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Pleasant Surprises With BRENDAN MURPHY From COUNTERPARTS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Bla blah, Yo, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Brendan Murphy. I sing in Counterparts and
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  Speaker 2: also End, but I'm here for Counterparts today. Our new EP,
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  Speaker 2: Haven't Let Them Die has been out for a couple
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  Speaker 2: of months.
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  Speaker 1: It rocks. Go listen to it.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastic. But that's all the edge you mean.
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  Speaker 1: Brother, you doing like perfect good?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, chilling, you know.
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  Speaker 4: So, as you said, wry Counterparts dropped the surprise EP
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  Speaker 4: had to Let Them Die last November.
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  Speaker 3: So how was the response to it?
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  Speaker 1: Great? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like I definitely had a feeling that it
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  Speaker 2: was gonna that people were going to be stoked on it.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think people were going to be this stoked
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  Speaker 2: on it, So that's always that's always a plus, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I try to I try to not have my hopes
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  Speaker 2: too high with anything I kind of go in with, Like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I try to keep the bar really low,
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  Speaker 2: so I can always kind of be surprised. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like the response has been awesome, and I'm I'm so
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  Speaker 2: stoked to play the new songs live like I feel.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've been a band for so long and
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  Speaker 2: we've had we have so many records. It's just like
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  Speaker 2: at this point, I'm like, we got to you gotta
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  Speaker 2: do something for us, Like I'm getting sick of playing
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  Speaker 2: songs that are like ten twelve years old. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I want to play some fun, heavy stuff live and
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  Speaker 2: just watch people go nuts and hurt each other. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm really stoked to play the EP stuff. I can't wait.
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  Speaker 2: We've only done the two singles like Martyr and Lamb,
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  Speaker 2: we've done them both live once because we've only played
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  Speaker 2: one show since the EP came out. So yeah, starting
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  Speaker 2: this tour, we're doing the whole thing. Yeah, like not
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  Speaker 2: front to back, but like we're doing all six songs
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  Speaker 2: in the set, and I'm stoked.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: When I read like that it was a surprise ape
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  Speaker 4: my life honestly had images in my head of huge
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  Speaker 4: jumping out from behind a tree and yell a surprise
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  Speaker 4: and into some music.
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  Speaker 3: But it wasn't quite a lot, that wasn't it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's ideally, that's what I would have
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do, you know. I think that that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: doing that was like that rock that I was so
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  Speaker 2: stoked that everybody was finally down to do it like
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  Speaker 2: I've wanted to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Forever.
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  Speaker 2: And finally I convinced everybody like, yo, it doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 2: Like we don't have to have a pre order. We
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  Speaker 2: don't have to sell this record and make it a
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  Speaker 2: product and do you know and like worry about well,
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  Speaker 2: how many records we sell first week and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's like we just did a coolipee it rocks.
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  Speaker 2: Just put it out, Just drop the thing out of nowhere,
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  Speaker 2: little surprise. It's kind of cute and it paid off
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  Speaker 2: and everybody that added to it as well. For sure,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like if we would have, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: doing a pre order for like an EP, it's like
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  Speaker 2: it's sixteen minutes of music, like telling somebody like, oh
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  Speaker 2: just wait in three months, like you get to hear
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  Speaker 2: a smoke breaks worth of songs from us, Like that sucks,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? So just dropping it, I
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  Speaker 2: think it got Doing it like that made it get
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  Speaker 2: more attention than it would have got otherwise. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: really stoked on it.
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  Speaker 3: By the sounds that you're doing it that way. Bull
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  Speaker 3: the row raisers might.
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  Speaker 4: But in the modern age, where as you say, like
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  Speaker 4: content is king and social media dictates trends, like wasn't
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  Speaker 4: a risk at all drop of the.
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  Speaker 3: Epel of that.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think, like I guess, like I wasn't,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't terribly concerned that that there was a possibility
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  Speaker 2: of it, of it backfiring, like you know, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think people.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody who likes the band was going to be like what,
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  Speaker 2: like they didn't even tell us like this sucks, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean. I think everybody was just kind
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  Speaker 2: of stoked that there was something new and yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think that like there's always a chance,
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  Speaker 2: like there's a chance that it just gets lost, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if if you don't kind of dangle the keys in
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  Speaker 2: front of people's face and let be like it's coming soon,
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  Speaker 2: I swear, like one week away, like two days from now,
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  Speaker 2: and like you just drop it, there's a chance that
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  Speaker 2: people can forget about it. And I think maybe people
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  Speaker 2: have it a little bit. But I think that's also
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  Speaker 2: it's mainly because we put the EP out and we're like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, we're going to tour in three months, see you.
