Speaker 1: World premiere.
Speaker 2: Here we Joe has a story uncle out of count
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and the best expody shows. He thinks that he's the
bomber everything that that he wants to be in his arm.
Speaker 3: Just take a little cat his mask.
Speaker 2: And you don't realize that's full loves Press Tompson. But
he thinks he's said everybody's friend.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, he's so tool.
Speaker 2: But we all know that he's took a fool.
Speaker 5: A top ten issue.
Speaker 3: He's got praise like ring.
Speaker 2: I turned them seas from a time winning A man
of surprising will break every one's time reader's dead rise
like glass is he gons match.
Speaker 6: You want to turn around and shout it up.
Speaker 2: In Franchise's he's the work the boys back. The man's
really upsurd these teams of the past. A high school
captain still smoking.
Speaker 5: Team pass.
Speaker 3: Was here johns Sam.
Speaker 2: He thinks he's saying three bodies.
Speaker 5: Then, oh boy, he's so cool.
Speaker 3: Well we all know that he's just up fool. The
jack is sick you.
Speaker 6: He's got praise like no.
Speaker 3: Turn dol Sea.
Speaker 5: Food Watch one.
Speaker 7: And we know the truck.
Speaker 3: When it's caused wone.
Speaker 1: There he goes poof.
Speaker 5: When he comes out.
Speaker 2: What he thinks he's a Fred Body's friend.
Speaker 6: Oh boy, he's so cool.
Speaker 2: Well we all know that he sut up.
Speaker 7: He's got pretty fi.
Speaker 5: A dirt bec like your sid.
Speaker 8: Oh that is so good. That is Braggadocio. And the
band is Troll. And we've got Troll here with us,
live in studio, and so happy to have you with us.
That is the world radio premiere of that track, by
the way, that has not been heard on the radio
prior to today. So we do love the world radio premieres.
And we've got the members of trall all four guys
are here with us live in studio. Welcome, gentlemen, let's
do this. Let's uh start with you, sir. We'll go
around the room and tell us who you are and
what you do in the band.
Speaker 1: I am Sean. I am the singer of Well. I
make mouth noises. Let me get that right. I make
mouth noises for Troll.
Speaker 8: All right, welcome shot.
Speaker 6: I'm Adam. I hit things.
Speaker 8: Adam, you hit things?
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 1: I played guitar justin you play guitar.
Speaker 9: Very good, seth, I play the big guitar or also
known as the Bass the bass.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, well welcome. By the way, I did enjoy
we were talking off here. I really like that that
bass solo there and braggadocio. That's really good.
Speaker 9: Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: That every band has to have a bass solo song.
Speaker 8: Well actually a lot of bands would disagree with that,
but I'm all for it.
Speaker 9: I can sneak one in there. I'm always psyched.
Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely man. And by the way, so I appreciate
you guys traveling too. You know, we have a lot
of artists on the show from various parts. We just
talked to awaiting Abigail from Texas of course, and they
skyped in or what we're using in place of Skype
now because Skype has apparently gone away. But usually, you know,
when people are joining us live in studio, they're usually
you know, maybe within within an hour max. But you
guys drove all the way down from Portland on a
rainy Saturday morning. So I really appreciate that you're here. Yeah,
absolutely pleasure. And of course our friend Nathan Hill, he's
in the chat room. He was he drove a long
way too to get here. He was on the show recently,
and so I think he's the one who actually connected
us with you guys, who connected Jenny. Yes, but we've
been aware of you for a long time. I certainly have.
In fact, Jay Bellow from Chasing the Devil he had
said something about you guys in the chat room I
think a couple of weeks ago, and he might be
listening hyj and yeah, he said, because I think they
did they play a show with you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we basically them. That was the last summer show, yeah,
non Poaching the Devil's last July.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Oh very cool.
Speaker 1: Great dudes love Chasing the Devil. Would love to get
you know, hooked up at them again because they put
on a hell of a show.
Speaker 8: So oh absolutely, Yeah, they're incredible. And I've known Jay forever,
uh since back in his purge d I days. Yeah,
long time, long time. But yeah, so I've been uh
forgive me, my allergies have been out of control and
then I hope the rain washes away to pollen, but
it doesn't seem to.
Speaker 9: Work that way.
Speaker 8: So if I a couple of times, that's why I'm sorry.
I'm not sick. I'm just uh, it's a it's a
rough spring. But uh but yeah, so I've been aware
of you guys for a while. I've seen you live.
I can't remember where it was. It might have been
a few years ago. Oh yeah, if you played a
few years ago we played. We've played a couple of
places in Manchester. We've played a Jewel right up the street.
That's where I was.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, I remember Jewel.
Speaker 1: And then last time we were down here we played
at the Goat. We played the Blackstone Cherry. It was
a little mini run we did for we had our
CD release, and then we played two shows back to
back with Blackstone Cherry, once in the Goat down here,
and then we went to Wally's in Hampton Beach to
you know out so yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: I remember seeing you guys a Jewel. That's that's the
show I was at, and yeah, we were just very impressed.
But you've been around for a while, right, Pral's been
around for at least five or six years.
Speaker 9: Right, Yeah. We started in about I think June of
twenty eighteen, so it's been next month will be seven
years for trial, So.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, same lineup or has that changed over the years.
Speaker 9: It just changed a little. Sean and I have been
in the entire time. And we've known Adam and Justin
for for a very long time and they've been friends
and fellow musicians, and Adam and I were in a
band together for a long time. But Justin on guitar
came in almost five years ago, and then Adam came
in three years ago. So we've been the same lineup
for three years and I really feel like we've, in
my opinion, kind of hit our stride with the line
I feel like this is the lineup. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 8: In terms of your live shows, does any of the
early material survive? Is that carried forth?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: We play a lot of you know, everything that we've written.
