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Into The Abyss With DAVE SMITH From IMMORIUM · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  I'm Dave. I'm from Moria Man on the album Rosewater Black's coming out on
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  July twenty first, and where super keen to get that one out, beautiful,
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  Dave. Thanks for joining us tonight. It cheers mate, thanks for
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  me, Thank you. Bye pleasures. As you say, Maria released your
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  third album at Rosewater Black on July the twenty first. So how you feeling
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  about it? Ah? Excited, really excited, a bit nervous, but
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  very excited. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, we're all very keen.
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  Where where's the nerves come from? Is that like you're worried about how
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  to be received, You're worried about you didn't put your best foot forward?
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  Like what sort? So think bit of everything mate, Like obviously you want
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  it to be a seed as well. But I mean it's we've start on
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  it for a while, we've we finished it. What was it May twenty
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  two, were finished recording this and it's been like it's been a long time
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  and we all know it's we're all very happy with it. Yeah, I
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  mean, we're all very very happy with this. This recording. It's very
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  personal, it's very close to us all. There's a lot of nerves and
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  a lot of emotion in it all, I guess. So, yeah,
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  it's a big yes close to us. So tell us a bit about the
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  album from a musical point of view on what you're going for with it.
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  Maybe the guys actually created it throughout COVID and they sent me complete songs,
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  and I mean, as you I'm sure you can see the monster songs,
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  like eight minute tracks in there, and I mean, you know, clearly
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  COVID brought something out in the in the boys and I got some complete tracks
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  and each and every one of them is kind of their own story, but
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  they're all very personal. They're all very very close to myself, and I
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  think that's they're obviously very close to the guys in the way that ire written
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  because the music is a motive as well. Hell so I wanted to make
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  sure that was put across in the right way too, and something come out
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  of me that was obviously very personal too. That worked. I think it
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  worked. Now. The press release says it's your most adventurous and intimate release
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  to date. So we've discussed the intimate bit, But would you agree with
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  the adventurous bit absolutely? I mean, the later couple of songs that were
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  written on the last album were venturing into the longest side I think into seven
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  minutes and these ones, like I said, they go into eight minute songs
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  and I think it's well as fire tracks and I think it's forty forty eight
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  minutes or something like that. I can't remember exactly. Yeah, it's it's
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  a big effort. They're the guys just I don't know they outwrote themselves.
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  I think they did really well. Yeah, I guess it lives in modern
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  modern age bro Like everything's so so disposable. You know, people's attention spans
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  are getting less and less, So how is it difficult to write a long
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  song like that and still try and make sure you're keep people's attention. I
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  guess so they get they get bored pretty easy these days. We're about to
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  find out. And I mean, look, two are the more popular songs
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  off the last album. I guess in the longer times as well. So,
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  I mean I found it a bit difficult at first. I've written some
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  of the songs I've written four or five times each before I finalized them.
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  And I'm sure the guys did too. I know they did on their parts.
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  I don't know how they managed to get into writing such big songs,
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  but we have and it worked for us. I think, I think we
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  do it. We do it justice. I think I don't know how.
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  I don't know what the formula is. Hopefully it does keep people interested.
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  If it keeps you interested, it's bound to keep someone else interested in it.
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  That's kind of how I see it too. You know, I've been
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  listening to the middle of my whole life and I quite enjoy what week.
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  So that's got to say something. All right, Now, as you say,
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  there is only five tracks on the album, so I want to run
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  through it one at a time, and you just tell us a bit more
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  about him, like I'm not sure if I've got these in order or not,
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  but we'll start with Withering. So Withering, Yeah, again, every
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  song was sent to me as a whole, and last time there was some
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  track titles suggested. These were all given to me as basically do as you
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  will. I Withering was related to a lung disease I've got throughout COVID as
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  well, So that was a big part where I didn't realize. I didn't
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  know if I'd be able to do what I'm doing again or whatever, And
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  thankfully I ended up going into a mission without having an issue since, but
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  it was a few years where it was shitty times. So that reflects on
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  the lung disease one. Absolutely, yeah, and I love that one too,
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  like it did. It starts off with the acoustic and it's really mellow
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  and sort of lulls into a false sense of security before. I mean,
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  like, is that the first track on the album? No, I think
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  I believe it's no return to the fallen thought that would be a perfect issue,
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  just like with the ambience then smashing in the face. Yeah, well,
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  of course, yeah, true idem Honestly, I can't remember the track
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  listing off the top of my head right now. I thought I had it
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  right that. I read back through Jenner's review and she was saying, this
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  song was here, this song was here, and it's like, that's completely
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  different. Now I've got it. As long as you got that's all that
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  matters. Okay, we'll move on to chains change, Yes, they change
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  again. Made. My health is a big part of this album. It's
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  been I struggled. I struggled with a few things. I've got all man
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  issues and so that one is later. I got Type one diabetes and that's
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  literally basically our issues I was dealing with for a while, just sleepless nights
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  and the constant seezes and stuff like that I was going through for about six
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  or seven months. And that's again playing on that one. A bit of
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  a heavy song, but a right and gone too early. That's gotta gone
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  to early doors. So gone to Early Doors is my brother passed when I
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  was about twenty years ago, and that's literally for my brother song. I've
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  wanted to write for more since he passed. And yeah, it's again a
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  hard one to write. You got to make sure it comes out right.
