Matt Connarton Unleashed: Abel Blood (10/24)

0:00 Speaker 1: Well, we've got a couple of guys in studio with

0:02 Speaker 1: us who have.

0:03 Speaker 2: Been here before.

0:05 Speaker 1: We have two thirds of the band Abel Blood is here.

0:07 Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome, Hey Matt, Hey, how's it going good? Good?

0:10 Speaker 3: Hey?

0:10 Speaker 1: Why don't you uh each tell us who you are,

0:13 Speaker 1: what you do in the band, and then uh, and

0:15 Speaker 1: then we'll mention your your your third partner who was

0:19 Speaker 1: not able to make it this morning.

0:20 Speaker 2: Yeah, spontaneously combusted last night.

0:23 Speaker 1: That's all.

0:23 Speaker 4: Like the drummer for yeah, wow, okay, yeah, we haven't

0:28 Speaker 4: seen him since like eleven PM.

0:30 Speaker 1: Uh huh, all right.

0:31 Speaker 2: I'm Adam.

0:34 Speaker 4: I'm the guitar slash bass player. Uh and I do

0:38 Speaker 4: the lead vocals.

0:39 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and you sir Jim de Luca played drums

0:44 Speaker 1: very good. So what now now? So before he combusted,

0:48 Speaker 1: what did what a mouth?

0:49 Speaker 2: Well, he also played guitar and bass duties.

0:52 Speaker 1: Oh that's right. Yeah, you guys do like a trade off.

0:55 Speaker 4: We we have a we use ab y splitters, yeah,

0:58 Speaker 4: and we run our guitars into bass.

1:00 Speaker 1: That's right. I remember we talked about that last time

1:02 Speaker 1: and I was fast by that. Yeah yeah, yeah, that

1:06 Speaker 1: gives you, yeah, that part of what really I think

1:08 Speaker 1: kind of gives you your sound, your signature.

1:10 Speaker 2: It creates quite a wall.

1:12 Speaker 1: Yeah, very cool. We're going to play one of your

1:16 Speaker 1: songs in a in a couple of minutes. But we

1:19 Speaker 1: should mention too now. Uh, you know because on uh

1:22 Speaker 1: on Tuesday, I met with Eleanor at the Midnight Creatives

1:26 Speaker 1: Collective and uh in Nashua, and and Terminus is there

1:29 Speaker 1: and I know you guys are playing there coming up.

1:32 Speaker 1: And you've also you're now in the building right you're.

1:34 Speaker 4: Yeah, we're our rehearsal space is just a couple of

1:37 Speaker 4: doors down the same hallway.

1:39 Speaker 2: Yeah.

1:39 Speaker 4: Yeah, we love Andrea and and Eleanor. They're they're great,

1:43 Speaker 4: great for the scene.

1:44 Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, they're doing a lot. I'm gonna be I

1:47 Speaker 1: don't know if you know this about me. I'm a

1:49 Speaker 1: hypnotherapist and I'm gonna be actually doing sessions there in

1:51 Speaker 1: the business bar Mondays and Tuesdays now at Creative.

1:56 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, gat so very excited. We're there on Tuesday,

2:00 Speaker 2: so I might come in for a.

2:01 Speaker 1: Oh there you go, Yeah, yeah, there you go. Absolutely,

2:07 Speaker 1: Well why don't we play?

2:08 Speaker 2: So we talked about.

2:09 Speaker 1: Playing reflections so we can give this a spin and

2:13 Speaker 1: then we'll come back and we'll talk and catch up

2:15 Speaker 1: with everything you guys are doing. But this is from

2:18 Speaker 1: Arrival of the Waves. The this is the current album, right,

2:21 Speaker 1: the newest album. And yeah, and this is an instrumental,

2:25 Speaker 1: which is cool because this will really give people an

2:27 Speaker 1: idea of your sound in terms of you know, like

2:29 Speaker 1: you were saying, the low end and everything. So let's

2:32 Speaker 1: give this a spin and then we'll come back and

2:34 Speaker 1: talk with these guys. This is called Reflections and the

2:37 Speaker 1: band is able Blood. Whoops, And it would help if.

2:43 Speaker 2: There we go.

2:43 Speaker 5: Let's try that again.

3:55 Speaker 6: In the.

7:08 Speaker 2: That is so cool.

7:09 Speaker 1: That's got a nice groove to it. That is able Blood.

7:12 Speaker 1: The track is called Reflections and it's from the album

7:15 Speaker 1: Arrival of the Waves. And if you're just joining us

7:18 Speaker 1: on this Saturday morning here on Matt Connorton Unleashed, we

7:20 Speaker 1: have two thirds of able Blood here with us alive

7:23 Speaker 1: in studio. And yeah, you guys were kind of talking

7:26 Speaker 1: off here about how that track came about.

7:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really strange.

7:30 Speaker 4: I mean I think it was in the middle of

7:31 Speaker 4: the winter, right, it was really cold and our old

7:34 Speaker 4: bass player, this was before the days of Malcolm had

7:38 Speaker 4: to run in the house for something, and all of

7:40 Speaker 4: a sudden, I just came up with that opening riff, yeah,

7:44 Speaker 4: and Jimmy just started playing in the drums to it,

7:46 Speaker 4: and literally Ben was gone for five minutes and by

7:49 Speaker 4: the time we get back, we had all the parts

7:51 Speaker 4: like written to it, and then we're just like, I

7:53 Speaker 4: think by the end of that jam, we had what

7:56 Speaker 4: was the most part this whole song, Yeah, for the

7:59 Speaker 4: most part, and like we had decided right then and there,

8:01 Speaker 4: like no lyrics, We're just going to do this as

8:03 Speaker 4: an instrumental, and it was just like it was one

8:06 Speaker 4: of those magical moments as a musician, you know what

8:09 Speaker 4: I like, sometimes people are like, you know this like

8:11 Speaker 4: the the best songs ever written usually come really quickly.

8:15 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and yeah to me, I mean.

8:17 Speaker 4: That's probably my favorite song on that album and it

8:19 Speaker 4: came within minutes.

8:21 Speaker 2: Yeah.

8:22 Speaker 1: Is that your only instrumental?

