Matt Connarton Unleashed: Dead By Wednesday

0:00 Speaker 1: H so good no easy way Out. You might have

0:03 Speaker 1: heard that song before. A gentleman named Robert Tepper had

0:06 Speaker 1: to hit with that in the in the eighties. But

0:09 Speaker 1: that is Dead by Wednesday and that is a brand

0:11 Speaker 1: new single and we're spinning it here. And we have

0:14 Speaker 1: two of the members from Dead by Wednesday here with

0:16 Speaker 1: us live in studio. We've got Mike and Esteban here.

0:19 Speaker 1: How are you, guys? That damn Hartford Marathon delayed you guys,

0:24 Speaker 1: but I'm glad you made it because.

0:26 Speaker 2: We at the highway. I was like, oh my god, wrong.

0:29 Speaker 1: I was gonna I was gonna play the song regardless,

0:31 Speaker 1: like if if you if for some reason you didn't

0:33 Speaker 1: get here I was just gonna play it anyway at

0:34 Speaker 1: the end of the day. But no, that's that's really

0:36 Speaker 1: really good now. Mike, So we were talking when you

0:39 Speaker 1: were in the other So you're an original member, You've

0:41 Speaker 1: you've been here the whole time. How long when did

0:43 Speaker 1: Dead by Wednesday start?

0:45 Speaker 2: Probably?

0:46 Speaker 1: Oh, pull pull up, pull up, Mike up. Sorry, sorry,

0:48 Speaker 1: those Mike's are probably there.

0:50 Speaker 2: You go.

0:50 Speaker 3: Okay, So wow, I think Opus and I met probably

1:01 Speaker 3: late three. The idea conjured up around oh four and

1:06 Speaker 3: made it official two thousand and five.

1:08 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I thought it had been about twenty years.

1:11 Speaker 1: Yeah wow wow, yeah, gone in the blink of an eye, right,

1:14 Speaker 1: it goes, it goes quicker than we then we know

1:18 Speaker 1: that is true. And Esteban, how long have you been

1:20 Speaker 1: in the band?

1:20 Speaker 2: Now? This January will be five years? Five years, five

1:23 Speaker 2: years already, Mike, Yeah, I know. Wow.

1:25 Speaker 1: Does it seem longer to you or does it seem

1:27 Speaker 1: quicker like like that?

1:28 Speaker 3: Yeah?

1:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, in a way, it seems longer, but then when

1:31 Speaker 2: you think back at it, you're just like it went

1:33 Speaker 2: by super fast.

1:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no doubt. What went into the decision to

1:38 Speaker 1: cover this song? It's it's not I don't think I've

1:41 Speaker 1: ever heard anyone cover No Easy Way Out, but it's

1:44 Speaker 1: but I was, I always like the song as catchy

1:46 Speaker 1: as hell, and it's it sounds great, like why did

1:49 Speaker 1: you guys pick that song?

1:51 Speaker 2: You wanta ticket? Uh? So Opus is a big like

1:55 Speaker 2: uh karate Kid and rocky fan, and I mean who

1:59 Speaker 2: doesn't like rock? Right?

2:00 Speaker 1: Right?

2:00 Speaker 2: Yeah? So yeah, it was I think it originated with

2:06 Speaker 2: Opus and Dave. Well how did it come about?

2:10 Speaker 3: It was Opus presented the idea and usually I say that,

2:19 Speaker 3: but I do recall when I when I watched Rocky

2:22 Speaker 3: four as a kid, I heard that song and I

2:26 Speaker 3: was like, wow, I bet this song could take off

2:31 Speaker 3: like the previous, like Eye of the Tiger. The previous,

2:35 Speaker 3: like the Rocky series, always had a hit single. Yes,

2:40 Speaker 3: So I was like, Okay, this will probably it and

2:43 Speaker 3: it never. It just kind of fizzled out. So when

2:46 Speaker 3: he presented the idea, I was like possibly, And then

2:51 Speaker 3: we just kind of toyed around with it and he

2:55 Speaker 3: kept pushing it. It's like, hey, you know, try it,

2:58 Speaker 3: listen to it. So he kept pushing it and it

3:00 Speaker 3: just morphed, you know.

