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Speaker 1: Oh that is so good. That is Braggadocio and the
band is Trall and we've got Trall here with us
live in studio. This is Matt Connerton and Lee th
We are live from the studios of w m NH
ninety five point three FM and Glorious, very rainy and
wet Manchester, New Hampshire. If you are listening live on
Saturday May ten, twenty twenty five, and so happy to
have you with us. That is a 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. Hello, let's do this. Let's start
with you, sir. We'll go around the room and tell
us who you are and what you do in the band.
Speaker 6: I am Sean. I am the singer of Well. I
make mouth noises. Let me get that right. I make
mouth noises for troll. All right, welcome shot.
Speaker 8: I'm Adam. I hit things, Adam, you hit.
Speaker 1: Things, okay. I played guitar, justin you play guitar. Very good, seth.
I play the big guitar, or also known as the bass,
the bass. Yes, yes, well welcome. By the way, I
did enjoy we were talking off here. I really like
that bass solo there, braggadociow. That's really good. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 8: That every band has to have a basilo song.
Speaker 1: Well, actually a lot of bands would disagree with that,
but I'm all for it. I can sneak one in there.
I'm always like 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 for I'm Chasing
the Devil, he had said something about you guys in
the chow room I think a couple weeks ago, and
he might be listening hyj and yeah, he said, because
I think they did they play a show with you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we've pased with them, uh the summer show, yeah,
non po Chasing the Devil's last July.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh very cool.
Speaker 6: 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 1: So oh absolutely 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 the pollend,
but it doesn't seem to work that way. 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.
Speaker 6: But uh.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 9: 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 it was. Okay, yeah,
I remember.
Speaker 6: 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, oh very cool, finish that out.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember seeing you as 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, right, Yeah.
Speaker 9: We started in about I think June of twenty eighteen,
so it's been next month will be seven years for trial.
Speaker 1: So okay, yeah, same lineup or as it 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 just on guitar
came in almost five years ago, and then 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.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. In terms of your live shows, does any
of the early material survives that carried forth? Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6: 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 we we wrote
them and we liked them, and then it's like, yeah,
kind of grew it. It's just not it doesn't hit
the way it hit when we wrote it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm always curious because I've been in bands where
sometimes if there's a change in members, you know, this
is 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 a 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 8: A good song is a good song exactly worth.
Speaker 1: It it exactly, 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 8: Done that a few times.
Speaker 7: And it's like if the guy who left actually wrote
the song, like that was his baby, Yeah kind of
understand it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, 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.
Speaker 6: Our entirety of the band.
Speaker 1: Yeah really yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: 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 doing 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. Like it was funny because
the conversation we had the songs about a shark from
the point of view of a shark, and Seth sold
the Batman comic book that had shark on the cover,
and we were.
Speaker 9: Saying about it, 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 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, there you go. You can always get
it back later.
Speaker 6: First 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 us and you hear that song,
you're like, what was that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that's pretty cool. Is it being a band
from Portland? Is it? Uh? Is it? This might be
a strange question. I don't know. 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 muse seem too. It
seems like there's a lot of really good bands in Portland.
I mean, is that is it competitive?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: 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, yeah,
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 got a
lot of tourism and you kind of get this whole
upper end rising up with all the you know, luxury
condos and whatnot, and so you've got you've got kind
of two Portland's. You know, you've got 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 moving target. And uh it's it's been
tough through the pandemic, like the you know, some of
them didn't survive, and uh 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?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 9: What places should we be looking to play if we
haven't yet. So it's I think it it's literally changes
probably every six months to a year, 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 move
so quickly. But yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I call it a snow globe effect. And I
saw it. I used to. I grew up in mass
and played in bands from Boston.
Speaker 7: 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.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so it's still the same core group of people.
You've just kind of shaken it up a little bit.
Speaker 1: 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 7: I think it's cyclical, kind of like rotation, Like he's
six months and you just kind of latch on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then it's like like Seth was saying, a
lot of bands, unfortunately, they just that they retire, They
they're done playing, and that's kind of crappy. We like,
you know, some of the bands that we really like,
they just decided it wasn't within them and they moore
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 is we just want
to have fun. Yeah, and if you're having fun, you're
doing it right.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 6: If you're not having fun, you screwed up somewhere and
you need to fix that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 9: And we also play in New Hampshire quite a lot.
