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Musical Portraits With TERRESTRIALS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Old Startland. I am Scottie, i am the singer of Terrestrials. I'm
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  Adrian, I'm playing guitar, I'm lead, I play bass. Beautiful guys,
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  thanks for joining us today. Thank you. So. Terrestrials are about
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  to release your debut album, Iridescent on December the eighth, so not far
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  away, guys. How are you feeling pretty Pantain's it's something that we have
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  been working towards for a copy of amount of time. Now, we'll probably
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  about a corner of the way through during all the Pandemics stuff, and you
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  know, we're starting to had a bit of momentum happening at that point.
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  So it's, yeah, it's been a bit of a journey, but where
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  I think it's that extra extra bit satisfying to get through it, having to
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  have a little bit of resilience and yeah, work a little bit harder to
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  get there. But yeah, tell us a bit more about the album from
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  a musical point of view and what are you're going for with its kind of
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  like we just did a lot of songwriting over the years and it's the best
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  off, but it kind of it all fits together still quite a while ago.
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  Lee put together like some order, and we've kind of worked that into
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  the album a bit with quite a few transitions actually, so it kind of
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  I wouldn't say these songs are that proggy, but the album kind of feels
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  a bit proggy. Yeah, I guess this moment moments, moments are pro
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  It's yeah, it's like Frog Green parn that. I'd say it still all
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  Sanry Brock. That sounds Esthetically, it's a different you know. I mean
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  we didn't did not owe a few different genres a little bit. It's just
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  just to touch so just to keep them interesting for us. And yeah,
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  it seems to be accessible to people sorts of music they wouldn't normally get to
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  this and to in a sort of hard drop format. I think it's I
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  almost think the the albums sort of got something for multiple people to launch onto.
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  It's musically, it's obviously heavily inspired by prog, but it's we sort
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  of dip into multiple genres in a way that it works as a as a
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  whole. We mentioned that this was your debut album, guys, So what
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  are some of the things that go through your head when when going into a
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  debut album. What do you sort of want to get right, what do
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  you want to do? I think as I do and touched on for all
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  the all the transitions. It was really very thought out. We wanted wanted
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  it to feel like in a world where music is very single orientated, we
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  wanted to we wanted to hold you know, kicks to that old tradition of
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  making a full album that someone can listen to from the start and finish.
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  And it really makes sense, tense why everything is in its place, Everything's
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  got a everything's got a moment in time in that album. What is what
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  some of the themes running through the music on there? You got particular things
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  to the album? Or is every song sort of stand on the same merit
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  like lyrically? Yeah, self reflection, personal growth and empowerment. Hence the
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  cover, it's sort of embodied self discovery and almost like metamorphosis I suppose not
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  the image itself, but it's like developing as a as a human going through
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  although the image was a fly fucking itself, to be honest, let's go
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  with that. You can write that. So you've realised the singles are hollow
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  hands, triggers and perennial trials to day, So are they you? Good?
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  Sunny? Representation of what to expect overall, I guess so, but
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  also there's there's a lot more to uh lot more variance to expect. I
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  think we're sort of sort of got like the issue different genres. I suppose,
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  like the sort of there's a popular song in there, there's a hard
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  Mark song. Yeah. I guess those three singles felt like like they've represented
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  each of those different sort of feelings of vibes, but they're certainly more more
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  themes musically to experience. The most recent single, High Hands, features lots
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  of wacky inflatable men in the video kind of through that what was going on
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  there? When did that even't start? It was started from a brainstorming session.
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  Yeah, I think we've always thought that they were in there. It's
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  just like the inflatables you've seen. Yeah, I think I think I saw
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  one online just from Amazon the cheap. I don't know why it was advertised
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  to me, but I thought it was great. So I got nine of
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  them and we started. We're just like brainstormed a much stupid ideas that we
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  thought would look funny, and we actually had like probably enough footage to make
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  another video. God. Yeah, so we had to cut down a lot,
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  but we still thought it was pretty funny. But they were just so
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  dumb and hilarious that we had to use it someone and I missed the band
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  meeting where we was filming What Park, so I got to give birth to
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  one so famous I'd run through the press all these guys. That refers to
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  your ability to create intensely dark, melodic moods through subtle heats of prog rock
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  and metal on the album. Like, I know, I didn't write it,
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  but it sounds fucking good. Like what do they mean by that?
