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Unleashing The Beast With DAVE LUPTON From FLAMING WREKAGE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Away. Hey, what's this is our day from Flaming Wreckage and you're watching
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  listening to Heavy mag. Thanks for having us, Chris PYEA no worries it
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  all, Dave. Good to speak with you again, brother. Yeah,
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  man, it's been a while. It has been make you looking looking as
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  radiant as ever? Oh? Thanks? Man's time day So Flaming Records.
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  You will unleash your new album of Terror Inferner on April the twenty sixth.
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  Mate, like getting close now? How you feeled about it? Yeah?
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  Man, it's all systems go at the moment. I just picked up some
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  merch for the Princess this morning, so they'll be going out with the pre
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  orders pretty soon. Yeah, it's been really good. It's been a pretty
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  intense process, but super rewarding. Much like the recording of the album,
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  I'd say, like, you know, we really jammed everything we could into
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  the time that we had, and I think we've got something really really special
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  with this one. So yeah, we've had a couple of singles out obviously
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  already, so I have hopefully everyone's digging it, but I'm really looking forward
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  to getting the whole thing out of there. It's going to be you know,
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  a cathartic experience to get the whole album out in the world. I
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  benjmannon speaking of the singles, like you have been grip feeding tasty morsels of
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  the album with the singles Which Hunt Goes and Hell on Earth Mate, So
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  would you say over all those three are a good sonic representation and what do
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  you expect from the album as a whole. Uh? Yeah, I think
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  so there's still a future. We've still got a few tricks of our sleeve
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  that we haven't put it out yet. But yeah, like we just thought
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  we'd come out of the gates as hot as possible with Which Hunts. That's
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  the first track on the record, and it's like one of the most aggressive
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  songs on the record, So we just wanted to make a statement with the
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  first single, and I think that song definitely delivers there. And then we've
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  mixed it up a bit with Ghosts, Like you hear some different sort of
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  instrumentation on that one. There's like some slow guitar and some acoustic going on
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  in there, a bit of percussion. It's a few things on this album
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  that we haven't really done before. So that was a good one to kind
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  of you know, wet the appetite for some other moments on the record that
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  you'll hear and yeah, and then Hell on Earth, like that song is
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  probably my favorite. I would say that's i'd say the most case representation of
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  where the album's at, like lyrically, coconceptually, and yeah, it do
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  really take you on a journey that song. I love that like outro a
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  bit. We're working on that at the moment and figuring out how we're going
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  to do a live because we just put so many guitar tracks on that song.
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  So but we're coming up with some cool live jams and stuff, which
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  is also really exciting time to you know, just put the new stuff into
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  a live context. So yeah, man, it's a very exciting time at
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  the moment. It's great. Okay, now I'm glad you mentioned Ghosts Mate,
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  because I want to focus on that track a little bit more specifically.
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  Like it it features the experimental instrumentalization with percussion, apistic and slide guitar.
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  Man, So, where did that idea come from? It's not part of
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  the staple flame and Recorge Diet No, it's not really. I think we
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  just so this is the third album we've done with Chris Samelco, and we've
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  like really put a lot of time into being quite extensive with the pre pro
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  and just getting that right, making sure the structures are all locked away before
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  we hit the studio kind of thing, and that enables us to spend more
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  time sort of experimenting and throwing some stuff out there that we haven't tried before,
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  which was super fun process. Like, I think it all kicked off
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  with some synth, because there's there's a fair bit of synth, like throughout
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  the album. You'll hear it like underneath some of the bigger choruses, and
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  like the outro of Ghosts has got that sort of like big swell at the
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  end, which is a role in Guno run through like a delay and a
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  distortion pedal. It's got that real like blade runner like sci fi edge to
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  it. So once we started fucking around with that kind of stuff, we
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  thought, well, if the song needs this, you know, just just
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  throw it out there. And there's had this sort of clean section in the
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  middle that Jazzy had and I'm like, I'm just feeling some slide. Don't
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  know where it came from, but like just the idea of tucking a little
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  slide bit over there was kind of a cool idea, and I like,
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  it's like guitars, like not the easiest thing to do. I can't play
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  slide for shit, but I just learned it and be able to do that,
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  you know, like I'm know Derek Trucks or anything, but like just
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  when it's tripping and delay, you can kind of get away with it.
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  But yeah, it's just it's like that that section of the song is like
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  it's almost got like a bluesy sort of like you know, country edge to
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  it almost. So it's very like unfamiliar territory for us, like trying that
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  stuff out. But it was like really fun and yeah, just knowing that
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  you can, like any can make anything metal and it's not it's just for
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  the you know, it's just for the growth of the songs. Like there's
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  all these like layers that sit underneath the main instrumentation that we normally use it
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  and it just it takes it to another level, man like sonically, it
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  just really makes it sing and fattens it up nicely. So yeah, it's
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  a super funny process doing all that stuff. And I'm glad we did it
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  because yeah, I'm really happy with the result. It actually raised a bit
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  of an interesting question there bro like the sort of your music sort of more
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  thrash influenced, and that's what you guys are sort of known for. So
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  it's it's easy that you stay us to get lumpered into that box you don't
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  where people just expect the same sort of shit of you all the time.
