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The Lighter Side Of Death With JOEL From THE MURDERING · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Get Asia's Joel from The Murdering.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be playing at Necrosonic this year at Mansfield have
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  Speaker 2: and Brisbane August twenty third.
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  Speaker 1: I believe, twenty twenty five. Mm. Yeah, it should be
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  Speaker 1: a great day.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be your first gig in about nine years, so
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  Speaker 2: we're really looking forward to getting out there and planning
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  Speaker 2: with that lineup.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty killer so far.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, better it would be, Ran. Thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 3: It's nice to speak with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you too, mate, Thanks for having.
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  Speaker 3: Us my pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: So the Murdering have been an outs in the first
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  Speaker 4: wave of bands for next Rousonic twenty twenty five, which
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  Speaker 4: is held at the Mansfort Table.
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  Speaker 3: On August twenty three.
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  Speaker 4: As you say, so it's still a few months off, mate,
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  Speaker 4: but in Brisbane at the excitement levels of through the
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  Speaker 4: roof mate life.
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  Speaker 3: How how you gotta sit in with it?
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  Speaker 1: Mate? It's great, it's great. It was really good to
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  Speaker 1: see the just the organic sort of spread that it
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  Speaker 1: got when it was first announced. There. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a really killer lineup so far.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously there's a second wave to come out for it
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  Speaker 2: as well, which is Yeah, I think people are to
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  Speaker 2: be pretty psyched when they see who's on that second
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  Speaker 2: announcement sort of thing. But yeah, it's killer up here, man.
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  Speaker 2: It's got good presence online and it seems like everyone's
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  Speaker 2: really excited. You know, everyone up here that I've spoken
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  Speaker 2: to is keen to get along, and yeah, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a day.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: So the first lineup of bands are now speech it
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  Speaker 4: acts like Bowlzer, There's Lloyd, Chaos, Lara and Frankenbach, like Greno,
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  Speaker 4: Pisson Fi's just the name a few, man. So is
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  Speaker 4: there any bands that you're really looking forward to touching up.
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  Speaker 2: With and seeing on the day, Well, it's there's quite
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  Speaker 2: a few guys from bands who are playing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: other bands that I haven't seen for a while, So
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  Speaker 2: it'll be good. You know, the Piston Fist guys, they're
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  Speaker 2: doing some great stuff at the moment. Obviously, seeing like
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  Speaker 2: the back from the Dead bands, you know, like catching
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  Speaker 2: Day's end with that early material and uh, you know Brace,
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  Speaker 2: you know the Henry's Anger guys. That'll be really really cool.
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  Speaker 2: He's a big fan of those guys in the day.
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  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be good. It's gonna be really cool.
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  Speaker 2: See a lot of people haven't seen for a while,
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  Speaker 2: and like with their new projects and what they're doing now,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of good stuff going on out there,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, it'll be cool catch it all.
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  Speaker 3: Man, So been your first shown about nine years?
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  Speaker 1: Bro?
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  Speaker 4: You classes are back from the dead band? Or are
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  Speaker 4: you a monkst a living?
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  Speaker 2: I haven't even thought about that, to be honest, No, No,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say we went.
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  Speaker 1: Back from the dead.
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  Speaker 2: It was more just a I suppose a very long
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  Speaker 2: continuation of what we were doing before we sort of.
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  Speaker 1: Stop doing it, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So yeah, I haven't even really thought of it
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  Speaker 2: that way, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: But no, we just feel like we're just happy to
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  Speaker 1: be on a bill.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, we haven't played a live show in
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  Speaker 2: a very long time, so you know, we've got some
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  Speaker 2: really good material coming out at the moment, next singles
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  Speaker 2: coming out shortly being done with Chris famelco down in Melbourne.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we're just doing our thing. I suppose
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  Speaker 1: it's the easiest way to put it.
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  Speaker 2: We're not sort of got any expectations on anything. It's
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  Speaker 2: just going to be a real dat to have a
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  Speaker 2: good time and just knock the dust off.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose Straight Now made its debut last year and
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  Speaker 4: absolutely smashed it. But there was a brave move by
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  Speaker 4: Kent assembling such a brutal light up but.
