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Sonic Exploration With DAMON TATE From OF VIRTUE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I'm Damon, I play guitar and I sing in Virtue.
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  Speaker 1: We're coming over to Australia next week with Sienna Skies
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  Speaker 1: and Clay Gladstone, gonna do Froth and Fury Festival while
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  Speaker 1: we're there with north Lane, Fear Factory the artist Murder.
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  Speaker 1: So looking forward to it. It's gonna be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, mate, thanks for joining us today, Damon.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Man, my pleasure as you say.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Virtue hit Australia for the first time ever very
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  Speaker 3: soon starting November.
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  Speaker 2: The two in Perth, go through Canberra.
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  Speaker 3: Wagga Wagga, Melbourne, Adelaide, Woollongong, Sydney and finishing Brisbane in
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  Speaker 3: November sixteenth, so it's less than a week away. Bro,
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  Speaker 3: you get packed and ready to go or are you
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  Speaker 3: a last minute sort of a guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm packed in some respects and last minute and a
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  Speaker 1: few other things. But either way, we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: there in one piece.
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  Speaker 3: So I suppose get rid of the elephant in the
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  Speaker 3: room straight up, brother, like, you've never been here before.
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  Speaker 2: Why have you neglected us for so long? What have
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  Speaker 2: we done yet?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing? It's honestly, it's just waiting for the right time.
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  Speaker 1: I know that, like because we've gone to Japan, Southeast Asia,
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  Speaker 1: so we've been to that side of the world and
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  Speaker 1: it's sometimes it's just finances. It's expensive and you just
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  Speaker 1: need to bring the right thing so that everybody involved
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  Speaker 1: is not you know, just completely losing their house and
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  Speaker 1: their home to do it. So thankfully Sienna, they're bringing
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  Speaker 1: us over. They been, They've been fantastic the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: And again we trust me. We've been trying to make
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  Speaker 1: Australia work for probably the past five years and finally
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  Speaker 1: had a chance to do it. So we love you,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry. I love a lot of bands that come
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  Speaker 1: out of there. So we just actually we just saw
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  Speaker 1: Alpha Wolf recently, so I was like, damn, they keep
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  Speaker 1: going over to the States. We got to go to
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  Speaker 1: where they're at.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a band, bro Like this has happened every
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  Speaker 2: now and then.
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  Speaker 3: But when you go to a country for the first time,
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  Speaker 3: like how many do you you dig your research? You
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  Speaker 3: sort of try and sussy out what do you expect
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  Speaker 3: or do you come in cold and leave every for
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  Speaker 3: an experience.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit of both. I know that we do
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  Speaker 1: like to do some research and see, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: what cities we're going to be in. Maybe see if
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  Speaker 1: there's like some food places or you know, we're we
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  Speaker 1: like to adventure out, so it's like it could be
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  Speaker 1: historical sites. I know they were talking about like we
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  Speaker 1: all like to swim, so it's like they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you guys want to jump off some cliffs and we're like,
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  Speaker 1: that'd be fun. And it's like, you know, doing stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. I have some friends that live out there
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  Speaker 1: that are in like the gaming world, so you know
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  Speaker 1: there's like esports stuff that happens in Sydney, and I
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  Speaker 1: believe in Melbourne as well, so it's like there's a
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  Speaker 1: whole host of things. So it's like we try to
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  Speaker 1: plan a little bit, but we also know that plans
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  Speaker 1: sometimes don't happen and we'll just kind of take it
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  Speaker 1: by the seat of our pants. At that point, what are.
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  Speaker 3: You actually expecting from a Strillian? Crabs might like, one
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  Speaker 3: thing I can tell you is very crazy motherfuckers.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. Hey, that's all I need to know. That's
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  Speaker 1: all we need to know is And you know, again,
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  Speaker 1: people that have listened to us over the years and
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  Speaker 1: been like, hey, can you get down here and blada
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  Speaker 1: YadA YadA. It's like when we announce the tour other
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  Speaker 1: all the receptions been great. I've been getting messages myself
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  Speaker 1: just from you know, from friends, from people and other
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  Speaker 1: bands that you know, we've toured with in different places,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's in the States or Europe or whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: and they're just like, hey, when you get here, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have fun. Like everyone's ready. People understand too, like
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  Speaker 1: you're coming from a long way away, and people, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they say, they just tell me like, hey, we know
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  Speaker 1: how hard it is to not only get out of
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  Speaker 1: the country, but for to have bands to come over
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  Speaker 1: here as well. So when they do, it's called you.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to make you feel right at home.
