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The Agony And The Ecstacy With NATHAN From CRYPT · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Nathan here, guitarist from crypt Yeah, old
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  Speaker 1: school Brisbane death metal band, and we're pumped to play
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  Speaker 1: potentially looking like our last ever show at Necrosonic Fest
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks and a few serendipitous moments.
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  Speaker 1: It's the thirtieth anniversary of our demo that came out
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  Speaker 1: in ninety four, and it's actually the same month and
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  Speaker 1: the same venue as Alan, our drummer's first ever gig
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  Speaker 1: with the band.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's kind of unbelievable, isn't it. Yeah, like it was.
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  Speaker 2: It's about two weeks apart, but thirty years Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Fuck a hell, you're gonna be a cracker of a
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  Speaker 3: night then.
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  Speaker 1: Oh mane sure is we are sure, we are ready
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  Speaker 1: as will.
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  Speaker 4: Ever beweet so as you say, Brave crick, I wanted
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  Speaker 4: thirty bands appearing at next Prosonic Festival at the Mansfield
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  Speaker 4: Tabin on August thirty first. It's a massive day of
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  Speaker 4: medal with thirty bands over three stages and twelve hours. Mate,
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  Speaker 4: But how do you feeling about the show? Like you're
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  Speaker 4: excited for it?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it like bit hell?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, we're guns blazing.
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  Speaker 4: And it's like like imagined before me, Like it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be that little bit more special for crypt who
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  Speaker 4: returned to the stage after a number of years away
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  Speaker 4: for a one off performance, especially for Resonic Maye, Like
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  Speaker 4: what made you decide to commit to this particular shower
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  Speaker 4: to have your last show?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Kent, he just talked to us around he he
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  Speaker 1: bumped into Cliff I was last year at some point
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  Speaker 1: asked us to play, and it was just like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like it's just because we're so we're all spread apart,
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  Speaker 1: and then.
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  Speaker 2: Eventually it was like, okay, let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just gained tons of momentum since. And look,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's unreal because there's no there is nothing like
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  Speaker 1: this anymore. You know, this is like metal for the
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  Speaker 1: brain and stuff like that. There's there's nothing around anymore.
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  Speaker 4: You're actually right, you know, there's a lot of festivals
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  Speaker 4: like coming out these days that I just like foam
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  Speaker 4: metal festivals. Now, you've got a couple of token metal
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  Speaker 4: bands in there, but there's not many that are actual
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  Speaker 4: rutally fucking heavy as this one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's put a killer lineup, good mix, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like it's all heavy, but you know, it covers like
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of different stuff, newer bands, old Obviously
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  Speaker 1: he's managed to get some of us old bustards out
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: Know what I mean, which is but it's great. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's fucking awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And at all the bands playing BRO, are there any
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  Speaker 4: survivors from your era when you guys are have your
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  Speaker 4: peak in the nineties, eigh there's miseries or any more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to pld post life disorder. They're playing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're.
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  Speaker 1: They're probably a little bit later, but still that's back
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  Speaker 1: around what we used to gig together with them back
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  Speaker 1: in the day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, look, there's there's members as well that
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  Speaker 2: we're in.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's bands that are playing who've got guys
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  Speaker 1: that were around back then.
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  Speaker 2: Mhm.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean Psycroptic we're not that long after after
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  Speaker 1: those days either.
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  Speaker 2: Mentality there there from back in the day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, therefore there's a tense fear dang starr throng.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, yeah, totally.
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  Speaker 4: Now a bit of a history Lason here. Bro like
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  Speaker 4: Crip formed in Brisbane at the start of the ninety nineties. Mate,
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  Speaker 4: So what was it a musical climate like back then
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  Speaker 4: that gave birth to you guys, And where did it
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  Speaker 4: fit in initially?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the Brisbane was a good scene. It's always been
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  Speaker 1: pretty good for bands back then. And the great thing
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  Speaker 1: I think back then was you could go to gigs
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  Speaker 1: and see medal with kind of you know, alternative because
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  Speaker 1: that was like the alternative era, I guess. But we
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  Speaker 1: would go to the Roxy in the Valley, dream Killers, Pangaea, Misery,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like bands like this would be all on
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  Speaker 1: the same bill bands, so there was always there was
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  Speaker 1: always stuff to go to. Yeah, yeah, I mean even
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  Speaker 1: there was like kind of you wouldn't call it regional,
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  Speaker 1: but like suburban metal gigs as well. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: you think about it now where everyone's got smartphones and internet,
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  Speaker 1: you wonder how you even heard about these gigs.
