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Don't Fear The Reaper With DESIREE HANCOCK & JAKUB KYRAL From WICKED ENVY · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Well, I'm Daz, I'm from Sydney rock band Wicked Envy, and I
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  play well I seeing in the play keys, and I'm Yakubam, the bass
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  player and backing vocals for Wicked Envy. Beautiful guys, thanks for joining us
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  this evening, Thanks for having Thanks for having us. Chris my absolute pleasure.
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  So Wicked Envy are premiering your new single, Final Descent via heavy On
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  during the fifth at five pm, before the official released through all major streaming
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  services the following day. Like, I've been lucky enough to have listened to
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  the track, guys, and it's a bit of a beast. It's fucking
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  good. Oh, that's so nice of me to say thank you. It's
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  not a It starts off with faded vocals and like an a lolmost ambient intro
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  before quickening and then exploded with drums and so it's like it's got a nice,
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  steady, unnerving passage. It's highly effective. Like was that the point
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  going into it? Like, did you try and plan around that way?
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  No? So originally it was going to be very hard rock clu we've done
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  in the past, and then we went to the studio and our producer Clay
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  was very much we have to make a few changes. What are some of
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  your influences on the song where you wanted to go and Des and I were
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  talking about it, and we wanted this very spirit box with sleep token ambient
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  vibe, very modernized sound like. Yeah, we've been speaking with our producer,
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  so jump in. We've been speaking with our producer, Clayton from Brain
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  Studios, and yeah, we wanted to go into that more modernized like direction
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  because we're pretty much classic rock, hard rock based with a little bit of
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  dark vibes, so now we wanted to kind of push for that modern feel.
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  So like luck have said, more spirit box and you know, there's
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  I think only three variations of the song and then it ended up on the
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  on the day of recording, we just ended up going, this is what
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  we're doing. This is the style, so that that first opening riff that
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  da Da Da Da Dad was written right there on the day for a guitar
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  recording. That's what we're going with. Wow, that's cool, that's the
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  same. You mentioned that you've given it a bit of a modern feel,
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  like you're you're I suppose that the basic you play more often is a hard
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  rock sort of stuff. So how hard is it as a band just on
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  the fry to sort of try and add those different elements that you don't they're
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  not really comfortable with. I guess it was tough, very challenging. For
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  me, not so much so. I'm very more of a modern medical bass
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  player and guitar player, so for me it was very easy to pick up.
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  But for the rest of the band it was very different, very challenging.
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  But with any musician, with any artist, challenge is good. It's
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  always good to try new things and see how it goes in. Luckily enough
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  for this direction that we went with was a good challenge for us, and
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  it really really motivating us to do more and we're very happy with the outcome.
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  I agree with you. They're like, I'm all for challenging yourself musically,
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  but there's better places to do it than in the studio or you're trying
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  to write his song. Surely any time, Yeah, oh my goodness.
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  But no, we're really proud of the final product. Yeah, it did
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  take some time. Like Yup have said, it was like that. That
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  first day of recording, we were just like, let's just scrump everything we
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  did in pre production and We've never done that before, so that was like
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  wow, And like, even with my vocals, they're a little bit different,
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  like they I mean, I don't think we changed the vocals as much
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  as the well the production of the music and everything, but still a few
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  things here and there we had to modernize and but yeah, I'm so glad
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  we did it though, right, Yeah, yeah, So tell us a
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  bit more about the song men from a musical point of view and what you
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  were going for with it. So instrument wise, we wanted to influence,
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  like I said, spirit Box and Sleep Token because they're one of the biggest
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  bands at the moment who challenge a lot of how they play their instruments,
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  but they really bring like the story and feeling of their songs and that was
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  something Des wanted to do with this single, and it was something that we
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  all looked at and we went, Okay, let's listen to a few spirit
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  Box songs, pick one that we enjoyed, and Des picked two of the
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  best ones from both bands. It was Circle with Me by spirit Box and
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  the Summon I Believe Something by The Token, and we kind of they were
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  like reference tracks, references. We kind of just went that's the approach we
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  want musically, but what can we do to make it wicked? Envy?
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  And we kind of played around with it. So still stay true to us,
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  but in like a modern feel you don't want to. I mean,
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  we don't want to lose anyone, but we want to develop our sound as
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  a band as well, for sure. Yeah, as it personally flies quite
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  often. I probably shouldn't ask this, but judging from the title, the
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  song's got a lot to do with planes crashing and possibly the movie Final Destination
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  on the right track, oh perfect spot on, Oh my god. Well,
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  I think the whole band loves horror movies, but Yakob and I especially
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  absolutely love them. My favorite is Final Destination, so I thought it was
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  fitting to write about it, just like I just thought it was like a
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  very thrilling topic. So it is pretty much based off aerophobia, like fear
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  of flying, So yeah, it was so much fun to write it.
