Matt Connarton Unleashed: Horror

0:00 Speaker 1: And joining us alive in studio, we have Dan from the band Horror. Hello, sir, Hey, it's great to be here, Matt, thank you. Yeah, welcome to the program. Looking forward to playing some of your tunes today and getting to know you a little bit part of why you're here. So today it's kind of a kind of a theme today we're talking to people who are going to be on this big show coming up October nineteenth at Terminus our friends at Terminus in Nashua, New Hampshire. You guys are going to be playing there along with we just had Able Blood here there on that show as well.

0:32 Speaker 1: We've got the Gray Curtain coming up in the third hour, also Questing Beasts on that show and the Megans Dead Harrison of course, and that's going to be coming up October nineteenth. So it's wonderful to have you here. Tell Us about tell Us about the band, tell Us about Horror.

0:51 Speaker 2: So me and my buddy Steve, we started it years ago. It was just a little project we were doing in high school, and as it turned out, people wanted to join. My buddy George started playing the bass for us, and then afterwards his brother Johnny and we had a couple incarnations of lineups throughout the years, but we finally here settled on our main one now where we're gonna be going out playing shows. And this is actually our record release show at Terminus. Oh congratulations, thank you. Yeah, it's we've been working hard for years to actually get there.

1:23 Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, it's it's gonna be an awesome night. Super excited about it.

1:29 Speaker 1: Yeah. So it's a full album.

1:33 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, full album?

1:34 Speaker 1: Okay, and where did you record?

1:36 Speaker 2: Well, we recorded ut Blackheart Sound with Eric.

1:40 Speaker 1: Okay, Eric Sotter, Yeah, sir, Yeah, we always say. We had him on the show a few months ago, and you know, his his name. It was great to have him on because his name comes up on the show a lot. Actually, Abel Blood, who was here in the first hour their album. I think Eric, they didn't record there with him, but he Eric mastered the album, I believe. Okay, yeah, but yeah, so, uh, and what went into the decision to do a full album because obviously you have options, you know, you can you can do an album, you can do an EP, you can just release singles.

2:11 Speaker 1: Why did you guys decide to do a full album?

2:13 Speaker 2: Well, we had so much material at this point, we were like, you know what, screw, we might as well just do the whole thing and then drop it. You know, we collaborated with this artist Mexicine Ta Cardi from he makes insane artwork. Okay, our album cover is actually made in his blood. Crazy stuff.

2:32 Speaker 1: Really yeah, yeah, like he put his blood in the ink.

2:35 Speaker 2: I think so. I have no idea, but I know he made it with his blood, which wow, we thought was absolutely crazy.

2:43 Speaker 1: Well, let's play a track, and I think we're gonna move you to a different microphone. For those of you watching on video. That one needs some leavitre or something. But here, let's let's play a song. I'm gonna play. Huh, let's play. Oh, let's play Exorcists. I really like this one. And then we'll come back and talk about it. If you're just joining us, we have Dan from the band Horror here with us, live in studio.

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4:12 Speaker 4: Of us to a set up, sirs, great ail spills, go rel brows.

4:19 Speaker 5: And a night that night, my sloud and my death side nights and fives bloss Sable.

4:28 Speaker 3: Said, I want some.

4:33 Speaker 5: John Child light.

4:36 Speaker 6: There inside a grave inside so.

4:44 Speaker 7: Out, go slap lay all say house lessens a day and excited Sis says lay out, sid it out insense gonna tight and a.

4:58 Speaker 3: Straight siss ye speaking dolls and gar used to be large.

5:32 Speaker 4: Prison goll jurkling down the arks the other or the work.

5:40 Speaker 7: Doll r something I said, I say, shout subjecked myster dagger a day shot rybody got Jason's brain.

5:51 Speaker 6: Or all does hun chop rins step in sight little girl unside the soul, go.

6:06 Speaker 5: Out to out doing s ray out.

6:09 Speaker 7: And say that the house go sast left, I tight bet, I say sack some says ray out and say that the house mon sasla height and I say a.

