May 28, 2026

INGESTED UK technical death metal juggernauts New Album Denigration – PipemanRadio Interview

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INGESTED UK technical death metal juggernauts - Denigration full-length, released on May 8th through Metal Blade Records.

INGESTED Presents “Oaths Betrayed” Lyric Video; Denigration Full-Length Out Today On Metal Blade Records + Chaos & Carnage Tour Underway!

The band comments, “‘Oaths Betrayed’ takes the language of faith, war, and destiny and turns it against the systems that abuse those ideas. The lyrics are about promises written in blood and enforced with steel; oaths that were supposed to protect but ended up binding people to suffering. It’s a world where idols are pissed on, scriptures are burned, and yet people still march ‘through ruins to claim what’s mine’ because truth is the only thing left worth carrying. It’s the sound of realizing that the divine has abandoned you, and deciding you’ll carve your own laws into bone.

“This song almost didn’t make the cut, and now it’s one of the tracks we reach for first. Musically, it hits that high-tempo, groove-driven, 2010s-era death metal energy, spiked with breakdowns that feel like the floor cracking open. It’s urgent, almost martial at times, with riffs that march more than they sprint. Lyn’s lyrical contribution here adds a different edge, more confrontational, more fixated on personal agency in the middle of collapse. ‘Oaths Betrayed’ feels like a rallying cry in the second half of the record.”

Denigration includes guest appearances by John Gallagher of Dying Fetus on “Watch You Fold,” Damonteal Harris of PeelingFlesh on “Merciless Reflection,” Skyler Conder of Cell on “Dragged Apart,” and Kyle Medina of Bodysnatcher on “Dredge The Dark,” further amplifying the record's scope and intensity

Produced by Nico Beninato at The Arch Studios in Southport, UK, Denigration captures INGESTED at their sharpest and most forward-thinking. The album’s visual identity is equally striking, featuring artwork by Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design, whose detailed, eerie imagery reflects the record’s thematic depth and ferocious tone

Denigration is available digitally, on CD, and on vinyl in the following color variants:

Monopile Electric Blue Smoke (US)
Hot Pink and Purple Smoke (US)
Red Marbled (EU – Ltd.500)
Purple With Red And White Highlights (EU – Ltd. 300)
Clear Turquoise Blue w/ Red + Neonpink Splatter (EU – Ltd. 300)
Hot Pink w/ Purple Amoeba (Band UK Exclusive – Ltd. 300)

Find orders at metalblade.com/ingested and the INGESTED webpage at ingested.co.uk.

Denigration Track Listing;
1. Dragged Apart (Feat. Skyler Conder of Cell)
2. Merciless Reflection (Feat. Damonteal Harris of PeelingFlesh)
3. Watch You Fold (Feat. John Gallagher of Dying Fetus)
4. Stitch By Stitch
5. We Are All Inherently Evil
6. Dredge The Dark (Feat. Kyle Medina of Bodysnatcher)
7. Oaths Betrayed
8. Beaten Beyond The Veil
9. Steel Toe Truth
10. Cold Sun

INGESTED is currently on tour in the US as part of the Chaos & Carnage Tour alongside Thy Art Is Murder, Carnifex, Bodysnatcher, 200 Stab Wounds, Gates To Hell, and Bodybox. In July/August, the band will return to Canadian stages as part of the Canadian Heritage Tour with Angelmaker and Disfiguring The Goddess. Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates below.

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next guest, uh Sean from Ingested.

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How are you?

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I'm good man.

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How are you doing good?

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So?

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Uh are you? Like by your tour tour bus?

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It looks like you're like about ready to do a

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show and you're here for this interview pretty much?

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Yeah, I mean we've got we've got boss calling like

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thirty minutes. Then we go ahead to the venue and

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then we load and then start the day.

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Basically nice.

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Nice, So I'm very interested to begin with that. There

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is a song that almost didn't make the album and

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now it's like your go to song. Tell us the

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story behind that and how that happened.

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Are you talking specifically about Ulsper Trade, Yes, sir, Yeah,

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I mean we kind of arranged to do about eight

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or eight or nine songs for the album, and then

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we've found ourselves having some extra time, we thought, why

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not just record you know, I had one in the

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back pocket and drew it.

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One in the back pocket.

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We'll just record these at the end of the session

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and maybe we could just extend you know, once the

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album comes out and six months later we've got two

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singles to release, blah blah blah. But we found ourselves.

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Looking at the sequence and listening to the sequence.

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slotted in perfectly, and there you go. It ended up

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being a ten track album instead of eight or.

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Nice. And so.

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I think the Oaths portrayed song like it talks very

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much about the crap.

