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Laying Down The Gauntlet With SAM BEAN From WEREWOLVES · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  So I'm saying from were Wolves up and we've got our new album Die for
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  Us coming out this Friday twelfth. It will come out on bank Camp and
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  then a week later on the nineteenth, it is going to be on streaming
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  services and physicals like all around the world. And it's a sick fucking death
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  metal album full of like absolute bullshit. Over to you, how could I
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  follow that? Mate? You've just done everything for me? So how do
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  you how you feel about the release? Bro? It's not your first radio
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  So does it does it always generate that same amount of excitement or is it
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  does it become This one's a little bit different, Like, you know,
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  it's a self release, this one, so there's been a lot of moving
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  parts and like, whereas the other ones we just like roll up to each
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  album release basically in a carriage, you know, with horses and the red
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  carpet treatment, this time around it was kind of like, no, there's
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  a lot of moving spinning plates that we're having to keep like spinning, and
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  you know, normally we'd be like already on our victory lap even before the
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  album's like sort of released. Now we're kind of like very much just staring
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  at that date, crossing the fingers that all goes well. Yeah, so
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  yeah, we're kind of quite a bit more nervous this time around, just
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  that every everything happens as it should. Yeah, But as for the response
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  for the album, like, you know, we don't worry about that,
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  We never worry about that. We've got like a pretty heinous slab of like
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  death metal that we know is absolutely pendus and that the title track, the
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  very first thing that anyone will hear when listening to the album, Die for
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  Us, is just gonna knock both their socks off and then some ah.
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  So you know, we're not worried about that, We're worried about the boring
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  bullshit like at the back of house. Yeah, like like this right now,
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  Oh no, this is honestly, this to me is the fun part.
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  One of the good things about releasing an album a year as you start
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  getting familiar faces like around the country and the world that you get to chat
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  with. So yeah, this is the good bit. This is like me
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  with a nice cold drink and like a cigar this moment. It's like when
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  I sort of jump on later tonight and you know, just worry about making
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  sure all overseas has the correct like release dates. I know everyone's going to
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  suck it up and be like, on Friday, where's the physicals? And
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  it's going to be like, listen, cunts, it's it's band camp this
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  Friday, physicals next Friday. Fucking got it. There is a downside to
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  like being total cave man death metal where was It's pretty fair to say that
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  you guys have got your own sound and people know it's you when they listen
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  to it. But is there any surprises at all on Die for Us?
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  Or is it just what people want and expect somehow? Even five albums and
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  we still managed to surprise people with just how hateful, vitriolic and abusive like
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  the albums are, so people will probably be surprised yet again by that.
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  But I know what you're asking, are we like doing any you know,
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  real changes and the other that no breakdowns or ready to do that? No,
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  no no breakdowns, no mercy, no cull out, no love,
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  nothing for anyone like under the age of like forty, none of that shit.
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  No v neck t shirts like no neck tats like no, we ain't
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  got shit that's going to appeal to anyone who wasn't there, Like in the
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  early nineties, like for Caucasus necroticism more like, you know, we're for
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  everyone who's still talking about oh my god, Mick Harris leftne palm death.
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  You know, that's that's our people. It's right there. Look there's a
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  couple you know, I'm taking the piss. There's a couple of things that
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  people are gonna sort of go about. Probably one of them is we've got
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  rock from Statistic Execution to do a little bit of yelling. On this album.
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  He appears on the track My Hate Is Strong pretty much because we thought
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  that was by far the most appropriate track for him. Why I have zero
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  idea Sadex have this song like god, I think it might be called fucking
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  Death, but the song just starts with like a good thirty thirty seconds of
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  him making like retard noises while screaming fuck you, just like repeatedly. And
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  to be honest, that's a yeah. That is a Northern star. That
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  is what we always sailing towards. That's our compass North like that song.
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  So yeah, we're pretty pumped. We got him like a involved for a
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  track. We do our normal sort of like have one slowish black metal kind
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  of track on there which is under a urinal moon spot the pun that one.
