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The Rise Of The Fallen With EXODUS RISING · HEAVY Music Interviews

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All right, so we welcome guys. What's going on. This is Exodus
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Rising. We're here with Heavy mag one of the best in the in the
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business, one of the best in the industry. We're here with Chris Peters.
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Uh, we got Casey Bonnet. That's Kenyon going on. We got
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we got Charlie Charlie. We also have mister Sargent, Zabata, Chris Zappa
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and I am Jay Slate was a fantastic hitch, right, might not?
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I don't have to do anything with Digo is on boarders, right, everybody
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hated I gentlemen to talk about your life at single that dropped just last week
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called The Fall, So it hasn't been a very long but that's an early
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response plane. Now. Yeah, everybody's been been receiving the music and the
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video especially very very very very well. This is the definitely from from what
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we got going on in it. We included two songs from the album initially,
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and we included our overture because it added it added a lot of more
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depth into it. And then we just decided to just throw in an extra
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interlude into it and put like an anime style type of type of feeling breath
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a lot more, a lot more life, and a lot more modernity to
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it, definitely, But the response has been massive. Bro, haven't gotten
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one person saying like dude, this is this is kick ass. So well,
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we've got a favorite to get to you surrounding that one song. But
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I'll start off with, like you mentioned the two previous songs that you have
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released, which is Blazing Love and Paradise Loss. So how does it fallen
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different musically? I guess to those two previous singles, so for for the
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past two singles. So for Paradise Lost, that was a power metal song
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that was definitely full power metal, included everything within our diverse repertoire, within
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our within our album which showed would showcase symphonics, theatrical elements and then the
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power and then the classic power metal elements to it as well. For Blazing
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Love, that's more that was more of a ballad, a very a heavier
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ballad, one one that was showing showing love and a different side of of
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that, keeping it a little bit more in tempo to prepare people to maneuver
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throughout the remainder of the album. For the for the Fallen, we included
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two songs with that there's a lot it's very theatrical and cinematic and shout out
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to Chris he's been holding it down heavy with that. We includes this the
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cinematic aspect of how we want to approach our music, which is like we
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want it. We want it to feel like you're in a movie and you
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feel like you're in a story and you're in you're in a place of space
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and time that you're like, wow, you gotta get in it. And
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for the Fallen As it's single itself, it's it's it's metal, but it's
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more leaning towards the hard rock elements of everything in it. Right. Good,
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Now, we mentioned those three songs, so just say someone's listen,
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listen, I've never heard of Exodus Rising before. Like, which one of
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those three singles was your advice? I listened to you to get tonight the
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band a bit better, all of them. That's the main answer. Yes,
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So no, I mean every song that's been coming out, it's just
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been more it's been more like, Okay, you want to get you want
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to get to know what we are. Each song has been evolving for that.
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A good intro song would be will be to go with Paradise Lost.
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That's a very good intro song. If you want to get something that's like
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somewhat in the middle, I would say third will be Blazing Love. But
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if you want to put one, put number one, I would say right
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now, the Fallen. It shows everything what we got right now, and
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it keeps it and it keeps it as a classic in a in a classic
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metal space. All right, guys, I just walked in because I couldn't
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get in for some reason. Good morning to you. How are you?
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I'm very well, thank you, good saying yourself good good, good kids.
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So finally I try to get in. So what am I losing here?
