October 11, 2025 • 59 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We have Benthic Realm here live in studio with us,
and what we're gonna do now, they're gonna play live.
They're gonna do a few songs live, and then we're
gonna we're gonna talk a little bit afterward, which will
be cool, very interested to learn more about their music.
But I'm going to start. Let's see, let's get these
mics up here. We have one person with a vocal mic,
so tell us, uh, if you could, who you are,
(00:21):
what you do in the band, and then I'll let
you introduce the other two members.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thanks, thanks for having us. We're super stoked to be here.
So I'm Krista. I am the guitar player and singer
in Benthic Realm. And we also have Maureen here on
bass and Dan on drums. Today he's actually gonna be
playing the cajone okay, as we're doing an acoustic set.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Very cool, and a tambourine, and.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
He's pointing out that she wants everyone to know there's
a tambourine in the room.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Oh wonderful, wonderful. Uh, So Christ can you play the
guitar a little bit, just want to make sure we
can hear. Oh that sounds nice. That sounds nice, okay,
and then Maureen, can you play that bass a little bit,
sounds really good, sounds really good. And then uh yeah,
(01:10):
can let's hear something something that go home. I'm gonna
pull this mike up a little bit, make sure, oh yeah,
that sounds good, that sounds really good. And then can
you all just kind of play a little bit of
something together, and before u before you jump into an
actual full song, I just want to make sure we're
sounding good here. Can you sing a little something christa.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Cheer Less to control joh takes me where it wants
to go?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Manama, Hi, sounds good, sounds good. I think we're ready.
I think we're ready, all right. So if you're just
joining us, Benthic Realm is here live in studio, and
you're gonna do three songs, three songs, three songs, all right,
and then we're gonna talk and really looking forward to this,
(02:20):
looking forward to hearing you live. So yeah, whenever you're ready,
just go for it. Awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So this is an acoustic version of our song Vessel
that it's on our last release, power Less to Control.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
The tat takes me where it.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Once to word.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
But I'm a lad.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Life been straining out your bota got sure that I
was heady the way.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
But as I believe.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
My body is a Venci.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Speaks to me, ceves me. People who gaves have believe.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
My body is a vessel, caps me safe, gives me.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
Cold.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It wasn't easy, scared.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
When they listen, made a ship to take.
Speaker 9 (04:34):
But Asia has chaos. Come to the Knight.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
A car escaped without a fine, and I'm.
Speaker 10 (05:03):
I believe.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
My body is a vessel. Speaks to me cause me
forks have believe my body is a vessel.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Here's me saved, kiss.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Me cold.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
At eight. I believe.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Body isn't that.
Speaker 11 (07:21):
So speaks mexuse me, pocus, I believe.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
My body is of that. So keus me saved.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Keuse me cause keeps me.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Cause nice if you're just joining us. We have benthic
(08:36):
realm here live in studio sounding great. Good job everybody. Yeah,
wait to hear the next one whenever you're ready.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
All right, This next.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
One is Adid Burns. Never has the womb closed off,
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Never have nine duties.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Tragedies. We witness o the Red.
Speaker 12 (09:49):
Century. We build over watches, we build up.
Speaker 13 (10:08):
To a lead show the fory and set people rely,
has it.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Watch you? Has it.
Speaker 14 (10:42):
Watching money? And vowela drive the auntisi shoon sending a
(11:18):
common man dime. On the bridges.
Speaker 12 (11:30):
They hold open grandera.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
They stop. Also place.
Speaker 13 (11:43):
Please stays, say fa stayed while they sign the sack
you drive?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Has it wat tru? How's you bad.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Wat? True bad.
Speaker 15 (13:22):
Boot but doomed to make the same mistakes?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
No big toy had the side casualties.
Speaker 13 (14:18):
They had all well draining halls up.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Has it watch you? Has it watch you go?
Speaker 16 (14:57):
Ha?
Speaker 17 (15:15):
M h.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Wow. What what's that one called? That's as it burns?
As it burns me?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Do your work?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
They're working that mic.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, no, that was great. That was great, really good.
If you're just joining us, we have benthic realm here
with us live in studio and uh no, that's intense.
I like the lyrics. I think, I think I know
what that what's about? That's for sure?
Speaker 16 (16:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah, really good, really good. And then you can play
you can play one more for us, that is correct?
Is this unusual? By the way, doing an acoustic set
on a Saturday morning at eleven am?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Very very different. We have played acoustic live once earlier
in February, Americ Old Theater.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Oh excellent.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That was the first time that we played that live,
so with a full set. Yeah, this is definitely an
experience on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, good, all right, whenever you're ready.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
All right, you're good, all right. So this, this next
song is called fade Away. This is a song that
we've performed live a couple of different times, and we
have done this acoustically before. But it's not recorded live
yet anywhere on any album, so you'll have to stay
tuned for recording maybe next year. All right, This is
fade away, A faid.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Away into the what smell to me? It's just a man,
(18:15):
a sweet boy win no.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Sound Well, I'm.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
No longer to to grown.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Before can never be found the head on this battle
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ground stay for years?
Speaker 16 (19:57):
Ha it.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Finds man suit.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
It could only get better, So.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Moved on with that.
Speaker 18 (20:47):
The s.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
A me a decision. What worlds bear? Can never be.
Speaker 19 (21:22):
Found as probably head homeless battle round?
Speaker 5 (21:53):
M h.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
M hmmmm, whid.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Before can double beard bound?
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Where I was from?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Home?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
This battle Home, this battle round?
Speaker 16 (23:24):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I love it. Benthic realm live in studio. We're gonna
need to play a studio track. This is called course
correct here on Matt Connorton unleashed. Let's give this a
spend and then we're gonna we're gonna talk to these
fine folks. Really looking forward to that. Plenty more to come.
Stick around here. It is course correct by Benthic Realm.
Oh man, I don't hear anything, and I apologize, let
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me fix that, let me back that up. Here we
go this time, I promise, yes said, I'm cool.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Don't you know where we're go?
Speaker 16 (24:41):
Go?
Speaker 8 (24:41):
No way?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Not sure?
Speaker 20 (24:47):
You know?
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Way? Well?
Speaker 21 (24:48):
Be well?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
So nice?
Speaker 22 (25:01):
I haven't able day.
Speaker 16 (25:05):
So bad bird.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
To of.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
So you take a ball to.
Speaker 18 (25:37):
So way?
Speaker 21 (25:44):
How trying?
Speaker 22 (25:49):
M m, it's say man's turn, but your.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Just spell.
Speaker 22 (26:33):
I haven't know what does mos?
Speaker 20 (26:37):
When will we got bad? Comes bout tell me real,
don't sensitize.
Speaker 21 (26:57):
Don't know man's man.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
To wool.
Speaker 21 (27:18):
Three?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Then out.
Speaker 21 (27:23):
So we taken a long three ll always.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
How well?