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  I'm pretty I'm pretty happy with like a couple of I think an album
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  or two ago, I started like experimenting with layering vocals, particularly almost like
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  subliminal deeps, and that song sort of like takes that to sort of new
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  heights. So it's it's a little bit different the entire album overall. We
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  if we're going for anything different for it, and we weren't, but I
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  just have to make something up, like you know, because we do get
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  asked this question a bit. There was a few tracks where I was kind
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  of like, let's make it almost anthemic or sing along something there where like
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  someone can like you know, have one fist in the air and be crushing
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  someone skulling with like a big beersteime with the other hand and sing along to
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  the chorus kind of theme. So yeah, this good for songs where like
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  you know, there's there's an actual chorus to it. To track die for
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  Us, the mid We've got a mid pace song, like I think the
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  first mid pace song we've done called fuck You Got Mine. But people have
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  to understand what you're saying when you're singing that one. I guess, so
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  you got to slow down a bit. Yeah, I don't want anyone like
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  I can't understand the lyrics, so you know, it's sort of like we
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  got them in mind, and also we all deserve to be slaves, which
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  we did the video for. Yeah, I really wanted people to get those
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  songs and if not get like all the lyrical content and the meaning what we're
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  all like sort of aiming for, I wanted them to at least get the
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  chorus. Yeah, that's enough. This probably takes some more relevance now you're
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  doing this album by yourself. But when it comes to release as singles,
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  like from a marketing perspective, like as you say, all your music is
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  abrasive and highly offensive to some people, Like do you release singles that will
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  try and offend as few people as possible or as many people as possible.
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  That's a very good question, to be honest. When it comes to the
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  singles discussion, like normally Matt and Daves like to say, we're doing this
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  and I'm like, okay, and that's about the extent of the discussion with
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  it. No, we're not afraid to put out the offensive stuff we did.
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  Having said that, like I'm very well aware now that I'm running sort
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  of like the Werewolves YouTube channel and putting our videos up on it. That's
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  stuff with like that's absolutely slathered in swearing. It does get restricted. And
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  in fact, we were releasing a whole bunch of short videos to promote like
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  the new album, and quite a lot of those had the swears in them,
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  and they were getting picked up like randomly by YouTube for like all sorts
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  of reasons, and to the point where it looked like the channel was going
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  to get taken down, which kind of sucked because that was like halfway through
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  the campaign, after we'd already come out with the we All Deserve to Be
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  Slaves film clip. So yeah, we didn't really care about it before.
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  In fact, if anything, that was sport in like putting our worst foot
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  forward. But that's what I thought. Yeah, but yeah, now kind
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  of I must admit it's something I keep half an eyeball on. But like
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  our least defensive is still far beyond most people's like mine in the sand.
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  Yeah, you've been quote a saying that Die for Us ticks every box from
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  modern death metal. Like, you guys don't seem to be the band who've
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  actually got something and goes, Yep, done that, done that, done
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  that. Like, what what do you mean by ticks every box? Ah,
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  that was just a complete fucking lie that we told everyone to like buy
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  our ship. It doesn't tick every fucking box. There's no solo's, like,
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  there's no breakdowns, you know, or all of our ear lobes are
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  intact, like you know, it just it doesn't tick every fucking box.
