March 5, 2024 • 38 mins
My conversation with singer/guitarist/songwriter Gheeyeh Olivares of the heavy metal band Mind Of Fury. Originally from Chile, now residing in Florida, Ghee talks about the formation of his band, the release of their latest album, 'III', and how they are tearing up the Florida metal music scene with their 3 piece of aggression and melody. Originally recorded back in November 2023. Official band website: http://mindoffuryband.com
Video of this conversation is available here: https://youtu.be/RZNazul4cWg?si=LKg_A7x66-L-YU60
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Nobodies are somebodies. Hey, thisis chad Vice, and you're about to
listen to a conversation I had withthe singer of the band Mind of Fury,
based out of Florida, which Irecorded a long time ago. So
enjoy this conversation while I'm on vacationin New Brunswick in the Maritime provinces of
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Canada. Chad Vice out right,we're good to go. Yeah, I'm
good to Uh. I'm glad tohave a conversation with you and learn about
your band. First and foremost,how are you good? In't you?
I'm doing pretty good. I'm doingpretty good. I'm loving if people are
gonna see this on video. I'mloving the background you're obviously you're in your
studio down the basement. I thinkthe wall of amps behind you, your
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guitar. It's a good visual tostart this off. Yeah, I love
it. So I just I'm justdiscovering your band. Of course, Mind
of Fury is the is the band, and of course you're the singer,
a guitarist, songwriter for the band. And I believe you have a new
record out or the record right nowthat's called three? Is that? If
my math is correct? Is thatthe name of the record out now perfect?
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Okay, that's right. I doa little bit of three guys in
the band. Third album it worksout pretty good, a little power trio.
So the only okay, so intransparency, the only song I've heard
so far from your band, honestlyis Screaming in Silence, which I love.
I love that the heavy guitars,the heavy sound, but then it
comes in with nice melodic choruses likeit's got a lot of melody behind the
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power. I just that's the kindof style I dig. So for those
who don't know you and don't knowyour band, talk to me about Mind
of Fury, how it started andwhere the beginnings are all right, So
basically, well, it started withme. I guess I'm coming from all
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begins. At one yeah, fromChile. I had a band down there,
Human Factor what's the name of theband? And later on my own
solo band after that was gie yeh. And then I moved to the United
States. I came to Florida andI met Nick Marino, his keyboard player
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for Invay Molmsteam so I was partof his band and ZM. I wrote
an album with him and released itby the name NZM and Eternal Fire.
NZM is his own band, ishis solo project. So what year was
that? Two thousy fourteen? Okay, of about ten years ago. Okay,
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that's when you first came. That'swhen you first came to the States.
Yeah, that actually I came intwenty twelve October twenty twelve, two
thousand and thirteen. We met,we played, we did gigs, and
wrote down the album that was releasedin twenty fourteen. Then I left the
band in twenty fourteen, and thenI formed Mine the Fury with Mike Frankenbush
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on base and Henry Moreno on drums. Did you originally come over to the
States to kind of pursue the thingwith Nick or did you come for other
reasons? What brought you to theStates originally? Well, originally I had
my music career in my country,but the government situation, you know,
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people making money, got a lotdifficult. My wife, she's an American
citizen at the time, she stillis. Yeah, but we came here
because she she lost her job,okay, and I was, you know,
we were kind of struggling. Iwas doing, you know, as
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much as I could, but definitelythe opportunities were better here, m h.
As far as being a working yeah, as far as becoming a working
musician, there's a lot of opportunitiesfor that for sure. Where about in
the where abouts in the US?Are you right now? Are you on
the East coast? Coast? Eastcoast in Florida? Here in Florida?
To be exact? What's that inOrlando? To be exact? In Orlando?
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Okay? That's that's very very cool. Is there a huge as far
as the regular club I know,like Miami and places like that, and
a lot of other parts of Florida, like Hollywood, Florida, there's a
lot of there's a music scene there. But Orlando itself, is there a
big music a music scene as faras the rock world is No, No,
to be honest with you. Herein Orlando, I don't know.
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It's kind of strange. You know, it's very big, very spread out.
People are more into the more modernmetal and even that scene is very
small. Yeah, you know witha cookie monster and yeah, yeah,
yeah, the big head bag andyeah we got the hair for it.
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So if you're watching on video,if you got the hair, you can't
do that. Maybe you couldn't singit, but you could you could do
the moves. Yeah, I mean, I mean the the thing well new
metal and all that stuff, youknow, like I all that kind of
stuff. But I bet it's moremodern, you know, you could say,
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and that's not your style, that'snot what you want to pursue.
Obviously you had a more European style. Yeah, like a lot of European
Yeah, we love I'm a melodicmetal guy. So we found our crowd
in South Florida, Tampa scenes likepeople are more into melodic stuff. Yeah,
yeah, he too, you knowLondon too, But basically lately we've
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been playing a lot of more overSouth Florida. Mm hmm. Yeah,
you're right about Tampa too. Asfar as the death metal scene, there's
a huge death metal scene in Tampa, I know that for sure. There's
that more sound studios there. Theyproduced a lot of records and still do.
It's it's got a huge scene onthat part of the that part of
the of the state. I knowthat. Yeah, a lot of that.
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There a lot of that South Florida. I mean we've been in Delray
Beach, boc last weekend, whatelse, all over the place, you
know, Miami, Fort Lauderdale,so and I don't know, we have
like a kid's getting bigger following,you know, a lot of people showing
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up to the shows, and everytime it's more and more. Maybe we're
offering something that it's kind of weird. Maybe for the people I'm missing void
or something they're missing they're not gettingwhether they're not hearing on radio, they're
not hearing it. Maybe the localshows A lot of tour A lot of
tours these days are you know,heritage jocks, like bands from the seventies,
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the eighties, even the nineties.Now, that's a lot of what's
going on. So to hear anew band offering, you know, a
version of that sound, there's alwaysa familiarity, but there's also something new
and unique about it too. Sowhen you have that blend, I think
people can relate to that and kindof get attracted to that. Yeah,
basically, the people that what I'veseen lately is like when you're when we're
playing our songs, they're like singingalready, like they know the songs,
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or they're like, hey man,the song man this one coming up.
Yeah, I know it, Yeah, get ready, and they tell their
buddy or whoever they're with like,yeah, that's good. That's a good
feeling. Yeah, Yeah, that'sgood feeling. I can imagine as a
musician that's good to feel, especiallywhen you're up there front and center.
You know you're gonna sing, you'regonna play. You want to feel that
energy from them, knowing that they'reexcited for what's coming, you're excited to
play it. That's that's a goodfeeling. That's a good vibe. It's
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really cool. And the other thingis like, I don't know lately we've
been playing for with the tribute bandsmm hmm, because we still well I
don't know, working musicians. Yeah, getting like an opening slot for a
national tour it's kind of like difficult. So I thought, well, what's
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the closest to the national touring bands? Tribute bands? Exactly? Do we
played with the band? Uh?We opened for a band Gold Made of
Metal. They're they're they're in SouthFlorida. They tribute they tribute albums or
bands. But every time they havea show, have a different thing.
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Yeah. Oh, last time weplayed with them, we did they did
White Snake. Oh wow, likea full show, like a full set
of different White Snake songs. Likedifferent White Snakes. So they played that
and then it's awesome. Like twoyears ago we opened for them and we
play and they were doing Bruce Dickinsonand Rob hailsflor solo career. Oh wow
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that songs from from Accident to Birthor Tattooed Millionaire, a Resurrection from Halford.
