Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Devlyn Sydus
Speaker 1: Joining us a live in studio Sean Devlin from Devil
Speaker 1: inside Us. Did I say it correctly?
Speaker 2: Did I did?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Welcome Sean, Welcome, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Pull that mic up a little a little bit more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got a These mics are such that you just
Speaker 1: got to talk right into him.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna play We're gonna play a tune in
Speaker 1: a minute. But you've got a big show coming up
Speaker 1: in Nashua.
Speaker 2: Yes, tonight at one thirty four Heen Street. It's a
Speaker 2: newer venue called Terminus Underground.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Terminus is a great place. Have you been there yet?
Speaker 1: Have you actually physically been there?
Speaker 2: I have not.
Speaker 1: I tell everybody that the same thing. When you walk in,
Speaker 1: it's like walking into another world. It's it's so cool,
Speaker 1: it really is. They do such a great job with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know them very well. Eleanor and Andre and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: Terminus is it's a great place. We had uh, we
Speaker 1: had Green Jello or green Jelly whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call them, whichever name you want to use on the
Speaker 1: show not too too long ago. And before they left
Speaker 1: they ended up well Bill Mansfield said, hey, can or
Speaker 1: Man's I do that every time? Bill manns speaker. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I say Mansfield. Bill mans Speaker said
Speaker 1: something about, you know, we're gonna be back in the
Speaker 1: area in a couple of months if there's a venue
Speaker 1: that you that in the area that we could play,
Speaker 1: because they had just played at the Shaft Skiing, but
Speaker 1: they wanted to, you know, play another place coming back
Speaker 1: through and so Jenny got them booked, working with Eleanor
Speaker 1: got them booked at Terminus And what a show. A
Speaker 1: little nerve wracking because I just remember thinking the entire time,
Speaker 1: this is great, but I just hope nothing gets broken.
Speaker 2: I've worked with Bill a lot, I've booked him on
Speaker 2: a few shows. Yeah. Yeah, he brings chaos. He's a tornado.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: When they were on because it was so cool, they
Speaker 1: played Shaskiing on a Friday night and then they came
Speaker 1: in here on Saturday morning to do this, and as
Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of unusual. Usually if you're playing
Speaker 1: a venue in a city, you do all the radio
Speaker 1: stuff before, you know, to promote the show, so you know,
Speaker 1: for them to be willing to come in here. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't just Bill, he brought the whole band for
Speaker 1: them to be willing to come in the day after
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 3: That was. That was really.
Speaker 1: Cool and oh yeah, what an experience. Although just like
Speaker 1: the show at Terminus that that interview made me nervous too.
Speaker 1: It was like, you know, I just remember sitting here thinking,
Speaker 1: if anyone is ever going to get me fired, it's
Speaker 1: probably going to be Bill Mann speaker, you know.
Speaker 3: What I mean.
Speaker 1: It was just like they're like, please, Bill, please don't
Speaker 1: say anything that's gonna get me in trouble. But we
Speaker 1: are on an eight second delay, so you know. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that was. That was a lot of fun. Anyway, the
Speaker 1: point being you're gonna love Terminus. It's a great place.
Speaker 3: The show. What is the name of the show tonight?
Speaker 2: The show is Jimmy Half Dead's Christmas in Hell.
Speaker 1: Okay, and that's who's headlining, right, Jimmy half Dead.
Speaker 2: Jimmy half Dead in the dialogus, this is Jimmy's annual event, Okay.
Speaker 2: It's kind of his chaotic Chrism, his party where he
Speaker 2: gets to do his version of his holiday. Yeah, is
Speaker 2: kind of like a punk rock Grinch type of deal. Yeah,
Speaker 2: dresses up as Santa, drinks a lot of Yeagermeister.
Speaker 1: Does a Yeah, and we should talk too about this
Speaker 1: is not only it doesn't sound like it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of fun, but it's also for a great cause.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So my friend Ben Campbell who used to be
Speaker 2: a musician locally here in Manchester.
Speaker 3: Yep, I know Ben.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, yeah, he puts together a toy drive every
Speaker 2: year for the past eighteen years for CSH in the
Speaker 2: Squig Health He collects thousands of dollars, personally, goes out,
Speaker 2: does the shopping, buys the toys and hand delivers them
Speaker 2: to kids who have been in the holidays in the hospital.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know Ben, I know him as Ben Spelman
Speaker 1: from back in the day, from the band Change of Season.
Speaker 1: And yeah, always always a really good guy.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: We were kind of talking off their about how you know
Speaker 1: he could be a little rambunctious. People might have gotten
Speaker 1: the wrong idea about.
Speaker 3: Him back then.
Speaker 1: But but no, but but always uh, you know, for
Speaker 1: as long as I knew him, you know, I always
Speaker 1: had a really good heart and just a really sweet person.
Speaker 1: So in a way, it doesn't surprise me that he
Speaker 1: does this every year because he's you know, he's the
Speaker 1: type of person who would. So that's that's awesome, and uh,
Speaker 1: I gotta get him on the show. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: the guy in forever, but that's that's really really cool.
Speaker 1: Now who else is playing tonight?
Speaker 3: Is it just?
Speaker 1: Is it just your band? And and Jimmy Aftett.
Speaker 2: Or so the opening band is the musician that worked
Speaker 2: with Ben as well, Aaron Billy Do.
