June 18, 2024

PipemanRadio Interviews Siege Perilous

Shaughnessy McDaniel of Siege Perilous comes on The Adventures of Pipeman as they JUST FINISHED THEIR NEW EP.  CURRENTLY, SIEGE PERILOUS IS  WORKING ON THEIR FIRST FULL ALBUM AND BUILDING THEIR FAN BASE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA AND LIVE SHOWS, WITH AT...

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Shaughnessy McDaniel of Siege Perilous comes on The Adventures of Pipeman as they JUST FINISHED THEIR NEW EP. CURRENTLY, SIEGE PERILOUS IS WORKING ON THEIR FIRST FULL ALBUM AND BUILDING THEIR FAN BASE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA AND LIVE SHOWS, WITH AT LEAST ONE MAJOR FESTIVAL APPEARANCE SCHEDULED IN 2024.

Prepare to raise your swords and pledge your allegiance to the realm of metal as Denver's Siege Perilous unleashes their latest single “Oathsworn” off their upcoming EP “Creation’s Call”, coming out August 23, 2024. The single is a thunderous anthem of loyalty and brotherhood, which will transport listeners to the heart of battle as the band explains:


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We have some killer music that I
think we kind of need nowadays with all

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the bull craft going on in the
world. We need to escape and this

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is it. So let's welcome to
the show to see of siege perils.

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How are you? I'm I'm I'm
I'm great, Thanks for having me.

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Hey, my pleasure and uh so, yeah, I'm referring to you know

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the new song you about new album
you got coming out, uh and basically

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the fact that you take us down
a journey, a much better journey than

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real life is right now and yeah, yeah you know and it and it

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gives us also like the newest single
is is like this thing about loyalty and

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brotherhood, which I'm all about,
and we've seen to lose that in the

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whole world, like they've gone crazy. Yeah, I mean that's always been

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my like my biggest kind of draw
to the genre of music. I mean,

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from the time I was a teenager
when I first kind of started experiencing

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old school heavy metal and power metal, like the escapist element, but then

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yeah, also the themes right,
like it seems about like courage, brotherhood,

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like all of these like super positive
things, and I really really like

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grasped onto that, and I'm really
excited to be able to, you know,

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contribute some of my own music and
most importantly like the music that my

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friends have helped make. I mean
this was primarily written by our guitarist.

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I did the you know, the
lyrics and things like that. But I

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love how much we work together,
especially when you're writing songs about brotherhood.

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It'd be weird if it was just
one guy. Yeah, And it would

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be weird if, like, you
know, there's bands out there that are

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really there together but they're not together. That would be weird too. It's

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just, yeah, it's something that
has to be real. Yeah. Yeah,

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I think about like you know,
like Fleetwood Mac, you know,

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and how they they played together for
years, but they would not talk to

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each other off stags, like,
oh how could you? I mean,

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I guess you could do it because
you're making a crazy amount of money.

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But but I think in terms of
the enjoyment of making it performing music,

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like I always have to be in
bands with my friends. I feel like

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that's a rule. Now I could
potentially join another band and become their friends

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and maybe not start out that way, but like I couldn't do that,

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like for the long term with people
who weren't like super close to me.

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I think the music also suffers when
you do that. So I agree with

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you a million percent. Number one, This industry is hard enough as it

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is. It's something that you have
to spend twenty four to seven with these

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people sometimes, so like life would
really suck if you're in this industry and

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it's not fun, because that's the
most redeeming feature of this industry. Yeah,

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some sometimes you know, even like
I love how fun our music is,

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sometimes even we have to take a
step back and go like, okay,

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okay, let's recenter ourselves a little
bit. This got a little not

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fun for a second. Let's step
back and make sure that we're and make

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sure that we're having fun, because
yeah, it's it's it's so much work.

