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Taking It To The Streets With JAYANT BHADULA From BLOODYWOOD · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hi there. My name is Giant. I do vocals for
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  Speaker 1: the band Bloody Boot.
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  Speaker 2: We've just released our second album a month and a
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  Speaker 2: half back, and if you haven't gotten a chance, you
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  Speaker 2: should give it a spin.
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  Speaker 1: It's called New Delhi.
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  Speaker 3: Chelsey Miny, thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: Giant, thank you so much for having me pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: So as you say, Bloody would release your lightest album,
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  Speaker 4: New Delhi back out of March of twenty first, so
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  Speaker 4: early reception pain for.
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  Speaker 1: It very very well. I mean.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of say the numbers, it's doing very good,
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  Speaker 2: but in terms of people who are showing up for
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  Speaker 2: the shows and who are singing our lyrics back to
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  Speaker 2: us from the new album itself, but it is very
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a great thing to say, like honestly, as
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  Speaker 2: an artist, it's the greatest level of validation I say
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  Speaker 2: I can see is when people are singing your lyrics
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  Speaker 2: out for you, and especially the ones that are not
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  Speaker 2: in the language as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, you said, you're probably a lot of
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  Speaker 3: night songs live for the album.
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  Speaker 4: They so the fact that they went over is so well,
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  Speaker 4: did that make you a bit more confident out into
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  Speaker 4: the album of the people connect with it?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we didn't really play the newer songs for
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  Speaker 2: twelve months before the album came out. It was more
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  Speaker 2: like i'd say four or five. It was just a
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  Speaker 2: couple of the songs. And the reception was really well
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  Speaker 2: as well, because every time before we started you know,
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  Speaker 2: those songs, it was always that this is the new track,
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  Speaker 2: which is not releast there would you like to hear it?
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  Speaker 1: And the reception was really greedy around it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, tell us before on the album from a musical
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  Speaker 3: point of view and what you were out for with it.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of music, we try to represent the you know,
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  Speaker 2: sense of New Deli, especially where we come from the city,
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  Speaker 2: which is not you know, it's a very like, very
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  Speaker 2: realistic and a very the very metal city wherever you
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  Speaker 2: come from. If you give it love, you'll get love
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  Speaker 2: one hundred times back. But if you just like we
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  Speaker 2: say in the album, if you wak around, you won't
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  Speaker 2: be found. And that is we tried to capture. That's
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  Speaker 2: why this album is more in your face rather than
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  Speaker 2: you know, being a little subtle than the last one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got to say by like, I've never listened
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  Speaker 4: to any of your stuff before this interview and I listened.
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  Speaker 3: I've listened the album three times in a row saft
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  Speaker 3: today and that's how much I liked it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: I'm yeah, three times in a right, man. I think
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  Speaker 3: I've done that before ever. So it's definitely good.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. So is it.
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  Speaker 4: There's one someone there taught out Becave, which was your
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  Speaker 4: first have a collaboration that you did with Baby Metals.
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  Speaker 3: So what did to work with for the first time?
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  Speaker 3: It is a collaboration. I guess.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't choose them, they chose us.
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  Speaker 2: It's a funny story and we always say it's about
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  Speaker 2: manifestation because the success succession of events around it is
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  Speaker 2: way like it's like it's our of a movie.
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  Speaker 1: Because when we.
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  Speaker 2: Were you know, traveling and performing in Japan back in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, we actually had Koba Medal, the producer
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  Speaker 2: for Baby Metal, come down and watch the show in Tokyo,
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  Speaker 2: and he, you know, graciously gave us a lot of
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  Speaker 2: merchandise Baby Metal merchandise as well. Then when we were
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  Speaker 2: you know, working on this record, Karran had already finished
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  Speaker 2: the instrumentals around it. Everything like the production in terms
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  Speaker 2: of instrumentals were done and me current row. We were
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  Speaker 2: working on lyrics and how we can structure the vocals
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  Speaker 2: around the song itself, just a lot of back and
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  Speaker 2: forth of ideas and demos and around that same discussion time,
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  Speaker 2: Karran was like, you know, it would be really nice
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  Speaker 2: if Baby Metal would jump on this song because I
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  Speaker 2: think that is that one artist that will you know,
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  Speaker 2: the collaboration in this specific song would be great. And
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  Speaker 2: we spoke about it a little bit, but that was it,
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  Speaker 2: and two days later Karen actually received a message from
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  Speaker 2: Coba Metal that a, we should work on something in Kent.
