Knosiva | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: And joining us right now in studio, we have Nikolay Caine who also his project is called and we were just discussing this before the show. The best way to pronounce it. I think no Siva sounds sounds like, oh, let me get that mic on. I think we agreed on that.

0:14 Speaker 2: Yeah, no Siva.

0:15 Speaker 1: It was either no Siva or Nosova. I was musing about this at the beginning of the show today, like I gotta just ask him, Uh, what's the best way to say this? But but you've got a great new single which we're gonna play playing a little bit, but this Sanctum of the Unseen, which I really like. I can't wait to share this with everybody.

0:34 Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you.

0:35 Speaker 1: And it's brand new, right like because you sounded this to me yesterday, So that's how new the song is.

0:42 Speaker 3: So I've been working on it for like at least the past two weeks, but at the same time, like I completely finished everything within the last like three days.

0:51 Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, so this is very new. We also have you know, last time you were here, we played Eternal Serpent Scream, and you know, we might fit that into today just to kind of remind people of that song. That's that's also a really great track. But what is this So the song Sanctum of the Unseen, what is this about? Exactly?

1:11 Speaker 3: Simply put, it's about how people use religion to brainwash people, and how they use it to poison the minds of youth one way or another, whether it's through you know, forms of abuse, whatever, in rewriting everything that goes on in the world to fit their narrative. Like people have said many times that if you read the Bible, there's a lot of things that seem to be missing, and they've proven that it's been rewritten countless times. So what's real what's not? And I grew up in the Midwest, and the church was something that, you know, originally seemed like a good idea because it was something that I grew up in my with my family, but then it just became very poisonous to me.

1:57 Speaker 3: So it's an amalgamation of all the horrible things that people do in the name of religion.

2:01 Speaker 1: Doing a song like this, did you because you mentioned your background growing up in the Midwest, what was this cathartic for you?

2:07 Speaker 4: Oh?

2:07 Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah.

2:11 Speaker 1: In the lyrics of the song is did you feel like you were kind of saying things that you maybe wanted to say or you were thinking about growing up, Like was it kind of a release in that sense?

2:21 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's the chorus line is underneath the cross, they burn every soul they swore to turn, And that is definitely a obvious reference to like witch hunting. And there's a lot of crazy stuff that's going on in the world right now. And I don't like to use the word witch hunt just because it's used in a very negative connotation, mainly from like the alt right, but it is something that, especially in today's world, is very prominent, and I wanted to put that into this song. And that is also why the image that I sent you is an idea that we're probably gonna end up going with for the album cover.

3:00 Speaker 3: Okay, but that that is why I also picked the photo of the woman burning at the stake.

3:05 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And visually it's it's quite stunning and I really like it and I think it definitely goes goes with the song. Is that is that something? Is that image something you designed or did someone else do that or No.

3:19 Speaker 2: I reached out to Jonah.

3:20 Speaker 3: Actually I think it was like Thursday or Friday, and I was like Hey, this is what I would like to do. Can we do this? Yeah? And then like that day, he messed around with some ideas. The one thing that I definitely wanted to point out, because a lot of people don't notice this for some reason, the photo is a crown of thorns over her eyes like a blindfold instead of a blindfold. And I did that also again as a metaphor of how like religion being poisonous can blind people. So I wanted to make sure that I put that on there as well.

3:53 Speaker 1: Right right. I've always kind of thought of it as the you know, I'm not a religious person myself, but I was. I was raised Catholic, and I've always kind of thought of it as it's it's not that religion itself is bad, it's it's that what people do with it.

4:08 Speaker 2: Oh.

4:08 Speaker 3: Absolutely, Yeah, the concept of religion is not a bad thing to me, because the whole point of Christianity is to treat people the way that you want to be treated and help people when they need it.

4:20 Speaker 2: But all Harry picking a problem.

4:22 Speaker 1: All that Jesus stuff.

4:24 Speaker 3: Yeah, but cherry picking is the issue.

4:28 Speaker 1: All it's beyond. It's to me. To me, organized religion not just Christianity, but organized religion in general, I feel is more political than spiritual. It really has nothing to do with.

4:39 Speaker 2: The problem.

4:40 Speaker 5: You know.