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Time?
Speaker 18 (29:05):
M we been.
Speaker 21 (29:52):
Well at a time.
Speaker 23 (30:13):
Oh that is so good.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
We just heard course correct. The band is Benthic Realm
and we've got let's see so we have Dan, Christa
and Maureen here with us live in studio. If you
missed it, they displayed live, so if you did miss it,
you'll have to go back and uh and give it
a listen. It sounded great, but and I love that
studio track too. Course grek really good. So welcome everybody.
Is it always the three of you? Are there any
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other members of the band who aren't here or just
the three of us? You got a big sound for
three people. That's really cool. That's really cool. And how
do you describe I mean, is it what do you
call it? Doom? I mean, what do you call how
do you everyone always Hayt's this question, but in terms
of genre, how do you describe what you do?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah, we call it melodic doom metal.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Melodic doom metal, yeah, because we're.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Not the classic just you know, just kind of drony,
kind of you know, always at one ruhthum, you know,
or one beast for a minute, I guess. Yeah, we
kind of like to try to mix it up. So
we all listen to heavy metal as well, so there's
going to be a little bit of that influence in it.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
And how long has Benthic Ground existed? How long have
you been a band?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
So we started this band in twenty sixteen, okay, and
we actually started with a different drummer. He was in
the Brian was in the band with us for I
think about two years, and then he and his wife
actually moved out to California. Oh, so, Dan, who has
been a friend for quite some time, also plays in
the band Conclave with a bunch of other friends of ours.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Oh okay, I'm familiar with content. Yeah yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
So he like raised his hand and said, I'd love
to come play with you guys, and we said, yeah, sure, okay.
So we had a rehearsal and we knew. We knew
about three minutes.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
In excellent, excellent, And then Maureen, have you been here
from the beginning or are you are you an original member?
Or oh you gotta pull mic right up to you. Yeah, okay, okay,
very good. So I'm curious about well, actually, let me
ask you this. I'm sure you get this question all
the time, but not to be cliche, but what does
benthic realm mean?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
So, for all of you oceanographers and people who love
the sea, the benthic realm is actually the lowest area
in the ocean, the bottom of the ocean where all
of those crazy sea creatures live. That have like like
glowing tentacles and that kind of stuff. Okay, And when
we were trying to come up with an for this,
we had a bunch of ones that we were tossing around.
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We really liked this concept because we knew, okay, if
we call the band benthic realm, there's a lot of
material we can pull out of this, from also underwater
adventures to adventures above the ocean on top of it
different you know, pirate ships and all sorts of stuff.
So it really lent itself to being able to just
really experiment with with you know what we wanted to
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do in terms of different material.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, all of our songs and what in terms of
who writes the lyrics? You write the lyrics? Yes, oh,
what can you talk a little bit about the lyrical
content and some of the themes? I mean one of
them and I made the comment on the ear sid
I don't know what that's about. There's obviously about war. Yeah,
which one was that? So that's as it burns as
it burns? Yeah, I like that one a lot. I
like them all, but like, are those kinds of I mean,
(33:51):
that's probably a bit. You probably have more than one
song about that, right, because it's it's something that's at
the forefront of our minds. Uh, But I mean, what else,
what are some of the things that you write about?
Speaker 18 (34:01):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
So yeah, so that song is about war that I
actually wrote that right after Russia had invaded Ukraine. Okay,
so it's an anti war song. Obviously war is bad,
so we are we're not for war, we're against it. Yeah,
and try to talk about, you know, all the bad
things that happened, you know, because of it. Yeah, but
that's not the only topic that we talk about. So
a lot of stuff that might be in the news.
I might get inspiration from a news story something, something
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that had happened. Sometimes we just write about, you know,
just fictitious stories. So vessel is I was kind of
thinking about, you know, somebody who had been taken captive
on a ship after they had been floating in the
ocean kind of like you know, their ship had had
blown up or whatever, and so they were trying to
you know, save themselves and then they get taken into
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custody by like another ship, and then a fight ensues
and they are able to escape again. And the whole
point is like they have what they need. The inner
strength in order to survive every single one of these
obstacles that keeps coming in front of them. So there
might be something like that with Fade Away. It's actually
inspired by a book that I recently read, Norwegian Wood,
by this Japanese writer. If somebody at work had given
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me the book, and it was inspired by that, so
it is it's a bit of a sad song. Suicide
is one of the It's a hard term to talk
about sometimes, but that is one of the prominent things
about the book as these people are coming of age,
and I was inspired by the book to write a
song to try to kind of tap into the feelings
that somebody might be having from actually both sides. The
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person who you know, makes that decision, and then the
people who are left to you know, kind of pick
up the pieces afterwards. So it kind of is just
a mix of things. It's whatever I get inspired by. Typically,
I'll write the riffs first for the song, and then
the lyrics will come afterwards, and so the music, the cadence,
the way I'm feeling is going to influence what I'm
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going to be singing about as well.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Okay, so you probably have riffs, You probably have a
lot of ideas that you just don't have lyrics for yet. Right,
Oh yeah, yeah, I would imagine.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, they're all on my phone. I do have to
record them so I don't forget them.
Speaker 10 (36:04):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Now, Dan made a comment too off air that you're
the best cap you're as a vocalist. You're like the
best kept secret in Doom and you do have a
great voice. I love your voice.
Speaker 10 (36:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
I was really shy about it.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah, how did you learn to sing like that? Did
you take any lessons or did you just are you
self taught?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Pretty much, just self taught. I took a handful of
lessons several years ago, but I didn't really. It was
more about like breathing control and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I think I took like four or five lessons.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
And that was about it.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
So wosta is just self taught. But I come from
a family of musicians. My mother sings, she plays acoustic guitar.
Her brother played guitar and sang in a band as well.
So it's a part of our family.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Okay, So it's probably a foregone conclusion from a young
age that you're going to be a musician. Pretty much.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
I started pretty young.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yeah, yeah, when did you, like, when did you start
writing in this this genre?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
So I started playing guitar when I was twelve, and
I wrote my first song at thirteen, Okay, And when
I think back to what that first song was in
the lyrics, there's they it kind of has stayed the same. Yeah,
I'm a little doomy, A little gloomy. That just part
of my nature, sure, but specifically with doom, I've just
sort of gravitated towards that. So way back in the
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mid nineties, I was in a band called Warhorse, and
we were a traditional, more traditional doom I guess, really slow,
really heavy kind of stuff. And it like you can
hear the common thread. Marena said this of all the
different releases I've put out with different bands over the years,
Like you can you hear that common thread of Christa.
You know that it's in there regardless of whether she's
playing guitar, just singing or whatnot. So it's just sort of,
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I guess at this point, like just built into my.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
DNA, right right. And then on the uh when I
hear layered vocals and some of the songs, is that
all you yes is yeah? Okay, yeah, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
The downside is like, we can't pull that off live. Yeah,
unlus we start using backing tracks. But yeah, so we
definitely play in this studio. Will layer guitars, we layer vocals.