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  Speaker 2: But everyone was there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the old sky plaster posters up everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Records and skinnies and stuff. You know, you would see
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  Speaker 1: a flyer there for something.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone was there. It was great. You could get into
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  Speaker 2: these gigs underage back in the day as well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we were like fourteen or fifteen Curacy of
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  Speaker 1: Iron and Armed Angel and stuff. You know, that was
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  Speaker 1: one of my first gigs Armed Angel with I think
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  Speaker 1: it was Iron Lightning and Apparent Flitzkreig or something like
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  Speaker 1: that that blew my fucking mind.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned a few bands here I've got written down
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  Speaker 3: through bro Like.
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  Speaker 4: The nineties was a great period for not just bridal
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  Speaker 4: metal but Australian medal in general. Like you had Green Fellows,
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  Speaker 4: as Blood Dusters, Damaged Angels, just to name a few men.
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  Speaker 3: But well, why do you think ossie bands really excelled
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  Speaker 3: in that decade?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I guess there was no distractions. I know for us
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  Speaker 1: back then, all we did was rehearse. We used to
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  Speaker 1: just hang out and rehearse, like three four nights a week.
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  Speaker 2: That was like what we did.
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  Speaker 1: You know, We'd just meet there on the weekends and
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  Speaker 1: just rehearse all night. It's just what everyone did.
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  Speaker 2: I think. You know, there was and there was outlets
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  Speaker 2: for it because you could just play gigs all the time.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It was like it was a real social kind of
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  Speaker 1: vibe as well, I think because it wasn't probably not
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  Speaker 1: a lot else to do in Brisbane back then.
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  Speaker 4: True, my memories of those days too, bro Like, it
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  Speaker 4: was a lot more of a of a makeship vibe.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there was these seem to be competing against
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  Speaker 4: each other for that little slice of the pie.
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  Speaker 3: But back then, no one gave a fuck. You know,
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  Speaker 3: like if you were playing, then come out and support you,
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  Speaker 3: and there was no no competition.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just like I said, it was like
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  Speaker 1: a social scene as much as a music scene. It
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  Speaker 1: was just like that's what everyone did. You just hung
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  Speaker 1: out on the weekend and you just you'd see all
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  Speaker 1: the same people there all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Mmm.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, Now you.
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  Speaker 4: Mentioned this before, but you're also celebrating the thirtieth anniversary
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  Speaker 4: of your GAMO cassette.
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  Speaker 3: It's cruciating agony, mate. So does that mean you're going
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  Speaker 3: to be playing that in full?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah we're and we're we're playing it like as
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  Speaker 1: the demo as well, because as the years went by,
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  Speaker 1: it got sped up and you know, we've slowed it down,
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  Speaker 1: we've tuned down.
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  Speaker 2: And it sounds unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: And we've got big banners for the stage with the
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  Speaker 1: demo artwork and stuff like that's you know, that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be part of the vibe.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: So anyone into that will be having a good time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're probably in.
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  Speaker 4: A good position to tell this now because you would
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  Speaker 4: have been playing those songs a lot rehearsing.
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  Speaker 3: So in reflection of the songs on that demo stood
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  Speaker 3: the test of time pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hell yeah, yeah, they still they sound amazing, and
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, it's it's also a chance, I guess
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  Speaker 1: when you step away from the band for a number
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  Speaker 1: of years and you come back, as you've changed as
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  Speaker 1: a person, you hear the music differently and the songs.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the thing we've kind of realized is.
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  Speaker 1: While we're probably towards the end of the original era,
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  Speaker 1: at the start of the two thousands, everything.
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  Speaker 2: Was just getting faster and faster.
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  Speaker 1: But now we've actually we kind of finessed the tempos
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  Speaker 1: of the song and just the feel, and it just
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  Speaker 1: makes the songs actually stand out, you know that just
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  Speaker 1: big riffs. Obviously, Grant's voice is still it hasn't changed
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  Speaker 1: at all. It's crazy, you know, he turns up to
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  Speaker 1: first rehearsal, it's just like there it is.
