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Speaker 2: That is orchids in the sunrise. The band they are
here with us in studio under the horizon. We've got
all three members here. Welcome everybody. We're gonna talk with them.
We're gonna get caught up really looking forward to this.
This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and of course 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. Go to Matt
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Just don't bother with the Facebook link because Facebook has
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of course it is a radio show, so if you're
in the Manchester area you can just stream it or
actually just listen to it, I should say, at ninety
five point three FM on your FM dial. Jenny is
here of course at the news table, and let me
get those mics up because joining us in studio we
have and let me get that camera on them too
for those of you watching the video feed. So there's
Matt Palmer, Jordan's Sweet and is he McIntyre all here
with us a live in studio. Good morning, Good morning, morning. Yes, yes,
so under the horizon. Great to uh great to have here.
The last time Jenny and I saw you, of course,
was at Bad Burger's, right, and uh, yeah, you've come
a long way. You're a lot heavier than it used
to be, which is really nice. I like it. Yeah,
sounding amazing. So we're gonna get caught up, We're gonna
get in everything. But we should uh and Jordan, this
is more you and I talking about this, I suppose,
but we should. Let's get the sad part out of
the way and we won't spend a lot of time
on it. But of course we both we lost a
hero of ours.
Speaker 9: Big, big influence on me, definitely the main reason why
I play guitar. And you know, like obviously there's other
influences that I have, but like you know, Van Halen, Dimebag,
but I think Ace was definitely my biggest reason to
be playing guitar.
Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, you know, I don't know if it
was his sound, the look, the you.
Speaker 9: Know, whole band itself, kiss or his solo acts, but
the guy just had some something for me.
Speaker 7: And I was just like wow, yeah, like this is
where it's at.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, yeah, do you have a favorite Ace Frayley solo.
Speaker 7: Honestly, the solo from was it Love Them and Leave Them?
Speaker 2: I think?
Speaker 7: Is that? Oh yeah, I like that when Yeah, that's
a pretty good solo rock and roll over.
Speaker 9: I feel like a lot of people don't really listen
to that album that much, and you know, don't really
listen to the solos on there, but that's got some
good guitar work on there, honestly. Yeah, So that's definitely
one of my favorite ones.
Speaker 2: My personal favorite has always been Strange Ways, Right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's another good one.
Speaker 2: I love that solo. And now, did you guys play
with Ace? Did you do a show with Ace or
did you know? But you you went? Right?
Speaker 7: We went saw him, We met him that that was
a cool time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I think we had tried at some point, just didn't
really fall through. Yeah, I mean stuff like that happens
all the time. You try to playing gig, doesn't fall through.
Speaker 7: It is what it is, you know.
Speaker 9: But yeah, we did get to meet the guy. Yeah,
definitely a pretty cool time. He did put on a
pretty good show that night too, which you know, it
was a good time to see you know, Yeah, everybody
seem to have a good time there too, So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: No, it's uh yeah, it's and that's one of the
things that you know that Mike knows this, I'm sure
has thought about this. You know, as you get older,
your heroes they start to die off, right yeah, and
you know, and you're experiencing a hero dying you know,
you're you're young, and you're you know, your heroes are
already dying off.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah right, I mean like within this year, I mean,
how many people have we lost?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 9: We lost Auzzye, we lost Ace, we lost was it
Brian Wilson from Beach Boy lost him? We lost DeAngelo? Right, yeah,
it's just everybody's just rolling. I'm like, dude, what happened?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: They had another five years in you. I thought these
people were immortally.
Speaker 5: I know, I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's it's it's hard, but but that's cool though,
that you know, he was such an inspiration to you
and uh and and why picked up the guitar. That's
that's great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm glad that I got to experience him.
Speaker 2: It's wonderful that you got to meet him. Yeah, absolutely,
absolutely good memories. Yes, yes, Well, so we'll talk about
what's been going on with the band. Uh, dying to
hear from all three of you on this and uh,
you know, it looks like you're doing a lot of
good stuff, making a lot of progress, playing a lot
of shows. You got a busy, busy schedule. Did you
play last night? Somewhere?
Speaker 7: We did?
Speaker 10: We played Halloween Show. It was a creep fest in Cranston,
Rhode Island at pub On Park. It was a great show, yeah,
hosted by Ramboutacon and Voltage Entertainment and we got to
play with obviously our extended family and Scarecrow Hill.
