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Fimbul Winter: Can Ex-Amon Amarth Members Escape Their Own Legacy? · Classic Metal Show

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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, this is Frederick from Fimble Winter, and you're watching CMS-TV.
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  [music]
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_03: It is Chris Aiken Presents, and I, of course, am Chris Aiken.
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  SPEAKER_03: And today on the show, we are going to get very, very heavy with the music.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is a killer band that comes out of the pieces of another killer band,
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  SPEAKER_03: but they have a brand new band put together called Fimble Winter.
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  SPEAKER_03: New single is out there, When the Sun Comes Out at Night.
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  SPEAKER_03: And here to talk all about it is the guitarist of the band, Mr. Frederick Anderson.
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  SPEAKER_03: Frederick, how are you, man?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nice to meet you, and nice to have this chat.
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  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, I'm going to tell you, Frederick, right off the start, I am super excited to talk to you.
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  SPEAKER_03: Two reasons.
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  SPEAKER_03: One, ginormous fan of the old band.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I'm not going to get into the old band probably much at all, but love it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Love it, love it, love it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Which made me very excited to see that there was a new band coming.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now we get the new band.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's been a few singles that are out there,
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  SPEAKER_03: including the new one, When the Sun Comes Out at Night.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not a copy, which I love even more.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's got its own feel.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's got its own direction.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not leaning into the old band just to try to get quick clicks and quick attention.
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  SPEAKER_03: So let's start there, man.
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  SPEAKER_03: Tell me about forming this band and if you were indeed trying to push yourself away
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  SPEAKER_03: from the music you made in the past.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, I mean, we've There wasn't really an intentional plan when we started playing.
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  SPEAKER_01: We started out just actually jamming out the first Daman and Martha demo at Nico's,
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  SPEAKER_01: the drummer's birthday party,
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  SPEAKER_01: because he wanted to play the songs that he played back in 94.
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  SPEAKER_01: He wanted to play them again.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we just started out doing that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then we had so much fun playing together.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we decided to try to write some music of our own and actually become a band.
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  SPEAKER_01: When we started gathering the riffs that we have,
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  SPEAKER_01: we found that we had a bunch of riffs saved up that we hadn't used
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  SPEAKER_01: in any previous constellations of our band.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we just put it together and made these songs.
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  SPEAKER_01: We never had the intention to try to sound like Amun Amarth or try to sound like a certain band.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is just what came out of What we had already previously in our banks, so to say.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then, of course, when you start working on material, you get new ideas.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so new rifts also comes up and emerges.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's been a natural progression, I think, finding our own identity.
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  SPEAKER_03: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_03: Would it be,
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  SPEAKER_03: if you guys wrote something now,
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  SPEAKER_03: And one of you in the band heard it and said,
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  SPEAKER_03: eh, that's a little too much like Amon Amarth.
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  SPEAKER_03: Would you scrap it?
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  SPEAKER_03: Or would you say, well, too bad.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're not there anymore.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're doing our thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I don't think if we, I mean,
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  SPEAKER_01: we do have some riffs that obviously sound like Amon Amarth,
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  SPEAKER_01: but then it sounds like old Amon Amarth, like pre-2006 or something like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's nothing compared to what they sound like right now, I think.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, and we haven't really, we haven't been in that position.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think there's been like one or two riffs that Anders felt that they were maybe
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  SPEAKER_01: a little bit too similar to something.
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  SPEAKER_01: But, I mean,
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  SPEAKER_01: we just write the music that we think is good and what we like and what we want
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  SPEAKER_01: to hear.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, if it were If it would happen that it was something that sounded like,
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  SPEAKER_01: I think we still get away.
