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good things will happen ���

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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i've just pulled out some interesting quotes from the metal hammer article for myself and anyone else interested. anything bolded for emphasis by me.

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George Lever [Sleep Token producer 2016-2021]: The starting point was removing this idea of the music you listen to being related to the person making it. By being anonymous, the listener is forced to relate to what they're actually hearing.

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James Monteith [Tesseract guitarist/publicist at Hold Tight PR]: I was approached by Tom Quigley, who was a scene regular and ran a few blogs at the time. He said he was working with this new band, would be maybe be interested in doing their press? We ended up talking for an hour, and he rolled out the whole concept, the imagery and everything about it... other than the music.

George: The lore/narrative was pretty loose still, but it definitely existed.

James: There was nothing specific as such, more this idea of creating an occult vibe and feeling, led by this prophet-like charater who leads a religion.

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George: A lot of the first EP was actually us trying stuff out. We recorded the drums on a whim at Monnow Valley Studio in Wales. I introduced him to one of my friends, who actually still drums in them now.

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James: We always got requests [for interviews], but the band said from the start they were anonymous and wouldn't do them. It helped create more curiosity because nobody could get access to them.

Matt Benton [Metal Hammer writer]: You can't do an introductory piece without an interview. We managed to get an agreement for an email interview with Metal Hammer. Even then, the band knew they didn't want a voice.

Matt: It's one of only a few interviews they've ever done. It's something I'm glad exists, because it's like getting the Word Of God.

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George: I had freedom to offer interpretations of what I was hearing. It was a very fortunate combination of personalities and ideals. There was never any, 'We're going to take over the world' -type chat. It was more, 'Do we like this? Let's do more of that.'

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Nathan Barley Phillips [co-founder of Basick Records]: Trying to keep some sense of anonymity was a real mission. Particularly getting them to and from the stage [at Great Escape festival 2018] without anyone seeing who they were.

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George: We did Sundowning in three months - we went from demo to final master being released in just 12 weeks. We didn't have days off; we'd do seven in the morning until seven, eight or even nine at night every day for three months. We were in each other's pockets; we'd go to the gym together, swim, do the sauna... All this stuff to recover from being sat down all the time. There was a lot of time to spend holistically being friends making this record. We didn't know how to make this thing, but we had a confidence that we'd get there in the end. That's my favourite three-month period of my life.

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George: We started making [TPWBYT] and the first day was when lockdowns began. Tomb... was tough for all of us emotionally. There were lifestyle pressures as a result of the lockdown that made it not very conducive to making art that is supposed to be welcoming. A lot of those songs are, in one way or another, about love, love being lost or remorse, they are compassionate tales that are designed to bring the listener towards the artist. It's hard to do that when it feels like the world is going to end.

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Matt: I've got friends in merchandising and they say Sleep Token shift more merch than any other UK heavy band - more than even Iron Maiden.

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Nathan: Bands like Ghost and Sleep Token aren't successful because they wear masks. They're successful because they write great music. Masks don't mean anything if the music isn't any good.

Matt: I'll be interested to see, when the first official TV movie of the band gets made, the difference between the reality of what happened and the story that gets told. In a way, the myth becomes reality.

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happy wet beast wednesday.

a gift for @moonchild-in-blue

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A clip from Sleep Token's first live performance ever?! Opening for Motorphsycho, October 23rd, 2017

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Yes. There is a certain level of responsibility that needs to be taken for your own behaviour, including self-sabotage.

It's not easy. Being honest with yourself rarely is. At some point though, you have to figure out what is worth it to you: keep chasing a standard that's going to realistically become increasingly unobtainable (and frankly, in terms of looks and perpetual youth, completely unrealistic and impossible) or just fucking try to live your best life.

I totally and completely relate to how annoying it is to hear the toxic discourse of other women in your life about beauty and youthfulness. Like Grandma you're 85, you probably don't have long left on this earth, just live your best life? Whew.

i can't be the only one who's just straight-up ... bored with women hating themselves. my mom keeps lamenting to me how upset she is about her gray hair. my friend stares at her laugh lines every day in agony. my sister loses sleep over the horrible unbearable thought of looking fat. and every time these women i love open up to me, i can't help but think ... then stop staring at yourself? stop drowning yourself, narcissus, and just fucking live your life instead of sitting in front of a mirror obeying cosmetic corporations' lies. just stop it. this is getting ridiculous. you're too smart to be falling for this bullshit. "oh no but these men who hate women told me that if i'm ugly i'm worthless!" girl if you actually believe that then good luck. but i am getting worse at being supportive of people whose nonsense worldviews keep them trapped in pain. stop looking at yourself start fucking living i am pleading you deserve to be happy and it is stupid that you disagree

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Sassiest drummer in metal!

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Will I ever be over the height difference?!

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📸: @ adamrosssi

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I wonder if Vess will sit up on the stage like a statue again like the last listening party

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Imagine if Past Self has references or snips from Baby Ves’s old music, people would die

Wow did you guys hear something? Hm. Strange.

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honestly instead of signing up for a listening party, they should have had us sign up for an internet safety training.

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Hey.. *throws this and runs away*

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A lil thing I wanted to try with iii ‘cause he’s such an icon ✨✨✨ he rocks any hairstyle and any combo of outfits and I’m here for it

(This was a really experimental piece but I hope y’all will like it :> )

[NOT FOR SALE]

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Yeah that's right, a political post.

I'm very happy the Liberals won in Canada, but it's looking like a minority government.

Of course the hayseeds in my town elected a guy who is for conversion therapy, hates women, minorities, and is an all-round gross trustfund puke baby, yet again because a con candidate in this area could be a literal blue potato and they'd vote for it.

Sigh.

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What the UK Supreme Court decision has proved is that a wide range of politicians across different political parties do not understand what they're doing at a fundamental level.

In this video, the former Tory Chief Secretary, Simon Clark, essentially blue screens when it's posed to him that there's a risk in forcing trans men to use women's toilets as it can easily be abused by predatory cis men.

He has absolutely no answer, and anyone with one fucking iota of intelligence should have considered the ramifications of the Supreme Court decision.

But for many politicians, it is right wing ideological culture war pish above all else - and any politician who has pushed this line but can't answer this question is utterly incompetent and should be banned from any position of power.

If this is their approach to policy on trans people, it's absolutely their approach in other policy areas. Completely fucking farcical.