Speaker 5: Ye.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we've heard great friends with them, but we also
got to meet a lot of new friends there among Ghosts, Forever's,
Falling Grace, Providence, all great guys, all great bands. It
was an amazing, amazing night, amazing show. Yeah, and it
was fun. It was fun to actually do something on
Halloween night rather than just like sit at home watch
you know, the Evil Dead for the ninetieth time in
the row or whatever.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 7: But yeah, we've been we've been busy.
Speaker 10: We've been you know, working on the upcoming Albu a
lot of that and editing and mixing right now, so we're.
Speaker 7: Looking music videos, yeah, yeah, music.
Speaker 10: We've been doing music videos for the second album and
you know, just keep working.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. I'm really curious to know about the evolution
of the sound because you're I mean, you know, the
song for people hearing you for the first time, of course,
the song we displayed, you know, it's dark and heavy
and whatnot, right, but seeing you live because Jenny and
I the first time we saw it was when you
were opening for Great White, right, you.
Speaker 7: Know, and way in the earlier stage.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then when we saw you at Bad Burger,
you know, it was it was louder, it was heavier.
Oh and before that too, well, when we saw you
at Jewel Oh yeah, yeah, because because I remember that
night saying, I was like, wow, they've they've definitely gotten heavier.
Speaker 7: Things have changed.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I think with like all the shows that
we've been playing, and also a lot of the new
bands that we meet, like, it's definitely influenced our perspective
and our performance. And I'd also say, for at least
for me, like a big change in a monumental like
I guess point in my career was Milwaukee Metalfest, Like
seeing all the bands there, it definitely changed something in me,
and I don't think it's been the same sense seeing
the energy.
Speaker 10: That those bands brought, you know, like whether it was
you know, like the big bands like you know, Guar
and Arch Enemy, you know, or Down or Chimera obviously,
but you know, even some of the smaller bands that
we checked out. Like I remember there was one band
in particular that we checked on the second stage, a Fugitive. Yeah,
there were this thrash band that like we didn't know
anything about, but we went in there and like next thing,
you know, we look around and we see like bodies
flying all over the place and we're like, all right, yeah,
this is you know, this is a little more like
what we're into here. And it was just like that
whole experience. You know, not only was it great and
was great to you know, have the opportunity and to
play in, you know, an event like that, but you know,
to look around and see all these bands and grab
little bits of you know, influence from everyone. I'd say
that overall, that's really what we do. You know, we
try to pick up influences of things, you know, because
we as much as we're in our you know, in
our own band, to we're our own you know, style
or whatever. We are still fans and when we go
to shows, you know, it's like we're going to see
our favorite bands and all that. So we uh, you know,
take little bits and pieces and we're like, all right, like,
you know that's cool. What if we try to take
it and twist it in our own way? And I
think with the whole you know, getting heavier thing, I
think we all kind of liked when we did stuff
that was a little more heavy and it was a
little more outside of our comfort zone. Yeah, coming out
of the first album. Yeah, and we just fell in
love with it. Yeah, like this is this is where
we're having I.
Speaker 11: Also think it's just us getting more comfortable on stage,
Like we're more comfortable in performing and just I guess
being different in front of other people.
Speaker 7: Yeah, being more true to ourselves right right.
Speaker 9: Our stage show definitely evolved a lot more after you know,
we got heavier. I mean dud Like as much as
I remember the the you know, original days and you know,
the first couple of months of us being a band,
and I enjoy looking back. I I so much more
appreciate and take pride in the stage show that we've
developed now because of our heavier sound and all of
our you know, more mature evolutions that we've done with
the music and you know, the bands that we've met.
I mean, you know, a lot of our stage show
in a sense has taken part from other bands, and
we'd taken you know, influences from other bands.
Speaker 7: But at the end of the day, I really feel.
Speaker 9: Like our evolution has just been from us just being heavier,
you know, like you can't exactly be you know, jumping
around and whipping your hair around when you're playing some
like softer rock. Right, it's not as good as the time.
I mean, it's still a good time, but it doesn't
hit us hard, you know.
Speaker 2: For us, of course, if you are just showing us
we've got all three members of Under the Horizon or
here with us in studio, it sounds like like, did
you ever have a conversation about sounding heavier? Because it
sounds like it just sort of happened organically, like you
never really that's my impression I would say it, Yeah.
Speaker 7: It just happened. I think it really was just like
every couple of practices.
Speaker 9: Somebody would do something like, you know, Maddie would throwing
like a little scream or is he would you know,
throwing a scream or throwing a pinch harmonic or whatever.