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What am I missing? Oh? Jad's has taken over the whole show
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and he's explained everything. So show he's done a stelling job. Well thank
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god for that somebody did. But we've basically just been talking about the single
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I Guess and and the other two that you're released and where they stand in
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reference to the album. But the new single, The Fallen is taken from
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your debut album and the Book of Life, and it's one of many songs
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with biblical connections and connotations through it. So tell us a bit more about
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the fallen specifically and what it's about. All right, Charlie, you want
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to take off talking too much. Well, the song, the song actually
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supposed to be What's Up, Kenny. The song is actually supposed to be
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the it's supposed to be the first song on the album. Okay, we
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didn't put it in the first song on the album because before everything happened,
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the end just have fallen from heaven and you know, then comes Genesis and
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then comes everything else. But we wanted to put it at this point next
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Revelation because we want people to see what is it that transform to end up
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in Revelation. Do you understand what I mean? It's almost like Star Wars
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Backwards, the same concept as Star Wars Backwards, you know. So the
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song is actually about the angels falling from heaven, Lucifer going into becoming rebellious
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with God, and it repeats in Revelation again, it repeats the war coming
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and the war that was. Okay, so that's what the Falling is about.
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It's about the devil thinking he's gonna win, but he lost the ready
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very cool. Now, we touched on this a little bit before, but
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the Falling comes with an awesome extended music video. So tell us a bit
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more about that and how much time went into making because visually it's stunning and
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it's like it's it's educational, it's entertaining, it's it's it's all of the
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above without being too much of anything. So now I don't I don't take
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credit for that one. I want to give all the credit to where credit
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is due. Because Jay, that man said for four days, fifty to
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sixteen hour days doing the cartoon, mostly doing the cartoons. He had a
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swim pool in front of him and once in a while he jumped in,
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but back again to coffee and the cartoons. For every three seconds of the
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editing of those cartoons or animate cartoons, it took him one hour for every
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three seconds. So you put it. If you have forty seconds, you
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already know how much. Bro. It was brutal, Bro it was.
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It was punishment for him. Yeah, and then less. That's besides you
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editing. That's besides you editing and us filming a video at the same consecutive
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Yeah, Yo, dude, it was, it was. It was.
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It came out so good in the end because you like, like just picking
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back them off of what Charlie was saying, because initially what we're gonna do,
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I was trying to see if this was going to make sense on what
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we're going to do on including the overture. So I created like its own
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visual portion of it and and it and it went through a lot of changes
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throughout while we were getting this together. And then I'm like, okay,
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maybe I could put this and then add to the song and in the like
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in the in the aftermath of it, I'm like, now that's too that's
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too quick. I want something to like lead up into it. And then
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and then after editing at shoot, after editing going back and forth, back
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and forth, back and forth, and then again going down to Florida,
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I added doing all those the animations for the U for the pictures to make
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it look like it's moving, because those are still photos, dude, those
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aren't real real like movements like those are like, you know, little programs
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to help it make it look move but like you gotta make it, you
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gotta sell it. So after that then boom boom, boom boom, one
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after another, and yeah, we were and we were recording on top of
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that too. We had to do we didn't have any bass or any other
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extra leads on top of that. So we're like, we gotta gotta do
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we in sight, we found an on the ground cave with a hole on
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top of the cave that was probably I don't know, I say it was
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about forty feet fifty feet why in a circle. And to get to the
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cave with all the equipment, it was at least a mile. We get
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to carried equipment through sand to get to the cave through sand. Already we
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see we see yourself through a hole with all the guitars and all the equipment
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going down to the cave. That in the lights set and everything. And
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then after we shot more videos in the outside and the inside of the cave
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and the outside of the cave, we almost killed ourselves with smoke because we
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turned on the fire smoked, we smoked out the cave. It was it
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was painful, you got it. It was not only that, not only
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that was clippery to the rocks to go. It wasn't adventure, needless needless
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to say, it wasn't adventure. And then and then finished there we kept
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on uh for our next video. We got swords that go on fire,
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real fire, litt up swords and the fight between Jesus and Lucifer at the
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end of the day when when Jesus comes in a white horse and his stickle
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and the stick was full of fire. We have those cuts practical vacation.
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Why that was a lot of work for everybody. It sounds like well I
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was going to say, like, like before you told me that story,
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I was going to say that it's very impressive what you've done with the video,
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but after hearing that, it's even more so. But it raises another
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point too, you know, like us to put so much into the film
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clip like you could have easily half asked it, you know, knock something
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up that would have would have been adequate, but not that good. But
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so how important, I guess is a visual component to your music as well.
