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Taking The World And Everything In It With TIM RICHMOND From MUNT · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hi everyone. I'm Tim from the Melbourne Black Grinding guest band. Month.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a tour coming up very shortly, starting at
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  Speaker 1: the end of next week. We'll be in Newcastle on
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  Speaker 1: the thirteenth of March, on the fourteenth, in Sydney, on
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  Speaker 1: the fifteenth, in Penruth, the twentieth in Melbourne, twenty first Frankston,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh, Brisbane twenty eighth, Nambour, twenty ninth, Gold Coast
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  Speaker 1: and last day will be the fourth of April in Adelaide.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic teen banks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: Mate, nowhere is glad to be here.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So before we get to the troll, we'll talk about
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  Speaker 3: the reason why you're actually going on touring. It's because
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  Speaker 3: you released your debut four length album, The World Is
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  Speaker 3: Not Yours late last year.
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  Speaker 2: So how's the early reception been for it?
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  Speaker 1: Pretty great, to be honest, you know, seeing especially doing
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  Speaker 1: some of these interviews and hearing the things that people
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  Speaker 1: have to say about it. It's really encouraging, validating that
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  Speaker 1: it's really spoken to some people or they just really
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  Speaker 1: love the music, and you know, seeing our numbers jump
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  Speaker 1: up dramatically on streaming services, which normally we're not that
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  Speaker 1: fussed by, but it's it is encouraging when you see, wow,
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  Speaker 1: holy shit. A lot of people have really been checking
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  Speaker 1: this out.
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  Speaker 3: Along those lines by like, how do you actually measure
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  Speaker 3: or gauge in the success of a release in the modern age?
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  Speaker 3: Is it streaming numbers? Is it word of mouth? People
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  Speaker 3: tell me what they thought of it as the people
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  Speaker 3: coming to shows.
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  Speaker 1: Hm, I guess it's a personal thing. As a band.
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  Speaker 1: We don't really spend too much time thinking about it,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it would be more word of mouth,
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  Speaker 1: or you know, when someone's cruising around and they happen
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  Speaker 1: to see someone in a month's shirt and you start
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  Speaker 1: seeing it a little bit more often, we're like, that's cool,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because a few years ago it was a
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  Speaker 1: pretty rare thing, and now it's like, I'm starting to
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  Speaker 1: see people Like I go to a gig and I
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  Speaker 1: see a couple of people wearing a shirt. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Ityb be a good feeling, Yeah, very cold.
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  Speaker 3: We dive into the album a little bit deeper, made
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  Speaker 3: and tell us what you were going for musically with it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess with this one being an album, it
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  Speaker 1: was always going to sort of be. I mean, every
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  Speaker 1: release is intending to be the kind of best thing
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  Speaker 1: that we can produce at the time. But yeah, definitely
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  Speaker 1: with the album, it was trying to take everything that
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  Speaker 1: we'd really done and learned and I guess try to
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  Speaker 1: make some kind of a masterpiece as Monk could make it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, musically, I knew that we all knew that it
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  Speaker 1: was probably going to be a pretty kind of grim.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's all of the music's been grim, but
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  Speaker 1: I guess just a little bit more cinematic, I guess
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  Speaker 1: if that makes sense. You know, if you listen to
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  Speaker 1: the whole album, there's various interludes between things, and the
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  Speaker 1: tracks flow and a very kind of it's like taking
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  Speaker 1: you on a journey. And I think that was kind
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  Speaker 1: of the thing we'd all agreed on, that we wanted
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  Speaker 1: the album to take the listener on a journey.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, girl, And you released a single a duel of
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  Speaker 3: fractures that, so just say, if that's all that somebody's heard,
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  Speaker 3: is that a good sonic representation of the whole album
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  Speaker 3: or is it just scratching the surface.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I think I think it's a pretty great representation
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  Speaker 1: of us as a band. I mean, it's got a
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  Speaker 1: bit of everything that we've done in the past, So
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  Speaker 1: it being a single for the album is a great
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  Speaker 1: way to if you hadn't heard us, to quickly kind
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  Speaker 1: of summarize what we're about. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And the album blends elements of black metal, that's
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  Speaker 3: death metal, grank kor and hardcore in there.
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  Speaker 2: So there was really such structure.
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  Speaker 3: Of styles and genres to the song or was it
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  Speaker 3: more or less anything goes?
