Matt Connarton Unleashed: Under The Horizon

Speaker 1: And joining us live in studio. We do have the members of Under the Horizon. We have Matt Jordan and is he did I everyone's name correctly? Yes? Welcome, welcome Matt. You've got a proud, proud papa in studio with you. Yes, he doesn't want to be on on the microphone. But uh but I know this man very well from back in the day. Yes, wonderful to see him. And he looks and he looks the same. He hasn't changed, which is cool.

Speaker 2: I get that a lot. Actually, I hear that he looks pretty similar other than the hair.

Speaker 1: Right right, Well, yeah, that's that's true of all of us. But right, but because when I when I run into people, when I see people I haven't seen in a really long time, I just expect them to be like, you know, not the same. Sure, but but he looks the same, which is nice, which is which is really cool. But uh no, I love that track now the three Well, actually, so what does everybody do in the band? So, Matt, you're the drummer, Yes, I am drummer and vocalist. Drummer and vocalists in Jordan, guitarists, vocals in.

Speaker 3: Some vocals and bass and vocalists.

Speaker 1: Okay, that's now. What's interesting about that is so and you probably hear this all the time. There's not a lot of singing bass players for whatever reason. There's some, but we were talking about that with our our guests in the previous hour. Ian Hemy his project Silicon Kong. He's a singing bass player, but it's not something you see a lot of for for whatever reason. But so, yeah, is it Is it just the three of you on all the recordings because you sound for a three piece and you probably hear this a lot too, but for a trio, you got a big sound.

Speaker 2: Right Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just the three of us, and we kind of we thought about adding like another guitarist into the mix, you know, like a lot of bands they rhythm in a lead guitarist. But part of the reason why we started this band was because we were aggravated with the difficulties of our previous bands that we were already in.

Speaker 4: So we're like, we don't.

Speaker 2: Want to add anyone to complicate the mix. Y. Yeah, so, oh yeah, it's just the three of us. We all really trying to kind of work together to create our sound, and on the album, we wanted, like you said, a big sound, but we also wanted it to not sound impossible to achieve live, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1: Yeah, is that ever a challenge?

Speaker 5: I don't, no, No, I mean there's definitely. There's definitely sometimes where like it feels a little different, but for the most part it seems pretty full like live.

Speaker 4: Yeah, which is cool.

Speaker 1: Yeah, that is that is By the way, I have to compliment you well, I think I mentioned it too when you walked in. But your shirt Ace Frehley thing. Kiss is my all time favorite band and I love Ace.

Speaker 5: Yeah.

Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, very cool, very cool. Yeah, ten thousand volts. I remember when that came out and it people were kind of surprised that it was as successful as it was, you know.

Speaker 5: I mean it sounded was it compared to his last albums? Like, it sounded a little different. It had a different vibe to it. Yeah, it was douce and stuff, and his voice was a lot more. It seemed like he was doing a lot more actual thinging than just talking into the bike and being like New York.

Speaker 1: Right right, I agree, I agree. So how long has this existed, this s band? How long have the three of you been been doing this.

Speaker 3: Almost a year now, like I think late September will be a year.

Speaker 1: So okay, well that's impressive that you know it's it's been under a year and you've already got how many tracks are on the album?

Speaker 5: Nine nine?

Speaker 4: Yeah, and oh.

Speaker 1: And for people watching online here, let me put the overhead camera on so I can show so Mike gave me a copy of this under the horizon, and I'll kind of hold that up for the camera. Probably i'll hold it up in pictures too afterward. But who did the I like the artwork? Who did the artwork?

Speaker 2: I mean, I guess I guess I would be the culprit of that, but yeah, he wasn't. I will admit we didn't like hand draw that. We used AI because I saw a lot of the stuff that people were doing with AI, creating images and all that, and I liked how it could create a somewhat surreal scenario, like almost something you would see in a dream, because it's not perfect, you know, it's it's different, it's nothing's exact, everything's a little mismatched and all that. So we used We came up with that, or we got that from AI when we were trying to figure out album covers and we just really liked it and we're like, you know what, let's embrace this new technology here.

Speaker 2: And that's what you see on the album cover there.

Speaker 3: There is artwork though on the actual disc that.

Speaker 1: Yes, oh no kidding, okay, yeah, okay, cool. I'm such a nerd for this stuff. Do you remember, like what kind of prompts you used to get that? Do you remember?

Speaker 4: So?