6:21 Speaker 1: Somethings that'll get the blood pumping. That is Exorcist and the band is Horror and we have Dan from Horror here in studio with us. All right, let's see, let's see how this mic is working. How you doing, Dan? I can't hear you, and I don't know why, but uh, let's see go ahead and talk. You are not there, Uh, you're you're on a You're on one of these channels.

7:45 Speaker 2: All right, I found you awesome there?

7:50 Speaker 3: All right?

7:51 Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're just joining us. We had to switch down to a different mic. But these things happen. But no, that that mic never fails us. He doesn't like it when I say that, because she thinks I'm gonna jank said, yes you are. But so far, so far, that mike has been phenomenal. So yeah, I love that. I love the time changes, especially the breakdown at the end. Oh, the groove on that is just truly remarkable. And so now you were saying off air while that was playing, So that's just you and Steve? Is that the drummer?

8:24 Speaker 2: Yeah, so you, me and my drummer. We went into Derek's studio. We recorded the whole thing. Steve got the drums down, I did the bass, the guitars, the vocals, and Eric killed it with the production and the master or the mixing. It was absolutely killer.

8:37 Speaker 1: Yeah, but is that how you did the full album?

8:40 Speaker 2: Or yeah it is, Okay, it's the entire album.

8:42 Speaker 1: So the whole thing is just the two of you. Yeah, Oh wow, wow, very cool? Is that a lot of Is that a lot of pressure? Is that, you know, because you're doing I mean, aside from the drums, you're doing everything else. I mean, that's a lot that's a lot for one guy.

8:54 Speaker 2: Well, it's not particularly a lot of pressure. We had a bunch of material for a while now, right, and so we had a lot of time to practice it. So everything that we did was I went into the studio, knew exactly what I needed to do for each part. Yeah, banged it out.

9:07 Speaker 1: So in some ways it's easier, right, because you're not dealing with you know, I've played in a lot of bands, but never anything like what you're doing in terms of just you know, two guys going in and doing everything. So not having to deal with multiple schedules and all of that. I mean, I can see where in that sense it's probably a lot easier.

9:25 Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, that and you can make it sound exactly how you wanted to.

9:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, that's that's great. Now, where does the song Exorcist?

9:36 Speaker 8: Is that?

9:37 Speaker 1: Or were you inspired by the film or the book.

9:39 Speaker 2: Or oh absolutely the film. Yeah, I've seen that film like one hundred thousand times as a kid, you know, Oh god, yes, yeah, And well, I mean my band is based around telling horror stories, the horrors of life. Our next album is going to be about a little bit more of a realistic approach. But this album is about, you know, the fantasy side of horror.

9:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know A funny thing about The Exorcist. For me, I think it's an incredible film. But I have a list, actually it's a short list, but I have a list of films that I think are just some of the most just incredible theatrical accomplishments of all time that I never want to see again, you know what I mean? And that's how I feel about The Exorcist. I think it's an amazing film, fantastic. I've seen it once and I never want to see it again. I'm trying to think, what is it? Requiem for a Dream?

10:30 Speaker 8: Is that?

10:30 Speaker 2: Oh God?

10:31 Speaker 1: Dream? You know the film? Yeah, that's that's another one that's on my list.

10:35 Speaker 2: I saw that one once, so yeah.

10:38 Speaker 1: Great film. I would recommend it to anybody. I'm never watching it again. Who writes the songs? Do you write everything? Or does Steve help you with that?

10:49 Speaker 3: Yeah?

10:49 Speaker 2: Yeah, Steve does the drums. He'll give me ideas for guitars and solos and whatnot, and and I'll write my parts. But now that we have we have two new members. We got our basis will about a little over a year ago and dude's been killing it. One of the greatest basses I've ever met in my entire life. And you get an awesome guy, awesome musician. And we had just recently within the past like two months, got a new guitar samed Cody Parsons. He also plays with a band called Martial Law. Awesome group, awesome bunch of guys.

11:22 Speaker 2: I've known them for a long long time. Yeah, but now that we're all writing together, it sounds totally different, but in the same vein it's really really cool.

11:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, why did you bring in these other guys initially for live shows?