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  Speaker 2: So I think if anything, it was that that did it,
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  Speaker 2: not the surprise. So I'm yeah, I'm I'm yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think when you do something that plays into how like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, short everyone's attention span is at the moment,
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I think it's just the move, like
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  Speaker 2: that's the easiest way to sort of get people. And
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  Speaker 2: so what you know, if you're if you're the hot
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  Speaker 2: topic and you're everyone's talking about it for a month
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  Speaker 2: or a week and then they moved on to something else,
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  Speaker 2: It's like they were going to move on to something
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  Speaker 2: else anyway, regardless of how long you teased it or
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  Speaker 2: how you know anything.
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  Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, I think it definitely worked for sure.
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  Speaker 3: So it was like even a little tensey bit that
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  Speaker 3: much of it was any of it abound a fuck
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  Speaker 3: eat of the system and just sort of going like
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  Speaker 3: we did have to follow trends.
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  Speaker 1: Too, like a little bit for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there there was definitely, uh, just a
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  Speaker 2: like in you know, in counterparts fashion of just like
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  Speaker 2: we you know, we're very much like the like we
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  Speaker 2: don't care, like we do whatever we want sort of thing,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like within reason obviously, like we're not trying
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  Speaker 2: to like actively hurt ourselves and like do the wrong
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  Speaker 2: thing on purpose. It's like no matter how funny it
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  Speaker 2: is at times like I still want to be able
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  Speaker 2: to do this for a living, you know, so you
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  Speaker 2: got to like you got to play ball a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, definitely part of it was like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't like I personally, I'm like, I don't care
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  Speaker 2: about like album streams and you know, how many copy
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  Speaker 2: like how many records we sell. I'm like, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't even think we sound scan records at shows.
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  Speaker 2: It's like we barely even have physical music at shows
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  Speaker 2: cause it's like who's buying it, Like maybe vinyl if
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  Speaker 2: you're a collector, but it's like everyone just streams. So
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  Speaker 2: it's like, oh and what like fifteen hundred streams is
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  Speaker 2: equivalent to one album sale now, And I'm just like
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing is a joke.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, who cares? Who cares? All that matters is how.
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  Speaker 2: Many people you can get into a room in a city,
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  Speaker 2: and that's it. So it's like the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: that's all that matters to me, you know, Like you
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  Speaker 2: see it all the time. There's bands that have millions
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  Speaker 2: of monthly listeners and then they play a show in
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  Speaker 2: New York, let's say, and it's like, oh, it's a
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  Speaker 2: hundred kids, and you know it's like that. I like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm we're not making money from royalties. We make more
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  Speaker 2: from shows. I want the shows to be packed out.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's my that's my like biggest concern. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that, yeah, doing this like it looks cooler,
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  Speaker 2: you look a bit cooler, you know, being like I
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  Speaker 2: don't care whatever, just take it here.
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  Speaker 1: It is like it's kind of sick. So yeah, it works.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you've been quite a lot saying that.
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  Speaker 4: You say, he pays authentic representation of Cama Pots today.
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  Speaker 1: Can you go right on that post place for sure? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I I So what I mean by that is
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  Speaker 2: like it's the most like I guess the the proper
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  Speaker 2: Like what I should have said was, it's the most
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  Speaker 2: like collaborative I think, like like I think for this
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  Speaker 2: record in the past, you know, we've like obviously it's
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  Speaker 2: not like only a couple people have their say as
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  Speaker 2: far as like what the music is or how the
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  Speaker 2: writing goes stuff. Everybody has the you know, if somebody,
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  Speaker 2: if I, if I, or somebody else, if we hate a part,
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  Speaker 2: we just bring it up and we're like this part sucks,
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  Speaker 2: we gotta change it. Like, but with this, I think
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  Speaker 2: I found that everybody in the band was really excited,
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  Speaker 2: more so than they have been doing other records. And
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  Speaker 2: it was just like everybody wanted to write, like everybody
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  Speaker 2: wanted to be in a room together for six seven hours,
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  Speaker 2: like talking about the same twenty second part in a
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  Speaker 2: song and making it better, and everybody was just so involved,
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  Speaker 2: like way more so than any other record we've done.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, yeah, I think that this is like
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  Speaker 2: a it is the most accurate representation because it's the
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  Speaker 2: truest representation of the band, Like you have elements from
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  Speaker 2: all four of us, plus will, like everyone's working together,
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  Speaker 2: even me, like I normally don't I just do the lyrics,
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  Speaker 2: Like I don't I wait for the music to be
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  Speaker 2: written and I just write lyrics, even for this one,
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  Speaker 2: Like I was in the room coming up with music
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  Speaker 2: ideas for music and breakdowns and you know, oh what
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  Speaker 2: if this part does this, like and I never do that.
