Matt Connarton Unleashed 1-27-24, second hour

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1:11 cetera. It is January twenty seven, twenty twenty four. Jenny is here

1:15 of course, present in, accounted for and we just heard one of their

1:21 songs. In fact, we've got three of the guys from After the Winter

1:25 live in studio with us. How are you guys welcome? Absolutely absolutely so.

1:30 We have Chad, Chris and Cody. Did I get everyone's name right?

1:34 They're all c names, so that's easy. People remember the three seeds.

1:40 Yes, yes, and oh, it looks like we have a call

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2:43 a call at six o three two five oh six oh seven. We have

2:45 After the Winter here with us live in studio. The track that we played

2:49 was Breadcrumbs a few minutes ago, which I think we played the last time

2:51 you guys were here, but you've got something brand new. We're gonna hear

2:53 in a couple and uh, it will be a world radio premiere, World

2:59 World. That's right. We're very excited to be here. Yeah, yeah,

3:04 no, we're happy to have you guys and excited to play the new

3:06 track. By the way, how do you pronounce it? I want to

3:08 make sure so the pronunciation of this song is called adelphos Adelphos Okay, it

3:13 means brother in Greek. Oh okay, I was gonna say it sounds Greek

3:16 Greek to me. And is this uh? And this is when we say

3:21 this is new? I mean, this is really really new. Right we

3:23 just got the final cut. Yes, oh fantastic, fantastic. I look

3:27 forward to sharing this with everybody. Uh where did you record the Echo Room

3:30 studios? Is that where? Where is that? Exactly? So? That

3:35 is uh in Westfield, Massachusetts? Now? Is that? Where is that

3:38 where you've been recording? Is that where everything else is recorded to? Yes,

3:40 sir, yeah they do. They do a great job. How did

3:43 you How did you find them that studio? We've been working with Ian uh

3:47 probably since about twenty ten. So oh wow, that's a long time.

3:53 Yeah, we've been sticking with them. Yeah, no, I can see

3:54 why. I can see why, great, great, great engineer. And

3:58 is this part of an up me an album or rep or yep, yeah,

4:01 it's it's for upcoming album. We got another song coming soon to be

4:06 announced obviously at a later time. And uh yeah, this is gonna be

4:12 all for the new album. Excellent, excellent. All right, let's go

4:15 ahead and give this a listen, and we're gonna come back and chat some

4:17 more. So. This is called Adelphos Ade Adelphos all right, here it

4:21 is, check it out. This is the world premiere of the brand new

4:25 track from After the Winter Adelphos here on w M n H. Yeah,

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6:14 That's why I go and I can't get out listen close size mysty I said,

6:46 if I do, I shot, Yes, Oh I should you should

7:06 do for I said, it's just a s Cassis out my um gotta let

8:52 that guitar decay at the end. I'm not I'm not one of these guys

8:56 who just wants to who's just dying to jump in and talk over it.

8:58 I that was awesome. Wow, well done, gentlemen. That is absolutely

9:05 That is the the world premiere of Adelfos, the new track from After the

9:11 Winter, and we've got three of the guys here with us live and studio.

9:13 Now, that is fantastic and I can see why you keep working out

9:16 of that same studio. I mean absolutely does he Now who who runs that?

9:22 Again? Ian? Ian? Is he does he just engineer or is

9:26 he kind of like a de facto producer as well or both? Yeah?

9:31 Yeah, he's like a mastermind. Like he's got a really good ear for

9:35 music, metal especially. Yeah. He plays in a metal band too,

9:37 a very very popular one too. Oh what what band? Process? Okay,

9:43 yeah, I've heard of them. Not not too familiar, but I

9:46 have heard of them. Yeah. I mean I love the the mix is.

9:50 You know, I'm I'm an engineer. I'm picky about mixing, and

9:52 the just the mix of that is so good. Yeah. We joke around.

9:56 Our drummer gets a free drum tuning every time, was there because tunes

10:01 all the drums up. It shows No, it sounds uh, it sounds

10:07 fantastic. Now where are you guys? From Western Massachusetts, Springfield, Springfield.

