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Infinity And Beyond With LACHLAN NEATE & ANTHONY WILLIS From VALHALORE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: All right, good everybody. I'm Lucky from Valhalla.
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  Speaker 2: Hi everyone, I'm Anthony from Valhallam. We played some ponic
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  Speaker 2: folk metal. We were a Brisbane and we're from Brisbane, Australia.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful day. Thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having us pleasure as.
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  Speaker 4: Usual going So, val Hello will release your second album,
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  Speaker 4: Beyond the Stars on April the eleventh, which isn't far
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  Speaker 4: off now.
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  Speaker 3: So how are you feeling about it?
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  Speaker 5: Just absolutely thrilled after waiting for four years to release
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  Speaker 5: this music. It's it's pretty surreal that we're finally finally
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  Speaker 5: near the finish line.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been just a rollercoaster of different feelings, I suppose,
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  Speaker 6: and I just want it out now.
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  Speaker 2: And it's still it's still like, oh man, it's still
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  Speaker 2: nine days to go. But they'll be here soon enough.
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  Speaker 4: So can you dive into the album a bit more
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  Speaker 4: deeply for us from musical point of view and what
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  Speaker 4: you were going forward it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Sure, well, in terms of I guess the themes of
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  Speaker 6: the album, it a person's journey from the beginning of
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  Speaker 6: their life to the end of their life, and each
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  Speaker 6: song kind of deals with the different highs and lows
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  Speaker 6: ups and downs, different emotions that one would experience throughout
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  Speaker 6: their life, and each song kind of represents those different moments.
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  Speaker 2: And then at the end.
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  Speaker 6: Of the of the album, the final song really deals
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  Speaker 6: with what happens after, what happens to you after we die?
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  Speaker 2: And can we become something greater than ourselves?
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  Speaker 6: So in that regards, the album is a bit of
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  Speaker 6: a concept album, and it's cyclic, and each each of
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  Speaker 6: the songs that we have written.
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  Speaker 2: Pertains to this journey of someone's life experiences.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty deep.
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  Speaker 2: Guys.
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  Speaker 3: Where'd you pull that from, Lachlin?
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  Speaker 5: I think, yeah, I think just given the timeframe that
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  Speaker 5: this album was written in and all of the you know,
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  Speaker 5: experience that we all have to draw from from our
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  Speaker 5: own personal lives. I mean, you know, for lack of
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  Speaker 5: a better term, this was our COVID album. So a
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  Speaker 5: lot of the you know, anxieties and doubts that a
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  Speaker 5: lot of people face during the pandemic and the lockdowns
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  Speaker 5: and things like that, you know, kind of permeated the
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  Speaker 5: lyrics and the thought process.
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  Speaker 1: Around the time of this writing.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, as we've said a few times now
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  Speaker 5: to each other, you know, looking back at this time
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  Speaker 5: and our in our history as a band.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't know if we were ever going to get
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  Speaker 1: on the stage again.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't know if anyone was going to hear these,
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  Speaker 5: you know, these new songs on this album.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't know what the future held.
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  Speaker 5: So again, we're just grateful that we were able to
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  Speaker 5: kind of turn that negativity and that doubt into something
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  Speaker 5: that's hopefully positive.
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  Speaker 1: And we're finally at a point where we can.
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  Speaker 2: Share it with you all.
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  Speaker 4: And Nice, I'm glad you actually cleaned it up for me,
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  Speaker 4: because I was going to say, look at the album title.
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  Speaker 4: I'd be on the starts and if you look at
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  Speaker 4: the cover, which is like a being surrounded by world's exploding,
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  Speaker 4: it'd actually be forgiven for thinking it was a sci
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  Speaker 4: fi album.
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  Speaker 3: But it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think it's it's definitely got elements of that.
