PipemanRadio Interviews Omnivide

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I'm here with my my next guest,

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who is from the north actually from
where I am right now. A lot

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more but man, some badass music
that I really What I really love about

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what I heard is that it has
a lot of different components to the song,

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opposed to a lot of music nowadays
that the whole song. Once you've

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listened to the first fifteen seconds,
you've heard the whole song. This is

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like old school to me, where
you just want to listen to the whole

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thing from beginning to end. So
I want to welcome to a show.

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I'm divide. How are you?
I'm doing pretty good? Thank you?

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Sure? Hey, my pleasure,
and so tell us a little bit about

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your band, how it came about, you know, and how you as

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an artist would describe your music opposed
to a genre, because I hate genres.

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They box artists in to be something
that is it's like in this little

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box that they fit into, and
I'd rather hear from an artist's point of

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view how they describe their music.
Sure, well, it was really cool

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that you said that in the introduction, how you found there was a lot

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of components to our music. That's
certainly something that we had in mind as

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soon as we started writing music for
this band, was really that we're fans

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of many genres of music. And
obviously you've heard the song. It's still

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very much metal, but within metal, we're fans of a lot of different

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genres and we didn't want to limit
ourselves to fitting a specific aesthetic. So

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that song, and more broadly the
whole album is really a combination of our

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favorite genres, which you know,
goes from more typical death metal to more

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adventurous prague metal, and you know, some symphonic elements just kind of throwing

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all that in a blender. And
I think that maybe those three elements are

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kind of the main stays of what
define our sound as a broader and really

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the progressive aspect is what gives it
more freedom. We really like to just

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you know, kind of the opeth
idea of having extremely heavy parts and extremely

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clean parts, which obviously aren't unique
to Opeth, but just a band that

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did it really well early on,
and that's something we like. And then

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we also take from you know,
kind of more melodic bands, and you

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know, we really try to have
songs that will have dry, more aggressive

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sections and then go into something more
grandiose and musical and kind of piece all

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that together in a way that makes
a song and then the whole album more

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of a diverse listening experience and hopefully, you know, just make it something

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that, like you said, is
something you want to listen to again.

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So I think it's interesting because I
wasn't going to bring it up till you

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brought it up, but you talked
about Opath and probably even a lot of

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bands that know your music now may
not know that, you know, originally

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members of the band were in an
Opeth tribute project. So that's pretty cool.

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Yeah, for sure. That's how
three of the musicians in our band

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right now got together, myself,
Nick and Sam. Sam's our keyboard player,

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and Nick's the other guitarists. I
do vocals and guitar, and yeah,

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we did that project for about a
year and a half. It was

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loads of fun. It was just
kind of something we wanted to do because

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we were such big fans of Opeth. So we did it for like,

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you know, we did maybe four
or five shows. It was a lot

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of work for the actual result in
payoff, but it was really just a

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good musical experience overall. And as
we were doing that and towards the end

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of that year and a half,
we really decided then that we wanted to

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write together, and that's how this
project came along. See. I love

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that you made that transition because there's
so many like tribute bands out there that

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they just stay there for a long
time, or even like the most infamous

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that he did end up in Priest. But you know, Ripper was in

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a tribute Priest band forever and then
all of a sudden he's in Priest for

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a while, and now he's in
you know, Kk's Priest. Then it's

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I think at some point as an
artist, you really want to do your

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own thing and have your own artistry, and it's good to start off a

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certain way, but I think a
true musician evolves, and that's exactly what

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you guys did. Yeah, that
was kind of the intent from the beginning

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that you know, we were aware
that we weren't going to do that for

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you know, ten years or something. Really, from my perspective, I'd

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never done vocals and metal guitar at
the same time. You know, I'd

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sung a little bit on my own, but I wanted to practice that aspect,

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in the live performance aspect. So
doing that project was a way to

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kick myself in the ass a little
bit, get it done, and learn

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and get better. So that was
a conscious thing throughout that process, and

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I always I and probably most of
the other members of the band, I'm

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pretty sure all had in mind that
we wanted to write our own music.

