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World Radio Premiere of "Light It Up" by Chasing The Devil.
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Speaker 1: Up up.
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Speaker 5: Up there it is That is the premiere of the
Speaker 5: new track from Chasing the Devil. That is called Lighted
Speaker 5: Up that is brand new and very happy to share
Speaker 5: it here with you on this Saturday morning. This is
Speaker 5: Matt connor toon Unleashed and we are live from the
Speaker 5: studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM on
Speaker 5: this glorious Saturday, October five, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6: And of course I'm not alone, dude, morning sunshine.
Speaker 5: Yes, Jenny is here at the news table four. By
Speaker 5: the way, I do want to mention Chasing the Devil.
Speaker 5: They are actually on a big tour right now with
Speaker 5: Shim Anything But Human and Shallow Side tonight as we
Speaker 5: speak on this Saturday. They are in Kentucky. They're there
Speaker 5: today and tomorrow and then they're on to Texas and
Speaker 5: they won't be back up our way until here in
Speaker 5: New Hampshire until the twentieth. They've got a show at
Speaker 5: Wally's in Hampton Beach and then after that they go
Speaker 5: back out. They head to Ohio after that, so they're
Speaker 5: on Ohio. So they're on the big So congratulations to
Speaker 5: those guys, and very honored and proud as always to
Speaker 5: be able to debut their new single, light It Up
Speaker 5: right here on Matt Connorton Unleashed on WMNH ninety five
Speaker 5: point three FM. Oh, by the way, congratulations on your trip. Yes, yes,
Speaker 5: you were in Washington, DC recently.
Speaker 6: So I was in Washington, d C.
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Speaker 5: Oh excellent.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so they're going after that, and they're also going
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Speaker 7: I learned that this weekend as well. It was an
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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, very good. Well, we've got a couple of
Speaker 5: guys in studio with us who have been here before.
Speaker 5: We have two thirds of the band. Abel Blood is here.
Speaker 5: Hey guys, welcome, Hey Matty, how's it going good?
Speaker 1: Good? Hey?
Speaker 5: Why don't you each tell us who you are, what
Speaker 5: you do in the band, and then uh, and then
Speaker 5: we'll mention uh, your your your third partner who was
Speaker 5: not able to make it this morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, spontaneously combusted last night.
Speaker 5: That's all. Like the drummer for yeah, wow, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we haven't seen him since like eleven PM. Uh huh,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm Adam, I'm the guitar slash bass player. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I do the lead vocals, yes, yes, and you, sir,
Speaker 1: Jim de Luca played drums very good.
Speaker 5: So what now now? So before he combusts and what
Speaker 5: did what a mouth?
Speaker 1: Well, he also played guitar and bass duties.
Speaker 5: That's right. Yeah, you guys do like a trade off
Speaker 5: we we have.
Speaker 1: We use aby y splitters, yeah, and we run our
Speaker 1: guitars into bass amps. That's right.
Speaker 5: I remember we talked about that last time and I
Speaker 5: was fast by that.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: That gives you yeah, that part of what really I
Speaker 5: think kind of gives you your sound, your signature.
Speaker 1: It creates quite a wall.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very cool. We're gonna play one of your songs
Speaker 5: in a in a couple of minutes. But we should
Speaker 5: mention too now. Uh, you know because on uh on Tuesday,
Speaker 5: I met with Eleanor at the Midnight Creatives Collective and
Speaker 5: uh in Nashua and Terminus is there, and I know
Speaker 5: you guys are playing there coming up and you've also
Speaker 5: you're now in the building right you're.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're our rehearsal space is just a couple of
Speaker 1: doors down the same hallway. Yeah. We love Andrea and
Speaker 1: and Eleanor. They're they're great, great for the scene.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, yeah, they're doing a lot. I'm gonna be I
Speaker 5: don't know if you know this about me. I'm a
Speaker 5: hypnotherapist and I'm gonna be actually doing sessions there in
Speaker 5: the business bar Mondays and Tuesdays now at.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so very excited.
Speaker 1: Were on Tuesday evenings, so I might come in for
Speaker 1: a oh there you go, Yeah, yeah, it'll be fun.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, Well why don't we play? So we talked about
Speaker 5: playing reflections, so we can give this a spin and
Speaker 5: then we'll come back and we'll talk and catch up
Speaker 5: with everything. You guys are doing. But this is from
Speaker 5: Arrival of the Waves. The this is the current album, right,
Speaker 5: the newest album. And yeah, and this is an instrumental,
Speaker 5: which is cool because this will really give people an
Speaker 5: idea of of your sound in terms of you know,
Speaker 5: like you were saying, the low end and everything. So
Speaker 5: let's give this a spin and then we'll come back
Speaker 5: and talk with these guys. This is called Reflections and
Speaker 5: the band is able Blood. Whoops, And it would help if.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 3: Let's again.
Speaker 1: In the.
Speaker 3: N No.
Speaker 1: That is so cool.
Speaker 5: That's got a nice groove to it. That is able Blood.