3:02 Speaker 2: Well then we jammed it that one time in the

3:05 Speaker 2: space and then we were just like, oh it kind

3:07 Speaker 2: of really good. Yeah.

3:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's excellent, And it's already getting played like

3:12 Speaker 1: on Serious X.

3:14 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's actually been playing there, I think since, uh

3:18 Speaker 2: it's been a week, third or seventh something that's I

3:21 Speaker 2: know it's been a week, yeah, at least a week.

3:24 Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent. I assume this is part of the live set.

3:26 Speaker 1: Now you guys playing this.

3:27 Speaker 3: Live, we are going to introduce it into the set,

3:30 Speaker 3: uh in two weeks.

3:32 Speaker 1: Nice swarmy fest yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent. Yeah, looking forward

3:36 Speaker 1: to Swarmy Fest and seeing you guys. It's been a

3:38 Speaker 1: long time since I've seen you guys live, so really

3:41 Speaker 1: looking forward to this.

3:42 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's what we The last time we were on

3:44 Speaker 3: stage was May.

3:46 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, June. June, Yeah, June too, June. Yeah. Yeah.

3:51 Speaker 3: So yeah, it's been a minute for us.

3:53 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And then now you've got a big in

3:56 Speaker 1: uh well next year, right, there's a big tour.

3:59 Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to tour that's happening in January. Uh,

4:03 Speaker 2: starting January seventh in Brooklyn and then ending January twelfth,

4:08 Speaker 2: I believe in Albany. And we're running with Skin Lab.

4:11 Speaker 1: Oh very good, Yeah, very good. Have you toured with

4:13 Speaker 1: them before?

4:14 Speaker 2: No, No, it's exciting. It's the first time. I mean,

4:16 Speaker 2: we we've hung out with some of those dudes, like

4:18 Speaker 2: out in California, out in Nam, but this is our

4:21 Speaker 2: first time actually jamming with them, so yeah, pretty excited.

4:24 Speaker 1: Yeah.

4:25 Speaker 3: So then we've got another run in March with Category

4:29 Speaker 3: seven that is the new supergroup. I know John Bush

4:34 Speaker 3: is the vocalist. Oh, it's like who's who of I'm

4:40 Speaker 3: trying to pull up the members, but Jason Bittner is

4:43 Speaker 3: Jason Bittner's on drums, John Bush on vocals, and then.

4:48 Speaker 2: They're going to former member of Exodus.

4:50 Speaker 3: I believe. So yeah, it's a it's a great lineup.

4:54 Speaker 3: We're doing a few shows in March supporting their tour

4:58 Speaker 3: with them in ex order exorder Okay, someone who else?

5:03 Speaker 3: Exorder end of the Tribe, had of the Tribe category seven?

5:06 Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, very good, very good. I'm curious, Mike, because

5:11 Speaker 1: you've been you've been there with Opus from the beginning.

5:14 Speaker 1: Has the has the approach changed all over the years

5:17 Speaker 1: in terms of the of the live show or even

5:19 Speaker 1: even recording. Uh, like you like you said, you know,

5:22 Speaker 1: with no easy way out. He had to kind of

5:24 Speaker 1: talk you into it. Like has that has that process

5:26 Speaker 1: changed over the years over twenty.

5:27 Speaker 3: Years or not really? I mean you're going to have

5:31 Speaker 3: some you know, as members change, you're I don't know, ideology,

5:37 Speaker 3: your approach to writing and performing changes, but again it

5:43 Speaker 3: kind of evolves. So you know, at the end of

5:46 Speaker 3: the day, you're three guys, four guys working together. So

5:52 Speaker 3: once you can gel, once you can communicate and get

5:55 Speaker 3: along the music part, the composition and the creativity and

6:00 Speaker 3: all that it's not that hard, right?

