Matt Connarton Unleashed: Dillon Reynolds

0:00 Speaker 1: That is a reactor number four that is from the

0:01 Speaker 1: EP Radiation Sickness. I love that. That is so good.

0:06 Speaker 1: It is Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are live on this

0:08 Speaker 1: Saturday morning. Jenny is here, of course, at the news table,

0:11 Speaker 1: present and account it far and joining us via Skype

0:15 Speaker 1: is the great Dylan Reynolds Dillon. Are you there?

0:18 Speaker 2: I am, how are you good?

0:19 Speaker 1: Good? Hey man? I love that. I love that track.

0:22 Speaker 1: I love this EP, really great stuff and I'm so

0:26 Speaker 1: happy to talk to you this morning. Tell us if

0:29 Speaker 1: you would about Radiation Sickness and what the premise is.

0:33 Speaker 1: It's got a as one. My guess from the title,

0:36 Speaker 1: there must be a story to it. It has a

0:38 Speaker 1: very specific premise, if you could explain that to us.

0:41 Speaker 2: So, yeah, Radiation Sickness, it's it's the entire EP is

0:46 Speaker 2: more like a concept DP. It's kind of building a story.

0:49 Speaker 2: But I love like post apocalyptic theme stuff, like I

0:55 Speaker 2: read novels, I play games, you know, like the Fallout

0:58 Speaker 2: series or Metros like that. Yeah, So I've always always

1:01 Speaker 2: had a really big fascination with post apocalyptic or post

1:05 Speaker 2: nuclear kind of stuff. And I was like, well, you know,

1:07 Speaker 2: I like listening or I like playing stuff like this,

1:10 Speaker 2: but you know, there's a few bands that I like

1:13 Speaker 2: that do similar stuff to that, and I was like,

1:15 Speaker 2: it's always something that I've wanted to do, So I

1:18 Speaker 2: just decided to kind of build a little, a little,

1:21 Speaker 2: I guess, minor story about what could possibly happen based

1:26 Speaker 2: off of what has already happened in the world. So

1:30 Speaker 2: kind of just piecing things together out of my brain,

1:32 Speaker 2: just having fun, and you.

1:33 Speaker 1: Know, and this is, uh, this is specifically though about Chernobyl, right,

1:38 Speaker 1: the Chernobyl disaster or is it a broader concept than

1:42 Speaker 1: than just Chernobyl.

1:44 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Reacting number four is definitely about Chernobyl.

1:47 Speaker 2: It's it's actually probably the most or the less fictitious

1:51 Speaker 2: song on the release. So, I mean I went in,

1:55 Speaker 2: I did research, you know, the time, the date, the protocol, procedure,

2:00 Speaker 2: the clean up, everything like that. And there was a

2:03 Speaker 2: good series on HBO called Chernobyl. I don't know if

2:06 Speaker 2: you've seen it.

2:06 Speaker 1: I have not it, I've heard a lot about it.

2:09 Speaker 2: Oh dude, it's it's phenomenal. So, you know, watching stuff

2:13 Speaker 2: like that and I'm like, dude, I could I could

2:15 Speaker 2: definitely write something about this. So I pieced it all together,

2:18 Speaker 2: and then you know, I took it from the first song,

2:21 Speaker 2: which was Reacting number four, and I decided just to

2:25 Speaker 2: build this entire story out based off of, you know,

2:27 Speaker 2: the one true event and that really did happen, but

2:30 Speaker 2: then other stuff inspired on, kind of like the themes

2:34 Speaker 2: and the imagery and stuff that would fit in the

2:36 Speaker 2: narrative but didn't actually happen.

2:39 Speaker 1: Yeah. It's particularly intriguing to me because I mean, I

2:42 Speaker 1: love the music, and so regardless of what it's about,

2:45 Speaker 1: I would enjoy this. But particularly intriguing to me because

2:49 Speaker 1: I'm actually I'm old enough to remember when Chernobyl happened,

2:54 Speaker 1: and I still remember coming home from school that day

2:58 Speaker 1: and the news had already broken and I come home

3:00 Speaker 1: and I'm worried, and I turn on the TV and

3:04 Speaker 1: you know, there it is. They're talking about Peter Jennings

3:07 Speaker 1: of ABC News. For those of us who who might recall, Uh,

3:11 Speaker 1: there he is talking about it. And I was freaked

3:14 Speaker 1: out because I didn't know what was going to happen.