Speaker 2: I think it was like a it was like it's setting called like Halloween themed or something like that, because we wanted to go something like kind of gothy, kind of metal, kind of you know, to fit with our sound. So I got that and I got a couple of images and I sent them all to the band and they were like, yeah, we like that one.

Speaker 4: So yeah, just ended up being the cover.

Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I dig it. I know that's an odd question. Probably you know, you don't expect to be asked, you know, what kind of prompts did you use to I think it's.

Speaker 3: A good question because I know that you had to do.

Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we're so fascinated around here by AI in general. It's something Jenny and I talked about a lot on the show. Is AI and the impact on the music industry and how people are using it to create and uh no, that's very very cool. Where was the where's the picture on the back of course as a band photo? Where was that taken my backyard? Yeah?

Speaker 2: Yeah, we were taken. That was before we filmed the video for our song Orchids in the Sunrise, And we were just like, let's take band pictures, you know, because we're all done up or whatever and nice clothes or metal clothes, whatever you want to say. Yeah, And we were just going around my house taking photos and we went out back to uh, that truck that I'm leaning up against, that's a project truck of mine that I'm working on, and we were just random took the picture and we were looking through and we're like, wow, that's actually a really good photo of us.

Speaker 4: Let's use that on the back cover.

Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Oh. We had a question I don't want to forget too, and Jenny mentioned it, there's a question in the chat room. Alan McIntyre joins us in the chat and says, ask is he what her favorite song by Vixen is? Lols? You don't have a favorite Vixen song? How dare you?

Speaker 3: I did get to meet Frit Lightning though, did you. Yeah, in February.

Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, because they just played at they was it at the Tupelo? They just played there, right, because it was because we had a band on, Purging Sin. I don't know if you know Purging Sin.

Speaker 4: Ye heard of them.

Speaker 1: Actually they they opened. They when they were here on the show a couple of months ago, they were talking about opening for Vixen, which was weird. Weird to me because Purging Sin they're very dark and heavy, and uh, I'm like, you you did, but I think that they did, and I think it was at the Tupelo. But yeah, so you met Brent Lightning, Yeah, I did.

Speaker 3: Like this rock and roll fantasy camp in La Yeah, I have to meet a lot of like people who actually made it in the industry.

Speaker 1: Like so you you went to one of those Yes, no kidding.

Speaker 3: I got to meet Nancy Wilson as well.

Speaker 1: Oh wow, so I was gonna say, yeah, she must be yeah, yeah, who else? Who else was there?

Speaker 3: I mean there was like a really good handful. There was a couple of people like there were there to meet, like they had the Brothers of Stpha and I mean also some of the counselors that were there. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of like good people. There was a bassis of La Guns. His name is Johnny Martin. Okay, yeah, he was like a kind of the person who ran my little group because we had there was a couple of bands that we uh at the camp and we played at the Viper Room yea and the tributoor.

Speaker 1: Oh very yeah. I always see I see videos of these these rock and roll fantasy camps online and they look, uh, they look really fun. So what so when you say you're a little group, so what what? What did they divide everyone into groups and then you had like one of these one of these famous rock stars kind of runs the group and and uh and then what is there? Is there a process of like you all read a song together or.

Speaker 3: No, we more just like pick a couple of songs to work on between, like like it's about four days and we performed them. I mean I was with the other teenagers. We're all teens.

Speaker 1: Oh very cool? Is it? How many days is it?

Speaker 3: I think mine was four days?

Speaker 1: Oh no kidding, Wow, that's wild, that's wild. What uh? Why did you why did you like what motivated you to to go and and do that?

Speaker 6: Well?

Speaker 3: I actually had gotten it as a gift, but mostly to meet Nancy Wilson.

Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, huge, Yeah, Yeah, that's that's very cool. Is she I mean, is she an influence on you vocally or I mean I would think Anne Wilson would probably be a big influence. Yeah, huge, Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Who else has an influence on you in terms of.

Speaker 3: Your vocals, I would say, uh, Pat Benatar a lot and a bit of Joan Jet as well.

Speaker 1: Really yeah, yeah, oh that's cool. That's cool. Now what about you Jordan in terms of obviously as Frehley, Yeah, a big influence. Who else influences you on guitar?

Speaker 5: In terms of guitar, I'd say like some van Halen, Yeah, Eddie van Halen definitely really influential called the tap and all that stuff. I've gotten some things about how there's Randy Rhodes type stuff.

Speaker 4: Yeah, my guitar.