6:02 Speaker 2: Right?

6:04 Speaker 1: Is it? Is it challenging when you know, because you

6:08 Speaker 1: and Opus have been like I said, from there from

6:10 Speaker 1: the beginning, the core of it, like having all these

6:13 Speaker 1: changes over the years, is there ever a point where

6:15 Speaker 1: you go, well, you know, we've we've had we've had

6:17 Speaker 1: a lot of changes, and you know, I don't know

6:19 Speaker 1: if we can keep doing this. I mean, do you

6:21 Speaker 1: ever kind of second guess at or are you just

6:23 Speaker 1: so committed to it?

6:24 Speaker 2: I think the.

6:27 Speaker 3: Maybe the last two we're like, oh man, because we

6:33 Speaker 3: had written material, we had another album, like we had

6:39 Speaker 3: we had the timeline laid out for a year, We

6:42 Speaker 3: had like six songs in the camp like we were

6:45 Speaker 3: on a roll. And then when you have these lineup changes,

6:49 Speaker 3: then it's like, okay, well you can't use this song

6:52 Speaker 3: because you know, once you throw all that stuff into

6:55 Speaker 3: the mix, then it's like turmoil and then you gotta

6:58 Speaker 3: so the last one of those it's like, man, you

7:01 Speaker 3: know that's tough, because but again, when the right personnel

7:06 Speaker 3: is in play, then you know it you rebound quicker.

7:11 Speaker 3: But yeah, it can be you know you're building something

7:15 Speaker 3: then all of a sudden just rpe.

7:18 Speaker 1: Sorry, Yeah, yeah, and then it's like again that was again, Yeah, yeah,

7:23 Speaker 1: absolutely yeah. So Estemon, how did you come to be

7:27 Speaker 1: in the band? How did you become the singer?

7:29 Speaker 2: So it was right before Covid I believe January of

7:34 Speaker 2: twenty twenty. The band had gotten a call we were

7:38 Speaker 2: going to go on a thirty day tour and yeah,

7:41 Speaker 2: it was like four. It was a four or six

7:43 Speaker 2: weeks it was.

7:45 Speaker 3: I think it was slated for six, but realistically there

7:49 Speaker 3: was no way it was going to be six. I

7:51 Speaker 3: didn't buy into that, but I think we had at

7:53 Speaker 3: least a solid at least three or four.

7:56 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, it was, it was long. I knew

7:59 Speaker 2: we had to take like a a week and a

8:00 Speaker 2: half off because they had to break into Canada and

8:03 Speaker 2: another band was going to hook up, but it was

8:08 Speaker 2: the band had gotten Slater for that and the vocalist

8:12 Speaker 2: before me had just picked up a new career.

8:15 Speaker 1: Oh.

8:16 Speaker 2: So it was like one of those things of like, uh,

8:19 Speaker 2: what do I do? Do I go on tour? Pass

8:21 Speaker 2: up the opportunity? So I mean no, he I mean

8:23 Speaker 2: anybody would have taken the opportunity. He did, so Yeah,

8:26 Speaker 2: And at that point I was with another band a

8:29 Speaker 2: smaller local band, and Opus had given me a call

8:33 Speaker 2: and he was just like, hey, come down an audition,

8:36 Speaker 2: and uh, I think what was it like to three

8:38 Speaker 2: days later? I came down and auditioned, and then like

8:42 Speaker 2: h three days after that, I got the call and

8:44 Speaker 2: they were just like, hey, come aboard. Yeah, if you

8:46 Speaker 2: want to come on this tour, I'm like sweet, request

8:50 Speaker 2: the time off of work and everything, and then done.

8:52 Speaker 2: Dun dun.

8:54 Speaker 1: Yeah when you auditioned, did you know why did you

8:58 Speaker 1: get because sometimes you know, guys will say, you know,

9:00 Speaker 1: I auditioned for the span and I just knew it

9:02 Speaker 1: felt right, like did you did you know it?

