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PIG DESTROYER Return To Australia With Grindcore Fury Intact · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Jr. From Pig Destroyer. I scream and yell at.
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  Speaker 2: You beautiful, wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: It's been over fifteen years since your last visit to Australia.
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  Speaker 2: What finally brought Pig Destroyer back?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? You know, the when you have people in a
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  Speaker 4: band who were as busy as we do, it's it's
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  Speaker 4: just hard to get all the stars to align, you know,
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  Speaker 4: And a Australian tour is a is a massive undertaking.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of flights and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I think my cat's trying to attack me every here.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a lot of flights and like you know,
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  Speaker 1: having things that you got to get organized.
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  Speaker 4: We're just really really excited that we could get worm
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  Speaker 4: Rod on the tour and and hit.
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  Speaker 1: Some some of the towns that we didn't do last time,
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  Speaker 1: which will be very very cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And with were how did you how did that come about?
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  Speaker 3: How did you decide that they were going to support
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  Speaker 3: you guys?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure who originally came up with the idea,
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  Speaker 4: but we we've known those guys for for many years
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  Speaker 4: and we've played some shows of them, uh and uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, just uh they've been one of the top
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  Speaker 4: grindcore bands I think in the world for the last
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  Speaker 4: ten years or so. So, uh, it's a great band
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  Speaker 4: to have along. Just have to make sure they'll blow
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  Speaker 4: you off the stage.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're pretty You don't want to bring a band
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  Speaker 4: on tour who is too good.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: And your live shows are known for their sheer intensity.
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  Speaker 3: How do you mentally prepare for that level of chaos?
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  Speaker 4: If I mean it's grindcore, you just you just have
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  Speaker 4: to go all in.
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  Speaker 1: You have to push all your chips in.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, if you can't expect the audience to
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  Speaker 4: become invested if you're not invested, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a it's it's an energy thing. You know.
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  Speaker 4: The crowd can tell when you're you know, when you're
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  Speaker 4: phoning it in, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like it's a symbiotic relationship, like you
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  Speaker 3: feed off the energy of the crowd as well?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Well that's what makes uh that's what makes
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  Speaker 4: just punk and metal music special, you know, is uh
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  Speaker 4: is the audience is just as much a part of
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  Speaker 4: you know, or or or in certain cases like the
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  Speaker 4: Obscene Extreme festival in Czech Republic, Like sometimes the audience
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  Speaker 4: is the show, you know, So I just I just
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  Speaker 4: love that, Uh, you know, I mean I love all
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  Speaker 4: kinds of music, but there's no there's no experience that's quite.
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  Speaker 1: The same as a as a death metal grindcore show.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah one and Peak Destroyers Sounds strips metals to
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  Speaker 3: its Strip's metal to its Aurora's form. Has that approach
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  Speaker 3: evolved or deepened with time?
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  Speaker 4: For you, guys, I think our approaches remained pretty much
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  Speaker 4: the same. I think, Uh, we just always want to
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  Speaker 4: try to write the craziest thing that we can write,
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  Speaker 4: and we don't. We don't really care about how many
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  Speaker 4: records we sell. We never we never have, So we
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  Speaker 4: we just try to make something that we're happy with,
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  Speaker 4: and then when we get a chance to play it live,
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  Speaker 4: we try to play it as hard as we can.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, something that's funny about you guys is that
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  Speaker 3: you with your lyrics, they're really deep and intense oftentimes,
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  Speaker 3: and they can delve into some pretty blank territory.
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  Speaker 2: But seeing past.
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  Speaker 3: Interviews with you guys and seeing you guys on stage,
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  Speaker 3: you all look like the loveliest people ever. Where do
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  Speaker 3: you find the inspiration for such visceral themes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, well, I think there's a few different parts
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  Speaker 1: to it. I think that.
