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LEX LEGION: Old School Metal Mixed With Fresh Blood · HEAVY Music Interviews

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, This is Nails from Lex Legion. We just
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Speaker 1: put out our first single, sleep Eternally and the full
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Speaker 1: album is being released the twelfth of June, so be
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Speaker 1: sure to grab your copy.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Welcome. Oh this is handler Rock of lex Legion. Check
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Speaker 3: our album out. It will be released at twelfth of June.
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Speaker 2: Yest, so welcome Nils and Andy Lex Legion.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so exciting. We're just saying before you guys have
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Speaker 2: got the album coming out, which is debut album for
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Speaker 2: lex Legion. So do you want to fill us in
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Speaker 2: and all the listeners out there, how you guys are
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Speaker 2: decided to come together and do your thing? And what
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Speaker 2: was that the driving that?
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Speaker 3: Sure? I'll try to make you a long story short, okay.
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Speaker 3: I mean actually me and Pete started out back in
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Speaker 3: two thousand and eight writing some songs and writing some briefs.
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Speaker 3: That was right after I was actually mixing one of
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Speaker 3: his solo albums, you know, in the studio, and then
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Speaker 3: we just decided to maybe we should just meet and
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Speaker 3: you know, make a few riffs and make a few
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Speaker 3: songs if possible, and see what's happening. And we did,
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Speaker 3: you know, But then you know, many years went and
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Speaker 3: nothing really, you know, we didn't really pick that up
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Speaker 3: because he was busy with things and I was busy
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Speaker 3: with other things. And then during the pandemic, he decided
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Speaker 3: to start writing songs again. So he wrote a few
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Speaker 3: songs and I wasn't even involved in that project, you know,
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Speaker 3: but he wrote a few songs. He played a few
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Speaker 3: songs for Mickey d and Micky was really interested because
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Speaker 3: he thought he sounded great. And Micky said, you know what,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna call Andy about this. See if he's interested too,
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Speaker 3: you know, to pick up what you guys left and stuff,
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Speaker 3: you know. And people was like, ah, he's too busy
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Speaker 3: with King Diamond and he's busy with and you know,
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Speaker 3: other stuff. So I don't know, man, just wait and see,
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Speaker 3: he said, Mickey, you know, and so he called it
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Speaker 3: the same night kind of thing. And of course I
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Speaker 3: was interested, you know, I know that me and Pete,
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Speaker 3: you know, we have a really cool chemistry writing things together. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: And I didn't even have to, you know, listen to
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Speaker 3: the songs because I know that once we start, you know,
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Speaker 3: meeting the studio right thinks it will be great, you know. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's how it started. And this was during the pandemic,
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Speaker 3: and then hal Patina joined too, so we were four
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Speaker 3: members back together again. You know. That was great. So
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Speaker 3: this was like twenty early twenty twenty one, I believe, and.
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Speaker 2: That's been a while since. I guess it.
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Speaker 3: Was a while. That's like, you know, five years ago.
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Speaker 3: And well we just continued, you know, writing riffs and
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Speaker 3: songs and finally got a few things together. Yeah, and
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Speaker 3: we had a few vocalists in mind, no names mentioned,
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Speaker 3: you know, but some of the top guys you know too,
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Speaker 3: But we never came to the point that we actually
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Speaker 3: contacted them because I got to think of a guy
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Speaker 3: I've been working with four who has an excellent voice
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Speaker 3: and should be the perfect match for this, you know. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: most after a while when we kind of you know,
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Speaker 3: we're trying out what kind of direction we should go
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Speaker 3: in all that. But once we found that, I told Mickey, hey,
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Speaker 3: you should listen to this guy. You know, I've been
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Speaker 3: working with him from like fifteen years ago, and you know,
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Speaker 3: he's a fucking great guy. And Mickey just freaked out
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Speaker 3: when he heard Neil Smocals you know, on the Pagan's mind.
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Speaker 3: You know, he really loved it, and he said this
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Speaker 3: is the guy we should have on the album for sure,
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Speaker 3: you know. So that's how we started. And this was
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Speaker 3: back in I don't know, late twenty two or maybe
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Speaker 3: early twenty three, something like that, Neils stuff like that, right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys approached me early twenty three.
