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With Blood Comes Cleansing | Furnace Fest 2023 Series · The BlackSheep Podcast: Presented by HM Magazine

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Oh, today we have with Blood Comes Cleansing. Uh, pretty much everybody
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from the band. I think there's just one guy missing, right, guys,
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right, but we pretty much have the whole band. This might be
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the largest interview we've ever had. This. There's six people on this call
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right now. This is a massive. This is gotta be the biggest interview
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we've ever done, right, Colin, I think so in terms of the
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number of people online. Absolutely, this is this is well quite a bit.
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Hopefully our internet is not going to just like shut down because there's a
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lot of there's a bandwidth that we're using up right now. But guys,
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we're super super stoked to chat a little bit more about with Bud Comes Cleansing's
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history and then you guys getting back together playing Furness Fast. Obviously we'll want
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to talk about that and whatever else we come up with. But yeah,
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with that said, how are you all doing? I know, uh,
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Michael, you're just like next to the ocean, so of course you're doing
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well. But how is How is everybody in Georgia doing? Pretty good?
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Lots of storms today, thunder and lightnings. Yeah, very hot. I'm
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sure it's down here too. Man one hundred and twenty degree heat index.
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Oh you definitely need to be in the ocean then, yeah, no choice,
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Salt Life, right, the brand you are the brand man, I
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will say, like, out of all the people in the band, to
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become like the surfer dude, of course you would be the one. Michael.
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Yeah, you know my kids and then they like surfing. So I
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put myself on a skateboard when he was young, in love with it.
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Now they compete in Surfay, He's got a contest in the morning. So
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wow, sweet NonStop man, How does that work? Is it? Is
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it something where they like they is there judges? Is that how it would
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work? Yeah, Like this is a rip curl ground search, so it'll
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be like legit like pay judges, big big deal, not at all.
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Yeah, it's crazy. Well, good luck to them. Yeah, nice,
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wonderful. Well let's just get into it. Let's talk about with blood
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comes cleansing. Let's talk about some of the early history. I know,
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and a couple of you guys uh started uh you know, just recently with
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the band, but a number of you are original to the band, and
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so can you talk a little bit about how the band kind of came together?
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I would imagine you guys for the most part. I could be wrong,
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but I'm guessing you guys were probably like a bunch of high school dudes
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that were just like wanting to make some heavy music, and you just get
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together and start making heavy music. But maybe there's more of a story to
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it than that. Well, also, and going along with those lines,
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we've had a number of bands on recently Showbread. I was just telling them
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as too, Chasing Victory becoming the archetype and now with Blood comes Cleansing.
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Four Georgia bands in like five interviews that well, and they all they all
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talked about how influential you guys were to them and and basically taking them one
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too their wings, so under your wing. So just yeah, tell us
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how the how the band got started? And you know, what have you
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guys been up to here? Well, I guess how we started. It's
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much more convoluted than that. Actually, it's quite quite a story. So
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I guess go way back to me and Michael. We're in a different band
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with Chris from Chasing Victory. Actually Chris left that band joined Chasing Victory.
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That ended up with that band kind of dismantling. I then was just kind
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of hanging out down in Camilla, Bainbridge, Georgia area, Albany, Georgia
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area with Chris and Chasing Victory, and I met these guys in a band
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called Betray with a Kiss. They needed a bass player at the time,
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so I joined that band. Within probably two weeks or so, maybe three,
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we went on tour. Right after that tour, we actually got to
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cease and assist letter in the mail from some band in like Illinois saying,
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hey, that's our name, bro, you can't use it. You gotta
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stop. We're going to sue you. And we're like, oh, okay,
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so we're kind of thinking about what are we gonna do now, So
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we kind of went. I went home back to Alburn, Alabama, and
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was eating with one of my buddies, Josh Offayette, and he right,
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it was actually at a peta pit on Yeah, this was just happen to
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be at a pea pit. We're having an off day, but yeah,
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we were. We were hanging out there and I was kind of telling him
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about, you know, man, we're about to get sued from these dudes,
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like they're like a bar band in Illinois or something, I don't know,
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and he was like, well, you know, I was going to
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name this metal band with Blood Comes Cleansing, but the guy I was going
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to start it with doesn't want to do it anymore. He's like, dude,
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you want to use that name? And I was like, dude,
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I love it. Let me run it by the guys. And that was
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kind of all she wrote. How Betray with the Kiss turned into with Blood
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Comes Cleansing. Shortly after that, we toured maybe a couple more times,
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maybe one more time under with Blood Comes Cleansing before some of the members started
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leaving. And then we got in Scott. He's not with us today,
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our other guitar player. Oh, he's still alive. He's still alive today
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the way you said it, breaking it right now very much a love hanging
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out with his son right now. But well now we know what one of
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your plugs is. But no, he's me. Him and his little brother
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Spence played with a couple of other dudes from Betray with the Kiss. Then
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our singer Dean left and then Michael came in the band, and that was
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probably the start of when we really started doing more. We got signed to
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blood Meek Records off of some my Space stuff with Michael and me and Scott
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and Spence too long after that what Spence left right, Michael, Yes,
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Spence and John were kind of when we were on the road being ready to
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go and yeah, and then man, we've had so many members over the
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years we had and I call it quits right in that ballpark. Honestly,
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the way that turned out like when we did tours, like and I talked
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to bands now, they're like, when you guys did it, it was
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when it was rough like it did. It was like we we didn't have
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smartphones, we didn't have GPS's. I mean, we were using maps,
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we were making no money. There's you're barely eating. You're in a band
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with people with all different personalities, and eventually you all start to hate each
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other, even though you've been best friends forever. It just gets to that
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point where you're like kind of burnt. And I think it had taken its
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toll on a couple of us, and we were just like, man,
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like, we're gonna hold you guys back if we stay and you guys need
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to keep going. So I think Dean came in right right after he was
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ready to come come start playing music, right, You and Spence and John
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kind of all left right around the same time. So Scott and I were
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like, Okay, well, we don't want to stop, we want to
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keep going, you know. So we we found another drummer, Dean,
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our original vocalist back in Trade with the Kiss, came back and we found
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another bass player, and then yeah, we kept touring, kept writing music
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and ended up writing Horror and signing to Victory Records from some of our old
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friends that day to remember helped with that, and yeah, here we are
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now just okay, all right. Yeah, they were from O'cliflorida, you
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know, and us being at that time most of it from down there in
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that southern Georgia area. We played with each other so much and local shows
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you know, and things like that. We played a lot together. So
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yeah, we first played with them in Oklahoma. That's where we met those
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guys, and we kind of hit it off of them. So I'm I'm
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most obsessed with this, with this Georgia and in whole Southern United States scene
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that you guys are a big part of, especially when it comes to Christian
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influenced music. Every band we've talked to has had a completely different experience.
