Aug. 18, 2026

Journey of Shiverwood Shade: From India to Award-Winning Cinematic Metal

Journey of Shiverwood Shade: From India to Award-Winning Cinematic Metal

In this episode, Pipeman sits down with Dean, a member of the Indian band Shiverwood Shade, to discuss the band's journey, their unique blend of genres, and their award-winning album "Escaping Darkness." The conversation delves into the band's origins, the creative process behind their music, and their mission to inspire positivity and resilience through their art.Main Topics Covered

  • Shiverwood Shade’s formation and early days as college musicians
  • The diverse backgrounds and influences within the band
  • The concept and message behind their latest album, "Escaping Darkness"
  • Blending genres: cinematic, nu metal, EDM, synthwave, and pop
  • The emotional impact and therapeutic nature of metal music
  • Their recent recognition with the Inspiring Music Award 2026 from Inspirational World Records
  • Current and upcoming activities: new merch, tours, and connecting with fans
Key Discussions & StoriesThe Origin Story of Shiverwood Shade
  • Dean recalls meeting bandmates as students in Mumbai and coming together over their shared passion for creative music at 01:40.
  • The band’s development from local school and college shows to national festivals and ultimately, the creation of their album 03:14.
Crafting "Escaping Darkness"
  • Dean describes "Escaping Darkness" as a conceptual album about inner journeys through depression and trauma, aiming to help listeners find resilience and hope 03:41.
  • Tracks like "Lost" and "Divided by Hate" reflect both personal struggles and the current state of the world, offering a soundtrack for overcoming adversity.
The Power and Misconceptions of Metal
  • Pipeman and Dean discuss metal as a therapeutic outlet, challenging stereotypes that the genre is only "heavy" and aggressive by highlighting its emotional, motivational qualities 05:09.
  • Dean traces his personal entry into metal back to the influence of Linkin Park, Chester Bennington, and the nu metal scene of the early 2000s 06:04.
Genre Fusion & Creativity
  • Shiverwood Shade’s signature style combines nu metal with contemporary trends like EDM, synthwave, and pop to create a fresh, cinematic sound that defies labels 07:13.
  • The band emphasizes feeling, emotion, and soul in their music over technical perfection, striving to engage listeners on a personal level 08:41.
Award Recognition & Inspiring Music
  • Pipeman highlights the band's recent win: the Inspiring Music Award 2026 from Inspirational World Records, a testament to the band’s impact and positive messaging 10:24.
  • Dean expresses gratitude for the honor and the global connection their art fosters 10:42.
Connecting with Fans
  • Dean announces upcoming merchandise, a new website, their ongoing "Chasing Daylight" India tour, and partnership with Rockridge Radio 11:40.
  • Encourages fans to reach out via email and follow the band on all distribution platforms through their label, MN2S UK.
Notable Quotes“We try to fill the listener's boots, through our music…where people can come out of the inner trauma and [find] resilience. That is the main concept of the album.” — Dean 04:03“Music is passion and emotion, so it can't just be technical...You need to have the feelings portraying through so that you are expressing your feelings through the music, [so] listeners…can feel it too—even if it's not even the same thing.” — Pipe Man 09:31“Metal people think...it's heavy stuff, but it's about your inner pain, sufferings, which you're bringing out and it actually relaxes your mental state.” — Dean 05:34“It's our music that should do the talking. And if people love it, then it's up to them to choose to hear us.” — Dean 10:53Resources & Links Mentioned
  • Shiverwood Shade Music & Merch:
    • Music available on all major distribution platforms via MN2S UK
    • New merchandise line and website launching soon
  • Tour Info:
    • "Chasing Daylight" India tour in partnership with Rockridge Radio
  • Contact:
    • Fans are encouraged to reach out via email for more info or to connect directly
Connect with Shiverwood Shade
  • Check out Shiverwood Shade's music on all streaming platforms
  • Stay tuned for their new merchandise drop and website
  • Follow their ongoing tour—the "Chasing Daylight" tour—across India
  • Email the band for direct contact and fan engagement
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Hi, you love done to censure.