But yeah, we've actually i'd say we probably played in
New Hampshire half the time.
Speaker 6: 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, the next two shows are actually in
New Hampshire, yeah, are yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, so we should mention those. 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. Okay, I'm sure, so those
are our next two Showsky 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 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: It's Friday, November seventh at the Shaskiene with with Polka
Dot Cadaver.
Speaker 1: Oh. It'll be a cool show. Yeah. I don't know Polka,
but that's a cool name. 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, but they're they're kind of derived from
the members of Dog Fashion Disco, who were a band
for for.
Speaker 1: From late from Baltimore. I remember them. I saw I
saw them in Boston. Wow that yeah a long time ago.
Oh my god.
Speaker 9: All the same guys in both bands. They actually play
songs from both. So yeah, OK, we're excited to do
We're doing a two show run with them in November
this year.
Speaker 6: 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. Oh and we had to kill off two
shows just because still Seth 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 it was actually didn't you
go down and cover? Yeah?
Speaker 8: Yeah, band played instead, Oh kick over.
Speaker 6: For 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.
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 8: I've only been in it for like eighteen Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh is that all? And we were eighteen. We were
in that band together for seven years.
Speaker 3: 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 6: So so it's funny 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 for 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.
Speaker 1: Yeah twenty eight eight or something like that. Yeah, I'm
gonna say eight. Yeah what we're saying. I'm feeling it anyway.
Speaker 6: Week. Yeah, you don't look a day under fifty bunch.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Wow. Wow. By the way, So where
does the name come from? Troll? What does that mean?
Speaker 9: So troll 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.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was a cool name. And yeah suck, Yeah, yeah, totally,
it's funny. So I didn't know what trill meant, but
then when you explained it, 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
with voting and you know, yeah, like a troller net. Yeah,
for some reason, that was like, oh that makes sense. Yeah, no,
very cool. And what about the logo was that you
that was me too? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, 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, if 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, Tempests, 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 6: But oh wow, we did buy the painting too to
support local artists too, because yeah, yeah, because because it's awesome. Yeah,
great portrait and we love it.
Speaker 1: 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 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. But so and so far
it's worked out, you know. And there's been a few that,
like I tried to have an artist 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 gonna be the album art,
but it might be like a flyer later on or something.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, are you 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 go with it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, totally. The actually our album cover for from the
Mark 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. Yeah, 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 he's from Washington State,
and 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 crazy it's you go go out
there and look at it. But it's a 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.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, sometimes yeah, it's it's awesome to be surprised. Yeah, yeah, 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?
Speaker 6: Like 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?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 6: Cool?
Speaker 1: Perfect?
Speaker 6: 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. Yeah, fun is the 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. Yet nothing
straight face.
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.
Speaker 1: We have fun. 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, you
guys are definitely on the right track. Uh, speak of tracks,
I think we should play it other one. Yeah, what
should we plan next? And then we'll talk some more.
Speaker 6: I always pointing at me, no ah, 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 majesties 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 a shadow I lose my cat. Yeah no, no,
no worry.
Speaker 1: No, Well let's give the suspend if you are just
joining us. We've got the members of trall here with
us alive in studio, and uh, this is called Majesty.
Speaker 4: Hello Bell, my old brands, It's good to see you.
Speaker 5: L Yeah, it's been up long.
Speaker 4: Lound spent you.
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it's off Cone Bacon to kind of.
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Speaker 3: Brays the Princess Scott bullying from the infusion of the.
Speaker 2: Line the one is just that it with that, I
can't fall on the mind.
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Speaker 3: And now it is time to travel.
Speaker 5: When your face down the bar, then turn.
Speaker 4: A missing My dolls said your face this place just Mason,
You're make make what I said?
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Speaker 2: B want the value bad decide So what.
Speaker 5: The time has come from?
