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The Power Of Letting Go With ANA · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Anna, singer of the band Anna.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the lead singer.
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  Speaker 4: The only singer and the only.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Josh and I played guitar Banana.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Mark. Hell yeah, I play keys in Enna.
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  Speaker 2: He just recently started.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, it's very nice.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just have the bend this year.
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  Speaker 3: Oh and we've got one more.
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  Speaker 1: And god here, yeah, we've got made. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us? Yeah it works, Oh.
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  Speaker 7: My god, perfect background, perfect, Thanks for coming in.
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  Speaker 6: No worries, no, right, So Adam had been pretty busy
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  Speaker 6: of late, but we'll start off with the next festival
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  Speaker 6: date the band's got, which is Rockdale Metal Festival on
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  Speaker 6: September twenty seven, so it's not far away now.
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  Speaker 1: It goes with the home starting to kick here. It
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  Speaker 1: looks like a pretty good festival.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so excited and also it's our first time and
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  Speaker 2: gonna play in Sydney and first time in festival in Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're just.
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  Speaker 3: So excited and.
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  Speaker 1: Looking forward.
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  Speaker 8: Yes that's the word.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It's a great festival as twelve bands including yourselves, as Heretic, Alficium,
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  Speaker 6: Nobody's Full, shock Wave and more. But it's gotta be
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  Speaker 6: a good feeling for you guys to headline an Australian festival, like,
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  Speaker 6: especially with the amount of talented bands during the realms.
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  Speaker 1: At the moment, we were.
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  Speaker 3: Just like, I was so.
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  Speaker 2: Shocked when we received the post and we were on top,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, oh that feels good and scary
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  Speaker 2: the same time. The pressure yeah basically right, yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: excited all the meeting everybody. Yeah, it's going to be great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Cool. It's been a huge year already, Frandon.
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  Speaker 6: We started with nine headline shows across Germany, Poland, Czech Republic,
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  Speaker 6: Slovakia and Hungary back in January, So how are those shows?
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  Speaker 4: Europe was really interesting because that was a slightly different lineup.
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  Speaker 3: We currently have Cody over there.
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  Speaker 4: He's currently the bass player, but in Europe he was
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  Speaker 4: the keyboard player okay.
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  Speaker 3: And it just we didn't have a full lineup.
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  Speaker 4: We needed someone to play keys, and Cody took on
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  Speaker 4: the possible task of learning how to play keys.
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  Speaker 3: In six months.
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  Speaker 6: Wow, nice work, brother, nice way. The European market like
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  Speaker 6: the band like they traditionally like Loss Evans. But how
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  Speaker 6: do you guys go down over there?
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  Speaker 4: Our biggest prize is that we have quite a decent
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  Speaker 4: fan base in Budapese, Okay, which we didn't know about
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  Speaker 4: until we turned up.
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  Speaker 1: Nice fighters.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a nice surprise to get there and
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  Speaker 4: see the club four and people coming up to you
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  Speaker 4: saying they know the songs, which we had no idea about,
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  Speaker 4: which was really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. How different of the crowns over there in Europe? Like,
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  Speaker 1: are they like Australia?
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  Speaker 6: Are they sort of in your face and loud or
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  Speaker 6: they stand off a bit more?
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  Speaker 4: No, I would say Europe's pretty similar to here. We
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  Speaker 4: went to Japan in April. That was a bit of
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  Speaker 4: a you know, difference in culture. Yeah, they're a bit
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  Speaker 4: of a mixed bag. They tend to keep pretty quiet,
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  Speaker 4: and when you finish a song, they keep quiet to
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  Speaker 4: make sure you really have finished before they clap. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and they kind of make you think, like did I
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  Speaker 4: fuck up do something wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It's a whole different world over there.