So it's a it's a it's just another way to really,
you know, beef up the songs, bring it to life. Really,
you know, share the vision.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
That we had for it. Okay, are you all from
around here? Are you all from New Hampshire or.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
We're from Massachusetts, Massachusetts from Massachusetts, wester based band.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Okay, okay, excellent, Well thanks for making the trip up.
I know that's happy, happy to be here. This is
not a terrible drive, No, no, not at all.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
They're sailing the whole way.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Do you play a lot of shows in Wister because
I used to, so not recently. I'm a musician, but
I haven't played in a long time, but I used to.
I was in bands that we used to play a
lot of shows in Wister, just because there are always
a few like is the atrium still there? That's probably
long gone because I've mentioned it to people, And do
you all remember the atrium that was in Wister? Okay, yeah,
well yeah, that actually does go back a long way
and now that I'm thinking about it, But but like
what's the scene? Like there are there are a lot
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of a lot of good places to play and other
bands that you kind of team up with.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Yeah, so it's Ralph's is the main, main place, the
main place to play. There's a lot of other doom
bands that play faces a bay on Evil eighty Conclave.
We all have to share a rehearsal space as well.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
That's convenient, right.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I know we've talked about like just taking the Temple
of Doom room and just turning that into a show.
We still have yet to do that.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
By the way, every drummer we have on the show
is in like ten Are you just in two, Dan
or do you have like okay, because most most drummers
are in like ten different bands. Okay, No, But that's
convenient though, right to just share the space. Yeah, So
where do you record? Because the production on the studio
(39:38):
tracks is amazing and I would imagine you have to
work with somebody who really understands the genre right to
capture that sound, I would think. So I'm curious about
what the recording process is like for the band.
Speaker 18 (39:50):
So this last album, Vessel.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Was shoving the microphone space that you can hear him.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (40:00):
It was done out in Western Massachusetts with a place
called Sonic Titan Studios, who has kind of given up
their space that they had, but they'll still do mobile production,
mobile recording events, all kinds of stuff. And Anthony, who
was partners with Brian, was the master of the helm
(40:20):
for this recording. He's a monster musician, an absolutely incredible drummer,
so I was. I was very well taken care of
for this one. Yeah, he kind of guided me through
a lot of setup. He even changed out some heads
and whatnot when we got into the studio instead of
playing on it, stuff that he had that he thought
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would sound, you know, sonically sound much better, and he
was right. Came out beautiful. We were extremely happy with
the process for him working with him. Hopefully maybe there's
a potential that, you know, we can still get him
involved in the future. I don't know where it'll be,
how it would happen.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
YEA.
Speaker 18 (41:00):
Yeah, he's touring all the time. He's a guest, but
he's been playing with Jamie Josta recently and all the
kind of individual Jasta stuff that he's been doing. Great
dude too, he's just just a great person. The album
before Vessel, but the EP was done with Benny Grotto
at Madoak Studios in Cambridge, also Cambridge, which he's still
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functioning as far as I know, their studio is going
to stay intact. They've been hearing a lot of rumors
about that whole block kind of transforming into something brand new,
and they're they're actually located right behind us at Harvard Square, not.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Harvard Square, It's I don't know what the square is
where that is, but it's it's the whole area has
been undergoing development has They've been knocking down buildings and
putting up fancy high rises and fancy bars and that
sort of stuff. So, yeah, so there's been talk for
quite some time about O'Brien's, that whole area that O'Brien's
Pub is going to get knocked down in the something. Yeah,
(42:01):
with Benny being right behind it, I'm not sure what's
going to happen.
Speaker 18 (42:04):
Buying any houses or in the additional real estate. And
I're also supposed to have in that building when it
gets built back up, Supposedly it's going to have O'Brien's
will be revived and brought back, but also great Scott.
Oh okay, well we lost in Boston.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
I think that was prior to COVID or right around
I think it was yeah, during COVID. H.
Speaker 18 (42:23):
So the rumor is that they're supposed to have a
twin venue there plus probably some mixture space, maybe residential
or something.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Okay, okay, but there are.
Speaker 18 (42:30):
Another great studio, and you know we may be able
to work with them.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Yeah, there's so many different options and different ways to
record now, you know, now more than ever, I'm curious.
You know, COVID came up. Do you have songs about
the pandemic?
Speaker 2 (42:44):
No, songs about the pandemic?
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Surprises surprised me a little bit.
Speaker 18 (42:49):
Wow, the time everyone wants to forget.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Yeah, kidding.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Interesting, we are writing for the new album. So perhaps
now that you just planted a se maybe you could you.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Could still do that?
Speaker 4 (43:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Yeah, yeah, when it when you play live, because again,
it's only the three of you, is it, is it
challenging it at all to duplicate or maybe maybe you
can't duplicate it perfectly. But but I mean, you know,
you've got a big sound for for a three piece.
You know, there's a that maybe a little cliche, but
you know the term power trio.
Speaker 18 (43:22):
We love it.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
But uh good, good? But I mean, is that is
that hard to pull off live at all?
Speaker 5 (43:28):
Or is is it?
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Does it come naturally? I mean, at this point you've
been around a while, it probably is pretty easy. But
maybe not. I don't know. I don't find it challenging.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
I do miss having the backing vocals. Yeah, But the
other piece of it is it we also recorded most.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Of it live. Oh okay, Oh okay, well that helps, right.
Speaker 18 (43:49):
Yeah, we don't like do separate tracking to a click
or anything like that. Okay, okay, into the space and
do a live track, which usually will grab the drums
out of okay, and then they can go back and
either read or or fix or any they want to actually, and.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Then just layer on top of it. So usually the
my scratch track that we'd be recording when we're doing
the live and we're all in the room together, that's
we can keep it. Yeah, And then I'll just you know,
punch in here or there just to fix a couple
of bloops that I had, Yeah, and then I'll just
go back and replay through the whole entire thing with
just a different rig a different guitar just to get another,
you know, more fuller sound. Yeah, but I think you know,
(44:23):
we play pretty loud, so I'd like to think that
we fill up the fill up the space. Yeah yeah, yeah,
that advantage right, Yeah, Yeah, my amp goes to eleven.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 18 (44:34):
We play with a lot of passion live, so I
think that comes through so yeah, and it helps fill
it out.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
Are there other bands in the area that you you know,
it kind of happens organically that that you've kind of
teamed up with that you play a lot of shows with. Probably,
Or have you ever done a show where you're playing
with Conclave and spent the realm the same night.
Speaker 18 (44:51):
Yeah, We've had a couple of those with Double Duty.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (44:54):
Local bands that we've been spending more time with lately
would be Able Blood Yep.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
I love Able Blood. I've been on the show a
few times.
