Matt Connarton Unleashed: WitchTrot

Let's go ahead, get those mics up for you guys. We're going to

introduce our great musical guests. So we have on the couch, uh,

Matt Collier and you are from the band Witch Trot. Yes? And is

it by the way, is it one word or two? I can't.

I can't figure out online if it's one word or two. It depends on

the month. Yeah, it is one word, but is the is the

second syllable also capitalized? Yes? Oh? Okay, So I got it

right then in the Facebook post I made earlier. That's good. That's good.

So we have Matt Collier is here and Edward McPherson. Am I saying

last name correctly? That is how it's pronounced. Very impressive You got it

right the first time, because a lot of people don't. Why what do

people usually say McPherson. They usually say McPherson. As far as I understand

it, I think McPherson is the Irish way and McPherson is the Scottish way.

Oh, I think that's it. So you're a Scottish of Scottish descent,

and Gottish people get upset if you say things the Irish way, right,

and assume it's the same, because it's not the same. You're different.

At that point, you're in over my head. See I'm irish,

so I understand these things. But by the way, you guys are getting

some love in the Facebook live chat already. Let's see, we have Adam

Jocelyn from able Blood. We were talking about able Blood off air a little

bit. He says, hello, Matt ce and hello witch Trot. What's

up fellas, and Isaac Banks in the chat room says witch Trot rocks all

right, yeah, yeah, and I thought there was another it, and

Malcolm Sols says yeah, says witch Trot rules. Let's see. I think

there might be some other people in here too. It's a very very busy

chat room, which we love to see. And now if you're watching online,

you can see that Matt has an acoustic guitar with him, so we're

gonna hear some music. Matt's gonna play something for us from the band,

and we're also we have a brand new and I think it'll be the world

radio premiere right of this newly remastered song that we're gonna play it a little

bit. Yes, very nice. We like the world radio premieres. Around

here, very very good, But I don't should we go ahead and and

have you play? I'm dying to hear you play. But but but before

we do that, can you tell us what it is that you're gonna play?

Is this? Is this a witch trot song or a solo thing or

what have you got for us? Yeah? This is a witch trot song.

It's one of the ones we recorded at off A make a studio.

We just got it mastered, so this will be the first time anyone would

be hearing it. Really Yeah, very cool, Yeah, very cool.

All right, well, yeah, if you want to uh now, what

is this called parallax? Parallax? Okay, all right, yeah, if

you're ready, Matt, I'm dying to hear you play. Morn the absence

of all your restless peaks to the place up in swanders, scrounging of wood.

I'm indifferent to motivated by survival. I never want to miss this,

remember ants, could you just leave me alone? Now? Play some melody?

Why should I tie all of these vacancy and give a fir new life

taking the shape of limitless blight, A fly to run slow, oh sound,

a pushing Paul, the papering off affection, glyss sins through worried about

recluse, or carry the fire in the road so I can fly kite through.