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  Speaker 5: I think, you know, as Anthony said, it kind of
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  Speaker 5: outlines a person's you know, journey through life and the
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  Speaker 5: emotions they experience. But I think the overarching kind of
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  Speaker 5: takeaway from that is that we're all just a part
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  Speaker 5: of something much bigger than ourselves. And you know, whether
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  Speaker 5: you call that religion, the universe, you know, just being human.
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  Speaker 1: You know, however you kind of interpret it. I think, yeah, the.
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  Speaker 5: Album art is kind of as you say, it's a
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  Speaker 5: bit sci fi because it is that that idea of
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  Speaker 5: there is so much beyond our physical selves, and there's
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  Speaker 5: so much that we kind of both receive and give
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  Speaker 5: back to the world around us throughout our life.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's pretty big.
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  Speaker 3: Now it's a date.
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  Speaker 4: You've released the singles as Storm, Wayfined, and Horizon. So
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  Speaker 4: are they a good sonic representation of what do you expect?
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  Speaker 4: Or are they just got to surface?
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  Speaker 5: I think they're a good They're a good tasting platter,
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  Speaker 5: is how we like to describe it.
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  Speaker 1: I think they tick all of the kind of musical
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  Speaker 1: points of the album. Obviously.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you've got the Storm, which is just purely
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  Speaker 5: heavy and kind of dark in a bit more grim,
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  Speaker 5: and then you've got something like Wayfinder, which is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: this lighter kind of ballad, and then Horizon, which kind
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  Speaker 5: of sits in the middle of the two. I think
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  Speaker 5: across the three of them, they give a good representation
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  Speaker 5: of what to expect from the album, But there's definitely
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  Speaker 5: a lot more to a lot more to uncover as
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  Speaker 5: people listen to it.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 4: The opening track, life is a beautiful composition, like it's
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  Speaker 4: more or less an ambient whisper that for some reason
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  Speaker 4: made me think of the Hobbit village and more of
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  Speaker 4: the rings. But what was what was the idea behind
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  Speaker 4: opening with particular assignments?
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  Speaker 3: I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: With that one.
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  Speaker 6: We really wanted to encapsulate the start of the universe
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  Speaker 6: in sonic form. That's that was the intent. So it is,
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  Speaker 6: like the cover a little bit sci fi in the term,
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  Speaker 6: you know, in regards to using a few synthesizers, et cetera,
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  Speaker 6: and a few different layerings. But the way the track
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  Speaker 6: evolves and you know, with tension, it really builds into
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  Speaker 6: that first song quite nicely. So that's how we landed
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  Speaker 6: on that opening track. So we wanted it to be
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  Speaker 6: the you know, representation of the beginning of the universe,
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  Speaker 6: beginning of the album, that kind of thing, beginning.
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  Speaker 2: Of someone's life. Going back to the themes we talked about.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, in the modern age of music, guys, where streaming
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  Speaker 4: and songs being played out of order is a normal
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  Speaker 4: these days, Like how much thought you still put into
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  Speaker 4: the track listening on albums?
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  Speaker 1: Is it still a big deal for us definitely.
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  Speaker 5: I think, you know, we're all music fans first and
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  Speaker 5: foremost before you know, being a band, And so for
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  Speaker 5: me personally, I still love sitting down and listening for
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  Speaker 5: it to an album from start to finish, And yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I think that was very much the case with this.
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  Speaker 1: With this album, we sat down and had a thought
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  Speaker 1: of how, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, it's going to flow nicely, so there's it doesn't
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  Speaker 5: get too fatiguing, there's all these moments of light and
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  Speaker 5: shade and so that, Yeah, you can sit down and
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  Speaker 5: listen to the whole album and listen to it on
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  Speaker 5: a loop and it kind of you know, starts and
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  Speaker 5: finishes and is quite cyclic in that sense.
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  Speaker 1: You can just you know, spin it on repeat if
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  Speaker 1: you're so inclined.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, I think, but you're right, the streaming does,
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  Speaker 5: you know, change the landscape a fair bit. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: for us, we're still very much an album band. You know,
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  Speaker 5: that's still something we take very very seriously and put
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  Speaker 5: a lot of thought into.