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We're going through in the world right now. Is that

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pretty spot on?

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I mean, I didn't write that one. I drummer wrote

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the lyrics of that one, so only he can specifically

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tell you about that song. But I mean when I've

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read it, I kind of get what you're saying, is,

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you know, objectively kind of looks and seems that way.

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Yeah, And like there is a lot of stuff to

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some truth in.

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The world's like on repeat, like history does repeat itself.

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So yeah, in cycles, man, exactly, your music's pretty badass.

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I want to know when it all started for you personally,

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to know that this is what you wanted to do.

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try and set you up for life after school, and

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they're like, what do you want to do? And I

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they kind of didn't take that any seriously, said, well,

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you need something more.

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Not everyone gonna make it in a band.

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I guess I don't know.

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kind of not mission statement when.

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I was fifteen.

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the same thing. So I guess it works out.

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to other people follow your own heart man, Yeah exactly.

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I didn't take to the stage very well for the

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first like a couple of years of the band.

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I just felt nervous.

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kind of felt insignificant, if you will. But you know,

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obviously the band persevered and we managed to have opportunities

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Work, you know.

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Yeah, well, and I gotta say what you experienced.

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And that's why I asked that, because the listeners need

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to know it that that's not so uncommon like most

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musicians I've ever known in my life are like introverted

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you can get your.

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don't fuck.

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you do it, the more you get used to it.

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are occasions where you know, I'm still I still got

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I feel that because, like not I do this, but

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I also do my ovational speaking, and anytime I turn

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the mic on on stage or on radio or on podcasts,

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right before I turn the mic on, I always have nervousness.

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Like I've done over three thousand interviews. Still every time

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before I I'm like.

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don't do this, I don't do it.

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But the minute that mic turns on, there's a switch

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in my head like I'm in the zone, and it's

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like I'm a different person.

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Before, Yeah, absolutely, And you know it makes sense like two,

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when you're an early band and you're playing the small shows.

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To me, it's way more nerve racking to play to

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ten people.

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Than it is to ten thousand.

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I mean it's something like maybe so maybe true. I

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suppose with ten people there's a lot of focus on

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you and it's just those not small group of people.

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But I think maybe you're right. And you know, you

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can look over it and look at ten thousand people

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and then you don't really see individual people.

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It's just it's just a crowded you know, do you

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know what I mean?

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Like where tee because you're looking at these specific people.

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But yeah, I think there's maybe a bit of truth

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Yeah, and you have that focus of their eyes are

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on you when there's this crowd of ten thousand, like

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you don't really know that.

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It just looks like one big crowd.

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It doesn't look like anything specific, you know.

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And so tell us what.

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We went behind this new album, how it may be

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the same as in the past, but also different.

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Yeah, I mean we went with a with an intent

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to write something heavy and griovy, like much more.

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What we you know, what we did when we first started.

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It was that youthful, kind of reckless attitude to writing

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heavy music.

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you know, different choices, and especially in the last two

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albums that we did, and I just felt it felt

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like it was time to a bit of a return

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to form, if you will. So yeah, the intent was

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to write some m of griovy and heavy and you know,

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just a collection of songs that would be punishing live

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in a live situation.

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Nice. Where's your favorite place to play live ever? Do

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you have one?

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I mean there's certain cities that will stick out and

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are always decent, but thick in a favor it will

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be very difficult for me obviously, Like a hometown shows cool,

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you know Manchester in the UK and London and the UK.

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Weirdly enough, Edmonton in Canada has always been amazing. We've

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played there three times over the over the years and

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each one's it has been insane. Yeah, typical place. It's

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like la usually good up in Worcester up that way

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was actually that was with the standout show from the

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whole TLL to be honest with them. We came through

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the Palladium a few about a week and a half

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ago and two tours met up, so it was split

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over the two stages and we played the small room

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and originally I was a bit disappointed we didn't get

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to play the large room, but it worked out in

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our favorite because you know, the fans upstairs and that's morroing.

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We're going nuts, going absolute bananas. So yeah, it's good.

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Yeah, I find that sometimes too.

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the US, UK, Europe, and I was just doing one

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recently called Hell's Heroes, and it had like the main stay,

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a couple main stages, but that because it.

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Was a club type place that had these.

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was spending a lot of my time because man, those

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shows were insane.

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You know.

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And how does it feel for you as an artist,

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like you start playing the bigger gigs when you go

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back to club shows, is it kind of like nostalgic

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or more fun because you haven't done it in a while?

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I mean, that's kind of normal for us playing a

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small club show. I mean, big club shows are kind

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of rare. It depends what sort of you know. I mean,

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this tour has been fortunate. It's been some big, big

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rooms and stuff. But I always remember, like like three

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years ago we did a we did Lorna Shore in

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the US, then Canimal Corps in Europe, and then at

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the end of the year we did Lorna.