Speaker 5: The track is called Reflections and it's from the album
Speaker 5: Arrival of the Waves. And if you're just joining us
Speaker 5: on this Saturday morning here on Matt connorton Unleashed, we
Speaker 5: have two thirds of able Blood here with us alive
Speaker 5: in studio. And yeah, you guys were kind of talking
Speaker 5: off here about how that track came about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really strange. I mean, I think it
Speaker 1: was in the middle of the winter, right, it was
Speaker 1: really cold, and our old bass player, this was before
Speaker 1: the days of Malcolm had to run in the house
Speaker 1: for something and all of a sudden I just came
Speaker 1: up with that opening riff, Yeah, and Jimmy just started
Speaker 1: playing in the drums to it, and literally Ben was
Speaker 1: gone for five minutes and by the time we get back,
Speaker 1: we had all the parts like written to it, and
Speaker 1: then we're just like, I think by the end of
Speaker 1: that jam, we had what was the most part this
Speaker 1: whole song, Yeah, for the most part, and like we
Speaker 1: had decided right then and there, like no lyrics, We're
Speaker 1: just going to do this as an instrumental, and it
Speaker 1: was just like it was one of those magical moments
Speaker 1: as a musician, you know what I mean, Like sometimes
Speaker 1: people are like, you know, this, like the the best
Speaker 1: songs ever written usually come really quickly. Yeah, And yeah
Speaker 1: to me, I mean, that's probably my favorite song on
Speaker 1: that album and it came within minutes.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Is that your only instrumental?
Speaker 1: We have one on our first album called Unknown Variant,
Speaker 1: which I love that one too, But yeah, we've got
Speaker 1: two instrumentals right now. We're not opposed to writing a
Speaker 1: ton more of them. Yeah, we kind of love it's
Speaker 1: just like that Jammy feel that we do. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you know, in the future more will come. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Are you guys working on anything nude? I mean, do
Speaker 5: you have a new material your planning to record, had.
Speaker 1: Some new songs. I think we're planning to take the
Speaker 1: winter off from gigging and uh because we've been just
Speaker 1: cranking busy all summer doing shows and uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: think we're just gonna sit down and focus on getting
Speaker 1: some new material. We do have one song that we've
Speaker 1: nearly completed, and once you can ask the guys in
Speaker 1: the bands once, once we get into a groove, I
Speaker 1: write songs like like quick. So yeah, we won't have
Speaker 1: any any problem putting some new material together over the winter.
Speaker 1: And I think we're considering re re recording our first
Speaker 1: album really yep, so we may end up doing that
Speaker 1: this winter itself. I think we could. We love the
Speaker 1: the studio we've done both albums at. I think it
Speaker 1: was it was the production on it and being that
Speaker 1: it was our first album, we were we were like,
Speaker 1: you know, like, let's just let's just do it and
Speaker 1: release it, and we could have taken our time a
Speaker 1: little bit more are on on certain things, and I
Speaker 1: think I've basically rewritten the songs since we've recorded them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is what always happens, because I mean, you're really
Speaker 1: only getting a snapshot in time. Sure, when you do
Speaker 1: record an album. So the songs have evolved since then
Speaker 1: and stuff, and I think they sound a lot better now.
Speaker 8: So I mean the tempos have changed, yea dramatically. Yeah,
Speaker 8: but the way we play him now versus when we recorded.
Speaker 5: That, Okay, Yeah, I would imagine these songs too. I
Speaker 5: mean they must change live when you play.
Speaker 1: Them, they do, they must change. I don't play, I
Speaker 1: don't play needs to live the same way as we
Speaker 1: recorded it a year ago. Yeah, yeah, they And I
Speaker 1: think that's the way they should be, and like songs
Speaker 1: should be.
Speaker 5: They're living things, right right, they should be able to Yeah,
Speaker 5: yeah absolutely. Where So where do you guys record? Like
Speaker 5: where was the Rival of the Waves?
Speaker 1: We recorded that at loud Sun Studios down over in Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: Ben Rodgers recorded that for us. He's amazing. Yeah, he's excellent,
Speaker 1: excellent recording. We did master it at Blackheart Sound. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Eric's got a great reputation and yeah, yeah, he treats
Speaker 1: everybody so cool.
Speaker 5: So we had him on the show a few months ago,
Speaker 5: and uh, we've been trying to get him on because
Speaker 5: you know, his name comes up all the time on
Speaker 5: the show.
Speaker 1: So it was cool to finally have him super busy.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves what his recording absolutely, yeah, I mean he
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, he's he's fascinating to talk to too,
Speaker 5: but yeah, very very knowledgeable. And then so the the
Speaker 5: other album that's the other one that's on band camp,
Speaker 5: was that also recorded in the same place.
Speaker 1: Same place? Okay, yep. I was in a cowpunkish type
Speaker 1: of band about ten fifteen years ago. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: was introduced to Ben through them. We did a little EP,
Speaker 1: did like four songs back then, and uh loved the experience.
Speaker 1: So I've never recorded with anybody else.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh interesting, Yeah, yeah, I really like him. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and uh so live is it the configuration that you
Speaker 5: guys playing, Because you know we were we were talking earlier,
Speaker 5: you alluded to, well, you have a unique setup.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is a unique setup, and I won't get
Speaker 1: two into the weeds with it, but we we I
Speaker 1: basically I plug my my my guitar into a splitter,
Speaker 1: and I split one into my into my guitar board,
Speaker 1: and I split the other signal into a bass amp.