We pretty much play okay, kind of in a rotation
depending on you know, where we are, who we're playing with.
We try to cater to the set, you know, who's there.
You know, if it's heavier, we might tend to push
ourselves a little bit in the heavier direction. But we
play pretty much everything. I think there's two songs that
we just kind of retired based on and we wrote
them and we like them, and then it's like, yeah,
kind of outgrew it. It's just not it doesn't hit
the way it hit when we wrote it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm always curious because I've been in bands where
sometimes if there's a change in members, you know, there's
sometimes there might be somebody in the band who's like, ah,
that's from before, we shouldn't do that, which which I
would always fight against because I was always like, I
was in a band called My Life Crisis, which went
through a lot of different permutations through through the years,
and I was always like, well, I know these songs
are from an old lineup, but still, you know, these
are songs that we made. I mean, we made this music.
It's our music.
Speaker 6: A good song is a good song exactly worth it
than play it exactly.
Speaker 8: And it's heartbreaking to have to retire something just because
you know, like if you've got one guy in the
band who's like, I don't want to play that anymore
because you know that's tied to a previous lineup, and
it's like, oh, come on, man, I've.
Speaker 6: Done that a few times. And it's like if the
guy who left actually wrote the song like that was
his baby, yeah kind of understand it, Yeah.
Speaker 8: I yeah, I can kind of understand although that that
ended up in the band. I was talking about that
I was in that that did become a big point
of contention. It all worked out in the end, but yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and we kind of like let the the people
tell us what they want to hear too, because a
lot of times we'll reach out and say, hey, what
do you want to what do you want to see
this weekend? And and some of our older songs people
want want to see live. So we're you know, we
actually close with car chard On and it's like it
was one of the first songs we ever wrote, and
it's literally been our closer for like our entire of
the band.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really, yeah, yeah, it was the first song we
recorded and put out, and honestly, like when we got
it going, it was just a hey, we got to
have something to show what we're do when like we
are playing shows. But car Chardon was the first one
we recorded, and Seth sold like a bunch of comic
books to help pay for it and stuff like that. Yeah,
Like it was funny because the conversation we had the
songs about a shark from the point of view of
a shark. Yeah, and Seth sold the Batman comic book
that had shark on the cover, and we were.
Speaker 9: Saying about it was like Batman two fifty one. There
it is Batman Fights a Shark. It's the one with
Joker on the cover, with the with the actual playing card,
really and it's an iconic cover and I ended up
parting ways with it to get the money to to
go record that song. Yeah, but I don't regret it.
I don't regret it, and I'll buy it back some days.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, exactly. You can always get it first.
Speaker 1: There we recorded and it's been our closer ever since,
just because we feel like it's just a fun song. Yeah,
it always is a good time and people when we
first played it. I remember the faces. People were like, Okay,
they were getting into all the stuff we'd done and
this song came on and they weren't anticipating what would
happen towards the end of it, and they were like,
what just occurred was not in my purview of what
was going on this entire set. And so it's just
been one of those fun surprises. If you've never seen
us and you come see this and you hear that song,
you're like, what was that?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool. Is it being a band
from Portland?
Speaker 6: Is it? Uh?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 8: This might be a strange question.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 8: Is it hard to stand out there when you're first
starting to build a following, because people say this about Boston, like,
if you're a Boston band, there's so many Boston bands,
it's hard to stand out, and like up here it's
a little easier. But but Portland, for as long as
I can remember, has always had a pretty incredible music
scene too. It seems like there's a lot of really
good bands in Portland. I mean, is that is it competitive?
Like what's the I haven't I used to do a
lot in Portland. I used to promote shows and stuff
when I was more into that part of the business.
But but but I've been kind of disengaged from Portland
as a city for a long time, so I don't
really know, like what the vibe is there now.
Speaker 9: Yeah, i'd say it is it is tough to stand out.
I think it's just about kind of finding your other peers,
your other bands that like you fit well with, and
kind of trying to create critical mass with like two
or three bands that like everyone will come out and
see and the and the audience makes sense, which has
been a rotating cast over the years because a lot
of bands, you know, fall off and break up, and
new bands are always popping up. So we're always trying
to find new bands to play with that that are
exciting to us, that we like their sound. But Portland
in general is is tough because you've got a lot
of tourism and you kind of got this whole upper
end rising up with the you know, luxury condos and whatnot,
and so you've got you've got kind of two Portland's.
You know, you got the the sort of the tourists
and and sort of higher priced end, and then you've
got your your bars and clubs and you know, sort
of the local scene end. And and there's a lot
of clubs that don't cater to rock and metal, and
there's a there's a few that do, and those are
always a movie target. And it's been tough through the
pandemic like that. You know, some of them didn't survive,
and so we're we're always trying to like take the
pulse of like, okay, what's happening now, you know, where
should we be playing now? What places should we be
looking to play if we haven't yet, And so it's
I think it's literally changes probably every six months to
a year. Yeah, so it's yeah, it's hard like and
I don't I don't think it used to move that quickly.
Things seem to stay the same for every couple of years,
but now things moved so quickly.
Speaker 8: But yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I call it the snow globe effect. And I saw it.
I used to. I grew up in mass and played
in bands for Boston. Yeah, it's like every couple of years,
you just kind of shake up the snow globe and
put it back down. And this guy's moved over here,
and this guy's moved over here. This guy retired and left,
and but this dude came out of nowhere and now
he took his spot. Yeah, so it's still the same
core group of people. You've just kind of shaken it
up a little bit.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. Are there bands
that you're you know, because it does happen organically, are
there other bands in Portland that you play a lot
of shows with that you've kind of sort of teamed
up with. Maybe, just like I said, sometimes it just
kind of happens, you know.
