Sept. 25, 2023
PipemanRadio Interviews CZYK at Louder Than Life 2023
On this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman, we’re joined by special guest CZYK at Louder Than Life. The band discusses their origins and how the band started and originated their unique sound. CZYK discusses how their latest single “A Grave In...
On this episode of The Adventures of Pipeman, we’re joined by special guest CZYK at Louder Than Life. The band discusses their origins and how the band started and originated their unique sound. CZYK discusses how their latest single “A Grave In Heaven” helped the band gain traction and a bigger following including the opportunity to perform at Louder Than Life. The band shares their influences and how they constantly strive to make genre-defying music outside of metal. You can find more information about CZYK’s upcoming tour dates, merch, and latest releases at CZYKofficial.com. Check out their latest release “ A Grave In Heaven” on all streaming platforms now!
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that's sure. I'm coming from four see
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time for the Adventures. So pipe Man
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pom Beats his number one internet radio station.
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Here's your host, the pipe Man. It's it's the pipe Man here
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on the Adventures pipe Man W four
c Y Radio. And I'm here with
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czi y K. My name's Colin
vocals Taylor. I play guitar. I'm
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Cody and I play bass Sam and
I'm the drummer. Nice start off right
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off the bat because I'm a Jew
and it's high Holy Days right now,
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and I dig your star David there. You don't see that often at a
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metal show, so I think it's
badass. I like the other necklace too,
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tell us about that, thanks,
Well, it's for me, like
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I know, like Star Dave is, like, I mean's the Judaism,
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but for me it's the Hinduism simile
for the heart and the lungs. I
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go with the whole hard thing,
and I ended up making this lung necklace.
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See. I think that's cool.
Especially I was just in Bali for
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a couple of months, and so
I was going to all the Hindu temples
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and it's pretty cool, and like
some of them are combined with the Buddhist
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temples, which I thought was really
cool because you know, religion in our
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country, God forbid, you should
put two in one place like it's and
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it's stupid. Like I learned over
there, we can all co exists very
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easily, and that's what's I think
that is totally cool. Message nice.
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So here you are louder than life. How's it been so far? It's
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been a dream come true. Honestly, it's been our It's actually our first
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festival as a band, so you
know Danny Wimmer festivals. You know,
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we actually went to Aftershock last year
and as a just a crowd contestant it
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was amazing, and artists, it's
even better. It's been an amazing journey.
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So and you have had a journey
to get here because you like wanted
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to get here, right, So
let's tell the story about that, because
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I always think that's cool where a
band gets an opportunity to show what they're
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made of to get on festival by
winning a music contest, because there's a
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lot of hard competition. So you
guys must be badass for sure. I
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mean Cody our basis. He actually
started Sezyk by him self originally, and
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we're brothers. Once I was like
getting towards like senior of high school.
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I was like, your vocals are
kind of shit, and I'm okay,
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let's trying me. So Cody and
I we started writing and we released a
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few songs by ourselves. And then
Taylor he's actually a buddy of Cody's from
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high school and he's a guy a
guitar, so we were like, please
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come on with us. And then
with Sam the stars aligned and we actually
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found him through a Guitar center flyer, like we posted it on one of
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those billboards out back. That's old
school, right, Yeah, that's sure.
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I mean anyway to network and connect
with people, right, And you
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know, it's been shit. It's
been about like six years as a band
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and playing shows for two so being
out louder than life, this is like
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the Holy Grail moment, you know. Yeah. I was gonna say,
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with the the way we got into
the festival, the contests, Yeah,
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the contest that we won, it
was really the only reason why we was
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because we released our single Grave in
Heaven and that got us a lot more
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traction than we expected, and all
those new fans, we were able to
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get them all the show up to
the live stream and they all voted for
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us. And then you know,
we're so grateful to be here from our
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fans helping us out and voting for
us. And it was because of our
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last single, I think, but
well, there you go. It must
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be a really good single, then
then do that. Oh yeah, it's
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our best work so far. And
how did the crowd react? Was it
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way beyond what you expected? It
was definitely a way beyond what we expected,
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because I mean, you know,
getting an earlier set time, you
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don't really know what to expect of
how many people are come early to see
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us, And I mean the crowd
pulled through great crowd interaction and it was
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a decent sized crowd for a band
as small as us, and it was
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anything we could have asked for and
more. I love it. And so
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how would you guys describe yourself as
a band, not like record labels would
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describe you or anybody else that once
you've put you in a box. I'd
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like to hear how the artists describe
their music to the listeners. You mean,
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like influences pretty much whatever you want
to say, I'm just more about
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the artists expressing their music opposed to
some idiot that puts you in some genre
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that you're box into. I think
with Caesyk, the best word to describe
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us as hope. I like that, you know, we when it comes
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to the lyrical content of it,
you know, just trying to make everything
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relatable and like whatever situation you're in, we want to be able to aid
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it with our music as much as
possible, and then with our instrumentals,
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we're trying to tell a story.
