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Revitalised Spirit With CHAD GREY From MUDVAYNE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Bill up. This is from mud Vein. We are coming down to Australia
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  into everywhere, so get there, let's get in there. That sounds good,
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  Chad, thanks for joining us today, brother absolutely man, thank you
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  for having me my pleasures. As you say, i'munvainable. Return to Australia
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  in February twenty twenty four for a run of shows, starting in Brisbane on
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  Sorry on February fourteenth, before hitting Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide and finishing in
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  Perth on February the twenty first. So, first of all brother on behalf
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  of all Australian music lovers. Let me start by saying, welcome back.
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  We've missed you. Oh I know it's been almost two decades, so yes,
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  it's about time to chop it all off. Man. You're going to
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  be bringing Cold Chamber as special guest. So I know you guys have been
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  trying a bit overseas together. But what's the appeal of touring with them?
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  Good? Do? I mean way back with Miguel and Mikey, like we
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  go back a long way and you know, but every there's guys that just
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  rat and I mean we just we just did it here this past summer with
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  them and a couple of weeks ago actually we just got home, but we
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  just had a blast of those guys, so it was like kind of a
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  no brainer to bring them down there with us, figure that you guys would
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  enjoy them too. So everybody's just playing really well. They did phenomenal this
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  summer and we just wanted to bring them down with us. So here we
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  go. As we mentioned, man like, it's been a wall since you've
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  been to Australia. So aside from a period of inactivity with the band,
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  what else has changed with MyD vine Seins Slasamy. So yeah, yeah,
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  not much, you know. I mean, we weren't a band for ten
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  years, and we started having the conversations and everybody started be you know,
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  genuinely excited about it again. We surrounded ourselves with some new people that we're
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  working, that we're doing business with, and they're exciting and their fun and
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  really helping us embrace uh you know, mudding and what we've done and uh,
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  you know, we're just so excited to be coming to Australia. You
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  know. We we came back, we had those three comeback festivals and then
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  we did the tour last year with the Zombie. We're just kind of been
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  sitting around and we just did this this most recent tour and uh, you
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  know, we heard mutterings of Australia and I was just so excited about it
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  because I love Australia, a lot of history down there. And then when
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  we heard it was solidified, we were just like, you know, on
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  a conference call and everybody's just so excited and so jazz and it's just so
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  puffed about coming you know, coming back. Man. We all we all
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  absolutely love Australia. We love we love uh as much as just how beautiful
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  the country is. But the people, right, the metal community in Australia
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  is so strong and uh and uh, we're really excited to get back down
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  there and play for you guys to get you know, you guys are very
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  very special to us. And uh, I would say, if you're going
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  to release an album somewhere, you better be willing to go play for them.
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  So we really is out. We've released Tones and Aurelia's we got to
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  go down and play for you. Events is the way you go and we're
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  excited to do it. Man, We're really excited. Well, so what
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  what can fans expect from the twenty twenty four version of Live Then Bro intensity,
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  Man, it was, it's just been. It's been fun. Then
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  we're really uh, we're feeding off each other, We're feeding off the crowd.
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  There's this awesome energy that goes back and forth between us and our crowd,
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  and uh, it just builds and builds and builds and builds through the
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  whole set and just it's it's just amazing. So but yeah, it's intense,
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  it's helpless, it's fornetic, it's crazy, it's angry and angry and
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  almost violent. But on the other ends it's need sad and it's helpless and
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  it's you know, but then there's a lot of good feelings in there too,
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  like that all it runs the gamut of human emotion, you know,
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  and that's always been something that we tried to tap into writing on musics,
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  and it's important to us to bring that to our live performance, to that
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  just level of emotion that is very true and very real and very honest and
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  very vulnerable. I'm sort of touched on this a little bit before Bro,
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  But the band effectively break up in twenty ten. I'm not going to ask
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  why because that's no one's business man. But what changed your mind in twenty
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  twenty one to make you try again? Like what were the main things that
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  made you decide might they needed to be heard again? Yeah, we just
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  wanted I don't even know how it happened. Like we up being like kind
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  of loosely talking or whatever and emailing like you know, one of us or
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  two of us, and then we had a confidence call and we all got
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  on the call and we caught up for probably twenty minutes, and and we
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  just went down the road. You know. It's just like, you know,
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  there was just a lot of like I said, there's just a lot
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  of genuine excitement about coming back to the stand, you know, you know
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  because I was in hell. Yeah for the whole ten years, ten years,
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  we weren't a man. And uh I had a lot of fun doing
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  that, you know, I really did. We actually got to come down
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  there and close these guys and uh, you know, it was a lot
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  of fun doing it. But there was just something that when Vinnie passed,
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  Uh, there was just there was a void, you know in my life.
