Matt Connarton Unleashed: Horror

0:00 Speaker 1: And joining us alive in studio, we have Dan from

0:03 Speaker 1: the band Horror. Hello, sir, Hey, it's great to be here, Matt,

0:06 Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah, welcome to the program. Looking forward to

0:09 Speaker 1: playing some of your tunes today and getting to know

0:11 Speaker 1: you a little bit part of why you're here. So

0:14 Speaker 1: today it's kind of a kind of a theme today

0:17 Speaker 1: we're talking to people who are going to be on

0:19 Speaker 1: this big show coming up October nineteenth at Terminus our

0:23 Speaker 1: friends at Terminus in Nashua, New Hampshire. You guys are

0:27 Speaker 1: going to be playing there along with we just had

0:29 Speaker 1: Able Blood here there on that show as well. We've

0:32 Speaker 1: got the Gray Curtain coming up in the third hour,

0:34 Speaker 1: also Questing Beasts on that show and the Megans Dead

0:41 Speaker 1: Harrison of course, and that's going to be coming up

0:43 Speaker 1: October nineteenth. So it's wonderful to have you here. Tell

0:48 Speaker 1: 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.

0:55 Speaker 2: It was just a little project we were doing in

0:57 Speaker 2: high school, and as it turned out, people wanted to join.

1:01 Speaker 2: My buddy George started playing the bass for us, and

1:03 Speaker 2: then afterwards his brother Johnny and we had a couple

1:07 Speaker 2: incarnations of lineups throughout the years, but we finally here

1:11 Speaker 2: settled on our main one now where we're gonna be

1:14 Speaker 2: going out playing shows. And this is actually our record

1:17 Speaker 2: release show at Terminus. Oh congratulations, thank you. Yeah, it's

1:20 Speaker 2: 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.

1:28 Speaker 2: 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

1:43 Speaker 1: had him on the show a few months ago, and

1:46 Speaker 1: you know, his his name. It was great to have

1:48 Speaker 1: him on because his name comes up on the show

1:50 Speaker 1: a lot. Actually, Abel Blood, who was here in the

1:54 Speaker 1: first hour their album. I think Eric, they didn't record

1:58 Speaker 1: there with him, but he Eric mastered the album, I believe. Okay, yeah,

2:01 Speaker 1: but yeah, so, uh, and what went into the decision

2:05 Speaker 1: to do a full album because obviously you have options,

2:07 Speaker 1: you know, you can you can do an album, you

2:09 Speaker 1: can do an EP, you can just release singles. Why

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

2:13 Speaker 2: Well, we had so much material at this point, we

2:15 Speaker 2: were like, you know what, screw, we might as well

2:17 Speaker 2: just do the whole thing and then drop it. You know,

2:20 Speaker 2: we collaborated with this artist Mexicine Ta Cardi from he

2:24 Speaker 2: makes insane artwork. Okay, our album cover is actually made

2:28 Speaker 2: 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

2:39 Speaker 2: he made it with his blood, which wow, we thought

2:42 Speaker 2: was absolutely crazy.

2:43 Speaker 1: Well, let's play a track, and I think we're gonna

2:45 Speaker 1: move you to a different microphone. For those of you

2:48 Speaker 1: watching on video. That one needs some leavitre or something.

2:52 Speaker 1: But here, let's let's play a song. I'm gonna play. Huh,

2:58 Speaker 1: let's play. Oh, let's play Exorcists. I really like this one.

3:03 Speaker 1: And then we'll come back and talk about it. If

3:05 Speaker 1: you're just joining us, we have Dan from the band

3:08 Speaker 1: Horror here with us, live in studio.

4:05 Speaker 3: To faith on little crios offense or by all.

4:12 Speaker 4: Of us to a set up, sirs, great ail spills,

4:17 Speaker 4: go rel brows.

4:19 Speaker 5: And a night that night, my sloud and my death

4:23 Speaker 5: 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

4:51 Speaker 7: and excited Sis says lay out, sid it out insense

4:57 Speaker 7: 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

5:46 Speaker 7: dagger a day shot rybody got Jason's brain.

5:51 Speaker 6: Or all does hun chop rins step in sight little

6:01 Speaker 6: 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,

6:13 Speaker 7: I say sack some says ray out and say that

6:17 Speaker 7: the house mon sasla height and I say a.

