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Conquering Time And Space With BEN ZILLA From GOATZILLA · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Gay Ben from goat Zilly here and I've got p One, our guitarist and
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  Mick one of our drummers who's coming with us on the Newcastle tour as well.
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  And where we've just left Newcastle headed down to Sydney. We'll be playing
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  Maitland on Saturday night and Elton Chong's in Penrith on the Sunday night. So
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  this is all in aid of our new single which is dropping today on Friday
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  the seventh, which is the title track from our album alien Nation, which
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  is coming out in August. Beautiful Ben and friends, thanks for joining us.
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  Great to be here. Thank Chris my pleasure mate. So we've got
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  a fair bit to get through it tonight, mate, but we're going to
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  start with the music. So today go Zilla a release in the audio for
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  your new track Alienation, and then next Friday the fourteenth, we're going to
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  be premier in the video by a heavy So how you feeling about the single
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  drop? Mate? Really really pumped. This has been a long time coming.
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  We've got to start this whole process during COVID and things are stretched and
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  changed and it's taken a long time to get this stage, but it's been
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  worth it. We've had Pete Jans and our other guitarist who isn't here with
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  us just the moment, but he took on the job of mixing and mastering
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  the whole thing and has done an absolutely phenomenal job. The songwriting where we're
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  really happy with it is sounding great. It's it's a level up from Motherfucker's
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  Tourist, which is our album from twenty nineteen, and the single is Yeah,
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  the single is a lot of fun, so you'll get to hear it
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  when it comes out. But yeah, very very excited. Beautiful Now I
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  know, mate, because I've heard this song and it is an absolute fucking
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  banger. But tell us a bit more about it musically and what are you
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  going for. Well, the scene of the song was basically about our love
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  about live music, because this is this is why we do it. This
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  is why we do what we do. You do what you do. All
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  the people who are watching this do what they do. Live music is a
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  bar part of your life. And there's a lot of concern at the moment
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  as to what's happening with the audsy live music scene. We've got festivals shutting
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  down, we've got venues shutting down, but that's all due to economics.
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  It's not due to the artist, is not due to the fans. It's
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  still just as much passion as ever, if not more, for live music,
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  quality live music and quality heavy heavy rocks. So it's basically a message
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  that, look, we're part of an alien nation, we're part of one
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  big, out there family that love the space that we're in and don't lose
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  a vision of that. Yeah, kind of an old saying rock and roll
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  will never die. A bit cheesy, but it's true. It is keep
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  the pace people kind of live music will come back. We'll get through these
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  tough times that the at that we've got at the moment. We'll have festivals
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  back and hopefully thriving live venues as well. Very good man. Now that
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  there's some massive roofs in this song made and it doesn't let up from starting
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  to finish, so it's going to take it out. Are you playing a
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  live bro? Did you think of that? That's well, when you get
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  to hear the rest of the album, The rest of the album is pretty
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  about that, about that pace. I think that's what's that. It's Alien
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  Nations one ninety, isn't it me? Yes, that's one ninety most of
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  the most of the most of the songs around that level are faster. So
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  yeah, we're we're kind of used to it. It does, it does
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  take it out of you, and we've we kind of collapse in puddles of
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  sweat at the end set. But yeah, it's that's that's how we roll.
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  It's it's all fairly fairly fast and furious. Were Now the video that
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  we were talking about before is going to be premiered by a heavy on during
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  the forty eight. Now I haven't seen it, so tell us what's the
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  video about. Is it tie in with the theme or We're working with a
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  young producers just finishing his his his screen studies Greek QT Phillip my name of
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  Joe Curtis, and he's putting some he's putting a creative idea together at the
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  moment for us. He shot a bunch of the stuff on in the studio
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  on green screen and he's coming up with a bunch of special effects. So
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  we're eating to see what what what what that's coming out? What that's going
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  to be like. So that's going to be a bit of a surprise for
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  us as well as you. But we're really we're really looking forward to that.
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  Cool man. Now you mentioned that it's off the part of a bigger
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  album picture, mate, So is it a good sonic representation of what to
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  expect from the full album? Uh? It swings and berryes, there's some
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  there's some funkyer tracks on there as well. This is a track. There
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  are heavier tracks too. Is that with a bit of with a bit of
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  melody to it? You'll you'll love this very good? You sent me had
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  a photo labeled band on a moon with all the press stuff, mate,
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  So is that tied in with the album? Like is it is it a
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  conceptual sort of thing like that or is that just a bit of fun?
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  Yeah? Well, the album the Alienations the title track from the album,
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  so the album is called alien Nation, so we thought, okay, we'll
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  go there and I yeah, my ladies, Dylan, my better half,
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  our photographer put that together. So it's there's a there's a bit of a
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  space and alien theme going going through the whole thing here. So that goes
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  through the whole album? Does it not through the whole something? Most of
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  the tracks here, there's kind of there's a bit of a there's a bit
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  of a theme running yes. Nice. Now, for those not familiar with
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  Godzilla, you're a punk thrash metal, hard rock band ow the Gold Coast
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  Mate, but your bio says that you play punk, thrash and heavy metal
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  with a cheeky twist on the nipples. Like I tried to picture that,
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  but I could have, like, please explain. We look, we do
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  this, we do this for fun. There's a lot there's a lot of
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  serious music. We do a lot of a lot of heavy, heavy stuff,
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  especially when you get into the hardcore bands that we we we we play
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  with. There's there. It's really fall on and really serious music's a great
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  way, especially heavy music. It's a great way to release aggression getting out
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  there and getting into the pit, and we do that as well. But
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  where we're kind of not so much on the aggression side of the things,
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  where on the it's good to be a live side of things. And I
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  love love live music and love rock and roll, so we we don't we
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  take the music very seriously, but we're out there to have fun. We're
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  kind of we're not there to scare anybody shitless or or or or burn the
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  burn the city down, or anything like that. We're there to have a
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  party. We're there to have a good time. And some of the songs
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  that we do, we've got some we've retained the retained some themes from the
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  earlier album Other Facts saw Its which we kind of went out on a bit
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  of a limb with some of the lyrics and they have a bit of fun
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  with them. But yeah, we're a good time rock band. We're there
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  to celebrate tracking rock and roll and getting out there and partying in a live
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  venue and with real people away from a TV screen, away from a computer
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  screen, getting out there, living life and just having fun. Very good
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  man. Now there's a big Modehead influence you can hear there, mate,
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  But I love the fact that you embrace that rather than get the ships when
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  people mention it. They are a big influence, but it's still done in
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  your own way. If we if we can compared to Motorhead, that's one
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  of the highest compliments. Been a Motorhead fan for for a long long time.