And we were just like, oh, we can do this,
Like we don't have to play like kiss like we
can we can be Pantera. And I think that's kind
of where it all evolved. We were like, oh, so
we can do this, so why don't we try to
do it right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, exactly, yeah, exactly. The songs that that are
going to be on the new isn't Is it going
to be in another Epeter is going to be an
album or what full album album?
Speaker 5: This time?
Speaker 10: We with the first the first release, it was kind
of I like to say it was an unintentional EP Yeah,
we didn't.
Speaker 7: We honestly all.
Speaker 10: I think we're very surprised when we like edited it
down and we were like, oh my god, it's only
thirty minutes. Yeah, Like we were like, oh no, but
you know, even though obviously we still love it, but yeah,
this one is a full, full fledged album. Okay, I
think around like ten twelve tracks, ything like that. Okay,
thirteen tracks.
Speaker 2: Thirteen yeah, excellent, excellent. Now, the in terms of how
you approach recording, has that changed at all with the
heavier sound or is it kind of the same erth It's.
Speaker 11: About the same, but I think we put in a
lot more time and also at a lot like extra tracks,
I'd say, really yeah, yeah, a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I think the approach and like how we executed the
recording is very much like still kind of the same,
but we you know, this time we sat down and
were like all right, like we want you know, this
is going to be like a statement. We wanted it
to be, you know, statement of this is us, this
is who we are. And you know, like as he said,
try and stuff, you know, more stuff in the studio
now that we're you know, more comfortable and we're you know,
hearing different sounds. Like there were so many times where
we would just be doing like someone would play something
completely random, like Jordan would just do something that was
like it it wasn't even meant for this song or whatever,
and he was just like practicing and I'm like, wait, wait, wait,
what are you doing there?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Record?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think, I mean, I think the
second album is definitely a lot more mature, and it
has all the same you know, recording styles, and obviously
there's a couple of tonal changes in there. But I
think it really differs from the first album, because I
mean the first album was like an experiment. We were
just like, well, we have original songs and we could
make an album or EP, I guess, and we were
just like, well, let's send it and see what we
can do.
Speaker 7: But now we're like, we're.
Speaker 9: Going to make this like a platinum sounding record and
people are going to listen to it, you know, Yeah,
we're gonna get it done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly exactly. Do you as as you're recording this,
do you ever think about, well, let me put it
this way, is it ever? Are you ever concerned with
can we replicate this live? Like if we're if we
record it this way, what we're going for?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Can?
Speaker 11: I would say that, like we already play a lot
of this stuff live, Like I feel like the live
stuff came before how we were going.
Speaker 13: To play it on the record.
Speaker 2: That's good. Yeah, that makes it easier.
Speaker 11: Yeah, especially at least for me vocally, Like I've changed
a lot in the last couple of months, and so
some of the stuff that I've actually had to even
go back to re record vocals because I'm like that's
not heavy enough, it's not there. So yeah, i'd say
the live performance, like how we perform it there has
definitely come before the actual recording style.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because whereas it's only three of you, by
the way, So I mean I assume the long term
plan is to keep it the three of you. I mean,
if you you've never discussed like adding a fourth member,
not maybe the.
Speaker 7: Beginning or something.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think we we thought about adding a fourth
member before we even had original music really, and I
think that was the first and last time we ever
considered it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because it's just like you know, it's it's just
the dynamics.
Speaker 2: It's so good the way it is.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it's hard to not only is it hard
to adapt to having a fourth member, because now you're like,
we got to figure out, you know, is he.
Speaker 7: Can they play on time?
Speaker 9: Can they adapt to our style that we have in
our sound, But you're also risking the dynamics of the
band falling apart. Now now it's well, we're not a
three person boat. Now we have four people, and we
now risk having two camps if somebody disagrees, and now
it's a two on two or it's a three on one,
And it's like there's just too many, too many potential
problems for us.
Speaker 10: Sorry about you, And I think you know we're all
you know, as I'm sure that you know any other
musician who's listening to this, or you know, even the
other musicians in this room here, can you know relate that.
You know, we've all been in bands that it's like
you have like the ideal amount of people, you know
what I mean, Like, oh, well, great, we have you know,
two guitar players and a you know, dedicated lead singer
who you know, and a dedicated bass player and one ever.
But in all of those bands where like there's way
too many cooks in this kitchen. And this band was
really about the three of us, you know, coming from
our separate projects and being like, hey, we work really
well together, and we're really tight, and we are we
really understand our language, like we're writing stuff half the time.