10:11 Wow, how long they're take it? A wow? Yeah for them,

10:16 I have relocated August, Massachusetts. Okay, yeah, so it's about

10:22 fifteen minutes for me fifty four minutes a short round. Yeah, drive,

10:26 I drive two hours to practice. Wow, he does do that dedicated number?

10:31 That is that is dedication. Yeah. Yeah, Well we appreciate you

10:33 guys traveling so far. We appreciate you. Yeah. Yeah. I mean

10:37 we have a lot of you know, local talent that that comes in.

10:39 But usually if if people are too far away there, they just skype in

10:41 or call. Although we had a who was it was it dark rain?

10:48 Yeah? It was dark rain. Yeah they were here. I think they

10:50 were. They were on our last show at the Old Place and they were

10:52 like they were like no, but they somewhere in Maine. But they drove

10:56 like three hours. It's like, oh my god. Yeah cool. Yeah,

11:01 I we appreciated it. But it's like, wow, wow, are

11:05 you guys playing a lot of shows or we are getting booked up solid for

11:09 the summer. Yeah. We took kind of a little hiatus to you know,

11:11 hit the studio and yeah, I just had a baby in December.

11:16 Oh, congratulations, thank you first. Yeah, yeah, very good,

11:20 very good. Yeah. I would imagine the live shows are pretty Uh I

11:22 haven't seen you guys live yet, but I imagine it's pretty energetic. Oh

11:26 yeah, it gets rowdy. Yeah yeah. How many how many songs do

11:31 you guys have, like, in terms of your set? How many?

11:33 How many songs you're able to play live? Yes, so we typically do

11:37 like a five song set ye most part. Yeah, most venues go to

11:39 Usually in our sole music, you get a half hour block for the most

11:43 part. So yeah, five songs with a little bit of interludes, you

11:48 know, in between a couple of interludes. But and you guys have been

11:50 around for a while, right, because you mentioned, you know, it

11:52 was what twenty ten was when you f we started out in like twenty ten,

11:56 we took like a few years, if you want to call it a

11:58 few years. Yeah, good, ten year break, that's right, I

12:03 remember now. Yeah, we were talking about that the last time you were

12:05 here. So yeah, that's a long break. Yeah. So this past

12:09 year we just came back and hit it pretty hard. We played We played

12:11 about forty five shows last summer. Oh wow, that's a lot of shows.

12:16 Yeah, you really came back and hit it hard. Wow. Oh

12:18 yeah, now what what was the genesis of reforming the band? What?

12:20 What? So it's funny it's actually us three too. Yeah, yeah,

12:24 you have always been the core of it. We we ended up going to

12:28 a show at a place called the Webster Theater in Connecticut and Harvard. Yeah,

12:31 and I bumped into Chad and I guess Cody recognized because I had a

12:35 beard now and I didn't have a beard back in the day. Actually I

12:37 didn't recognize. Actually it was Chad. Okay, I was talking to Cody.

12:41 We let you tell the story man. Yeah. Well, I was

12:45 just hanging out with Cody. I went to the August Burns Red show and

12:48 yeah, I was just talking to him like that looks like Chris. I

12:50 hadn't seen him for good eight years, almost ten years. Yeah, yeah,

12:54 and I was like he had the long beard. He never had it,

12:58 so I was like, is that him? I don't know. I

13:00 was like, let's let's walk up to him and see. Yeah, yeah,

13:01 go figure it was him, and yeah, just reconnected and we're like,

13:05 hey, let's give this another shot. Like we had something good.

13:07 And you know, I was writing material too, and I was eager to

13:13 get back out there, and and Chris is passionate about it, so was

13:16 it? Was it really in that moment, like in that conversation or yeah,

13:20 literally right there the night I want I looked at him, I was

13:24 like, you want to do this, and we're just kind of like,

13:26 yeah, let's do it for them. I didn't really know that was going

13:28 on. I was only a fan of the band when I was younger because

13:31 Chad graduated high school before me, and I wasn't good enough to be in

13:35 the band back then. Yeah, and then Chad, me and Chad actually

13:41 hadn't hung out in a few maybe a few years. Yeah, and that

13:46 night was like our first night getting back together, like on our own and

13:50 going out and doing something. And then he came over here, he's they

13:54 were planning I'm putting the band back together. And Chad saw how much I

13:58 improved in my guitar work, and he was like, you should try out

14:01 because we can't find anyone. So wow, Yeah, Blues Brothers come back,

14:09 bring the band back together? Man, putting back together? Band?