3:16 Speaker 1: You know, is a cloud of nuclear radiation going to

3:19 Speaker 1: float all the way to the United States and kill

3:21 Speaker 1: all of us? And you know, my body Yeah, and

3:24 Speaker 1: my fears were quelled relatively quickly because you know, these

3:29 Speaker 1: experts are saying, well, you know, it's kind of unlikely

3:31 Speaker 1: that it would make it all the way here and whatnot.

3:34 Speaker 1: But at the in the moment, I was freaked out.

3:37 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know, you got to think of like

3:39 Speaker 2: the timeline too. You know, it's right towards the very

3:41 Speaker 2: end of the red scale. Everybody's afraid of, you know,

3:45 Speaker 2: the tensions with Russia and the tensions with the United States,

3:48 Speaker 2: So they're thinking, you know, you know, was this a plan?

3:51 Speaker 1: Thing?

3:51 Speaker 2: Is is something terribly going to go wrong? Can this

3:54 Speaker 2: lead to more nuclear kind of stuff? So it's a

3:57 Speaker 2: big level of uncertainty, you know, definitely before you know

4:01 Speaker 2: that the Iron Curtain came down and everything like that.

4:03 Speaker 2: But yeah, uh, it's you know, it's it's a scary

4:07 Speaker 2: theme because I mean, realistically, nobody other than the people

4:12 Speaker 2: that had to move away from the area and nobody's

4:14 Speaker 2: really been through anything like that since, so you know,

4:17 Speaker 2: imagine what would that be like if the entire world

4:20 Speaker 2: was like that. So that's the scary part of the.

4:23 Speaker 1: Topic right right now. You mentioned so there's some fictitious

4:28 Speaker 1: elements to the story also that you tell in these

4:32 Speaker 1: in these songs on the.

4:33 Speaker 2: CP definitely you know. Prippy At is the third song.

4:38 Speaker 2: It was originally supposed to be the opener track because

4:41 Speaker 2: it has a really, really really long intro in it,

4:44 Speaker 2: But then I started thinking about it, and I'm like,

4:46 Speaker 2: as far as the timeline's concerned, that it wouldn't make sense,

4:48 Speaker 2: So I decided to put that a little bit farther down.

4:51 Speaker 2: But that's actually based on there's a there's an old

4:58 Speaker 2: PC computer game called Stalker, which is about the uh

5:02 Speaker 2: there's a bunch of warring factions in the you know,

5:06 Speaker 2: the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and there's you know, mutants and

5:10 Speaker 2: Stalkers are basically guys that go in they have you know,

5:15 Speaker 2: wars and gangs and stuff like that, and they go

5:17 Speaker 2: in and they fight mutants, they fight uh you know,

5:20 Speaker 2: bandits shit like that. Sorry and sorry about that. I

5:26 Speaker 2: gotta turn on gotta turn on the radio voice.

5:30 Speaker 1: Don't We're on a delay. So I caught it.

5:33 Speaker 2: It's all good, okay, good deal, and uh but yes,

5:37 Speaker 2: so Pripyat's about the Stalker games. Radiation Sickness is more

5:41 Speaker 2: of not really based on anything, but rather the theme

5:44 Speaker 2: and then, uh, the Aftermath is a song that I wrote.

5:49 Speaker 2: I probably wrote that song like seven or eight years ago,

5:52 Speaker 2: and I just never had anything to kind of put

5:54 Speaker 2: it with. And it's it's more of like, you know,

5:58 Speaker 2: the the Big screw as the Big Terror of the fires.

6:01 Speaker 2: Everything is for the most part been put out, but

6:03 Speaker 2: it's about what remains after and it's all these people

6:06 Speaker 2: just basically either one trying to survive or two banding

6:11 Speaker 2: together to take whatever they want. So kind of Mad

6:14 Speaker 2: Max in a way.

6:15 Speaker 1: I guess, Yeah, I'm curious, do you know, uh, how

6:20 Speaker 1: do I fraise it? Do you do you know why

6:22 Speaker 1: you're interested in this subject and these themes like did

6:27 Speaker 1: you did you grow up always having a fascination with

6:30 Speaker 1: sort of apocalyptic or post apocalyptic stuff or or is

6:35 Speaker 1: this something you've always been into or and do you

6:37 Speaker 1: know where it comes from? I'm always super curious about

6:40 Speaker 1: this kind of.