Humanity was a business taking turns for a wetness to catch up mantista clean

ukrind never on a shrug this tantness. I could you preach through my pounds,

Ah, playback the smelody and climb new heights away from the smellody or

less givin a dry break for the sipity or sherry shits. Bite A fly

to run slow, a fly to run slow, A fly to run slow,

fly to run slow. I portrayed something for you today, and I

play some for melody. Where should I tie all of these vacan season Let's

give him try break forth the melody of chowish shit spite, fly to run

slow? Very nice, very nice. I like that a lot. I

like that a lot. Adam Joscelyn in the chat room, of course,

from Abel Blood says, such a unique voice. You do, a unique

voice. Your your your vocal delivery is very raw, but but I like

it. Thank you? How I mean? Is there anyone who inspires you

vocally that you kind of try to sound like or or or who has influenced

the way that you sing because it is it is unique. Yeah, it's

definitely a lot of the grunge nineties music like Kirk Obain, Avin Rossdale,

Yeah yeah, Pete Hamilton from Helmet. Those are my vocal influences. Yeah,

yeah, very cool. Now, now the two of you is is

are the two of you witch Trot? Or are there other members? Because

I know I saw I saw at least one video online, a live video

where it was just the two of you. Yeah, right now, it's

the two of us. We've had my girlfriend Ed's sister Meghan fill in on

bass for us for some shows. Yeah, great band, exactly. Yeah,

so but for right now, just the two of us. And uh

now, how long have the two of you been in the spand like,

are you both original members of Witch Trot? No, but I've been in

the band for about four years now. Oh okay, so but no,

Matt's been. Matt's had this thing going since he was like god sixteen or

something. Yeah, okay, okay. And then how did the two of

you meet and come to work together through the Stone Church? Yeah, it

was through a through a mutual acquaintance. The guitarist of a band I was

formerly in called Marvel Prone. Oh, Marvel Prone. Wait a minute,

have you been here before? I have not? You have? You have

not? They have? I left that band a year age ago. Okay,

I'm like, because you said that, I'm like, wait a minute,

have we have we met before? No? It's funny how you know

the scene, it's like this, it's a so many people move around in

different bands. Okay, so you were in Marvel Prone. Interesting, I

was in Marvel Prone, and I believe Rayner, the band leader of Marvel

Prone and Matt met each other at the Stone Church sometime and Matt mentioned that

he needed a drummer. So okay, put us in contact with each other.

Oh cool? Cool? And then so now what about so you had

a bass player? Did you have a regular bass player before Megan or for

a while? Yeah, yep, okay, And then how long were they

in the band? Two years? Two years? Yeah? So now do

so, but you guys do some shows where it's just the two of you

if Megan's not available or how does that work? I think we have done

that before. Yeah, because I'm pretty sure, Like I said, I'm

pretty sure. I saw a YouTube video where it's just the two of you.

And I think somebody whoever posted it put in the description something about,

uh, even even without a bass player, these guys rock or something,

or maybe it was one of the comments in the video. But I feel

like that happened once. It's kind of I feel like you could say,

play with the bass player is is best practice? Yeah, but I think

once in a pinch, we did do it, just the two of us.

Yeah, yeah, I mean there's there's others that have that have done

it and and made it work, but yeah, there's there's nothing quite like

having, you know, you want to have that bottom end if you know,

if you can, you know, like I saw Local h once in

Boston years ago, and uh, but it's obvious, you know, it

was just the two guys, but it was obvious that I can't remember his

name for the life of me. The guitar player, you know that he

he had an effect that you know, gave him extra bottom end. And

and I've I've I've seen bands do that, not very many, but now

so, so how long has the band been around total? Because because you

said you've been you've been doing it for it, But was there another drummer

before Edward Yeah, there were some other projects a little different from witch Trot

that I had started up, but witch Trot was fairly new when ED joined.

Okay maybe six months Okay, yeah, I didn't even know that.

Yeah, yeah, so I had. It was it was pretty much similar

genres, but just different band names. And but I I separate which struck

from that. Yeah, it's different. Yeah, Fredo is in the Facebook

live chat. Uh. Yeah, I was gonna say, you guys,

bust Nolfredo everybody, all right. I do enjoy I do, oh absolutely

absolutely. Fredo has been on the show a number of times. I do

enjoy saying his full name when I see him in the chat room. Alfredo

Enrique Benevitez. But yeah, Dank Sinatra, Cosmic Blossom, great great stuff,

you know, and he posts a lot of solo videos too. That

it's just such a such an enormously talented guy, really good on the show

too. We gotta get him, get him back on. Yeah, Ronda

Favera, you know, when I was asking you about your vocal style,

Ronda from our friend from California, she said, kind of reminds her of

Nirvana, So that makes sense. Yeah, are you are you self taught

vocally or what about now? What about on guitar? You ever take lessons

or are you self taught? I haven't take lessons yet. I was self

taught. Wow, yeah that always. That always impresses me. How about

you, Adward? On the drums, I had drum lessons for like two

years, like the first year I played, and then I went a few

years without. Yeah, then I took lessons for another year. I've been

playing for like eleven years, so I had lessons for two of them.

