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The Bloom Of Petalcore With MISH SHARMA From TORIZON · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey a miss, and I'm the front woman of a
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  Speaker 1: pedal core band, to Horizon, and we have just released
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  Speaker 1: our new single, Sober, which is a little bit. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like it has a little bit of everything for
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  Speaker 1: anybody that likes heavy music. It's got your medical elements
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  Speaker 1: but also some pop and prague.
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  Speaker 2: Why not, why not?
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, mess thanks for joining us today, Thanks for having me,
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  Speaker 3: oh pleasures as you say, tries, and have just released
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  Speaker 3: your second single of the year with Sober, so exciting
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  Speaker 3: times in the band. We haven't heard from you for
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  Speaker 3: a bit and then you come back and we've got
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  Speaker 3: bang bang.
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  Speaker 2: It's good to see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were quiet in the background, working away and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things. We were really just working on
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  Speaker 1: leveling up everything really a songwriting, tech, visuals, branding, everything,
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  Speaker 1: and that took a couple of years to play and write,
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  Speaker 1: produce and plan, marketing and all that strategized.
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  Speaker 2: So here we are, here, we are nice now.
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  Speaker 3: Sober it seems to be a lot Karma is the
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  Speaker 3: right pubabic word for it for what we've come to
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  Speaker 3: expect from your music, So run us through the track
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  Speaker 3: from a musical point of view and what you're going
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  Speaker 3: for with it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Honestly, like Luke has a really good way of writing.
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  Speaker 1: He's a very talented guitarist but also very talented songwriter,
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  Speaker 1: as much as he doesn't like to think that. That's
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  Speaker 1: as musicians, we can't think we're good because otherwise we
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  Speaker 1: are not going to work hard and not improve, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we got to think we're terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Good point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so he did a really good job of Lake
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  Speaker 1: just as soon as we wrote. This was written with
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of other tracks, right, and this one was
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to do something a little bit different with it,
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  Speaker 1: like that is a little bit quieter and it's got
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  Speaker 1: moments but then wait till the ridge that takes you
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  Speaker 1: away and then he gets the screams. So musically it
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  Speaker 1: was just about, honestly, whatever felt right in the moment,
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  Speaker 1: and we never really have like a set direction and
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  Speaker 1: must be this, this and this just what feels right now.
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  Speaker 3: Fava follows on lyrically from your previous single Bloom, So
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  Speaker 3: to get the full picture first, tell us more about
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  Speaker 3: Bloom and the meeting behind that song.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely so Sober is actually also the acting debut for
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  Speaker 1: Ben Fasis. He's playing the role of Sam So in
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  Speaker 1: the first single Bloom, we talked about a story. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a concept. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: story between a couple, Luna and Samson. We call him Sam.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sneaky reference to Pokemon, Sun and Moon to
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  Speaker 1: be honest. Yeah, but we wanted to talk about something
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of people in our crew have experienced also,
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  Speaker 1: like wider in general, is fertility issues. And the best
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  Speaker 1: way we thought we could kind of talk about it
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  Speaker 1: is by depersonalizing it from us and from other people
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  Speaker 1: and making it about a story. So Bloom saw Luna
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  Speaker 1: and Sam go through the pregnancy loss and it was
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  Speaker 1: just like shock and grief in that moment. Sober takes
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  Speaker 1: to you onto the second chapter where they start unraveling,
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  Speaker 1: and it can happen to a lot of couples. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: everybody deals with grief differently, but we use addiction as
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  Speaker 1: a metaphor in particular with Sober for the grief and
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  Speaker 1: the push and pull and how one can unravel. And
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  Speaker 1: it is a reality for some people then that when
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  Speaker 1: you are hit with such cataclysmic things that happen to you,
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  Speaker 1: you can just reach out for comforting things and rely
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  Speaker 1: on groping mechanisms sometimes, So it was kind of a
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  Speaker 1: two pronged approach, like definitely wanted to talk about addiction,
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  Speaker 1: but also talk about using that as a metaphor, talk
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  Speaker 1: about how the grief can be and how like couples
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  Speaker 1: can unravel.
