Aug. 10, 2026

Building the Future of Metal: Soulride’s Band Changes and Bloodstock Culture with Pipeman

Show Notes
Transcript

In this episode of "The Adventures of Pipeman" on W4CY Radio, Pipeman interviews Martin from the band Soulride live at Bloodstock Festival. They discuss the festival’s community spirit, Soulride’s origins and influences, memorable moments from the road, and their plans for the future. Martin also shares insights on the importance of supporting new and unsigned bands.Main Topics Covered

Bloodstock Festival Atmosphere and Community
Soulride Band Origins and Musical Influences
The Passion and Therapy Found in Playing Music
The Symbiotic Relationship Between Band and Audience
Memorable Gig Stories (including on-stage mishaps)
Transition and Future Plans for Soulride
The Importance of Supporting Up-and-Coming Bands

Key Discussions & StoriesBloodstock Festival Vibe

Pipeman and Martin talk about the welcoming, family-like environment at Bloodstock (00:04 - 01:24).
Both agree that unlike other festivals, Bloodstock avoids negativity and maintains a sense of “coming home”.

Artist Experience at Bloodstock

Martin shares how the festival looks after artists and has stayed true to its roots for over 25 years (01:32 - 02:24).

Soulride Background and Influences

Formed in 2008 in Coventry by Polish musicians, Soulride’s sound is rooted in old-school heavy metal, inspired by Black Sabbath, Dio, and Rainbow, with a bit of thrash (02:45 - 03:11).

Musical Passion and Staying Young

Martin describes the moment he decided to become a drummer and how performing keeps him feeling young, providing an escape from daily life (03:27 - 04:26).

Band-Audience Connection

The vital energy exchange between band and public is highlighted, with gratitude from Soulride for the crowd's support (05:08 - 05:28).

On-Stage Mishap Story

Martin recounts a memorable gig where he had to run off stage mid-song to use the bathroom, but the audience was understanding and supportive (05:43 - 06:21).
Humorous discussion follows about health and safety onstage mishaps (06:40 - 07:09).

Soulride’s Future Plans

The band is transitioning to a trio as one member returns to Poland.
They’re writing new material for a full-length album, expected early next year (07:31 - 07:57).
New music will stay in the same genre but reflect the current members’ unique voices (08:16 - 08:52).

Supporting Emerging Bands

Martin and Pipeman stress the importance of supporting new, unsigned bands in keeping the festival and music scenes alive (10:16 - 10:44).

Notable Quotes

“It feels like home.” – Martin (00:37)
“They’re all about the experience, being a family for the fans, by the fans.” – Pipeman (01:48)
“When you go on stage... you’re feeling 16 again. It’s like time machine. It’s like going back in time.” – Martin (04:09)
“There’s no public without the band, there’s no band without the public.” – Martin (05:08)
“If you’re not going to go and support small bands, your local bands, you eventually—the festivals will end.” – Martin (10:29)

Resources & Links Mentioned

Bloodstock Festival
Soulride (no direct links given, but encouraged to follow on social media and support via local gigs)
Support unsigned and local bands for the future of music festivals

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Hi, you have learnt to censure. Wow for you young.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here.

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With Marching from Soul right nice here at Bloodstock.

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Yeah, how does it feel to be here?

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It feels amazing. That's the fourth farm. I'm here second time.

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Yeah yeah, yeah, And I love this place. It feels

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like home.

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You know, it's funny you should say that because you

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know I do vessels all over the US, UK, Europe.

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I came here from Valking and then I got here

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and I actually posted on my on my social and

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like it feels good to be home with my family

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and I don't even live in the UK.

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The atmosphere here is amazing.

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Seriously, coming here, I think when I came here first time,

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I feel like I've been here before.

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Yeah yeah, and everybody I've been saying, everybody's so cool here.

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Like some festivals, you have all the cool people, but

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then there's some assholes. I never run into assholes at

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Bloodstock ever.

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Well, I never had any issues being here. It's amazing.

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People are so helpful. I have a child with you,

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I have a love. It's brilliant.

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So how do you feel they treat you as an

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artist too, because that's always important to me.

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Well, we've got to come side. We've been looked after.

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I can't say no, it's brilliant. Like like I said

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in twenty eighteen, when we played, it was exactly the same,

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nothing changed, and I think standard only get better and better.

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Really.

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Yeah, they're all about the experience being a family for

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the fans, by the fans, and that's what's killer because

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since COVID a lot of the bigger festivals, you know,

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they investors and so it's no longer that same type

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of feel. And like I heard Vicki and interview say,

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like that shit won't happen here. We were a family

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festival and we're always going to be a family festival. Yeah.

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Well I think you know Blodstocks starting twenty five years ago,

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actually fine, no, right, No, it.

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Was indoor, it was a small festival obviously grew up.

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I think they what they're doing.

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They they keeping the roots of that festival that happened

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twenty five years ago.

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Yes, yes, they haven't diverted from.

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That, even though they expanded went much bigger. It's still brilliant,

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it's amazing.

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Exactly so tell the listeners who are not familiar a

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little bit about your band.

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Okay, so the band was formed in two thousand and

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eight by all Polish guys in Coventry. Okay, we're still

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based in Coventry, although we're not all from Coventry, but

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that's where we were here, that's where we were playing,

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that's where we our hometown. We playing kind of old

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school heavy metal. Okay, if if someone likes I don't know,

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let's say Black Sabbat the or Rainbow, this is us. Yeah,

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a little bit a little bit of trash in there

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sometimes as well in a couple of the songs.

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But very old school type of metal.

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Nice. And so what was that moment in time that

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triggered you to want to do this for a living?

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you go out and look at different bands and like thinking,

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I want to be on that stage.