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  SPEAKER_01: It still will sound a little bit different because we have a certain sound
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  SPEAKER_01: with our chemistry together and the way that we actually produce the song.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I don't see that as a problem at all.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I guess the future will tell.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, let's dig into this a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_03: First, even before I ask you about the single,
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  SPEAKER_03: just because I'm not well-versed at all in my Nordic mythology,
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  SPEAKER_03: I guess, can you tell me what a Thimble Winter is?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, well,
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  SPEAKER_01: first of all,
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  SPEAKER_01: I have to say that our band is not,
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  SPEAKER_01: we're not dwelling into the Viking mythology or anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our lyrics have nothing to do with it.
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  SPEAKER_01: The name of the band,
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  SPEAKER_01: we took it from the first demo for Mamma na Mart,
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  SPEAKER_01: which Anders and Nico played on, which is called The Arrival of the Fimble Winter.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when we played our first show, we needed a name and we were playing that demo.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we just said we call ourselves Fimble Winter.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then that's just stuck and we just kept it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we don't do... None of our lyrics are Viking themed or Norse mythology themed.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the Fimmelwinter is like a long,
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  SPEAKER_01: cold winter that precedes the Rangarach, like the end of the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's the meaning of it, I happen to know.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  SPEAKER_03: You can see, though, where that could be confusing, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: Because the name is so very Nordic, and your music is very not.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, I think that we still have the Nordic feel in the sound.
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  SPEAKER_01: We just don't dwell in that theme lyrically.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, I mean,
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  SPEAKER_01: to be honest,
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't think
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  SPEAKER_01: don't really pay that much attention to the different genres in
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  SPEAKER_01: the scene or whatever, like different Things are popular at the moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we just write the music that we love and that we want to play.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the name,
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  SPEAKER_01: it's something that is a part of our history and something that we felt
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  SPEAKER_01: that it felt right at the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it feels like it's a part of our DNA or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: That describes where we come from.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it fits, I think.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right on.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, Frederick, when you guys are writing music together, how do you come up with it?
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  SPEAKER_03: Is it you coming up with a riff or somebody coming up with a riff?
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  SPEAKER_03: Or does it start from a lyrical idea?
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, how do the songs come together?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's mostly from different riffs.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's pretty straightforward and very easy, actually.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just...
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  SPEAKER_01: If I come up with a couple of riffs, I just send them over.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have a Dropbox folder, I just put it in the folder.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nico gets some riffs and he puts them in there and then it's Anders
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  SPEAKER_01: who just puts everything together and he puts his magic fingers to it
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  SPEAKER_01: and adds his riffs to the mix.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the end, I think he Probably he's the main writer of most of the stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: So most of the stuff comes from him.
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  SPEAKER_01: But he also gets ideas from the riffs that we put there.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's like a teamwork.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then we start working on lyrics after that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And usually Clint writes some pretty intense, long lyrics.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we have to shorten them down and make them fit to the song.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's a fairly...
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  SPEAKER_01: Easy process.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anders is a machine when it comes to writing songs.
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  SPEAKER_01: He put together like eight songs in a matter of a couple of weeks.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's where we picked these two singles from,
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  SPEAKER_01: and then the rest we're going to use for the next upcoming album.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so there is a full album coming?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're in the process of writing more songs for that,
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  SPEAKER_01: so we have a full album with new material.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, excellent.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, let's talk about when the sun comes out at night.
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  SPEAKER_03: Obviously, the title alone makes people kind of step back and go, what?
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, it's definitely like you got to think about it a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's very unsettling, really.
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  SPEAKER_03: What emotion or image are you guys trying to put in people's head with not only
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  SPEAKER_03: that title, but with the song itself?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, the song, the music, it's all Anders' fault.
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  SPEAKER_01: He wrote that song, and I think it's...
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  SPEAKER_01: It's amazing.
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  SPEAKER_01: As you say, it does have a haunting feel to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's kind of distressed or you feel kind of unease listening to it in certain ways.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, it was just...
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  SPEAKER_01: I think Clint wrote the lyrics and they just fit very well with the song.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not...