6:41 Speaker 2: Thing, definitely. So I grew up watching Mad Max. Some

6:45 Speaker 2: of my favorite movies of all time Road Warrior, you know,

6:49 Speaker 2: beyond Thunderdome, and I've always liked that concept, and then

6:54 Speaker 2: a couple of years when I was growing up later

6:57 Speaker 2: into it, you know, like movies like the Book of

7:00 Speaker 2: Eli came out, and just seeing that kind of down

7:04 Speaker 2: you know, dirty gritty themes and imagery, and I'm just like, dude,

7:10 Speaker 2: this is it kind of brings humanity back to its

7:13 Speaker 2: primal stage. You know, there is no you're my neighbor

7:17 Speaker 2: and I'm going to take care of you anymore. It's

7:19 Speaker 2: you have what I want and I'm going to come

7:20 Speaker 2: take it. So it's always kind of fascinating me. I

7:23 Speaker 2: guess maybe like on a I don't know, like a

7:27 Speaker 2: mental or a psychological level, like what could make humanity

7:30 Speaker 2: revert back to the most basic of instincts? Yeah, and

7:35 Speaker 2: the Great Reset would do that, And so it's just

7:37 Speaker 2: I guess it's just always been fascinating to me on

7:39 Speaker 2: that level. So anytime a new book comes out that's

7:45 Speaker 2: post apocalyptic and theme, or a movie or a game,

7:49 Speaker 2: I'm usually the first one to try it. Plus, you know,

7:52 Speaker 2: I grew up playing Fallout. It's one of my favorite

7:54 Speaker 2: game series of all times, so I've always always kind

7:58 Speaker 2: of really read into it from that angle to So

8:00 Speaker 2: is that.

8:01 Speaker 1: What I'm not a gamer, but I assume Fallout is

8:04 Speaker 1: that that that's about something having to do with nuclear radiation.

8:06 Speaker 1: I assume.

8:07 Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, so Fallout is sent in. I think it's

8:16 Speaker 2: like two hundred years after a great nuclear war devastates

8:20 Speaker 2: the entire world. Yeah, and I won't get into the

8:25 Speaker 2: lord because it's just too much to talk about. But essentially,

8:29 Speaker 2: the government built underground vaults and bunkers and they decided

8:34 Speaker 2: to risk, you know, certain people underground in a way

8:37 Speaker 2: to write it out where they could come back after

8:39 Speaker 2: most of the radiation goes away. And when a lot

8:41 Speaker 2: of them open up, they realize it never went away,

8:45 Speaker 2: and there's bandits, there's some small vestiges of humanity left,

8:50 Speaker 2: and it's it's a really cool role playing experience. If

8:55 Speaker 2: if you ever decide to get into any of them,

8:57 Speaker 2: I would heavily recommend it. It's just it's a it's

9:00 Speaker 2: a fun, fun experience.

9:01 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I yeah, I won't. I actually, about twenty

9:06 Speaker 1: years ago was the last time I ever held any

9:09 Speaker 1: kind of a game controller, and I had to put

9:11 Speaker 1: it down and I said, I'm never playing any more

9:13 Speaker 1: games because I found it very psychologically addictive.

9:18 Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, yeah.

9:20 Speaker 1: The last video game I ever played. I remember I

9:23 Speaker 1: was at a friend's house and they had fallen asleep

9:25 Speaker 1: and it was like one am, and I had started

9:27 Speaker 1: playing this game at like nine pm, and there it

9:28 Speaker 1: is four hours later, and I'm looking at the clock

9:30 Speaker 1: and I'm like, I can't do this anymore. And I

9:33 Speaker 1: actually stopped because that's that's exactly the kind of thing

9:35 Speaker 1: that I would get sucked into.

9:37 Speaker 2: And then oh, yeah, yes, dude, it's it's even worse.