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It's equally as important as the music. I mean, you heard the
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music. The music is recorded very well. We put a lot of time
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and efforts into the music. Why are we going to show change it with
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the video. Is if the video is not apart with the music, then
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it makes no sense to make the video. It has to be equally as
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good as the music. So this man is a man of creative individuals.
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That you know, because I'm the producer for the band. I do the
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mixing, I do the recording, and Jay that's the visual of the band
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and the technological part of the band, and everybody chips in. Everybody,
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you know, that's what they do, and it's pretty interesting. It's been
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a blessed a band that has been blessed from the beginning. I don't know
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what else to say. It's it's been good. Oh. The ball is
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taken from your debut album, The Book of Life, which came out in
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August last year. Like, that's nine months ago that album came out,
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and the fact that you're still putting the singles out now shows the strength,
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I guess of the material on the album. But how has it been received
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overall as a debut? Like? Are you happy with how it's how it's
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connected with people? I think I overheard Jay say a little a little while
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ago when I was having problems that the respond has been amazing. The video
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has been out only for three days. Somebody helped me here if I if
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I'm mistaken, three or four days, right, it's been out on the
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Oh, Chris, also, it was it came out in November, not
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August. November. Yeah, I came out of November. So anyway,
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Chris, the video The Fallen came out four days ago, and we almost
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have a thousand hits already for a man who doesn't have the total backing that
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we need. So I think that's really good. We hit in a thousand
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views in four days. That's really well. That granulations. Gosh, yeah,
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that's really good. We get it like three hundred views a day.
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That's really that amazes me. Yeah. Wow. So in case people haven't
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worked out yet, guys like Exodus Rising are a Christian metal band who create
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and I quote, a groundbreaking fusion of biblical narrative and aggressive heavy metal.
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Like that that sounds great in theory, but can you elaborate on that for
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us? Like what hell? How do you combine the two together? I
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guess? And like what common love coming in one uniting force? I guess.
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Well, listen, as we know the Bible, those who knows the
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Bible and know that the Bible is a book of amazing stories and have supernatural,
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incredible Mason stories. It has love, it has murder, it has
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action, it has peacefulness, it has everything. And you're talking about I
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think it's nearly sixty chapters. You know, it's a big book. The
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story after story after story. There's no way that we could do with any
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justice to it with sixteen songs. So what we do is we first we'll
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come up with the music. The music is all put together. The music
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works, you know, that's the main thing. We come up with the
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music. Then I come up with melodies. I put the melodies down,
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and we read the chapters of the story that we want to portrayed in the
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song, and whatever chapter fits the music and the melody. Now how we
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now rate it. We use the biblical parts, but we fitted into music,
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into lyrics and now rate it as a story now. So you know,
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we go from verses to different verses, and we just concentrate in the
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meat and potatoes off the chapter of what it means, the significance of what
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we're talking about. And that's how we come up with the songs. You
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know, hold out of prayer and a whole out of divine intervention. I'll
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tell you, because the way it works, it's interesting. I don't think
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we actually delved into this that much last time we spoke, But I don't
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think it's important to stressy that You don't have to be Christian or have faith
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listening music Like I know there are people out there that go Christian music.
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I'm not listening to it. But you aren't asking anyone to renounce their faith,
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to renounce their beliefs, to conform to your way of thinking. You're
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just singing about things you believe in. And if people want to come along
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on the journey, good luck to them. You hit it on the you
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hit it in the nail. It's exactly what we want. We not.
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First of all, we're not judging people. If you're not a Christian,
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you're not a Christian. That's you believe, that's what you believed. I
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respect that you understand. We just sharing a story that you probably never heard
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from the Bible. I'll give you an example. Samson, what what amazing
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story is as equally amazing as Hercules and so and there's bands that portray Hercules
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and the songs right the Greek mythology, So why not portray an equal guy
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who for us Christians was real one hundred percent and his name was Samson.