Yeah that's amazing, or Fight Yeah, that's amazing. Now, yeah,
that's a great show. I canI can imagine maybe a lot of
people on a on a larger scalemay may not know those records, but
for those that do, that's that'samazing show. That's amazing. So we
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did that with the White Sneak thingthis year and while you of course a
lot of people go to the showto see them. Yeah, but what
it was very kind of like exciting, was that nobody left when we played.
That's good. They were enjoy itand it was badass. We played
for a full house. Yeah,yeah, that's awesome. And you played
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all original, all original songs,right minded furious songs. We don't we
don't play any covers. We doour own thing. So this weekend we
played in Boca and we opened forMaiden Steel. There are main two band
and it was packed and we're playan hour and a half. That's good
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songs. So I think we're goingforward really good and it can see people
coming back, like yeah, that'sthe thing, is bringing people back.
It's one thing to start a show. You're on a bill with somebody else.
So obviously the headliner who's ever playingthe show, they're coming there,
that's what the tickets are being soldby. But when they come and they
get a good band like yourselves thatare opening, that's you know, it's
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lucky for them. It's good exposurefor you. But it also it kind
of adds to the whole show,which is great. And then people come
back. If you're doing a show, maybe if you're on a club somewhere,
they'll come and check out your headlineshow. As my fury, that's
the goal. It's what is happening, you know, And there's a lot
of merch and well before that,we did our first album, Do or
Die in twenty seventeen. The yearafter the release of that album, we
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did ro Oklahoma Festival. Oh that'sa big one. Okay, that's cool.
That was cool, and then weplayed all over the state. Here
in Florida, we play a lot. Then by the second album, The
Fire with ourfl Records, and yeah, we played. We did a lot
of gigging with that one too,and we play. In twenty twenty one,
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we went to Oklahoma again. Nice. That's good. That's good.
That's a good stage to be on. There's a lot of good mix of
bands from the eighties and the newerbands and then everything in between. That's
a great platform for you guys tobe on. Ocklahoma is a big name.
They built that like crazy over thelast sixteen years, so it's good
to be a part of that.I can imagine. Yeah, that was
badass, dude. Yeah, absolutely, And then well twenty two we keep
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on, you know, playing,but we were in parallel working for this
new album, the three three.We've released the last minute. We got
signed with Avenue Records. Okay,they're based in LA and everything, so
everything is looking like very promising.That's good to hear. Take me backwards
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a little bit though, So Mindof Fury started in twenty fourteen and then
you released the first record in twentyseventeen. So for that three year period,
were you guys just you know,kind of gelling together, playing shows,
what and writing songs? How comethe three year period? What took
you? I guess, I guesswhat I'm asking is what took you so
long to write a third first recordin three years? Yeah? The thing
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was that, well, I metHenry and Mike by the end of fourteen,
so basically it's fifteen, right,So I had Mike had like three
songs ready to go, but there'snothing to you know, have next to
those three songs. So I wrotethe other ones and I wrote one with
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Mike, so we completed the albumten songs. Their main idea was to
have my in my mind, itwas to have a band like you imagine
Pintera, but with a melodic voicelike you know, like back in the
day. Yeah, yeah, likeif you knew. There were songs from
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a lot of people don't know,but their first the way they were in
the eighties with Terry Glaze, itwas that the main inspiration wants to be
like still Dragon from the band fromthe movie Rock Startars, but with more
aggressive sound. Yeah, I getthat. I get that definitely. On
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the song I heard the screaming insilence for sure. That whole vibe is
right there. So we're very sometimeswe're very trashy, like very trash metal,
technical and all that stuff. Butthe good thing about our band or
our music is that we can dothat. We can do the hard rock
thing, we can do the ballad, we can do the acoustic song,
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so you can go all over theplace. We have a lot of color.
But when you listen to the album, it works yep as a whole,
which is great because it's all melodic. Yeah, it's not like,
I don't know, you hear risefrom the album vulgar display of power and
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then in the but you don't hearthat kind of style with Sanitary Gates.
Absolutely guess the first one, thefirst major label Panterra album, it kind
of worked almost hell, you know, it's melodic, it's not that aggressive,
but vulgar is. It got progressivelymore and more as it went on
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to to Vulgar, to great SouthernTrendkill to far beyond driven sorry, then
Southern and then and then it cameback around gets very now the riffs and
all that, the groove is stillthere, but vocally gets very yeah yeah,
not less melodic and less melodic.Absolutely our case we do. The
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voice is very melodic, but thebackground changes so so let me ask you,
then, from the first record tothe second one, did you make
that transition where you kind of wantedOkay, so let's say on the first
record you were melodic as you wereat that time, did you consciously try
to make it mar melogics still heavyon the second record going into that were
you trying to I guess, gofurther and further with that style between record
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one and two? Mm hm,well I maybe. Well basically, the
only thing I can say it's thatyou can't unless I can't, you know.
Now I'm gonna be like this,I can't. Yeah, you know,
it's it's whenever it comes, youknow, whatever. You know,
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it never works when you say I'mgoing to do the heaviest song ever.
Yeah, it never works like that, you know. But you wanted to
make sure you didn't repeat yourself onthe first record. You wanted to do
something a little bit different, rightof course, changing the words, changing
the chords and stuff, but youwanted to have something different than what was
on the first still have a style, but you wanted to kind of build
on that couple the first one.It's it's kind of it's it has like
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a couple. Well, it's powermetal, but it's the same at the
same time, it's groove metal.You know. The second one, Uh
well, the first one too ishard rock, then the first the second
one it has the same elements,but it more towards power metal, you
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know, like double Cake. Youknow, fast songs in tricky riffs,
but they still have like we stillhave a song that it's like kind of
southern southern, like I don't know, Lenyard Skinner, but with steroids,
you know what I mean. No, And the third one it's it's it's
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heavier but it's but it's softer.At the same time. You have a
ballad where it starts with acoustic guitarsand it builds up until the end.
Yeah, and we have a progressivekind of song. I know it sounds,
but when you listen to the album, you're like, oh, it's
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all related. Yeah, it allmakes sense, which is which is cool
because a lot of bands, alot of newer bands will just release singles
and videos and put them out thereon YouTube or whatever, and they'll just
do a few, release some andthat's it. But your whole goal was
to make a record that was cohesive, that sound together that I think that
should be mentioned too, because youwant to make actual records, and when
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you could have just done singles andsongs and put them out there and if
you like it, great, cometo our show and buy buy a shirt,
whatever. But the fact that you'redoing records at this stage of the
game is pretty cool, yeah,because I, well, I always did
records back in the day, Liketwenty years ago, I released my first
album with Mind Sorry, with HumanFactor. Before that, I was part
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of another band that was called WitchPlayed, and it was just a guitar
player that came into the band andreplaced the original guitar player. Then I
did Human Factor with the other guysand we really these two albums. But
my my concept of being in aband is to play our own material.
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So when you released an album,it's your music, it's ten songs.
Immediately as you as you released analbum, you can go and play a
show in our show forty five minuteshow because you're playing your music. Then
with the second album, you cando an hour and a half or an
hour and fifteen minutes, I don'tknow. And if you have three albums,
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you can do I don't know,last Last Saturday and well play fifteen
songs. No, Wow, that'sa big set where you got three albums
of pole from so now you cando that versus that's the idea, you
know, play your own thing.I don't. I don't understand when the
band it's brand new, they releasedtwo singles or something and they do a
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show and play I don't know,three songs and four covers. What the
dude, what the hell's that youneed to read? Yeah, I'm not
a musician, but I kill youselfas a band. That is credible that
people will say, you know what, I love these guys. They have
the balls to, you know,go on stage and play their own ship.
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Well, that's it, that's it. Do you think that's because I'm
not a musician. But do youthink they a lot of confidence in either
new material or be how well itwill go over that they just think,
oh, we'll stick to what peopleknow because we want to, you know,
get people to the show. We'regoing to play songs we know.
