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Breaking The Chains With KAOSPHERE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  My name is Ricky and I'm Tan I thank you. There's two Tannes in
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  the band. Yeah, I'm one of the other ones on here, and
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  we formed the band Chaos Fair a nine years ago. Yes, hit that
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  nine very good mate. Then that's funny going on with Kao Spyre at the
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  moment. But we're going to start on your new single, chain Breaker,
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  which is premiered by A Heavy on December fifteen. So it's been a while
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  between drinks, guys. It's great to hear new music from the band.
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  Yeah, it's been It has been a long progress, but we wanted to
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  take our time with it. With EPs, you can sort of slap out
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  a few songs and a video and tour and it's a it's a much quicker
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  process. But with an album, you know, it just takes a long
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  time, you know, And and chain Breaker is part of it. You
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  know, we've had a lot of this music ready for a long time,
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  but you know it hasn't been right to release it. M So tell us
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  a bit more about chain Breaker from a musical point of view and what you're
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  going for with it. Uh, Well, we just wanted to create something
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  a lot of groove, a lot of emotion and something to really get the
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  crowd, you know, washing pretty much it's just a hiavy song. And
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  the songs as well, I wanted to Cap had their part to plan it,
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  from drums to bass, the guitars, rhythm, tar, and you
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  know, it took me ages to write the song as well because I wanted
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  it to be right. So yeah, So how would you say it difference
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  from what people have heard from casphere in the past. I don't think it's
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  really really different. It's probably a little bit more polished maybe, and probably
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  a little bit more clearer. Whereas in the past we sort of used to
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  play good songs together and then we were more focused on playing live instead of
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  actually doing full production in a studio and thinking about it, you know,
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  so in that in that case, the music comes out a little bit more
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  defined. I think there's multi is a thousand ways to write a song,
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  mate, But you know, we've definitely tried a few a few different ways,
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  especially with tany And and Leon. We spent a lot more time in
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  the studio, was right, instead of writing them in the garage and then
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  and then going to neck and sort of like smacking it all out in the
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  day we were actually you know, studio producing this, this album that you
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  won't want to say, you know which, I think you hear better things.
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  Yeah, a lot more. And you add a couple of different songs
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  to choose from to release it your first SINGLESO White choose chain Breaker. Look.
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  I just thought it had a it's got some good nuts to it,
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  and I just think that our older fans will appreciate it. I mean not
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  saying that it's not throughout the album. There's probably five really really heavy songs
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  in the album, maybe six, But we just thought it was a good
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  one to really am people could catch onto the lyrics, they can get into
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  the groove and really sort of you know, be a part of it with
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  us. You know, you're also releasing an awesome music video to go with
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  the song, So tell us what's going on there and the meaning behind it?
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  Sorry, what was that? You're releasing an awesome music video to go
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  with the song, So tell us a bit more about that in the meaning
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  behind it. Yeah. So obviously the songs about upbringing and back in the
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  day mum struggled a lot, and obviously me and me little bro we were
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  we were you know, we had to go with mum. Whatever happened,
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  and it's sort of it was pretty sort of gnarly, you know, and
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  the video really captures it, and it really captures the emotion of ah,
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  that kind of domestic kind of violence styles and living with it and then also
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  breaking away from it, breaking the change and sort of like you know,
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  making a decision to up and leave, grab the kids, let's go,
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  We're out of here, and pretty much moved to a whole brand new city,
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  brand new schools, brand new everything, and pretty much start your life
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  over and living refuges and all sorts of pretty not really things, but credit
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  to it. She made that decision, and you know, it was full
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  of fruit, you know, like we me and my young my brother,
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  we turned out pretty good and because of it, you know. So that's
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  all the songs about chain Breaker, and it's just breaking those those bad cycles,
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  you know. And sometimes when you're in love, you don't actually realize
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  that you're in those situations because you're in love, you know what I mean,
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  and until you step out of it and go, wow, that's pretty
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  hectic, you know. And yeah, something coming from a positive coming from
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  a negative basically yeah, yeah, mm hmmm, Jane Breaker also featured something
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  never heard from KOs Here before in performance of clean vocals, like what decide
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  that now is the right time to introduce that elementary music from from my earlier
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  band Philosophagus that me and Little used to we twenty years ago. We used
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  to have vote through our own music and when we first started Chaosly obviously with
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  Big Tiny jumping in. He comes from a black metal background. He's playing
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  a banquet from the dark. When we mashed the two styles together, it
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  was just like a pretty much death metal band. The element's always been there.
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  It just we just after doing our EP before and it was time to
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  sort of like play around with a few things, I guess, And one
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  thing's having clean vocals but trying to pull them off so they sound good.
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  That's a That's another problems directed at Rickie, Like you've played Chamee Breaker live
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  a couple of times now, so how do you go the first couple of
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  times when it came to doing the clean singing in front of an audience for
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  the first time, Like your nervous? Yeah, I was actually wondering what
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  what the what the locals would think of it? But I try and sing
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  it with a bit of a twang to it, so it's actually sort of
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  sounds sort of groovy. I guess it's not you know, like, yeah,
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  it's not bloody, it's not bloody opera. It's it's not super bloody
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  power locals. You know, that's sort of directed. Yeah, but it's
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  definitely daunting. But knowing that what I'm hearing back as it comes back to
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  me, I'm like, well, that's what I intended it to sound like.
