Matt Connarton Unleashed 8-24-24 hour 3

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2:18 Speaker 4: Is its real?

2:19 Speaker 2: Do you even have?

2:20 Speaker 1: Am I crazy? And I it's very way.

2:39 Speaker 5: Why that is called want you? And the band is

3:21 Speaker 5: under the horizon and uh, we're going to be talking

3:24 Speaker 5: to these fine people in just a moment. This is

3:27 Speaker 5: Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios

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3:33 Speaker 5: Inglorious Manchester, New Hampshire, streaming live of course at w

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3:40 Speaker 5: dot com and uh go to Matt Connorton dot com,

3:43 Speaker 5: slash live in fact. And Jenny is here of course

3:46 Speaker 5: at the news table. Why can't I hear you? Well?

3:51 Speaker 5: Therehere we go sorry you turned off? I did, I did.

3:55 Speaker 6: This is what I put up with.

3:57 Speaker 5: That's what happens.

3:58 Speaker 7: I am present at account of yes.

4:00 Speaker 5: When you get up and leave the room, Yes, yeah,

4:07 Speaker 5: it is yes, yes, And of course today is Saturday,

4:11 Speaker 5: August twenty four, two thousand and twenty four, and joining

4:15 Speaker 5: us live in studio, we do have the members of

4:18 Speaker 5: Under the Horizon. We have Matt Jordan and is he

4:21 Speaker 5: did I get everyone's name correctly? Yes? Welcome, welcome, and Matt,

4:27 Speaker 5: you've got a proud, proud papa in studio with you. Yes,

4:30 Speaker 5: he doesn't want to be on a microphone. But I

4:33 Speaker 5: know this man very well from back in the day. Yes,

4:36 Speaker 5: wonderful to see him. And he looks and he looks

4:38 Speaker 5: the same. He hasn't changed, which is cool.

4:40 Speaker 8: I get that a lot. Actually, I hear that he

4:42 Speaker 8: looks pretty similar other than the.

4:44 Speaker 5: Hair, right right, Well, yeah, that's that's true of all

4:47 Speaker 5: of us. But right, but because when I run into people,

4:50 Speaker 5: when I see people I haven't seen in a really

4:52 Speaker 5: long time, I just expect them to be like, you know,

4:55 Speaker 5: not the same. Sure, but he looks the same, which

4:59 Speaker 5: is the which is which is really cool. But uh no,

5:05 Speaker 5: I love that track. Now the three well, actually, so

5:08 Speaker 5: what does everybody do in the band? So, Matt, you're the.

5:10 Speaker 4: Drummer, Yes, I am drummer and vocalist.

5:12 Speaker 5: Drummer and vocalist and Jordan guitarists, some vocals and some

5:15 Speaker 5: vocals and vocalists. Okay, that's now. What's interesting about that

5:20 Speaker 5: is so and you probably hear this all the time.

5:23 Speaker 5: There's not a lot of singing bass players for whatever

5:26 Speaker 5: reason the sun. But we were talking about that with

5:28 Speaker 5: our our guests in the previous hour, Ian Hemy his

5:32 Speaker 5: project Silicon Kong. He's a singing bass player, but it's

5:36 Speaker 5: not something you see a lot of for for whatever reason.

5:39 Speaker 5: But so, yeah, is it Is it just the three

5:44 Speaker 5: of you on all the recordings because you sound for

5:46 Speaker 5: a three piece and you probably hear this a lot too,

5:48 Speaker 5: but for a trio, you got a big sound.

5:52 Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, Yeah, it's just the three of us, and

5:56 Speaker 8: we kind of we thought about adding like another guitars

6:00 Speaker 8: into the mix, you know, like a lot of bands

6:02 Speaker 8: that rhath them in a lead guitarist. But part of

6:05 Speaker 8: the reason why we started this band was because we

6:07 Speaker 8: were aggravated with the difficulties of our previous bands. That

6:11 Speaker 8: we were already in, so we're like, we don't want

6:13 Speaker 8: to add anyone to complicate the mix.

6:15 Speaker 5: Yeah.

6:16 Speaker 8: So yeah, it's just the three of us. We all

6:20 Speaker 8: really trying to kind of work together to create our sound,

6:24 Speaker 8: and on the album, we wanted, like you said, a

6:27 Speaker 8: big sound, but we also wanted it to not sound

6:30 Speaker 8: impossible to achieve live, you know what I mean.

6:33 Speaker 5: Yeah, is that ever a challenge?

6:36 Speaker 4: I don't.

6:38 Speaker 9: I mean there's definitely, there's definitely sometimes where like it

6:42 Speaker 9: feels a little different, but for the most part, it

6:45 Speaker 9: seems pretty full like live.

6:47 Speaker 4: Yeah, which is cool.

6:49 Speaker 5: Yeah, that is that is By the way, I have

6:53 Speaker 5: to compliment you well, I think I mentioned it too

6:55 Speaker 5: when you walked in. But your shirt Ace Frehley thing.

6:57 Speaker 5: Kiss is my all time favorite band and I love Ace.

7:00 Speaker 9: Yeah.

7:01 Speaker 5: Yeah, oh very cool, very cool. Yeah, ten thousand volts.

7:04 Speaker 5: I remember when that came out and it people were

7:07 Speaker 5: kind of surprised that it was as successful as it was.

7:09 Speaker 9: You know, I mean it sounded was it compared to

7:13 Speaker 9: his last albums, Like it sounded a little different. It

7:15 Speaker 9: had a different vibe to it. Yeah, how I was

7:18 Speaker 9: produced and stuff, and his voice was a lot more.

7:20 Speaker 9: It seemed like he was doing a lot more actual

7:22 Speaker 9: thinging than talking into the bike and being like New York.

7:27 Speaker 5: York, right right, I agree, I agree? So how long

7:32 Speaker 5: has this existed? This spand how long have the three

7:34 Speaker 5: of you been been doing this?

7:35 Speaker 10: Almost a year now, like I think late September will

7:38 Speaker 10: be a year.

7:39 Speaker 5: So okay, well that's impressive that you know it's it's

7:42 Speaker 5: been under a year and you've already got how many

7:44 Speaker 5: tracks are on the album? Nine?

7:46 Speaker 2: Nine?

7:46 Speaker 4: Yeah?

7:47 Speaker 5: And oh and for people watching online here, let me

7:50 Speaker 5: put the overhead camera on so I can show so

7:54 Speaker 5: Mike gave me a copy of this under the horizon,

7:57 Speaker 5: and uh, I'll kind of hold that up for the camera.

8:00 Speaker 5: Probably i'll hold it up in pictures too afterward. But

8:03 Speaker 5: who did the I like the artwork? Who did the artwork?

8:07 Speaker 8: I mean, I guess I guess I would be the

8:10 Speaker 8: culprit of that, but it wasn't. I will admit we

8:16 Speaker 8: didn't like hand draw that We used AI because I

8:21 Speaker 8: saw a lot of the stuff that people were doing

8:23 Speaker 8: with AI, creating images and all that, and I liked

8:26 Speaker 8: how it could create a somewhat surreal scenario, like almost

8:31 Speaker 8: something you would see in a dream because it's not perfect,

8:34 Speaker 8: you know, it's it's different, nothing's exact, everything's a little

8:40 Speaker 8: mismatched and all that. So we used we came up

8:44 Speaker 8: with that or we got that from AI when we

8:48 Speaker 8: were trying to figure out album covers and we just

8:52 Speaker 8: really liked it and we're like, you know what, let's

8:54 Speaker 8: embrace this new technology here.

8:57 Speaker 4: And that's what you see on the album cover there.

9:00 Speaker 10: There is artwork though on the actual disc.

9:03 Speaker 5: Yes, oh no kidding, okay, yeah, okay, cool. I'm such

9:08 Speaker 5: a nerd for this stuff. Do you remember, like what

9:10 Speaker 5: kind of prompts you used to get that? Do you remember?

9:13 Speaker 3: So?

9:15 Speaker 4: I think it was like a.

9:18 Speaker 8: It was like a setting called like Halloween, oh themed

9:22 Speaker 8: or something like that, because we wanted to go something

9:24 Speaker 8: like kind of gothy, kind of metal, kind of you know,

9:28 Speaker 8: to fit with our sound. So I got that and

9:30 Speaker 8: I got a couple of images and I sent them

9:32 Speaker 8: all to the band and they were like, yeah, we

9:34 Speaker 8: like that one. So yeah, just ended up being the cover.