Speaker 1: And it's a little bit of other things going on
Speaker 1: in between.
Speaker 5: But you've probably.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got octave pedal that will take down I
Speaker 1: think it's two octaves that I bring down the guitar
Speaker 1: when it goes into the bass amp and so it's
Speaker 1: just all low end from that. And Malcolm does the
Speaker 1: same thing. So basically what we we do, we basically
Speaker 1: have two bass players because we played different things in
Speaker 1: the songs too, So the bass lines are they're in
Speaker 1: the same key, but they're intermingling with each other, but
Speaker 1: they're not. We don't play the same bass lines, so
Speaker 1: it just creates this huge wall of sound. Ship is
Speaker 1: so fun. And when you're up there and you just
Speaker 1: you can close your eyes while you're playing on Jimmy
Speaker 1: does That's what how he plays is with his eyes closed,
Speaker 1: kind of just wash over you. And yeah, it's it's yeah,
Speaker 1: and and I can't you just turn the amp up
Speaker 1: as loud as it'll go before it blows your ear
Speaker 1: drums and and just let it do its thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it just yeah, it feels really really good.
Speaker 8: We get so many compliments. People come up to us
Speaker 8: at live shows like what do you do? How are
Speaker 8: you guys doing that? Yeah, that sounds amazing.
Speaker 5: I can imagine does anybody else do it that way.
Speaker 1: There's a been treding Tombstones that does the same setup.
Speaker 1: There's a pretty well known band, Telekinetic Getty okay, okay,
Speaker 1: who is playing Tuesday night at Jewel. We get to Actually,
Speaker 1: we're opening for him. They were the inspiration for how
Speaker 1: we do what we do, so it's gonna be kind
Speaker 1: of a full circle moment for us. You open up
Speaker 1: to them. Now we get to open for him, so
Speaker 1: that'll be really fun. There are two piece they're out
Speaker 1: of Iowa.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The people all over the country are doing this interesting.
Speaker 5: Did it take some getting used to Yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The first show we played, we had lost our
Speaker 1: bass player, like just a couple of weeks before that. Oh,
Speaker 1: so I didn't know what the heck I was doing,
Speaker 1: and you know, trying to get all the right buttons
Speaker 1: and getting the bas to click in when I wanted
Speaker 1: to click in and stuff. It was a learning process. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like I've got it down pretty good now.
Speaker 1: It's been a year all over a year of doing
Speaker 1: it and but it's fun, like trying to trying to
Speaker 1: remember which pedal to hit, what I ever been singing,
Speaker 1: and you know, and then you get the crowd looking
Speaker 1: at you and everything. So there's a lot kind of
Speaker 1: going on. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 5: And even if something goes wrong, it's original music, so
Speaker 5: you know, the audience doesn't have to know or no,
Speaker 5: or maybe or maybe there's even a happy accident.
Speaker 1: Drummer doesn't even know. Like we played last night and
Speaker 1: I was screwing up all over like that was the
Speaker 1: best that we've ever played. Yeah, yeah, I even can
Speaker 1: fool him.
Speaker 5: That's fantastic. So you guys have been busy out of
Speaker 5: busy summer you play, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I played a lot. We were down in Maryland. They
Speaker 1: had a big doom fest down there's fifty three bands.
Speaker 1: We got to open the whole festival.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah that was a blast awesome. Yeah, it's the Maryland
Speaker 1: doom Fest.
Speaker 5: I've never even heard of it.
Speaker 8: Oh, fifty three bands, Yeah, from all over the world.
Speaker 8: It was fantastic. Tenth year they've done it.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, where Maryland is Frederick, Frederick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's like an hour from Baltimore, Okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh it was bands from Washington State, it was
Speaker 1: bands from Ireland that came. I mean, just absolutely amazing
Speaker 1: experience and it was like a family there, Like as
Speaker 1: soon as I walked in and they started talking to
Speaker 1: all the other bands, like, I felt like I was
Speaker 1: at home. Yeah, because doom isn't there's a doom bands
Speaker 1: around here, but it's it's not. It doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: it's as popular in New England as it is in
Speaker 1: other places, you know. So when I got to go out,
Speaker 1: all of us got to go out and explore, you know,
Speaker 1: a different region of the country and see all these
Speaker 1: people come together from everywhere and we're all like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is this is our family. Yeah, you know, it
Speaker 1: felt it felt awesome. Oh cool cool.
Speaker 5: By the way, So do describe that if you could,
Speaker 5: for for listeners who don't know what you mean.
Speaker 1: When yes, it's I kind of from a thousand foot
Speaker 1: view would say, it's just it's heavy metal, but it's
Speaker 1: slowed way down and you know, we get some really
Speaker 1: heavy rests. Now we're really psychedelic influence too, Like I'm
Speaker 1: a big Pink Floyd Yeah fan and sixty psych so
Speaker 1: we throw a lot of that in. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean do them. I mean essentially that's what it is.
