Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-11-25 hour 3

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0:53 Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday, October eleventh, twenty

0:58 Speaker 1: twenty five, and we have Benthic Realm here live in

1:02 Speaker 1: studio with us. And what we're gonna do now, They're

1:04 Speaker 1: gonna play live. They're gonna do a few songs live,

1:06 Speaker 1: and then we're gonna we're gonna talk a little bit afterward,

1:08 Speaker 1: which will be cool, very interesting to learn more about

1:11 Speaker 1: their music. But I'm gonna start. Let's see, let's get

1:14 Speaker 1: these mics up here. We have one person with a

1:17 Speaker 1: vocal mic, so tell us, uh if you could, who

1:20 Speaker 1: you are, what you do in the band, and then

1:22 Speaker 1: I'll let you introduce the other two members.

1:25 Speaker 2: For having us, We're super stoked to be here. So

1:28 Speaker 2: I'm Krista. I am the guitar player and singer in

1:31 Speaker 2: Benthic Realm, and we also have Maureen here on bass

1:35 Speaker 2: and Dan on drums. Today he's actually gonna be playing

1:38 Speaker 2: the cajone okay, as we're doing an acoustic set. Very cool,

1:43 Speaker 2: and a tambourine, and he's pointing out that she wants

1:46 Speaker 2: everyone to know there's a tambourine in the room.

1:48 Speaker 1: Oh wonderful, wonderful. Uh so, Christ can you play the

1:51 Speaker 1: guitar a little bit, just want to make sure we

1:54 Speaker 1: can hear Oh that sounds nice, That sounds nice, okay,

2:00 Speaker 1: And then Maureen, can you play that bass a little bit?

2:06 Speaker 1: Sounds really good, sounds really good. And then uh yeah,

2:10 Speaker 1: can let's hear something something that that go home. I'm

2:14 Speaker 1: gonna pull this mic up a little bit, make sure,

2:17 Speaker 1: oh yeah that sounds good. That sounds really good. And

2:20 Speaker 1: then can you all just kind of play a little

2:22 Speaker 1: bit of something together, and before before you jump into

2:25 Speaker 1: an actual full song, I just want to make sure

2:27 Speaker 1: we're sounding good here. Can you sing a little something?

2:39 Speaker 3: Christa cheer less to control the John takes me where

2:55 Speaker 3: it wants to go.

2:58 Speaker 1: Manama, Hi, sounds good, sounds good. I think we're ready.

3:07 Speaker 1: I think we're ready, all right, So if you're just

3:10 Speaker 1: joining us, Benthic Realm is here live in studio, and

3:14 Speaker 1: you're gonna do three songs, three songs, three songs, all right,

3:17 Speaker 1: and then we're gonna talk. And I'm really looking forward

3:19 Speaker 1: to this, looking forward to hearing you live. So yeah,

3:21 Speaker 1: whenever you're ready, just go for it.

3:24 Speaker 4: Awesome.

3:25 Speaker 2: So this is an acoustic version of our song Vessel

3:29 Speaker 2: that it's on our last release.

3:52 Speaker 3: How let's do control the tactics freewhere it.

4:01 Speaker 5: Once to go, but I'm aloud.

4:12 Speaker 6: Been straining out of Bota. Not sure there was any way,

4:24 Speaker 6: But as.

4:33 Speaker 3: Have believe my body is a vesc speaks to me,

4:43 Speaker 3: caves me for gave.

4:47 Speaker 7: Have believe.

4:50 Speaker 6: My body is a ves caves me saved, caives me.

4:58 Speaker 8: Cold.

5:21 Speaker 3: It wasn't easy, scared when they listen, made a ship

5:31 Speaker 3: to take, but a SI.

5:42 Speaker 9: Has chaos come to the night, a car escaped without.

5:52 Speaker 5: A FI and I'm have believe.

6:06 Speaker 2: My body is a.

6:07 Speaker 3: Vensel speaks to me cause me, folks.

6:17 Speaker 8: Have believe.

6:20 Speaker 3: My body is a vesser, cares me, saved, kiss me cold.

8:16 Speaker 8: I believe.

8:19 Speaker 3: My body isn't that so speaks to me cause me pocus.

8:30 Speaker 3: I believe my body is of that sol.

8:37 Speaker 10: Keis me saved?

8:39 Speaker 3: Kiuse mecause keeps me.

8:52 Speaker 1: Cause nice if you're just joining us. We have benthic

9:36 Speaker 1: realm here live in studio, sounding great, good job. Everybody

9:41 Speaker 1: can't wait to hear the next one. Whenever you're ready.

9:44 Speaker 2: All right, this next one is as it burns.

10:29 Speaker 11: Never has the wound closed off? Never have nine duties tragedies.

10:44 Speaker 12: We wriittness, hover redo more century.

10:55 Speaker 3: We build up for watches. We built up rom me.

11:08 Speaker 6: To w lea shaw the fory a set.

11:14 Speaker 3: People rely has it watch you? Has it?

11:42 Speaker 13: Watch you? Money and vowela.

12:09 Speaker 6: Drive the Auntisi shows.