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  And I think again that one, I'm we're all very proud of that one,
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  especially. Yeah have you played that one like yet? No, No,
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  we haven't, And that's yeah checking patially. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
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  We've we've got a video coming out for that one as well, so
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  we've just finished up on that. That's we're really excited about that too.
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  That's a good one, I think, too cool. All right, you've
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  got no returning to the Fallen. Yeah, that's a very typically me style
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  written song I found and the last album I wrote a few. I this
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  the sort of moving forward, not looking back on the past and leaving behind
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  you what you need to leave behind? Yeah, they were finished with the
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  title track, rose Water Black. It's a great title. I've got no
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  idea what it means, but I fucking love it. So again, very
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  personal my partner and I is literally written for my partners to love song.
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  Rosewater Black is everything I wear is pretty well black and she wears a lot
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  of pink and it's kind of mixed a few words together and come up with
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  rosewater Black and come up with the song, and we all decided that's a
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  pretty banging name for a title too. So for the album, these are
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  short but sweet answers for incredibly long songs. We're pretty direct, I guess.
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  Yeah, So how would say overall the music on on Rose Water Black
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  is different than your previous two albums, Universe and and This Too Short Pass.
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  I wasn't part of University, but from I absolutely loved it, and
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  they have between that and this too, there was definitely a progression of a
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  lot of growth the guys have because in the way they write, I feel
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  it's it's just coming forward and leaps and bounds. They're obviously listening to something
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  something different, but I don't know the songs sing a bit I don't want
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  to say, more technical, but they're drawn out in a more epic sort
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  of fashion. Like this album that they sent me with. I was blown
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  away myself when they said it. To other, Fuck, this is good
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  music. You know that they can write good tunes. Now your music sort
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  of generally generalization, it's it's subtle blending of progressive metal and melodic death metal,
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  which isn't a common mix made like, well, where does it come
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  from? It did works well, but it's sort of not done very often.
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  I don't think it was intentional. We were definitely just the Mellow Death
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  band when I joined. Everything we were listening to was that I was told
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  to based our sound around was just standard Mellow Death. But this is where
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  we've wound up. Yeah, Like I said, I mean the guys definitely
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  listened to a bit of everything. You know they've got really, I mean,
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  all right, So we're playing with Harakiri for the guy at the end
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  of the year as well, and they're we're looking forward to that. But
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  they're a huge influence on at least one of my guitarists. I know that
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  much. So I don't know if that's similarly where it comes from the writing
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  different. You're right, it's a mix of progressive and melodif and I don't
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  know, I don't know where it came in. We just began that way.
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  Don't need to know as long as it works, brother, that's it
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  just just happened. Now. You're also heading off on your first Isralian tour
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  to promote the album in August. So was that a typeo of the press
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  release? Is it really your first Australian tour believe it or not? Yes?
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  So the thing with the first album was a lot of the other guys
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  were in other band, so look a bit of a backseat a lot of
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  the time, a lot of a lot of shows to play, but I
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  believe a lot of them were more just cameras. See then with this two
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  shot pass we released that name OVID yet so that just ruined all those plans.
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  Played a few other shows since then. It's a nice nice shows,
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  good shows, but we just haven't really had the time to booking anything until
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  this. Really, it's unfortunate it's taken us this long, and I know,
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  like we're all a bit bummed about it. Where it's finally here?
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  Oh cool? And where where can people find out dates and and where are
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  you going to Well, we're working with your mate bookings with the tour,
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  so all for your mate bookings, he's got all the info. There are
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  facebooks, he's got all the link information as well. Mate. It's we're
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  playing August ninth and Sydney at the Marriage for Bollow the twenty fourth, so
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  the twenty third at the Gasto in Melbourne, twenty fourth at Duntry Festival in
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  ge Long and August thirtieth of the Baso and Canberra and hopefully into the next
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  year we're going to book a few more Brisbane at La Birth of Mind not
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  we're looking into that. We well, there's going to be fuck all people
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  out there who've seen your live then if you haven't toured austral before, so
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  tell us the typical of Mooring and live show. What can they expect if
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  they come along? Maybe we always put in one hundred percent. We're going
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  to play a few from the news and plenty from the old stuff too.
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  So it's again it's tricky with long songs, trying to fit in as many
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  as we can, but you know, we'll do a bit, make sure
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  we play all the ones that everyone wants to hear if they want to hear,
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  No, all right, ovil that seems for your time. Brow Rose
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  Water Black is out July twenty first. I haven't listened to the whole thing,
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  but one of our riders, Jannel Flood, has and she loves it.
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  So check out our review on Heavy Get a buy it yourself, don't
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  fuck around, get along with the shows, have a beer, Keep warm
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