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  And I guess we sure it's sort of shifts throughout feelings and vibes. We're
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  going to really stick to one sort of one sort of feeling or move We'd
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  like to express ourselves differently, I suppose musically, lyrically, emotionally, everything.
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  Somehow, it all still sounds like us, even even of the song's
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  moods changed quite a bit. I think we just sound like terrestrials, which
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  is just cool. I think it's a big part of that because all our
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  influences are quite different, so having them all mixed together just creates something a
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  little bit different. I think, like, also, we want to to
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  encapitulate the fact that not everybody feels like listening to the same thing or playing
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  the same thing every day. I mean, there are a lot of bands
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  that doing that and that's taniche and that's cool. But for us, we
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  sort of we wanted to express ourselves in these different styles of music because we
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  don't ever just want to do the same thing all the time. Yeah,
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  I guess the diversity of music and themes is the overarching thing there with that
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  particular quote, it's also an element of just fun in playing that variety of
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  music, kind of like what if what if we sort of missing in this
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  song because it feels like there's something lacking and we'll try seven eight different and
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  then something will be kind of juxtaposed in a way but it works at the
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  same time, or we'll just sort of sit with it for a while and
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  go, yeah, that's a really fun section of this song, and it
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  just keeps things interesting for us as well. And then once once we're sort
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  of vibing like that, kind of like how do we make it as accessible
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  as possible and seeing what's as possible within the song, and then yeah,
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  just sort of a lot of it's expressing ourselves and enjoying ourselves rather than writing
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  with a specific thing in mind. It's just that felt right, so we
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  work on it. So it's all about being authentic. And you recently played
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  a Melbourne show with Suck a Punchback in November, mate, So how was
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  that show fucking great? Yeah? They absolutely wrong play a fucking great So
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  it's really awesome to hang out with and play with. So I think this
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  is a beautiful time played with them, so we got to know them a
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  little bit. Yeah. I feel like our brother's in a way because we
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  played him some times. I think our style of music and our levels of
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  bitter miror theirs in some ways I think we have We maybe have a little
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  bit more serious moments, but I feel like they're fans gel with us fairly
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  well. So we're a good match. And the room was vibing like it
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  was. It was pretty full. It's good energy and we need that.
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  We were in three good one and I think we played really well. I
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  think we felt like gay it was. It was a great time. Yeah.
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  We also launch hands at night, so we had a six foot way
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  you go up on stage. Yeah, so slapping out good fun. Got
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  asked the kick questions after what was that all about? Did manage to punch
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  out? Maybe maybe us a couple of times? Yeah? How did you
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  got to us? We've got We've got an album, Laus from the sixteen
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  I keep getting confused. Sixteen of this is Embart Saturday at the Top in
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  town in right in the middle of Melbourne, absolute on Swanson's Free. So
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  we'll be playing with a couple of mates. Bands who are awesome, a
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  band called Figures, like a hard hard rock alternative band who's been run for
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  a while. Santia and Crystal Leans. So yeah, work for full band
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  line up and absolutely parts for it was twenty twenty four shaping up for trust
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  yours. Guys, what do you got playing? Well, we've already got
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  some office to play some shows, so that's promising. We'll be trialing a
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  new dramma soon and then we'll smash out as many shows as we possibly can,
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  hopefully jump on someone's tour if anyone's out there, I want to want
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  to take us on tour with it. We're wearing to go. I think
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  that'd be gay a support slot on tour. That's fine, Collo right,
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  boys, Well, thanks very much for your time today. Your debut album
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  are sent. He's out of December eighth, so best what I've heard of.
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  But she's a cracky guard so I've been at guys well for her legend.
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  What's the man? I'm heaving and then myself out from under the landlide,
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  deladed with a little rush of luck. You'll delight internalize and ruin ship.
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  Never got a kid on this stage, minimizing its wren and I can
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  make joice go of the that's oons. Don't to fail the way that I
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  be a sola say, I know this, don't sell no reveling of the
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  soon, mom, nonsto shape this stone to leave since that rare substenicial possibility
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  kill a bad initia, I'm never goot a kidding, still kidding, And
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  I couldn't make the choice. Do the s that you own? Don't so
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  feel the word that didn't your soul. I know this, don't snail real
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  feel enough to ta I'm going to gas Halloween. I'm back