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Settling Scores Through Music With ADAM DE MICCO From LORNA SHORE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm Adam Damiko. I play guitar and Lorna Shore
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  Speaker 2: and we are coming to Australia and New Zealand in
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  Speaker 2: October with Whitechapel and The Acacia Strain. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: all the dates off the back of my hand, but
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  Speaker 2: I know we're gonna be there in October. That's all
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: That'll do.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us today, well, thank you for having
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  Speaker 2: me perfectly.
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  Speaker 3: My pleasure as the same or show return to Australia
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  Speaker 3: later this year for a run of headline shows, kicking
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  Speaker 3: off in Melbourne on October sixteenth, before hitting Adelaide, Perth,
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  Speaker 3: Sydney and Brisbane and heading out in New Zealand to
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  Speaker 3: play Wellington and Auburn.
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  Speaker 1: So what the lights have you got in store for
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  Speaker 1: us the stone around?
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  Speaker 2: I haven't thought that too far into it, other than
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  Speaker 2: that we're going on tour with with these bands and
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  Speaker 2: we're going here at this time of the year. After that,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I haven't even touched upon that. With all
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  Speaker 2: this busy touring we have this year, I'm kind of
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  Speaker 2: worried about the next tour we have going on. So
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  Speaker 2: that's why I don't You could ask me, maybe in
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks that might field to give you
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  Speaker 2: a better answer.
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  Speaker 1: It all, and it's going to are your third visit
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  Speaker 1: to a Strier? Yes, yes, Well why do you think
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  Speaker 1: it connects so well with audiences?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like we owe them a debt, is
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  Speaker 2: what I was saying before. We probably with someone some money.
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  Speaker 2: That's why we keep returning so quickly. But uh no, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: it's been awesome. It's been it's been awesome. Every single
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  Speaker 2: time we've been here, the shows have gotten better. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping that that's kind of the plan for this
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  Speaker 2: tour is to do it bigger than we did the
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  Speaker 2: last time. And the first time we're here was kind
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  Speaker 2: of for a place that we'd never been to to
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  Speaker 2: play to go on sale and all the shows like
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  Speaker 2: basically sold out, and it was like, wow, we were
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  Speaker 2: none of us were expecting that. It's like someone we've
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  Speaker 2: never been to. It took us a while to sell
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  Speaker 2: out those type of rooms, and even like Europe in
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  Speaker 2: our own you know, you know, backyard, so that existed
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  Speaker 2: on our first go around. It's like, well, maybe we
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  Speaker 2: should return. People seem to be interested in hearing us,
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  Speaker 2: and then we came back for festivals and that went
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  Speaker 2: over amazingly. Minus the heat still is great though, So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it just it's just more so overturning where where people
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  Speaker 2: seem to want you so it it seems to be
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  Speaker 2: on this long sixteen hour flight to Australia, it seems
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  Speaker 2: to be where people want us to return to.
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  Speaker 3: You do mention like you start that you can't reach
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five choice, it's matching a good thing festival.
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  Speaker 3: So this time's going to be playing arenas and much
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  Speaker 3: bigger stadiums by the John Paynterena and the Warden Pavilions.
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  Speaker 1: So depressions on this time.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, thankfully because earlier this year we've done some
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  Speaker 2: pretty big arenas in Europe. We have a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of experience with this. If you would asked us maybe
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  Speaker 2: last year when our first time in twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 2: in Australia, I would think we would have been like,
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  Speaker 2: we're not ready for it. But because we have a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of experience with it, I think we might be. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'll cross my fingers hope for the best. But I
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  Speaker 2: think because we have we've done a tour similar to
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  Speaker 2: these similar sized rooms in Europe. I feel like it.
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  Speaker 2: I think we have a little bit of experience in
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  Speaker 2: these size rooms, but it's still exciting. Nonetheless, doesn't the
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  Speaker 2: thrill isn't gone, and it still isn't nerve wrecking. But
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  Speaker 2: I feel like they think we're a little more ready
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  Speaker 2: than and I think we would have anticipated a few
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  Speaker 2: years ago.