And I was gonna say every song that
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we have we kind of try to
go outside of the metal genre, you
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know, because like ar song already
over, we're taking pop punk influences from
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Sam and then like I like Breaming
the Horizon, so that's more metalcore.
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But then we listen to like black
Bear, so we have like more poppy
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stuff. We don't like to be
like contained to the metal genre either.
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We take from everything. Yeah,
especially nowadays. I love that because it
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seems to me that a lot of
metal bands, when they don't have the
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blending of influences like you do,
they have this formula, which metal was
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never a formula type music and then
every single band sounds exactly the same.
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What makes you unique is when you
have all of you that brings something different
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to the table. And I mean
I I would say, we're kind of
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giving the middle finger to like metal
lead us that, like everyone tries to
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contain you to just one specific genre, but we have like a well balance
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of you know, metalcore, hard
rock, pop punk, Like we just
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try to get a nice blend,
so there's something for everybody. And I
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love that because I come from the
time of the elitist and I hated it.
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And what you know, what's interesting
though, Like I'm a thrash metal
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head, the Big four thrash don't
sound like they're from the same genres,
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and that's what I'm talking about.
It's like, to me, music is
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like a color wheel and people only
want to stick to one color. I
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don't see the point in that.
I like to know the colors. Even
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with like so why my top five? It's bring me to horizon, okay.
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And even with them, they're getting
catching a lot of flak lately for
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the music they've been doing. But
to me, I'm just like, well,
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they're growing as artists, they're experimenting, they're bored. Like I always
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said in an interview, why do
I want to write the same song over
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and over again? So my ads
off to him because I like the heavy,
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old school death four ship, but
I also like the poppy shit,
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and I like the you know,
mellow stuff, and then I like to
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get in your fields emotion. I
can confidently say that Bring Me the Horizon
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is one of the only bands,
if not the only band that's been able
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to switch all the way from death
core to pop and do it successfully while
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keeping the majority of their fan base. Because you hear all the shit about
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them, you know, like haters
and whatnot, But those are just the
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people that are the loudest with their
opinions. But in reality, like him
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and I, we've been here since
Count Your Blessings and s Epaternal and Suicide
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Season and we love Amo, we
love That's the spirit and their current singles
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too. Yeah, it's crazy and
we aspire to be like them too.
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Now they're going back, so it
just proves it's not that they went away
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from it. It's just like,
let's write something different now. I feel
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differently. When you're writing each album, you feel differently, you have different
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things have gone on there's more things
to talk about, you know, And
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as an artist, when you get
better, you don't want to play the
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same as you did on the first
album because usually as an artist, you
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think you sucked when you look back
to that. Absolutely always Like it's funny
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how that always happens, Like looking
back, you're like, god, I
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sucked, but then like you're really
proud of what you're at now, and
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then years go by you look by
it like, oh my god, I
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sucked, right, And like with
the more songwriting we do, the more
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performances we have, like we're just
everyone's always involving as an artist, and
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all of our influences are constantly changing, so our music is gonna take that
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journey with us. And I'd also
say that we're lucky that a lot of
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our influencers are all over the place
between each other. So like I love
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Followed Boy, Cody doesn't really care
for Followed Boy. That just say is
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what it is, And so that
helps us, you know, spread our
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wings and try more things than I
think we would otherwise. It's funny that
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you said that, because you know
fall Out Boy and Bring Me We're on
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tour together, and I was like, well, that's a strange combo,
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but it was cool. Yeah,
I mean, but I love how the
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music industry is slowly starting to resort
to like getting like fall up Boys,
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pop punk, bring Me the Horizon. You know, obviously they're all over
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the table, but primarily metal core
and such, and being able to combine
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those two genres together like every single
night, both bands are getting new fans
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every single night. Yeah, well
see, and you hit on a very
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important point is the elitist They don't
want to see you get bigger. But
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then how do you survive, how
do you you know, feed yourself unless
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you're getting bigger. That is the
goal. It's not non metal to want
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to be able to do this for
the rest of your life. And you
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don't do that If you don't get
bigger. What's the point of being in
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the music industry if you're constricted to
one genre. One and perfect example is
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Metallica. So I'm one of the
originals from Metallica. I went to their
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first show ever. That's crazy.