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  Speaker 1: I never.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to ever. I'm like, I'd rather break
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  Speaker 2: my arm, like I'm good, So even you know, because
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  Speaker 2: of that, I think it it's like everybody in the
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  Speaker 2: band feels a lot closer to this release than other ones,
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  Speaker 2: not that we didn't for other ones, but it is just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it feels like it feels the most like
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  Speaker 2: us because it's like, yeah, we were all there the
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  Speaker 2: whole time doing it, you know, so I think it's
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  Speaker 2: I think it's accurate. Not that you know, it's not
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  Speaker 2: like in the past we wanted to be really heavy
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  Speaker 2: and people were like, don't do that. That wasn't the case,
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  Speaker 2: but it was like, you know, really for this when
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  Speaker 2: we were just like, what do we want to do?
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  Speaker 2: What's fun for us? Heavy stuff like really heavy stuff
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  Speaker 2: for live like blast beats like all that. It's like
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  Speaker 2: what do we like and what do we don't like? Like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's just not do any of the stuff that we
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  Speaker 2: don't like anymore. And then we didn't and it paid off.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, Well, one of the other good things about
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  Speaker 4: EPs Iver albums might deserve isn't many songs on them,
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  Speaker 4: so we can go into him in a bit more detail.
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  Speaker 3: Mate.
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  Speaker 4: So you've only got six on this, so I want
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  Speaker 4: to run through them, just one at the time and
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  Speaker 4: tell us a bit more about the song sort of
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  Speaker 4: musically and how it relates to counterparts sound right before
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  Speaker 4: I guess so the first one is as Left Alive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that one, I think I.
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  Speaker 2: Personally, I think that as far as like the EP goes,
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  Speaker 2: I think that song is the most counterparts sounding song. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the one thing I've seen people say is
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  Speaker 2: just like, oh, you know, like it's missing that like
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  Speaker 2: melodic element and stuff. And I'm like, what about the
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  Speaker 2: like minute long interlude with the two thousands metalcore talking part,
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  Speaker 2: like clean guitar interlude thing that happens in Martyr, Like
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  Speaker 2: that's counter that's the counterparts part. Like you know, people
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  Speaker 2: being like, oh, the blast beats. It's like we've done
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  Speaker 2: blast beats on every other record, like maybe not for
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  Speaker 2: that long or like you know that apparent, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: they they exist, they're there, and I yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: Martyr is definitely the closest like that could that song
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  Speaker 2: could have been on Eulogy. Well they all could have,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, but but yeah, that that one is uh
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  Speaker 2: that And we wanted to go with this like that
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  Speaker 2: one as a single just because it's it does have everything.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's like this has everything that any counterparts fan
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  Speaker 2: would want. So this has to be one of the
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  Speaker 2: first singles and it just starts out of nowhere, which
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  Speaker 2: is sick, Like that's a surprise in itself, you know,
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  Speaker 2: So it's like that, yeah, Martyr's very that's that's a
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  Speaker 2: very counterpart song for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Nice. Then you got with Loving Arms Disfigured, and I've
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  Speaker 3: got to say, like, you guys have got some of
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  Speaker 3: the best song titles of they've heard, like discussing guys
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  Speaker 3: into him Like there's there's short sentences, but I say
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  Speaker 3: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean usually it's a yeah, once I'm done lyrics,
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  Speaker 2: like we kind of it's like after I'm done tracking
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  Speaker 2: the song, uh, when it's time for Will to save it,
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  Speaker 2: He's just like what are like what are you calling
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  Speaker 2: this one?
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  Speaker 1: And then we just kind of look at the lyrics
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  Speaker 1: and we're like ah.
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  Speaker 2: And then with with this EP, it was like I
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  Speaker 2: didn't mean to, but it was like, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: had like Heaven let them die and then a martyr
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  Speaker 2: left alive and then uh with like with Loving Arms Disfigured,
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  Speaker 2: and Will's like, are you trying to do like all
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  Speaker 2: four words? Like every song title has four words in it?