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  Speaker 4: With the with the type of music, I think you
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  Speaker 4: try to gravitate towards darker kind of you know, more
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  Speaker 4: transgressive sort of subject matter.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's just strange, you know too.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I know that there's bands out there who
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  Speaker 4: do this, like the kind of tree huggy bands who
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  Speaker 4: want to write about nature and whales and stuff, and
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  Speaker 4: that's cool, but you know, uh, we we we like
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  Speaker 4: to try to keep it like dark and kind of
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  Speaker 4: death metally, you know. But but live, we're we're just
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of idiots release and and we can't can't
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  Speaker 4: we can't cover that up. So uh so when when
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  Speaker 4: we play live, then you then you kind of see
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  Speaker 4: us for what we really are, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think you've just created a new genre
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  Speaker 3: as well. By the way, that would be so interesting
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  Speaker 3: to see a metal band talk about hippie stuff in
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  Speaker 3: then lyrics like that would be.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, uh, there's a there's a slam death
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  Speaker 4: metal band that we played with in Switzerland. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 4: their name escapes me at the moment, but I think
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  Speaker 4: they started out like with the typical kind of gore stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But now they just sing about surfing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And then and they have surfboards on stage, and they
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  Speaker 4: have you know, they play in swimsuits and and you
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  Speaker 4: know that's their their thing.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. I'm gonna have to check them out.
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  Speaker 1: I feel bad.
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  Speaker 4: I wish, I wish I could remember name, but I
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  Speaker 4: think they had the name before the surfing thing came up,
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  Speaker 4: because it doesn't really like jive, you know.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: And do you ever surprised asselves with just how dark
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  Speaker 3: your songwriting can get.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't like necessarily try to make it dark.
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  Speaker 4: It just is what it is, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm glad people think it's dark, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 4: just but I have to have a.
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  Speaker 1: There has to be more to something than just shock value. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Like I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Ever really write something just because I want to unnerve
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  Speaker 4: somebody like I. There has to be some sort of
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  Speaker 4: like emotional thing or something real attached to it that
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  Speaker 4: makes it resonate. Like that's that's why people, I think
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  Speaker 4: respond to it.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: It's if I if I just write about a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of dark shit that I don't care about, then I
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  Speaker 4: can't really expect anybody to else to care about it either,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why I think your music does resonate with people, because.
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  Speaker 2: As you said, it's not just about the shock factor.
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  Speaker 3: You're actually saying something within those lyrics as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just yeah, go for the sake of god shock.
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  Speaker 4: You know, music makes an emotional attachment to people. That's
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  Speaker 4: why they take it so seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And and when when you find a band or a
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  Speaker 4: song or an album that I mean, I'm sure you
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  Speaker 4: know the feeling when you throw it on and you
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  Speaker 4: just know you're.
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  Speaker 1: Like, these are my people. Yeah, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Like and it's it's like you've already heard it a
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  Speaker 4: thousand times because it was like it was made just
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  Speaker 4: for you, you know what I mean, And that that
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  Speaker 4: sort of connection is not something that happened. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it might only happen one in every thousand records a year,
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  Speaker 4: but when it does happen, it's worth it.
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  Speaker 1: It makes it all worth it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: And do you have any us memories from your time
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  Speaker 3: here in Australia. I know it was quite a while
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  Speaker 3: ago now, but do you have anything that sticks out?
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  Speaker 4: Playing in Tasmania was really awesome. That was that was
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  Speaker 4: a really wild time. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Playing with Blood Duster was amazing. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we got to play with Extortion for the
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  Speaker 4: first time when we played in Perth.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: And Australia has always had such a great grind core scene,
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  Speaker 4: so uh, that's probably the thing I'm most excited about
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  Speaker 4: is just to see some of the opening bands and
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  Speaker 4: you know, uh and hopefully you know, meet some of
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  Speaker 4: the guys that I've been you know, following their bands
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  Speaker 4: for a while. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome. And you guys have carved out legendary status
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  Speaker 2: in grind court.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel pressure to live up to that each
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  Speaker 3: time you're released new material?