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Speaker 3: I love it.
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Speaker 2: Driving that start rock and roll, Yeah, breaking all the roads.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, that's the way we do it. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So it's been a little while that you were in
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Speaker 2: the making and so individually, had you guys been had
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Speaker 2: a hiatus from the previous bands or like with the
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Speaker 2: pandemic that come obviously just put everyone on hold. And
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Speaker 2: is that what was that main drive to come together
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Speaker 2: to do this or you just got bored or wanted to.
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Speaker 3: No, there was like during the pandemic, you know, so
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Speaker 3: I mean it wasn't a big issue. I mean, we
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Speaker 3: didn't do anything with King Diamond, and I guess Scorpios
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Speaker 3: didn't really do anything, you know, so we kind of
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Speaker 3: got together, you know, even though you know, it started
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Speaker 3: to lose up a little bit, you know at the
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Speaker 3: like twenty two or so, you know, when we were
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Speaker 3: allowed to play shows and stuff, but we had gaps,
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Speaker 3: you know, and we didn't do anything with Diamond until
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, so I had a lot of time
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Speaker 3: to do stuff. And I had already done my contribution
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Speaker 3: to the next King Diamond album too, so I was
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Speaker 3: kind of, you know, nice to do whatever I wanted,
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Speaker 3: you know. I mean I wrote like eight songs for
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Speaker 3: the King Diamond album very early twenty twenty two. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: so I was, you know, I had, I had a
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Speaker 3: lot of extra time. So me and Pete met in
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Speaker 3: the studio and that's usually how we start up, you know,
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Speaker 3: me and Pete, we have some initial riffs, you know
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Speaker 3: that we exchange and bounce back and forth until we
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Speaker 3: have a thing going, and we call in Mickey coming
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Speaker 3: down to the studio helping us to arrange things, you know,
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Speaker 3: the way it should be, with some interesting elements in
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Speaker 3: the songs, you know, some interesting drums and stuff, and
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Speaker 3: then we send it off to Nils, who has you know,
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Speaker 3: three hands, to do whatever he wants, and with.
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Speaker 2: It comes to.
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Speaker 3: No. I mean, it's it's really cool to to to
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Speaker 3: be together because it's such a release. I mean, it's
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Speaker 3: such an easy way of doing things, you know. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I've got the studio where I live, you know, not
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Speaker 3: in the house, but you know a few minutes away,
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Speaker 3: and Micky can easily come down here, and Pete has
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Speaker 3: like two hours to drive from here, but Niels and
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Speaker 3: how there are like five or six hours away, you know,
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Speaker 3: so they will obviously record in their own home studios,
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Speaker 3: you know, but we meet as often as we can,
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Speaker 3: you know, just to get that bad feeling which that yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: So it's not like you know, professional record in distant places.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we try to meet as often as we
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Speaker 3: can and you know, try to be together and write music,
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Speaker 3: you know, so it's kind of a hybrid recording. You
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Speaker 3: would say, some people record at home, but me and Pete,
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Speaker 3: you know, and also Mickey we're in the same place.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know it is. And that's why I
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Speaker 2: talked to a little of different artists about, you know,
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Speaker 2: how do they put it together and what's there and
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Speaker 2: there's just so many different ways that you can do
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Speaker 2: it now and and opportunities, and it's quite interesting hearing
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Speaker 2: how people do it differently. And I mean it's whatever works,
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Speaker 2: I guess, you know, with whatever. Got the new album
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Speaker 2: coming up in June's six, isn't it ju six June?
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Speaker 2: And is there any plans to tour or take it
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Speaker 2: on the road.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, when the time is right, we
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Speaker 3: will definitely do that. You know, we're not only a
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Speaker 3: tour We're not only a recording band, you know with this, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean we already have plans for the second album,
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Speaker 3: you know, and some ideas for that. So you know,
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Speaker 3: when the time is righte with definitely you'll see us live,
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Speaker 3: you know, when the time is right, definitely, definitely. So
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Speaker 3: we're gonna We're just gonna release the album now. See
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Speaker 3: uh check out the response from defans of course.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I got to listen before. It sounds pretty good.
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Speaker 2: So where do you drive your your inspirations from music wise?
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Speaker 3: What's that what we're talking about?