Do you think it's like lack ofconfidence in their in their in their songs
that they play covers instead? Ilisten. I don't. I'm not in
your opinion, not a specific personor people, but just in your opinion.
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Do you think a band when itdoes, Oh, it's easier,
Yeah, it's easier er. Let'splay a couple of tunes and then it's
like, of course, I understandfor simple if you're in a tribute band
or a cover band, it's veryclear to me that you're you're not into
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writing songs. You don't have thecall or you don't you can't. But
you're a good musician and you needto play music. You want to make
a living, and that's cool,and that's what you do perfect. I
totally respect that. I understand there'sa lot of art behind that too.
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You have to sound like somebody else. If you want to be really good,
you have to study that musician inparticular and imitate it to a team.
You have to be that guy.It's not easy to do, but
and that's probably that's hard, butit's easier than say, you know what,
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this is me, this is mymusic. I will play what I
write and I'm going to stand becauseof this, and I don't know,
I will cross the desert to getto paradise with this. This is my
ship. You know. That's anamazing way to put it. Yeah,
I love the way you put thatacross the Desert ticket. That's amazing.
Yeah, no, I hear you. For the third record that you've done,
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now, did you have outside producersworking with you as far as getting
the record together? Did you kindof self produce it? How did they
come together? Self produced? Selfproduced? Self produced? I like,
I know what I want to hear, you know, I I like the
way we sound trying to capture thaton their album and the album is done.
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Like we play live, we don'thave rhythm guitars. When I do
solo, it's bass. It's bass, the drums and this and me soloing.
Ye, there's a power treo likeCream or Van Halen was at some
point Triumph, all those bands,Pantera when the you know, Dying Bag
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was soloing. You can hear Rexin the background with Vinie Paul. Yeah,
there was no rhythm guitar. Itwas the three is the instrumental Yeah,
exactly. That's our concept, youknow, so have a very Meanwhile,
I'm doing all this crazy stuff havingMiki playing in the background with with
with Henry, you know, andthey fill in out all the holes,
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and you know, that's that's thespirit of our band. All live all
real, no backing tracks, onehundred percent live. That's that's what that's
the way to do it. That'swhy I love the respect for the live
performance. And sometimes you know,in studio you use keyboards to do some
stuff, you know, so Iwe rely on the backing truck for that,
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Yeah, which I have no problemwith. You're not going to carry
keyboard player around with you. Itcosts money, it costs another person on
the road. I get that peopleare not going to bring for a keyboard
partner song. You're not gonna know, you're not gonna lose out. But
you're singing, You're playing guitar,exact, playing bass. You have Mickey
playing drums like they're doing it forreal. It's not click tracks. That's
all real stuff. Harmony part guitar. I have a pedal that does it
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for me. So we tried tosound as close. Basically, the album
is like a representation of how weplay live. That's cool, that's good.
So my main concept, I'm froma different you know, I'm from
I was a child in the eightiesand my dad was a musician, and
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I don't know, it was atime where you turn on TV and you
see musicians, and that's what youwant to do, you know. I
see that even I don't know,the commercial mainstream music was having amazing musicians.
You know, I don't know MichaelJackson, beat It. You have
a Van Hale and then we haveWhite Lion and Van Hale and and I
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don't know Europe Bon Jovi amazing musicians. You know. Then after that,
but we have Metallica, Mega Death, Pantera, so and then European guys
like Invan Momstain and all this stuff. Like that was the thing. And
when you like, if I capturesome oh there's a live showing you.
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Oh man, they play exactly thesame. That's amazing. I want to
be like them, dude. Theybrought it for real and they brought it.
Yeah, some things it wasn't exactlylike the record, but you know
they could play. There are realmusicians that really play. There's no auto
tune, no songwriters. Yeah,you know, they were like superhero superheroes
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to me, Deep Purple Man CaliforniaJam. I'm like, yeah, dude,
yeah, so that was my wayof feeling. Are you made?
And you know jujus priests like yousee them live and you're like, oh
my God, these guys are reallyfor real. Yeah, so no,
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one day if I have a band, we're gonna play live and it's gonna
be even better than the out orsomething like that. You know, that's
true. So production wise, ourmus cigar or album sounds pretty like we
do. That's the thing. Wetry to take the stage into the studio.
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So when somebody listens to Oh myGod and then go to the show,
wow, there's no you know,yeah, what they hear on the
record, they're going to get agood representation live. They're going to see,
oh, this is the band thatmade that record. This isn't a
studio creation. This is a realband who made a record and now they're
going to bring it to you onthe stage. That's cool. Which which
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have about documentary out now about themtoo, if anyone's ever seen that on
Paramount Plus. There's a good documentarybehind the scenes of that. Because what
I find funny about Milli Vanilli isthat they were crucified back then for not
peering on the record. But howmany pop artists now that play you don't
know, there's like fifteen sixteen songwriters. You don't know if it's really them
singing, they use auto tune.They can't sing live, it's all backtracks.
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I mean, it seems like that'saccepted now. It's like, what
do they do wrong back in nineteenninety Everyone does it now. It's crazy.
I'd be pissedify for them. I'msure they air Walt Fatmore. Van
is the guy who's still alive.I'm sure he's pissed about that. But
it's like, it's what I'm saying. The culture was different. The culture
acceptance of what we would accept haschanged. No, the culture was you
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gotta be talented. Probably the representationwas you have to be talented, hard
working musician. For example, ifI mentioned a name like Whitney Houston,
oh my god, that moment.Can't can sing? Yeah, she didn't
even write her song, No,but it was such how she brought him
to life, Yeah, exactly.Or Mariah Carey or whatever, Lady Gaga.
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Maybe it's the last one. Yeah, I would agree. Maybe it's
garbage. I hear you, whatis that bullshit cardib or whatever it is.
It's not alive, it's not real. It's a studio creation. That's
ridiculous. And even if it's notlisten, and if even if it's she
can't do exactly the same live.Dude, what the fuck? I can
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do it too, Yeah, butshe can't do it live. Cardi B.
She can't do it live. It'sa track. There was a video
of her throwing her microphone. Someonethrew a drink at her. She threw
her microphone. You can still hearher rap or whatever coming through. That's
bullshit, I mean, but nobodycared about that. All they cared about
was, oh, she threw shehit a fan with her microphone. They
didn't care for the fact. Ohwait a minute, I'm listening to a
CD on stage. Can't get overthat. That's I'm from that kind of
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era. Yeah. Well, Iwas a very early bloomer if you talk
about music. So I started playingwhen I was eleven. So I always
admire that, and that's what Iwant to do. I want to,
you know, my inspire people tobe a musician or be better, give
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a lot of entertainment, happiness tobe That's my purpose. The others to
see like it's possible to do it, and if you want to do it,
you got to work hard for it. Then be good, be a
good musician, good guitar player,good singer. Try to at least I
tried to by going back with thebeginning of mind the theory. We wrote
the songs, we had an album, but we want to be like Van
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Halen or Pantera, where we werefour guys. I was the guitar player,
Mickey bass and Henry on drums,and a singer that we couldn't find,
Like, you can't find anyone,and you can't do it. You
can't find someone, do it right, do it yourself. So it was
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the guys are looking at me like, dude, we heard you, we
heard you. You can play andsing. Why don't you try it?