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It seems like I'm curious what your guys' experience was in those I would say
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two thousand and four to two thousand and eight or so in that scene,
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you know, because it sounds like you guys were some of like the progenitors
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of like helping other bands out or at least like showing the ropes or something
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like that, just from what they say. So I'm curious what your thoughts
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are on it. Just by the way, because Colin is in the North.
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Anybody, like if there's a band that even has one band member that's
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south of Mace and Dixon line, He asked this questions, I do,
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I do, Well, It's just strange to me. That's so many great
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Christian influenced metal bands came from the South. Were the Bible Belt, right,
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Like, yeah, yeah, a lot of us just grew up Christian,
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you know, not all of the state Christian. So happened we did,
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you know, But yeah, I mean to me, it's weird to
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hear that we took bands under our wings. I don't. I didn't see
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it that way. I don't know if Michael did, but I didn't know.
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To me, Like, it's just like we were all set like we're
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in that scene. We were all going to the same shows together, like
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either Birmingham or Atlanta or any of these places where you knew friends in all
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those different areas, so you were always hanging out with those people outside of
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even playing shows with them. Just it was like a brotherhood no matter what.
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Like you saw them and it was always like, you know, hugging
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each other's necks, like happy to hang out, like just good brow time.
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And I felt like maybe in their minds it was like, oh,
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we're doing something for but like in our minds, we don't really have anything
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to offer. We're just like cool, let's all play shows again. We
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love each other. This is fun, you know. I guess uniquely about
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us is that I guess we were kind of more deathcore before there was that
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word, you know, maybe that maybe that was what was different. But
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I mean, Christian metal bands have been around us the eighties, you know,
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so totally we were nothing new as far as Christian heavy metal goes.
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But maybe we were the first ones to try to maybe really put it together
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with hardcore influence because a lot of our influences were were my influences, like
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Dying Fetus and Hate breed, you know, throw down in a black dog,
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you murder, you know, and things like that. So I was
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really trying to mix those styles together, you know. So maybe that was
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unique at the time, especially for Christian Ban. Yeah, what about the
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rest of you guys. We've heard from a couple members here. I'd like
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to hear from some other people a little bit more. Well, I'm kind
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of I'm Krane. I'm another Michael, but they just call me Krane.
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So I have known these guys for do we say it, well, easily
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over fifteen years. Easily I knew I've been back in betray with the Kiss
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Days. I'm from Albany to And what's funny is they brought up Spence,
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the drummer from the gall Goth album. I'm actually up in Nashville now and
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I actually spent some time with Spence yesterday, which was amazing to see him
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hasn't changed. I grew up with these guys and I was in another band.
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I'm not gonna say it, Jeremy the Heavier Band. But okay,
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finally I didn't have to say it. Cool so Usso with Bloods, we're
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just taking turns wearing the crown of Heavy from Georgia. But we did a
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lot of shows with those guys, and not only outside of that. I
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mean we'd be on the road, they'd be on the road, we'd be
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headed different directions. Me and Scott were talking on the phone at like three
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in the morning because we were the night shift driver in the few bands.
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But those guys have been like family to me forever. Even me and Jeremy
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were hanging out when music wasn't happening with us most living in Atlanta. And
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then Assasser was kind of talking about Furnace Fest and we messaged a little bit
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on like Instagram about it, and he's like, a man, frience fests
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coming up, and here we go, all of a sudden, the wed
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blood thing kind of starts creeping up. And then you know, Jeremy gives
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me a ring and he's like, hey, man, so we're kind of
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want to do this thing. We'd love to be a part of it.
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And I was just like I was star struck, man, Like you gotta
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think like a band that no were my friends, but I loved the music
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and to be around a group of guys that have the same Christian beliefs that
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I do too is like still important because you know, in the world now
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people are getting streched in different directions, and to be in a group would
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like minded beliefs and your brothers, it's like a really special thing. So
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now what we've done essentially is we took the heaviest band and put him on
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bass, and then the second heaviest group. So now we finally got Now
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we finally got this who's the heaviest under one roof, so we have to
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argue no more. So it's been great. He's finally he's finally in the
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heaviest band we're allowed. No actually, Crane, So Crane, you're from
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like the like that Albany region area, So yeah, so that area is
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is where Scott lives. But also Chasing Victory was in that area. That
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that's kind of like when we were all like together hanging out, it was
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always in the Albany area. We all play shows there. Chasing Victory was
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just south of there. We were always kind of doing and those you know,
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it's just when they talk about as having like groups in the south where
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we always hang out, that's kind of you're always with these people, So
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so why do they all see you guys as big Papa. I'm just I'm
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just curious about that. You know, that's because Jeremy was lifting weights like
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that. Actually, that is shocking to hear you say something. I don't
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Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea. I think maybe because
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because I'm old, but I don't know, like maybe maybe with the oldest,
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but I don't think we are. I don't know Jeremy or we'd be
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oldest. Maybe me and you were, because when we started going on the
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road, like in those early two thousands, I mean, Spence was still
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in high school, like he was homeschool and his parents were like, hey,
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you're taking my what was Spence six fifteen on the road three hundred something
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days this year? Just make sure he's alive. And I'm thinking, I'm
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only like twenty three, twenty two, you know, like, fine,
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he didn't die, He's fine. Yeah, And that I mean at that
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point, those kids, I mean, Spence, like I don't know he
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had ever eaten anything besides of chicken though, yet I'm like, what do
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I do with this guy? But but then like Zach right, like you
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you were a friend of vix and and everybody who we played with. You
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guys all the time right, tell them that I'm gonna I'm the newbie.