Speaker 1: Oh, Aaron's been on the Actually Aaron was here just
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. Yeah, a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Aaron's amazing. Yeah, Aaron was in Change of Season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's how. That's how I knew who Aaron was.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And also Dugenstein, who is a member of Green Jelly.
Speaker 3: Oh see, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's wow, that's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a very cool I do mixed genre shows, yeah,
Speaker 2: because rather than just stick with metal bands metal bands,
Speaker 2: we try to make sure that the New England music
Speaker 2: scene plays together, Yeah, plays together well and we have
Speaker 2: a good time. Of course, now that we're older, we
Speaker 2: try to throw a good cause in there and make
Speaker 2: sure that everyone has a good time. Supports something good,
Speaker 2: helps our community, helps our music community, really keeps us
Speaker 2: all together.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Let's play something and then we'll come back.
Speaker 1: And I'm dying to learn more about the band devil
Speaker 1: inside us and it sounds like you guys, you've been
Speaker 1: around for a while and I'm sure there's, uh, there's
Speaker 1: a lot to dig into there. But what should we
Speaker 1: I'll let you pick kind of put you put you
Speaker 1: on the spot, because you did send us a few
Speaker 1: things to play.
Speaker 3: What should we? I don't know if you have a
Speaker 3: single that.
Speaker 2: You're pushing or we have nothing we're pushing right now. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're currently working on some stuff, so hopefully next year
Speaker 2: we have some new material. Because we took due to
Speaker 2: the the pandemic, we took some time off. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: started families and kind of slowed down, and then the
Speaker 2: last couple of years we're like, we have that itch.
Speaker 3: Yeah done, Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: I think I had sent you I've.
Speaker 1: Got a goddess, I'm sorry, uh, Goddess for the Goddess
Speaker 1: for the godless, and I've got the worthless one.
Speaker 2: Goddess for the Godless was one of our first one
Speaker 2: of our first recordings that we actually went into a
Speaker 2: real studio and put together. So we can, and it's
Speaker 2: as far as I know. We've made sure that these
Speaker 2: were the radio friendly songs that we could push.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh yeah, I did pre screen them.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah. So we'll go with Goddess with the Godless first.
Speaker 1: All right, great, awesome if you're just joining us. Sean
Speaker 1: Devlin from Devil Inside Us is here with us, and uh,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll play this. Uh, this is called Goddess for
Speaker 1: the Goddess for the Godless. I think my u something
Speaker 1: that's fro because it's so cold out. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's my mouth because I can't seem to speak,
Speaker 1: or maybe it's my brain something neurologically has been affected
Speaker 1: by the cold weather.
Speaker 2: So forgive me the up and down. Weather doesn't help it.
Speaker 3: No, it sure doesn't.
Speaker 1: But let's give this the spin and then we're gonna
Speaker 1: come back and talk with Sean.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: It is Goddess for the Godless in a.
Speaker 4: Line is dark assures.
Speaker 5: And it's cold taes.
Speaker 4: Our tongs are top.
Speaker 5: With words. It codl like.
Speaker 6: No matter how long is you chats.
Speaker 5: Your wageness is the same.
Speaker 3: You're starting to lose.
Speaker 5: Yourself as your worshiper.
Speaker 6: The shut.
Speaker 4: Visits of the sidless fur other worstastic I try as
Speaker 4: a time and your father tartness bring tell your lifeless
Speaker 4: love the best us something I can't tell hers share
Speaker 4: jow surf.
Speaker 6: You're nothing in her mind.
Speaker 5: As you're way to weather in.
Speaker 6: Time and pine.
Speaker 4: She sees you right, that's torment in yours.
Speaker 5: That's raging her.
Speaker 6: Such joy.
Speaker 3: Spang off your bad.
Speaker 5: Like I'm mother that that stop fly.
Speaker 4: Soon you'll see that she's a beast your rights.
Speaker 5: I saint, nothing is very a a rise through you'll
Speaker 5: save that sees the place torrony ands sa nothing.
Speaker 6: That a real your fride right fry.
Speaker 2: Rise frid.
Speaker 5: Sirs the drawings. I'm gonna jaw the sidelines.
Speaker 6: I'm the drive.
Speaker 4: Tell the last, I say, Joy, I said you want
Speaker 4: the John Scramen your lifeless the.
Speaker 5: Rest of wire last I'll say, I got tell that
Speaker 5: rise do frasso thraso Rosy swear.
Speaker 4: Reschid, I swear every snojid.
Speaker 3: There is.
Speaker 1: That'll get your blood pump it on a cold Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: That is goddess for the godless. The band is Devil
Speaker 1: inside us, and we have Sean Devlin here with us,
Speaker 1: alive in studio on the Saturday morning So we were
Speaker 1: talking off air about the song and what it's about,
Speaker 1: and there's a reason why why it's particularly interesting to me.
Speaker 1: But I go go ahead and tell us what that's
Speaker 1: what that's actually about.
Speaker 2: That song is about just being addicted to something like
Speaker 2: the alert the call of whatever it is like that
Speaker 2: is to you, your your God or your goddess. Ye,
Speaker 2: you'll do anything for that thing, no matter what it takes.
