PipemanRadio Interviews Opium Death

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some badass music that we're gonna share
here. So let's welcome to show.

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Opium Death. How are you.
I'm doing great. I do have to

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say right off the bat, I
don't normally say anything about a band's name,

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but I think of Opium Death and
I don't think of fast metal When

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I think of that, I think
of like something very different. So people

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have to listen to your music opposed
to just assuming like people do nowadays,

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because once they do, they are
going to hear some badass, fast heavy

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metal that's like a cool combo of
thrash and death. Yeah, it's essentially

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where our influences lie. So yeah, we've never gotten that sort of compliment

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or really comparison with our name before. It's always like I'm always one to

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just kind of laugh before I know
when people ask me like, Oh,

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you're in a band, what's the
name. I'm like, oh, I

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get ready for this, so go
ahead. No, I was just I

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was just gonna say, is that
this is great that we get that kind

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of reaction to because again, the
Opium Death wasn't technically the original name.

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But I'm just with name change that
we solidified and committed with, it's getting

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you know, eyebrow raises. And
then when you hear the music see us

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life, I think it just as
an extra punch, you know, so

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no doubt, and I gotta say
in the best possible way, I like

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this name much better. And then
and you know, see, I'm old

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school because I basically I was in
the whole metal scene when Thrash first started

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and Death first started and all that. Like, I went to one of

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the first Possessed shows ever. I
went to the first Slayer show ever,

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first Metallica show ever. And now
I'm really really pumped up because you know,

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I go on tour and I do
festivals, and to at the festivals

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that I go and do radio coverage
at they announced the reunion of Slayer today.

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Yeah yeah, saw that right?
Oh my god, Like it was

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it was cool enough, Kerry King
came out with his stuff and it's pretty

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badass, and he was gonna play
at festivals and then, you know,

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it's pretty funny. I was just
reading the other day that him and Tom

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have been talked since the last show
and now now they're going to be playing.

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It's it's pretty wild past. Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.

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I mean, you know, as
you said, Carrie announced his solo

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stuff like what two weeks ago or
something like that, right, basically borderline

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almost slanders Tom saying like, oh, I have told talked to him since

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twenty nineteen. And then there was
another headline saying I played all the bass

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on the Slayer records. It's just
like, okay, we're never seeing these

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guys again, like a week later. I know. That's why it just

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totally blew my mind. You know. Part of me likes to say that

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was all part of it, for
to make the surprise, you know.

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And I don't even say that in
a bad way, because I'm the type

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when I pull off a surprise,
I'll try to get myself. I don't

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care if I get myself in trouble
as long as I pull off the surprise,

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you know, and that definitely,
like even me who gets the inside

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information usually, you know, like
I promote these festivals that they're like here,

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here's what's going on, but you
can't say anything. I had no

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clue, Like I knew when everybody
else knew it was. It was perfectly

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executed. And it's pretty wild.
And now they need to put you guys

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on the bill because I mean,
you guys could really like it should be

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like you had Slayers headline one night
and you headline the other night. I'd

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say that was crazy, right right
right. RIfS has been pretty cool with

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adding some you know metal each year. You know, we went to the

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one right fest versus it was Slayers
last time in Chicago and that was just

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stacked full of thrash bands. So
yeah, I was at that one.

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And then you know, one thing
I dig about riot Fest is they always

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come out with this like out of
nowhere, you know, like I've left

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field thing, like when the original
Misfits twice they did that, you know,

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and now with Slayer and then Slayer's
going to be playing at Louder than

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Life and yeah, it was right. The funniest part about that Louder than

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Life, which I do that every
year. Okay, Motley Cruez headline one

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night, Slayer's headline another night.
The first band I ever saw in the

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club was at the Roxy on the
Sunset Strip and was Motley Crue before they

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had an album, when they were
still like horror punk, before they turned

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all wossy. And then I got
into Slayer and all my friends were like,

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you can you gotta burn all your
Bontley cruise ship. You can't listen

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to Slayer and listen to Motley Crew
at the same time. And then now

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they're both headlining one festival. I
just it's kind of funny to me.

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But growth is crazy, you know
when you start tell stories like that.