9:38 Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I dig it. I know that's an odd question.

9:41 Speaker 5: Probably you know, you don't expect to be asked, you know,

9:44 Speaker 5: what kind of prompts did you use?

9:46 Speaker 10: I think It's a good question because I didn't know

9:48 Speaker 10: that you.

9:48 Speaker 5: Had to do. Yeah. Yeah, we're so fascinated around here

9:53 Speaker 5: by AI in general. It's something Jenny and I talked

9:55 Speaker 5: about a lot on the show is AI and the

9:56 Speaker 5: impact on the music industry and how people are using

9:59 Speaker 5: it to create And No, that's very very cool. Where

10:02 Speaker 5: was the where's the picture on the back of course

10:04 Speaker 5: as a band photo? Where was that taken?

10:06 Speaker 4: My backyard?

10:07 Speaker 5: Yeah?

10:09 Speaker 8: Yeah, we were taking that was before we filmed the

10:13 Speaker 8: video for our song Orches in the Sunrise, and we

10:17 Speaker 8: were just like, let's take band pictures, you know, because

10:19 Speaker 8: we're all done up or whatever and nice clothes or

10:23 Speaker 8: metal clothes, whatever you want to say. Yeah, And we

10:26 Speaker 8: were just going around my house taking photos and we

10:28 Speaker 8: went out back to that truck that I'm leaning up against.

10:32 Speaker 8: That's a project truck of mine that I'm working on,

10:35 Speaker 8: and we were just random took the picture and we

10:38 Speaker 8: were looking through and we're like, wow, that's actually a

10:39 Speaker 8: really good photo of us. Let's use that on the

10:41 Speaker 8: back cover.

10:42 Speaker 9: Yeah.

10:43 Speaker 3: Yeah.

10:44 Speaker 5: Oh, we had a question I don't want to forget too,

10:46 Speaker 5: and Jenny mentioned it. There's a question in the chat room.

10:50 Speaker 5: Alan McIntyre joins us in the chat and says, ask,

10:54 Speaker 5: is he what her favorite song by Vixen is?

10:57 Speaker 4: Lol, it's between us.

11:01 Speaker 5: You don't have a favorite Vixen song? How dare you?

11:05 Speaker 10: I did get to meet Britt Lightning though, did you?

11:08 Speaker 5: Yeah?

11:08 Speaker 10: In February?

11:08 Speaker 5: Yeah, Oh, because they just played at uh they was

11:11 Speaker 5: it at the Tupelo. They just played there, right, because

11:15 Speaker 5: it was because we had a band on, Purging Sin.

11:17 Speaker 5: I don't know if you know Purging Sin.

11:19 Speaker 6: Yeah.

11:20 Speaker 5: Actually they they opened they when they were here on

11:22 Speaker 5: the show a couple of months ago. They were talking

11:24 Speaker 5: about opening for Vixen, which was weird. Weird to me

11:28 Speaker 5: because Purging Sin they're very dark and heavy. Yeah, and uh,

11:32 Speaker 5: I'm like, you you did, but I think that they did,

11:37 Speaker 5: and I think it was at the Tupelo. But uh, yeah,

11:40 Speaker 5: so you met Britt Lightning?

11:41 Speaker 1: Yeah?

11:41 Speaker 10: I did, like this rock and roll fantasy camp in

11:44 Speaker 10: l A. Yeah, to meet like people who actually made

11:48 Speaker 10: it in the industry, Like.

11:49 Speaker 5: So you you went to one of those? Oh no kidding.

11:52 Speaker 10: I got to meet Nancy Wilson as well.

11:54 Speaker 5: Oh wow, I was gonna say, yeah, she must be yeah, yeah,

12:00 Speaker 5: who else? Who else was there?

12:02 Speaker 10: I mean there was like a really good handful. There

12:05 Speaker 10: was a couple of people like that were there. To me,

12:07 Speaker 10: like they had the brothers of St. P. And I

12:16 Speaker 10: mean also some of the counselors that were there. Yeah,

12:22 Speaker 10: I mean there's a lot of good people. There was

12:24 Speaker 10: a basis of La Guns. His name is Johnny Martin. Yeah,

12:28 Speaker 10: he was like a kind of the person who ran

12:31 Speaker 10: my little group because we had there was a couple

12:34 Speaker 10: of bands that we uh at the camp and we

12:38 Speaker 10: played at the Viper Room and the Tribudour.

12:42 Speaker 5: Oh yeah. I always see I see videos of these

12:46 Speaker 5: these rock and roll fantasy camps online and they look

12:48 Speaker 5: they look really fun. So what so when you say

12:52 Speaker 5: you're a little group, so what what? What did they

12:55 Speaker 5: divide everyone into groups and then you had like one

12:57 Speaker 5: of these one of these famous rock stars kind of

13:01 Speaker 5: runs the group and and uh and then what is

13:03 Speaker 5: there is there a process of like you all write

13:06 Speaker 5: a song together or no, we more just like.

13:09 Speaker 10: Pick a couple of songs to work on between, like

13:11 Speaker 10: like it's about four days.

13:12 Speaker 5: Yeah, and we performed them.

13:14 Speaker 10: I mean I was with the other teenagers. Okay, we're

13:17 Speaker 10: all teens.

13:18 Speaker 5: Oh very cool?

13:18 Speaker 4: Is it?

13:19 Speaker 5: How many days, is it?

13:21 Speaker 10: I think mine was four days?

13:22 Speaker 5: Oh no kidding, Wow, that's wild, that's wild. What uh

13:29 Speaker 5: why did you? Why did you like? What motivated you

13:32 Speaker 5: to to go and and do that?

13:34 Speaker 10: Well? I actually had gotten it as a gift, but

13:37 Speaker 10: oh mostly to meet Nancy Wilson.

13:39 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, huge, Yeah, Yeah, that's that's very cool.

13:43 Speaker 3: Is she?

13:45 Speaker 5: I mean, is she an influence on you vocally? Or

13:48 Speaker 5: I mean I would think Anne Wilson would probably be

13:50 Speaker 5: a big influence. Yeah, huge, yeah, yeah, no doubt. Who

13:55 Speaker 5: else has an influence on you in terms of your vocals?

13:57 Speaker 10: I would say, uh, Pat bennettar a lot and a

14:01 Speaker 10: bit of Jon Jet as well.

14:02 Speaker 5: Really yeah, yeah, oh that's cool. That's cool. Now what

14:05 Speaker 5: about you, Jordan in terms of obviously A's Frehley, Yeah,

14:08 Speaker 5: a big influence. Who else influences you on guitar?

14:11 Speaker 9: In terms of a guitar, I'd say like some van Halen, Yeah,

14:16 Speaker 9: Eddie van Halen definitely really influential, all the tapping and

14:19 Speaker 9: all that stuff. I've gotten some things about how there's

14:23 Speaker 9: Randy Rhodes type stuff my guitar playing, which like I

14:26 Speaker 9: do like Randy Rhodes, so i'd say him too.

14:31 Speaker 4: Yeah, Kirk Hammett, you know people like that.

14:34 Speaker 9: Yeah, they I think what makes them so special is

14:38 Speaker 9: they take sometimes they can take fairly simple things and

14:42 Speaker 9: they'll put it in the song as a solo and

14:44 Speaker 9: make it fit, which is like a pretty good skill

14:46 Speaker 9: to have, you know, like, just because it's fast and

14:49 Speaker 9: flashy doesn't mean it's good.

14:50 Speaker 5: You know, right right, Yeah, No, I know what you mean,

14:52 Speaker 5: and I can hear. I can hear the Kirk Hammett

14:54 Speaker 5: and your solos. I can definitely hear that.

14:56 Speaker 9: Yeah.

14:56 Speaker 5: Yeah, what about you, Matt as far as drums and

15:00 Speaker 5: or vocal because you sing too.

15:01 Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, oh god, there's a lot. I mean, my

15:06 Speaker 8: primary influence for drums, I mean a lot of people

15:09 Speaker 8: laugh when I say it, but I'll say because it's true. Uh,

15:12 Speaker 8: it's Lars Ulrik from Metallica. I saw Metallica when I

15:16 Speaker 8: was like ten, and for some reason, something about Lars

15:19 Speaker 8: up on stage behind the drum set, it.

