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Speaker 7: Oh that is just epic. The track is embraced the
band as Mercury burns. First they are here with us.
We're gonna talk to them in just a moment, but
welcome everybody. As we enter our number two New Marrow
dose of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from
the studios of wm n H ninety five point three
FM and Glorious, very cold but glorious Manchester, New Hampshire.
Today is Saturday January twenty five, twenty twenty five. Jenny
is here as well, of course at the news table. Yes, yes,
I was all a lot of fun having Notley crew
here with us for the first hour. And right now
we have Mercury Burns first. We've got three of the
guys from Mercury Burns first. One of these guys I
know very very well. But Jay, let's start with you
and we'll kind of go through and you can each
tell us who you are and what you do in
the band.
Speaker 8: How's going. I'm Jay, I'm the vocalist. I don't play
any instruments in this particular project, but I played.
Speaker 9: The vocal cords.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, you do.
Speaker 8: I'm from uh locally from from Manchester area. Yeh been been,
you know, playing in different bands around the scene and
most of my life.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for as long as I've known you, certainly, Yeah, yeah,
hopefully this is the one. Yes, yes, I think it is.
I think it is, and you sir my name is Dan.
I play bass in the band Local from Manchester, Okay,
right up the street, so uh yeah, it's a it's
a pleasure. Yeah yeah, thanks for coming. Great to have
you here. I'm a fellow bass player, so absolutely natural
at kinship with you.
Speaker 10: And you sir, my name is Adam Grant, the guitar
player from Conquered and this project is just kind of
conceived from years of just playing music and being in
bands and yeah, and here we are.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah. So how long has Mercury Burns first existed?
Speaker 11: This is pretty new, right, roughly two years almost now?
Speaker 7: Okay, okay is this your is this your first release
of this? Uh this EP?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yep, okay, all right, yeah, I really like so we
were kind of talking off air about what to which
track to open the segment with, and I and uh
Embraces my personal favorite. I love the vibe, the the
guitars in that just there's something, there's something different about
it that I think is really really cool. And uh,
you know, Jay, I've always loved your vocals. Uh what like, like,
what is your your kind of I mean, obviously, you know,
broadly speaking, we put you in the metal category, but
you guys have kind of a is there a sub
genre that that you're trying to to fit into? I
mean it's unique. The the EP, it's it's it's a
little different than I can't think of anyone you sound
exactly like you know what I mean, there's there's something.
Speaker 8: We are Like I personally have approached this project a
little differently as anything that like comes along I want
to try to turn into, you know, turn into something.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I've been.
Speaker 11: Very like.
Speaker 8: Guarded and picky about like what I actually want to
like work on as a song and and and this
I'm not necessarily making music for just myself, uh anymore,
Like I'm taking everything into consideration, Like I there there
might be something that I'm not too into that like
someone else and the band is into that like ends
up growing on me. Yeah, and it you know, turns
out to be my favorite, my favorite thing. So it's
it's more of a throw throw it at the wall,
see what sticks, and not necessarily trying to stick to
one type.
Speaker 9: Or style or.
Speaker 8: Hopefully at hopefully by the end of you know, our
second third album, we've got a little bit of every
every genre in there.
Speaker 10: Yeah, And I think that was kind of like the
general idea of putting this EP out in these particular
songs first was to show more of like this, we're
not just a heavy band. We have a little bit
more to offer than you know, and I don't think
we really wanted to pigeonhole ourselves into like the metal
corner of music.
Speaker 7: So yeah, now that makes sense. So it sounds like
you already have more and more songs that you're working
on or you're going to be.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's obviously, as we all know,
writing is a slow process, but yeah, yeah, recording, yeah, yeah,
I mean we've been cramming a lot in in the
last year, just writing and recording and you know, just
trying to get this ship sailing a little bit.
Speaker 9: So we've yet to even play our first live show.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, Yeah, we've really stuck to working on the
hone in our craft and working on the songs and
at least getting this EP recorded and out there, you know,
so we at least have a product to present to people.
Speaker 7: Where does the name come from, By the way, the
name is so cool Mercury Burns First.
Speaker 9: So initially our idea was to do a concept album.
