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Death Metal For The Disconnected With DIVA SATANICA From BLOODHUNTER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Yes to meet, Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Welcome to heavy Man. So you guys have been
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  Speaker 2: busy the new album coming out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a long wait until we finally released
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  Speaker 3: the album. But it's been crazy how many people have
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  Speaker 3: been waiting and the responses over whil we are very
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  Speaker 3: thankful for that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, excellent, excellent. So tell me a would have been bad? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: having together this album for yourself? What was the process like.
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  Speaker 3: In Yeah, I mean our previous album was released like
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  Speaker 3: four years ago, so many people were expecting like something
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  Speaker 3: rand new I can understand, but reality is that we've
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  Speaker 3: finally had all the songs together like in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, it's it's been two years ago, right, So
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  Speaker 3: we had to wait until we had a plan, proper
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  Speaker 3: schedule with the record label, and that took longer than
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  Speaker 3: we expected. But it was crazy because we ended the
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  Speaker 3: writing sessions for this album like in six months, and
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  Speaker 3: we filming the video clips and prepare the artwork all
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  Speaker 3: together like in very few times. So it's been very
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  Speaker 3: exciting to see how everything was slowly taking shape. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean every album is a challenge for this band
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  Speaker 3: because you know, you try to sharpen your skills asmart
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  Speaker 3: as you can, and you try to do something different
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  Speaker 3: but not too different.
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  Speaker 1: So it's difficult to find the balance.
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  Speaker 3: But finally here we are with a bunch of good
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  Speaker 3: songs and I hope everybody enjoys it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I give it the sink list before.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice sighting heavy gets stressed the point you've got
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  Speaker 2: got that room seeking amobotics sort of as well as the.
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  Speaker 4: Metal, which is a nice, nice touch to it.
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  Speaker 2: So so for yourself, do you enjoy being the leading
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  Speaker 2: way of the.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Even for the lyrics has been different this time because
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  Speaker 3: usually I feel like I hide myself behind the metaphors. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: It's difficult when you play this metal to find this
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  Speaker 3: balance between speaking to things that everybody has in common
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  Speaker 3: but without sounding too cheesy. So it's been like a
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  Speaker 3: vulnerable stage of my life, I guess. And it's the
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  Speaker 3: first time I talk in first person, so that has
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  Speaker 3: a big It's a big change from the previous albums.
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  Speaker 1: Also, how we wrote the songs.
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  Speaker 3: Usually guys just spend a lot of time trying to
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  Speaker 3: decide the right structure for some of the parts, and
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  Speaker 3: this time it was something that came naturally they started
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  Speaker 3: writing for no reason, like I have this idea in mind,
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  Speaker 3: if you inspired, let's write a riff and then let's
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  Speaker 3: put it all together, and how it went all the
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  Speaker 3: life nice?
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  Speaker 2: Nice, And so you had a feeling that you touch
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  Speaker 2: hands on.
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  Speaker 4: Approach with yourself is main big difference it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Of yourself goes into the album, which is always a
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  Speaker 4: little scary.
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  Speaker 3: When you yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely, and also talking about
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  Speaker 3: stuff like the current situation worldwide politically and the world going.
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  Speaker 3: I never felt very comfortable we talk with these kind
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  Speaker 3: of things because you know, you have in mind like okay,
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  Speaker 3: flash bands do that, but in death metally, it's not
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  Speaker 3: that very common, and it's always like okay, if you
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  Speaker 3: think about what it shouldn't be, you're limiting yourself to
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  Speaker 3: talk about specific things, right, And it's important to talk
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  Speaker 3: about what's going on and how that affects to your
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  Speaker 3: music or or to you as an individual.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that brings a certain element
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  Speaker 2: of illness about you know, music. When others are able
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  Speaker 2: to do that and you know, transpire that and mix
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  Speaker 2: it with you know, the genre, it's certainly.
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  Speaker 4: Something that you know it shouldn't be.
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  Speaker 5: Left alone, and yeah, absolutely, I think you know your
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  Speaker 5: current requirement in Brymo, which were all feeling in some ways,
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  Speaker 5: you know, so, yeah, so yourself is coming from staying.
