Oct. 1, 2025

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PipemanRadio Interviews DED at Louder Than Life 2025

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Louder Than Life 2025 Wrapped Up 8 Electrifying Days Of Music Performances In Louisville, With America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival (Sept 18-21) & Bourbon & Beyond A Week Prior (Sept 11-14) Bringing In A Combined, Record-Breaking Attendance Of Over 450,000 Fans

Louder Than Life Returns September 17-20, 2026 First Headliner Revealed: My Chemical Romance Plus Many More Acts To Be Announced Early Bird Tickets Will Go On Sale This Fall At LouderThanLifeFestival.com

Louder Than Life not only continues its reputation as America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival with the 2025 edition, but the 11th year of the event also marked the biggest festival in the history of DWP, and breaking rock festival records in North America. There were a number of once-in-a-lifetime moments over the course of the four days that added to the specialness of Louder Than Life.

In addition to music performances, this year’s edition of Louder Than Life featured various partner onsite activations, award-winning beverages and delectable eats from partners including Acathla Clothing, Al Capone, Angel's Envy, Basil Hayden, Beatbox Beverages, Black Shades, Blackcraft Cult, Bud Light, Cutwater Spirits, Demons Behind Me, Dimebag Hardware, Drew Estate, Eargasm, Elijah Craig, Fxck Cancer, Huber's Starlight Distillery, Jack Daniel's, Jim Beam, Knob Creek & Rye, KREWE, Kroger, Maker's Mark, Middle West Spirits, Milagro Tequila, Old Forester, Park Community Credit Union, Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, Parlor Root Beer, Red Bull, Strüng, Take Me Home, The Music Experience, The Taylor Foundation, Tito's Handmade Vodka, To Write Love on Her Arms, U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, White Claw, and Willett Distillery. According to Louisville Tourism, it is estimated that Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life together generated nearly $43 million in local economic impact in 2025. The back-to-back festivals also drove some of the highest hotel demand of the year, with overall occupancy reaching more than 80% citywide. These preliminary estimates highlight the tremendous tourism and economic value of the festivals, which bring hundreds of thousands of visitors to Louisville and fuel spending across hotels, restaurants, bourbon attractions, and local businesses.

Louder Than Life is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America.

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Hey, you lunto that's true fee wow crazy young.

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This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man

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W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with Matt

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and Joe from Dead Yes. Here at Louder than Life. Yes,

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another Danny Wimmer festival the best. When's the last time

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you played Louder than Life?

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Louder Than Life? The last one we did?

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What do you think twenty seventeen?

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I think eighteen and we did it.

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Twice, so I think we did it was Ozzie on

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the Ye Okay, so I think it was like maybe

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maybe nineteen, possibly might have been nineteen.

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It's so different, isn't it. Well, it's totally different. Yeah.

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Have you gone like and seen what's out there? Here's

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what I love always dread come into this festival. Not

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because of the festival. The festival dust was so bad

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at this venue where I wouldn't be able to breathe.

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After the second day, I'm coughing up rocks. Now there's

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no dust out there. It's all asphalt and fake grass,

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and I'm like, I've been here for two weeks now

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because I did Bourban Beyond and I can still breathe.

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I'm very happy, Like last year.

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It's always nice.

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It took like a month for me to recover.

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Yeah, I like breathing.

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I think that's good for an artist too, because I

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always wonder.

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I'm like, how the hell are you singing with all

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that festival dust in the air? I always think about

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that and then how you go to the next show

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and still be able to sing? Sure it's tough, Yeah,

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but how do you love Louder than Life and Danny

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Wimmer festivals?

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I love them. They're so much fun. They are. We

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feel blessed. We got put on them early and they

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still have us now.

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It's always a celebration.

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You get to see everybody, very family feeling, you know,

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there's so many people. It's just dude, it's awesome. It's

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so cool that they exist because they didn't exist until

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maybe ten years ago, I think, or so or I

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don't know, maybe a little.

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Bit before that, but it wasn't as big before. Yeah,

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like I've been doing for like sixteen years. It's great

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for heavy music.

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And you know what it's great for, like a band

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like you that's so good is it's a testament how good.

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You are that you're playing here again?

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Like how many times do festivals like invite you pretty

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much like all the time. It's because Danny loves you, right,

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I mean that's about line.

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Love you Danny.

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How does Danny after all these years of doing these festivals,

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how does Danny treat you as an artist compared to

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other festivals in your opinion?

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Wow?

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Yeah, you get taken care of amazingly. I mean just

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the lineups are great. It's a nice room, you're stocked up.

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It's pretty easy.

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Right, fun.

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That's the key word easy, because like you gotta go

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out there and perform. The last thing you need is stress,

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Like with load in sound check it and all I

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ever hear from Mars is it's easy. It's I can

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relax like I did. My soundjacket was great. Now I

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can relax. How often does that happen? There's a lot

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of festivals that that ain't the case. Sure. So what

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is new and exciting for you guys coming up in

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twenty twenty six and of course the end of this year.