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  Speaker 6: I opened over with a few different bands and it's
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  Speaker 6: a great music environment over there. But their clubs are
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  Speaker 6: twenty or thirty people in some of them. In the
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  Speaker 6: life house is early small, but yeah, cred a lot
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  Speaker 6: of energy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it changed a lot from city to city, and
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  Speaker 4: Japan was fun for us. Too, because Mark that's when
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  Speaker 4: he joined the band officially doing the tour, so we
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  Speaker 4: had one rehearsal with him in Tokyo before we started
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  Speaker 4: like another nine shows.
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  Speaker 8: Right, that was that was amazing, bet, But the quality
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  Speaker 8: of musicians over there too, Like I think I've seen
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  Speaker 8: about over one hundred bands while I've been over there,
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  Speaker 8: and I'd probably pay to see ninety of them again.
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  Speaker 1: Like they just gorgeous masters of what they do, aren't they.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely the first show we played in Tokyo it
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  Speaker 4: felt like a festival, like every band.
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  Speaker 1: Was so good, a great game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's definitely that, like a nice healthy competition, you know,
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  Speaker 4: where you want to put on your best every night.
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  Speaker 4: Plus we also we do something whenever we go on tour,
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  Speaker 4: we pick a song to cover that is special to
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  Speaker 4: that country or that city.
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  Speaker 1: Nice what did you change for your band?
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  Speaker 4: So for Japan, we tossed around for what we should
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  Speaker 4: do and we settled on heavy chains by loudness. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it didn't go down well. There was a lot of
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  Speaker 4: nerves leading up to that because this is almost like
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  Speaker 4: something sacred, you know, going there to play that. But
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  Speaker 4: they definitely I think we did.
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  Speaker 3: We did it. Justice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good idea. It's good.
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  Speaker 6: That's like already this year, you guys have done heapes
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  Speaker 6: of international touring, especially for band less than three years old.
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  Speaker 6: So has it always been a focus of the band
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  Speaker 6: to get out of Australia and get over the stage.
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  Speaker 4: Look, we love playing just about anywhere, but we did
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  Speaker 4: feel we wanted to travel. We want to see the world,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, playing all these different places, I think
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  Speaker 4: that really attracts us.
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  Speaker 3: Going to somewhere brand new, and those.
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  Speaker 4: Cities that we went to in Europe are not that
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  Speaker 4: common and for a lot of the bands who are
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  Speaker 4: first of all, not many bands go to Europe, and
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  Speaker 4: even those that do go, they tend to go to
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  Speaker 4: the UK and some of the more major cities. But
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  Speaker 4: where we're adventures and we're broke.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah and crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we drive through snowstorms and go to Poland
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  Speaker 4: and Slovakia.
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  Speaker 9: It's good the car was sleeping from the world because
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  Speaker 9: Josh never drew in that condition before.
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  Speaker 7: And I know it's like it was it was a storm,
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  Speaker 7: like you can't really see.
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  Speaker 3: It was really bad.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, like Cody.
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  Speaker 4: Will tell you, we've got a lot of history with
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  Speaker 4: bed driving stories.
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  Speaker 1: Gives the best bad driving story, it's the one I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking of.
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  Speaker 10: It's gonna be a Q.
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  Speaker 3: Is it a bit too bad of a memory for you?
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  Speaker 10: It's all good?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: So we ended up long so sure, winning a sort
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  Speaker 10: of competition to get up to play in Early Beach
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  Speaker 10: in Queensland, and we decided to make a big road
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  Speaker 10: trip out of it, So driving all the way from Melbourne,
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  Speaker 10: Victoria all the way up there, and yeah, we had
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  Speaker 10: a plan, we had the stops along the way everything,
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  Speaker 10: and was the very very first day.
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  Speaker 1: Driving up there.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: First ye I was all good.
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  Speaker 10: And then one of the cars pretty much just died,
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  Speaker 10: just died. Yep, Like everything that went wrong on the
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  Speaker 10: trip up there basically did.
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  Speaker 1: When you got there. Early Beach is a great place,
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  Speaker 1: so isn't it.