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So I started. I haven't been with the band for a year, so
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I can't remember exactly when I tried out, but it was towards the end
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of last year, and we would are the band I was in Long Street,
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just a local band we would open for with Blood, and I always
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just thought they were just like just so cool and like to receive support locally
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from any other band was just was great. And they were always just so
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good, so heavy, and but just so like nice, and I always
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appreciated that, Like they were never like, oh, like you guys are
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you know, these not great bands, so we're not gonna talk to you
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anything like that. They're always just super cool dude. So one of our
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mutual friends actually gave Jeremy my number, and yep, Tank dunk really and
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and so Jeremy called me. He was like, hey, man, like
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you know, Tank said, you know, I remember you know each other
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from the past, and you know, I want to see if maybe you
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want to try the drums thing. And I was like, now, I
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give it a world, dude, Like I'm a hardcore drummer. I'm not
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like a death novel drummer. So like all this speed and all that stuff.
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I was like and still like they gave me a hard time about it
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all the time because like I just it's just tough. Are you giving I
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just mean, I mean it's like NonStop. It's like that they got no
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other material but that one, which is fun. It's fun jokes. No,
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no, I get it, I get I love it. I love
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it, but yeah, try it out and you know, I'm in the
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band and it's it's been great. So and honestly, so, like Jeremy
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wrote me, was like I'm gonna take this guy to lunch. We're gonna
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go meet Zach. Which I knew Zach's old bands. I knew I'd met
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him before, Like I knew he was they not super closer whatnot. But
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Jeremy came back and and Crane and they were like, look, there are
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plenty of drummers we can go out there and get, you know, we
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can put it out there. Hey, we're gonna go get a metal drummer.
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But they're like, this guy is the most genuine, like coolest,
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nicest dude you're gonna meet. And I was like, dude, done.
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Put him in I'm like, like, we want a guy that like represents
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who we are as people, what we believe, you know, like at
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the end of the day when we get down playing a set, I don't
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need to gather it is super cocky and yeah, he might be the fastest
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drum in the world, but he's you know, like he doesn't represent who
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with Blood comes Cleansing is and Zach did that, so we're like, yeah,
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Zach, you want them by personality, not by druming skills. I'm
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just I'm just kidding technology skill. Zach don't know that we run tracks in
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the PI. He just can't. He's just like he's really a good air
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drummer. So I think this is like indicative though of like why a lot
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of bands that came out of Georgia, a lot of the heavier bands and
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certainly like Culin mentioned, like the Christian influence bands probably see you guys,
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is like I like, you know, with Blood is like a really important
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band for us. Is because not because like you were like the biggest band
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coming out of Georgia or anything. It was because you guys are just like
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cool people that like you can just like hang out with. And that goes
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a long ways for especially younger bands that are like, hey, I don't
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know what I'm doing, Like I'm just showing up to this show and I'm
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playing, and you guys are like, hey, let's just like hang out
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and like let's be cool, and but you like it. It is very
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clear already just from this interview, like you guys were that band even twenty
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years ago, like where you're just like you're super cool and you just like
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wanted to hang out with people and you wanted good hangs and it wasn't about
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like trying to be better than this other band or whatever, like it was
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just hey, let's calling this together and we want to be really cool people
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with one another. But there were bands like that to us, to Jairman
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and all of us, you know growing up that you know that we met,
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that we looked up to or went and saw shows, and the ones
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that treated you that way, like you remember those bands forever. You're like,
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man, I had some of the best times just hanging out with those
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guys, and then the ones that did not, you're like, man kind
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of wrote them off, you know, like, well, a lot of
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killing for us, you know, a lot of the music was our vehicle
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to tell people about our message, right, Like that was the music and
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the show and everything. It was kind of secondary right to being able to
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connect with people. You know. We you put forth an effort right to
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be out there and be available, to be positive, to have a smile
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on your face, to greet people, to be nice to people, because
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you don't know what their days like, right They could have had a terrible
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day at work or at school, and it's just man, I'm beat down.
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I just can't wait to go see these bands play tonight and I want
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to forget for three hours, you know. And that was our moment to
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just kind of be there for people talk, be friendly, be friends,
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and yeah, I just hang out, you know. That's what it was
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really about for us, is hanging out and making connections with people all over
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the country. You know. So that brings you to this question, then,
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what was the impetus to bring with Blood Comes Counsy back from the dead
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or seemingly the dead technically? I mean, I think I think the vinyl
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that yeah, I think the vinyl kind of got it started. So those
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guys reached out to us wanted to bring back all goth on vinyl and that
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kind of stirred up. You know, we had a text thread throughout the
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band for a while and that kind of yeah, so they go, so
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the vinyl, Yeah, so sick. So that so that started up,
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and then when it did well even so when those guys first were like,
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hey, we're gonna do the vinyl, then told me how much money was
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gonna cost them to put it up and whatnot, I was like, man,
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these four guys, they're about to lose their money, man, But
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hey, it's gonna be cool because I'm gonna get a copy of this and
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I've been wanting one, Like sweet, we're going on vinyl, you know.
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So I was like, at the end of the day, it's gonna
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be great. But when he wrote me and was like it sold out in
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a minute, in forty seconds, I was like, wow, there's something
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to us, Like and and over between COVID and like all this stuff going
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on and like metal just started blowing up lately. Man, it's just like,
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yeah, what bands are doing. It's nuts. They're crossing genre lines.
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It's like it's been cool. So that combined with talking with Crane online
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and like he was saying, we were having this conversation and then I was
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like, well, you know, I know Chad. I've known him for
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years, you know. I was like, I'll just write Chad. And
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they're like, hey, would you ever want with Blood to do a rhine?
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And it furnace us and he run me back of media and was like,
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dude, done, Like I want this, and so they sent us
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a contract literally, but by the next day I had it in handle like,
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hey, guys, y'all want to do this? And there everybody's on
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the three. I was like, yeah, let's do it. And that
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kind of stirred into wanting to well, if we're gonna do it, like
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why don't we write some new music, and why why don't we you know,
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like make this. Oh yeah, it's fun. We all have families,
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we'll have jobs, that's cool, whatnot. But we all still have
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a creative side to us. And it was like, man, we can
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go bring out music. We use this as a ministry, so like it
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gives us a moment to go back out there and show people that hey,
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with Blood still believes the same way that we did before, like we haven't
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changed, Like, yeah, we're all people, we're all human, We're
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all gonna make mistakes. But we're you know, we're gonna show you God's
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love and we're gonna go out there and kind of give you our message again
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after fifteen years, and it's being received well. I mean, I think
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people are excited about it. It's being fun. Man. You know,
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something that's always struck me as very interesting about with Blood cleanse cleansing is that
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it doesn't matter so much what a person's personal beliefs are. I mean,
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I know people who are agnostic or atheists that listened to With Blood and they
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don't they don't get hung up in a message that would be generally considered opposite
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of theirs. But if you were to ask them about almost any other Christian
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metal band or anything like that, they would say not even going to give
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it a chance. So what do you think it is about with Blood that
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allows for that top? Like, do you do you feel like you just
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have more cred than everyone asks? What's the deal there? I think?