12:16 Speaker 3: Sending a coming.

12:19 Speaker 6: Man dime on the bridges, they hold open brandera they stop,

12:37 Speaker 6: also place.

12:42 Speaker 11: Please stay, say that stayed while they sign the check

12:49 Speaker 11: you and drive?

12:56 Speaker 3: Has it wat true? How's you bad? Wat true? Bad thing?

14:01 Speaker 14: Labo, the doomed to make the same mistakes.

15:09 Speaker 3: No big toy, the side.

15:16 Speaker 11: Casualties they had all called draining halls.

15:23 Speaker 3: Up, has it watch you? Has it bad? Watch has.

16:40 Speaker 1: Wow? What what's that one called?

16:42 Speaker 2: That's as it burns?

16:43 Speaker 1: As it burns?

16:44 Speaker 3: Love you do your work?

16:45 Speaker 2: They're working that mic.

16:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that was great. That was great, really good.

16:50 Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, we have benthic realm here

16:51 Speaker 1: with us live in studio, and uh no, that's intense.

16:55 Speaker 1: I like the lyrics. I think I think I know

16:58 Speaker 1: what that what's about? That's for sure? Yeah, yeah, really good,

17:01 Speaker 1: really good. And then you can play you can play

17:04 Speaker 1: one more for us, that is correct? Is this unusual?

17:08 Speaker 1: By the way, doing an acoustic set on a Saturday

17:10 Speaker 1: morning at eleven am?

17:13 Speaker 3: Very different.

17:15 Speaker 2: We have played acoustic live once earlier in February at

17:19 Speaker 2: Americ Old Theater.

17:20 Speaker 1: Oh excellent.

17:21 Speaker 2: That was the first time that we played that live.

17:23 Speaker 2: So with a full set, Yeah, this is definitely an

17:26 Speaker 2: experience on a Saturday morning.

17:27 Speaker 1: Yeah, good, all right, whenever you're ready, all.

17:32 Speaker 2: Right, you're good, all right. So this, this next song

17:34 Speaker 2: is called fade Away. This is a song that we've

17:38 Speaker 2: performed live a couple of different times, and we have

17:40 Speaker 2: done this acoustically before. But it's not recorded live yet

17:44 Speaker 2: anywhere on any album, so you'll have to stay tuned

17:46 Speaker 2: for recording maybe next year.

17:48 Speaker 1: All right.

17:51 Speaker 2: This is fade Away, a fake.

18:38 Speaker 3: Away into.

18:46 Speaker 8: The Dog.

18:50 Speaker 3: What's smell to me?

18:58 Speaker 4: It's just a memo.

19:15 Speaker 3: A sweet boy win no sound.

19:32 Speaker 4: Well, I'm no longer to to.

19:41 Speaker 15: Grow where.

20:01 Speaker 3: Befold can never be found. That head on this battle

20:24 Speaker 3: ground stay for years, had hang it on, finds smells suit.

21:12 Speaker 4: It could only get better, So.

21:34 Speaker 8: Moved on with that.

21:47 Speaker 3: Thes a make a decision. What wilds before can never

22:20 Speaker 3: bear found? That proba homeless battle round.

22:52 Speaker 8: M h m hm m m.

23:38 Speaker 3: Why before the double bear bound m word trying head.

24:01 Speaker 16: Homeless battle ground, homeless battle ground.

24:23 Speaker 1: I love it, I love it, Benthic Realm live in studio.

24:27 Speaker 1: We're going to need to play a studio track. This

24:30 Speaker 1: is called course correct here on Matt Connorton unleashed. Let's

24:33 Speaker 1: give this to spend and then we're gonna we're gonna

24:35 Speaker 1: talk to these fine folks really looking forward to that

24:38 Speaker 1: plenty more to come. Stick around here. It is course

24:40 Speaker 1: correct by Benthic Realm. Oh man, I don't hear anything,

24:44 Speaker 1: and I apologize, Let me fix that, let me back

24:49 Speaker 1: that up. Here we go this time, I promise.

25:34 Speaker 3: Well said a cool.

25:39 Speaker 17: Don't know where you girls got the bun shown?

25:47 Speaker 8: No way will be well.

26:00 Speaker 3: Oh guys, I haven't abled.

26:05 Speaker 18: So bad over talk.

26:25 Speaker 8: Coming of.

26:30 Speaker 18: So you take a ball to four year long So.

26:44 Speaker 8: How'm trying m M.

27:26 Speaker 18: Excite mats to the rude.

27:31 Speaker 14: Just spell I haven't.

27:33 Speaker 3: No one was move once?

27:36 Speaker 14: When were we to got bad word Compson bout tell.

27:52 Speaker 17: Real, don't sensitize, don't no man's man?

28:00 Speaker 3: Then to wool.

28:18 Speaker 15: Were the outcomes were taken A long.

28:28 Speaker 8: Three lolls always runner, How well time m we've been

30:42 Speaker 8: in Uh well uh it time.

31:04 Speaker 1: H oh that is so good. We just heard course correct.

