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Venturing Into Heavier Territory With KURT From VARRIM · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 3: I'm Big Kurt.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the vocalist of a Rim Townshall Death outfit. We're
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  Speaker 1: made up of Scott Blair, Brendan, Danny Boy and myself
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  Speaker 1: and we're here to have a chat about a brand
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  Speaker 1: new single that's coming out Saturday at twenty first and
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  Speaker 1: February called Cartography.
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  Speaker 2: Yeahful, Kurt, thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 3: Rather no, thank you, thanks for opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: My absolutely pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: So, as you say, Baron release your new single, Carnography
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  Speaker 4: this Saturday, February the twenty first. So how are you feeling?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, super hyped.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of hard work that always goes into
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  Speaker 1: any release that any musician can relate to. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of hard work in terms of all of us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we will have jobs and families and all
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  Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. But we've been just itching to
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  Speaker 1: get this one out. We've had it in the back
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  Speaker 1: pocket since we dropped Exhume so well over a year now.
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  Speaker 3: So more than anything, we're just we're so ready to
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  Speaker 3: share this with.
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  Speaker 1: The world, and to have a music video to come
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  Speaker 1: with it as well is very exciting.
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  Speaker 2: No, So tell us me more about the song from
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  Speaker 2: a musical point of view. What you're done for with it.
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  Speaker 3: We just wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: I guess we've really found out DNA as brim in
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  Speaker 1: this track. Personally, I found with Exhume, I felt like
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  Speaker 1: we were almost there. But I feel like carnography is
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  Speaker 1: definitely what we're aiming for groovier, trying to keep that
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  Speaker 1: heavy nature as well. We want people to be able
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  Speaker 1: to headbang, throw it down, feel all sorts of different
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  Speaker 1: emotions in the one you know, sort of set or
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  Speaker 1: through each track, but canography is there just to rip
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  Speaker 1: your face off, and we hope everyone can really relate
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  Speaker 1: to that.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's actually the perfect segue into my next question, mate,
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  Speaker 4: Like the press release says that it's your most focused
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  Speaker 4: and violent material to date, so you obviously agree.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, And it's been It's been really fun to
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  Speaker 1: touch in on that because for anyone that knows me personally,
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  Speaker 1: I'm such a big gentle job and stuff, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I love metal and all aspects of it and everything.
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  Speaker 1: So to tap into that with with my boys in
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  Speaker 1: the band, it's been so fun. So like our lead
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  Speaker 1: guitarist Blair, that's my older brother, so you know, to
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  Speaker 1: have that as well too, bros.
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  Speaker 3: In a band doing their thing. It's very cool.
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  Speaker 1: But Blair wrote the song everything that you'll hear from
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  Speaker 1: the aggressive nature of the yeah, the riffs, the.
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  Speaker 3: Groove, all of that.
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  Speaker 1: And it was Scott, our drummer who actually brought the
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  Speaker 1: concept of the song and made it carnography and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: which we drew inspiration and what the video became to be,
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  Speaker 1: which is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So the song starts with a spoken word piece outlining
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  Speaker 4: the meaning of cartography, so runs through that meaning and
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  Speaker 4: how it relates to the song.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the meaning in particular, well the start of the song,
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  Speaker 1: it gives you the definition of what it is. So
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  Speaker 1: I'll let that one play on for the listeners when
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  Speaker 1: the track's ready to go. But in particular, carnography is
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  Speaker 1: a fusion of the word carnage and pornography mixed into one.
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  Speaker 1: And Scott, he's a big Rambo fan, loves Rambo and
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  Speaker 1: he's got all the books. And I might be wrong
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  Speaker 1: here for any Rambo fans and for Scott when you
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  Speaker 1: watch this, but through it one of the stages of
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  Speaker 1: the book.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a first release. There was a
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  Speaker 1: review written about it and someone first used the word
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  Speaker 1: carnography in like nineteen seventy two in this review and
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  Speaker 1: sort of no one knew the definition of it, and
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  Speaker 1: then sort of became, I guess a generalized word or
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  Speaker 1: started to become familiar on people's vocabulary. But then Rambo,
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  Speaker 1: like the writers and stuff, tapped into that and used
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  Speaker 1: it in I think it was the fourth edition of
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  Speaker 1: the book, and in the music video at the very
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  Speaker 1: start you'll see what he was Scott, wait up out
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  Speaker 1: of bed. If you guys have a little look over
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  Speaker 1: to the right of the screen. As he gets up
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  Speaker 1: out of his bed. He's got a little like a
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  Speaker 1: workout kid and big fellas like me don't know what
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  Speaker 1: that means. So it's like anyway, it's there, and he's
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  Speaker 1: got the Rambo book and a Rambo knife, which we
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  Speaker 1: use in the music video as well for him to
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  Speaker 1: kill someone.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no talking music video, mate, Like, I've got to
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  Speaker 4: know what it's about. You got carnage, pornography, and Rambo like,
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  Speaker 4: tell us what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the interesting thing was that, like I said, Scott
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  Speaker 1: brought the concept to it, but everyone can relate on this.
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  Speaker 1: So the music video is about just an ordinary dude
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  Speaker 1: going through their day and you just from the get go.
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  Speaker 1: You're just having a shit start, right, You wake up bluddy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you go to brush your teeth as a
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  Speaker 1: pube on your toothbrush, things like that.
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  Speaker 3: I want to I don't want to give too much
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  Speaker 3: away because that makes up. But you'll see that.
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  Speaker 1: And just throughout his day, he'll go to work, he'll
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  Speaker 1: go just to the shop to get something or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and he just runs into other dickheads or has altercations
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  Speaker 1: where in the real world we just got to bite
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  Speaker 1: our tongue or you know, and just be like, shit,
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  Speaker 1: it's all good, just pass it on. But in the
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  Speaker 1: back of my mind, we just want to funck shit
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  Speaker 1: up right, We just want to kill you.