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  If you're an absolute fucking beast who's into absolute rabbid shites and likes getting their
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  head like sands it off with blasting and ranting, yeah, then it's going
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  to tick your great big box. But like, I'm not even sure if
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  we put that on there, we say all sorts of shit. If you
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  don't remember your people like me, remind you what you've actually said. I
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  don't know you even know if it was us or dicey or imperative like a
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  pr overseas or someone like that. But yeah, nah, it's Look,
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  it's really strange. It's old school guys like from the nineties death metal scene
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  who all have like the twenty twenty something ability to play everything just absolutely going
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  for it and giving out take on what we think like moder death metal should
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  be, and to our minds, like everyone took a bit of a wrong
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  turn, like you know, mid two thousands or whatever, when My Sugar
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  and out Gates and Nile and Origin all turned up and everyone sort of like
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  got a little bit techy and wanted to like demonstrate what an amazing musician they
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  were, and you know, everyone became very afraid of being catchy or having
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  hooks or like, you know, things like the opening riff of Morven Angels
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  Rapture, something that is just like going to catch you, grab you,
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  be savage, but you can bang your head to And so we're kind of
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  like gone way back and taken that detour where we thought metal was supposed to
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  go. So, yeah, we're heavy as fuck, we're fast as fuck,
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  but we also try and be catchy as fuck as well. That's a
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  lot of funks for one fucking band. Fucky where We'll started back in twenty
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  nineteen with the express purpose of releasing ten albums in ten years. Die for
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  us. As you reached the halfway for like, is it harder than what
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  you thought it was gonna be? One year? This year was Yes,
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  it's our hump year, Like you know, people have their fucking hump day
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  for the week. Well we've got like our hump year for releasing ten albums
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  and ten years and it's this fucking year. Look the music part of it
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  like that that goes as smooth as everyone. We're quite enjoying that, and
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  it's always like fun to do, uh and I think we we always stomp
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  that bit of it. It's this other bit now, like where where you
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  know, self releasing and suddenly the workload is just like expanded. And on
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  top of that as well, like you know, we started playing live yeah,
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  just under two years ago. Almost is kind of a joke thing,
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  Like it is a funny thing to do. Hey, wouldn't it be funny,
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  aid to create a band that like makes an album within a month and
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  gets signed the next month. What would be funnier than that? Let's just
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  play our first show like and only have one rehearsal for it, like you
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  know, yeah, yeah, dude, Like I feel I feel my impaired
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  blood pressure these days when I try and play a gig, that's for sure.
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  And then we thought it would be funny last year, like let's like
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  do a full national tour with like Mayhem and lcrate and you know, and
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  let's close out the year by touring with Archbire and ingested, slamming, exam
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  gigging album. Yeah why not? And almost unfortunately, like you know,
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  it's now we've kind of created expectations. So before everyone was just like kind
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  of flabbergasted that we'd like put out an album. Now it's kind of like
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  all right, and film clips and wins the tour and it's like, oh
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  shit, guys, it's so funny. Yeah. Yeah, it was like
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  it was a great joke to start with, but we're not laughing now.
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  But we'll make that. We'll make that ten albums, ten years of kills
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  us or everyone else. You're backing yourself in a you yeah, fuck it,
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  we'll do it. We can do it. I believe in us way
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  back again. Just but you mentioned the term caveman death metal before, which
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  is pretty accurate. Do you know the first thing I thought of and I
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  read that, I thought of Captain Caveman, and I thought that would be
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  a fucking good song to write about Captain Caveman, with you being a caveman
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  death MetalMan. We've thought about it, like and I know, sort of
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  like Matt every now and then sort of like he's like, how about we
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  sort of like you know, do a film, clear we come out like
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  gnawing bones, wearing like loincloths and shit, maybe not quite that obvious.
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  One of the things like I've sort of found with Wells is that, yeah,
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  we do raise a laugh, like you will get a chuckle out of
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  our albums, but it's a very mean sort of like laugh. It's not
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  overly joky ban and with this kind of like a bit of a thin line
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  that we sort of have to walk. So yeah, no, will never
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  come out quote as obvious as doing that, but like, yeah, we'll
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  veer off in that direction sometimes. Right. So, well, after what
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  you just said before, I'm not even gonna ask you about any shows coming
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  up for what else you got going on, because you probably tell me to
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  go myself. Let me talk about all our shows and our world tours that
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  we've got planned. We have two two shows booked on consecutive days in Melbourne
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  for September, so we're supporting Colossus on the thirteenth and then we're playing a
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  festival on a boat in Port Philip Harbor in Melbourne called Hell on the Bay.
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  And I got the lineup all fucked up last time. I think I
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  was talking about it with people, but I think we will be playing with
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  Freedom of Fear and and Harlot Nice. Yeah, so that's on the Saturday
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  night. I think they're also going out on the Friday night. But yeah,
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  we'll be at stay Gold with Colossus getting Sticky Ynys. But before that
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  happens, of course, we've got the album Die for Us, which is
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  what the release he said. Before the twelfth through to the nineteenth. They
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  keep an eye out for all of that typical Wearable's fucking awesomeness. Bro,
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  So well done. I'll be seeing you for a beer somewhere soon, Thank
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  you very much. So a man and looking forward to it. Find you'll
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