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Old School Mentality With CC From ALGOR MORTIS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: My name is Ceci. I'm the vocalist of album Watis
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  Speaker 1: from Melbourne.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, we're playing Necrosonic Festival next weekend, which is
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  Speaker 2: super exciting.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome, awesome, So how are you feeling? Mate? Like that?
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  Speaker 4: It's as a bit of a big deal this festival,
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  Speaker 4: the first year of it, but there's a massive lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm super excited, like to especially to see Misery is
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  Speaker 2: like a band that I really like, so I'm really
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  Speaker 2: fucking excited to see them.
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  Speaker 1: But no, it's just going to be sick.
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  Speaker 2: There's been a few good festivals happening recently, so I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm loving it. Like it's a huge day but it's
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  Speaker 2: so fun and like you get to see all these
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  Speaker 2: different bands and stuff and yeah, it's been cool regarded
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  Speaker 2: what sort.
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  Speaker 4: Of person here, Like do you go to the stuff
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  Speaker 4: like this and do you get out there and watch
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  Speaker 4: the bands or do you like to pace yourself the day?
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  Speaker 3: Like how do you get through a day like that?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I think because I mean to the festival kind of
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  Speaker 2: side of things, I'm still relatively probably a bit new
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  Speaker 2: to it, but like I mean playing it at least,
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  Speaker 2: but I think I like to see the bands.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely have.
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  Speaker 2: Like, obviously, just before we're playing stuff, I'd probably just
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  Speaker 2: take a bit of a moment just so I'm not
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  Speaker 2: like making my voice too tired before I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: go out there, but like take a moment.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I love to just check out all the
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  Speaker 1: bands that I can like.
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  Speaker 2: Once we've gotten all the gear and if I'm not
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  Speaker 2: selling merch or whatever, I'll be there watching bands.
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  Speaker 3: Very good.
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  Speaker 4: Now there's thirty bands playing over twelve hours and over
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  Speaker 4: three stages, so there's going to be a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people there that haven't heard in quite a few of
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  Speaker 4: the bands there. So just say someone's coming along with Ecrosnic,
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  Speaker 4: what three Alda Morts songs would you recommend they listen
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  Speaker 4: to to get to know the band?
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  Speaker 2: Probably probably Taste the Wound from the demo Welcome to
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  Speaker 2: How with Don Campin, from Waking the Canava and Balls
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  Speaker 2: to Entrails. Probably from the new ep ou es Ace
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  Speaker 2: of Death.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah right, Well, speaking of the new EP, have you
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  Speaker 4: recently released that EP which was called Stages of Death?
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  Speaker 3: So how was it received?
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  Speaker 1: Really good? Really good?
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  Speaker 2: It's sort of it was a bit of like a
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  Speaker 2: long kind of process to kind of get it out
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  Speaker 2: because we've had a few lineup changes over the past
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  Speaker 2: couple of years. But finally once we got it out,
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  Speaker 2: I think we all kind of just had like huge
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  Speaker 2: sigh of relief because we were like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: it's out, like because to us, like and I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: anyone in bands and stuff wouldn't, but like that stuff
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  Speaker 2: is quite old to us now, so like, where are
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  Speaker 2: any in the next sort of stage.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's been really good.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, the reception to it has been fucking awesome,
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  Speaker 2: Like we kind of were like taken back how well
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  Speaker 2: received it's been. So yeah, we're really stoked on it.
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  Speaker 4: There's only five tracks on the EP, so we're going
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  Speaker 4: to run through them individually and you can tell us
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  Speaker 4: a bit more about the song so people get to
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  Speaker 4: know them.
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  Speaker 3: So the first one is called seven.
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  Speaker 2: YEP, so seven it's a short and sweet one. I
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  Speaker 2: think we kind of because I had made the whole
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  Speaker 2: idea of the like EP, I wanted it to kind
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  Speaker 2: of flow, so I wanted the intro sort of like
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  Speaker 2: the experimental intro that we did that was kind of
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  Speaker 2: had like I don't know, like I've had a few
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  Speaker 2: sort of variations of it, but like I had tried
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  Speaker 2: to make something that was like I've taken a bit
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  Speaker 2: of like inspiration from like Deeds of Flesh and having
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  Speaker 2: like that actual flesh sound sort of like in the background,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know, I just wanted that to kind
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  Speaker 2: of like lead up into like this big kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Crescendo of like just brutality.
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  Speaker 2: So that's kind of severed. It's it's short and sweet,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know, it packs a good punch. I
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  Speaker 2: reckon it's it. We're usually open with it. It's a
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  Speaker 2: good it's a good.
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  Speaker 1: One, yeah, girl.
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  Speaker 4: And next is the song you were talking about before,
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  Speaker 4: Eyeballs to Entrails Love the.
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  Speaker 2: Title, Yeah, So it's funny that song is actually like
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  Speaker 2: sometimes when I'll introduce it, I'll be like, oh, like
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  Speaker 2: it's a love song because.