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  Speaker 3: The success of it shows that the thirst for heavy
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  Speaker 3: music is definitely there. You've just got to do it right.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, that's it, man like.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, you say speak about Kent putting this together,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like the og of Brisbane metal, thecene, man
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 1: No one knows how to do it up here like Kent.
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  Speaker 2: He just you know, back in the day when he
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  Speaker 2: was doing it full time, you know, before he took
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  Speaker 2: a break and now has come back. Now you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's just the guy to do it up there.
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  Speaker 1: He's here of the.
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  Speaker 2: Ground with the with the local bands and what's happening
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  Speaker 2: up there, and it's just, you know, I wouldn't want
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  Speaker 2: to have anybody in charge of something like that up
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  Speaker 2: here because you know, he's really got everything put together
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  Speaker 2: and his team they're doing a great job with the
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  Speaker 2: promotion and just everything that goes with it, the merchandise,
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  Speaker 2: the quality of band, obviously, the quality of the bill
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  Speaker 2: number one.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's fantastic, man like. You couldn't have
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  Speaker 1: someone better running that thing.
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  Speaker 3: Along those lines too. Like what festivals like this mean
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  Speaker 3: to the Australian metal industry.
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  Speaker 4: I guess that are run by actual fans and people
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  Speaker 4: who genuinely like the music, not just a big promoter
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  Speaker 4: in there to make a quick park.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, mate, it's so good man. Like it's like.
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  Speaker 2: I say, I've already said, you know, it's it's great
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  Speaker 2: to have guys who just are still at that down
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  Speaker 2: to earth level that can put on such a great day,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like Canto doing this and his team, the
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  Speaker 2: boys down in Adelaide, you know, Northeast doing from Purity.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're just like, those guys are killing it
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  Speaker 2: at you know, I don't want to say a grassroots level,
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  Speaker 2: because it's not grassroots you know what they're doing, but
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  Speaker 2: the you know, they themselves are from that grassroots level,
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  Speaker 2: and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I feel like they identify with the punter.
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  Speaker 2: Much more than you know, the Coles and Woolworth's promoters
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  Speaker 2: that we have run and everything else at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: So uh, it's it's awesome man. You know, it shows
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  Speaker 2: that it's just still that real groundswell, awesome you know,
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  Speaker 2: identifiable vibe with promoters in Australia are doing a good
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  Speaker 2: job at the moment, like those.
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  Speaker 4: Boys Necrosonic itself beatus thirty bands across three stages over
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  Speaker 4: twelve hours, so it's going to be massive. So are
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  Speaker 4: you personally You're gonna draw up the timetable of bands
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  Speaker 4: and stages and try and stick to.
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  Speaker 3: It, or you're just gonna wing it and just wonder
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  Speaker 3: where the cards fall. You're going to drink and watch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it'll be a bit of that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's definitely some bands I want to check
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  Speaker 2: on the day, like, for sure a couple that haven't
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  Speaker 2: been announced yet, but you know, definitely going to check
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  Speaker 2: those boys out. As I said before, the Piston and
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  Speaker 2: Fish guys.
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  Speaker 1: Got to catch those guys. Pizza Death. I want to
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  Speaker 1: see what's up with Pizza Death because that's great. Cool
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  Speaker 1: things with those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I've had a I think they're on Froth
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  Speaker 2: and Fury last year, but one of the boys went
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  Speaker 2: down and checked him out and he came back raving
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  Speaker 2: about him, so I want to scope that out as well.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, no, nice now, but it sounds why you've
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  Speaker 4: been saying this next question is null and void because
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  Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure you already know who the second line
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  Speaker 4: up is. So I was gonna ask you who you
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  Speaker 4: hope will be on the second round, but like I say,
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  Speaker 4: by the sounds of it, you already know who's going
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  Speaker 4: to be there, so you can't really answer that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I'm going to get
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  Speaker 2: in trouble off Kemp saying that I didn't everythink, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: Man, it's gonna be It's gonna be dope, like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: everyone is gonna's gonna really ship the bed. Yeah, it's good.
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  Speaker 3: Nice, all right, we'll move on before either of us
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  Speaker 3: gets in trouble.