Speaker 5: Playing, which like I do like Randy Rhodes, so i'd say him too.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 4: Kirk Hammett, you know people like that.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 5: They I think what makes them so special is they take sometimes they can take fairly simple things and they'll put it in the song as a solo and make it fit, which is like a pretty good skill to have, you know, like, just because it's fast and flashy doesn't mean it's good, you.

Speaker 1: Know, right right? Yeah, No, I know what you mean. And I can hear. I can hear the Kirk Hammett and your solos. I can definitely hear that. Yeah. Yeah, what about you, Matt as far as drums and or vocal because you sing too.

Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, oh god, there's a lot. I mean, my primary influence for drums, I mean a lot of people laugh when I say it, but I'll say it because it's true. Uh, it's Lars Ulrik from Metallica. I saw Metallica when I was like ten, and for some reason, something about Lars up on stage behind the drum set it just really inspired me to play.

Speaker 4: So then I picked it up.

Speaker 2: And I mean, I'm influenced by him and Joey Jordison a slip nood, all the drummers a slip not really, they're all great, Vinny, Paul neil Pert, you know, all the good guys who give you a lot to listen to on the drum set, right right, Yeah, And vocally, I'd say my primary influences are James Hetfield and Corey Taylor.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I can hear the Corey Taylor.

Speaker 4: Oh, thank you. I appreciate it.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, definitely. And in terms of the songwriting, I mean, how how does that work in the spand do you all write together? Does somebody bring in an idea and you.

Speaker 4: I think what happened?

Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a mix of It's definitely like one person will come in with lyrics or they'll have Like with Izzy Want You, she had the lyrics and she had the you know, bass notes, you know, whatever the notes were, and I was like, it kind of just formed together. He came up with his drum part on the spot, I made my own guitar part, and we kind of just experimented a couple of times, ran it, you know through three or four times, maybe that quick Yeah, it comes together really fast. It's surprising.

Speaker 1: Well that's that's when you know you've really got something right. The songs come together quickly, and then you know, you know you've got that that magic you know, right. Yeah, Well, I assume some of these songs because you know, some of them are you know, that's a fairly straightforward song, but some of them are are pretty complex. I mean I would imagine the more complex ones take longer or maybe not.

Speaker 2: I mean, realistically, all the songs that we have wrote, I mean were at max took us an hour, yeah, to write and get fully played with, you know, all of us together, or at the very least the instrumental part of it. Obviously, lyrics come later with some songs, but I mean most of the stuff that we have done, I mean there were days that we wrote three or four songs in a day, within the span of a four hour practice.

Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5: It wasn't it Like it was better in and out And I'm pretty sure it was.

Speaker 2: It might have been within my eyes. I'm not sure though, Yeah, something. Yeah, because we all, you know, because we were all three of us used to be in cover bands. Oh yeah, Me and Jordan were in a cover band together, and Izzy was in a cover band. And actually, how me and Izzy met was that both of our cover bands played in a Battle of the Bands together. Oh wow, and we both met up afterwards. I'm like, hey, you're really good at vocals, and she's like, yeah, you're really good at drums. So we just kind of like okay, and then years later we decided let's form something here, so we were in our own cover band, so we had all this time to come up with these riffs and songs and lyrics and stuff for the day that we were eventually in an original band, but we wanted to be in.

Speaker 2: So it all came together really quickly. And I mean we've already started writing for the second album. We have like half of it already, no kidding.

Speaker 3: Wow, I'd say we wrote most of our songs, Like we wrote the eight songs that we have the original within.

Speaker 1: Like three or four months, no kidding.

Speaker 3: Yeah, we started recording in April, so righteh, three months, I think yep.

Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, talking about influences, somebody in the chat room made me realize I think it was I think it was Alan McIntyre. Oh, yeah, mentioned I never asked you about bass. I mean, I'm a bass player, so I can't believe I forgot to ask you about your influences on bass, and I am curious.

Speaker 3: I mean, I guess like my bass lines aren't really too complex, because i'd say I do vocal like i'd focus more on the vocals.

Speaker 1: Yeah, per se.

Speaker 3: I mean there are a lot of great bassis that I love, but it is a bit difficult to sing and play the bass, which is why I feel you find a lot less basis interesting.

Speaker 1: Yeah, see keep it fairly simple?

Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: What about like do you approach it any differently? Like if if Matt's singing, do you approach that any differently as far as your bass or.

Speaker 3: Do you I mean like as of like like our first album, It's still not too complex, but I'm definitely getting more into the creative writing for basses.