Speaker 2: This funny come to his fee talking minds sometimes then
a lot the first field of web stars page the
time stories down. This tender sum is to wislve the spile,
the groom mild. You'll find the fractions and you.
Speaker 4: Turn confusion. I go.
Speaker 5: Crazy, so.
Speaker 1: Mhm, as I like to say. If that doesn't get you,
move in check your pulse. You might be dead. I
love that. That is majesty. The band is trall. 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.
Where do you Uh, I'm always it's all pre recorded.
Speaker 8: It's actually not even asked all ai.
Speaker 6: 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. See
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 Kurto up and c hy 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 just does a
great job. He's gonna downplay himself, but he does a
fantastic job when it comes to recording that stuff.
Speaker 8: Because you said you'd.
Speaker 6: Buy me a hot dog later. Nice, But then that
was all in house with guitars and then vocals. We
actually worked with John Wyman. I believe this sounds good.
He's an amazing, amazing per to work with.
Speaker 8: He's he's a little busy right now. He's working with
the small band called the Pretty Reckless.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that Alim came up this morning on the
show when I was talking to Waiting Abigail.
Speaker 6: 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 talked about the Wyman effect with the vocals,
and it's basically he's gonna 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 8: And Seth and I have worked with him for years.
We did all of anytime that I was in Loki.
Speaker 7: All the Logi records were done by 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 got and the
chance to work with them before and we're like, Sean,
we want to get we want to give you a
little bit, a little taste of that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, having that opportunity was fantastic. I highly recommend if
he has the time, people like book him to do
your vocal anything, record anything. He's fantastic.
Speaker 7: It's funny because he has a psychology degree and one
day I asked him, like, how does that actually play
out in music?
Speaker 8: He goes more often than you think.
Speaker 7: Oh I bet, and then I bet after Yeah, coming
out of a session you're like, oh that's why.
Speaker 6: Yeah, 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 1: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, that alsounds 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 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 or not or
sometimes not even a slips like on a finger you
know here you go it's like, well that's such that yeah,
exactly exactly, although we do actually so here we have
a CD player. I think Rob as a Vido who
has a 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 the
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 focus on vinyl.
Speaker 6: They're all about the really and so getting a little
circumvent there like a big thing for us has always
been physical first, then digital. Yeah, and some friends 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. 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 has always been huge for us
because I grew up going to CD in rec 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 three 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 that was the greatest
thing ever off of the enjoyment of the music was
sitting there like opening up the CDs.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the lyrics totally. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's very 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 high time and it's it's been huge.
We all grew up buying records there and yeah we
have you know, some of us have big vinyl collections
as well.
Speaker 6: And okay, you have a big vinyl collection. I have
like thirty or forty. You've got way more than me.
Speaker 8: So yeah, I have a little.
Speaker 9: 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, some interesting idea.
Speaker 6: 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. Oh,
and I've never had that opportunity, and it's like I
wouldn't mind my own vinyl.
Speaker 9: 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.
Speaker 1: To be on and nothing, nothing sounds better is a
kind of a rite of passage to it.
Speaker 6: So 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.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Years. Yeah, Yeah, it's hard to get in the schedule.
Speaker 8: Just be Jack White sitting in a back room in Nashville, US.
Speaker 6: Good, very cool.
Speaker 1: 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? Tempest? So we released that
in October of last year, October twenty twenty four. Okay, yeah,
it's not too too long. So do you have are
you already planning for the next.
Speaker 6: One or are you so we have already started? Yeah, Yeah,
we've got some fun stuff. It's it's 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 and 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.
Speaker 1: Year.
Speaker 8: I think writing for us never really stops. It's just
a perpetual thing.
Speaker 7: And then at some point we're like, al 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, well, just say that for the next record,
right right.
Speaker 9: So the forty p's that we have have been uh
every year. So 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 how quickly writing it
would make. Yeah, it might be a Christmas. It might
be a very Christmas. Who knows, Yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 6: Very sharky Christmas, very sharky Christmas.