15:21 Speaker 4: Just really inspired me to play.

15:23 Speaker 8: Yeah, so then I picked it up, and I mean

15:25 Speaker 8: I'm influenced by him and Joey Jordison A slip nood,

15:30 Speaker 8: all the drummers a slip nood. Really, they're all great Vinny,

15:33 Speaker 8: Paul neil Pert, you know, all the good guys who

15:39 Speaker 8: give you a lot to listen to on the drum set,

15:41 Speaker 8: right right. Yeah, And vocally, i'd say my primary influences

15:45 Speaker 8: are James Hetfield and Corey Taylor.

15:50 Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, I can hear the Corey Taylor.

15:53 Speaker 4: Oh thank you. I appreciate it.

15:55 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, definitely. And in terms of the songwriting, I mean,

16:00 Speaker 5: how how does that work in the span? Do all

16:01 Speaker 5: write together? Does somebody bring in an idea and you

16:04 Speaker 5: I think what happened?

16:06 Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a mix of It's definitely like one person

16:10 Speaker 9: will come in with lyrics or they'll have Like with

16:13 Speaker 9: Izzy Want You, she had the lyrics and she had

16:17 Speaker 9: the you know bass notes, you know, whatever the notes were,

16:21 Speaker 9: and I was like, it kind of just formed together.

16:23 Speaker 9: He came up with this drum part on the spot.

16:26 Speaker 9: I made my own guitar part, and we kind of

16:29 Speaker 9: just experimented a couple of times, ran it, you know

16:31 Speaker 9: through three or four times, maybe that quick.

16:35 Speaker 6: Yeah, it comes together really fast. It's surprising.

16:39 Speaker 5: Well that's that's when you know you've really got something right.

16:41 Speaker 5: The song's coming together quickly, and then you know you

16:43 Speaker 5: know you've got that that magic.

16:44 Speaker 4: You know.

16:45 Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I assume some of these songs because you know,

16:48 Speaker 5: some of them are you know, that's a fairly straightforward song.

16:51 Speaker 5: But some of them are are pretty complex. I mean,

16:54 Speaker 5: I would imagine the more complex ones take longer or

16:57 Speaker 5: maybe not.

16:58 Speaker 8: I mean, realistically, all the songs that we have wrote,

17:01 Speaker 8: I mean, we're at max took us an hour to

17:06 Speaker 8: write and get fully played with, you know, all of

17:10 Speaker 8: us together, or at the very least the instrumental part

17:13 Speaker 8: of it. Obviously, lyrics come later with some songs, but

17:17 Speaker 8: I mean most of the stuff that we have done,

17:20 Speaker 8: I mean there were days that we wrote three or

17:22 Speaker 8: four songs in a day within the span of a

17:26 Speaker 8: four hour practice.

17:27 Speaker 9: Oh yeah, it wasn't it Like it was better in

17:31 Speaker 9: and out? And I'm pretty sure it was. It might

17:33 Speaker 9: have been within my eyes. I'm not sure though, Yeah, something. Yeah,

17:37 Speaker 9: because we all, you know, because we were all three

17:40 Speaker 9: of us used to be in cover bands. Yeah, Me

17:43 Speaker 9: and Jordan were in a cover band together, and Izzy

17:46 Speaker 9: was in a cover band. And actually how me and

17:49 Speaker 9: Izzy met was that both of our cover bands played

17:52 Speaker 9: in a Battle of the Bands together. Oh wow, and

17:56 Speaker 9: we both met up afterwards I'm like, hey, you're really

17:59 Speaker 9: good atvocals, and she's like, yeah, you're really good at drums.

18:02 Speaker 9: So we just kind of like okay, And then years

18:05 Speaker 9: later we decided let's form something here. So we were

18:09 Speaker 9: in our own cover band, so we had all this

18:11 Speaker 9: time to come up with these riffs and songs and

18:14 Speaker 9: lyrics and stuff for the day that we were eventually

18:17 Speaker 9: in an original band, but we wanted to be in

18:20 Speaker 9: So it all came together really quickly. And I mean

18:23 Speaker 9: we've already started writing for the second album. We have

18:25 Speaker 9: like half of it already, no kidding.

18:28 Speaker 10: Wow, I'd say we wrote most of our songs, Like

18:30 Speaker 10: we wrote the eight songs that we have the original

18:34 Speaker 10: within like three or four months, no kidding. Yeah, we

18:37 Speaker 10: started recording in April, so right, yeah, yeah, three months

18:41 Speaker 10: I think yep.

18:42 Speaker 5: Oh, by the way, talking about influences, somebody in the

18:45 Speaker 5: chat room made me realize I think it was I

18:48 Speaker 5: think it was Alan McIntyre. Oh, yeah, mentioned I never

18:53 Speaker 5: asked you about bass. I'm a bass player, so I

18:57 Speaker 5: can't believe I forgot to ask you about your influences

19:00 Speaker 5: on base. I am curious.

19:02 Speaker 10: I mean, I guess, like my basslines aren't really too

19:05 Speaker 10: complex because I'd say I do vocal like I focus

19:07 Speaker 10: more on the vocals.

19:08 Speaker 5: Yeah, per se.

19:09 Speaker 10: I mean there are a lot of great bassis that

19:11 Speaker 10: I love, but it is a bit difficult to sing

19:14 Speaker 10: and play the bass, which is why I feel you

19:17 Speaker 10: find a lot less.

19:19 Speaker 5: And vocalists interesting. Yeah see keep it fairly simple, Yeah yeah, yeah,

19:25 Speaker 5: what about like do you approach it any differently? Like

19:27 Speaker 5: if if Matt's singing, do you approach that any differently

19:30 Speaker 5: as far as your bass or do you.

19:33 Speaker 10: I mean like as of like like our first album,

19:37 Speaker 10: it's still not too complex, but I'm definitely getting more

19:40 Speaker 10: into the creative writing for basslines.

19:44 Speaker 5: Okay, Isaac Banks is asking, uh, and this isn't anyone

19:49 Speaker 5: you would know? We we, Jenny and I are very

19:52 Speaker 5: familiar with Isaac Banks, aren't we? Isaac Banks is asking

19:57 Speaker 5: is he? Who are your influence?

20:00 Speaker 1: Is?

20:00 Speaker 5: What's your favorite Evanescence song? Do you have a favorite

20:03 Speaker 5: Evanescence song? Probably more likely that you have a favorite

20:06 Speaker 5: Evanescence than Vixen.

20:11 Speaker 10: Right now, it's going under. I love that song vocally,

20:14 Speaker 10: It's amazing.

20:15 Speaker 5: Yeah. No, Amy Lee's a great She's a great singer. Definitely,

20:18 Speaker 5: absolutely absolutely. Now in terms of in terms of the

20:22 Speaker 5: band and like, do you all as a band, do

20:26 Speaker 5: you have a particular vibe or a particular sound that

20:30 Speaker 5: you try to achieve or is it more it's organic?

20:34 Speaker 5: It's how does that? How does that work?

20:36 Speaker 10: I mean, I think you have a various amount of sounds.

20:40 Speaker 10: All of her songs are kind of different, but they

20:42 Speaker 10: all still sound like they're made by us.

20:45 Speaker 5: Yeah.

20:46 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think my dad he was.

20:49 Speaker 9: I think he might have been like one of the

20:51 Speaker 9: first people to be like yeah, I mean all the

20:53 Speaker 9: songs are like really unique, but they all have a

20:55 Speaker 9: specific touch to them that makes it like ident you know,

21:00 Speaker 9: has some identification to us.

21:01 Speaker 4: Yeahich is like great.

21:04 Speaker 5: Yeah, we have a.

21:04 Speaker 9: Different sound on every song, which makes the album seem

21:08 Speaker 9: a little more like experimental, I guess.

21:11 Speaker 4: But you can still be like, oh yeah, this is

21:13 Speaker 4: that one band.

21:14 Speaker 9: It's not like there's features on the band or random

21:18 Speaker 9: people just coming in and playing songs or songs.

21:22 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's definitely.