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  Speaker 1: And do you think all this show is going to
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  Speaker 1: be because you're playing in the bigger ring, is like
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have most sites production and most site.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, always, always, yeah. I think I think we're
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  Speaker 2: always trying to like fill up the stage as much
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  Speaker 2: as we can. It seems like.
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  Speaker 3: You play it like a pretty grueling, physically demanding set
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  Speaker 3: with relentless right down heavy from start to finish. Man
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  Speaker 3: like get the diructure of the set list si that
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  Speaker 3: everyone gets a bit of time and decompressor in the
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  Speaker 3: show or the this guy guy guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there definitely is like songs that we will be
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  Speaker 2: like we will not start off the set with it
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  Speaker 2: because we're not warmed up or or we definitely try
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  Speaker 2: to curate a set that kind of like eggs and flows,
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  Speaker 2: not only like ebbs and flows as far as like
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  Speaker 2: with the crowd because I feel like if it was
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  Speaker 2: just non stop from beginning to end, I think people
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  Speaker 2: will get fatigued, not only just us, but I think
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  Speaker 2: even the crowd. I think by because we have I
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  Speaker 2: think like a dense catalog and we kind of interchange
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  Speaker 2: between different sounds and styles throughout the the set and
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  Speaker 2: our album that has different things, I feel like we're
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  Speaker 2: able to intertwine that into the set. So it kind
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  Speaker 2: of curious a set that kind of gives us a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a reprieve sometimes or has a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a break here, or Okay, this song is
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a break though this next song
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  Speaker 2: that's challenging, you know, we could be prepared for that,
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  Speaker 2: or the song that's really challenging, the next song is
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  Speaker 2: kind of a little bit easier. So I think we
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  Speaker 2: try curating a set that kind of works better for
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  Speaker 2: us because but you know, uh, thankfully we have a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of diversity in our songs that a lot
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  Speaker 2: that caters towards that especially, you know, comparable two years
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  Speaker 2: ago when it was just go, go go, but we
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  Speaker 2: played a shorter set, so it wasn't as bad when
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  Speaker 2: you're playing like an hour and some change an hour
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  Speaker 2: and a half. It's a long it's a long, brutal set,
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  Speaker 2: especially with some music we play, it's very physically demanding.
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  Speaker 2: It's very exhausting, I'll say the very least.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Man, you usually relies on a lot of cinematics
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  Speaker 3: and orchestrationia for impact.
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  Speaker 1: Is it difficult to replicate those sounds in emotions live?
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  Speaker 2: No, I would say, I would say it doesn't. I
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  Speaker 2: think what it does is it gives because a lot
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  Speaker 2: of stuff that we you in the orchestra is what
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  Speaker 2: was is existing on guitar and and and drums and
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  Speaker 2: the music anyway. The orchestra is just more so an
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  Speaker 2: enhancement of that, and they work with each other. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, having a good front of house that can
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  Speaker 2: get that stuff to come to come across as great.
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  Speaker 2: But also I think it's also cool because I feel
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  Speaker 2: like kind of our sound live you more so hear
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  Speaker 2: the band, and I feel like that emotion is still present,
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  Speaker 2: still present, and still there, like a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: that you hear in the orchestra were we're still playing
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  Speaker 2: on guitar anyway, So I feel like it's still present.
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  Speaker 2: I still think the emotion has still come across, and
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  Speaker 2: I think realistically, like you can simplify all these ideas
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  Speaker 2: down to just someone playing it on two hands on
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  Speaker 2: the piano anyway. So I feel like if a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these ideas are kind of if you could do
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  Speaker 2: it with two hands on the piano, I think just
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  Speaker 2: expanding it across all the other instruments I still think
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  Speaker 2: has the same effect in my in my opinion, maybe
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  Speaker 2: maybe I'm maybe I'm wrong, but I still I like
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  Speaker 2: to think that you still have the same emotional reaction
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  Speaker 2: that you would, you know, without having a full orchestra
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  Speaker 2: behind us.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, and as you said before, man, then most
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  Speaker 3: people have agreed, like you've assembled one of the heaviest
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  Speaker 3: touring lineups in recent memory with White Chapelin, The Acacias,
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  Speaker 3: Stranger On and You're Light.