Speaker 6: I think it's cyclical, Yeah, kind of rotation, Like he's
six months and you just kind of latch on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's like like Seth was saying, a lot
of bands, unfortunately, they just they retire. They they they're
done playing, and that's kind of crappy. We like, you know,
some of the bands we really like, they just decided
it wasn't in them and theymore they didn't have the drive,
so they kind of just laid it to rest. And
it's like, well that stinks. I really like, we really
liked playing with you guys, and they're like, yeah, well
we got other projects coming out, and it's like, well,
let us know, we'd love to connect with you and
do it again. And yeah, it's it's always a matter
of if those people are coming back into the scene
or if they just they did lay it to rest
and they're just they're moving on. So yeah, it's hard.
It's it is very competitive up there, but a big
thing for us, we just want to have fun. Yeah,
and if you're having fun, you're doing it right.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 1: If you're not having fun, you screwed up somewhere and
you need to fix that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, And we also play in New Hampshire quite
a lot. Yeah, we've actually I'd say we probably play
in New Hampshire half the time.
Speaker 1: Probably you're a little more than half the time.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we've got often enough where we could like apply
for residency and save some money on taxes or something.
Speaker 6: But right, right, next two shows are actually in New Hampshire,
yeah are yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: Yep, yeah, so we should mention those.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, let's see Friday, so less than two weeks away. Friday,
May twenty third, we're at the Stone Church in Newmarket, excellent,
and then our next show after that is Sunday, June
twenty second, we're playing Seacoast Metalfest at the Garage at
the Governor's in in Rochester. I'm sure. So those are
our next two shows, okay, and then we're actually playing
in Manchester way later this year. It's on the books,
it's it's been floated out there, but not like it's
it's public, but they're not pushing it yet.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: It's Friday November seventh at the Shaskiene with with Polka
Dot Cadaver. Oh no, it'll be a cool show. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I don't know Polka Dot Caver, but that's a cool name.
I'm I'm very I'm very intrigued just from the name.
Speaker 9: They're a crazy band. They are from kind of in
Baltimore slash Baltimore slash Maine. They've got members kind of
in both places. Wow, but they're they're Florida or kind
of derived from the members of Dog Fashion Disco, who
were a band for for from.
Speaker 8: Late from Baltimore. I remember them. I saw I saw
them in Boston.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 8: That yeah a long time ago.
Speaker 6: Oh my god.
Speaker 9: All the same guys in both bands. They actually play
songs from both. So yeah, we're excited to do We're
doing a two show run with them in November this year.
Speaker 1: So Jason are just absolutely amazing dudes to work with
and we love, you know, hanging out with them and
being able to do this. And last year we were
gonna play down here, but somebody in the band caught
the plague.
Speaker 10: Oh and we had to.
Speaker 1: Kill off two shows just because still seth I was
sick and yeah, and it happens. And honestly, they were
really nice and said, hey, let's do this again. You know,
we don't care. You guys got sick, you know, And
it was actually didn't you go down and cover? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, band played instead, Oh kick over for.
Speaker 1: One of our spots. But it was. It was really
cool and they were super nice to be like, hey,
let's do it again. We're really excited about playing with
you guys. Yeah, we were like absolutely, because Seth and
I have been listening to the Dog Fashion Slash Polka
Dot for for forever twenty five years now almost thirty years.
What however long they've been a band.
Speaker 9: So talking about bands with longevity from Maine, though, Adam's
band Loki has been around for twenty five years. Wow,
in some former fashion.
Speaker 6: I've only been in it for like eighteen Yeah, oh
is that all? And we were eighteen.
Speaker 9: We were in that band together for seven years.
Speaker 10: Oh.
Speaker 9: So that's where Adam and I know each other from.
So we collectively have a decade of rhythm section jamming.
Speaker 1: So so it's funny that that the band Loki comes
up because before either of these guys were involved, I
was roommates with the drummer for a while and it
was actually the Roady four Loki for a couple of years,
and then like I moved out with my current wife
and you know, stopped doing roady work for them. But
then these guys came in. And it's funny because Justin
and I about the same time that these guys started
with Loki, him and I had a band together like
forever ago, and it was interesting.
Speaker 9: And actually actually Adam and I met justin because Loki
played with one of his former bands probably yeah twenty.
Speaker 6: I think eight eight or something like that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm going to say eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what we're saying.
Speaker 9: I'm feeling it anyway.
Speaker 1: Last week, Yeah, you don't look a day under fifty.
Speaker 6: Bunch of weaps.
Speaker 8: Oh my goodness, wow wow, Okay, So where does the
name come from? Troll? What does that mean?
Speaker 9: So trall is something that I just you know, I
I searched for a long time for I love one
word band names. Yeah, you know, Rush, Tool, Primus, Clutch, Clutch,
bands like that, and it's so hard to find a
one word band name that just hits. It has, you know,
one syllable, and I liked troll. It also means, you know,
like with a trolling net, you're you're you're dragging behind
a boat. It's like, you know, like picking up the
sea life and all that. But but it also means
to search, to troll through something, to search through something. Yeah,
and I thought it was cool because you know, you
can kind of apply the meaning to search to anything,
you know, whether you're looking for you know, just like uh,
you know, friendship or or like, uh, you know, a
good time, or like searching for meaning in something like
you can kind of apply that to just about anything.
So I thought it was a cool name and it suck.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, totally, it's funny. So I didn't know what
trill meant. But then when you expl but I don't know.
Maybe in the back of my mind I did know,
maybe subconsciously, because when when you said it had something
to do.
Speaker 9: With voting, and you know, yeah, like a troller net. Yeah,
for some.