21:25 Speaker 8: I'd say that our sound is definitely more metal focused,

21:29 Speaker 8: or at least we're you know, aiming to be more

21:33 Speaker 8: considered a metal band. But even then, you know, we

21:36 Speaker 8: have a lot of influences outside of you know, the

21:38 Speaker 8: basic rock and metal, but even within that, we like

21:42 Speaker 8: bands that often you know, you wouldn't picture their fans

21:46 Speaker 8: being in the same room, right, you know what I mean.

21:49 Speaker 8: I don't think there's a lot of dinner parties happening

21:51 Speaker 8: with Heart fans, Kiss fans and like, I don't know,

21:58 Speaker 8: Slayer fans or something like that. You know, I'm using

22:00 Speaker 8: that as an example, but I mean, I think from

22:03 Speaker 8: the beginning, with all our influences combined, we kind of

22:07 Speaker 8: tried to create something like if Heart was written by

22:12 Speaker 8: like Slipknot or something like that, you know, something heavy

22:17 Speaker 8: but with a little bit of like glam Edge of

22:19 Speaker 8: the Past or something like that. You know, something a

22:22 Speaker 8: sound that most people can listen to. You know, we'd

22:26 Speaker 8: you know, kind of like your second ever metal band

22:28 Speaker 8: you're listening to or whatever, something like that.

22:30 Speaker 4: You know what I mean?

22:32 Speaker 5: Well, what I think too is cool about about your

22:35 Speaker 5: sound and a band like this is there's a timelessness

22:38 Speaker 5: to it because you know, if you if you just

22:41 Speaker 5: played this for me and I didn't know anything about you,

22:44 Speaker 5: and you said, when do you think this was recorded?

22:46 Speaker 5: I wouldn't know, you know, it's it could have been yesterday,

22:50 Speaker 5: it could have been thirty years ago. There's there's a

22:53 Speaker 5: timelessness to it that I think is really cool. Well,

22:57 Speaker 5: thank you, yeah, oh absolutely. Are you playing a lot

23:01 Speaker 5: of shows? Are you doing a lot of live stuff

23:03 Speaker 5: or yeah?

23:04 Speaker 8: Actually, funny enough, we're doing a show tonight. You were

23:07 Speaker 8: doing one with two other bands, Tainted Hearts and Day

23:12 Speaker 8: to Attend.

23:13 Speaker 5: Oh, we have them on the show recently. Did you

23:16 Speaker 5: love Day to Attend? We've had them on a couple

23:18 Speaker 5: of times. Oh, they're amazing. I love Jeff's voice and

23:22 Speaker 5: the new album is so good. Yeah, it's so good

23:25 Speaker 5: that they have this one song not coming back. It

23:28 Speaker 5: gets stuck in my head, like some days I wake

23:30 Speaker 5: up with it in my brain. Yeah, I love Sorry,

23:33 Speaker 5: I just I love Data Attend.

23:34 Speaker 4: Yeah.

23:34 Speaker 5: Absolutely, So you're playing with them tonight.

23:36 Speaker 8: Yeah at the Rochester Performing Arts Center.

23:39 Speaker 5: Excellent.

23:41 Speaker 4: Yeah, all ages.

23:42 Speaker 8: Show starts at eight for if anyone wants to come

23:45 Speaker 8: and see us, and then we're also opening up for

23:48 Speaker 8: Great White Yes at the two Pelow Music Hall and Dairy.

23:52 Speaker 5: Yep, Jenny and I are going to be at that show.

23:54 Speaker 8: Good to know anyone who wants to come to that again,

23:58 Speaker 8: all ages five thirty, and then we have We're opening

24:03 Speaker 8: up for Queen's Reike again yeah at two Blow Music

24:07 Speaker 8: Hall and Dary That one starts at six thirty, and

24:10 Speaker 8: then we have Keen Music Fest and Keen at one third.

24:15 Speaker 8: I'm looking at my notes here, sorry, one uh to

24:21 Speaker 8: two fifteen. Uh So, yeah, we're starting to get some shows.

24:25 Speaker 8: And I mean the two shows they're Great White and

24:28 Speaker 8: Queen's Reich. I remember he came out to me. I

24:31 Speaker 8: was working on my car.

24:32 Speaker 4: He came out to me.

24:33 Speaker 8: He's like, I need to tell you something I don't

24:36 Speaker 8: even know if I can tell you.

24:37 Speaker 4: And I'm like, what is it? You know what I mean?

24:41 Speaker 4: You know?

24:41 Speaker 8: And he's like, I got you guys an opening slot

24:44 Speaker 8: for Great White and Queen's Reich. And we're like, what

24:47 Speaker 8: you know what I mean? The thing in the group

24:48 Speaker 8: chat that we're like, how is this even possible? You know,

24:51 Speaker 8: it's still I don't even think it's still even fully

24:53 Speaker 8: set into him, right yeah?

24:56 Speaker 5: Right, so yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. Oh, by the way,

25:00 Speaker 5: to your dad gave us these. I'll let me put

25:03 Speaker 5: the big camera on again so I can hold this up.

25:04 Speaker 5: You'll be able to see it better in the pictures.

25:06 Speaker 5: We'll take pictures after the show. But this, uh, this

25:08 Speaker 5: wonderful shirt. I love it. So is that your official

25:10 Speaker 5: logo on the shirt?

25:12 Speaker 8: Oh, that's a that's a little bit of a complicated

25:16 Speaker 8: situation there that I well, I mean, I guess so. Yeah,

25:19 Speaker 8: Like it's kind of like our little I guess mascot.

25:22 Speaker 4: You could say, we.

25:22 Speaker 8: Don't even have like a name for it yet or anything,

25:25 Speaker 8: but it's just something I it's something I honestly like

25:27 Speaker 8: sketched out in a little piece of notebook paper and

25:30 Speaker 8: sent to them.

25:30 Speaker 4: They're like, we love that. Yeah, yeah, so, yeah, I

25:33 Speaker 4: guess it's our logo mascot. I don't really know.

25:36 Speaker 5: I will I will see it in my nightmares this evening.

25:41 Speaker 5: But no, no, that's cool though. That's cool. Yeah, And

25:43 Speaker 5: I mean, you know, you've got plenty of time to

25:45 Speaker 5: you know, over time, you can always maybe come up

25:48 Speaker 5: with a backstory or whatever, give it a give it

25:51 Speaker 5: a name, you know, like, yeah, no, that's cool, that's cool.

25:55 Speaker 5: And I like the Yeah, I like that. Where does

25:57 Speaker 5: the name come from? By the way, under the horizon?

26:02 Speaker 9: It's funny, we can't so when we first started to

26:07 Speaker 9: like write originals.

26:08 Speaker 6: We were like, yeah, we need a name. We came

26:10 Speaker 6: up with all these names.

26:11 Speaker 9: I think one that I remember is you came up

26:14 Speaker 9: with just In because you want like new generation of

26:17 Speaker 9: you know, artists or whatever.

26:20 Speaker 5: I went on, wait, wait, what was it going to be?

26:22 Speaker 4: It was going to be just In.

26:26 Speaker 9: I went on to Google and started up like cool

26:29 Speaker 9: band names or whatever, and it came up with over

26:33 Speaker 9: the Horizon or something or over a Horizon.

26:36 Speaker 4: I didn't like that.

26:37 Speaker 9: Yeah, so I was like under undersounds gloomy, undersounds metal. Yes, yeah,

26:46 Speaker 9: so and I came back and I was like, hey,

26:49 Speaker 9: what do you think about under the Horizon?

26:51 Speaker 4: And everybody was like, oh, yeah, you know, it's cool,

26:54 Speaker 4: we like it.

26:55 Speaker 9: It wasn't until Izy wrote the title track under the

26:58 Speaker 9: Horizon we were really like had a meaning behind it.

27:02 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Did you did you go

27:06 Speaker 5: through any others that you kind of could? I love

27:07 Speaker 5: hearing about rejected band names. Were there were there any others?

27:10 Speaker 5: Or did that one present itself pretty early?

27:13 Speaker 9: I think you had some. I was gonna say, I

27:15 Speaker 9: feel like I contributed some, but I can't. They must

27:19 Speaker 9: have been so bad that I can't.

27:21 Speaker 4: What they are.

27:22 Speaker 6: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say they were bad.