11:36 Speaker 2: Initially? Yeah, and I wanted to see like how it would go writing with them and everything. And I love it. It's really cool to be able to write with like a group of people, you know, because I'm writing with Steve's awesome, but getting more input, different perspectives, different musical backgrounds from people. It's absolutely killer.

11:54 Speaker 1: It's good that you're able to do that and embrace it, because not everyone can. You know, some people are kind of not necessarily selfish, but but you know, some people can't just or it's hard for them to really kind of open that up, right, So it's great that you're able to do that did before these other guys joined the band, when like, did you ever do any live shows just you and Steve? Did you ever try to hole that off or with Yeah, I don't know how you would even do it, but maybe with backing tracks or something.

12:25 Speaker 8: Yeah.

12:25 Speaker 2: We I mean at that point we didn't have the money I mean for like an amplifier at that point, you know, so shows were super far out of our heads. Once we did get our bassist Johnny years ago, we played a couple of shows. It's usually down like way southern mass Okay, we only played a couple, but yeah, with this new incarnation of Horror. We played one show with a guitarist we're working with for a little bit named Brandon and I forgot where it was exactly, but it went really well. Was an awesome show.

12:58 Speaker 2: We met the band Vincent Crowley. They they were awesome guys, and uh, is it a really fun time? Yeah?

13:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. When these when new people come into the band, I mean I imagine it takes a little bit of time for them to learn everything. I mean, it's you know, it's fairly sophisticate and also too you know, with what you're doing. And that song Exorcist is a great example. I mean, you've really got to have your chops because it's time changes and oh sure, you know, just really uh you know, it's it's complex, it's not it's not three chord verse chorus, verus chorus roll.

13:31 Speaker 6: You know.

13:32 Speaker 1: Yeah, so i'd imagine you know, they've they've really gotta spend some time.

13:36 Speaker 2: It's funny. It's funny you say that because with the musicians that I have now, it almost took them no time at all.

13:42 Speaker 1: That's awesome.

13:42 Speaker 2: They sat down, they learned it. It was I was blown away. Yeah, Will learned it really fast. Cody, I mean, he's recording bands, he has his own studio, he's doing all this stuff, and he's still banged out the entire album a month. It was an absolutely killer.

13:58 Speaker 1: Oh that's great. Oh yeah, that's great. Are all the songs? Uh well, let me ask it this way. Is there a theme to the album? I mean, I mean, you know you talked about, you know what what the subject matter is is that is that? Is there a story to the album or are they all just kind of about, like like what you described earlier.

14:15 Speaker 2: Some songs are just kind of about horror in general. Yeah, Black Widow. We have about Countess Bathory, Exorcist, about the Exorcist, you know, and then then we have songs like Darkness and Agony, which are about depression and really that dark place, you know, that really dark mental place that you get, especially when you feel hopeless, be like everything's coalling apart for you. Yeah, and I wanted to take that and put it into music as well as I could. Yeah, so the horrors of life?

14:45 Speaker 1: Is that something that you deal with?

14:47 Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, Yeah, you have depression, mental health issues I think are very very much looked over, underfunded. It's awful.

14:56 Speaker 8: You know.

14:57 Speaker 1: That's something that we discuss a lot on the show, and we have act really for years because so I'm pretty open about it now. I haven't always been, but I also struggle with depression and uh, you know.

15:08 Speaker 2: We who was it?

15:10 Speaker 1: We had somebody on the show. Who do we have on the show last week we were talking about the same thing music could be? Oh no, it was I'm sorry it was ever Felt.

15:20 Speaker 3: Oh.

15:21 Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this band Ever Felt. They're from Illinois. They skyped in, but they they they write a lot about that kind of thing. Too, and you know, but it's but it's it's also their music is is kind of dark, but it's they have more of a psychedelic metal thing going. But we were talking about with Adam Seglich, the singer, about how, you know, he likes the music to be really dark even though the lyrics are actually quite hopeful, because his his approach is, you know, you're in this dark tunnel.

15:50 Speaker 1: I want to meet you there. I want to meet you where you are to bring you this message hope. And he described it as a tunnel and I was like, yeah, I can relate to that. I can relate to all of that.

16:00 Speaker 2: That's a lot happier than the way I went.

16:03 Speaker 8: No.

