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From Dark Rooms To Loud Truths: LOST SOCIETY Are Still Standing · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to have you mad Ivan. Guys have got a
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  Speaker 1: new album that's to be released. Tell us a bit
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 2: So we have our sixth record coming out, which is
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  Speaker 2: honestly crazy to think because it feels like it was
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  Speaker 2: just yesterday putting out the first record. But here we
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  Speaker 2: are looking at the release and honestly, for me, it's
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  Speaker 2: a very special one because you know, some people may
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  Speaker 2: know the last record that we did four years ago,
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  Speaker 2: If the Sky Came Down, was it was a very
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  Speaker 2: personal one for me, and the song, the whole record
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  Speaker 2: was basically written as a sort of diary of a
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  Speaker 2: very very dark time in my life.
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  Speaker 3: And at the at the time when.
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  Speaker 2: I was writing it, I honestly didn't think there would
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  Speaker 2: be a sixth record ever. And and being here and
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  Speaker 2: sort of getting over that to the point where writing
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  Speaker 2: this record felt like a sort of going back to
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  Speaker 2: the roots of just enjoying the the you know, the
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  Speaker 2: magic of being in a studio and.
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  Speaker 3: Writing music, writing melodies, writing lyrics.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm very I'm probably more so proud
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  Speaker 2: of the prouder of this record than anything ever before.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it's always now it's an exciting time
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  Speaker 2: with less than a month before the record comes out,
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  Speaker 2: and knowing that soon, soon, it's going to be you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be everyone's record.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm very happy at the moment.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's such good to hear.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like full circle in a way, you know,
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  Speaker 1: come out the dark side of the time of you know,
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  Speaker 1: outside of the darts times and which can be you know,
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  Speaker 1: quite quite the experience, and often your music is a
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  Speaker 1: way to see yourself through that for a lot of.
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  Speaker 4: People, artists as well as in listeners.
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  Speaker 2: So one thousand percent, and I think, yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: it goes to it really goes to show the power
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  Speaker 2: the or like the power of music that we don't
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  Speaker 2: even fully understand ourselves, because you know, for me, going
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  Speaker 2: back to you know, when I was seven years old,
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  Speaker 2: I heard an Iron Maiden song that was basically the
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  Speaker 2: catalyst for everything that happened in my life. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: hearing Bruce Dickinson sing a line that obviously you know,
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  Speaker 2: he was singing about a different thing than what I
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  Speaker 2: understood it as a seven years old seven.
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  Speaker 3: Year old, but the fact that you know, the emotion
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  Speaker 3: is the same.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, even though the lyric can be different or the
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  Speaker 2: story can be different, and I love that about music.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's I guess I get even a piece
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  Speaker 1: of art, you know, it's about what you take from it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the beautiful thing as an artist is just
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  Speaker 1: hearing the difference meanings that your piece may have to
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  Speaker 1: other people and their adversity that it can taken be
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  Speaker 1: quite complex and by the time, which often is you know,
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  Speaker 1: completely removed from the reasons we may have created it.
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  Speaker 1: But it's beauty of art, really, isn't it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And and then to getting back to you said.
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  Speaker 1: To be in the studio and doing doing it for
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  Speaker 1: the reasons why, for the love of it, which that's
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  Speaker 1: even better, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, getting has some fun with it when you are not, so.
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  Speaker 2: I mean absolutely absolutely, And because like the only the
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  Speaker 2: only way I've ever known how to write music is
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  Speaker 2: or or sort of like the the beginning and the
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  Speaker 2: end always has to be with your self.
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  Speaker 3: It has to be something that you like.
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  Speaker 2: The music always has to be a representation of who
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  Speaker 2: you are as an artist and as a person. Because
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, if you know, if we would ever
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  Speaker 2: be the kind of band that we just chase trends
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  Speaker 2: and right music, that's sort of that will always be
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  Speaker 2: outdated because it's only for a certain moment. Then it's
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  Speaker 2: never going to be authentic and and there would be
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  Speaker 2: no there wouldn't be a reason to really do it either.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like no, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I have been listening to The Creative back by Brick
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  Speaker 1: Rubin of late and you know, that's one thing he
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  Speaker 1: talks about is, you know, when you're creating your whatever.
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  Speaker 4: It may be, is that the audience that comes last.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know, they don't even enter into the
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  Speaker 1: equation when you're doing it, and exactly, yeah, keep but
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  Speaker 1: when you want to, you know, have some success or
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  Speaker 1: and subtraction that can be hard to separate from because
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  Speaker 1: you're mindful of it.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, but keeping it to yourself and to stand your.
