Aug. 10, 2026
Joakem at Bloodstock: Blending Genres and Building Community in Progressive Metal
In this lively episode, Pipeman sits down with Joachim and members of Joakem, a progressive metal band from Cyprus, recorded live at Bloodstock Festival. The conversation explores the band’s musical philosophy, their journey through Metal to the Masses, and how blending genres and abandoning musical “boxes” sets them apart. The episode is rich in anecdotes about music education, stage presence, community building, and embracing diverse influences.Main Topics Covered
- Bloodstock Festival as a metal community and “family”
- Joakem’s unique approach to progressive metal and genre-blending
- The importance (and rejection) of genre labels and musical “boxes”
- Band members’ diverse musical backgrounds and side projects
- Personal stories of musical influences and eclectic taste
- The Metal to the Masses Cyprus experience: learning, networking, and building community
- Improving stage presence and evolving live performance
- New music and merchandise releases
- How to find and support Joakem online
- Both Pipeman and Joakem highlight the festival’s close-knit, authentic metal community and welcoming atmosphere (01:01).
- “This one's true metal and such a community, and there's no assholes here. They're not allowed.” – Pipeman
- Joakem’s music is described as “a unique blend of genres,” rooted in progressive metal but with epic, catchy, and atmospheric elements (01:49).
- Both agree artists shouldn’t be boxed in by genre or formula: “There is no box. The box is only in your mind.” – Joakem (02:53)
- Members play or have played in crust punk, power metal, and thrash-death bands. Joachim mentions his involvement in genres ranging from punk to classical music (03:18, 06:34).
- The evolution of metal from classical roots and how eclectic tastes fuel creativity (07:08).
- Favorite bands and inspirations: Dream Theater, Symphony X, Iron Maiden, Opeth, and others (05:32, 05:45, 09:53).
- Personal playlists include everything from Slayer to Tupac and classical – “it can be very upsetting for people to listen to,” Joakem jokes (06:06).
- Joakem’s path from narrowly missing a win to refining their stagecraft and claiming victory in Cyprus (11:13).
- The positive impact of Metal to the Masses on the Cyprus metal scene, bringing together local and expatriate bands from different backgrounds (12:28).
- Emphasis on networking, mutual support, and community strengthening—where even those who don’t win still benefit (13:42).
- Band improved after feedback: changed their setup to boost their frontman energy and improved visuals for the live show (14:25).
- Open-mindedness and willingness to accept critique are highlighted as keys to growth (15:42).
- “Joakem” is derived from the bandleader’s surname, adapted for ease of pronunciation (17:14).
- Listeners encouraged to check out the band online and catch their Bloodstock performance: “Come see us at 1:30 on the New Blood stage on Sunday, tomorrow. We're gonna have a good time. Come say hi. Can't wait.” (17:42)
- “There is no box. The box is only in your mind.” – Joakem (02:53)
- “I don't think you really appreciate music if you do [only listen to one genre].” – Pipeman (07:54)
- “The key to being a great musician is being able to listen and see the other perspective outside of you.” – Pipeman (15:51)
- “Even if only one band won last year, very, very deservedly so, everyone won in the sense that the community became stronger…” – Joakem (13:42)
- Joakem Online:
- Instagram: Search “Joakem Music”
- Facebook: Search “Joakem Music”
- Bandcamp: Search “Joakem”
- Spelling clarification: J-O-A-K-E-M (16:56)
- Merchandise:
- Merch for singles “Origins” and “Creatures of the Abyss” released (16:30).
- Album #2 upcoming; two new singles released (16:35).
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With where Joe came from Cyprus.
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Nice man.
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I just keep getting everybody from your country. I feel
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like I'm going to cover every metal band that's from
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your country.
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Twelve of us.
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I know. See it's not hard. So Bloodstock, do you
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fucking love this festival or what? Oh?
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Yeah, this is awesome. I mean uh, I mean I
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the other guy, the other three guys came yesterday. I'm
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I'm going on two hours of sleep. I am absolutely
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buzzed out of my head.
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I know the feeling.
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So it's all. This is all like a fever dream
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for me right now because I'm so tired. But yeah,
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I pumped. I just it's to caffeine and here we go.
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There you go.
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Well, well I love about this festival and they can
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testify to it. Is this is the festival that is
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like a family.
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Yeah, I'm getting and true metal.
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Like you have other festivals that they have metal, but
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then they have other things. This one's true metal and
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such a community and there's no assholes here.
