Aug. 2, 2026

Dive Into Metal: Guillermo Miranda Talks Dieth, Wacken, and the Power of Brazilian Fans

Dive Into Metal: Guillermo Miranda Talks Dieth, Wacken, and the Power of Brazilian Fans

In this episode, Pipeman welcomes Guillermo Miranda, guitarist, vocalist, and main songwriter of Dieth, to share his journey through the world of metal, from humble beginnings in Brazil to performing on legendary stages like Wacken and Rock in Rio. The conversation dives deep into the technicalities of death metal, the powerful energy of global festivals, and how academic experiences have shaped Guillermo Miranda's career and perspective as an artist.Main Topics Covered

  • Guillermo Miranda's musical journey and current projects
  • Experiences performing with iconic metal bands (Destruction, Dark Embrace, Metallica, Gojira)
  • The technical complexity and artistry of death metal
  • How education and studying history have influenced Guillermo Miranda's musicianship
  • The importance of embracing and being proud of cultural roots, especially the vibrancy of the Brazilian metal scene
  • Unique energies and experiences at famous festivals like Wacken and Rock in Rio
  • Reflections on metal fandom and legendary bands like Slayer
  • The mindset behind career success and how to approach plans and contingencies
Key Discussions & StoriesStarting Out in Music
  • Guillermo Miranda never initially planned to be a professional musician. After studying history and teaching in Brazil, his musical career "just happened" without a defined plan 06:25.
  • Formed Dieth with David Ellefson from Megadeth, marking a significant launch 00:49.
  • Shares his experience filling in for the iconic thrash metal band Destruction, performing "Curse the Gods," a dream come true for his younger self 01:26.
Musicianship and Death Metal
  • Discussion on the complexity and technical demands of death metal: "Playing death metal, it's like being a jazz musician" 04:03.
  • Distinction between simply writing riffs versus constructing a full death metal song 04:44.
  • Notable mention of Morbid Angel's "Altars of Madness" harmonies as a pinnacle of metal artistry 05:19.
The Role of Education
  • Guillermo Miranda credits his college education and history studies for shaping his perspective and making him a more well-rounded musician and communicator 07:20.
  • He notes that being able to articulate and present himself comes more from his educational background than technical guitar skill alone 07:59.
Live Performances and Festival Energy
  • Contrasts Wacken Open Air's unique "holy ground" energy with other major festivals, likening it to religious sacred sites 11:47.
  • Describes playing Rock in Rio alongside Metallica and Gojira as an unforgettable experience 11:34.
  • Emphasizes the global reputation and enthusiasm of Brazilian metal fans and the widespread dream among European bands to perform in Brazil 13:06.
Personal Anecdotes and Metal Fandom
  • Guillermo Miranda and Pipeman share stories of their devotion to Slayer, including personal concert experiences and memorabilia 17:03.
  • Guillermo Miranda recounts his first Slayer concert with Jeff Henneman and Dave Lombardo, fulfilling a lifelong dream 18:03.
Mindset for Success
  • Guillermo Miranda discusses the importance of not having a "Plan B"—his approach is to make "Plan A" work, with teaching history as a source of fulfillment should he ever step away from music 10:15.
  • Pipeman relates this mindset to his own experience as a motivational speaker, emphasizing commitment for success 10:34.
Notable Quotes
  • "Playing death metal, it's like being a jazz musician." — Guillermo Miranda 04:03
  • "No, the plan B is to make the plan A work." — Pipe Man 10:20
  • "Wacken, there's an energy here that is different from anywhere in the world... there is a magnetic field for the metal that it's beautiful." — Guillermo Miranda 11:54
  • "If I ever want to quit music or something... I'd go back to my country, to my hometown, and teach history, and I'll be super happy with that." — Guillermo Miranda 10:40
  • "Slayer, man. Slayer." — Guillermo Miranda 17:55
  • "What a pleasure, man. Thank you very much for having me." — Guillermo Miranda 19:16
Resources & Links Mentioned
  • Dieth: Find them on Instagram at "Typh Band"
  • Guillermo Miranda: Instagram @GuilhermeMiranda.Guitar
  • Festivals Discussed:
  • Bands Referenced:
    • Megadeth, Destruction, Dark Embrace, Metallica, Gojira, Slayer, Morbid Angel, Possessed, The Offspring


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Yes, that's true for wow, crazy you.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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And I'm here with Gillermi Miranda. That's nice. Can you

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say that ten times fast your own name?