14:13 Did it? Uh? In terms of putting it back together? I mean

14:16 ten years is a long time? Did it? Did it kind of come

14:18 together? Quickly was it was it? Like, uh, yeah, it

14:20 did for the moment part. Yeah. We actually reached out to the original

14:24 drummer and he was game to do it, so he got back involved and

14:28 uh the like we said, we reached out to Cody. We had to

14:31 push him a few times, like hey, like try out right right,

14:35 you know, and he did and he put into work. And then the

14:39 toughest thing was to get the new bass player and found Matt. You can't

14:43 make it today, but he's been a great addition and we've just been rocking.

14:48 Bass Players are are hard to come by sometimes space players and drummers are

14:52 the hardest. Well Matt, Matt is both, so yeah, yeah,

14:56 he's actually a drummer too. Oh wow, okay, he's a nasty drummer.

15:00 Well that's I think we had talked about that before too. Yeah,

15:01 yeah, nasty. And then uh so, now there are you going to

15:11 adelfos obviously is brand new. Are you already working on the next one or

15:15 what's what's kind of your So we got one on the back burner. We

15:16 did the track for it, All the instruments are recorded. I'm just going

15:20 to hit the studio and do the vocals. Next. Oh nice, So

15:24 we got one right right in the studio already excellent, excellent, excellent,

15:30 And I think I asked you this before, but is there an album?

15:33 Do you guys have an album out or do you just release singles right now?

15:35 We're just working on an EP, but we are we have intentions to

15:39 do in a full length Yeah. Yeah, I mean we live in a

15:41 time where you've got so many different options in terms of how you you know,

15:45 write A lot of the a lot of the guests we've had on in

15:48 the last couple of years they take the approach of, you know, just

15:50 you know, because I'm old enough to remember when it was you know,

15:54 you put out an album, or you put out or you put out a

15:56 single for the upcoming album. Are doing enough to remember that so you can

16:00 go strawberries and get the single right, right, exactly exactly, Sam Goodie,

16:07 Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, you had all kinds of option,

16:10 but now it's uh, I've noticed a lot of the guests I've had on

16:14 they they say, well, we're just going to release singles until we've released

16:18 enough singles to put into an EP or to put into an album. Yeah,

16:21 but again, you know, we live in a time where you've got

16:22 so many options, it's kind of cool to release just a single because you

16:26 get like the excitement sooner than you would And yeah, you know you get

16:30 it more often too. And in the social media that we live in,

16:33 you know, you gotta you gotta feed that machine. You know people want

16:37 because it all becomes content. Ultimately, everyone wants. People want the instant

16:40 gratification. You have to keep their attentions. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

16:45 When you guys play out, do you have any other bands in your area

16:48 that you kind of you know, it tends to happen organically, but you

16:52 know, do you have any other bands that you kind of team up with?

16:56 We got some friends, you know, alter of next those shout out

16:59 to those guys, isa, Uh definitely Carried by six? Yeah yeah,

17:06 is it? Is it in your area? Are there a lot of bands

17:10 that kind of are in working in your genre? Is it easy to find

17:12 other bands? Oh? Yeah, yeah yeah. I always say, you

17:18 know, it's funny. Uh, people don't realize if if they're not paying

17:22 attention to their local music scene. You know, the average person who just

17:25 listens to the radio and they just know what's on the radio or what they

17:27 happen to see in their uh you know, you know, their social media

17:30 online might not realize that there's so much great talent. And and I always

17:33 say that about here. I say that a lot about New Hampshire. We

17:37 talked about it a lot on the show. But but other places too,

17:41 and anywhere, you know, whether it's Massachusetts or anywhere you go, you

17:44 guys, Oh yeah, yeah. But I always tell people, you know,

17:49 check out what's going on in your area locally for music, because I

17:53 guarantee you this amazing stuff. You know, this is amazing talent everywhere that

17:59 you know, if you're not, if you're not really and it's not like

18:02 you have to invest a lot of time into looking into it. You know,

18:04 just go online and look up, you know, go to a website

18:07 like band camp and you know, you can type in your city and and

18:10 find out, you know, who's in your area who's doing really amazing stuff.