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Show in Europe.

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Lona Show tour, and then we had those two to

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followers like, this is going to be one of the biggest,

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you know, things doing a long time.

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cat rooms, and it almost got normal, which was weird.

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you know, some venues we should fill, it was like, oh, okay,

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you know there's a there's like a eighty percent decrease

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in in a in crowd here.

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But yeah, I mean, I'm we're used to that. That's

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kind of our bread and butter is.

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Those small club shows, and you know, when you get

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the opportunity to a bigger show, it's always.

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Cool and that's where you get your loyal fans anyway,

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the smaller shows because they feel like so connected to

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you because they are it.

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Is an intimate setting.

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So I know Brian Slago from way back from the

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beginning of Metal Blade, and I love that here in

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twenty twenty six, he's still keeping metal so relevant. How

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do you like being on Metal Blade Records as an artist?

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Who signed us was the X base player from the

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Black Darley Mane, which we talked with sixteen years ago,

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so that the conversation to get on the label was

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very very simple. It was, you know, Metal Blade, we

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can offer you this, we can provide this, Okay, let's go,

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and that was it.

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That was It's that simple.

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The thing about Metal Blade that was different from our

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previous labels was the just the amount of people working

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in the label. You know this there's someone to do

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a certain job, like you know, wordsing, Like the smaller labels,

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it's kind of one or two people do in all

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of it. But you know, we had very specific people

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to do specific jobs like it was. Yeah, it was

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really impressive. And you know it's all been smooth since

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we've got one more one more album left on the

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contract and you know, we'll see see what happens after that.

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Nice Well.

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The one thing about Slay Gold too, it's a true

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metal head. Like sometimes record labels you're dealing with, they

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don't understand our genre of music, you know, and I

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think it's important to have somebody that runs a label

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to understand metal music and the musicians in metal music.

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For sure.

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I don't want just some sup we're in idea with

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no passion for what he was doing. But yeah, I've

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been fortunate enough to meet Brian before. Very cool do,

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very very passionate about music. Yeah, it's just a great dude,

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all around man. So it is a privilege to work

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underneath you know, he's label.

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Yeah, when I was a teenager in the early eighties,

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I would go to he was a record store clerk

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at this place in the valley in La called Oz Records,

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and you would that's when he started Metal Blade, and

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so we would go in there and say, hey, you

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gotta listen to this.

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Hey, you gotta listen to it.

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And most of the bands I like today are because

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of Brian Slagel, but also the brilliance of how he

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promoted his bands on the label.

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You know, And he's a true he's not in it

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for the business.

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Like a few years ago, I saw him a thing

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and I was like, man, that was brilliant what you

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did years ago. Like if I think about now, he

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goes that was just a record store clerk, Like he's

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he's totally humble about it, but it's totally true. He

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was just like a record store clerk that had a

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passion for metal and saw that that industry was not

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being serviced.

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And now look at where we are today, and well.

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Leo, I mean, they're one of the most prestigious labels around,

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you know, I think one of the few labels are

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still independent, you know before Yeah, everyone else sell the

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soul to fucking big corporation. At least Mental Blade is

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still doing it the way they do and it's my respect.

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And what I love too is some of the bands

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that started on Metal Blade and went and to the

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other big labels ended up going back to Metal Blade

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because when you play metal, I think you need that

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type of label because then they understand you.

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label and be a small fish and a big pundle

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be it, you know, big fish in a small pond.

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So you're going to get the attention if you if

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you're a big bond and you go for a label

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on an outplay, you're going to get the attention that

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you want.

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So yeah, and they're not going to try and change

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your music too. That's an earth thing.

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I saw a lot of you know, record labels telling

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bands how to play music.

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You know, I think.

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Everybody has a spot like you're talking about before. But

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leave the creativity to the musicians, is my viewpoint.

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Yeah. Sure.

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So is there anything that you in all these years

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of doing this that you haven't accomplished yet that is

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in your sights as a goal that you want to

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do somebody you want to play with, a tour, you

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want to go on music, you want right, whatever it is.

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Yeah, there's always there's always goals and ever changing goals

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and boocket lists kind of things, if you will. But

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if we've still not done Japan really you know, Yeah,

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It's been lined up like.

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A numerous times.

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I was supposed to go before COVID and COVID hit

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and then there was a visa issue. It's just like,

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oh my god, are we ever going to go with

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this play? So Japan's definitely something we want to do.

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There's loads of bands I want to saw with that

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I've never actually got on the road with.

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You.

