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Eddie and Harold. We're from Imminence, the band from Sweden. Nice to

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be here. So how far away
are you from, like Uppsala or Gothenburg?

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Very far? We live in the
southernmost part. OK. So I've

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played I played hockey on a Bondi
court in Gothenburg, and I was at

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a wedding in Uppsala. And I
have a funny story about that wedding.

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Yeah, so US Americans think reindeer
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Pole. And so I was married
at the time and was my bro's wedding

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and the bride her parents are reindeer
farmers, so that's what the food was

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at the wedding reception. And so
I didn't eat meat at the time,

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my wife did and she's eating them. I'm like, is that meat good

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and she's like yeah, I'm like, you're eating rudeolph. And she's like,

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what do you talk about. That's
reindeer meat. She's like, get

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the fuck out here. There's no
such thing as reindeer meat. Oh yeah

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there is, but in that stu
the very northern part, right, we

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get across those things. We live
in the very south, so we don't

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see any raindeers at all, but
were crazy okay, right, So it's

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like, here's American that thinks that
they're eating reindeer meat and there she thinks

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I'm just messing with her, which
I was, but not like she thought,

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Well, you know, there's a
population like in the very north,

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like the original inhabitants of Sweden,
they have like exclusive right to work with

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reindeers. So it's pretty like rare
that you would like get serve something like

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this so far down well, let's
say south in the country. But okay,

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I good for you, right,
So tell me, because I travel

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a lot, what is the difference
from the part of Sweden you're from and

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like other parts of Sweden. I
mean, we don't have When you think

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of Sweden, you think about big
mountains and big beautiful forests and all of

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that what you see in the movies
and stuff. But we we have mostly

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like fields in our region, like
very good soil where we live, and

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we're close to the ocean. And
yeah see that part I like, yeah,

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I mean I said, southern Sweden
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maybe more related to like Denmark or
northern Germany in that way, because the

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country is really long. It takes
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go from south to north, and
it's like people are completely different. People's

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accent is completely different. If a
guy from the south in the very north

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we talk to each other, I
you know, they would have a little

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hard time understanding each other. Even
so, it's a pretty interesting country this

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way. Only ten million people but
on pretty huge landsurface. Yeah, so

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it changed. See I love hearing
that. That's why I asked about that,

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because you know, people that don't
go to other countries, they have

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this vision of what that country is, even the United States, like every

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state in this country might as well
be another country. Absolutely. You know,

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it's like it is kind of funny
and you probably got to do.

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It's like people like, oh,
well, you know, isn't it this,

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and I'm like, no, that
would be in like Louisiana, that

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wouldn't be here, you know,
type of thing. So it's cool to

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hear how other parts of the world
are. We can really feel that too

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while we're going through the US now, right, people are different the language

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you talk about the language funny.
Sorry, I go and I cover download

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and bloodstock in the UK, and
I usually fly into Birmingham and my London

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friends will be like, you won't
understand a word they're saying, like come

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on, and I get and I
get off the plate. I'm like,

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They're like, they might as well
be speaking Swedish. I have no clue

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what they're saying. Yeah, this
really like I mean, obviously we speak

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English and over here in the States, I guess there's like some kind of

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like, I mean, understandable accent
no matter where you go. But of

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course we had those experiences like in
Texas jumping in with an uber driver and

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I really had to like listen right's
I had been a hard time understanding what

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he said. But I think it's
so so interesting to see the huge differences

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between the States here because we've only
been here. We've only been here just

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once, on a short Oh really, and your English is really good.

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Well, we watched a lot of
shows and listen to music. So speaking

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of music, let's talk about your
music. And first I want to talk

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about I went to your site,
your merch store. Yeah, oh my

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god, that's my favorite merch store
I've ever seen. Yeah, just because

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of the messages, the positive message
and helping the environment, and so that's

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what I want to about, and
your mission in that store. I want

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to hear about all that. I
mean, we do it ourselves, like

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we run it at home, and
for us, it was always like very

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important that we have merchandise that has
a high quality and also it's sustainable because

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you know, it does impact environment
a lot. And even though we're just

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a tiny fraction, we want to
do what we can and maybe help to

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inspire other artists to do the same. Yeah, you set the example and

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listen. I love how you said
maybe you're just a small part of it,

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but that's the point. You need
the small parts to get to the

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big parts. Yeah, you know, and spread the word and I think

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definitely everybody should check it out.
I was I was reading your captions more

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than I was looking at the merch
because I just saw it was so cool.