18:15 Uh, there's so much great talent out there, are you guys?

18:19 Uh? Have you opened for you open for any national acts that have come

18:23 through or we did a we did a show with suicide Silence and Born of

18:27 Osiris, who else Dying Fetus? Oh wow? Board, Yeah, that

18:33 was at the Webster Theater in Harford. Oh okay, okay, real quick

18:37 shout out to North Beast Booking as well out of Worcester. Okay, well,

18:41 there's a lot of a lot of UH bands in Worcester, that's for

18:45 sure. I used to I used to play in a band called My Life

18:47 Crisis and we used to go to Wister A lot there was I don't know.

18:49 I don't know if it's still there. There's a place called the Atrium.

18:52 Is that that sounds familiar to me too. Okay, it's a really

18:56 cool place, but I think it might be gone. We just played at

18:57 the Palladium a few weeks ago. Oh nice. Nice. That was like

19:00 a bucket listening for me. Man, I've always wanted to play there,

19:03 so that was great. I never got to do that. It's funny because

19:06 it's my first band and I'm doing all the things that Chris wanted jerk.

19:14 That's awesome. So so it's your first band, Cody, Yes, no,

19:17 kidd man, I've ever been in I'll be damned. Yeah. Yeah,

19:21 very nice, very nice. Now are any of you in other bands

19:23 as well? Or are you all just doing this? I'm doing like a

19:27 little side project with some with some more friends. But that's about it.

19:30 Yeah, I'm just vocals. I'm actually a solo rapper. Are you really

19:37 nice? You got anything online? I do? I do? Uh?

19:41 It's I So I recorded my first official song with a guy named Jordan Meyer

19:45 in Connecticut. Who did our who did our video? Actually? Bad crumbs?

19:51 Oh cool? So like I just reached out to him the other day

19:53 the recording parlor. Yeah, the recording parlor. So I'm I'm it's to

20:00 get back into his studio too. Yeah, yeah, start more. You

20:03 hear that, Jordan? Yeah, Jordan, I message you. What what

20:08 name do you perform under for? Uh? Cody a Trix? Cody a

20:11 Trix. Yeah, that's like my online handle and my my rap name.

20:15 Oh cool, I'll check it out. How do you spell a trix?

20:18 Uh ce O d y A t r i X A t r i X

20:22 Okay cool. It's like Cody and the Matrix put together. Yeah. Yeah,

20:26 just so you know I can hear you very clearly, dude, Your

20:27 mic is working great. Yeah. You know, I got a little bit

20:30 of experience with the you know, I used to do twitch and stuff too.

20:33 That was my twitch handle too. I'll be down. No, just

20:38 coincidentally, I just signed up for I just signed up for Twitch last night.

20:42 I didn't even just Jenny this. Yeah, I'm not a gamer.

20:45 I'm not using Oh I'm sorry, I turn your mic on. What's that

20:48 I'm already on it. You're already look at her? Then? Have you?

20:53 Jesse? Got me on it? Oh? Okay, surprising multi stream

20:57 get Twitch kind of. I can't deal with that. I can't deal with

21:02 this too much going. I can't too many chats, too much going on

21:04 on the screen. I don't know what well that's yeah, and you know

21:08 we're not gamers. But the reason but I opened it. But just last

21:11 night I opened a Twitch account just because we're gonna be doing a separate podcast

21:15 and I'm going to be streaming in multiple places, so I'm gonna try to

21:18 put it on Twitch as well, because I don't think you you can't upload

21:21 any recorded stuff right to Twitch. I don't think you know you can stream

21:26 live. I mean you can stream what you recorded if you wanted, you

21:29 know. Yeah, yeah, remember that's true, as long as you are

21:34 with the recording live. I don't know how it was back in the day.

