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understand so I speak with Eric Erian
was one of two vocalist for the recently
reunited Canadian discord Giants
despised icon we discuss the band's
upcoming new album based throughout
$MONTH twenty-second of july 2016 on
nuclear blast records and a few other
things as well including a cheeky
division by way of the trailer park boys
TV show please visit despised icon come
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anyway here now for you as my interview
with Alex Erian on heavy metal wanaka
yeah
how's it going great i mean you know we
were putting out our first record in
seven years and not you know fans seem
to be very receptive so i can ask for
water definitely can't complain and
originally had placed in a bit
the fist of all which look at the lineup
and it looks I mean from New Zealand is
this is insane this is about a hundred
times lighter than anything we would you
see what it looks like you're pulling
double duty with the brave and kind of
that go? I went great i mean it was is it
was a big festival you know it's on par
with you know I've been lucky enough to
do a lot of them across the world and
it's on par with a lot of those big
European festivals that we are here and
she a lot about massive lineup and yes I
was pulling double duty
luckily i was playing friday with the
slides icon and saturday little bit of
bridge so I had a you know sometime in
between book steps to relax at that
oh yeah I i think i think each band
played more or less in front of anywhere
from fifteen to twenty five thousand
people so you know it never gets old man
like but I then again that being said
right after that obey the brave we
played a couple of shows with the
barrier dead who have recently reunited
and those shows through a couple hundred
people so it doesn't matter whether it's
a humongous fastball orla or intimate a
quad you know i'm always down the you
know to jump onstage and do the right
thing with this plays out i know you sit
in the past for you guys and a full-time
during band and many more will you still
come together now after the reunion and
says that some of these big festivals or
these interesting shows obviously that
you
and pick up and do rather than just
ahead
solving the road I mean this is filled
with five is what what what I you know
for the main reason behind the awesome
you know disbanding and twenty panda was
that we were stuck in the state of
constant or you know and and granted uh
we were really looking looking at the
you know that have a strong fan base and
to be given that opportunity to tour the
world . you know some of that magic sort
of disappeared and you know all pushing
30 back then we were you know we had
reached the point in our lives where we
are wanted to try out different things
that had nothing to do with music so a
lot of scottish challenge a lot of us
had a no-good career opportunities and
that opportunity to provide for the
family still up
that was the motivation behind us
breaking up but our advantage to that is
taking that huge step back you know we
realized how how big of a role that this
and and just music in general . in our
lives and how much we genuinely mr.
after a while and when once we slowly
started getting together hang out and
stuff could even see each other for a
few years you know y'all you know just
get our sink and I when we started
hanging out and then all the sudden
we're winning
you know I cannot stay in this algebra
where we were just not reminiscent of
you know this war that tore this
instance that event and that was sort of
that spark that that the goddess
thinking you know hey maybe we should
have maybe you should I you know play a
couple of shows for fun so we put a few
reunion shows and 2014-2015 and to our
surprise you know they were you know all
the guy hard came out of the woodwork
now the fans who had been supporting us
for years sometimes you know some of
them for a decade and then there are a
lot of view of fresh faces as well
people that we have never met or seen it
shows people have gotten into a day at
the end or or after you know after we
broke up and into you know hear their
stories of you know
how much we care about our banner how
much he traveled the you know the fear
that those specific immune shows an
entry fee to turn out to meet the energy
and the pod and everything down like to
take in the ass in the the motivation
that we needed to you be like hey you
know what looks good this a trial
let's try it was trying to write again
and it's just like riding a bike you
know even though it had been seven years
since our last record is definitely a no
gravity is fully charged in our mindset
was super positive and we can have like
all the expectation and uh you know the
the industry and all that store like not
anymore or suffocating that creative
aspect to being an artist so uh you know
we're old and we rode enough here we are
we're back in our group too long story
short to answer your questions we your
original question we are back on our own
terms instance that you know we're all
in her mid-thirties right now and nyala
