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HEAVY Catches Up With SLEEPING WITH SIRENS Backstage At GOOD THINGS FESTIVAL 2024 · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Right, good everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy and Chris we here from Heavy mag and we
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  Speaker 2: are with Kellen and Nick from Sleeping with Signs.
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  Speaker 3: Right down, guys, we're going good, very well.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 2: It's been two years since we caught up.
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  Speaker 4: Years you busted Jimmy's cherry my first interview.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this up in Brisbane.
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  Speaker 3: Your first interview.
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  Speaker 4: Man, she hasn't recovered it, off to sivering.
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  Speaker 2: So what's been going on since I in the world
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  Speaker 2: of Sleeping with Stories? Then?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we finished a US tour.
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  Speaker 5: We played our second record front to back. It's awesome time.
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  Speaker 5: It was interesting going back and experiencing songs that you
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  Speaker 5: recorded when you were like it was it like ten
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  Speaker 5: years earlier or so, and then singing those songs at
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  Speaker 5: your age now.
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  Speaker 3: It's a fun experience.
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  Speaker 5: But we got through it and it sounded pretty awesome,
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  Speaker 5: and yeah, we probably won't do that again for a while.
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  Speaker 3: We did it.
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  Speaker 2: How does that guy now like because your voice at
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  Speaker 2: the time, Yeah, how did you go with that?
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  Speaker 1: Is still managing to get in the big him.
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  Speaker 3: If you get up there, Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 5: It just takes a little bit longer to get warmed
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  Speaker 5: up than normal, like when we're doing like the set
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  Speaker 5: that we do here, when the songs are more in
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  Speaker 5: my range.
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  Speaker 3: Now, it's not as tough.
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  Speaker 5: So it took it took a little bit of work
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  Speaker 5: to get there, but we got there every day.
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  Speaker 4: So you go like doing like when you do an
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  Speaker 4: album from back, like when you write it, we would
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  Speaker 4: never have thought you were going to be doing that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, So like, is it difficult to replicate a
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  Speaker 4: little sort of nuances in there that you probably didn't
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  Speaker 4: count on?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there's songs that we literally have never
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  Speaker 5: played ever on that record. So and you you don't
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  Speaker 5: have like the crutch of like playing like a set
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  Speaker 5: that you normally do where you you know, you think
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  Speaker 5: about like the dynamics of it, and we'll play this
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  Speaker 5: song to kind of bring it down and this one
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  Speaker 5: to like lift it back up. It's just like you
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  Speaker 5: only get those ten songs, you know. So we did
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  Speaker 5: play some at the end, some extra ones at the end,
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  Speaker 5: but playing.
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  Speaker 2: Your test, so you're testing some new ones.
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  Speaker 1: How is that?
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  Speaker 2: So just talk talk about that for people who don't perform,
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  Speaker 2: what that is like when you're performing your track for
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  Speaker 2: the first time and getting the feel of it.
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  Speaker 1: On stage.
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  Speaker 6: It's terrifying.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's weird playing a song that has just come out.
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  Speaker 5: It's better to play a song that's come out when
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  Speaker 5: it's been sitting on the internet for like a month
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  Speaker 5: or so, then like, hey, this just came out yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: It's just kind of an awkward experience. But but no,
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  Speaker 3: it's good.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's I think it's good to continue challenging
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  Speaker 5: yourself and to keep yourself like moving forward and growing
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  Speaker 5: as an artist.
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  Speaker 1: Cool cool speaking of growing.
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  Speaker 2: Eighth album on the way, is that correct?
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  Speaker 3: It's it's in the very early.
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  Speaker 5: Process, still writing and kind of like figuring out what
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  Speaker 5: we wanted to sound like.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, we're.
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  Speaker 5: Happy with a few songs we have so far, but
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  Speaker 5: we're we're pushing ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: As hard as we can for this. I want us
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  Speaker 3: to play a song right now, brought.
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  Speaker 4: Like to you signed you just starting now now, like
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  Speaker 4: do you sit down and do you plant aunt? Do
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  Speaker 4: you try and get away from what you've done? Just
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  Speaker 4: mice recently and maybe a different directional at all with
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  Speaker 4: this record. Yeah, whenever you thought a new album so
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  Speaker 4: like it.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, for the last two albums, it was kind
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  Speaker 5: of like a similar experience.