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They're not allowed well, yeah, everyone's so kind, is like
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a big family here. We feel like we feet writing
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and so warm atmosphere.
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Yeah exactly, yeah, exactly.
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So tell me a little bit about your band for
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the listeners from your perspective, not necessarily a genre, but
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how you view yourself as an artist and how you
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view your music.
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Well, it's quite a unique blend of genres. I'm have
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to till the genre. It's a progressive metal. That's fine, yeah,
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but it's not the progressive metal that you expect traditional sense.
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You know, we have the complex rhythms and melodies, but
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at the same time, we have this hook and catchiness
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that people can relate to, and it lingers in your
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ears even after the show. It's epic, atmospheric, heavy, so
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many elements into one, and I think a lot of
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people are gonna be into our music yeah after they do.
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Yeah see. And that's the reason I say.
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It's not that I don't want you to say a genre,
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but it's more like people like to box you in
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as an artist, and I think artists shouldn't be boxed in.
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Play whatever you want, whatever you feel. And although it's
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it's prague, has other elements. So somebody might say, oh, well,
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that doesn't sound progue to me, because they may be
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the gatekeeper that have to have the purest mentality.
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There is no box exactly.
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There is no The box is only in your mind exactly.
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get better at your craft. You're not gonna do that
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if you're playing the same three chords all the time.
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a pretty diverse mix of influences on backgrounds, like the
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type of music we play, the type of musical background
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we each have, there is variety in there. I mean
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we all play in other bonds as well. I play
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in like a crosspunk bond and the power metal band
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Bob and Nuggies playing like a what is blind Thrush?
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This metal bands? Like, So you're like Possessed? Yeah sure, yeah.
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in the day and they used to say they were
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a copy of Slayer, but then they were also the
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original death metal band, so they were thrash and death
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metal back in time where those labels didn't really mean
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much of anything. And I always I was a huge
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Slayer fan, but I didn't think Possessed was a slag
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your copy and they did that.
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back then. Like if you listen to an old record
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of Led Zeppelin has everything, it's got a label after that,
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and then you have to keep producing the same thing exactly.
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there's certain bands that they just use this formula and
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then I sound like everybody else.
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I think there should be a.
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Blending of genre exactly, because that makes it unique.
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the guitar IFFs on keyboard and then he expects writing everything,
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so I have to have ten fingers. I'm saying, how
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does the transld to guitar? You know? And that's pretty
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interesting because we got guitariffs, like huge guitariffs, but it's
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something that no guitar player would ever compose. And I
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got to make that happen on the dark and that's
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like very unique.
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I think, well, it's kind of like Sabbath like that
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Sabbath was a mistake because of Tony, you know, having
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his fingers like damaged and chopped off, and so he
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had to improvise and do something new and look at
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what happened. We might not be sitting here right now
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if that.
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Didn't you sound Yeah, totally new sounds.
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So each one of you, who would you say if
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you tamed one band that was your most influence, what
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would it be?
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Oh that I knew that consciously.
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For me, it would be Dreamy Theater.
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Okay, when it comes to problem that's pretty much a
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king right there.
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But it changed through the years.
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Yeah, like every band, what about Humigill?
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If I say one, like, okay, there's two within the
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context of John camer would say Symphony X. Within an
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overall context, is the reason I picked up Base in
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the first place, would be Iron Maiden.
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Nice Well, Steve Harris, I mean, yeah, come on.
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Yeah, then the right like if you sit in my
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car you listen to my playlist, you'll it's it's very confusing.
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It's like it'll I mean when I say jumps Genres,
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I mean one moment it will be like Slayer, then
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it'll be like Tupac, and then it'll be like your Poppy,
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and then it'll be like Behemoth, then clown core and
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then I don't know, like classical music or so it's it's, it's, it's,
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it's a it's it's. It can be very upsetting for
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people to listen to.
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Well, but no, you know what, I'm glad you brought
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it up because people don't realize. They think if you're
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a metal head, that's all you listen to.
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Oh yeah, I mean, I mean, uh, I I went
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to I did a degree in music, studying a classical
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music and orchestration. I played double bass and orchestra, and
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I took a very I had a very classical education
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in that sense, and I I play in a in
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a cross punk bang that sings about like, you know,
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necrophilia and cannibalism. So it's uh, it's you know, it's
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it's a bit of a mix. A joke came somewhere
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like sitting in the middle. It's between it's between the classical,
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between like maler and cannibalism.
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Well, you know what the thing is metal, It's a
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derivative of classical music. People think it's not that aren't
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into metal, but totally is.
