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Prepare For A Bumpy Ride As BOLZER Prepare To Hit Australia · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a Fabian drammer in Biltze.
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  Speaker 2: And my name's Okoy guitars and vocals. Yeah, we've Boots
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  Speaker 2: has been around since two thousand and eight. We're a
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  Speaker 2: duo and we've always been a duo. Yeah, since then,
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  Speaker 2: played all over the world.
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  Speaker 3: Alight, So now you're coming to Australia as part of
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  Speaker 3: the playing all over the world.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we've been to Australia before. It's been a few
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  Speaker 2: years now, and yeah we last supported Behemoth and Wattin
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  Speaker 2: over there, and yeah, we're looking forward to playing with Portal.
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  Speaker 1: They're also friends of ours.
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  Speaker 3: So nice that is actually happening next month. You'll be
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  Speaker 3: here with Portal starting in Sydney on August and fifteenth,
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  Speaker 3: then you hit Melbourne at Hobart, finish up at Necrosonic
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  Speaker 3: Festival in Brisbane on the twenty third. So that's certainly
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  Speaker 3: about a bunth the way he's packed and ready to
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  Speaker 3: go or do you leave that sort of thing till
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  Speaker 3: the last minute?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're ready to go. Of course, we have another
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  Speaker 2: show here in Europe before we hit over and otherwise
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  Speaker 2: got a lot to do surrounding the coming album.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, nice nice as you said, it has been
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  Speaker 3: a few years since you've been out here, so what's
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  Speaker 3: changed with the band since last time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's a coin mentioned.
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  Speaker 4: We just finished studio session for a new album, but
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  Speaker 4: that one is due for next year, so for now
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  Speaker 4: we're just preparing everything and also starting to play a
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  Speaker 4: few new songs live. So definitely some of them will
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  Speaker 4: appear on this Australian tour as well. Very much looking
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  Speaker 4: forward to plays on fresh material as well.
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  Speaker 3: It's mentioned that our portal our Frenzy also, you're coming
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  Speaker 3: out here to Australia with them. Have you played much
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  Speaker 3: overseas with them?
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  Speaker 2: I think one of once or twice, Yeah, a few
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  Speaker 2: festivals in Europe, I think one of the ka remember, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for sure. And I think we played once one show
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  Speaker 2: in Australia with them, may I'm not too sure.
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  Speaker 1: Were they just hanging around, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I would just take it around backstage waiting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So for the benefit of those who may not have
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  Speaker 3: seen Bottler before, then run us through a typical live
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  Speaker 3: show from you guys.
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  Speaker 2: That's I think we're immersive in the sense that the
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  Speaker 2: music's very.
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  Speaker 1: Powerful in an organic sense. You know, there's a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Not just aggressive energy, but powerful human, honest energy around
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  Speaker 2: and people seem to seem to connect with that when
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  Speaker 2: we play play live, Yeah, and it's it's energetic.
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  Speaker 1: We put a lot of a lot of our passion
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  Speaker 1: into it. Yeah, I think in a personal way. You're
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  Speaker 1: not putting up theatrics.
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  Speaker 2: It's more like really exactly, there are no masks, there's
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  Speaker 2: no makeup.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's very down to worth but in your face.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Nice. Nice.
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  Speaker 3: And it's actually been described as a form of spiritual
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  Speaker 3: rapture your show, So does that mean that it's a
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  Speaker 3: merged with the crowd, Like is it that to do
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  Speaker 3: with stage props? Like, what's what's actually spiritual rapture?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think the music itself has.
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  Speaker 2: Been written in a way that really makes Fabian and
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  Speaker 2: myself feel a lot when it's it's been being created
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  Speaker 2: and performed, it's like a bit of a conduit for
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  Speaker 2: for what we feel and want to express. So I
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  Speaker 2: think it begins and ends in a very spiritual way,
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  Speaker 2: and it's it's about elevation and enlightenment.
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  Speaker 1: Really the music.
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  Speaker 2: So I think people can tap into that energy if
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  Speaker 2: they're you know, if they're willing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So just say someone's coming to see Portal and
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  Speaker 3: they haven't don't know too much about Ballzers, what three
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  Speaker 3: songs would you recommend they listened to before they covered
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  Speaker 3: the show in order to get to know the band better.
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  Speaker 1: H Well, I mean there's some sort of classics I think.
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  Speaker 4: I mean for most people our EP Oral YEP seems
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  Speaker 4: to kind of be there the starting point, and also
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  Speaker 4: are Herald lp Ye, which.
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  Speaker 1: Is the only full length to date.
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  Speaker 4: I would say it's a good way say the start.
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  Speaker 1: Heah, yeah, those would be the best places to start.
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  Speaker 3: Oh and as we said, the tour finishes in Brincebure
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  Speaker 3: at Necrosonic Festival. She's a massive beat of guise. It's
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  Speaker 3: got thirty bands across three stages. But not a bad
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  Speaker 3: way to finish the straw with a bank.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's quite quite the line up exactly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Look, there's a lot of Australian bands there of course,
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  Speaker 3: like you got a Bravel and Bean Flipper Days and
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  Speaker 3: Frank and Bakalara just name a few. But for you
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  Speaker 3: guys coming into a festival that like, do you do
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  Speaker 3: your research and try and find out a bit about
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  Speaker 3: bands that you're playing with or would you rather come
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  Speaker 3: in on the day and just take it.