6:21 Speaker 1: Somethings that'll get the blood pumping. That is Exorcist and

7:24 Speaker 1: the band is Horror and we have Dan from Horror

7:28 Speaker 1: here in studio with us. All right, let's see, let's

7:30 Speaker 1: see how this mic is working. How you doing, Dan?

7:32 Speaker 1: I can't hear you, and I don't know why, but uh,

7:36 Speaker 1: let's see go ahead and talk. You are not there, Uh,

7:42 Speaker 1: 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

7:53 Speaker 1: down to a different mic. But these things happen. But no,

7:57 Speaker 1: that that mic never fails us. He doesn't like it

8:00 Speaker 1: when I say that, because she thinks I'm gonna jank said,

8:02 Speaker 1: yes you are. But so far, so far, that mike

8:06 Speaker 1: has been phenomenal. So yeah, I love that. I love

8:11 Speaker 1: the time changes, especially the breakdown at the end. Oh,

8:15 Speaker 1: the groove on that is just truly remarkable. And so

8:19 Speaker 1: now you were saying off air while that was playing,

8:21 Speaker 1: 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

8:26 Speaker 2: Derek's studio. We recorded the whole thing. Steve got the

8:29 Speaker 2: drums down, I did the bass, the guitars, the vocals,

8:32 Speaker 2: and Eric killed it with the production and the master

8:34 Speaker 2: 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,

8:43 Speaker 1: Oh wow, wow, very cool? Is that a lot of

8:47 Speaker 1: Is that a lot of pressure? Is that, you know,

8:49 Speaker 1: because you're doing I mean, aside from the drums, you're

8:51 Speaker 1: doing everything else. I mean, that's a lot that's a

8:53 Speaker 1: lot for one guy.

8:54 Speaker 2: Well, it's not particularly a lot of pressure. We had

8:56 Speaker 2: a bunch of material for a while now, right, and

8:59 Speaker 2: so we had a lot of time to practice it.

9:01 Speaker 2: So everything that we did was I went into the studio,

9:03 Speaker 2: knew exactly what I needed to do for each part. Yeah,

9:05 Speaker 2: banged it out.

9:07 Speaker 1: So in some ways it's easier, right, because you're not

9:10 Speaker 1: dealing with you know, I've played in a lot of bands,

9:12 Speaker 1: but never anything like what you're doing in terms of

9:15 Speaker 1: just you know, two guys going in and doing everything.

9:17 Speaker 1: So not having to deal with multiple schedules and all

9:22 Speaker 1: of that. I mean, I can see where in that

9:23 Speaker 1: sense it's probably a lot easier.

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

9:28 Speaker 2: how you wanted to.

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

9:33 Speaker 1: 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

9:43 Speaker 2: like one hundred thousand times as a kid, you know,

9:45 Speaker 2: Oh god, yes, yeah, And well, I mean my band

9:48 Speaker 2: is based around telling horror stories, the horrors of life.

9:51 Speaker 2: Our next album is going to be about a little

9:54 Speaker 2: bit more of a realistic approach. But this album is about,

9:56 Speaker 2: you know, the fantasy side of horror.

9:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know A funny thing about The Exorcist.

10:01 Speaker 1: For me, I think it's an incredible film. But I

10:05 Speaker 1: have a list, actually it's a short list, but I

10:08 Speaker 1: have a list of films that I think are just

10:10 Speaker 1: some of the most just incredible theatrical accomplishments of all

10:15 Speaker 1: time that I never want to see again, you know

10:17 Speaker 1: what I mean? And that's how I feel about The Exorcist.

10:19 Speaker 1: I think it's an amazing film, fantastic. I've seen it

10:22 Speaker 1: once and I never want to see it again. I'm

10:28 Speaker 1: 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

10:34 Speaker 1: 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

10:41 Speaker 1: watching it again. Who writes the songs? Do you write everything?

10:47 Speaker 1: 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

10:52 Speaker 2: guitars and solos and whatnot, and and I'll write my parts.

10:57 Speaker 2: But now that we have we have two new members.

11:00 Speaker 2: We got our basis will about a little over a

11:03 Speaker 2: year ago and dude's been killing it. One of the

11:06 Speaker 2: greatest basses I've ever met in my entire life. And

11:08 Speaker 2: you get an awesome guy, awesome musician. And we had

11:11 Speaker 2: just recently within the past like two months, got a

11:15 Speaker 2: new guitar samed Cody Parsons. He also plays with a

11:18 Speaker 2: 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

11:25 Speaker 2: now that we're all writing together, it sounds totally different,

11:29 Speaker 2: but in the same vein it's really really cool.

11:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, why did you bring in these other guys

11:35 Speaker 1: initially for live shows?

11:36 Speaker 2: Initially? Yeah, and I wanted to see like how it

11:39 Speaker 2: would go writing with them and everything. And I love it.

11:42 Speaker 2: It's really cool to be able to write with like

11:44 Speaker 2: a group of people, you know, because I'm writing with

11:46 Speaker 2: Steve's awesome, but getting more input, different perspectives, different musical

11:51 Speaker 2: backgrounds from people. It's absolutely killer.

11:54 Speaker 1: It's good that you're able to do that and embrace it,

11:56 Speaker 1: because not everyone can. You know, some people are kind

11:59 Speaker 1: of not necessarily selfish, but but you know, some people

12:03 Speaker 1: can't just or it's hard for them to really kind

12:05 Speaker 1: of open that up, right, So it's great that you're

12:09 Speaker 1: able to do that did before these other guys joined

12:14 Speaker 1: the band, when like, did you ever do any live

12:17 Speaker 1: shows just you and Steve? Did you ever try to

12:20 Speaker 1: hole that off or with Yeah, I don't know how

12:22 Speaker 1: you would even do it, but maybe with backing tracks

12:24 Speaker 1: or something.

12:25 Speaker 8: Yeah.

12:25 Speaker 2: We I mean at that point we didn't have the

12:28 Speaker 2: money I mean for like an amplifier at that point,

12:30 Speaker 2: you know, so shows were super far out of our heads.

12:35 Speaker 2: Once we did get our bassist Johnny years ago, we

12:38 Speaker 2: played a couple of shows. It's usually down like way

12:42 Speaker 2: southern mass Okay, we only played a couple, but yeah,

12:45 Speaker 2: with this new incarnation of Horror. We played one show

12:49 Speaker 2: with a guitarist we're working with for a little bit

12:51 Speaker 2: named Brandon and I forgot where it was exactly, but

12:56 Speaker 2: it went really well. Was an awesome show. We met

12:58 Speaker 2: the band Vincent Crowley. They they were awesome guys, and uh,

13:02 Speaker 2: is it a really fun time? Yeah?

13:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. When these when new people come into the band,

13:09 Speaker 1: I mean I imagine it takes a little bit of

13:10 Speaker 1: time for them to learn everything. I mean, it's you know,

13:13 Speaker 1: it's fairly sophisticate and also too you know, with what

13:16 Speaker 1: you're doing. And that song Exorcist is a great example.

13:19 Speaker 1: I mean, you've really got to have your chops because

13:20 Speaker 1: it's time changes and oh sure, you know, just really

13:24 Speaker 1: uh you know, it's it's complex, it's not it's not

13:28 Speaker 1: 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

13:35 Speaker 1: spend some time.

13:36 Speaker 2: It's funny. It's funny you say that because with the

13:39 Speaker 2: musicians that I have now, it almost took them no

13:41 Speaker 2: time at all.

13:42 Speaker 1: That's awesome.

13:42 Speaker 2: They sat down, they learned it. It was I was

13:45 Speaker 2: blown away. Yeah, Will learned it really fast. Cody, I mean,

13:49 Speaker 2: he's recording bands, he has his own studio, he's doing

13:52 Speaker 2: all this stuff, and he's still banged out the entire

13:55 Speaker 2: 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?

14:02 Speaker 1: Uh well, let me ask it this way. Is there

14:04 Speaker 1: a theme to the album? I mean, I mean, you

14:06 Speaker 1: know you talked about, you know what what the subject

14:08 Speaker 1: matter is is that is that? Is there a story

14:11 Speaker 1: to the album or are they all just kind of about,

14:13 Speaker 1: like like what you described earlier.

14:15 Speaker 2: Some songs are just kind of about horror in general. Yeah,

14:18 Speaker 2: Black Widow. We have about Countess Bathory, Exorcist, about the Exorcist,

14:23 Speaker 2: you know, and then then we have songs like Darkness

14:26 Speaker 2: and Agony, which are about depression and really that dark place,

14:32 Speaker 2: you know, that really dark mental place that you get,

14:34 Speaker 2: especially when you feel hopeless, be like everything's coalling apart

14:38 Speaker 2: for you. Yeah, and I wanted to take that and

14:40 Speaker 2: put it into music as well as I could. Yeah,

14:43 Speaker 2: 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

14:51 Speaker 2: 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,

14:59 Speaker 1: and we have act really for years because so I'm

15:01 Speaker 1: pretty open about it now. I haven't always been, but

15:03 Speaker 1: 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

15:13 Speaker 1: on the show last week we were talking about the

15:14 Speaker 1: same thing music could be? Oh no, it was I'm

15:18 Speaker 1: 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.

