October 11, 2025 • 59 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Hey, everybody, welcome back. We have entered our number three
New Marrow trace of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are
live from the studios of w m n H ninety
five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And
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live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives,
et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday, October eleventh, twenty
(00:58):
twenty five, and 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 interesting to learn more about
their music. But I'm gonna 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
(01:20):
you are, what you do in the band, and then
I'll let you introduce the other two members.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
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. Very cool,
and a tambourine, and he's pointing out that she wants
(01:46):
everyone to know there's a tambourine in the room.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
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,
(02:10):
can let's hear something something that that go home. I'm
gonna pull this mic 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 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?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Christa cheer less to control the John takes me where
it wants to go.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
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 I'm really looking forward
(03:19):
to this, looking forward to hearing you live. So yeah,
whenever you're ready, just go for it.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So this is an acoustic version of our song Vessel
that it's on our last release.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
How let's do control the tactics freewhere it.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Once to go, but I'm aloud.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Been straining out of Bota. Not sure there was any way,
But as.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Have believe my body is a vesc speaks to me,
caves me for gave.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Have believe.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
My body is a ves caves me saved, caives me.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
Cold.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It wasn't easy, scared when they listen, made a ship
to take, but a SI.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
Has chaos come to the night, a car escaped without.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
A FI and I'm have believe.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
My body is a.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Vensel speaks to me cause me, folks.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Have believe.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
My body is a vesser, cares me, saved, kiss me cold.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
I believe.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
My body isn't that so speaks to me cause me pocus.
I believe my body is of that sol.
Speaker 10 (08:37):
Keis me saved?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Kiuse mecause keeps me.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Cause nice if you're just joining us. We have benthic
(09:36):
realm here live in studio, sounding great, good job. Everybody
can't wait to hear the next one. Whenever you're ready.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
All right, this next one is as it burns.
Speaker 11 (10:29):
Never has the wound closed off? Never have nine duties tragedies.
Speaker 12 (10:44):
We wriittness, hover redo more century.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
We build up for watches. We built up rom me.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
To w lea shaw the fory a set.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
People rely has it watch you? Has it?
Speaker 13 (11:42):
Watch you? Money and vowela.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Drive the Auntisi shows.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Sending a coming.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Man dime on the bridges, they hold open brandera they stop,
also place.
Speaker 11 (12:42):
Please stay, say that stayed while they sign the check
you and drive?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Has it wat true? How's you bad? Wat true? Bad thing?
Speaker 14 (14:01):
Labo, the doomed to make the same mistakes.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
No big toy, the side.
Speaker 11 (15:16):
Casualties they had all called draining halls.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Up, has it watch you? Has it bad? Watch has.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Wow? What what's that one called?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
That's as it burns?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
As it burns?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Love you do your work?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
They're working that mic.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
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? Yeah, yeah, really good,
really good. And then you can play you can play
one more for us, that is correct? Is this unusual?
(17:08):
By the way, doing an acoustic set on a Saturday
morning at eleven am?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Very different.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
We have played acoustic live once earlier in February at
Americ Old Theater.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Oh excellent.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
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 (17:27):
Yeah, good, all right, whenever you're ready, all.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
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.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
This is fade Away, a fake.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Away into.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
The Dog.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
What's smell to me?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
It's just a memo.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
A sweet boy win no sound.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Well, I'm no longer to to.
Speaker 15 (19:41):
Grow where.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Befold can never be found. That head on this battle
(20:24):
ground stay for years, had hang it on, finds smells suit.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
It could only get better, So.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
Moved on with that.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Thes a make a decision. What wilds before can never
(22:20):
bear found? That proba homeless battle round.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
M h m hm m m.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Why before the double bear bound m word trying head.
Speaker 16 (24:01):
Homeless battle ground, homeless battle ground.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I love it, I love it, Benthic Realm live in studio.