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So that's what I'm trying to tell you. Oh, you have somebody like
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Daniel in the Lion's pit where the king's gonna throw him in the lion's pit
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for the lions to eat him. And when it comes back, it is
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patting the lions and sleeping with the lions. So what great stories are those?
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You know? So I just want people to hear them. We want
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people to wants people to hear them. If you feel convicted, amen,
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If you don't feel convicted, you know what you left. You left over
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with some amazing music and melodies right and right and along those lines of it.
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I guess like you ever conscious when writing songs, so it's not to
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become overtly preaching, like is there a line? Or you know when me
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and got you? Yeah, when me and Charlie write our write our music
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right, or like when we when we spitball to like one another, we
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we do it in in a poetic way. We try our best to be
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poetic about it. But again you have to remember as well that we are
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worshiping the Lord in this and that's and we are pulling pulling everything from the
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Bible from from the Bible, and we're reading this. They're like, what
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if we take this this sentence of the scripture and then we make it hot
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you know what I'm saying, Like, we have to. We have to
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enunciate the the the spirit in it because when you when you feel the oil
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coming on you, bro, like, that's when it that's when it really
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shows through it. Because some people can say, yeah, I've had some
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of my friends even though they're Christians and some of them are not. They're
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like the ones that are not Christians, they're like, dude, this is
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awesome, this is sick. The ones that are Christians like, oh,
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isn't this a little bit preachy or whatever? For like heavy molbum, like
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this is just the reverse response that I'm looking for. That's which I find
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impressive. But I've also find I'm like, Okay, I guess we're doing
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something right. But it's the ones that know already they're like, oh yeah,
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I can't understand why. But the ones that don't know, they they're
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all about it and they want to know more. That's how we end up
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getting to that real quick. Before Jay came to sing with the band,
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we will audition it all the singers and we're working with some great singers as
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well. Before, but their thing was always oh, it's kind of preachy,
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but how could you speak about the Bible and that worship God. Every
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sentence of the Bible worships the Lord. So it's it's actually, you know,
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it will be like a controversy not to be preaching, you understand when
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you're talking about Yeah, when you're talking about the Bible and every verse just
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worship is God and every verse, how can you not just it comes from
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the territory. Did a Striper do that? Like at one point like they
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were like Christian suit, like full on, and then they start and then
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they just changed one age. Well, Striper win very heavily Christian, and
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they were talking about biblical stories of parts and stuff that they will come up
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with themselves. And then I think, uh, there was an album that
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they're all behind bars in jail. I forgot the name of that album.
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And from that that album was not a Christian album. It's almost like it's
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almost like they through Christianity out of the window. Thing about it is that
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at that point they all fell, Straper disappeared strap It went. Now,
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how funny was that? Right? That even people who were not Christians listening
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to Straper they switched and that was that? Didn't he strip for years after
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that? You know, I can honestly say to you guys, like I've
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never had the inclination to sit down and read the Bible, but I can
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listen to your music and appreciate it, like even with the Fall, and
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like you've got that bit of scripture at the start of the song, but
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it's not too much, if that makes sense, Like it's actually it was.