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And even when your music is like
a little you know, kind of

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silly and fantastical, like, it's
still so much work into a part of

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you that you're throwing out there into
the world, and that not everybody has

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nice things to say. Yeah,
So making sure that like at the core

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that like you're having fun with it
is such an important part of that process.

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And and if at least you're having
nice things to say to each other,

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like, it's pretty bad when you
got all that negative crap going out

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in the world. And then it's
also within the band, yeah, and

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it like we definitely have a very
good working relationship with each other. I

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mean, I'm friends with all of
these guys out outside of the band,

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which is good. And for the
most part, they're all friends with each

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other outside of the band. Just
a couple of the guys didn't know each

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other outside of the band until like
they were both in the band together.

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So right, that's the real difference. Yeah, And so I think going

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back to what you were saying too
about you know, playing as somebody that

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would be in the audience. I
can totally tell if they're the band's not

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vibing, and it's it's a totally
different thing. Like it's totally different experience

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when you see these bands up there
that you know they don't like each other,

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they don't even want to be there, and they're just going through the

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motions. I want to be a
live show where the band is probably as

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much or more into it than I
am, because that means, especially a

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metal like, you gotta be a
metal head to play metal. Yeah,

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absolutely, Like nobody just like strolls
into this, especially like it's you know,

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and particularly in our subgenre, like
you've got to do it for the

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love of it, because there's there's
not a lot of money in it.

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There's there is a base of very
good dedicated fans, but there isn't so

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much money circulating in this genre that
there's like a crazy amount of people doing

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this as a full as like a
full time gig, and so like,

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if that's the thing you're pursuing,
power metal is not for you, But

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if you love the music like we
do, then then it's totally worth it.

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So I have a trivia question for
you. Oh crap, it's early

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but okay, yes, I know, right, Okay, So what band

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from the eighties was initially considered a
power metal band because their genre didn't even

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exist yet, initial considered a power
metal band and they weren't really power metal

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in my opinion, But I mean
one of the thoughts because Pantera had during

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their glam phase, had an album
called power metal, but it was not

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power metal, right, So that
was one thought. That was one thought

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that I had. I mean,
there's there's of course Halloween, who I

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think their first album came out in
the late eighties and they're a progenitor of

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the genre. That's a tough one, right, yeah, because the only

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other ones I could think of are
ones that like you would like you wouldn't

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have in the eighties said it was
power metal, but you would today,

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which would be bands like man O
War or do oh right, even though

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at the time they were just heavy
metal, because you we didn't have all

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like the crazy sub genrefication that we
now granted a lot of forms that didn't

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exist, like metal, death metal
was still developing, black metal, things

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like that. Yeah, it'll blow
your mind. Actually, are are you

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gonna say like genesiss? No,
no, no, But but that would

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probably blow your mind. Okay,
So I was at this gig of this

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band that was our first gig ever
in ol A, and the guitarists of

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the band came up to me after
the gig, you know, because it's

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the way it was in o A
back then. You hung out with the

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band afterwards, went walked up to
the rainbow and stuff like that, and

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uh so hands me is business card. I wish I had it today,

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And that business card said Metallica power
Metal, Dave Mustain. Yeah, I

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I should have because because yeah,
that was that was a late Yeah,

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that was I forgot about that curses
right, Yeah, that was that was

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a label that people had put on
it or they had started to develop the

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idea of thrash right exactly. And
so yeah, early, yeah, the

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early notion of power metal is what
we would call thrash today and and now

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it's power metal. Yeah, is
a different thing, but that's yeah exactly

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hanging out and then hanging out with
Dave Mustaine, I know, right,

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And you know what, it does
make more sense today, power metal makes

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like the whole concept of what the
genre is today makes a lot more sense

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than before it was even developed.
You know, and they were calling bands

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power metal because to me, the
whole idea of you know, the whole

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concept thing is power metal in and
of itself. Yeah, I definitely think

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that, like, not that you
can't make great power metal that doesn't revolve