15:22 Speaker 1: They're from Illinois. They skyped in, but they they they

15:26 Speaker 1: write a lot about that kind of thing. Too, and

15:29 Speaker 1: you know, but it's but it's it's also their music

15:32 Speaker 1: is is kind of dark, but it's they have more

15:35 Speaker 1: of a psychedelic metal thing going. But we were talking

15:39 Speaker 1: about with Adam Seglich, the singer, about how, you know,

15:42 Speaker 1: he likes the music to be really dark even though

15:44 Speaker 1: the lyrics are actually quite hopeful, because his his approach is,

15:48 Speaker 1: you know, you're in this dark tunnel. I want to

15:50 Speaker 1: meet you there. I want to meet you where you

15:53 Speaker 1: are to bring you this message hope. And he described

15:56 Speaker 1: it as a tunnel and I was like, yeah, I

15:57 Speaker 1: 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

16:05 Speaker 1: are not addressed enough, and you know, there's a lot

16:09 Speaker 1: of stigma around all of that. So and and another

16:13 Speaker 1: thing we talked about a lot on the show is

16:15 Speaker 1: when you can take these terrible things and and create

16:18 Speaker 1: something with them. So you're taking something negative, but you're

16:22 Speaker 1: creating something positive with it, right, you know, And that's

16:25 Speaker 1: to me, that's the best therapy, right, you know, absolutely,

16:28 Speaker 1: if you can use these things that drag us down,

16:31 Speaker 1: or traumatic events or whatever it is, but then create

16:34 Speaker 1: with that. Yes, that's the best, the best way to

16:38 Speaker 1: deal with it.

16:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. You know, I want to touch upon some

16:41 Speaker 2: more themes in this upcoming album to uh. It's very

16:45 Speaker 2: much so along those lines, like I said, string less

16:48 Speaker 2: away from the like you know, vampires, schools, goblins type stuff,

16:52 Speaker 2: more into the like what people deal with and what's

16:55 Speaker 2: going on, and not not in so much of a

16:57 Speaker 2: political sense, but more just in everyday life type of thing,

17:00 Speaker 2: you know.

17:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, well we should play another track from

17:04 Speaker 1: the album. Do you have a is there one that

17:07 Speaker 1: you're pushing as kind of a single.

17:10 Speaker 2: Well, our first single was Necromancer. I think the next,

17:16 Speaker 2: I mean, the best one to play. I'd say, let's

17:18 Speaker 2: 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.

17:25 Speaker 2: Huge inspirations from bands like Venom, bands like Macabre and

17:31 Speaker 2: I absolutely love this song. It's one of our heavier

17:33 Speaker 2: ones on the album for sure.

17:34 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, cool, all right, get ready, it's gonna

17:37 Speaker 1: get even heavier. This is a black Widow. The band

17:40 Speaker 1: 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.

18:49 Speaker 7: 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,

19:24 Speaker 7: 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

19:35 Speaker 5: back as.

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

19:39 Speaker 7: 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

20:47 Speaker 7: 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

21:54 Speaker 1: Dan from the band Horror here with us alive in

21:57 Speaker 1: studio on this Saturday morning. They're gonna be playing a

21:59 Speaker 1: big show coming up October nineteenth at Terminus in Nashua,

22:04 Speaker 1: New Hampshire, which is an amazing venue. You've you've been

22:07 Speaker 1: 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,

22:12 Speaker 1: 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.

22:20 Speaker 2: 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

22:29 Speaker 1: an Hour one they also practiced there. Yeah. No, it's

22:33 Speaker 1: 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,

22:41 Speaker 1: you know, you can do the it's fast, it's heavy,

22:46 Speaker 1: 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

22:50 Speaker 1: in it, because a lot of bands that operate in

22:53 Speaker 1: this particular genre really aren't that melodic, you know what

22:58 Speaker 1: I mean? Right, Yeah, So I think that's really cool,

23:01 Speaker 1: 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

23:06 Speaker 2: our songs be as heavy as possible but also have

23:08 Speaker 2: that nice melody with it. Yeah, something to be able

23:11 Speaker 2: 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

23:20 Speaker 1: you when you started playing guitar?