Speaker 1: It's like, just get the heaviest rifts you can come
Speaker 1: up with, slow them way down. No, that's a good
Speaker 1: that's a good description of it. You think like Sabbath,
Speaker 1: like Sabbath started at all, you know.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, so we we kind of take bits of
Speaker 8: Sabbath and bits of Pink Floyd and kind of mesh
Speaker 8: them together at times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of other bands mixed in that, you know.
Speaker 1: That's what those are the two bands I think that
Speaker 1: most people would release, right right.
Speaker 5: Well, we should play another track, what I know, we
Speaker 5: talked about it earlier. You guys had a couple of
Speaker 5: songs in mind.
Speaker 1: But you need to live to do that? One needs
Speaker 1: to live would be a good one.
Speaker 5: Well, do needs to live? All right? If you are
Speaker 5: just joining us, we have able Blood with us live
Speaker 5: in studio on this Saturday morning here and yeah. This
Speaker 5: is from the album Arrival of the Waves from able Blood.
Speaker 5: This is called needs to Live.
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Speaker 3: a way to take lot of the.
Speaker 2: Don the five or.
Speaker 3: Make a tois fellow follow his child? Don't you follow
Speaker 3: the water? Two? It pass four? It face only your
Speaker 3: one shower? Do you think about?
Speaker 1: Do you ever by? Oh?
Speaker 3: Don't you get jaws?
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 2: You a dollar?
Speaker 3: You while you were to.
Speaker 2: Make a show where anything else.
Speaker 5: I didn't even want to talk over the end of it.
Speaker 5: It sounds so cool that his needs to live. That's
Speaker 5: the song. The band is able Blood and we have
Speaker 5: we have Adam and Jimmy here with us live in
Speaker 5: studio on this Saturday morning here on the program, And uh, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's that's really really good. By the way, So who right, Adam?
Speaker 5: Do you write the lyrics?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 5: What's what's kind of your Is there a theme to
Speaker 5: your songs? Is the aar?
Speaker 1: I have these stories going on in my head, and
Speaker 1: I think during this one, like I don't. I haven't
Speaker 1: written like actual stories or anything. It's just kind of
Speaker 1: things that go on my head. And I guess this
Speaker 1: whole album I was kind of and I think the
Speaker 1: first album too. I just kind of imagine like a
Speaker 1: post apocalyptic world and the coast of the United States
Speaker 1: is now in Iowa, and I just instead of creating
Speaker 1: a story, I have snapshots in time, and so I'm
Speaker 1: just kind of like imagining myself in that place and
Speaker 1: what I'm seeing at that particular moment or what I'm
Speaker 1: going through at that particular moment in the story. Okay,
Speaker 1: and so there's not really it's it's an overall story,
Speaker 1: not let nothing necessarily like going on like of value
Speaker 1: in the lyrics at the moment. It's just like me
Speaker 1: walking down a street where people are like in this song,
Speaker 1: I'm just seeing like like a weird market that I'm
Speaker 1: at where people are like just doing their thing, like
Speaker 1: trying to make a scrape by a living is basically
Speaker 1: what's happening. Okay, So yeah, they're kind of is kind
Speaker 1: of a weird approach to lyric writing, but I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of just whatever's there, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's just like a snapshot in time is basically the
Speaker 1: best way to describe it.
Speaker 5: You ever, you ever write anything like based on a
Speaker 5: dream that you had, Like you wake up and you go, oh,
Speaker 5: I got to write something.
Speaker 1: You know, I've never actually had that happen. I've had
Speaker 1: some real dreams that I probably should write about, but yeah,
Speaker 1: most of it's just just a made up world that
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of like imagining happening or a scenario
Speaker 1: that could happen.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, yeah, by the way, so I know, I
Speaker 5: know you can't be specific, but you guys do have
Speaker 5: some good news coming up that you'll be announcing.
Speaker 1: We're yeah, we're in the process of working out a
Speaker 1: distribution deal for for Arrival of the Waves. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: so there'll be some worldwide distribution happening. We're pretty excited about.
Speaker 1: But we're a few weeks away from being able to
Speaker 1: finalize that. But yeah, I mean it's essentially a done deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we just have to kind of work through the
Speaker 1: little stuff right there. But yeah, we're super excited about it,
Speaker 1: super excited hopefully, you know, like I really feel like
Speaker 1: this album needs to see the light of day, and
Speaker 1: it hasn't quite seen it up, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It hasn't been pushed out there. It's quite as much
Speaker 1: as I would have liked it to be. So to
Speaker 1: have a little bit of help is going to be amazing.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it does well. I mean I've you know, I
Speaker 1: put a lot of heart and soul, and Jimmy and
Speaker 1: Malcolm have put everything they've had into it, and I
Speaker 1: think it shines through and in the recording. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: to have some people, extra set of ears and hands
Speaker 1: and everybody to help us, you know, get it out
Speaker 1: there a little bit more, it's gonna be.
Speaker 5: Incredible, Absolutely congratulations on that.
Speaker 1: Thank you do you guys?