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  Speaker 3: As well as been as acting debut and sober. Ben
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  Speaker 3: also does your vocals with you on the song? Is
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  Speaker 3: that normal for you guys to have that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Honestly, the last few years we've just been like
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  Speaker 1: writing a bunch of songs, and now if there's a
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  Speaker 1: song without Ben's vocals, I'm like, adamake it. He's a
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  Speaker 1: very talented vocalist and he adds beautiful dimension and it'd
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  Speaker 1: be very silly of us to use him.
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  Speaker 3: It's actually good, Like I hope this comes across the
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  Speaker 3: right way because it's intended to be a compliment. But
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  Speaker 3: when I read that he wants doing vocals as well,
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  Speaker 3: I listened back through the song again to see if
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  Speaker 3: I could pick up on it, And it's not an obvious
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  Speaker 3: distinction between the two voices.
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  Speaker 2: They work in.
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  Speaker 3: Really wall together, which I think is great because sometimes
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  Speaker 3: the contrast could be too much.
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  Speaker 2: Do you guys just work well together?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Thank you? So much. That's something we definitely noticed
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  Speaker 1: because even Luke's got a very similar voice to Ben
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  Speaker 1: and he used to do the singing a bit live
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  Speaker 1: as well, and we our voices blended really well. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean they're bromance. They've been friends for like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, a decade. So yeah, so yeah, I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Aye.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Bloy and Sober are both taken from your debut EP,
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  Speaker 3: melli Aura, which comes out on September now nineteenth. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I did a bit of research before we had a chat,
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  Speaker 3: and Meliora is Latin for better or the pursuit of
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  Speaker 3: better things.
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  Speaker 2: So is that an underlying theme across the EP?
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  Speaker 1: It is absolutely that Meliura is taken from add Meliora
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  Speaker 1: towards better things and it is a theme. And say, look,
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  Speaker 1: this EP does have a happy ending, So I'll spoil
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  Speaker 1: that because I feel like we definitely need that in
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  Speaker 1: particularly if somebody is going through these things, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want them to just think like it's just all going
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  Speaker 1: to be sad and do with gloom and like, especially
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  Speaker 1: for people in the Rainbow community, they rely on fertility
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  Speaker 1: treatments and things like that can be like a complete
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  Speaker 1: ending of like the dream to have a family. So
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  Speaker 1: the Meliora will take everybody through. Each song is like
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  Speaker 1: a different aspect of how that grief and how you
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  Speaker 1: come back together.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a very deep concept and it's it's
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  Speaker 3: a very be very difficult subject to broach because it's
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  Speaker 3: not done that often. Like but in the writing process,
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  Speaker 3: did you have to did you have to be careful.
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  Speaker 2: What you said or what you didn't say, or how
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  Speaker 2: you worded things.
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  Speaker 1: Or I think one of the things is that it
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  Speaker 1: is not talked about, which makes it really hard to
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  Speaker 1: bring up or even ask people. And a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the times people that have friends are supporting somebody going
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  Speaker 1: through these challenges, they don't know where to start or
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  Speaker 1: how to ask. So one of the things we did
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  Speaker 1: was I wrote with the band an article with Ramana
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  Speaker 1: magazine about five ways how you can support somebody through
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  Speaker 1: fertility challenges and things like that. So we want to
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  Speaker 1: throughout this unraveling of the EP, you will hear from
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  Speaker 1: different voices and you will get resources and as well
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  Speaker 1: as like context and how to practically help people through it.
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  Speaker 1: And conceptually, no, it's just like it's just whatever feels
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  Speaker 1: right obviously is what we kind of go with and
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  Speaker 1: we try and keep things honest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good good.