4:40 Speaker 1: It's like what I can't I can never remember the exact quote verbatim, But what was that that Gandhi said? You know, it's about Christianity. It's not that I don't like you know, I like your christ I just don't like your Christians. They are so unlike your christ Yes, or as a close friend of mine used to say, unfortunately passed away, but he used to say he paraph phrase it in his own way. He said, Christianity. He's a great idea. Somebody should try it.

5:03 Speaker 2: Now. It wasn't Gandhi also Hindu or Buddhist or what was he?

5:06 Speaker 1: Hindu?

5:07 Speaker 3: Okay, So what's interesting about that is that no. Siva obviously is a reference to Shiva. And we talked about this last time about how like eternal servent scream and why I chose the name is because it's all about light and dark energies and positive and negative and all that. But yellow is a color that I've been using a lot, Like my contacts are yellow, my nails are yellow, And it's because it's a metaphor that they use in certain religions like Buddhism and Hinduism, and they use it about like your higher self, whether that's nirvana or whatever you want to call it by name.

5:46 Speaker 3: But yellow is a color that is used in those regions of the world to use like metaphorically to show this is about transformation into something new, something better, something higher self.

6:01 Speaker 2: And that's basically what no Civa is all about.

6:04 Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't know that about the color yellow. That's interesting. That's interesting.

6:10 Speaker 2: I wanted to be a theology professor once.

6:12 Speaker 6: Oh no kidding.

6:13 Speaker 3: I have an associate's degree in theology studies, but I didn't know that.

6:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know a lot of people don't.

6:18 Speaker 1: I'll be damned, no pun intended. Oh that's interesting. Well, let's go ahead and play this track. I'm dying to share this with everybody. And this is you know, you get the world premiere bumper ahead of it because it is the It is the world radio premiere. And again this is is this even this isn't even on the streaming services yet, is it?

6:33 Speaker 4: No?

6:34 Speaker 3: This was I made a Facebook page a couple of days ago and I invited a bunch of people so hopefully there are some people that are, you know, watching and might comment or whatever. But I did this as a pre release because I wanted to try and draw more people in before I actually put it out.

6:50 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very good. So here does This is the world radio premiere of the new track from No Civa Sanctum of the Unseen.

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10:57 Speaker 1: I didn't even want to talk over the out event and it's so cool. Love it. Sanctum of the Unseen No Seva and we have Nikolai Kane of No Siva here live in a studio and yeah, I love that track. Anybody in your family hear that.

11:14 Speaker 3: I tried sending it to my brother and he's just not about like he's He's like, I'm proud of you, but like that's just not my thing.

11:20 Speaker 1: Yeah.

11:20 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, by the way, that sounds so much better than I thought it would on the radio.

11:25 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding? Yeah, yeah, good, that's good to hear. Yeah, absolutely, No, I really like that a lot. Tell me about the production of these of the songs that you do and like I said, later, we'll we'll fit in the previous song the last time you were here too, because I really like that one a lot also, But I mean, what's what's your production technique because no Civa is? Is it all you or no?

11:47 Speaker 2: It's me and Jonah, You and Jonah okay, collaborative effort.

11:50 Speaker 3: Yeah, gotch Like I same thing with the one before, Like I'll reach out to him, tell him an idea that I have and we'll work on it together throughout a couple of weeks, months, however long it takes.

12:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, But again it was the same thing as before. The differences.

12:06 Speaker 3: An entire year had gone by, right, and during that time frame, what he was learning to do for production got tremendously better. In a year's time frame, I also practice, my vocals got better at those. I upgraded from like a two hundred dollars microphone to a six hundred dollars microphone.

12:26 Speaker 2: You can clearly tell the difference.

12:27 Speaker 1: Yep.

12:28 Speaker 3: So there was a lot of a lot of time set aside to work on the things that I wanted to work on and practice the things that I wanted to practice, so that if I knew I was going to do this, I wanted to do it right, and I wanted to do it well, right right.

12:45 Speaker 1: And in terms of like you know, instrumentation, guitars and keyboards and everything, is that you is at him?

12:51 Speaker 2: Is that that's Jonah?

12:52 Speaker 1: That's Jonah doing that part?

12:55 Speaker 4: Have you?

12:56 Speaker 1: How did you and Jonah meet? Because obviously this collab operation of the two of you is you know, as as we can hear, it works really well.