31:46 Speaker 1: The band is benthic realm and we've got let's see

31:49 Speaker 1: so we have Dan, Christa and Maureen here with us

31:52 Speaker 1: live in studio. If you missed it, they displayed live,

31:55 Speaker 1: so if you did miss it, you'll have to go

31:57 Speaker 1: back and uh and give it a listen. It sounded great.

31:59 Speaker 1: But and I love that studio track to course crek

32:02 Speaker 1: really good. So welcome everybody? Is it always the three

32:05 Speaker 1: of you? Are there any other members of the band

32:06 Speaker 1: who aren't here?

32:08 Speaker 2: Just the three of us?

32:09 Speaker 1: You got a big sound for three people. That's really cool.

32:13 Speaker 1: That's really cool. And how do you describe? I mean,

32:14 Speaker 1: is what do you call it? Doom? I mean, what

32:16 Speaker 1: do you call how do you Everyone always hates this question,

32:18 Speaker 1: but in terms of genre, how do you describe.

32:21 Speaker 3: What you do.

32:22 Speaker 2: Yeah, we call it melodic doom metal.

32:24 Speaker 1: Melodic doom metal, yeah, because we're not.

32:26 Speaker 2: The classic just you know, just kind of drony, kind

32:30 Speaker 2: of you know, always at one rhythm, you know, or

32:33 Speaker 2: one beast for a minute, I guess. Yeah, we kind

32:36 Speaker 2: of like to try to mix it up. So we

32:38 Speaker 2: all listen to heavy metal as well, so there's going

32:40 Speaker 2: to be a little bit of that influence in it.

32:42 Speaker 1: Yeah. And how long has Benthic Ground existed? How long

32:45 Speaker 1: have you been a band?

32:46 Speaker 2: So we started this band in twenty sixteen, okay, and

32:48 Speaker 2: we actually started with a different drummer. He was in

32:51 Speaker 2: the Brian was in the band with us for I

32:53 Speaker 2: think about two years, and then he and his wife

32:55 Speaker 2: actually moved out to California.

32:56 Speaker 1: Oh.

32:57 Speaker 2: So, Dan, who has been a friend for quite some time,

33:00 Speaker 2: also plays in the band Conclave with a bunch of

33:03 Speaker 2: other friends of ours.

33:04 Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm familiar with conc Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

33:07 Speaker 2: So he like raised his hand and said, I'd love

33:10 Speaker 2: to come play with you guys, and we.

33:11 Speaker 1: Said, yeah, sure, okay.

33:13 Speaker 2: So we had a rehearsal and we knew we knew

33:17 Speaker 2: about three minutes.

33:18 Speaker 1: In excellent excellent. And then Maureen, have you been here

33:21 Speaker 1: from the beginning?

33:22 Speaker 7: Are you?

33:22 Speaker 1: Are you an original member or oh you gotta pull

33:26 Speaker 1: it mic right up to you. Yeah, okay, okay, very good.

33:30 Speaker 1: So I'm curious about well, actually, let me ask you this.

33:34 Speaker 1: I'm sure you get this question all the time, but

33:36 Speaker 1: not to be cliche, but what does benthic realm mean?

33:41 Speaker 2: So, for all of you oceanographers and people who love

33:45 Speaker 2: the sea, the benthic realm is actually the lowest area

33:49 Speaker 2: in the ocean or the bottom of the ocean where

33:52 Speaker 2: all of those crazy sea creatures live that have like

33:55 Speaker 2: like glowing tentacles and that kind of stuff. Okay, And

33:58 Speaker 2: when we were trying to come up with a name,

34:00 Speaker 2: we had a bunch of ones that we were tossing around.

34:02 Speaker 2: We really liked this concept because we knew, okay, if

34:05 Speaker 2: we call the band benthic Realm, there's a lot of

34:08 Speaker 2: material we can pull out of this from also underwater

34:11 Speaker 2: adventures to adventures above the ocean. On top of it

34:14 Speaker 2: different you know, pirate ships and all sorts of stuff.

34:16 Speaker 2: So it really lent itself to being able to just

34:19 Speaker 2: really experiment with with you know, what we wanted to

34:23 Speaker 2: do in terms of different material, Yeah, all of our songs.

34:28 Speaker 1: And what in terms of who writes the lyrics? You

34:31 Speaker 1: write the lyrics? Yes, oh, what can you talk a

34:34 Speaker 1: little bit about the lyrical content and some of the themes?

34:36 Speaker 1: I mean one of them and I made the comment

34:38 Speaker 1: on the Arsid I don't know what that's about. There's

34:39 Speaker 1: obviously about war. Yeah, which one was that? So that's

34:42 Speaker 1: as it burns, as it burns? Yeah, I like that

34:44 Speaker 1: one a lot. I like them all, but like, are

34:48 Speaker 1: those kinds of I mean, that's probably a bit. You

34:51 Speaker 1: probably have more than one song about that, right, because

34:53 Speaker 1: it's it's something that's at the forefront of our minds. Uh,

34:57 Speaker 1: But I mean what else? What are some of the

34:59 Speaker 1: things right about?

35:00 Speaker 4: Sure?