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I think from my perspective, I think it's more of like a organic integrity
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be who you say you are, and you know, be yourself and being
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around these guys even back in the day going to shows when with Blood,
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you know, spread the gospel and all that through their music. They were
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also the guys that said, hey, man, if you need us to
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pray for you after the show or before a show, like come talk to
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us. And like I've been around them all the time praying for different people
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and and and making that difference. And I think, you know, as
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far as the acceptance goes, it's just a big thing for usance, Like
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we love people. We're here, We're here to pass on love and be
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here for people and be that that light and kind of a dark world.
23:45
And I think that people feel safe and they're able to still feel connected to
23:51
us as people too. So and we just love open conversation, like whether
23:56
you believe the same way or not, Like if you don't believe the same
23:59
way, I kind of want to know why and like what your side is
24:02
or what your thought is because it probably makes total sense to me. I'm
24:04
like Jerremen, I love theology, So we like to know like where you're
24:08
coming from, or why you like completely hate the church or why you hate
24:12
God or like what do you you know? Like, so we we just
24:15
get in those good, just open conversations with people and it's organic and it's
24:21
just a friendship. Like it's not a judgment, it's not a you know,
24:23
we're not here to point a finger. We're just here to hey,
24:26
this is what we believe. If you don't believe it, who cares.
24:29
At the end of the day, we all love music and we can agree
24:32
on that, right, So that brings people together, you know, all
24:34
races, all belief systems, like everything. It brings everybody into one room
24:40
and at the end of the day, like whether you believe the same way
24:41
or not, Yeah, we're gonna push our message like we're gonna put it
24:45
out there like this is what we believe. But an end day, hey,
24:47
we just all want to watch and have fun, like you know,
24:49
like let's all get together and get rowdy. You know. So so knowing
24:55
the music industry and knowing that you guys were a part of like the face
24:57
down World with blood in without the first album, but then you guys moved
25:02
to Victory right for the second album, was there any sense of like,
25:07
oh, we have to like change or that we have to like kind of
25:11
subdue some of these like overt beliefs that we have that we're very explicit about,
25:15
Like did you feel any sense in the music industry from changing from one
25:19
particular kind of record label to one the other record label, where it feels
25:25
like one record label would be very embracing of like oh yeah, like totally
25:27
do what you guys are doing, like think of this as a ministry,
25:30
whereas another record label. I could be wrong, but like seems as if
25:34
they would maybe be like I don't know so much about that part of your
25:37
guys' music. I you know, no, not really. We never got
25:42
any pressure from Victory or any anybody that worked in Victory to subdue our lyrics
25:49
or change our lyrics or hey, don't be so avertly Christian or evangelical or
25:52
whatever you want to call it. And honestly, like I don't know,
25:56
like this is just my opinion. I no one ever said this, but
26:00
at that time, it was really trendy and it was a market that Victory
26:03
hadn't tapped into. So they're probably okay, like whatever, you know,
26:07
that's just more money, you know, if Christians want to buy this stuff
26:08
off this label to give me money or whatever, you know, you know,
26:11
I don't know, you know, but or maybe you know, they
26:15
just didn't care, you know, But no, they never harassed us pushed
26:21
us, tried to change us or anything they wanted. You know, when
26:23
I talked to some of the guys there, they wanted a really heavy death
26:30
core style band on their label, and we we fit what they wanted.
26:34
So makes sense. Did you enjoy it over there? Yeah? It was
26:38
fine, you know, no complaints really. Unfortunately, we didn't really stay
26:44
on Victory very long. You know, we signed to them, I believe
26:48
in around two thousand and seven, you know, which we were bought off
26:53
of Blood and Ink, which we signed two in two thousand and six,
26:57
I believe, Yeah, and then we put out our album Horror and January
27:02
ably with two thousand and eight, and then by July of two thousand and
27:06
eight, we'd stopped to learn we were pretty much done. So you know,
27:08
we were probably not really on Victory Records with a lot of publicity at
27:12
least but maybe six months or so seven months. And during that time they
27:18
were very supportive of this. Everything was, everything was fun. So what
27:23
what caused the pause or the time there too say hey we're gonna wait till
27:30
twenty twenty three? Just a slight balls. Yeah. Well, so back
27:36
in two thousand and eight, I think we were all kind of starting yet
27:40
just to get tired and get older and wanting to do other things, and
27:45
you know, just a bunch of things is kind of coming together made us
27:49
say, hey, we just don't want to do this anymore. And then
27:52
we played a few shows with Michael actually and with Dean two probably two thousand
28:00
nine ten a year. We did a couple Screamed the prayer tours that were
28:03
coming through. They asked us to do some spot dates. We did those,
28:07
uh, and then we did a couple like benefits, yeah, or
28:11
helped raise money for different things. We played with show Brand a couple of
28:15
times, a couple of like church churches, like local area, like just
28:18
a couple of like, yeah, this interesting different stuff. But yeah,
28:23
so not a whole lot, you know. After after we stopped, you
28:27
know, just a few things. And then I guess we all started getting
28:30
really busy. You know, I was going I started college late in my
28:34
life, so I started doing that, you know, and everybody else was
28:38
moving away doing other things, starting businesses, surfing. Yeah, well Michael
28:44
was going a lot more successful these jobs a lot you know that's probably recently
28:48
man, But yeah, business took us. So yeah, so we we
28:52
we just kind of it was like we stopped and then kind of just faded
28:56
out, you know. So there is one question I have to ask,
29:00
and this is because I know Mason wants to ask it, but he's probably
29:03
trying to figure out a way to not about your mustache. It's actually about
29:07
Dean and curious of you guys know this, But is Dean a professional ghost
29:11
hunter? He might be. I don't know. I've heard that. I've
29:18
heard that he is so Dean. Like when we were traveling, he was
29:22
always so funny. We would go places and he always wanted to see the
29:26
creepiest place. If there was like an abandoned like insane asylum from like the
29:30
nineteen forties or something, we had to try to see it, you know
29:33
what I mean. Like he he loved that sort of thing. So did
29:36
you did you? Did you go in with him? And stuff? Like
29:37
most of the times of the time, well most of the times, not
29:41
every time. Never, I just gotta say, I'm like obsessed with like
29:52
paranormal stuff. I have been for a very very very long time, and
29:57
so anytime I'm like, oh wait, there's somebody who like knows with like
30:02
you know, like has like all the equipment to like capture like some sort
30:04
of ghosts, you know, voice or whatever. I'm like, I'm I'm
30:08
a little about those people. They're they're they're my favorite people in the world,
30:11
and I don't get to meet them very often. Thank you you.