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  Speaker 1: No, I mean I just think.
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  Speaker 4: I know that we're all going to put in the work,
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  Speaker 4: so uh, you know, we're not We're not going to
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  Speaker 4: put out something that we don't stand behind, so uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I don't really worry about it. You know, It's it's
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  Speaker 4: really just a matter of making it happen in a
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  Speaker 4: reasonable amount of time, you know, and having our last
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  Speaker 4: album was out in twenty eighteen. That's not really a
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  Speaker 4: reasonable amount of time. So you know, uh, we're we're
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  Speaker 4: into the unreasonable amount of time zone.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a hint at possibly even more material coming soon?
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  Speaker 4: Or yeah, we want to have a record out by
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  Speaker 4: the end of next year. We're going to try everything
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  Speaker 4: we can to make that happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, we don't want our We don't want the next
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  Speaker 4: record to be the tenth anniversary of the previous records.
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  Speaker 1: That's you know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I guess it's cool when Tool does it,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't know if it's cool when we do
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  Speaker 4: it would be.
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  Speaker 3: And in an age where metal is more polished than ever,
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  Speaker 3: how important is it for Zon that rawness, that peak
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  Speaker 3: destroyer thrives on.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I mean, uh, that's like preaching the gospel right there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I just I think there's so much.
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  Speaker 4: I'm that guy who I don't I don't like click tracks,
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  Speaker 4: I don't like pro tools, I don't like overdubs. I
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  Speaker 4: want everything to sound like a band in a room,
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  Speaker 4: like and honest, you know, because I think that the
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  Speaker 4: best music is flawed music, you know, and when when
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  Speaker 4: when things are too perfect, it it just becomes Katy
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  Speaker 4: Perry to me, and like, like, I don't care if
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  Speaker 4: it's death metal, it's just it's it's pop music at
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  Speaker 4: that point because it's it sounds like it's made by
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  Speaker 4: aliens or something. It doesn't sound like it's made by
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  Speaker 4: by people.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: And that's you know, And now we're getting into like
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  Speaker 4: the the era of AI and like God knows the
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  Speaker 4: abominations that we're all going to have to put up with.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, good point.
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  Speaker 3: So in saying that, does it usually take you guys
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  Speaker 3: when you are recording in the studio? Does it take
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  Speaker 3: you guys very little playthroughs to get a song down
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  Speaker 3: and write there's something that sounds right to you guys?
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  Speaker 4: I mean I the last two albums that we've done,
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  Speaker 4: I did all my vocals in one day. So I
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  Speaker 4: typically I do I do one take or two takes
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  Speaker 4: like if it if it, if it's more than that,
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  Speaker 4: then then I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: It's not right, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Like I you know, it has to be like from
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  Speaker 4: the hip a little bit, you know, because I think, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you have to be really careful with a studio is
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  Speaker 4: a very scale kind of sterile environment.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, it's sort of like you know, hanging out
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  Speaker 4: in a hospital or something like that. You know, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's it's never never the place that you really want
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  Speaker 4: to be, but yet you have.
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  Speaker 1: To be there and make it, make it happen.
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  Speaker 4: And and if you stay there too long, then it'll
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  Speaker 4: drive you crazy, you know, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 3: And and things can I think what you're saying is
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  Speaker 3: things can sound a bit too polished.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know, uh, I don't know I would
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  Speaker 4: ever try to aspire to polishness, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think that the.
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  Speaker 4: Dirtier and the the more raw that it is, the
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  Speaker 4: more uh, the more real that it sounds, you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: like the best Uh some of my favorite albums are
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  Speaker 4: by bands that don't even sound like they're playing the
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  Speaker 4: same songs sometimes because they're playing so fast and it's
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  Speaker 4: so out of control that you can't you know, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you can't fake that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that's what makes it exciting, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely.