8:24 Speaker 4: We have one on our first album called Unknown Variant,

8:28 Speaker 4: which I love that one too, But yeah, we've got

8:30 Speaker 4: two instrumentals right now. We're not a post to writing

8:34 Speaker 4: a ton more of them. Yeah, we kind of love

8:36 Speaker 4: it's just like that Jammy feel that we do. So yeah,

8:40 Speaker 4: I think, you know, in the future more will come.

8:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, are you guys working on anything nude? I mean,

8:45 Speaker 1: do you have a new material you're planning to record.

8:48 Speaker 4: We've got some new songs. I think we're planning to

8:50 Speaker 4: take the winter off from gigging and use. We've been

8:53 Speaker 4: just cranking busy all summer shows and uh yeah, I

8:57 Speaker 4: think we're just gonna sit down and focus on getting

9:01 Speaker 4: some new material. We do have one song that we've

9:03 Speaker 4: nearly completed, and once you can ask the guys in

9:07 Speaker 4: the band once, once we get into a groove, I

9:10 Speaker 4: write songs like like quick. So yeah, we won't have

9:15 Speaker 4: any any problem putting some new material together over the winter.

9:20 Speaker 4: And I think we're considering re re recording our first

9:22 Speaker 4: album really yep, So we might end up doing that

9:27 Speaker 4: this winter itself. I think we could. We love the

9:32 Speaker 4: the studio we've done both albums at. I think it

9:37 Speaker 4: was it was the production on it and it being

9:40 Speaker 4: that it was our first album, we were we were like,

9:43 Speaker 4: you know, like, let's just let's just do it and

9:45 Speaker 4: release it, and we could have taken our time a

9:47 Speaker 4: little bit more on on certain things. And I think

9:52 Speaker 4: I've basically rewritten the songs since we've recorded them, just

9:56 Speaker 4: what always happens, because I mean you're really only getting

9:58 Speaker 4: a snapshot in time sure when you do record an album.

10:02 Speaker 4: So the songs have evolved since then and stuff, and

10:04 Speaker 4: I think they sound a lot better now, So.

10:06 Speaker 2: I mean the tempos have changed dramatically.

10:09 Speaker 7: Yeah, but the way we play him now versus when

10:11 Speaker 7: we recorded.

10:12 Speaker 1: That, Okay, Yeah, I would imagine these songs too. I

10:15 Speaker 1: mean they must change live when you play.

10:18 Speaker 4: Them, they must change. I don't play, I don't play.

10:21 Speaker 4: Uh needs to live the same way as we recorded

10:23 Speaker 4: it a year ago. Yeah, yeah, they And I think

10:26 Speaker 4: that's the way they should be, and like songs should be.

10:28 Speaker 1: They're living things, right right, they should be able to Yeah,

10:33 Speaker 1: yeah absolutely. Where So where do you guys record?

10:37 Speaker 8: Like?

10:37 Speaker 1: Where was the Rival of the Waves?

10:39 Speaker 4: We recorded that at loud Sun Studios down over in Jeffrey.

10:43 Speaker 4: Ben Rodgers recorded that for us.

10:44 Speaker 2: He's amazing.

10:45 Speaker 4: Yeah, he's excellent, excellent at recording. We did master it

10:50 Speaker 4: at Blackhearts Sound excellent.

10:52 Speaker 2: Yeah.

10:53 Speaker 4: Eric's got a great reputation and yeah, yeah, he treats

10:56 Speaker 4: everybody so cool.

10:58 Speaker 1: So we we had him on the show a few

11:00 Speaker 1: months ago, and uh, we've been trying to get him

11:03 Speaker 1: on because you know, his name comes up all the

11:06 Speaker 1: time on the show, so it was cool to finally

11:08 Speaker 1: have him on Super Busy.

11:09 Speaker 4: Everybody loves what his recording absolutely, yeah, I mean he

11:13 Speaker 4: knows what he's doing.

11:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, he's he's fascinating to talk to too,

11:17 Speaker 1: but yeah, very very knowledgeable. And then so the the

11:20 Speaker 1: other album that's the other one that's on band camp,

11:23 Speaker 1: was that also recorded in the same place.

11:26 Speaker 2: Okay, yep.

11:27 Speaker 4: I was in a cowpunkish type of band about ten

11:31 Speaker 4: fifteen years ago. Yeah, and I was introduced to Ben

11:36 Speaker 4: through them. We did a little ep, did like four

11:38 Speaker 4: songs back then, and uh loved the experience. So I've

11:43 Speaker 4: never recorded with anybody else. Yeah, oh interesting, Yeah, yeah,

11:46 Speaker 4: I really like him.

11:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh so live is it the configuration that

11:54 Speaker 1: you guys play in, because you know, we were we

11:56 Speaker 1: were talking earlier, you alluded to, well, you have a

11:59 Speaker 1: unique setup.

12:00 Speaker 4: Yes, it is a unique setup, and I won't get

12:01 Speaker 4: two into the weeds with it, but we we I

12:04 Speaker 4: basically I plug my my my guitar into a splitter

12:08 Speaker 4: and I split one into my into my guitar board,

12:11 Speaker 4: and I split the other signal into a bass amp.

12:14 Speaker 4: And it's a little bit of other things going on

12:16 Speaker 4: in between, but you probably Yeah, I've got octave pedal

12:19 Speaker 4: that will take down I think it's two octaves that

12:22 Speaker 4: I bring down the guitar when it goes into the

12:24 Speaker 4: bass amp and so it's just all low end from that.

12:28 Speaker 4: And Malcolm does the same thing. So basically what we

12:31 Speaker 4: we do, we basically have two bass players because we

12:34 Speaker 4: play different things in the songs too. So the bass

12:37 Speaker 4: lines are they're in the same key, but they're intermingling

12:41 Speaker 4: with each other, but they're not We don't play the

12:42 Speaker 4: same bass lines, so it just creates this huge wall

12:47 Speaker 4: of sound. It's it's so fun. And when you're up

12:50 Speaker 4: there and you just you can close your eyes while

12:51 Speaker 4: you're playing on Jimmy does. That's what he's how he

12:54 Speaker 4: plays is with his eyes closed, kind of just wash

12:57 Speaker 4: over you and it's it's yeah, and and I can't

13:02 Speaker 4: you just turn the amp up as loud as it'll

13:03 Speaker 4: go before it blows your ear drums and and just

13:06 Speaker 4: let it do its thing. Yeah, and it just yeah,

13:10 Speaker 4: it feels really really good.