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  So yeah, very cool. Jane bra Chakee Breaker is the first single
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  from your debut album, which will be out sometime next year. So is
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  it a good representation of what you expect? I think so definitely. Going
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  forward in our right writing processes, you you probably will find more songs similar
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  to that. There are some quite different as well. Yeah, a lot
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  of diversity and album what people are pretty good procession of people. I mean,
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  which it might be one song we might get crucified over, but you
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  know how you know, it's quite of a It's almost a radio song,
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  you know, and just in the past you hear bands, heavy bands come
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  out and do a mallow track and they just get crucified. But I mean
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  that is what it is. That's right. We like it. When you're
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  writing it, you don't think about all them baggers, you know, you
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  just sing, you know. But there's a good, good variety of stuff
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  on there. I think it shows sort of diverse we're getting in now records
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  and the sounds, experimenting a bit more different stuff. The good thing too,
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  is we've still got our old tunes, so you know, like that
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  people love and know, so being able to play some of those songs with
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  our new songs as well, it's going to be great you know for our
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  Yeah, whatever kind of gigs we're playing, you know, ends or kind
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  of kicks you're playing, you're playing full fresh, Well, how did you
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  pick yoursel? Yeah, yeah, good connection songs to suppose. The big
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  question is, guys, I will old school fans and chaos for our like
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  the new music? I think so yeah, yeah, well that's to be
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  excited. We certainly hope. So, you know, yeah, we've tried
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  really hard on it. You know, we've definitely put a lot of effort
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  into it. That's a lot of time and money. Obviously we don't make
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  no money back like all the other hard bands out there, not you,
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  but yeah, look we really do hope they like it and and get on
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  board with it, and yeah, it's all we can hope for. Yeah,
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  you know, we spent a lot of time on it, sopefully.
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  Ye. The other big news for case where is your recent signing to new
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  label ex Music, which is run by Tim McClain smith. There is it
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  saying records for twenty years and now works for Better Noise Music. So Ferston,
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  congratulations, it's reward for effort, you know, yeah, really thanks,
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  thanks that Chris. Guys, we didn't you know, like as people
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  mentioned record levels and you think, oh, you know, what are they
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  going to try and do screw us over and such and such, But going
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  through it, it's actually a pretty workable contract. It's pretty workable. It's
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  good for both both parties, and with his experience in contacts, I think
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  that there can only be better for the chaosphere all around. Definitely, he's
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  definitely an industry this room. He's a really good bloke as well. Yeah,
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  it helps, that's what you did when you actually like the people you're
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  working with. Yeah, that's right, that's important. And you know he's
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  an excellent that's quite of a risk for him as well, you know,
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  like his the bands he sort of plays with at the moment aren't really heavy
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  middle bands, so I guess he's taking a risks as well. We're pretty
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  pretty grateful that he's giving us this opportunity. Yeah, it's funny though,
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  like you say that with X music, he hasn't really got many heavy bands
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  with anyone. You look at what he does with Better Noise music. He's
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  got asking Alexandria and Bad Wolves into who five figure death punch he actually has?
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  Does does know a bit about it? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
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  yeah on Bitter music. Yeah, but just lead through. So he's definitely
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  got the runs on the board. Yes, yeah, there's there's some big
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  bands that are part of the music. Hopefully were not there off off there
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  Perch one day CNA Yeah yeah. Uh of being a brutal live band,
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  guys. And you return to the stage. It's here for a couple of
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  shows already, but it's a new stage show equals you or better than before,
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  that's still decided, mate, But always it's always a work in progress.
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  Beforehand, we focus, like I said, we focused a lot on
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  our live sound and we didn't really put much into the you know, the
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  footwork. Just time around, we've had time with that. We now we've
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  got our music, No, I mean we've got time to work on intros
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  and how they have been. So that's that's what we're doing. So so
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  yeah, look we get a little more if there and hopefully hopefully just be
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  easier. When I had dread loccess for sure, but I don't have them
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  anymore. I think that is essential ingredient to a good low shoe. But
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  no, no, but for me, you know, doing my part,
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  just wiggle my head and will your hands, shake your ars and your away,
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  yeah, and scream out like a bloody lunatic and you know. But
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  yeah, we're practicing a lot of the moment, reversing a lot, so
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  yeah, and working on them. A live show sorted for the next year.
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  And the next gig actually is that alternate festival in the back room Anealie
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  of Forevery Third, alongside bands like Orpheus, A Meager Piston, Fish,
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  Dead Wait eighty three, the Hollow twelve Gage Ram Phase has some pretty big
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  bands. It's heavy as fuck line up. Yeah, looking at it,
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  it's definitely I've been in. Yeah, we've been looking at it for a
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  while now, it's been but it's good that it's actually finally come to light.
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  Now give it nice, big, big, big out there Day had
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  nine. I think you're still announcing another h act between handle Up. This
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  is a lot of so but yeah, after that, where we we don't
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  know. Well, we've got to set our direction obviously, touring and go
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  and hitting a few of our favorite little spots like Newcastle and Sydney and Melbourne.
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  And we'll be working to Fixed Music as well. Yeah, working with
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  them, working on the schedule for next year to coincide with the album and
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  singles and England releases exciting times. Yeah, I think you guys can be
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  good. Four singles to release. Yeah, we've got a busy year next,
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  a lot to do, some sleep and get yourselves ready for it.
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  Okay, beautiful guys, Right, well, thanks very much for time.
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