9:41 Speaker 2: Like I had add. Man, it's really hard for me

9:43 Speaker 2: to concentrate on certain things. But if you put a

9:47 Speaker 2: controller in my hand, you know, just like you say,

9:49 Speaker 2: it'll be eight pm, and the next time you look

9:51 Speaker 2: at the clock, it's four or four am, and you're like,

9:53 Speaker 2: what happened? So I get it.

9:55 Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, this is a little bit, a little bit

9:59 Speaker 1: of a left turn topically. But you mentioned a d D.

10:04 Speaker 1: I uh do some work with some podcasting with a

10:09 Speaker 1: gentleman named doctor Kevin ross Emory and a d D ADHD.

10:13 Speaker 1: It's kind of a specialty of his, and he talks

10:15 Speaker 1: about he has a book called Managing the Gift, for example,

10:18 Speaker 1: and he talks about a lot about how people with

10:21 Speaker 1: ad D actually tend to be more creative and and

10:26 Speaker 1: accomplish more in terms of their creativity and and and

10:30 Speaker 1: you know, just uh, you know, whether it be music

10:33 Speaker 1: or visual art or whatever it is. I mean, do

10:36 Speaker 1: you feel that, Like I said, I know, this is

10:39 Speaker 1: kind of a curve. You probably didn't expect to be

10:40 Speaker 1: talking about this, but I'm curious since since you mentioned it,

10:43 Speaker 1: do you feel that your ad D helps you because

10:45 Speaker 1: you're you're such a creative person. Do you feel that

10:48 Speaker 1: it helps you in some way with your in terms

10:51 Speaker 1: of making music and everything else.

10:54 Speaker 2: Definitely, I feel like I to a degree, I hyper

10:59 Speaker 2: think say it on things that I like. So you know,

11:04 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say like I'm a teetotal perfectionist. But

11:08 Speaker 2: if I look at something and I realize, you know,

11:11 Speaker 2: that could be slightly better, you know, I'll It's there's

11:14 Speaker 2: an old common saying. It's like, you know, if you're

11:17 Speaker 2: painting something, you're never really done painting it. It's just

11:19 Speaker 2: when you decide to quit, because you can always add

11:22 Speaker 2: more pain. Right. So it's the same thing with music.

11:25 Speaker 2: You know, I do graphic art. It's the same thing

11:29 Speaker 2: with that as well. I can sit at a computer

11:31 Speaker 2: and make a million tiny changes that probably ninety percent

11:35 Speaker 2: of people wouldn't realize. But if I don't do them,

11:37 Speaker 2: I'll look at it and I face I should have

11:39 Speaker 2: done that, So yeah, kind of. And then on the

11:44 Speaker 2: flip side of it, you know, you get like writer's

11:48 Speaker 2: block or designer's block a lot. So sometimes you just

11:52 Speaker 2: sit there and be frustrated at a computer trying to

11:55 Speaker 2: write something or trying to design something, to the point

11:57 Speaker 2: where you have to take a break, and sometimes it sucks.

12:00 Speaker 2: But that break is like a month long, and then

12:02 Speaker 2: when you come back from that break, it's like everything

12:04 Speaker 2: falls into place. But you know, if you spend too

12:07 Speaker 2: much time on something then you'll you'll just get annoyed

12:10 Speaker 2: with it.

12:11 Speaker 1: Right, But but yeah, do you You've always got multiple things

12:16 Speaker 1: going on creatively anyway, right, so i'd imagine, oh yeah,

12:19 Speaker 1: it's kind of move from one thing to the next,

12:20 Speaker 1: but but they're all they're all always in motion.

12:24 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's and that's the way to keep it fresh too,

12:26 Speaker 2: is you know, you get a little frustrated with one thing,

12:28 Speaker 2: put it down, run to the next, knock that out,

12:31 Speaker 2: come back. So that definitely does help. Yeah.

12:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned too being a graphic artist, so

12:36 Speaker 1: obviously you do all the artwork for you know, like

12:38 Speaker 1: radiation Sickness, you did all all that yourself, I would imagine, right.

