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A Plague Of Metal With PAULIE From SONS OF EREBUS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I'm poorly.
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  Speaker 2: I sing for Sons of Erebus from Adelaide Black and
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  Speaker 2: Death groove band. You know it's a bit niche, but
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  Speaker 2: I love it. The EPs just drops the first thing.
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  Speaker 2: We've been going working on this for a bit of
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  Speaker 2: year now and it's called Drenched in play. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be awesome, man, I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Fantasy Paulie, thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: No worries so as you.
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  Speaker 4: Say, Man, Sons of Ebus released your debut EP, Drenched
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  Speaker 4: did played the last week, so I know it hasn't
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  Speaker 4: been long, but that's the early reception.
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  Speaker 1: Ben, Yeah, we had pretty good so far.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a good feedback and a lot of the compliments,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of messages all positives so far. Men, good
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  Speaker 2: stuff and the songs are familiar with the fans like that.
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  Speaker 1: We've been playing for a while trying to bust out
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  Speaker 1: finishing the CD.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's had a good reception.
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  Speaker 4: Wherever can you dive into it a bit deeper from
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  Speaker 4: a musical point of view and tell us what you're
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  Speaker 4: going for with it?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I mean it started off as a bit more of
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  Speaker 2: a black metal thing like with Me and Ethan, and
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  Speaker 2: then it's kind of a involved and me dipping my
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  Speaker 2: style into it.
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  Speaker 1: I come from a bit more of a groove background,
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  Speaker 1: and then we've just we've.
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  Speaker 2: Tried to make that kind of sound, that bit darker sound,
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  Speaker 2: a bit more accessible, I guess by taking some of
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  Speaker 2: the intensity out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So as a band in the modern age, right, like
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  Speaker 4: what sorts of things you discussed going into your first
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  Speaker 4: release do you sort of do you plan things out
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  Speaker 4: or do you just throw it all out there your
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  Speaker 4: best and see what sticks.
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  Speaker 2: So ah, I mean we've got more songs ready to drop.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to start recording again in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's like it at the time of deciding
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  Speaker 2: what was going to go on, it was like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: these are the songs that the people know. I mean
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  Speaker 2: a couple of them've got T shirt runs, like they've
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  Speaker 2: been like, you know, well recepted by the fee. So
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  Speaker 2: the ones that have already already got merch runs for it,
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  Speaker 2: and that we've got to drop them on the album.
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  Speaker 2: There's a couple that have got always got good reception.
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  Speaker 2: So we were like, nah, it's got to be these
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  Speaker 2: four tracks. It's otherwise we're just going to end up
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  Speaker 2: blowing out into like fifteen like, you know, two discs.
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  Speaker 1: You know all this.
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  Speaker 4: Now Sons were Rivers born back in twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 4: So this is your first Epter album in four years
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  Speaker 4: as a band. Was that something that you planned to
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  Speaker 4: take so long but it had just happened that way?
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  Speaker 1: No, I think it.
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  Speaker 2: Originally it started a bit more of a financial thing,
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  Speaker 2: and then we had to replace the drama. Early on,
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  Speaker 2: we encountered some hurdles with with with that and then
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  Speaker 2: finding an extra and then finding another guitarist, going through
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  Speaker 2: that decision whether we needed one or not. And then
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  Speaker 2: once we had all the members together and started writing
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  Speaker 2: new songs, and that put the CD further back. And
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  Speaker 2: then but yeah, once we decided what we were getting
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  Speaker 2: done and we just let up book this book den
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  Speaker 2: is done, finish it, get it. And then and then
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  Speaker 2: the mixed master became a bit harder the two because
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  Speaker 2: then we started working in competition with guys that had
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  Speaker 2: tied at deadlines and us like Freedom of Fear and
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  Speaker 2: Headboard and stuff like that. So we're so we're now
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  Speaker 2: working with the same producer and trying to get trying
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  Speaker 2: to get our stuff finished amongst all that high priority
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  Speaker 2: stuff as well.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, true turned out as you say, there
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  Speaker 4: is only four trucks on AP so I want to
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  Speaker 4: run through them one at a time and tell us
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  Speaker 4: a bit more about each song from a musical point
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  Speaker 4: of view and then what they are about.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll start with Bridge of Corpses.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, I guess that's a bit more of like the
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  Speaker 2: first time I listened to it, Ethan ran the idea.