27:24 Speaker 6: It was just they were a lot more I don't know,

27:28 Speaker 6: didn't have that ring to it.

27:29 Speaker 4: They didn't have that. They were very like I.

27:33 Speaker 9: Don't want to say stock metal names, but they had

27:35 Speaker 9: a very like predictable type of name to it. Yeah,

27:41 Speaker 9: they were cool, but like right, it wasn't what we

27:43 Speaker 9: were looking for, right, They didn't really fit our style

27:46 Speaker 9: because I guess to me, with my musical influences, I

27:51 Speaker 9: always thought that the original band that I was going

27:53 Speaker 9: to end up in was gonna be the next Slayer,

27:56 Speaker 9: the next Pantera, the next you know whatever.

27:59 Speaker 8: So I came up with all these names with like

28:01 Speaker 8: blood and like all this you know, angry violent things,

28:05 Speaker 8: you know what I mean in metal music, And then

28:08 Speaker 8: you know, here it was like, well, it's not just metal,

28:10 Speaker 8: it's not just speed, it's not just death, it's not whatever,

28:14 Speaker 8: you know what I mean, it's all these it's a

28:18 Speaker 8: what's that word, I don't know, A melting pot of

28:20 Speaker 8: all our influences. Yeah, yeah, oh a crucible. That's the

28:25 Speaker 8: ten dollars vocabulary word for that one, right there. Yeah,

28:28 Speaker 8: well played, sir, of all our musical influences, so my

28:33 Speaker 8: names didn't really work, but yeah, under the Horizon came

28:37 Speaker 8: and it was like, yeah, yeah, that fits for us.

28:40 Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean part of the challenge too, when when

28:42 Speaker 5: naming the band is trying to find something that nobody

28:44 Speaker 5: else already has or you know, so so you don't

28:47 Speaker 5: get in any trouble. You know, obviously there was a

28:53 Speaker 5: time and you know he's old enough to remember too,

28:56 Speaker 5: when you know, when you couldn't just go online and

28:59 Speaker 5: just google something and just you know, figure out if

29:01 Speaker 5: somebody else already already has it. So I tell this

29:06 Speaker 5: story a lot. I went to high school with and

29:09 Speaker 5: he might even be listening. Xander Carlson really really talented guitarist.

29:15 Speaker 5: I think he's still active in the scene. But and

29:18 Speaker 5: he and I were in a band in high school,

29:19 Speaker 5: just kind of briefly, but I ran into him after

29:22 Speaker 5: high school and he had a band called he telling

29:25 Speaker 5: me about this new band he's in. He said, Uh,

29:27 Speaker 5: it's called Intuition. And he said that to me, and

29:31 Speaker 5: immediately I'm thinking, God, somebody's intuition. It's too obvious. It's

29:36 Speaker 5: probably already a thousand bands that are already out there

29:39 Speaker 5: using that name, and I swear to god, I ran

29:41 Speaker 5: into him again. I just happened to run into We

29:43 Speaker 5: shopped at the same convenience store. I run into him again,

29:48 Speaker 5: like six months later, and I asked him how's the band?

29:51 Speaker 5: And he goes, oh, good, But we had to change

29:53 Speaker 5: our name because we heard from some cover band in Massachusetts.

29:57 Speaker 5: They're they're already using the name and they don't want

30:00 Speaker 5: us using it. And and I, you know, I'm too

30:03 Speaker 5: polite to say it, but in my mind I'm thinking, yeah,

30:05 Speaker 5: no kidding, but of course that happened. You called the

30:08 Speaker 5: band intuition, you know, But uh no, but I think

30:14 Speaker 5: under the Horizons a very very cool name. We should, Uh,

30:18 Speaker 5: let's play another track? What but I'm gonna put you

30:21 Speaker 5: on the spot. I'll let you pick what would uh

30:24 Speaker 5: what would you like to uh to hear next or

30:28 Speaker 5: to share with the audience?

30:29 Speaker 6: Maybe in and out, in and out.

30:31 Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a good catch you one for all of

30:33 Speaker 8: you out there.

30:33 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I like that one. I like I said,

30:36 Speaker 5: I listened to the whole thing, and that's that's also

30:38 Speaker 5: one of the ones that stood out to me. Are

30:41 Speaker 5: these all available? Are Are these on Spotify and everything?

30:44 Speaker 5: For people who want to hear them.

30:46 Speaker 8: Yes, every streaming platform that you could possibly think of,

30:50 Speaker 8: the album's there. And also if you still listen to

30:54 Speaker 8: physical music, which I know it's a rare breed out there,

30:56 Speaker 8: but for those of you that want to buy a CD,

30:58 Speaker 8: you can not only buy it off of our website

31:01 Speaker 8: under the Horizon dot org, but also it's on sale

31:04 Speaker 8: at all Bull Moose locations, Good Music Connection down the

31:08 Speaker 8: Road in Manchester, and Pitchfork and Conquered and also, funnily enough,

31:13 Speaker 8: Tenny farm Stand in Antrim, New Hampshire. Yeah, kind of

31:18 Speaker 8: a it's weird to think of a metal band CD

31:20 Speaker 8: going on sale and a farm stand.

31:22 Speaker 5: But do they have a CD section?

31:24 Speaker 9: No?

31:25 Speaker 8: Actually we're the first CD they've ever sold. Yeah, but

31:28 Speaker 8: you know we're what Yeah, they're actually our best selling location.

31:33 Speaker 8: We were friends with the owner of it and he

31:37 Speaker 8: wanted to support so we're like, you want to sell

31:39 Speaker 8: our CDs? Like yeah, sure, So it's on sale, so

31:42 Speaker 8: you know you can buy cucumbers and corn and then

31:45 Speaker 8: a brand new CD to listen to on the way home.

31:49 Speaker 5: That's awesome. That's awesome. All right, let's give this a spin.

31:52 Speaker 5: This is called in and Out. If you are just

31:54 Speaker 5: joining us. We have under the Horizon here with us,

31:56 Speaker 5: live in studio. But check this out.

32:24 Speaker 2: Couple of weeks since we made it up time at

32:28 Speaker 2: the time I get there.

32:31 Speaker 10: About the ball if you just saw here when you

32:34 Speaker 10: forgot bad no kidding.

32:36 Speaker 9: All right, I'm following man and out and then and

32:39 Speaker 9: I love bad.

32:43 Speaker 3: You go you right?

32:45 Speaker 1: I can't every what you said.

32:50 Speaker 10: Every week it's something new, say you love me?

32:54 Speaker 1: But is it you talk? Confused? And how I bel

32:59 Speaker 1: but wanna stay home?

33:01 Speaker 2: See a kid, I'm fallably.

33:03 Speaker 1: Dance man out then in and out of gays.

33:09 Speaker 3: You fly go with patrol.

33:11 Speaker 2: Under the.

33:15 Speaker 6: Chill in and how else?

33:42 Speaker 2: Then? And how these do you?

33:47 Speaker 10: I'm falla GiB.

33:48 Speaker 9: Stay up say it.

33:49 Speaker 1: I'm moving like.

33:50 Speaker 2: A mot kids.

34:34 Speaker 3: Any stay out of.

34:39 Speaker 10: It is.

34:41 Speaker 1: I'm losing mind.

34:57 Speaker 5: That is catchy as hell? That is it end out

35:00 Speaker 5: and the band is under the horizon, and we have

35:03 Speaker 5: under the horizon here with us, live in studio. If

35:06 Speaker 5: you are just joining us this Saturday morning on Matt

35:09 Speaker 5: Connorton Unleashed. And for those of us who are just

35:12 Speaker 5: joining us, uh so you've got you've got a show tonight.

35:15 Speaker 5: We should uh we should mention that again for for

35:17 Speaker 5: people just tuning in.

35:19 Speaker 8: Yeah, show tonight, Rochester Performing Arts Center, all ages, ten

35:25 Speaker 8: dollars cover charge and the doors open at seven. We're

35:29 Speaker 8: playing with Day to a ten, which we talked about previously.

35:33 Speaker 4: Great band.

35:33 Speaker 8: Yeah, and uh, actually we're playing with another band, a

35:38 Speaker 8: cover band that Izz He's in called Tainted Hearts.

35:40 Speaker 4: Oh cool, yeaty.

35:41 Speaker 5: Cool, pretty cool? What's so?

