Matt Connarton Unleashed: Abel Blood (10/24)

0:00 Speaker 1: Well, we've got a couple of guys in studio with 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, what you do in the band, and then uh, and then we'll mention your your your third partner who was 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 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 the lead vocals.

0:39 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and you sir Jim de Luca played drums very good. So what now now? So before he combusted, 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, and we run our guitars into bass.

1:00 Speaker 1: That's right. I remember we talked about that last time and I was fast by that. Yeah yeah, yeah, that gives you, yeah, that part of what really I think 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 songs in a in a couple of minutes. But we should mention too now. Uh, you know because on uh on Tuesday, I met with Eleanor at the Midnight Creatives Collective and uh in Nashua, and and Terminus is there and I know you guys are playing there coming up. 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 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, great for the scene.

1:44 Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, they're doing a lot. I'm gonna be I don't know if you know this about me. I'm a hypnotherapist and I'm gonna be actually doing sessions there in the business bar Mondays and Tuesdays now at Creative.

1:56 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, gat so very excited. We're there on Tuesday, so I might come in for a.

2:01 Speaker 1: Oh there you go, Yeah, yeah, there you go. Absolutely, 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 then we'll come back and we'll talk and catch up with everything you guys are doing. But this is from Arrival of the Waves. The this is the current album, right, the newest album. And yeah, and this is an instrumental, which is cool because this will really give people an idea of your sound in terms of you know, like you were saying, the low end and everything. So let's give this a spin and then we'll come back and talk with these guys. This is called Reflections and the band is able Blood.

2:39 Speaker 1: 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. The track is called Reflections and it's from the album Arrival of the Waves. And if you're just joining us on this Saturday morning here on Matt Connorton Unleashed, we have two thirds of able Blood here with us alive in studio. And yeah, you guys were kind of talking 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 the winter, right, it was really cold and our old bass player, this was before the days of Malcolm had to run in the house for something, and all of a sudden, I just came up with that opening riff, yeah, and Jimmy just started playing in the drums to it, and literally Ben was gone for five minutes and by the time we get back, we had all the parts like written to it, and then we're just like, I think by the end of that jam, we had what was the most part this whole song, Yeah, for the most part, and like we had decided right then and there, like no lyrics, We're just going to do this as an instrumental, and it was just like it was one of those magical moments as a musician, you know what I like, sometimes people are like, you know this like 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 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, which I love that one too, But yeah, we've got two instrumentals right now. We're not a post to writing a ton more of them. Yeah, we kind of love it's just like that Jammy feel that we do. So yeah, I think, you know, in the future more will come.

8:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, are you guys working on anything nude? I mean, 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 take the winter off from gigging and use. We've been just cranking busy all summer shows and uh yeah, I think we're just gonna sit down and focus on getting some new material. We do have one song that we've nearly completed, and once you can ask the guys in the band once, once we get into a groove, I write songs like like quick. So yeah, we won't have any any problem putting some new material together over the winter. And I think we're considering re re recording our first album really yep, So we might end up doing that this winter itself.

9:29 Speaker 4: I think we could. We love the the studio we've done both albums at. I think it was it was the production on it and it being that it was our first album, we were we were like, you know, like, let's just let's just do it and release it, and we could have taken our time a little bit more on on certain things. And I think I've basically rewritten the songs since we've recorded them, just what always happens, because I mean you're really only getting 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 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 we recorded.

10:12 Speaker 1: That, Okay, Yeah, I would imagine these songs too. I mean they must change live when you play.

10:18 Speaker 4: Them, they must change. I don't play, I don't play. Uh needs to live the same way as we recorded it a year ago. Yeah, yeah, they And I think 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, 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. 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 at Blackhearts Sound excellent.

10:52 Speaker 2: Yeah.

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

10:58 Speaker 1: So we we had him on the show a few months ago, and uh, we've been trying to get him on because you know, his name comes up all the time on the show, so it was cool to finally have him on Super Busy.

11:09 Speaker 4: Everybody loves what his recording absolutely, yeah, I mean he knows what he's doing.

11:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, he's he's fascinating to talk to too, but yeah, very very knowledgeable. And then so the the other album that's the other one that's on band camp, 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 fifteen years ago. Yeah, and I was introduced to Ben through them. We did a little ep, did like four songs back then, and uh loved the experience. So I've never recorded with anybody else. Yeah, oh interesting, Yeah, yeah, I really like him.

11:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh so live is it the configuration that you guys play in, because you know, we were we were talking earlier, you alluded to, well, you have a unique setup.

12:00 Speaker 4: Yes, it is a unique setup, and I won't get two into the weeds with it, but we we I basically I plug my my my guitar into a splitter and I split one into my into my guitar board, and I split the other signal into a bass amp. And it's a little bit of other things going on in between, but you probably Yeah, I've got octave pedal that will take down I think it's two octaves that I bring down the guitar when it goes into the bass amp and so it's just all low end from that. And Malcolm does the same thing.

12:30 Speaker 4: So basically what we we do, we basically have two bass players because we play different things in the songs too. So the bass lines are they're in the same key, but they're intermingling with each other, but they're not We don't play the same bass lines, so it just creates this huge wall of sound. It's it's so fun. And when you're up there and you just you can close your eyes while you're playing on Jimmy does. That's what he's how he plays is with his eyes closed, kind of just wash over you and it's it's yeah, and and I can't you just turn the amp up as loud as it'll go before it blows your ear drums and and just let it do its thing.

13:08 Speaker 4: Yeah, and it just yeah, it feels really really good.

13:11 Speaker 7: We get so many compliments. People come up to us at live shows, like what do you do? How are 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, we're opening for them. They were the inspiration for how we do what we do. Okay, so it's gonna be 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 really fun.

13:51 Speaker 2: There are two piece they're out of Iowa, okay. Yeah. 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, and you know, trying to get all the right buttons and getting the bas to click in when I wanted to click in and stuff. It was a learning process. Yeah, I feel like I've got it down pretty good now. It's been a year all over a year of doing it, and uh, but it's fun, like trying to trying to remember which pedal to hit what I ever been sing and you know, and then you got the crowd looking at you and everything. So there's a lot kind of going on. Yeah, I love it.

14:34 Speaker 1: And even if something goes wrong, it's original music, so you know, the audience doesn't have to know or no, 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 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, 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 fest down there. It's fifty three bands. We got to 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 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. 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, and uh yeah it was bands from Washington State it was bands from Ireland that came. I mean just absolutely amazing experience and it was like a family there, Like as soon as I walked in and they just started talking to all the other bands, like I felt like I was at home. Yeah, you know, because doom isn't there's a doom bands around here, but it's it's not. It doesn't feel like it's as popular in New England as it is in other places, you know.

15:46 Speaker 4: So when I got to go out where all of us got to go out and explore, you know, a different region of the country and see all these people come together from everywhere and we're all like, oh, this is this 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, 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 would say, it's just it's heavy metal, but it's slowed way down. Yeah, and you know, we get some really heavy restaurant. We're a really psychedelic influence too, like on a big Pink Floyd Yeah fan and sixty psych, so we throw a lot of that in. But yeah, I mean, do them I mean, essentially, that's what it is. It's like, just get the heaviest riffs you can come up with, 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, so we we kind of take bits of Sabbath and bits of Pink Floyd and kind of mesh them together 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 think that most people would recom right.

17:00 Speaker 1: Right, Well, we should play another track, what I know, we talked about it earlier. You guys had a couple of songs in mind.

17:08 Speaker 4: But you need to live? You want to do that? 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 with us live in studio on this Saturday morning here and yeah. This is from the album Arrival of the Waves from able Blood. This is called needs to Live.

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20:18 Speaker 3: You?

20:18 Speaker 6: Ever that out? Don't you jaws share? Uh? Do you 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. It sounds so cool that his needs to live. That's the song. The band is able Blood and we have we have Adam and Jimmy here with us live in studio on this Saturday morning here on the program. And uh, yeah, that's that's really really good. By the way, So who 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 your songs?

