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Tides Of Death With JASON EVANS From INGESTED · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Yo. I'm Jason from Ingested and we have a brand new album called The
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  Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams, which is out April or fourth through Metal
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  Blade Records. Yautiful, Jason, thanks for joining us the same name.
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  Thank you, It's nice to be here, pleasure to have you made.
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  Say you mentioned your new album, The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams,
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  which comes out in April. Mate, So how do you feel about like
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  it's still a fair way off? Like you do you allow yourself to get
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  excited or are you're just anxious for him to get out there? A bit
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  of both. Really, We've been sitting on this album, oh, sence
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  y well over a year now, So this album has been done for well
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  over a year. We released our last album as She's Lie Still in November
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  twenty twenty two, and then four weeks after that album was released in December
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  twenty twenty two, we went into the studio and recorded The Tider Definitely Fractured
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  Dreams. So we've been we've had this album done and dusted for like well
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  over a year. But the way that we'd like to work is we like
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  to work ahead, so because we're always writing so when an album's done,
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  it's done. Let let's just get in there, get in the studio,
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  get it recorded. And then what we're doing then is we're giving ourselves time
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  to really prepare for the announcement and the release of the album. So we've
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  had like a year to make sure the artwork looked amazing, to make sure
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  the music videos are all looking great. So yeah, like that's that's kind
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  of that's kind of how we like to work because we don't we'd rather give
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  ourselves the time to make sure everything's exactly how we want it to be for
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  the presentation of the album. So then when it does finally get announced and
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  people know that it's coming, everything's ready to go, do you know what
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  I mean? We're not. We're not like rushing around or running around like
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  Edla's chickens. Everything done. So yeah, I'm just I'm just excited to
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  finally announce to everyone that it exists and that it's coming out and they don't
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  have to wait that long, do you know what I mean. But in
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  the meantime, we've just released the first single, Paragon of Purity, with
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  a music video on our Ingested TV YouTube channel that's doing really well, all
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  our fans seem to love it, which is great. And then we've got
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  more. We've got more coming out in the run up to the album's release,
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  and probably probably beyond the album's release as well. We've got we've got
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  loads of stuff coming so it's exciting. We've just announced the headline tour through
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  the UK and Europe which runs through April and May. We're checking out for
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  Loojjah Bover Dinner Awesome. So yeah, it's I'm excited. It's going to
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  be another and yet another very busy year for us because we don't stop.
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  We never stopped. We're all we're always working out bollocks off. So that's
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  what we like it though, do you know what I mean, like to
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  stay busy. So yeah, I'm just excited for the for the year,
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  for everything that's to come. Really good. Now, I normally don't ask
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  this question right because to me, it's just cliche and it's it's a question
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  that people who would no imagination ask generally. But I've got to ask you
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  about the title, mate, like the Tide of Depth and Fractured Dreams,
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  It's it's both brightening and beautiful at the same time. Yeah, exactly,
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  and that's the point, and I think I think that's the whole point of
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  the album. If you look at the album artwork as well, it's frightening
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  and beautiful. Like it's that juxtaposition. Sean came up with the title for
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  the album. It's actually a lyric in some in one of the songs on
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  the the lyrics that he wrote, and we all loved it, loved the
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  line so much that we were just like, that's it. That's the that's
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  the title. That's the title of the album. I mean, what Sean's
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  meaning behind it is, I'm not sure it. I don't I don't know
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  what his personal meaning is, don't We don't really discuss those sort of things,
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  if you know what I mean. But what my take from it is
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  what the album title means to me is with our last album, Ash's Lie
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  Still that that album was born of a very dark period Bros. As a
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  band and in our personal lives, we were all the with a lot of
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  demons like depression and various addictions, whether it's drugs or alcohol, and loss
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  as well. Sean was dealing with the loss of his father through that period,
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  so we were all in a pretty bad spot, really which is why
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  that album is the way that it is, Like, it's very is it's
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  a very dark album, like the themes of it. The feel of that
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  album is very morose, if you know what I mean. Because for us,
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  that album was getting it off our chest, like what we were going
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  through at the time, Whereas this album, the Tide of deaferent, fractured
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  dreams, this is us coming out at the other end of that period,
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  like better, bigger, stronger, better than we've ever been before, happy
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  in ourselves as people, do you know what I mean? Like this is
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  this is us like coming full force now. So whereas whereas Ashley's life still
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  was it was like I said, it was like it was like therapy.