So when the Black album came out,
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the twenty five of us that were
there, hardcore old school fans were like
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fucking posers, blah blah blah,
bullshit. And at the end of the
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day, but look at what they
did for metal, Like you wouldn't have
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a festival like Ladder in Life without
Metallica bringing it to where they brought into
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And it's funny with Metallica because I
feel like they've like they've changed their sound
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quote unquote, but they've pretty much
stayed in like the thrash metal area for
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the majority of their career. And
you know, some bands like Breaking Benjamin,
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for example, they stay with their
one sound because it works, and
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that's totally okay. But like Breaming
the Horizon, like us we as musicians,
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I feel like it's a disownment to
the industry to not evolve in expand.
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Oh, I think you should totally
evolve otherwise you're not getting better as
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musicians, is my opinion. A
lot of times bands that don't evolve is
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because they don't know how to play
anything else. You know. It's like
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they may just know their basics and
they didn't learn more. Just like I
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was talking about Mattauka Heffield, he
learned how to sing, he hates how
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he sang back in the beginning.
I loved it, but maybe the masses
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wouldn't have loved it, and we
wouldn't have this conversation right now. And
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that's the point. You have to
get better at your craft, and once
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you get better, then you start
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on socials, on the web by
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your merge all that stuff. So
we have a link tree, slash,
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season yk Official. We're on all
streaming platforms, so Spotify, Apple Music,
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Deezer, you name it, Instagram, I am as Szyk Official,
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YouTube, Sezik Official, and I
don't think I missing anything else. Yeah,
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from there there's a link that brings
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well. All right, cool,
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music and also where we're at touring. Nice any final words you want to
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leave our listeners with that they need
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Thank you so much for being a
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I love that compliment because I always
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the shittiest part of the job,
especially I listen to some people, I'm
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like, they have to go around
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you get your band name? Like
I fucking want to shoot myself, okay,
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asking? That's not an interview,
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have an artist like you who say, hey, this was fun. And
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since you're making that point about how
the band names start, Cody and I's
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last name is cup check kup sez
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at first and just you know,
pull it, put a cool fun on
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it. I was like, all
right, sezy y k, there you
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go. And you know, it's
so hard for bands to come up with
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names nowadays, so that was an
easy one because you can easily do it
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and nobody else was gonna think of
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name, and when you hear it
the first time, you're like, uh,
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chick check But then what, yeah, don't worry. Like even just
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that interaction of like how do you
say that name, it's just ingraining in
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your brain and it causes conversation and
people to talk and there you go.
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Yep, absolutely, you know you're
playing it ladder than life. Play a
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lodder than life. That's right,
well cool. Thanks for being here and
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thanks for being on the Avengers of
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much. Thank you for listening to
the Adventures of Pateman on W four CUI Radio M
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that's sure. I'm coming from four see
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time for the Adventures. So pipe Man
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on W four CWY dot com west
pom Beats his number one internet radio station.
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on the Adventures pipe Man W four
c Y Radio. And I'm here with
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czi y K. My name's Colin
vocals Taylor. I play guitar. I'm
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Cody and I play bass Sam and
I'm the drummer. Nice start off right
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off the bat because I'm a Jew
and it's high Holy Days right now,
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and I dig your star David there. You don't see that often at a
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metal show, so I think it's
badass. I like the other necklace too,
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tell us about that, thanks,
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I know, like Star Dave is, like, I mean's the Judaism,
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but for me it's the Hinduism simile
for the heart and the lungs. I
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go with the whole hard thing,
and I ended up making this lung necklace.
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See. I think that's cool.
Especially I was just in Bali for
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a couple of months, and so
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and it's pretty cool, and like
some of them are combined with the Buddhist
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temples, which I thought was really
cool because you know, religion in our
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country, God forbid, you should
put two in one place like it's and
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it's stupid. Like I learned over
there, we can all co exists very
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easily, and that's what's I think
that is totally cool. Message nice.
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So here you are louder than life. How's it been so far? It's
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been a dream come true. Honestly, it's been our It's actually our first
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festival as a band, so you
know Danny Wimmer festivals. You know,
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we actually went to Aftershock last year
and as a just a crowd contestant it
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was amazing, and artists, it's
even better. It's been an amazing journey.
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So and you have had a journey
to get here because you like wanted
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to get here, right, So
let's tell the story about that, because
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I always think that's cool where a
band gets an opportunity to show what they're
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made of to get on festival by
winning a music contest, because there's a
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lot of hard competition. So you
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mean Cody our basis. He actually
started Sezyk by him self originally, and
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we're brothers. Once I was like
getting towards like senior of high school.