Speaker 1: Right right, right, Well we should uh we should play
another one. What do you guys want to play next?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 1: Here another studio track here, so here so so yeah, yeah, yeah,
we were talking about this one earlier. What what should
we know about this before we hear it anything.
Speaker 8: I always thought it was going to be like the
radio hit. Really.
Speaker 1: I thought it was the closest.
Speaker 8: We've come to like a standard format.
Speaker 6: It's pretty solidly there, It's it's yeah, a little bit
less heavy, yeah, it's a bit less heavy.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 6: 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 this 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.
Speaker 1: Absolutely well, 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
troll here with us in studio and this is called sell.
Speaker 5: I see on your boat.
Speaker 4: Writing up the night.
Speaker 1: Night Smoke and the so.
Speaker 5: So nice. I'm gonna sell you something.
Speaker 4: I get some sody to. It's a mootus the file.
Speaker 5: Because I lost my state, but I know this still
going on there.
Speaker 4: Wh when we set.
Speaker 5: I'm missing files, I'm enjoying I got It's time that
you live in a satured world while those words and
deals make that's.
Speaker 4: Tad and what you did was lost.
Speaker 5: I'm sure your sty.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm solidly.
Speaker 4: There's no mos.
Speaker 5: The sun of my life. You don't know this time
going on? Oh wait, wait second, I'm miles of no
way that.
Speaker 8: I got that.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say, your son, but I guess I'm sadly say.
Speaker 1: More, but I know the step up the.
Speaker 4: Miles.
Speaker 5: So enjoying.
Speaker 4: What I know this going over.
Speaker 5: A mile, so.
Speaker 1: Ben, that is called Jaws. 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, thanky and relatable you know, lyrics as we
were talking about before.
Speaker 8: So it's all that good nineties music we grew up
listening to.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no doubt, no doubt, 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 lunch future?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 6: He owes you a hot dog? 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. 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. Yeah,
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.
Speaker 1: Definitely.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's shaping up to be probably our
our busiest year ever 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 sounds some you know,
just learning how to be you know, work together as
a team and be super sustainable.
Speaker 6: 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 this grow and we can like look at
each other and it's just like this almost like like a.
Speaker 7: Like a.
Speaker 6: 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 it goes yea 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's gonna show.
And then all of a sudden you look out there
and you're like, wow, there's a lot of people here. Yep, 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 1: 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?
Speaker 9: So best place to go trillband dot com. It's got
every thing, all of our links to all of our
social media.
Speaker 1: 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 no, 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 6: So yeah, come bind us on all the social medias.
Speaker 1: Yeah, find us.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we love hanging you know, we love talking with people.
We make friends like Nate Dog shout out, shout at
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 1: Right, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. Like, well, listen, I want
to thank all four of you for coming in. This
has been great, Sean Adam Seth justin. Thank you all,
thank you for having me, thank you, thank you so much. Absolutely,
thank you for for coming all this way too. That's uh,
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 what can we ow? So s that's the one
we have not played yet?
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: And what should we know about this one anything?
Speaker 6: Here's the deep one, here's the Here's well, this is
the second deep one. I'll 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 so os is it's written from a very dark
place in my own and it 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 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
to get you a hot there.
Speaker 8: It is lot.
Speaker 6: 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. For warrant. 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 ask.
There are priests they're 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.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 6: So if you have even here, I'll say it right now,
if you want to talk to us, will listen, get
us up on all our social media's, send us an email,
We'll talk with you.
Speaker 8: 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, I've had
a lot of people kind of reach out to us.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 6: And some good friends of ours reached out.
Speaker 1: 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 order, had some.
Speaker 6: 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 8: I'm hugged bunny.
Speaker 6: Yeah, 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 something. He's life. Yeah,
if you just take one second to send a text message,
a phone call, an email, drive twenty minutes to your
grandmother's house and see how she's doing, sit down with her.
What are you doing. You're making somebody's day better and
it could be your day. So ask for help. That's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: 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. And if you are listening
live on Saturday, We've got Mike Frasier coming up next.
But we will close out this segment with this. This
is SOS. The band is Trall and thank you so much, guys,
thank you, thank you.
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