Okay, okay. I like to think I'm pretty good at self teaching.

Yeah, like like actually working on things and not just screwing around. Right,

right, that's good. And are you in any other bands? Because

most drummers I meet are in like ten different bands because there's just not a

lot of drummers around. I've been there, homie. Yeah, I'm currently

in one other band, a metalcore band from Newmarket called Proelium. Actually,

the guitarist of Proelium, a dude named Darius, was the drummer of witch

Trot before I was Oh no kidding, yeah, oh wow. It's all

so it's the music scene. It's like incestuous in a way. Yeah,

but not in that way, you know what I mean. I mean,

we are in the Northeast after all, so but no, but yeah,

so that's interesting. So the reason I say that is the reason I asked

that is there's just been a trend where, like I have these bands on

and everybody's drummer is in like multiple bands. And I have a theory about

that. I think it's because when you're growing up and you first start getting

interested in playing a musical instrument, and you have to kind of have the

talk with your parents like, hey, I want to take up an instrument.

If you express an interest in the drums, your parents are probably going

to try to talk you out of that and say, well, how about

guitar or something, you know, something where you're not going to be making

a lot of noise. So so what that ends up happening is you end

up with just not a lot of drummers around because you know, parents don't

want their their kids growing up playing drums and making all that noise. My

theory anyway, bass players tend to be in high demand too, but I

think drummers especially. Yeah, I think your theory is pretty spot on for

drummers. I think for bass players. It's just because everybody wants to play

guitar. Guitarists get the glory. Yeah, yeah, you know most bands

have a guitarist playing bass really right. Well, it's funny because I so,

I'm a bass player, but I started out on guitar when I was

a kid. I took guitar lessons and never took a bass lesson. But

I took guitar lessons. But unfortunately, I was one of those kind of

lazy kids that if I wasn't good at something really fast, I would get

discouraged. And so I was getting discouraged with the guitar, and I wasn't

putting the work in to really practice it. And then when I was in

high school, I picked up a bass, you know, just hanging out

with some friends playing music. And bass players hate when I say this,

but it's it's just the reality of it. I picked up a bass,

and I said, oh, too fewer strings and I don't have to learn

any chords. I think I found my instrum man and and but yeah,

I mean it worked out. I went on, you know, I played

in a bunch of bands and and uh so I did find my instrument,

but it kind of sucks that it happened the way that it did because it

was out of my own laziness. But it's true though, And bass players

hate when I say that because it, you know, it makes it sound

like, oh, the bass is easy and to play. It's not easy

to play the bass really well. But if you just want to be you

know what I always say. I was never good, but I was always

good enough. And bass players being in not as high demand as drummers,

but in sort of high demand, you know, you end up playing,

you can you can be just okay and end up in a bunch I was

in a bunch of different bands at once, actually, But but yeah,

drummers, I mean so many drummers who were just in just in tons of

bands. Uh So maybe we should maybe we should talk about this more after

we play the single. But I don't want to forget to ask you this

in terms of influences that word I when I was listening to the you know,

because Matt sent me the single earlier that we're going to play in a

couple of minutes. Well, first of all, overall, I got kind

of a Sabbath vibe from it, and I definitely got a bill Ward vibe

from your drumming, and I'm curious is he an influence of yours or that's

a that's an interesting question. I think your your Phil's, your drum fills

remind me a lot of Bill Ward, and he's one of my favorites.

So it's you know, it's please take it as a compliment. Oh,

I absolutely do. I love Black Sabbath, Yeah, always have. I

don't consider Bill Ward specifically an influence, but I do consider that kind of

music and Black Sabbath's contemporaries to be a great influence. Yeah, yeah,

absolutely, Well what are tell me about? Who are some of your influences?