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  Speaker 1: I basically.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about like I don't know, like a girl,
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  Speaker 2: like a couple, and they're kind of like I love
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  Speaker 2: the whole like old horror movie trope of like lovers
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  Speaker 2: laying murder type sort of thing, like e BacT In,
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  Speaker 2: like the old style like type of thing.
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  Speaker 1: So I wanted to have that kind of vibe in it.
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  Speaker 2: But then like the girl is actually the one that
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  Speaker 2: sort of like kills and eats the boyfriend.
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  Speaker 1: So that was and the title.
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  Speaker 2: I actually got the idea for the title for an
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  Speaker 2: old Buffy the Vampires to like a comic. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: like Spiked the Vampires talking to his like girlfriend and
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  Speaker 2: she says like eyeballs to entrail my sweet and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, that's hard, that's hard.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of story behind that.
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  Speaker 3: Very nice.
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  Speaker 4: Now I kind of really read my writing to Eli,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm pretty sure the next one, I says, intravenous idolatry.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, that's the one.
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  Speaker 2: So this one so something that I've tried to, like,
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  Speaker 2: particularly with the first with the demo, I kind of
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  Speaker 2: so this Alga is like the first band that I've
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  Speaker 2: ever done, so I kind of wanted I think I
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  Speaker 2: was very like just sort of I was just kind
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  Speaker 2: of fucking around meally with like songwriting and stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: I kind of like, I love horror movie, so I
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  Speaker 2: just sort of use that as a lot of my.
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  Speaker 1: Inspiration for writing lyrics and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Particularly, I'm gonna challenge myself a little bit more and
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to try and like actually basic it kind
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  Speaker 2: of on I don't know, use using my life experiences
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  Speaker 2: and stuff and just real life things covering drug addicts
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  Speaker 2: and ALCOHOLO and I so I'm completely sober. I've been
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  Speaker 2: so over for like six years almost, and so I
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  Speaker 2: sort of talk about that a little bit, and it's it's.
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  Speaker 1: A common theme in actually a lot of my lyrical
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  Speaker 1: content because it's pretty it's a good.
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  Speaker 2: One to draw from, I don't know, the real life
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  Speaker 2: shit of like how rough that can be and sort
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  Speaker 2: of like transfer into like a kind of theatrical.
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  Speaker 1: Glory, like.
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  Speaker 2: Visceral kind of songwriting lyrical content. So yeah, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean walking around with that. So intravenous is about
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  Speaker 2: that basically, just yeah, drug addiction pretty much.
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  Speaker 3: What does idolatry mean? Is that a made up word.
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen it before.
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  Speaker 2: So basically like intravenous idolatry, it's basically like like a
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  Speaker 2: like an idol, like a deity, like a god, so
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  Speaker 2: like it.
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  Speaker 1: Like how.
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  Speaker 2: The wider scheme of things in that song is particularly
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  Speaker 2: like how the pharmaceutical companies basically prey on individuals to
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  Speaker 2: make money pretty much the whole just like yeah, like
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  Speaker 2: them becoming somewhat of like a god for like the
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  Speaker 2: sick individuals who are unfortunately dealing with drug addiction.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, col all right, then you got rotten or another
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  Speaker 4: great great title.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hm hmm rotten. It's funny because, like I the song,
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  Speaker 2: like I've mentioned before, the songs are kind of like
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  Speaker 2: had been written sort of all over the place, So
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  Speaker 2: this one is a bit of an older track. I
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  Speaker 2: think I probably wrote this one mm, God, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: probably two and a half years ago, and we've been
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  Speaker 2: t like trialing it at shows for quite some time
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  Speaker 2: and just tweaking it along the way before we had
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  Speaker 2: recorded it. But yeah, it's that one for me was
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  Speaker 2: just kind of like just your standing kind of horror gore,
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  Speaker 2: nothing real, nothing real, yeah, not pretty, just.
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  Speaker 1: Classic kind of death metal lyrics and yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Very cool. And then it finishures up with sadistic enlightenment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this one, God, how did I describe it? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, if you know, like the movies like like
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  Speaker 2: I Spit on Your Grave and stuff, they're like old
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  Speaker 2: kind of Yeah, so like it's basically like a revenge,
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  Speaker 2: like a female revenge.
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  Speaker 1: That whole gist of the movie.
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  Speaker 2: In a song, I tried to like transfer contents us. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's all that one's about. I'm like a few people
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  Speaker 2: were like ship that those lyrics are hectic, but I
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  Speaker 2: love I love playing that song and like, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's god, it's I don't know, it's got it's merit
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  Speaker 2: in my life and stuff. So I love to play,
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  Speaker 2: like playing playing those songs, in particular the songs that
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  Speaker 2: have a bit more.
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  Speaker 1: Meaning.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I can draw from a lot of that,
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  Speaker 2: So I enjoy to play them because I kind of
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  Speaker 2: mean what I say, So there's more of a yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like there's there's I feel like you can feel it
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  Speaker 2: a bit more, you know what I mean. So those
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  Speaker 2: ones are really fun to play.