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  Speaker 6: I think I think it's worth acknowledging that our songs
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  Speaker 6: usually have long intros. For this album, we've made those intros,
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  Speaker 6: some of them separate tracks. For example, our single Wavefinder
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  Speaker 6: on Spotify. It just starts straight on the acoustic guitar,
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  Speaker 6: going into the flute motif.
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  Speaker 2: But in the video we have the piano piece that that.
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  Speaker 6: Piano piece is actually a separate track on the album,
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  Speaker 6: So in that regards, we are still having our intros
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  Speaker 6: to songs, also making the music a little bit more
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  Speaker 6: accessible for people not having to wait so long to
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  Speaker 6: get into the music.
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  Speaker 2: If that makes sense, I get you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm normally one of those people I don't mind listening
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  Speaker 4: to an album out of order, but but yours, of
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  Speaker 4: course I listened to from starting to finishing. I think,
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  Speaker 4: but albums are this is important to listen to them
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  Speaker 4: and the way they're intended, because this one there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of atmosphere and it's like it's got an epic
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  Speaker 4: build up to a lot of the songs, and it's
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  Speaker 4: like a sonic journey. And that's a cliche jerm, but
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  Speaker 4: listening to that album was like a sonic.
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  Speaker 3: Journey, and I think I think you'd lose a bit
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  Speaker 3: of that if you didn't listen to it.
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  Speaker 1: Probably glad to hear it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad that it was received in the way it
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  Speaker 5: was intended, So thank you.
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  Speaker 1: For that, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: No ways at all.
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  Speaker 4: So how would you say that Beyond the Stars differs
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  Speaker 4: musically then to your twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 3: Debut, Voyage into Eternity.
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  Speaker 2: I can go first lot that album twenty and seventeen.
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  Speaker 6: I wrote that one solely by myself between say twenty
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  Speaker 6: thirteen twenty sixteen, so a long time ago. I know
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  Speaker 6: that I was trying to sound like all these other
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  Speaker 6: bands at the time, just I really want to sound
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  Speaker 6: like this, or really want to sound like that. This album,
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  Speaker 6: Beyond the Stars, it was a far more collaborative approach,
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  Speaker 6: so we had a lot of, you know, input from
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  Speaker 6: our producer Sam Vallen. We had a lot more collaboration
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  Speaker 6: in regards to how the songs work and the structures
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  Speaker 6: of the songs and you know, the lyrics and everything,
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  Speaker 6: and the way we recorded. It was just a unique
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  Speaker 6: experience as well, and the songs just evolved and matured
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  Speaker 6: and they really became Valhale songs.
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  Speaker 2: So instead of sounding.
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  Speaker 6: Like other bands, like maybe the twenty seventeen album kind
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  Speaker 6: of does, this album.
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  Speaker 2: I think it sounds like us.
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  Speaker 6: We're finding our sound and it's really evident in this
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  Speaker 6: upcoming album.
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  Speaker 3: It as some of that like that's pretty that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I think you pretty much now that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I was just going to say the main thing was
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  Speaker 5: the collaborative approach in the sense that you know, as
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  Speaker 5: Anthony mentioned, writing the first album was you know, a
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  Speaker 5: solo project.
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  Speaker 2: For him, so he didn't have a band at that point.
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  Speaker 5: And now you know, we have a band, so there's
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  Speaker 5: you know, six of us to all throw ideas and
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  Speaker 5: then kind of bring our own skills and influences to
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  Speaker 5: the table.
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  Speaker 1: So that was the biggest shift. And yeah, as.
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  Speaker 5: Anthony so beautifully mentioned, working with Sam Vallen and having
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  Speaker 5: you know, a fresh set of ears from outside of
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  Speaker 5: the band, was you know, an invaluable aspect of.
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  Speaker 1: This, of this recording process and this writing process.