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Yeah, Gillerim Miranda, Glare Miranda.

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And tell the listeners what band you play in? Work band?

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Nowadays? No, nowadays I play on Dieth. It's my it's

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my main band, which I play guitar and sing and

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stuff and write the main songs and so on. We

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had a very good we have a very good start

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for you guys in the US. We started the band

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with David from Megadeth, David Alfson, so it was very cool.

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Started really yeah yeah so and uh yeah, I play

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here in fucking with Dark Embrace.

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There's an our band. I'm filling in for them.

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Nice.

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I played as a fillingine guitarist in January for Destruction,

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which is a.

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One of my favorite band.

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Oh yeah, man, it's a class.

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I'm a total thrash metal head, so anything that's thrash

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or teutonic thrash I'm down with.

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Oh hell yes no.

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And I remember that when we played the gigs Man

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with Destruction. It was like a huge fan, you know,

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so it was a big honor when they asked Mitchell

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to fill in for them.

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And I remember we were playing the first song.

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We were opening with Curse the Gods, which is a

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cold Time classic, right, and you know, I played the

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whole song like because when you went around stage or

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in another mood and they're not ending another mode as well.

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We're just professional focused.

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when everything is you see and everything's working, the monitors,

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you know, the sound is good, the guitarist is there,

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and then when we do that that break like dent

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dum tan and ten and then before the chorus.

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Uh, then I look at this.

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and I had just seen the backing vocals like Curse.

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The Gods, you know, nice.

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So when I did the Curse and then the teenager

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in me appeared like, oh man, this Curse the Gods

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I'm playing, I'm here, you know, right.

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Of the best times of my life.

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Man, that would be such a trip, right.

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Yeah, A trip, man, a trip, a trip because I

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I I got myself out of myself.

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an other perspective, and I was thinking, like, man, imagine

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my teenage self watching me is saying.

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Curse, oh my god, you know, and.

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Then everybody singing that it was beautiful, but beautiful.

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Alive and no doubt about it. And you know a

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little bit trivia. We were talking in the last interview

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about Possess. Do you know originally people tried to call

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them thrash and they weren't really thrash. They were the

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original death metal back then. And you know, they were

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called the Slayer copycats. But I'm a huge Slayer fan. Okay, huge, Yeah,

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pretty technical, so you gotta be a really really good

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musician to play death metal like. And a lot of

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you take people that aren't in the metal, they think

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it's just noise. But some of the raised musicianship I

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ever heard is from death metal.

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metal it's like being a jazz musician because it is

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technically it requires.

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that easy. It sounds easy because you know you can

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they send a riff and they say like, hey, man,

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I have a song, and I'm like, no, man, you

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don't have a song. You have you have a you know,

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you have this, you have a riff, or you have

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a part of a song, or you have a transition

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a song. Yeah, and to have a death metal song,

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Yes, it sounds now, and the people that don't know,

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they think you're just making noise, and it's like you

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should listen. That's why I tell people like, actually you

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may not like it, but listen to it, because if

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you listen to the undertone, that's where you hear the musicianship.

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In my opinion, you know, and there's.

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the harmonies they do on guitars there, it's something like

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I can't even describe that. It's spectacular, and I think

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that's the finest of the finest of the things that

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you can do in music, you know.

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So what started you as a musician.

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Well, first of all, I never planned to be a musician.

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I don't know.

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Even sometimes although I do it professionally, I still you know,

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when you do your formulas and stuff that you have

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to write, what's your professional activity. I still have difficulties

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on writing musician. I write guitarists and stuff, But I

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never planned to be a musician. Actually, I've done the university,

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I graduated, and I've done some post grad and stuff

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and humanities. I studied history nice and.

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My life was pretty awesome back then.

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It still is, but you know, it was pretty awesome

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back then. I had a good job.

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I was teaching history in high school and.

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In private schools in Brazil, which gives you very good money.

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It was a fair amount for my age back then.

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And I never planned to be a musician. I just

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thought like, okay, I'm going to release an album, and

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then maybe we tried to play this festival and this gig,

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and then we try to make a tour, and then

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we try to make the next tour, and then the

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thing just went off rails. Yeah, it just happened. And

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it was never a plan. I was never the guy

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that planned like, Okay, I'm going to study music and

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be the shreder And I never planned that thing, man.

