Aug. 11, 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Thrashest Regime at Bloodstock Open Air 2025

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PipemanRadio Interviews Thrashest Regime at Bloodstock Open Air 2025.

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Hey, you have learned too, Yes, that's true.

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For see why Crazy Young.

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This is pipe Man here on the adventureds pipe Man

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W four c Y Radio and I'm here with My.

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Name is Joe Johnston and from Thrashist Regime were a

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Scottish thrash band. We just played on the EMP stage

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earlier on and it was fantastic.

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Man, tell us more about what it was like to

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perform at Bloodstock.

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It was superb. I mean to be honest, we're we've

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been going for eighteen years and this is probably the

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most high profile gig we've ever played. Wow, and it

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was just amazing. The crowd were fantastic. The tent was

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absolutely packed out with people. I think we've benefited from

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there not being quite as much thrash on the bill

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yet this year, as as in most years, and I

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think people saw our name and just saw Thrashist Regime

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and went right, there's no mistake about what that's going

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to be, right, and people love thrash metal. Everyone loves

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thrash metal. Metallica the biggest band in the world.

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Yeah.

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Everyone always wants them to play the old stuff and

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that's the thrash stuff. So there's always going to be

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an audience out there for thrash, but I mean, I

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was really surprised how many people showed up. It was fantastic.

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I was kind of imagining five people in the dog

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in the tent, you know what I mean. And we

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turned up and it's like people all along the barrier,

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all the way back as far as you can see,

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and they've all got their hands in the air. They're

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all giving us the horns. People were so up for it. It

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was fantastic.

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I love it. And so I'm an old scoore thrash

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metal head.

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Good stuff.

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I was at the first ever Metallica show, first ever

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Slayer show.

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For real, for real amazing.

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All right, So I have a trivia question for you,

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and that I will be followed up by a story. Okay,

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there was no thrash such thing as thrash metow when

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Metallican Slayers started, the word didn't exist. Yeah, what was

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Metallica originally considered before thrash metal was coined a term?

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What would they have been called? You mean, well, what

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even by themselves? What was their genre? Con get?

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I don't know.

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Some speed metal close they what there was one first?

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Then they went to speed, then they went to thrash.

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I don't know what would you have called motorheads? Do

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you know what I mean? Those bands that were around before.

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Yeah, my head. Well, let me just said we're rock

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and roll.

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Yeah, I mean he always said that.

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Okay, so now I'll tell you his story to answer

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the question. Okay, I go to the first show. There's

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about twenty five of us there. I'm like thirteen fourteen

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years old, and at those first shows you would go

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back to their place after the show and party all

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night line.

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Yeah, I've read about Willis.

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Yeah I was there. So anyway, this dude gets off

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the stage, comes and starts talking to me, hands me

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it's business card. It said Metallica power metal, Dave Spain

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power metal. Okay, yeah, can you imagine metallic could be

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called power now?

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I know it's ridiculous, right yeah yeah.

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Yeah, like there was nowhere to put them, so let's

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just make them power metal.

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Yeah, I mean, where did the term thrash come from?

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When did that start being.

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I'll tell you al came because the slamming at a

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show was thrashing around yeah yeah, yeah, and look at

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the song whiplash. Yeah okay, okay, yeah, yeah that song. Yeah,

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that song's all about the pit of course. Yeah, and

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headbagging and Thrash and Exodus of course. Yeah.

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Bang your head against the stage exactly.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, learn a lesson in violence.

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Yeah yeah. So what made you get into thrash? I

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was always an Iron Maiden fan, a bit softer. I

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didn't actually really well, I guess I got into Metallica.

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I was given the Black album on tape. I remember

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hearing Master of Puppets and thinking, Oh, that's far too

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heavy for me. I don't think I'll ever like that.

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And then it was I got had a palcal Jeff,

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and when I was about sixteen, we'd just go like

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razing around in his car and he was always just

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listening to and Justice for All, and I think pretty

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quickly I was like, oh my god, the rifts on

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this are absolutely incredible. So that was my real entry

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point into thrash. And then I got into all the

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older Metallica and then a bit of Megadeath, but it

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wasn't really until I was kind of probably about twenty

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three to twenty four, which is quite old to come

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to the game, but I really started getting into the

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kind of this kind of lower tier thrash bands Forbidden.

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I just love Twisted into Form. I think that record

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is because I quite like tech thrash. I think that's

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where my that's the sweet spot for me is thrash

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that's quite technical, not so technical that it's like Mecon

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Delta or something like that Watchtower. That's fine, but like

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you've got to have hooks. But Twisted into Form for

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me is that kind of perfect sweet spot between hooks

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and like rifts that are real tech craigs. I think

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Tim Calver as well, those guys. Anyway, someone just gave

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me a burned CD copy of that and said, oh,

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I think you might like this, and they were right.

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And then I got into Heathen and there was a

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point where on Amazon I was basically ordering a new

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thrash CD every day. Every day something could turn up

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in the post, and I was like Fantastic, got into

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Suicidal Tendencies and at Trophy and Demolition Hammer and all

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of this kind of more underground thrash really and I

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just that was it for me. And I was like

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I'd already been in a band, a more kind of

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melodic band for about ten years, but I just wanted

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to form a thrash band. I met another guy in

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town and he really wanted to form a thrash band.