13:04 Speaker 3: So to go back to what you were asking a second ago. First, I'll tell you this, My plan is to eventually do more hands on stuff. The reason that it is the way that it is now is because he's all the way in Texas and we're in New England. So if it was more like a thing where I could be in a room with him, I one hundred percent would be doing more hands on. It just works the way that it is, and I appreciate the what it is, so I'm not going to ruin a good thing. You know, why change it if it's good. So as far as meeting him, he was in a band called Asylum Black, which is an industrial metal band and they're also out of Texas, I believe, and that was back in the early early two thousands, back on MySpace days.

13:56 Speaker 3: So I was following him because of that, and then within the last couple of years. I don't remember exactly how I found him. I think I found him through like a mutual friend, like he was in a band with that guy, and I was like, I remember this guy, so I added him. We started talking and that's how that started. And I should point out also because again this isn't released yet, but that is Jonah with me on there vocally, so like the the the chorus part where it's like underneath the cross they burn, his vocals are layered into mind so it sounds like two people.

14:36 Speaker 3: And then the part where it's underneath the altar voiceous cry that's Jonah by myself. But as far as like lyrics and the composition, as far as the idea, the imagery and all that that comes from me, I reach out to him and I say, this is what I want to do.

14:53 Speaker 2: Let's do this.

14:55 Speaker 3: So I reached out to him and I was like, I want you to actually do some Asylum Black stuff on this.

15:01 Speaker 2: Can you do that? And he's like, oh, absolutely, So he was.

15:05 Speaker 3: He was telling me recently that that kind of gave him, you know, little fire under him to get him to be like, oh, I haven't done this in like ten years.

15:13 Speaker 2: This makes me want to do this again.

15:14 Speaker 1: Oh no kidding.

15:15 Speaker 2: So that made me feel good too, because oh that's cool, you know.

15:18 Speaker 3: I'm when I told him, I was like, this is the reason I wanted to work with you in the first place, because of the Island Black. He was like, dude, I haven't heard anybody talk about that band in ten years. That that means a lot to me. So that's that's why I wanted him to be featured on here as a silent black.

15:31 Speaker 1: Oh, that makes sense. That makes sense if you're just joining us. We have nikolay Kine here from No Siva, and we've been talking about the news single spectrum of the I'm sorry, sanctum of the Unseen. I keep wanting to say a spectrum. I don't know why.

15:44 Speaker 2: I can see why.

15:46 Speaker 1: It just kind of looks like it on the screen to me, but I'm so I'm curious. So the previous track that we played, the last time that you were on Eternal Serpent Scream, was the process similar and because you worked with Jonah on that one too, obviously right? So was it was the process similar or I mean, obviously you've made some upgrades, like you said, in terms of the microphone and things that you've learned and things that he's learned too, I'm sure, But I mean, was the basic process similar?

16:14 Speaker 2: Basic process was similar?

16:15 Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was just you know, as we'll get into a little bit later, there were a lot of things that were going on during the timeframe of my life last year that I was kind of doing this Originally I wanted to do it for me, but I was doing it for the wrong reasons. I was trying to impress certain people or you know, backstabby and snake like. I have no you know, affiliation with any of those people anymore. I completely cut them out of my life, right. The basic process, yes, was similar. He didn't do any vocals though.

16:46 Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha, gotcha? Yeah, do you want to talk about that? Like, well, you know what, what's what's been, what's happened to you and what you've been through.

16:54 Speaker 3: And I'm not really sure what I can and can't say, uh being on the radio. But for lack of a better word, there was a lot of persecution type of stuff that was going on. I was dealing with an ax of mine who is involved with the very far al right okay and in and out of court type stuff. So a lot of the time frame that I was trying to work on music, I wasn't in the right headspace. That's mentally taxing as well. Oh yeah, I fell dow a flight of stairs at my job and broke my back and messed up my ACL so I had to completely just stop doing everything physical for a while.

17:36 Speaker 3: And then on top of that I unfortunately got back into the drugs for a little while, and I'm you know, at this point, I think next month it'll be a year that I've been cleaned from that.

17:47 Speaker 1: Good for you, congratulations, that's excellent, excellent.

17:50 Speaker 2: But I just I don't know.