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You can sity sites as high as you want, you

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know what I mean. It's like I would like to

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play with Pants.

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And Slay here and Slipknot.

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But you know, those goals are a little bit fantasy.

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If you know what I mean is it's a fantasy idea.

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It's not possible, but you know those those those are

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sort of things you'd love to do. But yeah, there's

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put the bands in the genre and have still to with.

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I mean, we've we'd.

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Never go on the road with Whitechapple, which is another

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metal played artist and you know, kind of a legendary band.

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I'm the scene.

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It's it's crazy that certain bands were just not managed

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to get on the road with. So yeah, I'm always

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always setting up going, have always got things I want

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to do. So as long as you've got that fire

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in your belly, that's kind of what keeps you.

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Going right exactly.

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And I I've actually personally seen you like I do

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all these festivals. I've personally seen you at Download and

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at Bloodstock. Do you know how they described your set

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at Bloodstock?

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No, please tell me. Blister blistering.

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That's the description of your set at Bloodstock. It's like

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it says they did a blistering set at Bloodstock.

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That works, man, I like that. I like that a lot.

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That's a great compliment, right, Yeah, for sure.

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Is there a festival that you guys have played that's

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your favorite to play.

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Oh, good question.

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Healthfest is probably up. The health Fest was quite amazing

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right time we did. Yeah, the first time we did

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download was great. Yeah, there's been a few, but also

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been I don't we've never been walking before, and that's

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another goal I would like to like to be walking

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down the road.

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You know.

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Yeah, you definitely have to do that festival for sure.

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But he hew Fest, That's why I think that's my

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favorite in the world.

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And I do like a whole crapload of them all year.

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But hew Fest is like another animal, you know, it's

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good it and just the what I love about it

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is how it's decorated, how there's like hidden stages places

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like you'll be walking back in the merch area and

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there's like a stage on the roof somebody who's playing.

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It's kind of cool. And then how they segregate the

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genres off of the other stages that are not the

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main stages. Like I think that that is brilliant because

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when you're into a specific genre, who wants to walk

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back and forth through a festival that size like every

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set so like you can you could be like I

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remember just sitting there all day last year, was it

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last year? I think, and they had the thrash metal stage,

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and I'm a told thrash mellow head, so I was

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pretty much there the whole day, you.

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Know, when I wasn't doing their reviews.

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And then before that, I remember, you know, I would

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sit there the black metal and the death metal stages

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or right next to each other. I'm like, oh, I

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don't have to move. I can just stand right here,

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you know. So it is kind of cool. And you know, Lemmy,

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that's that's a scene on in and of itself, that

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big sculpture of Lenny. It's pretty wild, and Lemmy, it's

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pretty wild. What what what would you say was your

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favorite part of Hellfest?

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You think?

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I don't know if you I don't know if it's

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changed because I've not been there for a few years now,

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but just the catering area, which kind of overlooks the

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main stages and you can just get a beer and

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stand on the on the terrace and just watch, you know,

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you just preese coach here or corn.

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And just like this is incredible. So yeah, I really

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enjoyed that aspect of it.

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Obviously, obviously enjoy of playing in the tent was falling stuff,

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but just the after show and be someone of the

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terrorists watching the main stage is quite quite some special man.

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See that is pretty cool because most festivals that's not

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where catering is. So it's like so many artist friends

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of mine, it's like sometimes that they have to make

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a choice or are they gonna eat or go catch

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au set?

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So that's where that's perfect.

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Is there anything else you want to tell the listeners

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about you guys, about your tour, about denigration or anything

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else you got going on the rest of the year.

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Well, Kayson County is about to wrap up. You've got

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three shows left. I guess you know, big shout after

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this tour, it's been one of the books. And in

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two months time we head out to her doing a

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full Canadian tour with Angel Maker and District and the Goddess.

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So if you're tuning into this and you want to

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come and see.

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Us again, if any and you're in Canada, come check

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us out.

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Man, Well, I love your music.

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I love the new album.

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Everybody has to check it out and get it and

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they also have to buy your merch because they can't

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listen to my show. And let's say buy your merch.

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That's the only way you get to the next gig.

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People don't realize honestly.

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Is that is literally the only way we make money

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is people, the listeners and fans actually picking up merchandise.

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So so yeah, it means a lot more. I mean,

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like you said, if.

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Anyone's after merchandise, you can head up to ingested dot

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com at UK and there are all the relevant links

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to your territory, US, your Australia, et cetera, so it's

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the best place to get it.

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Nice well, thanks a lot for making us great music

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and great therapy.

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And thanks for being on the Adventures of pain Now

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I appreciate it man.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of plate Man

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on w for CUI Radio.