Speaker 8: And it's it's stemmed from that, like that the concept
was going to be when uh, you know, in the
you know, in the distant future, when when the sun
kind of expands and spells up, you know, the inner
inner solar system, mercury burns first.
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, And.
Speaker 8: So that that idea came, the idea from the name
kind of came from the idea from the album, which
we may or may not have abandoned, at least for
at least for now. I think over the course of
our career we'll probably have that concept album put into
the other albums instead of you focusing everything on one
story and you know, again pigeonhole, pigeonholing ourselves into like
being forced to write a certain thing. We just kind
of want do what comes comes along naturally when it
when it comes along.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I do feel like, you know, listening to
the lyrics and and you've always been a very interesting
you know, back from your days and function, you know,
your your your lyrics have always been really interesting. You know,
it's you've got to kind of pay attention to what
you're saying, because you know, you've you've got a lot,
you've got a lot that you're trying to express and
and I've always been I've always been really interested in
your lyrics. The lyrics on on some of these tracks
is something sort of apocalyptic, So I'm not surprised.
Speaker 9: When it comes from that.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 9: We started out as it was all going to kind
of be about that.
Speaker 7: Really Uh yeah, there's there there is there is that
that vibe to it, And and Embrace is particularly interesting
to me because there's there's a texture to that song
that's like I haven't heard anything quite like this, you know,
it's it's it's really cool. Are are all the themes
to these songs kind of like that? Or or are
are there like what are what are some things that
you explore in these lyrics?
Speaker 9: If if if this was a concept album, it would
be very like Scattered.
Speaker 8: They're not in order, ye know what I mean. Yeah,
so they're very far apart in the story. Yeah, but
they probably would fit into into it. Yeah, but they're
not necessarily Purposely, We just wanted to give the broadest
spectrum of like what what we sound like?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah, and then so when you do so you
haven't played out yet, but do you do you have
anything uh? Planned?
Speaker 9: Yeah, we have.
Speaker 8: We have a couple of shows lined up with with
the Big Son and Adam McGrath. One of our shows
also features the Forest Forgets.
Speaker 7: Oh, we had them on the show. They're amazing.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Our first show is uh February twenty second at the
Gateway in Lawrence, Massachusetts. That's with the Big Son in
Adam McGrath, cool doors, ares Evan. It's ten dollars a person,
twenty one, twenty one plus just tickets at the door.
Speaker 9: We don't have any uh any tickets on sale for that.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 13: The next show is March March eighteen, Mark March eighteen,
Middle East upstairs.
Speaker 7: Nice, yeah, excellent.
Speaker 8: That you can get tickets for on the on the
Middle East website. We got links to it on our
on our Facebook, kind of posted it all over the
place right now. So yeah, yeah that that you can
buy tickets ahead of time there, uh, I think they're.
Speaker 11: It's twelve in advance.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, okay. Now you're gonna be playing the whole
the whole EP, all five tracks, yes, plus yeah, yeah
and then some Yeah. So you've got other do you guys?
Are you guys gonna be doing any covers or are
you just sticking to originals.
Speaker 8: Or there's a there's a possibility of covers which we're
trying to fill up our time slot, which, yeah, it's
gonna be pretty close, so you might get surprised with
a couple of covers in there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that's cool now. So so, uh, Jay, obviously
I know some of your musical history. You were, but
you've been You've been in bands, but between you know,
because for people who don't know, I mean we're going
back like twenty years, you know, function of course, and
then but you've had other projects between that one and
this one.
Speaker 11: Correct.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I've been in some smaller you know, like like
cover bands, and I was in a Christian based heavy
metal band for a little bit called Slate Face.
Speaker 7: I think I remember that because I i'd run into you.
I forget where I've run into you somewhere.
Speaker 9: I think it was probably during the number of years ago,
and I think.
Speaker 7: You had told me about that. Yeah, yeah, okay, And uh.
Speaker 8: I took a little bit of hiatus between then and
in this, and uh really just kind of focused on
what what I want out of you know, like if
I really think this is probably gonna be my uh
magnum opus. Yeah, yeah, like my what I really put
everything into like anything I've been holding back. You know,
it's time there.