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  Speaker 4: It's sort of sort of that push, the push and
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  Speaker 4: pull of the order and the chaos. You know, yes,
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  Speaker 4: when when everything when everything is too ordered, it just
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  Speaker 4: doesn't it just doesn't make sense to.
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  Speaker 3: Me, definitely, and I think it also doesn't translate well
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  Speaker 3: sometimes to a live performance as well. If things are
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  Speaker 3: too polished, it's like, can you ever capture that live.
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if it was up to me, all of
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  Speaker 4: our albums would be recorded live in front of in
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  Speaker 4: front of an audience, because I think that's how you
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  Speaker 4: would get the.
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  Speaker 1: Best thing, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: You know, like the MC five's first album is a
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  Speaker 4: live album, and and it's a it's a ripper, you
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  Speaker 4: know what I mean. Uh, I don't know why more
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  Speaker 4: people don't do it, honestly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, maybe I've got you thinking for the next
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  Speaker 3: album then live.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good.
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  Speaker 4: Scott handles the production stuff, he doesn't, you know, like
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  Speaker 4: he'll let me, he'll let me run my mouth, but
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day, he's the one that's
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  Speaker 4: he's the one that's recording the band, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And you're sharing the stage with Rod. What's your take
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  Speaker 3: on this sound and ferocity?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they're just they're just a great band, just
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  Speaker 4: very exciting to watch live and uh they and they
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  Speaker 4: they they get.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd worked up like and really excited.
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  Speaker 4: The first time that I saw them play at Maryland Deathfest.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they they had been trying to come over
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  Speaker 4: for a couple of years and then they finally made
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  Speaker 4: it and the crowd was just so excited to see them,
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  Speaker 4: and like they just got such great energy, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So uh yeah, it's it's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hell yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And other any other newer grind or extreme bands you
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  Speaker 3: feel a pushing boundaries like Peak Destroyer one Stude.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there's a ton of them out there, kind
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  Speaker 4: of kind of mind blowing. Actually, Uh, I'm doing a
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing like a small label where I've been putting
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  Speaker 4: out CDs and stuff. One of the CDs we just
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  Speaker 4: did is by a band called Mellow harsher Man. They
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  Speaker 4: actually have a split with Internal Rot, who are from Melbourne. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and they're they're a ripping grindcore band and uh and
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  Speaker 4: if you haven't heard sex Prisoner, uh, sex Prisoner is
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  Speaker 4: is the Uh They're they're the new alpha dog to me,
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  Speaker 4: like they're I haven't seen a band of a grandcore
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  Speaker 4: band heavier.
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  Speaker 1: Than them yet, so interesting. Somebody else is going to
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  Speaker 1: have to step up to the plate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's awesome. They sound good.
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  Speaker 3: And if someone was completely unfamiliar with Picked Destroyer and
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  Speaker 3: they showed up to one of your shows, what do
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  Speaker 3: you think would hit them first?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Well, usually what happens is, uh, if you're a newbie,
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  Speaker 4: you see like the marshpit, and if you've never encountered
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  Speaker 4: a mashpit before, it's it's very it's very jarring, you know,
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  Speaker 4: for for people who have just gone to like the
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  Speaker 4: conventional kind of concert, you know what I mean. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: so that I feel like that's the first thing that
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  Speaker 4: jumps out of you.
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  Speaker 1: But then uh, it's it's also a volume thing.
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  Speaker 4: Like it you know, you want to have it so
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  Speaker 4: loud that it becomes a physical act as opposed to
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  Speaker 4: just like tickling your ear drums a little bit like
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  Speaker 4: you want to you want to feel it, like like
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  Speaker 4: kick you in the chest a little bit, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely get like a full body experience.
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  Speaker 2: I think like.
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  Speaker 4: When I when I saw ice Cube, I was so
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  Speaker 4: close to the stage and that the subwhipers were so
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  Speaker 4: crazy that my my eyeballs were shaking seven minutes after
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  Speaker 4: show was over, Like you know, I couldn't I couldn't
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  Speaker 4: even see straight. Yes, yes, but that's but that's what
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  Speaker 4: you want, you know what I mean when you see
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  Speaker 4: that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: That's what makes it sometimes as well, is that experience.