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  Speaker 1: All in then yeah, actually we do.
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  Speaker 2: I mean if we're not familiar with the names yet,
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  Speaker 2: which is the.
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  Speaker 1: Case in Brisbane.
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  Speaker 2: I knew about day's end, just very very loosely, and
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  Speaker 2: I checked up more and isn't it. I really am
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  Speaker 2: like it, you know, the sold touch on things, take
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  Speaker 2: on things and good mate of mind. He was really
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  Speaker 2: into them too, And yeah, I'm familiar with Blindfolders, Led
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  Speaker 2: to the Woods, the Kiwis, they've been around Gageous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had to had to check out. Yeah, check
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  Speaker 1: out a little of the bands there for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's going to be a brutal data because it's
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  Speaker 3: not there's no like softer bands there on the day.
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  Speaker 3: It's all just fall on video your face, kick your
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  Speaker 3: cups like it's going to be a full day.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Cool.
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  Speaker 3: Come back to the start, you both form Bowls are
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  Speaker 3: back in two thousand and eight. So what was a
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  Speaker 3: musical climate like that gave birth to the band and
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  Speaker 3: where did you fit in initially?
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think the what we were doing at
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  Speaker 2: first was you know, experimentation and the inspirations let's say
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  Speaker 2: right then, were vastly different to what we're actually doing now,
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  Speaker 2: and it just sort of grew wave and from itself
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  Speaker 2: very quickly into something I guess unique sounding, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just kept on evolving from there direct inspirations.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know it was.
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  Speaker 2: We were just listening to a lot of different stuff
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  Speaker 2: as we do now. We're probably listening to more heavy
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  Speaker 2: stuff back then than we do nowadays.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we're into all you know, all avenues and music.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a bit hard to pinpoint certain bands because
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  Speaker 4: I would say it's an amalgamation of all our pretty
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  Speaker 4: broad musical tastes we have. And yeah, it kind of
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  Speaker 4: became its own entity.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was never the kind of guy to write things with,
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  Speaker 2: you know, direct inspirational references.
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  Speaker 1: I actually dislike that. I try to keep it as.
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  Speaker 2: As honest and pure as possible, you know, stemming from
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  Speaker 2: a place that that which is wholly your own.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Ye actually raise a good point there, because what you
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  Speaker 3: do is fairly you know, like it's not copied off
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  Speaker 3: any other bands.
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  Speaker 1: It's like your own style.
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  Speaker 3: But when you first came in, that would have been
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  Speaker 3: easy to do. But over the years have gone by,
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  Speaker 3: like coming up with newer stuff, that's you the whole
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  Speaker 3: way through, Like Channe over Canny is now, like, does
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  Speaker 3: that become more difficult?
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  Speaker 2: I think it becomes easier, But I mean it's becomes
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  Speaker 2: difficult in the sense that you have to work harder
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  Speaker 2: to you know, not backtrack on yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because a lot of bands like they keep drawing
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  Speaker 3: inspiration from other bands out there. But from what I've
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  Speaker 3: heard of you guys, just don't you just keep begging
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  Speaker 3: up from any here and there's only so much it
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  Speaker 3: comes from here until you puce it out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I also think it's important, I mean, each to their own,
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  Speaker 2: but if you're true to yourself, then just let let
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  Speaker 2: your inspiration take you wherever it does.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: If that means that your style changes vastly over the
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  Speaker 2: course of.
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  Speaker 1: Decade or more than so, be it, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather take that path in adheres to some kind
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  Speaker 1: of a code. You know.
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  Speaker 3: You guys have spoken a couple of times about this,
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  Speaker 3: but you've got a new album coming out in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty six, So what further can you tell us?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, as I mentioned, we just finished the recording sessions
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  Speaker 4: in Stockholm at a studio Cobra It went pretty well,
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  Speaker 4: and we're now just finishing all the mixing and artworks
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  Speaker 4: and then everything surrounding it as we're all doing that
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  Speaker 4: on our own, so it's quite a big task ahead
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  Speaker 4: of us still, but we're very excited about.
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  Speaker 1: How things start coming together. We're very happy with the material.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what is is it what fans would expect from Bolsa?
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to throw a few curve balls in
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  Speaker 3: there for them?
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  Speaker 2: No, I think it's just as we who have tapped
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  Speaker 2: them before. It's definitely a growth. Yeah, it's very solid,
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  Speaker 2: solid songs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think people, you know, I don't think current
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  Speaker 2: fans would be disappointed whatsoever, and I'd say would probably
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  Speaker 2: get a few new ones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: All right, guys, Well, thanks very much for your time.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a pleasure speaking with It will be out
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  Speaker 3: here with Portal in August, so check out all your
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  Speaker 3: socials to see where to find them. I'll be at
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  Speaker 3: the prisonal today guy, so I'll come up and have
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  Speaker 3: a beer.
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  Speaker 1: Cool man. Nice thanks for having us. Chris