Did you audition people and you werekind of giving them guide vocals and then
they just weren't hitting it or didyou just say forget it? You weren't
even going to look like how didthat kind of one guy that came to,
you know, to update, Iimmediately record him and he was intimidated
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by that. Yeah, and thenno, no, I don't want to
do it. Then I found anotherguy that was super talented but was very
flaky, and it couldn't get himto come and audition. Yeah. So
it was a pain in the ass. And it's twenty sixteen and come on,
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man, dude, it's ridiculous.So hey, I will give it
a try. Recorded all the songs, finished the album. This is just
as you're making the first record.So originally it was going to be somebody
else singing. But then after allthis, you know, you know it
didn't work out. You just yousang on it. So it could have
been someone else singing on the firstrecord, but obviously it didn't work out,
which is probably for the better.Yeah, the other guys are happy
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to me. It's not bad.It's a pain in the ass, but
it's a pain in the ass.But it's no going back now. I
mean, after if you do afourth record, there's no point going back.
Now. You know what for thisone, we're gonna we're gonna have
a different singer, gonna change thesound of the band, because the singer
is the main, you know,one of the main ingredients of a band
identifiable. Right. So no,and I am listen, I already I
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always I will always be in kindof a front man in a way.
I'm good talking to people on stage. I know what to say, what
to do, and I don't knowstage rap. Yeah, I have the
thing I guess so. And Ialways did backing vocals, so I was
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very used to play and sing atthe same time. That had to change,
of course, got a instead ofhaving a stand man, use the
headset thing. Yeah, yeah,cover it with my hair so it doesn't
look like I have one, Soit looks like you're just singing into nothing,
Like where's that sound coming from?How can we hear him? Not
up there doing this and just havea little thing that people can't see if
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they're far away, so they'll belike, oh, he's just wow.
He can really shout. I canhear him all the way in the back
of the the back of the room. What a powerful voice. Yeah.
The problem that, oh I haveto be as good as a guitar player
on stage. Yeah, and onrecord, I have to find my own
boys. So but I managed tofind it and then reproduce that live life
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wasn't never a problem to me.But I had a problem recording. I
wasn't liking it in my voice,but somehow I produced it so I can
like what I do. That's good. No, that's great to hear.
It's great to hear with the timethat we have left, because this thing
doesn't last long you can see thetimer going down six seven five four three.
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I want to hit you with acouple of questions here. You referred
to me by our mutual acquaintance Markand Benski. He's the one that got
me, got you on my radar. How did you meet him sign up
with him? Of course he's basedin Florida, so obviously there's a connection
there. But how did you Iguess for this record you kind of partner
with him. How did that cometogether with you and Mark? For Son
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Boom guests up there? Record labelRock Aveny Records said, oh, and
we have we have a booking agentthere so that works with our artists and
he manages bands and stuff like that. So we thought we did it like
a conference call and we talked withthe three parts like band, him,
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manager, and records on the otherside, and like, wow, wow,
it was good. He came toone of our shows and he's like
liking it. So we're super excitedabout it too. He's like, man,
you gotta check this band out.He sent me that song, Like
I said, screaming in silence.He's like you gotta you gotta talk to
gotta you gotta talk to him andget this, uh, get this happening.
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I said, yeah, well we'llmake it happen because I'm all about
hearing new music too. So yeah, he's super pumped about You impressed him
for sure. Yeah yeah, Iguess it's because of that because we we
tried to when we played live.That's our thing. Hm, you know
the same fo exactly too. Yeah, like wow, these guys are I
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don't know. Sometimes we have theSome people have come, dude, you
guys sound like you're more than threeguys. Yeah, you know, something
like that, and they wonder,oh, what's going on back there?
They wonder if you have a backingtrack or something. You sound almost too
good? You ever have that comparison? Do you ever have that accusation?
Yeah? That comes up too.It comes up with bands like def Leppard
two a lot too. They don'tsee the work that goes in behind the
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scenes. Yeah, yeah for sure. Does Mark have you guys for twenty
twenty four as far as touring nationallyaround the country? Does he have you
shows booked up? Or do youwhat's coming up for you guys from mindor
Fury touring wise? Oh, we'redoing December eighth, the release party of
our well, the party the releasealbum? How do you call that the
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album release party? So it's notout yet. I thought three was already
released. It's not. It's comingout. No, it's it's out,
but we haven't. Are you doinga party after its release? Okay?
The album release party is coming inDecember right in Florida. That's what is
happening. Where's that happening in Florida? For those who can check it,
Russ Monk in Tampa, Florida,in Tampa, Okay, cool, d
yes, people can come and checkthat out. And then as far as
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that goes for next year at twentytwenty four, do you have shows booked
around the country or in Florida?What's going on live shows? Label?
The label is working on that.They already put us in a lot on
a lot of festivals. So wedon't know yet if we got them or
not, but supply very soon we'regonna know. Yeah, so you won't
know until closer to the days.I would imagine hopefully soon, so you
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guys can prepare and get and getrehearsals together. But hopefully that comes down
we can go and do it now. Okay, I love it. Confidence
so I can go right now,I can I can jump on stage right
now. I love that comments.A lot of guys don't have that.
That's great. I have the Traderright there. So it's just put the
wall of Marshall inside and you seethat. That's it. It's gorgeous.
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I know, if you're looking onvideo you can see that's very very cool.
I mean, that's a great backdrop, and that's that's obviously they're not
fake. They're real Marshals behind you. They're not just boxes. I'll look
at that. Yeah, yeah,it's the real thing. So we're like,
actually we have eighteen songs prepared forany waiting for osh for a show.
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Okay. So our last show wasSaturday night this week and well last
week and we played an hour anda half fifteen songs. So we're ready.
We're ready to headline, ready toopen, ready for whatever, you
know. We that's that's that's theconcept of our band. Are you ready
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to go? Yes? Okay,gool, that's amazing, that's that's great.
That's great. So before I letyou go, where can people find
out more about Minded Fury? Doyou have a you have a website?
Are you on Instagram? Facebook,Tech Talk Where what's your social out there?
Where can people find you connect withyou? You can go to Facebook
or Instagram, it's all of that. It's at Mind the Fury Band.
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If you go to social media atMind the Fury Band. If you go
to our website Mindefury band dot com, and you can find us on te
Spring as well, where you canfind all our merch Mind the Fury Official
Store, t Spring, t ee Spring, like the season and Mind
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the Fury gear whatever, and youwill find everything there too. Spotify the
same thing we're in Spotify where we'rebasically in all the platforms. That's good.
Do you have Google Music, ApplePlay, YouTube Music, Spotify,
Pandora, We're all over the place. That's good. And do you have
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physical copies of your three records?Like people can buy CDs if they want,
or vinyl they really want to getour physical on our website. You
can order them there. And thelatest one is gonna come soon. It's
gonna come out soon. We're waitingfor the album Reactual physical. Yeah,
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I know it takes a little bitlonger. Is there vinyl records too?
For those who are interested in that. I know it's a little bit more
expensive to produce those. But areyou on the vinyl kick Yeah, I
will love to, but it's coming. I think it's going to be something
invisible, you know, like I'mthinking, well, I don't know,
I'm that kind of person that is, like, you know, maybe not
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very far in the future, wecan have a box hit, Yeah,
vinyl after the next record. Fourin a box, that'll be perfect there.