Speaker 8: Reason that like, oh that makes sense. Yeah, no, very cool.
And what about the logo was that you?
Speaker 9: That was me too? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Our stuff, like art wise is Seth. Okay, this is
a mad genius when it comes to the artwork and
setting things up. So like the CD designs. He doesn't
do the cover art. That's somebody. We have a couple
of different people we've used for that. But okay, I
mean any T shirt you see is Seth. The original
logo of the shark with the triangle is Seth. I mean,
Seth is a mad genius when it comes to art
and that's kind of our blessing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I appreciate that and the things that I know
I can't do. I you know, I love to find
other artists. I'm always out there on like Instagram looking
for other artists. I like, there's something I'm trying to accomplish,
I'll commission somebody else. A lot of the covers of
our EPs were commissioned. Actually, the guy who did our
previous one was a tool poster artist. He's done, he's done.
The one for Cosmic Aquatic was actually done by a
tool poster artist named George Malonas out of Greece. Oh wow,
really cool. So, and we've had people from Oliver. Actually
our our latest EP, Tempest, Uh, the cover was paint
was painted. It's actually an oil painting that was done
by a lady named Colleen Woodward right here in New Hampshire.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so it was actually hand painted and then I
had it scanned and archived at a at a place
so that we could make it into the album cover.
Speaker 1: But oh wow, we did buy the painting too to
support local artists too.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because it's awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great portrait and we love it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely is that challenging when you're when you're
talking to somebody about art artwork, like, because you've got
to be able to communicate to them. Yeah, what you
have in mind? I mean, is there some trial and error?
Like if you're working with someone you've never worked before,
like an artist you've never worked before before, but you're
interested in having them do something, is it challenging to
get them to kind of come up with something that
matches the vision that.
Speaker 9: You have Sometimes? But I try to like meticulously look
for an artist that I just love their style. Yeah,
and I know that whatever they do, and I've always
found you know, if you let an artist do what
they're best at, they're gonna it's gonna be awesome. So
like sometimes if you give and I'm the same way
when because I help other bands with graphic design and
flyers and sometimes album art as well. And the more
the more you try to give them, the more you're
kind of pigeonholing them. Yeah, And I think the less
sometimes you can give somebody it like it lets them
do what they do best. So I try to just
like pick the right artists and put the trust in
them to do the right to do the thing that
we asked and let them there. But so and it's
so far it's worked out, you know, And there's been
a few that like I tried to have an artist
to do something and then we didn't really like the
result and we just won't. We just won't use it.
You know, Well, it'll be in the archives, or maybe
we'll use it later for a flyer or something less,
you know, dire it just you know, it's not going
to be the album art, but it might be like
a flyer later on or something. But yeah, yeah, are you.
Speaker 8: Ever surprised, like hopefully pleasantly, But do you ever got
into a situation where they come up with something that's
totally not what you had in mind, but it's so
good that you're like, yeah, let's.
Speaker 1: Go with it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, totally. The actually our album cover for from the
Murky Depths. It was our second EP. I actually commissioned
a an NFT artist because at the time, like right
during the pandemic, that NFT movement with art was just
going crazy, and this guy really didn't want to do
just regular commission work because they were making way more
money putting it out on like Open Sea as an
NFT and then selling it for like thousands of dollars. So,
but I found this guy he uh he's from Washington State,
and uh yeah. He he was just like, yeah, okay,
I'll try this. And I gave him a bunch of
ideas and he came up with this like monstrosity of
like deep sea diver helmet with like all these various
sea life like eels and fish and everything, and it's
all like in this one, it's you go go out
there and look at it. But it's uh, I could
have never like given him that as a direction. He
just was like, all right, here's here's your album cover.
And I'm like, yeah, this is so cool. All right,
we're running with it. Yeah. So yeah, sometimes yeah, it's
it's awesome to be surprised y because yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah excellent. And then do you guys all have to
you all have to agree on it, right, like once
you've got the art, like everyone, do you ever have
a situation where maybe maybe one of you isn't quite
feeling it, like I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're all pretty much on the same boat with
a lot of stuff. It's it's it's really just a
matter of working together and when you do it well,
like we've done for three straight years now. It's almost
too easy. We we write new songs quickly. When Seth
comes up with an idea for something like art wise,
we're like, can you make a green All right? Cool? Perfect?
There it is. I mean, lyrics are something we goof
around with and it's it's just simple. We get together,
we have fun. We write stuff that you know, fun,
we want to write. Fun is key to getting the
forward progression that we have had for the last three years.
It's just we have fun. I mean, you'll see us
on stage. We're goofing off, we're being stupid, we're having fun,
and we're playing the music nothing but serious. It's straight faced,
straight lace.
Speaker 9: You know, we're serious in terms of like practicing and
making sure that like you know, we can we can
play well, we can deliver well, we're on time. We're
that band that's like, you know, we're like the considerate
ninjas of like load in, load out, you know, like
I want to make sure that like the night runs
good and like we're we're professionals. But at the same time,
when we're up there, we're gonna have a blast. We
have fun.
Speaker 8: So yeah, yeah, that's really cool. And when it's when
it's easy like that where where you're all on the
same page and it's no and nobody's arguing, nobody, you know.
I mean, that's you know, hold on to that because
that's great. Man's that's when you know you've really got something,
when everyone's moving in the same direction and it's it's
not hard, it's not contentious, it's just you know, no anxiety.
That's that's fantastic. So yeah, no, you guys are definitely
on the right track. Speaking of tracks, I think we
should play another one. Yeah, what what should we play next?
And then we'll we'll talk some more.
Speaker 1: By always pointing at me, No geez, Honestly, I think
a really good one to play would be Majesty. It's
one we've been really hitting off with live. It's a
fun track. That's to kind of talk about Tempest real quick.
