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Today is a Saturday, November fifteenth, twenty twenty five, and
we have entered our number two New Marrow dose of
Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are live from the studios of
w m n H ninety five point three FM and
Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Jenny is here at the news
table and of course today is the big day. Swarmy
Fest is here tonight at Jewel cannot wait. We've been
in the first hour, we played a bunch of the
bands that are going to be playing tonight. We played
one song from each actually and right now we have
joining us in studio Malcolm and Bruce from Legion of Solace.
Speaker 4: Hey, guys, what's going on?
Speaker 2: So we should, uh we should explain what you guys
do and then we'll talk a little bit about that
because people, I'm sure people hear the name Legion of Solace, Uh,
they they think you're They probably assume you're a band
which is not actually what Legion of Solaces, although it
would be a cool name for if you guys ever
think thought about starting a band, if.
Speaker 11: We were closer to each other geographically, possibly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is some distance there, right, because yeah, so Bruce,
you're from Massachusetts, right.
Speaker 11: I am, now, yeah, I've been here for almost fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Fifteen years, okay, and Malcolm, you're from far away.
Speaker 4: I'm from Lynchburg, Virginia.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so you drove up for I was on
a bus. Yeah, howlong a trip?
Speaker 4: Was that sixteen hours?
Speaker 2: Sixteen hours? Oh my god?
Speaker 11: Would have been shorter if they'd have been on time.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it would have been like nine at night
compared to one o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Well, well, I'm glad you made it.
Speaker 4: That wasn't that bad. If anything, the delays helped it
because it made my layover because one of them was
going to be like an hour and a half layover.
Oh really yeah, So literally by them being delayed themselves,
it cut out all my delays, my layovers, so like, yeah,
it was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, So what what do you what is Legion
of Solace? Exactly?
Speaker 11: We are a hub for independent bands that need marketing, advertising,
promoting other bands for their event, sponsorship, for their event hosting,
for their event. On occasion, well, we'll actually cater special events.
The VIP pre party last night, we brought barbecue, pulled
porkloaded baked potatoes with us. Nice everybody everybody was nice,
happy and fed. Yeah yeah, saying karaoke steps. This came
into a little private performance for us.
Speaker 4: Excellent, litt little karaoke. Yeah, man, I got I got
Bruce if you want to see it hinging some karaoke.
Oh really, don't worry. I got myself looking at the
I'm a singer in the band.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So yeah, if you said like someone was talking to
a band, I am in the band actually, And I
still uh, like last year, I told you I still
work with the guys hateful posa I used to be
with everything on I hatus right now. So yeah, I
just got to get that worked out. But I can
still go play with those guys. But I actually started something,
a side project of my own, nice with some other
guys called numb my site, and they want to do
like old school new metal, uh you know, Runge era
like stuff, which is when I grew up on most
of this and that's great. So now it's like all right, malcome,
I just got to get back to your clean vocals. Yeah,
I'm normally a growler and screen where I'm like, I'm
deep into it. I'm more so like mine elevated from
when I started out going to choir and all that
stuff and then start out like the regular bands I did, Yeah,
just doing you know, growls and screams, you know, yeah, yeah,
so like Lamb of God type stuff, slipno type stuff
like you know, yeah, and sometimes harder. So like it's
that's my realm. That's where I felt my peace, right right, yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And how did you guys meet and get connected? And
because and how long has Legion of Solids existed? Like
did you guys start it.
Speaker 4: Or well it started out with me Tuesday and a
few others beforehand in another group that was trying to
do the same thing. Oh okay, but it didn't work
out that way. Well, so we ended up starting our
own things so that way we can cancel out all
the flaws that we see and what is working with
the music industry. You see what I'm saying, Like, like
you see all these other people out here on the Internet.
That's also like advocating for you know, clean ways of
doing music. That's what I've always wanted from the get go.
It's especially knowing that I do the radio, my radio
show called Coin to a Melica, where I want to
play you know, an unknown band right beside God's Smack, Cradle,
the Filth, whoever. But just enjoy music in general, how
it used to be back in the day where you
can just go, hey, hey, play my play my play
my song right right, and it's like, all right, we'll
bring it in here, give it here, all right, Well
this is a new song about such and such that
we don't even know. But here we go, and the
next thing, you know, boom, it's like the new Queen.
You know what I'm saying. It's like we heard it,
Thank you Jesus. We needed that, you know what I'm saying. Like,
I like that fresh smack in the face of something new,
and I'm tired of hearing it in the world. And
everybody's like, well, I'm getting bored with music, man. I
just don't know what to do. I literally do thing
on my show where it's called you know, Mystery Times
with Malachi Well, I take thirty. I literally give you
thirty seconds to a minute and a half of dead
air to go scrolling through and find something I've never
found before, whether it's YouTube, Spotify or whatever. I'm like, dude,
how can you get bored with music?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: And if you actually go into the underground world, which,
like I said, I have you a list right here, yeah, yeah,
and you find a good you know, pool where people
are bringing in people from out of town, where there's
the lutch of locals playing everything. Yep, it's an amazing thing.
You find your new class of music that you might like, Yeah,
a new genre that you never knew that you come across,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so much music being made, more than ever before.
And it's more you know, because of the Internet. It's
more easily accessible than ever before.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 2: I'm a Gen xer, so my generation is really the
last generation to grow up without the Internet. So I remember,
and don't get me wrong, I have wonderful memories of
going to the record store and flipping through and finding
you know.