35:01 Speaker 2: So yeah, so that song is about war that I

35:04 Speaker 2: actually wrote that right after Russia had invaded Ukraine. Okay,

35:07 Speaker 2: so it's an anti war song. Obviously war is bad,

35:10 Speaker 2: so we are we're not for war, we're against it. Yeah,

35:12 Speaker 2: and try to talk about, you know, all the bad

35:14 Speaker 2: things that happened, you know, because of it. Yeah, but

35:17 Speaker 2: that's not the only topic that we talk about. So

35:19 Speaker 2: a lot of stuff that might be in the news,

35:20 Speaker 2: I might get inspiration from a news story something something

35:23 Speaker 2: that had happened. Sometimes we just write about, you know,

35:27 Speaker 2: just fictitious stories. So Vessel is I was kind of

35:30 Speaker 2: thinking about, you know, somebody who had been taken captive

35:33 Speaker 2: on a ship after they had been flowing in the

35:35 Speaker 2: ocean kind of like you know, their ship had had

35:38 Speaker 2: blown up or whatever, and so they were trying to

35:41 Speaker 2: you know, save themselves and then they get taken into

35:43 Speaker 2: custody by like another ship, and then a fight ensues

35:46 Speaker 2: and they are able to escape again. And the whole

35:48 Speaker 2: point is like they have what they need, the inner

35:50 Speaker 2: strength in order to survive every single one of these

35:53 Speaker 2: obstacles that keeps coming in front of them. So there

35:55 Speaker 2: might be something like that with Fade Away. It is

35:58 Speaker 2: actually inspired by a book that I recently read, Norwegian Wood,

36:03 Speaker 2: by this Japanese writer if somebody at work had given

36:07 Speaker 2: me the book, and it was inspired by that, so

36:09 Speaker 2: it is it's a bit of a sad song. Suicide

36:12 Speaker 2: is one of the it's a hard term to talk

36:15 Speaker 2: about sometimes, but that is one of the prominent things

36:18 Speaker 2: about the book as these people are coming of age,

36:20 Speaker 2: and I was inspired by the book to write a

36:22 Speaker 2: song to try to kind of tap into the feelings

36:25 Speaker 2: that somebody might be having from actually both sides. The

36:28 Speaker 2: person who you know makes that decision, and then the

36:32 Speaker 2: people who are left to you know, kind of pick

36:34 Speaker 2: up the pieces afterwards. So it kind of is just

36:37 Speaker 2: a mix of things. It's whatever I get inspired by. Typically,

36:40 Speaker 2: I'll write the riffs first for the song, and then

36:43 Speaker 2: the lyrics will come afterwards, and so the music, the cadence,

36:48 Speaker 2: the way I'm feeling is going to influence what I'm

36:50 Speaker 2: going to be singing about as well.

36:52 Speaker 1: Okay, so you probably have riffs. You probably have a

36:54 Speaker 1: lot of ideas that you just don't have lyrics for yet. Right,

36:56 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I would imagine. Yeah, you're all on

37:00 Speaker 1: my phone. I do have to record them so I

37:03 Speaker 1: don't forget them. Yes, Now, Dan made a comment to

37:06 Speaker 1: off air that you're the best cap you're as a vocalist.

37:09 Speaker 1: You're like the best kept secret in Doom, and you

37:11 Speaker 1: do have a great voice. I love your voice. Thank you.

37:14 Speaker 3: I was really shy about it.

37:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, how did you learn to sing like that? Did

37:17 Speaker 1: you take any lessons or did you just are you

37:20 Speaker 1: self taught?

37:21 Speaker 2: Pretty much just self taught. I took a handful of

37:23 Speaker 2: lessons several years ago, but I didn't really it was

37:26 Speaker 2: more about like breathing control and that kind of stuff. Yeah,

37:30 Speaker 2: I think I took like four or five lessons and

37:32 Speaker 2: that was about it. So wolst Of is just self taught.

37:35 Speaker 2: But I come from a family of musicians. My mother sings,

37:37 Speaker 2: she plays acoustic guitar. Her brother played guitar and sang

37:41 Speaker 2: in a band as well, So it's a part of

37:43 Speaker 2: our family.

37:43 Speaker 1: Okay. So it's probably a foregone conclusion from a young

37:46 Speaker 1: age that you're going to be a musician pretty much.

37:49 Speaker 2: I started pretty young.

37:50 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, when did you, like, when did you start

37:54 Speaker 1: writing in this this genre?

37:57 Speaker 2: So I started playing guitar when I was twelve, and

37:59 Speaker 2: I my first song at thirteen, Okay. And when I

38:02 Speaker 2: think back to what that first song was in the lyrics,

38:05 Speaker 2: they there's they, it kind of has stayed the same. Yeah,

38:09 Speaker 2: I'm a little doomy, A little gloomy, you know, that

38:11 Speaker 2: just part of my nature, sure, but specifically with doom,

38:16 Speaker 2: I've just sort of gravitated towards that. So way back

38:19 Speaker 2: in the mid nineties, I was in a band called Warhorse,

38:22 Speaker 2: uh and we were a traditional, more traditional doom I

38:26 Speaker 2: guess really slow, really heavy kind of stuff, and it

38:29 Speaker 2: like you can hear the common thread. Marena said this

38:32 Speaker 2: about all the different releases I've put out with different

38:34 Speaker 2: bands over the years, Like you do you hear that

38:36 Speaker 2: common thread of Christa. You know that it's in there

38:38 Speaker 2: regardless of whether she's playing guitar or just singing or whatnot.