22:17 Speaker 4: There a particular I have these stories going on in my head, and I think during this one, like I don't I haven't written like actual stories, right, And it's just kind of things that go on my head. And I guess this whole album I was kind of and I think the first album too, I just kind of imagine like a post apocalyptic world and the coast of the United States is now in Iowa, and I just instead of creating a story, I have these snapshots in time, and so I'm just kind of like imagining myself in that place and what I'm seeing at that particular moment or what I'm going through at that particular moment in the story.

23:01 Speaker 4: Okay, and so there's not really it's it's an overall story, not let nothing necessarily like going on like of value in the lyrics at the moment. It's just like me walking down a street where people are like it's in this song. I'm just seeing like like a weird market that I'm at where people are like just doing their thing, like trying to make a scrape by a living Yeah, is basically what's happening. Okay, So yeah, they're kind of is kind of a weird approach to lyric writing. But I'm just kind of just whatever's there, you know what i mean.

23:36 Speaker 4: It's just like a snapshot in time is basically the best way to describe it.

23:40 Speaker 1: You ever, you ever write anything like based on a dream that you had, Like you wake up and you go, oh, I got to write something.

23:47 Speaker 4: You know, I've never actually had that happen. I've had some weird dreams that I probably should write about, but yeah, most of it's just a just a made up world 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 know you can't be specific, but you guys do have 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 distribution deal for for arrival of the Waves. Okay, Yeah, 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 finalize that. But yeah, I mean it's essentially a done deal. Yeah, but we just have to kind of work through the little stuff right there. But yeah, we're super excited about it, super excited hopefully, you know, like I really feel like this album needs to see the light of day, and it hasn't quite seen it up, you know what I mean. It hasn't been pushed out there is quite as much as I would have liked it to be. So to have a little bit of help is going to be amazing.

24:54 Speaker 4: Yeah, and hopefully it does well. I mean, I've you know, I put a lot of heart and soul. I mean, Jimmy and Malcolm have put everything they've had into it, and I think it shines through in the recording. So yeah, yeah, to have some people, extra set of ears and hands and everybody to help us, you know, get it out 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 to being able to do that and to make that kind of a connection and get that kind of help. Is it because you've been so active with shows, just 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, and and and I'm telling you there's a ton of bands out there and a ton of them that are willing to and and us as well, Like we'll we'll help you get on shows. We'll give you advice of what they're doing, what's what they're doing that's helping them succeed, you know. And we do the same thing for other you know, other bands too. And it's like, you know, they'll be like, you know, who's who you know? Bandlbass me like who did you contact for this show or this place or that blah blah blah, And I'll be like, here's everything.

26:07 Speaker 4: I got, you know, like I'm always willing to help and I want to see everybody in the scene succeed. And I feel like a lot of the bands that I've come across, vast majority of them are the same way, Like they're like, yeah, here this is you know, call this person or do it, you know, and I think that's almost one hundred percent. The best 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 and you don't know anybody and you don't even know where to start, you know, it seems like you're never 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 kind of shopping it around and then things just kind of start to snowball, you know. And and this year I think like me and Jimmy will put shows together and invite bands to come and play. But this year we've put very few together, and we've gotten invited to 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 they'll be looking for another band for a show and other people say, hey, askable blood and you know, so 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 like them, I'm gonna recommend them, and you know, and I'm proud to do it, you know, and I want to hear them on your show.

27:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. I feel like, uh, it's it with music, it's it's very sort of community oriented in that way. People want to help each other and build those relationships. I kind of in my mind, I contrast it with listen to some podcasts where there's a lot of talk about stand up comedy and how stand up comedy works and how people succeed in that, and I get the impression that that's very different from music, because in stand up comedy it sounds like it's very very cutthroat and everyone's always trying to keep everybody else down so they can rise up, whereas in music it's not really like that.

28:23 Speaker 7: It kind of was back in the nineties, it kind of was like that. I mean, maybe not cutthroat, but you always felt like there was a competition going on. Yeah, and you had to kind of claw your way up. Now, I mean, bands like Adam said, they're so eager to work together and lift each other up. And yeah, it only makes sense because I don't listen to one band right then, you know, and those other people don't listen to just one band, So why can't we all work together to do it right? Because like when you go to a show and you say, this four band is playing and they all have a little bit different of a sound, you're allowed to like them all.