30:17
Actually you probably should bring Dean out to a furnace fest because the Slass furnace
30:22
or the Slass furnaces are like known for being pretty haunted. Yeah, that's
30:26
what the lady told me. I was in a thing is she was telling
30:29
me that same thing. I was like, that new news to me.
30:33
I personally have not heard like you seen or heard of anything. But that's
30:37
also because like we're also there during a hardcore and metalcore festival where it's like
30:41
you see creepy things all the time, so and you hear creepy things all
30:45
the time, so you know they're you know, the chances of you seen
30:48
actually aghost, they better be careful where they're standing, you never know.
31:00
Well, I would love to talk with a ghost hunter sometime, but it
31:04
is what it is, Michael. You're just a surfer, not a ghost
31:07
hut. I don't have that to offer. Maybe a few other things,
31:12
but not that, but not that. You can shred some nar that's all
31:15
that matters. Well, let's talk about Furnace fast. You know, we've
31:21
already talked about a little bit about like how you guys, you know,
31:22
got into you know, the story behind you guys getting you know, invited
31:27
to play furnace Fest and everything. But fans are expecting a lot, I'm
31:33
sure because for most people probably it's probably the first time that they've seen you
31:37
guys for a very very long time. What can fans expect at your show
31:42
at furnace Fest. Hopefully we'll be almost as good as we were. Well,
31:52
my dear got shut down. No no, no, no, I
31:55
don't know. I want fire too. Okay, Okay, so half the
31:59
band wants to Bemstein. That's all that matters. Let's do it. Well.
32:01
Actually, actually I got connected with the company that does wrong funds part
32:07
show here when there is make it happen. So with that, without a
32:13
barricade, it'd be a true furnace Fest. So yeah, I don't know
32:17
who that falls on though for a lawsuit, so we might have to see.
32:22
Well, I'm sure they've got insurance. You just don't tell them you're
32:24
gonna do it first. What do you speaker cabs, don't worry about them.
32:30
They're fine. Why are you looking hoses to them? It's liquid cold.
32:34
Speaker cabs make it very hot, believe. But you know, hope
32:44
we have a good time, and we got some new songs, some old
32:47
songs, and you know, hopefully it'll be a blast. You know,
32:52
hopefully people can sing along. They still remember and they have lots of opportunities
32:55
for that, hopefully be heavier than they ever remember. And yeah, I
33:00
know we will have fun. Hopefully everybody else will too. Yeah, I'm
33:05
gonna have a blast, hopefully hopefully if the stage is permitting, I'll do
33:08
some stage diving stuff like that, because please, I love me some with
33:14
blood comes cleansing. That that said, as well, I am curious about
33:19
the new music and stuff like that. Is there going to be availability at
33:22
all? Do you know in physical at Frience Fest? Probably not right.
33:28
We talked about maybe doing something with another vinyl or something like that, but
33:36
as far as new music goes, I don't think we will have it available.
33:38
Hammer those guys a secret sm trying to get that back. Couldn't we
33:43
just go and get like our sleeve of CDs like old school with a marker
33:45
and so for a dollar just toss those out. Yeah. I remember going
33:54
tolls in the cities before the shows and standing in front of on topic and
33:59
giving out about our two song demos like, hey, we're playing it's such
34:01
a such a part and I see us, you know, Yeah, that's
34:05
all we did at Cornerstone. We played generator stages and we passed out two
34:07
songs demos with our stuff written on that. We did a couple of nights
34:12
before We're just loaded now, staying up all night with my Toshiba laptop.
34:15
It was like that big just burning cs. It's cooking. It's gonna need
34:20
that liquid cool duh nitrogen. You know, I'm almost kind of surprised that
34:27
someone hasn't done something like super gimmicky like that again, right with like with
34:31
like just handing out CDRs, because I mean they've done cassettes and we're doing
34:36
people have been done like video games and something that, so why not just
34:37
do some CDRs Like it's it's two thousand and eight again two thousand and they
34:44
put it back on CD recently. So the derny P which Jeremy was talking
34:47
about prior to going to Blood NK, like that was kind of what we
34:51
had up on like Pure Volume in MySpace and that we toured on, you
34:54
know, prior to ever doing all Gotha Like. That's probably why they think
34:59
feels along like we were road burning prior to every So yeah, I mean
35:05
they brought back the CD and it did well too. It sold sold out
35:07
to man, it's kind of crazy. It's like a niche thing for vinyl
35:09
and CDs and yeah, we're gonna we're gonna do a CD burn and they
35:15
get a free like one hundred minutes of AOL but they have you know,
35:23
Zack, you can use that for your car. You could use a little
35:27
well Internet for your car. Yeah, that'd be great for for nostalgia's purposes.
35:32
I feel like it has like the album has to start off with a
35:35
dial up tone. Mom, get off the phone. I'm on the internet.
