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Crushing Force With ANDY MARSH From THY ART IS MURDER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hey, what's Andy does Murder listening to be mag They are this Murder wal
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  release your sixth album, Godlike on September fifteenth votes. So how you feel
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  about it? Feeling really good? You know, we're only five weeks away
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  from the album being out for everyone to here. It's pretty exciting, especially
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  when you worked on something for so long and you kind of have to keep
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  it to yourself. So I'm looking forward to getting some feedback from the wider
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  community and the fans. So after six albums, mate, do you guys
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  have a set process that you go through for each album? What does it
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  different from an album to album? No, it's pretty much the same.
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  You know. We get together, write some riffs, put some songs together
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  as best we can, and meet up with our produce. So will putney
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  and finish the job normally takes you know, four to six weeks. Last
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  year we spent i want to say, like six months kind of piecing the
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  thing together with lots of here. Can it tell us a bit more about
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  god Like from a musical point of view, mate, and what you're going
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  for with it? I tell you too much? Really, We're just trying
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  to step things up quite a bit. We had a lot of time off,
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  a lot of time to think of new ideas, a lot of time
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  to think about where we were thinking of taking the band in the future.
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  So just try and incorporate some groovyer elements, bigger chorus as, and imagine,
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  you know what we could put on the CD that's going to help elevate
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  the band to the next level of career. The press release like along those
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  lines, Bray Like. The press release says that God likes sees the band
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  explore new depths and dynamics. Would you agree with that statement? Yeah?
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  Yeah, how so, Well, after having so much time off, you
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  kind of lose a lot of your habits when you're talking about guitar playing and
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  songwriting and everything. So whenever we came up with a new sound, we
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  normally we would probably just revert back to what we usually do. But this
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  time around, we tried exploring those those ideas a little bit more, and
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  because we had so much time, we were a experiment a lot more making
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  an end in for us six weeks, it's working long our day in,
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  day out, and you don't have much time to sit and think about things.
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  So this time, having that extra legal room really helped us out exploring
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  new territory, and by now the whole world has heard that the single joined
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  me and armg Eddon. So would you say that's a good sonic representation of
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  what do we expect? I think it's a good representation of where we want
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  to go towards in the future, for sure, stripping things back, allowing
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  there to be some impact, adding some more groovyer elements to the music.
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  We found that songs that have like a little bit more grooving them carry across
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  a bit better in the live setting. Sometimes with the pas and the wind
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  outdoors the sound systems, the fastest stuff gets kind of washed away by the
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  wind. So we thought this was something that we could focus on that will
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  help us out with the live show in the future. I think that's a
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  pretty good, well rounded idea of you know, where we're trying to take
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  things. And you guys have always been known to be very proactive when it
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  comes to having opinions in your music. So what are some of the themes
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  explored on Godlike? You know, we had a lot of think about straw
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  of Dreams, touches the War and Ukraine. Caress talks about how a lot
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  of people manipulate the world from behind closed doors and start a lot of conflict
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  for their benefit without actually having to get their hands dirty. Blood thrown very
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  similar, you know, talking about people that are capitalizing on the blood,
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  sweat and tears of those below on. And she's also your first album or
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  released one hundred percent independently through own label Human Warfare. So how does that
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  change things? Not too much, to be honest. A lot of people
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  were saying that they thought that we were going to have this creative freedom from
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  the label, but Nuclear Blasts never came to the studio and told us what
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  to do and what not to do. It just gives us scheduling freedom in
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  the future. We're able to make the records work in time with the touring.
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  If we want to take a year off from making an album, we're
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  allowed to do that now because we don't need to borrow money off the label.
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  So, you know, just getting to truly truly work for yourself,
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  you know. And the cover image is wicked Jimmailes basically just a skeleton on
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  the cover, but it's really striking an effective made Like where did it come
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  from? I just knew that we wanted something that looked kind of ancient and
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  weathered, but also knew that we wanted to have a modern artist back all
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  the idea, which is sort of representative of the title godlike like the past,
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  the present, and the future, something that's eternal. So having something
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  that looked weather and old and kind of beat up but painted by someone who's
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  deploying very modern and futuristic art techniques was our way of meshing like the old
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  and the new together. The cover art is not really just a two D
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  painting, it's actually a three D sculpture, and then it's been painted digitally
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  as well. So it would be cool to find a way to animate it
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  and have people be able to explore around the album cover, but we just
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  haven't figured away out yet. Yeah, and yourself and Sean actually stopped playing
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  guitars during the COVID period in the lead up to this album process made.
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  So how did that affect things when you picked it back up again. I
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  think it's made every refreshing. Cutting we usually play the year which we were
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  playing guitar quite and also means that we're just playing by art songs quite a
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  bit. It's having two years off just lets your mind wander and think of
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  new things, and even when you come back a little bit rusty, it
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  makes you come up with new ideas because your hands might not be as as
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  speedy as they used to be. It doesn't really go hand in hand,
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  or it doesn't. Putting the guitar down for two years and coming back a
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  better player. I think it kind of does, to be honest, Maybe
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  not a better player, but a more well rounded songwriter for sure, because
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  you're led more by your brain at that point and less by the muscle memory
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  in your fingers. So how would you say the sounded by artist Murder has
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  change made from your debut album, The Adversary in twenty too Godlike, I
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  think it's just become more refined. You know, we're not ashamed of any
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  of our our last five records. We think that they're all fantastic, but
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  it's just been a slow process of perfecting the sound. Obviously, who we
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  are as people has changed over the last twelve years. So what we want
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  the band likes I've changed. What We've just got better at getting as close
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  to having its sounds we want as possible. And earlier this year you completed
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  your first tour in a fair while when you celebrate the chet anniversary the album
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  Hate. So how did that go? I think it was a smashing success,
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  sold out most of the gigs, did a couple of thousand in Sydney
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  and Melbourne, so it was the biggest headline tool that we've ever done in
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  Australia. I did something like doing a tour to celebrate ten years of one
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  particular album. Did it sort of give your scope to reflect on your career
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  to date and where you want to sort of push in the future a bit
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  more? Absolutely? It does? You know, going back and playing a
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  record from start to finish from over ten years ago is a bit of a
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  trip down memory lane, not only for the songs, but for the time
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  that we spent putting the album together so long ago. And it was pretty
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  validating to be able to take a record that we used a tour and play
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  two to three hundred capacity venues to see that that material is good enough to
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  perform in front of two and a half thousand people to night was pretty rewarding.
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  So God Like comes out on September fifteenth maybra what's next for Nayards Murder?
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  After that? What do you got planned in sweeks and today? Week
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  off of Europe as this morning and a half tickets already, so it's already
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  the biggest that we've ever headlined, and we're looking forward to upping the ante
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  and increasing the size of our production and trying to put on the best show
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  for our fans as possible. Very good mate, all right, well,
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  thanks very much for your time. Did Ain't God Like is out September fifteenth,
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  and it's another crushing slave and brutality from Bayards Murder, So best of
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  lucky with the brother. Thank you very much. All right, man enjoy
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  light my night, all right. Don't talk to all light eyes all
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  right, all right. Don't talk to all our dogs all right. Don't
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  talk to all eyes all right, all right. At Las