You know, we won't even have to like talk about
much of like okay, well what do we do next
for this next section? It's just organic. We all are
just kind of like interlinked with each other. Yeah, and
I think it, you know, really works out. We just
haven't wanted to, you know, mess that up in any way.
Speaker 2: I think that's smart. Yeah, And and the three of
you are able to get such a big sound with
only three of you, so you don't need a fourth
person anyway.
Speaker 7: It's it's.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's interesting because I mean we I've heard that
where people are like, oh, you guys are very full
for a three piece yeah, which yeah, I.
Speaker 7: Mean is partially why.
Speaker 9: I mean there's always the stereotype you need a lead
and a rhythm guitar player, you need all the people
to make the big sound. But I think it really
just depends on how you play your instrument, you know,
like like you know, I can have a full sound
in a solo by just throwing octaves in there is
he can have a full sound by just growling and
you know, layering tracks in the studio or even just
doing it live.
Speaker 7: Maddie bangs his drums like an ape.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like you know, you know, it's like it really
just goes to show like if you can play your
instrument in a certain way, you can make a full
sound out of minimal amount of people.
Speaker 2: That's a good way of putting it. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
And you can hear, like you can clearly hear everything,
like if you because if you're playing a solo and
you don't have an extra guitarist playing rhythm, you can
you can hear what is he's doing on bass. You
can hear all the drums right, all the you know,
the double kick and everything. You can clearly hear it right,
you know what man's playing. So I think, no, I
think that's smart. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah,
do get that a lot? Like are people surprised? Do
they tell you that?
Speaker 13: Almost?
Speaker 11: I think everything, I feel like there's always somebody who's like, yeah,
you guys sound like huge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 9: We get a lot of surprise because I mean, we're
all young and we're playing and lately we've been playing
with people who are, you know, honestly veterans in the
in the music industry, and like they've been here for
decades years, you know, like and people are like, oh,
young individuals with a room full of forty year olds,
how is this gonna go? And when we go on stage,
just you know, we blow them away, and you know,
they they honestly they come up to us and they're like,
I wasn't expecting that, but.
Speaker 7: I'm glad that I was here. You know, Yeah, yeah,
it's definitely.
Speaker 9: I'm grateful that we can actually put that out and
you know, we put on a good show and people
are excited to see us. People are even getting any
surprise because I mean, they can see us. But if
they're not surprised by us, are we really doing our
job right?
Speaker 5: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I won't say who it is on the air, but
Jenny and I had had a conversation actually it was
after you on the show, the first time we had
a conversation with somebody who we wanted to to connect
you with. Who reacted? Do you do you remember this? Jenny?
I won't say what it is, but who reacted like,
oh they're kids, I don't know you know who I'm
talking about, and funny enough, so you did end up
working with them. And again I won't say on the
air who it was, but you know, but I don't
know if they would even mind, but it's somebody you
did end up working with. So it all worked out
and I think they were very happy that they they
worked with you on a show. I'll tell you off
air afterward who it was. But but but yeah, but
now are you all like, like, are any of you
still in school at this point? What is a you're
in college now right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and then what about you guys you're both
out of high school now right?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we both were both graduating.
Speaker 2: That's what I thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so you're not
you know, it's not like your kids.
Speaker 7: Anymore, right, I mean where it's grown as much as
we can.
Speaker 2: There you go out, there, you go, there, you go.
Now how now, what's the show schedule been?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: It looks like you've been really busy, Like are you
playing every weekend or.
Speaker 11: I mean, if we're not not doing a show, we're
definitely doing like music videos or yeah, editing or something.
Speaker 13: There's no there's no break.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh you're working hard. You're working hard. Is that
hard with going to school?
Speaker 14: Is that it?
Speaker 5: Only?
Speaker 13: It can be a handful because uh I also work
on top of it all.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Basically it's like a six am to ten thirty at
night thing, and then the weekends are my I guess
show times.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, no, it's a lot. It's a lot to handle.
But and and are all of you you're all only
in this band, right, are any of you doing no? No, yeah,
anything this band?
Speaker 10: Yeah, we're all in this band, and all our creative
energy goes towards.
Speaker 2: That's great this band. That's great. Yeah, especially for you
because every drummer I know is in ten different bands
because nobody can find a drummer.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, it is a I feel like that is
the thing with us, is that we all kind of
end up becoming like, you know, musical swingers in a way.
We we're all just kind of all over the place.