35:44
Hold on, I am. Well, we're looking forward to the Furnace
35:50
Fast set. It's gonna be so heavy, it's gonna I mean, it's
35:52
just like it's a long time coming with that set. I know, Uh,
36:00
Top three is gonna take a while, Colin, So I think we
36:00
should probably start at this point, right, So, Yeah, let's good
36:04
rock and rolling here already gave you a little bit of a little uh you
36:07
know, primer of this. So top three most influential artists for each of
36:13
you. So I don't know who wants to go first. I think it
36:15
probably would be best to go like top three for each one of you,
36:17
so we're not like alternating otherwise, it's top three albums or artists, top
36:23
three albums albums. Okay, Now, remember these are albums that changed you
36:29
as an individual, whether that be musically, the way you look at the
36:31
world, uh, the way you look at yourself, anything that has changed
36:36
you in particular. All right, So who wants to go first? All
36:40
right? Yeah, I'll say beloved, tell your own. Oh h must
36:51
that's all I gotta say. Seriously, like, like honestly, that's what
36:54
changed, like the way like because I did like a little bit of a
37:00
Pools a long time ago, like when I played drums, and like he
37:02
was just like the coolest like dude, like being able to like play the
37:07
breakdowns screen wise playing it was just it was so cool. Iended to see
37:10
a live was even better. So you did see them at Furnace Fest two.
37:15
No, I didn't see him at Furnace fest. I saw them at
37:17
Swazies okay years ago, probably like fifteen plus years ago, and then they
37:22
played some festival down in Villa Rica and like cool hand Luke was there.
37:29
Oh wow, I think it's crazy at first in the early two thousand.
37:34
Wow. Yeah, Failure On is one of my favorite albums all the time.
37:37
I still remember years ago Colin, Like Colin and I were driving somewhere
37:42
and I looked at Colin and I said, what's your favorite song of all
37:45
time? Not favorite album, not favorite artists, just favorite song, like
37:49
the song that you're like, this just has everything I love about music.
37:53
And Colin, I don't remember what it was. I probably was like some
37:57
sort of Beatles song or whose song at the time. Yeah, maybe it's
38:00
different now, I don't know, but for me and to this day,
38:04
and this was years ago when I told Colin this, my favorite song of
38:07
all time is that the Traders by Blow. I was just about to say
38:09
that it has everything I love about music and it is so fucking good.
38:16
So anyway, unbelievable album, one of my favorites of all time. I
38:22
agree. I agree, Norman Jean Bless the Martyr. It's a chairman for
38:29
sure. That the first song in that album, you know, the the
38:35
uh not the like I learned that whole part on drums, like like I
38:39
had to learn I don't, I don't know. It was just that that's
38:42
what kind of got me into like the offbeat top stuff on the drums.
38:45
So yeah, Daniel Davis is my is my all time favorite drummer. And
38:49
I think that that good is the easiestly earned title for him ever because he
38:53
is so creative in the way he does things. Yeah, like Ludy Chris,
38:58
did yo ever listening to them? Yeah, like I love I love
39:01
that album too. Yeah, I will mention Throwing Myself was the album right,
39:07
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love the album. Ludacris was first.
39:12
They were selling their CD out of brown paper bags with their name written
39:15
on it. Remember that, Jeremy, did you go with me to that
39:17
show at the train Tracks? And okaaika I didn't? I wish I Oh
39:21
yeah. They played in a room and a train tracks with the like one
39:23
light bulb hanging from the ceiling. It was the most gnarlish thing ever.
39:28
There was maybe thirty of us in the room, you know, like is
39:31
this terrible? Like old r Alabama and like thirty kids packed into the sweaty
39:38
room together watching Ludacris. I don't know what it is about that that image
39:44
that you just created in my brain, but it is so romanticized, Like
39:47
I want to experience that. Yeah, those you can't take those memories away.
39:52
That's pretty Yeah, I don't. I don't want to see Norma Jean
39:53
at like some club that you know it's like a five hundred cap room or
39:57
whatever. I want to see Norma Jean in a like a youth group room
40:00
with thirty kids. Yeah. Right, it's an experience. Cool, totally,
40:06
all right, Zach. Last one under Oath, What is the name
40:10
of that one? Which, uh, it's no. Yeah, they're only
40:16
chasing safety, that's it. No, no, no, no, that
40:17
one. Yeah, are cries and fast or depression changing? Change? Good
40:29
time? The one that's got when the Sun Sleeps on It. I couldn't
40:31
think of the next album. Yeah, that song, I love that song.
40:37
So yeah, those guys are good. Dud Chris came to a couple
40:40
of our shows in Douglasville the Seventh Minion. That dude's so nice. Yeah,
40:47
genuinely like some of the greatest dudes we actually have interviewed Dallas a couple
40:51
of times, and it's so cool to hear some of those like early days
40:54
of under Oath and yeah, and and under Oath played uh when when the
41:00
Sun Sleeps for the first time in like almost like eighteen years at Furnace Fest
41:07
in in twenty twenty one. It was so cool with Dallas without not with
41:12
Dallas. Dallas played the next year, so Dallas played last year, but
41:15
under Oath played When the Sun Sleeps uh in twenty twenty one, and Spencer
41:21
obviously was screaming. But it was like the first time they had played the
41:23
song since like two thousand and three or two thousand and four. It was
41:27
like right when Spencer began playing with Undergrowth, So I mean it was like
41:30
years and years and years since they played that song together. The crowd completely
41:34
lost it. It was it was a cool moment, and you know,
41:37
especially like you know, no one really knew how like Dallas was really doing
41:40
at that time, like and it was one of those things where it's like,
41:44
you know, just like supportive Dallas and and it was a really cool
41:46
moment. That's awesome. Man, he's killing it right now. Man.
41:52
Yeah, it's just actually got a buddy here in Jacksonville to play with him
41:57
a recently he jumped on a couple of shows. That's pretty cool, right,
42:00
all right, who wants to go next? I guess may man?
42:06
All Right, I was gonna say till your own, but because I did
42:08
that, I'm gonna have to go the Running each Boys, so beloved though
42:14
beloved, definitely man, the Running EP. I love that album first?
42:16
Is that the one with Kissing Goodbye? That's Kissing Goodbye? Man, that's
42:22
such a good, good album. Just yeah. I mean they kind of
42:25
bridge that melodic to hardcore genre better than anybody in my opinion. And Joe,
42:32
like they said, as a whole, just genuinely one of the nicest
42:37
dudes I've ever met, you know. Gosh, So trying to get that
42:39
joker to come do some guest vocals with me at Furnace best. So throw
42:44
that out there. Just you're listening, if you happen to be listening,
42:47
Well, they're so Advent's playing. I think I apprecihow it got announced.