12:42 Speaker 2: Uh yeah, So normally, under normal circumstances, I'll be one

12:46 Speaker 2: hundred percent transparent with it. For normal clients that I have,

12:49 Speaker 2: I never use AI generated art. I think it's a

12:53 Speaker 2: cool tool to get inspiration, but I don't ever use

12:57 Speaker 2: it for clients in mind. Yeah, I did use it

12:59 Speaker 2: for my stuff just because it's something I wanted to

13:01 Speaker 2: put out as quick as possible, so I did a

13:04 Speaker 2: lot of editing to it. But for the most part,

13:06 Speaker 2: it is generated. But like I said, it's it's only

13:09 Speaker 2: stuff that I've used for for my personal stuff. That way,

13:12 Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not going to charge somebody, you know,

13:15 Speaker 2: however much I charge for a design when it, you know,

13:19 Speaker 2: took ten seconds to generate versus you know, then tell

13:22 Speaker 2: me something specific and I'll make it myself.

13:24 Speaker 1: Sure. Sure, yeah. But but yeah, that's interesting because that's

13:28 Speaker 1: another subject that comes up a lot on this show,

13:30 Speaker 1: you know, AI and and how it affects the music

13:34 Speaker 1: industry and art and so forth. Are you how do

13:39 Speaker 1: you feel about AI in terms of music? Are you

13:41 Speaker 1: worried about it? Do you care?

13:42 Speaker 2: Is it?

13:43 Speaker 1: Uh, there's a lot of varying opinions on the matter.

13:50 Speaker 2: Well, you know me, I love rock music, right, yes,

13:54 Speaker 2: as far as when it comes to playing it live,

13:58 Speaker 2: you know, rock bands historically played every for the most part,

14:01 Speaker 2: played every instrument live. Pop music resorts a little bit

14:05 Speaker 2: more towards backing tracks and not as many live musicians.

14:09 Speaker 2: So in a way, it's a stretch. But in a

14:14 Speaker 2: way I kind of look at it, like, how is

14:17 Speaker 2: AI any different than a pop singer playing live If

14:20 Speaker 2: they're just playing to music behind them and then somebody

14:23 Speaker 2: hits a button and generates a couple beats. I'm kind

14:26 Speaker 2: of in that. Like I said, it's a stretch. Now

14:30 Speaker 2: as far as being like a complete creative process, like

14:34 Speaker 2: you know, I'm going to pump in a formula on

14:37 Speaker 2: the computer and it's gonna pull out beats for me,

14:39 Speaker 2: it's gonna pull out chord patterns, it's gonna do that.

14:41 Speaker 2: Don't really believe in that. I don't find that creative

14:43 Speaker 2: at all. But maybe using it as just an inspiration

14:47 Speaker 2: tool rather than the means to an end I think

14:52 Speaker 2: would probably be okay.

14:53 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's going to be very interesting in

14:56 Speaker 1: the coming years to see how the music industry deals

14:59 Speaker 1: with it. And so forth. But getting back to radiation

15:04 Speaker 1: sickness for a moment. So are you performing these songs

15:07 Speaker 1: live or is this strictly a studio project or how

15:11 Speaker 1: are you proceeding with it?

15:12 Speaker 2: Currently? Studio project only? In my normal day to day,

15:18 Speaker 2: I'm extremely busy, so I don't have a lot of

15:20 Speaker 2: time to go out and find guys that I trust

15:22 Speaker 2: you can learn all the material and then grind and

15:24 Speaker 2: play a whole bunch of shows. So it's more just

15:27 Speaker 2: fun for me and a little bit of a segue.

15:32 Speaker 2: It helps me build up a catalog which gets me,

15:35 Speaker 2: you know, different doors open. Like right now, I am

15:38 Speaker 2: writing the soundtrack for a local movie based out of Hickory,

15:44 Speaker 2: North Carolina. Oh, so we're writing. It's a full, complete

15:49 Speaker 2: independent movie. So they wanted to do an eighties style

15:54 Speaker 2: slasher thriller. Oh and they wanted a complete hard rock

16:00 Speaker 2: soundtrack to go with the movie. So it's somebody that

16:02 Speaker 2: I've known for years. That's he's a writer, he's an author,

16:05 Speaker 2: he's done a lot of really cool stuff. And he

16:07 Speaker 2: asked me, He's like, hey, do you want to do this?

16:09 Speaker 2: And I said, yeah, you don't even have to pay me.

16:11 Speaker 2: Let's do it. Yeah, so you know, even if it's

16:15 Speaker 2: something small like that, they can get the door open.