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Fore wow for you your.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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Man W four c Y Radio. Just got back from

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doing a couple festivals over in Germany and the UK,

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now here for a brief moment in Florida to spend

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some time with a great band.

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So let's welcome to the show Shiverwood Shade. How are you, hi, Deen?

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Oh, we are doing great, and thank you for inviting

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us to the show.

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Oh my, my pleasure. And I absolutely love your music.

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I love how you call it cinematic, uh, you know,

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because I think that really describes it. And I'm so

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sick of some of the genre names nowadays that it's

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nice to have something that kind of describes what your

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music is about, opposed to pitching you holding you into

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a genre.

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Yeah. Absolutely, So how.

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Did this come about?

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Tell tell me a little bit of history the band

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for the listeners of how Shiverwood Shade came about?

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And you know you're from India, correct, Yeah.

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Yeah, So there's a lot of good music that comes

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out of there, so I'm very happy to be sharing this.

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Tell us a little bit about your journey.

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Yeah.

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So, like as a band, we started from you know,

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like we were college students where we met eventually, so

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we had you know, like I came from a place

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called Mumbai in India, and we had a rapper, Anirban,

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who was from a sam and my brother is an

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uper music guitarist as well, so we all, you know,

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I came up with the idea at college, like you know,

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like doing some creative stuff with music and all. So

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later on we came with the concept of the band

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when we started to you know like write some stuff

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for our own we were doing some local school shows

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and after that we found that yeah, we can you know,

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like form a band for us right now, and it's

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a perfect place to launch our you know, like ideas

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for and so after that we did lots of you know,

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like national level fests also, we did lots of you know,

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like local level college events also. So later on we

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started making our music and eventually it grew to something which.

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We have you know, like our album which we have

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presented right now. So band also got a new.

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Transformation, like we have new members coming in on the band.

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So they joined us two to three years back, and

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we have new additions like Subtree Shy on the base,

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we have Shiane Paul on the drums, then we have

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Manacumlian keys, and also we have an extra guitarist who

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supporting us on our live act that's Muniche Paul. So

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we all have come up and we have launched, you know,

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like a new album called Escaping Darkness recently.

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in right now what that album is all about, because

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you definitely have some elements there that totally describe the

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world we're living in. So maybe you could share with

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the listeners a little bit about what the new album

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Yeah, So Escaping Darkness is about our inner journey where

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we are. You know, like everybody is in a state

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of depression or any kind of you know, like sad

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moments they have in their life which they want to

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share in some form. So like our journey revolves in

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that concept. So we try to you know, like fill

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the listener's boots in that form through our music. Like

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all our tracks like whether It's Lost, whether It's Divided

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by hate, it states the current state of the you know,

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like the state of the world right now. So where

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we can you know, like people can come out of

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the arena trauma and resilience.

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That is the main concept of the album basically.

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And I love that because, like the other part of

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me is I'm a motivational speaker. So like I love

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when my two passions collide and there's music and positive messages.

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That's that's go ahead.

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us because you know, like our songs have been you know,

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like where people can you know, like come up from

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their state of trauma to something where they can see

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the light. So that is what the true album speaks about.

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And and what I love about too is there's a

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misconception about metal music. I think metal music is all

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about therapy, motivation, making you feel better with lots of

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things going on in your life. A lot of us,

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our metal heads, we went through a lot of things

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in life and metal was kind of our escape from

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Yeah. Absolutely, like metal people think about, you know, like

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it's heavy stuff, but it's about your you know, like

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inner you know, you know, like pain sufferings, which you

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know that you're bringing it out and it actually relaxes

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your you know, like mental state.

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What I believe is metal absolutely and So when did

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you first get into metal? What was that moment that

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you knew that you wanted to play metal music?

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Oh yeah, yes, Actually.

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I think it's in two thousands, two thousand and two

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or two thousand and three when I was first introduced

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to new metal. Basically that was my first you know,

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like track that is now from Lincoln Puck. So I

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was very much inspired by Chester Bennington and Is you know,

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like their Lincoln Puck's writing, music style and everything. So

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that is what I got into metal with that, and

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then I you know, like got into other bands like

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Bullet is there, Breaking Benjamin is there, Avent Sevenfold is there?