21:37 They didn't like anything that was not live. Oh, but then that

21:41 they started like letting people record stuff. Like there's this group I like called

21:45 Mega sixty four if they make a bunch of funny video game videos and they

21:51 have a whole like TV thing of all their videos that they've recorded over YouTube

21:56 over time. Yeah, just places twenty four to seven. Oh okay,

22:00 but there there are terms of service as strict though, right, because I've

22:03 I've encountered streamers who they just put put their stuff on YouTube now because they

22:07 get they get booted from from Twitch. Everybody boots you from stuff, man.

22:11 Yeah, yeah, it's probably like I don't know, I've I've never

22:15 got that big, but I you know, I think it's a lot of

22:19 like where the money is. Yeah, you know what I mean. Like

22:22 they I heard along a while back that they were trying to like take more

22:26 money from subscribers. Yeah, from the people. So that's why people like

22:32 branch out do their patreons and all that. Yeah. Yeah, I know

22:36 on YouTube you could do it and not get copyright as long as you could

22:38 be demonetized, so you can't rids or anything. But they won't boot you

22:44 off live for if you're demonetized and not making money. Yeah, that you

22:48 can play whatever you want, yeah, copyrighted Like I you know, we

22:52 we stream this show live to Facebook, but then I put it on YouTube

22:55 afterward and I just got like the notifications you can't monetize this video because ye

23:00 be right right? Yeah, that's fine. But so you mentioned, uh

23:07 so there's a video. Actually, do you guys have multiple videos or do

23:10 you just have the one for We just have the one videos for bread Crumbs?

23:15 Yeah, yeah, I gotcha. And who did you work with for

23:18 that? Jordan Meyer from the recording parlor? Oh okay, gotcha? Gotcha?

23:22 And uh now, how did that happen? How did that connection happen

23:25 with So I've known Jordan's and I believe Chad does you. I've known him

23:29 for some years. He's a great guy. I just reached out to him

23:33 and he, you know, he's he's worked with a lot of people.

23:36 He's done some great work that we saw and we just you know, we

23:40 we linked up with him and uh, you know, it just worked out.

23:42 He saw our vision and yeah, you know he's also all of us

23:45 are from Enfield, Connecticut. Originally I'm not sure about Chris, but I

23:48 was born in Enfield, Connecticut. And that's where Jordan's also from. Oh

23:52 okay, that's kind of why I knew him too, Yeah, just because

23:55 you know hometown. Yeah, yeah, yeah, excellent. I think Uh

24:00 oh, we got time. Jordan actually performs too, he's a yeah rap

24:03 artist. I actually booked him in a big status years ago for like an

24:07 anti suicide and anti bullying show in the town of Benfield. Oh no kidding.

24:11 Yeah, Oh that's that's very cool. Yeah cool. Uh we should

24:15 play another track. I was because I was listening to some of the stuff

24:18 that we played last time, and I don't know what that ding was.

24:23 Oh but uh, I am particularly fond of fourteen hundred BC. That's Chad's

24:30 favorite song. Oh is it really? Now? It's the only song that

24:36 I didn't write of the original guitarist. Yeah, so Chad. Chad's not

24:40 our original guitarist, but he is. He's technically an original because he's the

24:44 first lead guitarist that we've had. Oh no kidding, Okay, okay,

24:47 Well we'll give this, We'll give this a listen. I love this track.

24:49 This is a fourteen big fan of it. I'm the original vocalist on

24:55 it, so it's all it's all good. There you go, there you

24:57 go, all right, check this out out. After the Winter is here

25:00 with us in studio, and we're going to come back and talk with these

25:03 guys some more. But here it is fourteen hundred BC. Oh something went

25:14 wrong, Chad? What did you do? Man? That was? That

25:18 was really blocking in on my phone? That was really sorry. Let me

25:22 try that again. I don't know what just happened. Okay, I think

25:25 I started playing the end? Is that what it was? All right?