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want to do what this guitar is doing. The drummer

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looks at the drama. I want to do what this

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guy is doing with these sticks. And obviously the vocalist.

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You know, I want to do what this guy's doing.

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the same. One day I went for some gig. I

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looked at the drummer and I thought, I want to

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do that. I want to be a dramma because I'm

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a dramma.

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Nice, nice. And So how's it feel now, all these

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years later, knowing that you're still doing what you love.

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To be honest, it feels like I've stopped in time.

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I never grow up, literally, So when I go to work,

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you get all that from every day, you know, feeling

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tied whatever. But when you go on the stage, when

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you go on your housal, you're feeling sixteen again, and

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it's like time machine.

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He's like going back in time.

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That is what's amazing about music. And then it is

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the best therapy ever them. It is true now for

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you the artists and for me the listener, because you

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get to get stuff out, you know, in your music

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and on your drums, like because drums are great therapy

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for beating the shit out of it, yeah, instead of

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somebody else. And we get it from being at your show,

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escaping the world, especially nowadays, like I don't even know

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what's going on in the world today right now, and

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I don't give a fuck because I'm here at blood

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Stuck and that's where it counts.

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Well, I think I think for every single band, it's

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the relation between the band and the public. Right there's

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no public without the band. There's no band without the public.

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So we try always to give our best old energy

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we got on the stage, and I mean we're expecting

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to get it back. Most of the time it's happened,

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and we appreciate that. We're really grateful for that, and

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I think that's what keep us going, really, the energy

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that comes back to you absolutely.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Do you have one story, good or bad in your

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whole career of music that really sticks out in your mind?

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It's a bad one? Can I say the bad one?

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So it's not with the current band.

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Okay.

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I used to play with the band and we have

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this song. I think it's like seven eight minutes long. Okay,

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it was, It was long, and obviously we have a

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couple of pints of water. Yeah, a couple of pints

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of water, and throughout in the middle of the song,

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I really need to go for the pass and literally

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you know if I if I have to be sick

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or something, I will do it there. Okay, but I

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need a piss, So basically in the middle of song,

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I basically run into the toilet. At the piece I'm

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coming back. I will just continue with the show and

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everyone's clapping. And that's what I love about it. You know,

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no one, no one who felt, oh I'm professional something everyone.

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Understood, but I was.

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That's kind of story I stick to my head, my

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memory that I'll be saying to everyone for a very

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long time.

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Yeah, you know, I love it because it could be

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a lot worse. The number one answer to that question

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is that has been answered multiple times, is when they

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ship their pants on stage.

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You don't want to do it when your drummer, because

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then you're sitting on the shed.

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Man that was it becomes slippery. Man. You need the

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one of those yellow cones.

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Oh my god, that's great. You're the first person to

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ever look at it that way and it.

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Is true it has a Then we'll leave in UK,

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all right. UK is like health and safety is the

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priority right straight away. If trauma ship and cell you

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need to stick out that yellow cone. No one have

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to clean it. It can stay there for weeks, but

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you need the yellow cone.

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They should have been doing that with the news lately,

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with the people doing that in the pit. Yeah, and

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apparently bands were smelling it, so they should put out

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that cone.

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Yeah.

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So where you got going on the rest of the

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year that the lizard should know about.

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Well, we had this album going on for a couple

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of years and I think two years, and currently there

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is a bit of a transition in the band because

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one of our members is going back to his homeland, Poland. Okay,

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so so right, literally from today when we finish our show,

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it's officially becoming a trio. We already start some works

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on the new material, new songs that we want to

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record and eventually make a full length album hopefully hopefully

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beginning of the next year. That's what's going on behind

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this Behind the scene, we're trying to stay as active

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as possible, playing gigs and you know, running our social media,

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But the main thing we're focusing is on writing new stuff.

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Basically, I love it.

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And how do you think the new stuff will be

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either the same or different from previous.

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I think it's gonna be.

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I mean, it's gonna be in the same general, it's

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gonna be it's gonna be same kind of music, but

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it's gonna be different music because literally, basically now well

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in the band, it will be no a founding member

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of the band actually, and I think it will be

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different because the songs that we recorded on the previous

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album was written down long, long time ago, but different people.

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There's only a couple of tracks that being record, written

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and recorded by current members. So I think the new

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album will be I wouldn't say totally different, but it

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will be different.

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It will not be the same. I think that's kind.

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Of cool too, because it's like, you know, if you

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don't have the founding member and you're writing the same music,

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then are you really being an original band or are

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you just kind of being a tribute band?

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No, yeah, So to me, I think now is the

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time to create what your sound should be in twenty

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twenty six and not live in the past. Yeah.

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Well, we totally agree.

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We will be We will be creating our own music

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what plays in our hearts and souls.

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Totally agree.

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We got full blessing from founder members about continuing with

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the bond. Okay, but yeah, we cannot say it's gonna

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be the same because it's it's totally different bunch of people.

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It's gonna be again heavy metal, trust metal, but I

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reckon it's going to be different.

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Yeah, well yeah, And you know what, I think people

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would be able to tell if you weren't doing that,

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because you know, music's emotion and passion. How can you

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have emotion and passion about something that isn't meaning something

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to you?

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Yeah? Yeah, yeah, you're totally right. We don't know.

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Don't want to recreate stuff. We want to We want

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to progress, Yes, going in the same direction, but maybe

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using different roots.

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I love it, that's cool. So anything else we should

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tell the listeners that they should know about how they

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connect you on socials, all that good stuff.

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I think most of the bonds saying that. Yeah yeah,

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but I think the main thing, and like you mentioned

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after the COVID, go and support unsigned new bands because

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that's how Metallica Iron made and started. So if you're

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not going to go and support small bunds, your local bands,

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you eventually the festivals will end well on exactly, So

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go and support new bunds.

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