Speaker 9: I'm not getting any younger.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So I just really I think all of us
are putting everything we have into into all our eggs
in this basket.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah. And I'm curious too with you guys, like I
assume you've both played in other bands before this.
Speaker 13: And yeah, I played, you know, all through high school
and college bands and then you know, life started and
I you know, I still played, but didn't take it
as seriously.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 13: And then the keyboardist in our band, Jeremy, me and
him and playing music together for ten twelve years, you know,
just once we get together, a bunch of different guys
play covers. So you know, we we played, you know,
we played our last shows like around Halloween. You know,
so we play you know, once a week. And then,
you know, and I was able to get him in
the bands. I think Joel said we need someone on keys.
I was like, oh, I know a guy, so you know,
so and we've been playing together, you know, every week
for the past I came into the band about a
year and a half ago. They had an original bass player.
Oh okay, and then you know I came check them out,
and then you know, as bands do things, people go
different ways and came down and played and thankfully okay,
yeah fun like sure.
Speaker 11: Did yeah show up next week?
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, you know, and it's great, especially you know,
we're getting up there in Asian to be able to
work our schedules out so that we can actually get
together and do something that we really enjoy and are
building something towards.
Speaker 14: It's it's so much fun. I really hope this goes
places for us.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, no, I think I think you're onto something
great and how about you?
Speaker 10: So for me, I mean basically the whole music thing
started out as an angsty teen playing playing hardcore and
punk music locally here in a band called Strike Three.
Speaker 7: I remember Strike Three.
Speaker 11: Yeah wow.
Speaker 9: They were like when we were in high school.
Speaker 8: Like they were like the first kind of people that
I knew that were ever so like they're partially they're
partially yeah, so myself the reason why I'm a musician,
oh wow, because like I went to their shows and
like saw that, Hey, you know these guys that I
go to school with are doing this, Like why not?
Speaker 7: Oh that's cool.
Speaker 10: Our drummer Joel is also he was also in that band,
so we you know, we had done all that stuff
and been a part of that scene. And I think
once you're a part of that scene like that that
lifeblood of just being a part of that music and
just the energy just never goes away, like it's always
in you. And like, so you know, I did that
and then took a break for a while obviously, like
raised my family and uh, and then some years went by,
tried to put some stuff together.
Speaker 11: Yeah, nothing really came to fruition. Then I did that.
Speaker 10: I'm in a cover band as well, just to keep
keep the fingers moving. And then now it was just
like one day I just finally went on Facebook and
I was like, who wants to play music? And Jay responded,
and you know, a couple other people and we just
this is where we're at, and it's kind of like
put this together, and like Jay said, it's kind this
is kind of like we're all in right now.
Speaker 11: Yeah, let's do this because like you said, we're not getting.
Speaker 7: Younger, right right. No, I think you're onto something really
good though, you know this, Like I said, I listen
to loly P. I think it's it's really good. Tell
me about the I'm curious too about the cover art.
Speaker 11: I like the cover art.
Speaker 7: It definitely matches the it matches the name and the
vibe of of of what we're what we're hearing from.
Speaker 10: So that that came to place. Our drummer, Joel found
this guy. His name's Matt Barnes. He's from the UK actually, okay,
and he does like a bunch of like uh, I
guess it's like horrors, like book covers and movie art,
and so he contacted him and he's the one who
actually put this together for us.
Speaker 7: So yeah, no, it looks really cool. How much how
much direction did you have to give him or or
did you.
Speaker 10: Just tell him just I think Joel, like Joel kind
of had the whole like he was the brainchild behind
that artwork, and we were just kind of give him
the put and it was kind of like his idea
because it started out with the whole concept thing a
little bit, yeah, and then it just kind of turned
into that and you know, we went back and forth
a little bit with the ideas.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and that's that's what we ended up with.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I encourage people to if you haven't seen it,
go online and check it out. It's yeah, you know,
it kind of looks it looks like it could be
a movie poster, you know. But yeah, it's it's cool.
It's very striking. And I like the reds anyway because
red's my favorite color. But but yeah, no, I like
it a lot. Like was that something where when you
guys saw it, like, did did everybody in the band
immediately like it? Or did you have to kind of
think about it?
Speaker 11: I don't think so.