Speaker 5: I mean, I assume, like, what what do you attribute
Speaker 5: to being able to to do that and to make
Speaker 5: that kind of a connection and get that kind of help.
Speaker 5: Is it because you've been so active with shows, just
Speaker 5: hitting the road a lot and playing.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of that, a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of yeah, you know, networking with people you know,
Speaker 1: and and and I'm telling you there's a ton of
Speaker 1: bands out there, and a ton of them that are
Speaker 1: willing to and and us as well, like we'll will
Speaker 1: help you get on shows, We'll give you advice of
Speaker 1: what they're doing, what they're doing that's helping them succeed,
Speaker 1: you know. And we do the same thing for other
Speaker 1: you know, other bands too. And it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: they'll be like, you know, who's who you know? Bandabask
Speaker 1: me like who did you contact for this show or
Speaker 1: this place or that blah blah blah, And I'll be like,
Speaker 1: here's everything I got, you know, Like I'm always willing
Speaker 1: to help and I want to see everybody in the
Speaker 1: scene succeed. And I feel like a lot of the
Speaker 1: bands that I've come across, vast majority of them are
Speaker 1: the same way, like they're like, yeah, here this is
Speaker 1: you know, call this person or do you know? And
Speaker 1: I think that's almost one hundred percent. The best way
Speaker 1: to start to get a following and stuff is networking.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It is so helpful. And you know, when you when
Speaker 1: you're first starting out and you don't know anybody and
Speaker 1: you don't even know where to start, you know, it
Speaker 1: seems like you're never going to crack into up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really tough. But once we got a recording and we
Speaker 1: just started kind of shopping it around and then things
Speaker 1: just kind of start to snowball, you know. And and
Speaker 1: this year I think like me and Jimmy will put
Speaker 1: shows together and invite bands to come and play, but
Speaker 1: this year we put very few together and we've gotten
Speaker 1: invited to so many. Yeah, and we're just really grateful
Speaker 1: that that's been happening. Yeah, it's really nice.
Speaker 8: I mean, other bands even recommend us, you know, like
Speaker 8: they'll be looking for another band for a show, and
Speaker 8: other people say, hey, ask Gable Blood and you know,
Speaker 8: so we're even getting that kind of buzz, which is nice.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you've sent some people our way, Yes, you send
Speaker 7: the people are the best recommendations I get are always
Speaker 7: from other musicians.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, yeah, if a band is you know, I
Speaker 1: like them, I'm gonna recommend them, and you know, and
Speaker 1: I'm proud to do it, you know, and i want
Speaker 1: to hear them on your show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I feel like, uh, it's with music, it's it's very
Speaker 5: sort of community oriented in that way. People want to
Speaker 5: help each other and build those relationships. I kind of
Speaker 5: in my mind, I contrast it with I listened to
Speaker 5: some podcasts where there's a lot of talk about stand
Speaker 5: up comedy and how stand up comedy works and how
Speaker 5: people succeed in that, and I get the impression that
Speaker 5: that's very different from music because in stand up comedy,
Speaker 5: it sounds like it's very very cutthroat and everyone's always
Speaker 5: trying to keep everybody else down so they can rise up,
Speaker 5: whereas in music it's not really like that.
Speaker 1: It kind of was back in the nineties, it kind
Speaker 1: of was like that.
Speaker 8: I mean, maybe not cutthroat, but you always felt like
Speaker 8: there was a competition going on, yeah, and you had
Speaker 8: to kind of claw your way up. Now, I mean,
Speaker 8: bands like Adam said, they're so eager to work together
Speaker 8: and lift each other up, and yeah, it only makes
Speaker 8: sense because I don't listen to one band right then,
Speaker 8: you know, and those other people don't listen to just
Speaker 8: one band, So why can't we all work together to
Speaker 8: to do it right? Because like when you go to
Speaker 8: a show and you say this, four bands playing and
Speaker 8: they all have a little bit different of a sound,
Speaker 8: you're allowed to like them all.
Speaker 1: So it makes the entire evening enjoyable when everybody's doing
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm friends
Speaker 1: with the band out of Oklahoma. That's just awesome. Can
Speaker 1: I plug them? Trillion ton Berrillium Ships, absolutely amazing band.
Speaker 1: They just they just dropped a brand new single called bugs.
Speaker 5: Let me see if I can say the name after
Speaker 5: only hearing that's trillion ton Beryllium Ships.
Speaker 1: Yes, got it? Absolutely amazing ships. Ships s h I P.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry they're out of Nebraska. I'm I don't want
Speaker 1: to I get confused in that whole area, but it is.
Speaker 8: They're out of Lincoln, Nebraska, Okay, And I've never even
Speaker 8: met them. We just we've developed a relationship over social
Speaker 8: media and everything, and we just plug each other all
Speaker 8: the time. We're very supportive all the time, and yeah,
Speaker 8: I'm I'm in hope that someday we'll play a show
Speaker 8: with them somehow, some way. Yeah, I'd love to see
Speaker 8: them go to Maryland Doomfest and meet up there.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 8: It just goes to show that the kind of like
Speaker 8: Adam said, the networking that happens now, I absolutely love it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think the Internet obviously makes sure it's so
Speaker 5: much huge, you know, because when we grew up there,
Speaker 5: you know, we didn't have that. So that's I think
Speaker 5: it's changed. Uh, you know, it makes everything more community
Speaker 5: oriented because their community really can be global. I also
Speaker 5: think too, and it's funny this particular thought had never
Speaker 5: occurred to me until just now, but I think part
Speaker 5: of why too, Maybe things don't seem quite a Scott throat.