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  SPEAKER_01: So much into the meaning of the lyrics.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think it's up to everyone to interpret them the way they want themselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I know that
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  SPEAKER_01: he wrote it with the intention of
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  SPEAKER_01: the feeling when
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  SPEAKER_01: the truth unfolds
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  SPEAKER_01: and you really can't grasp The reality of it or something like
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  SPEAKER_01: that.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a distressed emotion, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right on.
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  SPEAKER_03: Is that kind of the direction that Clint's going to take lyrically for
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  SPEAKER_03: the whole album as kind of reality,
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  SPEAKER_03: but kind of like almost like that shock factor reality of you see something,
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  SPEAKER_03: but it's not what you think you see type of a...
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  SPEAKER_01: I can't really tell.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have like two...
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  SPEAKER_01: More lyrical ideas that we're working on, but we haven't come that far.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think if you look at the last single crown of Ash,
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  SPEAKER_01: that's a different story.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's more about
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  SPEAKER_01: discovering your own...
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  SPEAKER_01: If you come out of something really stressful and a hard situation and you realize that
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  SPEAKER_01: The price coming out of it was just surviving, basically.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's no crown that you can receive in the end.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think all the lyrics that we've written so far,
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  SPEAKER_01: also on the EP, they're very self-evolved, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can read different meanings into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think it's up to everyone to interpret them the way they want to.
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  SPEAKER_03: Are you okay if people interpret it completely differently than you guys do?
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  SPEAKER_01: Sure, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's art, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: You feel a certain way with how you feel emotionally when you listen to music or
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  SPEAKER_01: when you read someone's lyrics or something like that.
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  SPEAKER_03: See, I might argue that one with you because I know I write books.
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  SPEAKER_03: And when I write a book and somebody reaches out to me and says,
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  SPEAKER_03: well, obviously you were saying bup, bup, bup, bup, bup.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, whoa, I didn't say anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_03: For me anyway, it kind of hits different.
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  SPEAKER_03: Maybe it doesn't bother you,
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  SPEAKER_03: but is it at least weird when you guys have a song and somebody completely comes up
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  SPEAKER_03: with a different meaning to it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean,
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  SPEAKER_01: of course,
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  SPEAKER_01: it's a bit weird and you're like,
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: uh-huh, okay, but you have to respect that person, the way it hits them.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they have a different kind of baggage in their life and they have
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  SPEAKER_01: a different experience that they dwell with.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's all,
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  SPEAKER_01: you have to,
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  SPEAKER_01: I guess,
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  SPEAKER_01: take the information that you get and apply it to yourself and
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  SPEAKER_01: then something else might come up.
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  SPEAKER_01: For example,
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  SPEAKER_01: we have one song on the EP that is about the singer's friend
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  SPEAKER_01: that passed away suddenly.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I have other friends that listen to it and they read the lyrics
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  SPEAKER_01: and they're like, oh, this is obviously about Tompa Lindbergh who passed away.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, no, it's not.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, it could be.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it might as well be, but it wasn't intentionally.
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  SPEAKER_03: Tell me about working with Johan Linstrad.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have to be honest, I was not involved in the process at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because Marco,
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  SPEAKER_01: who's also in The Crown,
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  SPEAKER_01: has been mixing our songs, so they worked on that separately in Marco's studio.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he just sent it over and we heard it and I was like, okay, yeah, that sounds pretty good.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I did reach out to him and ask if he wanted to sing a few lines on the song.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm very happy he agreed.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I mean, that's a big name.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's a legendary death metal name.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm a huge fan of The Crown.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've been,
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  SPEAKER_01: even since from the first album and The Burning,
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  SPEAKER_01: I always looked up to them and what they created.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm really sad to see them...
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  SPEAKER_01: Putting the music on the shelf, but we'll see.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they have other projects and they
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  SPEAKER_03: will
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  SPEAKER_01: continue to create music,
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  SPEAKER_01: so that's fine, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_03: And everybody always seems to find their way back to it.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know as well as anybody, that music gets in you, you cannot get it out.