We're going to need to play a studio track. This
is called course correct here on Matt Connorton unleashed. Let's
give this to 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,
(24:44):
and I apologize, Let me fix that, let me back
that up. Here we go this time, I promise.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Well said a cool.
Speaker 17 (25:39):
Don't know where you girls got the bun shown?
Speaker 8 (25:47):
No way will be well.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Oh guys, I haven't abled.
Speaker 18 (26:05):
So bad over talk.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Coming of.
Speaker 18 (26:30):
So you take a ball to four year long So.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
How'm trying m M.
Speaker 18 (27:26):
Excite mats to the rude.
Speaker 14 (27:31):
Just spell I haven't.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
No one was move once?
Speaker 14 (27:36):
When were we to got bad word Compson bout tell.
Speaker 17 (27:52):
Real, don't sensitize, don't no man's man?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Then to wool.
Speaker 15 (28:18):
Were the outcomes were taken A long.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
Three lolls always runner, How well time m we've been
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in Uh well uh it time.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
H oh that is so good. We just heard course correct.
(31:46):
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 to course crek
really good. So welcome everybody? Is it always the three
of you? Are there any other members of the band
(32:06):
who aren't here?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Just the three of us?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
You got a big sound for three people. That's really cool.
That's really cool. And how do you describe? I mean,
is what do you call it? Doom? I mean, what
do you call how do you Everyone always hates this question,
but in terms of genre, how do you describe.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
What you do.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah, we call it melodic doom metal.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Melodic doom metal, yeah, because we're not.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
The classic just you know, just kind of drony, kind
of you know, always at one rhythm, 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 1 (32:42):
Yeah. And how long has Benthic Ground existed? How long
have you been a band?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
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.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
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 (33:04):
Oh okay, I'm familiar with conc Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
So he like raised his hand and said, I'd love
to come play with you guys, and we.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Said, yeah, sure, okay.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
So we had a rehearsal and we knew we knew
about three minutes.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
In excellent excellent. And then Maureen, have you been here
from the beginning?
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Are you an original member or oh you gotta pull
it 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 (33:41):
So, for all of you oceanographers and people who love
the sea, the benthic realm is actually the lowest area
in the ocean or 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 a name,
we had a bunch of ones that we were tossing around.
(34:02):
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
(34:23):
do in terms of different material, Yeah, all of our songs.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
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 Arsid 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, that's probably a bit. You
(34:51):
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 right about?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
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
(35:23):
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 flowing 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 is
actually inspired by a book that I recently read, Norwegian Wood,
by this Japanese writer if somebody at work had given
(36:07):
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
(36:50):
going to be singing about as well.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
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. Yeah, you're all on
my phone. I do have to record them so I
don't forget them. Yes, Now, Dan made a comment to
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. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
I was really shy about it.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Yeah, how did you learn to sing like that? Did
you take any lessons or did you just are you
self taught?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
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. Yeah,
I think I took like four or five lessons and
that was about it. So wolst Of 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
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our family.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Okay. So it's probably a foregone conclusion from a young
age that you're going to be a musician pretty much.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
I started pretty young.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Yeah, yeah, when did you, like, when did you start
writing in this this genre?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
So I started playing guitar when I was twelve, and
I my first song at thirteen, Okay. And when I
think back to what that first song was in the lyrics,
they there's they, it kind of has stayed the same. Yeah,
I'm a little doomy, A little gloomy, you know, that
just part of my nature, sure, but specifically with doom,
I've just sort of gravitated towards that. So way back
(38:19):
in the mid nineties, I was in a band called Warhorse,
uh 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
about all the different releases I've put out with different
bands over the years, Like you do you hear that
common thread of Christa. You know that it's in there
regardless of whether she's playing guitar or just singing or whatnot.
