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Carnage Fuelled By Passion With LEO LUTHER From LUTHER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hi everyone. I am Leo from Luther. We are a
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  Speaker 1: brilliant based band. We formed in twenty twenty four and
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  Speaker 1: we are somewhat of a like I wouldn't say supergroup,
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  Speaker 1: but that's the kind of concept. We are all people
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  Speaker 1: that we're in different bands but in the same scene,
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  Speaker 1: and we met each other, we liked each other, so
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  Speaker 1: we started this project and I am the let's say,
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  Speaker 1: like the leader or like the the one that put
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  Speaker 1: the spark, let's say, to make it start.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's gonna spark it up that yeah, no, right, thanks
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  Speaker 2: to joining us today. So O, we're here to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the fact that later released a debut single, Next
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  Speaker 2: Time Sandy Killer, a couple of weeks ago on June
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  Speaker 2: the thirteenth, so and it has only been two weeks,
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  Speaker 2: but it was the early resecond band for it.
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  Speaker 1: It's been incredible, Like I have, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: to say, of course, like I've done music in the
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  Speaker 1: in the past with different bands, like we also did
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  Speaker 1: some good stuff, but this one had such a warm
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  Speaker 1: welcome from the metalcore community, which is a community that
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  Speaker 1: I'm entering for the first time because before I was
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  Speaker 1: doing progressive metal and they have been so kind and
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  Speaker 1: like I have like thousands of like playlist saves, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I can see on my Spotify and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people reposted just like they found
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  Speaker 1: the song and reposted it. So that's awesome. I've been
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  Speaker 1: very very excited, very unexpected as well.
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  Speaker 2: Ye know, So tell us me more about the song
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  Speaker 2: from a musical point of view and what you're actually
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  Speaker 2: going for it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So this comes from basically me wishing to experiment
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  Speaker 1: with something very like angry music, right, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that angry music it's also like trap metal. I know
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  Speaker 1: that maybe it's not the most common sub general metal.
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  Speaker 1: I know this guy Buffalo Farm that I'm really into
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  Speaker 1: his music recently. And then whilst I was kind of
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  Speaker 1: looking into this scene, I found Riff Crimes and Riff
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  Speaker 1: Crimes is a producer in LA and he is one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest name for trap metal. So I hit
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  Speaker 1: him up and I was like, can you help us
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  Speaker 1: out on this song? And he said yeah, So he
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  Speaker 1: brought this thing into it. There is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of metacre, a little bit of gent a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of trap metal, and that's how it was born.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Now that is advt song. From Li, So why
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  Speaker 2: did you choose that particular song to introduce the world
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  Speaker 2: to the band?
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  Speaker 1: This is you're not gonna like this answer. So basically,
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  Speaker 1: I of course, like in a band that you want
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  Speaker 1: to be successful, like you need to have some sort
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  Speaker 1: of strategy, right, So I was like, fuck the strategy,
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  Speaker 1: We're just gonna do what we want. So there is
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  Speaker 1: two songs that I have this type of sound identity
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  Speaker 1: of us, and those are the songs that we released
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  Speaker 1: with Next Time, Santa Killer and Oyster, which were released
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  Speaker 1: together on thirteen or February of June. And now we're
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  Speaker 1: working on a debut album that literally has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with Madacre. So yeah, that was not the wisest choice,
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  Speaker 1: but I felt like fuck it, you know, like we
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  Speaker 1: like that song, now we like another one. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do that that way?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, why not? Now You've got a couple more single
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  Speaker 2: scheduled for a lazy in giving the people what they
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  Speaker 2: want and the most famous rat in the sewers, so
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  Speaker 2: I'll spore about each of them and roughly when they're
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  Speaker 2: coming out.
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  Speaker 1: I wish like that I could put out the most
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  Speaker 1: giving the people what they want, like instantly. It's so
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  Speaker 1: good like. I like that song so much. It's so fun.
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  Speaker 1: I think people are gonna like it if they see it.
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  Speaker 1: So I wish I could do it now already. I
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  Speaker 1: just need to keep it in between budget because like
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  Speaker 1: one video like that costs us like something like two
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  Speaker 1: K minimum, you know, because it's a Yeah, it's such
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  Speaker 1: like the high quality of videography of course Christopher has.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to put it out. But then if
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  Speaker 1: I put it out when I debut the album, I'm
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  Speaker 1: down two thousand years and I don't know how to
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  Speaker 1: make Yeah, So it's gonna be a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a If I could do whatever I want, if I
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  Speaker 1: had endless money, I would put it out and then
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  Speaker 1: I would do more. But that's not really the case here,
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see. We need to be a little bit patient,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, and calculative.
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  Speaker 2: Are your song titles, mate, Like You've got songs given
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  Speaker 2: the people what they want? The most famous mate in
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  Speaker 2: the sea next time sending killer Light. You put a
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  Speaker 2: lot of thought into the song called. They're not just
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  Speaker 2: throw away song titles, are they?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly Like I I've always had an inclination to
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  Speaker 1: inclination towards being a little bit like I guess poetic
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  Speaker 1: or like to suggest something with titles with lyrics. I
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  Speaker 1: think they came out pretty good. I think you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: like like the song names in the debut album as well.
