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Escaping The Abyss With NIKLAS MULLER From AD INFINITUM · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: That's still the rism between the lighter sound must go
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  Speaker 1: here you breathe and feel.
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  Speaker 2: The pass and the grum hottest beam.
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  Speaker 1: So you can't do that, Jenny, I'm Nick.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the drama from the Swiss German band ad in Finitem.
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  Speaker 3: I'm twenty nine years old. Of that is of any interest.
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  Speaker 3: We're band. We've been around since twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 3: and with our first album coming on in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: right in Pandemic, and we've been a little productive since
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  Speaker 3: then and now in October twenty twenty four or fourth
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  Speaker 3: studio album is coming out called EBIs via Napalm Records.
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  Speaker 3: As the previous ones, we're very good partnership with them,
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, we cannot wait to deliver this product to
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  Speaker 3: all of you people and share this piece of music
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  Speaker 3: with you and then as well play it live at
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  Speaker 3: least in Europe and the US and what she did
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  Speaker 3: not yet in Australia, but hopefully we will see you
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  Speaker 3: there one time.
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  Speaker 4: Very good mother, thanks for joining listen. It's a pleasure
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  Speaker 4: to make with you. Likewise, so you mentioned I didn't
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  Speaker 4: finishing releasing new album A Beast on Octobe the eleventh,
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  Speaker 4: Mate so can you tell us a bit more about
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  Speaker 4: the album musically and what you're down for with it.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely can. First of all, I think the most
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  Speaker 3: important part about that album is that we kind of
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  Speaker 3: stepped away from the symphonic part of it that was
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  Speaker 3: a huge part of our music for the first three albums.
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  Speaker 3: It was not an initial choice that we said, no,
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  Speaker 3: we want to do it anymore, and no, we don't
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  Speaker 3: want to do it anymore, and we do it like
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  Speaker 3: with an entire other production. We kind of said, we
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  Speaker 3: don't want to have it just for the sake of
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  Speaker 3: having it. We just want to see where the music
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  Speaker 3: leads us. And it just happened that when we wrote
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  Speaker 3: the first songs in our song cap we just realized
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  Speaker 3: that there is not really the need for orchestral elements,
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  Speaker 3: and we just happened to create soundscapes and nice atmospheres
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  Speaker 3: without those instruments, and there we said, okay, it would
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  Speaker 3: be maybe just too much and everything over the top
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  Speaker 3: to add now back the orchestral elements. It was not
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  Speaker 3: an initial choice that we step away from symphonic metal
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  Speaker 3: or something like that. It just happened in the writing process.
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  Speaker 3: This is the biggest music a part that kind of changed.
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  Speaker 3: On the other hand, I have to say that I
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  Speaker 3: have a feeling we kind of grew up a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: It's like when you when you continue writing music, you
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  Speaker 3: just change. And it feels like we think way way
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  Speaker 3: more about every little part of a song than we
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  Speaker 3: did on the on the previous hours. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 3: that we didn't think at all about the early music.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that. It's like we're questioning more since
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  Speaker 3: since this very album. We already did that with Chapter
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  Speaker 3: three when we had this songwriting camp. I think this
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  Speaker 3: is also the biggest part why we're questioning that much,
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  Speaker 3: because we are all in the same room together writing songs,
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  Speaker 3: which wasn't the case for the Chapter one Chapter two
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  Speaker 3: because of pandemics and we were living so far apart,
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  Speaker 3: and I think this just led to the next steps. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this is the the biggest part musically that kind of changed.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, very good. Today we released the singles Surrender, out
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  Speaker 4: of Space, My Higler, and Unstoppable, so overall they good
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  Speaker 4: study representation. What do you expect from the whole album?
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  Speaker 3: Kind of yeah, I mean it's not it's not that
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  Speaker 3: these three songs like say everything from the from the record,
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  Speaker 3: it's a nice overview, but I can tell you there
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  Speaker 3: are more or ups and downs coming. That's that's not everything.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You sort of touched on this before.
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  Speaker 4: But the press release causing your most dynamic, modern and
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  Speaker 4: progressive record today, do you agree with that statement?
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  Speaker 3: Most dynamic progressive today good beings? I don't know. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean most most modern. Definitely most progressive. Yeah, could
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  Speaker 3: make could make sense as well, I think so. I think,
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  Speaker 3: as as I said earlier, I have the feeling that
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  Speaker 3: we spend much more time thinking about every little piece
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  Speaker 3: in our music. It's just yeah, it's it seems like
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  Speaker 3: we just put way more work in it. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know how that was even possible, but.