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  Speaker 3: Now on the FLT side of that bright life people,
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't know what you expect from you. Guys say
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  Speaker 3: run a sertifical love vetch you loveshow mate.
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  Speaker 1: Oh typical of virtue live so well. It depends on
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  Speaker 1: how long we're playing. This time, we're doing about forty minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just it's gonna be balls to the wall
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  Speaker 1: the entire time. Like we have songs where you can
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  Speaker 1: sing along. We're gonna have songs that might make you cry,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're gonna turn around the next minute and
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  Speaker 1: see you guys know what circle pits look like. See
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  Speaker 1: if you know what a wall of death looks like. Crowdsurfing,
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  Speaker 1: we get we're gonna get into the crowd like we're
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  Speaker 1: there to put our entire existence and being into what
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  Speaker 1: we do. So all we need people to do is
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  Speaker 1: just come ready, keep an open mind, and have some
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  Speaker 1: fun with us.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned that you're coming iver as part of the
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  Speaker 3: Hottest Patra with sy Gladston, So what's your relationship with
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  Speaker 3: Siena Scots for them to bring you Iva.
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  Speaker 1: Just been talking with them for a little while. We've
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  Speaker 1: known of them because they they've came over to the
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  Speaker 1: States a few times kind of in the the later
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  Speaker 1: like twenty and tens. They were part of like the
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  Speaker 1: Memphis May Fire Color Morale, So we've we've known about
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  Speaker 1: that band for a while and it kind of just
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  Speaker 1: worked out that they finished up doing a tour with
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  Speaker 1: A Mice and Men. Recently they did another headlining tour
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  Speaker 1: and our Men menagement. At the time they got together
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  Speaker 1: and we're like, hey, is this something that we can
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  Speaker 1: make happen, and it worked out that they were going
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  Speaker 1: to do one more tour this year, and hey we
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  Speaker 1: let we let we let the business people do the
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  Speaker 1: business things, get all the finances in order, and hey,
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  Speaker 1: look at we're on a point. We're about to be
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  Speaker 1: on the first thing smoking there.
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  Speaker 3: So then you mentioned too, you're also playing at Brough
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  Speaker 3: and Fury and Adelaide with Fear Factory nor Flying Cloud.
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  Speaker 2: He's medis like Cropty's so many more.
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  Speaker 3: Bro I like, it's pretty much an international festival in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, yeah, it's and we love like those big
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  Speaker 1: festivals and especially the ones like I was checking this
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  Speaker 1: one out doing a little bit of research and it's
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  Speaker 1: like I think it's it's like four or five thousand
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  Speaker 1: CAF festival. There's only two stages, so it's not like
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  Speaker 1: everyone's you know, completely spread out. Like you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to play in front of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people at a really good time. And again it being international,
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  Speaker 1: people know, like, oh, bands are coming from all over
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  Speaker 1: the world. You're gonna have a chance to and meet
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  Speaker 1: just different walks of life and like that's that's the
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  Speaker 1: fun part for me, especially with those bigger events, is
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  Speaker 1: you kind of get a chance to get in, you know,
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  Speaker 1: settle in, play your show, and then go off and
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  Speaker 1: just be a fan, you know, go watch the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the stuff. Like Fear Factory. I haven't seen Fear
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  Speaker 1: Factory in probably twenty years. I want to say something
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  Speaker 1: like that. I saw them with Slip Knot. That was
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  Speaker 1: the first time I had ever seen them.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, hell, you're in for a trait, brother.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, I've seen the videos it they sound great.
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  Speaker 1: They sound great nowadays.
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  Speaker 2: Now coming back to.
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  Speaker 3: Me, brother, like you started a virtue in Michigan back
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  Speaker 3: in two thousand and eight. So what was a musical
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  Speaker 3: climate like that gave birth to the band back then?
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  Speaker 2: And where did you fit in initially?