Really? I'm just a sucker for all of the great prog rock drummers.

Yeah, Neil Peart, Phil Collins, Uh, those are probably the

biggest two. Who else? I always my head always goes blank when people

ask me things like that. Yeah, that's okay, that's all right.

It kind of puts it on the spot. Phil Collins is a surprise to

me though, because I don't know, I never really hear anyone say so

is Phil Collins? I know this kind of an ongoing debate that I've seen

online in some forums. Is Phil Collins a great drummer. In your opinion,

Phil Collins is the man, no kidding, But you have to listen

to the early Genesis albums to figure it out. He also has other bands.

He has, like a jazz fusion band that I haven't listened too much

from. Yeah, but honestly, if you like Bill Ward, yeah,

you would probably dig Phil collins drumming on the early Genesis albums because that is

a very similar, loose, jazzy, feely style, if you know what

I mean. It's not rigid at all. He's very much just like sinking

in to the music. See that surprises me because I guess the more commercial

Genesis stuff that came out later, I feel like his drumming is very rigid.

But but I have but I have heard some early Genesis with when Peter

Gabriel was singing, and now that you mention it, yeah, his drumming

was different. I know what you mean. Yeah, I'll have to go

back and listen to some of that. Yeah, you're getting some support on

that in the chat room up. DJ Midas says Phil Collins is a phenomenal

drummer. Malcolm Salz says any Genesis album he wasn't allowed to sing on was

incredible. That's a great way of putting it. Although I love Phil's voice.

Phil's got a great voice. But I but I understand. I understand

what he means, because that makes sense if you're talking about the earlier stuff

before Phil took over on vocals, and Fredo says, uh, brand X.

Actually, let me read these in order. Fredo said Phil Collins was

a masterful drummer. Check out his fusion band. His fusion band brand X.

Brand X is Phil Collins displaying his jazz prowess and crazy Prague chops.

Interesting. Interesting. Oh, and Malcolm had said earlier Phil Collins and early

Genesis is some of the best Prague you will ever hear. Interesting. Yeah,

I'll have to I'll have to go back and give that another listen.

Okay, Yeah, it's coincidentally several months ago I happened to hear I cannot

even remember what album it's on. It was on one of their really commercially

successful albums, Genesis, with Phil on lead vocals. But the song is

Domino. Did you know that song? I do not know that song.

Yeah, it's it's from It's It's again. It's from their really commercial period.

But but I just remember listening to that song and I'm listening to the

drum track and I'm thinking, you know, this, this song would be

so much better if the drums weren't so you know, they sound it sounded

like programmed drums. I don't know if it was actually him playing or if

it was all programmed, but I remember thinking, this song would be so

cool if you know, it was Phil Collins without drumming, without all the

effects and everything. But it was, you know, it was like the

mid nineteen eighties. You know, I lived through it. It was.

Everything was very sort of overproduced in that way. But I'll have to go

back and listen to some early Phil Collins or some early some more early Genesis,

and I'll have to check out Brand I didn't even know about Brand X,

so that must have been the band he was in before Genesis maybe,

or I don't really know. There might have been some overlap. Yeah,

yeah, interesting, No, I'm very curious. Now, Now how about

you? How about you, Matt in terms of influences, I mean,

we talked a little bit about your vocals, but how about guitar or just

the overall vibe? Like I said, I get a heavy Sabbath vibe from

from Witch Trot. Yeah, I really like the Melvins. I can hear

it. Yeah, I like Wudini. That's probably my favorite from them.

Stoner which is another one I really like. Of course, Nirvana and Utero

is one of my favorite albums. Yeah, and I love Black Sabbath as

well. Sleep is a cool band. Electric Wizard a lot of that doomy

type rock and as well as the grunge stuff I've always been a fan of.