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  Speaker 1: Own little musing station as they call it whatever, it
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  Speaker 1: can be difficult to keep it separate.
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  Speaker 4: But for sure that sounds interesting. I gave a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of all Listen before too.
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  Speaker 1: And some nice tracks on there, so it's definitely goodn't.
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  Speaker 3: Sound thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so tell me a little bit about the band
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  Speaker 4: Lost Society.
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  Speaker 1: How long have you guys been together and how did
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  Speaker 1: it happen and where do you see yourselves going?
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  Speaker 4: In the in the future.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's crazy to think that it was about twelve
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  Speaker 2: years ago. No shit, actually thirteen years ago we put
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  Speaker 2: out our first record and it was pretty insane honestly,
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  Speaker 2: the way that everything sort of came together in the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, I started the band in twenty ten
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  Speaker 2: from just you know, a notion of I want to
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  Speaker 2: be a musician, I want to be in a band,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to write music, not just play music.
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  Speaker 2: And it was like, you know, I'm going to sort
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  Speaker 2: of cut the story a bit shorter, So long story short.
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  Speaker 2: In the matter of two years we had you know,
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  Speaker 2: the only lineup changes basically are bigger lineup changes that
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  Speaker 2: have been in the band. And you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: only in twenty twenty we had our drummer change, and
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  Speaker 2: even the drum change, the drummer changing, the guy who
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  Speaker 2: ended up in the band was one of our best friends,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, everything went well with that. But either way,
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  Speaker 2: in the beginning, you know, a couple of lineup changes,
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  Speaker 2: one and a half demos, and that sort of translated
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  Speaker 2: into us, you know, organizing our first own shows and
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  Speaker 2: stuff in Finland because at the time I was still underage,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, we couldn't.
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  Speaker 3: Play any bars or anything, so it was just.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was up to us arranging our little
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  Speaker 2: own festivals, and we did a bunch of band competitions
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  Speaker 2: and you know, just any any chance we had to perform,
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  Speaker 2: and that sort of all ended up in us being
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  Speaker 2: in a televised sort of band competition final whatever.
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  Speaker 3: And this video ended up on the desk of an
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  Speaker 3: A and.
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  Speaker 2: R at Nuclear Blast Records here in Germany and or
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  Speaker 2: here in Europe in Germany, and they signed us, and
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  Speaker 2: the rest is, you know, the rest is history, so
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  Speaker 2: to say, I mean, we're still still going at it,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we still pride ourselves in challenging ourselves
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  Speaker 2: every record that we do, every show that we do,
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  Speaker 2: every tour that we do, and obviously, you know, our
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  Speaker 2: our hopes are the same as they were back in
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  Speaker 2: the day that we want to be the biggest band
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  Speaker 2: in metal music. And obviously, you know, we know that
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  Speaker 2: we're not we're not nearly there, but you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: making way, and we're we're doing the best that we
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  Speaker 2: can and probably on top of all that, we're still
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  Speaker 2: having a good time, which is you know, the most
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  Speaker 2: genuine reason for doing.
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  Speaker 1: This for sure, for sure, and so obviously you're from
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  Speaker 1: not a native of Finlanders, Finish. I think they called
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  Speaker 1: I'll be from the US, So was that part of
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  Speaker 1: getting trashing the band was making the decision to move
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  Speaker 1: to philm.
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  Speaker 2: I will always take that as a compliment just for
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  Speaker 2: my accent, but but I am actually finished, I'm half finished.
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  Speaker 3: But I have I have roots.
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  Speaker 2: My father was Egyptian, so I'm half Egyptian and that
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  Speaker 2: translates to the fact that we just spoke English at
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  Speaker 2: home always. But I am I'm basically born and raised
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  Speaker 2: in Finland, just went through Inlish speaking schools and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But I am not American.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's because yeah, you definitely did distinctly pretty for
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  Speaker 1: me my being a US some accents so from the
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  Speaker 1: inastern aactional schools, as you said, is that where you
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  Speaker 1: picked it up. Yeah, wow, that's some I haven't heard
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  Speaker 1: that before, and they get some unique hybrid accents at
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  Speaker 1: the times. Some people do that have had that similar experience,
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  Speaker 1: which is kind of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, and it's I mean, obviously had the biggest impact
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  Speaker 2: in the fact or the biggest perk of all of
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  Speaker 2: that is because you know, since the since the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of the beginning of the band. I've always written all
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  Speaker 2: the lyrics, you know, done obviously all the press and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that. So for that, it definitely has been
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  Speaker 2: a very rewarding fact that you know, we did always
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  Speaker 2: maintain that fact that we spoke English at home and
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  Speaker 2: I did the English speaking schools and stuff, and then
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  Speaker 2: sort of the Finnish side of me is obviously with
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  Speaker 2: all my friends and you know, some of my family
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  Speaker 2: we do speak in Finnish.