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  Speaker 3: We we worked with similar producers.
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  Speaker 5: And so they were kind of like a brother sister
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  Speaker 5: album or something, or a husband and wife or whichever
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  Speaker 5: they're arguing, like like Gravy and Chips, Gravy and Chips.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this record.
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  Speaker 5: We definitely wanted to do something different, so we we
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  Speaker 5: picked a different producer and we are just kind of
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  Speaker 5: like riding together again, all in one space. And a
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  Speaker 5: lot of the albums we've made in the past, just
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  Speaker 5: well the last two and like sitting in the studio
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  Speaker 5: and kind of writing as you go, and this one's
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  Speaker 5: more of plug in, like you're actually at a rehearsal
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  Speaker 5: space and writing that way.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's interesting because that when we just did the
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  Speaker 6: Let's Cheers play through, it was it predated when I
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  Speaker 6: was in the band, so I had to relearn, relearned.
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  Speaker 6: I had to learn these songs I'd never really listened
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  Speaker 6: to before. I actually loved it.
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  Speaker 1: It was cool question.
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  Speaker 6: But what I learned talking with Kellen and Justin is
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  Speaker 6: that when they wrote that record all together in a room,
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  Speaker 6: and so it's actually interesting to see this kind of
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  Speaker 6: full circle moment now with this record, that this is
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  Speaker 6: the first time we've finally all been in a room
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  Speaker 6: together writing from scratch. It's been a really awesome process
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  Speaker 6: because everyone in the band is so good what they
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  Speaker 6: do that it's just been a really, really enjoyable time
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  Speaker 6: in the studio because typically being in the studio is
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  Speaker 6: not the easiest thing for me, but working on this
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  Speaker 6: record all together so far and conjuring up has been
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  Speaker 6: just really fun, really therapeutic. So I'm really excited to
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  Speaker 6: see where it goes.
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  Speaker 5: How much, Sorry my god, I just feel like when
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  Speaker 5: you're like eight albums and it's important for everybody to
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  Speaker 5: like make sure that they love their parts and that
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  Speaker 5: it's like something that you're very proud of, because I
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  Speaker 5: mean that's a feat to go eight albums, and I
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  Speaker 5: think that everyone is like just wanting to like really
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  Speaker 5: put their stamp on this one such conviction.
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  Speaker 2: So how is the change in dynamics with Nick coming
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  Speaker 2: in as a new member. Do that change the tone
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  Speaker 2: of the band or you know, the feeling in the band?
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  Speaker 3: Definitely, I think.
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  Speaker 5: Like, you know, having Nick join the band, having Tony
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  Speaker 5: join the band, having Maddie join the band, it's it's
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  Speaker 5: definitely like elevated our bands.
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  Speaker 3: I think that these guys are pros and they play
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  Speaker 3: really really well, so it's it's it's.
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  Speaker 5: Easy to stand next to them and alongside then you
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  Speaker 5: don't have to worry about them like fucking up or
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  Speaker 5: anything like that.
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  Speaker 6: And that's and like we can it is like we
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  Speaker 6: laugh about it, but you know, we've all been in
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  Speaker 6: so many bands and this is the first band that
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  Speaker 6: I've ever been in where we can all lean on
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  Speaker 6: each other as whether it's artists, as friends, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 6: And having that kind of dynamic just you can't manufacture that,
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  Speaker 6: Like that's something that you find very organically and naturally,
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  Speaker 6: and that's a really awesome thing about our band.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and they're all, like, every single one of us,
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  Speaker 5: it's like we want to just be everything that we've
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  Speaker 5: done before. So it's it takes a little bit longer now,
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  Speaker 5: but it's a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: So you said, you're not that far into the kind
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  Speaker 2: of writing process, A few songs down, any kind of
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  Speaker 2: exciting collabs or anything out of the box you're working
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  Speaker 2: on to be a bit different this time?
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  Speaker 1: Are in well in mine?
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  Speaker 6: Ask Billy Corgan if he's still in the middle.
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  Speaker 5: We did a lot of collaborations on the last record,
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  Speaker 5: and I like to kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of split it up where I really am very selfish
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  Speaker 3: about vocal parts, so I have a hard time giving those.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess if it's like the right person,
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  Speaker 3: then cool. But for now we're just gonna kind of
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  Speaker 3: keep it. I think, what do you take?