13:11 Speaker 7: We get so many compliments. People come up to us

13:14 Speaker 7: at live shows, like what do you do? How are

13:17 Speaker 7: you guys doing that. Yeah, that sounds amazing.

13:20 Speaker 2: I can imagine.

13:21 Speaker 1: Yeah, does anybody else do it that way?

13:24 Speaker 2: There's a been trading tombstones that does the same. Yeah.

13:30 Speaker 7: There's a pretty well known band, Telekinnectic Getty okay.

13:35 Speaker 4: Who is playing Tuesday night at Jewel. We get to Actually,

13:39 Speaker 4: we're opening for them. They were the inspiration for how

13:42 Speaker 4: we do what we do. Okay, so it's gonna be

13:45 Speaker 4: kind of a full circle moment for us.

13:46 Speaker 2: You open them.

13:48 Speaker 4: Yeah, we get to open for him, so that'll be

13:50 Speaker 4: really fun.

13:51 Speaker 2: There are two piece they're out of Iowa, okay. Yeah.

13:54 Speaker 2: The people all over the country are doing this interesting.

13:58 Speaker 1: Did it take some getting used?

13:59 Speaker 3: Yeah?

14:02 Speaker 2: Yeah.

14:02 Speaker 4: The first show we played, we had lost our bass player.

14:05 Speaker 2: Like just a couple of weeks before that.

14:07 Speaker 4: Oh, so I didn't know what the heck I was doing,

14:10 Speaker 4: and you know, trying to get all the right buttons

14:12 Speaker 4: and getting the bas to click in when I wanted

14:13 Speaker 4: to click in and stuff. It was a learning process. Yeah,

14:16 Speaker 4: I feel like I've got it down pretty good now.

14:18 Speaker 4: It's been a year all over a year of doing it,

14:22 Speaker 4: and uh, but it's fun, like trying to trying to

14:25 Speaker 4: remember which pedal to hit what I ever been sing

14:28 Speaker 4: and you know, and then you got the crowd looking

14:29 Speaker 4: at you and everything. So there's a lot kind of

14:31 Speaker 4: going on. Yeah, I love it.

14:34 Speaker 1: And even if something goes wrong, it's original music, so

14:37 Speaker 1: you know, the audience doesn't have to know or no,

14:40 Speaker 1: or maybe maybe there's even a happy accident.

14:42 Speaker 2: Drummer doesn't even know.

14:43 Speaker 4: Like we've played last night, I was screwing up all

14:46 Speaker 4: over like, oh, that was the best that we've ever played.

14:48 Speaker 8: Yeah.

14:48 Speaker 4: Yeah, I even can fool him.

14:53 Speaker 1: That's fantastic.

14:54 Speaker 2: Uh.

14:54 Speaker 1: So you guys have been busy out of busy summer,

14:56 Speaker 1: you play.

14:57 Speaker 2: We played a lot.

14:58 Speaker 3: Uh.

14:58 Speaker 4: We were down in Maryland. They had a big doom

15:00 Speaker 4: fest down there. It's fifty three bands. We got to

15:02 Speaker 4: open the whole festival.

15:03 Speaker 2: O my god.

15:04 Speaker 4: Yeah that was a blast awesome. Yeah, it's the Maryland

15:08 Speaker 4: doom Fest.

15:09 Speaker 1: I've never even heard of it.

15:10 Speaker 4: Oh, fifty three bands, yeah, from all over the world.

15:13 Speaker 4: It was fantastic. Yeah, tenth year they've done it.

15:16 Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, but where Maryland is Frederick, Frederick.

15:20 Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's like an hour from Baltimore, Okay, yeah,

15:22 Speaker 4: and uh yeah it was bands from Washington State it

15:26 Speaker 4: was bands from Ireland that came. I mean just absolutely

15:29 Speaker 4: amazing experience and it was like a family there, Like

15:32 Speaker 4: as soon as I walked in and they just started

15:33 Speaker 4: talking to all the other bands, like I felt like

15:36 Speaker 4: I was at home. Yeah, you know, because doom isn't

15:39 Speaker 4: there's a doom bands around here, but it's it's not.

15:43 Speaker 4: It doesn't feel like it's as popular in New England

15:45 Speaker 4: as it is in other places, you know. So when

15:47 Speaker 4: I got to go out where all of us got

15:49 Speaker 4: to go out and explore, you know, a different region

15:51 Speaker 4: of the country and see all these people come together

15:54 Speaker 4: from everywhere and we're all like, oh, this is this

15:57 Speaker 4: is our family.

15:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it felt it felt oh cool cool.

16:03 Speaker 1: By the way, So do describe that if you could,

16:06 Speaker 1: for for listeners who don't know what you mean when.

16:08 Speaker 4: Yes, it's I kind of from a thousand foot view

16:11 Speaker 4: would say, it's just it's heavy metal, but it's slowed

16:14 Speaker 4: way down. Yeah, and you know, we get some really

16:18 Speaker 4: heavy restaurant. We're a really psychedelic influence too, like on

16:21 Speaker 4: a big Pink Floyd Yeah fan and sixty psych, so

16:25 Speaker 4: we throw a lot of that in. But yeah, I mean,

16:28 Speaker 4: do them I mean, essentially, that's what it is. It's like,

16:31 Speaker 4: just get the heaviest riffs you can come up with,

16:34 Speaker 4: slow them way down.

16:37 Speaker 2: No, that's a good that's a good descission of it.

16:39 Speaker 7: You think like Sabbath, like Sabbath started at all, you know. Yeah, yeah,

16:43 Speaker 7: so we we kind of take bits of Sabbath and

16:47 Speaker 7: bits of Pink Floyd and kind of mesh them together

16:49 Speaker 7: at times.

