June 23, 2025

Pipeman Interviews Gene Hoglan of Dethklok at Hellfest 2025

Pipeman Interviews Gene Hoglan of Dethklok at Hellfest 2025
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Dethklok played Hellfest 2025 in Clisson, France and Pipeman Radio was there for an amazing set. Pipeman chatted with the super hero drummer Gene Hoglan.

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Hey, you love then too, Yes, that's true.

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For gee, why crazy young?

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here with

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the Hope.

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Man, Geene Hopeman. Hey, what's happened to everybody?

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Nice?

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Here at Hellfest? And you picked the right day to

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come because this is like the coolest day of all four.

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Days I heard.

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I was just speaking with my drum son, Ash Pearson

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from Revocation and he's here and they played a couple

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of days ago, and he was stayed here yesterday.

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He's like the concrete was melting. UF picked the right

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day to.

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Be here, So it was brutal.

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I don't even know how bands perform in that, especially

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a drummer.

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Right.

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Well, you know what.

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That's one thing I trained so well and so hard

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for this kind of thing, is that I'll go on

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stage tonight and I wear neoprene when I play, and

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I like sweating. I'll wear a long sleeve when I

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play tonight, and I'll be fine. God, we got a

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short set tonight for Death Clock. We don't get to

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play our entire set, so it is a piece of

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cake set. And I played this exact same stage a

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couple of times with Dark Angel with Death to All headlined,

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both of those a couple of years ago. And it's

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a toasty stage and it's a tent, so there's not

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a lot of not a lot of circulation. But it

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I'm into sweating. That's We're here to play metal guts.

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That's it, right day man. This ain't about what, you know,

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having fans blowing on you and playing in air conditioning.

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Yeah.

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The other night, Nicole over here, that's taking picks. She'll

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tell you that the smile grin ear to ear. But

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I was dripping sweat because Exodus played right and I

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made sure that pit was a lot bigger than it started.

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Nice, excellent. Oh that's a way to go, pipe man. Absolutely,

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So tell.

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Our listeners that may not be familiar with Death Clock

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what it's all about, because it's a really cool story.

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I love that you're on adult Swim. It's like, how

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many other bands metal bands can say that.

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That is true?

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Well, you know.

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Death Clock was a concept that was put together by

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the creator Brendan Small and it was during his end

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of his time with his first TV show, which was

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called Home Movies, which is another animated series and Brendan

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essentially the way he explained to me, he was like,

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I want to do a show where I get to

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play guitar all the time.

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And Brendan is is a real metal head, so he

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pitched this idea. Guy.

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He had his partner Tommy Blocker and him pitch an

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idea to adult Swim.

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They went for it, and so Brendan got to just be.

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A metal head bring metal to the masses. There are

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so many people, especially from eighteen seventeen, sixteen years ago,

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where Deathclock was their absolute gateway band to metal. That's

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what death Clock did for so many people. We get

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it all the time, Like Brendan and I do a

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lot of meet and greets, and that's what people say.

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It's like death Clock was a first band I ever heard.

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And also his early involvement in those Guitar Hero series.

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We had thunder Horse from the first season, first album

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on Guitar Hero.

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That was a real introduction to the musical side of

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death Clock.

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The show is just such an irreverent It's about a

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metal band who is the largest band.

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In the history of the world.

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They are so large, their economy is they have the

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seventh largest economy in the US.

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I think they're one higher than Belgium or something like that.

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And they're a band of pretty much arrested adolescents who

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are just a bunch of kind of idiotic titled children.

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Who sounds familiar, Yeah, who are.

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Just in charge of this entire global phenomenon that is

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death Clock and it's from the TV show Metal Acalypse.

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I'm sure it's streamable all.

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Over the world, or if it isn't, there's youtubes, there's

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torrent sites, you can get it.

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A lot of the folks here in Europe. I mean,

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we've been playing huge shows.

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We're gonna our tent is going to be packed tonight,

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doesn't matter who the headliner is. We played Grasspop a

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couple of nights ago and our monitor man was in touch.

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He's got a good pal on the Slipknot crew. We

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went up directly against Slipknot and he was getting texts

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like ten minutes after we got off stage and he's like, hey, man,

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Corey's wondering, what why this influx of people have just entered.