17:51 Speaker 3: I completely changed my entire outlook on life and I tried to be more positive and I don't associate with certain energies of people anymore. If if you serve me no purpose, then I don't want anything to do with you, because if you're just negative, you're gonna drag me down.

18:04 Speaker 2: And I don't write that.

18:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't need that negativity. I'm curious about this. So you actually broke your back's.

18:12 Speaker 3: Yeah, I slipped like a Lombard disc or two or something like that. Yeah, I fell down like a fourteen steps.

18:18 Speaker 1: Oh my god.

18:19 Speaker 2: I used to work for a like a delivery service for food.

18:23 Speaker 1: Yeah.

18:24 Speaker 2: So we would go to these.

18:25 Speaker 3: Restaurants all over New England, and there was one in Boston that at the top of the stairs was slippery.

18:32 Speaker 2: And this is a problem.

18:33 Speaker 3: We had told them several times, like you're gonna make sure this is taking care of the standers. Yeah, and you're pushing a dolly cart down the stairs with like, you know, three hundred plus pounds worth of stuff. And that's all it took is I started to go down, I slipped. Oh my god, like catapulted me over and just right down the stairs.

18:50 Speaker 1: Oh wow. Brutal, brutal. How long were you? How long were you down with that?

18:56 Speaker 3: I mean that I was physically not really able to do a whole lot for I would say the first three or four months, but then I got put on light duty work. But I also, you know, I had to I wasn't on crutches or anything, but I did have to have like physical therapy, yeah, and wear like braces and all that stuff.

19:16 Speaker 2: So it wasn't fun.

19:18 Speaker 1: I am curious. I mean, if you don't want to answer this, I understand, but I'll just ask you know, because you mentioned, you know, returning to returning to the drug use, and I'm curious if that was directly related to your injury, because you know, obviously I can only imagine the I can't imagine the pain that you must have been in.

19:38 Speaker 3: No, I wasn't directed because or related because of that. That was more because of the mental anguish that I was dealing with during the timeframe and all the people and thinking like people that you thought were your friends are stabbing you in the back and talking crap about you behind your back. Yep, that was because of all of that, but just in general, everything that had been going on in the entire war during that time frame was just too much to handle. And I hadn't touched I mean, I drink socially, I don't smoke weed really anymore or anything like that.

20:13 Speaker 3: So doing something like that for the first time in almost two decades of my life, maybe a part of it was like, oh, I'm you know, I'm getting older. I'm almost to my next decade of life. Am I trying to hold on to some form of younger self? And that was why a lot of the things that happened transformed me now into the person that I am. Is a complete opposite. It's more positive. It's about living life to the fullest, so you know, and I've even reached out to other friends who struggle with addiction and trying to be like, hey, you need someone to talk to, hit me up anytime.

20:44 Speaker 1: Mm hmmm hmm. Oh, that's excellent, very that's very positive. Do you still have that job? No, yeah. Good.

20:52 Speaker 2: There's a horrible company work for the people in general. Were just awful on top of it.

20:56 Speaker 1: Really, yeah, how were they about it? Handle in your your injury?

21:02 Speaker 3: They decided they were going to dock my pay by like a good seven dollars underpay and have me push a broom around.

21:10 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was awful. It was just it was not worth my time.

21:12 Speaker 1: Hope you sue them.

21:14 Speaker 2: I tried. Yeah, they they had good lawyers, but it did not work.

21:19 Speaker 1: That's a bummer. Well, so we should play why don't we play this Eternal Serpents scream? This is an Eternal Serpents scream. This is the track that we featured the first time that you were here on the show with us, And you know, I think, uh, I think we should play that since we've been talking about a lot of what you were what you were going through back then, because you even mentioned, you know, so the last time that you were on the show, by the way, because we talked about this a little bit off air, but that was that was kind of during that period, right.

21:46 Speaker 3: Absolutely, it was like at the very beginning of it and it just proggressively got worse.

21:50 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and I couldn't you know, for the record. I mean, I couldn't tell that there was anything wrong, you know, when you were here. But but having said that, I can tell that you're you know, so it's obviously you're in a better place.

22:01 Speaker 2: Now, much better.