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Yeah, one hundred percent. I'm also a classical pianist. I've
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been playing pianos since the age of the age of six. Now,
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my initial education on music was classical music. It's the
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foundation of everything, speaking on behalf of everyone. We all
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have so many broad influences.
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In our music.
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And my playlast is the same as Miguel's. It's so confusing.
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It's like I'm having an identity crisis every day. But
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I think that's the point, not putting yourself in the box.
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Like I said before, Like for me, you lose the
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point of music when you listen to only one genre
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and you think that's the best, and you can't listen
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to anything else and you look down on any other
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I don't think you really appreciated. Yeah, exactly, exactly, because there's.
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So much good music. Like even when I get back
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from going on tour doing the festivals where I live,
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every Friday night, there's this place as live Latin music. Yeah,
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so I come up love these metal band and that's
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where I choose to go. Yeah, you know, because I
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think it's fucking awesome, so fun.
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Yeah yeah, yeah, you grew up to it, yeah right,
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And the women are hot. You can dance with them, and.
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I'm actually I'm really jealous because I'm a fucking gringo
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and I look at these Latin guys.
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I'm like, fuck, man, I need to learn how to
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do that. What do you want to say about that?
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Well, because I'm half Columbian, so you're by your name.
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I kind of grew up with hearing that ship on
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repeat in the car though my mom was playing, and
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it's it's burned into my subconscious whether I want it
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to be or not right, and sometimes it comes out,
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you know sometimes, And I mean like as I got older,
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there there were some incredible musicians working with him, like
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one of my one of my biggest bass influences, Gambos,
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who was like unbelievable bass master Nice. It plays like
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Latin Latin jazz, all that stuff. It's it's insane. The
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stuff they play is completely mental, like technically, but like
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with the feel and the groove and whether I want
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to or not, because I will never sit down and
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consciously listen to it, but because I was so flooded
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with it at such a young age, it's part of me,
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whether I want it.
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To be or not right, and I think it The
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vibe also depends on where you're at.
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Like, I go to Costa Rica all.
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The time, and so when I'm there, I don't know
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how the vibe is to listen to the Latin music. Yeah,
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Like I don't go to a club to go to
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a metal show. I'm going anywhere, right, I'm going to
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local places and listening to Latin music. You know, why
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not go to Caribbean. I'm listening Caribbean music. Like, you're
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not a music fan if you only listen to one thing.
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So absolutely though, absolutely not.
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So continue with what you were saying before I.
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Rudely interrupted, and oh yeah, our influences my main influence
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in music, that's what the question was.
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Yes, well initially it was open ope, But.
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Like I said, I listened to so many different bands
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now and so many different genres, so that I really
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can't answer changes. Yeah, changes I still listen to obviously,
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like Nagies Nighties.
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You want to say something about your influences.
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My biggest influence one Kindred percent is Dream Theater's my
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favorite band, and Mike Porno is my man. Of course,
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we listen to all germs of music.
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We like all germs of music.
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I did just studied in the past and also popular
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studies on drums.
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So we're trying to mix all gerens and make our music.
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Our story was the world.
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That's why I say about the blending genres. You get
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the uniqueness your music, not the music of the genre.
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Yeah, absolutely your music.
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Yes, I think that's what makes you stand now. I
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think that's what makes you be noticed, because if you're
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lost a sea of people playing this name refs and
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the same songs and all that, how did they know
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the difference between one band and.
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Another's that's that's cool, I guess.
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So how do you end up here at Bloodstock?
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Well, we took part in the medal to the Masses
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Cypress competition. We took part last year. Our friends Speaking
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Whispers caught the spot and yeah, I mean the great guys,
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absolutely great guys, are good friends of ours. While I
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was obviously a bit disappointed that we didn't get it,
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I was like, yeah, they totally deserved it. I was
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really proud for them, you know, they they came out,
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they killed it, they paid buck in this year. Absolutely
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great band, great guys, fantastic. So we tweaked a few things.
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We got some very very helpful advice. We tweaked a
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few things about from Simon Hall. He gave us like, look,
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you know, tweak a couple of things we did that,
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we came, we came out again this year stronger, and
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we we got it, which is I mean, he was
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quite an achievement because of the standard. The standard in Cyprus
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is actually pretty high. There are a lot of very
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very talented, very high quality bands in the very small country,
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so managing to get the spot was quite an achievement
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in and of itself. So we're very proud to be here.
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a family, you know, you come here, the vibe is
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