38:41 Speaker 2: So it's just sort of I guess at this point,

38:43 Speaker 2: like just built into my DNA right right.

38:46 Speaker 1: And then on the uh when I hear layered vocals

38:49 Speaker 1: and some of the songs, is that all you Yeah? Okay, yeah, okay, Yeah.

38:53 Speaker 2: The downside is like we can't pull that off live. Yeah,

38:55 Speaker 2: plus we start using backing tracks. But yeah, so we

38:58 Speaker 2: definitely play in the studio, will layer guitars, we layer vocals.

39:02 Speaker 2: So it's a it's a it's just another way to really,

39:05 Speaker 2: you know, beef up the songs, bring it to life, really,

39:08 Speaker 2: you know, share the vision that we had for it.

39:10 Speaker 1: Okay are you all from around here? Are you all

39:12 Speaker 1: from New Hampshire or.

39:14 Speaker 2: We're from Massachusetts, Massachusetts from Massachusetts wester based band.

39:18 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, excellent, Well thanks for making the trip up.

39:21 Speaker 2: I know that's uh happy happy to be here.

39:23 Speaker 1: This is not a terrible drive, No, not at all.

39:26 Speaker 2: They're sailing the whole way.

39:28 Speaker 1: Do you play a lot of shows in Wister because

39:29 Speaker 1: I used to so not recently. I'm a musician, but

39:32 Speaker 1: I haven't played in a long time, but I used to.

39:34 Speaker 1: I was in bands that we used to play a

39:35 Speaker 1: lot of shows in Wister, just because there are always

39:37 Speaker 1: a few. Like is the Atrium still there? That's probably

39:39 Speaker 1: long gone because I've mentioned it to people, And do

39:41 Speaker 1: you all remember the atrium that was in Okay? Yeah,

39:45 Speaker 1: well yeah, that actually does go back a long way

39:46 Speaker 1: and now that I'm thinking about it, But but like,

39:48 Speaker 1: what's the scene, Like there are there are a lot

39:49 Speaker 1: of a lot of good places to play and other

39:51 Speaker 1: bands that you kind of team up with.

39:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's Ralph's is the main, main place, the

39:57 Speaker 2: main place to play. There's a lot of other bands

40:00 Speaker 2: that play faces a bay on Evil eighty Conclave. We

40:06 Speaker 2: all have to share a rehearsal space as well.

40:08 Speaker 1: Well, that's convenient, right.

40:10 Speaker 4: I know.

40:10 Speaker 2: We've talked about like just taking the Temple of Doom

40:12 Speaker 2: room and just turning that into a show. We still

40:15 Speaker 2: have yet to do that.

40:16 Speaker 1: By the way, every drummer we have on the show

40:18 Speaker 1: is in like ten Are you just in two, Dan

40:20 Speaker 1: or do you have like okay, because most most drummers

40:22 Speaker 1: are in like ten different bands. Okay, No, but that's

40:29 Speaker 1: convenient though, right to just share the space. Yeah, So

40:34 Speaker 1: where do you record? Because the production on the studio

40:37 Speaker 1: tracks is amazing and I would imagine you have to

40:40 Speaker 1: work with somebody who really understands the genre right to

40:44 Speaker 1: capture that sound, I would think. So I'm curious about

40:47 Speaker 1: what the recording process is like for the band.

40:49 Speaker 19: So this last album, Vessel.

40:53 Speaker 2: Was shoving the microphone space that you can hear him.

40:58 Speaker 8: Yeah.

41:00 Speaker 19: It was done out in western Massachusetts with a place

41:03 Speaker 19: called Sonic Titan Studios, who has kind of given up

41:08 Speaker 19: their space that they had, but they'll still do mobile production,

41:12 Speaker 19: mobile recording events, all kinds of stuff. And Anthony, who

41:16 Speaker 19: was partners with Brian, was the master of the helm

41:20 Speaker 19: for this recording. He's a monster musician, an absolutely incredible drummer.

41:26 Speaker 19: So I was I was very well taken care of

41:30 Speaker 19: for this one. Yeah, he kind of guided me through

41:33 Speaker 19: a lot of setup. He even changed out some heads

41:36 Speaker 19: and whatnot when we got into studio instead of playing

41:39 Speaker 19: on it, stuff that he had that he thought would sound,

41:41 Speaker 19: you know, sonically, sound much better, and he was right.

41:44 Speaker 19: Came out beautiful. We were extremely happy with the process

41:48 Speaker 19: for him working with him. Hopefully, maybe there's a potential that,

41:53 Speaker 19: you know, we can still get him involved in the future.