Yeah, yeah, Oh, Fredo in the chat Room says regarding Phil

Collins, he didn't need to, he didn't need to give us his all

on the Tarzan soundtrack, but he did. Yeah, when the Tarzan soundtrack,

I remember when that came out, and I remember kind of thinking,

yeah, he's definitely entered his Uh, he's moved from his rock face to

his adult contemporary face. Actually he had probably done that long before that.

But yeah, I understood. He can't even he can't even really it's hard

for him to stand up now. Phil Collins, like you see you see

any videos from that last from the Genesis Farewell tour, It's kind of it's

kind of heartbreaking. Feel bad for him, you know, although miraculously his

voice is still sounds pretty good. Oh, his voice is great. Yeah,

absolutely, Yeah, it's just a poor guy. He can't it's hard

for him to move around. And you know, but drums is such a

physical instrument too that you know, if there's anything you're going to get injured

playing, it's that. I suppose. Well, we should get to this

track since we've been talking about how you guys sound. Now again, is

this no no Mos Thomas? Is that how you pronounce it? Yes?

Okay, Now what does that mean? No more Thomas? So I have

a friend named Thomas, and he's I can tell it's this will be a

good story by Edwards reaction. Well, he he's very unpredictable and like he's

always he always does very like wild things, like I've always and like he's

younger than me, so I've always kind of been like I've acted like the

older brother in some ways. I'm always like Thomas, no, don't do

that, especially in public, or he's gonna watch this and be like right.

But yeah, so yeah, that's that's why I called it no More

Thomas. And I've told him that and he thinks it's pretty cool. That's

cool. I thought maybe it was Latin or something that I saw it.

Very cool. All right, let's give this a listen. Where was this

recorded, by the way, Alfa Omega Studios. And where is that that's

in Massachusetts? Some town in Massachusetts I've never heard of before. Okay,

all right, cool, let's give this a listen and then we'll come back

and we'll talk some more with these guys. Check this out. This is

witch Trot. This is brand new, newly remastered and world radio premiere.

Boss spouts outs sss ss s by Heaven, why your pass away? The

new ass came fast and sacrifice, surpass the holy exercise, please the Holy

One? Who will we drop from the darks? S s s s s

s ses. Oh that is so good. No, miss Thomas, am

I saying that right? Matts No Moss Thomas, Yes, from the band

witch Trot, And we have Matt and Edward from the band here with us

live in studio. That is the world radio premiere of that track. And

I love it. You know what's cool? Is it? Kind of the

song fools you. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's made this observation,

but when I was listening to it for the first time, I was

like, Oh, it's an instrumental, and then the vocal finally shows up,

but it's so far into the song, but it's like a cool surprise

when the vocal comes in. I was like, Oh, it's not an

instrumental. I like that. Like, did you do that intentionally or is

that just kind of how the song developed? That was actually done intentionally.

A lot of the stoner rock doomy stuff band Sleep does that a lot.

They'll have a lot of instrumentals and then they'll sing, and then they'll stop

and do a lot of long instrumentals and then continue back into singing. Yeah,

yeah, no, I like that. It's cool. It's kind of

a cool twist. Yeah. Fredo in the chat room says long intro.

Fredo also said too earlier, you know, the Melvins came up as an

influence, and Fredo said, up, Melvins are one of the most influential

badass bands ever. They did more for grunge, sludge and underground music in

general than any of their contemporaries. Yeah, definitely, the Melvin's very,

very influential but kind of unsung heroes, and you know, one of those

bands that you know, musicians know the Melvins, but non musicians never even

heard of them. This is one of those kinds of bands. Yeah,

so we've got the guys here from witch Trot. By the way, so

where does the name come from? Witch Trot? I assume you came up

with that, Matt, because you're the like the original, the founding member.

