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A Better Tomorrow With BRENDAN PRESTON & BENNY BONES From ALL THIS FILTH · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hey, this is Brendan from All This Filth and me. Yeah, that's
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  Benny here from All the Fists as well. And our new album which we've
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  just released is called Tomorrow Will Be Better. It's out through Brutal Records and
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  yeah, get some beautiful guys. Thanks for joining us this Evenina, Thanks
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  for having us, Chris Pleasure, thanks having us. As you say,
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  man, All This Filth released the latest album, Tomorrow Will Be Better,
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  back on February the night. So it's almost been a month now, guys
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  have been save. Yeah, it's gone well so far. We've had a
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  lot of good feedback, Like the reviews have been generally positive, and all
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  the fans I've spoken to and all the messages I've got from the band social
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  media have been good so far, and all the media that we've been speaking
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  to have seemed to have enjoyed the songs as well. I was on Andrew
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  Hoague on Monday night and he was saying that it's a definite step up for
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  us and that he was proud of us, which was really really cool praise
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  from him. So yeah, I mean, so far, so good.
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  The feedback has been pretty unanimously good thus far. So you tell us a
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  bit more about the album from a musical point of view, made than what
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  you're going for with it. Musically, we just really wanted to step it
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  up from the last album, Misery Season, you know, sort of just
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  expand the boundaries of what we were doing. We wanted to like be more
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  aggressive, more fast, and more groovy. H you add more keys and
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  synths, which is sort of more Benny's department there. I'll let him touch
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  on that in a sec and just yeah, really just you know, test
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  ourselves and push ourselves and see what we could we could really do musically,
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  Yeah, Betty, Yeah, Yeah. It was a bit of a writing
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  experience because I dropped out halfway through the writing. The start is I went
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  to England and write as covid hit. I had to come back and rejoin
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  in and find out where everyone was up to things like that. But yeah,
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  the push was to try and go down more of us since he kind
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  of industrial inspired sound out of it, with a still keeping to the roots
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  of the checker checker guitar risks and things along those lines. But I don't
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  know, I was kind of trying to write something a little bit different.
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  Some of the songs do come out a little bit different, in a different
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  direction altogether, just trying something different. But yeah, they worked out pretty
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  well, I think so. Thematically, the album picks up from where twenty
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  nineteen's Misery Season left offskin, can you explain that a little bit more detail?
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  Yeah, Oh, well, do you want me to handle it or
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  Benny Cool? I got this? So yeah. Thematically, lyrically, that's
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  my department. Yeah. So basically, Misery Season was the story of,
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  you know, like the theory of misery seasons that everyone goes through hard times
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  and hard times come and go much like a season. And that album was
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  almost inadvertently a concept album about me going through a particularly hard time in my
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  life. And then when we got to the end of that album, I
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  felt like I still had some unfinished business from that album, so we wrote
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  a song for the new album called Skyline, which we put on the new
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  album, and where the new album starts, it literally has a sample from
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  the last album. It picks off literally where the last album stopped and finished,
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  which was the song I'm the Fortress. So it has a sample of
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  I'm the Fortress coming in and then the car crash sound, yeah, which
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  sort of was like a. It actually happened to me. I was in
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  a car accident with my partner and so that was around the time we started
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  writing that album and such. So that kicks in the album with the song
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  It's Never Going to be Okay, and it literally picks up and it asked
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  the question that when you've got through a really hard time and you get to
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  the other side of that particular hard time, knowing that more hard times will
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  come, and then you take a look around and the world's still fucked up
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  and you're still struggling with your inner demons. This album asked the question is
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  where do I go from here? What happens now? And how do I
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  navigate my way through life and these new particular challenges. So it's just a
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  continuation of that story worry really and asking that question, you know, where
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  do we go from here and what do we do cool now? We sort
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  of touched on this a little bit, guys, what I wanted to go
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  go into it a bit more detail for us, Like the press release says
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  that you pushed the boundaries to new levels on this album, So I'll laborate
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  on that a bit for us. How did you push the boundaries and what
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  was what was the process for it. I'll let Benny go with this one.
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  Trying trying to do different different things. They trying to add more and
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  more layers and just sounds, going with different guitarists that we wouldn't normally use.