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  And uh it was hard to lose him, you know when he when
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  he passed away and Uh, I just felt like maybe this would kind of
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  fill that void, and it did. You know what I mean, I
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  think that Benny would be would be proud of me for coming back to this
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  and doing it, and uh, you know, we're just I'm just I'm
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  excited. I'm just excited to uh to be doing this again. It was
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  it was it was important to me back then, and uh, yeah,
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  there was a lot of craziness. Uh it wasn't necessarily us when we when
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  we disbanded and we just kind of let it go. Everybody just kind of
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  opened their hands and just let it go and we all did other things and
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  we just one day it just you know, uh became a parent that you
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  know, we all want to do this again. And I mean, it's
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  it's been really really cool. From the first time we got back together in
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  a rehearsal room and started playing these songs again and was just like, man,
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  this is really cool. It's really really special, and I think a
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  lot of us, you know, I think that we had kind of forgotten
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  about how special it was, and uh, but yeah, we got together
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  and we started playing the music again and it was just like, wow,
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  this is this is really exciting and then to start talking about it, and
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  they're like them to start talking about coming back and stuff, and just seeing
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  the general excitement within everyone, like all of our fans, you know,
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  we're so excited about us coming back, and it's been it's been really cool
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  because I mean, you would expect that people would just want us to you
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  know, we would just be going, hey, come to our city at
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  play. Hey, come to our city a play, Hey, come to
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  our country and play. Hey do that you know, our needs to come
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  and play your catalog. But like people legitimately been asking like is there new
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  music? Are you guys coming out and new music? Blah blah blah blah.
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  There's been a lot of talk from our fan hands asking us about new
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  music, which is really flattering to us, you know, because again,
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  people could just say, just come and play your old songs, you know,
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  but people are saying we want new music, you know, and that's
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  it's really exciting and really really fucking cool, and I think it shows,
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  you know, how special my vein really is to a lot of people,
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  you know. So it's it's it's cool. It's really cool. Dan's right,
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  well said brother. So the first show back mate, like, did
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  you guys sit the stage running or did it sort of take a bit of
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  time to get that on stage chemistry back. I mean, I think our
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  chemistry. There was my first time walking back on stage with this band,
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  which is insane. I had COVID and it was horrible, really even breathe,
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  and I did it. I didn't even know I had it for like
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  three days after it and finally your tested. Yeah, I finally tested and
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  yeah I had it. But uh so, yeah, that was my first
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  uh bad thing back and it was not good and it didn't go over well
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  and it was not received well and people, you know, and finally,
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  after looking my manager going to we will leave the statement at least telling people,
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  and we and we did, and then everybody's like, oh that's why
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  I wasn't great barely breathe. Oh but yeah it was fun, I mean,
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  you know, as fun as it can be, uh, you know,
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  having a respiratory infection. But yeah, exactly, that were great,
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  you know, and they're getting better and better. I thought we did.
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  I thought we played really well with Zombie last year, but we went out
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  and did it this year. Man. It's just it's it was a lot
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  of fun and I think we're playing better than we ever have. So I
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  think Australia is going to see the best my name that they've ever seen for
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  sure. Yeah. Now we haven't seen any live footage. I hear so
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  many photos mate, So you guys like back playing live with the stage make
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  How farmer are you going? Banel still? Oh no, we got full
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  full full makeup. Yeah, I'm fucking crazier than I ever was. It's
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  been a lot. It's been a lot of fun, man. We're really
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  really embrace them what we did back then. Then we're you know, it's
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  a new twist our old thing and it's cool man. It's been a lot
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  of fun, a lot of fun. So go back to the start of
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  My Vein. If you came bro like your form band in nineteen ninety six,
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  so what was the musical climate like back then that gave birth to My
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  Vein? And I'm guessing you didn't, But where did you fit in back
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  then? I don't even know if we sit in at all, you know,
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  So we didn't really kind of get it figured out like we started in
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  ninety six. So that was with a different bass player and I don't even
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  think we really got anything started to figure out before like ninety nine, and
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  then that's when you know, you know, wrote you know, songs like
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  Cradle and you know, like some of the more heavy, esoteric kind of
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  songs that ended up kind of becoming what Muny was. You know, like
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  it was kind of a slow push into figuring out what the hell we were,
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  you know what I mean. And you know, I don't know through
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  our whole career we ever fully figured out who the hell we were, you
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  know what I mean. We were just always trying to push the boundaries.
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  You know, we were trying to push are not necessarily saying just in all
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  of music, but trying to push our personal boundaries. And like I said,
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  you know, our music is very emotional, from helpless to anger and
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  violent and that the whole gamut of emotions in there or whatever. So I
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  think it's been kind of my always been my want to push that even further,
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  like open it up even more, experimenting new things and different different vibes
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  and different emotions and things like that. So I mean, I'm not sure
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  what like when it started or where it ended, you know what I mean,
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  We just like we're just kind of kind of just constantly shape shifty,
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  exploring ourselves. You know that that's what we did the whole time that we
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  were that we were writing recording new music, was just pushing the boundaries.