35:45 Speaker 10: Yeah?

35:45 Speaker 5: Tell us about that? Do you does Tainted Hearts do

35:47 Speaker 5: a lot of shows? And what do you? What kind

35:48 Speaker 5: of covers do you do?

35:49 Speaker 10: Well, we haven't been together for too long, but we

35:53 Speaker 10: did play a show actually at the r PAC and

35:56 Speaker 10: we also played one at the Old Home Day. But

36:00 Speaker 10: we do mostly like rock, like more poppier rock cover songs.

36:05 Speaker 5: Okay, okay, cool cool?

36:08 Speaker 3: Uh?

36:08 Speaker 5: Now what about you guys? Are either of you in

36:10 Speaker 5: other projects as well?

36:11 Speaker 4: Or I'm in a lot, so Jordan you go first?

36:14 Speaker 5: Of course you are. You're a drummer, right, yeah, I

36:19 Speaker 5: don't know.

36:19 Speaker 6: I think the only other projects that I'm in is

36:25 Speaker 6: a cover band that he's also in, Room three oh one.

36:30 Speaker 9: We kind of we covered. I don't really think we

36:34 Speaker 9: have a specific genre that we stick to. We just

36:38 Speaker 9: cover whatever is a hit song.

36:40 Speaker 8: And okay, yeah, yeah, it's a student lead rock cover

36:45 Speaker 8: band that's actually connected to our high school. Yeah, the

36:49 Speaker 8: high school. When I first came in as a freshman,

36:53 Speaker 8: it was like just starting out and you know, they're

36:57 Speaker 8: playing like you know, Green Day Nirvana, really basic, you know,

37:01 Speaker 8: intro level stuff. But I could tell that some of

37:05 Speaker 8: the musicians and there were really good, And to be

37:09 Speaker 8: honest with you, I saw the drummer they had at

37:11 Speaker 8: the time, and I didn't really think he was that good.

37:14 Speaker 8: So I eventually found myself behind the drum set and

37:17 Speaker 8: then the rest was history. So yeah, we're it's a

37:21 Speaker 8: student led rock cover band. So we play at like

37:25 Speaker 8: all the school band concerts along with you know concert

37:28 Speaker 8: band and choir. But then we also do stuff like

37:32 Speaker 8: you know, school festivals, you know, like field days and

37:34 Speaker 8: stuff like that, and we also do some outside of

37:38 Speaker 8: school gigs. But it's kind of been slowing down a

37:41 Speaker 8: little bit because me and Jordan have been obviously occupied with.

37:47 Speaker 4: This band here.

37:48 Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, no, the reason I made the comment about, well,

37:54 Speaker 5: of course you're another band, you're a drummer, because you know,

37:56 Speaker 5: it's it's it's it's a subject on the show A

37:58 Speaker 5: lot every I think it even Actually it even came

38:02 Speaker 5: up when we were talking with Silicon Kong earlier about

38:05 Speaker 5: how every drummer is in so many bands and you know,

38:07 Speaker 5: because drummers are hard to find.

38:10 Speaker 4: I guess we are.

38:11 Speaker 9: I don't know, yeh yeah, we're always every drummer I've

38:14 Speaker 9: talked to. It's like, yeah, I'm in three bands, and

38:17 Speaker 9: me and myself, I'm also in three bands.

38:20 Speaker 8: So you know, I guess we're hard to find. And

38:23 Speaker 8: you know, we just kind of were like, yeah, whatever

38:25 Speaker 8: I can. We can do both of these. Honestly, we're

38:28 Speaker 8: pretty bad. We're pretty famous for like cheating as musicians,

38:31 Speaker 8: you know what I mean, We're cheating on our previous

38:34 Speaker 8: bands with other bands and stuff like that. It's pretty

38:37 Speaker 8: bad actually, but you know whatever.

38:40 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah so what so what else? So there's a

38:45 Speaker 5: third band figure.

38:46 Speaker 8: In Yeah, well kind of. It's like just starting out.

38:51 Speaker 8: It's a band called Blowflies. They're out of Keene and

38:55 Speaker 8: it's with a buddy that I actually met in the

38:59 Speaker 8: cover band Room three. I won the bass player Doc Cassidy,

39:03 Speaker 8: wonderful bass player. But yeah, they're just starting out. It's

39:06 Speaker 8: more of a I don't even know what you would

39:09 Speaker 8: call it like a post kind of grungy, kind of

39:15 Speaker 8: Midwest emo, kind of a little.

39:16 Speaker 4: Bit of everything.

39:17 Speaker 8: So a little bit more out of my style. But

39:21 Speaker 8: they're just starting out and I've been playing with them.

39:24 Speaker 8: We've done one show together.

39:25 Speaker 5: Yeah yeah. Yeah. My My theory about the reason with

39:30 Speaker 5: drummers they're always in so many bands is because when

39:32 Speaker 5: you're when you're growing up and you first become interested

39:34 Speaker 5: in playing an instrument, you got to have to talk

39:36 Speaker 5: with the parents, right, you know a lot of parents

39:39 Speaker 5: are gonna be like drums really yeah?

39:41 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.

39:43 Speaker 8: We had that conversation, but I mean they were kind

39:46 Speaker 8: of used to it because I started off on guitar, yeah,

39:50 Speaker 8: at like six, and then I moved on to bass,

39:53 Speaker 8: then went back to guitar, and I'm like, you know what,

39:55 Speaker 8: I don't really like or I like all both of these,

39:58 Speaker 8: but I'm not really that good at it, so I'll

39:59 Speaker 8: switch drums. And then I finally when I was ten

40:02 Speaker 8: and I finally found my home behind the drum set.

40:04 Speaker 4: I was like, this is where I belong.

40:06 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, very cool. Did did all three of you?

40:10 Speaker 5: Did you all go to school together?

40:12 Speaker 10: Or no, I'm in a different school than them.

40:15 Speaker 5: Oh okay, yeah, but you guys went to school.

40:17 Speaker 4: Together, yes, or yeah, we just met in a couple

40:22 Speaker 4: years ago. Yeah.

40:24 Speaker 8: Yeah, we met in high school because we went to

40:28 Speaker 8: separate middle schools. But we met in high school and

40:30 Speaker 8: then Izzy obviously went to Golfstown High School. So that's

40:36 Speaker 8: how we met at the Battle of the Bands because

40:38 Speaker 8: obviously we would have never met otherwise.

40:41 Speaker 4: Ye. Sorry, you know what I mean?

40:42 Speaker 2: Yeah?

40:43 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.

40:45 Speaker 5: Do you are there any other bands that you kind

40:48 Speaker 5: of team up with?

40:49 Speaker 4: You know?

40:50 Speaker 5: It it sort of happens organically in my experience, and

40:53 Speaker 5: you know, I was in a band that played with

40:55 Speaker 5: your dad's band a lot. We did a lot of

40:57 Speaker 5: shows together.

40:57 Speaker 4: Yeah.

40:58 Speaker 5: You know, sometimes bands just kind of, you know, you

41:01 Speaker 5: just you end up teaming up. It just sort of happens.

41:03 Speaker 5: Is there anybody else in the scene that that you

41:05 Speaker 5: play a lot of shows.

41:06 Speaker 4: With or not yet? Unfortunately.

41:09 Speaker 8: Yeah, we're trying to make our way out there, and

41:12 Speaker 8: we're trying to, you know, try to also hopefully revitalize

41:16 Speaker 8: the scene a little bit, because unfortunately a lot of

41:19 Speaker 8: it has died. So we're trying to, you know, find

41:22 Speaker 8: like minded people and be like, hey, come on, you know,

41:25 Speaker 8: music's still alive.

41:26 Speaker 4: Let's go, let's go play shows and all that.

41:28 Speaker 9: Yeah, so yeah, not yet, but we hope to find

41:31 Speaker 9: other bands out there who are like us, who are

41:33 Speaker 9: willing to play shows with us.

41:35 Speaker 4: You know, we like friends. So yeah.

41:37 Speaker 9: Yeah.

41:38 Speaker 5: Do you feel like there's a there's a dearth of

41:40 Speaker 5: bands that are doing kind of what you're doing right

41:43 Speaker 5: now and locally or.

41:46 Speaker 10: Not that I've like really met or anything, like, I

41:49 Speaker 10: don't see too many younger people playing rock or like

41:53 Speaker 10: heavy music at all.