Speaker 4: I'm thirty eight. Yeah, yeah, I was at the ending
of it, at the beginning. Yeah yeah, like, yeah, I
get it.
Speaker 2: So that was great and everything, but I wouldn't but
I wouldn't trade where we have now to go back
to that, you know, because sometimes you'll hear people say, well,
back in my day, we you know, we actually went
to the record store and it was great, and you know,
today the internet's ruined everything, and it's like, no, the
Internet has made it so that you can have access
to literally anything, and it's it's wonderful.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 11: There was something to be said about the friendships that
were built in the record store, like sure, waiting for
the midnight release.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, but yeah.
Speaker 4: But that's the thing, waiting for the midlight release. But
how long do those friends that last? Because me myself,
I feel more along the last Go spend some time,
like if you are any person who loves heavy metal music,
whether it's an underground festival or even a mainstream festival,
go spend seven days in the campground right along with
other people. Yes, yeah, I did it for eight years straight. Really,
I mean all the Blue Ridge Rock Festival. My band
The Hateful Bows, we played the first two then we
you know, I went to every last one. Was because
I was my only outlet to where I can have
a go see some good bands and make it affordable.
Yeah yeah, and then like you see what I'm saying,
So like, not only do we have our scene which
was slowly thriving back up because I grew up in
my hometown, I've seen it go up, I've seen it
go down. I even seen the band Hateful Bones before
I joined them keep that realm up for the longest
time and then it drops off. But now it's opening
back up more now. So with this place called to
grab our k Bar, which they don't even know that
I'm advocating for them. Yeah, Like I go to see
these shows and I I love what they're doing there
there There is no pay to play if you want
to if you can, you know, want to opt off
for the chance to go play with some of these
bands like Hunt the Dinosaur came down there. You know,
they playing a bunch of local bands play for them.
You know, Jersey Sky has a band's play for them,
you know, and getting these opportunities to do this without
having to worry about you having to pay to play,
and you're getting paid to do so, right, So why
not you know what I'm saying? Like that what that's
what I advocate for because that's what we push forward,
leads to solace, that's who we are. There is so
much way to where you. I mean, if you're out
here to get money, okay, but do it honestly, dude,
do it honestly. Don't break the artist back who's putting
in ninety five percent of the work. You're only doing
five percent. Whether you're promoting on the internet like us,
or you're actually a manager, you're only doing five percent
because you're sitting on your tushi. They are the other
ones over there playing the instrument. Because I know both sides,
because I play in a band. I want my music
to get heard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: That's the reason why I have another radio show, because
I want to give you the platform, whether you can
come to either something like Matt Connerson, who is very
I'm not gonna lie throughout this whole entire radio industry world.
There's not many people like you anymore. There's not many
people like me anymore. Now, just hear good music together
with whatever. So I mean none people the people are
advocating like you do for it.
Speaker 2: I see it.
Speaker 4: I actually go doing to other people's stuff in other cities,
and I mean there's might be few far between, but
they're doing it more so underground radio like me where
they're doing the podcast they do on a Twitch and
it just got a lot of followers.
Speaker 11: Yeah, try sending an audio file a clear channel and
get in.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. It's a blessing to have you. And then
like we wanted to be known that you have a
source wherever you put your blessed wagon tears, and we
will help you promote it in any way, shape or form. Yeah,
you have reponsorships that we can help you with, you know,
with your band and all that stuff. We have ways
that we can advocate for each other and get to
the promised land exactly without being a liar cheater still
or I'm going to get you the side this but
this really you just give.
Speaker 13: Me your life right taking it all.
Speaker 4: We want to help in any way, shape or form
to keep this society alive.
Speaker 11: Even if it's gas money for the next gig.
Speaker 4: Like you know what I'm saying, Like this, like when
we're doing this, this is coming out of our own time.
I go home. I literally had to work all the
way until Monday night. Yeah, double shift that I won't
even supposed to work. Yeah, and then I got on
a bus at five o'clock in the morning to come
do That's how passionate we are about, right, that's what
we'd love.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I want to see the music sings, striving and go
and be honest, especially knowing that my daughter is one
to eventually be in that yep. Yeah, So why not
have myself or our company make this a big enough
hubs where you have an honest place that you can
go to. Right, It's like, you know, you can go
you know, I can get signed and the next thing,
you know, oh you old, you know the record company
millions dollars, you got to you got you gotta go
out and just you gotta so your soul. You know,
you gotta run the streets for six months and nine
months out of the year and you know, oh man,
I only come home with this much money.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know.
Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, That's why merch fees keep going up and
up and ticket fees keep going up and up, because
the only time the bands eat is when they're on
the road.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, absolutely one.
Speaker 6: We should play this.
Speaker 2: Uh, this is a little bit of a side street,
but we said, uh, interesting, uh, And I don't know
if I'm saying, I don't know if any of us
know exactly how to pronounce how to pronounce this dessess us,
it's d E C E S s U S. It's
the name of the band. This track is called Dark Flames.
But really interesting story. So Jenny had brought this to
my attention initially, and then you wanted us to play it.
She the lead singer of this band. And I don't
even I'm not even sure how to say her name correctly,
but she's Miss Chili. She won the Miss Chili contest.
