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Fully Sick Crnts With NICK & DOM From SUFFER THE EVENUE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Right. Oh well, one name is Nick Donalan. I do the vocals
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  for Suffer the Avenue and on my right here I've got Donal Glasco and he's
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  the lead guitarist. He does all the heavy lifting here. Here are you
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  going? Brother? Thanks for joining us and no thanks for having us,
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  no worries that at all. So we're here. Should I need to talk
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  about the fact that Suffer the Avenue are premier in your new single Sick Current
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  by Heavy on September the first, So, firstly, tell us a bit
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  about the song. Guys, it's pretty sick. There was a song that's
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  so so. I recently entered this band on fourteen and fifteen months ago and
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  they come to me with a few sort of skeletons of songs, and this
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  was one of the ones that we worked on straight off the bat, and
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  we just well sort of fell in love with each other a broke kind of
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  way with this track. Yeah, it was good to like, as we
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  were on the search for a new singer, have a couple of songs to
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  just throw out to someone to say, here, listen to this, see
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  what you come back with. But also when we wrote this song, it's
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  sort of just fell together, like and then we brought in a new singer
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  who just grabbed it and that fell together and it's just one of our favorite
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  as a whole. She's a massive beast of the song guys that blends a
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  variety of john And so where did you come up with that sound? It's
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  it's like out there, but it's really effective. I guess the scener like
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  the sound is just it's literally every influence we have in ourselves. And then
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  we take that to the jam room and it's like it just comes together when
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  you're in a room together, playing together. Like it's not really anything that
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  we've set out to sound like we just someone starts here, someone starts there,
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  says what do you think of this? Trif? What do you think
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  of that? It's like we build on the spot and it's hard to sort
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  of say where that is, like our sound comes from, because it does
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  build more organically in the gym room, which speaking personally, I wouldn't have
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  it any other way, Like it's yeah, a good way to do things
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  and not of fine coming into this Like I'll sit here on sitting on them
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  gemman away and everyone will throw some opinions out there and things just gell really
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  well, and what will happen is, well, I'll take a recording home,
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  I'll work on some lyrics, and then the next time we catch up,
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  I'll throw those lyrics down and then it sort of just changes a little
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  bit more and then before you know, we've all come together with a full
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  song. And Yeah, they always come with that sort of a new Man
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  all post grunge, post punk sort of style. Yeah, it definitely depends
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  on what we're listening to at the time. Yeah, it's heavily influenced by
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  like current what we're listening to, but we also yeah, drawing past inspirations
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  as well, So it's hard to say exactly how these songs happen. It's
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  just the magic of the Gamman yea. And the song also comes with the
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  cree Fuck video guys, So tell us a bit about that. Well,
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  I made me and Jay Pulaskis on the drums. He loves it. He
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  just loves it. So he had no idea for a film clip and we
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  sort of just went with went along with the flow really and he did a
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  lot of the backwork. He does a lot of the back work, background
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  stuff, and yeah, put some ideas to us leading up to it the
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  week's getting in and then we knew what to bring on the day and we
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  just had a big shriek, a big street day and just had some fun
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  with it. And I think the idea was to have the dead dead Head
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  ted to sort of stalk us all through the video and without saying too much,
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  we've got some plans going forward for the next film clip or two as
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  well, sort of like making a common theme. Now people listen to this
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  can't actually see how the name of this song current spell but it's sick.
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  Then the second word is cr and G. Now I was looking at that
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  earlier and I thought he'd replaced the U with an R, but apparently it's
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  not. It's current. Well, it's up for interpretation to the listener.
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  Yeah, we just wanted to read whatever they want, and that's exactly right.
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  They can callt whatever they want as long as they enjoy it very But
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  so I'm going to choose the the former one, mate, because I'm a
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  big fan of the word cut. But you could replace the U letter or
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  symbol in the alphabet at all, Like what choose the letter are like if
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  you flip it up so down it's the closest thing like a lower case are
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  I'll give you that, I'll give you that one. The song is also
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  the lead single from your upcoming four track EP Volume one, Super Dead,
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  which is coming out of September fifteen. So is it a good sonic representation
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  or what to expect? Yes, in a way, Yes, we have
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  three songs and a cover on there. So the cover is probably the closest
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  thing to what we could find that we sounded like that we would perform well
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  live. The other two songs are in the same vein, but definitely a
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  little bit different, like everything we've written I feel so far has always been
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  a little bit different and nothing it's like, we'll know two songs are the
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  same. Yeah, we try and steer away from sounding like we wrote every
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  single song within two weeks, where it was all the same influence, all
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  the same sound style, and just procedure for writing, because personally, I
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  feel like when you write songs too quickly, you get a little bit formulaic
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  and just sort of piece everything together the exact same way of the exact same
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  time, whereas if you give it a little bit of time to breathe,
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  they take different directions, which I think a lot of these songs do,
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  and the first four songs on this EP probably cover the best best amount of
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  diversity we've actually written. I feel yeah. Now because there's only four songs
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  on there, we've got time to go through them individually. So we've got
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  sick tarrant out of the way, you guys, So tell us a bit
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  more about Saturday Friends. Well, Saturday Friends, that's actually my personal favorite.
