PipemanRadio Interviews Friends of Hell About God Damned You To Hell

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is the pipe Man here on the Adventures

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of pipe Man W four c Y
Radio. I'm really excited about our next

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guest because there're some friends of mine
from Hell and in all seriousness, they

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are some badass musicians with some great
new music and they are friends from friends

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of Hell. So welcome to the
show. Hello, thank you very much.

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It's good to be here. Oh, it's good to have you.

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And as we can see in the
background and behind me, we got a

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new album coming out. And I
am such a fan always of album artwork.

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Anyway, I feel like today some
people missed the boat by not getting

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to see that one of my first
albums ever, well, yeah, probably

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one of the first, but especially
in this arena, was because I saw

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this album cover in this record store
and I'm like, I need to have

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that. Didn't even know what it
sounded like, and that was Venom's first

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album, Welcome to Hell. Yeah, it's a similar Yeah, exactly.

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So then I you know, iomatically, as soon as I got the promo

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for your band, I'm like,
oh, they gotta be badass, and

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you are like, I listened to
a new song Bringer of Evil, and

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man, not only is it cool
because as an old school metal sound,

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but it's also weirdly enough kind of
like catchy. It's got this you know,

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vibe to it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I believe in even

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if it's the music is heavy or
whatever. I believe in good songs.

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You know, a good song of
Kachi korus it needs to be like a

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good arrangement, you know, good
absolutely, you know it has to you

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know, you have to be into
it when you're the listener and there's something

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that keeps you listening instead of like
just listening to a few seconds of the

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track and being like, okay,
now now I know where it is.

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I mean, you know, nowadays
most many bands forget you know that even

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the heavier bands, let's say the
ones you mentioned like Venom Or or even

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Possessed or bands like this, they
do have choruses and you know, and

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catchy songs. Oh one, I
remember that's another one too. When Possess

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came out with their first album.
Yeah, you know, it was evil,

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it was heavy, but then it
was like, wow, this is

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catchy, you know is yeah,
and that's the way it needs to be.

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Listen. Like, I think there's
a big misconception a lot of times

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in metal for people that don't understand
metal music. I think they don't realize,

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first of all, how much musicianship
is involved. Number one, because

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I can tell you right now,
like to play any kind the metal,

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I think you have to be a
superb musician, like insane, especially if

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you're playing something very heavy, very
fast. You know, it's not as

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easy as people may think. The
other thing is too, is there's just

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riffs in metal are always meant to
be something that's memorable and catchy, that

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like sticks in your brain all the
time. Tonyayomi said, the best riffs

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are the ones that they sound good
on a ringtone. I love that that

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is, you know what. I
never heard that before, And that is

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a great point right there. Absolutely, So we'll have to. I think

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I'll have to change the ring tone
on my phone right now to your new

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Songbringer of Evil, because that would
sound pretty cool. So tell us a

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little bit about the origin of the
band. For those that don't know you,

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and like, you have this complete
new lineup now for the band,

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and that's what makes the second album, like I don't know, far superior

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than first. It's it's almost like
you have this togetherness and tightness now that

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maybe wasn't there before. Yeah,
I mean the first album when when I

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made this band, I knew from
the start. Let's say, for example,

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that the guitarist that was before,
John Dicks, is not a very

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good player, but because he was
a friend, you know, I said,

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okay, you can play or anything, but it was he wasn't an

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adequate for the band. You know, it couldn't play so good. But

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also with the two new guitars we
have, they are way better than they

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sound amazing. But a part of
that, I think that the new album,

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even the songs themselves, are more
you know, they're they're better.

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They they have better melodies, better
courses, the arrangements, everything, everything

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just happened. But it's you know, everyone fitted the music perfectly. Yeah,

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And you know it's funny you borrow
up a point about somebody being a

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friend. I believe in this in
a band, in business, in whatever,

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like, sometimes it's better not to
do it with friends because you can't

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say certain things or you feel bad, or you know, you do things

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because they're your friend instead of really
exploring your creativity. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, it's true. But it
did happened. But I like the first

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album too, But but I think
the new album is way superior. So

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what and now you're going to be
doing some live shows okay, with which

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you didn't really get to do before, am I correct? Yes, it's

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true. It's because our fashing your
Albert. He wasn't up. He didn't

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want to do any gigs. And
when you from the start, he told

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us he's only going to sing in
one album because he wants to kind of

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quit music. He's not up for
it anymore to create, it's too stressed.

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So because he wasn't, you know, he didn't want to do any

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concerts, we said, okay,
we're going to go along until you know

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that's second album. We change singer
and with a new lineup, everyone is

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up for it. So nice,
so ready. So what can our listeners

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expect from a live show from Friends
of Hell? They can expect like the

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songs of the album, but maybe
played a little bit more best yet there

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you go, And so what was
that moment in your life if there was

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one where you knew this is what
was made for you. Making music was

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what was made for you. Was
there something that happened in life that really

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kicked that into play. Well,
my love for music started from going through

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the records of my older brother,
you know, then I did in the

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seventies, I discovered band like you
Write a Heap, Deep Purple, Black

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Sabas. But I always had this
this thing that this is like something far

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because they are musicians. You know, the music they play. I mean,

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you write a heap or the purple
is like just incredible, It's impossible.

