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Bringing Brutality To The Table With CHRIS From HEBEPHRENIQUE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Chris from Hippophrenic. I did the vocals. We're a five
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  Speaker 1: piece extreme metal band from Brisbane, Australia. I've been working
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  Speaker 1: on this project since roughly about twenty twenty three. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: playing Necrosonic this year. It's a really really killer lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Really excited to see ballso again. Yeah, it should be awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Man, that's it, Chris, thanks for joining us, brother.
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  Speaker 1: I no problem at all.
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  Speaker 3: As you say, made Hey Briffernique one of thirty bands
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  Speaker 3: to send it on Brisbane's Mansfield tap it on August
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  Speaker 3: at twenty third for Necrosotic Festival twenty twenty five. Like,
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  Speaker 3: it's still a few months off yet made, but I
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  Speaker 3: know I'm excited, how about you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, really really excited. Yeah, we're kind of. We
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  Speaker 1: actually got asked last year and unfortunately, just with scheduling
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't make it happen, and luckily we got to
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  Speaker 1: do it this year. And yeah, we're actually bringing in
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  Speaker 1: our debut album this time around with us, so get
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  Speaker 1: to play some live songs that have never been played before,
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  Speaker 1: which is really exciting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Anice, So the festival features, as you said before,
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  Speaker 3: there's balls out, there's poort all the Days and a Laram,
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  Speaker 3: Frankenbot Bean Flipper. The list just goes on, mate, But
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  Speaker 3: who are the top three bands that you can't miss
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  Speaker 3: on the day?
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  Speaker 1: Excited to see him? Pestrichell on a really big stage,
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  Speaker 1: that'd be cool. I remember seeing them with Morbid Angel
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  Speaker 1: a couple years ago. That was awesome. Seas are going
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  Speaker 1: to be really good, Melinda Dura another really cool Brison
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  Speaker 1: bands playing as well. Yeah, it's pretty solid line.
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  Speaker 2: And it is man, it is now. This is a
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  Speaker 2: tough one, bro, because, like I know, from my point
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  Speaker 2: of view as.
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  Speaker 3: A putter how I feel and how much I look
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  Speaker 3: forward to a festival this, But from your point of
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  Speaker 3: view as a musician, like, do you still get the
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  Speaker 3: same level of excitement about a festival because you've got
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  Speaker 3: to play and it's working little bit?
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  Speaker 2: You sort of got to look at it differently.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, it's it's it's still really exciting. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have pretty much a new album to push, so
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  Speaker 1: being able to work up towards that he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be pretty exciting. And no, it should be cool. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a big day, right it is?
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  Speaker 2: What drip are you guys on your day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not not not too sure just yet, mate.
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  Speaker 2: Know.
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  Speaker 3: So last year's inaugural Necrosotic was a massive success, which
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  Speaker 3: no doubt led to a cover back this year.
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 3: How good is it just seeing a festival of this
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  Speaker 3: made up of mostly Australian bands. They're all brutal as fuck, Like,
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  Speaker 3: it's sort of it's great to see the little little guys,
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  Speaker 3: I guess getting into it.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's fantastic to see Keno work his way back
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  Speaker 1: to where he was and he took a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a break from putting on shows and he's sort of
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  Speaker 1: come back all fire burning, you know, from from all account,
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  Speaker 1: last year was successful enough to be able to bring
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  Speaker 1: some international bands over, which is really cool to see.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and like to say, man hat soft, you can't
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  Speaker 3: organize it, Like I know from experience, putting together a
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  Speaker 3: four band lineup is a headache, So put thirty bands
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  Speaker 3: on must be a fucking nightmare.
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  Speaker 2: He's eager, that's one way to put it. Now.
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  Speaker 3: One road think about festivals like this is a chance
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  Speaker 3: to see bands for the first time that you might
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  Speaker 3: not have heard of before. So just say Hebrew Fredika
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  Speaker 3: is one of those bands for someone that hasn't hurt
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  Speaker 3: you before?
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  Speaker 2: Tell us a bit more about you guys.
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  Speaker 1: H Yeah, so it's it's extreme metals. We've sort of
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  Speaker 1: got the influencers from early black injustmental bands from the nineties.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's very We're very focused on the production
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  Speaker 1: and the stage sounds to provide like a very unique
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  Speaker 1: sort of package. It's frantic, it's and it has quiet parts.
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  Speaker 1: The vocals are just unhinged and it's just designed to hurt. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: come on and check out a.
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  Speaker 2: Way to put it.
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  Speaker 3: How about a typical live show from you guys? What's
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  Speaker 3: like he's got a typical live show? Has it changed
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  Speaker 3: from show?
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  Speaker 1: So this this cycle that we're doing is obviously going
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  Speaker 1: to have a few of our album songs on it,
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  Speaker 1: so being able to play them for the first time
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be awesome. But yeah, like we'll be
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  Speaker 1: playing three songs of our he that came out two
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and yeah, it's just it's strap yourself in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Nice.
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  Speaker 3: So there's one quote in the press release you sent
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  Speaker 3: me that that says here and a coal form to
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  Speaker 3: embody the fractured psyche in the modern world. Like I
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  Speaker 3: don't even know what that means, but it sounds cool
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  Speaker 3: as fuck.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. A lot of the lyrical themes in here
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  Speaker 1: deal with mental health and mental disorders, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we all come from a pretty breaking place and sort
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  Speaker 1: of trying to channel that into the music and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so it's just encompassing that ideology into the artwork, into
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  Speaker 1: the lyrics and just really making it something really confronting
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  Speaker 1: has always been our goal and nice.
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  Speaker 3: And you've mentioned debut full Leck album that'll be company
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  Speaker 3: out this year, bro, so tell us a bit more
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  Speaker 3: about that.
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  Speaker 2: What more can you tell us?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're actually looking releasing it on Necrosonic Day, so
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  Speaker 1: August twenty third. Yeah, I can let you know that
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  Speaker 1: the album is called The Cassis. Yeah, it will be
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  Speaker 1: coming out in August, and we'll have copies available the show.
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  Speaker 1: It's forty minutes of just relentless extreme wait back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they had that was a different music
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  Speaker 3: for your twenty twenty three EP, Non compost Mentis.
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  Speaker 1: Non compass Mentis was a lot more urgent and a
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  Speaker 1: lot more frantic. I felt we had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: riffs that just moved like a steam train, And with
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  Speaker 1: The Cassis, we really sort of tried to create more
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  Speaker 1: of a mood and a cinematic feel with the compositions,
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  Speaker 1: So I guess it has more of a black metal
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  Speaker 1: aesthetic to a lot of It moves and shifts a
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  Speaker 1: lot more, and it's less impulsive with the riff structures. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're really really excited about actually being able to play
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  Speaker 1: these songs live and hopefully you can pull them off.
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  Speaker 3: Where's the best place for people to find out more
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  Speaker 3: about the band and keep up.
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  Speaker 2: With what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, So we have our label, got a Prince cabol
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  Speaker 1: who have a lot of information from us. We've got
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  Speaker 1: our Facebook page, we've got an Instagram page. They're always
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  Speaker 1: up to date with our movements and what we're up to.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, nice brother, nice all right, Chris, Well, thanks
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  Speaker 3: for your toime.
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  Speaker 2: Ro It's been a pleasure speaking with you.
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  Speaker 3: Heavera friendy at Necrosonic at the Mansfield Tavern on twenty
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  Speaker 3: third of August with thirty other bands, And as you say,
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  Speaker 3: the album's out the same day, so make sure you
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  Speaker 3: take an extra thirty bucks with you and buy a copy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for having us mate. Look forward to and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see that