16:50 Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot a lot of other bands mixed in that,

16:56 Speaker 4: you know. That's what those are, the two bands. I

16:58 Speaker 4: think that most people would recom right.

17:00 Speaker 1: Right, Well, we should play another track, what I know,

17:05 Speaker 1: we talked about it earlier. You guys had a couple

17:07 Speaker 1: of songs in mind.

17:08 Speaker 4: But you need to live? You want to do that?

17:10 Speaker 4: One needs to live? Would be well, do needs to live?

17:14 Speaker 2: All right?

17:14 Speaker 1: If you are just joining us, we have able Blood

17:17 Speaker 1: with us live in studio on this Saturday morning here

17:20 Speaker 1: and yeah. This is from the album Arrival of the

17:22 Speaker 1: Waves from able Blood. This is called needs to Live.

18:30 Speaker 6: M Little by Sealing Tarts while the Iowa Sall water

19:14 Speaker 6: Way can take one of the step A five of

19:18 Speaker 6: your make up. Jose Fellow hollow this child, don't you

19:24 Speaker 6: bob little water up two pass four reprice, Oh you

19:31 Speaker 6: got one shower? Do you read about?

20:18 Speaker 3: You?

20:18 Speaker 6: Ever that out? Don't you jaws share? Uh? Do you

20:24 Speaker 6: ever a dollar? You saw? You girl? You make a show?

20:28 Speaker 3: Why?

21:51 Speaker 1: I didn't even want to talk over the end of it.

21:53 Speaker 1: It sounds so cool that his needs to live. That's

21:57 Speaker 1: the song. The band is able Blood and we have

22:00 Speaker 1: we have Adam and Jimmy here with us live in

22:02 Speaker 1: studio on this Saturday morning here on the program. And uh, yeah,

22:07 Speaker 1: that's that's really really good. By the way, So who

22:11 Speaker 1: writ Adam? Do you write the lyrics?

22:13 Speaker 2: I do? What?

22:13 Speaker 1: What's what's kind of your Is there a theme to

22:16 Speaker 1: your songs?

22:17 Speaker 4: There a particular I have these stories going on in

22:20 Speaker 4: my head, and I think during this one, like I

22:23 Speaker 4: don't I haven't written like actual stories, right, And it's

22:27 Speaker 4: just kind of things that go on my head. And

22:29 Speaker 4: I guess this whole album I was kind of and

22:33 Speaker 4: I think the first album too, I just kind of

22:35 Speaker 4: imagine like a post apocalyptic world and the coast of

22:41 Speaker 4: the United States is now in Iowa, and I just

22:44 Speaker 4: instead of creating a story, I have these snapshots in time,

22:50 Speaker 4: and so I'm just kind of like imagining myself in

22:53 Speaker 4: that place and what I'm seeing at that particular moment

22:57 Speaker 4: or what I'm going through at that particular moment in

23:00 Speaker 4: the story. Okay, and so there's not really it's it's

23:05 Speaker 4: an overall story, not let nothing necessarily like going on

23:10 Speaker 4: like of value in the lyrics at the moment. It's

23:13 Speaker 4: just like me walking down a street where people are

23:16 Speaker 4: like it's in this song. I'm just seeing like like

23:19 Speaker 4: a weird market that I'm at where people are like

23:22 Speaker 4: just doing their thing, like trying to make a scrape

23:25 Speaker 4: by a living Yeah, is basically what's happening. Okay, So yeah,

23:29 Speaker 4: they're kind of is kind of a weird approach to

23:31 Speaker 4: lyric writing. But I'm just kind of just whatever's there,

23:35 Speaker 4: you know what i mean. It's just like a snapshot

23:37 Speaker 4: in time is basically the best way to describe it.

23:40 Speaker 1: You ever, you ever write anything like based on a

23:43 Speaker 1: dream that you had, Like you wake up and you go, oh,

23:46 Speaker 1: I got to write something.

23:47 Speaker 4: You know, I've never actually had that happen. I've had

23:51 Speaker 4: some weird dreams that I probably should write about, but yeah,

23:55 Speaker 4: most of it's just a just a made up world

23:58 Speaker 4: that I'm just kind of like imagining.

24:00 Speaker 2: Happening or a scenario that could happen.

24:02 Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, yeah, by the way, so I know, I

24:06 Speaker 1: know you can't be specific, but you guys do have

24:09 Speaker 1: some good news coming up that you'll be announcing soon.

24:11 Speaker 4: We're yeah, we're in the process of working out a

24:14 Speaker 4: distribution deal for for arrival of the Waves. Okay, Yeah,

24:18 Speaker 4: so there'll be some worldwide distribution happening.

24:21 Speaker 2: We're pretty excited about.

24:22 Speaker 4: But we're a few weeks away from being able to

24:25 Speaker 4: finalize that. But yeah, I mean it's essentially a done deal. Yeah,

24:30 Speaker 4: but we just have to kind of work through the

24:33 Speaker 4: little stuff right there. But yeah, we're super excited about it,

24:37 Speaker 4: super excited hopefully, you know, like I really feel like

24:40 Speaker 4: this album needs to see the light of day, and

24:44 Speaker 4: it hasn't quite seen it up, you know what I mean.

24:46 Speaker 4: It hasn't been pushed out there is quite as much

24:48 Speaker 4: as I would have liked it to be. So to

24:50 Speaker 4: have a little bit of help is going to be amazing. Yeah,

24:54 Speaker 4: and hopefully it does well. I mean, I've you know,

24:58 Speaker 4: I put a lot of heart and soul. I mean,

24:59 Speaker 4: Jimmy and Malcolm have put everything they've had into it,

25:02 Speaker 4: and I think it shines through in the recording. So yeah, yeah,

25:06 Speaker 4: to have some people, extra set of ears and hands

25:09 Speaker 4: and everybody to help us, you know, get it out

25:12 Speaker 4: there a little bit more, it's gonna be incredible.

25:13 Speaker 1: Absolutely, congratulations on that.

25:16 Speaker 2: Thank you do you guys?

25:19 Speaker 1: I mean I assume, like what what do you attribute

25:23 Speaker 1: to being able to do that and to make that

25:26 Speaker 1: kind of a connection and get that kind of help.