22:02 Speaker 1: I mean, I even though I couldn't detect at the time that there was anything wrong, but it was also the first time meeting you as well. Yeah, whereas you know, but I can see the change. I can see the difference in you now, which is very very cool.

22:14 Speaker 3: So I would like to point something out real quick. Yeah, yeah, to any of the people who haven't listened to this before. Obviously this is a year ago that this came out. The production is not as good as the one that we just listened to of the Unseen, so.

22:28 Speaker 2: Just bear with me.

22:29 Speaker 1: But still very good.

22:31 Speaker 3: Though I appreciate that there is an idea that I might toss around to Jonah that either we remix this and remaster it so it sounds just as good and add it to the album, or maybe just strip it down to bare bones and completely redo it.

22:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh interesting, but make it better, you know. Okay, yeah, yeah, absolutely well, but I do think it's really good, and that's why we're going to play it now. I still think this is a really good track. But here it is if you're just joining us. Of course, we have Nikolay Kine of No Civa here with us live in studio, and let's give this a spend. This is Eternal Serpent.

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28:29 Speaker 1: That is Eternal Serpents Scream from No Seva. And we have Nikolai Kane of No Siva here with us in the studio. And yeah, we were talking off air about about that and and how much you've how much you've worked on your vocals over the last year and and and you know you were you were telling me about how how much you've uh, you know, how you practice and and you know, and I can I can definitely hear the difference.

28:55 Speaker 4: You know.

28:55 Speaker 1: I still like that track a lot, But you know you're also talking about maybe redoing it, and we we talked about that in the last segment. But but no, I think it's really good, but it would be interesting to hear a newer version of that with your your you know, your improved vocal ability. I've always been fascinated by people who can even do that with your voice. Is that difficult to learn to be able to? Because obviously, you know, when you're learning to sing like that, to vocalize like that, you run the risk if you do it wrong.

29:24 Speaker 1: And I guess with any kind of singing really, but especially something like that where there's some you know, sort of a low growl, if you do it wrong, you could really screw up your vocal chords, right.

29:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. I mean some people naturally can do it and some people really have to put some time in.

29:42 Speaker 1: Yeah.

29:42 Speaker 2: The trick is using your diaphragm.

29:44 Speaker 3: Now, for me, I have found that I have a more natural, like false chords uh fries scream, which is that more of sound.

29:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, And.

29:59 Speaker 3: My voice is now actually like more of a baritone, which is weird because when it comes to lows, they're not that easy for me to do really, So everybody is different, and they always say like, you got to practice, practice makes perfect, But learning to use your diaphragm, that is the key to it.

30:15 Speaker 2: If you don't, you will mess.

30:17 Speaker 3: Up your throat, you will destroy your vocal cords. I have strained my vocal cords many times before. But I you know, I have friends who are also metal musicians. My buddy Ross is like a very very intelligent musician in person just in general. But he he is very good at what he does. And he has taught me a couple of tricks and said like, oh, well, you got to make sure that you're feeling this, and if you don't feel that, then you're using your throat. You're not using your diaphragm. Okay, So the trick is, like I said, using and learning to use your diaphragm.

30:53 Speaker 2: And then.

30:54 Speaker 3: It's everybody has their own flair to what they do. Everybody has their own unique sound, but you got to find what your sound is.

31:03 Speaker 2: Yeah.

31:04 Speaker 3: So when I originally did the beginning of the new song Sanctum, I tried a method of a Japanese artist that I really like, and I've seen him live and I've seen him do this, and I wanted to try and seeing if.

31:20 Speaker 2: I could do it. What it would sound like.

31:21 Speaker 3: Yeah, but you more or less like vibrate your throat with your hand like you're hitting yourself in the throat. So I tried that and it came out interesting, but it wasn't the sound that I wanted to go for. It was very creepy though, really, but maybe I'll try, you know, and work with that idea later on in the future.

31:39 Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh interesting. I am also curious about influences. I'm sure we talked about it last time. I don't remember, but we.

31:48 Speaker 2: Talked about it.

31:50 Speaker 3: Last time. Yeah, But as far as like musical influences general, there's just there's too damn mini yeah for this kind of stuff, though, I would say there's definitely, like you know, there's there's more of that industrial aspect.

32:06 Speaker 2: There's relevance to.