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  Speaker 4: How is it being a death battle band in steying?
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  Speaker 4: Is it? It's not exactly the normal way. You guys
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  Speaker 4: are a bit of a niche in that. Yeah, how
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  Speaker 4: has that experienced yourselves? Is it?
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  Speaker 1: You enjoy it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Overwhelming times?
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  Speaker 1: Imagine absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the craziest part is that we think that
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  Speaker 3: everything it's normal. We don't think about it like as
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  Speaker 3: as something really crazy and yeah, I don't know. That
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  Speaker 3: pieces me off a lot because you wake up and
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  Speaker 3: you just have this privileged life, like you have a house,
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  Speaker 3: a family. Nothing is wrung. Apparently you have your issues obviously,
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  Speaker 3: but nothing like being in the middle of a world.
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  Speaker 3: It's like this common feeling of this connection between one
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  Speaker 3: country and the other. And even with your neighbor sometimes
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  Speaker 3: you don't even know them.
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  Speaker 1: And it's it's bad.
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  Speaker 3: Because when you feel lonely, it's impossible to connect if
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  Speaker 3: you don't have like certain kind of relationships, right, and
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  Speaker 3: you don't need to have I'm not talking about friends,
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  Speaker 3: but even I don't know if you need to help
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  Speaker 3: for I don't know whatever it is, and you can
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  Speaker 3: knock the door of your neighbor and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: That happened like many years ago, but not nowadays.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's something bad for this era that
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  Speaker 3: we live in. And this album talks a bit about
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  Speaker 3: that too, about being lonely in the middle of this craziness.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, any way, are in a world that's so connected
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  Speaker 2: technology technologically, where so just connected from you know, even
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  Speaker 2: and things that are so it's kind of bizarre. And
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  Speaker 2: again in a world full of so much information available
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  Speaker 2: with its informed ones as well.
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  Speaker 4: Some is it certainly very it's a very week well believing.
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  Speaker 2: And then go to music and the metal because it's
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  Speaker 2: a good way to you know, escape from that or
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  Speaker 2: just you know, get it out and find that connection.
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  Speaker 4: Music is the universal language, so to speak, and I
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  Speaker 4: think with.
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  Speaker 2: That, yeah, metal absolutely heavy metal, and we're all sort
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  Speaker 2: of have this on that saying, you know from that's
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  Speaker 2: cut from the same fabric kind of it, so to speak.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we will.
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  Speaker 4: Find that coming round. I think through it definitely, and
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  Speaker 4: it's it's quite.
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  Speaker 3: Ste Yeah, it's it's like having a big family. You know,
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  Speaker 3: when you feel lonely, when you are struggling, you just
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  Speaker 3: go to the you know, to spotify whatever music from
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  Speaker 3: you use and just listen to your favorite songs and
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  Speaker 3: you feel.
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  Speaker 1: Like, Okay, I'm home. You go to a show. It's
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  Speaker 1: like easy, you know, and that's fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that happened with other music genres at
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  Speaker 3: this level, So no, I.
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  Speaker 4: Don't think it does.
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, definitely metal. It's it's it's something quite
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  Speaker 2: unique to now gurning around. We're very lucky to have that.
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  Speaker 2: And I think most people that I speak to it
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  Speaker 2: and I know I'm seeing it, we all think on
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  Speaker 2: that same level.
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  Speaker 4: So it's something we overy close to our heart for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So during for you guys plain life, which is amazing
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  Speaker 2: to be part of them to this witness as well,
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  Speaker 2: like both on stage and all. Have you guys got
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  Speaker 2: plans to tour or what has that? Have you engineering
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  Speaker 2: being able to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Last Yeah, with the previous album, it was funny because
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  Speaker 3: we started playing like a progs like one year after
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  Speaker 3: the release because it happened the same and now that
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  Speaker 3: you put an album in the middle of the summer,
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  Speaker 3: so all the summer festivals are just happening and you
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  Speaker 3: need to be there, like you know, you need to
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  Speaker 3: prepare for that in autumn, like September October when promoters decided.