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

23:24 Speaker 2: started pretty young.

23:25 Speaker 3: Yeah.

23:25 Speaker 1: Yeah. Was it always your goal to be able to

23:28 Speaker 1: play like that, to be able to play really fast.

23:32 Speaker 2: Yes. Ever, since I saw or heard Buckethead on Guitar

23:36 Speaker 2: hero Too, I knew that he would be my favorite.

23:39 Speaker 2: And then I found out about the likes of Paul

23:41 Speaker 2: Gilbert Ingay Mountstein and it just blew up from there. Yeah,

23:45 Speaker 2: 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

23:57 Speaker 2: 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

24:07 Speaker 2: American rejects. I think. I was like god, I must

24:10 Speaker 2: have been like eight nine, and I just so happened

24:13 Speaker 2: to win it. It was this junky Chinese guitar with

24:16 Speaker 2: a Lego sticker slapped on it, No kidding, yep. Then wow, Yeah,

24:21 Speaker 2: Steve sat down with the guitar one day, the cable

24:25 Speaker 2: was poking out, crushed it into the guitar, had to

24:27 Speaker 2: throw it away.

24:30 Speaker 1: That's funny. Wow. Now I'm really curious about your vocals

24:35 Speaker 1: because I can't imagine one of us be like to

24:39 Speaker 1: sing that way. Are you able to, Like, do you

24:43 Speaker 1: ever get a sore throat? Or did you learn how

24:45 Speaker 1: to do it? Because from what everyone tells me, if

24:48 Speaker 1: you learn how to do it correctly, you won't have

24:50 Speaker 1: any problem. The only problem is not everyone learns how

24:53 Speaker 1: to do it correctly, right.

24:55 Speaker 2: See, I never learned how to really do it. I

24:57 Speaker 2: just started doing it until it was come from It

25:00 Speaker 2: used to hurt. Yeah, like years ago, Oh god, my

25:03 Speaker 2: throat would be killing me after now. If I'm not dehydrated,

25:08 Speaker 2: it's fine. Okay, make sure you're hydrated, everybody, Yeah, gotta

25:12 Speaker 2: you can really mess up your throat, But not when

25:14 Speaker 2: I'm doing anything like that, it's it just comes out

25:17 Speaker 2: really clean. It doesn't hurt at all.

25:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. What about when you're playing live, do

25:21 Speaker 1: you ever run into a problem where you know, because

25:23 Speaker 1: you mentioned hydration and obviously if you're playing in a

25:26 Speaker 1: hot room, you know that that might be an issue.

25:28 Speaker 1: Does that ever? Uh?

25:29 Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's happened to me before I was playing

25:32 Speaker 2: with this a brutal death metal band called Infected God

25:34 Speaker 2: for a while, okay, and there was this one time

25:37 Speaker 2: it was it was at a it was at a

25:39 Speaker 2: marijuana farm, right, And I remember getting up on stage

25:43 Speaker 2: and my throat was so dry that I was talking

25:46 Speaker 2: like this, and I get up and I was just

25:48 Speaker 2: barking into the microphone. I couldn't do anything. I was like, Oh,

25:51 Speaker 2: 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

26:07 Speaker 1: that way. Yeah. None of the bands that I've ever

26:09 Speaker 1: played in really, you know, nothing really super fast. So

26:13 Speaker 1: to me, it's very impressive.

26:14 Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that. I'll spend sometimes eight to ten

26:18 Speaker 2: 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

26:29 Speaker 1: you know? I assume you're, as you mentioned earlier, you've

26:31 Speaker 1: got new material planned for the next album and you're

26:34 Speaker 1: writing together. Do you play anything live now that you

26:37 Speaker 1: haven't already put on this album?

26:39 Speaker 2: We're planning to. Okay, we got to make sure it

26:42 Speaker 2: sounds pretty good first, and then we're gonna be playing

26:46 Speaker 2: it live as we can. Yeah, so I'm only really

26:48 Speaker 2: runs about thirty two minutes long, I believe. Okay, so

26:52 Speaker 2: typically if we're getting like a forty five minute set,

26:54 Speaker 2: we'll be able to play a bunch of songs. Yeah,

26:56 Speaker 2: but that's the idea for now.

26:57 Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Well, let's let's play another one. So I'm

27:01 Speaker 1: curious about this song, Compelled to Kill.