Speaker 18 (45:01):
Love them great, great people.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Yeah, absolutely, a.
Speaker 18 (45:04):
Lot of fun to play with, great musicians. Yeah, a
lot of the local scene, they all we all kind
of migrate together, Yeah, in and out and whatnot. But
I'd say in recent time we've spent a lot of
shows with it.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
That's great.
Speaker 18 (45:18):
Yeah, we have another one coming up with them in
November at Kuodo and Salem.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Okay, excellent, it'll be cool, excellent.
Speaker 18 (45:24):
Yeah them does Profits also on the bill?
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Does Profits great. I used to be in a band
with Auto Kinzell a lot of time. We were in
a band called Chemical Distance together. That was when Otto
was you know, every project he did, you know, it
would only last for you know, because he'd want to
do something else, so it would only last a short time.
But does Profits He's had for for quite a while
now that seems to be found something he can really
stick with that fulfills him and he's incredible. Well, I
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love Auto absolutely great guy.
Speaker 18 (45:51):
They're on the bill as well. There's a a band
coming I think from New York, Black Tongue, Reverend Name
and of course Sabled Blood. They're the ones that put
the show together.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Oh okay, fantastic. And where is that?
Speaker 18 (46:04):
Want to get Quoto and Salem?
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Okay, I haven't been to that venue, but I've heard
about it.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Yeah, yeah, Salem, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Yeah, yeah, which is oh yes, yeah, oh yeah. Is
that that time of year?
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Well, fortunately it's right afterwards. We don't have to deal
with all the crazy traffic, insane during October. You need
to stay away from it. Anybody who lives in Salem, Like,
I don't know how you do it, because I would
just would be enough to make me move.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Yeah, oh yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 18 (46:34):
So the show's on November eighth, she said, it's just
passed the whole Yeah, you know wild Halloween time.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Well that's good.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
When is the October one?
Speaker 18 (46:44):
It's next weekend.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Yeah, next week nod. It's in two weeks so October
twenty fifth, right, October twenty fifth, I'm saying that right.
We are playing at Terminus Underground.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
Yeah, so that is a New hamh Nashville, New Hampshire.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Yeap, Yeah, love Terminus. Andrea and Eleanor are great people.
Have you been there yet?
Speaker 16 (47:06):
We have not?
Speaker 18 (47:07):
I did? Oh you okay, because I'm not Vigil. His
other band the World burns World Worth Burning, World Worth Burning.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
Oh oh yeah, okay, that's a great name, but I'm
not familiar with that. I am familiar with Vigil, but
not World Worth Worth Burning. But no, I tell everyone
the same thing about who hasn't been in Terminius yet?
And you'll probably agree. It's like when you walk into
that room, it's like walking into another world.
Speaker 18 (47:29):
It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Yeah, really cool. It's incredible. Yeah, very nice, very nice. Well,
we do have one more studio track that we're gonna play.
I want to make sure we don't run out of time,
so we'll get to that in a moment. But I
really want to thank all three of you for joining
us today us absolutely and thank you for coming and
playing live. Very cool. Where should people go? Like, so
our listeners know where's the best place to go online
to keep up with everything that Benthic Realm is doing.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
So Benthakrealm dot Com has has it everything. That are
all our upcoming shows. Who've got links to all the
merch We're on band camp, We're on Facebook, We're on Instagram,
so you can find us on all the social media platforms.
On YouTube, we've got a YouTube channel too. But if
you go to the website Benthickrealm dot com, then that'll
get your pointers to go to all the other places
that we live.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Okay, excellent.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
Wise, we're on every platform, yeah, Spotify, Apple, you know, Amazon, everything?
Speaker 1 (48:18):
Very good, very good. Oh does anybody ever mess up
your name on a flyer? Because benthic is not a
word that you hear every day. I'm just curious, does
anybody ever you ever see it misspelled on a flyer
or anything?
Speaker 2 (48:28):
We actually have not.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
That's good, that's good.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
Yeah, we're lucky. Yeah, a lot of people do say wait,
say that again. So yeah, it's definitely not a word
that gets used a lot.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
So we're going to close out in a moment with
summon the Tide? What should we know about this song?
What's this one about?
Speaker 2 (48:49):
So there's a lot of death and destruction that makes
its way into what I write. Yeah, So this song
is a fictitious thing. I was kind of envisioning like
a goddess who has, you know, the control of the
seas and of the water and all of that sort
of thing, and she has gotten really depressed. She's kind of,
you know, coming at the end of questioning her own
existence and everything, and in the in the means of
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kind of taking herself out of the picture, she ends up,
unfortunately taking everybody else out with her.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
Yeah, as she is.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
Summoning the tide.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
So it's a bit of a kind of a dark,
dark song, have you Yeah, but I could envision, you know,
all of that, a lot of that. I'm I'm also
a designer so like I, you know, have the visual
is big for me, So I could typically will envision,
you know, the story that's happening in front of me,
and then I'm just sort of writing about what it
is that I'm seeing in.
Speaker 23 (49:39):
My in my in my vision.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
Yeah, ah, wonderful, wonderful. So we're going to play this
and again thank you to everybody who joined us today.
Of course we had let's see, we had Kyle Gordon,
we had Jack from Pacific A's in the first hour.
By the way, keeping eye what Jenny is doing Jencoffee
dot com. She had a very big week and follow
her on social media if you want to know more
abo me and what I do Matt connorton dot com.
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And uh, if you miss any part of today's show,
it will be up in just a little bit at
w m n H Radio dot orgon at my website
Matt Connorton dot com. And we will close out with
this and again, uh benthic Realm. Thank you all three
of you so much. You got it, you got it,
and here it is. This is called Summon the tide.
Speaker 24 (50:58):
Glass from the das Mass.
Speaker 17 (51:16):
No things seased to cry, the bound to the coming control.
Speaker 21 (51:44):
Menser Si to ah so be side on will is born,
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but th di shall.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
I wall go? Really from seol oh girls and.
Speaker 16 (52:56):
There my mind clean old don't juice.
Speaker 21 (53:09):
Say, oh be wiss man them so also Mata to wars.
Speaker 5 (53:45):
Ban so.
Speaker 21 (53:51):
We bring along as Bill is all beer well than
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oh fool so.
Speaker 16 (55:48):
Bow fool.
Speaker 4 (55:53):
So it all just ball answer the to.
Speaker 21 (56:07):
Down the straight.
Speaker 10 (56:11):
Zo change.
Speaker 4 (56:16):
The strand.
Speaker 21 (56:22):
Co and so sad.
Speaker 10 (56:45):
To baby.
Speaker 21 (56:57):
The side gone Bill is small water and di
We have Benthic Realm here live in studio with us,
and what we're gonna do now, they're gonna play live.
They're gonna do a few songs live, and then we're
gonna we're gonna talk a little bit afterward, which will
be cool, very interested to learn more about their music.