Speaker 11: In Miss in the Miss Universe pageant, in the Miss Universe.
Speaker 2: Pageant, and uh, she brought out her part of her
her presentation, I don't know what the.
Speaker 4: Term is guitars, Yeah yeah, and started playing one of
her own songs, and.
Speaker 2: They right, and that that's something that had never been
done obviously at one of these pageants. It's pretty pretty
unique and it paid off.
Speaker 4: She won, right, I see, I say. I said the
same thing to them last night. I said, if anybody
helped to prove not only the best marketing in the
freaking world, Yeah, Like, how smart is that? Hey, I'm hot,
I'm gonna go do this pageant right, I'm gonna win it.
I'm gonna shock them with doing this amazing talent with
my voice.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: But also in the end, you're showing how beautiful and
how amazing of an art heavy metal is. Yes, it's
not just you're you're headed with you know, one stone,
two berries with one stone. Yeah, you're knocking it out
and being hot and knocking on this, you know, being
a model. And then also you're showing that heavy metal
is not something to be scared of. Heavy metal is
something to embrace, right like art sculptures are you know
the sixteenth taple like it's an art.
Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful and it's and it's not a gimmick like
you know, she's legitimately very talented y yeah. Yeah, as
as we're about to here, so let's give the suspend
if you're just joining us. We're talking with We have
Malcolm and Bruce here from Legion of Solace and of
course it is Swarmy Fest Day. We'll talk more about
that in a minute, but yeah, check this out. This
is I'm gonna go with decessus for how you pronounce
the name of the band, have no idea, but hopefully
that's close. And but This is really good and the
track is called Dark Flames.
Speaker 14: Check it out, ye.
Speaker 7: Dog Dog Dog.
Speaker 15: Idea, the boll dog side door Jack Dog Jack ain't
gone joll lo r.
Speaker 6: Do do Wedi why.
Speaker 8: Why way.
Speaker 4: Dog ribs sky ride a.
Speaker 7: Bad bogus.
Speaker 8: Lord, the man bides ball don highs.
Speaker 6: Bog or black.
Speaker 16: Persons loll bod die by by myoy oh.
Speaker 7: Good by.
Speaker 6: My out.
Speaker 8: Not guy like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh here here we go. All right. Well that
is that is Deceassus, that is Miss Chili on lead vocals.
That's fantastic, and that is Dark Flames. There's a video too,
so you can you can see her and the rest
of the band in action. Uh if you if you
check that out on YouTube. If you are just joining us,
this is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from
the studios of WM and H ninety five point three FM.
Of course, you can stream the show from anywhere. Go
to my website Matt connorton dot com slash live for
all your live streaming options, social media links, contact infos,
show archives, et cetera, et cetera. It is Saturday, November fifteenth,
twenty twenty five, and it is Swarmyfest Day. Swarmyfest, of course,
is tonight at Jewel, presented by Loud Entertainment co headliners
Sepsis and Silent Season. We also have Under the Horizon
Pulsifier Temptress, the Cherry Fog and featuring Lilithcat and the
Blood Witch Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are very proud once
again this year we are this show is one of
the official sponsors of the event. Along with our friends
from Legion of Solas. We have Malcolm and Bruce are
here with us in studio. Also Speed Demons Promotions, Violets,
Rain BPS Records and Denny Lynz or DANAE. Linz Creations.
Not exactly sure how to say that, but we'll eat
everybody later. But come down, say hello to us, enjoy
a great night. Jenny and I will be there really
looking forward to it and getting to hang out with everybody.
Come say hello, yes, yes, And of course we do
have Malcolm and Bruce here with us in the studio. Malcolm,
you should tell us more about your show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like I said, it's Corncy was Malachai. It's
the same thing. It's like what Dark Message are doing.
When she can get her a chance to do her
show because right now she's busy with school, so she's
like heavy busy with that. But because we're trying to
get everything, like right now, this is just the foundation, yeah,
so what we are really trying to accomplish. So she's
doing her part, and I'm doing my part with Quarantine
with Malachai when I can, especially with the weird sleep
schedule of my job. And I will even call yellow
Shout out to Texas In because I got some people
watching them. Shout out to my hometown Lisburg, Virginia. If
you're ever in Listbert, Virginia, you want a cheesy Western
come get come to texas In, come see me anyway. Definitely,
what I do in my radio show is requests, So
it's an opportunity for you to be something like this,
whether either you can call up soon I will have
it where I have a WhatsApp going through its where
you can call in and chat, especially if you're just
a heavy music or of whether it's the underground or mainstream,
and just talk about your experiences. So it's kind of
like a podcast lass radio show, but for the most part,
it's there for the unassigned and up and coming talent.
But if you're a place person from somewhere like you know, California, Washington,
somewhere where I can't get to immediately to come and
watch the show that night, and you're just an avidg
go over the underground world and you want to you know,
shout it out and like hey, I want you to
go to YouTube, especially as long as it's good audio
or even a video. As long as everything is good,
send it to me. I will play it. There is
no charge, there is nothing. All I ask for you
to do is just share, share our platform so that
way not only do people rest people in Washington who
are playing underground and spending their money, blood, sweat and
tears sitting in a recording studio cramped up getting carpal
tunnel playing these songs you know, we're on repeat, just
to get it recorded. Because like I said, I know
both sides, and I want you to be able to
have a platform to where you can go to and
just say hey. One of the fans is like, hey,
I mean, you know, I'm from you know, I think
I've had one from uh what was Mona from.