25:27 Speaker 1: Is it because you've been so active with shows, just

25:30 Speaker 1: hitting the road a lot and playing.

25:32 Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of that, a lot of.

25:35 Speaker 4: A lot of yeah, you know, networking with people you know,

25:40 Speaker 4: and and and I'm telling you there's a ton of

25:43 Speaker 4: bands out there and a ton of them that are

25:44 Speaker 4: willing to and and us as well, Like we'll we'll

25:48 Speaker 4: help you get on shows. We'll give you advice of

25:50 Speaker 4: what they're doing, what's what they're doing that's helping them succeed,

25:54 Speaker 4: you know. And we do the same thing for other

25:57 Speaker 4: you know, other bands too. And it's like, you know,

25:59 Speaker 4: they'll be like, you know, who's who you know? Bandlbass

26:02 Speaker 4: me like who did you contact for this show or

26:04 Speaker 4: this place or that blah blah blah, And I'll be like,

26:06 Speaker 4: here's everything. I got, you know, like I'm always willing

26:09 Speaker 4: to help and I want to see everybody in the

26:11 Speaker 4: scene succeed. And I feel like a lot of the

26:14 Speaker 4: bands that I've come across, vast majority of them are

26:17 Speaker 4: the same way, Like they're like, yeah, here this is

26:20 Speaker 4: you know, call this person or do it, you know,

26:23 Speaker 4: and I think that's almost one hundred percent. The best

26:28 Speaker 4: way to start to get a following and stuff is networking.

26:34 Speaker 2: It is. It is so helpful.

26:36 Speaker 4: And you know, when you when you're first starting out

26:39 Speaker 4: and you don't know anybody and you don't even know

26:41 Speaker 4: where to start, you know, it seems like you're never

26:44 Speaker 4: going to crack into up.

26:45 Speaker 2: Yeah, really tough.

26:47 Speaker 4: But once we got a recording and we just started

26:50 Speaker 4: kind of shopping it around and then things just kind

26:52 Speaker 4: of start to snowball, you know. And and this year

26:55 Speaker 4: I think like me and Jimmy will put shows together

26:58 Speaker 4: and invite bands to come and play. But this year

27:01 Speaker 4: we've put very few together, and we've gotten invited to

27:05 Speaker 4: so many and we're just really grateful that that's been happening.

27:11 Speaker 2: It's really nice.

27:12 Speaker 7: I mean, other bands even recommend us, you know, like

27:16 Speaker 7: they'll be looking for another band for a show and

27:18 Speaker 7: other people say, hey, askable blood and you know, so

27:21 Speaker 7: we're even getting that kind of buzz, which is nice.

27:25 Speaker 9: Yeah, you've sent some people our way.

27:27 Speaker 2: Yes, you said the people are the.

27:29 Speaker 9: Best recommendations I get are always from other musicians.

27:32 Speaker 4: Yeah, like, yeah, if a band is you know, I

27:37 Speaker 4: like them, I'm gonna recommend them, and you know, and

27:39 Speaker 4: I'm proud to do it, you know, and I want

27:42 Speaker 4: to hear them on your show.

27:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. I feel like, uh, it's it

27:48 Speaker 1: with music, it's it's very sort of community oriented in

27:54 Speaker 1: that way. People want to help each other and build

27:56 Speaker 1: those relationships. I kind of in my mind, I contrast

27:59 Speaker 1: it with listen to some podcasts where there's a lot

28:02 Speaker 1: of talk about stand up comedy and how stand up

28:05 Speaker 1: comedy works and how people succeed in that, and I

28:08 Speaker 1: get the impression that that's very different from music, because

28:11 Speaker 1: in stand up comedy it sounds like it's very very

28:14 Speaker 1: cutthroat and everyone's always trying to keep everybody else down

28:19 Speaker 1: so they can rise up, whereas in music it's not

28:22 Speaker 1: really like that.

28:23 Speaker 7: It kind of was back in the nineties, it kind

28:26 Speaker 7: of was like that. I mean, maybe not cutthroat, but

28:30 Speaker 7: you always felt like there was a competition going on. Yeah,

28:33 Speaker 7: and you had to kind of claw your way up. Now,

28:38 Speaker 7: I mean, bands like Adam said, they're so eager to

28:41 Speaker 7: work together and lift each other up. And yeah, it

28:44 Speaker 7: only makes sense because I don't listen to one band

28:48 Speaker 7: right then, you know, and those other people don't listen

28:52 Speaker 7: to just one band, So why can't we all work

28:54 Speaker 7: together to do it right? Because like when you go

28:58 Speaker 7: to a show and you say, this four band is

29:00 Speaker 7: playing and they all have a little bit different of

29:01 Speaker 7: a sound, you're allowed to like them all.

29:04 Speaker 4: So it makes the entire evening enjoyable. When everybody's doing

29:07 Speaker 4: you know, it's it's yeah.

29:09 Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I'm friends with a band out of

29:13 Speaker 7: Oklahoma that's just awesome. Can I plug them? Trillion ton

29:20 Speaker 7: beryllium Ships, absolutely amazing band. They just they just dropped

29:24 Speaker 7: a brand new single called Bugs.

29:27 Speaker 1: Let me see if I can say the name after

29:29 Speaker 1: only hearing that's a trillion ton beryllium ships.

29:34 Speaker 7: Yes, got absolutely amazing ships ships s h IV.

29:41 Speaker 2: I'm sorry they're out of Nebraska. I'm sorry.

29:44 Speaker 4: I didn't want to I get confused in that whole area,

29:47 Speaker 4: but it is like they're out of Lincoln, Nebraska, Okay,

29:50 Speaker 4: and I've never even met them. We just we've developed

29:53 Speaker 4: a relationship over social media and everything, and we just

29:57 Speaker 4: plug each other all the time.

29:59 Speaker 2: We're very supportive all the time.

30:00 Speaker 7: And yeah, I'm I'm in hope that someday we'll play

30:03 Speaker 7: a show with them somehow, some way. Yeah, I'd love

30:06 Speaker 7: to see them go to Maryland Doomfest and and meet

30:09 Speaker 7: up there, you know. Yeah, it just goes to show

30:11 Speaker 7: that the kind of like Adam said, the networking that

30:14 Speaker 7: happens now, I absolutely love it.