Get your next record out, yeah, maybe with we'll play it with
pictures and information stuff like that,you know, some guitar picks, yes,
little things for the fans. Youcan see their minor fury. You
can see it on video too,very very cool. Something limited, but
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if you get it, you canhave it personalized with the signature of the
three members and everything like that.I think that would be I think it's
very very cool too. I appreciateyour time and getting to know you in
the band. Of course, weonly scratch the service, but I look
forward to hearing more songs and puttingthis out for people who don't know about
your band to come and check itout and come and see a show around
Florida around the rest of the country. When you get on some festivals this
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summer, It's gonna be a bigsummer for you guys, and I hope
to you know, check in againwhen you have new music coming out and
new stuff we can chat again.It's good to connect with you. Stay
heavy, listen to Mind the Fury. Thank you very much. I appreciate
all the support and stay heavy fansof metal. Absolutely, You've been listening
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to the Nobody's or Somebody's podcast withme chad Vice, and this podcast has
been voted the number one podcast bypeople that don't vote
Nobodies are somebodies. Hey, thisis chad Vice, and you're about to
listen to a conversation I had withthe singer of the band Mind of Fury,
based out of Florida, which Irecorded a long time ago. So
enjoy this conversation while I'm on vacationin New Brunswick in the Maritime provinces of
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Canada. Chad Vice out right,we're good to go. Yeah, I'm
good to Uh. I'm glad tohave a conversation with you and learn about
your band. First and foremost,how are you good? In't you?
I'm doing pretty good. I'm doingpretty good. I'm loving if people are
gonna see this on video. I'mloving the background you're obviously you're in your
studio down the basement. I thinkthe wall of amps behind you, your
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guitar. It's a good visual tostart this off. Yeah, I love
it. So I just I'm justdiscovering your band. Of course, Mind
of Fury is the is the band, and of course you're the singer,
a guitarist, songwriter for the band. And I believe you have a new
record out or the record right nowthat's called three? Is that? If
my math is correct? Is thatthe name of the record out now perfect?
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Okay, that's right. I doa little bit of three guys in
the band. Third album it worksout pretty good, a little power trio.
So the only okay, so intransparency, the only song I've heard
so far from your band, honestlyis Screaming in Silence, which I love.
I love that the heavy guitars,the heavy sound, but then it
comes in with nice melodic choruses likeit's got a lot of melody behind the
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power. I just that's the kindof style I dig. So for those
who don't know you and don't knowyour band, talk to me about Mind
of Fury, how it started andwhere the beginnings are all right, So
basically, well, it started withme. I guess I'm coming from all
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begins. At one yeah, fromChile. I had a band down there,
Human Factor what's the name of theband? And later on my own
solo band after that was gie yeh. And then I moved to the United
States. I came to Florida andI met Nick Marino, his keyboard player
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for Invay Molmsteam so I was partof his band and ZM. I wrote
an album with him and released itby the name NZM and Eternal Fire.
NZM is his own band, ishis solo project. So what year was
that? Two thousy fourteen? Okay, of about ten years ago. Okay,
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that's when you first came. That'swhen you first came to the States.
Yeah, that actually I came intwenty twelve October twenty twelve, two
thousand and thirteen. We met,we played, we did gigs, and
wrote down the album that was releasedin twenty fourteen. Then I left the
band in twenty fourteen, and thenI formed Mine the Fury with Mike Frankenbush
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on base and Henry Moreno on drums. Did you originally come over to the
States to kind of pursue the thingwith Nick or did you come for other
reasons? What brought you to theStates originally? Well, originally I had
my music career in my country,but the government situation, you know,
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people making money, got a lotdifficult. My wife, she's an American
citizen at the time, she stillis. Yeah, but we came here
because she she lost her job,okay, and I was, you know,
we were kind of struggling. Iwas doing, you know, as
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much as I could, but definitelythe opportunities were better here, m h.
As far as being a working yeah, as far as becoming a working
musician, there's a lot of opportunitiesfor that for sure. Where about in
the where abouts in the US?Are you right now? Are you on
the East coast? Coast? Eastcoast in Florida? Here in Florida?
To be exact? What's that inOrlando? To be exact? In Orlando?
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Okay? That's that's very very cool. Is there a huge as far
as the regular club I know,like Miami and places like that, and
a lot of other parts of Florida, like Hollywood, Florida, there's a
lot of there's a music scene there. But Orlando itself, is there a
big music a music scene as faras the rock world is No, No,
to be honest with you. Herein Orlando, I don't know.
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It's kind of strange. You know, it's very big, very spread out.
People are more into the more modernmetal and even that scene is very
small. Yeah, you know witha cookie monster and yeah, yeah,
yeah, the big head bag andyeah we got the hair for it.
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So if you're watching on video,if you got the hair, you can't
do that. Maybe you couldn't singit, but you could you could do
the moves. Yeah, I mean, I mean the the thing well new
metal and all that stuff, youknow, like I all that kind of
stuff. But I bet it's moremodern, you know, you could say,
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and that's not your style, that'snot what you want to pursue.
Obviously you had a more European style. Yeah, like a lot of European
Yeah, we love I'm a melodicmetal guy. So we found our crowd
in South Florida, Tampa scenes likepeople are more into melodic stuff. Yeah,
yeah, he too, you knowLondon too, But basically lately we've
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been playing a lot of more overSouth Florida. Mm hmm. Yeah,
you're right about Tampa too. Asfar as the death metal scene, there's
a huge death metal scene in Tampa, I know that for sure. There's
that more sound studios there. Theyproduced a lot of records and still do.
It's it's got a huge scene onthat part of the that part of
the of the state. I knowthat. Yeah, a lot of that.
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There a lot of that South Florida. I mean we've been in Delray
Beach, boc last weekend, whatelse, all over the place, you
know, Miami, Fort Lauderdale,so and I don't know, we have
like a kid's getting bigger following,you know, a lot of people showing
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up to the shows, and everytime it's more and more. Maybe we're
offering something that it's kind of weird. Maybe for the people I'm missing void
or something they're missing they're not gettingwhether they're not hearing on radio, they're
not hearing it. Maybe the localshows A lot of tour A lot of
tours these days are you know,heritage jocks, like bands from the seventies,
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the eighties, even the nineties.Now, that's a lot of what's
going on. So to hear anew band offering, you know, a
version of that sound, there's alwaysa familiarity, but there's also something new
and unique about it too. Sowhen you have that blend, I think
people can relate to that and kindof get attracted to that. Yeah,
basically, the people that what I'veseen lately is like when you're when we're
playing our songs, they're like singingalready, like they know the songs,
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or they're like, hey man,the song man this one coming up.
Yeah, I know it, Yeah, get ready, and they tell their
buddy or whoever they're with like,yeah, that's good. That's a good
feeling. Yeah, Yeah, that'sgood feeling. I can imagine as a
musician that's good to feel, especiallywhen you're up there front and center.
You know you're gonna sing, you'regonna play. You want to feel that
energy from them, knowing that they'reexcited for what's coming, you're excited to
play it. That's that's a goodfeeling. That's a good vibe. It's
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really cool. And the other thingis like, I don't know lately we've
been playing for with the tribute bandsmm hmm, because we still well I
don't know, working musicians. Yeah, getting like an opening slot for a
national tour it's kind of like difficult. So I thought, well, what's
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the closest to the national touring bands? Tribute bands? Exactly? Do we
played with the band? Uh?We opened for a band Gold Made of
Metal. They're they're they're in SouthFlorida. They tribute they tribute albums or
bands. But every time they havea show, have a different thing.
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Yeah. Oh, last time weplayed with them, we did they did
White Snake. Oh wow, likea full show, like a full set
of different White Snake songs. Likedifferent White Snakes. So they played that
and then it's awesome. Like twoyears ago we opened for them and we
play and they were doing Bruce Dickinsonand Rob hailsflor solo career. Oh wow
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that songs from from Accident to Birthor Tattooed Millionaire, a Resurrection from Halford.
Yeah that's amazing, or Fight Yeah, that's amazing. Now, yeah,
that's a great show. I canI can imagine maybe a lot of
people on a on a larger scalemay may not know those records, but
for those that do, that's that'samazing show. That's amazing. So we
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did that with the White Sneak thingthis year and while you of course a
lot of people go to the showto see them. Yeah, but what
it was very kind of like exciting, was that nobody left when we played.