This whole album was a really different direction for us
as a band. Braggadocio was a very fun song that
we we always write fun stuff, and this album happened
to be a little bit darker, hence the name Tempest,
and the artworks a little bit darker in color, and
the lyrics are all a little bit darker in style,
But Majesty's about friends who aren't really friends. They're kind
of backstabbing jerks that come back into your life and
they're like, hey, buddy, let's be friends again. It's like
the last time you were around, I lost my cat,
my car got stolen, and I somehow was negative three
hundred dollars in my bank account. Okay, let's see how
this burns me again. So it's talking about people that
just kind of check yeah, no, no, no, well.
Speaker 8: Let's give this a spin. If you are just joining us,
We've got the members of Trall here with us alive
in studio, and this is called a majesty.
Speaker 2: Hello Bell, my your friend, it's going to see you
last again. It's been a Brown said you broke behead
with your a minute.
Speaker 8: Quite sure, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Bacons kinda feel a bit as you played the pillow
rash fell and so convincion my joy. The pieces start
vollying from the infusion of the life.
Speaker 6: The one is just doesn't with.
Speaker 2: That, I can't finally find the ms in such is
a born body trim and now it's time to problem
with your face down.
Speaker 5: The back and now tation My goal.
Speaker 10: Prest your face in this place.
Speaker 3: Just relation too right Lake what I said? Yea, why
I want to say, y'all right, I want to tell
you out by.
Speaker 5: That side? So what to do?
Speaker 2: The time has come from this funny come to his feet.
Speaker 6: Broken minds sometimes don't a lot.
Speaker 2: The frist field of webstads sage the time stories down
this tenderos.
Speaker 8: Shm me to this file, as I like to say.
If that doesn't get you move and check your pulse,
you might be dead. I love that. That is majesty.
The band is Troll. We've got Troll here in the
studio with us, and uh yeah, that's another great track.
And uh, well done, guys, well done. Where do you record?
By the way, everything sounds really great?
Speaker 9: Where do you?
Speaker 8: I'm always it's.
Speaker 1: All pre recorded.
Speaker 6: It's actually not even ai.
Speaker 1: It is pretty amazing what you can do now with Tempest.
We actually kind of piecemealed this together. We uh, we're
big supporters of things. That's you know, that helped things.
That's that's the whole point of what we're doing is
just try to be positive in this dark world. And
Adam actually was able to win from seth one seth one,
that's right, Adam used it, but we got some studio
time at Halo Studios up in Maine. Yeah, because we
uh the Marcathon Mark Curto up and c y Y
for the benefits the Center for Grieving Children. So Seth
won studio time for Halo bidding on that. So we
went up and said, Adam, you have studio time, let's
go do five songs. You've got you know, a day.
And he did it and not even a day and
crushed it. And with the guitars and bass, we actually
do it in house because uncle Justy over here owns
the Cold Northeast Studios, so we have our own little
situation in there where we were able to you know,
piecemeal together the guitars and make them sound you know
like guitars and stuff. Yeah, kind of. Justin does a
great job. He's gonna downplay himself, but he does a
fantastic job when it comes to recording that stuff. Because
you said you'd buy me a hot dog later, I'm nice.
But then that was all in house with guitars and
then vocals. We actually worked with John Wyman. I believe
this sounds good. Yeah, he's an amazing, amazing person to
work with.
Speaker 6: He's he's a little busy right now. He's working with
the small band called the Pretty Reckless. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Oh, that him came up this morning on the show
when I was talking to Wading Abigail.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was funny. He was like, I've got a
few weeks before I have to go to New York
to record with the Pretty Reckless. And we're like, yeah, well,
we'll come in to do vocals. So yeah, I did
five sessions and worked with him, and it was just
amazing because he was sitting there, He's like, how do
you feel about that? And it didn't realize until after
they'd talk about the Wyman effect with the vocals, and
it's basically he's going to make you realize you wanted
to do something. But it was his idea and it
was perfect because everything he came up with that helped
me push past where we'd been before. It was just
it's what needed to be there.
Speaker 6: And then Seth and I have worked with him for years.
We did all of any time that I was in Loki,
all the LOGI records were done by it Oh, by Wyman,
So we already knew like his style and he just
he has a good producer has a way of just
pulling that little extra out of you and he's just
always been great with that. So we've gotten the chance
to work with him before and we're like, Sean, we
want to get we want to give you a little
bit a little taste of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So having that opportunity was fantastic. I highly recommend
if he has the time, people like, book him to
do your vocal anything, Yeah, record anything. He's fantastic.
Speaker 6: It's funny because he has a psychology degree and one
day I asked him, like, how does that actually play
out in music? He goes more often than you think, Oh,
I bet, and then after coming out of a session
you're like, oh that's why.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was it was piecemeal together and then
we had him mix it and then Pat Keene mastered
it for us for this new album. So it's most
a lot of it. Actually, I think almost all of
it has been in house, except for the last couple
we've gone a little bit outward.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, but yeah that also, I mean, you know,
the final product sounds great, really really good. Absolutely do
you sell you You brought us a couple of physical copies,
you sell those at shows and absolutely I'm the thing
that's I was talking to. I forget who it was now.
It's probably a conversation I've had with a lot of guests.