Yeah. Yeah, Well there's several witch Trot roads in Maine. I

noticed that. I noticed that when I googled you guys, and I was

like, oh, this is a common thing in Maine. Yeah. Yeah,

And well the name came about was Maine was part of Massachusetts during the

Salem Witch Trials, and they brought down a preacher or parson from Maine,

and the road is called witch Trot Road. That was trotting down, which

which is on horseback. They would commonly do that and and pick that name

because it was it signified like judgment and symbolized the road to judgment when those

witches were crossing over. Yeah, yeah, I thought that was cool.

Yeah, no, it's a cool name. Now, how many songs have

you Is this the only Is this the first song that you've done in that

studio in North Reading or do you have others that you're working on or we

would like to go back soon. We have two other ones I played.

Parallax was one of them, and I played the acoustic version of that.

Yeah, we have a song called Hello Dmitri that that's also was recorded at

Alpha Omega. Oh okay, Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna sorry, we're

going to release those hopefully tonight or tomorrow. Oh okay, yeah, oh

okay, Yeah, I'd love to hear Hello Dmitri. So that'll be so

at some point this weekend, that'll be available, yes, online. Very

cool, Very cool. And what's the writing process like, do you guys

write together or do you come up with the ideas initially and then bring them

netword or how does that work? It's sort of they always originate with Matt.

You know, I like to consider myself a valuable part of the band,

but it's always been Matt's songs that we're playing. Yeah. He sometimes

he comes at me or me and whoever former basis was in the band at

the time with a completed idea, but usually it's just like, you know,

an intro of verse and a chorus and we jam on it. For

a while, someone might make a few suggestions. They come together very organically

and as a consequence, somewhat inefficiently. Sometimes it kind of takes a while

for them to reach their final form. Really, yeah, like how long,

like, uh to develop a song does it take? Does it take

days? Weeks? A couple practices? Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah

yeah, Because Edward, what what you're doing on the drums that that that

winds up becoming you know, even if the idea doesn't start with you,

I mean you you are really kind of contributing to how the song forms because

your drum patterns are complex and you know it's it's not it's not like you

know, you're not the guy from ac DC sitting over there. You're actually

really you know, not nothing against a c DC, but you're really you

know, you're really helping to form and shape that song with what you're doing

on the drums. Yeah, so I sceer them, you could say.

Sometimes sometimes it's something as simple as like a bro, what if we like

this right? But as being humble, But like for especially Nomas Tomas,

that song, the breakdown at the end, that wouldn't have happened, you

know, without the drums. A lot of the drum Definitely, the drums

carry like all the songs. Yeah, it's just you know, I have

a rough draft really and then it forms something. Yeah, I wouldn't have

expected right right now now in studio. Now, who's playing bass in studio?

Are you doing that yourself? Or is Megan doing that? Or who's

our friend? Tony Woodman played bass on that actually? Oh okay, Yeah,

he has a band, Black head Dress. I drummed for for that

band and he helped us out a lot. See. Now that's a twist

on this whole drummer thing. So there's this other band that you play drums

in. See is it? What's your first instrument? Is drums your first

instrument? Or or is a guitar? It was? It was drums was

the first thing I learned. I gradually went to guitar and I've been playing

that. That's kind of like my main instrument. Oh I gotcha, I

got you a Black head Dress. That's the other band. Yeah, it's

a cool name. From around here? Is is everybody from around here?

Yeah? There, Tony's from and then Josh is from he's the guitarist and

the band he's from Alfred and then so it's kind of kind of all over

the place. Alfred, where's that It's it's in New Hampshire or no,

sorry, Maine, it's in Maine. Oh, it's in Maine. Yeah.

And I know Sandford's in Maine. Yes. Yeah. The only reason

I know that is because that's where I almost round when I was a kid.

My dad had to save me. So the Sandford, Maine is uh

is forever etched in my brain. So you're now you live here now,

but you're from Maine originally? Is that York Maine? You're from York.