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  Speaker 3: So it's school hybrid of hybrid of definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I guess you've based in the best part
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  Speaker 1: of the world too for you know, heavy metal music.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's just it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if there's ever a place where you want
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  Speaker 2: to start, you know, a metal band, there's no better
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  Speaker 2: place than.
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  Speaker 1: Them, absolutely, And because the reason I ask, I've spoke
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  Speaker 1: to a few hours over the time and they've done that.
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  Speaker 1: They've been from you know, the States, and then they
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  Speaker 1: chosen to go to you know, places like Sweden and
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  Speaker 1: places in Europe to get tractured and it's just been
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  Speaker 1: worked out better for them.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, so it's definitely the dune thing along the way.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, one.
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  Speaker 2: Hundred percent, and I mean because you know, like I
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  Speaker 2: was saying earlier, I mean, the possibilities here are I
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  Speaker 2: mean fairly endless, because, like as I was saying, I
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  Speaker 2: was underaged when we started the band, but we managed
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  Speaker 2: to you know, sort out our own festivals at you know,
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  Speaker 2: local youth centers. And I remember one of our first
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  Speaker 2: shows was we played, you know, we played a couple
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  Speaker 2: of songs that I think it was like it was
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  Speaker 2: a high school and they had like they had some
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  Speaker 2: sort of like it was a party for exchange students
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  Speaker 2: or something. Really, you know, we're gonna fucking play, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we brought out our drum sets and all that ship
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  Speaker 2: and we fucking played two songs at an auditorium or something.
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  Speaker 2: So it is definitely possible, you know, more so than
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  Speaker 2: maybe in some other countries to do something. But you
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  Speaker 2: know that that also, you know, it's like that's not everything.
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  Speaker 2: You obviously, you have to have the passion for it.
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  Speaker 2: You have to have the talent and the sort of
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  Speaker 2: the stick to itness that you just have to fucking
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  Speaker 2: go to that rehearsal place every single day.
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  Speaker 1: It's been committed to being consistent, and I mean when
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  Speaker 1: you started it would have been pre streaming platforms and
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  Speaker 1: that kind of thing to be able to gain an
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  Speaker 1: audience and gain traction on you know, whether it be
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  Speaker 1: Spotify or you know, TikTok by a lot of.
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  Speaker 4: Artists have done that and had some success exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And honestly, one of my one of my fondest memories
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  Speaker 2: from those days is also that our first demo, uh
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  Speaker 2: you know where I mean, we are fairly young, but
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  Speaker 2: we're still old enough that our first demo we actually
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  Speaker 2: printed them onto CDs. Yeah, and you know, we did
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  Speaker 2: the fucking cover art, We did all of that and
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  Speaker 2: we sold them like just door to door, and I
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  Speaker 2: think we sold about one hundred and fifty copies.
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  Speaker 3: And I feel like that, you know, that really builds
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  Speaker 3: your character.
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  Speaker 2: You know, for us is now that you'll just do,
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  Speaker 2: you know, post a funny TikTok of your fucking first
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  Speaker 2: demo and then it might gain some traction and a
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  Speaker 2: record label can say, you know, if your if your
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  Speaker 2: TikTok reaches this and this, many people will release your music.
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  Speaker 3: But if it doesn't, then we won't.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's just that's those are the things
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  Speaker 2: that just kill the creativity.
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  Speaker 1: It can do it can it's and it's the thing
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  Speaker 1: you've gone yourself being what it was previously like in
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  Speaker 1: the change where it's you know, it certainly looked in
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  Speaker 1: it's at now and it's it's just different. But you're
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  Speaker 1: hearing you speak about you know, your time with we
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  Speaker 1: creating were in CDs and you're going out and finding
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  Speaker 1: these and I mean that's why we did it when
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  Speaker 1: we were coming up through and my memories of being
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  Speaker 1: young and scene bands and your band competitions and and
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  Speaker 1: going out and that's.