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  Speaker 1: He's a guitarist, he ran the idea passed me.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, I want to call this song is, and
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  Speaker 2: this is the idea I have for it, And I
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  Speaker 2: just went off on my own tangent just from the
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  Speaker 2: words Bridge of Corpses and started like having all these
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  Speaker 2: like King Diamond, you know, mutiple fate storylines run through
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  Speaker 2: my head, cannibals and and black magic and and things
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  Speaker 2: like that. So yeah, it became became one of those stories.
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  Speaker 2: And then the sound behind it is a bit more
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of people always hear that one of
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  Speaker 2: these this is and there's this megadith riff which is
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  Speaker 2: like always people people who were saying, oh that song
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  Speaker 2: that Bridger Corpus sounds like that, and you know it's
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  Speaker 2: not supposed to sound like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's just.
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  Speaker 2: Coming out like, yeah, it's got that like underlying like
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  Speaker 2: like nineties groove, and then just kicks into this like bam,
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  Speaker 2: little punchy like intensity.
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  Speaker 1: Like fucking bang bang bang bang, and then yeah, part
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  Speaker 1: of my language.
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  Speaker 3: And then as much as.
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  Speaker 2: You like sweet and then yeah, so yeah, I would
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  Speaker 2: call that kind of like that's that's it.
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  Speaker 1: That where the influence draws from. I guess that early like.
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  Speaker 2: Late eighties, early nineties, like real early like a cult
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  Speaker 2: power of metal black metal stuff here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Nice.
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  Speaker 4: Then we move on to Horrific Penetration, which I can
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  Speaker 4: only imagine the film clip for.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's got I think the title itself's got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of imagination behind it, like the so actually
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  Speaker 2: so Rassi other guitarists is him and I used to
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  Speaker 2: be a band back in the day, and the drummer
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  Speaker 2: from that band sadly took his own life a few
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  Speaker 2: many years ago, and they were in a band a long, long,
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  Speaker 2: long time ago, and that was the name of their
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  Speaker 2: point being Horrific Penetration, and the once we had the
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  Speaker 2: music down, the lyrics interpreted for me came something different
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  Speaker 2: from that like when I listen, when I listened to
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  Speaker 2: those words, I was like, oh, you know, there's a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's a.
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  Speaker 2: Horrible plague happening in the online media with grooming and
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  Speaker 2: and and underage and trafficking and all the things that
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  Speaker 2: are happening in the planet. So that's where the passion
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  Speaker 2: for that song for me comes from. It's a real
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  Speaker 2: like there's a lot of victim impact and and and
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  Speaker 2: the shitty idea behind a lot of those people's crappy psychologies.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, then we've got Army geddon.
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  Speaker 1: Ah at the end of world. Who doesn't know that?
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  Speaker 1: Who does? I mean what we live in? You know,
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  Speaker 1: who doesn't love the stories of you know, the religion.
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  Speaker 1: I mean this story, this story, this story for.
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  Speaker 2: Me really deals from the omens like that trilogy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the movies.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a lot of the subject matter from that.
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  Speaker 2: From this, it's more of a I'd say it's probably
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  Speaker 2: more black metal cross with like like really really old
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  Speaker 2: heavy stuff, like like kind of that doomy black Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: kind of sound. PRUS would like the early black metal sound,
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  Speaker 2: the actual noise of it. But the the subject matter
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  Speaker 2: is definitely definitely related to those like to that, especially
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  Speaker 2: the second Omen movie where they talk about the horror
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  Speaker 2: of Babylon in the second the Coming of the Anti
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  Speaker 2: Christ and all that. So and I went to a
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  Speaker 2: I went to a lovely pub, you know, private Christian school,
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  Speaker 2: so all about that stuff, educated on it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, versed on it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly nice.
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  Speaker 3: And the last one on the on the EP's Children
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  Speaker 3: of the Unholy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is where when when someone says
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  Speaker 2: to me, I want to do black metal, this is
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  Speaker 2: what I think of. Oh that's it's so basically like
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  Speaker 2: anti religious and like contradictory religious. It's just like for me,
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  Speaker 2: it's just like, oh, that's that's where that's the first
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  Speaker 2: kind of black metal I ever heard.
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  Speaker 1: So like that's where I got that from. And it's
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  Speaker 1: just black and threat.