Speaker 5: I don't know how you guys feel about this, but
Speaker 5: I've I always hated and I say it past tense
Speaker 5: because you don't see many of them anymore, thank god.
Speaker 5: Battle of the Bands events.
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan.
Speaker 5: I always hated those. Yeah, and I somebody I think
Speaker 5: around here or close to her, did do one recently.
Speaker 1: There was one at the Hillsborough County was there, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Maybe that's the one I'm thinking of because I remember.
Speaker 1: There were really good bands that were playing on it, because.
Speaker 5: I remember hearing about it and thinking, oh god, somebody's
Speaker 5: actually in twenty twenty four, somebody's actually doing a Battle
Speaker 5: of the Bands. Yeah, and I always hated those. I mean,
Speaker 5: first of all, look again, not saying about any specific
Speaker 5: one that I know about, or you know, not not
Speaker 5: casting aspersions, but they're usually rigged, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, usually a popularity content. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I just hate that. Like the whole concept
Speaker 5: is so it's I.
Speaker 1: Mean, it's the term Battle of the bands. All the
Speaker 1: nevers that took part of the Battle of the Bands
Speaker 1: got together and put that on as a as a showcase. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it would go so much better. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be competing with each other, propping each other up.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, I just yeah, the whole thing. And then
Speaker 5: and then you know, and then these bands they have
Speaker 5: to you know, get people to show up and you know,
Speaker 5: vote for us, and so the whole thing is awful. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm glad that it's a dying thing. It's just uh,
Speaker 5: I remember, you know, I don't play anymore, but when
Speaker 5: I used to play in bands, and i'd play in
Speaker 5: a band that would get invited to.
Speaker 1: Do one of these.
Speaker 5: It's like, oh, I don't even want to bring this
Speaker 5: to the other guys. It's so it's gross. There was
Speaker 5: one I I did get involved in. This must have
Speaker 5: been not not twenty years well maybe jeesus might have
Speaker 5: been twenty years ago. You guys remember the bomb shelter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there,
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I was, Yes, I was at those shows.
Speaker 5: There was a there was a bad I I do
Speaker 5: remember the guy's name. I'm not gonna say it on
Speaker 5: the air, but there was a guy who was a
Speaker 5: big promoter in the area. You might even know who
Speaker 5: I'm thinking about. You did a lot of shows there
Speaker 5: who was putting on a battle of the bands, and
Speaker 5: he was managing one of the bands that was in
Speaker 5: the Battle of the bands, and it became like an
Speaker 5: open like it ended up spilling out into the open.
Speaker 5: Everybody knew it was rigged. But this one though, this
Speaker 5: particular one, because it's spilled out into the open and
Speaker 5: everybody knew it changed the promoter changed it to just
Speaker 5: a regular show. It was no longer a battle of
Speaker 5: the bands. Because he looked and he didn't look great anyway.
Speaker 5: This particular person I'm thinking of, you know what I
Speaker 5: mean in terms of reputation, But this whole thing made
Speaker 5: him look even worse and then he ended up changing it.
Speaker 1: And he's the thing.
Speaker 8: There's so many cool bands around here with great people, right.
Speaker 8: They should never with all the hard work they put
Speaker 8: into their craft, should never feel defeated.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or they have to compete for it, or exactly
Speaker 1: walking away wishing they had won. Like I don't.
Speaker 8: I think everybody wins. If we're doing what we're doing
Speaker 8: and we love what we do, we already won. I
Speaker 8: hate award shows and things like that competition there. It's
Speaker 8: just like I don't even I don't want your vote
Speaker 8: if it's you know, like I just want you to
Speaker 8: listen to the album, come to a show. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 8: I could care less if I got an award for it.
Speaker 8: I do it for us, you know, and I do
Speaker 8: it for the people that like to listen to it,
Speaker 8: you know, right. Yeah, it just it almost feels like
Speaker 8: battle the Band type stuff to me, you know what
Speaker 8: I mean?
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly what you mean.
Speaker 1: You know, get the album. I don't even care if
Speaker 1: you like, and get it for free. Just listen to it, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and come hang out of the show the show. Those
Speaker 1: are a lot of fun. We love to hang out
Speaker 1: with people. Yeah, you know. I would come up and
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, I was listening to you know, Enemies today,
Speaker 1: and I'll be like, oh cool, I didn't know anybody
Speaker 1: who was listening to that, you know, And so it's
Speaker 1: cool when somebody does say stuff like that, and I
Speaker 1: love I love hanging out with people that, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know that are into it, and then we can just
Speaker 1: talk music and you know, it's fun. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: we're very approachable people. Yes, Jimmy especially especially probably one
Speaker 1: of the most approachable people I've ever met.