(38:41):
So it's just sort of I guess at this point,
like just built into my DNA right right.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
And then on the uh when I hear layered vocals
and some of the songs, is that all you Yeah? Okay, yeah, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
The downside is like we can't pull that off live. Yeah,
plus we start using backing tracks. But yeah, so we
definitely play in the 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 that we had for it.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Okay are you all from around here? Are you all
from New Hampshire or.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
We're from Massachusetts, Massachusetts from Massachusetts wester based band.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Okay, okay, excellent, Well thanks for making the trip up.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
I know that's uh happy happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
This is not a terrible drive, No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
They're sailing the whole way.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
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 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
(39:49):
of a lot of good places to play and other
bands that you kind of team up with.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, so it's Ralph's is the main, main place, the
main place to play. There's a lot of other bands
that play faces a bay on Evil eighty Conclave. We
all have to share a rehearsal space as well.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Well, that's convenient, right.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
I know.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
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 (40:16):
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
(40:37):
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 19 (40:49):
So this last album, Vessel.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Was shoving the microphone space that you can hear him.
Speaker 8 (40:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 19 (41:00):
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
(41:20):
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 studio instead of playing
on it, stuff that he had that he thought would sound,
(41:41):
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. Yeah, Yeah,
he's touring all the time. He's a guest, but he's
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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
with the EP was done with Benny Grotto at Maddoak
Studios in Cambridge also, which he's still functioning. As far
(42:27):
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.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Not 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 that 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 and the
(42:59):
rebuild so thing. Yeah, with Benny being right behind it,
I'm not sure what's going to happen.
Speaker 19 (43:04):
Buying any houses or in additional real estate. And we'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. I think that was prior
to COVID.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Or right around I think it was, yeah, during COVID
during ye.
Speaker 19 (43:23):
So the rumor is is that they're supposed to have
a twin venue there plus probably some mixture space, maybe
residential or something.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Okay, okay, but there there are.
Speaker 19 (43:30):
Another great studio, and you know, we may be able
to work with them.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
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 (43:44):
No, songs about the Pandemics.
Speaker 19 (43:48):
At Bow the time everyone wants to forget.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Yeah, okidding, interesting, we are writing for the new album.
So perhaps now that you've just planted a seedy you could.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
You could still do that?
Speaker 8 (44:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (44:02):
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 it but uh good good?
(44:24):
But I mean, is that is that hard to pull
off live at all?
Speaker 10 (44:27):
Or is it?
Speaker 13 (44:28):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (44:29):
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 (44:36):
I do miss having the backing vocals. Yeah, but the
other piece of it is it we also recorded most.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
Of it live?
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Oh okay, oh okay, well that helps right.
Speaker 19 (44:48):
Yeah, we don't like do separate tracking to a click
or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
Okay, okay, go.
Speaker 19 (44:53):
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 redo or fixed or they
want to actually.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
And 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. And then I'll just you know,
punch in here or there just to fix a couple
of loops 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,
(45:23):
we play pretty loud, so I'd like to think that
we fill up the fill up the space.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that advantage right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
My amp goes to eleven.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 19 (45:34):
We play with a lot of passion live, so I
think that comes through, yeah, and it helps fill out.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
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? Yeah?
Speaker 19 (45:51):
We've had a couple of those with Double Duty.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 19 (45:54):
Local bands that we've been spending more time with lately
would be Able Blood Yep.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
I love Able Blood. They've been on show a few times.
Love them great, great people. Yeah, absolutely, a lot of
fun to play with, great musicians. Yeah, a lot of
the local scene, they all we all kind of migrate together.
Speaker 19 (46:12):
Yeah, in and out and whatnot. But I'd say in
recent time we've spent a lot of shows with it.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
That's great.
Speaker 19 (46:18):
Yeah, we have another one coming up with them in
November at Quoto and Salem.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Okay, excellent, it'll be cool. Excellent, Yeah them Dost Profits
also on the bill. 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. It would only last
a short time. But does Profits he's had for for
(46:43):
quite a while now. That seems to be found something
he can really stick with that fulfills him and he's incredible. Well.
I love Auto absolutely great guy.