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Yeah. Then, you know,
in the early eighties when we got

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into thrust and at the same time
we got it to hardcore punk, you

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know, bands like Discharge or you
know, Chroma, Disagnostic Front There's UK

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Then I thought, man, I
can play that nice. I realized that

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I can actually play this music,
actually move ever played well kind of hardcore

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band punk bands. Yeah, you
know, your timeline is probably like so

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exactly like mine. Like you had
me right at the begin when you said

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your brother, because I have a
brother eleven years older than me, that

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I rifled through his record albums.
That's how I got my first album.

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And you know, the albums I
would hear were be like Zeppelin, Uryah,

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Heap Ufo, you know, and
even stuff like the Rascals, the

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Grassroots and like all that stuff.
And then my first album ever. Okay,

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So I lived in New Jersey and
I was at the Jersey Shore Seaside

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Heights, and I was playing this
carne game and if you won the carnival

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game, you got to pick out
an album. And I saw this out

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and that's where it started for me, like just looking at an album and

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buying it based on looks. I
saw this album up there, I was

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like, that's the one. And
it was the first Kiss album when it

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first came out. So that was
my first official album. But then you

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know, it progressed, you know, it went to heavier and heavier,

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and then, like you said,
thrash, I'm ana told thrash metal head

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from the beginning. I went to
Slayers first show ever. I was actually,

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you're gonna laugh at this. I
was at a show that was Venom,

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Slayer and Exodus. Yeah yeah,
and Kronos and Tom got into a

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fistfight backstage because Kronos was telling Tom
that they're not black metal, that Venom

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is the only black metal as it
was so funny back then, and it's

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like, I look now, you
know it's so funny too, because you

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listen to some of the black metal
now and a lot of black metal bands

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don't even consider Venom black metal at
this point. So it's it's funny how

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the whole industry evolved, and I
like, I took that ride from the

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very beginning, just like you.
I think Venom is the only black metal

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band. I agree, man,
bad ass, there there's not one bad

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song to me. I remember getting
that first album and just sitting there and

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listening over and over again, reading
the lyrics, and I was just like

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consumed with it and that that was
really my first introduction to satanic type music.

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Yeah, yeah, they're They're perfect
Venom, Yeah, no doubt.

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So what other things you have coming
up in the future here that you want

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the listeners to know about and check
out, and also let them know about

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where how to catch you on your
socials, your web, how they can

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pre save or just get the new
album it drops on April fifth, and

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give them all the details for us
please, Well, we we're not very

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much into social media. We only
have one Instagram, which is Friends of

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Hell Official. The album I think
because the Rise Above Records has very good

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distribution in the stage everyone, so
I guess there's going to be an old

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record stores and the important for us
now. I mean, we're going to

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concentrate on the concerts for now and
then soon for the third album. I

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think nice Anything mention is because we
mentioned Thrus. Also Hell Butcher, the

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singer has you know, he was
a singer of Niphel him but they don't

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exist anymore. But now he has
his own band called Hell Butcher and they

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signed with Metal Blade Records. Nice
he played me the album. This is

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devastating. Truss is so brutal,
but at the same time group melodic and

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catchy is incredible. So also look
out for the Hell Butcher album. I

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would say, So, I got
a funny Metal Blade record story for you

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that ties right into what I said
with Venom, because how I got that

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first Venom album is there. I
was in la in the early eighties and

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the like, at the beginning of
the whole scene, and we used to

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go to this record store in the
valley called OZ Records, and there was

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this record store clerk there. His
name was Brian, and he was brilliant.

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I've told him, like a few
years ago, I was like,

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your strategy was so brilliant. He's
like, it wasn't a strategy. I

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was just like working there. But
he used to we we would come in

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and he would show us all these
albums to buy and stuff. Like the

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first time that he brought out the
it was an import of Welcome to Hell

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and he's like, you need to
check this out, and that that was

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how I got that album was from
Brian Slagel's right, And uh yeah,

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and you talk about the punk part. See, that was the thing,

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like you probably remember too. Back
in the day, I liked metal and

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I liked punk, but long hairs
weren't allowed to go to punk shows and

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punks weren't allowed to go to metal
shows, which I thought was absolutely stupid.

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So a couple of years ago I
got to see one of my favorite

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bands for the first time that you
mentioned at Hellfest and it was Discharge,

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And like, now I've got like
all the bands I couldn't see as a

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teenager because you're I've gotten to see
Discharge, Subhumans, GBH, all those

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bands and the Exploita actually have a
funny story I got I got Waddie all

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riled up before he was doing a
show to where he just lent like crazy

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on stage because I asked him in
the interview. I interviewed him right before

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they went on. I'm like,
what do you think of pop punk?

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And I knew how he was going
to answer. That's why I asked it

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because I have the same feeling like
that's kind of an oxy moron, you

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know, But yeah, I mean
like, uh, is great that nowadays

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we can combine all those things and
all those influences to make great music.

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And I think that's exactly what you
guys do. And that's why everybing needs

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to check out this new album.
It is so badass. Uh, they

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definitely need to go out and get
it. And I can't wait to see

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you guys at a live show because
I think that's gonna be killer. Hopefully

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we will soon. Nice. Well, thank you, anything anything else you

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want to share that the listeners need
to know that we haven't covered yet.

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Oh I think that was good.
All right, good deal. Well,

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Hey, thanks for the great music
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