16:03 Speaker 1: But like, but you're right though, I mean, these things are not addressed enough, and you know, there's a lot of stigma around all of that. So and and another thing we talked about a lot on the show is when you can take these terrible things and and create something with them. So you're taking something negative, but you're creating something positive with it, right, you know, And that's to me, that's the best therapy, right, you know, absolutely, if you can use these things that drag us down, or traumatic events or whatever it is, but then create with that.

16:35 Speaker 1: Yes, that's the best, the best way to deal with it.

16:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. You know, I want to touch upon some more themes in this upcoming album to uh. It's very much so along those lines, like I said, string less away from the like you know, vampires, schools, goblins type stuff, more into the like what people deal with and what's going on, and not not in so much of a political sense, but more just in everyday life type of thing, you know.

17:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, well we should play another track from the album. Do you have a is there one that you're pushing as kind of a single.

17:10 Speaker 2: Well, our first single was Necromancer. I think the next, I mean, the best one to play. I'd say, let's hear black Widow.

17:19 Speaker 1: Black Widow, Okay, any kind of a story behind this one?

17:22 Speaker 2: Well, this one's this one's the one about Countess Bathory. Huge inspirations from bands like Venom, bands like Macabre and I absolutely love this song. It's one of our heavier ones on the album for sure.

17:34 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, cool, all right, get ready, it's gonna get even heavier. This is a black Widow. The band is horrorhw.

18:09 Speaker 7: Dis Islands A Brays it's a job set.

18:18 Speaker 3: Some don't ball.

18:42 Speaker 5: Sell my job. I was better than doctor.

18:45 Speaker 7: I said, why that shot off three times a praise. That's glazing.

18:50 Speaker 6: There's a better job.

19:18 Speaker 7: She her I says, I like, yeah, a y life, y all shoth I got back storyboy out.

19:27 Speaker 3: I I'm trying. I also about an hour.

19:30 Speaker 7: Farther off the hey, I been from.

19:32 Speaker 5: My head of my real body. I ask it all back as.

19:36 Speaker 7: I said that, I said hardy, I suppos got to some crok.

19:43 Speaker 3: Uh good song. The story.

19:49 Speaker 5: Right, totally.

19:52 Speaker 3: Pretty sick night.

20:42 Speaker 6: Say I got my top off.

20:44 Speaker 7: The blow stars a black sat side all the times of praise, that's too lazy.

20:50 Speaker 6: There's a lot of sorners.

21:24 Speaker 7: Live after my chist, white.

21:36 Speaker 5: Life after Chise, That.

21:51 Speaker 1: Is Black Widow. The band is Horror, and we have Dan from the band Horror here with us alive in studio on this Saturday morning. They're gonna be playing a big show coming up October nineteenth at Terminus in Nashua, New Hampshire, which is an amazing venue. You've you've been there already, right Dan?

22:08 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.

22:09 Speaker 1: I tell everybody. When you walk in the first time, it's like walking into another world. It is Yeah.

22:15 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the place is awesome.

22:16 Speaker 1: Yeah.

22:16 Speaker 2: I practiced there as well with my band, Oh you do. Oh yeah, so it's a pretty easy, uh, pretty easy commute.

22:23 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

22:26 Speaker 1: Able Blood our first guest that we had on in an Hour one they also practiced there. Yeah. No, it's it's a great it's a great location.

22:37 Speaker 2: I love that.

22:39 Speaker 1: Part of what I really like about your sound is, you know, you can do the it's fast, it's heavy, but but it's also very melodic.

22:48 Speaker 3: Yeah.

22:48 Speaker 1: You know, you can really kind of find the groove in it, because a lot of bands that operate in this particular genre really aren't that melodic, you know what I mean? Right, Yeah, So I think that's really cool, and I assume that's important to you.

23:03 Speaker 3: It is.

23:03 Speaker 2: It's quite important. We want to be able to have our songs be as heavy as possible but also have that nice melody with it. Yeah, something to be able to pleasantly listen to, right without it just being like grindcore.

23:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got some fast fingers too. How old were you when you started playing guitar?