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  Speaker 4: That now I read it quite from the band that
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  Speaker 4: said ABIs marks a new era for Ada and finish
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  Speaker 4: calling it a journey connecting three albums starting in the
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  Speaker 4: ominous darkness of Abyss. So does that mean that Abyss
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  Speaker 4: is the first part of a trilogy?
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  Speaker 3: That's true? Yeah, exactly, Yeah, the trilogy we already had
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  Speaker 3: like an hour in the press CIPT. We have Abyss,
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  Speaker 3: we have Surface, and we have Elysium, which tells a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a story traveling from a dark a
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  Speaker 3: dark place of mind where you've slowly reached the surface,
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  Speaker 3: you get better, you heal, until you reach a museum,
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  Speaker 3: which is like the vile state of happiness. It's important
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  Speaker 3: to mention that it's not like the previous three albums
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  Speaker 3: connected to a historical figure or something like that. It's
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  Speaker 3: more personal experiences and feelings that we process here in
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  Speaker 3: these pieces of music and will process in the future
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 4: So what story does abystell.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's it's more like, as I said, the state
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  Speaker 3: of mind is a very dark and depressing one. It's uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's a place of weakness where you try to evolve
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  Speaker 3: from and you evolve for these what you will you
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  Speaker 3: evolve and you can see it like in the next
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  Speaker 3: albums that are there to come. So this is the
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  Speaker 3: worst state of mind.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So so as you progress to the state of
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  Speaker 4: mind is musically over the three albums, will that affect
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  Speaker 4: the musical direction? I guess the albums like will this
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  Speaker 4: will be more dark because it's a dark state of mind,
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  Speaker 4: and then all that sort of move through as you go.
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  Speaker 3: Yes and no. In the first place, yes, because when
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  Speaker 3: we started writing you, of course we had the concept
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  Speaker 3: before we started writing the music, and then you already
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  Speaker 3: enter the the recording room with her all all the
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  Speaker 3: song camp with a certain yeah weight on your shoulders.
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  Speaker 3: You get into this, you get into this mood, you
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  Speaker 3: get into this feeling. But still we don't want to
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  Speaker 3: limit ourselves. It's not like we said, oh, we're writing
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  Speaker 3: this album like weakness and dark places. It's not that
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  Speaker 3: we limited ourselves when we went into the songwriting camp
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  Speaker 3: that we said, oh, because this album is about weakness
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  Speaker 3: and a dark place of mind in general, a dark
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  Speaker 3: spot in your head. Everything has to be bad and
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  Speaker 3: and harsh and brutal and carry a certain vibe. Of
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  Speaker 3: course kind of did, but we didn't want to limit
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  Speaker 3: ourselves there. So on the other hand, also when it
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  Speaker 3: comes like, for example, to the surface, to the very
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  Speaker 3: happy well, let's say, very very calm and peaceful part,
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  Speaker 3: everything will not be nice and very tales and blah
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  Speaker 3: blah blah. It generates a certain mood musically and lyrically.
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  Speaker 3: Though lyrically this is a Melissa part I I'm not
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  Speaker 3: stepping on the toes there, but it's not an entire
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  Speaker 3: entire I say this will be a brutal metal course
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  Speaker 3: genre album and this will be a pop album or
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  Speaker 3: something like that. Just created the base and then we
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  Speaker 3: let it flow, right.
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  Speaker 4: So it was with something like Listen is a trilogy?
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  Speaker 4: I have a three albums, Like do you write all
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  Speaker 4: three of.
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  Speaker 3: Them at once and report them all at once?
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  Speaker 4: Or do you focus on one of this time?
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  Speaker 3: No, we focus on one other time, right, and just sort.
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  Speaker 4: Of does that allow for it to breathe a bit more?
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  Speaker 4: I guess between albums exactly?
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  Speaker 3: And otherwise we still want a tour in between albums.
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  Speaker 3: And if we would write three albums at once and
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  Speaker 3: we would, I guess we would have to step down
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  Speaker 3: from touring for two years or something like that, and
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  Speaker 3: we don't want to do that.
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  Speaker 4: It sort of touched on this a bit before. But
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  Speaker 4: you dropped a lot of symphonic metal elements for this album.
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  Speaker 4: Is that something that's going to be the band moving
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  Speaker 4: forward from now? Is that just for this album?
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  Speaker 5: Mmm?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't know. As I mentioned earlier, it was
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  Speaker 3: not a decision we made in the first place, and
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  Speaker 3: we said we don't want to do that anymore, and
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  Speaker 3: they jump on from there. It just kind of happened.