Speaker 19 (46:51):
They're on the bill as well. There's a Bill a
band coming I think from New York, Black Tongue, Reverend
Name and of course Able Blood. They're the ones that
put the show together.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Oh okay, fantastic. And where is that want to get quota?
And okay, I haven't been to that venue, but I've
heard about it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Yeah, Salem, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Yeah, yeah, which is oh yes, yeah, oh yeah. Is
that that time of year?
Speaker 2 (47:18):
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 (47:31):
Yeah, oh yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 13 (47:34):
So.
Speaker 19 (47:34):
The show's on November eighth, she said, it just passed
the whole Yeah, you know wild Halloween time.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
Well that's good.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
When is the October one?
Speaker 19 (47:44):
It's next weekend, yeah, next week, no Saturday.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
It's in two weeks so October twenty fifth, right, October,
I'm saying that right. We are playing at Terminus Underground.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
Yeah, so that is a new Nationale New Hampshire.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Yep, yeah, love Terminus. Andrea and Eleanor are great people
have you been there yet?
Speaker 19 (48:06):
If we have not, I did, oh you okay, because
I'm not Vigil. His other band the World Burns World
Worth Burning, World Worth Burning.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
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. It's really cool. 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,
(48:36):
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 (48:52):
So Benthikrealm dot com has has it everything that are
all our upcoming shows. Whove got links to all the
merch from band camp. We're on face but 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 Benthickgroalm dot com, then that'll
get your pointers to go to all the other places
that we live.
Speaker 19 (49:10):
Okay, excellent, screaming wise, we're on every platform.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
Yeaheah, Spotify, Apple, you know, Amazon, everything?
Speaker 1 (49:17):
Very good, very good. Oh way, 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 (49:28):
We actually have not.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
That's good, that's good.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Yeah, we're lucky. Yeah, but 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 (49:40):
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 (49:49):
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. He's kind of,
you know, coming at the end of questioning her own
existence and everything, and in the in the means of
(50:12):
kind of taking herself out of the picture, she ends up,
unfortunately taking everybody else out with her. Yeah, as she
is summoning the tide. So it's a bit of a
kind of a dark dark song, have you Yeah, 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
(50:35):
happening in front of me, and then I'm just sort
of writing about what it is that I'm seeing in
my in.
Speaker 1 (50:39):
My in my vision. Yeah, ah, wonderful, wonderful. So we're
going to play this and uh 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 jen coffee dot com. She had a
very big week and follow her on social media if
you want to know more about me and what I
(51:00):
do Matt Connorton dot com, and uh, if you miss
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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 10 (51:58):
God from the MS mass.
Speaker 17 (52:16):
No things seas to cry the bound to the coming control.
Speaker 10 (52:44):
Answer myself.
Speaker 8 (52:48):
Time to a.
Speaker 15 (53:00):
S beside on the bill is born, but love th dill.
Speaker 7 (53:42):
I know the long literally from school, Oh guns, and.
Speaker 18 (53:56):
There my mind cleans his old don't juice.
Speaker 3 (54:08):
Say oh bell wiss.
Speaker 8 (54:15):
Man on them.
Speaker 3 (54:32):
So also the mote.
Speaker 8 (54:41):
To band.
Speaker 15 (54:48):
So we brings go Bill is all were bad than not.
Speaker 18 (56:46):
A fool, so bow a fool.
Speaker 15 (56:53):
So it's all just mom to bring them to the.
Speaker 8 (57:06):
Dawn the straight.
Speaker 14 (57:11):
Z change.
Speaker 8 (57:16):
The wheel.
Speaker 10 (57:19):
Strand going.
Speaker 18 (57:35):
And so sad.
Speaker 3 (57:39):
Not to.
Speaker 8 (57:55):
Baby had gone.