Speaker 2: You'll try to get it, whether it be sex, whether
Speaker 2: it be money, whether it be anything you're greedy for,
Speaker 2: any vice. That's it's pretty much like how no matter what,
Speaker 2: no matter how you want that thing mm hmm, that
Speaker 2: thing doesn't care about you in return, right right, it's
Speaker 2: just you striving, scratch and clawing to get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, it's interesting to me because so I'm a I
Speaker 1: work as a certified hypnotherapist and I help people with
Speaker 1: addiction quite a bit, smoking being the number one thing
Speaker 1: that people come to me for to quit smoking. So
Speaker 1: but yeah, but I like what you said about, you know,
Speaker 1: when you're addicted to that something that doesn't actually care
Speaker 1: about you. You know, smoking is a great example of that.
Speaker 1: There's there's literally nothing good that comes from smoking. A cigarette, right,
Speaker 1: But you know, but once you become addicted to it,
Speaker 1: you know you're you're always craving something that does nothing
Speaker 1: for you, that doesn't give you anything, doesn't care about you.
Speaker 2: And you'll be in pain, you'll have cancer, you'll die.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, right, cigarettes will still be for sale.
Speaker 3: Right, exactly exactly.
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 3: Oh and two?
Speaker 1: Uh tell me about where the name comes from. Devilin
Speaker 1: side us and we should spell that for people too,
Speaker 1: because when people look you up online, you know they're
Speaker 1: not gonna they're not gonna know.
Speaker 2: So the name devil inside us was pretty much you know,
Speaker 2: I was, I was young, but it was a take
Speaker 2: on necessary evil. So it's that thing that everyone has
Speaker 2: inside them, or like the way it was taught. Because
Speaker 2: I'm not religious, but I was in a religious family.
Speaker 2: My family was Buddhist, but in every religion there's this
Speaker 2: version of this, and it can be applied to daily life.
Speaker 2: It's that thing you do too much good, something evil
Speaker 2: comes from it, whether it's envy, whether it's you know,
Speaker 2: someone looks at you with ill will because you're doing
Speaker 2: something they're like, what's that person's thing? Or if you
Speaker 2: do too much bad, someone wants to change it and
Speaker 2: put good into it. So for us, it was kind
Speaker 2: of fitting to have a name that kind of to
Speaker 2: some people would represent evil. To other people, if they
Speaker 2: knew what it meant, would be like, oh, that's actually
Speaker 2: kind of cool because we're you know, we're not evil people.
Speaker 2: We're not bad people, and everyone and everything, you know,
Speaker 2: no matter what it is, even if it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: a mainstream charity, there's that underlying, like someone's making a
Speaker 2: profit off of that. There's a reason for people to
Speaker 2: do the things that they do. Ye, And that's kind
Speaker 2: of all in that name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I dig it And how do you
Speaker 1: spell it? The name of the band d e v
Speaker 1: l y n s y d u S And it's
Speaker 1: two words, so it looks like a name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. When I was a I used to
Speaker 2: be a professional wrestler as well. Really, judging by the
Speaker 2: size of me, you might football player or a professional Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I went to I trained for wrestling in Malden,
Speaker 2: Massachusetts what started as Killer kawal Skis and then became
Speaker 2: Superstar Pro Wrestling. Okay, So I was there and at
Speaker 2: the same time I was involved in local music and
Speaker 2: another musician Brandon Lee was in a band called Wretched
Speaker 2: Asylum and he goes, oh, that should be uh your
Speaker 2: band name now, just before we were called den of Iniquity, okay,
Speaker 2: and you know there's also other songs and bands called that,
Speaker 2: and like there he was like, oh, you know, just
Speaker 2: like I was toying with that name. And he was
Speaker 2: one of the people that said, oh, you should do that,
Speaker 2: and then my bandmates all also were like, yeah, you
Speaker 2: should definitely, you should definitely do that. Yeah, And the
Speaker 2: name sounded cool and it stuck and people seem to
Speaker 2: like it. A lot of people pronounce it devlin sidious.
Speaker 1: Right, but which would not be a bad name, actually
Speaker 1: devilinis nod it. Oh, that's interesting. I'm curious with a
Speaker 1: name like that, dude, do people end up spelling it
Speaker 1: wrong like it? I'm sure it's been spelled wrong on
Speaker 1: a poster or two over the years, usually just the.
Speaker 2: One letter the why really yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot
Speaker 2: of people are like, oh, it sounds like it could
Speaker 2: be a person's name, which was kind of the point,
Speaker 2: right right, But yeah, no, promoters people like we've when
Speaker 2: they put us on flyers for like the Worcester Palladium
Speaker 2: or places like that. They all like, you know, or
Speaker 2: Jewel across the street. That's one comment is always that's
Speaker 2: a pretty cool band name. Yeah, you have to read
Speaker 2: it twice, right, but puts it through your head right right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I dig it. I like it a lot
Speaker 1: if you are just joining us. Of course, we have
Speaker 1: Sean Devlin here from Devil Inside Us and uh, it's
Speaker 1: interesting that.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: I'm a big wrestling fan, have been since I was
Speaker 1: a kid, and so is Jenny by the way, who
Speaker 1: also commented in the chat room she really liked that song. Oh,
Speaker 1: and I see Andre Dumont is in there as well,
Speaker 1: of course from the band and Dad Harrison and of course.