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And so how do you think actually the college education

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helped you as a musician, helped on.

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Everything, man, because it's like.

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You were more of an interesting person when you when

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you've been to college. Because in college, I've been around

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people from all over the world. I've been to congresses,

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I've talked to people from international uh congresses, places, professors

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and teachers. I've read a lot of books, and I

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think that's what brings me to playing a lot of

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bands that I played with, not the guitar playing, because

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people liked that. You know, I'm very articulated. I know

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how to talk, I know how to you know, position myself.

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And as far as I in history, when I go

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to places, I see the meaning of the whole thing

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and like to study and get the books and you know,

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so it's pretty awesome. This this fact that I don't

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come from a music background and that helped me more

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than playing guitar, I think. And some guitarists that I know,

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I don't. I don't want to be a guy sounding

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without respect for them. But some people that I know

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that they are fantastic, perfect guitarists. If you take the

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guitar out of the guy, man, he can't articulate two

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phrases together. And it's not my case, you know. So

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I can talk to people. I understand things and stuff.

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And I think that being a public university in Brazil,

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which is the highest thing you can reach, studying there

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was very good for me. You know.

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I love that, and you know why because I would

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tell my kids when it came to college, like going

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to college, it's not about getting the degree. It's about

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becoming a well rounded person that can assimilate in any environment.

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It's about the experience, man, the experience, you know. And

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then I man, my college shaped me. And I had

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a band when I was in college, and you know,

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you know Heavywever, of course you did, but you know

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that the series Friends, Yeah told me Conia.

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I always dreamt about going like a Chandler and a Ross.

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When they come to the chicks and they say like, hey,

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I'm in college and I play in a band.

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And when I was in.

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College and I played in a band and my band

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was like being in my hometown. I was getting to

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the chicks like, you know, you know, I'm in college

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and I play in a band.

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Right, it's almost folklore. You know. It was beautiful. You know.

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Well that's like Dexter from the Offspring. He pause the

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band so he could go to it was either Harvard

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or Yell and then resumed like get the education.

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Yeah yeah, And it's like so and it's something like

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I always have this as a plant.

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I don't have a plan B. My plan B is

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to make the plan a work.

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I love that because I'm also a motivational speaker and

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I always tell people in order to succeed, you have

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that you have to have nothing to fall back up,

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because you will.

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The plan B is to make the plant a work.

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Let's say my Plan C, you know, Plan D. It's like,

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but that that brings me some comfort. It's like if

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if I ever want to quit music or something, which

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probably is not gonna happen, but if if you know,

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like the beers pass and you'll decide to do something

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else in their life, which is very valid. I would

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go back to my country, to my hometown and teach history,

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and I would be super happy with that because that

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fulfills me as well.

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You know. So I'm a very good place in my

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life with all these things.

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I love it. I love it.

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And so.

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you compare. I don't mean like good or bad, but

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just in general the festivals in Brazil like Bangers, Open

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Air and fuck on. I've been doing interviews all day.

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I'm trying a blanket real in real.

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Rock and real Yeah.

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Uh well, I compared the value I played Rocky with Metallica,

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Gujera stuff and it was fabulous. And the comparison is

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that fucking is very unique. If we talk about can

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I say that it's the Jerusalem for the Christians or

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the Mecca for the Muslims and stuff. So fucking there's

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an energy here that is different from anywhere in the world.

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put the energy here. And I believe in a lot

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of energy and frequencies and stuff, and here there's a

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magnetic field for the metal that it's beautiful and you

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feel that it's something special.

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It's the holy ground, yeah, and it's true. So fucking

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has something totally different from the others. But Brazil, I

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must say, our festivals are top high ending and we

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have one of the best crowds in the world. And

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yours or hearing fucking you have like a substantial percentage

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of the people attending here are Brazilians. Wow, And I

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think that, Yeah, it's crazy, man, because when I go

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out here, I hear people talking Portuguese, speaking the language,

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and I'm like, fuck man, half of the festival was

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Brazilian and that makes me happy. And I vow a

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lot for Brazil because I think we're fantastic country and we.