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Speaker 2: It's where do you drive your inspiration from with your music?
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Speaker 3: The inspiration? I mean, we're all school guys, you know,
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Speaker 3: I mean born and raised, you know, with the late
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Speaker 3: seventies and early eighties kind of rock school. Everything that
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Speaker 3: happened then, you know in the heavy metal scene. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's probably what we picked up. And you can hear
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Speaker 3: the influences, you know, yeah in the lex legion from that,
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Speaker 3: you know, I mean, we have our way of writing
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Speaker 3: and playing the music. Yeah, and still, you know, this
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Speaker 3: is different from what we've done before with like King
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Speaker 3: Diamond and stuff. You know, I mean King Diamond is
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Speaker 3: King Diamond. This is something completely different, even though the
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Speaker 3: four of us got together and doing this. But that's
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Speaker 3: the way we want to keep it too. We want
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Speaker 3: this to be like a unique and special thing, not
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Speaker 3: a clone or a copy of anything else. That would
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Speaker 3: probably have been an easy way to do it, like
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Speaker 3: a continuation of a previous album with King Diamond or whatever,
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Speaker 3: but that's not the way we want. I mean, King
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Speaker 3: is unique, and we want this to be special too,
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Speaker 3: you know, I mean different. So the music here a
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Speaker 3: Lex Leadion is a little bit more I would say, well,
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Speaker 3: less complex, you know from the old King Diamond stuff. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: maybe a little less progressive. But still, you know it's
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Speaker 3: going to be a good flow, you know, from the
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Speaker 3: beginning to the end of the song, good melodies. You know,
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Speaker 3: I'm still you know, heavy metal, you know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and so I guess it's a bit hard
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Speaker 2: to gauge. As also was saying before you you haven't
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Speaker 2: sort of released singles already, teases You're just you're going
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Speaker 2: to put the full album out at once, so at
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Speaker 2: a bing then like the Dago album too gauging then
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Speaker 2: where your fan base has come from, and hopefully it's
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Speaker 2: you know, you're your supporters that you've got already, the
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Speaker 2: diamond will folly over. It would be interesting times. So
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Speaker 2: not no interentatively, what's gonna how it's going to be
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Speaker 2: received as well? I guess not having like seven single releases.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean the single was released a
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Speaker 3: few weeks ago and it has just you know, exploded
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Speaker 3: on something. Yeah, it's so good. I mean that was
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Speaker 3: over my expectations. You know, it's been absolutely crazy. And
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Speaker 3: the second scene is going to be released in a
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Speaker 3: few weeks I mean, sorry May I can't remember the
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Speaker 3: date really, And then the full album I guess the
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Speaker 3: twelfth of June, and you know, hopefully people we liked
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Speaker 3: the whole album just as much as the first thing, because.
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Speaker 2: Well indication if things are good going well the first
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Speaker 2: one and thinks for us the second one should take
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Speaker 2: off as well. That sounds when was the last time
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Speaker 2: you guys put out my music like before, Like the time,
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Speaker 2: it was been a little while, so your fans are
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Speaker 2: probably waiting for something new.
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Speaker 3: To come out exactly. Yeah, it feels like you know
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Speaker 3: a lot of people say that you know this this
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Speaker 3: this kind of music and this album, you know, from
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Speaker 3: the journalist who heard the whole album. Yeah, so that
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Speaker 3: it really feels out the gap you know with music
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Speaker 3: that we haven't heard this in a long time. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's got you know, the eighties kind of roots, but
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Speaker 3: a modern sound, you know, but still yeah, it does,
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Speaker 3: you know, so it definitely feel you, yeah, something's been missing,
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Speaker 3: you know. I'm glad we're here now. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: No, it's true that you do. You definitely got like
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Speaker 2: the signature like eighties you know sound, but you've got
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Speaker 2: that heavy drive, like that full metal drive that's quick
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Speaker 2: and heavy, and I'm like, it's nice. It's a nice
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Speaker 2: little rumble in the background.
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Speaker 3: Exactly to the tub of mine. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: No, you definitely definitely can can identify the two so said.
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Speaker 2: I gave a quick listen before it was it's pretty impressive,
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Speaker 2: I must say, and it is. It's nice to have.
