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BLOODSTAIN: Laying It All On The Line With Self Titled Debut Album · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I'm Benjamin.
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  Speaker 2: I play the drums, and yeah that's me.
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  Speaker 3: I am Tobias and I play guitar, I'm backing vocals.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Jonathan and I play the bass, guitar and backing vocals.
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  Speaker 5: And my name is Oscar and I play guitar and
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  Speaker 5: sing than exactly joining.
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  Speaker 2: Us today of course, thanks for having us my pleasure.
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  Speaker 6: We're here to talk about the fact that Bloodstained release
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  Speaker 6: yourself titled debut album on September twenty sixth.
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  Speaker 7: How do you feel about it?
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  Speaker 2: Very very very excited. Yeah, I think we're all very pumped.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm ben and it's so.
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  Speaker 6: Can you tell us me more about the album from
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  Speaker 6: a musical point of view and then what.
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  Speaker 7: You's have gone for with it?
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  Speaker 2: Think when we started writing it, we didn't really have
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  Speaker 2: any We didn't want want any borders like or restrictions.
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  Speaker 2: We sort of just wrote the songs that we wanted
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  Speaker 2: to write, often starting from a riff and then just
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  Speaker 2: going from there. I guess yeah, I think that's sort
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  Speaker 2: of how we resonated when we when we wrote the
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  Speaker 2: the record, and well, we wanted everyone to have their
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  Speaker 2: own input in the album and the songs and to
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  Speaker 2: be able to come with their own ideas and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the album as well has something like each
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  Speaker 3: song is different in a way, like some songs are
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  Speaker 3: very heavy, some songs are very groovy, and there are
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  Speaker 3: a few fast ones as well a ballad.
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of like.
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  Speaker 3: A a yeah, blueprint of what their bloodstain.
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  Speaker 1: Is and what we're capable of creating.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And in writing this album, I think we all
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  Speaker 4: also wanted to kind of break out of any like
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  Speaker 4: musical labels. When so we want the fans to decide
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  Speaker 4: for themselves what we are as what kind of genre
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  Speaker 4: we play. We just write music, and I think that's
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  Speaker 4: that's really that really shows on this album because it's
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  Speaker 4: so different from song to song.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, cool.
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  Speaker 6: And today you've released the singles Annihilation, Line, Something Sinister,
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  Speaker 6: and Conspiracy.
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  Speaker 7: So would you say.
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  Speaker 6: They're a good idea, like I grow a picture of
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  Speaker 6: what you expect sonically, or they just scratch the surface.
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  Speaker 1: I think they are probably.
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  Speaker 3: A good representation of the rest of the album. It's
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  Speaker 3: all so like we show them for the reason that
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  Speaker 3: they are like small tastes of what the album will be. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Since three singles are very different and the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the songs will kind of continue on on those three
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  Speaker 3: songs basically plus some completely different ones, but those three
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  Speaker 3: kind of get the overall idea of what the album
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  Speaker 3: will sound like.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're really good sort of appetizers for the
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  Speaker 2: for the whole for the whole album.
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  Speaker 6: Definitely nice with the song of annihilation line like you
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  Speaker 6: guys actually tested the intro to that outlive at Sweden
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  Speaker 6: Rock Festival.
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  Speaker 7: Light to people like myself.
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  Speaker 6: Who aren't musically flying, like, explain why you do something
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  Speaker 6: like that, and how good a feeling it is to
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  Speaker 6: sort of see the crowd react.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that was very That was fucking awesome when
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  Speaker 2: when we played that see rock uh, because we weren't
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  Speaker 2: really sure what the audience response would be, because we
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  Speaker 2: dreamt like we wanted to be like, Okay, they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: sing along to it, like the intro to Fear of
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  Speaker 2: the Dog sort of I get. I think that was
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  Speaker 2: our our vision for it. And then we played it
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  Speaker 2: and we we asked everyone to sing along and most
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  Speaker 2: of the people did and it was fucking awesome. And
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  Speaker 2: then when we finished the song because it was our
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  Speaker 2: last song, and when then we wanted to take a
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  Speaker 2: picture with it with the audience. So we went up
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  Speaker 2: to the front of the stage and then while we
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  Speaker 2: were taking the picture, the whole crowd started singing, singing,
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  Speaker 2: the singing the song again and that was just I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I have to describe it as magical. It was really
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  Speaker 2: so fucking awesome. I can't describe that feeling. It was insane.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think, like you guys, you have done
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  Speaker 6: a lot of choring and you build a ninety yourselves,
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  Speaker 6: but it is your debut album. So what sart of
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  Speaker 6: the things he discussed going into that, like you try
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  Speaker 6: and replicate your live stand as much as he can,
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  Speaker 6: or do you put yanny best songs in?
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  Speaker 7: Or do you just put whatever you've got? Like is
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  Speaker 7: there is there a thought process?
