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, she's amazing, isn't she?
19:09
Speaker 4: And oh yeah, just the amount of help that she
19:13
Speaker 4: gave you guys as well.
19:15
Speaker 1: Massive.
19:16
Speaker 2: It like helps especially with our aesthetic, Like I think
19:20
Speaker 2: we're kind of because I know in my head what
19:23
Speaker 2: I want to look like and everything, but it's like
19:26
Speaker 2: I don't have the skills to do it's like all
19:31
Speaker 2: the money to be like.
19:34
Speaker 1: You know, handing off.
19:35
Speaker 2: But I've recently, we've recently put on a league graphic designer,
19:41
Speaker 2: Active Corruption, and he's insane, Like I've pretty much just
19:45
Speaker 2: handled everything to him aesthetic wise, and he's just done.
19:50
Speaker 1: Everything like that.
19:51
Speaker 2: So it's pretty much like mystique gave us like the
19:54
Speaker 2: blueprint for it, and now it's just all sort of
19:57
Speaker 2: putting it into action. So yeah, in a hole, she's
20:00
Speaker 2: been a massive helpful Like this what we're going to
20:04
Speaker 2: call like our next phase as a band sort of thing.
20:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's wicked.
20:08
Speaker 4: That's so awesome that she's helping shape you guys, you
20:12
Speaker 4: know for the long term as well.
20:14
Speaker 3: And you guys you mentioned as well that you did
20:17
Speaker 3: work with callan Orr on the track. How is that process?
20:20
Speaker 2: Like, Oh, it was so Callen's unreal, Like as soon
20:24
Speaker 2: as we like, because I've always seen a lot of
20:27
Speaker 2: his stuff and he's always popped up and I was like, oh,
20:29
Speaker 2: it'd be so.
20:29
Speaker 1: Cool to work with him one day.
20:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, we just thought we'd hit him up
20:35
Speaker 2: and see if he's available, and and he was, and
20:38
Speaker 2: we did a time, and it was just everything was
20:41
Speaker 2: just so easy and we just had a fun time,
20:44
Speaker 2: like we just all get each other and like within well,
20:48
Speaker 2: I think we only spent two days with him and
20:51
Speaker 2: we'd had the song pretty much finished, and it was
20:53
Speaker 2: just it just the workflow was so easy, and he's
20:58
Speaker 2: just he's such a great help with certain things, like
21:01
Speaker 2: if we got stuck on a bit, he'd like to say, oh,
21:04
Speaker 2: maybe you should do it this way and blah blah blah.
21:06
Speaker 2: And I think that's sometimes what you need is someone
21:10
Speaker 2: that's outside of the band that can give you more
21:13
Speaker 2: of a straight direction, because when you've got four people
21:17
Speaker 2: that have got different ideas and then it's like, well
21:20
Speaker 2: who's the Yeah, who do you go towards? You know,
21:24
Speaker 2: Whereas he's just like, nah, that's a better idea or
21:27
Speaker 2: I think you should do it this way and blah
21:29
Speaker 2: blah blah.
21:29
Speaker 1: So it sort of just hones everything in.
21:32
Speaker 2: And yeah, it was just I can't see us leaving
21:37
Speaker 2: him anytime soon, because it's just it's like he's a
21:40
Speaker 2: fifth part of the band, Nelly, you know, it's just
21:43
Speaker 2: and even I've recently just done a guest vocal feature
21:47
Speaker 2: and I've sent him the stems and he mixed.
21:49
Speaker 1: It all for me and just so he's just so
21:53
Speaker 1: easy to work with.
21:54
Speaker 2: He gets everything done super quick, and he's just he's
21:57
Speaker 2: just like a mate more than anything now. So we're
22:00
Speaker 2: starting to get like a really good team, which is
22:02
Speaker 2: which is exciting.
22:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, No, it's so valuable to have someone like
22:07
Speaker 4: that from the outside that can look in and help
22:10
Speaker 4: you guys where it's needed.
22:13
Speaker 3: But also I think.
22:14
Speaker 4: You really need to give a lot of credit to
22:15
Speaker 4: yourself for going and grabbing these opportunities and really you know,
22:19
Speaker 4: getting the people that you want to help work with
22:22
Speaker 4: you guys, and it's paid off.