23:22 Speaker 2: I was twelve. Yeah, I'm twenty seven now, so you started pretty young.

23:25 Speaker 3: Yeah.

23:25 Speaker 1: Yeah. Was it always your goal to be able to play like that, to be able to play really fast.

23:32 Speaker 2: Yes. Ever, since I saw or heard Buckethead on Guitar hero Too, I knew that he would be my favorite. And then I found out about the likes of Paul Gilbert Ingay Mountstein and it just blew up from there. Yeah, never looked back.

23:46 Speaker 1: Yeah.

23:48 Speaker 2: Was that your first instrument guitar?

23:50 Speaker 3: Yeah?

23:51 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and then from there you also learned bass obviously.

23:54 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I taught myself bass. I'm not a very good bassist, but I can play a little bit.

24:00 Speaker 1: Yeah.

24:00 Speaker 2: Yeah. My very first guitar actually won from a Lego sweepstakes.

24:03 Speaker 3: Man.

24:04 Speaker 2: Really yeah, it was a bionical sweepstakes with the all American rejects. I think. I was like god, I must have been like eight nine, and I just so happened to win it. It was this junky Chinese guitar with a Lego sticker slapped on it, No kidding, yep. Then wow, Yeah, Steve sat down with the guitar one day, the cable was poking out, crushed it into the guitar, had to throw it away.

24:30 Speaker 1: That's funny. Wow. Now I'm really curious about your vocals because I can't imagine one of us be like to sing that way. Are you able to, Like, do you ever get a sore throat? Or did you learn how to do it? Because from what everyone tells me, if you learn how to do it correctly, you won't have any problem. The only problem is not everyone learns how to do it correctly, right.

24:55 Speaker 2: See, I never learned how to really do it. I just started doing it until it was come from It used to hurt. Yeah, like years ago, Oh god, my throat would be killing me after now. If I'm not dehydrated, it's fine. Okay, make sure you're hydrated, everybody, Yeah, gotta you can really mess up your throat, But not when I'm doing anything like that, it's it just comes out really clean. It doesn't hurt at all.

25:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. What about when you're playing live, do you ever run into a problem where you know, because you mentioned hydration and obviously if you're playing in a hot room, you know that that might be an issue. Does that ever? Uh?

25:29 Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's happened to me before I was playing with this a brutal death metal band called Infected God for a while, okay, and there was this one time it was it was at a it was at a marijuana farm, right, And I remember getting up on stage and my throat was so dry that I was talking like this, and I get up and I was just barking into the microphone. I couldn't do anything. I was like, Oh, I know this sounds terrible, but we gotta do it.

25:54 Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh wow, do your fingers ever get tired like that?

26:00 Speaker 3: Oh?

26:00 Speaker 1: God, no, No, that's good. That's good.

26:04 Speaker 3: Yeah.

26:05 Speaker 1: I can't imagine what it must be like to play that way. Yeah. None of the bands that I've ever played in really, you know, nothing really super fast. So to me, it's very impressive.

26:14 Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that. I'll spend sometimes eight to ten hours a day, especially at studio days, just playing essentially NonStop.

26:22 Speaker 1: Yeah.

26:23 Speaker 2: Yeah, it takes a lot.

26:25 Speaker 1: How many do you guys have more songs that? Obviously you know? I assume you're, as you mentioned earlier, you've got new material planned for the next album and you're writing together. Do you play anything live now that you haven't already put on this album?

26:39 Speaker 2: We're planning to. Okay, we got to make sure it sounds pretty good first, and then we're gonna be playing it live as we can. Yeah, so I'm only really runs about thirty two minutes long, I believe. Okay, so typically if we're getting like a forty five minute set, we'll be able to play a bunch of songs. Yeah, but that's the idea for now.

26:57 Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Well, let's let's play another one. So I'm curious about this song, Compelled to Kill.

27:04 Speaker 2: It's compelled to Kill. That one was about Diary of a Serial Killer, which is an insane movie if you've never seen it or sorry, Henry Portrait of a serial Killer. There we go. Amazing movie, absolutely incredible. It follows the whole movie is through his eyes, you know, as opposed to like, you know, the people running away, you know, the the victims of the movie. It's him. The whole movie's him, and it's twisted. Yeah, awesome stuff. And the music was heavily heavily inspired by bands like Children About Them and of course macab I love them, they do everything, you know.