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  Speaker 1: I've got the perfect sound for you.
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  Speaker 3: So wow.
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  Speaker 2: It worked around kind of like that, and the basically
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  Speaker 2: the version that you hear right now is literally the
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  Speaker 2: same version we had in terms of instrumentals, and just
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  Speaker 2: had to play a little, very little bit around with
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  Speaker 2: the vocals with the Baby Metal and they were very
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  Speaker 2: open to all the melodies he wrote, and they're just
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  Speaker 2: very nice people in general, very open to do new things.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, singing Hindi itself as well, they come
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  Speaker 2: from Japan, it's also you know, very different language for them.
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  Speaker 1: And that was it. Basically the process of very fast
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  Speaker 1: after that.
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  Speaker 3: It would have made a very interesting dynamic too, with
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  Speaker 3: the two different cultures combonding.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's absolutely, I mean there is there are certain
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  Speaker 2: things about both cultures that do interact a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but even then they're very, very, very different, and just
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  Speaker 2: having such a synergy with you know how beautifully the
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  Speaker 2: Japanese language also flowed in with the song, and especially
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  Speaker 2: given that those guys sang in Hindi as well with
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  Speaker 2: my parts or al'se parts and the instrumentals on its own,
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  Speaker 2: which is probably the least Indian folk metley song that
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  Speaker 2: we did in our lives. So I mean, I think
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  Speaker 2: that this was the best of all two three words
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  Speaker 2: whatever collided in the song.
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  Speaker 4: On the subject of culture, I like plooy you would
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  Speaker 4: bring together Eastern and Western cultures with your music, like
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  Speaker 4: you sing in Hindi, you sing in English.
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  Speaker 3: You bring a lot together, Like is it difficult to
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  Speaker 3: combine different cultures through music?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: We found this sound by accident as an experiment, and
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  Speaker 2: I to this day remember like how like you know,
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  Speaker 2: when I reached the studio and Karen was like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I've done something.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to work.
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  Speaker 2: I really like it, and he played the song for me,
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  Speaker 2: and there was heavy metal guitars with a lot of
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  Speaker 2: drumming going on, but with Indian.
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  Speaker 1: Percussions like the hole that we used.
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  Speaker 2: That was the first experiment, and that was the first
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  Speaker 2: time it actually exploded in my mind that why is it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, mixing so well and over the time since
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  Speaker 2: we've been using this sound you know that we've created.
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  Speaker 2: It's what I've realized that even see the metal sound
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  Speaker 2: on its own is very intense, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of expression of emotions. But it's the same thing that
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  Speaker 2: happens with folk music in India. Sometimes you don't need
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  Speaker 2: any other instrument. You just play tole and people are
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  Speaker 2: having a great time. They're just dancing on the beats
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  Speaker 2: and everything. So the intensity of emotions both sides just
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  Speaker 2: really well, you know, they tell really well. And every
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  Speaker 2: time I, you know, hear something that we guys make
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  Speaker 2: or like current comes up with, when it comes up
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  Speaker 2: with ideas, I'm always blown away.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it still working? Like on paper it shouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: These are two absolutely different genres, but at the same
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  Speaker 2: time they're fusing so well.
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  Speaker 1: So even for me, it's a very surprising thing.
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  Speaker 2: But again that this is what I believe it is
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  Speaker 2: is just there's so much raw emotion in both the
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  Speaker 2: genres that they just, you know, work really well hand
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  Speaker 2: in hand.
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  Speaker 3: So is that something you fight us someday with you basically,
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  Speaker 3: like you make a point of getting those cousesti combined
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  Speaker 3: with every song or does it just sort of all
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  Speaker 3: happen naturally.
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  Speaker 2: We let the song decided rather than it's there's no
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  Speaker 2: set formula for that to happen. It's literally the riff
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  Speaker 2: when it comes out, it decides how much of Indian
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  Speaker 2: instrumentation will go everything. If it doesn't sound good or
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  Speaker 2: if it sounds sounds post is not going to be
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  Speaker 2: there again.
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  Speaker 1: Like there are examples.