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  Speaker 1: What makes those two bands the perfect touring partners?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think there are bands that we like
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  Speaker 2: and we've we've grown up listening to and we still
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  Speaker 2: just enjoy Like we've toured with both those bands before,
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  Speaker 2: and it's enjoyable to have them both on the road.
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  Speaker 2: We've had them on different on different shows, on different tours,
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  Speaker 2: but it's just awesome because I feel like they are
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  Speaker 2: a heavy band that is currently doing heavy things and
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  Speaker 2: it's really awesome, and I still think that we're like
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  Speaker 2: still amped up by heavy music. We've been on tour
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  Speaker 2: with Whitechapel earlier this year in Europe and they're just
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  Speaker 2: great to be on the road with. And we did
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  Speaker 2: a short run with the Acacia Strain and I feel
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  Speaker 2: like it was just really short and I wish it
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  Speaker 2: was longer. And they've you know, I think I've been
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  Speaker 2: doing awesome since that point in time. So what better
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  Speaker 2: band to have on the road with us? You know?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, and you're a left most recent album I
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  Speaker 3: feel that ever black festering within me in September last year.
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  Speaker 1: So was it received as well as you'd hope?
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  Speaker 2: I like to think so yeah, I like to think
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  Speaker 2: so I hope so I hope so yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you get a talk man like it frequently
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  Speaker 3: switches between complex text get ribs and storing cinematic landscapes
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  Speaker 3: and melodies. How do you find the balance between those
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  Speaker 3: things in the creative process?
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  Speaker 1: But how do you know when you're going too far
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  Speaker 1: one way or not far in another way?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you could ever go too far. I
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  Speaker 2: think I feel like you know, because we're all fans
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  Speaker 2: of music. I think when you're writing music, you just
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  Speaker 2: got to use your ear and just be your best judge,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Like I think for me, I'd be like,
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  Speaker 2: it's not going too far. Maybe somebody else in a
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  Speaker 2: different way would be like that is too far for me.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's what makes every band an artists unique,
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  Speaker 2: is because the decisions and the choices you would make
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  Speaker 2: within the creative process. But I think you can ever
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  Speaker 2: go too far. I believe going over the top is
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  Speaker 2: this kind of part of the nature of this and
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a I think that's served us well
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  Speaker 2: so far. So I feel like, why why not? Uh,
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  Speaker 2: why alter that if you will? But Yeah, for me,
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  Speaker 2: I just think that, Uh, I just feel like we
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  Speaker 2: can just push the envelope as far as we wish
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  Speaker 2: to and then uh, you know, who's who's who's telling
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  Speaker 2: us not to?
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  Speaker 1: You know, oh man, thank oh. And you're setting the posits.
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  Speaker 3: Cinematic video games scores heavily inspire your orchestration and narrativen
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  Speaker 3: on album lit When when been through that, men like
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  Speaker 3: you actually actively go out looking for something like that,
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  Speaker 3: or does the inspiration hit you while you're playing games,
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  Speaker 3: or why you're watching something.
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  Speaker 2: Or I think I think the inspiration hits definitely, like
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  Speaker 2: whenever I've been watching something, because there's many times I'm
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  Speaker 2: watching a movie or a TV show and I've had
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  Speaker 2: to like bring out my notes app on my phone
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  Speaker 2: just like right down like the TV show and like
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  Speaker 2: maybe the episode because like sometimes like there's been times
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  Speaker 2: for like on a on a on a soundtrack for
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  Speaker 2: a TV show or a movie, like they may have
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  Speaker 2: like a scene or something like that or or or whatnot,
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  Speaker 2: but then somebody's eve by playing video games, be playing
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  Speaker 2: it like oh, I like hearing that sound, like hearing
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  Speaker 2: that theme. So it's not like I don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: actively looking. I think actively looking for something, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like you're gonna kind of fall flat in your face.