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  Speaker 3: Now you've got.
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  Speaker 4: Anna Murphy listed as a guest artist on the song
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  Speaker 4: Harder to See, So introduced us to her and then.
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  Speaker 3: What she brings to the song.
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  Speaker 5: Ah Anna Murphy is just one of my all time
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  Speaker 5: favorite vocalists and musicians. And so for those of you
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  Speaker 5: who might not be aware of Anna, she used to
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  Speaker 5: be a part of the band Elveti, who for me
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  Speaker 5: personally were my gateway into kind of the folk metal world.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know that those two worlds ever ever met
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  Speaker 5: folk music and metal music until I discovered.
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  Speaker 1: And since then she's moved on to.
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  Speaker 5: Do her own solo projects and is now part of
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  Speaker 5: her group Sala Darling, as well as a number of
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  Speaker 5: other projects.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, when we were riding hard of the Sea.
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  Speaker 5: It just by this point in the album and you know,
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  Speaker 5: the song itself, we kind of realized that it lent
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  Speaker 5: itself to be a duet rather than just you know,
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  Speaker 5: me singing for another four minutes by myself, and we
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  Speaker 5: kind of joked amongst ourselves of like, oh, this would
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  Speaker 5: be a great song for Anna Murphy and so we
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  Speaker 5: kind of, you know, laughed about that, and we thought,
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  Speaker 5: I will never will never be able to reach out
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  Speaker 5: to her. She doesn't have a clue who we are whatever.
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  Speaker 5: And then again, the joy of working with someone like
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  Speaker 5: Sam Vallen is he just overheard this conversation one day
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  Speaker 5: and he said, oh, well, I've got her, you know,
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  Speaker 5: drummer's email address, because we were meant to play shows together.
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  Speaker 5: You want me to see and kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 5: start this phone tree to essentially get in touch with her,
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  Speaker 5: And sure enough we're able to reach out and send
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  Speaker 5: her the song, and you know.
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  Speaker 1: She graciously agreed to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 5: She said she really enjoyed the track, and so now
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  Speaker 5: we're absolutely thrilled to have.
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  Speaker 1: Her on a song.
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  Speaker 5: And I get to, you know, tick off that I've
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  Speaker 5: sung a duet with Anna Murphy off the off the
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  Speaker 5: career highlight lists.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Musically, Valhallor have an interesting blend of melodic death metal
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  Speaker 4: plus power and symphonic metal is infused with healthy doses
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  Speaker 4: and folk. As you say, like to be honest, it's
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  Speaker 4: an awkward mixing of genres that on paper shouldn't work,
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  Speaker 4: but it does.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad that you think it does, because, yeah, you're right,
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  Speaker 5: it looks like they shouldn't. I think all music fundamentally,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, if you just look at folk
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  Speaker 5: music as we probably all think of it from, you know,
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  Speaker 5: a medieval kind of sense, it was all to be
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  Speaker 5: performed live. It's all just storytelling and getting people to
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  Speaker 5: dance and drink and have a good time and a
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  Speaker 5: tavern or whatever. And you kind of look at that
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  Speaker 5: and you think, well, isn't that just what a modern
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  Speaker 5: heavy metal show is? You just wanting to get a
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  Speaker 5: bunch of people together to headbang and demash and to
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  Speaker 5: have a good time and drink some beers and dance
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  Speaker 5: around with their mates. And so I suppose in that
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  Speaker 5: regard that's how they kind of blend is it's just
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  Speaker 5: this very energetic, you know, dance TEMPOI type of music
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  Speaker 5: for the most part. And then I think the way
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  Speaker 5: that we're able to kind of blend them together a
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  Speaker 5: bit more, dare I say seamlessly, is by incorporating the
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  Speaker 5: symphonic aspects, which kind of bridge that very stark gap
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  Speaker 5: between you know, folk instruments and heavy metal instruments. And
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  Speaker 5: then you know, people are far more familiar with symphonic
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  Speaker 5: metal as we've heard since you know, the seventies and eighties.