42:52
So Mike's a buddy of mine and Jeremy's too from Advent, So yeah,
42:58
good dudes, man, So you made it up? Then I'm gonna go
43:01
I'm gonna have to go Living Sacrifice Reborn. Yeah, there we go Reborn
43:07
Alright. So first Christian metal record that really like kind of like after going
43:14
to see them live during that time, like when they were putting that album
43:15
out, it kind of changed like me wanting to do so I went and
43:20
saw Living Sacrifice Lincoln Park before they were popular. At the time, they
43:24
were like nobody's po d projects and Blindside in Birmingham when when when you said
43:32
that your mustache and actually started So no, like just an amazing time in
43:37
music and with those like bands in that genre. Drawing Black Lines was just
43:42
coming out with Project eighty six, so they were about to tour that album.
43:45
So we're playing it like probably one of the first nights they were playing
43:47
it, and Chris Cargile from Jason Victory and I went and we met Christian
43:53
early. We got to this show earlier than we thought the doors were opening,
43:57
and he wound up just hanging out with us and he was like,
44:00
hey, if you want to come, He was like skateboard in the bags,
44:01
like if you want to come and get a coffee with me, We're
44:02
just hanging out, just genuinely kind dude. So what was Living Sacrifice Project
44:09
eighty six Lincoln Park? Yea, who else? Yeah, I think I
44:20
think I still have the banner from that tour because I took it one of
44:22
the flyers from the show. I think I still have it a way in
44:24
like a box. But yeah, just then cool. Yeah, that's a
44:30
that's a bunch of juggernauts right there. Yeah. So that album like kind
44:32
of like catapulted me into Christian like metal and like wanting to like do it
44:37
as a I was like, dude, I want to do music like this.
44:39
Like I kind of started practicing screaming off of those type of albums from
44:44
that time, and that's kind of what I figured out, Oh, I
44:46
think I can actually do this kind of stuff, you know. Like yeah,
44:51
so that and then I'm gonna go There's a lot of early Zo records
44:55
I love, but I'm gonna go self title. It's the album that kind
45:00
of is the weirdest one that because I think they weren't even like together when
45:04
they did it. I think each person went to the studio and did their
45:06
part, and there's a very electronic I think the whole album was done on
45:10
electronic drums. I believe if I'm not mistaken, But I just love that
45:15
album. I don't know, man, it's killer all the way through with
45:20
the zero record in general, but that one, Uh, that one I
45:22
wouldn't I would not have expected from No. Yeah, so that's I'm gonna
45:27
go there. I mean there. Of course, there's a million other records
45:29
I could throw out of just being in my favorite albums, but those kind
45:31
of like was like the push to being like this is why I want to
45:36
do music, like seeing those albums live, and after having them and going
45:39
to see those shows with those bands, I was like sold, I'm like,
45:43
this is what I want to do. That's so all right, who's
45:49
next? I'll take this one. So I catch a lot of slack because
45:53
my music taste is like a lot different than everybody in the Bloods like they
45:59
always are like you know these guys like stuff again. Yeah, So the
46:06
ongoing like lapping storm for me is like I'm thirty eight, right, it
46:09
turned thirty nine. Scene I go to shows, I'm like, I'm not
46:13
matching. The night I'm not matching, somebody hits me and then I just
46:15
want to level a crowd. That's where I'm at in life. I was
46:20
always the mom. You're the powerlifter though, right, you should be just
46:22
like holding the fort down in the mash pit. So I still pretty quick.
46:28
I did during the during the Barrier Death setting orfest, I looked up
46:30
and I said, where did everybody go? But so uh kind of three
46:37
quick albument And that's like a horrible question to ask. I love you're asking
46:39
this, but that's like the worst to ask too. You're like, it's
46:44
like a Grammy, like Grammy, and now I feel like, you know,
46:45
I want to think, I want to thank my mom and I want
46:47
to thank But on Broken Wings, it's all along goodbye album. So Marsh
46:57
Band right at the at their grip Brud of Vipers by Seventh Star Man.
47:01
Yeah, I'm trying to talk them into a reunion. I'm up, I'm
47:06
working on it. Man. You're starting to see the trends here. Every
47:08
band's two steps and breakdowns only and then as far as like musicianship for me
47:13
something that I just one of those albums that I can tell you every guitar
47:16
note, every kick, drum, every snare, every vocal que. Probably
47:21
the Malice album by three the Eyes of the Dead. Oh wow, dude,
47:24
so it's it's always the heaviest stuff for me. I never this is
47:29
two step as it gets. Yeah, yeah, so that's what I'm saying.
47:32
Everyone else is always like, oh man, you know, we love
47:35
this band and we love this hardcore band. I was like, all right,
47:37
so once I start listening to mosh music, let's how'll listen to you
47:39
now? But you know it's okay, you gotta love it, great,
47:49
great list. Gosh, this is so hard right, Like probably young Jeremy
47:57
being most influenced in music starting to five of my own music, probably Blink
48:00
one eighty two Enemy of the State. Okay, that that album. I
48:06
remember sitting in my room on my three D sc D changer and just listening
48:10
to it non stop, and it would start to shift and I would start
48:13
over, and it's just over and over and repeat for so long, Like
48:15
it was I happened to be wearing the shirt right now, but it was
48:19
just it was just something that was really awesome to me. Like it was
48:22
a time in my life where I really started finding my own music, things
48:25
that I liked versus like what I guess I just listened to with my parents.
48:30
You know, I grew up in a very religious household, and you
48:32
know, and we kind of listened to Carmen or whatever, right, and
48:37
that was the first stuff that So so that was a big moment. This
48:45
is right, This is not a safe place to discarment. Clearly had some
48:53
wicked videos. Man, wicked is one way to put it. Yeah.
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And then, and I've been going back and forth. There's two other bands
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that are really really influential in my life. And I guess I'll probably say
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Norma Gene because they were one of the first like metal bands I ever saw
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live. And that was probably when I knew I wanted to do music right,
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So that that was a big part right there, you know. So
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it was like I got to see this band, I got to see them
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live as my first metal show, and I listened to it probably non stop.
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We should ask Chris from Chasing Victory if you talked to him again,
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how much do that CD? Stayed in my CD player in my car and
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it never came out? It was always on. Anytime he wrote with me
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was all I listened to for probably which record was it? Oh? At
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that time it was Blessed Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was that was
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that album. And honestly, that's the only album by them. I know.