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So it was really more of a
stepping stepping stone, sorry, than kind

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of a long term project. Absolutely, And I think it's kind of harder

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to be a tribute band than to
write your own music, because when you're

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doing your own music, it's coming
from inside of you and you have the

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innate passion for what you're doing,
and when you're doing a tribute it's kind

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of like you're using the passion of
something else you like instead, And I

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think there's a big fundamental difference.
Yeah, and that's why it felt right

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for it to be kind of a
temporary project, something that we did for

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fun in a sense, but not
something that we you know, tried to

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write awave off of it for ten
years or anything like that. So we

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definitely felt like people were going to
judge our performance based on you know,

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an amazing and like o bet so
we weren't pretending to be nearly as good,

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but it was just a great experience
overall for us to learn and get

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better. Yeah. Yeah, And
I love what you said about being and

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doing vocals and playing guitar, because
I always am in awe of somebody that

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can do both of those. It's
kind of like that thing when you're a

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kid trying to rub your head and
you're tummy at the same time, because

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it's gotta be so hard to focus
on both because usually both are like very

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important parts of all songs, and
they're usually the front runners. And now

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it's like you're doing both of them
at the same time. Oh absolutely.

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And it doesn't come especially naturally for
me either, I think from what I've

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seen and heard other people talk,
it does more so for other people.

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I just grind it a lot,
and you know, eventually your brain and

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body adapts, whether it's easy or
not. To just do both at the

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same time and things just be more
automatic. And that's really what enables you

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to do two things at once is
when you really don't have to think about

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your hands anymore, you can focus
on the vocals. I'd say that's more

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the perspective is your the hands become
automatic, and then the vocals are the

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thing that have more of a conscious
thing because it's more of a physical process

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even than the playing the guitars.
So for me anyways, that's how it

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is. I have noticed that too, because like you look at certain guitars,

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like I'll take Dave Mustain, you
know, who never wanted to really

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sing. He got thrust into that, but what amazing, amazing guitarist and

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now you watch him, man,
it's like he doesn't have to look as

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guitar at all. He just like
right, yeah, it's just second nature.

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He's doing way more focusing on the
singing than he is on the guitar

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play. Yeah, I think that's
the way that a lot of performers end

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up maybe viewing it as well.
But yeah, it's definitely not something that

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comes easy for me. And every
song is a new challenge every time.

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It's it's not innate for sure.
And one thing I want to say about

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the song is that, Okay,
so it's a killer song. But going

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back to what we were talking about
when I first turned it on, like

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for the first couple of seconds,
I'm like, it was kind of like

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when I heard a song like Battery
or I heard like Fast as a Shark,

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and you're like, at first,
gone, well that's not metal,

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and then all of a sudden,
just out of nowhere, you get like

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thrown up against the wall. Yeah. That's definitely another thing that, like

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I said earlier, we tried to
do with the album is to have different

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levels of intensity and energy and styles
of sections. And there's there's a few

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songs where we like to start kind
of slow like that and then slamming with

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a real the heavy section afterwards,
just to kind of hoping that the clean

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section before will make the heaviness that
comes afterwards more impactful. That's kind of

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the idea behind it. So that
was an example in Holy Killer. That's

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what the intent is behind that introduction. So Holy Killer, which is the

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first song or the first single off
the album that's going to be coming out,

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that just dropped on Friday on the
nineteenth and maybe tell us a little

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bit about the background of that song. Yeah. Sure, So that was

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one of the first songs that we
wrote as a band the way that we

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wrote the album, and Nick,
our other guitarists, and myself are kind

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of the main composers, and we
each mainly wrote four songs that you know,

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we all ended up pitching in and
working on together to some extent,

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But that was kind of his first
song and he wanted to add in synthathizers

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and orchestral elements early on, and
that really gave us a lot of direction

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for what we wanted to do for
the next songs moving forward. So that

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song is one of the more I
guess original first songs that we wrote that

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gave us a bit of an idea
what we wanted to do musically. Nice

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and the whole album Tail of Fire
is set to drop on the twenty second

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of March. Do you have any
kind of like pre saves or places you

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want to send people so that they
can get the new album my drops?