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  Speaker 3: I think like for because now when we've been touring
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  Speaker 3: and playing, we've basically played a lot of the album live,
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  Speaker 3: not all of it, but most of it. And I
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  Speaker 3: think like for us, it's very important that you get
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  Speaker 3: the same energy and the same sound when you go
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  Speaker 3: see us live and when you listen to the album.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's important for us because we've all been
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  Speaker 3: there when we've listened to an album probably of like
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  Speaker 3: an old band on like we love an album and
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  Speaker 3: then you go see them live and it's not the
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  Speaker 3: same thing, which is like it's a disappointed and you
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  Speaker 3: don't want to be that band that can play their
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  Speaker 3: own stuff live. So we're trying to like and the
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  Speaker 3: same goes the other way as well, Like the energy
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  Speaker 3: we we we show when we play the songs live,
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  Speaker 3: we want to replicate on the album as well, So you.
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  Speaker 1: Get you you you.
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  Speaker 3: You can listen to bloods In anywhere and it will
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  Speaker 3: have the same energy no matter if it's live or
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  Speaker 3: or studio recording. So that's like probably the most part.
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  Speaker 2: And I think also because we rehearse a lot, it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: no ship, but I think it's like the most important
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  Speaker 2: thing because partly because you have to know the songs,
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  Speaker 2: but also because it's equally as important to show the
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  Speaker 2: audience that you're having fun and that you're head back
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  Speaker 2: to the songs and that you're in the moment. So
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  Speaker 2: that's really important to rehearse too, like not just like
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  Speaker 2: Tobia said that, so that you can play the songs,
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  Speaker 2: but also so that you give the audience a good show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say live show. Yeah basically, yeah, and.
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  Speaker 6: You decided to call the album after yourself as a
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  Speaker 6: self startled album for your first one. Why I started
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  Speaker 6: the guy that way instead of named it after a song.
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  Speaker 3: On the album, we ideal just the or There wasn't
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  Speaker 3: really a discussion on what to call the album because
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  Speaker 3: we're all like came to the conclusion that this is bloodstain.
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  Speaker 1: Like this is.
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  Speaker 3: This the center selling point of the band, like sound wise,
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  Speaker 3: image wise, like everything is just like.
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  Speaker 1: Bloodstain.
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  Speaker 3: So there wasn't really a debate on what to call
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  Speaker 3: the album and everything else that like, some ideas just
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  Speaker 3: didn't feel right, and so just calling it bloodstain, this
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  Speaker 3: was the natural thing.
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  Speaker 2: To call it, yeah, because it was a really long
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  Speaker 2: process because me and Oscar sat for hours after hours
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  Speaker 2: upon hours in his room just trying to come up
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  Speaker 2: with both like the art work for the album and
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  Speaker 2: what we wanted it to be called. But every idea
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  Speaker 2: that we had just it didn't really fit. I, like
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  Speaker 2: Tobaio said, it sort of felt like it didn't represent
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  Speaker 2: what the album was.
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  Speaker 1: So it was.
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  Speaker 2: Really like this was the only way it would like
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  Speaker 2: fit and feel right with like I said, both the
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  Speaker 2: art work and the and the title of the album.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, really, in.
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  Speaker 6: Played a version of I Am Death which was on
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  Speaker 6: your twenty twenty four but basically why I choose that
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  Speaker 6: song to put on the album?
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  Speaker 7: And second, hell much did you change it from the
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  Speaker 7: original version?
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to take that?
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  Speaker 1: Oscar?
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  Speaker 5: Uh? Since the EP version went so great, we wanted
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  Speaker 5: to give a new life on the new record, since
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  Speaker 5: we want to represent our new sound or like what
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  Speaker 5: what bloods in it, and therefore we wanted to have
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  Speaker 5: Iron Death on it, and the new stuff on it
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  Speaker 5: is it's a bit lowered, a whole step down, and
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  Speaker 5: the guitars are recorded again and solo and of course
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  Speaker 5: the new vocals, so it's much more like produced and fatter.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and a completely different mix on it as well.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, which very do you prefer the other the or
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  Speaker 6: the new one?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: That's unanimous. And I would say that the vision or
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  Speaker 2: like the inspiration we we took sort of from from
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  Speaker 2: Whitesnake when they had for the nineteen eighty seven album,
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  Speaker 2: when they had Here I Go Again on it. I
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  Speaker 2: guess that's sort of where the idea came from.
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  Speaker 4: And it also makes sense to include that song on
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  Speaker 4: the debut album because it has been a staple piece
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  Speaker 4: in our discography since.
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  Speaker 1: We released it.
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  Speaker 8: So yeah, so it don't make sense to put that
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  Speaker 8: song on the album as well, because that is that
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  Speaker 8: has been and that still is bloodstained like from the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: Make sense, And it's also an old thing to do
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  Speaker 3: as well. Having your most streamed song and most widely
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  Speaker 3: recognized song and re record it and make it so different,
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  Speaker 3: like taking an old song and then tuning it down
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  Speaker 3: and just making it a lot heavier is also kind
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  Speaker 3: of a bold move and we.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to do it, so yeah, why not? Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Why not.
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  Speaker 6: Work with massive names like Alex Hello from in June
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  Speaker 6: and the pair Adelim on the production of this Mate?