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I love it.

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And you know, the thing is is that what I

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do love about your band is there so many different

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elements to it. Like I said earlier, you're not locked

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into a genre because you have different people that are

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you know, involved in the creating of the music from

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different kind of influences.

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I think it makes a unique, great sound.

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Yes.

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Actually, our main concept revolves around a two thousand new

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metal genre, which was the two thousand new metal era,

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and we try to you know, like combine different types

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of genres, like which is trending right now, Like medium

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is there. You have synthwave music, you have all kinds

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of pop music, and we try to you know, like

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combine it into an element which listeners would like to

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listen with the new metal elements fused in that.

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So that is where we that is where our core

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concept revolves.

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Actually, yeah, I kind of think that your music is

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like if you were to to have you know, like

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Lincoln Park, corn and and nine Inch Nails become one.

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Person, Yeah, there's your music.

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Yeah, And that's what's really COOLBAT because you know, there's

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so many genres nowadays that you know, the the music

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is so you know, like formula bass. You know, like

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if you're in this genre, you need to play the

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music like this. And I'd rather see artists and musicians experiment, explore,

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you know, different sounds to make them sound unique and

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like have their own sound instead of the sound of

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a genre.

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Absolutely.

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Like like what we you know, like try to do

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is like we try to combine all the elements from

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different genres, but it is not a you know, like

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a unique formula like which we follow. It is always

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the creativity part that comes in which people would like

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to listen Ultimately, the sole element has to be there

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because what I see in modern this thing is like

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it's two technical based and the feel elements, which was,

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you know, like the time when we started playing music

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or we started to you know, like come into these

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genres which we are experimenting right now, it was all

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about the field part.

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So I personally feel that we should you know.

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Like not, you know, like there has to be technical part,

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but the feel elements has to be there as well,

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which actually connects the audiences.

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I think that's so important what you're saying too, because

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you know, you could be the greatest musician in the

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world if there's no feeling put into it. Like music

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is passion and emotion, so it can't just be technical.

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Technical is good, you know, if it's not by itself.

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You need to have.

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The feelings pretraying through so that you are expressing your

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feelings through the music. But us, the listeners, we can

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feel it too, even if it's not even the same thing.

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We feel it and then we're drawn to it.

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Yes, exactly.

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So I have to say too that this new album,

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I mean pretty cool that you are. It's award winning

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album now already, and yeah, it just came out and

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you won the Inspiring Music Award twenty twenty six from

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Inspirational World Records.

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I love that. That to me, that says it all.

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That's the reason right there everybody needs to listen to

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this record.

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Actually, like that was one of the you know, like

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very inspiring moments for us to receive that, you know,

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like we never thought for you know, like we would

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receive something like this, and we believe, you know, like

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it's a music that should do the talking and if

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people love it, then it's up to them to choose

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to hear us.

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And that's where that whole feeling things comes in, because

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that's where they end up loving. And that's what wins

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awards because your music is changing how people feel around

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the world and that's the most important home of music.

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And that's an honor for us and it means a

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lot for us.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah, And tell everybody how they can reach out to

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you guys. Connect with you on socials, on the web,

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check out your music, check out your merch and if

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you have any other things you want to let them

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know that we haven't covered already.

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Yeah, So I would like to tell my audiences that

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we have come up with you know, like a new

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merch line very soon on our website which is coming

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up and they can always check out on all distribution

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platforms which is available as we are distributing through our

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label that is Image to s UK. And also we

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are doing an all India tour right now that's called

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Chasing Daylight, which we have you know, like teamed up

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with different radio partners with us, like rock Rage Radio

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is there, so they are supporting us in our acts.

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And also you know, like.

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If you want anything, every anybody wants to reach out

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to us, they can. They can email us every time.

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It's everywhere available and please do right to us. We

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would love to hear from you guys.

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Well, thank you for making us such great music and

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keep doing it and keep creating positive change throughout the world.

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Thank you for being on the Adventures of Pipe Main.

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Thank you, Thank you Lean. It's an honor for us to.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipeline.

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I w for CUI Radio.