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Timing Your Run With LENA SCISSORHANDS From INFECTED RAIN · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Again like a wait, hot, hello everybody, This is Le from Infected
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  Rain. I am very happy to be here because we just released our sixth
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  album after all these years. It is quite a milestone for us. We
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  started in two thousand and eight in a very small country in Eastern Europe called
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  Moldova. Oh love, thanks for joining us today, Thank you for having
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  me. Yeah, my pleasure. So, as you say, Infected Rayan
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  released your six album time it just last week. So how's the early response
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  being for it? Very good so far, Yeah, very good, more
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  than we could even expect. Great comments, great feedback. Yeah, people
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  are loving it. Oh, so, can you tell us a bit more
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  about the album from a musical point of view and what you're going for it?
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  Well, from the musical point of view, I think you want to
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  talk with my musicians more because they are the composers of the instrumental part.
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  Now, when they are ready and they have a raw version of a song
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  or a good chunk of an idea of a song, they often send it
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  over so I can start thinking in that direction and see what really inspires me
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  and what I could adapt to that melody. You know, to me,
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  it's just when I have the songs. And when my task is to to
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  compose melody applying lyrics, I go based on what the instruments make me feel,
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  and that's how I choose what is the direction of the song that is
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  going to be and what lyrics I'm gonna apply. But yeah, I mean,
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  we have something that we introduced for the first time through this album,
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  which is eight string guitar. Some of the songs are recorded for eight string
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  guitar. We never had that before. Also, we have a new bass
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  player and even though she joined the band after the composing process of the album,
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  she recorded a big part of the songs on the album. And we've
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  already been on tour together and then it feels really great. Yeah, cool,
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  and I'll revered the album for heavy and and the amount of different styles
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  and genres that you explore is a definite face Like what was it difficult waving
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  so many different and saw the music together and still having a cohesive body of
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  work at the end of it. Well, again, that's quite a question
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  for the musicians, you know, for the people that compose the music the
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  instruments. But based on what I know and based on what I've witnessed,
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  I don't think it's difficult. It's just it's actually easier because you feel so
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  free to compose with every genre out there and you just apply what feels right,
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  you know. You listen to it, you're like, what if I
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  had this as well and that as well? Okay, this maybe feels too
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  much, I'll just leave only this, I'll make it louder or whatever.
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  This is pretty much give or take out. They composed. They go by
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  how it feels, you know, and there's there was no goal and where,
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  Oh, let's go with this album, let's mix all the genres together.
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  Not really, if you, you know, ever get the opportunity to
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  dig deeper into our discography, you would feel the other genres being mixed together
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  with metal since the album number one. Really we've always kind of did it.
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  So another feature of the album is your transition from harsh to claimed vocals
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  within the song. So how difficult is that for you as a vicalist light
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  to go from one sort or the other? Like as a listener, it
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  doesn't sound like to be easy. Well, nothing is easy. If everything
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  was that easy, everybody would have done it, you know what I mean,
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  Nothing is really easy, but it is possible for everybody to learn.
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  That part is true. You don't have to necessarily, you know, be
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  born with this insane vocal capacity from like a gift from nature to learn certain
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  vocal techniques, the suggest techniques that you learn. Just like any muscle,
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  you train it, and eventually you find it easier and easier. It's like
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  going to the gym. Initially, the first month is probably going to be
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  so heavy and difficult and annoying for you and more, maybe even more than
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  a month, right for everybody, not just for you, like you as
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  a person, any one of us. And then but if we continue the
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  hard work, if we actually persist and train, eventually things become easier.
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  You know, if in the beginning, let's say you could only do five
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  sit ups, trust me, if you continue working on those sit ups,
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  by the end of the month, you're going to be able to do three
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  or four times more. It's quite similar to sensation, because you learn to
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  breathe properly, you learn to be in tune with your own body. You
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  learn technique to warm up your vocal chords before any type of performance, even
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  in a rehearsal, and you continue being in tune with your body while singing.