9:05 Speaker 2: Or for me if it felt really good as soon

9:08 Speaker 2: as I got there, like just the energy when we

9:11 Speaker 2: when we jammed and everything it was it felt right.

9:14 Speaker 2: Yeah fucko.

9:16 Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you know Mike right off the bat that

9:18 Speaker 1: he was the guy?

9:19 Speaker 2: Yeah?

9:19 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I know you got he's sitting right

9:21 Speaker 1: next to on the spot.

9:25 Speaker 3: You know, I remember, I don't remember I remember feeling

9:29 Speaker 3: like all right, this is like a seamless transition. Yeah,

9:32 Speaker 3: like I don't remember any like, uh, I don't know, yeah,

9:36 Speaker 3: like we clicked like that. Yeah, yeah, and.

9:40 Speaker 1: That's nice when that happens too, when you can have

9:42 Speaker 1: a seam you know, because I've been in bands, not

9:44 Speaker 1: at the level that you guys are at, but I

9:45 Speaker 1: know like when this changes and it's like you know,

9:47 Speaker 1: when someone new comes in and they're just the right

9:50 Speaker 1: person right away, it's like, oh, thank god, you know

9:53 Speaker 1: this is gonna.

9:53 Speaker 3: Be easier than And prior to him, we had a

9:57 Speaker 3: couple auditions. We had some you know, and like you

10:01 Speaker 3: within the first two minutes they're like, all right, I'll

10:03 Speaker 3: give the guy the benefit of the doubt, and then

10:05 Speaker 3: five minutes later you're like all right.

10:07 Speaker 1: No, yeah, yeah, what like like when others would audition,

10:11 Speaker 1: like what would be the prop? Like were they just

10:13 Speaker 1: not up to the the material.

10:15 Speaker 3: Or we had well, we had one dude, Like I

10:20 Speaker 3: want to say, I didn't hear I didn't hear what

10:24 Speaker 3: he had done before. I think I knew he was

10:26 Speaker 3: in a band. They told me, all right, he's singing

10:28 Speaker 3: in this band, and I think I heard a song.

10:30 Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, sounds great. He comes in and

10:34 Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe he just doesn't audition well, but

10:38 Speaker 3: he was nervous. Is I don't know if I can

10:42 Speaker 3: on this? He was nervous as anything.

10:45 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and.

10:48 Speaker 3: He to compensate for that, he had been drinking. So

10:52 Speaker 3: he shows up like freaking about alcohol, nervous. Now that

10:58 Speaker 3: combination you can't sing right, you know. And then it

11:02 Speaker 3: was like, look, guys like so we said, look, go home,

11:07 Speaker 3: let's try this again.

11:08 Speaker 1: Oh it's nice of you to say let's yeah, yeah,

11:11 Speaker 1: that's pretty generous.

11:13 Speaker 3: He came back still, you know, better, but no, you know,

11:18 Speaker 3: so we had like stuff like that, or people who

11:21 Speaker 3: tell you they're going to come down and then they don't. Yeah,

11:24 Speaker 3: you know, stuff like that. Usually the best I've found

11:27 Speaker 3: is through word of mouth or like bands who know

11:31 Speaker 3: other bands or approach other people. The way I met

11:34 Speaker 3: Opus Site. I approached him and I was like, look, dude,

11:39 Speaker 3: you and I should start a band. I never met him,

11:41 Speaker 3: no kiddering.

11:42 Speaker 1: Yeah.

11:43 Speaker 3: I was like, I'm a better bass player than the

11:45 Speaker 3: guy that you're playing with right now, and we need

11:48 Speaker 3: to start a band. You know. So sometimes you got

11:52 Speaker 3: to just like, you know, talk to people.

11:54 Speaker 1: Yeah exactly exactly. Was that intimidating because he's an intense guy,

11:59 Speaker 1: I think, I mean, from when I've met him, he's.