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  Speaker 4: How you did.
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  Speaker 1: You gain your popularity amongst two years and then hopefully
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  Speaker 1: you know, a radio station may pick it up or
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  Speaker 1: like say, a label and exactly does it builds a character?
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  Speaker 1: And I think also too, like it's coming from that
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  Speaker 1: you know, free free streaming too pre stream.
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  Speaker 4: I think we need to officially need to call it something.
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  Speaker 4: I think so people know, but you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, some people do struggle with it and because it
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  Speaker 1: is so different, but then other people, you know, embrace
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  Speaker 1: it and use it make it work for them. Like
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  Speaker 1: I had one one band say, you know, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: so kind obviously make money on Spotify and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: but what they do is they use it to put
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  Speaker 1: their music out and then get people to their lives
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  Speaker 1: shows because that's what the money is, you know, Merchantlive.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think I do agree with you because
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  Speaker 2: I've always I've always been also like, you know, even
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  Speaker 2: though I do talk a fair a lot against it,
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  Speaker 2: I am obviously always been a big, a big sort
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  Speaker 2: of fan of of the possibilities obviously that social media
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  Speaker 2: streaming service. I feel like, you know exactly, and I
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  Speaker 2: feel like, you know, being against the streaming service is
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  Speaker 2: kind of the same as what someone is being when
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  Speaker 2: CDs have come and they're like, now we're just pressing
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  Speaker 2: vinyl or before that with cassettes.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, it may not be an ideal.
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  Speaker 2: Situation, especially with the you know, the royalty side being
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  Speaker 2: absolute bullshit, but it's just a necessity you have to
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  Speaker 2: make with the situation.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, it's the same thing with with TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: It's like people, I feel like some people just fail
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  Speaker 2: to understand that you don't have to do TikTok the
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  Speaker 2: same way as everyone else. It's like, you don't expect
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  Speaker 2: Carrie King to do a fucking dance on TikTok to
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  Speaker 2: promote a slave record. It's like you can do it
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  Speaker 2: your own way, but you know, in best case scenario,
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  Speaker 2: it can reach such a big audience. It's like what
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  Speaker 2: MTV was back in the day. You have TikTok now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and that's exactly right. It's just it's not
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  Speaker 4: going anywhere. You just have to make a work for you.
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  Speaker 1: And it's always interesting, to be honest, how they their
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  Speaker 1: approach to it and the things they do.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I spoke with a band on the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: They're lend of the wall search and the device from there,
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  Speaker 1: and they're coming out to Australia for the first time
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  Speaker 1: and you know, part of that was too old for TikTok,
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  Speaker 1: and so you know they're still engage in it and
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  Speaker 1: use it. But you know, it's it's how you make
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  Speaker 1: it individualized and work for you.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, it's you have to do it.
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  Speaker 2: It's part of going you know exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But but going back to what you were saying earlier, also,
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  Speaker 2: there is the there is the point I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you compare the you know, the days
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  Speaker 2: of yeah, pressing your own CDs and blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 2: there is the point that I feel like a lot
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  Speaker 2: of bands and artists nowadays, they're they're sort of fed
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  Speaker 2: only these success stories or they find a lot of
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  Speaker 2: success and overnight success stories, and that sort of kills
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  Speaker 2: their their their work ethic. And it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if something doesn't happen after the first song or after
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  Speaker 2: the first demo, I'm quitting because you know, it's like
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  Speaker 2: you're you're fed always these stories of oh yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: know what ID a song and then overnight it became
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  Speaker 2: you know, Spotify number one. It's like, because I would
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  Speaker 2: swear on my life that I bet all of these
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  Speaker 2: artists have worked their asses off before that overnight success
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  Speaker 2: has happened. And I feel like that should be talked
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  Speaker 2: about more on social media. It's not about you know,
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  Speaker 2: just being an artist for a month and then blows up.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, that can happen, but it doesn't usually happen.
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  Speaker 1: And that's been the way it has been always be
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  Speaker 1: fans is that yeah, they might you know, make it
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  Speaker 1: and they come out with an album or a couple
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  Speaker 1: of tracks that you know, gain popularity interaction. But the
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  Speaker 1: truth behind that is that they've been doing that for
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  Speaker 1: years and doing the hard yards and playing you know,
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  Speaker 1: the small gigs in the venues and it doesn't happen overnight,
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  Speaker 1: and it's exactly right, it's still the same, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in this same age. I think you know that may
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  Speaker 1: be the one or two other success stories that you know,
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  Speaker 1: there are the uniforms that you know, get focused on.
