Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed 11-23-24 hour 3
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Speaker 6: Today is Saturday, November twenty third, twenty twenty four. Jenny
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Speaker 6: We had a great band in studio with us. We're
Speaker 6: going to introduce in just a moment. Really looking forward
Speaker 6: to talking with the guys from Vigil and they brought
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Speaker 12: Forward to that.
Speaker 6: So lots going on, but let's go ahead, and I'm
Speaker 6: going to bring these mics up here. We've got all
Speaker 6: five guys from the band Vigil here with us in studio.
Speaker 13: Welcome, thanks for having us.
Speaker 9: Absolutely. Oh, Brandon, I can't hear you, and I need
Speaker 9: to figure out why. Oh I know why. I figured
Speaker 9: it out.
Speaker 6: Hello, Hello am Brandon, Hi Brandon Brandon. I did want
Speaker 6: you to introduce yourself first, actually, because you have incumbency here.
Speaker 6: You've been on the show before. I don't believe anyone
Speaker 6: else in the room has. So you were on the
Speaker 6: show years ago. We were talking off air, like twenty eighteen,
Speaker 6: twenty nineteen.
Speaker 14: Something like that, seventeen or twenty eighteen. Yeah, I was
Speaker 14: running for office again and I, you know, came on
Speaker 14: have a conversation with you about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was when we were at the old place
Speaker 6: above Margarita's there. So this is your first time in
Speaker 6: the nice new studio, so welcome, thank you, and uh,
Speaker 6: this is the first I'm sure we talked about music
Speaker 6: at some point when you were on the show before,
Speaker 6: but now you've got an actual band to talk about,
Speaker 6: so really really excited to have here.
Speaker 14: I'm here to do what I'm really meant to do,
Speaker 14: was supposed to play, you know, play heavy music.
Speaker 6: Yes, you're the drummer from Excellent Excellent, and let's go
Speaker 6: around the room. We'll have everyone else introduce, introduce themselves.
Speaker 15: My name is Randy, and I play guitar for them.
Speaker 9: Okay, welcome Randy.
Speaker 7: I am Dave and I do with a vocal. Welcome Dave,
Speaker 7: Joe bass guitar, Craig, I'm the the guitarist.
Speaker 9: Okay. Wonderful, wonderful. And now these guys brought goodies.
Speaker 6: So for those of you watching online, I'm gonna put
Speaker 6: the camera on me for a moment because we appreciate
Speaker 6: this very much.
Speaker 9: When when folks do this and.
Speaker 6: Now this is a subject that comes up a lot
Speaker 6: on the show, whether whether or not to release physical media.
Speaker 6: But you guys have a CD, so for those watching online,
Speaker 6: we get that right in front of the camera.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 9: Very cool. Who did the work for this?
Speaker 16: It was I found some guy on fiver you know
Speaker 16: onlineal h oh, yeah, yeah, and I you know, he
Speaker 16: had some ideas I liked and we purchased him.
Speaker 12: Oh, very cool.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know you brought a couple of copies of
Speaker 6: the CD we did coming into the segment, we did
Speaker 6: play Convulsive Ways from a World Beyond. Uh, the longest
Speaker 6: title for the longest song on the disc. It would
Speaker 6: seem Oh yeah, very cool.
Speaker 13: No, I like it.
Speaker 9: Who came up with the logo? Was that one of
Speaker 9: you guys?
Speaker 16: Or there was somebody in Arizona, some guy that we
Speaker 16: all knew in the band that makes logos?
Speaker 6: Yeah, very good. Uh, I like this make America metal again.
Speaker 6: So that's uh, that's something I think we can all
Speaker 6: agree on. And oh, now this is what I this
Speaker 6: is my favorite part. Oh, actually there's a couple of
Speaker 6: things here.
Speaker 9: So wait a minute. Oh you guys did vinyl?
Speaker 12: Awesome.
Speaker 6: We hold that up for everybody if you're watching online
Speaker 6: on Facebook or YouTube.
Speaker 9: Very very cool, very cool.
Speaker 12: You know too.
Speaker 6: With the vinyl, it makes it seem like it's there's
Speaker 6: something just classic about it, the way the art works.
Speaker 6: That's awesome.
Speaker 9: Wow, well done, guys.
Speaker 13: It almost feels more real having a vinyl in your hand.
Speaker 13: It really does.
Speaker 9: It really does.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's fantastic, especially when it's released through a label.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, we'll talk about that absolutely. And I love
Speaker 6: that you got a shirt here, So you got the
Speaker 6: Vigil logo on the front. You get that in the camera.
Speaker 9: There, there we go.
Speaker 7: It's just on the back.
Speaker 9: What's going on on the back there?
Speaker 16: So on the back, it's kind of a neat story.