12:02 Speaker 3: I was at a point, yes, you're right, and it was.

12:06 Speaker 3: But I was at a point at the time where

12:10 Speaker 3: I was looking for something serious and all the bands

12:14 Speaker 3: that I auditioned for at the time they were not

12:17 Speaker 3: They weren't serious, they weren't on it, and he was yeah.

12:21 Speaker 3: So I was like, you know, I've got I've got

12:25 Speaker 3: nothing to lose.

12:26 Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. Yeah, yeah, you got.

12:28 Speaker 3: To take though, but yeah, you're right, Yeah, it's you know,

12:31 Speaker 3: he had a big mohawk, he said, so you know

12:36 Speaker 3: he you know, you know oaus everyone.

12:38 Speaker 2: Yeah.

12:38 Speaker 3: So yeah, it was like this, who is this guy?

12:42 Speaker 3: Larger than life like personality? But you know, but yeah

12:47 Speaker 3: you are.

12:47 Speaker 1: You did you sban like other bands that you've played

12:53 Speaker 1: in were they similar in terms of the you know,

12:56 Speaker 1: your vocal approach. You know, obviously it's it's intense, and

13:02 Speaker 1: did you sing that way and other bands prior.

13:04 Speaker 2: To this or yeah, I mean, my it was. I

13:09 Speaker 2: think that was probably the I mean, it was still

13:13 Speaker 2: difficult to transition, but the easiest point of the transition

13:17 Speaker 2: was the vocal style was still the same way. I

13:19 Speaker 2: went from you know, scream singing to scream singing. Yeah,

13:22 Speaker 2: so it was pretty accommodating in those terms.

13:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, it's fascinated by that by singers who can

13:28 Speaker 1: do that. Do you do you have to do anything

13:30 Speaker 1: to kind of protect your throat, Like, do you do

13:33 Speaker 1: you have any kind of a regimen.

13:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, just like any other vocalists, you have

13:36 Speaker 2: to you have to watch what you do, you know,

13:39 Speaker 2: prior and posts, you know, performances. You have to make

13:43 Speaker 2: sure you're hydrated, you know, tease things like that. I

13:46 Speaker 2: normally steam my face and my I take like the

13:51 Speaker 2: normal vapo steamer use like when you're sick. So I

13:55 Speaker 2: use that and it's like an instant hydrated or my

13:59 Speaker 2: voice and like these old passages and stuff. So I

14:02 Speaker 2: do that, and I normally drink some tea beforehand, I

14:04 Speaker 2: do some warm ups and then get into it, and

14:07 Speaker 2: then afterwards, I normally try to steam my voice, like

14:10 Speaker 2: when we're on tour, especially, I try to steam my

14:12 Speaker 2: face before I go to sleep. Oh okay, sure, So.

14:15 Speaker 1: If you do that before you go to sleep when

14:16 Speaker 1: you wake up.

14:17 Speaker 2: Your yeah, a little little bit, because I mean it

14:19 Speaker 2: all depends on the atmosphere of the club too, because

14:23 Speaker 2: they may be using steam machine fog machines. Like when

14:26 Speaker 2: we were in Europe, smoking was allowed in clubs. So

14:29 Speaker 2: that was really that was man, Oh that was rough.

14:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah.

14:33 Speaker 2: The thing is we haven't been used to it here

14:35 Speaker 2: in the US for twenty plus years. Right, going over there,

14:38 Speaker 2: you're just like, oh, I forgot about that.

14:40 Speaker 3: They stuck us in the back the smoking room as

14:44 Speaker 3: our right, keep your gear and all your cases and everything,

14:48 Speaker 3: and you can hang out here in the smoking room.

14:52 Speaker 2: Yeah.

14:52 Speaker 3: No, mentally maybe a window. Horrendous rutal.

14:58 Speaker 2: I mean, no fault to them. Culturely culture the culture.