Okay, that's a nice area. Yeah. Now about you, Edward,

Do you live in the area here or or do you have a commute?

I live in Rochester currently. Okay. I grew up in Portsmouth. That's

where I was living when I joined the band. Oh okay, yeah yeah,

So you guys got a little bit of a commute between you. It's

half an hour. It's not bad, it's not bad. Yeah. Yeah.

Now are you playing a lot of shows? Do you play a lot

of shows or are you focused on recording or I have a couple of shows

coming up. We have a house party on the twenty eighth, and then

we're playing at the Stone Church on Halloween. Oh, very cool. Yeah,

we're playing. We're playing with Proelium, they're headlining. Yeah. Yeah,

it's gonna be Prollium headlining witch Trot before them, and then a band

called green Eye before witch Trot. Yeah. And does one of you play

drums and green Eyes? No, we've reached the limit. Okay, understood.

Speaking of drums, I wanted to mention something. Yeah, a lot

of the older Witch Trot songs, like from when I first joined the band,

I actually learned from demos that Matt posted on YouTube again when he was

like when he was like seventeen or so, and on all those demos he's

playing drums. Oh wow, So the way I played drums in the band

was influenced by what Matt played oh way back in the day. Interesting,

So it kind of like it's sort of like a it comes full circle.

Yeah, so you you committed to learning, but do you play the parts

now the same as when Matt put them in those demos originally? Or do

you or do you even still play those songs because obviously those songs go backways,

some of them we do it kind of it depends on the songs.

Sometimes. I sometimes I liked what he played and and I would more or

less stick to that and if anything changed, it would again change like subconsciously

and organically over time. Yeah. Other other things, it was more of

a like, hey, I have an idea for how else this could be

done? Right? Yeah, makes sense. But I definitely think, even

even if the parts themselves have changed, the way Matt plays drums influenced how

I choose to play drums in the band. Now, okay, okay,

interesting, So are your styles now today on drums somewhat different then or or

are they similar very much? So we're completely different drummers? Really? Yeah?

Yeah, in in one way, I mean, because I kind of

have a vibe of how you play obviously from listening to that track, But

like, what, how how are your drums different, Matt? If it's

something you can put into words, maybe it's not the easiest thing to verbalize,

but I'm curious now. Uh. Well, with Black Head Dress,

a lot of the songs are kind of tribal, like, lot of a

lot of toms. It's pretty heavy on that rather than a lot of a

lot of crashes or fills or it's just kind of sets the tone for because

I follow, Like with Black head Dress, I follow Tony and John quite

a bit. I just go back and forth, and they're really the ones

who are setting up the structure and IM and I'm yeah, it's just kind

of tribal like, I mean, that's kind of how the songs felt.

Yeah, no, that makes sense. Yeah. I was actually just looking

up Black head Dress online and maybe we'll maybe to end the show, we'll

play Do these have swears in them? Honestly, it depends on the song

like Disconnected that shows up on the website. Do you know? If you

don't know, we just won't risk it. But I was just thinking if

if you did know, we could play something, because I'm curious to hear

hear it now, But if not, I'll just wait till later and we

won't risk it. I can't remember, honestly. Yeah, No, that's

fine. That's all good. By the way, Melanie in the chat room

says high five for not being a part of Massachusetts anymore. Now, if

you guys, obviously you you play shows around here. Have you have you

toured anywhere outside of the area. No, we've never been on tour.