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  Speaker 4: So pretty much so many bands playing, there's about to
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  Speaker 4: be heap for bands that people I've never seen before,
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  Speaker 4: which is great, but for the benefit of those unfamiliar
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  Speaker 4: with the murdering, give's a bit of a rundown on
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  Speaker 4: the band. Like I say, I haven't played in nine years,
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  Speaker 4: so there's gonna be a lot of people have actually
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  Speaker 4: heard of you before one.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred No, no one's gonna be heard of us before.
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  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be one of those like you know,
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  Speaker 2: come check it out, like check the socials. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: we've just released the first single off our EP, demon Itita.
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  Speaker 2: That's up online now so you can go scrape that out.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a new single coming out in a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks. We released a couple more tracks at the
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  Speaker 2: end of last year, just as some I guess you
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  Speaker 2: would say short form media type releases, not not full
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  Speaker 2: singles necessarily, but they go with some video and they
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's just a bit of that sort of
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  Speaker 2: being able to get your head around the project kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's it's gonna be good man.
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  Speaker 2: We we we can't wait to get up there and
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  Speaker 2: do our thing and hopefully people come check us out
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  Speaker 2: and just see what's up.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're playing you're there.
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  Speaker 4: As well, so rit it through a typical live set
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  Speaker 4: from the Murdering Go can people expect if they staggerty
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  Speaker 4: your stage.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna have like I said, we've been trying
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  Speaker 1: to do with.
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  Speaker 2: The material release last year, you know, audio visual type stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have you know a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: movie sort of thing that's.
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  Speaker 2: Been put together by ourselves playing while we're on doing
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  Speaker 2: our thing, doing our set, and yeah, it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting, that's for sure. I guess we
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  Speaker 1: just have to come and have a look.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not going to be a standard a standard
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  Speaker 2: set that could put it that way, And.
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  Speaker 4: Some of the visuals are believele and tell something similar
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  Speaker 4: to what you got behind.
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  Speaker 3: You right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's just running with the theme and
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  Speaker 2: what we're doing in the EP, the Death Process EP
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  Speaker 2: that we're doing right now. So yeah, like I say,
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  Speaker 2: it's all it's it's it's visuals as much audio with
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  Speaker 2: the songs and you know, the artwork and the videos
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  Speaker 2: that go with it and stuff that's coming.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's all a theme. I suppose you
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  Speaker 1: would say.
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  Speaker 4: No, So I want to dive into that a little
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  Speaker 4: bit deeper now of you, because you do have a
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  Speaker 4: five track EP called Death Process coming out that, from
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  Speaker 4: what I can see, is basically follows the art of
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  Speaker 4: a fictional serial killer story. So it sounds intriguing and
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  Speaker 4: fascinating and awesomely glory tell us tell us about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, you know, it was just a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a carry on from where we sort of finished when
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  Speaker 2: we stopped playing live and you know, recording and stuff,
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  Speaker 2: you know, nine ten years ago with that lyrical theme
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  Speaker 2: obviously you know of the bands, the murdering.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's bemed that way as far.
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  Speaker 2: As we wanted to come up with, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a concept for this one, not just just
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  Speaker 2: plunk out the songs and stuff. People want a bit
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  Speaker 2: more than that, I think nowadays. So you know, we
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  Speaker 2: fortunately have a really really good visual arts and editing
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  Speaker 2: and all that sort of stuff and film a guy
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  Speaker 2: in our bass player, Darryl, who operates arm company down
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  Speaker 2: in Sydney, and so he's very much into putting the
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  Speaker 2: video side and the visual aspect into the into the
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  Speaker 2: EP as well, not just the music sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: So it's going to have, you know, that sort of
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  Speaker 2: storyline put along with the music and something you can
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  Speaker 2: sort of.
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  Speaker 1: Consume on a on a level other than just listen
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  Speaker 1: to some songs, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: So then how have you structured those ideas, bro, Like,
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  Speaker 4: is it going to be like who done it? Mystery
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  Speaker 4: type murder thing or do the stories sort of pretty
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  Speaker 4: much paint what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, nothing cheesy like that. It's it's more of
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  Speaker 2: an you know, to a degree, it's it's a set out.
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  Speaker 2: It's a set out storyline, but it's interpreted as well.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose you could say.
