 Here we are at the metal Hall of Fame on the metal voice and with us introducing the new bassist of merciful fate Becky Baldwin not Betsy not Betsy. Don't say Betsy or Betsy All right, so it was just just just recently announced has this been in the works for a while I know that you have been the replacement, right? I mean, I guess like the ideas were floating around for a while, but but you know, it is quite recent still the news I was going to be permanent in merciful fate but I guess you know as any band does like when you've got a lot coming up and there's some kind of I don't want to say insecurity within the band because it's not that it was just kind of like a question about How busy Joey was and I guess it was kind of in the back of the mind and the way that The fans reacted when I did the tour was very positive. So it kind of it was a natural progression I guess so but yeah, it all just kind of came about very very recently in terms of being solidly like yes This is what's happening and you're gonna be a full-time member of merciful fate Was it King's Waif that brought you in originally? I think the the main person for bringing me into the picture was Hank Sherman. So he was the person who Suggested me when they started looking at like, okay Well, actually like this whole list of male bass players that we're looking through It doesn't have to be a guy like who else do we know that there are we like should we start looking somewhere else? Because you know, there aren't any women on this list and maybe I could be a thing that could work out the merciful fate And then I was kind of at the top top of Hank's list And then when he showed King and and the rest of the management stuff some of my videos It was literally the weekend of bloodstock the stock festival and in the summer of 2022 and they were like, okay Let's let's go. Let's go to bloodstock and she's gonna be at bloodstock festival. Let's ask her there The reality is they're all aging like we all do and it's nice to have new blood in the band, right? Are you looking forward to perhaps injecting some songwriting as well? I mean, I think like the songwriting is still gonna be very much King Diamond and Hank Sherman Kind of heading up most of that But definitely writing bass lines, you know, I've studied up all of Timmy's like bass lines like very meticulously now and so I really feel like I can Bring some of that into into the new bass lines for the next record There's a merciful fate scare you their legacy their history of all this satanic stuff. Oh, right. No, not really like I Mean, I guess it just their legacy in itself is scary Like it's you know, it's such a big thing It is such a big part of my life growing up there It's all just very daunting, I guess and I trying to get it right is daunting and scary But the satanic stuff. No, really There you have it Becky Baldwin the new bassist for merciful fate as well as Fury, yes, so do you have anything to promote with fury? Our latest albums called born to sin, please like stream that online and buy it from our website furyofficial.co.uk And then yeah, we'll be coming out with a new album hopefully later this year. All right, there you have it Becky Baldwin