Speaker 2: Uh Ardly Mortuous Orcus.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 1: Oh I knew those guys when they were always speaking
Speaker 1: of bands that would have their names. Their name is
Speaker 1: spelled on posters when they were when they were mortuous
Speaker 1: Mortuous Ortis is that what it was?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I saw their name butchered a few times. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: Dead Harrison is amazing, great great band and great people.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Andre says, good morning. Uh it's story time.
Speaker 2: What Oh?
Speaker 1: I also see who I am is in the chat room. Hello,
Speaker 1: So I'm just curious about that. So you so you
Speaker 1: trained and were you actively a professional wrestler?
Speaker 2: Did you independently? Yeah? Yeah, I wrestled a little bit
Speaker 2: for n W a New England up in Maine kidding
Speaker 2: v c W in the Malden area and I w
Speaker 2: so a few of those places. Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 2: independent places between Maine and Rhode Island mostly.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, very cool.
Speaker 1: Did you did you ever get the ring with anybody
Speaker 1: who went on to be or or maybe somebody who
Speaker 1: had are hed been established but was on the ends.
Speaker 2: There's there's guys like Todd Hansen, who is now known
Speaker 2: as IVAR and the WWE. Oh no kidding, Yeah, he
Speaker 2: was the guy who was I was on many independent
Speaker 2: shows with Holy Battle Royals, or I would job to
Speaker 2: him in a tag team match or something. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know and in front of like fifteen people in
Speaker 2: a speaker store parking lot.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 2: And there's guys like when John Cena was the prototype.
Speaker 2: I got to work out with him in the ring
Speaker 2: a few times, no kidding, Yeah, he was because he
Speaker 2: was wrestling for Chaotic Wrestling and I used to put
Speaker 2: the ring together for them. Yeah, and he would come
Speaker 2: in and he would work out and bump with guys
Speaker 2: and yeah, a little bit of that. So yeah, mister USA,
Speaker 2: Tony Atlas, we Hall of Famer. That's someone I know
Speaker 2: pretty well. He's a pretty cool guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he seems like us. He's probably got a lot
Speaker 1: of great stories.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and off the top of my head, like my
Speaker 2: stepfather's daughter was a wrestler for TNA. Oh no kidding. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So wrestling was kind of all around me. My stepfather
Speaker 2: who raised me, kind of push pushed that on me
Speaker 2: a lot. And then I played football and a couple
Speaker 2: of guys from that wrestling school saw me and they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: you're a big dude. Well you come over here and
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe make a little money. Wasn't that
Speaker 2: much money?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Make a little money hot dog in a handshake, as
Speaker 1: they say when you're when you're starting out. Yeah what
Speaker 1: uh Now? Was that always intended to just be something
Speaker 1: you did kind of part time or.
Speaker 2: It was kind of something I got pulled into, yeah,
Speaker 2: through some friends, because overall I was always a musician first. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and like I played guitar. But what it did do
Speaker 2: for me is it really got rid of my stage fright.
Speaker 2: Oh interesting because in wrestling. You don't focus on the crowd.
Speaker 2: You focus on the task at hand, right, and.
Speaker 1: And you get to be somebody else, if you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to be, I mean you can you
Speaker 1: can be whoever you want to be, really, as a character.
Speaker 2: Or anything I want to. I was quite a few characters. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And what the weird thing was, you know? I was
Speaker 2: a chorus vocalist, I mean a soloist coming up in school,
Speaker 2: so I was taught how to sing yeah, through chorus
Speaker 2: and I would always freeze. I would do so well,
Speaker 2: and then the day of like a recital, I would freeze,
Speaker 2: and then uh, yeah, I was like I was in
Speaker 2: high school. My junior year, I did my first professional
Speaker 2: wrestling show, and from that point forward, you can't see
Speaker 2: anybody pass the lights, which made it a lot easier
Speaker 2: to get on stage, and it made it second nature.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh that's really cool. How long did you do that?
Speaker 2: For my most recent one? Because I stopped maybe maybe
Speaker 2: like eight years ago. I completely stopped, Yeah, after because
Speaker 2: I was getting beat up. Yeah, there's no health insurance
Speaker 2: in that, right. But last summer, I not this past summer,
Speaker 2: the summer before I wrestled some of my my friends
Speaker 2: Fenway Park.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Oh that's wild. That's cool, that's really cool.
Speaker 1: And that's I assume that's something too. You you like,
Speaker 1: you never forget how to do it right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the itch is always there until the next day
Speaker 2: when you can go right right a psiatic nervous pinched
Speaker 2: and you don't know why.
Speaker 1: No, that's that's fantastic. But like you were saying, though
Speaker 1: the band, you know, being a musician is really number one,
Speaker 1: your number one passion.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And now, now when did the band start?
Speaker 2: How long has devilin side Us been around? So we
Speaker 2: were called Den of Iniquity. We had a couple of
Speaker 2: other names. But when I was in when I was
Speaker 2: ten years old, my neighbor who was in a band
Speaker 2: called Travel and magdaland now he was he was like,
Speaker 2: let's start a band and ever since then. That was
Speaker 2: like ninety seven. Yeah, and then by the time we
Speaker 2: had hit high school and we were kind of fairly
Speaker 2: known and my Space days, we were like all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, you know, we put out some really crappy demos,
Speaker 2: but we played the Wister Palladium and they handed us
Speaker 2: a live CD and people liked that live CD. Awesome
Speaker 2: and actively, I would say since two thousand and five,
Speaker 2: together playing music since ninety seven, but yeah, two thousand
Speaker 2: and five. Currently I have a different band lineup, a
Speaker 2: lot of guys local to New Hampshire. Yeah, originally from
Speaker 2: the north Shore, but now we're based out of up here.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So I assume you're you're the one consistent
Speaker 1: members throughout the.