But I mean I think that you know, now, you know,
after I spent you know, years moving around with different
projects and all that, Like, I couldn't be happier, you know,
than to be with where we are now, I think
that this is the band that I always you know,
wanted to do and be in.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's outstanding if you're just joining us.
Under the horizon is here with us in studio. And
now who are some of the who are some of
the acts that you've that you've played with, because you
you've played with some national acts, right, yeah.
Speaker 10: So we we played with Great White and Queen's Reich
last year, oh yeah, and then we met up and
then we opened up again for Great White at the
two Polow not too long ago, about a month ago.
But other than that, we've been you know, playing with
a lot of of the you know, higher up local
acts obviously, as we have already mentioned a couple of times,
and the whole thing Scarecrow Hill, we've done a lot
of shows with them. Yeah, we've done some shows with Sepsis.
We have some more upcoming shows with Stepsis. Actually, ye be.
Speaker 2: There right down the road, coming right out. Yeah that's true.
It's already November, so it's only a couple of weeks away.
Speaker 9: Oh my god, Yeah, it's coming around the corner. Yeah,
really look out.
Speaker 10: But yeah, a bunch of bands, a bunch of you know,
a bunch of people, dead Man's Trigger, Silent Season, oh yeah, yeah,
the Great Curtain, Yeah, Saving by the Right, Yeah yeah,
a lot of a lot of and you know that
we've you know, really been trying to reach out to
every band we can because we want to be in
in the scene with these people, so meeting them, talking
to them and you know, sharing you know, musical conversations, notes, experiences, whatever.
Speaker 7: You want to say.
Speaker 10: I think has you know, catapulted us not only as
a band, but as people. You know, I'd say we
have a lot more confidence now walking into a venue,
you know, when it's like, oh, we know all the
bands on this bill, Yeah, and we're you know there,
we're friends with them and yeah that always helps. Yeah,
it's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it helps a lot. Yeah, absolutely. Why don't we
play another another track? But what should you know? I'll
let you pick. This is you know, of course from
the original EP. And I can't wait to hear the
new stuff. But what should we play from? I got
it opened?
Speaker 7: So that's a great question.
Speaker 10: Why don't we do Why don't we do a little
bit if I don't want to be you, let's wake
these people up this morning.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be Yeah, and tell us about
this song before we play it.
Speaker 10: This song it's about when I was in fifth grade,
they had this class or whatever where you would go
in and you would talk to a guidance counselor about
what you wanted to be, and she would go onto
this government website and type in and they would give
you like some hourly like.
Speaker 7: Estimated hourly wage or salary that you would get.
Speaker 10: So I was like, I want to be a musician,
and she's like, well, it doesn't really pay that well,
and blah blah blah. You should be a marine biologist
or whatever instead and I'm like, no, thanks, Yeah, So
this song is about you know, she told me that
I was never gonna make it when it came to music,
and you know, I think she even said that I
would end up being homeless and collecting.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, tips from bars that I would play at.
And I'm like, Katie, you're a school teacher, like I don't.
I don't really know what the comparison is here. So anyways,
this song is about my aggravation towards her.
Speaker 2: Did the website listen hourly wage for being a musician.
Speaker 10: He was like, you know, you can make anywhere from
like five bucks an hour to like twenty bucks an hour.
And I literally said, I'm like, but we don't make
hourly wages, right yeah, alf the time, we don't even
get paid, So how can you even make that equation?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Oh that's funny, that's funny. All right, very good. This
is a great track. This is I Don't want to
be you.
Speaker 7: This is under the horizon wadd.
Speaker 8: Bosta Tuesday as the misery of where you don't care
about my dreams?
Speaker 4: Now at least take tarantings. You may not understand, which
I can understand. I'd rather live my life.
Speaker 7: You ain't want y'all I do far.
Speaker 5: I don't wanna pay you. I don't wanna f you.
Speaker 3: Don't take that's that I don't need you wanna live
like I'll repeat, I'm as well spin in my eye.
Speaker 12: If you watch my dreams, you may not understand, which
I may understand.
Speaker 1: I'd rather live my life.
Speaker 4: They work, don't if.
Speaker 1: I don't wanna pay you.
Speaker 5: I don't wanna fee you.
Speaker 2: Okay, you wanna be in a fand just grow up
and pace it.
Speaker 7: You'll member about to ask me your life.
Speaker 5: You're a joke.
Speaker 12: I don't want to be you.
Speaker 13: I don't want to be you.
Speaker 5: I don't want to be out you want to be you.
