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Making A Splash Down Under With ADAM BIGGS From RIVERS OF NIHIL · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  US tech metal legends Rivers of Nile will be in Australia in just a short
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  time, supporting NAIs and The Ocean Collective in a runn of dates starting on
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  September six in Brisbane. So to find out just what you expect, we
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  spoke with Adam Beaks. I'm Adam Biggs from Rivers of Nile and starting very
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  soon we're going on our tour with Naive, Oliviscaris and the Ocean Collective over
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  there in Australia. We got four shows and Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and
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  Sydney of course Sydney. Oh good, big one. Yeah, it's been
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  it's been a it's been a great a week. It's already Monday. But
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  yeah, very excited for that. It's gonna be it's gonna be a batch
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  of great shows. And yeah, we're very excited to come back Australia.
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  Very good Maye. Thanks for joining us today, Adam, Oh, no,
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  no problem, problem so as you say. And I'll return to Australia
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  for a run of shows with the I'll Believe a scarus at the Ocean Collective,
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  kicking off the tour in Brisbane on September six, before traveling through Sydney
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  and Melbourne, finishing in Adelaide on September ten, Like four shows in five
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  days. Made it's going to be a rough track fire, Yeah, yeah,
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  it is how it is always always just keep trucking through the through the
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  shows and that's that's that's the job. It'll be. It'll be being an
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  awesome flive days, I'm sure. Yeah. And the tour is mainly to
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  celebrate Naval Oliver Scarus's new album Excel and touring over four years. So do
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  you think they're going to go out there with the point to prove after being
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  away for so long, Like four years away from your home crowd is a
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  bit, it's pretty long. Yeah, I mean hopefully, yeah, hopefully
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  they they come out with us, you know, out there some motivation and
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  and uh you know, you know some will to kick some ass like you
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  know, I'm sure because I'm sure we will as well. It's been it's
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  been a little while for us too. And yeah, it's I want to
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  see everybody really motivated on these shows too. Give give the crowd the best,
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  the best taken. And so you guys also toured with a scar Us
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  on your first visit to Australia back in twenty nineteen. So what do they
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  like to be on the road with? You guys obviously get on pretty well.
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  Yeah, yeah, we uh, we had a great time with those
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  guys last time we were out and they you know, they treated us really
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  well and and we've we've kept in in you know, good contact over the
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  years since then, and so when they asked us to come back down and
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  it was pretty much a no brainer because we knew, you know, we
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  know they're they're great guys and easy to tour with and we had the show
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  as a rule. So yeah, then there's the Ocean Collective. Man,
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  have you taught with them before? Never very excited to do that for the
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  first time. I think we played one show with them in Austin, Texas
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  like years and years ago. But they've they've always been a big, a
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  big band on our hearts, like we love that band, and so when
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  we heard they were part of the the package, that was also another thing
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  that was like, yeah, that's definitely let's definitely do this. That sounds
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  like a great show and we get to see those guy guys play, which
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  is awesome. Ah life, you've got loosely, you've got a progressive metal
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  band, there's a Czech metal band, and then there's more of a post
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  metal band share in stage. Like it's an interesting mix of genres when you
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  put them all together. Like how important is it to have that variety of
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  bands Bland, I guess instead of everyone just out of the same after each
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  other. I mean, I think it's uh, you know, I think
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  it's for me at least, it's great to have a variety a different different
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  flavors because you know, I've been to shows where it's you know, it's
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  very consistent stylistically across you know, an entire show, and it you know
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  it for me, it kind of drags something it can I think there's a
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  What's what's important is that you know that all the bands have a you know,
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  similar ethic, and I think that that's true for this store package.
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  It's like we all have a different take on a you know, heavy rock
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  music with progressive influences and at all. But you know, each band comes
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  out with something that doesn't sound close to the other one, which is really
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  interesting and cool. It'd be you know, a good mix. I think
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  for that's not familiar with the band might describe a typical Rivers live show,
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  if there's such a thing. Uh, well, uh, it's I think
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  it's I think it varies from from tour to tour typical typical, and you
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  know, I we try to avoid typical, Like we tried to always come
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  out and play you know, played different, you know, like give a
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  different vibe from from everybody else that's on whatever tour we're on. We like
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  to try and try and stand out a little bit and subvert expectations. So
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  it's it's you never know what the set list is going to, what's gonna
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  happen, you know, from song to song, try and uh, you
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  know, it's trying to surprise everyone with what's gonna happen next. You've also
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  released an album recently yourself called The Work, So how much of that were
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  you going to be playing? I think yeah, I think we're gonna have
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  a you know, a decent amount of cuts from that record because last time
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  we just put out the record before the Work, so you know, it'll
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  be a good chance to revisit some old material down in Australia but also expose
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  Australians to the new stuff live. So we're not gonna waste that opportunity,
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  and since then you've also related a single to Suborbital Blues. Is that a
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  standalone single or is this that of a new album cycle? Uh? Yeah,
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  it's uh, it's it's kind of both. It's uh, for now,
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  it's just it's just floating out there in the ether. It so here's
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  a song to listen to. But uh, while we while we kind of
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  adjust and to some of the recent changes the bands undergone, we wanted to
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  show everybody that you know, we this is this is still you know,
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  this is still viable thing and we have the ability to put out new music
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  and have a kick ass. So that's you know, but will it be
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  part of the extra record? I'm going to say probably yeah. Is that
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  but indication of the direction the song is going to take music way? It's
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  a yeah, it's yes. No, I mean yeah, I think it's
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  it's hard to always be like for for us, it's a you know,
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  we we like to have a lot of variety in in not just between each
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  record, but within the record itself. Is you know, like the work
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  was definitely like for track, the track, you were you didn't know what
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  what was gonna happen, And I think that that's kind of a kind of
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  a vibe that will be will be exploring. I think so far, you
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  know the song what we have for a new record, it's all it is
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  very oh, it's all. It's it takes you. It's a big journey
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  and sonically and I think, you know, suborbital is a is it good
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  in cater But also it doesn't even show it's just the tip of the iceberg,
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  Like, we have a lot more to show now. This tour finishes
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  up on September the tenth, though, what's next for Rivers and Nile after
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  that? What's next is uh so we'll have this this tour in Australia and
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  then we have a little bit of time off and then we have a European
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  tour with Laurena Shore coming up and at the end of the year. So
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  that and that's like selling out rooms like crazy and in all kinds of venue
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  upgrades, which is awesome. So we have that to look forward to.
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  And then after that, yeah, I'd like to get get more music into
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  people's ears, get you know, get a new disc out perhaps, but
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  yeah, let's say her taking everything one step at a time here probably let
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  you go, my We're starting up three new Spotify lists through heavy just by
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  on artists that we speak to you. So you're thinking your own songs,
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  Can you give us one song to get the party started. One song could
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  potentially save your marriage, and one song that could potentially end your marriage.
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  Okay, that's I think party starter. I'm gonna have to go with the
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  suborbital blues for that new The new track, I think that's a pretty good
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  party starter. Ye save save your marriage song is uh. I've got a
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  song called maybe one Day from the work which is this is a kind of
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  sweet little ballad and uh. And then actually the track directly before it is
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  a marriage ender call. It's called Episode. I shall add those to the
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  playlist today for you, mate. So thanks very much for your time.
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  That I had him has been a pleasure speaking. You're in Australia from you're
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  saying likewise. September the sixth, the tour kicks off through Sydney, Melbourne,
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  Adelaide and Brisban, so we'll see you over here then, yes,
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  sir, take care made, thanks you're time. Thank you very much.
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  Yeah, no problem. I have a good one. Brother,