But I'm going to start. Let's see, let's get these
mics up here. We have one person with a vocal mic,
so tell us, uh, if you could, who you are,
(00:21):
what you do in the band, and then I'll let
you introduce the other two members.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thanks, thanks for having us. We're super stoked to be here.
So I'm Krista. I am the guitar player and singer
in Benthic Realm. And we also have Maureen here on
bass and Dan on drums. Today he's actually gonna be
playing the cajone okay, as we're doing an acoustic set.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Very cool, and a tambourine, and.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
He's pointing out that she wants everyone to know there's
a tambourine in the room.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Oh wonderful, wonderful. Uh, So Christ can you play the
guitar a little bit, just want to make sure we
can hear. Oh that sounds nice. That sounds nice, okay,
and then Maureen, can you play that bass a little bit,
sounds really good, sounds really good. And then uh yeah,
(01:10):
can let's hear something something that go home. I'm gonna
pull this mike up a little bit, make sure, oh yeah,
that sounds good, that sounds really good. And then can
you all just kind of play a little bit of
something together, and before u before you jump into an
actual full song, I just want to make sure we're
sounding good here. Can you sing a little something christa.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Cheer Less to control joh takes me where it wants
to go?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Manama, Hi, sounds good, sounds good. I think we're ready.
I think we're ready, all right. So if you're just
joining us, Benthic Realm is here live in studio, and
you're gonna do three songs, three songs, three songs, all right,
and then we're gonna talk and really looking forward to this,
(02:20):
looking forward to hearing you live. So yeah, whenever you're ready,
just go for it. Awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So this is an acoustic version of our song Vessel
that it's on our last release, power Less to Control.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
The tat takes me where it.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Once to word.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
But I'm a lad.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Life been straining out your bota got sure that I
was heady the way.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
But as I believe.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
My body is a Venci.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Speaks to me, ceves me. People who gaves have believe.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
My body is a vessel, caps me safe, gives me.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
Cold.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
It wasn't easy, scared.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
When they listen, made a ship to take.
Speaker 9 (04:34):
But Asia has chaos. Come to the Knight.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
A car escaped without a fine, and I'm.
Speaker 10 (05:03):
I believe.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
My body is a vessel. Speaks to me cause me
forks have believe my body is a vessel.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Here's me saved, kiss.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Me cold.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
At eight. I believe.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Body isn't that.
Speaker 11 (07:21):
So speaks mexuse me, pocus, I believe.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
My body is of that. So keus me saved.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Keuse me cause keeps me.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Cause nice if you're just joining us. We have benthic
(08:36):
realm here live in studio sounding great. Good job everybody. Yeah,
wait to hear the next one whenever you're ready.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
All right, This next.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
One is Adid Burns. Never has the womb closed off,
(09:36):
Never have nine duties.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Tragedies. We witness o the Red.
Speaker 12 (09:49):
Century. We build over watches, we build up.
Speaker 13 (10:08):
To a lead show the fory and set people rely,
has it.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Watch you? Has it.
Speaker 14 (10:42):
Watching money? And vowela drive the auntisi shoon sending a
(11:18):
common man dime. On the bridges.
Speaker 12 (11:30):
They hold open grandera.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
They stop. Also place.
Speaker 13 (11:43):
Please stays, say fa stayed while they sign the sack
you drive?
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Has it wat tru? How's you bad.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Wat? True bad.
Speaker 15 (13:22):
Boot but doomed to make the same mistakes?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
No big toy had the side casualties.
Speaker 13 (14:18):
They had all well draining halls up.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Has it watch you? Has it watch you go?
Speaker 16 (14:57):
Ha?
Speaker 17 (15:15):
M h.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Wow. What what's that one called? That's as it burns?
As it burns me?
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Do your work?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
They're working that mic.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, no, that was great. That was great, really good.
If you're just joining us, we have benthic realm here
with us live in studio and uh no, that's intense.
I like the lyrics. I think, I think I know
what that what's about? That's for sure?
Speaker 16 (16:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah, really good, really good. And then you can play
you can play one more for us, that is correct?
Is this unusual? By the way, doing an acoustic set
on a Saturday morning at eleven am?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Very very different. We have played acoustic live once earlier
in February, Americ Old Theater.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Oh excellent.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That was the first time that we played that live,
so with a full set. Yeah, this is definitely an
experience on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, good, all right, whenever you're ready.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
All right, you're good, all right. So this, this next
song is called fade Away. This is a song that
we've performed live a couple of different times, and we
have done this acoustically before. But it's not recorded live
yet anywhere on any album, so you'll have to stay
tuned for recording maybe next year. All right, This is
fade away, A faid.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Away into the what smell to me? It's just a man,
(18:15):
a sweet boy win no.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Sound Well, I'm.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
No longer to to grown.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Before can never be found the head on this battle
(19:24):
ground stay for years?
Speaker 16 (19:57):
Ha it.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Finds man suit.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
It could only get better, So.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Moved on with that.
Speaker 18 (20:47):
The s.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
A me a decision. What worlds bear? Can never be.
Speaker 19 (21:22):
Found as probably head homeless battle round?
Speaker 5 (21:53):
M h.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
M hmmmm, whid.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Before can double beard bound?
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Where I was from?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Home?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
This battle Home, this battle round?
Speaker 16 (23:24):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I love it. Benthic realm live in studio. We're gonna
need to play a studio track. This is called course
correct here on Matt Connorton unleashed. Let's give this a
spend and then we're gonna we're gonna talk to these
fine folks. Really looking forward to that. Plenty more to come.
Stick around here. It is course correct by Benthic Realm.
Oh man, I don't hear anything, and I apologize, let
(23:46):
me fix that, let me back that up. Here we
go this time, I promise, yes said, I'm cool.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Don't you know where we're go?
Speaker 16 (24:41):
Go?
Speaker 8 (24:41):
No way?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Not sure?
Speaker 20 (24:47):
You know?
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Way? Well?
Speaker 21 (24:48):
Be well?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
So nice?
Speaker 22 (25:01):
I haven't able day.
Speaker 16 (25:05):
So bad bird.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
To of.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
So you take a ball to.
Speaker 18 (25:37):
So way?
Speaker 21 (25:44):
How trying?
Speaker 22 (25:49):
M m, it's say man's turn, but your.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Just spell.
Speaker 22 (26:33):
I haven't know what does mos?
Speaker 20 (26:37):
When will we got bad? Comes bout tell me real,
don't sensitize.
Speaker 21 (26:57):
Don't know man's man.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
To wool.
Speaker 21 (27:18):
Three?
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Then out.
Speaker 21 (27:23):
So we taken a long three ll always.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
How well?
Speaker 8 (27:38):
Time?
Speaker 18 (29:05):
M we been.
Speaker 21 (29:52):
Well at a time.