30:16 Speaker 2: Yeah.

30:16 Speaker 1: I think the Internet obviously makes sure it's so much huge,

30:20 Speaker 1: you know, because when we grew up there, you know,

30:21 Speaker 1: we didn't have that, and so that's I think it's changed,

30:27 Speaker 1: you know, it makes everything more community oriented because their

30:29 Speaker 1: community really can be global. I also think too, and

30:33 Speaker 1: it's funny, this particular thought had never occurred to me

30:36 Speaker 1: until just now, but I think part of why too,

30:38 Speaker 1: maybe things don't seem quite a Scott throat. I don't

30:40 Speaker 1: know how you guys feel about this, but I've I

30:43 Speaker 1: always hated and I say it past tense because you

30:47 Speaker 1: don't see many of them anymore, Thank God. Battle of

30:50 Speaker 1: the band's events.

30:53 Speaker 2: I'm not a fan.

30:54 Speaker 1: I always hated those. Yeah, and I somebody I think

30:59 Speaker 1: around here or close to your did do one recently.

31:02 Speaker 1: There was one at the Hillsboro County was there, Yeah,

31:06 Speaker 1: maybe that's the one I'm thinking of because I remember.

31:08 Speaker 2: Here there were really good bands that were playing on it.

31:10 Speaker 1: Because I remember hearing about it and thinking, oh God,

31:13 Speaker 1: somebody's actually in twenty twenty four, somebody's actually doing a

31:15 Speaker 1: Battle of the Bands. Yeah, and I always hated those.

31:18 Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, look again, not saying about

31:21 Speaker 1: any specific one that I know about, or you know,

31:25 Speaker 1: not not casting aspersions, but they're usually rigged.

31:30 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, usually a popularity content.

31:33 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and and I just hate that. Like the

31:35 Speaker 1: whole concept is so it's.

31:37 Speaker 2: Mean, it's the term Battle of the bands.

31:40 Speaker 4: All the mevers that took part of the Battle of

31:43 Speaker 4: the Bands got together and put that on as a

31:47 Speaker 4: as a showcase. Yeah, I think it would go so

31:49 Speaker 4: much better.

31:50 Speaker 8: Yeah.

31:50 Speaker 4: It wouldn't be competing with each other. They be propping

31:52 Speaker 4: each other up.

31:53 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I just yeah, the whole thing. And then

31:56 Speaker 1: and then you know, and then these bands they have

31:58 Speaker 1: to you know, get people to oh you show up

32:00 Speaker 1: and you know, vote for us, and so the whole

32:03 Speaker 1: thing is awful. Yeah, I'm glad that it's a dying thing.

32:08 Speaker 1: It's just, uh, I remember, you know, I don't play anymore,

32:11 Speaker 1: but when I used to play in bands, and i'd

32:13 Speaker 1: play in a band that would get invited to do

32:14 Speaker 1: one of these, it's like, oh, I don't even want

32:17 Speaker 1: to bring this to the other guys. It's so great,

32:19 Speaker 1: it's gross. There was one I did get involved in.

32:24 Speaker 1: This must have been not not twenty years well maybe

32:27 Speaker 1: jeesus might have been twenty years ago. You guys remember

32:30 Speaker 1: the bomb shelter yep, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I was, Yes,

32:37 Speaker 1: I was at those shows. There was a there was

32:41 Speaker 1: a bad I I do remember the guy's name. I'm

32:43 Speaker 1: not going to say it on the air, but there

32:45 Speaker 1: was a guy who was a big promoter in the area.

32:50 Speaker 1: You might even know who I'm thinking about. We did

32:52 Speaker 1: a lot of shows there who was putting on a

32:55 Speaker 1: Battle of the bands, and he was managing one of

32:59 Speaker 1: the bands that was in the Battle of the bands,

33:01 Speaker 1: and it became like an open like it it ended

33:04 Speaker 1: up spilling out into the open. Everybody knew it was rigged,

33:12 Speaker 1: and but this one though, this particular one, because it's

33:16 Speaker 1: spilled out in the into the open and everybody knew

33:19 Speaker 1: it changed the promoter changed it to just a regular show.

33:22 Speaker 1: It was no longer a battle of the bands because

33:25 Speaker 1: he looked and he didn't look great anyway, this particular

33:29 Speaker 1: person I'm thinking of, you know what I mean in

33:31 Speaker 1: terms of reputation, But this whole thing made him look

33:34 Speaker 1: even worse, and then he ended up changing it.

33:36 Speaker 2: And he's the thing.

33:37 Speaker 7: There's so many cool bands around here with great people, right,

33:42 Speaker 7: they should never, with all the hard work they put

33:45 Speaker 7: into their craft, should never feel defeated.

33:48 Speaker 2: Right, or they have to compete for it or exactly.

33:51 Speaker 7: Yea walking away wishing they had won, Like I don't.

33:55 Speaker 7: I think everybody wins. If we're doing what we're doing

33:58 Speaker 7: and we love what we do, we already won.

34:01 Speaker 4: I hate award shows and stuff like that, like competition there.

34:04 Speaker 4: It's just like I don't even I don't want your

34:07 Speaker 4: vote if it's you know, like I just want you

34:09 Speaker 4: to listen to the album, come to a showy. You know,

34:12 Speaker 4: I could care less if I get an award for it.

34:15 Speaker 4: I do it for us, you know, and I do

34:18 Speaker 4: it for the people. That like to listen to it,

34:20 Speaker 4: you know, right, yeah, it just it almost feels like

34:23 Speaker 4: Battle the Band type stuff to.

34:25 Speaker 2: Me, you know what I mean?

34:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly what I mean.

34:28 Speaker 4: You know, get the album. I don't even care if

34:30 Speaker 4: you bootleg it and get it for free. Just listen

34:32 Speaker 4: to it, right yeah, yeah, and come hang out of

34:35 Speaker 4: the show.

34:35 Speaker 3: Show.

