PipemanRadio Interviews Escape The Fate at Aftershock 2023

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Shreds from Escape of the Fate.
Nice here at Aftershock. Yes, yes,

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yes, oh my god. How
stoked are you to be here?

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Day two? I get lost?
Day three? Day three, that's fine.

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I'm so excited to be here.
This is my personal first time ever

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performing at Aftershock, so it is
kind of it feels like a dream to

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be on the Jack Daniel stage for
my first time performing. That's cool.

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We had some you know, mystery
today getting in with Corey Taylor having an

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emergency and needing to cancel, so
it was kind of cool that now we

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have to play a little later in
the day too, So benefit I'm grateful

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for that. I feel horrible for
him in his camp for everything they're going

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through, but it's still exciting that
it presents us the opportunity to get in

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front of a few more faces and
put on a great rock show, especially

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since a few weeks ago you had
not the same kind of fate. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, we did not
escape fate there. Talked about Blue

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Ridge, Yeah, talk about Blue
Ridge. Oh yeah. I like I

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was there, but I really felt
bad for you guys because that was like

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a be your debut for the new
album, and then you were about to

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get on stage. Uh huh.
We were set up, all of our

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equipment was out on the stage,
our texts were up with our guitars checking

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for us. I mean, our
entire back line was on that stage when

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it got hit. So when the
storm came in, all of our shit

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just got Oh yeah, you know
when I got evacuated. For me,

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I was in the middle of an
interview and I was gotting evacuated. I'm

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looking at didn't see anything, and
there was nothing on the weather app Like

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it came out of nowhere. And
then I got evacuated and I'm going back

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to camp and the storm started and
where I was is right in front of

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the Heartset Camp, which I'm friends
with. Those guys. They had all

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their equipment with campy over it.
So I was like, oh shit,

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I'm gonna go help them so they
don't lose all their equipment. We were

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holding this canopy down four of us. It lifted all four of us off

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the ground. Yeah, it was
scary. It was insane. And then

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we're like, okay, fuck that. And then we grabbed their other canopy

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and we were getting pelted by hail. Yikes. See I got inside by

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the hail, but where we were
the rain started coming. We're like,

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this is awesome. It's so hot
outside, like great, everybody loves it.

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And then five minutes later we're panicking
to get our stuff from being wet.

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Like the first thing I see is
waters start to hit like the laptop

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that like runs the lights and stuff
like that. So I go to get

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the laptop and then just boom,
the fury just happened. It was I

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live in Florida, and I thought
that was unbelievable. It was like I

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deal with that stuff all the time
in Florida. But in this scary moment,

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is like everybody's kind of figuring out
what to do. We're like removing

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all of our gear and then we
just hear everybody get the fuck off the

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stage. Get off the stage now, and we're like oh shit, we'll

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get off. Lightning hit the stage
like ten minutes later. Oh yeah,

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crazy. Now apparently lightning hit this
age twice that stage we were on.

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So grateful nobody was on it when
that happened. And I'm glad you're telling

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this in the interview because of all
the idiots that when that was happening,

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we're complaining in all the chat boards
and the socials about oh, this is

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bullshit. It's supposed to be rain
or shine. It's not the rain,

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dude, it's the lightning. It's
the wind. Yes, you know,

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And I mean, look, there's
perfect example, like who could have gotten

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hurt if they did not do that. It would have been a lot of

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fried band dudes, for sure,
no doubt. But here we are at

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Aftershock. Looks like we won't have
any shocks here. With the weather.

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It's could be super fucking hot.
Bring some lightning strikes though. Yeah that

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yeah, that's what I mean.
Tell our listeners in case they don't know

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what that means. Ah yeah.
Our hit single from the Chemical Warfare album,

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Lightning Strike, which is the third
song in our set following the Flood,

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which is the set that we performed
at Blue So we might have been

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part of the problem. We might
have done a little rain dance with ourselves.

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Thank you, Like, I think
it's all your fault. You brought

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it on. Let's just not tell
any of the insurance companies that though.

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It would have been cool if you
did actually get to play and you're playing

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Lightning Strikes and that's when the lightning
hit. I see what you're saying,

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hardly sounds like you're mind. I
hope you guys get hit by lightning.

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I know, like in my mind, it sounds kind of good, But

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then I was like, oh,
yeah, that might not be a good

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idea. I like what you got
to say, though, there you go.

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So after shock, is this the
coolest freaking festival or what? Though?

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Like, I did you take a
look at this media artist area.

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There's gonna be free food later.
Very cozy, for sure, the coolest,

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though. I don't know. It's
like ninety out right now, ninety

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five or something right right, It's
a little toasty, But the event is

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I was gonna say sick. That's
also a very confusing term that could be

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mixed up. It's awesome being here. Everything is so well structured and organized.

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It just feels like a breeze getting
in, there's no confusion, and

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just it's so comfortable. You're right, like everything's so well laid out.