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  Speaker 2: Wakeoff is probably one of the least Indian folky things
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  Speaker 2: we've done. It say, straight up in your face metal song.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time, No Deli is a proper folk
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  Speaker 2: metal in like folk elements from India infused in it.
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  Speaker 2: So there's no formula, just the song decides what's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen to it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, right, So how would you say that Nude Deli
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  Speaker 4: is an album? It's different musically. A twenty two debut rackshat.
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  Speaker 1: Rockshuk Before you Know, we came out with the entire album.
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  Speaker 2: We had four singles that have that were out for
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  Speaker 2: quite some time, and then when unfortunately COVID made us
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  Speaker 2: all stay at homes, that's when we did the next
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  Speaker 2: last six songs of the albums, and then the whole
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  Speaker 2: album came.
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  Speaker 1: Came you know, to what it is what you guys heard.
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  Speaker 2: But with New Deli, the foundation of the album was
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  Speaker 2: actually laid down again by current on the road. We
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  Speaker 2: were touring the US, and that's where he started, you know,
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  Speaker 2: recording little ideas. And as soon as we ended the
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  Speaker 2: touring cycle for you know, our twenty twenty three run
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  Speaker 2: and everything, the first thing we did was we just
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  Speaker 2: went and took like a month to just breathe and
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  Speaker 2: feel normal again because we told so much. But after
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  Speaker 2: that it was just we went into the studio and
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  Speaker 2: it took us exactly eleven months or I'd say twelve
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  Speaker 2: at most to finish the album, all eight.
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  Speaker 1: Songs for New Delhi, which was very fast.
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  Speaker 2: But on top of that the mixing and mastering, and
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  Speaker 2: by the time we were in July twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: we were already you know, scouting and working around the videos,
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  Speaker 2: and in that sense it was really fast. It was
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  Speaker 2: a very hectic process, honestly, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: because things were falling into place so quickly, you couldn't
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  Speaker 2: just you know, let that pace go. And this is
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  Speaker 2: the thing that we would rather have quality than quantity.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to churn out music mindless leave that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. If you're not happy with what we've made,
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  Speaker 2: it's just not going to get out. And for New deally,
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  Speaker 2: that's what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Things were falling in place really fast and just it
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  Speaker 1: was a it was like as if something has taken
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  Speaker 1: over us and we're just making music.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you've mentioned the term fight metal a fewtures yourself,
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  Speaker 4: and it comes up a lot in the press releases.
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  Speaker 4: Might but it's I know, it's hard to pacify Johna
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  Speaker 4: because you've got so much going on, but really saying
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  Speaker 4: to make it like if I read fight metal, I
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't listen to your band, but I have to listen
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  Speaker 4: to your bed. It's it's it's a hard way to
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  Speaker 4: describe in it because it's you can't really sit in
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  Speaker 4: any one genre.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is true.
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  Speaker 2: The reason we go ahead with folk metal is the
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  Speaker 2: bracket that was first introduced to us when we you know,
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  Speaker 2: started doing this, there were like or we were put
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  Speaker 2: in that category, but we generally used to just prefer
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  Speaker 2: the term metal itself. And there was one thing that
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  Speaker 2: I used to send and I still say to this day,
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  Speaker 2: is that it is basically metal.
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  Speaker 1: To Kamasai, it's like Indian cuisine. It's like Indian cooking.
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  Speaker 2: It's you know, if you have ever tried Indian cooking,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's literally art on its own. I see
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  Speaker 2: that art happening every day in the country because it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a it's almost science, how like how
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  Speaker 2: much you have to blend spices together to create that
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  Speaker 2: specific flavor.
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  Speaker 1: And that is what happens with us. I know.
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  Speaker 2: I say that it's governed by emotions, which is you know, true,
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  Speaker 2: but it's also like, there's so many newer things that
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  Speaker 2: we want to try in our music. So the easier
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  Speaker 2: tag is either metal or metal to Kamasalagist for the humor.
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  Speaker 3: Now, when you guys just start out a chore of Japan,
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  Speaker 3: like you know, Australia is just just started and we're not.
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  Speaker 2: That far away, you have no clue how many you know,
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  Speaker 2: messages comments we get every time we announce it.
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  Speaker 1: To it.