34:36 Speaker 4: Those are a lot of fun. We love to hang

34:38 Speaker 4: out with people, you know. I would come up and

34:41 Speaker 4: they're like, hey, I was listening to you know, Enemies today,

34:44 Speaker 4: and and I'll be like, oh cool, I didn't know

34:46 Speaker 4: anybody who was listening to that, you know, And so

34:48 Speaker 4: it's cool when somebody does say stuff like that, and

34:51 Speaker 4: I love I love hanging out with people that you know,

34:53 Speaker 4: that are into it, and then we can just talk

34:55 Speaker 4: music and you know, it's fun.

34:57 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

34:59 Speaker 2: We're very approachable people.

35:00 Speaker 4: Yes, Jimmy especially especially probably one of the most apportable

35:03 Speaker 4: people I've ever met.

35:04 Speaker 1: Oh, very good, very good. Well we should play another Uh,

35:08 Speaker 1: let's play another track. What do you guys want to

35:10 Speaker 1: What do you guys?

35:11 Speaker 4: I kind of want to hear trippy Edi. Okay, there's

35:16 Speaker 4: it's it's a semi instrumental, it's got some some samples

35:19 Speaker 4: in it. I wrote the song at my house, recorded

35:24 Speaker 4: on my phone, and it ended up being the recording

35:27 Speaker 4: that ended up on the album. Oh yeah, we didn't

35:30 Speaker 4: professionally record this song.

35:32 Speaker 1: Okay, well that makes me very curious then, because I

35:34 Speaker 1: don't think we played this one the last time now.

35:37 Speaker 4: So it's just got a trippy vibe obviously, the name

35:39 Speaker 4: Trippy Eddi. Yeah, yeah, and it's just got some samples.

35:42 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let's give this a spin. This is

35:45 Speaker 1: Trippy Eddie by Abel Blood.

36:01 Speaker 8: Congratulations to us, you found a whole. If Franks no literature,

36:15 Speaker 8: literature to the types of purposes your.

36:41 Speaker 3: You have no future kids, You have no to that side.

37:20 Speaker 3: But if you preach, can have Moche the father the

37:27 Speaker 3: wish as to tat for back us because death it's

38:02 Speaker 3: the only way out, his way out.

38:06 Speaker 2: That is.

38:09 Speaker 1: That is Trippy Eddie. The band is able Blood.

38:12 Speaker 2: That is cool.

38:13 Speaker 1: What what is that sample from?

38:15 Speaker 4: Uh, it's a reallyota movie from back in the nineties,

38:19 Speaker 4: No Escape.

38:20 Speaker 2: Oh I think it was No Escape as the movie.

38:23 Speaker 4: I'm not a big I don't I'm not anti movie. Yeah,

38:26 Speaker 4: I just don't end up watching a lot of movies. Yeah,

38:29 Speaker 4: Malcolm's the guy that well is the movie guy. Yeah,

38:33 Speaker 4: he knows every word to every movie ever written or

38:36 Speaker 4: every made. I know nothing, but I think that's from

38:39 Speaker 4: No Escape.

38:39 Speaker 1: Okay was that Ray Liota's voice.

38:42 Speaker 2: I don't know it's been altered.

38:44 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, yeah, No Escape. I don't remember that one.

38:48 Speaker 2: He was a great actor, though, he was. He was.

38:50 Speaker 2: I agree Good Fellas, Oh yeah, yeah, I did see

38:53 Speaker 2: that movie. Yes, Ny Times, if.

38:57 Speaker 1: You are destroying us, we have able Blood to the

38:59 Speaker 1: guys from Able Blood here with us, live in studio.

39:01 Speaker 1: Adam and Jimmy are here and now. So what's what's

39:06 Speaker 1: next for you? Guys? You have I know you're going

39:09 Speaker 1: to be slowing down in the winter, but you yeah,

39:11 Speaker 1: is October is still busy?

39:12 Speaker 4: We're going to be a terminus the nineteen. Yes, that

39:16 Speaker 4: one show. We're really excited. I think the six bands dead,

39:18 Speaker 4: Harrison's playing, the Megans are playing. I haven't memorized everybody

39:23 Speaker 4: that's going to be there. It's going to be a

39:24 Speaker 4: huge show.

39:25 Speaker 2: Though.

39:25 Speaker 1: Is horror on that show?

39:27 Speaker 2: I think they, I think, I think, I think so.

39:30 Speaker 1: I think Horror and the Gray Curtain, Yes, okay, horror.

39:33 Speaker 9: Horror is on there, questioning Beast is on there the

39:36 Speaker 9: Great Curtain?

39:37 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, because we've got Yeah, because actually, so today's

39:41 Speaker 1: show is really about that show. Okay, because we've got

39:44 Speaker 1: because Horror is our our number two guest and then

39:47 Speaker 1: we have the Great Curtain in our three.

39:49 Speaker 8: So yeah, so.

39:51 Speaker 9: Today is all about promoting Terminus Underground.

39:54 Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, so.

39:56 Speaker 4: Yeah, we will be there. That one's going to be amazing.

39:58 Speaker 4: But this Tuesday, we're gonna playing with Telekinetic Yetty over

40:01 Speaker 4: at Jewel and it's bat Bonginatorator.

40:09 Speaker 1: Gotcha, gotcha?

40:13 Speaker 2: Yeah, I figured there's Stoner death Metal.

40:15 Speaker 1: Really okay, so.

40:18 Speaker 4: We are super excited to play that show because Telekinetic

40:21 Speaker 4: Yety is basically the inspiration for our setup where we

40:25 Speaker 4: don't have a bass player and and we split our

40:27 Speaker 4: signals and everything. So it's going to be like a

40:30 Speaker 4: full circle show for us. We're going to be able to,

40:33 Speaker 4: you know, be like we're not worthy guys, but yeah,

40:35 Speaker 4: we totally rip you off.

40:37 Speaker 7: I mean, Malcolm and I talked to them because they

40:40 Speaker 7: played a Jewel earlier in the year. They opened for

40:43 Speaker 7: weed Eater, which was an absolutely amazing show. But we

40:46 Speaker 7: got to talk to the guys from Telekinnectic Yetty and

40:48 Speaker 7: we're like, we really wanted to play this show, but

40:50 Speaker 7: we found out late and they're like, well, hopefully we'll

40:52 Speaker 7: do something in the future, and well the future is now,

40:55 Speaker 7: because Tuesday Night will be doing it.