41:55 Speaker 5: Yeah.

41:56 Speaker 9: Yeah, A lot of the a lot of the younger

42:00 Speaker 9: and music that I see now it's you know, rap,

42:04 Speaker 9: you know, that type of stuff, which, hey, I'm not hating,

42:08 Speaker 9: but doesn't help us out right, you know it. You know,

42:16 Speaker 9: I wish there was more younger bands, you know, rock

42:20 Speaker 9: music and stuff.

42:21 Speaker 4: But yeah, it's just kind of how it is today.

42:24 Speaker 5: No, it's interesting that you say that, because you know,

42:26 Speaker 5: I was talking earlier about how I feel that this

42:28 Speaker 5: kind of music is timeless. But it does occur to me. Again,

42:32 Speaker 5: if you were to just play this for me and say,

42:35 Speaker 5: you know, when do you think this was done? I

42:36 Speaker 5: wouldn't know, but I probably would assume that the members

42:43 Speaker 5: of the band were older than the three of you are,

42:45 Speaker 5: because you're right, you don't see a lot of people

42:47 Speaker 5: necessarily your age doing this kind of music, or at

42:49 Speaker 5: least doing it, you know, with this level of sophistication,

42:53 Speaker 5: because like I said, some of some of this is

42:55 Speaker 5: you know, complex, and yeah, that's that's interesting. I mean,

42:59 Speaker 5: you know, but again, you know, you've been together less

43:02 Speaker 5: than a year two, so I assume as you go

43:03 Speaker 5: along you'll meet other bands that you can kind of

43:06 Speaker 5: like I said, you know what, and it just happens.

43:08 Speaker 5: It just happens organically, you know. But we should play

43:11 Speaker 5: another track from the album. What do you want to

43:15 Speaker 5: What do you want to play next?

43:17 Speaker 4: You guys?

43:17 Speaker 7: Go with you?

43:19 Speaker 4: Guys? Good? Yeah, within my eyes, I can't talk with

43:21 Speaker 4: myle the.

43:22 Speaker 8: Guitar player talk, It's fine. I'm just the drummer. I

43:25 Speaker 8: don't know how to speak.

43:28 Speaker 5: All right, we'll get We'll give this one a spin

43:30 Speaker 5: and anything we should know about this before we play it.

43:35 Speaker 9: We all, I think one of the main parts of

43:38 Speaker 9: it that sticks out all three of us sing on it.

43:42 Speaker 9: Oh does I do versus? He does the chorus and

43:46 Speaker 9: in the background you'll hear like a or whatever.

43:50 Speaker 4: Vocalism. But that's easy.

43:52 Speaker 5: Oh, very cool, very cool. All right, let's give this

43:56 Speaker 5: a listen. If you're just joining us. The band is

43:59 Speaker 5: under the haraz listen. They're here with us, live in studio,

44:01 Speaker 5: and this is called within my eyes.

44:10 Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, one the sum there was, I can he

44:25 Speaker 11: hold up. I can't breathe right out alone, but I

44:33 Speaker 11: can't talk on you around.

44:36 Speaker 1: I can't see off my own bunch of pot racing

44:41 Speaker 1: the ground?

44:42 Speaker 2: What can that be? A spreadshows all bound.

44:49 Speaker 5: I just want to be in the bunch of puts

44:52 Speaker 5: body the crowd.

44:56 Speaker 9: In my.

45:00 Speaker 2: My eyes, with my eyes.

45:19 Speaker 4: To rest the shoes. I about change for people what

45:25 Speaker 4: you are.

45:26 Speaker 2: Before the two.

45:31 Speaker 3: I can't want to bring you out alone, but I

45:35 Speaker 3: cant are going y'all around.

45:38 Speaker 5: I dancy on my own, but you're my racing the crown.

45:44 Speaker 3: What can I me? All spread your eyes out.

45:50 Speaker 2: I just want to bring a.

45:52 Speaker 5: Bunch of boots.

45:55 Speaker 1: Out, a crowd going in.

45:58 Speaker 3: My yes with anybody.

46:07 Speaker 9: That I.

46:33 Speaker 2: Can't breath. But I can't I'm going around.

46:40 Speaker 1: I can't see.

46:43 Speaker 4: What your part grace not a crowd?

46:46 Speaker 1: What can't be?

46:48 Speaker 2: All spend your all around?

46:52 Speaker 5: I just want to be what your party.

46:58 Speaker 2: Crowd.

47:35 Speaker 9: M hmm.

47:36 Speaker 5: It's got a big dramatic ending. I really like that

47:38 Speaker 5: a lot. That's called Within My Eyes. The band is

47:42 Speaker 5: under the Horizon and we've got all three members of

47:44 Speaker 5: the band here with us live in studio on Matt

47:47 Speaker 5: Connorton Unleashed on this Saturday morning. Yeah, we were talking

47:50 Speaker 5: off air while it was playing that that's that song

47:54 Speaker 5: has got a touch of grunge, which kind of sets

47:57 Speaker 5: it apart from a lot of these other songs. And Jordan,

47:59 Speaker 5: you were saying, and you uh online on Uh it

48:02 Speaker 5: was it on Apples on Apple Music it uh similar artists.

48:06 Speaker 9: It comes up with like deaf tones Alison Shane stuff

48:10 Speaker 9: very grungy or you know, have that darker feel.

48:14 Speaker 4: I guess I don't know.

48:15 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course the drums kind of ungrunge

48:18 Speaker 5: it a little bit because you don't hear you don't

48:20 Speaker 5: hear double bass usually in grunge.

48:22 Speaker 4: No, there's a bit.

48:23 Speaker 5: I cannot remember who they are now, Jenny, you probably

48:27 Speaker 5: don't remember either. It was a couple of years ago

48:29 Speaker 5: we had a band on who very grunge except for

48:32 Speaker 5: the drums. It was a three piece band. Uh, female singer.

48:37 Speaker 5: I can't I can, but yeah, but there's a band

48:40 Speaker 5: from the area who Yeah, they're they're like very grunge

48:43 Speaker 5: like not just a hint of it except the double

48:46 Speaker 5: bass drum, which is cool because it's it's it's a

48:50 Speaker 5: different sound. But I cannot I can picture them too,

48:53 Speaker 5: but I cannot remember the name. It'll come to me

48:55 Speaker 5: later on in the day when it no longer matters.

48:57 Speaker 5: But anyway, but I really like that track. Now, now,

49:01 Speaker 5: where do you record? What's the recording process?

49:03 Speaker 4: Like my house?

49:06 Speaker 8: We so we started recording the drum tracks. We recorded

49:11 Speaker 8: that down in the bandroom. We recorded in April, and

49:16 Speaker 8: it's in pretty much my basement is the bandroom. But

49:19 Speaker 8: you know, so it was so cold, these poor guys

49:22 Speaker 8: were off and uh. We recorded the drum tracks and

49:27 Speaker 8: pretty much like a day, day and a half maybe,

49:29 Speaker 8: and then we moved upstairs into my attic for the

49:35 Speaker 8: guitar tracks, and then we recorded vocals in my bedroom.

49:39 Speaker 8: So pretty much half of the house was a recording

49:41 Speaker 8: studio for.

49:42 Speaker 4: Like a week. But yeah, just recording anywhere.

49:46 Speaker 10: We could, I say it would be more than a week.

49:49 Speaker 4: I don't know how long did we record for.

49:51 Speaker 5: I don't know, probably a couple of weeks, at least.

49:54 Speaker 8: A couple maybe three weeks. He's saying three weeks weeks.

49:57 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, oh very cool. Uh No, that's that's a

50:01 Speaker 5: good way to do it.

50:02 Speaker 9: You know.

50:02 Speaker 5: It's it's you know, we live in an era to

50:04 Speaker 5: where you've got so many different options in terms of

50:06 Speaker 5: how you record. So do you uh I think you

50:10 Speaker 5: had said earlier too, you're already working on new material.

50:13 Speaker 5: Is that is that, Craig? Do you have plans to

50:15 Speaker 5: record it soon or you kind of focused on the

50:17 Speaker 5: current album right now? The current album right now, Yeah.

50:21 Speaker 10: And with the gigs that we have coming up, I

50:23 Speaker 10: feel that's what we're focusing on more than original new music.