27:04 Speaker 2: It's compelled to Kill. That one was about Diary of

27:08 Speaker 2: a Serial Killer, which is an insane movie if you've

27:12 Speaker 2: never seen it or sorry, Henry Portrait of a serial Killer.

27:16 Speaker 2: There we go. Amazing movie, absolutely incredible. It follows the

27:20 Speaker 2: whole movie is through his eyes, you know, as opposed

27:24 Speaker 2: to like, you know, the people running away, you know,

27:27 Speaker 2: the the victims of the movie. It's him. The whole

27:30 Speaker 2: movie's him, and it's twisted. Yeah, awesome stuff. And the

27:33 Speaker 2: music was heavily heavily inspired by bands like Children About

27:37 Speaker 2: Them and of course macab I love them, they do everything,

27:41 Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, but the Children About Him was I

27:45 Speaker 2: was in a huge kick with them for a while

27:46 Speaker 2: and man it, Alexei Lejo opened my opened my eyes,

27:51 Speaker 2: 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

28:00 Speaker 2: Insanity and then if you want peace, Prepare for War.

28:02 Speaker 2: The guitar work and these songs are unparalleled. They're amazing,

28:07 Speaker 2: and I wanted to try to emulate something like that,

28:10 Speaker 2: and I'm no Alexi Leo, so it came out different.

28:13 Speaker 2: But but yeah, this is a song I'm actually really

28:17 Speaker 2: 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,

28:22 Speaker 1: All right, let's give this a spin. If you are

28:23 Speaker 1: just joining us. We have Dan from the band Horror

28:26 Speaker 1: here with us, live in studio, and this is called

28:29 Speaker 1: Compelled to kill.

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

29:08 Speaker 7: 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

29:28 Speaker 3: 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

31:09 Speaker 4: 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

32:31 Speaker 1: to kill. And the band is Horror. We have Dan

32:34 Speaker 1: from the band Horror here with us live in studio.

32:38 Speaker 1: By the way, some chat room activity. Our friend Spelfy

32:41 Speaker 1: Ham is in there, of course from Terminus and says,

32:44 Speaker 1: Hi Dan, Hi, Matt Hi. Jen bf Raid says this

32:48 Speaker 1: song is awesome. Andre Dumont of course from Dad. Harrison

32:52 Speaker 1: says waking up to some horror. This show hits right

32:56 Speaker 1: in the morning spot. Thank you very much, Thank you

32:59 Speaker 1: 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

33:09 Speaker 1: about mental health. She said, facts too much stigma around

33:13 Speaker 1: talking about mental health. Absolutely, absolutely, although not.

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

33:19 Speaker 2: which is great.

33:20 Speaker 1: It is getting better, it is getting better. Let's see.

33:24 Speaker 1: Eleanor is in the chat room says I want these

33:27 Speaker 1: horror vocals inside my body. That's an interesting way of

33:33 Speaker 1: 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.

33:43 Speaker 1: I went there to meet with her and about some things,

33:47 Speaker 1: and yeah, lots of good things going on, lots of

33:49 Speaker 1: positive things. Very excited, very excited. Oh, Spelfie says, yeah,

33:56 Speaker 1: the whole Terminus crew in the chat and Andre says, oh,

33:59 Speaker 1: those vocals will be coursing through everybody molecule at Terminus.

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

34:06 Speaker 2: looks crazy.

34:07 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, Jenny, you wanted to you were gonna

34:12 Speaker 1: 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,

34:19 Speaker 9: October nineteenth. Terminus is located at one thirty four Haines

34:22 Speaker 9: Street in Nashua. Doors will open at five pm twenty

34:25 Speaker 9: one plus byop. Entry is twenty dollars and includes the

34:29 Speaker 9: Haunted House.

34:29 Speaker 1: And the show.

34:31 Speaker 9: So check out all the bands from today live at

34:33 Speaker 9: Terminus Underground on October nineteenth.

34:35 Speaker 1: Very good, very good. And if you are listening live

34:38 Speaker 1: on Saturday, of course, coming up in the third hour,

34:40 Speaker 1: we have the Gray Curtain, a couple members joining us,

34:43 Speaker 1: I think, and really what they are fascinating, what a

34:47 Speaker 1: unique sound, they ask, it will be really looking forward

34:50 Speaker 1: to that. Dan, tell us about your live show. I mean,

34:54 Speaker 1: do you do you have any effects or anything, or

34:56 Speaker 1: do you guys just play.