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  Speaker 10: Oh it was lovely. It was really lovely and like
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  Speaker 10: playing up there, even just being there for the festival
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  Speaker 10: itself was really wonderful.
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  Speaker 6: I'll prop up that wild from Cannes, so I've may
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  Speaker 6: do a couple of the Early Beach festivals and I
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  Speaker 6: put on a good spice, really good.
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  Speaker 4: But to get there it was, Yeah, we're to drive
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  Speaker 4: back and forth, so much the night.
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  Speaker 1: That's just stupid, trying to drive from the over daily beach. First.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The second time.
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  Speaker 2: The second time, the car broke down just literally we
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  Speaker 2: had no wheels, not me.
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  Speaker 1: Such as car help.
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  Speaker 3: The wheels just shredded.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you could see through the through the tire completely.
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  Speaker 2: That's the second time.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let it be third.
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  Speaker 2: We honestly, we're honestly thought we will never we will
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  Speaker 2: never make it.
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  Speaker 7: Really because we arrived just before almost just before the
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  Speaker 7: gieg this it was.
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  Speaker 1: At least you made it.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, then go then goodness, and that's
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  Speaker 9: how we we have this amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Memories.
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  Speaker 6: You can't create memories three good times all the time,
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  Speaker 6: can't have some bad ones.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I pretty much all my memories is
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  Speaker 7: like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Anyway, now, you guys released your debut album, The Art
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  Speaker 6: of Letting Go last year, So how was the response
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  Speaker 6: to that.
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  Speaker 4: Response to that was yeah, really good. We didn't know
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  Speaker 4: what to expect as that was new. It's just a
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  Speaker 4: five song EP. We got a lot of In fact,
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  Speaker 4: there was a lot of where our listeners were coming from.
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  Speaker 3: That we decided where to go in Europe.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, we actually wanted to go to Finland because for
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  Speaker 4: some reason that's where we had the most listeners, but
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  Speaker 4: we couldn't book a venue mhm. So the plan changed
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  Speaker 4: and we're still trying to get back there, but it
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  Speaker 4: still seems to be a it's so far away from
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  Speaker 4: everything else and it's yeah, it's just hard to get there.
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  Speaker 4: So hopefully this time we'll get a little bit closer.
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  Speaker 6: Tell us a bit more about about the EP, the
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  Speaker 6: Hot to Let Go, So tell us about it from
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  Speaker 6: a musical point of view, I guess, and what you're
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  Speaker 6: going forward with it being a debut album.
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  Speaker 3: We honestly, we're just trying. We didn't We're just like.
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  Speaker 9: I know what I like, I know what Josh like,
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  Speaker 9: and I had like a melody and the lyrics done
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  Speaker 9: and then we just jam and that's how our genre.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a misshmash of you know, different people.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we put that much thought into.
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  Speaker 3: It at that stage.
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  Speaker 4: And right now we're finishing up our full length album
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  Speaker 4: and now we have Cody and Mark in the band,
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  Speaker 4: and having you know, done two tours with Cody and
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  Speaker 4: one tour with Mark, we went into a studio for
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  Speaker 4: two days and wrote the whole.
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  Speaker 1: Thing music to what was on the epain.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be eight brand new tracks.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's if you listen to the EP, you'll
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  Speaker 4: be familiar with what we're doing, but there's quite a
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  Speaker 4: few surprises, and it's it's like a more polished version
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  Speaker 4: of us, you know. Definitely touring together with everyone. I
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  Speaker 4: think you know, Mark and I talked about this as well.
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  Speaker 4: It was really good that we went into the studio
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  Speaker 4: straight after the Japan tour because we've been playing night
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  Speaker 4: after night with everyone. So two days was nuts the
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  Speaker 4: rite and a range eight songs, but it came together
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  Speaker 4: so easily.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very cool, very good.
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  Speaker 6: Now that there was a line in the press release
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  Speaker 6: that I read that I want you guys to elaborate
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  Speaker 6: on a.
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  Speaker 1: Bit for us.