Speaker 11: Mona's and lean noway, yeah, she's she's.
Speaker 4: Like she used to be a part of like originally
we used to where we met him him at I
recruited him into this company from a place called from
another radio show that I also love it he loved
called Radio Guns the forty two. Okay, like Radio Me
and Radio Gods the forty two kind of like started
doing this like she started doing her thing first, but
I was like always wanting to do it, and I
was like, well, she gave me an inspiration to do it,
but I wanted to do mine. Yeah, the way kind
of like how you're doing it, but also adding into
where you can come in and watch it. The video
you'll see me down in the bottom corner of my
own little light show rocking out with you, so it's
like you're fully involved. Yeah, And I want That's how
I wanted to be, Like to whether you call in
where even if you want a video chat into me
and just talk to me. I want you to have
a full access radio of old school rebel radio where
if I wanted to call this number locally, anybody, if
I want to call you and say, hey, is your
refrigerator running? You better go gadget Like I want you
to be able to do that right. I want you
to be able to call and say, hey this band
I saw you know and you know Gothinsburg, Sweden, and
I want you to freaking just like you know, if
anybody knows where Gotharax Sweeten is, that's where Avatar is
from the guy the like, I want you to check
these guys out and I watch you to playing on
your show, yeah boom. Then share the feed if you
especially if you're over anywhere, you know, away from Virginia area,
East Coast, are you're in the West Coast, shares in
the West Coast, if you're from the West Coast, and
you know you're in Sweden, and you see if I'm
over there, shared there. We want this to be so international,
you know, world bound where anybody Like I've even had
people coming to my show when I used to do
it on Twitch and play to nobody for four years straight,
and I would have people coming in on Twitch every
now and again, and it'd be somebody from India who
cannot play mental musical over there, right, like they can
just have it playing mainstream, so they would literally would
sit me there stuff before and I've played it over
here on my stream multiple times. Yeah, you know what
I'm saying. Like, so that's what Corny Malchi is. And
like I said, I want to be able to teach
people that you can you can't get bored with music, right,
That's what like if you actually are a music lover,
go tumbling down the rab hole, you know what I mean.
Nights I've been set just get finding music to play
on my list that's not even that I don't know
has already made it not or not yet or whatever
that I can't even find the full credibility on it
online yet about it, whether they're signed or unsigned or
up and coming, I'm going to find and play especially
if I don't hear them on extend radio, if I
don't hear them on regular FM radio, or they're gonna
get played to my stuff, Yeah, because that's everybody deserves
to be heard by every year that is available, just
FM radio, not just AM radio, not just satellite radio
or whatever you listen to.
Speaker 11: Yeah, especially in the digital age, because in the sixties, seventies,
early eighties, it used to be you could put a
stack of records the trunk of your car, drive across
the country, stop at radio stations, and now all of
a sudden you have national exposure. Because of the conglomeration
of national mainstream radio, you can't really do that anymore
because because if you don't have if if you're not
even registered with Distro Kid, they're not even going to
look at you like with seriousness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 11: So being able to have internet platforms like Quarantined with Malachi,
like Dark Mistress, like Lee Janawa, when we get back
to doing that, it gives anybody around the world the
opportunity to get back into that car foot records, back
into their trunk and barnstorm the digital world right wide,
barnstorm tens ten states. When you can barnstorm one hundred countries.
Speaker 2: Right yeah, absolutely at one time.
Speaker 4: Instantaneously, everybody's like, oh, I can't be in you know,
multiple places at one time. Yes, you can. That's what
that digital world is giving you. Especially like if you
go look at just go look into the history of
the TikTok world of just underground heavy metal, it's a
community there that is so like vastly humongous, especially just
the short time that that TikTok has been out.
Speaker 11: And there are TikTok bands that are playing national, national festivals.
They're they're face like in that. I believe they're called
Electric Callboy.
Speaker 2: Now yeah, oh yeah, I know that is yeh.
Speaker 11: Didn't they originate on TikTok I think so, yeah, and
they're one of the hottest things in the market.
Speaker 4: Right Oh yeah, I mean that if you can get
famous off of TikTok man, I mean TikTok, I mean
something that somebody coded it was never expecting to less.
I mean literally themselves hit the stardom that they did.
Nobody knows what they're going to be like with anything
that they make, if it's going to be like completely right, right,
but you know, then you go then you go this
and then like people are getting famous off of just
doing TikTok, which actually, I mean I wasn't against TikTok at,
but that was like TikTok is like all right, well,
now what happens that we're helping you to be more
independent and be able to I mean, you're you're reporters.
If they really support you, they'll support you one hundred
percent all the way through it, even whether it's buying
your merch, you know, supporting your stream, sending you a
star or two every now and again, whatever you know,
and that's great. That's what I love. And like I'm
about to still start doing my show over there, so
that's you know what I'm saying, Like I haven't f
finagual other I want to fully yet because like what
if I mess up and like there's a band that
already you know, because I looked. All I did was
do the research that I could find and then it's like, oh,
they're already signed, and then like but whatever. From what
I heard a lot of people say, they don't really
care what you play on it. That's the platform I'm
looking for. I'm looking for the platform where you allow
me to be me. If I want you to sit
here and run this venture of being pretty much the
old school whatever it was, this jockey like just sleep disc.