15:02 Speaker 2: We weren't prepared. Yeah, it's like, oh my god, I'm

15:06 Speaker 2: gonna die.

15:09 Speaker 1: By the way, where do you guys record? Does Opus?

15:11 Speaker 1: Does he have a recording studio or.

15:14 Speaker 2: So he did? Depending Like during COVID, we were we were

15:19 Speaker 2: all able to individually record on our own so we

15:22 Speaker 2: can be able to record tracks like at home. But

15:25 Speaker 2: during COVID we did that, and then we still went

15:29 Speaker 2: in a little bit and did some in studio stuff

15:31 Speaker 2: with Nikki bellmore with Dexter's lab down in Milford, Connecticut.

15:35 Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, and we worked with him and most

15:39 Speaker 2: of the time we cut our tracks at home.

15:41 Speaker 3: O COVID it forced us to you know, utilize this

15:46 Speaker 3: technology that was already there. But a lot of the

15:50 Speaker 3: tracks on our last album were done like I would

15:54 Speaker 3: record my base tracks on my computer, like while I

15:59 Speaker 3: was on the case to one by family or something,

16:01 Speaker 3: and I'd send in bass tracks for a couple of songs.

16:06 Speaker 3: Did you record yours?

16:08 Speaker 2: Yeah? No, no, I mean I only recorded a few live,

16:11 Speaker 2: but most of the time I recorded them at home.

16:13 Speaker 3: Dave did some tracks at home, yea. So we just

16:16 Speaker 3: sent him sent the stems to Nikki. He'd mixed them

16:20 Speaker 3: together and that would be the track. But this last

16:24 Speaker 3: one no easy weigh out. He and I recorded the

16:28 Speaker 3: bass like I recorded at his place, okay, okay, and

16:32 Speaker 3: then we sent at least for the bass, and then

16:34 Speaker 3: we sent that in.

16:34 Speaker 1: Yeah.

16:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, we've been It's like, I don't know,

16:40 Speaker 3: there isn't really a There doesn't need to be a

16:42 Speaker 3: central location for everything, you know.

16:45 Speaker 1: So it's amazing, isn't it to live in a time

16:47 Speaker 1: where we have all these technology to do all this

16:49 Speaker 1: stuff easy? You know? We It comes up a lot

16:52 Speaker 1: on the show too, about how you know, the pandemic

16:54 Speaker 1: was terrible, but you have to find these silver linings

16:56 Speaker 1: where you can and once big silver lining is I

16:59 Speaker 1: did kind of force people, yeah, to be creative in

17:03 Speaker 1: terms of how they do things and find ways to

17:05 Speaker 1: be creative they maybe hadn't considered before.

17:07 Speaker 3: It created a new industry. You know, it's amazing, like

17:11 Speaker 3: and people, unless you grew up in an era where

17:14 Speaker 3: that was not possible. It's just to me, it's it's

17:18 Speaker 3: crazy that I can record a track that can literally

17:21 Speaker 3: like no easy way out. Like when I was recording

17:26 Speaker 3: it and when I was coming up with my base parts,

17:29 Speaker 3: you're not thinking of that. You're thinking an end process,

17:32 Speaker 3: but you're not thinking of But it's just crazy to

17:34 Speaker 3: me to record this in a house or a basement,

17:39 Speaker 3: have it broadcast globally and sound pristine.

17:44 Speaker 2: Mike and I have talked about that many times on tour.

17:46 Speaker 2: It's like, I love it. We have the ability to

17:49 Speaker 2: be able to record anywhere we want. Back in the day,

17:52 Speaker 2: man the locks away or.

17:55 Speaker 3: Like the big, big artists that could afford the equipment

17:58 Speaker 3: to you know.

18:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, having an in home studio was like a

18:03 Speaker 2: super privilege at that point.

18:04 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, available to anyone.

18:06 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Oh the time goes quick. I wish

18:10 Speaker 1: we had more, but I want to make sure so

18:13 Speaker 1: uh November two, it's the event is at Tafaa and Lowell.