But there seems to be I feel like in the
last five or six years kind of a newfound, uh
focus on physical media because I've been I've been interviewing
bands on the radio for a very long time, and
there was definitely a period where nobody was doing that,
you know what I mean, where it was like everything
was everything was digital, or there was even a period
where and I'm glad this is passed, but there was
a time when so everyone would release everything digitally, but
they would show up This was before I was at
W M and H. But they would show up with
a CD. They'd do the classic not even in a case,
just handy a CD with and they are not sometimes
not even a slips like on a finger.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Here you go it's like, well that's sper not scratching that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly exactly. Although we do actually so here we
have a CD player. I think Rob as a Vedo
who wants to show here called granted state of Mind
on Friday nights. I think he's the only one who
uses it, but we do have one and we even
have a turntable here now. One of the guys who
wants to show here brought it in and he said,
you know, whoever wants to use it can, so so
that's pretty cool. But and vinyl too, like there seems
to be a new new focus on vinyl the really.
Speaker 1: And so getting a little circumvent there, like a big
thing for us has always been physical first, then digital. Yeah,
and some of ours that do a podcast actually noticed
that data. Remember just recently did the exact same thing
where they released all the physical stuff for their album
and then said in a month, you can have the digital,
and they were like, you guys kinda kind of did
that first. And it's like, I mean we like physical stuff.
Seth and I are huge in the vinyl and collect
Like I had a huge CD collection up until recently,
and I still have one. Yeah, he still has one.
I mean you still use an iPod to hold your music,
so wow. But the physical part's always been huge for
us because I grew up going to CD in record stores,
buying as much CDs as I could, and then like
my parents being like, where are you going to keep
all this crap? You have like hundred CDs in your
bedroom and you have like two milk crates that are
just overflowing. It's like, yeah, I don't care, I need CDs. Yeah,
that was a big thing, was physical seth and I've
always talked about we want to make sure we do
it right by what we would want when we were kids,
because I know as a kid growing up, if I
got a new CD, that was my world. Yeah, like
the month, Oh yeah, the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 6: Half of the enjoyment of the music was sitting there,
like opening up the CDs. Oh yeah, reading the lyrics totally.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's so it's been an important part
for us. And also got to shout out Bull Moose
Music because Bull Moose has carried all of our EPs.
I know that there's one down here, and then there's
one in Portsmith. I think there's one in Keen, but
yeah they there. You know, there's I think ten record
stores and they've carried our stuff for the entire time,
and it's it's been huge. We all grew up buying
records there and and yeah we have you know, some
of us have big vinyl collections as well.
Speaker 1: And okay, you have a big vinyl collection. I have
like thirty or forty. You've got way more than me.
Speaker 9: So yeah, I have a living control. But yeah, so
I'm a big I'm big into the vinyl. But but eventually,
for us, it's a goal, it's a dream. I'd love
to press something on vinyl. Yeah, even if it's kind
of like a collected you know piece or or you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've we've played around with the idea for a
while now with you know, kind of not even like
the greatest hits, just a we've done so far four EPs,
and it's like we could take a couple of songs
off each of them, and we've played around with like
calling it like the chum Bucket and other things to
just kind of make it like this is a vinyl
because Set's pressed vinyl before with one of his previous vans,
and I've never had that opportunity, and it's like, I
wouldn't mind my own vinyl.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of this ultimate right of passage,
I think, because you know, I mean, for the for
the longest period of recorded the recorded music industry, vinyl
was king, and then you had your CD era in
the nineties and early two thousands, but it's just a
lot of music, you know, was that's the format that
it was created to be on, and nothing, nothing sounds
better kind of a write of passage to it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're hoping to get that soon. I say soon,
but we're hoping to do that at some point in
the near future, as long as Adele and Taylor Swift
don't mess that up and buy all the vinyl in
the world, you know.
Speaker 10: Years.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it's hard to get in the schedule.
Speaker 6: Just be Jack White sitting in a back room in Nashville. No, guys,
it's still.
Speaker 8: Good, very cool. And then so what's what's kind of
the uh, this has been out for a little while, right,
or how long has this been out?
Speaker 6: Tempest?
Speaker 9: So we released that in October of last year, October
twenty twenty four, Okay.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's not too too long. So do you have
are you already planning for the next one or are
you still we.
Speaker 1: Have already started right, yeah, yeah, we've got some fun stuff.
It's it's we we always kind of find ourselves in
these situations when we're writing that. You know, what, what
are we listening to and what's kind of driving us
into certain directions and then honestly, we got this new
song called Autumn in a Car that I can't wait
for people to hear it. Yeah, it's really fun. I
love the way we've written it and you know, put
it together. We have another one that we're working on
that's interesting. Yeah, but we're working our way around building
it properly. And we just had practice past Thursday night
and we did we kind of pieced together two songs
that are in the beginning stages that I think they'll
definitely end up on the next EP year.
Speaker 6: I think writing for us never really stops. Yes, it's
just a perpetual thing. And then at some point we're like,
all right, we got enough, let's yeah, let's fine tune
these five and stick them out. Yeah, we can be
working on those and still end up coming up with
more riffs and it's like, oh, we'll just save that
for those that right, right.
Speaker 9: So the forty p's that we have have been every year,
so OK, twenty one was Shark Pinata, twenty two was
from the Murky Depths, twenty three was Cosmic Aquatic, and
then twenty four was Tempest. So yeah, I don't know
if we'll be able to do the fifth one in
this physical year. We'll see, Okay, writing I would say,
but yeah, it might be a Christmas, it might be
a very Christmas. Who knows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, very sharky Christmas, very sharky Christmas.
Speaker 8: Right right, Well we should uh, we should play another one.
What do you guys want to play next? We'll hear
another studio track here so here so so yeah, yeah, yeah,
we were talking about this one earlier. What should we
know about this before we hear it anything.
Speaker 6: I always thought it was going to be like the
radio hit.
Speaker 1: Really yeah.
Speaker 6: I thought it was the closest we've come to like
a standard format.