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  It was like it was like cathartic, you know, getting all that ship
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  off our chests and getting it out there and putting it into putting all our
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  feelings into music. Whereas this this is us coming for blood. We're coming
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  to collect heads like that. The purpose of this album is to tear your
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  fucking head off your shoulders. That's what this is like. So this is
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  the tide of death. It's washing away all the fractured dreams that we had
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  and now we're coming. This is a tsunami of death metal that's just going
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  to annihilate everything that's in its path. That's the way I see it.
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  Born with you, brother, I'm not even gonna argue with that sort of
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  statement. Can you take us inside the album a bit more from a musical
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  point of view and what you're going forward it? Yeah, well we were
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  just like I said, we we we've come out at the end of that
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  ship period with with a different energy, with like a renewed vigor, if
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  you know what I mean. Like, so now this is like straight up
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  masterclass of modern death metal. That's what this is about. The the intent
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  behind this album is completely different from the previous one. So like I said,
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  it's just this is just it's a musical buzzsaw. It's a musical power
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  drill that's just going to smash you to pieces. Yeah, we're just the
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  energy that like the energy when we were writing the album and the energy when
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  we were recording it is just night and day from the last one. Right,
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  this is like this is us back as in Jest did with that big
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  old fucking chip on our shoulder, with that point to prove that we always
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  had three guys from fucking working class, council estate backgrounds who don't give a
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  fuck what anyone thinks, that are just going to do things on their terms,
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  do things their way like we always fucking have. And now we just
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  feel we feel like whatever weights and shackles were holding us down, whether that
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  be in the band or in our personal lives, those weights and shackles have
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  gone. There's no chains holding us down anymore. So now we're just it's
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  just a whorldwind, like it's just a frenzied WorldWind, and and we're just
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  coming. Like I said, we're just coming for blood. This is a
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  brutal album and that is the point of it. The point of it is
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  to be a brutal death metal album. Now we get to Now we get
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  to unleash it on the world and then go and play these fucking songs all
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  over the fucking globe and smash people's fucking head fucking heads in and you're happy
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  a bit out that it's fucking awesome. Look, this is the reason why
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  why I'm in a metal band. I didn't get into a metal band to
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  appease people or oh, oh, we have to make music. This is
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  what this is what the fans want or this is what these people want?
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  Oh no, Nah, We're in a band because we want to make music
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  that we want to listen to. We do this for us, and if
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  and if our fans love it, that's amazing and I can't thank our I
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  can't thank our fans enough. But first and foremost, we do this for
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  us because we love the game. Do you know what I mean? I
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  got into being I wanted to be in a metal band because I don't want
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  to follow the rules. I want to go around raising hell. Do you
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  know what I mean? I want to go around kicking everybody's fucking ass like
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  a fucking death metal stone called Steve Austin. Do you know what I'm saying?
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  You know what I mean? Though? That's why, that's why I
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  want to be in a metal band. If not, I'd go and get
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  a job in an office and put a suit and a tie on and sit
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  behind a fucking computer screen all day. But that's not what I want.
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  I want to go out. I want to break the rules. I want
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  to fucking just tear shit up. So that's that's what this is about.
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  This, this is about us just doing things on our terms with a big
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  fucking chip on our shoulder and saying fuck you to everybody who doubts us,
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  demn strive our friend. You've also featured kiss vocalist Mark Hanna from Shaimira on
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  the track in Nothingness of Names, Josh Middleton from Stylysis on Expected Fail.