Okay, We've played mass a little bit, New Hampshire, a little bit,

Maine a little bit. Yeah, but I think that's it. Okay,

yeah, okay. And are there are there any other bands in the

area that you kind of team up with? You know, I mean it

tends to happen organically, kind of by accident, you know, bands will

have other bands that they wind up playing a lot of shows with. Did

you have anybody in the area like that? Oh? Yeah, well Wired

for Sound Yeah, yeah. I played with Marvel Prone a few times back

when I was in that band, played a few shows with Preellium. We're

about to play another show with Proelium. Yeah. Who else? Who are

like some of the Charlie's Hill bands We played with Sauce on the side I

was one. Oh we had them on the show. Yeah, yeah,

they're they're fantastic, Yeah they are. Yeah, they're great. Able Blood

of course, able Blood, love able Blood. We had them on the

show. We have sophisticated adult martial law. And there's a lot of I

found that in the more of the Seacoast area. There's a lot of more

metal type bands, hard rock band, yeah, like metal core type bands.

Yeah. And yeah, so we kind of get placed in in those

types of shows, which is a lot of fun, a lot of the

mosh pits and whatnot. Yeah, no, no doubt, no doubt.

And uh so this h this weekend is a Stone Church? Is that this

weekend or next weekend? That's Halloween Night? Halloween Night. Yeah, that's

very cool. That's a good that's really good. I haven't been to the

Stone Church in forever, but that's a really nice that's a nice place to

play. They're actually a not normally open on Tuesdays, but Halloween is a

Tuesday this year. Yeah, and so they figured they'd throw a little shin

dig. It's gonna be a full on costume party. Three bands, good

fun, very cool if anyone's interested, Witch Front, Prelium and not in

that order. Yeah, the Stone Church Halloween Night, come in costumes,

seven pm. Yeah, very cool, very cool. Well, listen,

we're going to uh oh we have a call. Oh looks like this is

uh Malcolm Souls who we saw in the Facebook live chat. Hi, welcome

to the show. Hey man, it's Malcolm from Abel Blood. Hey Malcolm.

Oh that Malcolm. Hey what's up man? I just want I just

want to chime in here and tell you that these guys are like they're like

having a reaction video at your show, because every show we play with them,

we always like to watch people milling about before they start. Yeah,

and as soon as they start playing, everything stops and everybody's like, holy

crap, who are these guys? I believe it. That's awesome, very

cool, very cool. Yeah, they make a lot of noise for well,

three piece technically right when you've got when you've got a bass player with

you. But yeah, that's cool, have you well, yeah, go

ahead, Malcolm. I was gonna say they can reach out to Adam and

I because we have bass issues too, so we're splitting based duty now.

Oh that's right, that's right. Yeah, that's right. We talked about

that when you guys were here. I forgot about that. You're you're one

of the bands I was I was thinking of earlier when we were talking about

the bass thing. Yeah, that's funny. That's why I called it,

just to remind you. Yeah, hey, I still play uh geez,

maybe I'll play it at the end of the show today. I want to

have time to play the whole thing. But mental note, man, that

always goes over a big one I play that on the show. People go

crazy for that in the chat room. Awesome. So glad to hear,

so glad to hear. But I gotta I got to run because I have

my daughter with me. Thank you, Malcolm. Yeah, I love you

guys. Can't wait to do a show again soon. All right, Malcolm,

thank you for the call, my friend, Take care you bet guys.

All right, by all right Malcolm from Abled Blood. Very cool,

very cool, such a great band. And well, listen, guys,

we got to wrap up in a moment. Where should people go online?

What's the best way to go online to find you guys? Just Google?

Because if you google Witch Trot, I guess Witch Trot band, right,

because otherwise all those roads come up in Maine. Yeah? Yeah, on

YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Yeah soon, every screaming platform that matters.

Yes, yes, yes, And the new single comes out this weekend.

What's it called again? Yes? Parallax okay, yeah, and then followed

by shortly no Mas Tomas and hello Dmitri very cool, all right, hello

Dmitri. That was the other one. Yeah, thank you for playing live

for us. That was phenomenal man. All right, Matt and Edward,

thank you guys, so much witch Trot and good luck with the Halloween show.

That's amazing. Good for you guys, and I really appreciate your coming

in today. Malcolm. If you're still listening, here's a little bit of

able blood for you. Mental note.