Speaker 1: Okay, Isaac Banks is asking, uh, and this isn't anyone you would know? We we Jenny and I are very familiar with Isaac Banks, aren't we? Isaac Banks is asking is he? Who are your influences? What's your favorite evan Essence song? Do you have a favorite Evanescence song? Probably more likely that you have a favorite Evanescence than Vixen.

Speaker 3: Right now, it's going Under. I love that song vocally, It's amazing.

Speaker 1: Yeah. No, Amy Lee's a great She's a great singer. Definitely, absolutely absolutely. Now in terms of in terms of the band and like, do you all as a band, do you have a particular vibe or a particular sound that you try to achieve or is it more it's organic. It's how does that? How does that work?

Speaker 3: I mean, I think you have a various amount of sounds. All of our songs are kind of different, but they all still sound like they're made by us.

Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think my dad he was.

Speaker 5: I think he might have been like one of the first people to be like yeah, I mean all the songs are like really unique, but they all have a specific touch to them that makes it like ident you know, has some identification to us yea, which is like great, Yeah, we have a different sound on every song, which makes the album seem a little more like experimental, I guess, but you can still be like, oh, yeah, this is that one band. It's not like there's features on the band or random people just coming in and playing songs or right.

Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean it's definitely.

Speaker 2: I'd say that our sound is definitely more metal focused, or at least we're you know, aiming to be more considered a metal band. But even then, you know, we have a lot of influences outside of you know, the basic rock and metal, but even within that, we like bands that often you know, you wouldn't picture their fans being in the same room.

Speaker 4: Right, you know, what I mean.

Speaker 2: I don't think there's a lot of dinner parties happening with Heart fans kiss fans and like, I don't know, Slayer fans or something like that. You know, I'm using that as an example, but I mean, I think from the beginning, with all our influences combined, we kind of tried to create something like if Heart was written by like slip Knot or something like that. You know, something heavy but with a little bit of like glam Edge of the Past or something like that. You know, something a sound that most people can listen to, you know, we you know, kind of like your second ever metal band you're listening to or whatever, something like that.

Speaker 4: You know what I mean.

Speaker 1: Well, what I think too is cool about about your sound and a band like this is there's a timelessness to it. Yeah, because you know if you if if you just played this for me and and I didn't know anything about you, and you said when do you think this was recorded, I wouldn't know. You know, it's it could have been yesterday, it could have been thirty years ago. There's a there's a timelessness to it that I think is really cool.

Speaker 4: Well, thank you.

Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely are you playing a lot of shows. Are you doing a lot of live stuff.

Speaker 2: Or uh yeah, actually funny enough, we're doing a show tonight. You were doing one with two other bands, Tainted Hearts and Day to Attend.

Speaker 1: Oh, we had them on the show recently. I did you love Day to Attend? We've had amount a couple of times. Oh, they're amazing. I loved F's voice and and the new album is so good. Yeah, it's so good that they have this one song not coming back. It gets stuck in my head, like some days I wake up with it in my brain. Yeah, I love Sorry, I just I love Day to Attend.

Speaker 4: Yeah.

Speaker 1: Absolutely, So you're playing with them tonight?

Speaker 2: Yeah at the Rochester Performing Arts Center.

Speaker 1: Excellent.

Speaker 2: Yeah, all ages show starts at eight for if anyone wants to come and see us. And then we're also opening up for Great White Yes at the Tupelow Music Hall and Dairy.

Speaker 1: Yep, Jenny and I are going to be at that show.

Speaker 2: Good to know anyone who wants to come to that again all ages five thirty, and then we have we're opening up for Queen's Reich again. Yeah at Tupelow Music Hall and Dairy. That one starts at six thirty, and then we have Keen Music Fest and Keen at one third. I'm looking at my notes here, sorry, one thirty to two fifteen. So yeah, we're starting to get some shows. And I mean the two shows they're Great White and Queen's Reike. I remember he came out to me. I was working on my car. He came out to me.

Speaker 2: He's like, I need to tell you something I don't even know if I can tell you.

Speaker 4: And I'm like, what is it? You know what I mean? You know?

Speaker 2: And he's like, I got you guys an opening slot for Great White and Queen's Reike. And we're like, what, you know what I mean? The thing in the group chat that we're like, how is this even possible? You know, it's still I don't even think it's still even fully set into.

Speaker 4: Right, yeah, right?

Speaker 1: So yeah, No, that's awesome. That's awesome. Oh, by the way, to your dad gave us these. I'll let me put the big camera on again so I can hold this up. You'll be able to see it better in the pictures. We'll take pictures after the show. But this, uh, this wonderful shirt. I love it. So is that your official logo on the shirt.

