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The Subtleties Of Death With JONAS HANSEN From FIXATION · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hi, this is join Us from Fixation and we are releasing our debut album,
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  More Subtle than Death, September eight, beautiful Jinus, thanks for joining
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  us, and thanks for shantus the album too. That was a beautiful touch.
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  Thank you so much. Why you say Fixation of preparing to unleash your
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  debut album More Subtle than Death on September the eighth. So how you feel
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  about it? Makes getting close? And now you're nervous Satius excited, both
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  excited and anxious. It's been it's been such a long time coming. Now
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  we've been working on it for like three years or we started working on it
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  in twenty twenty. And having it finally like in my hands here, it's
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  insane. Uh. And the fact that we're releasing it next week, it's
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  it's crazy. I can't believe it's it's here, you know already. It's
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  an interesting title too, But look, I can't think of anything less subtle
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  than yea. So I read this quote that was Society notes perfectly well how
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  to kill a person and ask methods more subtle than death? It's for me.
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  For me, it's sort of like more in a introspective, it's more
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  killing you from the from the inside, sort of taking taking what's human or
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  what's what makes you a person out of you, uh, and leaving you
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  like the shell of a of a human walking around. That's my sort of
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  perception of the quote, and that's how I felt there was like fitting for
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  the for the album's topics. So is that why they did the black plow
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  or the black rose on the cover that's opened up in an empty Yes,
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  exactly. Yeahful wanting to tell us a bit more about the album from a
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  musical point of view and what you're doing for So for this album, you
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  know, it's our debut album, and we we sort of started this band
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  a long time ago. We actually started in high school when we were like
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  yeah, when we're like fifteen, back in twenty eleven, and we tried,
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  you know, a couple of different things. All of the guys have
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  different musical backgrounds, what they listened to and what they played. So I
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  think this album is sort of a combination of everything that we've been listening to
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  throughout the years, also trying to find like a middle ground for what what
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  the five of us like now and how we want Fixation to sound. But
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  I think everyone's brought something from from their past two to create this sort of
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  sound. And I don't think we really went try to go for anything like
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  particular, because we just made the music that we felt like this, this
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  is something we like, and maybe we have one ballad here and a more
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  orchestral song here, and maybe a more upbeat rock song and some heavy music
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  here. So I think the album was just, yeah, a culbination of
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  everything we wanted to make without specifically thinking we should make that type of song
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  or that type of song. It just happened sort of, yeah, And
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  I'm very happy. I'm real pleased with it. And you've released the singles
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  Flat Earth, More Alive, Claustrophobics, Stay Awake, and Ignore the Disarray,
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  which is more than half of the album's songs made, Like you can
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  release more than half of the singles, Yeah, thank you so much,
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  and we're you know, it's I think it's the way music is is today.
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  It's you sort of have to release more goals to get to grab people's
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  attention. I think the people's attention span is probably a bit shorter than it
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  used to be, so releasing singles is a way for people to to sort
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  of dive more into it than releasing a whole album with new songs. I
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  think it gives you like these sort of points where you can attach yourself where
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  you know, I've heard this before, so I don't have to be using
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  my like listening ear all the way at one hundred percent throughout the whole thing.
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  And I totally understand that. Me. I've always been like an album
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  guy, so I've always listened to the entirety of an album. So I'm
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  really looking forward to getting the whole thing out because you know, it's it's
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  released or it's made with sort of this cohesiveness in mind, and I'm looking
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  forward to people hearing that as well as the last couple of songs that haven't
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  been released yet, because some of them are my favorites on the album.
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  Yeah, So that the album starts with the one minute thirty three almost ambient
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  track and pending fall out, like, what's the many about the album that
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  it sort of throws you off a bit. I think we all we're all
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  like really into the sort of theatrical grand openings and things to music. We
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  always loved listening to albums that have these intros and interludes and outros to make
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  the whole experience a bit more, you know, cinematic. I think that
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  was our intention behind that song. We al should do it in live setting.
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  We have this intro grand intro intro track before going in stage sort of
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  sets the mood a bit. The fun thing about the song in pending fallout
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  we had the idea for such a long time, but we didn't really get
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  it to work. And when we finally like made the final thing, we
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  were driving home from a gig in Tronheim in Norway, which is like maybe
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  a nine hour drive back to Auslo. So me and Martin are guitarists.
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  We were just sitting in the car. I was driving and he was producing.
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  So we basically made the whole song on a road trip on the way
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  back home from a gig in December, like December last year, maybe I
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  think it was. So it was like the final final touch on the album,
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  and we mentioned it is your debut album. Might SiGe when when planned,
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  but that was some of the things go through in mind with the songs.
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  Do you want to showcase the diversity is of band? Do you want
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  to play to your strengths and just play it youthink you know you can do
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  well. Do you want to show people how many different sizes or other what
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  such things go through your head. I think it's a little bit of both.
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  I think mostly it's like I said, it's music that we love ourselves.
