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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.

00:27He's always in the shadows, but everyone wants him to be there.

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

00:32I'm running out of time.

00:35I know I die today.

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

00:41It's just waiting in the wings for the next big artist.

00:44Rock ain't dead.

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

00:47I'll find my way back home.

00:53I feel it.

00:54I dream it.

00:55Can't walk away from it.

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

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

01:02We 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 over 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 being against the wall, but breaking free from that wall and 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 have provided was so intensely addicting that I had to sort 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.

02:04I don't know if we can do much else, so we've got to do this.

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

02:11This is it.

02:12Please join us.

02:15With our backs against the wall.

02:19No strength to carry on.

02:23Get out, set me free.

02:27Who would you say are the kind of cornerstones of your sound?

02:31Who are the guys who you're really channeling?

02:33The core people that usually is who we grew up with, you know, like Alter Bridge,

02:37Shine Down, Blackstone Cherry, Slipknot, Stone Sour.

02:42To a degree, we wear our influences on our sleeve, you know.

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

03:07We want to make sure that it's just seen as an influence.

03:12Let me go.

03:15So we're stuck with our backs against the wall.

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, try and get as many 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.

03:46It's going to make up for lost time, get out there, have some fun.

03:50Because it's been a tough time on everyone, including ourselves, including all of the watchers.

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

03:58We have joy to give.

03:59We just want to give it.

04:10We just want to give.

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