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  Speaker 4: So try not to make eye contact with you when
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  Speaker 4: you're singing those songs, and people won't take offense.
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  Speaker 5: Your music is the unique branding of old school death
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  Speaker 5: metal with hardcore. So when when is there in the
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  Speaker 5: writing development process? I guess, like, how do you how
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  Speaker 5: do you get the balance between those genres to make
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  Speaker 5: it sound good?
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  Speaker 2: M I think we're basically like so four particularly for
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  Speaker 2: like for stages, we kind of wrote it a bit
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  Speaker 2: miss like mishmashy, like it was a bit all over
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  Speaker 2: the place like we'd have one of the boys writing
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  Speaker 2: it and like tabbing out like doing like a little
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  Speaker 2: demo thing and sending it to us, and then we
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  Speaker 2: would kind of go back and forth that way. Whereas
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  Speaker 2: the next stuff that we're writing, it's very much like
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  Speaker 2: we are writing all in the same room. We wanted
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  Speaker 2: to really try that, and I think because like the
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  Speaker 2: lineup that we've got now we're like super tight, so
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  Speaker 2: like I think it's like we really mesh well together.
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  Speaker 2: So we were like, let's just write it together. Let's
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  Speaker 2: see how we go writing it all together. So I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of a lot of the it's basically
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  Speaker 2: we just go, oh, like here's here's a reference of
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  Speaker 2: a song. Yeah, let's try and let's do something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's change it up. Let's put like a bit of
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  Speaker 2: like a breakdown in there or like a little two
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  Speaker 2: steppy bit like but then like just make it super brutal.
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  Speaker 1: With like blast beats and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Like.
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  Speaker 2: It's basically just like yeah, that's hard, or like nah,
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  Speaker 2: that's not hard.
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  Speaker 1: So what can people.
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  Speaker 4: Expect from an Algam Mortis live show when they come.
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  Speaker 6: To see you dexpersonic run Us through a typical show?
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  Speaker 6: If there is one, well probably I don't know that
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  Speaker 6: they're they're different. I think I think one thing that
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  Speaker 6: we try to always provide is like good high energy from.
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  Speaker 2: Us on the stage, and I think like I want to,
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  Speaker 2: like we all want to put on a good show,
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  Speaker 2: and I think.
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  Speaker 1: That encourages the crowd to.
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  Speaker 2: Bring more energy on their end too, because it's like
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  Speaker 2: I don't want it to feel like like a segregated thing,
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  Speaker 2: Like I want us to all feel like we're having
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  Speaker 2: the moment, you know what I mean, Like we're all
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  Speaker 2: doing it together. And that's something that like because I
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  Speaker 2: grew up going to hardcore shows, so that's always been
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  Speaker 2: something that like I shouldn't the crowd participation or something
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  Speaker 2: to definitely like in my late teenage years, like it
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  Speaker 2: sort of felt like us and them, and that's something
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  Speaker 2: that I kind of wanted.
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  Speaker 1: To bridge a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Like I think there definitely has been bands that have
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  Speaker 2: done that in the past, like especially like I love
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  Speaker 2: a lot of New York death metal stuff, so like
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  Speaker 2: that sort of like hardcore infused death metal like has
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  Speaker 2: definitely done it before. But I just I want that, like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to an Alba show, like it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be crazy, Like I love that vibe.
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  Speaker 1: But that's something.
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  Speaker 2: That yeah, like I always had people coming up to
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  Speaker 2: us afterwards in the Boys do too, but like just
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  Speaker 2: being like that's crazy and like a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: have been like I did not expect that. I'd never
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  Speaker 2: heard of you guys. Like just the energy. That's something
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  Speaker 2: that I think, like we're all really like as we've
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  Speaker 2: gone on, I think something that we really like pride
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  Speaker 2: ourselves on, Like we like bringing it whether there's five
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  Speaker 2: people at the venue or five hundred, that high energy.
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  Speaker 1: We want people to feel like, yeah, you're here with.
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  Speaker 2: Us, I see you, like this is we're doing this
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  Speaker 2: and it's fucking crazy and like let's just yeah, let's
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  Speaker 2: just fucking go off.
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  Speaker 1: So that's yeah, that's the typical album show I think.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks right see everyone, Thanks for your time today. It's
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  Speaker 3: good to finally catch up.
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  Speaker 1: You'll.
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  Speaker 4: Alga Mortis will be at an Necrosonic Festival at the
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  Speaker 4: Mansfield Tavern in Brisbane on August of thirty first with
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  Speaker 4: a heap of others.
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  Speaker 3: You've got Cryptsychropic Low Misery plenty.
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  Speaker 4: More So August thirty first means with Tavin Brisbane I'll
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  Speaker 4: see you there.
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  Speaker 3: We'll catch up to sale