Speaker 12: I want to be you may not understand what got
good understand. I'm rather into my life then what you're
not your father? You may not understand you got good understand.
Speaker 1: I rather under my life.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm not your father.
Speaker 1: I don't want to beat.
Speaker 7: I don't want to be you.
Speaker 5: Don't don't don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to pay you, don't don't don't.
Speaker 7: I don't want to be your.
Speaker 2: That that ought to get the blood pumping, I don't
want to be you by Under the Horizon. Love that
track that is so catchy and I love the I
love the backstory there, Matt, that's really good.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 2: If you are just joining us, Under the Horizon is
here with us in studio. We have Matt Palmer, Jordan's
Sweet and Izzie McIntyre here with us on this uh
Saturday and uh sounding sounding great. Can't wait to hear
the new stuff and and we might we might even
hear something from the won't won't say anything official, but
we might hear something on the show in the coming
weeks sneak a little sneak peak to the album. Yeah,
so if you are, if you are a regular listener
of the show, you want to make sure you tune
in every week because you might hear something new very
soon from from Under the Horizon. Well, which does raise
a question, do you have kind of a long term
do you have any kind of an e t A
on when, uh when when the new when the new
one might be coming outer.
Speaker 10: We're looking about four months out now, Okay, so early
early twenty twenty six. Okay, we're gonna you know, we're
thinking probably around like springtime. Or so so ideally you know,
before you know, the big show season, so then we
can you know, release the album and then you know,
we'll have a whole schedule of shows for you know,
people to you know, come out.
Speaker 7: Check it out.
Speaker 10: And yeah, yeah, so about four months, so sooner. It's
it's sooner than you think, you know. Okay, we've been
we've been saying that because this has this album has
taken a long time, but we're making it through soon.
Speaker 7: We're looking at about four months.
Speaker 2: So okay, okay, excellent. Do you have other elements like
like artwork and stuff. Have you decided on that yet
or a you're waiting until the album's done or we we've.
Speaker 10: I can't say that we've a fished really decided on anything,
but it has all been in conversation.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 10: Obviously that's all stuff we got to coordinate. But i'd
say that, you know, we've had conversations on all of that,
and I think we all basically have the same vision
of what we want. It's just you know, get you know,
having the time, you know, once we're done doing all
the other stuff, to be like, okay, this is what
we're gonna do. Go let's send it, you know, send
it to all the companies and all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's a yeah, there's a lot of a
lot of work that goes into it.
Speaker 7: For sure.
Speaker 2: I'm curious too about what what goes into the decision to, like,
because you're doing a full album because there's so many
different ways to release music now, and you know, you
could do you can you can do an album, you
can do an EP, obviously, you can do you know,
a lot of artists now just do a series of singles,
you know, they kind of do the inverse where and
maybe those singles coalesce into an album eventually, which is
completely different than the way I was like when I
was growing up. You know, it was you know, for
a single goes to radio six eight weeks before the album,
then the album comes out. Then if everything goes well,
you get a second single, maybe a third single. But
now it's like there's so many different ways to do
it now.
Speaker 11: It's kind of I think the plan with this album
we've we've I guess heard from a lot of other
bands that leasing like song at a time usually works
better because unfortunately, in this day and age, people's attention
spans are a lot lower so to keep people's like
I guess, attention. You know, yeah, sometimes it's easier to
you know, give them something to chew on and then
come back like a week or two later and get
something else.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So when you do, is it important to you
as a band to have like, uh yeah, I don't know,
like is there any kind of a theme to these
or something that kind of binds the songs together that
are going.
Speaker 7: To be on the new album or absolutely. I mean
I'd say that.
Speaker 10: When we when we went into writing this record, we
had kind of a vision where like, Okay, we want
to you know, still be ourselves, but we want to
be heavier. We want to be darker, more gothic, and
we wanted to you know, implement more elements of you know,
some of the other stuff that we'd been listening to.
You know, like Izzy has put some of her classical
influences in on this album and gothic influences, and I
know from me and Jordan, there's some you know, influences
from bands like Tool and you know heavier bands Pantera, Yeah,
stuff like that, and even you know, some new metal
stuff like you know, slip Nod and you know, Limp
and just whatever you know tickles our brain.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: And then but I'd say overall, where like we wanted
to be heavier, more encompassing, darker.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. And how is the live show, because you
touched on it earlier, the live show, how is that?
How has that changed? You mentioned that's also kind of
changed as the music is has gotten heavier, Like are
there are there specific elements that have changed or is
it just how you all kind of perform individually on
stage or I.