Speaker 16: There's there's a guy I found on Facebook named Brian
Speaker 16: Casasi had to pronounce. He's from Canada. He makes really
Speaker 16: bizarre art, painted art. And I came across that image
Speaker 16: and I asked him if it was available for use,
Speaker 16: and he said yes, and he said it was free.
Speaker 16: I felt bad not paying for it because it's still art,
Speaker 16: so I paid for it anyway. And then I actually
Speaker 16: have that actual painting at my house. He sent it
Speaker 16: to me.
Speaker 13: But I love the outwork the guy does, so I
Speaker 13: asked him if you can use it.
Speaker 6: Oh that is very cool. Thank you guys, thank you
Speaker 6: very much. No, that's awesome. If you are just joining us,
Speaker 6: we have Vigil here with us live in studio. Let's
Speaker 6: talk about so this this is released through a label.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's Argonauta Records out of Italy.
Speaker 9: Oh no kidding, Okay, now, how did you how did
Speaker 9: you get to work with them?
Speaker 7: How did that come about?
Speaker 16: So we were we were looking to release the album,
Speaker 16: and it's, as you know, it's expensive to make any
Speaker 16: kind of physical media, and we were looking at a
Speaker 16: pretty good amount of money to make just Viles alone.
Speaker 16: So I was trying to shop what we did to
Speaker 16: labels to see if they just pick it up to
Speaker 16: help us distribute and manufacture. Yeah, and Argonauta gave us
Speaker 16: a great deal on what it would cost to manufacture
Speaker 16: and distribute that. So so we have more of what
Speaker 16: they call a production deal than a record deal. But
Speaker 16: it was literally half the price that would have cost
Speaker 16: us to do it.
Speaker 13: Oh, no kidding.
Speaker 16: So they did it for half the price, and we
Speaker 16: get on their roster on their website, some promotion from
Speaker 16: them for two years, so all that helped too.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and it was a good deal, so we just
Speaker 13: took it.
Speaker 17: Yeah, the album was already recorded by that time. We
Speaker 17: started looking for someone to help with the production. Oh okay,
Speaker 17: they didn't have to foot the bill for any other
Speaker 17: studio costs.
Speaker 9: Right, Oh that's excellent. Yeah, Oh, very good, very good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we live in an amazing time where you know,
Speaker 6: because I'm certainly old enough to remember when your only
Speaker 6: options where you know, you find a record label, you
Speaker 6: hope they give.
Speaker 9: You some sort of an advance and then you know,
Speaker 9: hopefully they make you famous.
Speaker 13: Right.
Speaker 6: But now we live in a time where there's so
Speaker 6: many different ways to release music and you know, you
Speaker 6: can do it all yourself, you can connect with different people,
Speaker 6: you can you know, work with a company in Italy.
Speaker 6: Who's who's doing this for you? I mean that's amazing.
Speaker 6: So so it really is as it's such an interesting
Speaker 6: time to be alive and in the music industry in
Speaker 6: that sense.
Speaker 16: And you know, and for us part of it is too.
Speaker 16: You know, we're all a little older and this is
Speaker 16: more of a a full time jump for us, right,
Speaker 16: So spending the money in the time is really difficult sometimes,
Speaker 16: so having someone just kind of helped on that way
Speaker 16: helps a lot.
Speaker 7: Oh absolutely like us too.
Speaker 14: So we have a good, you know relationship with them,
Speaker 14: and yeah, we'll see you know what kind of happens
Speaker 14: in the future with with some new music.
Speaker 18: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, they're really good at what they do too.
Speaker 18: And the album is sold out through the online. You
Speaker 18: want to get the for them?
Speaker 7: Oh no kidding, Yeah, I want to get it through
Speaker 7: us now.
Speaker 9: Oh wow, Oh that's got to feel good.
Speaker 14: We sell a lot at our shows too.
Speaker 7: We played a show.
Speaker 14: Saturdays ago a yeah, and we sold you know, crap
Speaker 14: ton of vinyl there too, So you know, people are
Speaker 14: really into the you know, to the you know, to
Speaker 14: the format of the vinyl.
Speaker 7: But yeah, the sound of it.
Speaker 14: Is really great too.
Speaker 7: So that bedroom helps us out a lot.
Speaker 14: And yeah, you know we actually like you know, paid
Speaker 14: for you know, a good studio, a good studio mix.
Speaker 14: We have a guy that we go through who's who's
Speaker 14: really solid for us, and we'll you know, continue to
Speaker 14: work together with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I was curious about where you recorded because.
Speaker 14: Iron Hills Studios in Newton Amshure, Okay.
Speaker 9: And how did you come to record there?
Speaker 6: Because you have so many different options now in terms
Speaker 6: of recording and there's there's a million studios around.
Speaker 9: How did how did that come?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 13: I've known Erin.