Speaker 1: It's pretty solidly there. It's it's yeah, a little bit
less heavy, Yeah, it's a bit less heavy.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: Again, like I said before, the music for this album
and lyrical content was a lot darker. So this one
is about a lot of people in the world, know this,
somebody cheating on you with their cell phone and you know,
you're laying in bed, you just got home from a
fifteen hour shift and you lay down and you're like,
why are they on their phone? It's three in the morning.
What is going And that's you know, the whole thing.
Is somebody using their cell phone to be a dirt bag,
you know, to not be a good person, and yeah
it stinks absolutely Well.
Speaker 8: Yeah this will be relatable for a lot of people,
no doubt, no doubt. Well let's give this a spend.
If you are just joining us, we have trall here
with us in studio and this is called cell.
Speaker 3: Righting s no.
Speaker 4: Snow and so.
Speaker 10: So nice.
Speaker 5: I'm got to say something.
Speaker 7: I get some sounding too.
Speaker 3: It's a potamous.
Speaker 5: So that's not drama stick but I know this.
Speaker 2: I'm going there when we set time, I mean, miles,
I'm joying.
Speaker 5: I got. It's telling me.
Speaker 2: Go live there.
Speaker 7: In a Saturn world.
Speaker 2: Whither's word and deal and snake?
Speaker 5: That's tad and what you did was lost.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna show yourself.
Speaker 5: I guess I'm solid.
Speaker 10: It's no w.
Speaker 3: Sus my life for you.
Speaker 8: Well, I know this time come up.
Speaker 2: O when we set time night, I'm miles of.
Speaker 5: I'm going mine. I got.
Speaker 7: I can say your son, but I guess it's.
Speaker 5: Soundly to liston what it is.
Speaker 2: Besides, well I know the stall daughter.
Speaker 3: Go wait.
Speaker 5: My son, are you doing? Going on?
Speaker 8: So the band is troll and that is really really good.
I can see, I can see where you guys would think,
you know, this might be a radio hit because that's yeah,
it's catchy as hell, really good and relatable, you know,
lyrics as we were talking about before, so all.
Speaker 6: That good nineties music we grew up listening to.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely. So what's what's what's next for you guys? Like,
what's kind of the short term or the long term?
Speaker 1: Much future?
Speaker 8: Right he owes you a hot dog?
Speaker 1: Yes, well, long longer term. I mean, we're just gonna
keep grinding away at what we're doing. We're having fun
writing music together. We're doing just what we want to do.
And it's weird to say that as a band because
we've all been in bands where it's like, okay, just
just keep working, just work, and it's like, this isn't
work anymore. It's it's fun. We go to practice, we
hang out for a bit, you know, talk about crap,
and then we write these great songs that we have
fun writing and recording. And I think, I mean, we've
got a really good slew of shows this year set up.
Speaker 9: It's definitely the year of the shows, definitely. Yeah, I
think it's shaping up to be probably our busiest year
ever nice in terms of shows. You know, we we
were just getting going before the pandemic. You know, we
had like one solid year to really play and then
from then, you know, it was kind of a gradual
slow climb back to normal, you know, playing shows. But
this year is shaping up to you know, we're just
we're taking on a good amount of shows, and and
not necessarily because we've done we've had the honor of
doing some bigger stuff. We've you know, open for some
cool national acts and things. But this year it's really
been a lot about our own shows, you know, building
our own shows and figuring out kind of our way
to be sustainable, no matter if we're playing at a
big room or a small room with a killer PA
sounds some more like barely any sound system, you know,
just learning how to be you know, work together as
a team and be super sustainable.
Speaker 1: And not only that, just just focus on having fun.
That's the big thing. Every show we've played this year,
it's just the main priority. Like, yes, there's four people here,
just have fun. Yeah, just have fun, because guess what
four people or four thousand people if you put on
the same show and have fun. Everyone will know it
and feel it. And we've had shows in recent memory
that we're like, yeah, there is four people here, so
this is a really fancy practice. But we're just gonna
still have fun with it because if I'm not putting
my all on the stage, I know people will notice it, right,
And Adam will definitely feed off of my energy, and
I feed off of his, and justin I mean we
all feed off of each other. When the songs start
going and our sample pad hits and we hear like
the intros we use and all the sound effects, Yeah,
we have into this groove and we can like look
at each other and it's just like this almost like a.
Speaker 6: Like a.
Speaker 1: A crap eating grin where you're just like, we're gonna
have fun. Yeah, and it's just you look at each
other and then it's like there goes and again having fun.
It relaxes you when you're on stage. I've been I
know we've had shows where we've traveled like two hours
to get there. Yeah, it's stressful. You're driving for two
hours and you don't know if anything is going to show,
and then all of a sudden you look out there
and you're like, wow, there's a lot of people here.
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's our sound effect. It's rolling. And I look
back at Adham and he's just smiling, and then I
look at Seth and he's got the same smile on.
And Justin just looks at me like, don't fall on
my stuff, like don't touch me. Yeah, and then we
get going and it's it's fun. We have fun. That's it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I can say, no, that's that's great. That's the key.
That's the key, right, What should people know about where
to find you guys online? And where's the best place
to go? So best place to go trollband dot com.
It's got everything, all of our links to all of
our social media. It's a good website. By the way,
I'm a web design nerd. I pay a lot of it.
I'm like like like the guy from Rock, except I
critique websites. But it's a good site because I say
that because there's a lot of a lot of musicians,
as I'm sure you guys know, have terrible websites and
it's like, oh my god, what are you doing?
Speaker 9: Yeah, so yeah, that's the best hub to go. We're
also on all the all the sites out there, you know,
everything from like the Spotify and your Apple Music and
your band camp and but and then you know, we're
out there brick and mortar record stores as well, all
those outlets.