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Thank you for that. Thank you. So tell us a little about

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you're here at Welcome to Rockville.
It's first Rockville. Yes, it is

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like, is it wild that you're
here at the Daytona International Speedway doing a

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show? This is crazy, right? Did you drive on the raceway?

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I'm sure our bus driver did,
but we arrived early in the morning when

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everyone was asleep. Yeah, so
it's like kind of cool. And the

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wall over there, like if you
watch these races on TV, you don't

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see what you see here. That
wall is like straight up and down.

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Definitely, this is crazy and this
is not really a big thing over in

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Sweden, like watching like NASCAR,
right, So just to be here and

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playing our first ever American festival,
like we never wow, It's just it's

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a bit unreal to be here.
So what are some of the festivals in

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Europe you've played that we have played
that you have played well? You have

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for example, what should we do
dishbron Germany. We've done Full Force Festival,

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we have done rock for people in
Czech Republic, we have done well

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pretty much grasp pop with the Vucking
the legendary. Yeah. Jeraln Air Netherlands.

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So yeah, I mean we've done
quite a bit nicer over the years.

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So how would you compare the different
festivals, like which was your favorite

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festival to play and why? I
mean, we always love to come back

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to rock for people in Czech Republic, it's just I don't know, we

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love the vibe there. It's special. Then of course to be at Vaking

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it's really cool, right. I
just feel that you understand what people call

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it, like holy grounds. It's
just something about it, you know.

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Yeah, and also full Force was
a real pleasure to play. I would

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say, yeah, see, And
I asked about this because I also cover

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like European UK festivals. I haven't
done Vaking yet. I've applied, but

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I haven't heard back yet. I've
done hell Fest and that that place is

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insane. You know. I might
do Grasp this year. I've done Download,

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I've done Bloodstock. But you know, it's interesting. That's what's cool

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about Welcome to Rockville and any of
the Danny Wimmer festivals. Like I do

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festivals all over the US, these
are to me the closest to the European

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festivals. I think he's like pulled
the template from that, which is what

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makes it a better festival. You
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experience, yea post like a carnival. Like there's a lot of festivals here

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in the States that they're more like
going to the fair, whereas this is

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like a city here at Welcome to
Rockville. And that's what you get at

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the European festivals. It's like you're
in a city. That's what we heard.

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Also, a lot of people said
that, you know, festivals over

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here are usually not the same mm
hm, because that's just something that's been

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around for like thirty forty years in
Europe. You built you know, festivals

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from the bottom. Yeah, and
a lot of them, you know,

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didn't start off in this huge format. You know, just started off like

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tiny and then you know, after
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years it's shoot, right, Like
Vakin was like kind of fun that we

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heard that the founder of Vakan he
basically started a festival so his own band

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could play. I love that.
Yeah, that is the coolest things.

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If I was at bad that's probably
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gonna make my own festival and then
I can play at it. Yeah,

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And it's like this little village,
right, you know, and it turned

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into this massive, like one of
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in the world. It's it's amazing, but like you said, it's over

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years and years of time and building
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thing over the years. Like I've
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years and like we're getting to a
point where it's the same kind of feel.

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It's like, you know, this
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That's what it feels that like to
me at every music festival. You know,

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we're in mental health Awareness month,
and to me, music is some

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of the best therapy there is,
and to me, a festival is one

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of the best places, with the
way things are today in the world,

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where we can all just get together
and be one big family and there are

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no sides. Yeah, I completely
agree, you know. And it's also

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an opportunity to connect with so many
people. Yeah, I mean on festivals,

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it's usually when you meet people that
are well, not just you know,

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over interviews like this, but you
come across people being it like crew

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members or artists or just people working
in the industry. That it's a fantastic

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way to get connected and not just
an industry aspect, you know. Yeah,

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also on a personal level, Yeah
totally. So tell everybody how they

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can hit you up on socials,
how they can get to the merch store

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all that good stuff. Yeah,
I mean it's so easy today, isn't

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it a social media It's just imminence
Suite is mostly our handle. You can

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find our website at imminencesuite dot com. Yeah. Nice. And is there

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a merch that you recommend that what's
your favorite merch in your merch store?