34:57 Speaker 2: Or I mean typically we just play. We have like

35:00 Speaker 2: a gimmick or anything like that. It's always cool when

35:03 Speaker 2: the venue has like some stuff up, like Terminus is

35:06 Speaker 2: just loaded with crazy stuff like skeletons, spider web, yeahsterious, mayhem,

35:11 Speaker 2: you know, the whole nine. But yeah, yeah, whenever we play,

35:14 Speaker 2: we typically just wear like what I'm wearing now, T shirt,

35:19 Speaker 2: jeans and just go up there and play.

35:21 Speaker 1: I'm having visions of you know, the future, you guys

35:24 Speaker 1: in an arena with a big screen of all kinds

35:26 Speaker 1: 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

35:38 Speaker 1: to play with any if you gotten open for any

35:40 Speaker 1: any of the bands you know you were talking earlier

35:42 Speaker 1: about some of the bands you really love and admire,

35:44 Speaker 1: you have you gotten to any opportunities to play with

35:47 Speaker 1: 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,

35:54 Speaker 2: Permanent Disfigurement was an awesome band I played with with

35:56 Speaker 2: Infected God. Yeah, I had played a couple of shows

35:59 Speaker 2: with them, and Vincent Crowley was another one. They were

36:06 Speaker 2: absolutely killer guys. I knew about them prior and they're

36:09 Speaker 2: awesome music. Yeah, but we haven't played too too many

36:12 Speaker 2: 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

36:17 Speaker 2: we played with, all of our flyers are still up

36:19 Speaker 2: on the Instagram and everything. They're all wonderful bands. There

36:23 Speaker 2: hasn't been a single band we played with where I've disliked. So, yeah,

36:26 Speaker 2: you guys are interested, go check them out. Everyone's gonna

36:29 Speaker 2: 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

36:41 Speaker 2: out of Canada, an old friend of mine. I've known

36:44 Speaker 2: him for probably a decade now, and I asked him like, hey, man,

36:47 Speaker 2: can you just make something like a bones and bloody

36:50 Speaker 2: 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

36:54 Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, yeah, okay, that's cool.

36:57 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I was particularly curious about it. Because

37:00 Speaker 1: I like about the logo. Is so a lot of

37:03 Speaker 1: the bands again that are in kind of your genre,

37:06 Speaker 1: they have logos with fonts kind of similar to that,

37:09 Speaker 1: but they are indecipherable to me, right, but your logo,

37:15 Speaker 1: so you've got that cool kind of fun but but

37:17 Speaker 1: you can.

37:18 Speaker 2: Read it, you know what I mean. See, that's what

37:20 Speaker 2: we wanted to We didn't want it to be like,

37:22 Speaker 2: you know, the back of a computer chair or where

37:24 Speaker 2: you've been laying on it too long, it's all you. No,

37:26 Speaker 2: we didn't want it to be something like that. We

37:28 Speaker 2: 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,

37:33 Speaker 1: I remember uh so years ago. I don't know if

37:36 Speaker 1: you remember Strawberries and then Fye bought it, but you

37:40 Speaker 1: know the old music store there, and I just remember uh,

37:44 Speaker 1: flipping through CDs at work or putting CDs away and

37:47 Speaker 1: and just you know, looking at the covers of some

37:49 Speaker 1: of these bands, and and just and again and that

37:54 Speaker 1: 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

38:02 Speaker 1: a marketing guy, so from my perspective, it's like, why

38:05 Speaker 1: would you want something that no one can read? But

38:08 Speaker 1: but but that seems to be the thing for a

38:10 Speaker 1: lot of these bands.

38:11 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't understand it personally, but

38:15 Speaker 2: it looks really cool. So especially seeing that live with

38:18 Speaker 2: the music, it adds a lot of atmosphere. I see

38:21 Speaker 2: 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

38:32 Speaker 1: 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.

38:43 Speaker 1: If I had to put Cannibal Corps CDs into the bin,

38:47 Speaker 1: I would try not to look directly up the s Like,

38:51 Speaker 1: I'm actually not kidding. I'm very squeamish about that. But

38:54 Speaker 1: uh no. But anyway, so the point being though I

38:57 Speaker 1: really like the logo. I think it's cool, awesome. Yeah, absolutely, Now,

39:02 Speaker 1: what is kind of the future trajectory for you guys?