Speaker 2: Twelve or so years. Our drummer Tim has has been there,
Speaker 2: kind of been He's the quiet guy, but he's the backbone,
Speaker 2: kind of keeps everything together. He's the reason why we
Speaker 2: have good timing. He's the reason we sound as tight
Speaker 2: as we do. Yeah, he's the reason we go on
Speaker 2: stage places and people like, oh, you guys are really
Speaker 2: put together. Yeah. Has nothing to do with me, and
Speaker 2: it's the guys I surround myself with.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Guitar player Gabe, he's really great. He's great at working
Speaker 2: with the other members to try to make sure everybody's
Speaker 2: up to speed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now that's excellent.
Speaker 1: Has any of the material like from way back when
Speaker 1: he started, has any of that Have any of those
Speaker 1: songs kind of served? Do you still play the early
Speaker 1: stuff or.
Speaker 2: One or two of those songs still survived that. We
Speaker 2: have like a really cool thrash metal song called Crimson
Speaker 2: Widow that we keep there, but a lot of that
Speaker 2: earlier stuff because it was kind of a meld. We
Speaker 2: were new new metal was big. Yeah, so we still
Speaker 2: kind of have that new metal sound to this day.
Speaker 2: But back then, also, you know, I liked Metallica, but
Speaker 2: the other members liked say Nirvana and some punks, so
Speaker 2: there's like like punk riffs. Yeah, kind of gives it
Speaker 2: that like cool thrashy sounds. But yeah, once once I
Speaker 2: heard New Metal, it was like, this is this is
Speaker 2: the stuff, right right? I like Metallica, but I liked
Speaker 2: Prodigy and yeah, I heard Static X for the first
Speaker 2: time and I was like, oh, well you can put
Speaker 2: these types of music together and create something cooler.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. Well, let's let's play another tracks. So we'll
Speaker 1: play uh, let's see the other one you sent.
Speaker 2: Us, the worthless one, the worthless one. We'll play that one.
Speaker 1: We'll play that one next. Anything we should know about
Speaker 1: this one before we play it.
Speaker 2: The worthless one is pretty much you know I was.
Speaker 2: It was in a time of my life where I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, well, things weren't really going my way.
Speaker 2: I was in my late twenties, about to enter my thirties,
Speaker 2: and it's like I really hadn't pulled my life together yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know I was.
Speaker 2: I was drinking a lot, and one day I was
Speaker 2: just like, man, I'm worthless. And all the people around
Speaker 2: me knew that I felt that way and kind of
Speaker 2: took advantage of it. And you know, a little bit
Speaker 2: of an emo backstory to this one, but you know what,
Speaker 2: it was a true story and that's how I felt.
Speaker 2: And then I turned it into you know, I turn
Speaker 2: it into something different.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, great, let's give this a spin.
Speaker 1: This is called the Worthless One. The band is devil inside.
Speaker 6: Us, right fella.
Speaker 4: I under the law every day not I know some
Speaker 4: last until lunch in my mom actually find not drop
Speaker 4: right still die. So I've never a drag IX tried
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Speaker 1: The band is devil inside us and we have shown
Speaker 1: from the band here with us live in studio on
Speaker 1: this Saturday morning.
Speaker 3: And yeah, that's another another great track. Yeah we were talking.
Speaker 1: Uh, we were talking off air while I was playing
Speaker 1: about you guys have played some big shows and some
Speaker 1: great shows at the Palladium and yeah you got to play.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Ministry getting to play with them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, back when we were way more active,
Speaker 2: we would get pulled into, like pulled onto some bills
Speaker 2: that were really great. Yeah, you know, we would play
Speaker 2: with bands like Ministry. There was a band Death Grips
Speaker 2: that was on there. That show was almost sold out.
Speaker 2: We'd played there with cold bands like Coal Chamber.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In Rhode Island, we would play with bands like Static
Speaker 2: x Dope. Even up here in New Hampshire we would
Speaker 2: do the same things, like, you know, bands that were
Speaker 2: new metal bands as new metal was starting to slowly
Speaker 2: come back, and we were we were much younger when
Speaker 2: we started playing that type of music. But as younger
Speaker 2: kids being you know, younger bands, being able to pull
Speaker 2: younger people in to see those bands was really fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you must have played the Bomb Shelter up here, right.
Speaker 2: I've never played the Bomb Shelter by the.
Speaker 3: Time I could, Okay, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Now so obviously, well how often do you play now, because,
Speaker 1: like you said, so, you're not the band is not
Speaker 1: as active as it was at that time, but do
Speaker 1: you still play a lot of.