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It's noticeable how many folks are coming over to Cat's Slipknot.

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Did you guys just finish?

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And Uncle Timmy ar monitor. I was like, yeah, we

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just finished. That's what you're getting in nice. You got

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the guys from slipnot noticing that. Wow, that's a major

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amount of folks coming over, So that kind of thing.

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So it's a blast to play. It's such fun, it's

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such a great it's a comedy and our set is

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so brutal, so intense, so comedic that.

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If you do not have a fantastic time seeing Death Clock,

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now I don't know what's wrong with you. You have

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such a great time.

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Everybody comes out having the best time ever, big smiles,

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everybody's sweaty, everybody's got their metal fixed because it is intense,

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and we are not lit up on stage the band.

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It's kind of like Mystery Science. Yeah, we're kind of

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like that live. We are in the shadows. Brandon likes

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to refer to us as kind of like the orchestra

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pit band, and we want you paying attention to that big,

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giant screen behind us, and it's massive, and it is

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just such an assault on the senses that at the

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end you're just like you've been brutalized and pummeled by

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Death Clock. Definitely, So it's a great time all around absolutely,

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and I've.

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Talked to him before. What made him approach you? Besides

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being like probably the busiest drummer and metal you.

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Al, he's a bit of fan and you know, he

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was talking with the guys from Century Media and he

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was approaching them for like, hey man, who can I get?

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You think I could get gene kind of thing a

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dank and they put us together. He got my number

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from somebody at Century Media because that's who Strapping was

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with at the time.

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And I got a call out of the blue from

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Brendan saying, I'm Brendan Small. I have a show that

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I was well aware of the show and.

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I had yet to see it because it was in

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the first few weeks of its initial airing and I

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was just running like crazy. So happened to be at

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a place where I could catch the show that night,

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because I remember it was a Sunday night that.

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He called me. We were watching football, me and my buddy.

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So the new episode was on later that evening and

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I caught it and and Brendan said, we have a

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budget to make an album, a soundtrack album to the show.

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Might you be interested? And I'm always into doing sessions,

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you know, that kind of stuff. And then when I

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saw the show, I freely admit I was like, it's

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like the humor happened. To catch the episode where murder

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faced the basis is puke it into a bucket, and

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I'm like, okay, I get it.

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But the music was serious metal, you know. I was like,

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wait a minute, this is not corny TV metal, right

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the rock or something. This is this man.

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You could tell he knows his metal apps, And so

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right then I was like, okay, you definitely have my attention.

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And then I got to see a couple episodes real

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quick soon afterwards, and I could see where some of

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the humor was. Actually it's on some higher level. There

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is some actual, real high brow humor to this thing

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place in the midst of these five idiots that are

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just a bunch of idiots, you know, but there's some actual,

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real kick ass humor there.

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And so I was hooked.

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And so by the time we got to track the

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record a month or so later to how that worked out,

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Death Clock a global phenomenon, and it is a lot

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of people are very very much saying this was my

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gateway metal band.

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And we have toured so much in the States.

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Over the last fifteen plus year, sixteen years or whatever

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it's been.

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God yeah, almost twenty years now, eighteen years.

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There are so many folks that have come to me

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that they're the grizzled veterans of the scene in their towns,

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and they'll come to me after the show and they said, look,

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I've lived in this town forever. I've seen every concert

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from club shows to the giant arena shows, in the

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stadium shows.

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This was the best.

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Concert I've ever been to, the best concert. And I've

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heard that for almost twenty years.

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I love so it's great.

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It's a fantastic night. So everybody that's fortunate enough to

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be here, us especially, I was really gonna enjoy tonight

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absolutely here at helped us.

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And I'll tell you how epic it is that yesterday

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I was doing an interview with the band Sick, who

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played here yesterday, and they were like, I was asking her,

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you could be here tomorrow. So he gets and I

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actually said, are you gonna see death? Fucking He's like,

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oh my god, I can't believe I have to leave

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right And they were like, oh my god, I would

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Gene and da da da da da, And he was

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just fanboaying out, oh that, and like, oh, I would

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love to be here for that. You're so lucky. I'm

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so jealous of you.

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Excellent.

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Well that's very cool man, And.

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I'm gonna show you something that we're in person, because

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I showed it to you on the video, but it's

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one thing in person.