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  Speaker 2: In yeah, yeah, so's.
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  Speaker 1: He's it just it just sounds fucking killer. The demo
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  Speaker 1: in particular slowed down it's.
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  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, we're loving it. We're having a great time.
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  Speaker 3: Like yeah. And earlier this year you also re released
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  Speaker 3: your ninety ninety eight El Nino. So how was the
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  Speaker 3: reception to that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's we just we went back to
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  Speaker 1: the we pulled it all from digital and then put
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  Speaker 1: it back up as the OG kind of mixes and
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  Speaker 1: artwork and that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's just there, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think, I mean, is probably a bit different to
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  Speaker 1: our first two releases. Just Cliff was on drums and
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  Speaker 1: it was getting a bit more flashy some of the
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  Speaker 1: riffs and whatnot, you know, but it's yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's some killer tunes on there, and it probably hints
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  Speaker 1: at where we would have gone had we kept going,
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  Speaker 1: but we didn't.
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  Speaker 2: You know, well we did eventually, you know, we put.
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  Speaker 1: The seven inch out what seven years ago, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of new tunes, and we're actually recording a new.
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  Speaker 2: Song this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, tell us more about that.
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  Speaker 2: It's called Chilling Madness and it's yeah, it's just like
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  Speaker 2: another crip song.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so it's what fans would expect from nowadays.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just riffs, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: rifts and vocal in.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of like when we did the tour
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  Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen and did the box set, I just
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  Speaker 1: started writing songs. We kind of had an idea to
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  Speaker 1: do maybe an album or an EP, but in the
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  Speaker 1: end we just went for the seven inch two songs.
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  Speaker 1: But this is still left over from back then, right,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, we're tracking it this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be out the day before the gig.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome. Bro, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And we got Brenton Wright who did the demo artwork.
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  Speaker 1: He's done the artwork for this new song.
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  Speaker 3: Fuck Been Nostalgia. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he just popped up when because I found the
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  Speaker 1: original artwork for the demo and he popped up on
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  Speaker 1: Facebook and commented it, and I just got in touch
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  Speaker 1: and said, hey, we're recording you want.
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  Speaker 2: To do the art and is like yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So you don't have to forgive me for saying this
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  Speaker 4: ro but the way you're talking and the enthusiasm in
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  Speaker 4: your voice, and.
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  Speaker 3: Then the fact that you recorded on the day it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be your last day, this is definitely going
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  Speaker 3: to be it.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Look, you can't say you'll never do something again, because
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  Speaker 1: I never thought we'd do this gig again.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I think so, like we just we
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  Speaker 2: live far apart. It's it's it's hard, and.
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  Speaker 1: I've been flowing up every three weeks for rehearsals and
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  Speaker 1: it's starts to wear you down.
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  Speaker 2: And look, we're not getting any younger either.
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  Speaker 1: And it's yeah, it's just I don't know. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's good to go out with a bang like this,
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  Speaker 1: you know for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for those who may not have seen seen the
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  Speaker 4: live show from prit before they run us.
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  Speaker 1: Through, what do you expect, It's just going to be intense, intense.
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  Speaker 1: I know when I play this stuff, it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to explain what happens, but you just you turn
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  Speaker 1: into that person again. Yeah, that's all I can say.
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  Speaker 1: It's like when we got in the room and started
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  Speaker 1: rehearsing for this, it's just like there's just something there
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  Speaker 1: with us guys, and it's you know, it's all original
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  Speaker 1: guys like we've got there's no new members, so there's
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  Speaker 1: just something about the feel of it. The only thing
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  Speaker 1: is when Cliff took over base from Dave, but he
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  Speaker 1: was the drummer on El Nino, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: So it's all original, guys, and it's just when we
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  Speaker 1: play it just sounds like crypt so it just it
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  Speaker 1: just sounds the way it always has.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for you, Tom Made. It's been a pleasure
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  Speaker 4: to speak with you Made. You've got me excited for
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  Speaker 4: the show. You'll be out there on August and thirty
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  Speaker 4: first at the Mansfield Tavern, so you'll patch it there
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  Speaker 4: for a beer.
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  Speaker 2: Can't wait, Buddie. Thanks a lot for the chat. Appreciate it.