Speaker 2: That's a that's a little bit of a complicated situation there that I well, I mean, I guess so yeah, it's kind of like our little I guess mascot.

Speaker 4: You could say, we don't even.

Speaker 2: Have like a name for it yet or anything, but it's just something I it's something I honestly like sketched out in a little piece of notebook paper and sent to them. They're like, we love that. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I guess it's our logo mascot. I don't really know, like I will.

Speaker 1: I will see it in my nightmares this evening, you know. But no, no, that's cool though, that's cool. Yeah, And I mean, you know, you've got plenty of time to you know, over time, you can always maybe come up with a backstory or whatever, give it a give it a name, you know, like, yeah, no, that's cool, that's cool. And I like the Yeah, I like that. Where does the name come from? By the way, under the horizon.

Speaker 4: It it's funny.

Speaker 5: We can't so when we first started to like write originals, we were like, yeah, we need a name. We came up with all these names. I think one that I remember is you came up with just In because you want like new generation of you know, artists or whatever.

Speaker 1: I went on, wait, wait, what was it going to be?

Speaker 4: It was going to be just In.

Speaker 5: I went on to Google and started up like cool band names or whatever, and it came up with over the Horizon or something or over a Horizon.

Speaker 4: I didn't like that.

Speaker 5: Yeah, so I was like under Undersounds gloomy undersounds metal, yes, yeah, yeah, so and I came back and I was like, hey, what do you think about under the Horizon? And everybody was like, oh, yeah, you know, it's cool, we like it.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 5: It wasn't until Izzy wrote the title track under the Horizon we were really like had a meaning behind it.

Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that makes sense. Did you Did you go through any others that you kind of could? I love hearing about rejected band names? Were there? Were there any others? Or or did that one present itself pretty early?

Speaker 4: I think you had some.

Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I feel like I contributed some, but I can't. They must have been so bad that I can't.

Speaker 5: Even what they are, right, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say they were bad.

Speaker 4: It was just they were a lot more. I didn't have that ring to it. They didn't have that.

Speaker 5: They were very like I don't want to say stock metal names, but they had a very like predictable type of name to it. Yeah, they were cool, but like, right, it wasn't what we were looking for, right, They didn't really fit our style because I guess to me, with my musical influences, I always thought that the original band that I was going to end up in was going to be the next Slayer, the next Pantera, the next you know whatever. So I came up with all these names with like blood and like all this you know, angry violent things, you know what I mean in metal music, And then you know, here it was like, well, it's not just metal, it's not just speed, it's not just death, it's not whatever, you know what I mean, it's all these it's a.

Speaker 4: What's that word, I.

Speaker 2: Don't know, a melting pot of all our influences. Yeah, yeah, oh a crucible. That's the ten dollars vocabulary word for that one, right there. Yeah, well played sir, of all our musical influences. So my names didn't really work. But yeah, under the Horizon came and it was like yeah, yeah that fits for us.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, part of the challenge too, when when naming the band is trying to find something that nobody else already has or you know, so so you don't get in any trouble. You know, obviously there was a time and you know he's old enough to remember too, when you know, when you couldn't just go online and just google something and just you know, figure out if somebody else already already has it. So I I tell this story a lot. I went to high school with and he might even be listening. Xander Carlson really really talented guitarist.

Speaker 1: I think he's still active in the scene. But and he and I were in a band in high scho We just kind of briefly. But I ran into him after high school and he had a band called He's telling me about this new band he's in. He said, Uh, it's called Intuition, And he said that to me, and immediately I'm thinking, God, somebody's intuition. It's too obvious. It's probably already a thousand bands that are already out there using that name. And I swear to God I ran into him again. I just happened to run into We shopped at the same uh, convenience store.

Speaker 1: I run into him again like six months later, and I asked him how's the band? And he goes, oh, good, but we had to change our name because we heard from some cover band in Massachusetts. They're they're already using the name and they don't want us using it, and and I, you know, I'm too polite to say it, but in my mind I'm thinking, yeah, no kidding, but of course that happened. You called the band intuition, you know, But uh no, but I think Under the Horizon's a very very cool name. We should, uh, let's play another track?

Speaker 1: What but I'm gonna put you on the spot. I'll let you pick what would what would you like to uh to hear next or to share with the audience?

Speaker 3: Maybe in and out, in and out.

Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good catch you one for all of you out there.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like that one. I like I said, I listened to the whole thing and that's That's also one of the ones that stood out to me. Are these all available? Are these on Spotify and everything for people who want.

Speaker 3: To hear them?

Speaker 2: Yes, every streaming platform that you could possibly think of the album's there. And also, if you still listen to physical music, which I know it's a rare breed out there, but for those of you that want to buy a CD, you can not only buy it off of our website Under the Horizon dot org, but also it's on sale at all Bull Moose locations, Good Music Connection down the Road in Manchester, and Pitchfork and Conquered and also, funnily enough, Tenny farm Stand in Antrim, New Hampshire. Yeah, kind of a it's weird to think of a metal band CD going on sale in a farm stand.

Speaker 1: But do they have a CD section?

Speaker 6: No?

Speaker 2: Actually we're the first CD they've ever sold. But you know, we're what, Yeah, they're actually our best selling location. We're friends with the owner of it and he wanted to support so we're like, you want to sell our CDs? Like yeah, sure, so it's on sale, so you know, you can buy cucumbers and corn and then a brand new CD to listen to on the way home.

Speaker 1: That's awesome. That's awesome. All right, let's give this a spin. This is called in and Out. If you are just joining us, we have Under the Horizon here with us live in studio. But check this.

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Speaker 9: People be light. I can't every what you said.

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Speaker 1: That is catchy as hell. That is in and out and the band is under the Horizon and we have under the Horizon here with us live in studio. If so you've got you've got a show tonight, we should uh we should mention that again for for people just tuning in.

Speaker 2: Yeah, show tonight, Rochester Performing Arts Center, All ages, ten dollars cover charge and the doors open at seven. We're playing with Day to a ten, which we talked about previously. Great band and uh, actually we're playing with another band, a cover band that is he's in called Tainted Hearts.

Speaker 1: Oh cool, Yeah, cool, pretty cool? What's so?

Speaker 6: Yeah?

Speaker 1: Tell us about that? Do you does hanted Hearts do a lot of shows and what do you What kind of covers do you do?

Speaker 3: Well, we haven't been together for too long, but we did play a show actually at the r Pack and we also played one at the Hotson Old Homes Day. But we do mostly like rock, like more poppier rock cover songs.

Speaker 1: Okay, okay, cool? Cool?

Speaker 6: Uh?

Speaker 1: Now what about you guys? Are either of you in other projects as well?

Speaker 4: Or I'm in a lot so Jordan, you go first?

Speaker 1: Of course you are. You're a drummer, right, Yeah.

Speaker 4: I don't know. I think the only other.

Speaker 5: Projects that I'm in is a cover band that he's also in, Room three oh one. We kind of we covered. I don't really think we have a specific genre that we stick to. We just cover whatever is a hit song and okay good yeah.

Speaker 4: Yeah.

Speaker 2: It's a student lead rock cover band that's actually connected to our high school.

Speaker 4: Yeah, the high school.

Speaker 2: When I first came in as a freshman, it was like just starting out and you know, they were playing like, you know, Green Day Nirvana, a really basic, you know, intro level stuff. But I could tell that some of the musicians and there were really good, and to be honest with you, I saw the drummer they had at the time, and I didn't really think he was that good. So I eventually found myself behind the drum set and then the rest was history. So yeah, we're it's a student led rock cover band. So we play at like all the school bands concerts, along with you know, concert band and choir.

Speaker 2: But then we also do stuff like you know, school festivals, you know, like field days and stuff like that, and we also do some outside of school gigs. But it's kind of been slowing down a little bit because me and Jordan have been obviously occupied with.

Speaker 4: This band here.

Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, No, the reason I made the comment about, well, of course you're an other bands, you're a drummers because you know, it's it's it's it's a subject on the show a lot every I think it even actually it even came up when we were talking with Silicon KNG earlier about how every drummer is in so many bands, and you know, because drummers are hard to find.

Speaker 4: I guess we are.

Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, yeah, we're always every drummer I've talked to it's like, yeah, I'm in three bands, and me and myself, I'm also in three bands. So you know, I guess we're hard to find. And you know, we just kind of were like, yeah, whatever I can, we can both of these. Honestly, we're pretty bad. We're pretty famous for like cheating as musicians, you know what I mean, We're cheating on our previous bands with other bands and stuff like that. It's pretty bad, actually, but you know whatever.

Speaker 1: Yeah yeah so what so what else? So there's a third.