27:42 Speaker 2: Yeah, but the Children About Him was I was in a huge kick with them for a while and man it, Alexei Lejo opened my opened my eyes, brought my perspectives to a lot of different stuff.

27:53 Speaker 1: Really in what way, Oh, the.

27:56 Speaker 2: Way he does melodies. There's especially like songs like mass Insanity and then if you want peace, Prepare for War. The guitar work and these songs are unparalleled. They're amazing, and I wanted to try to emulate something like that, and I'm no Alexi Leo, so it came out different. But but yeah, this is a song I'm actually really proud of, one of my favorite solos I've ever written.

28:20 Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, oh very curious here of this said, All right, let's give this a spin. If you are just joining us. We have Dan from the band Horror here with us, live in studio, and this is called Compelled to kill.

29:02 Speaker 7: Even it's hid, it alive, gas in my mind hurt cause in my eyes getting alive.

29:10 Speaker 3: Give it to my.

29:12 Speaker 5: All shot.

29:17 Speaker 3: Shouting the jewl w si you strike to ou? Why shouting the gel? Why you wanna tell me.

29:36 Speaker 8: Suthing night side everybody, I'm telling you, my stu si.

30:49 Speaker 7: Even inside even alive, the sooners, high.

30:54 Speaker 6: Girdles and my eyes getting even alive, give it.

30:57 Speaker 5: To my dolls, got go.

31:03 Speaker 4: I'm gonna shouting the gel wells that you'll try to go out. I'm gonna shouting to Gell, why you wanna.

31:19 Speaker 3: Tell it s something?

31:26 Speaker 8: Says Donating s s watch you want to tell.

31:35 Speaker 6: You something the side.

32:27 Speaker 1: I like that dramatic ending. That's cool. That is compelled to kill. And the band is Horror. We have Dan from the band Horror here with us live in studio. By the way, some chat room activity. Our friend Spelfy Ham is in there, of course from Terminus and says, Hi Dan, Hi, Matt Hi. Jen bf Raid says this song is awesome. Andre Dumont of course from Dad. Harrison says waking up to some horror. This show hits right in the morning spot. Thank you very much, Thank you very much. Let's see hello to easy beat society.

33:06 Speaker 5: Uh.

33:07 Speaker 1: Spelfie made a comment about what we were talking earlier about mental health. She said, facts too much stigma around talking about mental health. Absolutely, absolutely, although not.

33:17 Speaker 2: As much as there used to be, which is uh, absolutely, which is great.

33:20 Speaker 1: It is getting better, it is getting better. Let's see. Eleanor is in the chat room says I want these horror vocals inside my body. That's an interesting way of phrasing that she wants to be able to sing that way.

33:37 Speaker 3: I guess.

33:39 Speaker 2: Let's go with that.

33:40 Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to I got to see Eleanor on Tuesday. I went there to meet with her and about some things, and yeah, lots of good things going on, lots of positive things. Very excited, very excited. Oh, Spelfie says, yeah, the whole Terminus crew in the chat and Andre says, oh, those vocals will be coursing through everybody molecule at Terminus.

34:04 Speaker 2: Yeah, they will. I saw your pa man. That thing looks crazy.

34:07 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, Jenny, you wanted to you were gonna tell us more about that show.

34:14 Speaker 2: And all the bands you're hearing today.

34:16 Speaker 9: You can see the live at Terminus Underground on Saturday, October nineteenth. Terminus is located at one thirty four Haines Street in Nashua. Doors will open at five pm twenty one plus byop. Entry is twenty dollars and includes the Haunted House.

34:29 Speaker 1: And the show.

34:31 Speaker 9: So check out all the bands from today live at Terminus Underground on October nineteenth.

34:35 Speaker 1: Very good, very good. And if you are listening live on Saturday, of course, coming up in the third hour, we have the Gray Curtain, a couple members joining us, I think, and really what they are fascinating, what a unique sound, they ask, it will be really looking forward to that. Dan, tell us about your live show. I mean, do you do you have any effects or anything, or do you guys just play.