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Oh that's a tough one, right, it's like all your children, right.

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And I love the designs we've been
putting out together with this talented art

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artist from Germany, and yeah,
i'd recommend any of our the signs,

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the latest of science we've put out. And tell us about the new album.

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That's important too. Yeah. Well, I mean the new album is

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it's kind of fresh out. It
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this is the album tour that we're
out doing right now in the States and

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this is our first like full American
tour that we're doing. The new album

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is called The Black and it is
the fifth release we're doing. We are

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currently independent we released this album without
a record label, something we worked on

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for quite some time, and I
really believe that it's the strongest one we

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ever put out. Nice and we
kind of feel that recently that it has

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been giving some attention that we haven't
really been familiar withness before, which is

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fantastic, And it feels incredible to
be premiering the songs live, you know

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here right in America. Yeah,
it feels incredible. And as as the

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artist, how do you feel that
this album is your best work? Meaning

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what do you think evolved to make
this? Like we're so far your musical

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genius. I don't know, Like
we've been a band for a long time,

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and The Imminence was our first band
that we started, right, and

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you know, we've basically we started
it when we were still teenagers, so

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we've gone through a lot during the
years, and with every album we put

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out, I always felt like it
was our best album to that point,

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right, It was very reflective of
who we were at the time, and

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we always tried to push the boundaries
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feel about this album is that there's
a sense of maturity to it, and

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you know, you can it feels
like everything we've been trying to do is

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kind of culminating and we're kind of
found the truest form of ourselves. And

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see, that makes so much sense
to me, because like when you're a

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teenager, you have one thought process, and then you get into your twenties

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you have another thought process. Thirty
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that you eliminate the ones before,
they're all building on each other. And

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then even as a musician, like
listen, I say this all the time,

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what musician would want to still be
where they're at when they started?

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Yeah, you know, you gotta
grow, You gotta learn your craft and

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your experiment and then you you really
find out your true voice, and that

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I think takes time. You can
do that in different ways. I guess

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as a lot of bouncer, maybe
a composition of members that have been doing

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with their very well, maybe in
previous projects, and so they kind of

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know their own qualities and so,
which is something we have developed together for

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many years, you know, and
I believe now we have reached a point

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where we understand what we do very
well and then maybe sets us apart from

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others and are not really afraid to
play in our strengths, you know,

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without trying to look in another direction, is what anyone else is doing,

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and just keeping our head down and
focus on our own craft and refining that

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as much as possible. And I
think, yeah, we were more successful

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in this album than any time before. Nice And you know, I love

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that you're doing it all on your
own and DIY because and the fact that

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you can list in these days and
still be as professional as you know the

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powers that be, Because this way
you're truly free as an artist. Like

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I grew up in a time where
I saw the record labels, you know,

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dictate what artists, what music they
would play, and all that,

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and I think it holds you back, it puts you in a box.

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This way you can be your own
artist and exactly what you want to express

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you'll be able to express, which
to me, the listener makes me feel

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that you're being real about it,
and then I can associate with it and

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relate to it, and to me, I can always tell. You can

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see a band up on stage and
you can always tell if they're just being

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true to themselves or they're going through
what somebody else told them to do.

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I think that's one of the most
important aspects of is authenticity for us,

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that what we do has to come
through. It's so great to hear that

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you acknowledge the merch like you thought
about the message and the quality and what

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we stand for. And we want
everything to be reflected, like from our

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music into whatever it is, if
it's live performance or if it's merch or

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whatever it's it's all authentic. It's
all very genuine from our site. Yeah.

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As an artist, you it should
be your message, not somebody else's

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message. And that's what I love
about it. And man, can't wait

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for you here and welcome to Rockville
and see you a lot more all over

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the US because you guys are badass. Thank you and thanks for coming all

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the way over here to the hottest
part of the world. You guys got

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you guys got lucky today with the
clouds because it would have been brutal.

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Yeah, but yeah, thank you
for making us great music. And thanks

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for being on the Adventures of pipe
Man. Thank you. Thank you for

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listening to the Adventures of Pipemin on
w for CUI Radio.