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  Speaker 1: But the general rule is that you guys have been
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  Speaker 1: doing it always and for years exactly. You know when
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  Speaker 1: it what it makes, and it happens and then it's
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  Speaker 1: but it's like you know, we say, people don't have
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  Speaker 1: that assistance or that that commitment to doing it. There's
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  Speaker 1: so many, so many great musicians and great songs that
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  Speaker 1: will never be heard because people won't get out of
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  Speaker 1: the bedroom, won't get out of the garage, studio or whatever
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  Speaker 1: it may be.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: They don't have that drive.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: It's about having, you know, the consistency, the confidence and
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: the talent, and you really have to step away from
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: that creative and have almost a business side of minds.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: And the truth is that you know, some people can't
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: because they are locked in so much with that creative personality.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: They are one.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: So and you know they're the two edgy management as well,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: like most fans are any good as the commonis and
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: management too. So if you got a good relationship and
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: that's working, that's going to be's marketing you know, Oh.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: No, definitely.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: But I feel like also it's like for those people
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: who dream of an overnight success story, it's like, I
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: feel like it. Also, it doesn't prepare you in any
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: way for this trip. It's like, if you write your
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: song and it becomes a hit, obviously everyone's gonna think
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: the next one is gonna be as big and the
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: next one after that, and you're gonna you're gonna have
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: these very unnecessary pressures just.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Stowed upon you.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's like that versus you know, steady steady
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: growth for like ten years or whatever. It's like, you
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: know what will happen, and plus then if, if, and
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: when something big happens, then there's gonna be a you know,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: a brilliant back catalog that people can go back to,
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: and you know you're gonna be prepared to how.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: You act on tour, how you do this, and how
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: you do that.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, there's always gonna be those success stories where you know,
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: it happens like you grow, you blow up overnight, but
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: then you get burned out within the year.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's right. Well, a lot of people can't
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: handle it and it's too much, too soon.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: It's like anything where really is that you persevere and
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: you you make your mistakes.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: And I always say the wise people have made the
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: most mistakes.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: You know, if you start at the top doing one
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: way down oh one thousand. Yeah, so let's do you
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: know you've got that, you got the level mindset. So
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: for Lot Society was there plans to start tour up
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: coming off your album is released, So what's the.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, the the records coming out March sixth and starting
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: March seventh, we're going to be doing a three week
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: European tour, a headline run going to or We're doing Germany, Switzerland,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: the UK, a bunch of other countries. So we're gonna
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: be preoccupied with that for about three weeks.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: We then we come back to Finland and we have
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: a one off, pretty.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Big show here in Helsinki, and you know, then we're
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: gearing up for the summer festival season, which is always
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: the best, and you know, I mean after that, it's
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: just gonna be. We always say the same thing to
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: our agents and management, just to keep us as much
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: on tour as possible because.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: We don't want to do that. So you know, beyond that,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: I don't know, we'll.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: See what the quite well. Otherwise, touring together, we.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Have definitely got to know each other along the year,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: so you know, it's we're we're always looking forward to
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: hanging out on the bus and just having a break
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: from our normal lives.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I guess you know it's coming at the
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: end of back into writing your album?
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Would it take Did it take long.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: To complete this one that you guys have just about
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: to put out?
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, this was, honestly it was because obviously it
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: was a couple of years that we took just when
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: we were touring the last record on and off.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: But it was about I mean, from let's say, from
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: start to.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Finish, about two years at least, you know, songwriting, arranging
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: the music, recording, mixing and all of that. So it
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: does take a long time, and this probably took a
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: bit longer than than.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: The previous one, I would say.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And so it's called Hell on Earth? Is that right?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: It's called hell is a state of mind.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Helen's the state mine? Sorry my bad, Yeah, that's interesting,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: interesting title.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: I guess the.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Reflection of coming out of your dog times. Is that
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: related to seeing what it was?