Speaker 8: It actually send us like a stock photo of like
the guy sitting out front to Ashnaut and there was
like a couple of things that like I wasn't I
wasn't a fan of and they really they changed it
and and now I mean, you know, yeah, I love it.
So yeah, yeah, they like there was a little like
the holes coming out of his out of his helmet
was like a little phallic. Oh really, I don't know
if we're going you know, it's not gonna be the
theme we're going for it.
Speaker 7: Although it would get people, yeah talking about it, good
good conversation piece, But no, I do understand.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean Joel I think does does a lot
of the art direction too. He's a very artistic guy.
You know, he released his own comic book and you
know he kind of paintings. He art, Yeah, has a
really great eye yeah for art, I mean he yeah.
Speaker 11: He's great.
Speaker 14: He's put out a comic book, yeah, comic a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 7: Oh, very cool, Yeah, j O L.
Speaker 11: Joel Okay, yeah.
Speaker 13: But he's haid art shows and Boston and stuff with
his painting and everything. So I think we have a
lot of different directions we can go in with this
with you know, not only the music, but the art
and the live show.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, I'm I think we have a good direction.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, it's it's good to have, you know, kind
of a be able to approach it from different you know,
different aspects and elements like the art, you know, the
the art work with because not everyone thinks about that,
you know, some people don't really put a lot of
thought into that part of it. But we live in
an era where, you know, with social media and everything,
you've really got to in terms of branding, you know,
you've really got to think about all of that, all
these different aspects and elements. You know, it's it's it's
a lot different than it used to be in that sense,
you know. So so yeah, I think that's I think
that's really cool. And is now right now? Is everything
only available on streaming or are are you making physical CDs?
Speaker 10: So we have right now, we have CDs already available
which you can get on band camp.
Speaker 11: Excellent.
Speaker 10: We have vinyls coming uh March, nice should be like
mid to end of March, should be arriving for those.
Speaker 7: Oh, very cool, very cool, expensive though right to do vinyl? Yes,
I've I've heard it's it's very expensive. But no, I
think I think that's great that you're doing that. I'm
I'm imagining that artwork on a on a full vinyl
and oh, that's it's gotta be. Uh, that's gonna look
really cool. I assume it's gonna be the same image
for the image. Okay, so not know. Some people they
try to do like a different image for the vinyl
to make it like a limited edition thing. But it's
like that's already limited edition.
Speaker 14: It's vinyl, you know, be orange vinyl.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, nice, nice, No, that's that's awesome, that's awesome.
I have a theory that most people who buy new
vinyl never actually play it, but they just buy it
because if you know, if you're really a fan, of
somebody it's cool to have, you know, like we have.
We opened the show today with a new track from
Mike Frasier. He's a singer songwriter from Seattle, and we
did the world radio premiere of his new song in
April days. But when Jenny and I met him, remember
that we met him at the Shaft skiing he was
touring and he gave us a vinyl. He was very
excited to give us his vinyl record, and and and
it looked great and everything, and you know, the artwork
was cool, and it's like, okay, awesome, But but then
there's that, you know, like I always have that conversation
with myself in my mind. Should I tell him I
have nothing to play it on or or or does
it matter or does he care whether I have something
to play it on or not? He clearly he wants
us to have it.
Speaker 8: I feel like often in that situation, someone might go
out and buy a record player. So like people people
give vinyl and like it'll sit for a while, but
then you're like, you know what, I want to play this? Yeah,
you know, you see see a little record player sitting
at a yard sale, and you know, maybe you'll grab it.
Speaker 7: Right right, Yeah, that's true. That's true. We don't even
have a CD player at home, really, we have one
here at the station. I think, I don't know if
you guys know Rob as a veto he ost granted
state of mind, but he actually uses it. I think
he's the only one that I forget that it's even there.
But yeah, you're right. But I do think though, there's
there's a lot of value in physical media because even
you know, even if somebody never plays it, if they
just want it because they're a fan. You know, people
like to have the artwork, they like to look at
liner notes and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 8: It was kind of our idea behind, you know, getting
the physical obies of stuff, because it's like, you know,
like the average person's probably gonna just stream it, you know,
or if they're you know, they buy the album, they'll
buy it on you know, Spotify or iTunes. Yeah, but
you know, the people that you know, know us already
care about us and like want to have a piece
of our art, like well, you know, they buy the
CD and yeah there or the album the record yeah exactly.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, because there was a period where you know,
CDs like nobody was doing CDs.