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, back then it was very I can't say we
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  Speaker 1: really fit in, but like the music at the time,
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  Speaker 1: it was very heavy. It was like because for the
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  Speaker 1: Fallen Dreams my other band, like Changes was a big thing.
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  Speaker 1: The acase you strain a mirror barrier, like all these
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  Speaker 1: like melodic kind of beat down like hardcore bands, or
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  Speaker 1: you had like the scream of stuff. You had escape
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  Speaker 1: the fate, you had like the word alive falling in reverse.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like you were either kind of like in
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  Speaker 1: the popular side or like the super heavier, like kind
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  Speaker 1: of metal side. And for us, not that we didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to do any of those, it was just a
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  Speaker 1: matter of like how do we stand out and at
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  Speaker 1: that specific time with our lineup, it's like we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be a little more technical, still be emotional, but
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  Speaker 1: it we kind of resided more in like a shi
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  Speaker 1: hallued misery signals poison the well, kind of not as
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  Speaker 1: like popular, like a little more obscure. But it's like
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  Speaker 1: it gave us like the thought process of like how
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  Speaker 1: to search and find our own sound within the things
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  Speaker 1: that we like instead of always just looking to you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever's popular, whatever. And that's not a bad thing, it's
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  Speaker 1: just again, our approach was a little different given you
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  Speaker 1: know that era of music.
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  Speaker 3: Now that the dream of the music world is a
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  Speaker 3: lot different to the reality. Bright So how would you
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  Speaker 3: say your vision and your approach is changed since you
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  Speaker 3: came in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm going to steal that quote, man, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to steal the dream of the music world is
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  Speaker 1: a lot different than the reality you're That was probably
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  Speaker 1: the most true thing I've heard in the past like year,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, how our expectations have changed, and just
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  Speaker 1: like how we've changed. It's at first, you just do
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  Speaker 1: it because you know, you love it, You want to
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  Speaker 1: have fun with your friends, go play some shows. People
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  Speaker 1: you know, give you a little bit of gas to
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  Speaker 1: get there and back. And then you know, when people
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  Speaker 1: actually start to you know, attach themselves to the music,
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  Speaker 1: they kind of feel the same thing that you do,
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  Speaker 1: if not something stronger because you're speaking to them about
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  Speaker 1: something that they're going through. Then it's kind of like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well we have something here, and you know, the business
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  Speaker 1: side can definitely interfere where it's like you can make
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  Speaker 1: decisions musically that are based on like oh these numbers,
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  Speaker 1: this analytics or this thing has been proven to work,
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  Speaker 1: this formula, and it's like I would say, for us,
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  Speaker 1: it's again kind of similar to how we started off,
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  Speaker 1: of like not just going with like a blanket thing
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  Speaker 1: of like oh, well, X band A is popular, so
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  Speaker 1: we're just gonna sound like this. Just because another band
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  Speaker 1: is going to do this kind of format or make
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  Speaker 1: a radio song or make a heavy song doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that it's going to actually work for us either. We
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  Speaker 1: just have to kind of do what makes us happy first,
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  Speaker 1: and then we can actually look at it and go, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, maybe we're like eighty percent of the
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  Speaker 1: way towards like a radio song. What if we you know,
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  Speaker 1: just touch it up just a little bit and then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you kind of have something that
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  Speaker 1: fits into your ethos, into your aesthetic and you feel
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  Speaker 1: great about putting that out because it's authentic to you
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  Speaker 1: no matter what. So it's there's a lot more negotiations,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot more compromise, but as long as I
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  Speaker 1: everybody kind of stands their ground and it's open and honest,
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  Speaker 1: because there have been times too, man, where it's like
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  Speaker 1: I'll openly disagree with something that the rest of my
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  Speaker 1: band does and then turn around and eat crow because
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  Speaker 1: it works. And I'm like, ah, all right, never mind,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'm just going to shut the hell up now.
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  Speaker 2: So hey, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Just I'm just a guy in a band. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Your most recent album, I'man was university of well received.
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  Speaker 3: Bro. I So, do you think that's because people are
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  Speaker 3: finally starting to get into the band moral because after
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  Speaker 3: four albums, you're getting better at what you do.
