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Video Exclusive: The Scottish hot-tips reveal the rocky road to Against The Wall – and the rewards of making music their way

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00:00I mean, do you think rock and roll can still surprise people?

00:17Do you think it's still got juice left in the tank?

00:20Rock and roll will always be there.

00:22It's like it's always sort of been the villain, but everyone wants the villain.

00:26It's like Batman, you know, he's in the shadows, but everyone wants him to be there.

00:30It's like the hero of music rock, almost.

00:38Yeah, it's the underdog, isn't it?

00:40It's always, it's just waiting in the wings for the next big artist.

00:44Rock ain't dead.

00:45Rock's got some fighting to do.

00:57What did you want this album to be?

00:59Did you have a vision of how you wanted it to turn out?

01:03We didn't want it just to be the straight rock, rock, rock, rock, rock.

01:06You know, we just wanted to try and add different things to the songs.

01:09At the start, we overcame a lot.

01:11And this album sort of like is an impression of what our life has been like

01:16over the last sort of five years.

01:18So there's been bad times, but there's been really good times.

01:21And the message of like being against the wall, but breaking free from that wall

01:25and, you know, being who you think that you're meant to be.

01:29That came about quite naturally.

01:39Another song that has been really standing out for people is DNA.

01:43I mean, what's that one written about?

01:45The music that James and the band had provided was so intensely addicting

01:50that I had to sort of kind of try and find this metaphor for it.

01:53And what I came to was DNA.

01:55And that was in my core.

01:58And it's in the core of this album.

02:00It's in the core of everything that we do.

02:02We're addicted to this.

02:03We, I don't know if we can do much else.

02:06So we got to do this.

02:07And it's just an overall kind of this is what we love.

02:11This is it. Please join us.

02:26Who would you say are the kind of cornerstones of your sound?

02:30Who are the guys who you're really channeling?

02:32The core people that usually is who we grew up with, you know,

02:35like Alter Bridge, Shinedown, Blackstone Cherry,

02:39like Slipknot, Stone Sour.

02:41To a degree, we wear our influences on our sleeve, you know.

02:45For me, rhythmically, when I'm trying to bring something in,

02:48I'm coming from different angles as well.

02:50I used to listen to a lot of hip hop and sort of funk music.

02:54So, yeah, there's so many different things coming in,

02:56but at its core, it's modern melodic rock, you know.

03:00We don't particularly want to just, you know, copy it.

03:03And almost like we've stolen someone's homework kind of thing,

03:07you know, we want to make sure that we're just,

03:09it's just seen as an influence.

03:21We have some catching up to do.

03:22So our plan is to get three years of touring in one year, basically.

03:26And we're going to try and hit the roads,

03:29try and get as many kind of missed opportunities as we can.

03:33You know, the world has to pause right now to keep as many people safe.

03:37But the moment the government and everyone lets us go,

03:40we're going to do what the Beatles done back in the day.

03:43They just played like 200 shows a year.

03:47It's going to make up for lost time, get out there, have some fun,

03:51because it's been a tough time on everyone,

03:54including ourselves, including all of the watchers.

03:56And we just want to give some joy.

03:58We have joy to give. We just want to give it.

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