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  Speaker 5: So I think that by using those symphonic elements, we're
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  Speaker 5: kind of able to smooth.
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  Speaker 1: The transition between the folk and the metal world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels a lot of that in between sonic space.
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  Speaker 4: How about in the creative process, guys, like how do
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  Speaker 4: you get the balance right? Like how do you know
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  Speaker 4: if you go on too far in one direction or
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  Speaker 4: not far enough in another?
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  Speaker 2: That's a great question. I think, Yeah, we've struggled with this.
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  Speaker 2: Before you go.
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  Speaker 5: Lok no, I think you're probably going to say exactly
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  Speaker 5: what I'm going to say, so that's all good.
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  Speaker 6: I was just going to mention how sometimes we've leaned
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  Speaker 6: too far into the symphonic realm and we've.
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  Speaker 2: Lost the metal band side, so to speak.
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  Speaker 6: So we've had to really think about bringing that back
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  Speaker 6: and to you know, because we still want to be
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  Speaker 6: known as a metal band because we are.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we you know, I know when we.
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  Speaker 6: Did Legacy, that was that was a really big learning
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  Speaker 6: curve for us at the time, to really find that
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  Speaker 6: balance between just an orchestral track or a metal track.
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  Speaker 6: And yeah, you're right, the finding finding the balance and
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  Speaker 6: and you know, finding space for so many different instruments
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  Speaker 6: that are just coming out of two speakers.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's really difficult.
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  Speaker 5: And I think with the approach to be on the
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  Speaker 5: Stars as well, having learned, you know, from our first
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  Speaker 5: record and from Legacy, as Anthony mentioned, I think the
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  Speaker 5: approach this time was far more to prioritize the band
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  Speaker 5: aspects of the song, which I know sounds dune, but
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  Speaker 5: you know, Anthony and I we love our classical arrangements
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  Speaker 5: and our folk music and all of that. So we
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  Speaker 5: do tend to get a bit carried away with orchestrations
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  Speaker 5: and things, whereas this time we you know, really made
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  Speaker 5: a point to emphasize the band stuff and what will
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  Speaker 5: ultimately be performed live, and then everything else is more
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  Speaker 5: secondary to that rather than it all kind of happening
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  Speaker 5: at the same time in the writing process.
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  Speaker 4: Now, speaking of live, Balhall Or start a run of
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  Speaker 4: four shows to promote the album, picking off in Sydney
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  Speaker 4: and Melbourne over the weekend of May sixteen and seventeen,
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  Speaker 4: then Brisbane and Gold Coast the weekend after.
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  Speaker 3: So what can fans expect from those? How much the
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  Speaker 3: new album we playing.
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  Speaker 1: We're playing most of it.
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  Speaker 5: I think there's only a couple of songs that don't
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  Speaker 5: quite make the cut this time around, because we want
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  Speaker 5: to keep it, you know, a titan energetic show, and
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  Speaker 5: you know, we're bringing a lot of bells and whistles
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  Speaker 5: and kind of upping the anti so to speak. We
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  Speaker 5: always like to push ourselves and to go bigger and
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  Speaker 5: better each time. So this is going to be our
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  Speaker 5: most i guess, for lack of a better term, kind
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  Speaker 5: of theatrical show to date, and our biggest kind of
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  Speaker 5: production show to date, so you know, with an absolutely
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  Speaker 5: jam packed set list, and it's going to be a
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  Speaker 5: lot of fun. It's just we just absolutely love performing
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  Speaker 5: and being on the road. That's our happy place.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 5: We love writing and recording, but ultimately there's nothing better
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  Speaker 5: than getting on a stage and being able to engage with.
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  Speaker 1: The fans and our friends one on one.
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  Speaker 6: I was going to say, I just can't wait to
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  Speaker 6: get up there and actually just give back to people.