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When you hear stories like that,
it's this whole history with just where they

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started, all these iconic alms that
came out at the time, and then

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now headlining festivals. It's just wow. Yeah, Listen. The first time

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I went to see Slayer, it
was because I was I went to Odds

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Records in the Valley and used to
get to sing called Bam Magazine, and

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that's where you saw all the gigs
and you couldn't listen like you could now

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and know what they sound like.
They did you went to gigs, they

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looked fucking cool. And and so
I saw this picture Slayer and I was

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like, oh, they look evil
as hell. I'm going to that,

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you know, because they had like
the thick, dark black eyeliner before they

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went to the Bay Area. Like
when they went to the Bay Area,

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bands like Exodus and Possessed and all
that all made fun of them and said,

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you got to take that shit off. We don't wear makeup up here.

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Wow, that's interesting. And they
weren't wearing like glam makeup. They

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were wearing like evil you know.
You know. And so there's the death

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metal connection too, because Slayer was
almost like anomaly. They were like death

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metal, black metal, thrash metal, and punk all combined. Yeah,

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a healthy mix. I just those
obliver everything and then they combined it all,

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and that's what you get. That's
that's them, no doubt. There's

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a reason why a lot of those
classic death metal bands in the eighties and

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nineties always cite Slayers a massive influence
of theirs. You know that a lot

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of that old school death metal is
just doing what Slayer did, but faster,

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meaner, more aggressive, you know, oh exactly. And I think

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what happened with death metal too,
which is really cool. Which I find

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in your music now is as it's
evolved through the years, it's become more

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musicianship and technical opposed to something that
was just like, you know, and

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that was what the fine death metal
was like, just really fast and and

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you didn't you didn't understand what they
were saying unless you understood yea, unless

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you were them exactly exactly so.
But nowadays and I see it in your

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music here is like, man,
it's just such supreme musicianship. I mean,

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I'm always in awe. Like I
listened to your stuff and I was

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like, I can never play that
fast and that good. You know.

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It's like it's one thing to play
good to learn a thing to play fast

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and good. You know. Like
to me, that takes serious talent to

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make it not just noise but actual
musicianship. And I think that's what you

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guys do. No, Yeah,
we appreciate the worst too. It's it's

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something I like to like pass along
with all the members that it's a I

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want to give it a standard and
performance, but we will also have fun

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with it. So I think that's
where like the being good and then fast

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you know, we want to be
balanced on all levels, you know,

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because then if you're too technical,
you're too then the the sort of the

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music taste the sort of like melodies
they might like dissipate, you know,

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they come not as musical, I
guess because there's just two fast it's too

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much going on, but good and
it's like okay, there's you know,

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I feel like maybe I heard of
that melody before. So it's always a

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kind of a you know, digging
through our minds and trying of like,

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okay, was it that we want
to do and like execute it. So

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I also like to put it like
waves. It's like it should be like

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waves instead of just all at you
right right. Yeah. It's also like,

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you know, I feel like with
our music as well, we don't

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really get into like two technical of
ranges where like if you go to CEUs

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live, you're there the move We
all move around pretty much, you know,

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we're not just standing there focusing on
what we have to play, you

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know, like a lot of Tech
Death bands do, which you know,

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no disrespect to Tech Death at all. I love a lot of those bands.

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It's just you know, I always
thought for us, like we need

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to have that sort of like,
you know, we want to move around

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on stage. We want people to
move around and not just like admire what

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we're doing. So you know,
I love you saying that because it's a

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big thing with me. Like I've
gone to thousands of live shows, and

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sometimes we also talk about backstage,
all the press people, and there's like

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certain that were like, yeah,
we're not even gonna go out there and

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see them, and we may like
the band a lot, but if you're

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playing live, you can't just sit
there and not move and stare at everything

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you're doing, opposed to like what
you're saying, moving around making it a

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show. So yeah, there has
to be that even keel between the musicianship

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but also putting on the live show. Like I don't care how good the

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band is, if the guys sitting
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to make sure he hits every note, right, I don't want to see

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that. I'll just listen to it. Yeah, yeah that's fair, no

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valid point, So kudos to you
for like bringing that up, because yeah,

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you got to get out there and
just blow people's minds, and usually

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the blowing people's minds is from being
active and moving around it and putting on

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that live show. I can't tell
you how many bands that I didn't really

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like when I listened to him,
and then I went to a live shown,

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they became like one of my favorite
bands. That's literally how I got

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into Cannibal Corpse. For the life
of me, they were one of the

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few death metal bands. And it's
like it's it's almost a cardinal sin to

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not like him, but it's just
right. Listen to all my record it's

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just like I I get why they're
famous. I get the appeal, but

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for some reason, it's just not
clicking. And then I finally went to

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go see him live and I was
like, I get it. I completely

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get it now, this right why
people love them. You know. You

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know what I love too is like, okay, when you see him backstage,

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right before they're about to get on
stage, he's like wetting down his

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hair so he could perfect the whipping. I remember the first time I saw

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that, I was like, oh
shit, look at that, like he's

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preparing for the headbang. So tell
us the listeners that don't know you guys,

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how would you, as an artist
describe your music forget genres for a

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second, because I hate artists being
locked into a genre. And we've talked

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about genre a little bit. I
want to hear what you guys are thinking

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when you're making your music. I
would describe it ourselves as like a brutal

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concoction of extreme music, you know. I love that cause we are alloud.