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  So tell us about those songs and what each of them brought to it.
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  Well, we'd expect to fail. With Josh. We've known Josh for years
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  because obviously Silosis and Ingested came up through the same UK scene around the same
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  time, so we've known We've known Josh for years, so we've always we've
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  always wanted him on a track. But the way that we do guest vocals
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  is we're we always have an idea of the people that we want, but
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  we're not just gonna get him on any old song just to get him on
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  a song. The song has to be right because if you because my view
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  on guest vocals is the song and the guest vocalists both have to compliment and
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  elevate each other. It has to work, it has to make sense,
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  and the way that we do guest vocals is well. One of my one
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  of my pet hates at the moment in this scene is bands that get a
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  guest vocalist and they just whack them on a fifteen twenty twenty second segment at
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  the end of a song. Is the fucking point. Yeah, it's just
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  cloud chasing. It's just cloud chasing. You're just doing it so you can
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  say that you've got mister fucking x y r Z on on your song for
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  whatever, like do you know what I mean? And it's like you're doing
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  nothing, It does nothing for the song. What's the point in having them
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  there? It's stupid, Like it just like it just it's just so obvious
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  to me, like do you know what I mean? And that's fine if
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  that's the way that you want to go, it's your fucking band, Like
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  I don't give a shit, Like do you know what I mean? But
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  for me, it's like it's just that's just not the way that we do
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  things. Like everything has to make sense. They're got and if we have
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  a guest vocalist, they're gonna be on the whole fucking song. Yep,
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  do you know what I mean? Because it's like it only seems to be
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  metal or death metal that or death card that this like fifteen to twenty second
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  appearance, slapped on a fucking breakdown at the end of the song, like
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  it seems to be a thing if you look in the fucking pop charts or
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  whatever, or fucking hip hop or any other fucking genre of music when artists
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  collaborate that that isn't a thing. They're on the whole fucking song. It's
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  not like a fucking Beyonce song. And then Shakira turns up for a fucking
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  breakdown at the end for ten seconds and then fucks off. Do you know
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  what I mean? It's like it has to be it has to make sense.
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  It means it's got to be a song, like it's gotta make sense
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  for the song or otherwise it's just it's just bullshit. So the way that
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  we do it is the song has to be right and it has to make
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  sense. So we wanted Josh for Ages to do a song with us,
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  but but the song just never happened, if you know what I mean.
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  Like that the song that we were like, that's the one, Like it
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  never happened until the expect to fail right and we were like, this is
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  the fucking one. This is a fucking one like Josh would sound fucking amazing
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  on this. So we just were We sent him the song and just said
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  like, look, we think the song you'd sound amazing on and would you
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  be up for it? And he was like absolutely, like absolutely, So
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  the same night, a couple of hours later, he sent us the song
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  back and he'd done it, and we were like, fucking hell, he's
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  nailed it. Like he's nailed it. He's fucking smashed it out of the
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  park. So that's that's a I really love that song. I think it's
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  great. Mark Mark count from Kimera was a little bit different. Kimera has
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  always been a really important band for me and Sean for us growing up,
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  Like The Impossibility of Reason is like a really important album, Like for us
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  it's like top five metal albums of all time. It's such a perfect record.
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  And obviously he's like a massive influence on me as a vocalist. So
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  he's always kind of been like a bucket list, do you know what I
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  mean? Like, oh, god bloo, to get Mark Hunter on a
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  on a song that would be absolutely amazing. But we but it was one
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  of them ones where it's like we don't know them or have like a personal
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  connection with them. Or anything. So that for us is always we don't
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  really ask people unless we know them, Like we always thought, oh,
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  it's just gonna be one that will never happen, like do you know what
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  I mean? It was just kind of like when I pipe dream start things.
