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To WACKEN And Beyond With DEPRIVATION · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  So I'm Lachland from Deprivation play lead guitar and they've been been going for what
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  eighteen years almost like founding members. Yeah a long time. Yeah, and
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  I'm Jesse I played the bass. I've been in the band for ten years
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  and the biggest fanboy still with the band. So yeah, good times,
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  thanks for joining using guys, excuse mate my pleasure. So first, a
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  boy is welcome home after doing Australia Proud Whack in twenty twenty three, have
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  your feet touched aground yet? Yeah it's been a while now, but yeah
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  it was. It took a bit to get off that high for sure.
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  Yeah, we're all a big We're a little bit grumpy when we got back
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  for at least a month. Still want to be doing. There's those who
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  don't know Deprivation wonder this year's Whack and Metal Battle Australia and News Yell and
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  Buck in May and represent Australia whacking this year. So let's start there.
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  Made like after you said in the finals, like did you think you've done
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  enough to win? Oh? I personally reckon. We absolutely killed it on
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  the final and it was just that war. But there was some bloody fantastic
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  competition, but it was that whole what's going to happen? What's going to
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  happen? And we're all there were all put on our a game. So
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  obviously it worked out well for us. But yeah, it was a very
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  tight competition. But yeah, I personally believably came out on top because we've
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  we've just got the most energy on stage out of a lot of bands.
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  Yeah. Yeah, we definitely played as good as we've ever played that night,
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  so there was there was no reason to think that we didn't put our
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  best effort in. So yeah, that best and more were fucking good.
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  Yeah. Yeah, body was very very tight. It was very good.
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  Though. How long did you actually have to wait to find out? Did
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  you find out that night or did you have to sort of sleep on it
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  for a bit? I found out the next day, So I was the
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  contact for for the band and yeah, Bailey called us. The called me
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  the next day. Well, Lachlan was still in Sydney after having a big,
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  big party. I'd already been back, I've already come back to Newcastle,
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  just sitting in the couch and was like, oh, got a phone
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  number that I don't recognize, but a better answer this see how it goes
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  and it was that, yeah, just oh my god, this is actually
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  happening. And then told all the boys and they didn't believe me. Yeah,
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  no one believe I do like to talk a lot of ships, but
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  yeah, and I was like no, no, no, seriously, we've
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  we've we've done it. And it was there lots of tears, lots of
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  extreme happiness. It was the what a bloody awesome time. Yeah, but
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  of course winning was just the start of it. Like, then you had
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  to actually get to Germany. So how did you go about raising money to
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  make the trip? Well, our good friend Nicole from the from the Basement,
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  one of the owners of the Basement, she set up a go funding
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  for us, which helped out fantastically, just you know, get get a
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  little bit of flights paid for and all that jazz, because it's not the
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  cheapest trip over to Germany. But we put it together and obviously not a
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  lot of time to put it together, but made it happen. And yeah,
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  we're very thankful for the Basement for sort helping us out with that go
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  funding for us, because yeah, it helped out tremendously. Yeah, and
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  keep in mind we only had like forty days or less to gather those ones
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  together and make sure lastports were all good and yeah, so it was a
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  bit of a battle, but yeah, paid off and worked out well.
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  From all reports, Whackon was wet and buddy this year. Like, was
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  it as bad as photos made a look? Man? We when we were
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  driving, yes, yeah, I think that driving there, we were getting
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  messages they're saying, if you are traveling to work and you should stop what
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  you're doing, Like it's it is too wet, we're not letting people in.
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  And their whole thing is we play rain or shine And it was that
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  rainy that the rain or shine was getting a little bit tedious. But we
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  Yeah, we finally got in. We got our big V got pulled in
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  by a tractor. That was a first for I think all of us getting
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  pulled in by a big tractor. Yeah, and it definitely pulled us in.
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  I had no control of the car ragonus three am in the morning.
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  We got pulled in. We were waiting in line like this huge ars line
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  for everyone to get tied in. Waited there for like three hours to get
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  ted in and then yeah, fucking so wed. It did end up and
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  Paul Warkin like the solid eighty five ninety thousand tickets and I think the first
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  three days they it was forty fifty thousand, so substantial loss on their partner.
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  A lot of people just ended up not coming as well, but it
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  did dry up by the last couple of days when some of the bigger bands
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  came through, like Iron Maiden and Mega Death, which was great and it
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  probably ended up getting into about the let's go sixty five seventy thousand mark like
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  that. It definitely ended up being still a massive show, like anything,
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  bigger than anything that we've ever experienced before. There's a lot of people,
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  so you made it to waken. But then you had another competition of sorts
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  for the international finals. So how was that experience? That was a surprise
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  for us when we got over them. Oh that's right, we're doing another
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  competition. We had a little idea, but it was like far out thirty
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  of the best bands, like the best underground bands in the world to compete
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  against, and yeah, what an experience. Got to meet some cool people,
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  good friends from Turkey now good friends from Lithuania, Latvia. Yeah,
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  we're international friends. It's good too. It was really good to just hang
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  out with all those people in the VIP area back at Barakan. You came
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  temper that, which was a massive achievement. But did that qualify you for
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  the main stage or was that part of your prize for winning the train finals?