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: You know, only because this album's coming out eight years
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: after our first album like that, that's a long wait.
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: That's time to territories of waiting time, you know what
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: I mean. So I can't wait to really you know,
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: as Lucky you mentioned, we're going all out with our production.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: It's looking to be our biggest headlines you know so far.
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: I really can't wait to just mate give a really
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: authentic and awesome experience for people and just to really
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: give back and say thank you for sticking around.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: And we spoke before about the flow of the album
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: and the track listing because of the atmospherics and stuff.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: So you mentioned you're going to be playing a lot
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: of the album live, So does that mean, you have
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: to play it in the same order as the album
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: to keep that flow going, or it would it be
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: disjoyed if you chop it up.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this was something that we kind of were figuring
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: out when we were putting the show together and figuring
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: out the set list. But I think the way we've
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: done it, we've taken the flow of the album but
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: incorporated some older songs and broken it up in such
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: a way that you know, there's the album listening experience
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: in the sense of, you know, the flow that you
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: mentioned when you sit down and listen to it, and
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: then we've got the album kind of I guess live
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: experience where you're able to keep the energy up a
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: bit more and kind of pick your moments of light
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: and shade in a slightly different spot to keep, you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: to keep fans engaged in a live setting. So the
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: short answer is, yes, it's broken up, but I think
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: we've done it in such a way that, you know,
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: it makes for a fun live show.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Very nice.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Now, before I let you go, guys, the one major
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: difference between the last time we've spoken now is I've
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: introduced a little segment called photo bomb, which means before
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: I speak to you. I'll troll through your social media
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: and I find a couple of photos and I want
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: to know more about all Right, I found this.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: The first one is pretty cool. The second one, second one,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure if you.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Get to like, but I have a gut feeling.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: The hell of a lot of people to fit in
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: one Stairwell.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: Oh mate, I was I was tight. Yeah, that was crazy.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: That was such a fun show.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: It looks like you got some pretty pretty cool people
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: there with you.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Well, we finished our show at this point and they
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: were just about to go on stage, and then suddenly
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: all of our phones started just going off frantically, and
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: it was Gary, our sound guy at the front there,
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: just messaging us being like, arch enemy want to have
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: a photo with you. Get backstage right now. We're like,
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: what do you mean? They want to have a photo
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: with us. It was this really weird, like surreal moment.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: You know, this was our final show together, I think,
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: after being together for a week, and they were just
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: the loveliest group of people. So yeah, I'm glad that
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: we managed to get a photo together. It was really
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: really cool.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: The second one, and you say you think you might
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: know what it could be I reckon it could be
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: too like you can tell me to mind my own
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: business here, but I'm pretty sure they say you can.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Kiss my idea.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: This was coming. We broke, oh dear.
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: Talking about being authentic all you know, throughout our chat
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: this morning, and here we go.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: I like the way you pardoned the brain health though,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: I think here.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: Poor Sophie, Sophie is used to the romance between the
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: two of us. Know, this was just a silly, fun
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: photo just for.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: The for the hell of it.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't really know what to say about that,
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: other than I'm glad that this photo still exists on
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: the internet.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: We're all progressive, right guys, It's fine. Sure.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: More about Sophie. She looks like she's partner Avenge already.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, she looks exhausted.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Exhausted about bullshit?
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Mate?
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Tell me, honestly, was that was that stage? So did
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: someone just happen to take that at the right time?
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: Oh oh look it's anyone's guest. No, definitely stage, But
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: it was. It was just a funny, little little something
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: different for the old wedding album.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, all right, gentlemen, Well thanks for your time.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Pleasure has always well.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: He will released a new album, Beyond the Stars, on
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: April the eleventh, and if you're a fan of these guys,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: you had loved this album and if you're not a fan,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: this should fucking make you one. So congratulations guys, and
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I'll come on to the Breezy Gold Coach show.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Amazing, Thank you so much. Look forward to seeing that