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  But do you reckon because this is your third album that maybe you've got that
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  confidence, I guess to experiment a bit more and not just deliver what people
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  expect. Yeah, definitely, man, And like you know, we all
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  listen to a lot of different music, and I think that's something that you
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  know, it makes our sound what it is, Like we're always listening to
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  new influences and learning things from different styles of music. Like there's a song
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  called Blood and Bone which has a riff that's kind of derived from like a
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  Japanese influenced scale, and Jazzy is like massively into Japanese music, and like
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  not not necessarily just heavy music as well. Like he listens to all sorts
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  like poff, you know, like sort of jazz like and it's just like
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  the note selection across different cultural influences is really cool like influencer bring to like
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  the like heavy metal style, and yeah, when you bring all that together,
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  it just like it's it's quite a unique thing. And I can't really
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  remember where that like sort of that beating ghosts came from in the middle there,
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  but it's just a combination of a bunch of different influencers all coming in
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  to like and converging into the same place. And like, nothing's a bad
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  idea in the studio, you know, you can get away with that.
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  Like our motto throughout this recording was just like let's just do it, and
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  we can always get rid of it if it's not going to work. So
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  just yeah, it's very it's a freeing experience to be able to try that
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  stuff. And and like you know, have people like given the confidence to
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  bring those sort of influences in h And what sort of feedback you've been getting
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  on it from like long term fan pro like are they embracing that change or
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  are they sort of you know a bit like you can't fucking change what we
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  love. No, I think they're digging it, man, Like I think
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  people people like it when bands take a bit of a swing, but there's
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  still enough on the album too to please like the you know, the standard
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  sort of the standard fare of like you know, sort of flash death metal.
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  So I think there's something there's something on there for everyone. If if
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  that's what you're looking for, you you're more straight up sort of metal,
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  there's plenty of that on there too, but there is you know, enough
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  of that experimentation, and yeah, people have accepted it so fast. So
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  if you like where you are, you're going to love the rest of it
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  because there's heaps of shit on there to wrap your ears around. Up Man
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  and Cherry. Inferno follows on from your last album, Cathedral Bones, which
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  came out in twenty twenty one. Bro, So what's changed with Flaming Record
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  got so Flaming Wreckage between those two albums. Yeah, well, I think
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  that the main difference on this one has just been like the approach to writing,
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  Like back to what I was just saying, like, you know,
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  people that the confidence are bringing those extra influences and stuff like that. But
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  this one was a more much more collaborative process I think previously and we started
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  sort of heading in this direction a little bit on Cathedral, but the band
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  has always been so like guitar driven and then the rest of the song just
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  gets built from like a riff, whereas on this one. And I think
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  that speaks to some of those influencers as well, is that everyone's in on
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  putting the song together and we're much more open to having ideas come from different
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  places. Like, you know, there's like more rhythmic stuff that is,
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  like, rather than it being a cool selection of notes or whatever it is
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  that makes up the rift that we would normally use, it's like Matt has
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  come up with this like cool rhythmic pattern and then we play a rift to
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  that. You know, it's like kind of flipping it on its head.
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  And we were all in the room like nutting these songs out rather than sending
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  rifts in and then building it from there. So that's kind of that was
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  kind of a different writing process to what we've done in the past. And
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  yeah, I think it really worked. I think it gave the songs a
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  little bit more space. And then yeah, back to what we were saying
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  before, you can throw wild shit on top of it, like a twelve
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  string guitar or synth, And I think we kind of intended that we wanted
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  the songs not not necessarily to be more simple, but just to like have
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  a bit more space and like a bit more depth rather than just trying to
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  play like Cathedrals, a pretty relentlessly brutal record, Like there's not much like
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  variation in terms of tempo on that one, but on this, on this
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  time round, we thought we'd experiment with that a little bit more. And
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  I think it's more of a cohesive like a to B Journey than Cathedral or
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  just Still Love. It's just a balsal Wall death metal record, and that's
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  there's a time and a place for that, you know, But this little
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  bit of a different flavor with this, and it's just, yeah, the
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  bigness of it is really what we were trying to capture, and that's what
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  it's going to put you on the spot a little bit, bro. But
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  the press release cause Tara Inferni your hardest hitting record to date, would you
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  agree with that statement? I think so yeah, Like, I mean that's
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  such a subjective thing, like what would you consider to be hard hitting?
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  Like is it like fast or is it you know, like a crushing,
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  like kind of more traditional death metal sort of approach. But I think it's
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  it's all like the production and the songwriting converging together just like makes those real
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  extra heavy sections really hit hard, and like you can really feel like there's
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  a good example is like that outo riff to Ghosts. I remember that song
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  was like I didn't like that song for ages. I was like, we're
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  going to chuck this, but and then right like we got it to pre
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  pro and I was like, oh, maybe I'm starting to hear something now.