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  Like, we've got some of them that are very very melodic at the
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  intros and outros, a couple of more quieter rifts in there. There is
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  some more cheesy metal guitar solos in there. I know some people really love
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  those metal guitars, but there's solos of that in there as well. But
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  yeah, there's a few songs on there which are a little bit more differ
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  We love the industrial sound, but we also are metal fans trying to merge
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  a few things together here and there. So we're trying to trying to push
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  it all and just trying to get an evolving sound out of it. I
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  think now I noticed a question mark on the end of the title, So
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  Tomorrow Will be Better is actually posed as a question. So is this more
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  an album of hope or despair? A little bit of both actually, because
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  I think that's what life is. It's not it's not so black and white,
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  it's not one or the other, you know, because life is hard
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  generally generally speaking, and it can be you know, can go from like
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  real highs to real lows a lot of the time, and sometimes it's just
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  mundane drudgery, do you know what I mean? Depending on where you are
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  in your life. And so, you know, it is posed as a
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  question tomorrow will be better? It could be yet it will be better,
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  it could be like is tomorrow really going to be better? And I've left
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  that open for interpretation, but yeah, it's definitely a question that was definitely
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  done deliberately. Yea cool. This album also sees the band usher in a
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  new lineup guy so they can he introduce us to the new players and what
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  they bring to the band. Yeah, do you want to introduce them,
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  Benny? Yeah? Sure. We've got Brock who's just come in. He's
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  one of our new guitarists. He's not been in the scene too much recently.
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  Most of our members are from all O the Show. And then we've
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  got Lenny, who's there oarist who's coming. He's all the way from Germany.
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  He's an interesting fellow. And then we've got Garrett who's joined us on
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  drums. I've transferred from Julie keyboards to now to do the bass as well.
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  I did write a few of the base rifts and lines on the previous
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  album, not just the keyboards, but also some of the bass lines of
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  that. So yeah, so we've had a few members move around and change,
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  quite a few new members. Actually there's only really friend and myself who
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  continued on this album. So yeah, anything anything more all on their breaths.
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  No, I mean, that's yeah, that's pretty much it. We
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  Yeah, the last lineup sort of came to a natural end, and a
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  few people left for various reasons, whether it be family or to pursue other
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  projects. Still friends with most of those guys, you know, there was
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  not a lot of hard feelings going around, but yeah, left us in
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  an awkward position at the end of end of that year, which was what
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  was it, twenty twenty two, end of twenty twenty two, Yeah,
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  and then yeah, it's the end of twenty twenty two, and then yeah,
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  we started the process of looking for new members. We got Garret in
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  he used to drum for to Hell with Honor over here and he drums through
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  a couple of bands at the moment, The Applebite, the Beggars on Acid,
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  which is another which is more of a rock like grungy rock band.
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  Brock. Funnily enough, I met through just a mutual contact. He was
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  actually I was on centlink at the time and one of my job network members
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  asked me, is there anything we can do for you? And I said,
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  you wouldn't happen to know any guitarists, and he did. That was
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  Brock. So those job network members do do get people jobs. It just
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  wasn't me. You know, I'm currently working at the moment now. But
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  anyways, I went and got myself a job. But either way, that's
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  how we met. Brock and Lenny just posted an ad online that he was
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  looking for a band, and I just sort of messaged him and said,
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  here's our stuff. You interested, and he was like yep and yeah,
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  and from there we came together pretty quickly. We met in We all came
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  together in February of last year year and we played a gig in I think
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  it was like May maybe or March possibly end of March. End of March.
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  We played a gig and then yeah, from there we've done We've done
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  a lot actually with this new lineup, we've done two tours. We went
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  to Victoria and November of last year. End of November last year, which
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  is great for Killfest, played a couple of shows around that and then we
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  early this year went to Brisbane for Monk and Pedal Festival and then played a
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  show in Redcliffe in Queensland also. So yeah, we've done a bit of
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  touring and you know, we're looking to do more with this new lineup.
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  It's it's gone well so far, so yeah, it's that. That's how
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  it all came together. Wait, and this is your first album since signing
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  with US label Brittle Records here go. So what sorts of things did sign
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  with them open up for the band? I think it's mostly just opened up.
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  It's got us promotion in areas we otherwise wouldn't have gotten because one of
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  the things we wanted to do with this album. Whereas previous albums were self
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  released or through small, small independent labels over here, this album we really
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  wanted to push into different territories where we may have had a few fans,
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  but we wanted to expand the fan base. So we signed with Brutal with
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  the idea that you know, hopefully we'd get more coverage in North America,
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  South America, Europe, et cetera, et cetera. And so far,
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  so far, so good. We've had some pretty decent reviews from Europe and
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  Germany. We've had three or four reviews from some German publications and websites.
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  And yeah, South America, we've had a few South American places hit us
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  up. And yeah, so, I mean, you know, time will
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  tell how well that that goes, but so far it's going okay. So
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  looks back on reflection, guys, how would you say all this sound has
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  changed and grown from your debut album eleven Past up till Tomorrow will be better?