39:04 Speaker 1: So obviously, so the nineteenth you mentioned that's the official

39:07 Speaker 1: CD release party, correct it is? And what's what's the

39:09 Speaker 1: name of the album by the way, I don't know

39:10 Speaker 1: 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

39:16 Speaker 1: 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

39:22 Speaker 2: broke you yeah. Yeah, so no physical copies. We're working

39:24 Speaker 2: on getting some merch for this show. Hopefully it shows

39:27 Speaker 2: up in time. But yeah, otherwise, that's pretty much where

39:30 Speaker 2: we're at with like that kind of media. As far

39:33 Speaker 2: as like streaming, we are on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube.

39:38 Speaker 2: Definitely check out our YouTube. We're really pumping up those numbers. Cool, good, good,

39:41 Speaker 2: 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

39:52 Speaker 2: might be. Okay, just kind of keep everyone updated and

39:54 Speaker 2: have a little fun like maybe some playthrough videos and

39:56 Speaker 2: stuff like that.

39:58 Speaker 1: I think right now, that's the most important thing, is

40:00 Speaker 1: well obvious. Well no, actually, let me rephrase that. So

40:02 Speaker 1: being on all the streaming platforms, that's the most important thing.

40:04 Speaker 1: And you've got that, sure, But I think after that

40:06 Speaker 1: 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

40:13 Speaker 1: something completely different the important thing, But right now I

40:17 Speaker 1: think it's definitely YouTube. So that's right. So your numbers

40:19 Speaker 1: are growing quickly.

40:21 Speaker 2: Oh yeah. In the first two months we got fifteen

40:23 Speaker 2: thousand without advertising.

40:25 Speaker 1: It all fantastic.

40:26 Speaker 2: Yeah good. We just set up a little bit of

40:28 Speaker 2: a Google ad campaign. So the last couple of days

40:30 Speaker 2: 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

40:38 Speaker 2: as far as we can.

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

40:42 Speaker 1: that's amazing.

40:42 Speaker 2: Appreciate that.

40:43 Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, definitely. So we're approaching the top of

40:46 Speaker 1: the hour, so in the moment we'll play we'll play

40:49 Speaker 1: one more track. Nuke is the other one that you sent.

40:52 Speaker 1: But anything else we should know about where people should

40:54 Speaker 1: go to find you online. Obviously, you know, we talked

40:57 Speaker 1: about the nineteenth but anything else you want to make

40:58 Speaker 1: sure our listeners know about.

41:00 Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you had a horror dot band instead

41:03 Speaker 2: of dot Com dot band wikie cool, Yeah, it'll have

41:06 Speaker 2: links to all of our social media's Instagram, Facebook, even

41:11 Speaker 2: stuff like SoundCloud, you know, everything's there, and our full

41:14 Speaker 2: album on YouTube is gonna be the first thing that

41:16 Speaker 2: you see right as you get onto the page. Okay,

41:19 Speaker 2: and I haven't updated it yet, but it's on. We

41:22 Speaker 2: have different tabs like, for instance, shows, and we have

41:24 Speaker 2: merch that you can request when it's available, and yeah,

41:30 Speaker 2: I mean that's the horrid up band is going to

41:33 Speaker 2: 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

41:41 Speaker 2: 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

41:57 Speaker 2: pushing the big red button, you know, just destroying everything

42:00 Speaker 2: thing mutually assured destruction, you know. Yeah, it's our take

42:04 Speaker 2: on how much we detest war and how we see

42:07 Speaker 2: the world going right now. The song is a tongue

42:10 Speaker 2: in cheek kind of take on that, okay, and it's

42:13 Speaker 2: our mash song.

42:14 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very good. So we're gonna close out

42:19 Speaker 1: the segment with this, and then at the top of

42:21 Speaker 1: the hour, We're gonna play the new Chasing the Devil

42:23 Speaker 1: track one more time today their brand new single lighted up.

42:26 Speaker 1: And then we're gonna have The Gray Curtain joining us

42:28 Speaker 1: 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,

42:33 Speaker 2: I can't wait too though. They all seem great.

42:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Gray Curtain has a really really

42:37 Speaker 1: interesting sound, so yeah, looking forward to talking to them.

42:40 Speaker 1: But yeah, that's gonna be that's gonna be a great

42:42 Speaker 1: show October nineteenth, that Terminus in Nashua. But damn, thank

42:46 Speaker 1: 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.

42:50 Speaker 1: This is called Nuke from the band Horror