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  Speaker 3: I went to a festival last year and I saw
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you know them, but Electric coll
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  Speaker 3: Boy and I was right up the front and the
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  Speaker 3: pyro was just hitting me in the face.
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  Speaker 2: But I was enjoying. It was the best time ever.
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  Speaker 3: And after all these years, what still drives you to
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  Speaker 3: create music that's this intense and unrelenting.
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  Speaker 1: That's just all we've ever aspired to do.
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  Speaker 4: You know. We never wanted to be a popular band.
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  Speaker 4: We just wanted to be a crazy band. And we
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  Speaker 4: all like all kinds of different music, but like, uh,
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  Speaker 4: I think there's just a certain itch that grindcore scratches
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  Speaker 4: that nothing else can scratch, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Would there be any surprises to the type of stuff
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  Speaker 3: or genre as you listen to that fans may not
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: know about.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: That would be a surprise.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. I mean, I'm not really a
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: big dance music guy.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: But but other than that, I mean I love reggae
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: and country and you know, classical music, jazz. Yeah, you know,
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: I kind of dabbled.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: I kind of dabble in a little bit of everything,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: And I can imagine from the name of your band,
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: how you guys perform, and your lyrics and everything. You
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: must have received something a little bit stranger odd from
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: a fan. Is there something that sticks out that you've
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: been given by a fan?
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: You know, yeah, people bring me like some cool stuff,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: like little pieces of jewelry they make, or or pieces
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: of art.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: You know, one thing that was really weird one time
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: was was this guy wanted me to write some of
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: my lyrics on his arm and then he was gonna
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: go get them tattooed, like the next day. And I
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: was like, really fucked up. And I tried to plead
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: with the guy. I was like, don't make me right
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: on your arm, and and he he wouldn't take note
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: for an answer. And then you know, the next day
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: he showed you, you know, he sent us a picture
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: of my horrible handwriting like all over his forearm, you know.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: So uh, you know, yeah, we got some wacky fans,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but so far, like no animal romance or
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: anything like that.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: No, I mean, if we were a little more like
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: witchcrafty maybe people would do that, but you know, uh,
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I think, uh, you know, people people
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: have written me letters or or shown me like uh
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: you know, poems that they've written, or you know, just
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: to just that we can inspire anything and anybody is
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: is very humbling for us.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's lovely.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: How does the original vision of Pig Destroyer compare to
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: what the band has become today?
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: And has anything surprised you along the way?
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean it's just strange that, like the
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: the lineup.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Of people and just that you know, the people that
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: have come and gone or that.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: We've lost, you know, and just trying to like, uh
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: stay true to the to the vision that that me
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: and Scott had when we when we started the band,
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: and just you know, uh, I think because we do
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: it for you know, we just want to make music
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: for ourselves and and and the fans, and uh we
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: just try to keep it simple in that respect.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: If you make it more complicated than that, then then
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: I don't I think you're doing yourself a disservice, you know.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely was it hot as well after the passing
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: to decide to keep going with Peat Destroyer or was
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: that something that was always just meant to happen.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Well, no, because we we had already continued because Blake,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: you know, Blake left the band.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: And uh, you know we did.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: We didn't want him to leave the band, but uh
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: but it was just, you know, something that happened, and.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: You know, and then a year later, you know, he
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: passes away, and uh.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: But but it's kind of a I considered it a
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: lifetime appointment. You know, he was always going to be
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: part of the band, in my in.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: My heart, you know what I mean.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: So we're all just we're we're all close like brothers,
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: and you know we fight sometimes, but.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: You know, I take a bullet for any of them.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so lovely, Well, Jaya, We're so excited to see
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: you guys here so soon. Thank you so much for
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: your time today.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Of course, it's my pleasure.