That's good. They were enjoy itand it was badass. We played
for a full house. Yeah,yeah, that's awesome. And you played
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all original, all original songs,right minded furious songs. We don't we
don't play any covers. We doour own thing. So this weekend we
played in Boca and we opened forMaiden Steel. There are main two band
and it was packed and we're playan hour and a half. That's good
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songs. So I think we're goingforward really good and it can see people
coming back, like yeah, that'sthe thing, is bringing people back.
It's one thing to start a show. You're on a bill with somebody else.
So obviously the headliner who's ever playingthe show, they're coming there,
that's what the tickets are being soldby. But when they come and they
get a good band like yourselves thatare opening, that's you know, it's
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lucky for them. It's good exposurefor you. But it also it kind
of adds to the whole show,which is great. And then people come
back. If you're doing a show, maybe if you're on a club somewhere,
they'll come and check out your headlineshow. As my fury, that's
the goal. It's what is happening, you know, And there's a lot
of merch and well before that,we did our first album, Do or
Die in twenty seventeen. The yearafter the release of that album, we
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did ro Oklahoma Festival. Oh that'sa big one. Okay, that's cool.
That was cool, and then weplayed all over the state. Here
in Florida, we play a lot. Then by the second album, The
Fire with ourfl Records, and yeah, we played. We did a lot
of gigging with that one too,and we play. In twenty twenty one,
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we went to Oklahoma again. Nice. That's good. That's good.
That's a good stage to be on. There's a lot of good mix of
bands from the eighties and the newerbands and then everything in between. That's
a great platform for you guys tobe on. Ocklahoma is a big name.
They built that like crazy over thelast sixteen years, so it's good
to be a part of that.I can imagine. Yeah, that was
badass, dude. Yeah, absolutely, And then well twenty two we keep
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on, you know, playing,but we were in parallel working for this
new album, the three three.We've released the last minute. We got
signed with Avenue Records. Okay,they're based in LA and everything, so
everything is looking like very promising.That's good to hear. Take me backwards
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a little bit though, So Mindof Fury started in twenty fourteen and then
you released the first record in twentyseventeen. So for that three year period,
were you guys just you know,kind of gelling together, playing shows,
what and writing songs? How comethe three year period? What took
you? I guess, I guesswhat I'm asking is what took you so
long to write a third first recordin three years? Yeah? The thing
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was that, well, I metHenry and Mike by the end of fourteen,
so basically it's fifteen, right,So I had Mike had like three
songs ready to go, but there'snothing to you know, have next to
those three songs. So I wrotethe other ones and I wrote one with
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Mike, so we completed the albumten songs. Their main idea was to
have my in my mind, itwas to have a band like you imagine
Pintera, but with a melodic voicelike you know, like back in the
day. Yeah, yeah, likeif you knew. There were songs from
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a lot of people don't know,but their first the way they were in
the eighties with Terry Glaze, itwas that the main inspiration wants to be
like still Dragon from the band fromthe movie Rock Startars, but with more
aggressive sound. Yeah, I getthat. I get that definitely. On
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the song I heard the screaming insilence for sure. That whole vibe is
right there. So we're very sometimeswe're very trashy, like very trash metal,
technical and all that stuff. Butthe good thing about our band or
our music is that we can dothat. We can do the hard rock
thing, we can do the ballad, we can do the acoustic song,
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so you can go all over theplace. We have a lot of color.
But when you listen to the album, it works yep as a whole,
which is great because it's all melodic. Yeah, it's not like,
I don't know, you hear risefrom the album vulgar display of power and
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then in the but you don't hearthat kind of style with Sanitary Gates.
Absolutely guess the first one, thefirst major label Panterra album, it kind
of worked almost hell, you know, it's melodic, it's not that aggressive,
but vulgar is. It got progressivelymore and more as it went on
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to to Vulgar, to great SouthernTrendkill to far beyond driven sorry, then
Southern and then and then it cameback around gets very now the riffs and
all that, the groove is stillthere, but vocally gets very yeah yeah,
not less melodic and less melodic.Absolutely our case we do. The
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voice is very melodic, but thebackground changes so so let me ask you,
then, from the first record tothe second one, did you make
that transition where you kind of wantedOkay, so let's say on the first
record you were melodic as you wereat that time, did you consciously try
to make it mar melogics still heavyon the second record going into that were
you trying to I guess, gofurther and further with that style between record
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one and two? Mm hm,well I maybe. Well basically, the
only thing I can say it's thatyou can't unless I can't, you know.
Now I'm gonna be like this,I can't. Yeah, you know,
it's it's whenever it comes, youknow, whatever. You know,
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it never works when you say I'mgoing to do the heaviest song ever.
Yeah, it never works like that, you know. But you wanted to
make sure you didn't repeat yourself onthe first record. You wanted to do
something a little bit different, rightof course, changing the words, changing
the chords and stuff, but youwanted to have something different than what was
on the first still have a style, but you wanted to kind of build
on that couple the first one.It's it's kind of it's it has like
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a couple. Well, it's powermetal, but it's the same at the
same time, it's groove metal.You know. The second one, Uh
well, the first one too ishard rock, then the first the second
one it has the same elements,but it more towards power metal, you
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know, like double Cake. Youknow, fast songs in tricky riffs,
but they still have like we stillhave a song that it's like kind of
southern southern, like I don't know, Lenyard Skinner, but with steroids,
you know what I mean. No, And the third one it's it's it's
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heavier but it's but it's softer.At the same time. You have a
ballad where it starts with acoustic guitarsand it builds up until the end.
Yeah, and we have a progressivekind of song. I know it sounds,
but when you listen to the album, you're like, oh, it's
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all related. Yeah, it allmakes sense, which is which is cool
because a lot of bands, alot of newer bands will just release singles
and videos and put them out thereon YouTube or whatever, and they'll just
do a few, release some andthat's it. But your whole goal was
to make a record that was cohesive, that sound together that I think that
should be mentioned too, because youwant to make actual records, and when
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you could have just done singles andsongs and put them out there and if
you like it, great, cometo our show and buy buy a shirt,
whatever. But the fact that you'redoing records at this stage of the
game is pretty cool, yeah,because I, well, I always did
records back in the day, Liketwenty years ago, I released my first
album with Mind Sorry, with HumanFactor. Before that, I was part
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of another band that was called WitchPlayed, and it was just a guitar
player that came into the band andreplaced the original guitar player. Then I
did Human Factor with the other guysand we really these two albums. But
my my concept of being in aband is to play our own material.
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So when you released an album,it's your music, it's ten songs.
Immediately as you as you released analbum, you can go and play a
show in our show forty five minuteshow because you're playing your music. Then
with the second album, you cando an hour and a half or an
hour and fifteen minutes, I don'tknow. And if you have three albums,
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you can do I don't know,last Last Saturday and well play fifteen
songs. No, Wow, that'sa big set where you got three albums
of pole from so now you cando that versus that's the idea, you
know, play your own thing.I don't. I don't understand when the
band it's brand new, they releasedtwo singles or something and they do a
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show and play I don't know,three songs and four covers. What the
dude, what the hell's that youneed to read? Yeah, I'm not
a musician, but I kill youselfas a band. That is credible that
people will say, you know what, I love these guys. They have
the balls to, you know,go on stage and play their own ship.
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Well, that's it, that's it. Do you think that's because I'm
not a musician. But do youthink they a lot of confidence in either
new material or be how well itwill go over that they just think,
oh, we'll stick to what peopleknow because we want to, you know,
get people to the show. We'regoing to play songs we know.
Do you think it's like lack ofconfidence in their in their in their songs
that they play covers instead? Ilisten. I don't. I'm not in
your opinion, not a specific personor people, but just in your opinion.