34:57 Speaker 2: Or I mean typically we just play. We have like a gimmick or anything like that. It's always cool when the venue has like some stuff up, like Terminus is just loaded with crazy stuff like skeletons, spider web, yeahsterious, mayhem, you know, the whole nine. But yeah, yeah, whenever we play, we typically just wear like what I'm wearing now, T shirt, jeans and just go up there and play.

35:21 Speaker 1: I'm having visions of you know, the future, you guys in an arena with a big screen of all kinds of oh yeah, all kinds of terrible things happening you guys.

35:32 Speaker 2: That'd be great. We want to take over the world.

35:34 Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, absolutely. Now, if you gotten to play with any if you gotten open for any any of the bands you know you were talking earlier about some of the bands you really love and admire, you have you gotten to any opportunities to play with any of those bands yet.

35:48 Speaker 2: Or not quite?

35:49 Speaker 1: Yeah?

35:50 Speaker 2: I played with some really really cool bands, like, for instance, Permanent Disfigurement was an awesome band I played with with Infected God. Yeah, I had played a couple of shows with them, and Vincent Crowley was another one. They were absolutely killer guys. I knew about them prior and they're awesome music. Yeah, but we haven't played too too many shows to be able to actually do that.

36:14 Speaker 3: Yeah.

36:15 Speaker 2: But yeah, for what it's worth, all the bands that we played with, all of our flyers are still up on the Instagram and everything. They're all wonderful bands. There hasn't been a single band we played with where I've disliked. So, yeah, you guys are interested, go check them out. Everyone's gonna be a killer band.

36:30 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, excellent.

36:33 Speaker 3: What was the.

36:35 Speaker 2: Your your logo?

36:36 Speaker 1: Who designed your logo?

36:37 Speaker 2: So that's an artist named Alex Ridley. Okay, he's based out of Canada, an old friend of mine. I've known him for probably a decade now, and I asked him like, hey, man, can you just make something like a bones and bloody and just see what you come up with.

36:51 Speaker 1: Yeah.

36:52 Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, dude, whatever, And he sent me that and I was like, oh, yeah, okay, that's cool.

36:57 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I was particularly curious about it. Because I like about the logo. Is so a lot of the bands again that are in kind of your genre, they have logos with fonts kind of similar to that, but they are indecipherable to me, right, but your logo, so you've got that cool kind of fun but but you can.

37:18 Speaker 2: Read it, you know what I mean. See, that's what we wanted to We didn't want it to be like, you know, the back of a computer chair or where you've been laying on it too long, it's all you. No, we didn't want it to be something like that. We wanted people actually read it and know who we were.

37:30 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, because there's a lot of it. Jeez, I remember uh so years ago. I don't know if you remember Strawberries and then Fye bought it, but you know the old music store there, and I just remember uh, flipping through CDs at work or putting CDs away and and just you know, looking at the covers of some of these bands, and and just and again and that specific genre, just being like, I don't know what that says.

37:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, some of them are unbelievable.

38:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know it's it's you know, because I'm also a marketing guy, so from my perspective, it's like, why would you want something that no one can read? But but but that seems to be the thing for a lot of these bands.

38:11 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't understand it personally, but it looks really cool. So especially seeing that live with the music, it adds a lot of atmosphere. I see why they do it. But as far as marketing goes.

38:22 Speaker 1: He writes it, Yeah, some of those album covers too.

38:26 Speaker 2: Oh man.

38:27 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a Cannibal Corpse album cover that still gives me nightmares.

38:33 Speaker 2: Yeah, which one I don't remember the game.

38:36 Speaker 1: I've blocked it out, but yeah, probably all probably any of.

38:38 Speaker 2: Them, all, any of them. That's exactly what I was thinking. Yeah.

38:41 Speaker 1: Well, I'm actually not even kidding when I say this. If I had to put Cannibal Corps CDs into the bin, I would try not to look directly up the s Like, I'm actually not kidding. I'm very squeamish about that. But uh no. But anyway, so the point being though I really like the logo. I think it's cool, awesome. Yeah, absolutely, Now, what is kind of the future trajectory for you guys? So obviously, so the nineteenth you mentioned that's the official CD release party, correct it is? And what's what's the name of the album by the way, I don't know if we talked about it.