50:27 Speaker 8: Yeah, although speaking on gigs that are coming up, we're

50:31 Speaker 8: playing two of the new songs at the show tonight,

50:35 Speaker 8: like songs that are going on the next album.

50:38 Speaker 4: Yeah, no one's heard it, but we had extra.

50:40 Speaker 8: Times where like, oh, we'll give the audience a little

50:42 Speaker 8: sneak peek of what's to come. So yeah, if any

50:44 Speaker 8: of you guys that are listening right now are coming

50:46 Speaker 8: to that, you'll get to hear two new songs that

50:48 Speaker 8: you can hear right now.

50:49 Speaker 5: Oh, very cool, excellent, excellent. Are you gonna, I mean,

50:55 Speaker 5: the current run of shows obviously are keeping very busy.

50:59 Speaker 5: Are you gonna try to keep up that pace?

51:01 Speaker 1: So?

51:01 Speaker 5: You know a lot of bands kind of slow down

51:02 Speaker 5: in the winter. That's when they kind of shift to

51:06 Speaker 5: recording or writing.

51:07 Speaker 10: Or We'll just have to see how things go, you know.

51:11 Speaker 2: Yeah.

51:11 Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm hoping that the energy that we have right

51:15 Speaker 9: now like follows through even after the shows.

51:18 Speaker 4: Yeah, but like she said, only time will tell.

51:21 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well you're off to a great start.

51:24 Speaker 5: That's for sure. That's for sure.

51:25 Speaker 4: Thank you.

51:26 Speaker 5: We should so before we run out of time, and

51:28 Speaker 5: I do want to make sure we get one more

51:30 Speaker 5: song in two. But let's remind everybody for people listening

51:34 Speaker 5: live on Saturday, because you've got a show tonight, and

51:36 Speaker 5: then I also want to remind people too about the

51:38 Speaker 5: show tomorrow night.

51:39 Speaker 4: Yes. Uh so tonight, Uh you're making me grab my

51:45 Speaker 4: notes again. Come on.

51:48 Speaker 3: Yeah.

51:48 Speaker 8: We're playing at Rochester Performing Arts Center, all ages ten

51:53 Speaker 8: dollars cover. The doors open at seven, show starts at eight.

51:57 Speaker 8: It's US with Tainted Hearts and Data to attend, and

52:01 Speaker 8: then Sunday tomorrow we open up for Great White at

52:06 Speaker 8: Tupelo Music Hall, doors open at five thirty and if

52:10 Speaker 8: you want to catch more of us, or maybe you

52:12 Speaker 8: want to catch a different band, We're opening up for

52:14 Speaker 8: Queen's Reich on the thirtieth, also at Tupelow Music Hall,

52:18 Speaker 8: and the doors open for six thirty at.

52:21 Speaker 5: That outstanding, outstanding. And where should people go online to

52:25 Speaker 5: keep up with everything that y'all are doing? Where's the

52:27 Speaker 5: best place?

52:29 Speaker 10: And we're on a lot of different social media, so yeah, Facebook, Instagram, yep.

52:34 Speaker 5: Should just look up under the Horizon, Yeah, basically should

52:37 Speaker 5: come up.

52:37 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, and our website too, under the Horizon dot org.

52:42 Speaker 8: That's a good place to come. See you hear the

52:45 Speaker 8: music news, get some photos if you want to join

52:49 Speaker 8: the mailing list, and we also have merch on sale

52:52 Speaker 8: over there.

52:53 Speaker 5: So yeah, excellent, excellent. In a moment, well, we'll play

52:56 Speaker 5: one more track, but Jenny, do you want to so

52:59 Speaker 5: we should? Well we'll have you plug go and plug

53:02 Speaker 5: your website. And then we got to mention a couple

53:04 Speaker 5: of things coming up.

53:05 Speaker 4: You want to tell me the couple of things? No,

53:08 Speaker 4: Alli kidding.

53:09 Speaker 7: You can find out more about me at Gencoffee dot com.

53:12 Speaker 9: J E. N.

53:12 Speaker 4: N c O f f UI dot com.

53:15 Speaker 7: Yes, and you can find twelve of my docness paintings

53:19 Speaker 7: for viewing at the Nashaua Creatives Collective Midnight Creatives Collective.

53:25 Speaker 7: Now you got me doing it?

53:26 Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, And at Terminus, Yes.

53:29 Speaker 7: Where Green Jello will be playing next Tuesday night, a

53:34 Speaker 7: free show twenty one plus.

53:37 Speaker 5: And you had a hand in booking that.

53:38 Speaker 10: I did.

53:39 Speaker 6: I get to add that to my little rezuom.

53:41 Speaker 5: Yes, Green Green Jello slash Green Jelly. Don't know what

53:45 Speaker 5: to call them. I guess the flyer they have says

53:48 Speaker 5: green Jello, so I guess I think at this point.

53:52 Speaker 5: I think Bill when they were here, said that legally

53:55 Speaker 5: they're not in any peril at this point because it's

53:59 Speaker 5: been like thirty years. They were threatened with litigation by Jello. Yeah.

54:05 Speaker 5: I don't know if you all are familiar.

54:06 Speaker 4: With Yes, Green Jelly, three Little Pigs.

54:08 Speaker 5: Yes, Yes, Yes, we had them. They played in Manchester

54:12 Speaker 5: and then we had them on the show the next

54:14 Speaker 5: day because they played on a Friday night, and then

54:16 Speaker 5: they were kind enough to come in. And I asked

54:19 Speaker 5: Bill Mann speaker about it because it's, you know, like

54:21 Speaker 5: they were Green Jello, but then they became green Jelly

54:24 Speaker 5: because they were threatened with litigation because green Jello obviously

54:28 Speaker 5: is trademarked. But he said something about now they just

54:31 Speaker 5: I think they actually prefer to be called green Jello

54:33 Speaker 5: because it's been like thirty years and they're not gonna

54:36 Speaker 5: get sued now in theory. But but yeah, so it's

54:40 Speaker 5: like if you look them up, there's sometimes they're green Jelly,

54:42 Speaker 5: sometimes they're green Jello. But but yeah, they're gonna be

54:45 Speaker 5: at Terminus in Nashua on Tuesday night, Free Show twenty

54:49 Speaker 5: one plus byob Jenny and I will be there and

54:52 Speaker 5: bring your pool noodle if you're going to the show.

54:55 Speaker 5: But we encourage people, and if you go, you can

54:57 Speaker 5: check out Jenny's artwork which is on the walls there.

55:01 Speaker 5: But under the Horizon, thank you again, all three of you.

55:04 Speaker 4: Thank you for having us.

55:06 Speaker 5: This has been wonderful. And uh, what track should we

55:08 Speaker 5: play to end the show today?

55:11 Speaker 10: Maybe under the Horizon?

55:12 Speaker 5: Under the Horizon? Ah, yes, the uh your title track?

55:16 Speaker 5: If you will any anything we should know about this son.

55:20 Speaker 10: It has a really sad, dark story to it, but

55:24 Speaker 10: I wrote it uh on someone that I had lost

55:28 Speaker 10: a couple of years back to suicide.

55:30 Speaker 5: Oh, wow. Yeah, okay, so this this is about that? Yes, yeah, yeah, well,

55:36 Speaker 5: you know I always say it's something we we talked

55:38 Speaker 5: about on the on the show a lot is you know,

55:41 Speaker 5: if you can take something negative but create something from it,

55:46 Speaker 5: you know, that's really kind of the best way to

55:48 Speaker 5: deal with things. That's like a great it's such a

55:50 Speaker 5: great form of therapy to you know, to be able

55:52 Speaker 5: to take a traumatic event but then do something creative

55:55 Speaker 5: with it. So so we will we will end with this,

55:59 Speaker 5: but uh, thank you everyone who joined us today on

56:01 Speaker 5: the program. If you miss any part of the show,

56:03 Speaker 5: it'll be up at just a little bit at w

56:05 Speaker 5: m n Hradio dot org at my website Matt Connorton

56:08 Speaker 5: dot com. And we leave you with this. The song

56:11 Speaker 5: is under the horizon and the band is under the horizon,

56:14 Speaker 5: and we'll talk to you all a little bit later. Bie, everybody, Son.

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