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  Speaker 6: So what kind of unique knowledge did they bring to
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  Speaker 6: the studio and what did you learn from them during
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  Speaker 6: the album?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: We worked a lot with with with par On when
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  Speaker 2: we recorded the vocals and when we were in the
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  Speaker 2: studio with him, we sort of gave all the songs
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  Speaker 2: another round of like attention and looked at every song
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  Speaker 2: one more one more time and just thought about what
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  Speaker 2: we could change for the better. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: really benefited every single one of the songs. Uh Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And I think with part he he has sort of
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  Speaker 2: like he knows how to make a hit. I would
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  Speaker 2: say he has like that mindset. So with his input,
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  Speaker 2: I think the songs became much more hole, I would say.
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  Speaker 3: And it was also a lot easier for us to
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  Speaker 3: make decisions when we have two producers kind of like
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  Speaker 3: pushing us in the right direction. For example, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of material that has been cut from the album,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of parts from songs that have been removed,
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  Speaker 3: some parts being added, but like there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: riffs and like parts of the song that we decided
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  Speaker 3: to remove. And it's also nice because like if we
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  Speaker 3: kind of like debate on it, to have like a
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  Speaker 3: third party telling us to do it, because for us
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  Speaker 3: it will always be like we could add whatever we
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  Speaker 3: want because we are the ones playing it and it's
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  Speaker 3: our music. But having a third party like to producers,
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  Speaker 3: but they're also two listeners, like they kind of represent
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  Speaker 3: also like the normal listener, like this is they just
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  Speaker 3: hear us.
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  Speaker 1: They don't play in Bloodstain.
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  Speaker 3: So because you can, we can write a song that's
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  Speaker 3: fifty minutes long as we wanted to, but it maybe
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  Speaker 3: only needs to be four minutes. So I think that
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  Speaker 3: was like the best part about having them and working
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  Speaker 3: with them was like the decision making off, yeah, like
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  Speaker 3: removing stuff, because it's hard to remove stuff since we've
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  Speaker 3: always played we've played the album like rehearsed a lot before, like.
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  Speaker 1: We even.
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  Speaker 3: Like just went into the studio again, and so for us,
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of like.
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  Speaker 1: A child, like this is how we viewed song.
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  Speaker 3: And then just to remove something it's could be could
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  Speaker 3: be kind of difficult at something times because it's like,
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  Speaker 3: but it's so good, but but it made the songs
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  Speaker 3: sometimes better going into the studios and again it's like
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  Speaker 3: a whole new record to what it was before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's also great to have like new
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  Speaker 2: sets of ears listening to everything, because you can sort
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  Speaker 2: of get numb in the head when you when you
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  Speaker 2: hear the songs when you listen to them every single
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  Speaker 2: day for months on end. So I think it's really
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  Speaker 2: great to have like a like a pair of outside
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  Speaker 2: ears that help help like improve the record. And also
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  Speaker 2: that because we didn't want to spend of course we
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  Speaker 2: need to re record the vocals, but I think if
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  Speaker 2: you spend too much time just finicking with everything and
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  Speaker 2: changing all the details and and just listening to every
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  Speaker 2: single second and of every single song. Uh, I think
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  Speaker 2: it can have the opposite effect. If we've been working
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  Speaker 2: for this Yeah, we've been working for the on this
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  Speaker 2: record for like one and a half years, I would say.
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  Speaker 2: And I think if you work on it on a
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  Speaker 2: record much longer than that, I think your mind just
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  Speaker 2: starts to go really numb and you really start to
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  Speaker 2: miss like the the details and you Yeah, I just
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  Speaker 2: I guess forget what what the song was even supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be about in the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, makes sense.
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  Speaker 6: And you guys got any any tours or any shows
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  Speaker 6: playing to celebrate the album coming yet?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we have some shows booked in September. The next
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  Speaker 4: one is in two weeks in uh little town Morth
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  Speaker 4: of Stockholm called morning Arm Open Air. It's a festival,
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  Speaker 4: and then we will be playing a gig in Stockholm
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  Speaker 4: the weekend after that, and then it's a break for
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  Speaker 4: one week and then we'll go to Norway to play
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  Speaker 4: at Heavy Nights in Caramey and then it's time for
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  Speaker 4: the release party. So that's like the we have one
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  Speaker 4: more gig that's in the works after the release party,
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  Speaker 4: but we can't like really say anything about that yet,
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  Speaker 4: so you will just have to look out one yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Right, and that you cast your eyes as far as
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  Speaker 7: the Tryer on its start of the world. Yet.
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  Speaker 2: We definitely want to go there, of course, yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: it's a bit far. Yeah, but it's definitely definitely milestone
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  Speaker 2: of wars to go to Australia, I would say, definitely
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  Speaker 2: very nice.
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  Speaker 7: All right, guys, well, thanks very much for your time today.
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  Speaker 6: The album at Blood Stain is now September twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 6: and she's an absolute banking guy, so congratulations and best
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  Speaker 6: of luck with it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, thanks for having you.
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  Speaker 1: Than you so much.