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  Yeah, you're a very strong part of the new metal scene in its formative
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  years too. Bro So, looking back, are you surprised by how far
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  that genre and that's scene, the music I guess has come and evolved since
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  then. Dude, it's I mean, I literally look back at that and
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  I need and I'm not trying to like talk shit anybody or whatever, but
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  like a lot of a lot of new music, it's a lot alike,
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  you know what I mean, Like there's a like, you know, just
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  like one thing kind of runs into the other. There's always like some band
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  that's kind of special or whatever. They were kind of standouts, and they
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  might have like ten bands that are kind of on their nuts seasons they're gonna
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  want to be there or whatever, but kind of creates this game. But
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  I like, looking back on that time, you have to think about it.
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  It's like you had slip Knot, you had Papa Roachs, you had
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  Disturbed, you have Mumpin, you had Manson fuck. You know, I
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  mean, like a lot of bands, like a lot of bands, and
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  none of them sounded like metal, like you know, slipped on the Slipknot
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  and Manson was Manson and fucking Papa Roaches popa Roach and Disturbed was Disturbed,
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  but Mummy was Mummy, and you know what I mean, like you you
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  start, and I mean I can name many many more, you know what
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  I mean, and like, uh, you know, this is crazy,
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  Like that's what that's what made that That's what that made that style of music
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  so special is because everybody was doing their thing, you know what I mean,
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  And and everybody that was doing their own thing from album to album to
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  album was evolving in and of themselves, which kind of made the whole genre
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  of new metal glow. You know. So like each fan was pushing I
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  think, kind of doing what we were doing, kind of pushing our limits.
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  They were pushing their limits, and the whole thing just kind of naturally
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  grows, and as it grows, it just becomes more special. But yeah,
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  looking back on it, it was just like we all were kind of
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  doing our own thing, you know, we were a little more progressive u
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  their mental you know, and uh something I was fucking flipni you know,
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  it's having a fucking ship, you know, and you know, all the
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  all those bandamension. I mean, everybody just did their own thing. It
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  was really really cool. It was a cool It was a cool thing to
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  be a part of it. It was happening, and it's a cool thing
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  to be a part of now that it's really like a lot of people are
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  recognizing it as being like a big movement in music, which I always thought
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  it was. I always felt like it was. You know, back when
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  everybody was calling it new metal, we all kind of scoffed at that,
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  like the metal you know that Uh you know, you know, really you're
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  a metal dude. You don't want to be lumped into something. Yeah,
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  sure, you know you feel like that. Yeah, you feel like that
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  you're bigger, letting whatever the fuck they're saying it is, you know.
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  And uh and now looking back on it, I'm proud to have been a
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  part of it, you know what I mean. Uh, it's it's it's
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  cool that it's getting it getting the love it's getting now, you know,
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  because it's really really special time in music now. It really was damn straighter
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  was brother. Now. We touched on this a little bit before my but
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  you released your last self titled album back in two thousand and nine, So
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  have you had the talks or are the plans to record new music or are
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  you sort of fight using more on shore infanyl. Yeah, I mean that's
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  just kind of our thing right now. We've we started putting some new stuff
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  together a little bit, and like people that have heard the kind of demo
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  e stuff are really excited about it. I think a lot of like only
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  the people that are closest to us have heard anything. And it's, like
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  I said, again, it's really rough as demos, but you can tell
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  it's special, you know, And I think that you just have to we
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  have to make sure it's muhing, you know what I mean. We have
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  to make sure that it's what we want, and you know, so we'll
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  just have to see, you know. We were working on working on working
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  on it a little bit, you know, here and there. We all
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  live states away from each other. Nobody lives even close to each other,
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  so it makes it a little bit difficult. But we were able to get
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  some stuff demoed up or whatever. But with us being so far apart,
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  it's a little slow going. And then we just kind of just hit a
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  wall, like, we're like, okay, we got to get back into
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  touring, you know, so we put everything together and we went back out
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  this summer. You know this, we'll see what this hall brings. Like.
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  I'm sure you know. We we all just got home, so we're
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  still kind to be compressing. I mean, I'm feeling pretty good now,
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  you know. So you know, we just put everything on hold and we
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  just wanted to focus on touring. But now that we're done with it,
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  you know, as every event starts raising their head out of a fand hopefully,
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  hopefully we can get together and do something. I don't know, maybe
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  we'll have some new by the time we come down and see you. We'll
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  see hi. Brother. Let's start about three Spotify playlist space on artists facing
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  using songs from you. So it could be from mud Vader, could be
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  from Hell You just songs from bands that you've been in. Can you give
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  us a song for a playlist to get the party started, one for a
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  playlist to save your marriage, and one for a playlist that could potentially end
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  your marriage. Well, save your marriage, I don't even know. Wow,
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  Well so cool, I don't know, and your marriage probably do like
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  nothing again or something like that. The people do the level of the cool,
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  but people also seem to like the psycho side of nothing again, so
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  go with those. I wanted to get the party started. I wanted to
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  get the party started, Diggins. That's exactly what I would have said,
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  brother, beautiful, thanks very much for your times, like absolutely, thank
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  you very much. No, I can't wait to see him made. The
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  excitement is massive, id bro, So thanks for thanks remembering a sav brother,
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  and we'll catch up with you next year. I can't wait to get
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  down there. Thank you so much. Now, WI for my friend you
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  say hey brother, you too, Bunny. Thank you