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  Speaker 4: What do you if you made a lot the way
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  Speaker 4: they sing, all the way they work with you on
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  Speaker 4: the song, or what what are you goin to mean
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  Speaker 4: by that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I.
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  Speaker 5: Just selfishly like I enjoy singing my parts and writing
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  Speaker 5: my parts. And then also it's tough when you do
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  Speaker 5: a collab with someone because if you're not on the
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  Speaker 5: road with them all the time, then you know it's
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  Speaker 5: weird singing their parts perform.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, quite right.
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  Speaker 5: So I think, like it just has to be the
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  Speaker 5: right person, it has to be the right situation. But
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  Speaker 5: you know, we did a lot on the last record,
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  Speaker 5: so I think this one we just kind of want
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  Speaker 5: to hold it down.
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  Speaker 3: Plus, this dude can fucking scream.
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  Speaker 5: We got Tony who can sing, We got mad who
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  Speaker 5: can sing.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe I'll just make them do it this.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone has a guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So what's because you just talked about you have
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  Speaker 2: done a ton of collaborations what's what are the standouts?
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  Speaker 1: What's one of your favorite ones?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think fan favorite would probably be the Pierce
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  Speaker 5: the Veil one.
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  Speaker 3: That that I did, and I haven't heard it. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you'll hear it a lot coming up soon, and haven't
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  Speaker 3: listened to.
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  Speaker 6: I think.
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  Speaker 5: I think another one that stands out for me is
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  Speaker 5: office last record. Working with Spencer from Under Oath was
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  Speaker 5: pretty awesome and his voice is just iconic. So that's
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  Speaker 5: one that was like one of those special situations where
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  Speaker 5: it's like he brought that song to a whole other
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  Speaker 5: level and without him it wouldn't have been as cool.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, sweet, I'm going to throw some random stuff
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  Speaker 2: out from the internet here that's popped up over the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of days when I'm doing research, So Callen.
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  Speaker 2: There was a quote I seen him come up and
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember which media organization it was and I
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  Speaker 2: can't find it, but there was a quote that come
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  Speaker 2: out that you've apparently said that you are one of
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  Speaker 2: the greatest metal metal vocalists of this time or something
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  Speaker 2: along those that. Something like that. I kind of scrolled
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  Speaker 2: past and oh, that's interesting. I'm talking to him a
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  Speaker 2: couple of days. I'll ask him. I haven't been able to.
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  Speaker 6: Find me, and I've heard him say that so many times.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe maybe, sure the video I got it, maybe in
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  Speaker 3: the earlier days when I was drinking too many rum
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  Speaker 3: and cokes.
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  Speaker 6: And.
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  Speaker 3: Probably I would.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't doubt myself in the past saying some stupid ship.
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  Speaker 2: I actually think it's disappeared because it was bullshit and
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  Speaker 2: it was just someone doing some clickbait.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it could be. I mean some people doing clickbait
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  Speaker 1: on the internet. You know so.
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  Speaker 2: Thin that There was another one I found just before
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  Speaker 2: that was about you possibly being a new Lincoln Park
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  Speaker 2: singer back in the day, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I love Chester.
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  Speaker 5: I think that he's one of my favorite singers and
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  Speaker 5: vocalists and performers.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know that I would ever know. There's
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  Speaker 3: no way I could ever do that.
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  Speaker 2: That was the question, would you have done it?
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to feel those sh.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's hard to just singing my own ship. I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't imagine. I would be so anxiety right in. So
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  Speaker 3: that's off to the new singer because she's killing it.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Yeah, well that was gonna be part
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  Speaker 1: of the question. I think so as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh man, it's it's awesome.
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  Speaker 5: And I think like that was like a great move
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  Speaker 5: to to to bring in someone that just sounds similar
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  Speaker 5: in a way, like as far as like the tonality
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  Speaker 5: of the voice, but so different. Also, I think it
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  Speaker 5: like makes it if you found like a copycat or
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  Speaker 5: something like that.
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  Speaker 3: It just wouldn't be the same.
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  Speaker 1: So I got one very last question.
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  Speaker 2: Getting thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Thanksging