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And I had this idea for the band name because

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I used to wear these massive boots and a really

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long coat. And the guy said, oh, you look like

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a fascist, and I was like, I'm not a fascist.

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I was like, thrashist, not a fascist. And then I

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was like thrashist, and then I was like thrashist regime.

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That's a great band name. And then I was like, Oh,

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someone's got to form that band, and it's going to

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be me. So here we are, years down the line. Wow,

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it's amazing. Really, it's funny how things work out.

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So it's funny you mentioned the Black album because me

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and my original crew of Metallica fans, all twenty five

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of us, when that album came out, we were like,

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fuck them, those fucking posers sellouts. Yeah, yeah, of course

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we all came back later when we matured to get

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a little older.

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Hang On, that's actually a great record, there's no denying it.

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It is a great metal Lesson, It's not a thrash

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metal record, No, it's not. That's what you were expecting.

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At the time. Then of course you're gonna be like,

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hang on a second, boy, But I.

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Think nothing else. Maris is one of the best metallica

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songs ever, you know.

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I mean yeah, I mean there's a reason it's a classic.

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It is it And I'm a pure thrash metal person,

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so for me to say that's a lot. Yeah, that's

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something and that was something deep for James, so that's why.

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But you know, like it's funny this song Seeking Destroy

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plays at the San Jose Shark hockey games, and James

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has said in an interview, he goes, I don't know

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why they played the original version. My voice sucked. Then

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I like the newer version bear because he learned how

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saying me personally, I like that original raw.

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Yeah, old boy, so do I there's something about kill

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them all. Oh, It's like they're obviously quite an undeveloped

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band at that point. The riffs are fantastic, but there's

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something about the naivety of that really early thrash that's

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just incredibly enjoyable, and that's kind of what thrash was about.

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It was a sort of reaction to the big long, progressive,

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really very musical, the way the heavy rock had kind

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of gone, and then Thrash was a lot more like, hey,

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let's just get in the garage and make a noise, right.

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You can hear that on Kill Them All. You can

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hear it Unponded by Blood as well. You can even

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hear it on Forbidden Evil, even though Forbidden Evil is

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a little bit more tech, but it's still got that

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kind of slight naivety to it that's just kind of

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really enjoyable. And for all I'm saying that, I really

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like the tech more tech developed Thrash. I absolutely love

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a lot early stuff as well.

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Well. What's interesting is like seeing the evolution and like

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you're from further down the road. For me, it's fine.

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Like I remember watching that Metal Show and Kirk Hammett

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was on and Eddie Trunk had him rate all the

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Metallic albums and the one he had last, which makes sense,

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was Kill Mall. I don't know if the rest of

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them would play it last, but he wasn't with that

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same I mean, he wasn't with that. You know.

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He came in and basically recorded everything almost pretty much

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the way that Dave Mustain had done it on the

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original demos, exactly ifn the solos are kind of a I.

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Even have the original demo from tape Trading. You can't

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even tell what it is. It was recorded over like

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fifty times. But that's a slice of history right there,

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no doubt. But if you took the original thrash bands. Okay,

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kill Mall's my favorite album. Okay, Show No Mercy is

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my favorite album. Okay, killing is my business, but Business

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is Good is my favorite album. Okay, and Anthrax, believe

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it or not, the first one is my favorite album

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with Neil. Even though I love Belladonna, I love Joey,

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I love Beladonna, But it was like, because sometimes I

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think it's because of nostalgia that week.

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Of course, that's going to be a huge bar of it.

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And it's the soundtrack to your life, right and you're

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a kid, and this is your first experience in metal,

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absolutely and you went I went to like it'saw Metallica

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and Slayer five hundred times before I was even eighteen.

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It's like you heard the shit over and over and

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over again. Yeah, And like I was watching Metallica multiple

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times before even Kill ma All came out when it

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was supposed to be metal. Up your fucking ash. Yeah,

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and it wasn't allowed to be you know.

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Yeah, yeah, that's right.

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It is that rawness that and I think a lot

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of people do that. Even I can take bring Me

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to Rizin, the true bring me fans, the original ones.

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They I hate everything after the very beginning because they

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wanted that true death corn the beginning.

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You always get fans like that. I think of every

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band as a huge Iron Maiden fan. I meet people

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all the time. Actually, because Paul Deiano died last year,

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so many people came out and went, oh, my favorite

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Maiden albums at the first two they're the two that

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he was on.

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Killers.

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Yeah, I mean I love Killers. I love every Iron

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Maiden album. Really, I'm just the nerd, an Iron Maiden nerd.

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I've seen them like fifty five times. I followed them

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around Europe. But I would never say that the Deiano

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albums were my favorite ones. But a man, I love Killers.