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  Speaker 3: Then it seems like Thries and have been around forever,
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  Speaker 3: like you guys have been a part of the scene
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  Speaker 3: since I moved to Bristol six years ago. Scenes like
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  Speaker 3: that been anyway, But it's hard to believe this is
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  Speaker 3: going to be your debut EP.
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  Speaker 1: I know. Well one of the things that we were like,
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  Speaker 1: we have released an EP before, which was kind of
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  Speaker 1: a collection of singles, and there had been some other
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  Speaker 1: music that was out. But at the same time, pandemic
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  Speaker 1: happened and lineups changed because of the pandemic and obviously
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  Speaker 1: people not having access to income anymore, which I completely understand.
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  Speaker 1: As we did a reshuffle of I guess as the
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  Speaker 1: final lineup solidified, we wanted to do a soft rebrand
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  Speaker 1: of like who we are now because those songs kind
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  Speaker 1: of if you listen to them and you listen to
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  Speaker 1: what we sound like now, it's like chalk and cheese
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  Speaker 1: in terms of like it's very discombobulating, not so much
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  Speaker 1: not a comment on the quality, but it's like it's
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  Speaker 1: just like, oh my god, wait, is this savent? What's happened?
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  Speaker 1: So we wanted to really make our image more concise
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  Speaker 1: and more intentional. So there's the reason why we've archived
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  Speaker 1: some of the older stuff. And who knows down the
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  Speaker 1: track I might re release it. It was they're still good, Zong,
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  Speaker 1: I still love them.
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  Speaker 2: That's any young Manchas.
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  Speaker 3: You guys have pretty much made a name for yourselves
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  Speaker 3: already used an established band, but this is your first,
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  Speaker 3: as you say, just in rebranding for your sorts as
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  Speaker 3: a body of work. So what sorts of things do
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  Speaker 3: you discuss as a band going into that, Like do
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  Speaker 3: you plan things out or do you leave it to chance?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, never leave anything to chance for me, Nope, not
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  Speaker 1: with my anxiety if I mean, it's just a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it is. And again, like you know what it's
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  Speaker 1: like having worked in the industry for a while, it's
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  Speaker 1: just like, well, you kind of have to have a
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  Speaker 1: clear vision. Some of the things we discussed were like
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  Speaker 1: what you know, what kind of values do you all
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  Speaker 1: individually hold and we hold collectively as a band, and
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  Speaker 1: how can we represent those? So for us to say,
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  Speaker 1: inclusivity is very important, you know, and highlighting things that
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  Speaker 1: people don't talk about or even if they talk about,
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  Speaker 1: if there are still things like mental health and stuff
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  Speaker 1: that still needs to be talked about more. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how do we like make it an inclusive experience and
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  Speaker 1: have people be able to relate or like, for me personally,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to do whatever necess it for me.
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  Speaker 1: When I was like sixteen, you know, where it was
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  Speaker 1: just like, oh this, I understand this. There's somebody else
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  Speaker 1: out in the world who knows what I'm feeling. And
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  Speaker 1: then that was it to help me sort of like
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  Speaker 1: get over a pretty bad period of my life. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so that's kind of the discussion branding and stuff wise.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like it's all about like what kind of colors.
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  Speaker 1: We had a Pinterest board. It was so funny. We
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  Speaker 1: were boys and i Will had like a little Pinterest
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  Speaker 1: styling board the visuals and that's what we that's I
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  Speaker 1: find pinterest Sport's really helpful because you can really like
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  Speaker 1: visualize everything, you can talk about it. But I want
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that when I say this purple, everybody
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  Speaker 1: else knows which purple I'm talking about, a vice versa,
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  Speaker 1: because Luke's really good with like he's got a really
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  Speaker 1: good eye with combining the color with the concept. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then we gave all of that to our broader people,
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  Speaker 1: being like, this is what we want to do.
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  Speaker 2: I go for it.