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  So yeah, the tenth place was like one and only performance in Vakan.
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  Was was the battle kind of thing like so al yeah, jadges were
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  watching us and all the other bands play their performance and then they voted on
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  yeah the top the top ones from there, but yeah, no extra shows
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  after that, but but still tenth is just amazing for us. So yeah,
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  yeah, absolutely stoked. So stoked. Yeah, good on us.
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  Tell us about the actual setter wacking guys, Like, was it everything you
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  imagined? Man? That was the It was the biggest stage we've ever played
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  on, biggest crowd we've ever played too. It was just such a surreal
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  experience going on or something so well organized everything. Yeah, everything was just
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  huge, like the first time we've ever played on a stage that's got side
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  feel. So just the amount of sound that was just on the stage was
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  phenomenal. And then I think the coolest thing was just you know having that
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  type of those type of people at the crowds just everybody loves metal. It's
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  not like a mixed bill festival. Like you've got metal heads there the whole
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  time. And the command you could have over the crowd was awesome. Being
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  able to go like, you know, let's go hey hey, and every
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  single person does it. That was awesome. And we even did the even
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  did the side to side hands and it was yeah, far out. I
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  can't believe that we've managed to have such a good control over crowd. It
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  wasn't too hard to win them over, that's for sure. Like it was
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  just metal, like every single fucking band that they're watching and there they're dancing
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  in the mary. Yeah, it was a drunken nuts and I think we're
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  definitely we're definitely please the metal crowd that were there because all the a lot
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  of the bands before us in the metal Battles were that metal core or not
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  just not quite you know, straight up heavy metal dude. And yeah,
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  you could definitely see the long hairs come out and in there in flocks just
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  having a good swing. It was awesome, no swing kick. You also
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  released the live music video for Bird, which was recorded at Whacking, So
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  was that something you went over there planning to do or was it circumstance you
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  go loker. Basically like they filmed, they filmed the whole set for every
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  band and after the show, they'd come up to you and say, which
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  song would you like to be featured on the YouTube channel that we're going to
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  pull out? So we just chose that one because I don't know, I
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  think we collectively, well, I think there was the least amount of mistakes
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  in that song. Let's go with that one. Let's go. Yeah.
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  That was yeah, a hard hitting song and yeah, just good crowd participation
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  and yeah, come out well. So but the whole set came out really
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  well too, So yeah, I agree, And they chose that one because
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  it's probably one of the new ones, newer songs as well. We don't
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  we've got enough live footage of the other songs, so better get some of
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  the newer stuff out there. Yeah, good place to do it. And
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  I believe you had it back in the studio this December to record some another
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  single. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, I'm pretty excited. Pretty
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  much got the fundamentals down on it now, so we're just making it all
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  pretty and putting extra layers and ship on it. So yeah, it's going
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  to be a heavy one, that's for sure. And is that going to
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  be a stand alone single or part of a bigger picture? Definitely, yeah,
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  Locker, Yeah, stand alone single for now, but we'll probably make
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  it into a bigger picture later. We're Yeah, it's just one of those
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  things like albums are good, but it's you know, people get bored very
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  quickly these days, which is a shame because I love listening to the albums
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  starting to finish and then repeat it and let's do it again. But you
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  know, I'm not everybody's like me or Locker and can listen to albums on
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  repeat. But yeah, so stand alone single and we'll see how we go
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  from there. I have to, you know, people have to listen to
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  it, I suppose, and we'll go, Okay, we better do some
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  more cold now before we let you go. Guys, we started doing three
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  new Spotify playlists to help listeners get in touch with the bands. I guess,
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  so just using your own songs. Give us one for a playlist to
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  get the party started, one for a playlist to save your marriage, and
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  one for a playlist to potentially end your marriage. Got a party, one
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  started party, It'd have to be all dead or something like that, wouldn't
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  it. Yeah, Yeah, that's got the groove. Yeah. And what
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  was the second one, Chris, I save your marriage. I don't think
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  any of it. I know one that I know one that will end the
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  marriage. That will be three cage through the rib, cage for sure to
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  end the marriage. And maybe the maybe the you know, save one murder
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  your excuses. Oh yeah, good, good, good, good choice good
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  yeah. I reckon those three will work for you guys. All right,
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  well, thanks very much for your time to thank congratulations on your achievements this
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  year, and let's hope things kids going on the up and up for you