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  But then out of the blue, when we were in the in the
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  studio recording, Sean was on like Twitter and he's like fucking hell, oh
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  my god, And I was like what and He's like, Mark Hunters just
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  fucking tweeted about us or retweeted or reply. I don't know how Twitter works,
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  like it said something about us on Twitter in some form, and then
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  I'm like, what, what the fuck? Like, so Sean messages him
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  and says like, oh, Mark, thanks for the kind of words,
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  like honestly, like that really means a lot to us, Like we're massive
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  fans, so that's like that's a really this is that's a really big deal
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  for us, Like do you know what I mean? And then he replied
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  and he said, oh, no, worries love the band Like that,
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  we were just like what the fuck? And then a couple of days later,
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  I finished recording the vocals for Enhingness and we're and we're sitting in the
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  studio and like listening back to the track and listening to it over and over
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  again, and I'm just sitting there and I'm thinking, Summit, some just
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  something missing, there's something missing, like I can't put my finger on when
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  it is something's missing. And then I'm listening to it and listening to it
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  and listening to it, and then it gets to the to the chorus to
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  the hook. But and in my head I could I could like hear Mark
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  Hunters singing it. Why because it's like like with that, you know,
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  like he's clean sot, He's kind of like singing. And I was like
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  Sean, I'm like, Marken sounds fucking well good on this. And then
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  Sean's like, just ask him then, and we're like, well, what's
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  the worst he can say? No? Do you know what I mean?
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  We've got like a contact to him. Now, You've had a chat with
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  him, so it's not like we're just asking him out of the blue,
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  like you've you've already spoke to him a bit like so just ask him.
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  He'll either say yeah, say no, and then if he says no,
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  we'll figure something out, like do you know what I mean? So Sean
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  asked him. He said like, look, we're in the studio right now.
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  We've got a song that we think you would really shine on, like
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  it would really work and with your voice, would you be up for appearing
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  on the song? And he was like, fuck yeah, send me the
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  song. And we were just like, oh my god. So we sent
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  him the song. A couple of days later, he sent it back and
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  we were just like holy shit, like holy shit, like because it's like
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  you grow up listening to this band and then you hear his voice on your
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  song and you just like what, oh, yeah, that was fucking amazing,
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  Like it was amazing, like blown away. So yeah, that's how
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  that's how those came about. Like the Joshua like we we knew it was
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  always going to happen. It was just a matter of time and finding the
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  right song. But with Mark Hunt from Chaimera, that was that was a
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  little bit more outside the box and like a bit of a weird coincidence,
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  if you know what I mean. So, oh, congratulations, man,
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  that's a nice story. That touched on this before, but it Jest have
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  released an album roughly every twelve months since the twenties. Only God Bay Trade
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  like, but by doing that, have you found that the band's gone a
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  lot tighter and you're you're going in different directions musically, I guess because you're
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  writing and recordings so much. Yeah, yeah, I mean the thing the
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  thing with us is because like I said earlier, we write music for ourselves
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  first and foremost. We're always writing music for ourselves, so we're writing exactly
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  what we want to hear. But with that, we we're always moving in
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  a direction. We're always moving. It doesn't matter what direction that is.
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  As long as it's like moving, We'll never get bored. Because that's the
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  thing, because we always say, like when we get bored of this,
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  it's done. We're not gonna We're never gonna phone it in. We're never
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  gonna We're never gonna just do it just because do you know what I mean?
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  Well, we do it becau we love it so the like the way
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  that the way that we write albums is every time we write an album,
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  we're always adding new elements in so each album, even though they all sound
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  like ingested, they don't sound the same, but they all have their own
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  individual character because we're always we're always trying new stuff. We're always like adding
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  little bits, little things like oh, let's try this in this song,
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  Let's try that in this song, Like do you know what I mean?
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  So there's always just little bits that are just it's like, say, you've
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  got a big toolbox. So we start we started our career with a toolbox
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  that only had a sledge jammer in it, right, And then as the
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  years have gone on and as we've wrote each album, we've added new tools
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  into the tool box. And now we're getting to a point where we've got
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  an entire tool set, and we'll getting to the point where we've nearly got
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  a tool for every job. I fucking love your analogies made if you're spot
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  on with the way you describe things as great. So, yeah, so
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  that's what we're doing. We're just we're just we're just building this toolbox,
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  and every album we're just adding new tools in and we're adding new sounds,
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  new new elements, new things, something that we might not have done for
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  a few years. And then we've gone off ship, remember this tool Excuse
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  me, sorry, I've got a bit of chest infection at the moment.