Speaker 13: You know, there's still there's still something cool but grabbing
the CD. I still have racks of my CDs. Yeah,
grab one and play it front to back while you're
you're taking it drive, you know.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's like I feel like that the EP sounds
better in my car on the CD than any other
any other thing I've listened to it on.
Speaker 9: So it's just there's something about that. Yeah, I still
have a CD player in my car.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, Oh, excellent, excellent, Well we should play another track.
I'll let you guys pick what should we What should
we play next? We opened with Embrace Let's do Deaf
and Blind? Deaf and Blind? All right? Uh, if you
are just joining us on this uh chilly Saturday morning,
here we got Mercury Burns. First is with us live
and studio or part of the band? How many guys
are in the band? Is it five?
Speaker 12: Or six?
Speaker 5: Six?
Speaker 14: Six?
Speaker 7: Six?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: So what does everybody? Okay, so we know what the
three of you do. It's unusual to see a band
that large. What are the other three guys all do? One's?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 10: So we have Joel's our drummer, Max, Max is the
other guitar player okay. Also my son kind of an
interesting story. Oh and then we have Jeremy he plays
synth and keys.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, that must be cool playing with your son
in a band.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was one of those things like when we
were assembling the whole lineup, it was just he came
and you know, he's he has had a lot of
interesting guitar and yeah, like well that's a no brainer,
like just come on, let's go.
Speaker 7: Oh wow.
Speaker 10: So and actually the a lot of the guitar work
the I guess I said they were the better guitar
solos on the record were his, which for Embrace, and
uh the guitar solo on Hindsight was his as well.
Speaker 11: Oh no kidding. Yeah, so those are all written by him.
Speaker 7: So oh very cool. Did you did you teach him
or I would like to.
Speaker 10: Say yes, but no, I think the Internet had more
to do with that than anything else.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So it's amazing now like with YouTube, you can you know,
take lessons right online.
Speaker 13: Yeah yeah, yeah, And it's it's so cool because nowadays
it seems like they're you know, guitar solos have kind
of gone away in a lot of mainstream suck and
I think these are some of.
Speaker 14: The best guitar solos that I've I've heard in a
long time.
Speaker 9: Yeah, things very tasteful and.
Speaker 7: I agree, Yeah, I agree absolutely. All right, let's give
this a spin. So this is called Deaf and Blind
and the band is Mercury Burns First.
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Speaker 1: Can't pay come man.
Speaker 16: Two times shows.
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Speaker 5: Sho, gully drowning and so shot.
Speaker 1: Off your lives.
Speaker 2: Not to estimated in my life and sas.
Speaker 1: Is the same body a.
Speaker 2: Sign the doctors turn tails for long.
Speaker 1: Ride, call to shots, flash camera.
Speaker 5: Stall are you trying.
Speaker 1: Tell him? So stay?
Speaker 2: Tell blah side to stay non tall girl, bid to stay?
Speaker 1: Why stay? Okay? So to sty west line.
Speaker 5: Line to time shot.
Speaker 7: To that'll get the blood pumping on a cold Saturday morning.
I love it.
Speaker 17: That is.
Speaker 7: The band is Mercury Burns First, and that is called
Deaf and Blind. And we've got three of the guys
from Mercury Burns First here with us live in studio.
Great track, guys, I love the energy of that. Thanks,
really really good. We have jay Dan and Adam here
from the band joining us. And where do you guys record? Where? Where?
Where did the where did you record the EP?
Speaker 10: So we did this at right actually right around the
corner at Black Hearts Sound Studio.
Speaker 7: Oh nice. We had Eric Sotter on the show. I
don't know, it was maybe six months ago. It all
becomes a blur, but but I told him when we
had him on, I said, it's great to have you
on because your name comes up all the time on
the show. Because his name does, it comes up all
the time. So many of the guests that we've had
have recorded with him, and everything that comes out of
there sounds amazing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he did a really good job, and he actually
helped out quite a bit, like just pulling some of
this stuff to the loose ends that we didn't have
ready to go.