16:19 Speaker 2: You know. I'm I'm extremely I've already got five or

16:22 Speaker 2: six songs. If I get permission when it gets closer

16:26 Speaker 2: to release time, I'd love to send you one. Oh yeah, yeah,

16:29 Speaker 2: that way we can we can do a little bit

16:31 Speaker 2: of promotion on that.

16:32 Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely. Oh that's very cool and that's that's certainly

16:35 Speaker 1: right up your alley. Are you Are you playing out

16:38 Speaker 1: at all currently? Do do you do any live shows

16:41 Speaker 1: of any kind? I know you you have the h

16:43 Speaker 1: I don't know if you still do it the Judas

16:44 Speaker 1: Priests at Tribute band.

16:46 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, we still do Unleashed the Classic Judas Priests Tribute.

16:49 Speaker 2: We actually just got back from Virginia about three weeks

16:53 Speaker 2: ago and we played a showdown there for a biker rally. Cool,

16:56 Speaker 2: So we did that. We got some stuff coming up

16:59 Speaker 2: in October. We we try to do like bar hop.

17:01 Speaker 2: We don't want to be weekend Warriors because we all

17:03 Speaker 2: have full time jobs and families and everything like that.

17:06 Speaker 2: So yeah, we try to do like five six, seven

17:09 Speaker 2: big shows a year and then just spend the rest

17:11 Speaker 2: of the time with family.

17:12 Speaker 1: So yeah, Oh that's cool. Is it challenging singing?

17:16 Speaker 2: You know?

17:16 Speaker 1: Halford obviously one of the greats uh some would say

17:20 Speaker 1: the best, you know, the metal god Rob Halford. Is

17:22 Speaker 1: that challenging to do? I mean, do you have to

17:26 Speaker 1: especially whereas, like you said, if you're only doing five

17:28 Speaker 1: or six big shows a year with that project, is

17:31 Speaker 1: that to get your voice in shape for that? Is

17:34 Speaker 1: that challenging at all? Or is it perfectly natural? Or

17:38 Speaker 1: how do you approach that vocally?

17:40 Speaker 2: Now that I have spent years singing it, you know,

17:43 Speaker 2: I could go weeks without practice, go to you know,

17:46 Speaker 2: then go to a rehearsal and play it like we've

17:48 Speaker 2: been playing it for a year straight.

17:50 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I.

17:51 Speaker 2: Would probably indirectly, I would probably credit Halford for getting

17:55 Speaker 2: my voice the way it is, learning how to sing

17:58 Speaker 2: his stuff, because you know, if you listen vocally on

18:03 Speaker 2: the Radiation Sickness EP, it's very guttural. It's very raspy, rowy,

18:07 Speaker 2: which is how I originally learned to sing. I grew

18:09 Speaker 2: up listening to you know, early Pauldiano, Iron Maiden, really

18:14 Speaker 2: deep voice because that's what I had. I didn't have

18:16 Speaker 2: a high pitched voice growing up singing, so I learned

18:19 Speaker 2: how to sing like that, and then I get into it,

18:23 Speaker 2: and you know, that's these guys that I've been playing

18:25 Speaker 2: with for a while. We were doing like variety eighties metal,

18:28 Speaker 2: just you know, for fun, going and playing a couple

18:30 Speaker 2: of shows a year, doing whatever. And then we all

18:32 Speaker 2: decided let's do let's do one band, and we all

18:35 Speaker 2: agreed on Priests. Then I'm sitting here thinking, oh my,

18:38 Speaker 2: I have to learn sing like Priest. So it took years,

18:43 Speaker 2: years and years and years to learn how to how

18:45 Speaker 2: to get Halford's nuances. How especially his high screams. Those

18:49 Speaker 2: are some of those are really brutal. But but like

18:54 Speaker 2: I said, man, the only way to do it is

18:56 Speaker 2: to do it, and I just I went out there

18:59 Speaker 2: and I practiced for years just that. I mean, the

19:02 Speaker 2: same songs over and over and over and just try

19:05 Speaker 2: to get a little better at each time. And man,

19:07 Speaker 2: I've probably grown at least an entire octave range learning

19:13 Speaker 2: how to sing his stuff. Yeah, it's been tough, is there?

19:16 Speaker 1: I'm curious, is there any particular pret song that really

19:20 Speaker 1: gave you a hard time?