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  Speaker 1: They're a little bit fun like fun. For me, it's
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  Speaker 1: such like an important element. And I think everyone of
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  Speaker 1: Luther is the same, Like we go party together, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we play together. It's fun to have fun. It's a
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  Speaker 1: big element in this band. Yeah, when you're.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up with some titles, do you come up with
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  Speaker 2: them in German and then translate the English?
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  Speaker 1: Is that why they like?
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  Speaker 2: Or do you come up with them in English?
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  Speaker 1: Actually they are straight up born in English. But then
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  Speaker 1: I need to double check because of course sometimes something
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  Speaker 1: sounds good in my brain like how it would sound
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  Speaker 1: in English, and then actually I'm like, look, either grammatically
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  Speaker 1: or logically wrong, so I have to ask to fix
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  Speaker 1: it up for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all about the pleasure of listening to b that
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  Speaker 2: I is up common songs and they both absolute bangers,
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  Speaker 2: but they are they're not the same basically, So are
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  Speaker 2: they Are they going to be a good representation of
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  Speaker 2: what do you expect the debut album? Or is there
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  Speaker 2: a lot more going on.
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  Speaker 1: There is a lot more. Yeah, so this giving the
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  Speaker 1: people what they want. It's like I asked the boys
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  Speaker 1: to have a breakdown, like very how to say it,
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  Speaker 1: like usually like that chorus breakdown, but then have a
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  Speaker 1: new metal intro and then I have a hardcore chorus. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So and this worked out so well, and I wish
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  Speaker 1: that I could do more songs like this. So there
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  Speaker 1: is another song that sounds similar in the debut album.
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  Speaker 1: And again it comes because we wanted to have fun.
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  Speaker 1: Those are all fun you know elements. We put it together.
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  Speaker 1: It worked, that's it. Now I can tell you that
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  Speaker 1: the debut album is going to have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Gray Heaven influences. System of a Down is a big one.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how it came to be. Of course
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  Speaker 1: I love the band, but I didn't expect me to
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  Speaker 1: kind of do that. What else? Yeah, these two So
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna be exciting.
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  Speaker 2: I said, Now you've got a rough chart and it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be out. Will be this year or will be
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  Speaker 2: next year?
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  Speaker 1: I think next year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, people could be patient. There was an interesting
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  Speaker 2: light in press release and said that through their music,
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  Speaker 2: Luther communicates the motions of isolation, betrayal, rageing, escapism, Milet's
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  Speaker 2: it's quite a powerful quite can you elaborate on.
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  Speaker 1: That for us? Yeah, of course. So I think the
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  Speaker 1: members of Luther we all, of course, like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of metal heads, like one under percent, I'm speaking for
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  Speaker 1: all of us in here. They felt some somewhat alienated
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  Speaker 1: at a certain point in their life and then they
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  Speaker 1: found like some sort of companionship in metal music. So
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  Speaker 1: there is a lot of that in my lyrics. There
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  Speaker 1: is a lot of I don't know, like feelings of
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  Speaker 1: solitude because that's also very powerful human experience and very
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  Speaker 1: common in my life for some reason. And anger. I
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of anger, So there is also the
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  Speaker 1: anger part. I think it's mostly me, not the boys,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we saw a touch on this. But essentially your
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  Speaker 2: music draws from hardcore of new metal, list, progressive medal
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  Speaker 2: in there you got metal list. There's so much going on,
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  Speaker 2: but how difficult is it to get the balance of
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  Speaker 2: all of those right in the creative process when you're
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  Speaker 2: writing the songs.
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  Speaker 1: So we are super lucky because we have Enrico Tiberi,
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  Speaker 1: which he mixes masters and does like I would say
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  Speaker 1: fifty percent of songwriting with our input. Like, he's a
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  Speaker 1: master musician. So we ask him like, hey, can we
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  Speaker 1: do a song like this? How do you think it
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  Speaker 1: should sound?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 1: What are the chords? He gives us some option and
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  Speaker 1: then we build. We build on that, and he is
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  Speaker 1: just so talented that I I don't think I've ever
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  Speaker 1: heard anything that he did that sounded off for us.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, literally I could come with him with any
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  Speaker 1: input and we would have like a hit.
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  Speaker 2: Single someoney, you got any any shows coming up that
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  Speaker 2: people can check out?
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  Speaker 1: I have? So I am friends with this booker here
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  Speaker 1: in Berlin. He used to book my old band, uh
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  Speaker 1: and he offered us two opening slots for two popular bands.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not confirmed, so I cannot say it. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: when we shut the cameras I say it to you.
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  Speaker 2: Well about have what's the best flash for people to
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  Speaker 2: keep up with what's going on with Luther?
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  Speaker 1: I think Instagram and Spotify. Of course we are on
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  Speaker 1: band camp because that's that's what we need to do
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  Speaker 1: and that's what's right to do. And yeah, and that's
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  Speaker 1: it in YouTube as well. YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: Very nice? All right? Well thanks you tomings me a
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  Speaker 2: pleasure speak we did the song next time. Senda Kila
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  Speaker 2: is out now. It's an absolute fucking banger. I suggest
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  Speaker 2: everyone checks it out and look forward to hearing what
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  Speaker 2: the future holds for you. Guys.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having us today. That's so exciting.