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metal audience, and I think that Brazil is It's like

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say it's from playing the European bands all these years

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as I've been doing, and all the Europeans their dream

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is to play Brazil man.

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fans at the Brazilian vents.

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The fans and how they receive you and the food

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and the everything is great. And I think at Brazil

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nowadays in everything in every topic, man, you get in

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the world now every topic, like you can go from

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economy blah blah.

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Blah, rare, minerals whatever.

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the top ten or top five, like we're minerals, gold,

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oil and natural resources blah blah blah. And then you

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in the top five.

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So I think I'm very proud to be Brazilian and

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lot of Brazilians, and you know, I hear a lot

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of talk there about the pride of their country. Even

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though they're in the US. There's still that pride of

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your country.

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like there's a lot of Americas. I know a lot

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of Americas nowadays. I live in Portugal, and I have

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a lot of Americans living there before from Chicago and

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stuff that they want to live in a order environment,

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in a better in a better weather place, right because

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Chicago win the city, right, and and they're still super

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proud of being Americans, you know, And I value that,

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and I think it's super awesome.

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I've been there many times and and I think that

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in Brazil we have we have to feed, you know,

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to feed more this this feeling of being proud of

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your country because we're fantastic, you know, and we have

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great bands and our scenes dominating a lot in Europe

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now and stuff. Americans recognize that. So it's great.

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and everybody keeps telling me, you need to do rock

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and real, you need.

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To do Rocky Rio and Bangers open air.

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The festival is just it's it's something that you can

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experience only there.

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before I ever did Vadkan, which is this is my

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first time. I don't have an image of what Vadkan is.

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I have people saying it's great in this, but then

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not till I got here, and I'm like, holy shit,

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like no wonder, it's the holy ground, like I couldn't

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even conceive it.

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Fucking is the holy crown that I have this feeling

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like I bring my mom last year to Santiago de Compostela.

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Where's Santiago, of course in Europe. In Europe it's called

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Sant Jacob. You know, there's a whole history since the

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Bible Man, and they found the guy there is true.

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They found his remains, his bones and stuff, and they

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built like blah blah blah, and there's a church.

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I bring my mom there.

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here about religious beliefs. I'm talking about the energy and

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people put so much energy and effort there and love

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that the place becomes something. When yeah, there you feel something,

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if you believe it or not. I'm not discussing that.

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some way is the same thing. People put so much

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love and effort and we repeat ourselves that here is

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the holy ground, that when I come here.

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I feel the energy.

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You know, Yeah, it is the holy ground of metal,

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so vocking hell, yes, you know.

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And the last thing I'm gonna say is you got

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my favorite band in the world on your calf and

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it's perfect. Ah, yes, it's perfect. Yeah, Like that is

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a c Now check this out. My battle vest from

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the eighties. Slayer didn't even have a patch yet, so

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I went out and got vine velvet like velvet lettering

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and ironed it on.

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Layer Man Slayer.

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Fucking Slayer.

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My first Slayer concert, and I watched Slayer with Jeff

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Henneman and Dave Lombardo my friend. I got in my

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friend's shoulder and I told him, like, man, I have

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to fulfill my all time dream. I was like eighteen

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years old, and he put me on his shoulder.

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He left me.

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He lift me up, sorry, and I took a deep

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breath and I said at the concert, I don't know,

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it feels great. And I got carry King's Peak back then.

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Nice, Well, then you're gonna be jealous.

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I was at their first show ever and used to

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hang out with them all the time back in the eighties.

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Holy holy, oh yeah.

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I had some wild experiences in the Slayer camp and

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Lombardo is my favorite.

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Hell yeah, what a fucking drummer.

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Lombardo is the best, oh.

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My god, best drummer I've ever known. And the fact

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Day plays in all these different bands like just amazes

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me because it's a different way in every band and

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he just can play anything.

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You know he can.

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Well, it's a blast avenue here at Vakin.

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What a pleasure man. Thank you very much for having me.

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My pleasure and real quick, tell them how they can

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reach out to you on socials.

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Check out your band, check out.

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Everything Dia band on Instagram and mine is Guilermi Miranda

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guitar on Instagram or Rachel's on Instagram. I think is

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going to be faster, easier.

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Sounds good. Well, thanks for being on the Veneres pleasure much,

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my friend.

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Thank you for listening to the adventures of fight Man.

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I'm w for CUI Radio.