Speaker 1: So yeah, come bind us on all the social medias.
Speaker 9: Yeah, find us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we love hanging you know, we love talking with people.
We make friends like Nate Dog. Shout out, shout out
Nate Dog. But we love you know, we love interacting
with people, and and just hit us up. We love
talking to people. If you find our music and you
dig it, let us know. We love to hear it
because it makes us feel like we did right by going, hey,
this was fun to write. And then yeah, somebody's like
that song really cool. It's like, okay, we didn't we
didn't miss this one, right.
Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. Like, well, listen, I want
to thank all four of you for coming in.
Speaker 9: This has been great.
Speaker 8: Sean Adam Seth justin.
Speaker 9: Thank you all, thank you for having me, thank you,
thank you so much.
Speaker 8: Absolutely thank you for for coming all this way too.
That's you know, it's a little bit of a haul
in the rain. So I really appreciate you guys, and
we will of course close out the segment with let's
see what can we ow sos that's the one we
have not played yet, And what should we know about
this one anything, Here's the deep.
Speaker 1: One, here's the Here's well, this is the second deep one.
I'd say on the album. The one track that I
think you mentioned you might play later is called Nova.
That one's for loss. If you've ever lost anyone, family, friend, pet,
It's it's not meant to be happy. I We'll save
that for the next time we come down here to
talk with you, Matt. But SOS is it's written from
a very dark place in my own and honestly, the
one thing I will say about this song is if
you need help, ask for help. Yes, whether it's mental, financial, religious,
it doesn't matter. There are people in this world who
will talk to you, who will listen to you, who
will help you. And if you don't ask for help,
what are you doing. You're messing yourself up. You're not
getting the energy that you need in your life to
be a good person, to go further and maybe change
somebody else's life. Yes, I know from writing the lyrics
to this song, I was in a very bad place,
and honestly, it was I don't remember who it was
in the band, but somebody sent me a message and
it just changed. It flipped the switch and it was
I was going to get you a hot there it is.
It was a hot dog talk, but it changed perspective
and gave me a new focus to keep my head
above ground. And honestly, if it weren't for these guys,
these are my best friends. If it weren't for these guys,
I wouldn't be here. And this song is my way
of saying, if you need help, please please, For the
love of whoever you pray to, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 10: Ask.
Speaker 1: There are priests, they are a psychologists. There's your best friend,
there's your mother, your father, your brother, your sister, your dog,
your cat, your bartender, your bartender, your bearded dragon, or
the urn that's on your mantle that is your great grandmother. Yeah,
talk to somebody because getting that help can change your
entire world, and you may end up doing something that
changes somebody else's world that keeps them here. And that
person who knows, they could cure cancer, they could be
the next president, they could be who knows. But if
you don't ask for help, you're just shooting yourself in
the foot and it's not okay. So talking is huge
and mental health is a big thing that is still
stigmatized negatively. Absolutely, So if you have even here, I'll
say it right now. If you want to talk to us,
we'll listen. Get us up on all our social media's,
send us an email, we'll talk with you. We have.
Speaker 9: We've done it a lot too. You know, people have
reached out and it's something that like I'm proud of that, Like,
you know, since this song has come out, said a
lot of people kind of reach out to us.
Speaker 10: Wow.
Speaker 1: And some good friends of ours have reached out.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 9: I absolutely I love that aspect of it, Like, please
reach out to us. We'd love to talk, you know,
with you about anything. It doesn't have to be about
deep stuff. It could just be like talk about our
favorite music corners, had a.
Speaker 1: Terrible day, my car broke down, Like yeah, we'll talk
about you. Yeah, come to a show and talk to us.
Because that's even better because then if you need a
hug because you're feeling depressed enough that you might try
to do something, I'll hug the crap out of you.
I'll stand there all night and drink PEPSI and hug you.
Speaker 6: I'm hugged bunny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hug bunny right there. It's we want people to
be here because not only are you here, but you
can make a difference in this world, whether it's positive
negative it you might change the whole perspective of somebody's life.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you just take one second to send a text message,
a phone call, an email, drive twenty minutes to your
your grandmother's house and see how she's doing, sit down
with her. Yeah, what are you doing. You're making somebody's
day better and it could be your day. Yeah, so
ask for help. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: No, very very well said. I love it. I absolutely
love it. Awesome. Well, now I'm especially excited to play this.
So guys, thank you again.
Speaker 9: This is S O S.
Speaker 8: The band is Stroll and thank you so much.
Speaker 9: Guys, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: Try shoot umbo only set up shairs my friends, because.
Speaker 5: I think I.
Speaker 7: So how it Rob, I'm not selling, I'm.
Speaker 10: Getting stop.
Speaker 1: All these team bands inside.
Speaker 5: Boys just coming up.
Speaker 4: That's a rush of.
Speaker 7: Cow mead in Selma.
Speaker 10: You know, I'm media and Salmon.
Speaker 5: I'm mean in Salmon.
Speaker 4: All the patients in the world, they could have stopped
the monsters to night. The blasting gets burning inside.
Speaker 7: Out, telling you cold help some wich. Why couldn't I
ask for help?
Speaker 4: Why was I selfish?
Speaker 3: Why did I hurt them?
Speaker 7: Why didn't I show the pay? Why do I go
from here? Why can't I be normal?
Speaker 5: Why do I hurt?
Speaker 1: Why don't we hurt.
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 5: Why aren't we nor about?
Speaker 10: Bye?
Speaker 3: Why bye?
Speaker 5: Ate out.
Speaker 1: What I'm feeling, And I've feen so well.
Speaker 7: See I mean by n.
Speaker 5: Y Dower, I'm.
Speaker 7: Mating door, can't ask us for
Speaker 6: I'm playing more