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We like to play fast, but
not always fast. I think like

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the music when we're in the room, especially when we're songwriting, there's this

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sense of intensity they want to bring
along because we just have that passion,

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you know, for that type of
style of music. And so I think

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for us it's just go all out, but be a little fancy here and

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there. But it's just this is
who we are. We just love that

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that dynamic, you know. So
yeah, totally I love it. And

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go ahead, you were gonna say
something too, just yeah, just that

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and just concocius because we just like
to mix other things into it, you

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know, we don't want to be
just one trick pony. I just like

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to blend, like, hey,
I think this can work into this song,

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Let's bring it in, mix it
up, and you know, kind

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of the cooks in the chef,
you know, yeah, cooks in the

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kitchen so you know, so,
so you guys have had you know,

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you've had multiple line up changes,
and do you think that's what's really happens,

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like that those lineup changes are contributing
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there's different influences coming in, because
I find that with a lot of bands

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nowadays that I do like is that
everybody in the band has some different influences

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opposed to like, you know,
everybody being on the and this is what

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you find the line death metal and
black metal. Everybody's like exactly the same.

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And I think that going back to
Slayer, that's what made Slayer Slayers,

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Like Jeff and Dave were punks,
Carrie and Carrie was a metal head

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and Tom wasn't even a metal head
when he first got into Slayer. Yeah,

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you know so, and like you
have all these influences that come in

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that make a unique sound on that
people know it's you. Yeah, it's

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exactly. You pretty much hit the
nail on the head with a lot of

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our lineup changes. You know,
a lot of you know, it's mainly

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been on the guitar aspect, you
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me Irvin and then don Our bassis
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of the three key members since around
twenty sixteen. When we recorded this record,

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we had our other guitar player.
His name is Will and he brought

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in a lot of our like if
you hear if you listen to the record,

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there's a few songs that sound very
like black metal ish, not true

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cult or not complete black metal,
but you hear a lot of the influence.

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And it was all thanks to him
and with the new guy we got

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now our new quote unquote he's been
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a half or some of that.
Yeah, he brings a lot of old

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school death metal to the table with
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of songs with him and they're very
like OSDM sounding, So I mean,

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yeah, a lot of these,
you know, a lot of different influences

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come into our music. You know, does come from a lot of the

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members. You know, Like you
know, Irvin is pretty into like progressive

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metal, whether it be tech death, progressive death metal, or just regular

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progressive music. You know, he'll
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like dead Weight on the records are
all written by him. It's our

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most techie song on there. I've
been in like this extreme metal rabbit hole

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since like twenty eighteen. I got
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into them, but like seeing them
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cool, I'm going down this rabbit
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bands like them, got really into
Denial Boarded, like all these different extreme

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metal bands, and that's what helped
my playing as well, and learning how

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to do those kind of blast beats
and whatnot. And then don our vocalist

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is kind of like Tom, not
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he brings a lot of interesting stuff
to the table when it comes to his

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different luences as well. So yeah, you know, you pretty much hit

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it right on the head. You
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you know pieces, and yeah,
I think it's more important nowadays than ever

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because you know, back in the
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but now you have all these bands, and a lot of them will sound

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exactly the same because they're using this
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to be, what black metal is
supposed to be, what this is supposed

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to be. I'd rather, you
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been experimentation, you know, and
not this. This is what it has

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to be. Right now. I
do have to say that I'm very excited

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because your debut album is dropping on
April nineteenth, which also happens to be

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my oldest daughter's birthday. So there
you go. So it's a perfect day

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for that album to drop. The
best president she'll get, actually the best

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president. Know that? About what
would you guys want to say to the

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listeners of that would entice them to
pick up that album? Uh, you

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know, and what you think would
be if you were them? What would

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sell you on going and getting the
album? I see, I know,

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I almost say the album cover itself. I mean, look at it.