Speaker 2: Shows or recently? So last year we kind of tested
Speaker 2: the water. We did a couple of things for to
Speaker 2: raise money and collect can goods so that we could
Speaker 2: drop them off at a food shelter. We chose the
Speaker 2: FBC in Derry, New Hampshire, because what they do is
Speaker 2: they do a drive up line where they fill bags
Speaker 2: with groceries and if you can't afford food, you just
Speaker 2: pull up there, no questions asked. They give you a
Speaker 2: bag of groceries to your family. We did that. You know,
Speaker 2: we're not I've never been to charge of my life,
Speaker 2: but I saw one day I was getting gas next
Speaker 2: door and I saw I was like, wow, that's really cool.
Speaker 2: I looked into it and I said, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of people who can't feed their families. So you know,
Speaker 2: I'm fortunate now that I can. I don't have those problems,
Speaker 2: so why not help some people? Much like what Ben's doing,
Speaker 2: which what we're taking care of tonight. So now every
Speaker 2: every year in October we do can goods collection and
Speaker 2: drive and you know, this year we were able to
Speaker 2: do it for multiple things. We did some for the MSPCA.
Speaker 2: We collected over a thousand, almost one thousand dollars and
Speaker 2: bought pet food, beds, kennels, all kinds of stuff, and
Speaker 2: we were able to in my super cross track, we
Speaker 2: filled it three times front to back with things to
Speaker 2: drop off. And yeah, that's kind of was the basis
Speaker 2: of it. And then last year we got asked to
Speaker 2: play a lot more, kind of turned it down because
Speaker 2: we weren't. Then this year, once we started, we haven't
Speaker 2: stopped good. So it's booking, booking, booking. Now we're starting.
Speaker 2: I think it's looking like we're going to start booking
Speaker 2: all the way into next spring. Wow. As of right now,
Speaker 2: we're excellent. Yeah, the plan was we're gonna slow down
Speaker 2: this winter put about new music. We've been working on
Speaker 2: music for a couple of years with the help of
Speaker 2: the newer musicians in the band, Gabe Zach and Johnny
Speaker 2: and Tim and I are. Yeah, we're putting it all
Speaker 2: together and we're hopefully, hopefully we'll have newer stuff out
Speaker 2: and we'll be playing more shows and for more good
Speaker 2: causes in the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent, Where are you recording?
Speaker 2: I built a studio in my house.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So you know, as we're getting older, we used to
Speaker 2: pour thousands of dollars into it. We have a lot
Speaker 2: of unreleased music that you know, we've gone into studios
Speaker 2: and put together and just never got a finished product
Speaker 2: that we wanted. And then the stuff that we have
Speaker 2: put out is stuff that you know, it's scattered singles. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so we're right now. We thought the easiest route was
Speaker 2: to just put it together ourselves and then we're going
Speaker 2: to hire an engineer to mix a master it and
Speaker 2: then have some quality stuff. There are a lot of
Speaker 2: really good engineers. There's a lot of really good engineers
Speaker 2: in New England, Yes, who take a lot of good
Speaker 2: time and learn their craft, you know, not to keep
Speaker 2: plugging local musicians and stuff that.
Speaker 1: No, that's that's what we do here. That's absolutely Yeah.
Speaker 2: There's a musician Dave Gannon. He was in a band
Speaker 2: called Patient Zero that he does a solo project. Gannon
Speaker 2: now he does great work. Dave Weird Beard who records
Speaker 2: in Tiwksbury. He was in a band name Yeah Weird Beard.
Speaker 2: He was in a lot of local bands. He was
Speaker 2: involved with some recordings. He had some stories for some
Speaker 2: of our favorite bands like seven dustin Cold Chamber. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like he was happened to be at recording sessions for
Speaker 2: them when they were at the farm. So there's a
Speaker 2: lot of really good engineers the Brickheait House. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So you can find places that will put out you know,
Speaker 2: you record it yourself and they'll bring it to the
Speaker 2: next level and you'll have quality to put out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always say, because it comes up a lot on
Speaker 1: the show. I'm always curious how people are approachein recording
Speaker 1: because there's so many different ways to do it. And
Speaker 1: you know, there was a time and where you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: your only real option was to go to a recording
Speaker 1: studio and spend a lot of money. And now and
Speaker 1: you know, you can still do that if you find
Speaker 1: the right studio, if you find the right person to
Speaker 1: work with them. There's a lot of great talent around,
Speaker 1: like Eric Sotter from Blackheart. You probably know Eric or.
Speaker 3: Have met him. But but yeah, but you can or
Speaker 3: you can do it the way you're doing it.
Speaker 1: It's there's so many options now because of the technology,
Speaker 1: so many different ways you can record and and and
Speaker 1: you really can. You can do something at home and
Speaker 1: build your own thing and it sounds like it was
Speaker 1: done in a million dollar studio. It's it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, especially like locally, the guys like Tony and Jake.