Speaker 2: BANDI yeah, well kind of it's like just starting out. It's a band called Blowflies. They're out of Keene and it's with a buddy that I actually met in the cover band Room three. I one the bass player, Doc Cassidy, wonderful bass player. But yeah, they're just starting out. It's more of a I don't even know what you would call it, like a post kind of grungy, kind of Midwest emo, kind of a little bit of everything. So a little bit more out of my style.

Speaker 4: But they're just starting out and I've been playing with them. We've done one show together.

Speaker 1: Yeah uh yeah. My my theory about the reason with drummers they're always in so many bands. Is because when you're when you're growing up and you first become interested in playing an instrument, you got to have to talk with the parents, right, you know, a lot of parents are gonna be like drums really Yeah?

Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we had that conversation, but I mean they were kind of used to it because I started off on guitar, yeah, at like six, and then I moved on to bass, then went back to guitar, and I'm like, you know what, I don't really like or I like all both of these, but I'm not really that good at it, so I'll switch to drums. And then I finally when I was ten and I finally found my home behind the drum set.

Speaker 4: I was like, this is where I belong.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, very cool. Did did all three of you? Did you all go to school together?

Speaker 3: Or no, I'm in a different school than them.

Speaker 1: Oh okay, but you guys went to school together?

Speaker 4: Yes? Or did you Yeah? We just met in a couple years ago.

Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we met in high school because we went to separate middle schools. But we met in high school and then Izzy obviously went to Golfstown High School, so that's how we met. At the Battle of the Bands because obviously we would have never met otherwise.

Speaker 4: Sorry, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1: Yeah, do you are there any other bands that you kind of team up with? You know it it sort of happens organically in my experience, and you know, I was in a band that played with your dad's band a lot. We did a lot of shows together.

Speaker 4: Yeah.

Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, sometimes bands just kind of, you know, you just end up teaming up. It just sort of happens.

Speaker 7: That.

Speaker 1: Is there anybody else in the scene that that you play a lot of shows.

Speaker 4: With or not yet unfortunately.

Speaker 2: Yeah, we're trying to make our way out there, and we're trying to, you know, try to also hopefully revitalize the scene a little bit because unfortunately a lot of it has died. So we're trying to, you know, find like minded people and be like, hey, come on, you know, music's still alive. Let's go, let's go play shows and all that. So, yeah, not yet, but we hope to find other bands out there who are like us, who are willing to play shows with us.

Speaker 4: You know, we like friends.

Speaker 1: So yeah, do you feel like there's a there's a dearth of bands that are doing kind of what you're doing right now and locally or.

Speaker 3: I'm not that I've like really met or anything. Like, I don't see too many younger people playing rock or like heavy music at all.

Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of the a lot of the younger talent and music that I see now it's you know, rap, you know that type of stuff, which, hey, I'm not hating, but doesn't help us out right, you know it. You know, I wish there was more younger bands, you know, rock music and stuff, but it's just kind of how it is today.

Speaker 1: No, it's interesting that you say that, because you know, I was talking earlier about how I feel that this kind of music is timeless, but it does occur to me. Again, if you were to just play this for me and say, you know, when do you think this was done? I wouldn't know, but I probably would assume that the members of the band were older than the three of you are, because you're right, you don't see a lot of people necessarily your age doing this kind of music, or at least doing it, you know, with this level of sophistication, because like I said, some of some of this is you know complex, and yeah, that's that's interesting.

Speaker 1: I mean, I you know. But again, you know, you've been together less than a year two, so I assume as you go along you'll meet other bands that you can kind of like I said, you know, and it just happens. It just happens organically, you know. But we should play another track from the album. What do you want to What do you want to play next?

Speaker 4: You guys, go with what you guys? Good? Yeah, within my eyes I can't talk with my Let the guitar player talk. It's fine. I'm just the drummer. I don't know how to speak.

Speaker 1: All right, we'll get we'll give this one a spin, and uh anything we should know about this before we play it.

Speaker 5: We all, I think one of the main parts of it that sticks out, all three of us sing on it.

Speaker 4: That's true.

Speaker 5: Does I do versus? He does the chorus and in the background you'll hear like a or whatever. Okay, no vocalism, but that's easy.

Speaker 1: Oh, very cool, Very cool. All right, let's give this a listen. If you're just joining us, the band is under the horizon there here with us, live in studio, and this is called within my Eyes.

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Speaker 1: It's got a big dramatic ending. I really like that A lot that's called within my eyes. The band is under the horizon and we've got all three members of the band here with us live in studio. We were talking off air while it was playing that that's that song's got a touch of grunge, which kind of sets it apart from a lot of these other songs. And Jordan, you were saying, when you uh, online on Uh it was it on Apple Music on Apple Music.