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Yeah, I knew some of the ludicrous stuff that you know Michael was
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talking about earlier, but nothing after that. That was the one that May
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I recommends listening to every single album centul Smart as well. I'll definitely give
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it a shot. You know, it is so good. It was one
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of it was a point in my musical taste where like I liked it then,
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but the style they are now is like I appreciate it. It's definitely
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it's definitely cool. It's definitely heavy, but it's not what I've listened to
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on a daily basis, right, And then I guess my last one,
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which is my favorite metal band of all time is Dying Fetus. Their album
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Homicidal Retribution that influenced so much of Gogatha and my writing and it still does
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today. Reign Supreme their album, you know, like, I just love
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it. I love all of them. I love John Gallagher, his vocals,
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his guitar playing. They're the heaviest band I've ever seen in my life.
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They played Vader Cabs is one of the reasons why I would blood want
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to play with Vader Cabs, you know, like it was just a huge
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influence on Scott and I both, to be honest with you. So that's
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probably a band that affected with Blood more than anybody else. That's amazing that
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that's such a in my view, it's exactly the band I would have imagined
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to influencing you guys. The rest of these are are all great. There's
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not a bad band here and not a bad album here, So great list.
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Guys. We can draw plenty of death metal on you, But you're
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talking to what kind of early influence on us? You know? Yeah,
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yeah, you know I would. I would be pretty skeptical if your first
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major influence was the death metal band. Now maybe for some of your guys
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kids, I want to go honorable mentioned here because they just brought it up.
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But throw Downs coming back to do Haymaker and that is gonna be incredible.
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It's gonna go wild in there. Listen to that album so much,
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man. Yeah. Yeah. If you want to talk about like top three
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with Blood Comes Cleansing Influences, Dying Fetus, Black, Do All Your Murder,
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and Hatprey, that would that would be the top three for sure.
51:55
Hate Breed is definitely one. I am. I'm like giddy, like a
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school girl welcomes to furnace last year going to see them, I have a
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chance to see them. Every stage with them is I can't believe it.
52:07
It's like it blows my mind. But if you were in a blood van
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after a show, we were listening to Fruit Fruit or Fraul Fraul Immagene Heap
52:15
a Berlin or three six Mafia, what a man? All right, that's
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something not metal. Yeah, you gotta you gotta really, you know,
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kind of take it down to Didge after that. I school is huh right?
52:32
All right? Sweet, Well let's get into plugs. What do you
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guys want to plug? You guys have a lot of stuff going on right
52:37
now, which is crazy to think because I'm sure three years ago you never
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would have thought you would have had a lot going on when it came to
52:45
the band, but now you do. So tell us what you got going
52:46
on where we can find stuff? Uh sot and so forth? Do We
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got furnace vast course coming up, you know, Friday twenty second, so
52:57
we'll be there doing that crane we're playing in Dallas. That was a monster
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marsh. We we're gonna be playing with a suicide. Science can effect sons
53:08
of the Swarm. That's a Mike Zimmer production with Third String Productions and those
53:15
guys. Are they kind of play a hand? Yeah, they play a
53:17
hand in Furnace Fest in a bunch of big shows, I mean Third String
53:22
Productions and Zimmer and those guys. If there's a good show that's going on.
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Now, I'm pretty sure he's his hands into somewhere, into his team.
53:30
It's crazy how he's involved in all that stuff. Now, Yeah,
53:35
he is. That dude is working like a freight train on everything. Yeah,
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we really appreciate him and everybody at Furnace Most. They've really done just
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an amazing job putting these shows together. You know, we're very thankful for
53:49
everybody's hard work because made all this happen. Is very special for us.
53:53
I mean yeah, definitely. We like to plug our our social stuff.
53:58
You know, we got a lank it goes to our mercha, our new
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songs that are on all platforms. Of course, we got two new singles
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out, so everybody go listen to that if you hadn't. What about the
54:09
rest of the album, there is the rest of an album? Is an
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EP? Or is this are we just trickling out a bunch of singles and
54:15
having fun with it as we go along. That's probably the most accurate.
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Okay, you know that's not a bad way to go these days. And
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if you guys keep making quality songs like like I've heard thus far, I
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think we'll be okay. Yeah, you'll keep the massive satisfol I think that's
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the goal. Yet, I love it. Anything else you'd like to plug?
54:37
Uh? Yeah. I don't know if anybody's gonna know this, but
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we were contacted for season two of Outer Banks, the TV show, and
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if you go to episode three, I think the episode was called Prayers.
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You can hear our music in the background. Yeah, that's pretty wow sweet.
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Yeah, and they like it's kind of a niche thing, like we
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get you know, people on Instagram will write us in the people that can
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to are like just freaking out about it, but like I don't think it's
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like just going viral yet. But yeah, it's pretty much. Man.
55:06
Is it Is it like the type of situation where like the characters listening to
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you or is it like like it's part of the soundtrack. It's part of
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the part of the soundtrack, like background you know music, Like they kept
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it lower so you like probably don't notice it, like right out of the
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gate, but like if you really listen, like you're gonna be like,
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wow, what you know, when I think of outer Banks, the first
55:24
thing I think of is with Blood comes cleansing, So it does make sense
55:28
to me. I mean, yeah, wow, all right, any other
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any other things to plug? Can I do a plug for? Like people
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who still care about us as a band like that? Yeah, totally like
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gratuities. It blows my mind ye to see the response that we've gotten,
55:45
you know, and man, I personally just thank you. It's really cool
55:50
to see, you know, it's super awesome. Thank all of you guys
55:52
for still listening to us and we I just can't tell you how much it
55:55
means to me. It makes my day when you guys write us on our
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Facebook or Instagram or something like that, Like you can really turn a bad
56:01
day like really good. So we appreciate that. Thank you very much.
56:06
Thank you guys. Thank you. Yeah, hey, thank you guys for
56:09
coming on and uh, this is an episode. I was very excited that
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you guys reached out to me. I don't generally get that, and I've
56:19
been a with Blood fan forever, so to hear you guys. This active
56:24
is just wonderful to see. I'll take any more that you're gonna give,
56:29
So thank you guys for coming on. This has been wonderful, very very
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excited to see you at Furnace Best for the very first time for myself.
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Yeah, I'm just I'm just super excited. Yeah, thank you. We
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can't wait to hang out and see you in person. Man. Yeah,
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we'll get a big hu