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around kind of epic storytelling that that
often takes place over like multiple tracks,

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right, but I definitely think that, like the storytelling is a huge part

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of it, and it's it's a
huge draw for the people who really love

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power metal because it also kind of
gives you that thing that it gives you

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that kind of invitation to dive deeper
into a song because you're like, okay,

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so you know this this kind of
goes back to you know, the

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CD booklets and the liner notes and
things like that. We'd be like,

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so what is like, Okay,
so I got most of these lyrics,

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I'm getting the I'm getting the gist
of the song. What are like kind

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of the details of the song,
And it gives you kind of that opportunity

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to deep dive a little bit more
in. Yeah, I think it also

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is great because it's got like such
a funny, as it may seem to

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say, an educational value to it
because it is. It's storytelling with some

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basis in reality of how things were
at pointing. So it's kind of like

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gain a history lesson. Yeah,
and you know, and we actually are.

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Our next single is History Oracle.
It's called Across the Rubicon and it's

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about Caesar in the Fall of the
Roman Republic. I'm a history teacher by

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day, so I definitely like whether
we're just like borrowing ideas from history or

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whether we're telling actual, like stories
from history. There's definitely like a lot

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of that. You know. Our
last single that we put out, Sons

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of the Verdant, definitely took pieces
from that story that we hear about,

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you know, all the time in
history, which is you know, like

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native resistance to like to invaders,
colonizers, that sort of thing, and

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so we you know, we took
bits and pieces. But the other nice

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thing is that then you're not like
borrowing somebody else's culture at the same time,

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you can just take bits and pieces
from a bunch of different people's stories

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and kind of and put it to
put it together, I mean, which

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is also like it's a common fantasy
thing. George R. Martin did a

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ton of that in Game of Thrones, yeah, and you know it's I

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think it's interesting too, like the
misconceptions of metal throughout the years, because

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people think it's just about oh,
death, destruction, evil, and really

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even if you take some of the
most evil bands or evil perceived Slayer as

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an example, Hanneman was a total
history nut, especially when it came to

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World War Two. So most of
their songs are all about World War Two.

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And if you really read the lyrics. That's the problem with people outside

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of metal is they hear these things, but they don't take the time to

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really read the lyrics to find out
that it's not really about death and destruction.

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It is, but it's against it, not for it. In a

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lot of cases. Yeah, I
mean thinking about you know, Mega death

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right like peace cells, but who's
buying There was a there was a great

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interview a few years ago with Nicole
McBrain from Iron Maiden because he uh kind

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of become a born again a born
again Christian. They're asking like, well,

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do you feel comfortable playing songs like
Number of the Beasts. He's like,

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well, Number of the Beast is
an extremely Christian song because what it

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all it really is saying is like
look at how look at how the devil

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corrupts the souls of mankind. Like
that's what it's about. It's not necessarily

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like yay yay say. And I
mean there is metal like that, and

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there is some of that that is
really really good, right, but most

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of it, you're right, Like, it's when when they're talking about these

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negative things, it's it's it's to
point them out negatively, sometimes with maybe

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a layer of irony that not everybody
that not everybody gets and maybe that's where

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some of the confusion comes in.
I think, well, I love that

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You's Maiden as an example, because
that song in particular has quotes from the

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Bible. Oh yeah, it starts
it starts off with they kind of mesh

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mash some different verses from revel relations
together, WHOA to You, Oh Earth

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and see exactly total. So tell
everybody how they can check out the latest

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it, or just connect to you on

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socials, connect on the web,
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save pre saves for everything, should
be up right now on Spotify. Oath

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Sworn's out now on all the major
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go. We do have a cool
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that could be a good way,
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get the get more of the story. Yeah, so we've got Oathsworn out.