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  I'm so glad we did it, because, like you know, it's
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  pretty simple that song is, like the last riff is just like a real
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  like sort of like that on its own, I just remember thinking it's just
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  nothing. But when when it's got the layering on it, when it's got
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  like the bigness of the like instrumentation and all the things that we did to
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  make it like, it kind of can transform a simple part into like this
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  really crushing section. So I guess that's a good lesson that we learned on
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  this one, like being open to keeping the more simplistic riffs in there because
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  they can become some of the most more like memorable. And I also like
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  in terms of like what we used like to record, like we use a
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  lot of old stuff on this, like there's a lot of we use a
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  vintage timer kit, we use an old mess of Boogie Mark four, Like
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  I've got some pretty like older Flying V's. It's like we didn't really approach
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  this from a modern metal perspective in any way. So you know you think
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  about like something like the Black album, where it was like they went as
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  simple as possible and it's made it as big as they could. That was
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  sort of the thinking with a lot of these songs. So a man,
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  So you've actually announced two exclusive album launch shows two men coming up. So
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  you've got one at the Workers Club in Melbourne May the twenty fifth, and
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  one of the Lands down in Sydney on Dune the eighth. I know what
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  you guys like make you love playing live and you love fucking decimating the audience.
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  So what do you got What surprise is you got planned for these two
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  special shows. Well, we're just putting the set list together now, and
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  like I said before, like I really enjoy this, Like time just before,
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  when you haven't played a lot of the songs live before, it can
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  be a little bit nerve wracking because like nerve wracking, sorry, because you
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  know there comes with a certain amount of pressure at least that we put it
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  on ourselves to make sure that they're as good as they can be live.
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  But I really like the process of transforming it from a studio version into a
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  live version because to us, there are two very different things. Like we
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  don't play to a click track or anything. We want the live version of
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  the song to be its own experience. So we're working out little little sections
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  that kind of get like the carry on for a bit longer than they would
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  on the album, and some extra little flavors to give it that extra hard
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  hitting quality live, and also like figuring out how like we're going to split
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  up these guitar parts, because there's a million of them always relish in that
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  challenge. So yeah, man, the set list is going to be killer.
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  We've picked some of our favorite songs off the new record and some ones
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  we haven't played in a little while off the older ones as well, so
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  that'll be really cool. And yeah, we're just quite We're still running this
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  competition called the Hell's Pass Competition. So if you pre ordered the album and
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  you can still pre order the vinyl on our site, you go into the
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  draw to win a bar tab and you can have a beer with us before
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  the show and you get early much access as well, so that'll be really
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  cool just to we're trying to, you know, just do some stuff for
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  the fans that you might not get with other bands and get to hang out
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  with people a little bit more before the show. So that's something to really
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  look forward to. I'm really looking forward to meeting the people that you took
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  the time to go and buy our album before it's even out. It means
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  a huge amount to us. So yeah, man, it's going to be
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  super fun. Now. We're just doing these two exclusive shows for now,
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  and then we've got another tour in the works at the end of the year,
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  so sta shuned for that one. Well, while we're promoting the the
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  fucking drink with the band thing, bro, what is the link where people
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  can go and pre order the album so they can get a chance to have
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  a beer with you. Yeah, so it's just flaming Wreckage dot Com forwards
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  a shop and you'll see CD in the vinyl there. So we've still got
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  a few left. Yeah, it was insane how many pre orders we got.
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  It was awesome, like people really go behind it straight away, So
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  very thankful for that. But there's still time if you want to if you
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  want to join that comp. Oh. Now, I don't normally ask questions
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  about band names made because I find the blame as fuck to be honest,
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  but you guys have made me misspell your name that many fucking times. I
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  want to know why the sea isn't in there, Like, did someone fuck
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  up and you decided to keep it or did you do it deliberately to fuck
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  people like me up? Yeah? Oh man, it's like it's just too
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  late to change it now, you know, But well, no, we
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  did it intentionally. I just remember, like, you know, when the
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  idea of the band name came about, like when we were like, you
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  know, like seventeen eighteen or something. It was like I feel like this
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  needs like some kind of more metal edge, and we're like, well,
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  Megadeth did it, Like there's no a in that. Actually we can get
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  away with something cool there. And then I think we were drawing up some
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  like sketches for the logo and we thought it looks cooler without the sea.
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  So yeah, that's a pretty shit our explanation. But that's all we got.
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  So it's too late to change now. And I'm like half the time
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  it has got the scene in it, and we're you know, all over
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  the to that, so it's still fine. It's easy enough. But yeah,
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  that's mostly the logo. I just want to pay on behalf of music
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  journalists ever. I just want to give a big fuck you you guys for
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  that, because it makes our jobs hard. Man. I used to I
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  used to get the ships and be like, oh, can you change You've
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  got to change that. You spelled our name wrong, like, let's spelled
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  it right. I'm like, yeah, well that's wrong. So that pretty
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  much says it all, doesn't it. Well? On that fine note,
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  brother, we shall leave you there. But Tara Inferna is out April twenty
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  six. You've got those two shows in Melbourne May twenty fifth, didn't he
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  do in the eighth? Check out all the socials. Pre order the album,
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