Speaker 16: I've known Erin for over a decade from he used
Speaker 16: to work at Guitar Center when I lived up North, Okay,
Speaker 16: and uh I crossed passing them that way.
Speaker 13: He's stay in touch with him.
Speaker 16: He's been in some metal bands himself, and he opened
Speaker 16: up a studio and just out of curiosity, I checked
Speaker 16: out so much stuff he did, and I saw that
Speaker 16: he was right down the alley of what we're doing.
Speaker 16: So he understands what we do, understands our product. Yes,
Speaker 16: and he's a great dude to work with. He's really chill,
Speaker 16: yeah and uh really really good musicians. So he's paid
Speaker 16: great years and you have to be so overall, it
Speaker 16: was just I knew the guy and he does a
Speaker 16: good product, so yeah, why not?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, excellent?
Speaker 1: How did this?
Speaker 9: How did this come about?
Speaker 6: Vigil is relatively new, right, I mean it's been a
Speaker 6: few years, but it's not like it's not like ten
Speaker 6: years or something, right, It's.
Speaker 16: Right, it's just just before COVID wiped out the planet
Speaker 16: twenty nineteen. We just started then and then we have
Speaker 16: to deal with the whole COVID thing.
Speaker 9: So a little longer than I thought.
Speaker 12: I swear.
Speaker 9: The pandemic causes so much time distortion, you know what
Speaker 9: I mean, Like.
Speaker 6: It's hard to sometimes it's hard to uh like, I know,
Speaker 6: when you were on the show before, I knew it
Speaker 6: was pre pandemic, but I you know, but it's hard
Speaker 6: to be sure. It's weird it's like what was the world.
Speaker 6: It's like this time miss It's like this time missing. Yeah, no,
Speaker 6: it's it almost seems like another life the world. Yes,
Speaker 6: but yeah, so you guys have been together longer than
Speaker 6: I thought.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 16: It was a it was a challenge, you know, to
Speaker 16: get through because of course, as you start the band,
Speaker 16: you're trying to build it, bring people in, you know,
Speaker 16: and uh and then Covid slowed things down. Yeah, and
Speaker 16: then it ramped up again. So we were on agatten
Speaker 16: off again for a year and a half just to
Speaker 16: get it off the ground.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that must have been that must have been frustrating.
Speaker 13: But then we hit a we hit us ride and
Speaker 13: we moved forward.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, excellent.
Speaker 6: Well we should play another track from the album, but uh,
Speaker 6: I'll let you guys pick what. Uh, I don't know
Speaker 6: if you have something you're pushing as a single.
Speaker 13: Or well the the the actual single that we first
Speaker 13: released was.
Speaker 7: It's the first song on the album.
Speaker 16: So that's a that's a pretty good one to play,
Speaker 16: I think do because it hits the cornerstone of all
Speaker 16: the things we do.
Speaker 13: It has some like ero what doom feel, It has
Speaker 13: some thrashy parts.
Speaker 16: Okay, it has a has a choir thing that you know,
Speaker 16: Brendan sings the high voice choir on it.
Speaker 13: So, oh no kidding, Okay, cool, it's a good example.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll play that next sent So let's descend to
Speaker 6: extinction sir. All right, cool, let's go with that.
Speaker 9: If you're just joining us, we have vigil Air with
Speaker 9: us alive in studio and check this out. This is
Speaker 9: descend to extinction.
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Speaker 3: What uh just some your.
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Speaker 1: Across the jury, the long words, the bird all cause
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Speaker 21: Bird was a quilt mighty or it be Chelsea, I recur.
Speaker 7: To that's cool.
Speaker 9: I love the way that ends.
Speaker 13: That is so cool.
Speaker 6: That is to send to send to extinction. The band
Speaker 6: is Vigil who we have live in studio. The entire
Speaker 6: band is here and it's great to speak with them.
Speaker 6: We were kind of talking off air about so this
Speaker 6: is available in a number of stores, the new album.
Speaker 9: We should mention that.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 17: So we we did a little circuit probably what four
Speaker 17: months ago and dropped off several copies, and we just
Speaker 17: want to mention some of the places you know that
Speaker 17: that were nice enough to you know, put the album
Speaker 17: on the shelf. Oh yeah, reach out when they sell
Speaker 17: out and restock. So we have Full Circle Vinyl and
Speaker 17: Meredith New Hampshire, New Hampshire Vintage Vinyl and Laconia Skeleton
Speaker 17: in Rochester who's been huge, hugely supportive for us, Pitchfork
Speaker 17: Records and Conquered and the music connection right here in
Speaker 17: Manchester outstanding.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's important too, because you know a lot of
Speaker 9: these stores.
Speaker 6: It's funny how and again I'm old enough to remember
Speaker 6: when well, first of all, when people would predict, you know,
Speaker 6: people have been predicting for years that those kinds of
Speaker 6: stores are just going to go away.