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I know it's pretty badass, right
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be enough for a lot of people
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this and then pick it up and
listen to it. But honestly, my

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sort of sales pitch for this record
is if you like almost any type of

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metal, definitely here. Yeah,
really, any type of metal, mainly

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any type of you know, more
harder metal, Definitely pick it up.

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Because we're not just limiting ourselves to
influences of like just Cannibal Corpse or just

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Catalty Capitation. You know, we
have influences from a whole just a whole

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array of different bands from you know, the two that I just listed,

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and then there's also a bit of
nile Go Jeira death Obituary. You know,

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there's a bunch of different bands,
So there's really sounds on there that

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everyone will like. Essentially, it's
always refreshing, you know, because there's

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always in the area that could be
like an oversaturation of a certain style.

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But I was like, oh,
you know this record green Man on the

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Syringe, Corporate Hate Corporate, I'll
pick it up. I'm big about album

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covers, so I'm glad you mentioned
that, because that's how I grew up

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in metal. Like if the album
look cool, the cover looked cool,

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I bought it and didn't even know
what it sounded like. And I would

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buy this one for sure, just
by the look of it. I'd be

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like, oh shit, I gotta
get that album, so go ahead.

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Sorry, Like you know, it's
like it's like great to hear that has

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that kind of effect on you and
hopefully everyone else. Yeah, because you

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know, it's kind of making a
comeback. It's been for a while where

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a lot of these kids, they
don't even know what albums look like like

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the cover, they don't care or
just on this track thing. But I

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think it's making a big difference now. I think the album covers. The

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days of artwork on there are being
important are back, and I think it's

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becoming more important. And I think
it is because music is a full sensory

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experience. Like it's not just the
music, it's everything that goes along with

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it, which also goes to what
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You know, I think a metal
live show should be brutal, and I

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think you guys, as the artists, after playing for whatever it is,

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forty five an hour ninety minutes,
should be drenched in sweat because of that,

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totally, He's more like after the
first song for me, So right

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there you go, you know,
just like being in the pit, you

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know if I'm sweat and you're sweating. Yeah, there you go. So

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how do people to connect to you
guys on socials on the web? Get

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the album, any anything else you
want to tell them to connect with you

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or check out dates and and all
that good stuff. We are on pretty

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much all socials, you know,
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, X whatever

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you want to call it. I
yeah, all dead name Twitter, it's

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fine, but yeah, Facebook,
Instagram, Twitter, you know, just

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look for Opium Death you'll find us
there. Also pre order the album,

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so nice. We haven't announced it
yet, but we are working on making

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physical copies as well, and it's
really just CDs, so we'll have hopefully

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a CD pre order up sometime sooner
or later, as well as maybe some

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new merch. That's all sort of
TVA. But yeah, really all socials

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and YouTube and just you know,
just with the YouTube, look up Opium

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Death official if that will help.
But there's not really a whole lot of

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bands called Opium Death, I think, which should be the only one.

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So yeah, how lucky are you
guys, man? Because I think about

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that too, Like, it's so
hard to come up with band names nowadays.

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That's why all these bands use like
symbols and all kinds of other crap,

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because like it seems like every name
is taken and this one is like

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such a cool name. How was
it not taken? Right? Do you

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guys have a final words you want
to share with the listeners that they need

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to know or anything you want to
share with them, just really just look

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up for us. You know.
Look, just the name Opium Death is

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something you guys are never gonna forget
when you see USI It's also something a

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band they're never going to forget.
We are committed to the craft. We

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are you know, willing to provide
the best room. Is that that you

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know that we can ever offer?
Expect greatness on this record, Expect greatness

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on the next DP we're working on. We do have a show for anyone

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who may be listening in the Chicago
area. We are playing Reggies on was

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that March March twenty ninth, All
of a sudd nineteenth March twenty ninth.

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We're opening up for a band called
nix Hill nextill NIXI Soil like more of

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a black metal band. We got
the opening slot there. They're touring around

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the country right now or will be
sooner. So yeah, just keep an

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eye as eye out for us as
well. We do plan on taking this

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outside of the Chicago area too.
You know, we're hoping to kind of

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branch into more Midwestern states, whether
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you know, Minnesota even so yeah, just keep an eye out for our

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name and if you see it,
if you see it, definitely come out

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to a show. You will not
be disappointed at all. Absolutely nice.

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Love it you guys, rock and
thanks for the great music and thanks for

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being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you, thank you for your

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