You know what I'm saying, I want the full experience
of doing that. I want to find a platform that
is going to allow me to do that. You see
what I'm saying. Like other than like I understand if
you need the right credentials for doing FM radio, but
if I'm doing my own radio show, yeah should I'm
not here to play your music to make money. I'm
here to entertain you, right exactly If my entertainment deserves
a dollar or two, so be it. That's hey, I'll
take it. You know what I'm saying, Like, who's gonna take?
Who's gonna do? Not free money, But I'm not here
for the money. I'm here to entertain you and teach
you something and show you that you can support music
without ever having to drop a diamon unless.
Speaker 2: You want to, right, exactly exactly, that's all it takes.
Speaker 4: An takes you a long way. A share takes you
a long way. Yes, yes, I mean that's all it takes, literally,
and you never know if that share could take you
to swing into somebody else's friend bank that ends up
knowing somebody in the seven Dust camp or or you know,
the Lamba God camp or you know, any of the
hardcore camps. You know what I'm saying, Like, you can
go level up with Slayer. Let's do it, you know what,
why not even though they're not really doing much anymore.
Like here's an example, so period, Like that's the whole point.
We're all out here to do the you know, be
rock stars in our own way and superheroes to somebody,
So why not do it the right way? Because if
you the more you do it the right way is
the more honestly, then everything will stay true. The more
it becomes successful, the more it becomes evil. It's like, oh, yeah,
I think I might need to stab you so I
can use you as something solid to stand on.
Speaker 2: And get me.
Speaker 4: I don't need that. I don't want that. That's not
what I want. I want to be able to help
people out and give them the truest form of helping
you to, you know, and make your cure bigger without
having to worry about like did that man ever screw
me over? Did he ever take something else, you know,
take something off the back end?
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 4: No, I was always straightforward to you. I never beat
it around the bush, you know what I'm saying, Always
straight forward to everything is, you know, recorded out, tabbed out, whatever,
It does not matter. We are going to always be
honest with you, and even if to the point where
if it disappoints you that hey, we can't make it
happen at this moment, even if that means we have
to tell you no, that we can't make it happen,
either whether it's by our own accord or just it's
just not the right time. We're going to keep an
honest with you. We're not gonna like, oh man, we'll
talk to him next week. Don't worry about keep going
out there playing on skills though, keep going to make
the money. No, yeah, if we can't, if we can't
make the tour happen, look, take this time, go go
get some music elevated. You know, we'll liction know when
we can get you on a tour real quick, or
will election when we can have your run. If you
can't make you this run while you're making your tour,
we'll get you next tour. We'll stay in touch with you,
you get into your music. When youre about to drop
a new album, if you want to do it, you know,
an online interview, hit us up, We'll do it. Whatever.
Whatever we can make propaganda wise, come to you. We're
gonna do it right of course, even all the way
to like if you're if you're an up and coming
honorst and you want to get married online, Hey I
can marry you. I mean, like I said, we want
to hit every corner of the realm and leads to
the solace, whether it's we want to give you a
heavy metal you know, awesome marriage, or we want to
help your band strive, or we want to help this
venue stay alive because like in my hometown, there's not
very many feenals left. I don't really care to have
you know, music in it. They'd rather just have you know,
the juke boxing there and just yeah, that's it. No, dude,
we got it. No, Like, that's really so many places
like around my home, like around my Virginia that I've
closed that that's legendary to a lot of people who's
been through the season, Like you know what I'm saying, like, yeah,
so it's I hate it, you know what I'm saying,
Like that's and it's just going wide way and then
once the bulldogs are runs it over, it's the history
is a race and there's not the left. No, I
want my daughter to have that history. I want my
daughter to be able to go play certain like imagine
if Whiskey and Go Go is just like right right,
everybody everybody like, oh my god, I don't think I'll
ever be able to make because I won't be able
to go playt play that stage. We don't want that.
We wanted safe driving to it because these little reef
But I don't care what anybody say, especially coming into this.
These rinkyd being use or what they would call the
hole in the wall is what kept the music industry underground.
That's what music, Yes, so why not keep them going
to where the future ones have a place to go?
Play about it?
Speaker 11: Regardless of the genre of music, every member of every
Hall of Fame ever inducted started in a bar, or
a garage or a high school gym.
Speaker 4: Absolutely so I mean, I take I take Dave Girl's World,
where seriously go out there and make crappy music in
the garage and then come out with something like food fighting.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Go make that crappy music.
Is that crappy music, might say somebody's life one day? Yeah,
and start off everybody start off as a crappy musician,
right until you get good at it? Right, you see
what I'm saying. It's like you think me singing was like,
oh instantly I'm going here and I'm you know, Mariah
Carrey hitting them high notes.
Speaker 11: For example, that there used to be a kind of
a pop band in England, our band called Earth. Yeah,
look what they became once they just stayed with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Well I always believe too there's an audience
for everything, you know. Yes, although I used to think
of it a little bit differently. I used to say,
there's an audience for everything, you just have to find
the audience. But now I think of it a little differently.
It's like, there's an audience for everything, but you have
to make sure that you're in a place where the
audience can find you. Yes, because there that audience exists.