Speaker 23 (30:13):
Oh that is so good.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
We just heard course correct. The band is Benthic Realm
and we've got let's see so we have Dan, Christa
and Maureen here with us live in studio. If you
missed it, they displayed live, so if you did miss it,
you'll have to go back and uh and give it
a listen. It sounded great, but and I love that
studio track too. Course grek really good. So welcome everybody.
Is it always the three of you? Are there any
(31:06):
other members of the band who aren't here or just
the three of us? You got a big sound for
three people. That's really cool. That's really cool. And how
do you describe I mean, is it what do you
call it? Doom? I mean, what do you call how
do you everyone always Hayt's this question, but in terms
of genre, how do you describe what you do?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah, we call it melodic doom metal.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Melodic doom metal, yeah, because we're.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Not the classic just you know, just kind of drony,
kind of you know, always at one ruhthum, you know,
or one beast for a minute, I guess. Yeah, we
kind of like to try to mix it up. So
we all listen to heavy metal as well, so there's
going to be a little bit of that influence in it.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
And how long has Benthic Ground existed? How long have
you been a band?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
So we started this band in twenty sixteen, okay, and
we actually started with a different drummer. He was in
the Brian was in the band with us for I
think about two years, and then he and his wife
actually moved out to California. Oh, so, Dan, who has
been a friend for quite some time, also plays in
the band Conclave with a bunch of other friends of ours.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Oh okay, I'm familiar with content. Yeah yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
So he like raised his hand and said, I'd love
to come play with you guys, and we said, yeah, sure, okay.
So we had a rehearsal and we knew. We knew
about three minutes.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
In excellent, excellent, And then Maureen, have you been here
from the beginning or are you are you an original member?
Or oh you gotta pull mic right up to you. Yeah, okay, okay,
very good. So I'm curious about well, actually, let me
ask you this. I'm sure you get this question all
the time, but not to be cliche, but what does
benthic realm mean?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
So, for all of you oceanographers and people who love
the sea, the benthic realm is actually the lowest area
in the ocean, the bottom of the ocean where all
of those crazy sea creatures live. That have like like
glowing tentacles and that kind of stuff. Okay, And when
we were trying to come up with an for this,
we had a bunch of ones that we were tossing around.
(33:02):
We really liked this concept because we knew, okay, if
we call the band benthic realm, there's a lot of
material we can pull out of this, from also underwater
adventures to adventures above the ocean on top of it
different you know, pirate ships and all sorts of stuff.
So it really lent itself to being able to just
really experiment with with you know what we wanted to
(33:24):
do in terms of different material.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Yeah, all of our songs and what in terms of
who writes the lyrics? You write the lyrics? Yes, oh,
what can you talk a little bit about the lyrical
content and some of the themes? I mean one of
them and I made the comment on the ear sid
I don't know what that's about. There's obviously about war. Yeah,
which one was that? So that's as it burns as
it burns? Yeah, I like that one a lot. I
like them all, but like, are those kinds of I mean,
(33:51):
that's probably a bit. You probably have more than one
song about that, right, because it's it's something that's at
the forefront of our minds. Uh, But I mean, what else,
what are some of the things that you write about?
Speaker 18 (34:01):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
So yeah, so that song is about war that I
actually wrote that right after Russia had invaded Ukraine. Okay,
so it's an anti war song. Obviously war is bad,
so we are we're not for war, we're against it. Yeah,
and try to talk about, you know, all the bad
things that happened, you know, because of it. Yeah, but
that's not the only topic that we talk about. So
a lot of stuff that might be in the news.
I might get inspiration from a news story something, something
(34:24):
that had happened. Sometimes we just write about, you know,
just fictitious stories. So vessel is I was kind of
thinking about, you know, somebody who had been taken captive
on a ship after they had been floating in the
ocean kind of like you know, their ship had had
blown up or whatever, and so they were trying to
you know, save themselves and then they get taken into
(34:44):
custody by like another ship, and then a fight ensues
and they are able to escape again. And the whole
point is like they have what they need. The inner
strength in order to survive every single one of these
obstacles that keeps coming in front of them. So there
might be something like that with Fade Away. It's actually
inspired by a book that I recently read, Norwegian Wood,
by this Japanese writer. If somebody at work had given
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me the book, and it was inspired by that, so
it is it's a bit of a sad song. Suicide
is one of the It's a hard term to talk
about sometimes, but that is one of the prominent things
about the book as these people are coming of age,
and I was inspired by the book to write a
song to try to kind of tap into the feelings
that somebody might be having from actually both sides. The
(35:29):
person who you know, makes that decision, and then the
people who are left to you know, kind of pick
up the pieces afterwards. So it kind of is just
a mix of things. It's whatever I get inspired by. Typically,
I'll write the riffs first for the song, and then
the lyrics will come afterwards, and so the music, the cadence,
the way I'm feeling is going to influence what I'm
(35:50):
going to be singing about as well.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Okay, so you probably have riffs, You probably have a
lot of ideas that you just don't have lyrics for yet. Right,
Oh yeah, yeah, I would imagine.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, they're all on my phone. I do have to
record them so I don't forget them.
Speaker 10 (36:04):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Now, Dan made a comment too off air that you're
the best cap you're as a vocalist. You're like the
best kept secret in Doom and you do have a
great voice. I love your voice.
Speaker 10 (36:13):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
I was really shy about it.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah, how did you learn to sing like that? Did
you take any lessons or did you just are you
self taught?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Pretty much, just self taught. I took a handful of
lessons several years ago, but I didn't really. It was
more about like breathing control and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I think I took like four or five lessons.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
And that was about it.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
So wosta is just self taught. But I come from
a family of musicians. My mother sings, she plays acoustic guitar.
Her brother played guitar and sang in a band as well.
So it's a part of our family.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Okay, So it's probably a foregone conclusion from a young
age that you're going to be a musician. Pretty much.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
I started pretty young.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yeah, yeah, when did you, like, when did you start
writing in this this genre?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
So I started playing guitar when I was twelve, and
I wrote my first song at thirteen, Okay, And when
I think back to what that first song was in
the lyrics, there's they it kind of has stayed the same. Yeah,
I'm a little doomy, A little gloomy. That just part
of my nature, sure, but specifically with doom, I've just
sort of gravitated towards that. So way back in the
(37:20):
mid nineties, I was in a band called Warhorse, and
we were a traditional, more traditional doom I guess, really slow,
really heavy kind of stuff. And it like you can
hear the common thread. Marena said this of all the
different releases I've put out with different bands over the years,
Like you can you hear that common thread of Christa.
You know that it's in there regardless of whether she's
playing guitar, just singing or whatnot. So it's just sort of,
(37:42):
I guess at this point, like just built into my.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
DNA, right right. And then on the uh when I
hear layered vocals and some of the songs, is that
all you yes is yeah? Okay, yeah, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
The downside is like, we can't pull that off live. Yeah,
unlus we start using backing tracks. But yeah, so we
definitely play in this studio. Will layer guitars, we layer vocals.