40:57 Speaker 2: So to be exciting, very cool, very good.

41:00 Speaker 4: We've got a show with Vigil and Benthic Realm at

41:04 Speaker 4: Kodo that's coming in November. I think it's the ninth

41:06 Speaker 4: of November.

41:08 Speaker 2: That one.

41:08 Speaker 4: We're really looking forward to. Vigils, like, we love those guys.

41:12 Speaker 4: Are guys.

41:13 Speaker 9: You'll be seeing them here soon. Yeah, not entirely yet,

41:18 Speaker 9: but I am in touch and we do have some

41:20 Speaker 9: dates going back and forth.

41:21 Speaker 2: I recommend getting on the show.

41:23 Speaker 4: Yeah, those guys are awesome, absolutely awesome guys, Awesome musicians.

41:28 Speaker 2: I can't say enough, but total awesomeness.

41:30 Speaker 1: Randon Brandon Finnie the drummer. He's been on the show before,

41:33 Speaker 1: but it was but it was before he played in Vigil.

41:36 Speaker 1: Actually it's quite a few years ago now, Yeah, that

41:38 Speaker 1: he was on the show. He probably doesn't even remember.

41:40 Speaker 2: But I bet he does.

41:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, he might, he might, he might.

41:44 Speaker 4: Yeah. And then I think at the end of November

41:48 Speaker 4: we've got King Bastard coming up from Long Island. We're

41:50 Speaker 4: gonna be playing Boston with them, with Benthic Realm again too,

41:53 Speaker 4: and Scuzzy Eddi who amazing. All these bands are amazing. Yeah,

41:57 Speaker 4: that show is going to be just.

41:59 Speaker 7: That's the out of the day right after Thanksgiving, so

42:02 Speaker 7: it's like everybody should be off and everything, and it's yeah,

42:05 Speaker 7: really big.

42:06 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be killer.

42:08 Speaker 3: Yeah.

42:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, Scuzzy YETI I'm familiar with. I don't think we've

42:10 Speaker 1: had them on, but I'm familiar.

42:12 Speaker 2: They're from New Hampshire. Yeah, they're out of Troy. Okay, yeah, okay, okay, Yeah,

42:16 Speaker 2: really really good album. The last album is really good.

42:20 Speaker 1: And then in the winter, you're probably going back.

42:22 Speaker 4: And I think we're gonna write songs. Oh yeah, and

42:24 Speaker 4: then yeah, we're probably gonna do the re recording. We're

42:27 Speaker 4: considering that we're we're, you know, seventy percent decided that

42:31 Speaker 4: we're probably gonna record re record keeping pace with the Elephants. Okay,

42:35 Speaker 4: give it a fresher feel, yeah, and then write a

42:39 Speaker 4: bunch of songs, yeah, and then just see where they

42:41 Speaker 4: all go.

42:42 Speaker 1: You guys must have some stuff you play live that

42:44 Speaker 1: you haven't recorded yet. I would assume, right, you have

42:46 Speaker 1: some some newer stuff that.

42:47 Speaker 4: We've really been pushing Arrival of the waves the last Yeah, yeah, uh.

42:54 Speaker 4: We do some riffs that we don't have recorded anywhere.

42:58 Speaker 4: We kind of open the set with a just some

43:01 Speaker 4: random riff that we came up with one day and

43:03 Speaker 4: it just stuck with the set. But we do have

43:07 Speaker 4: songs in the works, and the one that we've nearly

43:10 Speaker 4: completed I cannot wait to get recorded. Really, it's gonna

43:13 Speaker 4: be some of our heaviest stuff that we've done. And

43:16 Speaker 4: actually the song probably has some of the heaviest stuff

43:19 Speaker 4: we've done and some of the mellowist stuff we've done

43:21 Speaker 4: in the same song.

43:22 Speaker 2: Oh really Yeah, it's pretty good.

43:24 Speaker 1: Oh, very cool, very cool. Well we are the time

43:27 Speaker 1: goes quickly. We are approaching the top of the hour.

43:30 Speaker 1: So where should people know where to go online? Keep

43:33 Speaker 1: up with everything you guys are doing.

43:35 Speaker 4: We're really active on Facebook A B. E. L. Blood.

43:40 Speaker 4: We we do post most of our stuff there a

43:44 Speaker 4: little bit on Instagram.

43:45 Speaker 2: I haven't been the best Instagram guy.

43:50 Speaker 4: I should get better at it because a lot of

43:52 Speaker 4: people go there, so it would be really helpful but

43:55 Speaker 4: and then we've got a Sonic Bids EBK that give

44:00 Speaker 4: me maintains very well, and it has all the shows

44:03 Speaker 4: that we have coming up, all the shows that.

44:05 Speaker 7: We've played in the past, excellent links to the socials, videos,

44:10 Speaker 7: quote pictures, bio. I mean, it's really a complete package.

44:14 Speaker 7: And that's on Sonic Bids.

44:16 Speaker 2: Able Blood okay outstanding.

44:18 Speaker 1: By the way, so you spelled when you spelled the

44:21 Speaker 1: able ab e l. It just made me curious. Anyone

44:23 Speaker 1: ever misspell.

44:24 Speaker 4: It like always always as abl e. Yeah, that's verify

44:29 Speaker 4: or people can't find us when they search because they

44:31 Speaker 4: look a yell. So I always spell it out to

44:34 Speaker 4: people when they ask.

44:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's that's smart. That's smart. Well, guys, thank

44:38 Speaker 1: you both so much.

44:39 Speaker 2: Thanks for having us. It's great.

44:40 Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely I appreciate you being here. Don't forget these

44:43 Speaker 1: guys are going to be October nineteenth at Terminus and uh,

44:47 Speaker 1: I think we should close because this is my personal favorite.

44:50 Speaker 1: I think we should close with mental note.

44:53 Speaker 2: Thanks Matt, absolutely, thank you