Speaker 9: But of course people also predict for years.
Speaker 6: That you know, CDs are gonna go away, vinyl is
Speaker 6: gonna go away, all this stuff is going to go away,
Speaker 6: and and it doesn't go away, and it's it's so
Speaker 6: cool that there are still you know that there are
Speaker 6: still places like that, There are still stores like that
Speaker 6: that you can go to and and buy music.
Speaker 9: And it's not all. Don't get me wrong. I love
Speaker 9: the Internet and I love that.
Speaker 6: I do love living in a time where I can
Speaker 6: find anything online, like literally anything like if I you know,
Speaker 6: if I suddenly for some reason want to hear some
Speaker 6: Norwegian speed metal or whatever, I can probably find some online.
Speaker 6: But yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah, so you're on the streaming
Speaker 6: services because that, I mean, that's important, you know, that's
Speaker 6: absolutely critical.
Speaker 17: Yeah, that was that was another part of the of
Speaker 17: the production deal was they set us up on all
Speaker 17: the streaming platforms.
Speaker 9: Excellent, Yeah, excellent.
Speaker 6: It's cool that they do all that for you too,
Speaker 6: because you know, not everyone, not everyone enjoys having to
Speaker 6: do all that part of the business, you know, you know,
Speaker 6: the really important thing is playing music. We were also
Speaker 6: talking off there about all that went into recording, with
Speaker 6: the layering of the tracks and everything, and you know,
Speaker 6: because an observation that I made was a lot of
Speaker 6: times music that's in this genre doesn't always sound that great,
Speaker 6: you know, if it's if it's a local band or
Speaker 6: you know, maybe they maybe the recording isn't that great,
Speaker 6: sounds a little thin or whatever. But this sounds completely professional,
Speaker 6: and it's it's the way heavy music should sound. It's
Speaker 6: it's a wall of sound. It's it sounds fantastic in
Speaker 6: the headphones. And uh yeah, you guys were talking about
Speaker 6: you know, it was a lot of work recording this, right, Yeah,
Speaker 6: it was.
Speaker 18: I mean for me, the first day that I started
Speaker 18: recording vocal, I was working all day, so I talk
Speaker 18: a lot during the day, yeah stuff, So I was
Speaker 18: a little strained.
Speaker 7: Showed up to the studio and uh, I went five.
Speaker 18: Hours of singing, and at the end of the night,
Speaker 18: Aaron said to me, yeah, you know what you did good,
Speaker 18: but we have to erase everything you did and we
Speaker 18: recorded it wasn't good enough for him, And I was
Speaker 18: thinking I was doing a good job, right, And the
Speaker 18: next morning I showed up to record again and he
Speaker 18: made this magic.
Speaker 7: Tea that just turned me into a monster.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Yeah, and ever since, I mean he he I learned
Speaker 18: a lot from Eric. I mean it was a great experience. Yeah,
Speaker 18: and he actually was teaching me techniques as far as singing.
Speaker 18: Even now live when he's done sound for us, he's
Speaker 18: looking at me and he's like, don't cup the mic,
Speaker 18: you know.
Speaker 7: He's like, he's just like like my dad, yelling in
Speaker 7: a good way.
Speaker 9: Yeah. So, now, so this concoction that he made for you,
Speaker 9: I mean, do you know what was in it for
Speaker 9: brother vocalists who might or no.
Speaker 7: I tell you information? Yeah, job security, I can't tell you.
Speaker 17: Yeah, that's Aaron's ip. Yeah, if he gives us the
Speaker 17: green line, we can share it right right now.
Speaker 9: That makes sense. That makes sense. And uh, Brandon, you
Speaker 9: were talking too about having to do the drums all
Speaker 9: in one day.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, because uh so it's just kind of funny,
Speaker 14: like like one of those fluke things that that happens sometimes.
Speaker 14: His computer died. We really know exactly what happened. So
Speaker 14: we lost like six hours that whole day of recording,
Speaker 14: and I only do my drum tracks one day. Yeah,
Speaker 14: so I think I did the whole album in like
Speaker 14: four hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and I didn't get to really do like any
Speaker 14: of the the redo's or anything, so right, I mean,
Speaker 14: obviously it's a little bit edited, but that's just like
Speaker 14: you know, the nature of of you know, production, Every
Speaker 14: album that you hear ever is edited.
Speaker 9: Oh of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Absolutely.
Speaker 14: The key is making sure that that we can do
Speaker 14: the sound live, and.
Speaker 6: We do that, you know, and then some so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: because you guys were also saying too, the only thing
Speaker 6: missing live is any keyboard that's in there. But nobody
Speaker 6: misses the keyboard, right because it's a wall of sound,
Speaker 6: and you guys, are no one's ever brought it up
Speaker 6: right exactly exactly.