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  Speaker 1: A kind of anything goes, you know, like I would say,
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  Speaker 1: if off the top of my head, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: three quarters of the album are new songs, and then
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  Speaker 1: the last quarter, like maybe three or so songs are
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  Speaker 1: older songs that we'd had sitting around, And I guess
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  Speaker 1: we were really just trying to find songs that captured
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  Speaker 1: this kind of big I don't like using the word epic,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll say an epic kind of sound, that kind
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  Speaker 1: of cinematic kind of quality. But I know, in the
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  Speaker 1: writing process, you know, we've all contributed songs to it,
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  Speaker 1: like I write songs soldas Bud primarily as a songwriter.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there was some just I guess some of
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  Speaker 1: it was spons spontaneous and some of it was you know,
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  Speaker 1: also thinking about like what's fun for us to play
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  Speaker 1: without you know, without the song sounding too fun, but
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  Speaker 1: just in terms of the energy, that was certainly something
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  Speaker 1: that we thought about, you know, like a song like
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  Speaker 1: Lords of Excess. I think Spud was talking about how
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  Speaker 1: really he wanted to it was standing up playing guitar
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  Speaker 1: because he's like, what feels, you know, good to be
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  Speaker 1: playing while I'm standing up because it's easy to sit
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  Speaker 1: punched over at your computer and you're copying and pasting
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  Speaker 1: riffs in your recording program and you end up with
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  Speaker 1: this thing which is crazy. But maybe it's a bit like,
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  Speaker 1: oh shit, this doesn't feel good to play. So it's yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's not the primary focus. But I think that that
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  Speaker 1: really drove the songwriting, and I think I think that's
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  Speaker 1: why all the songs really have really a good kind
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  Speaker 1: of vibe and a hook to them.
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  Speaker 2: There's quite a lot gun on there, mate.
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  Speaker 3: So in the creative process, right, how do you find
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  Speaker 3: the balance between genres?
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  Speaker 2: Like how do you know when you've gone too far
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  Speaker 2: in one direction or maybe not far enough in another direction?
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  Speaker 1: Sure? Yeah, well, I guess we debate about it. You've
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  Speaker 1: all got you know, different taste, but pretty similar overlapping tastes.
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  Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this could change. I'm not saying I wouldn't want it
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  Speaker 1: to change, but I would be happy if it didn't change.
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  Speaker 1: Is that kind of like our very the very earliest
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  Speaker 1: material that Spud did, when it was kind of just
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  Speaker 1: him and some session guys, it really was just a
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  Speaker 1: mixture of black metal and grindcore and power violence. You
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  Speaker 1: know those d beats, the dark grim minor chords with
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  Speaker 1: blast beats, just get in, get out. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: you're being punched in the face kind of, but it's
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  Speaker 1: like evil and kind of oppressive. That's kind of the
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  Speaker 1: core sound, you know. And one point in time where
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  Speaker 1: things changed is towards Extinction twenty eighteen. Before that we
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  Speaker 1: had Soul joining as a second guitarist, because I remember
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  Speaker 1: when I joined the band there wasn't a second guitarist,
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  Speaker 1: and it was like, gosh, we had a second guitarist.
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  Speaker 1: We could do so much more with layers and leads
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  Speaker 1: and atmosphere. So I guess it's just I guess it's
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  Speaker 1: just a process over time. You know, some bands, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what goes on for them. But maybe they've
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  Speaker 1: got a commitment whether like we're not going outside of
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  Speaker 1: this and they will not do it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe an example might be the Black Dahlia Murder. As
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're a band where pretty much nothing's changed.
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  Speaker 1: It's fucking all of it's fucking sick, and they could
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  Speaker 1: have gone, oh, we're going to make a song that
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  Speaker 1: sounds like an Opeth song, We're going to have post
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  Speaker 1: metal delay reverb leads. They could have tried it and
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  Speaker 1: it would have been sick, but there's stuck to it
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day. I think we're all kind
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  Speaker 1: of I guess maybe itchy music, itchy creative people where
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  Speaker 1: we're like, we want to try different things and will
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  Speaker 1: veer out a bit, not too far, but we won't
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  Speaker 1: put things off loft limits. And you know, there are
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  Speaker 1: things that were maybe in some of the songs that
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  Speaker 1: in the demo versions that didn't end up in the album,
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  Speaker 1: but we're willing to try things.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah right, Yeah, So for the ol school fans that
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  Speaker 3: have been with you for a while, like how would
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  Speaker 3: you say the world is not yours? Differs musically to
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  Speaker 3: the first two webs towards extension.