Speaker 5: Oh, very good, very good. Well we should play another Uh,
Speaker 5: let's play another track. What do you guys want to
Speaker 5: What do you guys?
Speaker 1: I kind of want to hear trippy edi Okay, there
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a semi instrumental. It's got some some
Speaker 1: samples in it. I wrote the song at my house,
Speaker 1: recorded it on my phone, and it ended up being
Speaker 1: the recording that ended up on the album. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we didn't professionally record this song.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well that makes me very curious, sound because I
Speaker 5: don't think we played this one the last time.
Speaker 1: So it's just got a trippy vibe obviously, the name
Speaker 1: Trippy Eddie. Yeah yeah, and it's just got some samples.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, let's give this a spin. This is
Speaker 5: Trippy Eddie by able Blood.
Speaker 9: Congratulations, you found a home. If Frankly has no literature, literature,
Speaker 9: nature toting types of purposes, your.
Speaker 3: You have no future?
Speaker 1: Can you have?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 9: The aside you said? But if you preach.
Speaker 1: The fun s as for banks.
Speaker 9: Because death is death, it's the only way out. His
Speaker 9: way out.
Speaker 3: That is.
Speaker 5: That is Trippy Eddie. The band is able Blood.
Speaker 1: That is cool.
Speaker 5: What what is that sample from?
Speaker 1: Uh, it's a Reallyota movie back in the nineties, No Escape.
Speaker 1: Oh I think it was No Escape as the movie.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big I don't I'm not anti movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just don't end up watching a lot of movies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Malcolm's the guy that well is the movie guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he knows every word every movie ever written or every made.
Speaker 1: I know nothing, but I think that's from No Escape.
Speaker 5: Was that Ray Liota's voice?
Speaker 1: I don't know it's been altered.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No Escape.
Speaker 5: I don't remember that one. Us a great actor though
Speaker 5: he was he.
Speaker 1: Was, I agree Good Fellas, Oh yeah, I did see
Speaker 1: that movie.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeh many times. If you are destroying us, we
Speaker 5: have Able Blood. Two of the guys from Able Blood
Speaker 5: here with us, live and studio. Adam and Jimmy are
Speaker 5: here and now. So what's what's next for you guys?
Speaker 5: You have I know you're going to be slowing down
Speaker 5: in the winter, but you yeah, is October is still busy?
Speaker 1: We're going to be a Terminus the nineteen. Yes, that
Speaker 1: one show. We're really excited. I think the six bands dead,
Speaker 1: Harrison's playing and Megans are playing. Ye. I haven't memorized
Speaker 1: everybody that's going to be there. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a huge show.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 6: Is Horror on that show?
Speaker 1: I think they, I think, I think, I think so.
Speaker 5: I think Horror and the Gray Curtain, Yes, okay, Horror.
Speaker 7: Horror is on there, Questioning Beast is on there the
Speaker 7: Great Curtain?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, because we've got yeah, because actually, so today's
Speaker 5: show is really about that show. Okay, because we've got
Speaker 5: because Horror is our our number two guest, and then
Speaker 5: we have the Occurred in an hour three So yeah, so.
Speaker 6: Today is all about promoting Terminus Underground.
Speaker 5: Ye yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah we will be there. That one's going to be amazing.
Speaker 1: But this Tuesday, we're gonna be playing with Telekinetic Yetty
Speaker 1: over at Jewel and it's bat Bonginatorator.
Speaker 5: Yeah gotcha. Yeah, I figured the Stoner death Metal really okay, So.
Speaker 1: We are super excited to play that show because Telekinetic
Speaker 1: Yety is basically the inspiration for our setup where we
Speaker 1: don't have a bass player and and we split our
Speaker 1: signals and everything, so it's going to be like a
Speaker 1: full circle show for us. We're going to be able to,
Speaker 1: you know, be like we're not worthy guys, but yeah,
Speaker 1: we totally rip you off.
Speaker 8: I mean, Malcolm and I talked to them because they
Speaker 8: played a Jewel earlier in the year. They opened for
Speaker 8: weed Eater, which was an absolutely amazing show. But we
Speaker 8: got to talk to the guys from tele Connectic Yetty
Speaker 8: and we're like, really wanted to play this show, but
Speaker 8: we found out late and they're like, well, hopefully we'll
Speaker 8: do something in the future, and well the future is
Speaker 8: now because Tuesday Night will be doing it.
Speaker 1: So to be exciting, very cool, very cool. We've got
Speaker 1: a show with Vigil and Benthic Realm at Kodo. That's
Speaker 1: coming in November. I think it's the ninth of November, Okay,
Speaker 1: that one. We're really looking forward to Vigils like we
Speaker 1: love videl Those guys are oh my god, guys.
Speaker 7: You'll be seeing them here soon. Yeah, not entirely yet,
Speaker 7: but I am in touch and we do have some
Speaker 7: dates going.
Speaker 6: Back and forth.
Speaker 1: I recommend getting on the show. Yeah, those guys are awesome,
Speaker 1: absolutely awesome guys, awesome musicians. I can't say enough, total awesomeness.