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  So we're not trying to emulate them, We're not trying to sound like
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  them. It just it just happens. It just comes out like that.
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  Because we've got we've got a combination of some different songwriting influences coming over from
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  the from the entire band. I mean, we've got I'm very seventies kind
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  of orientated rock and punk. We've got p One is very much into a
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  lot of the guitar virtuo like Steve Vai. We've got We've had a lot
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  of influence from Mick Drummer, who's into a lot more of the Kevier contemporary
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  acts and prog acts. And the same with Pete Jansen, who's Who's Who's
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  got a focus on the more contemporary prog stuff. So we've got we've got
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  that mixture of influences that kind of turns into what Goat Silver ends up putting
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  out. Now you mentioned before me, but you're on the road at the
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  moment for the national alien or a nation alien at all. But you played
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  in Newcastle last night, you had into Sydney tonight on June sevent You've got
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  Maitland tomorrow night and Penrith the night after. So tell us about the show
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  is what can people expect. We're going to be running through all of the
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  stuff off the new album, plus a bunch of tracks off the previous some
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  of the favorites off the previous album. So drop there might be making appearance
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  out of that, but it's basically going to be forty five minutes living north
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  of one hundred and ninety beats a minute, searing guitar solos. We're really
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  bloody lucky that we've got two awesome guitarists on board in the form of the
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  two Peters, and they take turns in sharing solos. And so for anybody
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  who is fans of the Big Face Milton guitar solo, definitely get down and
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  check us out because you'll love what these guys do. And we've got we
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  also actually have two drummers at the moment at the same time, not at
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  the same time. We do play we do play with too. We've got
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  we've got Mick Davies, who who did most of the subft's on the current
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  album and his on for for this section of the tour, and he's got
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  some amazing kit destroying antics here that he doesn't destroy the kit is he plays
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  with a further like you wouldn't believe the other drama is who could make it
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  on this tour, and he records another bunch of the tracks off the album.
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  Thiago Castro from from Brazil has got a very Latin kind of influence.
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  Also very heavy metal, I mean real heavy heavy metal, kind of different
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  flavor with each of the shows. We've got Mick and Mick for these shows.
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  And yeah, you love what he's hed, what he does. Well,
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  Now, have you got any more shows to announceide for this made?
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  Or are you going to keep that close to your chest. We've got we've
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  got a bunch in the pipeline and will we'll be we'll be speaking about those
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  we've got to We've got a fairly full calendar at the moment, right through
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  until December, and they're going to be announced fairly shortly. Well. Now,
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  the other big news we've got to announce for Gotzilla is it you recently
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  signed with austrained label, X Music Made. I just want to say congratulations
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  on that, because if there's any band I know that deserves a break,
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  it's you, guys, man like, you're a hard working fucker and you've
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  got good music. So congratulations. They look thank you very much. Now
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  we're stoked. Tim from X Music has got a lot of years in the
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  industry and has seen it morph and change over the over the last couple of
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  decades, and to have a team of the caliber of X Music. I
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  want to take us on and represent us and help get our music out there
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  to the world. That we're absolutely stoked with that, of course. It's
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  it's it isn't easy at the moment for bands to get music out there,
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  and it's bite. Everybody's seen, Oh you've got the unitet, You've got
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  streaming. It's just it's this fucking fire hose of stuff and I'm continually discovering
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  new bands, but it's tough to try and keep on listening to them and
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  to follow them. So to have someone to help break through that noise and
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  provide a bit of focus for you and take some of the weight off the
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  constant feel promotion that you've got to do as the band just to kind of
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  stay out there, to stay on people's radar, it's no, it's it's
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  fantastic. But we're really looking forward to working with X Music and seeing where
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  that takes us on a musical journey. Fantastic. Ben Well, thanks very
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  much for your time. Road been a pleasure. Alienation. The audio is
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  out today, video comes out June fourteen next Friday. Goatzilla on the Road.
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  At the moment, they've got shitloads of shows coming up. Where can
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  people keep up to date with what's happening www dot Zilla Rock or if you
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  get onto Facebook, it's got rock on Facebook. Jack that's got by said
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  snake sense out taking love and rage and shout out. Lot of fun this
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  day your souls about by its truss hoby some jayous lay. It's a lot
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  of side show right. The boers like the side thing. It's the sky
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  of by your showers butts, the burning and so they so it's the sweeping
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  and chaste one thousand, what's ten minutes, it's all stay they find about
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  they fit. Everything gets light away and that's where they get every one night
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  side vacations in the ancient as sun five the next day. So try got
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  that char destroyed the best Chris day times a plan to see a lighting on
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  the wall and that not that chugs all we take stuff that I just found
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  loud that's my fust thing, not the ground. We don't they like they
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