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And also you know, tell everybody
how they can hit you up on socials

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on the web all your connected and
ways to connect with you. Yeah,

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for sure. So we're gonna add
down some pre sage soon for upcoming singles

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and the album. So I tell
people to follow us on Facebook and Instagram,

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where basically all of our news will
come out, and then for any

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kind of support on band camp.
Our album is already available for pre sale

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as well as a CD and a
T shirt that can all be pre ordered,

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so any kind of support or buying
the digital album can go there.

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And we also have the YouTube video. The lyric video is on YouTube,

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so that's another place to follow us
that and we have our own website.

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If you just type omnivide. We
we tried to find a word that wasn't

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too common, so if you google
omnivide, I think we do come up

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first right now, so it's easy
to find, yeah, and you can

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actually spell it the right way without
symbols or numbers like so many bands nowadays.

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It's like how that it's so hard
to come up with a band name

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nowadays, because like some may have
been taken already, you know exactly.

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Yeah, we were on the Encyclopepedia
Metalum trying to find a name that didn't

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already exist, and it would always
be like, oh, yeah, the

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one, and then next thing.
You know, it's like, Nope,

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some band from the early two thousands
took it, and then it's like,

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if they're not active anymore, you
could take it. But we really wanted

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to find something that hadn't been taken, and to what we could find.

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The closest thing that has our name
is like some real estate company in Australia

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that actually had her name, but
we figured that was far enough. Yeah,

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there you go. And so also, I gotta say hats off to

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you because you guys formed in twenty
twenty. What a time to form.

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But I have a different spin on
that than most people. I think it

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was the best time to form a
band, because you know, before that,

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all these bands are on the hamster
wheel and touring all the time,

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on the road all the time,
and rushing to put music out because we

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didn't have any time. So they're
writing it on the tour bus and they

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have a deadline they have to meet. And I think twenty twenty and twenty

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one allowed artists like you guys to
really do things the old school way and

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like really work on the songwriting and
perfecting the songs without just playing them out

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half done. Oh it certainly did. I mean, I remember one of

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our first jams when we'd actually got
together after some songwriting that was just exchanges

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over the internet, when it was
maybe three or four gems in. Then

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lockdown started happening and that got us, you know, made us unable to

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jam for a few months on and
off throughout COVID, but we would always

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get back together when we could,
and when we couldn't, we were writing

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and just working on the songs,
and it really gave us a good gestation

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period to try to just write the
music and focus solely on the music.

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You know, we didn't have a
Facebook page yet anything like that, so

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we were solely focused on the music
and it was really nice to be honest.

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And now we're in the release process, so it's kind of the opposite,

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but I think it's it gave me
a sense that it's good to maybe

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cut yourself off a little bit when
you're trying to be creative because all the

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worldly distractions can really clutter your mind. So totally, it was really good

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for us for sure to have that
time to focus and write together. Yeah.

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Oh, I mean, like how
many artists out there, you know,

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they put on an album and then
the album sound they're like, oh,

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man, I should have done it
this way because they didn't really have

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the time to restructure any songs or
really evalue it. It's like bam wam

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bam. Thank you ma'am. Yeah, yeah, for sure, Yeah,

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we that's not something we'd want to
do where we're going to try to put

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out something a second album eventually sooner
than later, but also take our time

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and make sure we're happy with it
when we put it out. Yea.

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Well, that's why it's great music. I love it. Everybody needs to

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check you guys out, check out
the you know, the album of course

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when it comes out, but definitely
they need to listen to Holy Killer now.

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They will love it and they will
definitely be can't wait for that album.

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So thanks for giving us such great
music, and thanks for being on

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the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank
you appreciate it, Appreciate the kind words.

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And just to know, we'll have
two more singles out before the albums

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which people follow us, they'll be
able to tune in on that as well.

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Nice. I love it. Thank
you for listening to the Adventures of

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pipe Man on w for CUI Radio.