18:19 Speaker 1: It was originally supposed to be a Jewel but for

18:21 Speaker 1: anyone who doesn't know, it's at Taffa and loll Swarmy Fest.

18:25 Speaker 1: Jenny and I will be there. Really looking forward to

18:27 Speaker 1: seeing you guys.

18:27 Speaker 2: I am so excited, yea, super excited. Yeah.

18:30 Speaker 1: Absolutely, It's gonna be a bunch of great bands there.

18:34 Speaker 1: What should people anything you want people to know about?

18:36 Speaker 1: Obviously you want them to know that the new single

18:38 Speaker 1: is out, your cover of No Easy Way Out? And

18:42 Speaker 1: what should people know else about?

18:43 Speaker 2: Uh?

18:45 Speaker 1: About what you guys are doing?

18:47 Speaker 2: Wow?

18:48 Speaker 3: Check us out on our our social media feeds. We've

18:52 Speaker 3: got some shows coming up that the uh you got

18:57 Speaker 3: a couple.

18:57 Speaker 2: Of tours coming yeah, yeah, the tours with skin Lab.

18:59 Speaker 3: The skin Lab, Yeah yeah, that's going to be a Northeast.

19:04 Speaker 2: Show January seventh.

19:06 Speaker 3: Northeast region in our final date is January twelfth. Is

19:10 Speaker 3: that the one in Albany.

19:12 Speaker 2: That's all one in Albany. We start in Brookland on

19:14 Speaker 2: the seventh, We go Brooklyn, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut

19:22 Speaker 2: and then back up to Albany. So Hopefully listeners out

19:25 Speaker 2: there can be able to link up with us at

19:27 Speaker 2: some point in one of those shows that I'd love

19:28 Speaker 2: to have you guys come out.

19:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent, excellent, and we'll close out with Wasteland and

19:34 Speaker 1: this you say you were saying off there too. This

19:36 Speaker 1: was this one an award or was nominated for.

19:38 Speaker 2: Uh yeah, we were actually we got nominated for two categories.

19:41 Speaker 2: We got nominated for New England Best Metal Band and

19:44 Speaker 2: also Best Music Video in Wasteland. This is the one

19:48 Speaker 2: we filmed out in the Mojave Desert, California for Wasteland Weekend.

19:52 Speaker 1: Oh the video is wild. It looks like that was it?

19:55 Speaker 1: I mean, was that as big a production as it

19:57 Speaker 1: looks like? I mean, it's like it's like watching a

19:59 Speaker 1: mini movie.

20:00 Speaker 2: We were we had hooked up with another festival that

20:03 Speaker 2: was happening. We're playing that. Yeah, and yeah, our videographer

20:08 Speaker 2: she you know, happened to be there. We got the

20:11 Speaker 2: permissions and the rights to be able to film and wow,

20:13 Speaker 2: everybody was with it, and it was kind of like

20:16 Speaker 2: it was the last minute, spur of the moment thing

20:18 Speaker 2: and everybody was on board. So we just ran with it.

20:21 Speaker 2: And oh that's good. It just it was a per

20:23 Speaker 2: It was a happy accident. Yeah.

20:25 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's that's amazing. That's amazing, great job. Yeah,

20:29 Speaker 1: I recommend people check it out the video for Wasteland.

20:31 Speaker 1: All right, we gotta go, guys, Thank you so much.

20:34 Speaker 2: Thanks so much again. Sorry for being a little bit late,

20:36 Speaker 2: but we love you guys, and check us out.

20:38 Speaker 1: And we will see you on November two, Yes, at

20:41 Speaker 1: Tafia and lolat Swarmyfest. All right, very good, and uh,

20:44 Speaker 1: if you miss any part of today's show, it'll be

20:46 Speaker 1: up in just a little bit. But we will leave

20:48 Speaker 1: you with this. Check this out. This is wasteland. This

20:51 Speaker 1: is dead by Wednesday.