Speaker 2: There's a local band from Manchester called Temptris. Those guys,
Speaker 2: they're always willing to help. Yeah, bands bring something to
Speaker 2: the next level. Sergio, Jess and Dan from Anaria and
Speaker 2: Matt and Matt works at the Music Mill here in
Speaker 2: Manchester and it's always helping people out. They're always willing
Speaker 2: to help out other music musicians too. Yeah, and they
Speaker 2: have their own production studio in Nashua in the same
Speaker 2: I think they're they're housed close to Terminus. Okay, so
Speaker 2: they have like a production studio in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They they put out what looked like million dollar music videos.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, their own leisure. It's very really great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in terms of video content too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The way the technology is now. It's funny because some
Speaker 1: people think people who aren't people who don't pay attention,
Speaker 1: people who aren't involved in music. They there's a misperception
Speaker 1: out there that that there's no more music videos, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like there's some people who think, well,
Speaker 1: you know, MTV doesn't do it. Anymore, and and so
Speaker 1: there really are no music videos when in reality there's
Speaker 1: more music videos than ever. Yeah, it's put them on
Speaker 1: YouTube and other social media, but it's it's still probably
Speaker 1: now more than at any time, a very important tool
Speaker 1: in terms of marketing your music. Do you guy, do
Speaker 1: you guys have any videos for Devil and Sidis?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Not yet. We well we we do. We put out
Speaker 2: a music video for single Eyes of a Psychopathy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: for for me, like we've grown so much since then.
Speaker 2: And we had we have a friend he used to
Speaker 2: work in movies in California, and he did it. He
Speaker 2: did it as a favor, my friend, Brandon Rose. He
Speaker 2: did it as a favor because when he was battling
Speaker 2: cancer once again, we put together a benefit and had
Speaker 2: some bands come out play, raise money and help his
Speaker 2: mom get an apartment out there to go back and
Speaker 2: forth from Massachusetts to LA And so he said, you know,
Speaker 2: he always wanted to repay me somehow, and with no
Speaker 2: budget at all, absolutely zero budget, he threw a music
Speaker 2: video together for our song Ays of Psychopath. You know
Speaker 2: it's a song we threw together about Michael Myers and
Speaker 2: Halloween origin story that came out and that that version
Speaker 2: that came out around that time. And yeah, so that's
Speaker 2: about it, and we have for music videos. Yeah, hopefully
Speaker 2: in the next year or two we can tap Sergio
Speaker 2: or one of these guys and get something cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes sense because obviously really kind of ramp
Speaker 1: things back up again with all the shows that you're playing.
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, no, I think that would be that
Speaker 1: would be very cool. In a moment, we'll play We'll
Speaker 1: play that Jimmy Half Dad. So is it officially it's
Speaker 1: Jimmy Half Dad that's the name of the artists or
Speaker 1: is there something else.
Speaker 2: To Jimmy Half Dead and the dialogue and the dialogue? Gotcha?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The members of that band are Johnny their drummer, and
Speaker 2: Kurt Dobel, who you will know as Psycho Deestructo from
Speaker 2: the band Green Jelly in Guelo.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2: Gotcha. So there's a lot of like a lot of
Speaker 2: the Green Jelly guys are on the show tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, that's that's really cool. That's really cool. And we
Speaker 1: should remind people too. For people just joining us, we
Speaker 1: have Sean from Devil inside us here and uh, they're
Speaker 1: going to be playing tonight at Terminus Underground in Nashua,
Speaker 1: which is and it's a very important event. We should
Speaker 1: tell people again who are just joining us, what tonight's
Speaker 1: all about.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So our mutual friend Ben he Ben Spellman, Ben Campbell,
Speaker 2: however you know him. He he does a charity every
Speaker 2: year for the past eighteen years for Chs Manchester Amiskig
Speaker 2: Health where he collects toys for kids. He goes out,
Speaker 2: he raises the money, puts his own money and purchases
Speaker 2: them himself, delivers the toys. And this year, like you know,
Speaker 2: he has the power of his popular YouTube channel Speards
Speaker 2: and Bruise, and we decided to team with him. Jimmie
Speaker 2: hafteded does his annual Christmas show, make it for a
Speaker 2: good cause. That was kind of one of the stipulations
Speaker 2: of us playing, was like, we'll make it a good cause,
Speaker 2: brings something good of it, and we'll do it at
Speaker 2: Terminus Underground, which is a new venue which is really
Speaker 2: up and coming. Oh yeah, and bring the scene together,
Speaker 2: bring people together and do something good. So that'll be
Speaker 2: a Terminus Underground tonight. Jimmy Half Dead and the Dialogues
Speaker 2: Christmas in Hell to support the Bike's beards and brew
Speaker 2: toy Drive and all for HS Manchester.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. By the way, Andre I mentioned earlier is
Speaker 1: in the chat room and he gave us a great
Speaker 1: comment here. It's always a great way to start off
Speaker 1: a show day. Get up in the morning, suck down
Speaker 1: some coffee and listen on in hearing the milestones, seeing
Speaker 1: our musicians tell their stories and histories, all to top
Speaker 1: it off with a great music event at the end
Speaker 1: of the day at Terminus Underground. The music, the artists,
Speaker 1: the feeling and atmosphere is why.
Speaker 2: We do what we do.
Speaker 1: So glad to know so many of these amazing people
Speaker 1: and work with them over the course of their life.
Speaker 1: Thank you Matt Connerton and Jen Coffee for being so
Speaker 1: amazing and sharing to the world over the airwaves.
Speaker 3: Love you all.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you andre that's a wonderful comment. We really
Speaker 1: appreciate that, and uh, you know, we're happy to do it,
Speaker 1: happy to do our part. And uh you know, this
Speaker 1: is one of the things I love to do, is
Speaker 1: talking to musicians and and you know, when it's for
Speaker 1: a great cause, you know, that's that makes it even better,
Speaker 1: you know, So, so I love that you're I love
Speaker 1: that you're doing that, and you know, and I, like
Speaker 1: I said, I got to get Bet on the show
Speaker 1: because I haven't. I haven't seen that guy in so long.