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You're not crammed into tiny corners.
If you need a place to sit,

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you're gonna find a place to lounge. And Dannie Wimer always treats the rs

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great. That's what all the RS
tell me. I haven't had one R

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say anything bad about women love DWP. See loved there it is, you

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know, like they just know how
to do it right. I do all

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the festivals I do, the UK
festivals, European festivals. His are the

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ones are most parallel to the UK
and European festivals, you know, because

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yeah, they were always known to
be better than ours and based on some

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other festivals, that's true, based
on DWP now yeah. And the cool

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thing is that you also hear the
same from the fans as well, which

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is awesome that everybody loves the experience, well, even the media. You

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know, it's funny at Blue Ridge
the media people that complain about DWP start

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saying, well, I guess d
WP's not so bad. This wouldn't happen

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at DWP, like some of the
things that happened yeah, and so I

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think sometimes it takes something like that
to take spoiled people and let them know

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that, hey, you got it
pretty good for sure. You know,

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so you got the new album out. That's cool. Uh, Shadow tell

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us listeners about the album, how
it may be the same and different as

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previous works. Yeah. So,
I think one of the coolest things about

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Out of the Shadows is it's the
most band involved album in years. You

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know. Throughout the past it's kind
of been like situation of working with these

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big famous producers. They want left
chefs, left chefs in the kitchen,

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so you know, not everybody has
to come in and write where is this

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time? This is my first full
album writing with the band, and we

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brought in a new lead guitarist who
did all the solos on the record.

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You know, it was cool because
us coming in kind of shifted the internal

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dynamic of the band and it became
more of a unit. So we went

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into creating this album with a goal. Whereas in the past the goal was

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just make a single, make singles, this time it was like, hey,

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we want to be a heavy band, we want to be dark,

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we want to have emo influence,
and we want the album to be kind

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of about the personal journeys we've all
discovered throughout COVID, through coming out of

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the shadows and into the light alone. And as for like a lot of

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the themes of the music, you
know, we had that. One of

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the things I thought was kind of
cool about the band is that me and

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our new lead guitarists, we were
fans of the band back when we were

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younger. So you know a lot
of people you see on all the forums

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they want get heavy again, bring
back this sound. So it's kind of

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cool because we're also the ones that
have the fans of that sound. Now

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that we're back and I'm in the
writing seat, I'm writing the riffs,

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he's doing the solos. It's we're
able to bring that want and influence you

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to the table for the fans because
you're thinking the same way they are exactly.

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Yeah, I love it. I'm
very proud of the album. All

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of us are eleven songs of heaters
And you know, one of the things

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I've been saying, if you're going
to pull something positive from the COVID lockdown,

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is that artists got a chance to
jump off that hamster wheel and really

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figure out where they wanted to go
because you're like doing doing doing, and

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you don't think about it because you
don't have time to think about it.

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It's like show to show to show, write songs in between a show,

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and then if you don't have the
coesive miss that you have now, that

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makes it even harder. So I
think some of the best music I've been

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saying all along it is going to
come out of that COVID lockdown, like

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your album, because I think that's
an example of that. It gave an

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opportunity to like, hey, as
a band, how do we want to

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present ourselves? How to you want
to sound now? Opposed to never thinking

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about that because you're too busy.
Absolutely, I mean like the lockdown in

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the pandemic just put a lot of
like I feel like, perspective on people's

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lives. So it just really brought
to the forefront of like why are we

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here? Why are we doing this? What's important? And everybody had to

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face that personal journey of like why
are we here? And ultimately everybody's opinion

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is we're here for the music,
right, We're here because we have a

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message, we have a craft,
we want to share, and we want

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to make the world a better place
through our art, no doubt. And

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then, like I think about it
too, how trippy is that to join

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a band in the middle of the
pandemic, because that's when he came with

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the band, right in twenty twenty
one, right in the middle of the

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pandemic. Was weird. So,
I mean, I've been playing with the

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band since twenty seventeen, okay,
but I had like a friendship and we're

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all close, so it wasn't weird. It was just a little you unique,

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I suppose, because we hadn't seen
each other maybe in like a year

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or two at that point. So
when we started the album, uh,

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everybody just flew down to my studio
in Arizona and we just started there for

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a week, just making songs,
seeing what would happen, what would come

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from it. And then yeah,
we took those songs and maybe months later

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we started going to John Feldman studio
and writing songs and recording them and laying

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him down nice. But yeah,
we started at the end of the pandemic.

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I think we've done it too,
We're already but by the time we'd

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started writing, well and now we'll
get to hear some of it here today.

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Yet aftershock. So I love that. Tell everybody how to hit you

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guys up on socials, on the
web, check out the new album,

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buy your merch all that cool stuff. Yeah, so you can follow us

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anywhere TikTok, Instagram, Facebook,
it's all just at Escape the Face.

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Same with YouTube at least that's pretty
clean and clear. Everybody's got personal social

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media's you got Craig Mabbitt, You've
got Robert E. T F. You

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got TJ bell E t F,
Eric Schredz and Maddy Hoffman. You can

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reach any of us through our social
media as we have contact sections, there's

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buttons, there's there's things everywhere,
links to hit up where you used to

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get in contact with our management.
And then beyond that. Our new album

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All the Shadows came out just a
month and a half ago. It's streaming

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anywhere music is streamed, and we
plan to just keep dropping more and more

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music as time comes. I think
it's gonna just get better and better.

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And absolutely listen, I'm psyched about
today. And thanks for being on the

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Adventures of Pipe Man. Hell.
Yes, Escape Debate's going to take over

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the world. Yes, yeah,
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