Speaker 14: Or the clean singing no one there about up to
Speaker 14: me either, Yeah, yeah to them.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I can't remember if we talked about that on Are,
Speaker 6: but yeah, the clean singing is you. It's me and
Speaker 6: and for you, but for you to do that and
Speaker 6: play drums at the same time would.
Speaker 14: Be I priored a couple of times a couple of
Speaker 14: our shows, and I just I'm so focused on kind
Speaker 14: of like where I'm doing, yeah, or you know what
Speaker 14: I'm doing, where I'm going, that it's it's hard to
Speaker 14: kind of, you know, carry the melody and still.
Speaker 7: Be on point.
Speaker 14: So I just kind of focus on the instrument and
Speaker 14: then we'll do all the vocal stuff later.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well plus two. I mean, drums is the most
Speaker 6: physical instrument you're using all four of your lambs, most.
Speaker 14: Important part of the band, Matt, Yes, well, yes, and
Speaker 14: any man.
Speaker 13: You could say that. Yes, well they're machines, but they're
Speaker 13: drum machines.
Speaker 7: I'm just saying, your band is only as good as your.
Speaker 13: Good point.
Speaker 12: Good point. Now, have you guys all?
Speaker 9: I assume you've all been in other bands in the
Speaker 9: scene prior to vigil Or.
Speaker 13: Yes.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, I've been playing in bands since I was sixteen.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Yeah, some of us took a little bit of a
Speaker 17: vacation from music. Yeah, I was way out of the scene.
Speaker 17: I was in bands in the late nineties. Yeah, and
Speaker 17: then I kind of got obsessed with cars and then
Speaker 17: started a family, and I didn't touch music for eighteen
Speaker 17: or so years, eighteen until I met this guy at
Speaker 17: work one day, and yeah, he talked me into picking
Speaker 17: up the bass and starting to mess around again. And
Speaker 17: I quickly realized, like, wow, I should probably get a
Speaker 17: new instrument here because this thing's old.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I just fell right back down the rabbit hole. Yeah,
Speaker 7: here we are.
Speaker 6: But did you always I mean, eighteen years is a
Speaker 6: long time, But did you always kind of know in
Speaker 6: the back of your mind that you're.
Speaker 3: Going to know?
Speaker 7: I didn't know. Actually, I was on a different path
Speaker 7: for a long time. YEA, not a bad one. Just
Speaker 7: playing music was not on my priorities.
Speaker 17: Yeah, but everybody else in this band is very active
Speaker 17: in the music industry for decades, I guess at this point,
Speaker 17: depending on who we're talking about.
Speaker 13: Yeah, nineteen eighty nine was my first band. Oh no, yeah, two.
Speaker 14: Thousand and four for me.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I go back to the days when I was
Speaker 18: in college and I started a little trash metal type
Speaker 18: of band. I was playing drums at the time, and then, uh,
Speaker 18: I wanted to do something more extreme because I always
Speaker 18: like death metal.
Speaker 7: That's why my vocals are death metal inspired.
Speaker 18: And in Boston I was playing drums with a band
Speaker 18: called Summoning Hate still active.
Speaker 22: Uh.
Speaker 18: Then I would and form a little side project. It
Speaker 18: was like a grindcore death metal band, Visious Insanity. I
Speaker 18: did some session drumming and some other bands.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 18: And then uh, from that, I went to sing for Untuned,
Speaker 18: which is another band I was. That's when my vocal
Speaker 18: journey started. And then going to shows, I met Justin.
Speaker 18: I was playing guitar for us and I've done Justin
Speaker 18: for a long time. Justin has been always a joom guy.
Speaker 18: And going into like Boston, going and going to shows,
Speaker 18: we talked about doom and that's how I actually ended
Speaker 18: up with Vigil telling me that he was doing something
Speaker 18: like a project.
Speaker 7: He sent me the songs, and I mean it was
Speaker 7: what I was looking for right up my alley.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 18: I showed up for the first rehearsal and I was
Speaker 18: kind of afraid to growl because I think they actually
Speaker 18: liked it.
Speaker 7: Have something here, So yeah, that's that's where I am now.
Speaker 6: I mean, I get the impression this all came together
Speaker 6: pretty quickly, right. It sounds like it was, you know,
Speaker 6: a situation where it's like that magic is there right away.
Speaker 6: Although I know Randy you you came in later, right,
Speaker 6: but you were already kind of working with these guys
Speaker 6: in a sense, right.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I've been scrambling around, scrambling around a little bit
Speaker 15: with Craig in another side project that we have a
Speaker 15: World Worth Burning where it's just instrumental, but there would
Speaker 15: always be discussion about what was going on in Vigil,
Speaker 15: So I kind of had an ear to the wall
Speaker 15: about that.
Speaker 13: But but yeah, you.