So it's a it's a it's just another way to really,
you know, beef up the songs, bring it to life. Really,
you know, share the vision.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
That we had for it. Okay, are you all from
around here? Are you all from New Hampshire or.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
We're from Massachusetts, Massachusetts from Massachusetts, wester based band.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Okay, okay, excellent, Well thanks for making the trip up.
I know that's happy, happy to be here. This is
not a terrible drive, No, no, not at all.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
They're sailing the whole way.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Do you play a lot of shows in Wister because
I used to, so not recently. I'm a musician, but
I haven't played in a long time, but I used to.
I was in bands that we used to play a
lot of shows in Wister, just because there are always
a few like is the atrium still there? That's probably
long gone because I've mentioned it to people, And do
you all remember the atrium that was in Wister? Okay, yeah,
well yeah, that actually does go back a long way
and now that I'm thinking about it, But but like
what's the scene? Like there are there are a lot
(38:49):
of a lot of good places to play and other
bands that you kind of team up with.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Yeah, so it's Ralph's is the main, main place, the
main place to play. There's a lot of other doom
bands that play faces a bay on Evil eighty Conclave.
We all have to share a rehearsal space as well.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
That's convenient, right.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I know we've talked about like just taking the Temple
of Doom room and just turning that into a show.
We still have yet to do that.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
By the way, every drummer we have on the show
is in like ten Are you just in two, Dan
or do you have like okay, because most most drummers
are in like ten different bands. Okay, No, But that's
convenient though, right to just share the space. Yeah, So
where do you record? Because the production on the studio
(39:38):
tracks is amazing and I would imagine you have to
work with somebody who really understands the genre right to
capture that sound, I would think. So I'm curious about
what the recording process is like for the band.
Speaker 18 (39:50):
So this last album, Vessel.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Was shoving the microphone space that you can hear him.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (40:00):
It was done out in Western Massachusetts with a place
called Sonic Titan Studios, who has kind of given up
their space that they had, but they'll still do mobile production,
mobile recording events, all kinds of stuff. And Anthony, who
was partners with Brian, was the master of the helm
(40:20):
for this recording. He's a monster musician, an absolutely incredible drummer,
so I was. I was very well taken care of
for this one. Yeah, he kind of guided me through
a lot of setup. He even changed out some heads
and whatnot when we got into the studio instead of
playing on it, stuff that he had that he thought
(40:41):
would sound, you know, sonically sound much better, and he
was right. Came out beautiful. We were extremely happy with
the process for him working with him. Hopefully maybe there's
a potential that, you know, we can still get him
involved in the future. I don't know where it'll be,
how it would happen.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
YEA.
Speaker 18 (41:00):
Yeah, he's touring all the time. He's a guest, but
he's been playing with Jamie Josta recently and all the
kind of individual Jasta stuff that he's been doing. Great
dude too, he's just just a great person. The album
before Vessel, but the EP was done with Benny Grotto
at Madoak Studios in Cambridge, also Cambridge, which he's still
(41:26):
functioning as far as I know, their studio is going
to stay intact. They've been hearing a lot of rumors
about that whole block kind of transforming into something brand new,
and they're they're actually located right behind us at Harvard Square, not.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Harvard Square, It's I don't know what the square is
where that is, but it's it's the whole area has
been undergoing development has They've been knocking down buildings and
putting up fancy high rises and fancy bars and that
sort of stuff. So, yeah, so there's been talk for
quite some time about O'Brien's, that whole area that O'Brien's
Pub is going to get knocked down in the something. Yeah,
(42:01):
with Benny being right behind it, I'm not sure what's
going to happen.
Speaker 18 (42:04):
Buying any houses or in the additional real estate. And
I're also supposed to have in that building when it
gets built back up, Supposedly it's going to have O'Brien's
will be revived and brought back, but also great Scott.
Oh okay, well we lost in Boston.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
I think that was prior to COVID or right around
I think it was yeah, during COVID. H.
Speaker 18 (42:23):
So the rumor is that they're supposed to have a
twin venue there plus probably some mixture space, maybe residential
or something.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Okay, okay, but there are.
Speaker 18 (42:30):
Another great studio, and you know we may be able
to work with them.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Yeah, there's so many different options and different ways to
record now, you know, now more than ever, I'm curious.
You know, COVID came up. Do you have songs about
the pandemic?
Speaker 2 (42:44):
No, songs about the pandemic?
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Surprises surprised me a little bit.
Speaker 18 (42:49):
Wow, the time everyone wants to forget.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Yeah, kidding.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Interesting, we are writing for the new album. So perhaps
now that you just planted a se maybe you could you.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Could still do that?
Speaker 4 (43:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (43:02):
Yeah, yeah, when it when you play live, because again,
it's only the three of you, is it, is it
challenging it at all to duplicate or maybe maybe you
can't duplicate it perfectly. But but I mean, you know,
you've got a big sound for for a three piece.
You know, there's a that maybe a little cliche, but
you know the term power trio.
Speaker 18 (43:22):
We love it.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
But uh good, good? But I mean, is that is
that hard to pull off live at all?
Speaker 5 (43:28):
Or is is it?
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Does it come naturally? I mean, at this point you've
been around a while, it probably is pretty easy. But
maybe not. I don't know. I don't find it challenging.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
I do miss having the backing vocals. Yeah, But the
other piece of it is it we also recorded most.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Of it live. Oh okay, Oh okay, well that helps, right.
Speaker 18 (43:49):
Yeah, we don't like do separate tracking to a click
or anything like that. Okay, okay, into the space and
do a live track, which usually will grab the drums
out of okay, and then they can go back and
either read or or fix or any they want to actually, and.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Then just layer on top of it. So usually the
my scratch track that we'd be recording when we're doing
the live and we're all in the room together, that's
we can keep it. Yeah, And then I'll just you know,
punch in here or there just to fix a couple
of bloops that I had, Yeah, and then I'll just
go back and replay through the whole entire thing with
just a different rig a different guitar just to get another,
you know, more fuller sound. Yeah, but I think you know,
(44:23):
we play pretty loud, so I'd like to think that
we fill up the fill up the space. Yeah yeah, yeah,
that advantage right, Yeah, Yeah, my amp goes to eleven.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 18 (44:34):
We play with a lot of passion live, so I
think that comes through so yeah, and it helps fill
it out.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
Are there other bands in the area that you you know,
it kind of happens organically that that you've kind of
teamed up with that you play a lot of shows with. Probably,
Or have you ever done a show where you're playing
with Conclave and spent the realm the same night.
Speaker 18 (44:51):
Yeah, We've had a couple of those with Double Duty.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (44:54):
Local bands that we've been spending more time with lately
would be Able Blood Yep.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
I love Able Blood. I've been on the show a
few times.