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Now, we've got Across the Rubicon, which comes out July something July,

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I believe it is July nineteenth.
Nice Across the Rubicon, and then

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yeah, the full the full EP
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you'll catch us playing uh, playing
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first Mile High Power Festival in Denver. You can follow us. We're We're

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on Facebook, Siege Perilous, Instagram
Siege par Siege Perilous Metal. We're on

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TikTok At. I think it's Siege
Metal. I always need to write these

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down on a little post it note, but I never think about in advance.

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So yeah, I mean pretty much
pretty much any major social media you

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can find us on where we try
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and making that making that content for
y'all nice. So what's your either most

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fun or or most embarrassing TikTok that
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some fun tiktoks. So I'm thirty
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it was weird, and so I
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more cringey stuff in the early like
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when we were releasing our first EP
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because figuring out the format and stuff, and it's always I always find it

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super weird what works and what doesn't. Like I did for Sons of the

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Verdict, we did what I thought
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kind of running around the woods,
I'm wearing elf ears doing bits from the

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song. I thought that was really
fun and and those pieces didn't do super

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great. And then the other day
for Oaksworn, I was just literally in

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the parking lot about to go into
the gym and did some stupid lip synky

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stuff and that stuff is like triple
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I don't know if that's a function
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function of how TikTok works. I
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phase where I'm just throwing stuff at
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It is kind of a game with
all of them, right, they

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changed the algorithms that you gotta play
this game, But it does feel weird.

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Doesn't't to be a millennial and be
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I mean the nice nice thing is
the nice thing is we played music.

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We play music in a subgenre that
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mean our when I looked at like
our Spotify numbers and stuff for Sons of

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the Verdant, like our our biggest
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I was gonna say power metals,
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or so it's definitely a gen X
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boomer thing. Yeah, it definitely
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it's stretches. It stretches back to
the early eighties with with you know,

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with do oh and and Man of
War and then you know and the new

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wave of British heavy metal bands like
Maiden and Priest. Yeah, Like I

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wouldn't say we totally medal, but
you can't have power metal without them.

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Yeah, And we totally considered Maide
in power metal, like not exclusively,

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but even once Bruce joined the band, and every album was kind of a

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concept storytelling album. Yeah, I
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such a huge thing that that Maiden
and and Dio really brought to the table,

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because you don't like I guess Judas
Priest has done some of those,

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but I think the ones of those
that they did were post nineteen were post

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nineteen ninety. I don't think any
of the albums from the eighties had that,

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Yeah, had that kind of conceptual
vibe to it. No, Well,

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your music is badass, and I
think everybody should check it out.

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And do you have any final words
for our listeners anything we haven't covered that

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they should know. No. Like
I said, we're playing Mile High Power

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for anybody in Denver in the Rocky
Mountain region. We got the first inaugural

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heavy metal sorry Mile High Power Festival
on August on August twenty fourth. It's

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gonna be really it's gonna be really
big. I mean, we're playing,

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but I always tell people there's much
better bands playing too, because we're like

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the very start. We're the very
start of the day. But like we've

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got a lot of the other big
US power metal bands coming through, so

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we've got Lords of the Trident,
Judicator, Seven Spires, and ether Rema

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are headliners. So like, it's
it's a really big lineup and tickets are

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only forty bucks for like a whole
wow, massive day long festival of heavy

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metals. So it's a really it's
like, it's a really, it's a

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really good deal and I want to
see I want to see that place packed.

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You can't even take an uber to
a festival nowadays for forty bucks,

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so that's a good deal. Yeah. Yeah, it's like when when they

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were interviewing our friend Soorn, who
like runs the who like runs the festival,

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is the founder of the festival.
The people they interviewed were like,

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is it really only forty bucks,
because yeah, usually it'd be two or

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three times that and then and it
is an amazing lineup of bands, so

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love it. Well, excited for
that, everybody. You'll have to go

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check that out for sure. And
thanks for you know, giving us great

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music, and thanks for being on
the Adventures of pipe Man. Well,

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thanks for listening and thanks for having
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