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

29:09 Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I'm friends with a band out of Oklahoma that's just awesome. Can I plug them? Trillion ton beryllium Ships, absolutely amazing band. They just they just dropped a brand new single called Bugs.

29:27 Speaker 1: Let me see if I can say the name after 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, but it is like they're out of Lincoln, Nebraska, Okay, and I've never even met them. We just we've developed a relationship over social media and everything, and we just 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 a show with them somehow, some way. Yeah, I'd love to see them go to Maryland Doomfest and and meet up there, you know. Yeah, it just goes to show that the kind of like Adam said, the networking that 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, you know, because when we grew up there, you know, we didn't have that, and so that's I think it's changed, you know, it makes everything more community oriented because their community really can be global. I also think too, and it's funny, this particular thought had never occurred to me until just now, but I think part of why too, maybe things don't seem quite a Scott throat. I don't know how you guys feel about this, but I've I always hated and I say it past tense because you don't see many of them anymore, Thank God.

30:50 Speaker 1: Battle of 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 around here or close to your did do one recently. There was one at the Hillsboro County was there, Yeah, 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, somebody's actually in twenty twenty four, somebody's actually doing a Battle of the Bands. Yeah, and I always hated those. I mean, first of all, look again, not saying about any specific one that I know about, or you know, 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 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 the Bands got together and put that on as a as a showcase. Yeah, I think it would go so much better.

31:50 Speaker 8: Yeah.

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

31:53 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I just yeah, the whole thing. And then and then you know, and then these bands they have to you know, get people to oh you show up and you know, vote for us, and so the whole thing is awful. Yeah, I'm glad that it's a dying thing. It's just, uh, I remember, you know, I don't play anymore, but when I used to play in bands, and i'd play in a band that would get invited to do one of these, it's like, oh, I don't even want to bring this to the other guys. It's so great, 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 jeesus might have been twenty years ago. You guys remember the bomb shelter yep, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I was, Yes, I was at those shows. There was a there was a bad I I do remember the guy's name. I'm not going to say it on the air, but there was a guy who was a big promoter in the area. You might even know who I'm thinking about. We did a lot of shows there who was putting on a Battle of the bands, and he was managing one of the bands that was in the Battle of the bands, and it became like an open like it it ended up spilling out into the open.

33:06 Speaker 1: Everybody knew it was rigged,

33:12 Speaker 1: and but this one though, this particular one, because it's spilled out in the into the open and everybody knew it changed the promoter changed it to just a regular show. It was no longer a battle of the bands because he looked and he didn't look great anyway, this particular person I'm thinking of, you know what I mean in terms of reputation, But this whole thing made him look 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, they should never, with all the hard work they put 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. I think everybody wins. If we're doing what we're doing and we love what we do, we already won.

34:01 Speaker 4: I hate award shows and stuff like that, like competition there. It's just like I don't even I don't want your vote if it's you know, like I just want you to listen to the album, come to a showy. You know, I could care less if I get an award for it. I do it for us, you know, and I do it for the people. That like to listen to it, you know, right, yeah, it just it almost feels like 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 you bootleg it and get it for free. Just listen to it, right yeah, yeah, and come hang out of the show.

34:35 Speaker 3: Show.

34:36 Speaker 4: Those are a lot of fun. We love to hang out with people, you know. I would come up and they're like, hey, I was listening to you know, Enemies today, and and I'll be like, oh cool, I didn't know anybody who was listening to that, you know, And so it's cool when somebody does say stuff like that, and I love I love hanging out with people that you know, that are into it, and then we can just talk 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 people I've ever met.

35:04 Speaker 1: Oh, very good, very good. Well we should play another Uh, let's play another track. What do you guys want to What do you guys?

35:11 Speaker 4: I kind of want to hear trippy Edi. Okay, there's it's it's a semi instrumental, it's got some some samples in it. I wrote the song at my house, recorded on my phone, and it ended up being the recording that ended up on the album. Oh yeah, we didn't professionally record this song.