Speaker 9: Guys have a that's a cool name of World Worth
Speaker 9: Burning like that.
Speaker 16: Yeah, and again that that was one of the successes
Speaker 16: out of COVID. Like, like I had said earlier, during COVID,
Speaker 16: the band kind of slowed down a little bit, Yeah,
Speaker 16: because everyone was afraid to be in a room.
Speaker 13: We didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 16: And you know, me and Joe, we're still spending time together,
Speaker 16: like doing stuff as friends, right, and we're like, well,
Speaker 16: we should just be using the room because we're still here.
Speaker 16: And we started working on Vigil stuff. But then we
Speaker 16: started to just like play other things. And I've always
Speaker 16: wanted to be like an instrumental post rock type band,
Speaker 16: So the music kind of developed into that, and then
Speaker 16: then we we kind of started a side project by accident,
Speaker 16: just because I needed some of it for these songs
Speaker 16: ago that weren't gonna fit anything else. So and that's
Speaker 16: kind of where Randy shows up, you know, because he
Speaker 16: was in a room across the hall. Yeah, and I
Speaker 16: knew he played, and he played really well, so we
Speaker 16: brought him in to try it out and it worked.
Speaker 6: So yeah, oh that's outstanding, excellent, Uh we should, uh
Speaker 6: you guys want to play another track from the from
Speaker 6: the EP. I guess it's an eapy right, you call
Speaker 6: it an EP or an album. The songs, it's only
Speaker 6: four songs, but they're kind of long, long.
Speaker 17: Minutes before yeah, Yeahsion the probably the next best example.
Speaker 7: Of what we're all about.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 14: It's usually like our second song on the set, we
Speaker 14: go right into that after our first song.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, usually a pretty good let in.
Speaker 9: By the way, who writes the lyrics, So it's.
Speaker 7: A mix of us, kind of kind of my committee.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Everybody brings in a lot of ideas, but Dave write,
Speaker 17: Dave writing the bulk of them.
Speaker 7: Okay, So the first song that sent to extension was
Speaker 7: justin yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 18: Then we go into the other three songs, the Rosian
Speaker 18: of the Soul. I did the lyrics on that. I
Speaker 18: did the lyrics on words of a dying man in
Speaker 18: convulsive ways from a worldview.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, well let's give this a spin. If you're
Speaker 9: just joining us.
Speaker 6: We have the band Vigil here with us live in studio,
Speaker 6: and this is called Erosion of the Soul.
Speaker 5: Homes and.
Speaker 1: So God yeast duds it. So I jot down yard.
Speaker 8: My yap rag y.
Speaker 23: Day rick, I yaht.
Speaker 3: The wy.
Speaker 24: Rally.
Speaker 1: Why some behind.
Speaker 22: Ye so Joe stay here?
Speaker 8: Yeah? Why why starring God?
Speaker 23: I got doy bout.
Speaker 8: Say and yeah that's say back my drop and say that,
Speaker 8: well do I stay out? Good?
Speaker 4: Something about so?
Speaker 8: Yeah drop drop not back glad.
Speaker 1: Oh ver oh little, very very oh very so it
Speaker 1: was all open.
Speaker 12: Oh that is Erosion of the Soul.
Speaker 9: And the band is Vigil, who we have here with us,
Speaker 9: alive in studio on this a Saturday morning.
Speaker 12: And I love it.
Speaker 7: I love it.
Speaker 13: Great stuff.
Speaker 9: Are you guys? Do you guys play out a lot?
Speaker 9: Do you do a lot of shows or what's what's the.
Speaker 14: So twenty twenty four was a was a pretty uh
Speaker 14: you know, it's a busy year for us. I think
Speaker 14: I think this is the most you know, shows that
Speaker 14: we played. Yeah, well try to play a show a month,
Speaker 14: you know. But actually we we wrapped up our show
Speaker 14: season like two weeks ago. Okay, we're gonna actually gonna
Speaker 14: go back and go back in the lab and start
Speaker 14: writing some stuff now.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it seems like winter is the best time
Speaker 9: to do that, right because that's.
Speaker 14: A couple of songs that that are that are are
Speaker 14: done that. But you know that we've been playing for
Speaker 14: like over a year now.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, okay, but as far as you.
Speaker 14: Know, formulating a new album, like you know, we're across
Speaker 14: that vision.
Speaker 1: We get there.
Speaker 7: But yeah, have some more stuff that we're gonna work
Speaker 7: on off the word time.
Speaker 12: Oh very good.
Speaker 14: I don't think we'll play a show again until probably
Speaker 14: late late spring, even early summer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't blame you. I mean, winter is like
Speaker 6: the worst time to go out and play, you know,
Speaker 6: with the weather and.
Speaker 7: People don't want to go to show.