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Speaker 2: You know, like a lot of the new music that
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Speaker 2: comes out, you know, depending on more genre, but you know,
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Speaker 2: even with metal, a lot of it you know, is
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Speaker 2: similar and like going back to those old school you
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Speaker 2: know where it started. It's kind of nice to see
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Speaker 2: a few different groups bringing it back to the roots
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Speaker 2: of it all, so to speak, quite encouraging it. It's
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Speaker 2: good for us old schools yea.
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Speaker 3: And I mean I'm really happy, yeah, yeah, but I think,
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Speaker 3: you know, I'm really happy because I think we we
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Speaker 3: have founded the right direction of this and uh really happy.
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Speaker 3: You know how everything turned out and the chemistry between
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Speaker 3: us is just great and you know everything, I mean,
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Speaker 3: the whole combination of things, you know, just makes it,
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Speaker 3: you know, a good sounding album, you know, which we
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Speaker 3: all are really happy with, you.
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Speaker 2: Know, the show, the show. So you do hopefully have
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Speaker 2: plans to tour up for later than a year or
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Speaker 2: next year.
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Speaker 3: Or just I mean, Mick Mickey especially, it's going to
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Speaker 3: be very very busy with Scorpions most of this year
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Speaker 3: actually until you know, end of October, I believe, you know,
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Speaker 3: so this year won't be you know, any any tour
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Speaker 3: plans really, you know, but as soon as the album
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Speaker 3: is released, we're going to start planning for next year,
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Speaker 3: you know, hopefully next year somewhere, you know for sure.
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Speaker 2: Any you guys have been down on the before to
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Speaker 2: Australia have you been to Australia before.
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Speaker 3: I've never been to Australia. We never had a chance
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Speaker 3: to do that, you know with King Diamond, I mean,
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Speaker 3: Motor d and Scorpion's been there many times. I believe
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Speaker 3: that we never had a chance to be there with
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Speaker 3: The Diamond, you know, so looking forward to come down.
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Speaker 2: We sure, absolutely we'd love to. We'd definitely love to
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Speaker 2: embrace that for sure. There's a lot of fieldhouse metal
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Speaker 2: heads around it. We'll definitely be frothing at that.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure. I'm sure excellent.
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Speaker 2: So we're doing a bit of a thing heavy. We're asking, honest,
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Speaker 2: what was it like the first time you guys ever
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Speaker 2: heard your own music on the radio? If you want
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Speaker 2: to take it, flip back to memory lane and fill
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Speaker 2: us in on what it was like to eye.
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Speaker 3: I mean back this was back in you know, back
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Speaker 3: in the mid eighties, I believe, or something like that,
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Speaker 3: like eighty six, you know, when the first King Diamond
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Speaker 3: album was out and you heard it, you know, on
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Speaker 3: radio channels. I mean, that was amazing. That was an
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Speaker 3: amazing feel. You know, that's still wow highlight of the career,
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Speaker 3: you know, when you actually have the first album in
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Speaker 3: your hands and then later you hear it playing on radio.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely amazing and you know everything with it. You know,
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Speaker 3: that first album was just magic, you know, the first
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Speaker 3: couple of shows you did, the first tour you did,
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Speaker 3: the first kind of interviews she did when you were
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Speaker 3: like three years old, amazing, you know. Yeah, definitely a
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Speaker 3: memory for life, you know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, something that you always remember, which is do you
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Speaker 2: remember what you were doing when you were first heard
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Speaker 2: your music on the radio?
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Speaker 3: No, I can't remember that. You know, that was probably
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Speaker 3: on it might have been a radio station, you know
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Speaker 3: that we were you know, invited to for an interview
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Speaker 3: and they played it, you know, on their station. Might
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Speaker 3: have been you know, I'm not really sure about that.
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Speaker 3: You know, it might have been like that, you know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's pretty exciting exceptly yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well, look, thank you so much for coming and having
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Speaker 2: a shout with us today and have you. We really
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Speaker 2: look forward to seeing you guys down under hopefully early
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Speaker 2: next year. And album's out twelfth of June, and so
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Speaker 2: all our listeners out there get ahold of aut Sham's love
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Speaker 2: and we hopefully we'll get to see you in the
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Speaker 2: near future.