Speaker 13: Think our energies really have changed.
Speaker 11: I think we've put a lot more energy into our performance,
and I mean there's some added I guess stage gimmicks
as well, And I would.
Speaker 13: Just say more.
Speaker 11: I guess maybe for Jordan, like the movement that he
moves a lot more. I feel a lot more exaggerated.
We get off stage two for anyone who hasn't seen us,
and we try to interact the crowd. But I say,
just overall, our energy is a lot higher than I think.
Speaker 5: It used to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Because I mean I remember watching like the Great
White Video, you know, when we first played the show
that you guys get to and like it's just drag
drag drag. I'm just watching I'm barely moving. We're all
like we're young, so I mean, dude, like, you know,
obviously you got to cut a little slack as we
were young. Yeah, you know, first little bit in the
music industry. But like, yeah, now it's just like we
actually function like a real theatrical I guess band.
Speaker 7: How things are.
Speaker 9: The music's good, theatrics are good, and we've all just
grown to have our own like you know, building the band,
but also us individually all have our little gimmicks and
you know, our personalization to ourselves that way.
Speaker 7: It's not just like you're a group of kids.
Speaker 9: It's just you all are three musicians with three separate talents,
and you make one big unit. Right, So it's definitely
cool to see that, you know, turn out in the live.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I just realized as you were talking about
that too. That was a great white show. That was
was that? That wasn't your first show, was it?
Speaker 5: Or was it.
Speaker 2: Second? What was the first one?
Speaker 11: It was Rochester Arts Center probably, and it was mostly
just honestly for like friends and family.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was very interesting going from like fifteen people
on our first gag and then it was like five
hundred the next day and you're like, oh, well, this is.
Speaker 7: Where we're at now, Like yeah, see, that didn't even
occur to me until now.
Speaker 2: That must have been wild too.
Speaker 7: It was I remember having insane.
Speaker 9: There were a lot of nerves backstage right before we
went on stage, and I can imagine yeah, yeah, and
Mike had to give us the little coaches speech and
be like, this could be your life for the rest
of your lives, and this could be the breaking point.
Speaker 7: You guys got to lock in, and I'm like, okay,
let's lock in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I need. It was great. It was excellent,
you know. It's and also too, you know, so to
be in front of a crowd that size so quickly,
and also, I mean, you guys don't sound like great White,
so there's always right. I mean, I don't know if
you were nervous about that at all, but I mean
I think I think broadly speaking, people who are fans
of rock music are fans of rock music and like
a lot of different genres and so yeah, but so
it's easy to overthink it. But still it must have been.
I mean, it had to be in the back of
your minds, like this is this crowd gonna like.
Speaker 7: Us it is.
Speaker 11: It definitely is almost I think with any show that
we play, regardless of where it is, we always think, like, one,
do we really work well genre wise with other bands.
Speaker 13: And people gonna like it? Because you know, when you
go from like lighter rock to the metal, it's kind
of like jarring.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 9: And you know, we've we've had bands that, unfortunately, we
just find it hard to you know, really do gigs
with them because it's like, not only do we have
to pertain to the crowd, but the bands also have
to pertain to us, and we also have to have
compatibility with those bands musically yea. And that evolution has
kind of put a little bit of a stick in
the road where it's like, how many gigs can we
really do for the more older hard rock you know
listening people, and you know, but all in the same time,
can we really do that many metal shows because we're
not like metalcore or like anything, you know, very crazy
crazy like that. Right, So we kind of fall into
this again, like we had this before, this little middle
ground where we're not exactly metal, but we're not exactly
hard rocks.
Speaker 7: So now we're trying to even it out a little bit.
But yeah, we make it work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what we do absolutely.
Speaker 10: I mean i'd say that, you know, I think, you know,
we we sit, you know, we think about that, but
i'd say that overall, I think we always end up
coming to the same conclusion of we got to be ourselves,
and we always go out there and we you know,
show fully ourselves one hundred and ten percent, and we figure,
you know, if the people like it, they like it,
and if they don't, whatever, they can walk out and
go smoke a tube out in the parking lot or
something like that. But yeah, I mean we've never really
had much of an issue with that. We've played in
front of a bunch of different crowds, you know, whether
it be Great White or Juggalos at the Lethal weekend there,
and it always, it always ends up great, and we
always end up you know, meeting new fans, meeting new friends,
and you know, having you know, honestly meeting fans that
we might not have met if we were to you know,
exclusively do shows with like a band that we were
exactly like, right, you know, so that we really love doing,
you know, as much as you know, sure we might
in the moment be like, oh my God, are they gonna,
you know, like this, are they going to like that?