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  Speaker 2: And pain au Borus.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's certainly, it's definitely a journey. We
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  Speaker 1: did spend a bit more time kind of constructing things
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  Speaker 1: to have a bit more of a flow. Yeah, Like
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  Speaker 1: I've primarily done the ambient kind of electronic interludes with
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  Speaker 1: some light samples contributed by a like Spud to assist
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  Speaker 1: with that. But I don't think musically a lot's changed.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's really kind of just. I mean, pain
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  Speaker 1: or Buros almost was an album we probably had up.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've always had heaps of demos, but at
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  Speaker 1: the time we could have gone, well, here's four songs,
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  Speaker 1: here's another six songs, let's do it, but we decided
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  Speaker 1: not to because that wouldn't feel right. We didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to spend the time and money on putting that in.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess it's just if you've loved everything we've
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  Speaker 1: done before, this is all of it, probably at its
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  Speaker 1: currently most matured and focused right now.
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  Speaker 2: We spoke about this before, Brobert.
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  Speaker 3: You set out for a run of East Coast states
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  Speaker 3: starting in Newcastle on March the thirteenth, and as you say,
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  Speaker 3: you go through Penrith, Melbourne, Frankston, Brisbane, Nambour, Gold Coast
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  Speaker 3: and finally Adelaide.
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  Speaker 2: So not a bad run of serve mate, keep yourself busy.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, you know, I think we we almost had a
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  Speaker 1: couple more dates in there, and we were just like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: let's not, let's not push ourselves that hard, because even
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  Speaker 1: though it's not consecutive day after day after day after day,
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  Speaker 1: it's still no it's a lot. It's the biggest tool
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  Speaker 1: we've done. So it'd be exciting to get out to
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  Speaker 1: places we've never been before and meet new people and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully hopefully win over some new fans and get to
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  Speaker 1: some cities and venues and scenes where we've been before.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, some of those people, unless they've come
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  Speaker 1: down to Melbourne for whatever reason, they wouldn't have seen
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  Speaker 1: us since twenty eighteen. So yeah, it's exciting.
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  Speaker 3: It's left for the benefit of those people who might
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  Speaker 3: not have seen it since twenty eighteen or at all.
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  Speaker 3: Runs through a typical month live show and read what
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  Speaker 3: people can expect.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're all, you know, we try to keep
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  Speaker 1: the chaos in our performances. Maybe we're getting a bit
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  Speaker 1: older and we're not willing to break our backs doing
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  Speaker 1: you know, jump kicks across the stage and all this
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  Speaker 1: sort of stuff, but it's pretty chaotic. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: rehearse really hard so that we were one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: spot on, and then from that point we can kind
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  Speaker 1: of cut loose and you know, have a convincingly ferocious
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  Speaker 1: and if not a little bit threatening performance, threatening just
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  Speaker 1: in the sense that the music. Yes, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of catchy, it's energetic, but it's pretty bleak.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty aggressive, and we want, if we want, someone
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  Speaker 1: to kind of feel that energy when they come and
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  Speaker 1: see a performance. So I think from all of the
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  Speaker 1: reviews that definitely comes across.
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  Speaker 3: And where can people find out about these gigs or
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  Speaker 3: keep up to date with the band?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would go and follow us on Instagram and
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  Speaker 1: Facebook at look just look up monk grind. Unfortunately, Meta
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  Speaker 1: doesn't like us just having mount as our account name.
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  Speaker 1: You could probably guess multiple reasons why that is, but
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  Speaker 1: monk grind is where you'll find us. You can also
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  Speaker 1: go to montgrind dot com dot au to get merch
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  Speaker 1: check out all of our other stuff. Links to our
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  Speaker 1: band camp YouTube. We've just done a guitar playthrough of
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  Speaker 1: the song Dominion from the album. You can you'll find
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  Speaker 1: that on our socials and lastly also just about the tour.
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  Speaker 1: You can get tickets at United front dot com. So
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  Speaker 1: big shout out to Greg. He's he's the main man
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  Speaker 1: you know out in front.
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  Speaker 3: And he's a good man as well. He is all right, well,
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  Speaker 3: thanks very much for your time, bro. The album The
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  Speaker 3: World Is Not Yours is out now. The chur kicks
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  Speaker 3: off very surely much of that in the Newcastle say
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  Speaker 3: get along see the show and Rocky out with the boys.