41:55 Speaker 19: I don't know where it'll be, how it would happen. Yeah, Yeah,

41:59 Speaker 19: he's touring all the time. He's a guest, but he's

42:02 Speaker 19: been playing with Jamie Josta recently and all the kind

42:05 Speaker 19: of individual Jasta stuff that he's been doing. Great dude too.

42:09 Speaker 19: He's just just a great person. The album before Vessel

42:13 Speaker 19: with the EP was done with Benny Grotto at Maddoak

42:20 Speaker 19: Studios in Cambridge also, which he's still functioning. As far

42:27 Speaker 19: as I know, their studio is going to stay intact.

42:29 Speaker 19: They've been hearing a lot of rumors about that whole

42:31 Speaker 19: block kind of transforming into something brand new, and they're

42:35 Speaker 19: they're actually located right behind us at Harvard Square.

42:39 Speaker 2: Not Harvard Square, it's I don't know what the square

42:41 Speaker 2: is where that is, but it's it's the whole area

42:44 Speaker 2: has been undergoing development that they've been knocking down buildings

42:47 Speaker 2: and putting up fancy high rises and fancy bars and

42:51 Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. So, yeah, so there's been talk

42:53 Speaker 2: for quite some time about O'Brien's, that whole area that

42:56 Speaker 2: O'Brien's pub is going to get knocked down and the

42:59 Speaker 2: rebuild so thing. Yeah, with Benny being right behind it,

43:02 Speaker 2: I'm not sure what's going to happen.

43:04 Speaker 19: Buying any houses or in additional real estate. And we're

43:07 Speaker 19: also supposed to have in that building when it gets

43:09 Speaker 19: built back up. Supposedly it's going to have O'Brien's will

43:12 Speaker 19: be revived and brought back, but also great Scott. Oh okay,

43:16 Speaker 19: well we lost in Boston. I think that was prior

43:19 Speaker 19: to COVID.

43:20 Speaker 2: Or right around I think it was, yeah, during COVID

43:22 Speaker 2: during ye.

43:23 Speaker 19: So the rumor is is that they're supposed to have

43:24 Speaker 19: a twin venue there plus probably some mixture space, maybe

43:27 Speaker 19: residential or something.

43:28 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, but there there are.

43:30 Speaker 19: Another great studio, and you know, we may be able

43:32 Speaker 19: to work with them.

43:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so many different options and different ways to

43:36 Speaker 1: record now, you know, now more than ever, I'm curious.

43:40 Speaker 1: You know, COVID came up. Do you have songs about

43:42 Speaker 1: the pandemic?

43:44 Speaker 2: No, songs about the Pandemics.

43:48 Speaker 19: At Bow the time everyone wants to forget.

43:52 Speaker 2: Yeah, okidding, interesting, we are writing for the new album.

43:57 Speaker 2: So perhaps now that you've just planted a seedy you could.

44:01 Speaker 1: You could still do that?

44:02 Speaker 8: Yeah?

44:02 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, when it when you play live, because again

44:07 Speaker 1: it's only the three of you, is it? Is it

44:09 Speaker 1: challenging it at all to duplicate or maybe maybe you

44:13 Speaker 1: can't duplicate it perfectly. But but I mean, you know,

44:15 Speaker 1: you've got a big sound for for a three piece.

44:17 Speaker 1: You know, there's a that maybe a little cliche, but

44:20 Speaker 1: you know the term power trio it but uh good good?

44:24 Speaker 1: But I mean, is that is that hard to pull

44:26 Speaker 1: off live at all?

44:27 Speaker 10: Or is it?

44:28 Speaker 13: Is it?

44:29 Speaker 1: Does it come naturally? I mean, at this point you've

44:31 Speaker 1: been around a while, it probably is pretty easy. But

44:33 Speaker 1: maybe not. I don't know. I don't find it challenging.

44:36 Speaker 2: I do miss having the backing vocals. Yeah, but the

44:40 Speaker 2: other piece of it is it we also recorded most.

44:43 Speaker 3: Of it live?

44:44 Speaker 1: Oh okay, oh okay, well that helps right.

44:48 Speaker 19: Yeah, we don't like do separate tracking to a click

44:51 Speaker 19: or anything like that.

44:52 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, go.

44:53 Speaker 19: Into the space and do a live track, which usually

44:55 Speaker 19: will grab the drums out of okay, and then they

44:58 Speaker 19: can go back and either redo or fixed or they

45:01 Speaker 19: want to actually.

45:02 Speaker 2: And then just layer on top of it. So usually

45:04 Speaker 2: the my scratch track that we'd be recording when we're

45:08 Speaker 2: doing the live and we're all in the room together,

45:10 Speaker 2: that's we can keep it. And then I'll just you know,

45:12 Speaker 2: punch in here or there just to fix a couple

45:14 Speaker 2: of loops that I had, Yeah, and then I'll just

45:16 Speaker 2: go back and replay through the whole entire thing with

45:18 Speaker 2: just a different rig a different guitar, just to get another,

45:21 Speaker 2: you know, more fuller sound. Yeah, but I think, you know,

45:23 Speaker 2: we play pretty loud, so I'd like to think that

45:25 Speaker 2: we fill up the fill up the space.

45:27 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that advantage right, Yeah.