But you know, discoverability, it's such an important word. You know,
you have to be in places where you can be
discovered by an audience.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, that's that's another thing about Leaves of Solace. In
any way, shape or form, you have our platform. We
literally made our Facebook, our Instagram available to where even
if you wanted to go live through it. Yeah, and
it's says like you just wanted to say, I'm an
let's do an improp too, where we're a practice here
we have something good, some good audio we can it's
called live on leads the Solace. Yeah, you can go live, Yeah,
make that happen. You can, and not even with our permission.
You know that our platforms are open to where whether
whatever you want to drop, whether it's a music video,
a flyer or whatever. It's open to you, especially if
you're from somebody somewhere across the United States or even
over the you know, the ocean. Yeah, yeah, you can
come drop with like even if you you know, I
got a show going on in India. Well we know,
no anybody from the United States is going to make
it to India. But if you want to just share
it to get your name out there, right and just
depending on our platform, you can't. Yeah, if you want
to go live from over there in India platform.
Speaker 2: You can right for free. That's awesome.
Speaker 4: So that way you can get your exposure out there,
whether it's across the seas or not.
Speaker 11: We've had album releases that I can remember announced from
nine different countries outside of the US through through the
legion of solid social media platform.
Speaker 2: Oh no kidding, Wow, excellent.
Speaker 4: And it's kind of like I said, we are actually
going through this step by step to show you that
not only is it the struggle hard for you, the
struggle is hard for us for being just promoters. We
just want to be out here promoting, you know what
I'm saying, just to get the numbers to come into
the radio show, just to get the numbers to come
in and just spread the word, whether it's bands, whether
it's fans, whether it's whoever, just people. I literally sit
there and hand out cards day in and day out.
I mean literally to the point where I'm already hijacking
his card box for cards. You know what I'm saying,
Like I didn't put cards to so many people's hands,
and all I ever acted them in return is like, man, hey,
send me your stuff. We'll play it. And all I
ask is you to take these five cards and hand
them to five other bands or five other fans don't
know nothing about us. So that way we can build
that platform up and have a strong platform to where
when I go live, that thing's saying one point two
k immediately and then next thing you know, your exclusion
is being dropped. You're a brand new band from you
know wherever, a nobody and you got one point two
K hitting that thing watching. How amazing would that be.
Speaker 2: It's a good start.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I don't care about the dollar, I
don't care about the dime, I don't care about the views.
But if I can make it happy for somebody else,
that'd be great. That'll be a successful me because knowing
being in the band side, that's a lot.
Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, even if ten percent of that shares, right,
that's a lot of news feeds friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh yeah, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 4: All I want y'all do is and all I want
to do is just spread the word of how you
can keep this metal world thriving. Yeah, and if not,
make it even more thicker than what it was because
it's thinned out right. I'm not saying that heavy metals gone.
I'm not saying that the rock culture is gone. It's
still there and it's still thriving pretty good, but it
has thinned. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: Metal's not dead.
Speaker 4: It just got monetized, right, Yeah, and I want to
go back to the unmountotized stuff that you know, I
grew up in the New Medal age and the attitude
era of wrestle wing me good morning. Now you think
I don't want to hear want to hear. I want
to hear that break stuff, or I want to hear
you know, some slipknot going on. I want to hear,
like something hardcore heavy. That's why I do like the
FM radio station in my hometown and it's ninety eight
five at my hometown and these these guys are there
playing everything from Breaking Benjamin to Lamb of God. I
mean they're playing the vast majority of the good hardcore
heavy metal mainstreams oh wow, but also that it's still
missing that fun factor because, like I said, in the
hometown I grew up where every Tuesday and every Sunday
was local day. You know what I'm saying, Yeah, we
just finished playing God's Smack and Creed and you know
it was arms Water Hooper next thing, you know, you got.
I mean as many times when as a kid I
heard my own band that I joined the part of
Hey for Bones through you know, ninety six three local radio,
and I grew up with that, you know, and then
just being able to just say, hey, well we're scheduled
to interview. You can come in and sit down and
we'll talk and and it doesn't cost you a die
because it doesn't cost you a manager saying hey man,
I had to do this for you said now you
got to give them my ten percent. No, I want
to go back to the day to where if you
wanted to just like hey, dude, this is the day
I want to pull up on you and want to
do a show live with you right in front of
your face. Let's go, bro. I will literally call my
job and be like, hey, I got a very important
because I don't even stressed this to my job. What
this leads to the solace what I do as well
as being in the band, it's not a hobby, right,
I mean I put over, you know, a good twenty
years of my life into this to go play with
like with Hay for Bones, and play with these bands
for the Flaw and you know, mushroom Head and all
these guys you know, and being an independent bank. So
I know it's successful. I've seen the success out of it. Yeah,
you see what I'm saying, like by being with that
band Hey for Bones, so I know if I can
do it and go strong, even though yes it might,
it's not the shortcut around. It's not Hey, we can
go hop this mountain and parachute down. No, we're gonna
take the long road and we're gonna do it the
right way. So that way not only one you have
your receipts.
Speaker 2: Only two.
Speaker 4: You know that you have been respected and treated as
a decent human being, not an object a toy that
I can make la off you. I want you to
get paid and I want your music to get seen period.