39:11 Speaker 2: It's self titled.

39:13 Speaker 1: That's a good way to do it. Yeah, And then so where is that available? Are there physical copies or.

39:19 Speaker 2: We don't have physical copies yet? I'm okay, we're pretty broke you yeah. Yeah, so no physical copies. We're working on getting some merch for this show. Hopefully it shows up in time. But yeah, otherwise, that's pretty much where we're at with like that kind of media. As far as like streaming, we are on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube. Definitely check out our YouTube. We're really pumping up those numbers. Cool, good, good, But we're based on any stream platform that you can access.

39:46 Speaker 3: Yeah, and.

39:47 Speaker 2: We're gonna continue uploading to YouTube, videos, shorts, whatever it might be. Okay, just kind of keep everyone updated and have a little fun like maybe some playthrough videos and stuff like that.

39:58 Speaker 1: I think right now, that's the most important thing, is well obvious. Well no, actually, let me rephrase that. So being on all the streaming platforms, that's the most important thing. And you've got that, sure, But I think after that YouTube right now is the most important thing.

40:09 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh, I absolutely agree.

40:10 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and I mean it changes, you know, tomorrow something completely different the important thing, But right now I think it's definitely YouTube. So that's right. So your numbers are growing quickly.

40:21 Speaker 2: Oh yeah. In the first two months we got fifteen thousand without advertising.

40:25 Speaker 1: It all fantastic.

40:26 Speaker 2: Yeah good. We just set up a little bit of a Google ad campaign. So the last couple of days we've gotten like two or three more thousand.

40:32 Speaker 1: Okay, excellent. Oh you're on the right track then, world.

40:36 Speaker 2: So excited man, Yeah, yeah, we want to take this as far as we can.

40:39 Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely, Well, you're off to a great start. So that's amazing.

40:42 Speaker 2: Appreciate that.

40:43 Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, definitely. So we're approaching the top of the hour, so in the moment we'll play we'll play one more track. Nuke is the other one that you sent. But anything else we should know about where people should go to find you online. Obviously, you know, we talked about the nineteenth but anything else you want to make sure our listeners know about.

41:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you had a horror dot band instead of dot Com dot band wikie cool, Yeah, it'll have links to all of our social media's Instagram, Facebook, even stuff like SoundCloud, you know, everything's there, and our full album on YouTube is gonna be the first thing that you see right as you get onto the page. Okay, and I haven't updated it yet, but it's on. We have different tabs like, for instance, shows, and we have merch that you can request when it's available, and yeah, I mean that's the horrid up band is going to be primarily where you can find everything.

41:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, but.

41:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, as far as outside of that, try to keep updated with our social media is and see where we're at.

41:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent, excellent Nuke What should we know about this?

41:47 Speaker 2: So Nuke is full time fully titled Nuke the World?

41:51 Speaker 1: Oh okay.

41:52 Speaker 2: It's our commentary on basically taking the position of someone pushing the big red button, you know, just destroying everything thing mutually assured destruction, you know. Yeah, it's our take on how much we detest war and how we see the world going right now. The song is a tongue in cheek kind of take on that, okay, and it's our mash song.

42:14 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very good. So we're gonna close out the segment with this, and then at the top of the hour, We're gonna play the new Chasing the Devil track one more time today their brand new single lighted up. And then we're gonna have The Gray Curtain joining us in the third hour.

42:29 Speaker 2: Do you know those guys already?

42:30 Speaker 1: You're playing with them on October nineteenth.

42:31 Speaker 2: We haven't met any of the bands yet. Oh okay, I can't wait too though. They all seem great.

42:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Gray Curtain has a really really interesting sound, so yeah, looking forward to talking to them. But yeah, that's gonna be that's gonna be a great show October nineteenth, that Terminus in Nashua. But damn, thank you so.

42:46 Speaker 2: Much, hey, thank you for having me.

42:48 Speaker 1: Absolutely and we will close out the segment with this. This is called Nuke from the band Horror