25:27 Here we go second time? The charm. I guess I know the song.

25:34 You know, he was already listening at the end. But oh yeah,

26:32 and at about anything you say, said song? B? I so

26:56 it t yeah yo side wow so black so yeah yeah, wor rd times

27:33 I saw got sad yeah down sun sorry, Y like got so wat down

27:56 lad? That's all so like that so well listen, Yes, I like

28:18 that. That's like that like that that so on b B. That's I

28:33 like. That's why Yeah, okay, I'm telling you so no monsen s

29:22 s name six six six s. That's why. I lie, my lie,

30:37 right, I I my you. No love for mercy for longer,

30:57 no love father sime Si. That's a cool ending too, I like that

32:19 a lot. Yeah, yeah, I did get fourteen hundred BC. The

32:22 band is after the Winter and they are here with us in studio or three

32:27 members of the band, I should say, here with us alive in studio

32:30 if you're just joining us. We did play the new track Adelphos uh,

32:34 the world premiere of that. We're gonna play that again if you missed it,

32:37 we are gonna play it again at the top of the hour before we

32:39 transition to our number three. Because that's that's really good, that deserves another

32:45 listener. I think, thank you, absolutely absolutely appreciate that. Now we're

32:49 honored that we get to debut at here. That's very, very cool.

32:52 The song we just heard fourteen hundred BC. Now, you guys were saying,

32:54 that's the first song the band ever recorded. That's right, that's a

32:58 that's the first one we ever did. Excellent, excellent shout out to Mike

33:01 Straight he's the one that wrote it. Yeah, he wrote so he was

33:06 he was in the band, yes, yeah, he was the original guitar

33:09 player, gotcha. And he he actually does guest vocals on Bred Crumbs.

33:14 Yeah, there's the part you will notice you up to. We let him

33:20 do a little squil too. And you know what's really what's really cool and

33:24 actually uncool right now, is so when we were in the studio, Adam

33:29 d Jesse Leach and Howard Jones were actually at Zing or it's actually called Mainline

33:37 Studio now in Westfield, Massachusetts. They were going to be there when we

33:42 were in there from Kill Switch Engaged, but I guess something happened. I

33:46 think the weather deleted or something and they posted a picture like four days after

33:52 we were in the studio and they were all there. I was because Howard

33:53 Jones is like one of my biggest influences. Like you know, so Howard,

33:58 if you're listening, man, going back in so I would really love

34:01 you to do some guest vocals wink wink. But uh wow yeah. For

34:07 some reason, every time we go in the studio, it's no, oh

34:10 really yeah, it did the same thing last year. Yeah, now does

34:20 that? So that's obviously an early track if that's the first one you recorded,

34:23 But yeah, we do. Yeah, we opened with that. So

34:28 we we have an intro and then we open with that. Oh very nice,

34:31 very nice. We were also talking off air a little bit about singing

34:36 and and is it uh Chris I mean, do you is your throat ever

34:42 get sore sing? No, No, it doesn't get sore, but it

34:45 doesn't wake up you know this early? Yeah. Yeah, I prefer not

34:51 to play shows, you know around now? Yeah, no kidding. Do

34:54 you do you have anything that you do to really kind of take care of

34:58 your voice? Because obviously that as I drink, uh, you know,

35:01 what's called the medicine ball from Starbucks. It's like a combination of different kind

35:06 of teas and you know, I just kind of drink lemon tea and you

35:07 know, most of the time, like before I play a show, I

35:09 drink coffee, yeah, you know, just to warm me up. Yeah,

35:14 yeah, there's that. What is it called the zen of uh?

35:20 It's kind of kind of a famous familiar what is it the zen of oh,

35:23 the art of it's the zen of the zen of singing? I believe

35:27 it's or is it the zen of screaming? Screaming screaming? Yeah, yeah,

35:30 which is kind of among singers and metal. It's kind of an infamous,

35:35 uh, instructional DVD or I guess now you probably just find it online,

35:38 but you ever check that out? I actually haven't. I'm actually all

35:43 self taught I've never had any I've never had any guidance. Yeah, yeah

35:46 you will. Yeah, what what did you What did you listen to that

35:50 helped you? Because I assumed you had you had certain uh arts that you

35:53 listened to to kind of help you develop that ability to sing like that.