At the end of the day, we like being ourselves
to show people to you know, hopefully widen the you know,
bring more people in. Music is about you know, speaking
where words can't and including everyone and you know, all
working together to bring some wonderful art out into the world.
So we love, we love doing stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well said, Well, the time goes quickly. So
thank you all three of you for are joining us today.
Always wonderful to have you on. I do want to
close out the show with one more song of yours.
I'm going to give you a minute. You can take
a minute to think about it though, because while you're
thinking about that, Jenny, for listeners who don't know, you
showed nothing, you showed up. What did I show up
in John Oliver's show. I did last week tonight, last weekend.
Speaker 15: So I did with some other people that I have
had the honor and privilege of fighting alongside of for
the last number of years.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it was really exciting to be on John Oliver's show.
If you haven't seen it, it's streaming on YouTube and
you can also find it on Jencoffee dot com.
Speaker 2: Yes, E N N C O F f UI dot com.
Speaker 7: Keep up with all the good trouble I'm getting into.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so congratulations on that. Thank you, absolutely absolutely, and
I do want to thank everyone who joined us today.
Of course Eric Pilcher and Charles Richardson who were with
us in the second hour. Uh and in the first hour,
of course we had Eleanor and Andre don't forget tonight
Terminus Underground. They've got vices inc. Grim the acronym and
Island of Alaska. That's gonna be a great show. And Jenny,
you and I are going to be there next Saturday
on the eighth, on November eighth, We're gonna be a
Terminus Underground that night for that show. But we'll talk
about that next week. We will, we will. Yeah, So
lots of lots of good stuff going on.
Speaker 15: Thank you for remembering that I'm here.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, yes, I know. Where's the best place
to go online for people to keep up with everything
under the horizon is doing.
Speaker 9: Anywhere dot Org, Facebook, Instagram, literally any social media if
you if you exist on the platform, we exist on
your for you page outstanding. Yeah, you basically just load
up any social media if you use websites under the
Horizon dot org.
Speaker 7: We got all our gigs merch.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 9: Our first album is on there for free listen and
you can go on the Spotify from there. Yeah, listen
to it from there. We got our little news part,
you know, keep us updated as well. We have a
couple of live shows coming up.
Speaker 2: We do when's the next show? Or mentioned the next
couple if you want to, so the we.
Speaker 7: Only got a couple. We got a couple of shows
left for the year. Here.
Speaker 10: The next show we got is next Friday. We're going
to be up at Rumors in Biddeford, Maine, which is
a new venue that we've never played at. Cool, but
we're doing that with our friends Scarecrow Hill Defined Perspective
and Paradise is canceled. The next Friday, on the fourteenth,
we're going to be at the Cannery and Southbridge, mass
with three Degrees. They're an amazing manor James keenan tribute band.
Oh cool, so they do you know tool perfect Circle
plus a furth.
Speaker 7: They're great.
Speaker 10: Yea, As we said, the fifteenth, we're going to be
right here in Manchester City at the Jewel Nightclub, yes,
that's going to be an amazing show there and then sixteenth,
it's not really a show, but we're going to be
going to New England Music Awards because we got nominated
for Metal Act Year.
Speaker 2: Congratulations, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 7: And then for the last show of the year.
Speaker 10: If anyone who's listening is looking for a concert that's
maybe a little bit different than the normal experience, uh,
you can come see us December thirteenth and fall River.
We're going to be doing a show with midget wrestling.
Is this is this with loud entertainment, This is with
loud what you said and louds and loud entertained excellent. Yeah,
so we do songs you see midget wrestling, metal and
midget wrestling.
Speaker 7: It's a great night. It's great. It's so much fun,
so much fun.
Speaker 10: So check out those who come see us live. We
can't wait to see you guys in the pit. Outstanding, outstanding.
And what are we going to play to end the show?
Speaker 2: What do you want to go with?
Speaker 13: Under the Horizon?
Speaker 2: Under the Horizon track? Very good, very good, We get
that ready and yeah, thank you all, Thank you all
again so much having goes here, just waiting for the
track to load up. I'm trying downloading it from uh
Google drive and it's running a little slow, which is
not because of any particular reason other than it does
that once in a while. But here it comes okay,
there it is under the horizon, under the horizon, by
under the horizon. To close out this week's Matt Connorton Unleashed,
Thanks everybody, come.
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