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  Speaker 2: Or is that like a thing you're trying to do
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  Speaker 2: or And I'm like, oh no, I wasn't and then
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  Speaker 2: that so then for the other ones, it was just like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I guess I just got to go with four words
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  Speaker 2: like you got it, like you know, we did. We
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  Speaker 2: did the opposite with Helen Home. It was like every
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  Speaker 2: song title was just one word, you know. So uh
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, it was like it was kind of a
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  Speaker 2: conscious thing for sure, But yeah, I mean we just
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I just kind of look at like
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  Speaker 2: I try to find the line in the song that
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  Speaker 2: sort of sums up the theme of the song, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that, yeah, like with you know or at
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  Speaker 2: least sounds the coolest, you know what I mean, So
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  Speaker 2: that's that's usually it too, Like that plays into that
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  Speaker 2: that's that really plays into what the song ends up
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  Speaker 2: being called. Is just like what's the coolest line from
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  Speaker 2: the you know what sounds the hardest? Like with loving arms,
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  Speaker 2: disfigured sounds gross, you know what I mean, Like it
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  Speaker 2: sounds miserable, and it's like and it's like cool, that's
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  Speaker 2: exactly the kind of message I want to like get across.
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  Speaker 2: But and that song too, I mean, as far as
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  Speaker 2: music goes, it's like that's also another it's a very
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  Speaker 2: like counterpart song. I feel like that one could have
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  Speaker 2: been off like tragedy let's say, you know, like it's
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  Speaker 2: got that like chorus vibe to it, and you know
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  Speaker 2: that middle breakdown is super heavy, and it's like it's
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  Speaker 2: very like two thousands, like the vocals match the guitar
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  Speaker 2: chugs and everything. So yeah, that one's that one's a
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  Speaker 2: great one too, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Move on to to Hear of War.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean to.
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  Speaker 2: Hear of War was especially like the intro thing I
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  Speaker 2: remember that was. Yeah, that was us just being like
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  Speaker 2: just trying to nail like a two thousands like Trustkill,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, like how like just one of those
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  Speaker 2: songs that like starts with a breakdown like My Promise
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  Speaker 2: by It Dice Today or something, or like in Summary
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  Speaker 2: of What I Am by Misery Signals or Dandy Lyon
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  Speaker 2: by Seven Angels, like just something that's it just starts
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  Speaker 2: right off the bat with a breakdown. I think that
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  Speaker 2: one is U I mean like that that one's heavier
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  Speaker 2: for sure. I think I feel like that breakdown at
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  Speaker 2: the end with like the tom build up, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think we've done that too often. So I was really
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  Speaker 2: stoked on on that one, and you know, yeah, just
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  Speaker 2: just a over overall it's just a blasphemous type song.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm yeah, I was. I was really stoked writing
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  Speaker 2: to that one.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Then we got No Lamb was lost.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean No Lamb was uh that I think
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  Speaker 2: that was the demo. It was like Martyr was was
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  Speaker 2: my favorite demo I think, and then No Lamb. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't really think about it, but then as I was
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  Speaker 2: writing the lyrics and stuff, I was just like it it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it gave me more of like a more of like
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  Speaker 2: a nineties like metalcore vibe, like your Turmoil and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that. And I and like, and I will say,
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of people have said with the new EP,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: either like it sounds like end and I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: like you're just saying that because I'm in End.
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  Speaker 1: But for this, like for No Lamb.
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  Speaker 2: It's like that the guitar part, like the right before
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  Speaker 2: like Heartbeat Gang cannot replace like that little thing. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, Okay, yeah that kind of sounds like for sure,
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  Speaker 2: but I I was, I was so.
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  Speaker 1: Like bummed about it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, like that one, I'm just like, yeah, all right,
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: it's like yeah, that that's that kind of sounds like Pariah.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah you're right, you're right, but yeah, just like a
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: slower heavy like I love that breakdown. That's my favorite
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  Speaker 2: counterpart song for sure, Like yeah, kind of a whole discography,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's.
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  Speaker 1: The one, lok.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's about both my cats. So that's that's
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  Speaker 2: also a big reason why I love it so much.
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  Speaker 3: You know, can you have the song so Baruto they
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: have cats?