35:57 So, like I said, one of my main influences Howard Jones from a

36:00 band called Blood has Been Shed and also you know formally kill Switch Engage.

36:04 Yeah, he was a huge influence on me when I was you know,

36:08 I want to say about maybe fourteen fifteen years old. They were you know,

36:13 they were doing the stuff we're doing back then, you know, early

36:15 to late nineties. And he's just I don't know if you've ever heard him,

36:19 but he's Yeah, his cleans are incredible. Man, he's an incredible

36:23 vocalist and he's definitely a vocalist I look up to. Is that part difficult

36:28 to learn? Switching back and forth like that within a song? It's not

36:31 difficult to learn. I feel like I feel like it's not something you learn.

36:36 You either have it or you don't. That's where I stand with it.

36:37 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I would think that, Uh,

36:43 I mean, is that something that's is your approach to that changed over

36:46 the years at all, because you've been at this a while. I mean,

36:50 like, do you do do you do more aggressive? Now? Do

36:52 you do more clean? Now? Is it? Well, it's funny you

36:54 say that because this is the first adel Phos is the first song where we

36:58 have like a three part and it's and it's it's got a recurring course and

37:01 then it's got you know, towards the end, it's got that other course

37:06 that I threw in there. It just kind of hit me when we were

37:07 writing, and yeah, you know, and my approach hasn't really changed.

37:12 I am trying to put more cleans in because I mean, I just I

37:15 love screaming, and you know, as I get older, I'm enjoying more

37:19 cleans. Okay. I like the way it's when it's like I'm a kid

37:23 on Christmas. When you're in the studio and it comes out and you hear

37:27 it, it's like, oh man, it sounds so clean. It's good.

37:29 You know, yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt. And do

37:31 you guys do any backing vocals live or our our bass player and our drummer

37:37 due the guys that aren't here. Yeah, I yelled a few times on

37:40 stage, but I don't know if it sounded good right right. I always

37:45 try to get I'm like, hod, are you gonna think it's like that?

37:46 I don't know. That's like my next like try to learn how to

37:51 do it right right. I got my hands full with the leads. It's

37:54 tough get up with a lot of the lead stuff and doing that, so

37:57 I kind of let them take that part, no doubt, no doubt.

38:00 I also real quick wanted to give a big shout out to Atomic War Machine

38:04 too, big shout to Mattle the Fountain. Man. Those guys are really

38:08 good. Check them out, man. Where are they from? From Western

38:10 Mass? Atomic War Machine? Yes, sir, it's quite a name.

38:15 They're fantastic. Kill once once we're kings. Those guys are great too.

38:22 What do you guys have coming up? Are you guys or are you just

38:24 kind of focused on I mean it's still winter you just focused on? Uh?

38:28 I guess, I guess after the winter. Yeah, so I had

38:30 to. I believe. I believe we're kicking things off toward the end of

38:35 February and then it's gonna just keep steam rolling from there. Yeah. Then

38:39 you know, as we get into the spring and summer. We're already booked

38:42 up. We're headed to Canada this summer. Excellent international. Yeah no,

38:49 that's cool, Chris. I asked you last time you were here, and

38:53 you gave like my favorite answer. But I want to see if you give

38:57 the same answer this time. Where does the name come from? After winter?

39:00 Uh, it's the best time of year, beautiful summer, man summer

39:05 baby. Yeah. Yeah, I love that answer because that's how I am.

39:07 Like, that's the good answer. Winter is my least favorite season after

39:12 man, I hate winter. I think is going to agree to a lot

39:15 of people make a mistake though. They'll come up to us and be like,

39:17 oh, you guys should put snowflakes, and I'm like, no,

39:20 it's after the winter, right right, we want nothing to do with winter,

39:22 right exactly exactly. Oh yeah, I love spring. I love summer.