22:23
Speaker 1: Oh thank you, thinking yes.
22:26
Speaker 3: And what about the music video for Haunting My Dreams?
22:30
Speaker 3: Where was that shot? Because it's insane and I love
22:33
Speaker 3: it And how did that come about?
22:36
Speaker 1: Well?
22:36
Speaker 2: And that was another thing I'd like, had this list
22:40
Speaker 2: of things when I sort of started getting in a band,
22:43
Speaker 2: like seeing all these people do all these things, and
22:45
Speaker 2: I was like, Colin Jeffs is someone that I was like,
22:48
Speaker 2: I definitely.
22:49
Speaker 1: Want to work with, you know.
22:50
Speaker 2: And I was talking to a mystique about it and
22:54
Speaker 2: she and she's like, maybe we should because I said, oh,
22:57
Speaker 2: would you be in the clip and because like, yeah, yeah,
23:00
Speaker 2: of course I'd love to. So I thought awesome, and
23:03
Speaker 2: then I thought, well, we've got to get you know,
23:05
Speaker 2: someone really good and a good name behind the clip.
23:10
Speaker 2: And you know, Colin Jeffs is pretty much, you know,
23:12
Speaker 2: one of the league best in the industry sort of thing,
23:16
Speaker 2: and Mistiques worked with him before and said that you know,
23:20
Speaker 2: she just loved it. So I was like, all right,
23:22
Speaker 2: well we'll hit him up. And yeah, hit him up
23:24
Speaker 2: and told him what I was sort of thinking, like
23:26
Speaker 2: what the song was about, and and yeah, He's like, well,
23:31
Speaker 2: we could do one because I said I really love
23:35
Speaker 2: like sort of a couple of clips that he had
23:38
Speaker 2: previously done. But I was like, in my head, I
23:41
Speaker 2: wanted things a little bit differently, and this is where
23:45
Speaker 2: we come up with like a padded jail cell. I
23:47
Speaker 2: was like, that would be super cool being in there
23:50
Speaker 2: and and sort of just seeing what we could do
23:54
Speaker 2: with that and seeing what his ideas, and he said, well,
23:57
Speaker 2: I reckon, we should do the old Melbourne jail.
24:02
Speaker 1: And I thought, yeah, that'd be cool, but I was like,
24:04
Speaker 1: how much is it going to be?
24:08
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's just it's just this single just kept
24:12
Speaker 2: sort of getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and I thought, we'll,
24:16
Speaker 2: you know, price it up and see what. And he
24:18
Speaker 2: come back and yeah, it was pretty expensive. But we
24:23
Speaker 2: had a big talk with the boys and I was like,
24:25
Speaker 2: if we're going to do spend money for a big single,
24:28
Speaker 2: I'm like, I reckon this would be the one because
24:31
Speaker 2: it's you know, we've got mystique behind it, it's it's
24:34
Speaker 2: our favorite song still that we've written to the day. Yeah,
24:37
Speaker 2: and Colin's going to be shooting it. So I was like,
24:42
Speaker 2: you know, and we've got Karlen on it as well,
24:45
Speaker 2: being the producer, mixer and everything, and I thought, stuff that, let's.
24:49
Speaker 1: Just let's just do it. We'll do it all proper.
24:51
Speaker 2: And I thought it's an experience anyway that we can
24:54
Speaker 2: say we hide out old Melbourne jail just to shoot
24:57
Speaker 2: a clip, you know.
24:58
Speaker 3: So it's weird. You guys went all out obviously. Yeah.
25:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, it costs, yeah, fair whack for the single, but
25:06
Speaker 2: it was it's just one of those things that slowly
25:08
Speaker 2: we're like, oh, yeah we'll do that, We'll do that
25:12
Speaker 2: huge whoa wow.
25:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, it's so cool, so awesome, And I think
25:19
Speaker 4: you guys obviously made the right decision and if you
25:22
Speaker 4: never go all out again, you went all out.
25:24
Speaker 3: On that one, and it's awesome. It is freaking yeah.
25:27
Speaker 1: Well that's it was well worth it.