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When they brought Martin Birch on boards to produce, that

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was the moment. Actually he made such a difference to

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their sound. But the point is that you're always going

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to get the people that just want the early stuff,

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play classics. Those guys, I don't want to hear anything

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you recorded after your first two years.

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that now that I'm older and mature, more mature. Yeah,

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to evolve, you want to get seater, you want to learn.

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doing that. Your songwriting evolves completely as well. And when

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just like intro verse chorus, verse chorus, midlight chorus, that's

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the end. And then after you've done that for a

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little while, even a couple of years, you're you start

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expanding and going, hey, let's stick another bit here, let's

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put a weird time change in there. You end up

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Vector's last album for me was just amazing and amazing

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pinnacle of music. It's so technical, there are so many

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riffs in every song. It's just mad. Their conceptual stuff

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I'm saying is like, I just love thrash. So there's

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a place for the early stuff, and sometimes you just

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want that raw aggression and sometimes you're in the mood

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for something that's gonna take you places that are a

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bit weird that you've never been before. You know.

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Well, look, so two Seasons, that's the longest Mentale song ever.

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some all right stuff on the album.

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saying is they were, but that's for them to write

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exactest songs an experiment.

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That's just an experiment, you know. Yeah, totally, that's it.

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with Iron Maiden. You know, they went from writing running

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five or six years. You know, that's I mean, that's

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a wild progression in terms of how you write songs.

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a musician, you know, and you want to keep on

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challenging yourself and you just want to do stuff that

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you haven't done before, because it's boring to do the

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same thing over and over and over again, no doubt

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for you.

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first album, you play those songs on that first album

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more times than any other song ever, because you've been

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playing those songs before it was even an album, and

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you're playing like every night trying to get nuhs, so

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thousand hours i'd be like, fuck, I don't want to

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we've got two albums. We're working on the third album

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at the moment. But for the first album, the songs

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second album because we work quite slowly. You know, we're

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not professed, like, it's not our job to be musicians.

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material and record it. But five years later, by the

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maybe even pushing six minutes. We've got a lot of

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long stuff on it. It goes to a lot of

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different places that we would have never gone to on

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the first album, and for me, that's far more interesting.

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first one. But there are people who say, oh, I

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like your first album much more than the second one,

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and you just have to go, well, that's fine, that's

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what you're looking for.

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So I think here's what you learn. Please yourself as

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an ours because you're not going to please.

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But no, exactly. The only reason you do it is

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for yourself.

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If you're just in it because you want to please

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the fans, then you're doing it for the wrong reason.

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Really are lucky to have fans, I mean, that's fantastic.

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If you can make a career out of music, then

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that then you're one of the luckiest people in the world.

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Because it's very, very difficult to make money off music

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these days, with the car work, the current model, and

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it's so much hard work. And that's it, and that's

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why we'll never be like full time professional musicians. It's

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too much of a risk. And now we're too old

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and we've got kids and all that kind of thing.

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So you just fit it in around the rest of

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your life. But you're still progressing as musicians and pushing

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yourself all the time.

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Totally tell everybody they can reach out to you on socials,

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on the web, buy your merch. They can't listen to

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my show, and let's they support you.

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Okay, yeah, I mean we're called thrashist regime. We're from Scotland.

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Who can get shirts and the albums at Fat Hippie Records,

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dot co, dot UK, Amazon, Spotify, all the streaming services

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dz are all those things. We're on all of them.

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And yeah, just google us and you'll find us. I

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think hopefully we're the only thrashest regime out there.

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I would think so.

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Oh I know one other thing too. I had somebody

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that's dated a Scottish girl and as Scottish friends. Oh really,

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how come you're the only Scottish person I can understand.

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Because I don't have a Scottish accent because my parents

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are English from ah, that makes sense for my sins.

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Somebody has to be there, you go. But I was

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born in Aberdeen. I am Scottish. The whole bander actually

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old just from round Aberdeen.

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Really nice. Yeah, anything else you want to share with

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the listeners, we haven't covered already that they need to know.

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Not really, just please check us out of the video

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for headshots on YouTube. Go and check that out and

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look out for us. Next year, we'll be releasing a

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new album, all the materials written. We're recording it right

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now and it's gonna kick your ass.

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I'm sure will and you do kick ass. And thanks

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for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

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Thanks for speaking to us.

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Cheers.

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Michelle Kerr was my press officer for my entire fucking

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career here in the UK, my entire career with Machina.

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She recently passed away and it was a very, very

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sad day. And I can tell the other reason that

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I'm gonna tell this story because she was family. She

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was Bloodstock family.

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She was heavy metal UK family. Most of the bears

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that you.

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Know and love you probably heard of because of that

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woman right there. Slip Knots, Slayer, Machinehead, Trivium, Killswitch, Engage, Hey, Breed,

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you name it.

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She helped lift everybody up, man, She helped lift everybody up,

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and in so many ways, she helped make this entire

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music scene, this incredible, beautiful community that lives here at Bloodstock.

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Man.

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She helped make it.

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So, ladies and.

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Gentlemen, please make some noise from Michelle Kerr.

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Thank you for listening to the adventures of plate Man.

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I'm dove U force U I Radio

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