Speaker 5: Yead Brandon Finnie, the drummer. He's been on the show before,
Speaker 5: but it was but it was before he played in
Speaker 5: vigil Actually it's quite a few years ago now, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that he was on the show. He probably doesn't even remember.
Speaker 1: But I bet he does.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he might, he might, he might.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then I think at the end of November,
Speaker 1: we've got King Bastard coming up from Long Island. We're
Speaker 1: gonna playing in Boston with them, Okay, with ben Thic
Speaker 1: Realm again too, and Scuzzy Yetti whom. All these bands
Speaker 1: are amazing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that show is gonna be just that's the Saturday
Speaker 8: right after Thanksgiving, so it's like everybody should be off
Speaker 8: and everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really big. Yeah, that's gonna be It's gonna be killer.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, scuzzy Yetti. I'm familiar with I don't think we've
Speaker 5: had them on, but I'm familiar.
Speaker 1: They're from New Hampshire. Yeah, I think they're out of Troy.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really really good album. Their last album is really good.
Speaker 5: And then in the winter, you're probably going back.
Speaker 1: And I think we're gonna write songs. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: then yeah, we're probably gonna do the re recording. We're
Speaker 1: considering that we're we're, you know, seventy percent decided that
Speaker 1: we're probably gonna record re record keeping pace with the Elephants, Okay,
Speaker 1: give it a fresher feel, yeah, and then write a
Speaker 1: bunch of songs, yeah, and then just see where they
Speaker 1: all go.
Speaker 5: You guys must have some stuff you play live that
Speaker 5: you haven't recorded yet. I would assume, right, you have
Speaker 5: some some newer stuff.
Speaker 1: That we've really been pushing Arrival of the Waves the
Speaker 1: last Yeah, we do some riffs that we don't have
Speaker 1: recorded anywhere. We kind of opened the set with just
Speaker 1: some random rift that we came up with one day
Speaker 1: and it just stuck with the set. But we do
Speaker 1: have songs in the works, and the one that we've
Speaker 1: nearly completed I cannot wait to get recorded. Really, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be some of our heaviest stuff that we've done.
Speaker 1: And actually the song probably has some of the heaviest
Speaker 1: stuff we've done and some of the mellowist stuff we've
Speaker 1: done in the same song. Oh really, Yeah, it's pretty good.
Speaker 5: Oh, very cool, very cool. Well we are the time
Speaker 5: goes quickly. We are approaching the top of the hour.
Speaker 5: So where should people know where to go online? Keep
Speaker 5: up with everything you guys are doing.
Speaker 1: We're really active on Facebook, ad e l Blood. We
Speaker 1: we do post most of our stuff there. A little
Speaker 1: bit on Instagram. I haven't been the best Instagram guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I should get better at it because a lot of
Speaker 1: people go there, so it would be really helpful. But yeah,
Speaker 1: and then we've got a Sonic bids ebk that Jimmy
Speaker 1: maintains very well, and it has all the shows that
Speaker 1: we have coming up, all the.
Speaker 8: Shows that we've played in the past, excellent links to
Speaker 8: the socials, videos, boat pictures, bio. I mean, it's really
Speaker 8: a complete package. And that's on sonic bids able blood.
Speaker 5: Okay, outstanding. By the way, so you spelled when you
Speaker 5: spelled the able ab e l It just made me curious.
Speaker 1: Anyone ever misspell it likes always fires as abl eye.
Speaker 1: That's right, verify it or.
Speaker 8: People can't find us when they search because they look
Speaker 8: a yell. So I always spell it out to people when.
Speaker 5: They ask, Yeah, no, that's that's smart. That's smart. Well, guys,
Speaker 5: thank you.
Speaker 1: Both so much. Thanks for having us.
Speaker 5: Its great. Absolutely absolutely, I appreciate you being here. Don't
Speaker 5: forget these guys are going to be October nineteenth at
Speaker 5: Terminus and uh, I think we should close because this
Speaker 5: is my personal favorite. I think we should close with
Speaker 5: mental note.
Speaker 3: Do it?
Speaker 5: Yes, thanks Matt, absolutely so if you're listening live on
Speaker 5: Saturday morning. So we're going to close the segment with
Speaker 5: mental Note by able Blood, and then at the top
Speaker 5: of the hour, we're going to hit the again the
Speaker 5: world radio premiere of the new track from Chasing the Devil.
Speaker 5: We did that at the start of the show, and
Speaker 5: we'll do that again at the top of the hour.
Speaker 5: It's called Light it Up Really Good. And then we'll
Speaker 5: have our our number two guest, one of the members
Speaker 5: from the band Horror, who is also going to be
Speaker 5: there October nineteenth at Terminus in Nashua. So plenty more
Speaker 5: to come, and here it is. This is really epic.
Speaker 5: I love this. This is able Blood. The track is
Speaker 5: called mental Note.
Speaker 3: Wait the smoke started to kill. I had a straight past.
Speaker 3: What to say, Vision's Gone?
Speaker 4: Made a mental Notes, Getting Bored, got up Builder tracks,
Speaker 4: Drink or Till.
Speaker 3: You'll Be Free.
Speaker 1: In Anything in
Speaker 3: Sixteen m
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