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  Speaker 2: It's just speed and nastiness and satan, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Now you touched on this before me, But you had
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  Speaker 4: so much fun making this EP that you've already looked
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  Speaker 4: at book and time to record the full length. So
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  Speaker 4: what is that can be similar to what's on Dressed
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  Speaker 4: in Plague or was that just like laying the platform.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's more laying the platform with our sounds,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the songs change, all the songs, like I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's more black metally songs, there's more groovy songs, there's
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  Speaker 2: more there's more of death metal songs like the there
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  Speaker 2: there's probably a bit more like.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, I carn't think of the.
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  Speaker 2: Distinction between each like rather than them all trying to
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  Speaker 2: like merging together more so like in this one. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I would say that distinctively, Like you could hear this
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  Speaker 2: sound like this is like because there's stuff that is
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  Speaker 2: influenced by dying foods, and there's stuff that is influenced
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  Speaker 2: by like immortal, and there's stuff that's influenced by paying terror.
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  Speaker 1: You know. So it's it's a bit like trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep trying to keep those things in their own lanes respectively.
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  Speaker 3: What's looking about next year? Sometime?
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  Speaker 2: For that you reckon on hopefully earlier, Hopefully it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: take flipping four years like this.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I think it'll be early.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think I'm i'm i'm I'm hoping for
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  Speaker 2: somewhere between now and the middle of the next year.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's really the hope.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's that's what I would plan on and like,
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  Speaker 2: I know a couple of other guys might so.
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  Speaker 3: Why did you fuck say that?
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  Speaker 1: That's what you get to do when you're singer.
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  Speaker 3: You can say what do you want rest to do?
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: There. You've got to.
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  Speaker 4: Show coming up later this year supporting us thrash Metal
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  Speaker 4: out back to so tell us more about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was we heard our touring the production company.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how the promotion company got. They fell
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  Speaker 2: into their lapse as far as I know. For the
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  Speaker 2: for the from wanting to add an Adelaide show, that
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  Speaker 2: was just the availability and the dates and Halloween. Who
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  Speaker 2: doesn't love that? I'm stoked. I haven't done on the
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  Speaker 2: international support since The Ripper, I think in twenty thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: That was with my with my mother being a murder
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  Speaker 2: of crows.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah cool? And about any other shows, you's got the
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  Speaker 3: other shows up people to catch.
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  Speaker 2: Yet, We've got a show in Melbourne at the Boogieyman Bar.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's Abosford, which is you know Melbourne. It's that's
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  Speaker 2: at the Boogieyman Bar. It's with rautism for names for
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  Speaker 2: names birthday. So it's going to be killer show. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure terror rental and disdaughter of playing.
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  Speaker 1: I Reckon, I Reckon. That's the line up and Sons
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  Speaker 1: of Erebus of course, but.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be our second time in Melbourne and countless
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  Speaker 2: times away.
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  Speaker 1: Now I love it.
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  Speaker 2: It's good.
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  Speaker 1: I like I like Melbourne. That's October four.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then there's the Halloween show with Vector at
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  Speaker 2: the Woodshed that's in Adelaide or it's some royal park
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  Speaker 2: in South Australia.
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  Speaker 1: And I think there's.
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  Speaker 2: Possibly there might be a possibility of another show being
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  Speaker 2: announced that I am not allowed to announce, but there
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  Speaker 2: could be something else more.
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  Speaker 3: White push on that one.
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  Speaker 4: But where can we keep up to date with the
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  Speaker 4: band and find out themselves what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Ah? Well, we've got We've got all the socialist Facebook,
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  Speaker 2: Instagram everything, Sons of Erebus. Everything could be found off
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  Speaker 2: the link tree forward slash Sons of Erebus. There's link tree,
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  Speaker 2: there's linked tr dot double e forward slash.
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  Speaker 1: Sons of Erebus. You will find everything there.
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  Speaker 2: We have got the newest album could be played straight
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  Speaker 2: out of there, all of our YouTube channel, everything.
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  Speaker 4: It's a lot fantastic, Very well, best to luck with everything.
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  Speaker 4: Imagine if you've never make it up with Brucebane let
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  Speaker 4: us know it, or come down we'll have a beer.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely. Man I would love that. You're been great, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me man I really appreciate it.