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  Speaker 6: It refers to it when it's tony music. It refers
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  Speaker 6: to the cinematic orchestration within your music. Can you elaborate
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  Speaker 6: on that a bit for us? Uh?
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  Speaker 5: So, basically, when we were making the album, before we
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  Speaker 5: started going into the studio, Josh actually put me aside
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  Speaker 5: and told me that, you know, Anna likes all the strings,
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  Speaker 5: likes to have the strings in in the songs. But
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  Speaker 5: if I could have my way I would love to
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  Speaker 5: have a lot of synse.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of okay, took that, took that into into mine
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  Speaker 5: when when when we were writing the album and tried
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  Speaker 5: to come up with a good balance that we could
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  Speaker 5: have uh, cinematic stringlines along with synth sounds and synth
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  Speaker 5: sound design in the song. So that's how it all
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  Speaker 5: came came about. It was like a mix of everyone's
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  Speaker 5: ideas and and when we went into the studio, it
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  Speaker 5: was it was honestly, it was quite magic.
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen anything like that.
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  Speaker 5: Like writing a full album in two days. And yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I really think that the Japan tour helped us a
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  Speaker 5: lot because we knew what each one what each other
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  Speaker 5: was thinking, Like I look over at Cody, I know
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  Speaker 5: what he's going to play.
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  Speaker 3: I look at it at our drama, I.
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  Speaker 5: Look over at Josh, and I looked at Enna and
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  Speaker 5: everything just just came together in a very short amount
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  Speaker 5: of time and it was it was perfect. Couldn't have
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  Speaker 5: asked for a better experience than this, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Very cool?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, And it was essentially your music blends symphonic metal,
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  Speaker 6: power metal and heavy metal together, so how difficult is
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  Speaker 6: it to get the balance.
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  Speaker 1: Between genres right and the creative process.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll think you something funny about our band.
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  Speaker 4: There's five of us, and between the five of us,
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  Speaker 4: there isn't a single artist that we all agree on
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  Speaker 4: that we like already. Yeah, everybody listens to a different
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  Speaker 4: kind of music or band. I think what brings it
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  Speaker 4: together is we enjoy playing with each other. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we will never go to the same concerts. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we don't sit down and listen to the same music.
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  Speaker 4: But when we get in a room, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: five people who are great at what they do, but
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  Speaker 4: there's no egos.
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  Speaker 1: Very important.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so we spoke to be at the festival. You
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  Speaker 6: playing at Rockdale, But what else has only got played
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  Speaker 6: for the rest of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 4: Six we have our first like little mini tour, two
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  Speaker 4: shows in Victorian, two shows in New South Wales in October.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because we've.
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  Speaker 4: Played everywhere except like Sydney Wollongong. So we're going to
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  Speaker 4: finally go and do it. And then we've got a
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  Speaker 4: whole bunch bunch of releases coming.
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  Speaker 3: Out in the new year. We'll have the new album
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  Speaker 3: out along with four music videos.
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  Speaker 4: Very cool, and after that we should be planning to
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  Speaker 4: head back to Europe and Asia again.
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  Speaker 3: And probably some Australia shows dotted in between.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah cool. And what's the best place for people to
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: keep up to date with the bad and get your music.
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  Speaker 3: Probably Instagram and Spotify.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, but we do have all the social medias. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: we were active pretty much on every social media, but
• 15:37
  Speaker 7: mainly it's like, yeah, Instagram, but yes, spoty five YouTube, Yeah,
• 15:46
  Speaker 7: any any any platforms fine, not really, not really helpful.
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  Speaker 3: Yet, or buy a CD of the website.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah cool, that is a right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, guys, well, thanks very much for your time. It's
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  Speaker 6: been a pleasure. He is getting nights. We'll make sure
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  Speaker 6: you let me know when you come to Brisbane and
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  Speaker 6: I come down check this out. But in the maintime, okay,
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  Speaker 6: thanks Chris, thank you, Thank you, Chris.