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  SPEAKER_03: You have to come back to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think you can't really stop being a musician once you've started, in some ways at least.
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  SPEAKER_03: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, Frederick,
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  SPEAKER_03: obviously when you're putting music together and you're releasing music,
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  SPEAKER_03: the goal is for people to hear it.
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  SPEAKER_03: And the best way for people to hear it is always getting out there and playing it.
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  SPEAKER_03: So tell me about playing live with this band and what you intend to do maybe in 2027
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  SPEAKER_03: when I'm assuming the album will be out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we've been a little bit limited since Clint is from Australia.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we had to kind of work out logistics and it's been a bit tricky,
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  SPEAKER_01: but we did manage to get him over here now in June.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we did a bunch of shows in Europe here, some festivals and some club shows.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was great playing our music for the first time.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it was really fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had a great time.
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  SPEAKER_01: We always have fun together.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have a bunch of shows confirmed for next year.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think one of them is announced so far.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're going to announce more whenever they are ready.
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  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're going to release the album.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're going to get out on the road and get back on stage and play.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even our Nico,
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  SPEAKER_01: who hasn't really Played death metal drums for like 20,
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  SPEAKER_01: 30 years or something like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said that he was a little bit nervous about getting up on stage.
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  SPEAKER_01: But after the first show, it's like, I want to do more of this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right on.
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  SPEAKER_03: With you guys being spread out all over the world like this,
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  SPEAKER_03: does that make maybe the target to be more of festival season over there in Europe
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  SPEAKER_03: where you can get somebody over for two or three weeks,
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  SPEAKER_03: but you can reach the most amount of people?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, we're going to have to figure it out as we go.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we do realize that maybe sometimes it's not going to be possible for people for
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  SPEAKER_01: the whole band to be at the same time at the same place and then we need
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  SPEAKER_01: to figure out if we need to get like if we already already have a fill-in
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: for Anders actually because he has a very tight schedule with his family and with
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  SPEAKER_01: and everything so we did two shows without him and had a friend filling in on guitar
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  SPEAKER_01: so I mean that's of course it's not optimal But at least when you play
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  SPEAKER_01: the songs live and they sound the same that they would be anyway,
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  SPEAKER_01: it's not a big deal.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, a lot of bands do the same thing, so it's not the end of the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's obviously not optimal.
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  SPEAKER_01: But what can you do?
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  SPEAKER_01: You can be at two places at the same time and you have to...
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  SPEAKER_01: You have to realize that we are grown-up men and everybody has families
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  SPEAKER_01: and life commitments, so you kind of have to respect that as well.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right on.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, Frederick, obviously Swedish death metal has really become a genre on its own.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, I mean,
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_03: it really,
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_03: forever death metal was just all lumped together,
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  SPEAKER_03: which made no sense because when you listen to I don't know,
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  SPEAKER_03: you listen to you guys and you listen to Cannibal Corpse,
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  SPEAKER_03: it's obviously two very different things or Morbid Angel or whomever,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know, and it never made sense that it was all lumped together.
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  SPEAKER_03: That said,
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  SPEAKER_03: with Swedish death metal as a kind of a genre itself,
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  SPEAKER_03: does it make it easier to get noticed or does it make it harder because there are
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_03: so many bands that have come out of,
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_03: maybe not out of Sweden, but out of the Swedish style of death metal?