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  Speaker 1: To to have you there.
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  Speaker 3: But once we started, we managed to do two Asian tours.
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  Speaker 3: We've been in North Korea, Japan, China. That was fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: The first time was important.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a crazy experience.
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  Speaker 3: First time we were supporting like in fact, The Rain,
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  Speaker 3: and second time we were supporting Ginger, which is one
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  Speaker 3: of our favorite bands. So that was really great and
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  Speaker 3: it was amazing because it's a total different market and
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  Speaker 3: we were playing for I don't know, two thousand people
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  Speaker 3: maybe and Ginger was surprised because not many people knew them,
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  Speaker 3: so we were like shocked, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, it was like, wow, this is different. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: a different universe. We also played grasp Bow. We started to.
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  Speaker 3: Play some international festivals and that's fantastic because for us,
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  Speaker 3: as a Spanish band, we feel like we have this
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  Speaker 3: big wall in.
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  Speaker 1: Front of us, impossible to climb.
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  Speaker 3: We live in a difficult market, theis Iranian countries. We
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  Speaker 3: don't sell so much records as other countries, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and record labels don't trust these kind of countries to
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  Speaker 3: have a band working at certain levels. But I feel
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  Speaker 3: like we started breaking those walls and I'm very I'm
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  Speaker 3: very trustful with this album, so we can make continue
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  Speaker 3: on the same level. And we're gonna play some shows,
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  Speaker 3: just a quick start here in Spain in our country
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  Speaker 3: or opening for Crypta, and after that we have some
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  Speaker 3: stuff here and there, and we're working on the upcoming tours.
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  Speaker 3: We've been thinking about maybe I don't know if it
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  Speaker 3: would be possible for next year, because you know, business
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  Speaker 3: and everything takes a lot of time. But the States US,
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  Speaker 3: it's definitely one of our first stadgets. Most part of
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  Speaker 3: our listeners are there, so it would be fantastic if
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  Speaker 3: we managed to make that to happen in the upcoming
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  Speaker 3: year or the next.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like it's definitely I think it would be very doable.
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  Speaker 4: With yourselves.
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  Speaker 2: You've certainly got a store following and bringing back here
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  Speaker 2: in sight thing like say you must see.
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  Speaker 4: Instance from there.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good way to you know, to say that
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  Speaker 2: next sleeve and that step up hopefully when.
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  Speaker 4: We might sit down that great Yeah nice it is everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we want to go everywhere, you know, as far
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  Speaker 3: as we can go, that'd be fantastic for shows.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely exciting our joys as towards that some that's always
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  Speaker 2: really promising and then rights out into Europe. It's just
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  Speaker 2: the costal touring sas you know, picking for bands and
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 4: But no, that's some it's certainly hopefully.
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  Speaker 2: The new album certainly picks up that traction, So it's
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  Speaker 2: some out on is it the twelfth.
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  Speaker 1: Ja, yes, yes, five days?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, way, that's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: So you're having plans, yeah, I release party or anything
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  Speaker 2: like that, and plans to celebrate.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, as the first show of these upcoming shows. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be a next Friday, it's a release day.
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  Speaker 3: So after that we will have like a release party
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  Speaker 3: in our city. And yeah, we're planning for to do
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  Speaker 3: more stuff, you know, because summer it's weird if you
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  Speaker 3: don't have summer festivals to play because everyone is there,
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  Speaker 3: and it's difficult to put shows in between because not
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  Speaker 3: many people show up. They are you know, some people
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  Speaker 3: go to grasp but other people go to help us
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  Speaker 3: back in summer Breeze. There's a huge offer of different
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  Speaker 3: festivals and it's difficult and also for touring it's quite
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  Speaker 3: complicated nowadays with the high coast of gas transfer and everything.
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  Speaker 3: It's I've been talking with some other musicians lately and they,
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  Speaker 3: for example, Saki is from broad in christ was saying
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  Speaker 3: this weekend that he has been touring the States with
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  Speaker 3: the Kimoth and Borgan. I guess, yeah, they are one
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  Speaker 3: of my favorite bands.