Speaker 3 (58:05):
Well is small
Speaker 8 (58:08):
And di
Hey, everybody, welcome back. We have entered our number three
New Marrow trace of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are
live from the studios of w m n H ninety
five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And
of course you can stream the show from anywhere. Go
to Matt connorton dot com slash live for all your
live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives,
et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday, October eleventh, twenty
(00:58):
twenty five, and 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 interesting to learn more about
their music. But I'm gonna 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
(01:20):
you are, what you do in the band, and then
I'll let you introduce the other two members.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
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. Very cool,
and a tambourine, and he's pointing out that she wants
(01:46):
everyone to know there's a tambourine in the room.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
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,
(02:10):
can let's hear something something that that go home. I'm
gonna pull this mic 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 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?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Christa cheer less to control the John takes me where
it wants to go.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
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 I'm really looking forward
(03:19):
to this, looking forward to hearing you live. So yeah,
whenever you're ready, just go for it.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So this is an acoustic version of our song Vessel
that it's on our last release.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
How let's do control the tactics freewhere it.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Once to go, but I'm aloud.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Been straining out of Bota. Not sure there was any way,
But as.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Have believe my body is a vesc speaks to me,
caves me for gave.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Have believe.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
My body is a ves caves me saved, caives me.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
Cold.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It wasn't easy, scared when they listen, made a ship
to take, but a SI.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
Has chaos come to the night, a car escaped without.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
A FI and I'm have believe.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
My body is a.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Vensel speaks to me cause me, folks.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Have believe.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
My body is a vesser, cares me, saved, kiss me cold.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
I believe.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
My body isn't that so speaks to me cause me pocus.
I believe my body is of that sol.
Speaker 10 (08:37):
Keis me saved?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Kiuse mecause keeps me.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Cause nice if you're just joining us. We have benthic
(09:36):
realm here live in studio, sounding great, good job. Everybody
can't wait to hear the next one. Whenever you're ready.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
All right, this next one is as it burns.
Speaker 11 (10:29):
Never has the wound closed off? Never have nine duties tragedies.
Speaker 12 (10:44):
We wriittness, hover redo more century.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
We build up for watches. We built up rom me.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
To w lea shaw the fory a set.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
People rely has it watch you? Has it?
Speaker 13 (11:42):
Watch you? Money and vowela.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Drive the Auntisi shows.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Sending a coming.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Man dime on the bridges, they hold open brandera they stop,
also place.
Speaker 11 (12:42):
Please stay, say that stayed while they sign the check
you and drive?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Has it wat true? How's you bad? Wat true? Bad thing?
Speaker 14 (14:01):
Labo, the doomed to make the same mistakes.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
No big toy, the side.
Speaker 11 (15:16):
Casualties they had all called draining halls.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Up, has it watch you? Has it bad? Watch has.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Wow? What what's that one called?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
That's as it burns?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
As it burns?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Love you do your work?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
They're working that mic.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
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? Yeah, yeah, really good,
really good. And then you can play you can play
one more for us, that is correct? Is this unusual?
(17:08):
By the way, doing an acoustic set on a Saturday
morning at eleven am?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Very different.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
We have played acoustic live once earlier in February at
Americ Old Theater.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Oh excellent.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
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 (17:27):
Yeah, good, all right, whenever you're ready, all.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
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.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
All right.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
This is fade Away, a fake.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Away into.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
The Dog.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
What's smell to me?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
It's just a memo.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
A sweet boy win no sound.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Well, I'm no longer to to.
Speaker 15 (19:41):
Grow where.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Befold can never be found. That head on this battle
(20:24):
ground stay for years, had hang it on, finds smells suit.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
It could only get better, So.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
Moved on with that.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Thes a make a decision. What wilds before can never
(22:20):
bear found? That proba homeless battle round.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
M h m hm m m.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Why before the double bear bound m word trying head.
Speaker 16 (24:01):
Homeless battle ground, homeless battle ground.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I love it, I love it, Benthic Realm live in studio.