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  While recording, while performing, and that helps you know. Now again,
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  this is not something very unique for this album. I've been doing that
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  since album number one, singing in clean vocals or in harsher vocals. So
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  just say somebody has only heard at the singles that you're released on the varia
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  never to return, because I'll let you in Lighthouse would to say that they
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  are a good sonic representation of the album as a whole. I mean,
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  I believe that this album specifically is very unique in itself because it's a very
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  conceptual album. It being such a conceptual album is actually easy, like you
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  said, through two or three songs to get an idea of the theme at
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  least of the song. But let's agree, every every song on this album
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  is so different from one another, but also so unique and in tune with
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  one another. So I mean, of course I would prefer that people give
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  a try to the entire album to understand it. But if yes, if
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  we need to choose, that's why we choose singles, is to show different
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  aspects because Lighthouse is so much more gentle, and there's so much clean vocals
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  and and it's more calm as a song in a way, even though with
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  such deep global meaning, right because I let you so much more personal.
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  But at the same time that you know, so many people can relate to
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  that because I am bringing up an emotion that everybody's familiar with. Then,
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  you know, with never to Return and you know, we already mentioned a
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  couple of things, but like it is just the best song that brings you
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  to the to face the reality, and the reality is that you know,
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  we sleep walk. We really enjoyed the moment and the moment's past and and
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  they become part of our past, and then we can't remember what happened in
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  our past and and why, you know, and the values that we like,
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  the things that we prioritize in life and all that. All those are
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  such different themes, but at the same time, all together they bring they
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  have one thing in common, which is the name of the album Time,
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  and of course the main theme on this album that Time follows on from twenty
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  twenty two successful album Thesis. Is it pronounced that Thesis ands? So,
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  was there axtra any extra pressure on you gown into this one because the last
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  album was so successful, I mean, in a way the best pandalbum you
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  know was so go do at the time, is it possible to you know,
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  do something better? But that's where I think the majority of people make
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  the like the most common mistake is here, who said that you have to
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  give to people something better? And also what is something better? Really?
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  You know, the answer can be so much different depending on the preferences of
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  the listeners. Right, so we approach it differently. We always just disconnect
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  from everything we've done before and try to start from a new, fresh,
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  you know page. And of course we have the same people that we were,
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  you know, a couple of years ago or even five years ago,
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  we had the same people, so a certain pattern and a certain signature you
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  will still see and in the music. However, time passes and hopefully we
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  are a little bit wiser, more professional, more knowledgeable in our career.
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  And this is what we are trying to bring here, is our newer experiences
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  and newer knowledge in music about music, maybe even some new skills, because
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  we do try and train and learn new programs, new new you know,
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  gadgets. So if you don't think about it that way, and you just
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  have fun with the composing process and just make sure that you are loving it
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  in the first place. And if that your own music speaks to you.
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  You're doing the right thing in my opinion. Now you're off on troll with
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  Dragonface and Amaranti from February the twenty first. Where's that true gone to It
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  sounds like it'd be a lot of fun. Yeah, we are very excited.
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  This tour will begin in Germany February twenty first, like you mentioned,
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  so very soon, and it will end in the UK on March twenty fourth,
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  now one month of intense touring, we have very few days off.
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  We are very excited because we are going to play in front of a newer
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  audience and that's challenging but also very exciting. And is there any plans for
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  Inspected Ryan to come to Australia in the New Fusia Well, in the near
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  future. We don't have any plans yet, but it is in our bucket
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  list for sure, because we really want to play everywhere, you know,
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  and Australia is a place that we've never visited, and we have a lot
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  of fans and there's a lot of demand over there. The geographical position of
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  a country often plays a big role. Not only that, but also how
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  strict you know, the requirements are to enter a certain country in comparison with
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  another country also plays a big role. So we will definitely do that,
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  definitely visit Australia. I don't know when though, can make any promises.
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  We it is in our bucket least though of course before I let you guys
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  go to South st and you still go around the bank Deethtail Union. Oh,
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  it's currently not going anywhere. I you know, I am in the
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  process of packing for a new tour, so uh it being my side project,
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  it's a more slow type of project for now. I don't know where
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  that is going to lead, but we are still, you know, waiting
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  to release another music video that was prepared last year, which is going to
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  happen soon in I believe in spring, and uh yeah for now, it's
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  a very young band with only one album never we never even like played together,
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  you know, so we will say, well this will lead us.
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  All depends on the reaction of people. I believe, yeah, because I'm
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  with Doug a few times before and he sent me, if you're this,
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  always put them through heavy for your son. Nice thank you. I was
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  okay, well, thanks very much for me. Tom. Did I spend
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  a preasure speaking with you? The album Time is out now and it's an
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  absolute crack and so if you haven't got it yet or suggest you do,