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: And definitely, it definitely is.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, going back to the point what I said
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: earlier that I feel like it was sort of a
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: clean slate that I got to start writing these songs for.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: And it's like I feel, I feel like, you know,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: this record is very empowering, and it's more about like
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: a journey of sort of self acceptance than anything else.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: And you know, even though it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Is written from a semi fictional standpoint, it is my story,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: written you know, from my angle, talking about you know,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: fairly universal subjects, but obviously in my in my from
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: my angle, because that's all I can offer you know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: the world basically.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: So, but it's I think it's a cool.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Sort of challenge of two extremes where basically the record is,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: you know, it's a metal record, it is a heavy,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: heavy record. But on the other hand, it's a very
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: empowering sort of lyric and story. So I think those
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: two things go together very cool, very well, especially you know,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: in a in a time and age where everything around
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: us is absolutely just fucking falling apart. I think it's
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: to offer people at least, you know, uh, raalty minutes
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: of safety.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and you know that's a kind of beautiful
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: contrust really, like you say, you know, the metal music,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: which is quite hard. The contrast with you know, your
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: vulnerable state, which and you know, exposing that and sharing
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: that with your audience and listeners and and tackling those
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: that reality and giving them some truth and some real life,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: lived experience, which you say, in this world that we've
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: fed so much bullshit and fake realities, and it's yeah,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: it's it's refreshing to know that there's art being created
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: like that that's still being produced and on a high
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: end level, which is what we always want to see.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: That's cool to hear.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: But but yeah, I mean that's you know, it's it's
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: just it's what I was born to do in that way.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: You know, it sounds so cliche, but this is it's like,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I don't choose to do this. I just literally have to.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: And it's like to you know, to let out all
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the emotion that I have inside of myself. But also
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: knowing that you know, it can have some effect on
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: someone's life, even in a very minor way, it makes
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: it all worthwhile.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Absolutely if one person gets something out of it and
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: your job done. It's not about you know, when it
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: comes to that, it's not even about the money or
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the success. It's just if you can give someone the
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: gift of you know, they resonate and that's that's a
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: beautiful you know that no price can be put on that,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: And that sounds exactly that's why we do it. It's
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: for the love of the tunes. It's not for the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: for the fame of the portune. I always say for
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the broken up with the broken unknown.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Plus, if you do too well as an artist, you're
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: not going to have enough suffering to write anything anymore.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: It always it reminds me of Uh. There was a d.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Snyder interview from years and years ago where he was
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: he was being interviewed in front of ten Ferraris and
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: a fucking mansion and a boat or a yacht, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: he was like.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: It's very difficult for me to write another We're not
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: going to take it when I'm pretty satisfied.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, money's on everything, but it gives you options.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: You know, I've never seen anyone.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: That's so funny so plans to come down under it
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: all or yet something in the.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Pipeline Oh my god, I really hope. So, I mean
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: it's we we have not made it there yet. I
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: actually it was funny during the rite or during the
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: recording sessions of this record, I actually flew down to
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Australia and New Zealand to do a fill in tour
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: with a band called Amaranth and that was my first
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: first time in Australia and I absolutely fell in love
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: with the country and I really hope that this record
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: will finally bring us down there with lost society.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, yeah. I think your fans would definitely be
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: loving that too. So we're about how long ago was
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: that that you come out?
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: That was let me see it was twenty twenty four.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I think it was like September October something like that.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: We did.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I think we did five shows in Australia and one
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: show in New Zealand.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, nice nicely to the capitals and yeah and
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: quick trick.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: But I'm definitely so well worth it.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Love.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: We love now our fellow musicians from over the oceans
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: come down and enjoy our country.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: It's the best love it always.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Let's see you. Let's good that you got plans, but yeah,
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: it just gets expensive that the thing.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: You know, when you touring the bed, we're a little
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: bit far away from most most of you guys in
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the you know, either the UK, Europe or even stakes.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: It's picking me into that after a few hours from
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the plane, maybe a stop over here and there. But yeah, definitely,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I haven't heard anyone say that they regretted it yet.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: So I was the only thing that I was surprised
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: about is I was there for probably eight or nine
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: days and the only I saw just one little spider
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: on my bed the whole time I was there. I
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: was like, this fucking country has been promoted in a
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: very different way to me.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know the look there's some urban miss that.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: There are some that are very true, like you know,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the snakes at the beach in the sharks like you know,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: then you just get to avoid them. But yeah, but
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the drop bears you just the drop was very cute,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: you know, into like grow alcohol has made the most
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: heinous noises. I don't know if you've ever googled if
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: you get a chat I've never heard, just google it
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: or find an example on one and just listening to
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: what they sound like. It literally sounds like there is
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: demons coming through the tree.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: It's insane.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: I love that. I'm definitely going to google this.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: You could maybe like cut it into a track one day,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that would be cool.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you so much.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: That mean it's been a pleasure to speak with you.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: A great time. Thank you.