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  We are very proud of it. We're very happy with the songs that
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  are on there. I think it shows a lot of our strengths as a
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  band, but also it shows diversity and like for me, this is a
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  way to get a lot of the ideas that we've been storing up for the
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  years before, to get them, give them a home, and get them
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  out there. And it's been really nice because it's been a way for us
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  to to sort of start creating new music again after having these songs for such
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  a long time. You know, we started making the Other in twenty two
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  any so you've sort of been constantly working on the songs for that album,
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  and you know, we've been writing new songs all the way or along the
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  way for this album. But it's nice too, like, Okay, we
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  have these songs now that we're really proud of and we can get them out
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  there and now we can like go in new direction after that. Yeah,
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  So how would you say this album differs musically from your WAP Tribal Suicide,
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  and so Global Suicide was sort of a like the songs that we kept from
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  a lot of songs that we had before twenty twenty, and these were like
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  the four songs that we felt like we're justifiable to get out because we had
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  a lot of shit. You know, we had a lot of bad music.
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  Start this band when you're like fifteen, so you write a lot of
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  stupid music. But I think those four songs, we had them for a
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  couple of years before releasing and we I think in twenty nineteen we recorded and
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  upgraded them to a certain points and I think we got the four songs that
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  we wanted. I think at that point, to be honest, before releasing
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  the EP, we were at a point where we didn't really do as much
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  as as we should have done because we've been doing this band for such a
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  long time as like teens and not really feeling that God anywhere. So but
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  we didn't really release anything either, so it was on us. But we're
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  kind of lazy and yeah, and we've finally like we're like, okay,
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  we should at least release this music because we're proud of it and if it
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  doesn't go anywhere, it doesn't go anywhere, but let's just get it out
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  there. And then we released the first single, Neurosis, first by ourselves,
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  and then we got picked up by our label in the recordings, and
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  that's when things sort of started rolling and they and they picked up the EP,
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  and we released the rest of the EP with them as long as well
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  as Neurosis sort of, and it was really great. I think the song
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  what We Have Done, which has become our most popular song, I think
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  it was written in maybe twenty eighteen or something like that. I remember writing
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  a lot of this stuff on that song at like school. We went to
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  university and for music and we had some studios there and I remember just sitting
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  in the one of the rooms and just writing the song that's so cool from
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  stay Away you are now like there must sometimes you must just sort of sit
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  back there and think about it. Just got like what the fuck? Definitely,
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  So the album comes out on September the eight flight but what's an extra
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  fixation? What else have you got played? So we got the release,
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  Then we got a tour in October with the German band and it's okay,
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  which I'm really looking forward to. It's you know, we did a tour
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  from February to April with Devin Townsend, which was our first ever European tour.
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  That Yeah, that was amazing. It was great, and all the
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  people on that tour we're so amazing and welcoming, so we really felt like,
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  yeah, it was a good start to tour the tour life. No,
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  No, I'm definitely not really lucky to be able to get that,
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  And I think we learned a lot because we were sort of diving in blindly
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  into this tour. So for this run, I think we have more prepared,
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  know what we're going to expect, you know, how to live on
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  a bus for six weeks. Laugh. But it's a big change in it,
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  you know, like because you're a fine you're not a paople's space,
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  so it's all yeah, definitely, it's sort of like you're you're not ever
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  completely alone somebody, so you just have to get you Yeah. So you
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  have like even in your bunk, you have this little like sort of curtain
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  thing, but it's not you know how how how big of a wall.
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  It's like a curtain between you and the other guys. So you have to
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  get really comfortable with each other, which luckily we've been doing. We've been
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  we're knowing each other for such a long time, it's not a problem.
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  But as well, we shared the bus with We share the bus with Clone,
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  the other support ban on the last tour, so we got to really
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  know them as well. And this time we're sharing the bus with that.
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  It's okay. So it's very nice way too, like get really familiar with
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  people. You just kind of have to. Sorry, but I hope you
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  get on with them otherwise you're in the ship. Yeah, I hope.
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  So, yeah, it would suck having knowing on the first day of the
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  tour. It's like, Okay, that's not gonna We're not gonna. I
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  think it's gonna be all right, I brother, before we let you go.
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  We've started Greeny Spotify playlists through Heavy based on the songs for people we
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  speak to you, So using your own songs, can you give us a
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  song for a playlist to get the party started, one for a playlist to
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  save your marriage, and one for a playlistic to potentially end your marriage.
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  All right, so from our own songs as shit, So to get the
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  party started. I think I should do I have to choose the ones that
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  I released, or can I choose some of the album release. I'll wait
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  till the album comes out, then I'll let them after that, all right,
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  So to get the albums to get the party started, I think the
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  song Violent Tendencies, it's a good one. It's a sort of very upbeat,
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  the rock anthem song. When we played live, we always get the
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  party started. I think that's a good one to save your marriage. Ah,
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  man, what can that be? A man? To save your marriage?
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  Maybe maybe the song I'm sure bleed. Maybe it's very beautiful and honest.
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  It's yeah, it's it's very truthful. You know. It's the shows
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  shows your inner inner demons sort of song. So I think that's they could
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  get good with your marriage and my marriage specifically. But you know, I
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  like, ah, oh, that's a good question. Maybe. I mean,
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  we have this song even over the Disarray, which is about the way
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  religion and doctrines operating around the world. So maybe if some someone in the
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  marriage believes in something and the other doesn't, that's a good, very diplomatic
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  good way. Yeah, I'm not sure, all right. It's sort of
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  an angry song song thanks very much for your time. Bro. The album
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  More Death is a title listening before we chatted Marden. Very solid, very
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  good album, so best luck with it and hopefully we see you so much.
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  One day. We'd love to come to Australia. That'd be amazing.