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  But yeah, so that's that's how it is, like, we just we
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  just constantly. I like to describe Ingested as like a musical shark because it
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  always has to be moving in a direction because if it stops or tries to
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  go backwards, it'll it'll drown, it will will die because we'll get bored.
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  Like we can't we can't stagnate, we can't stop. So it's always
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  got to be moving in a direction all the time. And yeah, and
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  I think we're getting we're getting to a point where we're really becoming the depth
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  writing these albums because for us, the what's what's become very important for us
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  when we're writing albums recently is like the story of the album, not like
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  not like the narrative, but I mean the journey that the album takes you
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  on. So for us now it's it's very important for an album to have
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  a beginning and middle and an end, so there's a purpose, like there's
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  an ebb and flow to like the actual album, like throughout the entire thing.
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  Because what we used to do was it would just be like, oh,
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  let's just write ten bangers, do you know what I mean? And
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  then it's just a collection of songs, isn't it like do you know what
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  I mean? If you listen to like some of our old albums, they're
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  just it's just ten songs. There's no coherent yeah, yeah, there's no
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  flow to it. So now it's like we when we writeing an album,
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  we're looking at the entire we're looking at the bigger picture of the actual album.
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  So everything is very meticulous. The reason why the songs are the way
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  that they are and that they're in the order that they're in is all by
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  design, like on purpose to create this this ebb and flow, This this
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  journey that you that you take when you listen to the album is designed to
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  be listened to in one go. You can listen to the song separately,
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  obviously, but the purpose of it is to listen to it in one go,
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  like it's got a journey to it. I think that that's probably that's
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  probably one of the biggest the biggest changes to the way that we write albums
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  now is that is that focus on the album being a complete work very true.
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  Now. You can mentioned before when you're talking about touring, that's something
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  about a global tour. So does that mean that you're gonna come over this
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  side of the world and visit us? Yeah, Well, hopefully we came.
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  When did we came over last year for the first time ever? How's
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  your got? It was amazing? It was awesome, Like it was awesome.
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  It was hard work because obviously you've got to fly to every show,
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  which we've never done before. Like usually it's like, you know, you
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  fly to America and then you're in a fucking a bus or a van or
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  whatever or an RV and then you're driving around for a month or it's the
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  same in Europe, you're fucking you'll drive around the whole thing. Whereas Australia,
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  obviously, because it's so big and everything so like spread out, you
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  have to fly from every show. Like so we're flying literally in in the
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  morning, go into the show, playing the show, go to the airport,
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  fly to the next show, do the same, do the same.
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  That is it's crazy because because we've only because we've never never experienced that before.
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  So that was like, what the fuck it was? It was awesome,
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  Like the shows were amazing. I mean, it's took us eighteen nearly
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  eighteen years, seventeen years to get there, so like all the fans were
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  going crazy. It was awesome. So yeah, we're definitely looking at coming
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  back to your area on your side of the world as soon as possible,
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  so make sure it's scheduled yourself some days off in between shows this time and
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  get to say, yeah, that'd be nice, that would be nice.
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  I got to see some kangaroos, so that was cool. Oh good bye?
• 25:38
  All right. Well, the album The Tide of Death of Practure Dreams
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  is out in early April. And what I've heard of Mache is everything you've
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  So well done. Thank you man, Thank you. I really appreciate
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  that, really proud of the album. You should be made. You should
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  be keep an eye for when you still make it back over to us,
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  right, I'll come down and have a beer. Yeah, please Dave Man
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  please Dave. All right, my man, you have yourself a good day.
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  All right, thank you for thank you for the chat. I appreciate
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