45:31 Speaker 2: My amp goes to eleven.

45:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.

45:34 Speaker 19: We play with a lot of passion live, so I

45:36 Speaker 19: think that comes through, yeah, and it helps fill out.

45:39 Speaker 1: Are there other bands in the area that you you know,

45:41 Speaker 1: it kind of happens organically that that you've kind of

45:43 Speaker 1: teamed up with that you play a lot of shows with,

45:45 Speaker 1: probably or have you ever done a show where you're

45:48 Speaker 1: playing with Conclave and spent the realm the same night? Yeah?

45:51 Speaker 19: We've had a couple of those with Double Duty.

45:53 Speaker 1: Yeah.

45:54 Speaker 19: Local bands that we've been spending more time with lately

45:57 Speaker 19: would be Able Blood Yep.

45:58 Speaker 1: I love Able Blood. They've been on show a few times.

46:00 Speaker 1: Love them great, great people. Yeah, absolutely, a lot of

46:03 Speaker 1: fun to play with, great musicians. Yeah, a lot of

46:08 Speaker 1: the local scene, they all we all kind of migrate together.

46:12 Speaker 19: Yeah, in and out and whatnot. But I'd say in

46:13 Speaker 19: recent time we've spent a lot of shows with it.

46:17 Speaker 1: That's great.

46:18 Speaker 19: Yeah, we have another one coming up with them in

46:20 Speaker 19: November at Quoto and Salem.

46:22 Speaker 1: Okay, excellent, it'll be cool. Excellent, Yeah them Dost Profits

46:25 Speaker 1: also on the bill. Does Profits great. I used to

46:28 Speaker 1: be in a band with Auto Kinzell a lot of time.

46:30 Speaker 1: We were in a band called Chemical Distance together. That

46:33 Speaker 1: was when Otto was you know, every project he did,

46:36 Speaker 1: you know it would only last for you know, because

46:38 Speaker 1: he'd want to do something else. It would only last

46:40 Speaker 1: a short time. But does Profits he's had for for

46:43 Speaker 1: quite a while now. That seems to be found something

46:45 Speaker 1: he can really stick with that fulfills him and he's incredible. Well.

46:49 Speaker 1: I love Auto absolutely great guy.

46:51 Speaker 19: They're on the bill as well. There's a Bill a

46:52 Speaker 19: band coming I think from New York, Black Tongue, Reverend

46:57 Speaker 19: Name and of course Able Blood. They're the ones that

47:00 Speaker 19: put the show together.

47:01 Speaker 1: Oh okay, fantastic. And where is that want to get quota?

47:05 Speaker 1: And okay, I haven't been to that venue, but I've

47:07 Speaker 1: heard about it. Yeah.

47:08 Speaker 2: Yeah, Salem, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.

47:13 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which is oh yes, yeah, oh yeah. Is

47:16 Speaker 1: that that time of year?

47:18 Speaker 2: Well, fortunately it's right afterwards. We don't have to deal

47:20 Speaker 2: with all the crazy traffic, insane during October. You need

47:25 Speaker 2: to stay away from it. Anybody who lives in Salem, like,

47:28 Speaker 2: I don't know how you do it, because I would

47:29 Speaker 2: just would be enough to make me move.

47:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, no doubt.

47:34 Speaker 13: So.

47:34 Speaker 19: The show's on November eighth, she said, it just passed

47:37 Speaker 19: the whole Yeah, you know wild Halloween time.

47:39 Speaker 1: Well that's good.

47:41 Speaker 2: When is the October one?

47:44 Speaker 19: It's next weekend, yeah, next week, no Saturday.

47:48 Speaker 2: It's in two weeks so October twenty fifth, right, October,

47:54 Speaker 2: I'm saying that right. We are playing at Terminus Underground.

47:58 Speaker 1: Nice.

47:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, so that is a new Nationale New Hampshire.

48:01 Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, love Terminus. Andrea and Eleanor are great people

48:05 Speaker 1: have you been there yet?

48:06 Speaker 19: If we have not, I did, oh you okay, because

48:09 Speaker 19: I'm not Vigil. His other band the World Burns World

48:15 Speaker 19: Worth Burning, World Worth Burning.

48:16 Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, okay, that's a great name, but I'm

48:19 Speaker 1: not familiar with that. I am familiar with Vigil, but

48:21 Speaker 1: not World Worth Worth Burning. But no, I tell everyone

48:23 Speaker 1: the same thing about who hasn't been in Terminius yet?

48:25 Speaker 1: And you'll probably agree. It's like when you walk into

48:27 Speaker 1: that room, it's like walking into another world. It's really cool. Yeah,

48:30 Speaker 1: really cool. It's incredible. Yeah, very nice, very nice. Well,

48:33 Speaker 1: we do have one more studio track that we're gonna play.

48:35 Speaker 1: I want to make sure we don't run out of time,

48:36 Speaker 1: so we'll get to that in a moment. But I

48:38 Speaker 1: really want to thank all three of you for joining

48:39 Speaker 1: us today us absolutely and thank you for coming and

48:42 Speaker 1: playing live. Very cool. Where should people go? Like so

48:46 Speaker 1: our listeners know where's the best place to go online

48:49 Speaker 1: to keep up with everything that Benthic Realm is doing.