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  Speaker 3: I can assume that we continue like this, but I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to be certain because, for example, on the
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  Speaker 3: on the next record or the record after that, if
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  Speaker 3: there happens to be a great song where we all like,
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  Speaker 3: oh my god, there have to be a passwords on
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  Speaker 3: there and that very opening sea part, that can absolutely
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  Speaker 3: happen and no one knows. So I wouldn't limit ourselves
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  Speaker 3: there to say we're not being spuntic anymore. I just
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  Speaker 3: can't tell whatever the music in the song will allow us.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're about to head out on tour with Camelot
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  Speaker 4: as well, so tell us about that run of shoes exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I was starting in round about two weeks in Europe
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  Speaker 3: together with our friends and Blackbriar. We already toured with
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  Speaker 3: them in Europe unfortunately, or Europe again, uh for you guys,
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  Speaker 3: and Frozen Crown is in this package as well. It
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  Speaker 3: will be a great package, great venues for powerhouse bands,
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  Speaker 3: smashing every evening, and I think it would be great.
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  Speaker 3: I personally cannot wait to go back on tour. It
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  Speaker 3: was the the US tour in April May. It was
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  Speaker 3: we were kind of nervous because at least me and
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  Speaker 3: the boys, because Minis already had they had done us tours,
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  Speaker 3: but we didn't circles well the first time, and it
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  Speaker 3: was it felt like a really really great adventure. And
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  Speaker 3: then it was July, and then it was August, but
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  Speaker 3: then it was really like three four months ago. It
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  Speaker 3: was like, oh, when can we head out again?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then in early twenty twenty five you hit
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  Speaker 4: the ride with a liberty and infected Ryan. So that
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  Speaker 4: should be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, it will be, especially since this tour kind of
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  Speaker 3: leads us to cities and countries and where we haven't
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  Speaker 3: been yet, like Greece. I think we're playing in Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I have to take a look. Sorry, I can't see
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  Speaker 3: them in calendar. I can't tell my head now, Excuseually
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  Speaker 3: you get in the nightliner and then you get out,
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  Speaker 3: oh and in the country. Cool, but it's it's just
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  Speaker 3: very different places that we haven't been before, and we
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  Speaker 3: haven't played Aroun music yet. So this is a very
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  Speaker 3: very great experience. And the second with LT we had
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  Speaker 3: the pleasure to share some shows in twenty twenty three summer, No,
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  Speaker 3: it was twenty twenty two. I think it was summer
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty two. I think we shipped We opened two
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  Speaker 3: shows for them, and it was very nice. They're also
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  Speaker 3: such great people. Kind of wait to see them again.
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  Speaker 3: And Infected Rain. I haven't met them yet, but when
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  Speaker 3: I when I was younger in the city I grew up,
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  Speaker 3: there was like a poster of Infected Rain playing in
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  Speaker 3: the area close by, and I was having twelve back
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  Speaker 3: then cool and I'm gonna I'm gonna tell them this story.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely little, thanks very much for you to mate a
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  Speaker 4: bit easy at October the eleven so best of black
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  Speaker 4: men of man and hopefully we do stay on this
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  Speaker 4: stide of the world, saying round and lighter.
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  Speaker 1: That's still the rism between the lighter sounds. Girl here
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  Speaker 1: you breason, it was still the post and the ground hottest.
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  Speaker 1: You can't turn back anymore. Jills, don't must fine, call
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  Speaker 1: me the devil. You can't be me for your sins
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  Speaker 1: and not of friends of Despy. Your chemistry excelerated.
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  Speaker 2: When ever be wrong this watch you want to go.
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  Speaker 2: This is what I think.
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  Speaker 1: Look can for tomorrows though, stay here for mad.
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  Speaker 2: Just tell Mada whatever I just.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: The streaky oceans and skies can't stop the feeling.
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  Speaker 2: It can me so at night when I am so
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  Speaker 2: don't leave me here, only no afters getting and that's
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  Speaker 2: getting up. We're just SnO, my god, I guess no,
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  Speaker 2: no what WI is so from the shop? I say
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  Speaker 2: my coat, I'll tell me I'm.
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  Speaker 5: As we're just a bunch of fucking around and the words.
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  Speaker 6: As we're just a bunch of fucking rid world whistles.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to know.
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  Speaker 1: As many and ask what the fdicer.
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  Speaker 7: My boss raso, what dsway from this?
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  Speaker 2: My course'll tell me.
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  Speaker 5: What if we just we just.
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  Speaker 2: Through where the case no wries not for what if
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  Speaker 2: we just sailed away from the show, losing the cool?
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  Speaker 2: Or tell me I'm not a fool? What if we
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  Speaker 2: just leady