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Musical Evolution With GOD HUNTER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I'm Bradley roll Off lead guitar from god Hunter, and I'm Kennel Brown drums
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  for god Hunter. Yeah, today we're missing Greg, Charlie and Kreis of
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  course, so we're here yesterday, but we couldn't they couldn't stick around of
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  course. God Hunter we're best described, I guess as the southern progressive black
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  and groove thrash. A few things throwing in the mix, I guess,
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  yeah, and not one particular sound that we stick to exactly. Sort of
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  all got our sort of spices on it, but influenced by quite a bit
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  of different stuff. Yeahful guys, thanks for joining us this ut today,
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  No, thanks for having us. Thank you absolutely pleasure. So god Hunter
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  just about to release your fourth signal of bowl Vie, which comes out on
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  January the tenth, So so us a bit about the track from a musical
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  point of view, guys, and then what you're going for with it?
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  Okuess original sand was sort of just guess I've never ending build. Yeah,
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  just a build that keeps building was sort of the idea. I had a
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  bit of a riff that seemed to play over itself quite easily, So it
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  was the idea of just just that atmosphere build, build, build with the
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  sort of the bomb drop right at the end sort of thing. So,
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  and then we didn't have vocals for the trade for the longest time. And
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  then so having Chris come into the works really just accentuated that build for us
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  when he comes in with it. Yeah, yeah, Chris put quite quite
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  a quite an emphasis on the build as he put his vocals into it.
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  And a bottle follows on from your previous singles God Hunches, Psychon and Shift
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  the Tide. So how was it different to those songs? Ah? Well,
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  psychonaut was a psycho onst our southern southern sludgy sort of flavor coming out.
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  I guess a bit a bit of a you know, obviously the psychedelic
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  side and a bit of a bit of the trippy side. A bit of
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  the sludgy side comes into the stone of rock side to speak in psycho or
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  Yeah, Shift the Tires, I guess is a little bit more upfront.
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  And then God Hands the course is way way more atmospheric, whereas Evolver is
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  just real constant punch in the face with that build and whatnot. We really
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  try and bring it in, especially with that really big off the bat live
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  of course counted in on the ride symbol, but when we've all come in
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  together, it just feels massive. Yeah, they would show those four would
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  just say best represents your sound. Oh, that's sort of hard. That's
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  kind of hard because the rest of the album's got some some very different stuff.
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  Again, Uh, I'll probably I'll probably go with Evolver. Yeah,
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  I'd go with Evolver and shift the tides for a bit of Yeah, it's
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  heavy, it's fast, but there's a groove going on, you know,
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  there's you know, they have a bit of groove. Yes, there's a
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  lot of drum oriented stuff. So I guess that's what Kendall gets to let
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  loose a little bit more. And the riffs follow the drums a lot.
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  So I guess those sorts of songs are really good for us. And all
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  all of the songs are taken from your forthcoming album Season at the end,
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  so we mentioned that they're all a little bit different musically, So how would
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  you describe the album as whole? Is there a bit more different stuff on
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  there? Again? Yeah, towards the end of their album, there's some
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  definitely some darker, heavier and some faster stuff. But what I guess saying
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  that we've got like a little instrumental interlude, so maybe if you're getting a
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  little it's sick of head banging, it comes in at the perfect time and
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  then gives you a break for some more head banging right at the end of
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  the album for the last two songs. Yeah, there's a pretty little break
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  in there. There's just pretty much everyone. Yeah. Yeah, and I
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  understand you're planning on releasing each of the nine songs individually leading up to the
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  four album. Is that correct? Yeah, that's the plan so far,
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  because we don't really have a plan date for the album to come out,
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  definitely, probably in half two of twenty twenty four. We've been sitting on
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  it for far too long. But of course we've got to do it the
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  right way and just get it out one at a time. Yeah. Is
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  that's not also like a sign of the modern age where I guess people's intention
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  spans again less and less, like people just want ship in a hurry now,
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  Like is it sort of has that influenced the decision a bit? Yeah,
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  one hundred percent. You've got to keep that constant stream, you know.
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  That's like I guess we've been really trying to get into the social media
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  side of stuff at the moment, and constantly pushing those songs is the only
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  way to keep your audience engaged, you know, So, I think that's
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  going to be the best strategy for us for releastening an album. Then you're
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  planning to release the full physical album with a special launch party after those nine
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  song drout as all right, Absolutely, we haven't planned it and what bands
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  we want to have for us and where we're going to have it, But
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  if you guys have any ideas or any venues, we'd definitely be keen pull
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  something a little bit different for it. Where about your face, we're a
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  phraseer coach, well where where we gaming Marab mainly, but we have members
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  from here to Namble up towards Bundy, but he's moved down towards game Beat
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  toward the area and your Queensland band, Yeah we are, well, actually
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  us too are actually from you how far I was originally towards the snow Country.
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  One thing that I love about your music guys is it's bloody arts to
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  label. So what are some of your influencers and how do they come through
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  in your music? Oh? Well, there's obviously, there's definitely influences from
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  you know, all the big names from when we're growing up, you know,
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  the Panterras, like the in Flames, Lamb of God, the Tool
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  sort of thing. Yeah, bit it down, you know, Mega Dad,
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  And I guess it's just trying to cherry pick the best bits of those
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  songs, the ones that we really like that just fulfill our musical ears,
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  if you know what I mean, then to make it in our own songs.
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  So it's sort of hard for me today because I'm not a musician,
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  But when you're taking all those influences and you talk about making them into your
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  own songs, like how find of a line is there between invitation and inspiration?
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  And then where do you draw that line? Oh? Yeah, there
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  is definitely it is definitely a fine line. Yeah, Like there's always that
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  catch that you know there is there is only so many combinations on a there's
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  only so many notes. There's only so many combinations and notes. So just
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  about every pattern you can think of been done by someone at some point,
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  and it's all you've got to put your own your own spin, yeah,
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  your own spin, your own how you accent things and all that sort of
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  thing. Is how you Yeah, you make it your own, I guess,
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  but I guess at the end of the day, imitation is the finest
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  form of flattery. As I say, you think aback to Jimmy Hendricks and
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  the Beatles when he did Sergeant Pepper's a couple of days after you know they
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  released that. You know, so I always try and keep a couple of
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  dimebag licks and my solos and stuff like that, just to pay homage.
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  Why not, brother? And if you guys got any live shows coming up
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  with the New Fisher, Yeah, we've got a couple starting tenth to February.
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  We've got a local do here. We've got Cycisphere, another local heavy
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  band here, Ruination and Rimy Grassa coming up from the Sunny Coast. That's
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  our first one off the bat, and then there's a handful running through the
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  year. Twentieth of April, we're running Meadow United down Under in Marrabara again.
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  Last year's went really well. This one will be even better. I
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  hope. That's at the local RSL here Marrabara and a couple other local shows
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  and we'll be reaching out for a few spots down and Bridge. Very true
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  as well. But yeah, plater on in the year, hopefully do a
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  trek from here down to camera and stop upony of spots along the way were
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  where can people fire the band and keep up with what's your up jet You're
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  on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube as well. I'll try and put a lot
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  on YouTube is put it there first and have everything bleed out. But you
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  can follow us at god Hunter Underscore twenty twenty two on Instagram and god Hunter
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  three three three everywhere else Beautiful Boy, Spotify that, Spotify, Cool Weds
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  Days. For your time today, goud It's been a pleasure again to knowas
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  and make sure you let me know when you do make it down to Brisbane.
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  I'll come along and have a beer for sure. Yeah, Jeeves,
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  thank you very much for your time.