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  Speaker 2: Whereas more leading on the psychological side of things and
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  Speaker 2: being able to sort of put pieces together yourself, not
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  Speaker 2: just sort of you know, lay everything out for you
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  Speaker 2: can interpret it in any sort of which way you want.
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  Speaker 2: I think, which is kind of cool and yeah, it'll
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  Speaker 2: kind of pieces fit together sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: As each song comes out a new piece of the.
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  Speaker 2: Storyline or arc of the storyline, we'll go along with it,
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  Speaker 2: and it can be pieced together to put a make
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  Speaker 2: a complete sort of picture by the end of it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, by the last.
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  Speaker 4: Song, A sow how much actual research did you put
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  Speaker 4: in there during this outlet?
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  Speaker 3: You could either if you could do it two ways.
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  Speaker 3: You could decide to make everything.
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  Speaker 4: Up, or you could go all in imsive and sort
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  Speaker 4: of make it make it real life.
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  Speaker 3: I guess, like, which ain't good did you take?
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  Speaker 2: I guess it just comes from like I says, it's
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  Speaker 2: the direction we sort of went when we did the
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  Speaker 2: EP from Hell back in twenty fifteen. I think that
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  Speaker 2: was maybe twenty four I can't remember. Twenty fifteen, twenty
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  Speaker 2: sixteen from Help, and that was along the same lines
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  Speaker 2: already lyrically and you know, sort of storyline wise as
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  Speaker 2: that kind of psychological arc. But it just comes from,
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  Speaker 2: I suppose, from an interest in that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean everybody loves that serial killer shit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm no different.
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  Speaker 2: I've been into that stuff for you know, twenty years
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  Speaker 2: or so. You know, It's it's just interesting, man, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's why people love it. So it was just a
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  Speaker 2: natural sort of thing goes with the band, goes with
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  Speaker 2: the theme, you know, and it's something we all sort
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  Speaker 2: of are interested in and morbidly fascinated by. So it
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  Speaker 2: was kind of easy to just keep down that path
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  Speaker 2: sort of thing. But yeah, it's I mean part I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the big chunk of its storytelling obviously, but it's taking
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  Speaker 2: it from real life.
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  Speaker 1: You know, our imitating life sort of situation.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and I also stumbled across a really miix of
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  Speaker 4: demon Ea that you did with the mentor.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't actually get a chance to listen.
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  Speaker 4: To it, but I will be after this interview that
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  Speaker 4: that looks like it'll be a lesson in brutality.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty filthy, man, Like it's it's cool as
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  Speaker 2: that was lined up, I think Jake our guitarist is
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  Speaker 2: friends with a couple of guys from your mentor and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he just came to us one day and he said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: Mention wanted to do a remix of the song or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, we're like, fucking cool, man, that sounds good.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go for it. And it's it's pretty wild.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So it was very very cool. We're super stoked
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  Speaker 2: with how it turned out. And it was cool for
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  Speaker 2: like the freedom of be able to just give that
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  Speaker 2: track to somebody and be like sort of just do
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want with.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of thing, and they go here you go,
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing. Like cool.
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  Speaker 2: I would never have, you know, never have sort of
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  Speaker 2: bored of doing that like that at any point.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it was cool man. Yeah, that's on YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: You can check that shit out.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't it be even cooler if the events are in
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  Speaker 4: the second wave of bands of the time and then
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  Speaker 4: you can do it together on stage in necrosonic You.
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  Speaker 2: Don't, man, I mean there's there's some definite voice manipulation
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  Speaker 2: stuff going on in there in the remix, that's for sure,
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  Speaker 2: But yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Up to wait to see. But too well, thanks very
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  Speaker 4: much for your time. I'd been a pleasure to speak.
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  Speaker 4: We ended up murdering and making a comeback of the
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  Speaker 4: stage after nine years at Necrosonic. Early bird tickets on sale,
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  Speaker 4: I believe they're already more than half gone, So trying
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  Speaker 4: to get yourself cheaper tickets, getting quickly in grab them.
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  Speaker 4: Otherwise you'll still be paying good day for money for
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  Speaker 4: what you're getting, but you get them cheaper right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hell yeah, man,