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I was like, your vocals are
kind of shit, and I'm okay,
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let's trying me. So Cody and
I we started writing and we released a
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few songs by ourselves. And then
Taylor he's actually a buddy of Cody's from
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high school and he's a guy a
guitar, so we were like, please
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come on with us. And then
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found him through a Guitar center flyer, like we posted it on one of
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those billboards out back. That's old
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I mean anyway to network and connect
with people, right, And you
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know, it's been shit. It's
been about like six years as a band
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and playing shows for two so being
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the Holy Grail moment, you know. Yeah. I was gonna say,
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with the the way we got into
the festival, the contests, Yeah,
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the contest that we won, it
was really the only reason why we was
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because we released our single Grave in
Heaven and that got us a lot more
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traction than we expected, and all
those new fans, we were able to
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get them all the show up to
the live stream and they all voted for
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us. And then you know,
we're so grateful to be here from our
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fans helping us out and voting for
us. And it was because of our
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last single, I think, but
well, there you go. It must
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be a really good single, then
then do that. Oh yeah, it's
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our best work so far. And
how did the crowd react? Was it
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way beyond what you expected? It
was definitely a way beyond what we expected,
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because I mean, you know,
getting an earlier set time, you
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don't really know what to expect of
how many people are come early to see
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us, And I mean the crowd
pulled through great crowd interaction and it was
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a decent sized crowd for a band
as small as us, and it was
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anything we could have asked for and
more. I love it. And so
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how would you guys describe yourself as
a band, not like record labels would
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describe you or anybody else that once
you've put you in a box. I'd
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like to hear how the artists describe
their music to the listeners. You mean,
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like influences pretty much whatever you want
to say, I'm just more about
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the artists expressing their music opposed to
some idiot that puts you in some genre
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that you're box into. I think
with Caesyk, the best word to describe
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us as hope. I like that, you know, we when it comes
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to the lyrical content of it,
you know, just trying to make everything
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relatable and like whatever situation you're in, we want to be able to aid
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it with our music as much as
possible, and then with our instrumentals,
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we're trying to tell a story.
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we have we kind of try to
go outside of the metal genre, you
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know, because like ar song already
over, we're taking pop punk influences from
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Sam and then like I like Breaming
the Horizon, so that's more metalcore.
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Bear, so we have like more poppy
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stuff. We don't like to be
like contained to the metal genre either.
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We take from everything. Yeah,
especially nowadays. I love that because it
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seems to me that a lot of
metal bands, when they don't have the
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blending of influences like you do,
they have this formula, which metal was
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never a formula type music and then
every single band sounds exactly the same.
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What makes you unique is when you
have all of you that brings something different
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to the table. And I mean
I I would say, we're kind of
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giving the middle finger to like metal
lead us that, like everyone tries to
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contain you to just one specific genre, but we have like a well balance
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of you know, metalcore, hard
rock, pop punk, Like we just
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try to get a nice blend,
so there's something for everybody. And I
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love that because I come from the
time of the elitist and I hated it.
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And what you know, what's interesting
though, Like I'm a thrash metal
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head, the Big four thrash don't
sound like they're from the same genres,
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and that's what I'm talking about.
It's like, to me, music is
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like a color wheel and people only
want to stick to one color. I
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don't see the point in that.
I like to know the colors. Even
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with like so why my top five? It's bring me to horizon, okay.
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And even with them, they're getting
catching a lot of flak lately for
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the music they've been doing. But
to me, I'm just like, well,
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they're growing as artists, they're experimenting, they're bored. Like I always
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said in an interview, why do
I want to write the same song over
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and over again? So my ads
off to him because I like the heavy,
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old school death four ship, but
I also like the poppy shit,
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and I like the you know,
mellow stuff, and then I like to
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get in your fields emotion. I
can confidently say that Bring Me the Horizon
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is one of the only bands,
if not the only band that's been able
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to switch all the way from death
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keeping the majority of their fan base. Because you hear all the shit about
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them, you know, like haters
and whatnot, But those are just the
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people that are the loudest with their
opinions. But in reality, like him
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and I, we've been here since
Count Your Blessings and s Epaternal and Suicide
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Season and we love Amo, we
love That's the spirit and their current singles
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too. Yeah, it's crazy and
we aspire to be like them too.