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  Speaker 3: In another first forturizon, you guys are setting off on
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  Speaker 3: your first head I'd run the shows, pick it off
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  Speaker 3: in Sydney on October the eleven, Melbourne the following night,
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  Speaker 3: and finishing Bristol on October at eight eight.
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  Speaker 2: So what can we expect from me is I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, We've done so much leveling up honestly now
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  Speaker 1: tech it's so exciting. I can't wait to like unfold
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  Speaker 1: it and use the new riak. But in general, expect drama,
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  Speaker 1: like dramatic show because you know, have like the themes
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  Speaker 1: and everything the songs have like lots of layers and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Expect that because it is going to be fun. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be rifee yes, we're gonna have some roofew breakdowns,
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  Speaker 1: but it's also going to be very visceral and raw
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  Speaker 1: and live harmonies with Ben and I. It's really fun.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, and you know it's it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a good time and I'm gonna I really want to.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really excited to make like Pedal Court Live as
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  Speaker 1: our first headline tour, like, I just want to people.
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  Speaker 1: I want people to experience that. I want people to
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  Speaker 1: experience what we experience in the band practice room, which
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  Speaker 1: is a lot of fun and just you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: just a bunch of nerds.
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: You said this twice now, this term, and when I
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: first read it, I had no idea. I thought you'd
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: made a mistake. Actually, but petel core, where does that
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  Speaker 3: come a bit? It's a beautiful name for metal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were traveling, we did a bunch of inter
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  Speaker 1: state shows and this kind of came up then where
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  Speaker 1: one of the bands of fis Amiga, who I love.
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  Speaker 1: They said like it sounds like, you know, metalcore with
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  Speaker 1: like pop vibes, and I was like, pedal core, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't me, but it was like they came up with it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't don't let me take credit here. But we were
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  Speaker 1: like we're like, let's this is perfect, let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: That's us. And then as the music evolved there was
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  Speaker 1: like some prog elements coming through, so it's like pop
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  Speaker 1: prog metal core.
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  Speaker 2: I like it. I like that.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, are you're going to be taking Melbourne alternative metal
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  Speaker 3: band New Million for the three shows? So tell us
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  Speaker 3: you more about them and watchoos Themon's touring partners.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, they we have been trying to lock something in
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: together to perform for a little while and we just
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  Speaker 1: kept like clashing with Timeline. So it was like finally
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  Speaker 1: quote a creative other promoters, and they specifically peaked New Million,
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  Speaker 1: which was so amazing because I'm like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: We've been trying to like work something out with them,
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  Speaker 1: which is great, really nice bunch of peeps. Great music.
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  Speaker 1: Music connects well with us. I feel that like fans
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  Speaker 1: who are interested in electronic and like metalcore heavy music,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like modern sort of heavy metal, I would
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  Speaker 1: say they're going to really have a good time.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, nice.
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  Speaker 3: And where is the best place for people to pre
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  Speaker 3: order the EP or keep up with what's Horizon doing?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely so you can follow us on everything. To Rizon
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  Speaker 1: band is basically everywhere. That's a handle on TikTok to
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  Speaker 1: us an official. That's the only one because it was
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  Speaker 1: the other one was taken. But TikTok is where you
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  Speaker 1: see us be like stilly and more of like our
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  Speaker 1: personalities a lot more than you see on Instagram and things,
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  Speaker 1: and just honestly, any of the social platforms. There's a
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  Speaker 1: linking by it'll take you everywhere, all the tech's and
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  Speaker 1: everything for sale. I'll link there too. I forgot the
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  Speaker 1: other question, so adhd do me?
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  Speaker 3: Thanks so much now the single Sober is out now.
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  Speaker 3: EP Malora is out September ninety. The Tall starts October
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  Speaker 3: the eleventh. So there's lots happening with Horizon, Best of Black,
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  Speaker 3: with it all, and we'll catch you at the Brisbane
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  Speaker 3: show probably.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Yes, I can't wait.
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