Speaker 1: But a lot of great memories there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And what I said about Andre off air, you know,
Speaker 2: when he approached me and told me what he was
Speaker 2: doing with Terminus, it was kind of based on something
Speaker 2: that had gotten shut down years ago. He wants an
Speaker 2: accessible music venue, something like there was a small club
Speaker 2: called mose Isley. It was built into this small area
Speaker 2: where bands were rehearsing and getting together. And when Andre said,
Speaker 2: this is kind of like the basis is to do
Speaker 2: that but amplify it, and a lot of that, you know,
Speaker 2: it was the mentality of someone like Anderson Mahr, who
Speaker 2: has who's passed a long time ago now. But it
Speaker 2: was always about bringing bringing the music community together and
Speaker 2: doing really cool things. And there's a lot more than
Speaker 2: people know as far as the music community all over
Speaker 2: New England all friends and we all get along and
Speaker 2: we all do stuff like this.
Speaker 1: When you were when you mentioned when we were talking
Speaker 1: off air, you mentioned Moseley and I thought that's familiar.
Speaker 1: I remember Moseley, And then I realized why I remember it.
Speaker 1: I actually played at Moseley when I was in Chemical Distance.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember Kem D. We had
Speaker 1: a we had a short run. It wasn't for that long,
Speaker 1: but had we played a show at Moseley, and I
Speaker 1: remember it being definitely one of the most unique, if
Speaker 1: not the most unique venue.
Speaker 2: They took that play. Rehearsal spaces, knocked down a wall,
Speaker 2: built a bar in the middle. You walked in, it
Speaker 2: was like a nightclub. Was in an industrial building. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: we rehearsed next door at one of the other section
Speaker 2: of the building.
Speaker 3: Oh, no, kidding.
Speaker 2: It was in the Everett Music Complex.
Speaker 3: I'll be damned.
Speaker 1: That's such a small world, isn't it. Yeah, Or it's
Speaker 1: a small scene.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody.
Speaker 1: Everybody really does kind of know each other or is
Speaker 1: connected in some way, you know, one or two degrees
Speaker 1: of separation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Moseley. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When you said it, I was like, oh, it sounds familiar,
Speaker 1: and I remember, now that's a Star Wars reference, right,
Speaker 1: I'm more of a trekye. I never really got much
Speaker 1: into Star Wars, but I know that's because if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, Yeah, there was some sort of Star Wars
Speaker 1: related theme. Wait, is Moseley the bar with all the
Speaker 1: aliens and the first one or the second one?
Speaker 2: I remember which movie?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the same with me. Yeah
Speaker 1: but okay, no that it's it's all coming back to
Speaker 1: me now. Yeah, that was a cool place. But see,
Speaker 1: so I didn't know that part of it though.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that, Like I knew.
Speaker 1: I knew the terminus because I remember Eleanor explaining it.
Speaker 1: I knew the connection to is at the Walking Dead.
Speaker 1: I knew that part, but I didn't know that that
Speaker 1: the inspiration for it originally was most Iley had no idea.
Speaker 2: I didn't know either. And I saw Andrea at a
Speaker 2: show in Lowell at Coto and when he explained that
Speaker 2: to me, yea, and when we were talking briefly, and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, that's pretty cool. That is now
Speaker 2: we get to do something cool there.
Speaker 1: That is very very cool, awesome. Oh hello to b
Speaker 1: Pinard by the way, one of our very loyal listeners
Speaker 1: who is in the chat room. Good morning, and Carol's
Speaker 1: the warow it's also in there, good morning. So we
Speaker 1: will we'll wrap up the segment with that that track
Speaker 1: from Jimmy Half Dad and the dialogues. But uh, the
Speaker 1: other thing too, I want to make sure people know
Speaker 1: because you know, we talked a lot about the show tonight.
Speaker 1: I want to encourage people to attend that. Also, Uh,
Speaker 1: where should people go to?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Where's the best place to go to keep up with
Speaker 1: everything you're doing?
Speaker 2: You can find us on Instagram and Facebook at devil
Speaker 2: inside us d e v l y n S y
Speaker 2: d U S. We don't really have a dot com anymore.
Speaker 2: We feel like that didn't really bring in a lot
Speaker 2: of traffic dot com and uh, we're not on TikTok
Speaker 2: oh Okay, I don't fully trust it. It's new to
Speaker 2: me and I'm a very simple dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't done much with it myself actually, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, Like, I have a TikTok account,
Speaker 1: but I haven't really done much with it. But very
Speaker 1: cool and uh, and you're very googleable, you know if
Speaker 1: you type in type in your name. Although the good
Speaker 1: thing that's one of the good things too about having
Speaker 1: a really unique name, you know, Yeah, it's easy to google.
Speaker 1: And it's extraordinarily unlikely that somebody else is going to
Speaker 1: pop up that another band or somebody's gonna pop up
Speaker 1: with the same name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's important, especially when it pops up on like
Speaker 2: fagelovers Dot. You know, my friends from high school that
Speaker 2: are jugglers, or some people who've seen us play with Twisted,
Speaker 2: they're like, oh my god, you're on this website. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I mean, so's Bill Jilly those guys exactly, exactly
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