you know we're trying to maintain our
family obligations or work obligations
and but still try to do the band the
mean comment and try to achieve the best
of both worlds so slowly but surely we
are working on a world tour discussing
about coming back to Australia early
next year actually so that's already uh
you know being discussed and negotiated
so knock on wood will happen but it's
just a question of power but no we got
show you just got back from Europe we
got shows coming back here in Canada
festival like rocks that something just
mentioned and we got showing us that are
about to be announced into Japan so
definitely excited but it's a spot like
this five icon being a full-time touring
band that's that's out of the question
for the time being so uh that gives me
more space to maneuver and more more
more time to to to the bread you know is
that perfect in love haha uh the rest of
my guys in these flies are trying to do
the best of all worlds family life of
the band life and I'm trying to do the
best of both worlds that they in life
with the bear life that
but no fair enough I'm some of you
mentioned seven years between the
album's end of the week when you're in
the studio with them then you have been
based was the producer or someone else
at that kind of sort of had any comments
like that i know you guys you know
extreme middle there but we don't do
that in the generally Mourinho's any
sort of techniques or things that you
did that time after seven years it's
sort of I guess the trend in extreme
music stream middle had changed Arlene
if you're on if you're out and about
that cord it has certainly changed you
know when we started the band you know
we we we listen strictly in a death
metal and an artful back then and there
was no deathcore you know there was no
job for a cowboy or suicide silence or
well or oceania or carnifex or Chelsea
grin and all those billions they didn't
exist so when we started talking and
quite a challenge because we were on
stage and I'm pulling more than angel
behemoth the Assad or suffocation and so
on
fans from the traditional afterward that
World War as receptive and slowly but
surely deathcore became a thing you know
and it made things a whole lot easier
for us and by the time we disbanded in
$MONTH 2010 that seems sort of died down
and the only like the biggest dad's
remained and a lot of those days are
putting out records this year and
they're all friends of ours pains will
be toward people that we expecting out
there
the massive but I feel like the music
and our music is significantly
significantly different you know we we
didn't jump on a bandwagon we fucking
created it you know and actually like a
lot of our peers currently or just you
know they're just jumping right into
another and I was a lot of their songs
and it's not like Jen to me you know so
you know and I and again no disrespect
but up I feel like jen is the poor thing
right now so a lot of the bands that
we're doing what we're doing right now
the sort of got into the ground and got
rid of you know that extreme death metal
access to their music and they got rid
of the black beads and you're doing you
know it's more accessible and there's
nothing wrong with that
but as far as we're concerned when it
comes to do you know playing this is
iCarly plate is five card
it's a simple of that lets the touch of
another question I'd actually that was
going to say that your music or sound
really isn't and as I mentioned jump on
the bandwagon I was trying to forget it
you know it doesn't fit in with the
changing trends or anything and there
goes my question was going to go along
the lines of I wasn't really a non-issue
for you guys to come back and giving
your sound and just know you still got
your two of your fanbase still pleasures
and your sound still relevant kind of
thing so to touch on the amount of it
and wait it's our I I apologize I i I'm
having a hard time with the action I
didn't quite understand your question do
you think I really speaking this well at
the best of times and correctly submit
that I understand there's a wee bit of a
concept to the album sort of heard you
talk about it
previously that I guess the more or less
in a way loosely mirrors sort of return
of the band and there's my kind of the
push on this is it's kind of interesting
because you don't often hear concept
records from bands that the cover your
extreme genre and I was sort of
wondering something with the lyrics and
and stuff like that but that's it
come across in the music and other ways
as well but our I mean being bitter
system the band you know that there is a
certain concept you know to this record
you know there is a the beast that is
recurring in a lot of these songs and
and you know it is a metaphor but it's
nothing to be too poetic and you know i
have not tried to be to Archie or
anything but essentially it's just the
beastly dormant for quite some time and
as it resurfaces the ages witnesses all
beach exchanges you know and you know it
uh we all have this tendency that you
change sometimes even you know haha you
know some sort of hatred for things that
are are are just different from ..aaah..