We're going to need to play a studio track. This
is called course correct here on Matt Connorton unleashed. Let's
give this to 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,
(24:44):
and I apologize, Let me fix that, let me back
that up. Here we go this time, I promise.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Well said a cool.
Speaker 17 (25:39):
Don't know where you girls got the bun shown?
Speaker 8 (25:47):
No way will be well.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Oh guys, I haven't abled.
Speaker 18 (26:05):
So bad over talk.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Coming of.
Speaker 18 (26:30):
So you take a ball to four year long So.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
How'm trying m M.
Speaker 18 (27:26):
Excite mats to the rude.
Speaker 14 (27:31):
Just spell I haven't.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
No one was move once?
Speaker 14 (27:36):
When were we to got bad word Compson bout tell.
Speaker 17 (27:52):
Real, don't sensitize, don't no man's man?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Then to wool.
Speaker 15 (28:18):
Were the outcomes were taken A long.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
Three lolls always runner, How well time m we've been
(30:42):
in Uh well uh it time.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
H oh that is so good. We just heard course correct.
(31:46):
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 to course crek
really good. So welcome everybody? Is it always the three
of you? Are there any other members of the band
(32:06):
who aren't here?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Just the three of us?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
You got a big sound for three people. That's really cool.
That's really cool. And how do you describe? I mean,
is what do you call it? Doom? I mean, what
do you call how do you Everyone always hates this question,
but in terms of genre, how do you describe.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
What you do.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah, we call it melodic doom metal.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Melodic doom metal, yeah, because we're not.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
The classic just you know, just kind of drony, kind
of you know, always at one rhythm, 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 1 (32:42):
Yeah. And how long has Benthic Ground existed? How long
have you been a band?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
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.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
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 (33:04):
Oh okay, I'm familiar with conc Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
So he like raised his hand and said, I'd love
to come play with you guys, and we.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Said, yeah, sure, okay.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
So we had a rehearsal and we knew we knew
about three minutes.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
In excellent excellent. And then Maureen, have you been here
from the beginning?
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Are you an original member or oh you gotta pull
it 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 (33:41):
So, for all of you oceanographers and people who love
the sea, the benthic realm is actually the lowest area
in the ocean or 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 a name,
we had a bunch of ones that we were tossing around.
(34:02):
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
(34:23):
do in terms of different material, Yeah, all of our songs.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
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 Arsid 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, that's probably a bit. You
(34:51):
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 right about?
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
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
(35:23):
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 flowing 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
(35:43):
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 is
actually inspired by a book that I recently read, Norwegian Wood,
by this Japanese writer if somebody at work had given
(36:07):
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
(36:28):
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
(36:50):
going to be singing about as well.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
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. Yeah, you're all on
my phone. I do have to record them so I
don't forget them. Yes, Now, Dan made a comment to
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. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
I was really shy about it.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Yeah, how did you learn to sing like that? Did
you take any lessons or did you just are you
self taught?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
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. Yeah,
I think I took like four or five lessons and
that was about it. So wolst Of 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
(37:43):
our family.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Okay. So it's probably a foregone conclusion from a young
age that you're going to be a musician pretty much.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
I started pretty young.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Yeah, yeah, when did you, like, when did you start
writing in this this genre?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
So I started playing guitar when I was twelve, and
I my first song at thirteen, Okay. And when I
think back to what that first song was in the lyrics,
they there's they, it kind of has stayed the same. Yeah,
I'm a little doomy, A little gloomy, you know, that
just part of my nature, sure, but specifically with doom,
I've just sort of gravitated towards that. So way back
(38:19):
in the mid nineties, I was in a band called Warhorse,
uh 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
about all the different releases I've put out with different
bands over the years, Like you do you hear that
common thread of Christa. You know that it's in there
regardless of whether she's playing guitar or just singing or whatnot.