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And see if you recognize anything there.

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Look at that battle jacket.

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What a great one.

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That's awesome. Man. Let me get let's get a picture

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of that.

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Man me talking about right there looking there, and this

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has gotta be pushing forty years old.

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I would say, you know.

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Eighty one is when I first got it and started

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doing all that stuff.

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That's awesome. That's very cool. Pipe man, we dig that.

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That's all that. That looks great.

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Got some GBH on there, got some Oh the old

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school megadet that's our eighty five logo.

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I said, yeah, this is.

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Definitely old school. We got the old school.

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You're gonna see a little pit action there and blood

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on there for you.

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Absolutely, boy, that is an ancient metallic action dr You

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got hardcore black.

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Yeah, that's killer. That's great. That look a merciful fate.

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You get English dogs love them right metal Morphosis record

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that was a game changer in the hardcore scene.

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Totally loved English Dogs.

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So that's great.

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That looks awesome, brother, Thank you well, thank you for

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lots of memories over the years in multiple bands like

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You're all what You've been all over the place, like

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probably the most in demand drummer in my opinion.

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Well, I put the hoe in Hoagland. I'm a drum

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home man definitely. So I just I love doing what

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I do. I'm an absolute poster child for living one's dream.

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I set out on this path when I was eleven.

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That's when I said I'm gonna be a rock and

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roll drummer. I'm gonna play for play for bands and

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see the world and all that. And by the time

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I was thirteen and super into metal. By that time,

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I was twelve in nineteen eighty when the huge crush

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of metal came out, me too. That was still the

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best year of metal ever and that was all fresh

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stuff being thrown right at me. So that cemented my

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love for metal, and that's why I'm like, I'm gonna

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be a metal drummer. I'm going to play in fast heavy,

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I'm gonna be in the heaviest bands I can find,

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and I didn't even like relegate myself to one band.

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I was even back then.

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I was like, I'm just I know, I'm gonna play

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with a ton of musicians and it's gonna be great.

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And so here it is forty five years later.

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And I'm could you even predict that we'd be sitting

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here at Hellfest forty five years later?

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Right?

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It was a wish, It was a dream.

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And tell you that, I guess I've recently come in

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the term come into contact with the term of manifestation,

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and I'm like, everything that I hear this manifestation stuff

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is that's what I did.

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I just I made this happen.

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I created this out of my own brain, and I

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saw the path that I needed to be on, and

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I tried to make all the good decisions that I could.

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You know, we might have talked about it growing up

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in the LA scene there, and I was a part

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the initial La scene of the all the Dante Boxes

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and Great Whites and Rats and Motley.

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Cruz and Dubro. Before he was doing the choir, he

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was after quiet riot. That's I was a little quiet, right.

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It was a little before my time the initial Randy Rhodes,

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Quiet Riot, but Snow and all of those bands all

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a Kart one of the greatest bands ever. I was

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going to see all those bands when I was thirteen

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and becoming pals with those guys, and my sister was

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five years older than me, and she used to drag

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me to all those shows and this was awesome kid

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to me, all these guys that eventually became huge, big stars.

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But the thing that taught me was like a lot

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of those bands I would see at the time, they

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got huge with not the exact same members that they

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had because we go to the parties afterwards and the

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majority of the band would be pretty well put together,

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but there was that one guy in the band that

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would just get shitty drunk got a Wednesday night, and

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I was just a sponge. I didn't drink or do

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drugs or anything, so I've just I was just a

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sponge to it all. I'm like, I don't think that

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guy's gonna last in this band.

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Sure enough, he gets the boot.

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They get a guy that's got more together from one

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of the other bands, they signed the big contract. They

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go on to huge things, and that guy is just

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left behind. I watch it happen so many times. So

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it was just being a sponge, being a witness to

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all of this activity where I was able to kind

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of discern that's the way to go.

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This is not the way to go.

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Don't act like I love that guy that scene. To

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not do alcohol and drugs in that scene, that's like

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unheard of. Right, I live that scene, so I know

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what you're talking about. So one of the people you're

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talking about, give me his business card. I went to

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their first show ever, all right, and he gave me

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his business card, which I wish I had today because

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he's not in that band.