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  Speaker 4: For You're Sorry, great to stay live, It's amazing. So yes,
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  Speaker 4: I love that that informative the side of metal needs.
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  Speaker 4: It's welcome come back for sure.
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  Speaker 1: It's the best, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the things that I love the most
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  Speaker 3: from the Chimis is that they starting changing.
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  Speaker 1: Like the the.
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  Speaker 3: The globe and years, you know, like the art in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of a scene that was quite you know,
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  Speaker 3: being a true black metal fan, it's complicated because it's
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  Speaker 3: very limitated.
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  Speaker 1: And they started wearing like barrels, feathers, whatever it was, man.
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  Speaker 4: And dream like.
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  Speaker 2: They said like, you know, there'll be more and more
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  Speaker 2: dark towards the end, which I think is great, like
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  Speaker 2: it's got to think within itself, which was just wonderful
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  Speaker 2: to say.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, that was pure entertainment. Yeah, it was that.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of loved it that were so calm as well,
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  Speaker 2: like there was no dramas in the audience.
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  Speaker 4: It was really boudy to say, and all was very
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  Speaker 4: very cutry. I felt very very fortunate and what of
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  Speaker 4: gratitude winess. That was awesome. So yeah, yeah, they so
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  Speaker 4: love Hunter is certainly on the right track people.
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  Speaker 3: Well, definitely, we've been trying different stuff.
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  Speaker 1: For example, with the first single, the double Song, we thought.
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  Speaker 3: About, okay, we can film another video clip with a
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  Speaker 3: band in the in the background, you know, but that's
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  Speaker 3: not quite interesting at this point, so let's start with
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  Speaker 3: something totally different. And we were wearing suits, like super
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  Speaker 3: elegant quothes in a red background, and we were trying
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  Speaker 3: to do something like kind of different, so we didn't
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  Speaker 3: feel like again the same ting another band playing you know,
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  Speaker 3: blah blah. And I think it worked because many people
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  Speaker 3: were like surprised, I got what you're playing, like stream metal?
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  Speaker 1: What is that?
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  Speaker 3: And that was pretty cool. I think it was a
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  Speaker 3: video that went out and worked pretty well. And say
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  Speaker 3: with the others, you have like the common stuff obviously,
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  Speaker 3: because it's impossible not to have it, like as I
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  Speaker 3: said before, the band wearing black and playing instruments whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But you also have Actually this Friday, we will release
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  Speaker 3: a new video clip with the releast of the album,
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  Speaker 3: and we've been thinking about taking parts of our own story, uh,
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  Speaker 3: to have a different version of the song, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so we appear performing different parts of life. For example
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  Speaker 3: one of us, it's reminding this this thing of being
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  Speaker 3: locked in an office from nine to five, uh, with
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  Speaker 3: the boss yelling in your ear, and then you'll find
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  Speaker 3: music and everything changes inside and outside and you start
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  Speaker 3: doing stuff in that way. And yeah, I think this
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  Speaker 3: is gonna be a super emotional video clip for us
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  Speaker 3: because it's also our own story from different perspectives, and
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  Speaker 3: you have some live footage also from festivals and past shows. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so I think it's gonna be like the perfect you
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  Speaker 3: know ending for the to prepare the release.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like you pertly a lot to you know,
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  Speaker 2: drave from and speak creative with it. So it's nts
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  Speaker 2: and you can do that and like you said, you've
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  Speaker 2: got a personal touch with it.
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  Speaker 4: It was special.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nice.
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  Speaker 4: It's full circle, I say, sure, yeah, totally.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the congratulations that's coming out twelfth of a thank
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  Speaker 2: you and thank you so much for coming and having
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  Speaker 2: a chat with us today Heavy all the best with
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  Speaker 2: your coming to our shows and video isn't arrest and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully we'll see you guys down sometime soon.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully, hopefully we'll commet on the road, as we
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  Speaker 3: should say, and thank you for having us. It's very
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  Speaker 3: nice to being able to spread the word about the album,
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  Speaker 3: so thank you and