48:52 Speaker 2: So Benthikrealm dot com has has it everything that are

48:55 Speaker 2: all our upcoming shows. Whove got links to all the

48:58 Speaker 2: merch from band camp. We're on face but we're on Instagram,

49:00 Speaker 2: so you can find us on all the social media platforms.

49:02 Speaker 2: On YouTube, we've got a YouTube channel too, But if

49:05 Speaker 2: you go to the website Benthickgroalm dot com, then that'll

49:07 Speaker 2: get your pointers to go to all the other places

49:09 Speaker 2: that we live.

49:10 Speaker 19: Okay, excellent, screaming wise, we're on every platform.

49:13 Speaker 2: Yeaheah, Spotify, Apple, you know, Amazon, everything?

49:17 Speaker 1: Very good, very good. Oh way, does anybody ever mess

49:19 Speaker 1: up your name on a flyer? Because benthic is not

49:22 Speaker 1: a word that you hear every day. I'm just curious,

49:24 Speaker 1: does anybody ever you ever see it misspelled on a

49:27 Speaker 1: flyer or anything?

49:28 Speaker 2: We actually have not.

49:29 Speaker 1: That's good, that's good.

49:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're lucky. Yeah, but a lot of people do

49:34 Speaker 2: say wait, say that again. So yeah, it's definitely not

49:37 Speaker 2: a word that gets used a lot.

49:40 Speaker 1: So we're going to close out in a moment with

49:43 Speaker 1: Summon the Tide. What should we know about this song?

49:46 Speaker 1: What's this one about?

49:49 Speaker 2: So there's a lot of death and destruction that makes

49:52 Speaker 2: its way into what I write. Yeah, so this song

49:55 Speaker 2: is a fictitious thing. I was kind of envisioning like

49:57 Speaker 2: a goddess who has you know, the control of the

50:01 Speaker 2: seas and of the water and all of that sort

50:03 Speaker 2: of thing, and she has gotten really depressed. He's kind of,

50:05 Speaker 2: you know, coming at the end of questioning her own

50:08 Speaker 2: existence and everything, and in the in the means of

50:12 Speaker 2: kind of taking herself out of the picture, she ends up,

50:15 Speaker 2: unfortunately taking everybody else out with her. Yeah, as she

50:19 Speaker 2: is summoning the tide. So it's a bit of a

50:22 Speaker 2: kind of a dark dark song, have you Yeah, Yeah,

50:26 Speaker 2: but I could envision, you know, all of that, a

50:28 Speaker 2: lot of that. I'm I'm also a designer, so like I,

50:30 Speaker 2: you know, have the visual is big for me, So

50:32 Speaker 2: I could typically will envision, you know, the story that's

50:35 Speaker 2: happening in front of me, and then I'm just sort

50:36 Speaker 2: of writing about what it is that I'm seeing in

50:39 Speaker 2: my in.

50:39 Speaker 1: My in my vision. Yeah, ah, wonderful, wonderful. So we're

50:43 Speaker 1: going to play this and uh again, thank you to

50:45 Speaker 1: everybody who joined us today. Of course we had let's see,

50:47 Speaker 1: we had Kyle Gordon, we had Jack from Pacific A's

50:51 Speaker 1: in the first hour. By the way, keeping eye what

50:54 Speaker 1: Jenny is doing jen coffee dot com. She had a

50:56 Speaker 1: very big week and follow her on social media if

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51:00 Speaker 1: do Matt Connorton dot com, and uh, if you miss

51:03 Speaker 1: any part of today's show, it will be up in

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51:09 Speaker 1: we will close out with this and again, uh benthic realm.

51:12 Speaker 1: Thank you all three of you so much. You got it,

51:15 Speaker 1: you got it, and here it is. This is called

51:17 Speaker 1: summon the tide.

51:58 Speaker 10: God from the MS mass.

52:16 Speaker 17: No things seas to cry the bound to the coming control.

52:44 Speaker 10: Answer myself.

52:48 Speaker 8: Time to a.

53:00 Speaker 15: S beside on the bill is born, but love th dill.

53:42 Speaker 7: I know the long literally from school, Oh guns, and.

53:56 Speaker 18: There my mind cleans his old don't juice.

54:08 Speaker 3: Say oh bell wiss.

54:15 Speaker 8: Man on them.

54:32 Speaker 3: So also the mote.

54:41 Speaker 8: To band.

54:48 Speaker 15: So we brings go Bill is all were bad than not.

56:46 Speaker 18: A fool, so bow a fool.

56:53 Speaker 15: So it's all just mom to bring them to the.

57:06 Speaker 8: Dawn the straight.

57:11 Speaker 14: Z change.

57:16 Speaker 8: The wheel.

57:19 Speaker 10: Strand going.

57:35 Speaker 18: And so sad.

57:39 Speaker 3: Not to.

57:55 Speaker 8: Baby had gone.

58:05 Speaker 3: Well is small

58:08 Speaker 8: And di