(38:41):
So it's just sort of I guess at this point,
like just built into my DNA right right.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
And then on the uh when I hear layered vocals
and some of the songs, is that all you Yeah? Okay, yeah, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
The downside is like we can't pull that off live. Yeah,
plus we start using backing tracks. But yeah, so we
definitely play in the 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 that we had for it.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Okay are you all from around here? Are you all
from New Hampshire or.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
We're from Massachusetts, Massachusetts from Massachusetts wester based band.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Okay, okay, excellent, Well thanks for making the trip up.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
I know that's uh happy happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
This is not a terrible drive, No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
They're sailing the whole way.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
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 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
(39:49):
of a lot of good places to play and other
bands that you kind of team up with.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, so it's Ralph's is the main, main place, the
main place to play. There's a lot of other bands
that play faces a bay on Evil eighty Conclave. We
all have to share a rehearsal space as well.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Well, that's convenient, right.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
I know.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
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 (40:16):
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
(40:37):
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 19 (40:49):
So this last album, Vessel.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Was shoving the microphone space that you can hear him.
Speaker 8 (40:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 19 (41:00):
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
(41:20):
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 studio instead of playing
on it, stuff that he had that he thought would sound,
(41:41):
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. Yeah, Yeah,
he's touring all the time. He's a guest, but he's
(42:02):
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
with the EP was done with Benny Grotto at Maddoak
Studios in Cambridge also, which he's still functioning. As far
(42:27):
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.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Not 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 that 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 and the
(42:59):
rebuild so thing. Yeah, with Benny being right behind it,
I'm not sure what's going to happen.
Speaker 19 (43:04):
Buying any houses or in additional real estate. And we'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. I think that was prior
to COVID.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Or right around I think it was, yeah, during COVID
during ye.
Speaker 19 (43:23):
So the rumor is is that they're supposed to have
a twin venue there plus probably some mixture space, maybe
residential or something.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Okay, okay, but there there are.
Speaker 19 (43:30):
Another great studio, and you know, we may be able
to work with them.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
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 (43:44):
No, songs about the Pandemics.
Speaker 19 (43:48):
At Bow the time everyone wants to forget.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Yeah, okidding, interesting, we are writing for the new album.
So perhaps now that you've just planted a seedy you could.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
You could still do that?
Speaker 8 (44:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (44:02):
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 it but uh good good?
(44:24):
But I mean, is that is that hard to pull
off live at all?
Speaker 10 (44:27):
Or is it?
Speaker 13 (44:28):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (44:29):
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 (44:36):
I do miss having the backing vocals. Yeah, but the
other piece of it is it we also recorded most.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
Of it live?
Speaker 1 (44:44):
Oh okay, oh okay, well that helps right.
Speaker 19 (44:48):
Yeah, we don't like do separate tracking to a click
or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
Okay, okay, go.
Speaker 19 (44:53):
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 redo or fixed or they
want to actually.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
And 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. And then I'll just you know,
punch in here or there just to fix a couple
of loops 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,
(45:23):
we play pretty loud, so I'd like to think that
we fill up the fill up the space.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that advantage right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
My amp goes to eleven.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 19 (45:34):
We play with a lot of passion live, so I
think that comes through, yeah, and it helps fill out.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
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? Yeah?
Speaker 19 (45:51):
We've had a couple of those with Double Duty.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 19 (45:54):
Local bands that we've been spending more time with lately
would be Able Blood Yep.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
I love Able Blood. They've been on show a few times.
Love them great, great people. Yeah, absolutely, a lot of
fun to play with, great musicians. Yeah, a lot of
the local scene, they all we all kind of migrate together.
Speaker 19 (46:12):
Yeah, in and out and whatnot. But I'd say in
recent time we've spent a lot of shows with it.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
That's great.
Speaker 19 (46:18):
Yeah, we have another one coming up with them in
November at Quoto and Salem.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Okay, excellent, it'll be cool. Excellent, Yeah them Dost Profits
also on the bill. 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. It would only last
a short time. But does Profits he's had for for
(46:43):
quite a while now. That seems to be found something
he can really stick with that fulfills him and he's incredible. Well.