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  Oh I'll feel this first because from the eleven Past lineup, I'm the
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  only one left from Eleven Past Benny. Benny has been with us since when
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  we did the Program to Stuffer. Obviously he was with us before that because
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  you know, he recorded on Program to Suffer as well, not Programming Softa
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  Sorry Misery season. Yeah yeah, came after Program to Suffer and on Misery
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  Season. Sorry again, my get my timelines confused. As you know,
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  I joined in. Yeah yeah, the guys joke that I'm the band his
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  story, and because I've been around that long yeah, so basically since eleven
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  past. We I mean, I started the band with a friend of mine,
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  Jared, who's now currently in a bunch of bands in Perth, Dripped
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  and Banished Realm and a few other bands like that. But we started the
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  band and I was looking to merge. You know, my main influence is
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  a lot of groove metal, trash, a bit of death metal, bit
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  of new metal, a bit of industrial metal, a little bit of hardcore.
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  So the bands, such as the biggest influences back in the early days
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  were bands like Sepultur, Soulfly, machine Head, Fear Factory, nail Bomb,
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  Chimera, that sort of thing. And while we've while we've kept that,
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  we've kept that as a core sort of influence. As the years have
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  gone on, I wanted to add some more industry, like more industrial metal,
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  some more ministry, more of the nail Bomb vibe, more you know,
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  a bit of nine inch Nails, a bit of you know, three
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  Teeth, and all sorts of cool industrial bands. And when Benny joined,
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  he's into all that sort of stuff as well. So I found someone who
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  I could riff with like that, you know, we could we could write
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  songs in that Vein, and he also likes a lot of like Tool and
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  sort of old metal and new metal bands like myself as well. And on
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  the new album he actually came up with the main rift, the bass rift
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  for one of our things was Breathing Concrete, which is one of the songs
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  that's been received really well on the album. So yeah, we've tried,
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  whilst trying to keep the core of our sound, we've tried to add things
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  along the way and bring more elements in and like I said, just sort
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  of expand on those. So if we bring in a bit of industrial and
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  one album, we want to have more in the next and you know,
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  expand the boundaries out further and further each time. So we want to be
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  more aggressive, more groovy, more more synth, the more industrial, you
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  know, see how far we can push things really, So yeah, and
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  I won't speak for Benny, I mean, Benny, how do you find
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  it? Yeah, very much, very similar. I like the idea of
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  pushing more towards more synth, heavy and more there's more different sounds. It
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  seems. Keyboards and since are becoming a bigger and biggest thing in just in
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  metal music in general, not just industrial metal. So I like seeing that
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  evolve and grow. And because I love all the weird and wacky sounds are
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  heavy into know and snails and I grow tech and all electro industrial and things
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  like that, I'd like to see that more into the wider sound states of
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  metal in general, rather than being like a fuillion niche kind of direction.
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  It sound draws from group metal, thrash metal, hardcore, death industrial,
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  and even some sludge in near metal. In places, it's a hell of
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  a lot of influences to bring together. So in the creative process, how
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  do you how do you know the balance? So how do you know when
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  you've gone too far with something or maybe not far enough with something else?
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  To a rhythm or a lyrical idea or baseline or whatever, and be like,
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  I've got this, and then we'll sort of work on it a bit,
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  you know, everyone will have their two cents, and and then if
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  we like it, we we start adding added into it and adding different riffs
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  and different layers, and we really just keep trying things out so we get
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  something that we're all relatively happy with. And you know, once we've done
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  the foundations of the song, then we start adding the samples and the keys,
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  and lyrics and vocals and stuff later on. So really we just we
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  just write what we think sounds good and hopefully it works and sometimes it doesn't,
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  sometimes it does, so you know, hopefully it works more often than
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  it doesn't, you know what I mean? So yeah, what do you
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  what do you think? Many? Yeah, very very among along those lines
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  when we're writing, yeah, we love this and we don't like that,
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  and we add then we go, okay, where the where does that lead
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  into? Is it's going to be an intro? And yeah, you work
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  great to answer the instruments by the angelary ca laying all stuff on. That
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  depends what the lead instrument is going to be in the song. For Bleeding
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  Concrete, for example, that was all started on the bass if I had
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  a couple of years ago, and it's kind of from there. We added
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  in the guitars and mvs and all the rest of it, so bit by
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  bit and then we just hope it turns out. If it doesn't, we've
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  got a few songs in the back burner, so they if they don't make
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  it, they get put in for file. And we were used like a
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  song title or a riff he or iff there or something along with advance.
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  We make something out of it, but not everything always makes it to recordings,
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  but we try and at least remember what we've done. Right, good
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  guys, Right, well, thanks very much for joining us, and the
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  album Tomorrow Will Be Better is out now and she's an absolute cracker. And
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  if you're fans of the band, I suggested to keep an eye on their
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  socials because there's some pretty cool news coming and very surely yeah, hopefully hopefully
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  hitting the East Coast again and doing some more shows outside of Western Australia,
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  but we'll have some shows here as well, but yeah, stay tuned,
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  and yeah, thank you everyone for all the support. Thanks Chris for interviewing
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  us, but yeah, mostly thanks to our fans for all the support over
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  the years. And yes, stay tuned because big things on the way.
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