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  Speaker 1: I would say both man and kind of touch on
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit. It's like when we first started out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, musically, we were just were writing songs like
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  Speaker 1: it was a stream of conscience. There was no formatting, no,
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  Speaker 1: it was let's just have fun. Let's just make the
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  Speaker 1: craziest stuff possible. And it worked for a little while,
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  Speaker 1: like up until our record what defines you, Like, we
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  Speaker 1: were touring internationally, like we were starting to get somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: COVID was the point where for us it was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what we were doing was cool, but it wasn't getting
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  Speaker 1: us to where we necessarily where we believe that we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be. And that's where you take that kind
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  Speaker 1: of hard look of like okay, what are you know,
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  Speaker 1: Let's look at bands that we when we first got
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  Speaker 1: into it. It's like what are the things that made
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  Speaker 1: them tick? Or what's this? And it's like we went
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  Speaker 1: back musically, we went back with our business sense with
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  Speaker 1: social media and just reevaluated everything and started coming up
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  Speaker 1: with a plan like actually detailing like this is where
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  Speaker 1: we how we kind of want to do this or
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  Speaker 1: we don't have this style of not let's experiment, let's
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  Speaker 1: just do everything and throw it at the wall, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it was like a perfect storm because coming
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  Speaker 1: out of COVID, it feels like all over the world
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  Speaker 1: we're in this like musical renaissance, like not only like
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to just be you know, radio rock
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  Speaker 1: to be played on you know, the radio. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be this like heavy bands are probably maybe
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  Speaker 1: not as popular as like the late nineties, early to thought,
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  Speaker 1: like the new metal stuff that was going on, because that, like,
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  Speaker 1: to me, that's like the peak, like you had like
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  Speaker 1: Slipnout Iowa debuting number one, Like I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna see that, but you you, we're pretty close.
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  Speaker 1: Like I have friends that are like, oh, I listened
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  Speaker 1: to One Direction and Laurna Shore together and I'm like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, the playlisting, the streaming like you know
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  Speaker 1: as much. Obviously there there's downsides to it, but streaming
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  Speaker 1: has allowed people the access to certain worlds to where
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  Speaker 1: it's like extreme music is not as foreign anymore. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that lends itself to bands like us, where
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  Speaker 1: when we started experimenting and wanting to you know, be catchy,
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  Speaker 1: be melodic, have those sing along songs. But for us,
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  Speaker 1: like the musician and loving the live energy. To have
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  Speaker 1: those like bangers, those ass beaters that you can go
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  Speaker 1: up to a festival and see to three thousand people
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  Speaker 1: lose their minds and it's not, you know, crazy to
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  Speaker 1: have them both and people see that they're like cool,
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  Speaker 1: one moment, I want to do this, one moment, I
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  Speaker 1: want to do this. It's like you're basically providing them
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  Speaker 1: as like a one stop shop for their stuff. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to be just one way anymore. And with
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  Speaker 1: omens specifically, I feel like we we really embody that
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  Speaker 1: of like, hey, take it back to the roots of
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  Speaker 1: what we all enjoy, what we like. Let's just do everything.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing is off limits. And I think right there that
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  Speaker 1: you know, behavior, that work ethic has really translated with
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  Speaker 1: people enjoying the record as much as they have.
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  Speaker 2: So cool man.
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  Speaker 3: Just say someone is coming along to one of these
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  Speaker 3: Australian shows and they don't know too much about a virtue,
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  Speaker 3: give us three songs of yours from to listen to
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  Speaker 3: you he get you to know the band better.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, I'm gonna say center, hypocrite and cold blooded right well.
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  Speaker 3: Before I let you go, We've started doing a new
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  Speaker 3: thing it heavy called fighter bombs. Basically before I told
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  Speaker 3: to you, I troll you social media and I come
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  Speaker 3: up with a few fighters that I want want to
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  Speaker 3: show you and get you to explain a bit.
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  Speaker 2: More about it.
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  Speaker 1: But that's perfect that with.
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  Speaker 2: This one. Now that was from two thousand night in
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  Speaker 2: in Germany.
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  Speaker 3: But I just i'mused by how placed you out of
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  Speaker 3: the crowd, bro, Like it's basically they standing on your feet.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this was let me see if I can remember.