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Do you think a band when itdoes, Oh, it's easier,
Yeah, it's easier er. Let'splay a couple of tunes and then it's
like, of course, I understandfor simple if you're in a tribute band
or a cover band, it's veryclear to me that you're you're not into
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writing songs. You don't have thecall or you don't you can't. But
you're a good musician and you needto play music. You want to make
a living, and that's cool,and that's what you do perfect. I
totally respect that. I understand there'sa lot of art behind that too.
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You have to sound like somebody else. If you want to be really good,
you have to study that musician inparticular and imitate it to a team.
You have to be that guy.It's not easy to do, but
and that's probably that's hard, butit's easier than say, you know what,
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this is me, this is mymusic. I will play what I
write and I'm going to stand becauseof this, and I don't know,
I will cross the desert to getto paradise with this. This is my
ship. You know. That's anamazing way to put it. Yeah,
I love the way you put thatacross the Desert ticket. That's amazing.
Yeah, no, I hear you. For the third record that you've done,
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now, did you have outside producersworking with you as far as getting
the record together? Did you kindof self produce it? How did they
come together? Self produced? Selfproduced? Self produced? I like,
I know what I want to hear, you know, I I like the
way we sound trying to capture thaton their album and the album is done.
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Like we play live, we don'thave rhythm guitars. When I do
solo, it's bass. It's bass, the drums and this and me soloing.
Ye, there's a power treo likeCream or Van Halen was at some
point Triumph, all those bands,Pantera when the you know, Dying Bag
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was soloing. You can hear Rexin the background with Vinie Paul. Yeah,
there was no rhythm guitar. Itwas the three is the instrumental Yeah,
exactly. That's our concept, youknow, so have a very Meanwhile,
I'm doing all this crazy stuff havingMiki playing in the background with with
with Henry, you know, andthey fill in out all the holes,
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and you know, that's that's thespirit of our band. All live all
real, no backing tracks, onehundred percent live. That's that's what that's
the way to do it. That'swhy I love the respect for the live
performance. And sometimes you know,in studio you use keyboards to do some
stuff, you know, so Iwe rely on the backing truck for that,
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Yeah, which I have no problemwith. You're not going to carry
keyboard player around with you. Itcosts money, it costs another person on
the road. I get that peopleare not going to bring for a keyboard
partner song. You're not gonna know, you're not gonna lose out. But
you're singing, You're playing guitar,exact, playing bass. You have Mickey
playing drums like they're doing it forreal. It's not click tracks. That's
all real stuff. Harmony part guitar. I have a pedal that does it
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for me. So we tried tosound as close. Basically, the album
is like a representation of how weplay live. That's cool, that's good.
So my main concept, I'm froma different you know, I'm from
I was a child in the eightiesand my dad was a musician, and
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I don't know, it was atime where you turn on TV and you
see musicians, and that's what youwant to do, you know. I
see that even I don't know,the commercial mainstream music was having amazing musicians.
You know, I don't know MichaelJackson, beat It. You have
a Van Hale and then we haveWhite Lion and Van Hale and and I
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don't know Europe Bon Jovi amazing musicians. You know. Then after that,
but we have Metallica, Mega Death, Pantera, so and then European guys
like Invan Momstain and all this stuff. Like that was the thing. And
when you like, if I capturesome oh there's a live showing you.
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Oh man, they play exactly thesame. That's amazing. I want to
be like them, dude. Theybrought it for real and they brought it.
Yeah, some things it wasn't exactlylike the record, but you know
they could play. There are realmusicians that really play. There's no auto
tune, no songwriters. Yeah,you know, they were like superhero superheroes
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to me, Deep Purple Man CaliforniaJam. I'm like, yeah, dude,
yeah, so that was my wayof feeling. Are you made?
And you know jujus priests like yousee them live and you're like, oh
my God, these guys are reallyfor real. Yeah, so no,
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one day if I have a band, we're gonna play live and it's gonna
be even better than the out orsomething like that. You know, that's
true. So production wise, ourmus cigar or album sounds pretty like we
do. That's the thing. Wetry to take the stage into the studio.
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So when somebody listens to Oh myGod and then go to the show,
wow, there's no you know,yeah, what they hear on the
record, they're going to get agood representation live. They're going to see,
oh, this is the band thatmade that record. This isn't a
studio creation. This is a realband who made a record and now they're
going to bring it to you onthe stage. That's cool. Which which
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have about documentary out now about themtoo, if anyone's ever seen that on
Paramount Plus. There's a good documentarybehind the scenes of that. Because what
I find funny about Milli Vanilli isthat they were crucified back then for not
peering on the record. But howmany pop artists now that play you don't
know, there's like fifteen sixteen songwriters. You don't know if it's really them
singing, they use auto tune.They can't sing live, it's all backtracks.
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I mean, it seems like that'saccepted now. It's like, what
do they do wrong back in nineteenninety Everyone does it now. It's crazy.
I'd be pissedify for them. I'msure they air Walt Fatmore. Van
is the guy who's still alive.I'm sure he's pissed about that. But
it's like, it's what I'm saying. The culture was different. The culture
acceptance of what we would accept haschanged. No, the culture was you
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gotta be talented. Probably the representationwas you have to be talented, hard
working musician. For example, ifI mentioned a name like Whitney Houston,
oh my god, that moment.Can't can sing? Yeah, she didn't
even write her song, No,but it was such how she brought him
to life, Yeah, exactly.Or Mariah Carey or whatever, Lady Gaga.
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Maybe it's the last one. Yeah, I would agree. Maybe it's
garbage. I hear you, whatis that bullshit cardib or whatever it is.
It's not alive, it's not real. It's a studio creation. That's
ridiculous. And even if it's notlisten, and if even if it's she
can't do exactly the same live.Dude, what the fuck? I can
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do it too, Yeah, butshe can't do it live. Cardi B.
She can't do it live. It'sa track. There was a video
of her throwing her microphone. Someonethrew a drink at her. She threw
her microphone. You can still hearher rap or whatever coming through. That's
bullshit, I mean, but nobodycared about that. All they cared about
was, oh, she threw shehit a fan with her microphone. They
didn't care for the fact. Ohwait a minute, I'm listening to a
CD on stage. Can't get overthat. That's I'm from that kind of
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era. Yeah. Well, Iwas a very early bloomer if you talk
about music. So I started playingwhen I was eleven. So I always
admire that, and that's what Iwant to do. I want to,
you know, my inspire people tobe a musician or be better, give
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a lot of entertainment, happiness tobe That's my purpose. The others to
see like it's possible to do it, and if you want to do it,
you got to work hard for it. Then be good, be a
good musician, good guitar player,good singer. Try to at least I
tried to by going back with thebeginning of mind the theory. We wrote
the songs, we had an album, but we want to be like Van
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Halen or Pantera, where we werefour guys. I was the guitar player,
Mickey bass and Henry on drums,and a singer that we couldn't find,
Like, you can't find anyone,and you can't do it. You
can't find someone, do it right, do it yourself. So it was
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the guys are looking at me like, dude, we heard you, we
heard you. You can play andsing. Why don't you try it?
Did you audition people and you werekind of giving them guide vocals and then
they just weren't hitting it or didyou just say forget it? You weren't
even going to look like how didthat kind of one guy that came to,
you know, to update, Iimmediately record him and he was intimidated
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by that. Yeah, and thenno, no, I don't want to
do it. Then I found anotherguy that was super talented but was very
flaky, and it couldn't get himto come and audition. Yeah. So
it was a pain in the ass. And it's twenty sixteen and come on,
(29:25):
man, dude, it's ridiculous.So hey, I will give it
a try. Recorded all the songs, finished the album. This is just
as you're making the first record.So originally it was going to be somebody
else singing. But then after allthis, you know, you know it
didn't work out. You just yousang on it. So it could have
been someone else singing on the firstrecord, but obviously it didn't work out,
which is probably for the better.Yeah, the other guys are happy
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to me. It's not bad.It's a pain in the ass, but
it's a pain in the ass.But it's no going back now. I
mean, after if you do afourth record, there's no point going back.