25:29
Speaker 2: In Now we've seen the end product and everything, it's
25:31
Speaker 2: we we all love it.
25:33
Speaker 1: We've played the.
25:34
Speaker 2: Song a million times like we're ready for it to
25:37
Speaker 2: be out, and even the visuals, like we're so happy
25:39
Speaker 2: with the visuals and what Colin did and with adding
25:43
Speaker 2: mystique in there. It was so cool that she could
25:45
Speaker 2: do the clip with us as well. And she was
25:47
Speaker 2: super easy to work with because I was like, oh,
25:50
Speaker 2: we should do makeup and you know, the contact lenses
25:53
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, and she came up with a few
25:55
Speaker 2: ideas that we could chop and change. So it was
25:58
Speaker 2: just the whole thing was just such a fun day
26:01
Speaker 2: and it's just it worked out so good. So it's
26:05
Speaker 2: like the whole experience was just fun from start to finish.
26:08
Speaker 3: Really, so oh, that's amazing.
26:10
Speaker 4: It's so good to hear, so awesome that all these
26:13
Speaker 4: creatives came together and it all was easy and.
26:16
Speaker 3: Just worked and yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:19
Speaker 4: And the last question, with this bold new chapter opening up,
26:23
Speaker 4: what's next? For you guys after the release of this single.
26:26
Speaker 2: So we're thinking at the moment, we've got a few
26:30
Speaker 2: songs sort of in the bank in the demo stage,
26:36
Speaker 2: but we're thinking we might do a couple of singles,
26:40
Speaker 2: like maybe three singles with possibly three collabs, and we're
26:45
Speaker 2: just testing out a few different things and then I
26:49
Speaker 2: think after that we'll write a bigger piece. But I
26:52
Speaker 2: think the next three are sort of be sort of
26:54
Speaker 2: a joint single but sort of experimenting in different sort
26:59
Speaker 2: of ways, and then yeah, it'll be a bigger project
27:03
Speaker 2: that we're their work's actually currently working on at the
27:06
Speaker 2: moment as well, so there's a lot of new music
27:09
Speaker 2: in the bank. We're just sort of trying to keep
27:13
Speaker 2: perfecting and everything. We go back actually in the studio
27:17
Speaker 2: with Callen next the week after its release, so we're
27:21
Speaker 2: straight back into the video to record the next one.
27:25
Speaker 2: So it's like, yeah, very busy, but it's all it's
27:28
Speaker 2: all happening really quick.
27:30
Speaker 1: Watch watch the new.
27:31
Speaker 2: Song that comes out, and we will be playing it
27:33
Speaker 2: at the new Arkfest which is November f I'd like
27:38
Speaker 2: to yeh plug that before we go. That's we've got
27:41
Speaker 2: body Prison, Dead Skin Coultist, Go, Seek Our Soul, Sleep
27:46
Speaker 2: Whisper Ahead, Seek Misery. We've got nine bands all up
27:51
Speaker 2: and yeah that's going to be and pray for me
27:53
Speaker 2: too from Queensland, so that's going to be super sick
27:57
Speaker 2: and we'll be playing our new new track there. But yeah,
28:01
Speaker 2: that'll be that'll be an awesome day. So yeah, there's
28:03
Speaker 2: lots of lots of things going on in the Archangel
28:07
Speaker 2: camp at the moment.
28:08
Speaker 3: Hell yeah. And do you know where we can get tickets?
28:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, so oz ticks selling all the tickets.
28:15
Speaker 2: We've only got a few of the double passes left,
28:18
Speaker 2: so if people want to snap them up, and yeah,
28:23
Speaker 2: they're pretty much on sale now so you can jump
28:26
Speaker 2: in and jump jump on them. And like I said,
28:29
Speaker 2: the new song comes out on the fifth, so super
28:32
Speaker 2: keen for that.
28:33
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, yeah, we're loving Haunting My Dreams. Jake. Thank
28:37
Speaker 3: you so much for talking with me.
28:39
Speaker 2: Thank you, thanks so much for interviewing us and checking
28:44
Speaker 2: us out and all the positive feedback.
28:45
Speaker 1: Thank you for that.
28:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no worries at all.