I love Auto absolutely great guy.
Speaker 19 (46:51):
They're on the bill as well. There's a Bill a
band coming I think from New York, Black Tongue, Reverend
Name and of course Able Blood. They're the ones that
put the show together.
Speaker 1 (47:01):
Oh okay, fantastic. And where is that want to get quota?
And okay, I haven't been to that venue, but I've
heard about it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Yeah, Salem, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Yeah, yeah, which is oh yes, yeah, oh yeah. Is
that that time of year?
Speaker 2 (47:18):
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 (47:31):
Yeah, oh yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 13 (47:34):
So.
Speaker 19 (47:34):
The show's on November eighth, she said, it just passed
the whole Yeah, you know wild Halloween time.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
Well that's good.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
When is the October one?
Speaker 19 (47:44):
It's next weekend, yeah, next week, no Saturday.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
It's in two weeks so October twenty fifth, right, October,
I'm saying that right. We are playing at Terminus Underground.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
Yeah, so that is a new Nationale New Hampshire.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Yep, yeah, love Terminus. Andrea and Eleanor are great people
have you been there yet?
Speaker 19 (48:06):
If we have not, I did, oh you okay, because
I'm not Vigil. His other band the World Burns World
Worth Burning, World Worth Burning.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
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. It's really cool. 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,
(48:36):
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 (48:52):
So Benthikrealm dot com has has it everything that are
all our upcoming shows. Whove got links to all the
merch from band camp. We're on face but 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 Benthickgroalm dot com, then that'll
get your pointers to go to all the other places
that we live.
Speaker 19 (49:10):
Okay, excellent, screaming wise, we're on every platform.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
Yeaheah, Spotify, Apple, you know, Amazon, everything?
Speaker 1 (49:17):
Very good, very good. Oh way, 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 (49:28):
We actually have not.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
That's good, that's good.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Yeah, we're lucky. Yeah, but 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 (49:40):
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 (49:49):
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. He's kind of,
you know, coming at the end of questioning her own
existence and everything, and in the in the means of
(50:12):
kind of taking herself out of the picture, she ends up,
unfortunately taking everybody else out with her. Yeah, as she
is summoning the tide. So it's a bit of a
kind of a dark dark song, have you Yeah, 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
(50:35):
happening in front of me, and then I'm just sort
of writing about what it is that I'm seeing in
my in.
Speaker 1 (50:39):
My in my vision. Yeah, ah, wonderful, wonderful. So we're
going to play this and uh 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 jen coffee dot com. She had a
very big week and follow her on social media if
you want to know more about me and what I
(51:00):
do Matt Connorton dot com, 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 10 (51:58):
God from the MS mass.
Speaker 17 (52:16):
No things seas to cry the bound to the coming control.
Speaker 10 (52:44):
Answer myself.
Speaker 8 (52:48):
Time to a.
Speaker 15 (53:00):
S beside on the bill is born, but love th dill.
Speaker 7 (53:42):
I know the long literally from school, Oh guns, and.
Speaker 18 (53:56):
There my mind cleans his old don't juice.
Speaker 3 (54:08):
Say oh bell wiss.
Speaker 8 (54:15):
Man on them.
Speaker 3 (54:32):
So also the mote.
Speaker 8 (54:41):
To band.
Speaker 15 (54:48):
So we brings go Bill is all were bad than not.
Speaker 18 (56:46):
A fool, so bow a fool.
Speaker 15 (56:53):
So it's all just mom to bring them to the.
Speaker 8 (57:06):
Dawn the straight.
Speaker 14 (57:11):
Z change.
Speaker 8 (57:16):
The wheel.
Speaker 10 (57:19):
Strand going.
Speaker 18 (57:35):
And so sad.
Speaker 3 (57:39):
Not to.
Speaker 8 (57:55):
Baby had gone.
Speaker 3 (58:05):
Well is small
Speaker 8 (58:08):
And di
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