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  Speaker 3: Get that angry? He just that's it.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess he goes through his whole day with
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  Speaker 1: all these misdemeanors things happening, he just gets to a
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  Speaker 1: point where he loses shit and he goes back and
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  Speaker 1: he murders every single one of those people that props
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  Speaker 1: him for that day.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like it started a fucking good movie to.
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  Speaker 3: Me, well hopefully, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And where we tapped into that was doing all the
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  Speaker 1: video and stuff. We did that with Eric locally here
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  Speaker 1: in Towntal and great to work with. Special shout out
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  Speaker 1: to him. But the idea when Scott and us we're
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  Speaker 1: all talking about it and coming together, we were like, well,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to play by Scott. You're playing the main
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  Speaker 1: dude that has a shit day and goes back and
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  Speaker 1: kills everyone, and the.
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  Speaker 3: People you are going to kill us.
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  Speaker 1: So you will see that in the video, which was
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  Speaker 1: so much fun to play with.
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  Speaker 4: Picture Cutography is the first song released from the upcoming
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  Speaker 4: five track EP Devourens, so it represents the EP in
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  Speaker 4: a sense, So why choose this particular song.
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  Speaker 1: Well, more importantly, I think we sort of built this
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  Speaker 1: EP from the birth of Carnography in a way, because
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  Speaker 1: they've had Carnography in the back pocket for a while
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  Speaker 1: and it was just like I said, I think we
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  Speaker 1: found out DNA with this track.
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  Speaker 3: Since then, the boys have just been grinding out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like Blair and Dan Urgatyres writing songs. We're
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  Speaker 1: all just practicing when we can and whatnot. But the
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  Speaker 1: Virrence is going to be made up of five tracks.
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  Speaker 1: Chinography is going to be in there, and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be our heaviest to date and we can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to share it and it'll be out sometime this year.
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  Speaker 4: Now, you mentioned the tracking zoomed before AND's heavier direction.
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  Speaker 2: I guess started with that song.
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  Speaker 4: So is this EP you going to be more of
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  Speaker 4: the same, Like, is this what you expect from you
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  Speaker 4: guys moving forward?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're going to be going for heavier.
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  Speaker 1: Really, we're just trying to, I don't know, just put
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  Speaker 1: it all out there because that's what we do when
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  Speaker 1: we're in the band room, when we practice and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we do when we get together like real
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  Speaker 1: best mates, and we love it.
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  Speaker 3: But this is our passion.
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  Speaker 1: We just love playing heavy music and as well as
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  Speaker 1: just trying to tap into.
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  Speaker 3: Being a bit more.
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  Speaker 1: Better in certain aspects of different things like for me personally,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get better at different vocal techniques and whatever else.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of that is quite hard when every
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  Speaker 1: other aspect of trying to be a band, all that
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  Speaker 1: stuff comes into it. But we're really just trying to
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  Speaker 1: make everything a whole lot heavier to our previous material.
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  Speaker 2: Do I want to say heavy, eat, chock and vocally musically.
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  Speaker 1: All the above, yeah, all around, guitars, drums, vocals. I
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  Speaker 1: guess we're all from a background like for me, I'm
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  Speaker 1: the odd one out in the band.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a metalcore kid.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I killed the prom Queen, things like that. And
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  Speaker 1: these boys are from a background of like a thrash background,
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  Speaker 1: pan Tera, death Metal, Nile, all that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So to come together and bring it all in is
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  Speaker 1: really nice. And that's what is making up for Rim,
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  Speaker 1: which you guys will see in the Devarans EP.
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  Speaker 4: Nice and what is the rest of twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 4: and beyond look like.
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  Speaker 1: For At the moment, we're really working on trying to
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  Speaker 1: get this EP done in the background, so recorded, mix
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  Speaker 1: and mastered and whatnot, as well as we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: line up some shows. But the biggest thing right now
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  Speaker 1: is for us is to get this EP mixed, mastered,
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  Speaker 1: recorded in the back pocket so that we can start
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  Speaker 1: planning ahead and getting some shows lined up, some tours
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  Speaker 1: by insane that there's anyone out there listening to this
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  Speaker 1: that wants to get for Rim, give us a hand out,
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  Speaker 1: or wants to see a show wherever hit us up.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no frecking harm, self pluging man. What's the
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  Speaker 4: best place for people.
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  Speaker 2: To keep up to day with the band?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely well? Facebook, Instagram, TikTok as well. We've also got
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  Speaker 1: a website you can go check you out on our socials.
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  Speaker 1: We're on all music platforms, Apple Music, Spotify, things like that.
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  Speaker 1: In particular, for Chinography, you can pre save it now
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  Speaker 1: Spotify the track itself, but the music video. Really want
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  Speaker 1: to pump that, guys. If you can go and through
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  Speaker 1: some love around that over on YouTube, you can pre
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  Speaker 1: save it now this Saturday, the twenty first of the
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  Speaker 1: second have to give a massive shout out to Mike
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  Speaker 1: Drewbetskoff from EOL Studios for mix and mastering Carnography at
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  Speaker 1: a shout out to Luke Shredder for letting us record
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  Speaker 1: drums again here in Towntall.
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  Speaker 4: Sans say Bro and Carnography is out this Saturday, February
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  Speaker 4: twenty first. Is bloody good song so best of Luck
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  Speaker 4: with It, which being premiered through Heavy this Friday, the
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  Speaker 4: twenty February at five pm Queensland. So if you want
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  Speaker 4: to get a sneak beak, get in there.