32:10 Speaker 3: Stuff that I grew up listening to, Like the one that I keep hearing people talk about to me specifically when they've heard both of these is they think that it's very reminiscent of the band Velvet Acid Crist.

32:23 Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not familiar.

32:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're they're an older band, cool name. They've been around for quite some time, late eighties, early nineties. But what's ironic about that is, like I mean, I've listened to a couple of their songs. Yeah, I never really like called them an influencer listened to them and said like, oh, I really love this band.

32:42 Speaker 2: I've heard a couple of songs.

32:43 Speaker 1: Yeah.

32:43 Speaker 3: But when people are saying like you should go listen to this band because this sounds like that, some of that is probably going to naturally come out because you heard it once upon a time. But as far as like influences in general, like there's just too many. But like the guy was mentioned a minute ago, Name's Kill. He's the vocals of a Japanese band called Darren Gray. He has the most insane vocal range I've ever heard. He has like twelve different octaves.

33:07 Speaker 1: Really.

33:08 Speaker 3: I think we talked about this last time a little bit. Yeah, he learned to throat sing with monks and I don't know, it's just wow. He's just very fascinating to me. So I've I've watched interviews where he talks about how he does things. Yeah, so he's kind of an influence. There's there's just there's a lot of people that are influences to me. I also am a big fan of Des Fafara from Cole Chamber and Double Driver. Yep, he has this nasty sound in his voice. Chad Gray from Hell Yeah, and mud Vane. He has a really big influence on me.

33:42 Speaker 3: I like the way that his you know, fry screams and false chords are So I try to take a little bit of of all of that also, like Nine Nails, Marilyn Manson, stuff like that. I try to take everything and mix it together and try to find my sound.

33:56 Speaker 1: Right right now, that makes sense. When you were when you were growing up, did you imagine I mean probably not, but because you told me about how you grew up, But I mean, did you ever kind of imagine that this is what you'd be doing?

34:12 Speaker 2: This is something I've always wanted to do it.

34:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just because of where I came from, I would I didn't necessarily have the environment of musicians, right. So if you want to make certain kinds of music, you got to go to where that scene is, right And I'm not saying there's not an industrial metal scene out there, but you.

34:32 Speaker 2: Got to go to like Chicago, you got to go to Michigan. You got to go places like that.

34:38 Speaker 3: So I would do that and I would meet people through my travels at shows or whatever, but I never thought that it would bring me to New England and I would actually accomplish and be sitting here for the second time talking to you on a radio station. No, I didn't think that would ever happen. Yeah, but again, I've been to musicians on and off since I was fifteen years old. I've played in metal bands, I've played in folk cacus, thick band, electronic bands. Punk bands was the first thing I started out with.

35:06 Speaker 3: Ironically enough, we were talking about this earlier, but one of the first bands I ever played in was a Christian metal band, was it. Yeah, I'm trying to see if I can remember what the name was. Advocate the Martyr, I think is.

35:21 Speaker 6: What it was.

35:21 Speaker 1: Advocate the Martyr.

35:22 Speaker 2: It was like a school name metal band. It was like Christian influence.

35:26 Speaker 1: There's some Yeah, there's some good uh. I know some people will chuckle at that, but there's some really good Christian rock bands, you know. I used to years ago. Again, I'm not a religious person myself, but I worked for a promoter who was involved in I think now it's just called soul Fest, but originally it was the Inside Out Soul Festival. Yeah, and a few summers in a row, I was, you know, because I was being paid. I worked that festival and you know, I saw some bands I liked. There's some good stuff there.

35:52 Speaker 3: I saw the Christian metal band Red and Devil Driver before they were or not devil Driver, uh.

36:01 Speaker 2: Demon Slayer, whatever they're called. I think there's a big Christian metal band.

36:06 Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember what they're called, but Red was one of them, and I saw them before they were anybody.

36:13 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think they're like now like not.

36:16 Speaker 3: Even associated with Christianity, which is kind of ironic. But

36:22 Speaker 3: other influences that I just remembered, like I grew up listening to a lot of the like like the timeframe when I was in high school, there was like alternative bands and stuff, but there was also that mid range two thousand and three, two thousand and five, that's when like that hardcore scene came in. That's when things started becoming more like bands like uh, what are they called Suicide Silence with Mitch Looker. Originally they were a huge influence on me. Other bands like Another Texas Ban ironically was man, I just lost my train of thought.