19:21 Speaker 2: Is there?

19:21 Speaker 1: Is there one you can pinpoint as being the most challenging.

19:24 Speaker 2: Yes, there is a song called Devil's Child and it

19:31 Speaker 2: is off of the Screaming for Vengeance album.

19:34 Speaker 1: YEP.

19:35 Speaker 2: It is absolutely and it was one of the first

19:39 Speaker 2: songs they wanted to learn too, so it was right. So,

19:43 Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's tough, man. There is a there's

19:47 Speaker 2: kind of like a bridge section where it's just nothing

19:49 Speaker 2: but you know, his highest screaming piercing notes. And it's

19:53 Speaker 2: not like there's different levels to Hawford's screams. There's low

19:57 Speaker 2: screams and there's high and that mid section is nothing

20:01 Speaker 2: but high screams. Chorus is high screams. I mean it's yeah,

20:06 Speaker 2: it's tough, man, I think. I mean, honestly, this is

20:08 Speaker 2: kind of gonna be weird to say, but I think

20:10 Speaker 2: I could sing Painkiller easier than I could sing Devil's Child.

20:14 Speaker 1: Really.

20:14 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's right in the pocket. I don't know how

20:16 Speaker 2: to describe other than that with my voice. Yeah, but

20:19 Speaker 2: I can hit those screams all day long because they're

20:22 Speaker 2: not They're right about in the same zone. So it's

20:24 Speaker 2: the not monotonous, but it doesn't gas me out. Devil's

20:29 Speaker 2: Child for some reason, dude, that song kills me every time.

20:33 Speaker 1: But it's probably kind of cool in a way that

20:35 Speaker 1: you had to you said that was one of the

20:37 Speaker 1: first ones or the first one they wanted you to learn,

20:39 Speaker 1: because I mean, if you can sing that, you can

20:42 Speaker 1: sing any of it, right, If that's yes, So that's

20:45 Speaker 1: probably a good way to start from that standpoint.

20:48 Speaker 2: Oh definitely, yeah, yeah, yeah.

20:50 Speaker 1: Pretty cool. Uh, Dylan, the time goes so quickly. I

20:54 Speaker 1: do want to so we'll let you go in a moment,

20:56 Speaker 1: but I want to end the segment by playing another

20:58 Speaker 1: track from Radiation Sickness. Uh, but I'd like you to

21:02 Speaker 1: choose what would be a good uh, what would be

21:03 Speaker 1: a good one to end with.

21:05 Speaker 2: Let's go with the title track.

21:10 Speaker 1: Oh there it is. Yeah, I'm staring right at it

21:12 Speaker 1: and not seeing it. Clearly I need more caffeine. All right,

21:16 Speaker 1: very good, So we'll play that. We'll play the title

21:17 Speaker 1: track from Radiation Sickness And Dylan, where should people go

21:20 Speaker 1: online to keep up with everything that you're doing? To

21:23 Speaker 1: find the EP and and just anything else if you

21:26 Speaker 1: want to plug your your work as a graphic artist,

21:29 Speaker 1: anything our listeners should know about you.

21:31 Speaker 2: So for graphic artwork, you can find me at atom

21:35 Speaker 2: A t O M Bomb Artwork, dot com uh music

21:40 Speaker 2: general updates, or on my YouTube channel YouTube dot com

21:43 Speaker 2: slash Dangerous Dylan with a Z not an S. And

21:47 Speaker 2: you can just find me generally on Facebook under doing

21:49 Speaker 2: Reynolds or doing Renolds music, and that's typically where I

21:53 Speaker 2: keep everything else. Also, if you want to check out

21:55 Speaker 2: the Unleashed tribute, we are on Facebook as Unleashed the

21:58 Speaker 2: Classic Judas Priest.

22:00 Speaker 1: Very cool, very cool. All right, Dylan Reynolds, thank you

22:04 Speaker 1: so much, my friend. I'm gonna hit this track and

22:06 Speaker 1: I appreciate you joining us today and we will uh

22:08 Speaker 1: we'll do this again, uh in the uh your future,

22:11 Speaker 1: I'm sure.

22:12 Speaker 2: Alrighty man, thank you for letting me be on absolutely anytime.

22:15 Speaker 1: All right, Thanks Jill, and take care later, buddy,