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Fair enough, There was a drummer for a band that

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went on to become a gargitchuan band.

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Was like fifteen or so.

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I obtained the keys to my folks's car, and I

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went and drove and picked him up, and he was

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driving us around. We're doing something together. And the biggest

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lesson I ever got ever was from this guy as

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he was talking to me about his philosophy on making

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it in the music industry, and he said, and this

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is no joke, he said, I don't care who I

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have to screw over step man f over walk on

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to better myself and get myself bigger in the music industry.

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I don't care who I have to screw over. I

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will do it.

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And I was just like, I was like, I don't

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think listening to this, and I'm gonna do the I

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took from that, go do the opposite.

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I love.

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So he got the boot from that band. He's on

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their first couple of recordings, and they were They were killer.

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They were well known, especially in La especially on Cami Te.

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They were in the big push in eighty three eighty four,

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right at that first burst of the eighty three yeah

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yeah yeah stuff and eighty four definitely, And that was

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the biggest lesson I ever got. It's like, whatever he

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just said, do the opposite, and that's gonna work well

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for you. And so I've always always tried to help

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other people. I'm always like, if I got friends in

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a band, like, hey man, your band's pretty cool, let

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me introduce you to my record label. Or I know

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a guy over here that might be able to help

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you guys out, or I know of drummer that you

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guys could probably eat.

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All that kind of stuff to try to help people,

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don't screw people over. But that was a huge lesson.

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That's why you're here forty five years later right there,

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because that's the only way to be. And it's like

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a few years ago I told a friend of mine

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from way back then, I'm like, you had the most

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brilliant marketing plan ever and he goes, it was just a.

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Record store clerk at OZ Records. Man, I wasn't planning anything.

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And you know who I'm talking about, Brian Slagel, right

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Like I went in there and he used to go

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check this band out, house checked it, go to this

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show and like led me go in like Slayers first show,

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Metallica's first show. I went and known anything without him.

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It was like we used to go in there to

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get our apple. Until you go here, listen to this.

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I remember Venom Welcome the hell we handed it to me.

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I'm like, oh my god.

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And that's you know.

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I met him in the LA scene when he was

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putting out the initial Metal Massacre and he was one

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of those metal maskers coming out at the same It

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was kind of like using it as a release night

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for Metal Massacre and one when Saxon played two nights

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at the Whiskey, one night was the Metallica the other

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night was Rat and the number of other bands, and

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I went to both nights and that's when I met

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him there.

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And I was fourteen at the time and just cool

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guy that wanted to talk about metal. I was cool

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with that. Absolutely, that's the way it is.

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Now.

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One last question too. The castle out here in Hellfest

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is at your guy's castle. Did they bring it here

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for your show Ardhouse?

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They did.

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They especially had it shipped out directly for Death Clock,

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So that's where Death Clock will be hanging until the show,

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and then we'll take the death cofter over to the

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stage and then play our stage and head back to

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the old Mordehouse castle that they got especially trucked in for.

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Death Clock here in the oil Fest there. It is

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well excellent, man.

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I love that you're here at Hellfest because this is

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like one of the most epic festivals for you guys

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to play.

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Indeed, we're really happy to be here. This is our

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initial run.

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We are only doing four shows out here, Death Clock

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is and so we're just introducing ourselves to the to

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the European public. Really, it's been a long time and

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like we played London last night and we played our

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own show in London, not a festival, and one thing

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we are very used to is Deathclock fans being very

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loud and very enthusiastic. But last night in London was

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the loudest ever. I mean, I'm death Clock has always

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been my flat out loudest band in the audience standpoint,

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just singing along, screaming along, cheer and all that kind

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of stuff, and it was amazing last night.

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So that was awesome. So we're happy to be here.

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I think you'll break that record tonight.

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Maybe we will see absolutely boy. We did real well

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at Grasspop a couple of nights ago, so that was awesome.

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Well, thanks for being here at healfest and thanks for

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being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

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Thank you pipe Man.

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I appreciate it, and definitely check out that new Dark

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Angel album, Extinction Level Event. It's coming to you by fall,

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and I've got a couple singles out right now. Check

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them out and that's all I ask. Check them out,

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make your own decision on them.

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It is bad, so they definitely have to check it

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out for sure.

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Brother appreciate it.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man

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