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Well, we just dropped our brand new album Resent today.

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That's so beautiful.

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Yeah, I love it, which is awesome. It's a Louder

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than Life review preview. Here are there songs you had

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planned for Louder than Life that nobody's heard yet live.

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We're playing two new songs that know well, the album

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came out now, so if you listen to it already,

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but like the first time, we're ever playing these two

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songs live today. Yeah, playing a couple new ones live.

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I love it. Yeah, I love it. So what is

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different or has evolved with this newest album compared to

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the previous ones?

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What the songwriting, the vibe, the overall feeling of everything. Honestly,

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we just came with a blank canvas, a new set

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of songs that to me are polarizing. There's the dark

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and then there's the light. And we all had one

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hundred percent creative freedom on writing these songs, which is

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new to us too.

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So you create from whatever, from wherever you are. So

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we're in a new place then we were three or

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four years ago when we had our last record, and

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then in a new place then we were when we

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did our first record. So I just think we're in

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a new place. There's just new experiences that have happened.

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There's different things that happened to you, and we tried

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to do whatever we wanted to on this record. We

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wanted to just have no no rules. I think we

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did that.

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See that I love because I'm the firm belief of

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as the artist, you should be the one hundred percent

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creative making the decisions. Like you're the creator, you're the artists.

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So when I hear that you have one hundred percent

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control the creativity, to me, that means it's probably gonna

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be your best music ever. Oh yeah, I think you know,

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because that's the true agree with you.

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I agree with you at least for us. Like you know,

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you gotta do what you think is awesome for yourself first,

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and then you share it with the world. That's usually

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how like good art is made. It's not thinking about

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how it's going to be, because then there's like a

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sense of like questioning yourself. Is a sense of fear

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in that actually, and I think a lot of the

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best art is fearlessening in a lot of way, at

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least the music and probably a lot of other forms

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of art.

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So look at Ozsy passed away recently, but I think

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he never went by the rules every just was Ozzy always.

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Really Yeah, that's the longevity, that's what because when you

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try to be what the listeners want or what anybody

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else wants. I don't think you're going to get the

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longevity either A because people can tell you're not authentic,

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or B you just hate doing it because you're not

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truly being the artist.

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Sure, yeah, that's like.

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The thing is like, if you make music that you

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don't like and then nobody else likes it, then no

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one likes it, Then what's the point of it being

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made and put it into the world, no doubt. If

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you love it, then it wins, no matter why. If

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you love it and then everybody else hates it, you

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still love it. If you love it and everybody else

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loves it, then everybody wins. So I think that's the

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way to go.

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I think, how can I ass a listener If the

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band doesn't love their own music, how am I supposed

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to love their music?

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Absolutely?

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Sure?

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So one story, good or bad in this whole.

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Musical journey that you've been on all these years, what

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would you share.

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Out of all of these years?

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There's too many? I mean, there's too many.

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I know. That's why it's a hard question.

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Yeah, it we're just lucky to get another shot at

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making another amazing album with the amazing team. Honestly, looking back,

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I don't want to think about anything negative. I don't

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I don't care.

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Yeah, I'd rather just look forward, love that.

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Look out into the pit and just watch people moshing.

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That's got to be my favorite thing in the world.

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Yeah, I'm with you on that. Like I think, just

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always being in the present moment and then forward is great. Yeah,

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you look back like like we were.

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Just talking about that.

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Where like ever people asking us, like tell us a

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z any story or whatever, I don't remember them. Like

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they come up organically. You come up with some stupid

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thing that happened. You're like, man, I can't. That's such

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a fun thing with life. You go, I forget all

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the cool things that happened, and then it's fun when

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it comes back up and you can think about it,

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and then you forget about it again. Kill too many

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brain cells with Well.

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I love that you both said that, because my other

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hat is a motivational speaker. So I'm all about not

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focusing on the negative, focus on the positive.

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There's always positive if you want to find it.

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Yeah, And that's what you guys are doing, and that's

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what makes your band so great, your music so great,

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and your live show badass. Well, thank you so We

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love having you here at Loud than Life. We look

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forward to a lot more. And how does everybody get

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the new album?

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Now that it's dropped, it's streaming.

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Wherever you stream music, you can still buy it. I'm

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sure on like Amazon and iTunes and stuff.

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However you get music, it's probably on YouTube.

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Do you have any that they can buy like vinyl?

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We have vinyls, limited copies of vinyls, limit artwork and pressings,

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and then the just the normal regular vinyl that you

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could pick up at any of the shows on this

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tour that we're doing, the Black Mass Tour. We have

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them with us. We have CDs physical CDs along with

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all of our other merch and like Joe said, you

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can go literally anywhere on the internet and stream our music.

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Yeah, and our website deadband dot com like has all

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the links to everything, so just go to the website.

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We got a new website which we think is dope,

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so check it out.

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Nice.

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Well, thanks a lot for being here and thanks for

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being on the Adventures of pipe Man once again.

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Thanks brother, thank you

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man

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