Chords for Interview with Spencer Sotelo from Periphery for IV album Hail Stan

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Hey guys, this is Spencer from Periphery and you're watching Loud TV.
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You know what, it actually was a much easier process than you'd think
because we had the liberty of taking so much time in between.
You know, say if we got burnt out on writing or if we wanted to really
sit with a song, we had the luxury and time to do so and we've never had
more than about four months to write and
record any record that we've ever done.
So this was a big _
leap for [Abm] us in terms of having time to do a record.
It was really nice.
_ _ _ The biggest thing was I think this is the easiest record we've ever made, even though it may not
sound like it.
Like you said, it's chaotic, it's fast-paced,
it's dark, and it sounds very much like
people were in turmoil while making it, but it was so easy.
_ The relationships all of us have as bandmates with each other
have never been this good ever.
All the stuff we've been through in the past
and everything, _ _ I don't know, I feel like this
album was truly an album that best friends got together
and that's why it ended up turning out so good because of the relationship
we all have with each other now.
So this time around, _ usually
I've had my good friend Taylor Larson track me on vocals
and he would mainly process it and we'd sit and do the effects together.
This time around, I did all the recording myself, aside from
one song, _ which was Reptile.
The long song,
it's the last song that I tracked and I was just burnt out by that time, so I
hired a friend, his [G] name's Ernie _ Slankovich, a good friend [Abm] of mine,
to come in and engineer and [G] track me and get the takes down. _ _
_ Aside from that, it was all done by me this time around
and all the processing and effecting and everything, and then brought the stems to
me and Nali and Nali mixed the record.
_ Everything just done in-house pretty much.
[N] I just let the songs tell me what they needed.
I never went into anything being like, well I want to try and fit this
style in here or do this specifically.
It was just like, what is this calling for?
Oh, if this section's nutty, I gotta be fucking nutty.
_ And not think about how I'm gonna perform it live, how I'm gonna pull it off.
Just do what the song calls for and then I'll figure it out later.
That's kind of my
whole thing going into this record.
The album's got this dark vibe
to it that none of our other albums have.
_ I'd say that's
kind of the album's identity is the darkness and heaviness of it.
[G] It kind of took a different turn than most of our albums take.
We also did choir this time around as well.
We've never done a real choir
on [N] any record, so _ we've kind of broken some new ground
on a bunch of different aspects on this.
It all just came out
because we had time to actually think about things we wanted to add into the record. _
_ Our good friend Randy Slaw _
_ does kind of orchestral and choral compositions
and he found out that we had a bunch of that style of things
going into our record.
So he hit up Misha and said, if you guys want to
do it for real, I can have some people come in here in the studio
and you guys can just send me the demos and I'll figure out the way
and everything needs to be composed.
We didn't do it for every single choral
or orchestral part on the record, but a [A] bunch of them we did. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ It's _ [Abm] meant to be just kind of like a typo,
_ stupid internet style meme thing.
To me, everybody in the band
if you ask them what it means to them or what the meaning of it is, you'll probably
get a different answer.
_ It really doesn't have a meaning, but to
me, it's like you can spend a whole year making this record
and taking it [G] very seriously and making sure it's perfect and [N] exactly what you want it to be
but at the end of the day, you still shouldn't take yourself too seriously.
That's how I feel about it.
It's like slapping this stupid title
on a record that we put so much hard work into is always going to be a reminder
to me of not to take myself too seriously.
I think that's a good
thing to keep in mind.
That ties into the whole
Hail Satan [G] thing, the whole seriousness of the Hail Satan
and it would just make it even more funny to put a bafflement on it and make it look
like [Gb] it's this serious thing, but it's like, wait a second, it's missing [N] an A.
All of a sudden, the whole thing just has no relevance at all. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ We're actually going out in a little over a month in the States for three weeks with a band
called Dance Gavin Dance.
_ We're supporting them.
They're going to be headlining and this is the first support tour we've done in about four years.
It's kind of a big deal for us to be playing to a lot of
people that don't necessarily know our music and if they do, they don't necessarily
not necessarily huge fans of us.
It'll be cool to
try and make some new fans, get out in front of new people.
It's going to be a fun time.
Then after that, we have a couple things that we're working on.
Nothing's set in stone
yet.
Maybe we'll be back here later this year.
Not _ definitely,
but probably.
_ _ Headlining. _ _
_ _ We'll be doing a couple headliners this year throughout
different parts of the world. _ _ _ _
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[Gb] _ [G] _ [Ebm] _ _ [G] _ I'm just being a fucking bitch.
[B] _ _ [Gb] _ [C] _ Let [Gb] _ [G] _ [Ebm] me go.
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_ [Eb] Let me go and [Gb] suck your [Gm] wet dick.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ [A] I don't want it.
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