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  Speaker 2: There is at least one comment from Australia that says, guys,
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  Speaker 2: you spelled Australia wrong. And trust me, we really want
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  Speaker 2: to get there. It's just, you know, you come from
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  Speaker 2: a third world country. It's it's a little hard to
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  Speaker 2: navigate in terms of visas and all the bureaucratical bullshit
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  Speaker 2: around it. But apart from that, we have been dying
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  Speaker 2: to come to the country, even though I'm a little
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  Speaker 2: bit scared because I'm morbidly scared of spiders, but but
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  Speaker 2: I really want to get there. Like I've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of friends from college and all who later on
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  Speaker 2: in life, you know, moved to Australia and they're working there.
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  Speaker 2: They called me up sometimes at random hours where they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I am at my workplace meeting and my boss said, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this is a.
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  Speaker 1: Band that I listened from India, and I'm like, that's
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  Speaker 1: my friend.
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  Speaker 2: The amount of you know, what we're getting from Australia
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  Speaker 2: is andrela and we are dying to get there. It's
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  Speaker 2: just things are taking their sweet time to work for us.
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  Speaker 2: But once they do, I am sure that we won
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  Speaker 2: hell of an experience for everyone. For Australia and as well,
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  Speaker 2: that is.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, before you got up started a new segment,
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  Speaker 4: I've thought fighter bombs. So basically I've gone three social
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  Speaker 4: media before we've got a chat, and I'll think they
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  Speaker 4: had a couple of fighters that I want to know
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more about, so I'll come.
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  Speaker 1: Up with this this fun heah, yeah, that's a fun one.
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  Speaker 1: It was on this tour. Do you want me to
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  Speaker 1: speak a little bit about the picture?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, please please, I see.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't remember exactly which city it was.
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  Speaker 2: I think either it was Italy on this store itself,
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  Speaker 2: either it was Italy or in the UK, but it
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  Speaker 2: was one of these places because I just saw like
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  Speaker 2: a giant duck and then I was like, you need
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  Speaker 2: to throw this towards me right now, And then I
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  Speaker 2: performed the entire last song We're holding.
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  Speaker 1: It, and I don't know why, I kind of got
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  Speaker 1: attached to the Dugts said.
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  Speaker 2: So I was like, I was initially supposed to throw
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  Speaker 2: it back to the people, and I picked it up
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, no, you stay with me for
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  Speaker 2: at least one part, and I kind of gave it
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  Speaker 2: back to the person who I initially saw it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: going around, But that was a fun one because it
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  Speaker 2: was very random at the same time.
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  Speaker 3: Oh here, fine, now you got this would have to
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  Speaker 3: be the ugliest looking bach of Santa Clause.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we look like the Santa Claus you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to meet. But that is.
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  Speaker 2: Laundry day in Again, this is from this tour itself,
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  Speaker 2: but it was such a lengthy tour that it's very
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  Speaker 2: hard for me to print point in the places.
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  Speaker 1: But this was when this was the first I think
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  Speaker 1: laundry that we did. I think this was in Sweden.
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  Speaker 2: This wasn't either Malm or Stockholm one of these places,
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  Speaker 2: but we just had to, you know, go get fresh
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  Speaker 2: clothes our.
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  Speaker 1: Performances for day to day operations of the you know life.
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  Speaker 2: And this is nothing because there were there are at
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  Speaker 2: least six more people there who didn't want to jump
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  Speaker 2: in the photo were coming along, And yeah, laundry are
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  Speaker 2: always of fun business.
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  Speaker 3: Is that you're with the front there?
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  Speaker 1: What is that you with the front? Yep, that's made the.
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  Speaker 3: First pretty heavy bag heavy? You look like you struggling.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, because we on show days we go through
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  Speaker 2: two pairs of three pairs of clothes. Now, yeah, two
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  Speaker 2: pairs of clothes, the one we're wearing the previous day
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  Speaker 2: and the show clothes, and the back just.
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  Speaker 1: Fills up really fast.
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  Speaker 2: So we get to do a laundry like every three
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  Speaker 2: days four days, and people are always like, why is
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  Speaker 2: so freaking I was like, because cleanliness, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: you have a monkeylus.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, thanks very much for your time.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a pleasure speaking into the album You Dell
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  Speaker 3: You's out now. With anyone who hasn't heard it, I
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  Speaker 3: strongly urge you to give it a crack because it's
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  Speaker 3: a damn fine slave of music. Brothers so well that
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me out, and thank
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  Speaker 2: you so much, very kind inwards for the album as well.