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  Is it based from any personal experiences on a plane or is it just just
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  all in your head? Actually, like all, a lot of my family
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  and friends are terrified of flying, so I kind of drew from their experiences.
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  I don't like flying either, but I get through it. But I'm
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  more of a handholder, so I would be like, I'm here for you,
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  like I swear it's okay, it's gonna be okay, but it's like,
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  yeah, based off their experiences that I drew from. Yeah, No,
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  Final Descent follows on from the single Paralysis Demon, which came out in
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  August last year. So how's this song? So we have touched on this
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  a bit, but how is it a musical progression from that song to this
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  song? Oh wow? So with Paralysis Demon, we started to get a
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  lot more heavier and darker, but we were still I guess we were still
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  in that hard rock feel that had the dark vibes. But with this it's
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  just like the whole instrumentation has changed, Like we're using more midi drums and
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  acoustic drums and a lot of like percussive sounds in the background that you that
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  you probably heard in Final Dissent, So that makes it more modern, like
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  comparing from Paralysis Demon, which is pretty much just all instruments that we like,
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  bass, guitar, vocals, and drums, just acoustic drums. So
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  yeah, it's a lot different. Yeah right different. So are those two
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  songs part of a bigger musical picture or those stand alone singles. Oh oh,
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  that's a good question. That's one that we we're actually not even certain.
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  It's something that you know sounds sounds good as a standalone, but it's
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  also kind of teasing what we've got in stall for the future. We get
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  envy, so it's kind of like stand lines, but you never know what
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  could happen. I think there's going to be more, definitely on the final
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  I'm getting the strong impression that you guys don't want me to continue down this
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  line of questioning. So we've spoken about that. The changes on the new
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  track, like especially the modernized element, So is that something that you're going
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  to continue to explore which music? It started off as like, well,
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  we want to just see what the fans and like everyone thinks, like the
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  followers and everything, Like we're happy with this new sound. We'll see how
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  we go, but like we want to pursue this sound, and we're just
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  hoping that everyone kind of like follows the same path as we want to kind
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  of go on. If they don't, there's plenty other bands out there and
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  there that's right, they can move on if they need to, but like,
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  please, well we could end be a kicking off a single tour the
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  Duke in Sydney on during the fifteenth then you travel through Camera Newcastle, Brisbane
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  before finishing into Wongong on November the second. Like, it's just a nice
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  spaced out tour. Guys, you have given yourselves a bit of breathing room.
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  Good to see. Yeah, we've done it the smart way. I
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  guess what's the reason why that? Is it just just sense or no?
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  I mean we wanted it a little bit more like closer together, but just
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  like ven, you kind of conflict here and there, it happens. But
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  okay, I guess because like I organize the tool myself, so things like
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  that happen. Yeah. Easy. And what can people expect from Oh we
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  can envy live show? Oh my goodness, high energy, a lot of
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  yes, like there's moves, a lot horror, vibes, hor second,
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  lots of props and theatrics, but very much high energy. Like we what
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  we do on stage is what we want the crowd to do. So if
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  we're jumping, we're moving, we're singing, we're screaming, we want the
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  crowd to do the same thing. And if they're not, and I will
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  get in the crowd and join them. We will meet them good like.
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  We like to have fun with it, but at the same time, when
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  everyone SHOs to, just to move. So that's what we do on a
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  live basis, We move and the cbows with us. Very cool. Where
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  can people find out more information about these shows and get themselves tickets? Oh
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  yeah, so they're pretty much available our link tree, our website, keep
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  up to date with our nailing host. Oh yeah, it should be.
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  Yeah, if you sign up to our mailing list, you'll find out everything
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  you need to know about we could envy nice and what a twenty the rest
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  of twenty twenty four? What's the rest of twenty twenty four? Holdful?
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  We can end? Viggo what are you? What are you planning? And
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  goals for the rest of the year Just to play more shows, I think,
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  play more shows, write more tracks and get hopefully back in this year,
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  hopefully sometime before the year ends. Pretty cool, right, guys,
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  Well, thanks very much for your time. It's been a pleasure again today.
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  The single Final Descent premiere through Heavy on June the fifth released in general
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  on June to sixth, and it is an absolute parlor of a song.
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  So get behind it and have a crack. Thank you so much, Chris,
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  Thank thanks for everyone for watuning.