39:27 Falls not so great because of what it leads to. Yeah, you

39:30 got to deal with like the pumpkin spice crap if you want to look at

39:34 it like I do. Only the strong survive the winter, so that's what

39:37 I look at it like. Yeah. Yeah, well there's that, and

39:39 the winters here have gotten easier, I feel. Yeah, I mean this

39:43 year hasn't been so bad. No, overall, it really hasn't. Isn't

39:46 only when we have to go to the studio. Yeah yeah today? Yeah

39:52 yeah yeah. A couple of days ago it was like what almost sixty degrees

39:53 in Connecticut? Was it really? Really? It got that warm? Yeah?

39:57 Wow? Wow, that's pretty good, right, I ain't complained about

40:01 that. Now, where should uh, where should people go online to keep

40:04 up with everything you guys are doing. We are on Facebook, Instagram,

40:07 TikTok. I mean, we're pretty much on all the all the platforms.

40:12 We've got Spotify, you know, we're on YouTube. Yeah, we have

40:15 a website dot com. Oh yeah, yeah, We're on Instagram, Spotify,

40:22 Apple Music. Got that pulled up. Actually, it's a nice website.

40:25 But I just want to say, you know, we plan on releasing

40:29 uh delfos on Facebook today today. Okay, We're gonna put out like a

40:31 little just a quick little video on it. We did a video and stay

40:37 tuned on all our other socials because we're going to be releasing it soon officially,

40:43 like on YouTube and Spotify and and everywhere else Apple pretty soon. We're

40:47 just working on getting some artwork done for for our album. In the single,

40:52 and we are we are doing a video for this song. Oh cool,

40:55 and also stay tuned for that too. Do you have it all planned

40:59 out already? Oh yeah, no, kidd oh cool, excellent, same

41:02 same guy you're working with. We're not sure. We're kind of shopping around.

41:06 We're kind of we got some cgi stuff that we want to do really

41:08 so yeah, so we're we're we're trying to see, you know, who

41:13 can do what? Okay, Okay, So that's where we're at with that

41:15 right now. But did you want to stay out? Like what the song

41:17 is about? Yeah? This the song is inspired by our drummer losing his

41:22 brother a couple of years ago to a car accident. So and then I

41:24 just kind of it's not about that. This song was written neutrally to be

41:29 about anybody who loses somebody or loses something or I really wanted to write a

41:34 song that anybody can hear this and feel whatever they're going to feel. Yea,

41:37 Like when people ask me what it's about, I'm gonna just say,

41:40 well, what do you think it's about? And that's that's what I was

41:44 going for at this time. Yeah, Yeah, I like that means brother

41:47 in Greek, right, Okay, I think it's definitely my favorite lyrically done

41:52 one. But because I'm just singing along with all the time. Yeah yeah,

41:55 he's got in troubles making them all laugh from the studio because yeah,

42:00 I guys, can you calm down? They thought it was well. Chris

42:06 thought I was messing with him and like mocking him. But I was literally

42:08 just singing a lot of the other boys thought it was hilarious and we're just

42:15 all behind ian laughing or you know, behind off. Yeah, and Chris

42:20 comes his look, Chris, that's great though. That's how you know you

42:25 got something, you know. Yeah, yeah, no, I love it.

42:29 It's a great track. We're gonna play that again in a moment to

42:30 finish out the segment. Thank you very much, gentlemen, Thank you,

42:34 thank you, Chris Cody, oh, thank you, thank you. Thank

42:37 you for having us. Absolutely absolutely and we love that we got to premiere

42:42 the new track after the Winter. Dot com is a website and uh,

42:45 stop by our Facebook. We're gonna pop it up there pretty soon today.

42:49 Outstanding outstanding, all right, so we will uh we'll end the segment with

42:52 this, and then coming up an hour three, we've got Gary Lawrence and

42:55 he is accompanied by the returning Tom Russo they're gonna play live for us.

43:00 But check this out if you missed it earlier, or even if you didn't

43:04 miss it earlier, it's worth here and again. This is really good.

43:06 Adelpho is brand new from after the winter. Take care everyone,