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  Speaker 1: It might have been Germany, Yeah, he is Germany or Switzerland,
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  Speaker 1: one of the two. But this was this was our
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  Speaker 1: second time going to Europe, so like we were we
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  Speaker 1: were there for my god, I want to say like
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  Speaker 1: three months, like we probably we toured like thirty different
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  Speaker 1: countries that year, and some of the shows were smaller,
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  Speaker 1: some of the shows were bigger. But what's nice is
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  Speaker 1: like we weren't at that point where everything was like
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  Speaker 1: barricades and security and all this, and it's like you
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  Speaker 1: would have shows like these, but then you'd have shows
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  Speaker 1: that have like three four hundred people and they would
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  Speaker 1: just be right on us, like, you know, screaming words
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  Speaker 1: like getting into it, doing like the rowboats and the
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  Speaker 1: pit and everything else. But it's like that was the
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing for us where it's like we embody
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  Speaker 1: that and it's like we take that into the other
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  Speaker 1: realms of music where some people might not be used
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  Speaker 1: to that. If you go to see Three Days Grace
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  Speaker 1: or something and you're just used to kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: standing there rocking out whatever it is, and we jumped
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  Speaker 1: down into the crowd at you. We're crowdsurfing with you,
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  Speaker 1: like we're screaming in your face and giving you an
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  Speaker 1: experience that you're like, holy shit, like this is where
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  Speaker 1: we This is the energy in the world that we
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  Speaker 1: come from.
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  Speaker 3: Do you miss size Dice? But you could go and
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  Speaker 3: do show. I saw that right without being bubbed.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah. I mean that's the thing is we still
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  Speaker 1: play some shows, like we did a tour just recently
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  Speaker 1: with a band called Dead by April from Sweden, and
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: on that tour specifically, like there were some rooms that
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: you know, they're sold out for or five hundred cap rooms,
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  Speaker 1: but they had no barricade and we would be in
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  Speaker 1: the crowd, like the crowd was on top of us.
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  Speaker 1: The energy is electric and it's like you just it
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  Speaker 1: feels like punk rock in a way that you just
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  Speaker 1: can't replace. The energy is high. Everyone's just having a
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  Speaker 1: great time. So it's like, if we have a chance
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  Speaker 1: to do both, like, I'll always love doing like the
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  Speaker 1: intimate stuff, you know, get everybody crowded into a room.
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  Speaker 1: But I also like, you know, massive festivals. I love,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: you know, the big stages, playing in front of thousands
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  Speaker 1: of people. Like, who doesn't you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Now, the other fighter I've got from Yah is this one.
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  Speaker 3: That's a whole lot of awesomeness. You go on area
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: bry Oh, Yeah, this was cool. This was actually so
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: this is a fun story.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Obviously, all the bands in here, so you have ourselves,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: you have King eight ten, Josh Schroeder in the middle
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  Speaker 1: right here with Tyler Chad, the singer of my other
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: band for the Fawn Dreams. You got Ben and you
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  Speaker 1: got Jake from In Hearts Wake. Australia's one of finer exports.
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  Speaker 1: And what was nice about this We had a headlining
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  Speaker 1: show late last year in Bay City where Josh Records
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: at and it worked out to where Inharts Wake was
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: in the studio finishing up their record doing a feature
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: and they have a song on the record called Michigama,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: and what they wanted to do in experiment with was
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: getting all of our like their friends, like people that
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: we've because we've known in Hearts Wake for over ten
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: twelve years now since they first started coming to the States,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: and they wanted to try to get everybody on the
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: song just to embody like their experience coming over here,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: like how they feel like where they're from and how
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: they feel connected to Michigan. And this photo, Like I said,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: it's like, it's a very rare thing when you can
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: get people like this in the room all at the
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: same time being creative and just enjoying one another having fun.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, brother, we'll end up on that one, damon.
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  Speaker 2: But thanks very much for your time, bro.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: Oh Virtue are in Australia from November, the two which
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: stand the Skies and Klay G Gladstone.
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  Speaker 2: I'll become along the Brisbane show. Brother, So if I
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: spot you will catch up another beer.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, and you'll see me at the merch table.
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  Speaker 3: My man,