I want you to be just treated with respect no
matter where you go, whether it's me helping you get
into these you know, these bills that are helping you
get paid while you're toying, I want you to make
sure you get paid accurately. Make sure you're not getting
treated or disrespect. You're not having to sign no contractor me.
You know what I'm saying. I want to just help
you promote because either way it go, it's gonna whatever
is gonna come is gonna come. Because if you build,
if what happens when you, like I told Will in
them last night, what happens when you actually make that
magnet powerful enough, everything's gonna come stopping tools, whether it's mainstream,
whether it's under or even lower to you know, the underground,
you can actually there's been many a bands that still
do it to this day. Is like, oh man, I
see what they're doing over there. I want to go
do that. I want to go be with these guys. Yeah,
And the next thing you know, here you go. You
got something m is going on. You know what I'm saying,
that's actually not necessarily the call you calling the big
stream bands to come play with you. They're calling you say, hey,
I want to be a part of this because you're
helping the community stay alive. Like when you see all
these videos of like, uh, God's man going out here
to these schools and you know, you're sitting around with
a hundred drummers and all this and helping them teaching
their music theory. And that's what that's the end goal.
We want to keep it going so much to where
it's getting thrown out. And I love seeing these little
videos of YouTube where these little kids are like six
or seven years old and they're mean they're killing oh yeah,
you know a Lamb of God later rests, you know,
like anything out there. I mean they are here doing
dreams theater and it's just like yeah, I just I
love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Example, there's a young drummer I think he's ten or
eleven now. His name is Caleb h and Joey Jordison
had kind of taken him under his wing before he passed,
and Jay Weinberg kind of continued that on for a
little while. He's been very endeared to slip Not for
a while and Vimic got together and did the tribute
show to Joey. Yeah, they invited Caleb to come in
and and caleb'sad in with Vimic Care for two or
three songs at the at the at the tribute show, and.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't if you heard.
Speaker 11: A recording without a video, you would never believe that
it was It was an elementary school kid behind the
kid back there playing like Joey, like Joey had written
it for him.
Speaker 4: No, kid, that's what That's what we're here for.
Speaker 6: Do.
Speaker 4: We want to keep this going from generations and generations.
Speaker 11: And it's it's videos like that and talents like that
that remind you metal isn't dead, isn't going anywhere. We
don't need to gate keep it. It's in good hands.
We just need to educate the youth to how to
do it properly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4: Like I said, if I can go play with all
these bands and have this, know, this resume of bands
that I have been played with, being from a place
called Lynchburg, Virginia, that I mean I've went to I
went to school with people that lived in you know, Philadelphia,
and I thought that's what they made you know, No,
I'm in Lynchburg, Virginia, you know what I'm saying, Like,
so to be honestly, like to just be a place
for that and being known that I could go up
to Baltimore at anytime and play with, you know, all
these well known bands and then go to be on
the festival twice, you know, with a bunch of bands.
You know, come on, I crazy Town, sick puppies. You
know what I'm saying. We opened I think we closed
out on our stage right before Fuel was starting up.
I mean we didn't have the party with Tantric, and
you know what I'm saying, Like, so being on that
and doing all that stuff and being just a band
that is not even signed. Yeah, just a local band
that's been around for over twenty years that people have
looked up to and loved being able to do this stuff.
I know I can help you get to there. Yeah,
speaking of Tan Trick.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know what you're gonna talk about.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I must say congratulations to our friend Opus yep
yep from Dead by Wednesday. They're founding drummer who is
now the full time touring drummer of the band Tantric.
Speaker 2: Yeah, congratulations to Opus.
Speaker 11: Yeah, very cool And if you want to congratulate him
in person early January next year at the Opus Blizzard
Bash at Toad's Place in New Haven, Connecticut. Tantric has
announced that the first show of their tour will be
Opus Birthday Bash.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, and then they will.
Speaker 11: Be coming to Gloucester, Massachusetts and playing a little venue
called the Cut.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh.
Speaker 11: They're starting their their tour in New England as as
an homage to Opus to say thank you for joining
the band there.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 11: They're accommodating a New England start in the middle of January.
Not a lot of bands come and see us until April.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Jenny and I last year at Swarmy Fest because of course,
said By Wednesday was one of the bands, and when
they you know, I had to go up front to
see them, and then, you know, I kind of came
back to the table for a little bit and then
I heard, you know, their cover of No Easy Way
Out they started playing that. I said to Jenny, I
was like, oh, you got to go. I had to
go back upfront for that because I love that so much.
That's so good. Dead By Wednesday is so good live.
Speaker 4: Do you know?
Speaker 2: Is he so now that he's the full time touring
drummer with Tantric is he I mean, what's happening with
Dead by Wednesday?
Speaker 11: They are still alive, well, fully functioning. Yeah, yeah, they're
still still doing work.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean every drummer is in fifteen different bands. Anyway.
Speaker 11: I was just going to say he's also in He's
still in the Black Sabbath Tribute project as well. I
believe I believe they're calling that some relation to Earth.
Oh okay, but it's I think it's just like Earth,
the Black Sabbath Tribute. Oh, they'll be they'll be playing
upstairs all night between bands at Blizzard Bash that the
Black Tribute Act. Oh so Opus will be in the
building all day long.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, And that's awesome because you see the guys
that work the industry like uh, like Sepsis and then
Dead by Wednesday with Opus and then like I love
that dude.