I'm sorry I'm just exhausted and I I'm
not properly a describing this right now
but long story short I i guess you you
can say that our it i feel like the
older I get the less I identify with
what's cool and what's relevant and
what's a a team that's being not
important now there's and i feel i feel
more and more disconnected with what's
going on around the world and I i know
it does sound clichéd but a that is a
recurring theme in in this record you
know the fear of change and you know the
Beast adopts just up destructive me a
destructive behavior in order to soar
like regain some control over life
itself and now you know make it whatever
you want but you know a lot of these
songs are just a very introspective just
dealing with a lot of negativity and
depression and to me music is just a way
of turning those are negative feelings
and those obstacles into something
positive you know through a positive
outlet you know which is music which is
this man
so instead of jumping for self-destruct
mode
ultimately I just pick up a pad and pen
and just write about in and jump onstage
and ice cream about it and not
ultimately that's why I i feel i
actually achieved a certain balance in
my life and now you know that's how I
inject positivity into my life as well
for me music is quite therapeutic so on
I guess that would be my outlook and in
my state of mind when i wrote beast i
guess it's slowly running in a tone and
this is kind of a silly question one
situation and because i don't know the
next time I'll get to speak to a
Canadian progressing again I'm so I just
really want to ask what is your
perception of the trailer park boys
ah you're asking the wrong knie because
stop the rest of my band we are for
lunch we are so you are from the
province of quebec which is the only
bridge speaking problems
canada so we are the French minority in
the country you know even though you are
from the same country there are a lot of
cultural differences in a lot of
different cultural references and the
trailer park boys it if you would if you
would ask that question to anyone will
be the great for instance the rest of my
being fought over there from ontario so
the english part of canada and they
probably watched every single episode
and they quote me quote that effort that
show all the time you know those various
expressions and whatnot and in a
personal enjoyment of the Grail was like
what the fuck are you guys talking about
like I don't understand your swing you
know I was I felt so I thought from
another world you know but uh I've seen
a couple episodes are definitely trailer
trash
I'm definitely not so helpful but it is
quite entertaining when I watch entire
season I probably get bored to be honest
ok now that was my interview with the
energy
thank you for listening to and his
promise is my talking points from an
entity from recently sure that i did now
covered originally released mobile games
during one of the voice breaks of the
third episode of having to work at the
internet show and as soon as i said on
the relating blog post on heavy metal
wanaka . wordpress.com I did take a small
measure of mirrors isomers because it
wasn't laughing at to lab just mildly
amused it not mentioning the big player
in mobile gaming that dominated during
the week now two games i mentioned we're
both having dominated first one was he
the middle tennis and taking one course
big news
Iron Maiden's legacy of the beast both
the free to download and both are
available on iOS and Android gonna pick
up now now full disclosure I was on ios-
I was on android samsung on the same
time and today we get there was my
experience
first up heavy metal tienes notices a
retro-style eight but excited looking
game we presumably a demon-possessed
tennis ball machine could be angry robot
no but looks demon-possessed if I is my
balls at you and you gotta hit the back
with your tennis rate that sounds simple
enough and to the mechanics of the game
so far they're saying it's quite easy to
pick up whenever you have a bit of spare
time it's one of those type of games you
just pick up down easy
it is however not an easy game no one
touch of these variables between you
disintegrate you into a pile of ash so i
guess in a way the gameplay ties well
with the look of it all to bring a solid
retro feel you know you get 10 games our
lives
I guess then you can only for the tin
let's run out real quick
by watching advert for some description
pretty rubbish game player but it
managed to score a high score of 82
through my ball returns vehicles and
damage to the demon ball machine is
quite probable now two hits to kill it
so not sure what happens then
but it sucks it i haven't progressed to
any levels or anything like that if
there are any levels at all but overall
I feel like this game as seems like a
short sharp fun game to play
albeit one that does require a fair
amount of precision tell with checking
out especially if you love those that
old-school game know those old school
games
moving on to our minds legacy of the
beast and I'm gonna say this looks
pretty sharp but then again I'm not a
regular computer game so frankly winner
it's a RPG look at those it is Right
game . game where you play is Ed
fighting to retrieve shadows of your
soul
there are different versions of Ed get
to play but the appearance which relates
to imagery on my defensive you familiar
with your parents you ever wanted
something will change with them to
different cities as you level up on
trying to say
now this in terms of the soundtrack
oddly enough it seemed the music
Christine quite sound rectified a
loop-the-loop version of iron maiden
sounding music but three hours was taste
because small speakers at the background
noise was really focusing too much on
the music itself
unfortunately get that chance to sort of
went away was a feeling like there's a
missed opportunity to have a stronger
musical type of the band and was even
know
no but maybe it was there and if I had
some headphones and probably noticed it
before but didn't so probably not with
taking into consideration too much but
there we go i looked into the details of
the app on my phone itself behind the
scenes that we've been I guess it's a
decent-sized game taking up 467
megabytes of internal storage which is
fully my friend up quite a bit but then
again it already was quite full of to
begin with so we're on thin ice here
we've it and daddy is seem quite a time
200 megabytes and it took forever to
load initially and it just went games to
take a little while to load as well as
likely as connected to the worst at home
otherwise it probably would have chewed
through your men to my mobile data now I
get the feeling that most or more
advanced gamers might not get too much
of a kick out of this one really apart
from the visual side of the at work with
that because of format and structure of
the game plan is something not really
seeming all their original get that kind
of feeling now but for me personally and
once I got over the confusion of the
introductory phase and familiarize
myself with the game you know upgrading
in souls of showers and savages i did
find a good balance of the step-by-step
the leading hand-holding type thing out
to the visuals the action and channel
the fights and running again erica knit
study with taking up space if you're a
fan of iron maiden in overall both
legacy of the base here and then we
previously mentioned in the middle
tennis could prove to be good palate
cleansers
for the pokemon that are currently
roaming our streets