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It was interesting to listen to to get that perspective without having to read
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something, if that makes sense. So it's basically coming from the point of
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view of someone not in the religion at all, but your music still works
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for me. So it's it's case in point awesome. You know we're not
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telling you, you know, listen to it or over the Bible and if
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you or listen to it, you're going to be condemned. Man, enjoy
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it. And if you your curiosity, because you know they say curiosity kills
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the cat, if you decide to open the Bible said, let me continue
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reading the story and you hook after that. Amen, the same without music
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made. I can tell you white sound the same without music. I'm not
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sure if you said it or not before, but here's an actual, an
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active touring band or are you just a studio project. Well, here's the
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thing, and we've discussed this a lot right now. This is a band
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that wild tour. But I've been playing for many years, Kenny's been playing
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for many, many years, and we know what the scene is when you
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don't have albums out there, when you don't have a big fan out there,
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a fan base out there. Yeah, we played in bands in New
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York City that drew eight hundred people, seven hundred people into a big,
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big club in New York City, I mean with the dose. And we
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did that a lot without an album. But the work was intense. We
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are we were our own roadies, we carry all our stuff, We had
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to rent fans, We went through the changes. My attitude right now is,
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yeah, we'll go to tour. If we sell five hundred thousand albums
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in Italy, we'll go be in tour in Italy. If we sell this
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place will be because thank god, because of the Internet, you could see
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your stats and where are you selling the most record So it makes sense to
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me to book where you're selling the most albums. It just doesn't make sense
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much. Yeah, and then we don't have to go through the changes to
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playing for four fans and your friends on a stage, going through the change,
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all the changes of the world to get there. So no, I
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think we in all the years I been playing music, I learned my lessons.
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Right now we're ready to go in tour. Where do we sell the
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most albums? That's that's the point. It seems to me. You guys
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have just as much fun writing and recording the music and hanging out together.
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Anyways. It is what you would if you went out on the road.
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So like it's it's not unnecessary hand in hand thing to be in a band
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and play live, you know, like it's it's okay just to just to
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be a studio band and enjoy time. But we we love playing live.
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We are playing live, man, Yeah, we love playing live. It's
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almost like keeping a lion inside the cage. We a whole bunch of liars
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kept in the case. I'd remind me not to be there when you all
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get let out. Trust me, we'll give you a show, that's for
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sure. That's good to me. What about the future for you guys,
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what's what's up next? Like, have you got any more songs coming out
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of the Book of life? Where are you going to start moving on to
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the next next? Album soon, yes, so you want to hear that?
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Yeah. So the next the next steps we got going on, we
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we are re releasing our video for Armageddon. Initially when we put it out
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on Halloween, it was cool. You wanted to just see where everybody's taste
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was at, just and it was like a very like, you know,
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very rushed, put together thing that had the basis of whatever's going on.
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But it was still a pretty dis music video. But for how you see
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out have you seen how you've seen our stuff now? It's the quality is
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just stellar. You get what I'm saying. So I want to match it,
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and I wanted to be as stellar as it is in this one.
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I want this to be the apex of what we got going on. So
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we were gonna re release our our our music video for Armageddon around the same
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hope more or less at the end of the month. It's going to be
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the same time next couple of days, right with the with the solar eclipse,
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right that's going on right now, so some scary stuff going on,
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So that's cool. Then we're going to do an EP dropping a couple drop
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a couple more songs on our on the streaming platforms. And so people can
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get more of a robust taste go around that direction and then drop our album
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from there, and then within the next like two to three months around there.
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That's our next steps. And then once once we are more or less
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settle, we're figuring out how we're gonna be practicing, how we're going to
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be doing everything that we need and that and we're not not shackled to like
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the creative aspect of getting everything done. That's that's our next, our next
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goal. Then we're going to try to get some stuff for the next album
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too eventually, but we got to practice first. Very good. But what
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I'll do for you guys when on Begainning's ready, send send it over to
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be like, I'll give you guys a free premiere that one, because you
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guys have been pretty loyal to Heavy and you've done step through it. So
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I'll give you a free premierre on that one to help you out support.
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Thank you that man, pleasure. What goes around comes around. We'll look
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after each other at the end of the day, don't we. Yeah?
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Absolutely too easy? All right, boys, Well that's all I have for
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you today. I better go and feed my kids because they're in their starving
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right now then the Fall. It is out now. It's a great song,
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even better film clips, So wrap your ears around and wrap your eyes
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around it all the socials. Exodus Rising dot com I assume Exodus Raisinmusic dot
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com beautiful and you can get up to date on everything there and it is
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well worth the look and to listen guys, So thanks for your time again
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and we'll catch up soon.