Speaker 6: No, yeah, it's it's it's I mean, you know, I
Speaker 6: appreciate the people who persist, but it's it's hard.
Speaker 15: Especially especially moving gear in the snow.
Speaker 7: Yeah, thank you exactly.
Speaker 17: Well, we actually played a show that really really really
Speaker 17: abysmal cold day last year where it was like negative
Speaker 17: eighteen degrees. Oh yeah, we played in Revere that night
Speaker 17: on the beach. Oh my god, remember that there was
Speaker 17: there was I don't even think all the band members
Speaker 17: showed up. For the other bands that played the show,
Speaker 17: nobody went to the show.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that was tough.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but you guys did it though. How metal is
Speaker 9: that right?
Speaker 13: Yeah? We did it.
Speaker 7: Because you know, were usually headlining. Yeah, yeah, that's a
Speaker 7: big part of it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, No, that's cool.
Speaker 6: Are there other bands in the area this kind of
Speaker 6: happens organically? Are there other bands that you've kind of
Speaker 6: teamed up with on shows that you play a lot
Speaker 6: of shows with.
Speaker 17: Absolutely, there is a good handful of bands that we
Speaker 17: really enjoy not just playing with, but watching.
Speaker 7: We go to as many local shows as we can. Yeah,
Speaker 7: we like to make connections.
Speaker 17: There's a band, there's well, there's there's a lot of
Speaker 17: bands that we are friends with, you know, through the
Speaker 17: through the industry. And yea Glacier out of Boston is
Speaker 17: a huge for me anyway that they're one of my
Speaker 17: favorite local local acts right now.
Speaker 7: There's a Manchester band Geey. I don't know if you've
Speaker 7: ever heard of them. Also post metal.
Speaker 17: Their unbelievably unbelievable band, Able Blood is another band I'm.
Speaker 7: Going to see.
Speaker 9: We're gonna see them tomorrow at Spelfy Pests.
Speaker 7: Actually, we really dig those guys. Yeah, yeah, who well
Speaker 7: who else?
Speaker 17: Realm ben Thic Realm. Yeah, we just ye with them
Speaker 17: the last show we played. Also played that show.
Speaker 13: The guys in dust Profit, who are a local band
Speaker 13: from Yeah.
Speaker 9: I used to be in a band with Auto many
Speaker 9: many many years ago.
Speaker 13: Yeah, we like we like them, you know, they're good
Speaker 13: people with me.
Speaker 7: There's quite a few bands.
Speaker 14: A two man project with him for a while.
Speaker 12: You did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 7: That was called skin Drone.
Speaker 12: You were in skin Drone.
Speaker 9: I'll be damned, I didn't. I didn't put that together.
Speaker 6: I probably knew that in the back of my mind
Speaker 6: because it seems weird that I wouldn't know that, but
Speaker 6: but I I.
Speaker 7: Wow, I don't.
Speaker 14: We didn't really do a whole lot. We play a
Speaker 14: couple of shows, but it was it was a you know,
Speaker 14: a two man thing with vocals and my guitar. I
Speaker 14: mean had some drum programming. It was like a industrial like,
Speaker 14: you know, some deft metal thing. Yeah, and then uh
Speaker 14: I left that to go do another band. And then
Speaker 14: I left that band.
Speaker 7: Because I had deployed.
Speaker 14: That was in the military at the time. Ye, so
Speaker 14: and then uh yeah, just kind of been we're getting
Speaker 14: on the weed.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 18: The good thing too, is that any Hampshire, it's a
Speaker 18: lot of good bands Joe mentioned, even though Yeah, Massachusetts
Speaker 18: and we were very close, you know, we before each other.
Speaker 18: We go to their shows, they come to our shows,
Speaker 18: especially at Hampshire. Now this out a handful of bands
Speaker 18: that I just out there that for each other.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Geary Geary's awesome, awesome band, Guys from a Blood too,
Speaker 18: a couple of the bands that we want to play with.
Speaker 18: Conclave another great band that we haven't been able to
Speaker 18: play show with yet, the guys from Black Acid Prophecy
Speaker 18: out of Rhode Island, like Pyramid two. It's just because
Speaker 18: you know, the are we're all busy, so it's kind
Speaker 18: of hard to put us together in a room and
Speaker 18: play a show together. Sometimes we got like great offers
Speaker 18: to play great shows, but somebody's always busy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, hard to keep up with life.
Speaker 17: That part can be hard enough to get practices attended,
Speaker 17: four bands with four or five dudes each, to get
Speaker 17: everybody a night off.
Speaker 7: To play a show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly a thing, no doubt, no doubt before we
Speaker 6: run out of time, because I do want to get
Speaker 6: the last song in two words of a dying man.
Speaker 6: But anything we should know? What should people know about?
Speaker 6: How to keep up with everything that Vigil is is doing.