Speaker 18 (45:01):
Love them great, great people.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Yeah, absolutely, a.
Speaker 18 (45:04):
Lot of fun to play with, great musicians. Yeah, a
lot of the local scene, they all we all kind
of migrate together, Yeah, in and out and whatnot. But
I'd say in recent time we've spent a lot of
shows with it.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
That's great.
Speaker 18 (45:18):
Yeah, we have another one coming up with them in
November at Kuodo and Salem.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Okay, excellent, it'll be cool, excellent.
Speaker 18 (45:24):
Yeah them does Profits also on the bill?
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Does Profits great. I used to be in a band
with Auto Kinzell a lot of time. We were in
a band called Chemical Distance together. That was when Otto
was you know, every project he did, you know, it
would only last for you know, because he'd want to
do something else, so it would only last a short time.
But does Profits He's had for for quite a while
now that seems to be found something he can really
stick with that fulfills him and he's incredible. Well, I
(45:49):
love Auto absolutely great guy.
Speaker 18 (45:51):
They're on the bill as well. There's a a band
coming I think from New York, Black Tongue, Reverend Name
and of course Sabled Blood. They're the ones that put
the show together.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
Oh okay, fantastic. And where is that?
Speaker 18 (46:04):
Want to get Quoto and Salem?
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Okay, I haven't been to that venue, but I've heard
about it.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Yeah, yeah, Salem, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Yeah, yeah, which is oh yes, yeah, oh yeah. Is
that that time of year?
Speaker 2 (46:18):
Well, fortunately it's right afterwards. We don't have to deal
with all the crazy traffic, insane during October. You need
to stay away from it. Anybody who lives in Salem, Like,
I don't know how you do it, because I would
just would be enough to make me move.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Yeah, oh yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 18 (46:34):
So the show's on November eighth, she said, it's just
passed the whole Yeah, you know wild Halloween time.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Well that's good.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
When is the October one?
Speaker 18 (46:44):
It's next weekend.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
Yeah, next week nod. It's in two weeks so October
twenty fifth, right, October twenty fifth, I'm saying that right.
We are playing at Terminus Underground.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
Yeah, so that is a New hamh Nashville, New Hampshire.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Yeap, Yeah, love Terminus. Andrea and Eleanor are great people.
Have you been there yet?
Speaker 16 (47:06):
We have not?
Speaker 18 (47:07):
I did? Oh you okay, because I'm not Vigil. His
other band the World burns World Worth Burning, World Worth Burning.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
Oh oh yeah, okay, that's a great name, but I'm
not familiar with that. I am familiar with Vigil, but
not World Worth Worth Burning. But no, I tell everyone
the same thing about who hasn't been in Terminius yet?
And you'll probably agree. It's like when you walk into
that room, it's like walking into another world.
Speaker 18 (47:29):
It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Yeah, really cool. It's incredible. Yeah, very nice, very nice. Well,
we do have one more studio track that we're gonna play.
I want to make sure we don't run out of time,
so we'll get to that in a moment. But I
really want to thank all three of you for joining
us today us absolutely and thank you for coming and
playing live. Very cool. Where should people go? Like, so
our listeners know where's the best place to go online
to keep up with everything that Benthic Realm is doing.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
So Benthakrealm dot Com has has it everything. That are
all our upcoming shows. Who've got links to all the
merch We're on band camp, We're on Facebook, We're on Instagram,
so you can find us on all the social media platforms.
On YouTube, we've got a YouTube channel too. But if
you go to the website Benthickrealm dot com, then that'll
get your pointers to go to all the other places
that we live.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Okay, excellent.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
Wise, we're on every platform, yeah, Spotify, Apple, you know, Amazon, everything?
Speaker 1 (48:18):
Very good, very good. Oh does anybody ever mess up
your name on a flyer? Because benthic is not a
word that you hear every day. I'm just curious, does
anybody ever you ever see it misspelled on a flyer
or anything?
Speaker 2 (48:28):
We actually have not.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
That's good, that's good.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
Yeah, we're lucky. Yeah, a lot of people do say wait,
say that again. So yeah, it's definitely not a word
that gets used a lot.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
So we're going to close out in a moment with
summon the Tide? What should we know about this song?
What's this one about?
Speaker 2 (48:49):
So there's a lot of death and destruction that makes
its way into what I write. Yeah, So this song
is a fictitious thing. I was kind of envisioning like
a goddess who has, you know, the control of the
seas and of the water and all of that sort
of thing, and she has gotten really depressed. She's kind of,
you know, coming at the end of questioning her own
existence and everything, and in the in the means of
(49:12):
kind of taking herself out of the picture, she ends up,
unfortunately taking everybody else out with her.
Speaker 4 (49:18):
Yeah, as she is.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
Summoning the tide.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
So it's a bit of a kind of a dark,
dark song, have you Yeah, but I could envision, you know,
all of that, a lot of that. I'm I'm also
a designer so like I, you know, have the visual
is big for me, So I could typically will envision,
you know, the story that's happening in front of me,
and then I'm just sort of writing about what it
is that I'm seeing in.
Speaker 23 (49:39):
My in my in my vision.
Speaker 1 (49:41):
Yeah, ah, wonderful, wonderful. So we're going to play this
and again thank you to everybody who joined us today.
Of course we had let's see, we had Kyle Gordon,
we had Jack from Pacific A's in the first hour.
By the way, keeping eye what Jenny is doing Jencoffee
dot com. She had a very big week and follow
her on social media if you want to know more
abo me and what I do Matt connorton dot com.
(50:02):
And uh, if you miss any part of today's show,
it will be up in just a little bit at
w m n H Radio dot orgon at my website
Matt Connorton dot com. And we will close out with
this and again, uh benthic Realm. Thank you all three
of you so much. You got it, you got it,
and here it is. This is called Summon the tide.
Speaker 24 (50:58):
Glass from the das Mass.
Speaker 17 (51:16):
No things seased to cry, the bound to the coming control.
Speaker 21 (51:44):
Menser Si to ah so be side on will is born,
(52:15):
but th di shall.
Speaker 4 (52:42):
I wall go? Really from seol oh girls and.
Speaker 16 (52:56):
There my mind clean old don't juice.
Speaker 21 (53:09):
Say, oh be wiss man them so also Mata to wars.
Speaker 5 (53:45):
Ban so.
Speaker 21 (53:51):
We bring along as Bill is all beer well than
(55:47):
oh fool so.
Speaker 16 (55:48):
Bow fool.
Speaker 4 (55:53):
So it all just ball answer the to.
Speaker 21 (56:07):
Down the straight.
Speaker 10 (56:11):
Zo change.
Speaker 4 (56:16):
The strand.
Speaker 21 (56:22):
Co and so sad.
Speaker 10 (56:45):
To baby.
Speaker 21 (56:57):
The side gone Bill is small water and di
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