Speaker 2: He was on the show with us yet is.
Speaker 4: A networking Yeah yeah, I mean I love that dude
to death. Big shouts south of Like I t him
up as much as I can and everything I can get,
I try to come see a show, especially if I can,
if I get it. While I'm up here because I'm
only up here. But now that I have my real ID,
you know, I can fly. I got a little star.
Yeah you know what I'm saying, Like, uh, that's a
whole other story. I got into that the whole ransom
the other day. But yeah, now that I'm flying, I
can go get more. But also, like I said, I'm
trying to I'm trying to get bands down here, up here,
down there, and then down here down there up here. Yeah,
that's my goal for starting off, to make a connection,
a strong connection between bands up here and bangs down
there and that.
Speaker 11: That's just another thing that Legion of Solace does is
because we are in different markets personally residentially, we can
introduce you to markets that you might not get to
as readily because you're trying to get it through a
digital realm. Whereas, if you want a Southeast market, we
have Southeast residents in our company. We can send that
down and you can send it directly to that market.
So instead of you having to travel one thousand miles
six hundred miles from home and then put foot to ground,
we can be your street team. You send us the material,
you send us the flyers, you never know. There may
be a band that we work with that's putting together
a five band show. They have four and they're looking
to pick somebody up on their way through. You have
a gig in South Carolina, you have a gig in Tennessee,
it would make sense to pick up a stop through
in Virginia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I got you and we got you because,
like I said, it's nothing to try to talk to
some of these other venues as well as, if anything,
the great thing about it down there, we don't have
to have a promoter's license.
Speaker 2: I can go.
Speaker 4: I can go rent out the biggest ruins in club
that we have down there and put on a show. Yeah,
charged it. I mean, as long as you're not selling alcohol. Yeah,
I don't need a promoter's license. Yeah I can go.
I can literally go. Use finding someplace with an awesome stage,
get somebody to run PA and boom right there and
at least have I know there's one down in the
holds capacity of three hundred people with the stage so
pretty much boom as well as if not, I have
the whole outside that I can just set up outside
of stage and do it. There's plenty of places, or
just find somebody with enough land that will take a
cut of some money there, which that's what we used
to do back in the day. I mean like when
when when that band was playing, and because I said,
I followed Hateful Bones before I even joined them. So
I was one of the kids that was I was
out there at thirteen years old at these backyard parties,
you know what I'm saying, partying with these guys, not drinking,
but just partying, joining the music. And it's like, that's
what made me fall more in love with the local
and get to this kick, because if I would have
never seen that or experience that by the band that
I was with, to see the struggle and then actually
join in the band and then then eventually joined the band,
and that was following, yeah, and then see the struggles
of all right, well now we got to make a
band account, we got to do band merch, we got
to do CDs, which great things about that day. And
as long as you had a tower and you had
your music, you could burn see these all dayne yep,
all day all day like and then so that way
we were it was great. And then you had these
little self labeling systems. I remember, Yeah, that's what That's
what I see him doing. Like, we haven't had this
point where we were selling airbrush shirts, you know what
I'm saying. Like I had an old school shirt that
from Hay for Brothers, and I mean a couple of
years you know that it was air brushed, you know
what I'm saying, that's what they sold. They were everywhere
you could do it to where you can get your
merch off, whether it's having a custom painter, having a shirt,
a team do it for you or whatever. Yeah, that's
what we're here for. Help whatever style you want, We're
going to try to help you to get there.
Speaker 11: So when the White Stripes first started, their first merch
was just a white T shirt with white stripes with sharpie,
wasn't it right? Yeah, they just like scribbled on them
before the show made ten or fifteen, and that that
was their merch.
Speaker 16: That.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's sounds like it's crazy. So like I'm saying,
we've seen it where I've you know, I've didn't even
help sell out all our mercer we just bought the
day before and it's just like we got three more
shows out of this. What are we gonna do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, guys, we are approaching the top of the
hour real quick and then and then we'll let you
go where. So where should people go online? Where's the
best place to go to keep up with everything? Legion
of Solace is doing Facebook for right now okay? And
Instagram okay, instag yeah.
Speaker 4: Right now because eventually, like I said, once we once
Tuesday gets to do back to door her thing. We're,
like I said, we're trying to find a platform to
where we can be us okay and not have to
worry about it restrictions that have to work because I
even me playing some of these bands like that are unsigned.
Yeah I get muted on Facebook.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know what I'm.
Speaker 4: Saying because it sounds like something else or whatever and
it's not even a sign band, and may I have
to wait months and months I think just nine even
two weeks ago, I got a notification saying, oh, we've
unlocked your things, seeing that we've actually you know, researching,
and yeah, it's not a sign band on there. Yeah
you know what I'm saying, Like, so just do that.
That's not like I'm gonna test op TikTok okay.
Speaker 11: Once the Human Element catches up with the algorithm, right.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I've got a bunch of stuff that I've
been done through Facebook. But if I do it right,
if I do do it right and there are enough underground,
I don't be muted. Like there's like maybe one or
two shows that I have going through my quandry Amuntica
that is unmuted as sits right now.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, wow, all right, yeah, that's always that's our
as a challenge. Guys like you so much, Bruce and
Malcolm from Legion of Solar.
Speaker 11: Always a pleasure.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you coming in and can't wait to see
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