Speaker 6: Where's the best place to go online?
Speaker 13: All right?
Speaker 16: So, uh, we we have a we have a Facebook page.
Speaker 16: Just look up Vigil and you'll find it. Yeah, Vigil
Speaker 16: Doom is our band camp. So and we're on Spotify,
Speaker 16: you can fast on Apple Music. We have a YouTube
Speaker 16: presence through Argonauta Records, yes, yes, and you can also
Speaker 16: find any one of us on our personal pages too,
Speaker 16: you know, but by name, and uh we respond that
Speaker 16: way either way too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Yeah, pretty much in every platform, Yeah, thanks to the label,
Speaker 18: So Spotify, YouTube music or everywhere.
Speaker 3: Pretty much.
Speaker 9: Yeah, excellent, excellent, And uh, what do what do you
Speaker 9: have coming? Do you have another show coming up this year?
Speaker 7: No, we already played that show. That's uh that was
Speaker 7: two weeks ago.
Speaker 17: At Okay, there's a show in the works for June,
Speaker 17: but we don't have a solid date yet. Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 17: it's not worth really talking about right, So.
Speaker 9: So next So probably you were saying earlier, probably spring.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're probably looking at Spring.
Speaker 13: All would be that that's we're working on building right now.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, excellent.
Speaker 6: No, I haven't seen you guys live, so I look
Speaker 6: forward to seeing you live in the future and that'll
Speaker 6: be that'll be great. And uh and I love the
Speaker 6: thank you again by the way for and that's so
Speaker 6: cool that you brought a vinyl copy of that.
Speaker 9: That's awesome.
Speaker 6: I love it so uh Vigil, thank you all five
Speaker 6: of you. And we'll close out the segment with words
Speaker 6: of a dying man. Anything you want us, I mean
Speaker 6: we were kind of talking off their a little bit
Speaker 6: about it, but anything we should know about this song before.
Speaker 16: Actually, one of the coolest things about this song I
Speaker 16: think is instead of instead of playing guitar in this song,
Speaker 16: I'm on a Fender Bass six guitar, which is a
Speaker 16: long scale or short scale bass basically, but I play
Speaker 16: it through my guitar rigs, so it's like a guitar
Speaker 16: but they string Oh no, kidd this song has kind
Speaker 16: of a different tone to it, so, yeah, songs a
Speaker 16: lot different. Yeah, this is like our outliar, it's like
Speaker 16: our weird song. We haven't played it in a while,
Speaker 16: but I think we kind of don't play this song. Yeah,
Speaker 16: we don't anymore.
Speaker 9: Oh okay.
Speaker 18: For me is the personal touch because it talks about, yeah,
Speaker 18: the journey of like me seeing him literally passing away
Speaker 18: and me just thinking at some point, you know, we're
Speaker 18: gonna meet again, right somewhere, right, So it's it's personal,
Speaker 18: you know. Okay, it was it was hard to sing
Speaker 18: live when I was every time I do this song.
Speaker 13: But yeah, yeah, I mean we.
Speaker 7: Sort of supplanted this song with one or two of
Speaker 7: the newer ones that.
Speaker 9: We're working on, So gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 13: All right.
Speaker 9: So we're gonna end with that in a moment.
Speaker 6: And of course I want to remind everybody Spelfy Fest
Speaker 6: tomorrow at Jewel Uh, come see us. Jenny will be
Speaker 6: giving a short talk there and I'm gonna be there
Speaker 6: and I'm gonna MC and do some stuff.
Speaker 10: Proceed they're going to benefit the r s c S,
Speaker 10: a Sympathetic distribute organization raising awareness for c.
Speaker 9: R p S and there's gonna be a ton of
Speaker 9: great bands there.
Speaker 11: So yeah, and find out more on me at Gencoffee
Speaker 11: dot com. J E n n C F f u
Speaker 11: I dot com.
Speaker 17: Yes, definitely attend that show. The Midnight Creative is correct collective.
Speaker 17: They are a great group of people. Eleanor and Andre
Speaker 17: have been very supportive of us. We played at their
Speaker 17: other venue in Nashua, Terminus back back in.
Speaker 11: September, artwork on display.
Speaker 17: They are fantastic and they're all about local art, not
Speaker 17: just music, all of the arts.
Speaker 7: So if you can support them and what they're doing,
Speaker 7: that's huge.
Speaker 9: Absolutely absolutely know we love them very much.
Speaker 6: All right, So we will close with this and if
Speaker 6: you miss any part of today's show, it will be
Speaker 6: up in just a little bit at w m n
Speaker 6: H radio dot org and in my website Matt Connorton
Speaker 6: dot com.
Speaker 7: But here it is.
Speaker 9: This is called Words of a Dying Man. The band
Speaker 9: is Vigil.
Speaker 7: Thanks guys, thanks for having us.
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