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  But I love that song. I might have been wrong before. I
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  think that might have been the first one I had was too possibly, I
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  don't know, I can't remember, but I just remember when I did Saturday
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  Friends. I just had a hook in mind for that chorus, and somehow
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  that worked. I couldn't believe it when I when I come with the hook
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  and the lads were actually happy with it, I was like, oh shit,
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  I've actually done something right here to start off. And yes, Saturday
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  Friends is actually my favorite song also because the lyrics there were just heavily influenced
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  with things that happened in my previous job experienced with a what I deem as
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  a person has been a bit of a predator, and what the lyrics are
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  heavily about. But we thought we'd cover it with a nice friendly name called
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  Saturday Friends Friendship. Next time, You've got a cover of the Prime of
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  five five song loose, So tell us about that and then why you chose
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  to cover that song. So I had a Apple playlist that was I Really
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  missed You, Madam, and I've never heard the song before, and it
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  came up and it was just as Nick was sort of coming into the fold.
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  I was like, this has like what we want to be and what
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  we want to sound like written all over it. So we like just floated
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  in the group chat and everyone's sort of stuck to it, and we tried
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  in the jam room and it felt really good, and we've played it live
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  and it felt really good, and we thought if like we'd like to have
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  a cover, just to have something for people to like, hopefully something that
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  they connect too, like we like to have a cover in the set,
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  but this one just it jumps. It's an absolute great song, so we
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  kept it. It's always performed well and we just feel like it's a good
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  representation of the sound we wanted to go for playing that. Playing that song
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  live, it's fucking bouncing that one. They close us out, which tell
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  us a bit about that one. Well, say, Thang is heavily written
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  influenced by Jay the Drummer, and that is the one track that that's all
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  his lyrics. I'm pretty sure lys Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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  yeah. He gave me these lyrics and I had to look over him and
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  had to make a few alterations with where they sat. But I just looked
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  at it was like this is yeah, this is great and then yeah yeah,
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  Dom DT, Damian the Bassis, they all just come up with some
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  really big, big sounds for that track. It just really has a lot
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  of soul a lazy word, but it just feels like that song has a
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  lot of feeling yeah, feeling good word like. There's a lot of emotion
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  you can feel in the riffs, like it's very distressed the whole way through.
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  But it's a little bit nody, but we can like it's probably the
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  closest who what we'd write if we were trying to sound like death Like.
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  It's very like, yeah, distressed chord structures and all that sort of jazz.
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  But it's one of my favorites. It's got some nice guitar parts I
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  like to play. So believe that by virtue of the volume one. In
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  the title, I'm assuming that there's going to be fair that releases to go
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  with it. Nah, totally wrong. This is volume one volume all.
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  We we do have stuff in the works too, maybe maybe you down the
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  track, but sort of got other wheels turning in the background, which will
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  progress with well promoting this one and sort of given these songs there spot in
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  the daylight. Yeah, this is this is just the beginning. We do
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  have a plan going forward, and we're very excited. First of all,
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  we're excited to get this out there. I don't mean personally, I'm I'm
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  a person I'm pretty never satisfied. So I know, once we release this
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  pretty within the first two weeks, I'll be like, let's get this second
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  go on, because we do have more more in the works, and as
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  much as I'm pumped for this one, I'm already ready to go for the
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  next round. So there will be more to come, we know, And
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  like we're still maybe every couple of weeks in the gym and righting new stuff.
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  So the look ahead is first and foremost for us. We just want
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  to keep writing. We have such a good time doing it together, like
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  it's it's a day out lock yourself in a room. Three good friends hash
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  out of on and look. Sometimes they fall together, sometimes they don't,
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  but it's just good bonding time altogether. Have you got any many live shows
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  planned? Do I promote the EP? Yeah? We do. We have
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  got two coming up forgive me here, but I think it's the third lengh
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  of October in Gaula, the first one, and then we've got one on
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  the ninth of December dawn Fest. There between that we've got locked in.
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  Before I let you go, guys, I started a new thing, a
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  new got three new Spotify playlists through Have you just based on songs from the
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  artists that I speak to, so using your own songs, I want you
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  to give me one for the playlist that's to get the party started, one
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  for the playlist that could save your marriage, and one for the playlist that
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  could potentially end your marriage. To get the party started, louse, I
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  know what to cover, but Lewis, alright, Lewis is going to get
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  the party started. We would see be the one that seek yes, okay,
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  I'll just give to the end. Okay, sorry sorry. The one
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  that would save your marriage would probably be se Fang just because it sounds pretty.
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  And then the one that would definitely ruin it would be sick hone strictly
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  for the spelling of current. Are you guys already in my arm, in
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  my chop chine Just for spelling that like that, It's a fucking champion effort,
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  beautiful. We'll try to do something more special in the next epair.
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  Very good, guys, and I will thank very much for your time tonight.
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  Sit Current comes out on September, the first premiered through Heavy so Wrap.
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  Yours are actually the cracker of its on, guys, and look forward
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  to hearing the rest of it. Your beady Chris, I appreciate it.
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  Chris, you're good man.