Now. You know what for thisone, we're gonna we're gonna have
a different singer, gonna change thesound of the band, because the singer
is the main, you know,one of the main ingredients of a band
identifiable. Right. So no,and I am listen, I already I
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always I will always be in kindof a front man in a way.
I'm good talking to people on stage. I know what to say, what
to do, and I don't knowstage rap. Yeah, I have the
thing I guess so. And Ialways did backing vocals, so I was
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very used to play and sing atthe same time. That had to change,
of course, got a instead ofhaving a stand man, use the
headset thing. Yeah, yeah,cover it with my hair so it doesn't
look like I have one, Soit looks like you're just singing into nothing,
Like where's that sound coming from?How can we hear him? Not
up there doing this and just havea little thing that people can't see if
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they're far away, so they'll belike, oh, he's just wow.
He can really shout. I canhear him all the way in the back
of the the back of the room. What a powerful voice. Yeah.
The problem that, oh I haveto be as good as a guitar player
on stage. Yeah, and onrecord, I have to find my own
boys. So but I managed tofind it and then reproduce that live life
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wasn't never a problem to me.But I had a problem recording. I
wasn't liking it in my voice,but somehow I produced it so I can
like what I do. That's good. No, that's great to hear.
It's great to hear with the timethat we have left, because this thing
doesn't last long you can see thetimer going down six seven five four three.
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I want to hit you with acouple of questions here. You referred
to me by our mutual acquaintance Markand Benski. He's the one that got
me, got you on my radar. How did you meet him sign up
with him? Of course he's basedin Florida, so obviously there's a connection
there. But how did you Iguess for this record you kind of partner
with him. How did that cometogether with you and Mark? For Son
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Boom guests up there? Record labelRock Aveny Records said, oh, and
we have we have a booking agentthere so that works with our artists and
he manages bands and stuff like that. So we thought we did it like
a conference call and we talked withthe three parts like band, him,
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manager, and records on the otherside, and like, wow, wow,
it was good. He came toone of our shows and he's like
liking it. So we're super excitedabout it too. He's like, man,
you gotta check this band out.He sent me that song, Like
I said, screaming in silence.He's like you gotta you gotta talk to
gotta you gotta talk to him andget this, uh, get this happening.
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I said, yeah, well we'llmake it happen because I'm all about
hearing new music too. So yeah, he's super pumped about You impressed him
for sure. Yeah yeah, Iguess it's because of that because we we
tried to when we played live.That's our thing. Hm, you know
the same fo exactly too. Yeah, like wow, these guys are I
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don't know. Sometimes we have theSome people have come, dude, you
guys sound like you're more than threeguys. Yeah, you know, something
like that, and they wonder,oh, what's going on back there?
They wonder if you have a backingtrack or something. You sound almost too
good? You ever have that comparison? Do you ever have that accusation?
Yeah? That comes up too.It comes up with bands like def Leppard
two a lot too. They don'tsee the work that goes in behind the
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scenes. Yeah, yeah for sure. Does Mark have you guys for twenty
twenty four as far as touring nationallyaround the country? Does he have you
shows booked up? Or do youwhat's coming up for you guys from mindor
Fury touring wise? Oh, we'redoing December eighth, the release party of
our well, the party the releasealbum? How do you call that the
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album release party? So it's notout yet. I thought three was already
released. It's not. It's comingout. No, it's it's out,
but we haven't. Are you doinga party after its release? Okay?
The album release party is coming inDecember right in Florida. That's what is
happening. Where's that happening in Florida? For those who can check it,
Russ Monk in Tampa, Florida,in Tampa, Okay, cool, d
yes, people can come and checkthat out. And then as far as
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that goes for next year at twentytwenty four, do you have shows booked
around the country or in Florida?What's going on live shows? Label?
The label is working on that.They already put us in a lot on
a lot of festivals. So wedon't know yet if we got them or
not, but supply very soon we'regonna know. Yeah, so you won't
know until closer to the days.I would imagine hopefully soon, so you
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guys can prepare and get and getrehearsals together. But hopefully that comes down
we can go and do it now. Okay, I love it. Confidence
so I can go right now,I can I can jump on stage right
now. I love that comments.A lot of guys don't have that.
That's great. I have the Traderright there. So it's just put the
wall of Marshall inside and you seethat. That's it. It's gorgeous.
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I know, if you're looking onvideo you can see that's very very cool.
I mean, that's a great backdrop, and that's that's obviously they're not
fake. They're real Marshals behind you. They're not just boxes. I'll look
at that. Yeah, yeah,it's the real thing. So we're like,
actually we have eighteen songs prepared forany waiting for osh for a show.
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Okay. So our last show wasSaturday night this week and well last
week and we played an hour anda half fifteen songs. So we're ready.
We're ready to headline, ready toopen, ready for whatever, you
know. We that's that's that's theconcept of our band. Are you ready
(35:43):
to go? Yes? Okay,gool, that's amazing, that's that's great.
That's great. So before I letyou go, where can people find
out more about Minded Fury? Doyou have a you have a website?
Are you on Instagram? Facebook,Tech Talk Where what's your social out there?
Where can people find you connect withyou? You can go to Facebook
or Instagram, it's all of that. It's at Mind the Fury Band.
(36:10):
If you go to social media atMind the Fury Band. If you go
to our website Mindefury band dot com, and you can find us on te
Spring as well, where you canfind all our merch Mind the Fury Official
Store, t Spring, t ee Spring, like the season and Mind
(36:32):
the Fury gear whatever, and youwill find everything there too. Spotify the
same thing we're in Spotify where we'rebasically in all the platforms. That's good.
Do you have Google Music, ApplePlay, YouTube Music, Spotify,
Pandora, We're all over the place. That's good. And do you have
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physical copies of your three records?Like people can buy CDs if they want,
or vinyl they really want to getour physical on our website. You
can order them there. And thelatest one is gonna come soon. It's
gonna come out soon. We're waitingfor the album Reactual physical. Yeah,
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I know it takes a little bitlonger. Is there vinyl records too?
For those who are interested in that. I know it's a little bit more
expensive to produce those. But areyou on the vinyl kick Yeah, I
will love to, but it's coming. I think it's going to be something
invisible, you know, like I'mthinking, well, I don't know,
I'm that kind of person that is, like, you know, maybe not
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very far in the future, wecan have a box hit, Yeah,
vinyl after the next record. Fourin a box, that'll be perfect there.
Get your next record out, yeah, maybe with we'll play it with
pictures and information stuff like that,you know, some guitar picks, yes,
little things for the fans. Youcan see their minor fury. You
can see it on video too,very very cool. Something limited, but
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if you get it, you canhave it personalized with the signature of the
three members and everything like that.I think that would be I think it's
very very cool too. I appreciateyour time and getting to know you in
the band. Of course, weonly scratch the service, but I look
forward to hearing more songs and puttingthis out for people who don't know about
your band to come and check itout and come and see a show around
Florida around the rest of the country. When you get on some festivals this
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summer, It's gonna be a bigsummer for you guys, and I hope
to you know, check in againwhen you have new music coming out and
new stuff we can chat again.It's good to connect with you. Stay
heavy, listen to Mind the Fury. Thank you very much. I appreciate
all the support and stay heavy fansof metal. Absolutely, You've been listening
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