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Now they're going back, so it
just proves it's not that they went away
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from it. It's just like,
let's write something different now. I feel
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differently. When you're writing each album, you feel differently, you have different
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things have gone on there's more things
to talk about, you know, And
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as an artist, when you get
better, you don't want to play the
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same as you did on the first
album because usually as an artist, you
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think you sucked when you look back
to that. Absolutely always Like it's funny
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how that always happens, Like looking
back, you're like, god, I
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sucked, but then like you're really
proud of what you're at now, and
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then years go by you look by
it like, oh my god, I
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sucked, right, And like with
the more songwriting we do, the more
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performances we have, like we're just
everyone's always involving as an artist, and
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all of our influences are constantly changing, so our music is gonna take that
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journey with us. And I'd also
say that we're lucky that a lot of
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our influencers are all over the place
between each other. So like I love
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Followed Boy, Cody doesn't really care
for Followed Boy. That just say is
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what it is, And so that
helps us, you know, spread our
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wings and try more things than I
think we would otherwise. It's funny that
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you said that, because you know
fall Out Boy and Bring Me We're on
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tour together, and I was like, well, that's a strange combo,
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but it was cool. Yeah,
I mean, but I love how the
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music industry is slowly starting to resort
to like getting like fall up Boys,
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pop punk, bring Me the Horizon. You know, obviously they're all over
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the table, but primarily metal core
and such, and being able to combine
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those two genres together like every single
night, both bands are getting new fans
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every single night. Yeah, well
see, and you hit on a very
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important point is the elitist They don't
want to see you get bigger. But
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then how do you survive, how
do you you know, feed yourself unless
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you're getting bigger. That is the
goal. It's not non metal to want
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to be able to do this for
the rest of your life. And you
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don't do that If you don't get
bigger. What's the point of being in
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the music industry if you're constricted to
one genre. One and perfect example is
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Metallica. So I'm one of the
originals from Metallica. I went to their
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first show ever. That's crazy.
So when the Black album came out,
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the twenty five of us that were
there, hardcore old school fans were like
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fucking posers, blah blah blah,
bullshit. And at the end of the
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day, but look at what they
did for metal, Like you wouldn't have
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a festival like Ladder in Life without
Metallica bringing it to where they brought into
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And it's funny with Metallica because I
feel like they've like they've changed their sound
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quote unquote, but they've pretty much
stayed in like the thrash metal area for
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the majority of their career. And
you know, some bands like Breaking Benjamin,
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for example, they stay with their
one sound because it works, and
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that's totally okay. But like Breaming
the Horizon, like us we as musicians,
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I feel like it's a disownment to
the industry to not evolve in expand.
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Oh, I think you should totally
evolve otherwise you're not getting better as
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musicians, is my opinion. A
lot of times bands that don't evolve is
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because they don't know how to play
anything else. You know. It's like
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they may just know their basics and
they didn't learn more. Just like I
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was talking about Mattauka Heffield, he
learned how to sing, he hates how
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he sang back in the beginning.
I loved it, but maybe the masses
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wouldn't have loved it, and we
wouldn't have this conversation right now. And
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that's the point. You have to
get better at your craft, and once
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you get better, then you start
experimenting in different areas my opinion for sure.
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How do people connect to you guys
on socials, on the web by
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your merge all that stuff. So
we have a link tree, slash,
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season yk Official. We're on all
streaming platforms, so Spotify, Apple Music,
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Deezer, you name it, Instagram, I am as Szyk Official,
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YouTube, Sezik Official, and I
don't think I missing anything else. Yeah,
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No, just go to like our
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from there there's a link that brings
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well. All right, cool,
And we also have szyk official dot com.
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That's our official website where you can
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music and also where we're at touring. Nice any final words you want to
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leave our listeners with that they need
to know that we haven't touched on yet.
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Thank you so much for being a
great host. Well, thank you.
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I love that compliment because I always
think like fire and artists will be
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the shittiest part of the job,
especially I listen to some people, I'm
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like, they have to go around
thirty times and answer the question how do
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you get your band name? Like
I fucking want to shoot myself, okay,
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you know, and like if it's
already out there, why are you
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asking? That's not an interview,
Like I'd rather just have a conversation,
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have an artist like you who say, hey, this was fun. And
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since you're making that point about how
the band names start, Cody and I's
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last name is cup check kup sez
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at first and just you know,
pull it, put a cool fun on
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it. I was like, all
right, sezy y k, there you
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go. And you know, it's
so hard for bands to come up with
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names nowadays, so that was an
easy one because you can easily do it
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and nobody else was gonna think of
it. I'm like, it's a unique
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name, and when you hear it
the first time, you're like, uh,
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chick check But then what, yeah, don't worry. Like even just
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that interaction of like how do you
say that name, it's just ingraining in
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your brain and it causes conversation and
people to talk and there you go.
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Yep, absolutely, you know you're
playing it ladder than life. Play a
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lodder than life. That's right,
well cool. Thanks for being here and
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thanks for being on the Avengers of
play Man. Oh, thank you so
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much. Thank you for listening to
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