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  Speaker 2: I think the best time inspiration kind of comes is
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  Speaker 2: like when you're not expecting it. So sometimes you might
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  Speaker 2: just be just watching a movie with your partner, not
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  Speaker 2: wanting to think about music, and then you hear a
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  Speaker 2: score you're a motif, and you're like, that's really awesome,
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  Speaker 2: and like I enjoy that, And that has happened to
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  Speaker 2: me more often than it has if I've if I've
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  Speaker 2: actually been like today, I'm gonna find this sound. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I've never I've struggled with it and whenever
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of come to me just when by not
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  Speaker 2: looking forward is what I find it was when I
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  Speaker 2: found it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, cool man. And do you remember the first
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  Speaker 1: time you ever heard one of your songs on radio?
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  Speaker 1: And what song was it?
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  Speaker 2: And way way Yeah, Oh my god, that is so funny.
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  Speaker 2: That was that actually is crazy. That was like twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: We put out one of her epiece called Malfysium, and
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  Speaker 2: the big song off of that was the song called
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  Speaker 2: god Maker. And we have like a we have like
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  Speaker 2: a small indie like metal label in New Jersey called
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  Speaker 2: se Seenhall's Pier Radio WS. They've played all like the
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  Speaker 2: heavier music. And I remember I was leaving a bar
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  Speaker 2: and you know it's one of my like my my
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  Speaker 2: preset stations and my old car or whatnot. I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: coming through the stations or whatever, because I think my
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  Speaker 2: phone was dead, so I was waiting for to turn
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  Speaker 2: on so I could listen to actual the music I
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  Speaker 2: want to listen to. And I'm sitting there like I
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  Speaker 2: scrolled through and I'm like this sounds like it took me,
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  Speaker 2: ironically enough, took me way too long that I'm willing
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  Speaker 2: to admit. But I'm sitting there listening, I'm like, this
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  Speaker 2: sounds awfully familiar, like what band is this? What band
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  Speaker 2: is this? And I'm like, oh my god. And then
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  Speaker 2: ironically I did one of those like you know tags,
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  Speaker 2: because we didn't I didn't interview, and I did one
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  Speaker 2: of those things and it was like, this is Adam
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  Speaker 2: from Lorna show and you're listening to whatever and you
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  Speaker 2: heard that after after the song, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, I am so stupid, Like this is
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  Speaker 2: literally I had to like I had to introduce the
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  Speaker 2: song almost to myself, or like I had to do
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  Speaker 2: the closing of the song as myself and heard on
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  Speaker 2: the radio, which was kind of crazy. But yeah, that
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  Speaker 2: was the first time I was like back at twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't expected. It was like I didn't even know
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  Speaker 2: that was gonna beyond the radiocause it's all these other
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  Speaker 2: bands I've heard before. I was expecting our band to
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  Speaker 2: be there. And yeah, I remember it took me like
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  Speaker 2: a little a period of time and I was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: this sounds way too for me, just like who is this?
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  Speaker 2: This sounds way to this is kind of cool, like
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  Speaker 2: this is who is Like Wow, this is the band
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  Speaker 2: I'm in? This is embarrassing. Thankfully, Thankfully I was in
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  Speaker 2: the car by myself and I didn't embarrass myself. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: well you have now, Yeah, exactly exactly. It's too it's
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  Speaker 2: too late, but.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Thanks very much for your time, bro.
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  Speaker 3: The band are in Australia from October sixteenth, kicking off
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  Speaker 3: in Melbourne with The Hatred Strain and White Chuffles. The
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  Speaker 3: thanks to you time made and enjoy everything between now
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  Speaker 3: and then we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me