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  Speaker 2: I don't like that's And that's the thing too, is
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: like when you read like reading it, it's like I
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: think the like with my skin, like he was saved
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: with my skin. She is safe like that. That's the
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: one part where people could be like, I think this
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: is about his fucking cats, you know, like cause it's
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: the guy like the I like, he is safe. She
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: it's like, you know, my last cat, Kumo as a boy.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: My current cat, Corey, it's a girl. So you know,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: it's like I think that's the one line where it's like, Okay,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I think this might be about his cats, but uh yeah,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: so I love it.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I love playing that one.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I always shouted out to Corey, dedicated to her every night,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: So let's go.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: And then you got praise. No Archery Intact it's actually
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: quite hard to say.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's like the one, the one title wise
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: where I'm just like yeah, but yeah, I mean artery
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: was Uh. I feel like that one the way it
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: starts that sounds like old counterparts. That sounds like the
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: first three Records counterparts, Like we just with that feedback
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: into the very fast you know, almost like more like
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: a hardcore part. That was very counterparts, you know, like
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: that is very like old counterparts, like when we were
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: really into like have her have Heart and verse and
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: stuff like that.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: And then that one that's the weirdest one for me,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: that's the one that's I think that's my least favorite
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: song on the record. I still like it, but it
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: just goes off the deep end, I feel like with
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: just like the slam parts and like that weird like
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: no like that. It's it's like it's one of the
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: more technical songs on the EP. A lot of them
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: are just kind of dumb, chuggy breakdown stuff. That one's
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: a bit techier. I remember I had a hard time
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: writing lyrics to it because I was like, what the
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: fuck do I do here? Like what am I supposed
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: to write over this? It ended up being really cool though.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: That ending part with like the you know why I've
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: remained like I remain part that was really weird and
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I kind of did it like as a goof and
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: then everyone was just down and it just kind of stuck.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know, We'll see.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're like a bunch of my friends that
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: their favorite song on the EP, and I'm like, are
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: you nuts? Like no lambs on the EP, like exactly,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I'm like, how is praise the coolest? But people like
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: it's either I feel like it's either people's favorite song
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: or they're just like yeah, yeah whatever.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: So yeah, and you round out the title track Heaven let.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Them Die yep.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Outro Yeah yeah. That one kind of came about. It
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: was like Jesse Je like we I think we wanted
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: like an intro. We were going to do an intro,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: and then we were talking about it and it was like, well,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: we kind of have intros on records, like we have
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: like love Me and you know, we have like O
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: seven twenty six like these like little intro things, and
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: we're like, let's do like an outro.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: And that that was a really big thing.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I feel in like the you know, mid late two
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: thousands was bands would always like end their set with
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: like an outro. It's like whether they played a breakdown
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: from another song, like from a song they already played
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: again just slower or something, and it was like bands
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: had like an outro and we were like, yeah, let's
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: do that, and so Jesse had this really creepy little
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: riff and then we you know, and then I was like,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: I that's where I came up with like heaven't let
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: them die because it was like over that breakdown, like
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: the pattern, like the two the sky I prayed. I
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: wrote that, and then I didn't know I was going
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: to use it for that, and then it kind of
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: became I was like, oh, whatever, like I really want
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: to use that line. I'll put it in Martyr and
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: then you know, and then the outro actually made it
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: to the EP and it was like, okay, we have
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: we're actually doing this, so yeah, so I was just
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: like all right, like bring that back then that it
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: was supposed to be in this song anyway, So like
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: let's just tie them together. Let's pick the coolest, the
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: coolest like paragraph from or line whatever from EP and
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: just say it again and just drive it home. And
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: like it's the album title, and it's like, yeah, let's
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: and then yeah, and I mean that's a set ender
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: for sure, like we're ending the set with that, probably
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: for the next five ten years. So it's like, yeah,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: that that one, that one worked out for sure.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: I'll just get you quickly too.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Canapotsive just announced had to let them go Astrayanchol, which
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: starts in Melbourne on June the eleventh. That goes to Adelaide,
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Sydney Brisbane on June the fifteenth.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: So you didn't want to make that a surprise. You
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: had to announce it.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I had, Yeah, I had to had to
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: announce that one. Yeah, I mean with the the just
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: the cost of flights. I mean actually the cost of
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: flights is probably the same amount we spent on the EP,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: so I guess we could have done it as a surprise,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: but people might have been busy that night, you know,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: they might have had other plans, so we had to
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: had to give a give a bit of a warning
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: for that one. But yeah, I'm stoked. I can't wait
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: to be back in Australia. I love it, love being there.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and we're headlining now, so I feel like
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I feel like people are getting sick of seeing us
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: do support tours where we're like opening and we have
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: like a thirty minute set thirty minutes after doors open.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: It's like, okay, let's give him the full hour. Do
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: a proper headliner.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Make it a big deal. So you know, I'm not
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: as gonna hope people show up.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: We lobby in the Brisbane show might not be honest
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: with you. This is my first experience with counterpots. Listening
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: to the EPIST today and I believe my fucking mind.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Bro was awesome, he said, I'll.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Be hell yeah, let's go looking forward to it.
• 22:49
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