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_01: I definitely noticed,
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: and this is something that happened a few years back,
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_01: that the term Swedish melodic or melodic death metal or mellow death kind
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: of got overcrowded.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_01: People started to be like,
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: I've heard all the bands,
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: I've heard all the music, so people stopped paying attention to it.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: I kind of noticed, because we are Definitely,
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: we're in that genre.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's where we position ourselves.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: And I've noticed a few are like,
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_01: well, I mean, yeah, I've heard all the melodic death metal already.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, I can agree to some extent that that's the case.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_01: But
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: I do think that we still have more to give in that.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's more to explore about it.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_01: And also,
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: I think that a lot of bands have kind of evolved away from the original sound
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: of melodic death metal or Swedish death metal.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: So what we bring is a kind of a reunion with that And
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: when we bring like new fresh ideas that hasn't really been explored into it.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah,
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know why or if it's helped or if it's been negative.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I mean,
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_03: I'll tell you from outside looking in perspective,
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_03: I would say it hurts it for one reason only.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_03: Once you have bands that start to have some success,
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_03: a Soilwork or a Monomarth,
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_03: once you have that happen,
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_03: you see everybody tries to recreate that instead of growing the style,
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_03: like you were saying.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody just tries to pigeonhole it.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_03: Well, if they're doing it this way and they're successful, then we should do it that way.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_03: And I think that does hurt.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_03: You know, growth as a musical style.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it becomes more like a cloning competition.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean,
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: I definitely noticed that when At The Gates released Slaughter Of The Soul,
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: there was like a hundred bazillion that started to copy that sound
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: and it got overcrowded and people got bored of the same sound.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, I think we try to not...
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: We lock ourselves to a certain sound or something like that,
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: but this is what comes out when we start writing music, so we can't really help it.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: It is what it is.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_03: Sure.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: We can't sound like Cannibal Corpse.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_03: Do you ever hear stuff that you guys write and say,
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_03: you know what, that sounds way too much like something else we've done already?
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean,
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: there's been a few riffs that have come up where it's like,
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: yeah, no, this is a little bit too similar to that song already.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: But we do try to make every song interesting in its own way.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: So it's not that we're locked to a certain formula or something like that.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: We try to kind of make every song interesting as much as possible.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_03: Definitely.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_03: Well, Frederick,
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_03: here on this show,
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_03: we tell everybody, if you're going to stream something, that's fine.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_03: Give it a listen.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_03: Give it two listens, whatever.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_03: But then go buy something.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_03: Buy a vinyl, a hat, a shirt, a keychain, whatever it would be, an MP3.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_03: You know, buy something to support the band.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_03: With that said, where do we tell people to go to buy something from Fimble Winter?
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: Well, right now we are mainly...
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: Selling everything ourselves because we've been doing this do-it-yourself so far.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: So it's our band camp, I guess.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: And we take care of everything ourselves.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: I pack and ship everything.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_03: That's Fimble Winter Central right behind you.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: We do have some licensed merchandise in the US from visionmerch.com.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_01: So that also reaches back to us eventually.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: So that's maybe easier if you're in North America.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: But otherwise, I mean, we're not here to make money or to like...
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: This is just our...
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_01: We can't not be musicians.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_01: We can't stop being musicians.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: So we just... And our goal is just to release music and get out on the road and play live shows.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: And obviously, yes,
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_01: the support from fans buying the merch and that's...
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: We're grateful and that absolutely helps, but it's not...
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: This is not our livelihood, so we produce whatever we can and try to sell it as much as we can.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_03: Right on.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I hope it becomes your livelihood, because from what I've heard so far, it's fantastic.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_03: Fimble Winter, When the Sun Comes Out at Night, fantastic.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_03: There's other singles up there on Spotify or wherever that you can check out as well
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_03: to get a good feel for what's going on with this band.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_03: And Frederick,
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_03: I'm Is there a website or the best place or is the best place Bandcamp for you guys?
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the Bandcamp.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, just find us on socials.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: We're on Instagram and all the places.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think we are on Snapchat.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: We haven't been able to figure that out, but all the others we're on.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_03: Right on.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_03: Well, one more time.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_03: It is Fimble Winter.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_03: When the Sun Comes Out at Night is the single.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_03: It is fantastic.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_03: You should definitely check it out.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_03: And Frederick, this has been fun.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for joining me here on Crusaker Presents.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for having me.
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