35:32 Speaker 1: Okay, well that makes me very curious then, because I 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 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 Trippy Eddie by Abel Blood.

36:01 Speaker 8: Congratulations to us, you found a whole. If Franks no literature, 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 wish as to tat for back us because death it's 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, 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, I just don't end up watching a lot of movies. Yeah, Malcolm's the guy that well is the movie guy. Yeah, he knows every word to every movie ever written or every made. I know nothing, but I think that's from 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. I agree Good Fellas, Oh yeah, yeah, I did see that movie. Yes, Ny Times, if.

38:57 Speaker 1: You are destroying us, we have able Blood to the guys from Able Blood here with us, live in studio. Adam and Jimmy are here and now. So what's what's next for you? Guys? You have I know you're going to be slowing down in the winter, but you yeah, is October is still busy?

39:12 Speaker 4: We're going to be a terminus the nineteen. Yes, that one show. We're really excited. I think the six bands dead, Harrison's playing, the Megans are playing. I haven't memorized everybody that's going to be there. It's going to be a 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 Great Curtain?

39:37 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, because we've got Yeah, because actually, so today's show is really about that show. Okay, because we've got because Horror is our our number two guest and then 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. But this Tuesday, we're gonna playing with Telekinetic Yetty over 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 Yety is basically the inspiration for our setup where we don't have a bass player and and we split our signals and everything. So it's going to be like a full circle show for us. We're going to be able to, you know, be like we're not worthy guys, but yeah, we totally rip you off.

40:37 Speaker 7: I mean, Malcolm and I talked to them because they played a Jewel earlier in the year. They opened for weed Eater, which was an absolutely amazing show. But we got to talk to the guys from Telekinnectic Yetty and we're like, we really wanted to play this show, but we found out late and they're like, well, hopefully we'll do something in the future, and well the future is now, 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 Kodo that's coming in November. I think it's the ninth of November.

41:08 Speaker 2: That one.

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

41:13 Speaker 9: You'll be seeing them here soon. Yeah, not entirely yet, but I am in touch and we do have some 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, but it was but it was before he played in Vigil. Actually it's quite a few years ago now, Yeah, that 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 we've got King Bastard coming up from Long Island. We're gonna be playing Boston with them, with Benthic Realm again too, and Scuzzy Eddi who amazing. All these bands are amazing. Yeah, that show is going to be just.

41:59 Speaker 7: That's the out of the day right after Thanksgiving, so it's like everybody should be off and everything, and it's yeah, 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 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, 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 then yeah, we're probably gonna do the re recording. We're considering that we're we're, you know, seventy percent decided that we're probably gonna record re record keeping pace with the Elephants. Okay, give it a fresher feel, yeah, and then write a bunch of songs, yeah, and then just see where they all go.

42:42 Speaker 1: You guys must have some stuff you play live that you haven't recorded yet. I would assume, right, you have some some newer stuff that.

42:47 Speaker 4: We've really been pushing Arrival of the waves the last Yeah, yeah, uh. We do some riffs that we don't have recorded anywhere. We kind of open the set with a just some random riff that we came up with one day and it just stuck with the set. But we do have songs in the works, and the one that we've nearly completed I cannot wait to get recorded. Really, it's gonna be some of our heaviest stuff that we've done. And actually the song probably has some of the heaviest stuff we've done and some of the mellowist stuff we've done 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 goes quickly. We are approaching the top of the hour. So where should people know where to go online? Keep up with everything you guys are doing.

43:35 Speaker 4: We're really active on Facebook A B. E. L. Blood. We we do post most of our stuff there a 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 people go there, so it would be really helpful but and then we've got a Sonic Bids EBK that give me maintains very well, and it has all the shows 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, quote pictures, bio. I mean, it's really a complete package. 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 able ab e l. It just made me curious. Anyone ever misspell.

44:24 Speaker 4: It like always always as abl e. Yeah, that's verify or people can't find us when they search because they look a yell. So I always spell it out to people when they ask.

44:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's that's smart. That's smart. Well, guys, thank 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 guys are going to be October nineteenth at Terminus and uh, I think we should close because this is my personal favorite. I think we should close with mental note.

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