37:03 Speaker 3: I can't think of what they're called. Yeah, But a lot of a lot of bands, and it's just ironic that some of those bands are from Texas or whatever, and now I'm working with someone who's from Texas.

37:13 Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. I mean, there's a lot of good music that comes out of that that state. We've had, especially like Austin and Dallas Fort Worth. We've had a lot of guests who've joined us remotely, especially in the last couple of years, who are from Texas. I think actually I think last week we had somebody on from Austin. But yeah, there's a lot of great stuff, you know, that comes out of Texas, especially metal.

37:40 Speaker 3: Well that's what we were talking about last time. I think I said that Corpus Christy was the metal capital of the US. I believe that's true.

37:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, there's there's a lot of great stuff that comes out of there. If you're just joining us. We have Nikolay Caine from uh No Ceva and what So, what's what's next for you or do you know? I mean, obviously this is brand new, the new single, Sanctum of the Unseen, But do you know, I mean, I know you're kind of toying with the idea of redoing Eternal Serpent screen, but do you know, do you know what's next? Do you have another song? Another new song you're working on or so.

38:15 Speaker 3: Originally, when I was here the first time, the plan was, before all the craziness happened, was to release that, then release the next song, then release another song, and then work on, you know, promoting it as much as possible, finding live members. Everything fell apart. So now where we are, now that we are where we are now, excuse me, everything is completely shifted for the better. What I want to do now is release I think one more so there'll be three singles, okay, and then that timeframe either create something completely new, or like I had mentioned, maybe just remastering and remixing Eternal and then putting the three out there for the viewing public, and just promote as much as possible, fine live members, because I really want to do this live.

39:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then from there make a music video. Okay, that is the plan, and then eventually, like right, the rest of the album, promote it, go out play Yeah. Yeah, I mean that's that's the dream goal. But right, reality has a way of kicking in the nuts.

39:21 Speaker 1: If you're determined to get there, you'll get there.

39:23 Speaker 2: Well, I'm definitely determined as you are, see you are, No, I believe it.

39:27 Speaker 1: I believe it.

39:28 Speaker 2: Josh for a Cowboy was that band? I was thinking, Oh yeah, yeah, Josh for a Cowboy. Yeah yeah, huge influence in high school.

39:34 Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Well, so I think what we'll do to close out the segment. I think we'll do, you know, we'll play, uh what, We'll play the new single again? Of course if you're just joining us, we have Nicolauk came from no Ceva and the new single is called Sanctum of the Unseen and this is this is not on the streaming platforms yet, correct.

39:54 Speaker 3: No, And it's also featuring Jonah Hernandez from Asylum Black.

39:58 Speaker 1: Jonah Hernandez Asylum Black, that's what.

40:00 Speaker 2: It is, a really cool name.

40:04 Speaker 1: And this is Do you know when this is going to be available on digital platforms.

40:07 Speaker 3: Or I'm thinking I'm gonna probably try and release it within the next two weeks, okay, give or take.

40:12 Speaker 1: Okay, but if you're listening to the show on July twenty fifth Live, you are hearing it here first. So we're we're very happy to very happy to be the first ones to have this and happy to have you back. And I'm glad you're doing so much better.

40:25 Speaker 2: Thank you man.

40:25 Speaker 3: It's been a wonderful experience coming back, and I really appreciate you having me again after everything that happened this past year. This has been such a blessing to have again.

40:33 Speaker 1: Oh I'm glad. I'm very glad. And where's the best place for people to go online to keep up with everything that you're doing.

40:39 Speaker 3: I mostly post on my No Siva page directly, which is on Facebook. It's just no Civa on Facebook dot com. But I also post fairly regularly on my TikTok page, which is also.

40:51 Speaker 2: Just no Ceva.

40:52 Speaker 1: And we should spell that for people too.

40:54 Speaker 2: K nosiv a, no Siva.

40:58 Speaker 1: No Civa, very good, very good, all right, And Nikolai Kane of No Siva, thank you again so much. And uh, if you are listening live on Saturday, We've got a superbug coming up in the third hour and I've been texted they have arrived. But we will close out this segment with this, the brand new single from No Siva Sanctum of the Unseen.

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