Speaker 4: It similar artists.

Speaker 5: It comes up with like deaf tones Alison Shane stuff very grungy or you know, have that darker feel.

Speaker 1: I guess I don't know, Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course the drums kind of ungrunge it a little bit because you don't hear you don't hear double bass usually in grunge.

Speaker 4: No, there's a bit.

Speaker 1: I cannot remember who they are now, Jenny, you probably don't remember either. It was a couple of years ago we had a band on who very grunge ex except for the drums. It was a three piece band. Uh, female singer. I can't but yeah, but there's a band from the area who. Yeah, they're they're like very grunge, like not just a hint of it except the double bass drum, which is cool because it's it's it's a different sound. But I cannot I can picture them too, but I cannot remember the name. It'll come to me later on in the day when it no longer matters.

Speaker 1: But anyway, but I really like that track. Now, Now, where do you record? What's the recording process?

Speaker 4: Like my house?

Speaker 2: We so we started recording the drum tracks. We recorded that down in the band room. We recorded in April, and it's in pretty much my basement is the bandroom. But you know, so it was so cold, these poor guys,

Speaker 2: and uh we recorded the drum tracks and pretty much like a day, day and a half maybe, and then we moved upstairs into my attic for the guitar tracks, and then we recorded vocals in my bedroom. So pretty much half of the house was a recording studio for like a week. But yeah, just recording anywhere.

Speaker 3: We could, I say it would be more than a week.

Speaker 4: I don't know how long did we record for.

Speaker 1: I don't know, probably a couple of weeks, at least a.

Speaker 4: Couple maybe three weeks. He's saying three weeks weeks.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh very cool. No, that's that's a good way to do it, you know. It's it's you know, we live in an era to where you've got so many different options in terms of how you record. So do you uh, I think you had said earlier too, you're already working on new material. Is that is that, Craig? Do you have plans to record it soon or you kind of focused on the current album right now?

Speaker 3: The current album right now, and with the gigs that we have coming up, I feel that's what we're focusing on more than original new music.

Speaker 2: Yeah, although speaking on gigs that are coming up, or playing two with the new songs at the show tonight, like songs that are going on the next album, Yeah, no one's heard it, but we had extra times where like, oh, we'll give the audience a little sneak peek of what's to come. So yeah, if any of you guys that are listening right now are coming to that, you'll get to hear two new songs that you can hear right now.

Speaker 1: Oh, very cool, excellent, excellent. Are you gonna I mean, the current run of shows obviously are keeping very busy. Are you going to try to keep up that pace? So, you know a lot of bands kind of slow down in the winter or that's when they kind of shift to recording or writing or.

Speaker 3: And we'll just have to see how things go, you know.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm hoping that the energy that we have right now like follows through even after the shows.

Speaker 4: Yeah, but like she said, only time will tell.

Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, Well you're off to a great start, that's for sure. That's for sure.

Speaker 4: Thank you.

Speaker 1: And where should people go online to keep up with everything that y'all are doing. Where's the best place?

Speaker 3: I mean, we're on a lot of different social medias, so Facebook, Instagram.

Speaker 1: Yep, should just look up under the Horizon. Yeah, basically should should come up?

Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and uh our website too, under the Horizon dot org. That's a good place to come see you, uh hear the music News, get some photos if you want to join the mailing list. And we also have merch on sale over there.

Speaker 1: So yeah, excellent, excellent under the Horizon. Thank you again, all three of you.

Speaker 4: Thank you for having us.

Speaker 1: This has been wonderful. And uh, what track should we play to end the show today?

Speaker 3: Maybe under the Horizon?

Speaker 1: Under the Horizon? Ah, yes, the uh your title track? If you will any anything we should know about the sun?

Speaker 3: It is a really sad, dark story to it, but I wrote it uh on someone that I had lost a couple of years back to suicide.

Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, okay, so this this is about that?

Speaker 7: Yes?

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well you know I always say it's something we we talked about on the on the show a lot is you know, if you can take something negative but create something from it. You know, that's really kind of the best way to deal with things. That's like a great it's such a great form of therapy to be able to take a traumatic event but then do something creative with it. So so we will we will end with this, but thank you to everyone who joined us today, and we leave you with this.

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Speaker 1: The song is under the horizon and the band is under the horizon, and we'll talk to y'all a little bit later. By everybody.

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