Speaker 8: So yeah, there are even little little parts of like
solos that he kind of gave us ideas for that
like kind of you know, spiced it up a little bit.
Speaker 18: And then.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's just stuff that you just don't think about
because someone else has got a set of years on
it and you're like, oh, that's actually sounds a lot
better than I thought it did.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, And we're recording live just in our in our studio,
you know, we just pump it out and you know,
not not a whole lot of mastering and stuff like that.
So finally when we're in the studio and perfecting and
he's picking up on other little nuances as they're recording
track by track, you know, and gave us some good ideas.
So it was it was awesome working with him. Yeah,
his name comes up all the time, even as the
barber the other day. You know, it's like oh yeah, I.
Speaker 7: Know, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, No, he's he's remarkable at
what he does.
Speaker 9: He did a great job.
Speaker 11: Absolutely.
Speaker 7: How long was the process of recording these uh, I.
Speaker 10: Mean it it started like, uh, it was dragged out
because I think initially we thought we were just gonna
go right in there and pump these songs out and
be done with it. But yeah, it took probably a
better part of like four or five months to just
cause and it was like just odd, like a couple
of days here and there.
Speaker 11: It wasn't like consistent.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was spaced out, so it was spaced out,
but I think it was just also just the learning
curve of being in the studio and being like, oh,
like we actually need to take some time and do
this the right way.
Speaker 7: Yeah. That makes sense though, because you know, like we
were talking about earlier, this what you're doing here is
fairly complex. It's not you know, it's not just three
chord rock, you know, it's.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and there's and you know, just six six gears
in the machine, so.
Speaker 8: It's yeah, yeah, exactly, and and it really it's been
running smoothly pretty much the whole time. There's not a
lot of conflict, ornybody's stepping on anybody's toes.
Speaker 9: It's it's gone really well.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, because I would think, you know, with six
guys too, you've got so you've got six different schedules
to work with and everything. I mean, I would think
it would be challenging, but it sounds like it's been.
Speaker 8: We finally just downloaded this this calendar app where everybody
can like put out their blackout dates. We're finally getting
a little organized to know like where, Yeah, I'll find
out how busy Dan is.
Speaker 10: A lot going on, But I mean, for the most part, though,
our regular practices have been pretty much locked down. I
think it's just the level of commitment that we're at
right now. We're all really committed to doing this, and
I think that was the thing, was, like, you know,
practices are definite. Everything else will figure out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, how do you do you guys? Are you
able to have practices where it's all six of you
on a regular basis.
Speaker 8: Normally we can all get there once, you know, once
a week. Yeah, We've always had it up in the
air that that we can we'll have an optional set
can practice, which we kind.
Speaker 9: Of have never never really ourselves up on.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think now that we have some shows coming up,
will probably you know, between now and then, we'll probably
throw an extra practice in here here and there to
work on the actual like.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know the show. Yeah, yeah, now, very cool,
very cool. What what went into the when you decided
to work with Eric Sotter? What went into that? Like,
were you examining various options or what or was he
the obvious choice right from the beginning.
Speaker 10: I think initially when I when we started looking at studios,
there were quite there's obviously quite a few to choose
from between here in Massachusetts and oh yeah, I mean
I had my sights set on a few down in
mass but it was just a matter It's the travel
time and all that. And it was also trying to
find someone that was going to be able to hear
what we're doing right like, and I'm sure there's a
plenty of studios out there that probably could have handled this,
but I we definitely wanted the insight of somebody who's
already done some heavy stuff. Yeah, and that was kind
of the where we found Eric, So.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, And what about the mastering?
Speaker 11: Did you no?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 10: The mastering was actually done by West west Side Music
in New York by Alan Dutchesskay, which he's done so
many albums and this and that.
Speaker 7: It's going to say the name is familiar.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean he's done everybody that's ever been on
the radio from what I could see from his portfolio.
But it was like one of those things when I
was looking at places that have it done, it was
like where did these Where did this record get done?
Speaker 11: Where did that record get done?
Speaker 10: And then I contacted him and he was like the
nicest guy ever, and it was just they took care
of everything for us and it was great.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no, that's excellent. Yeah, it came out, came
out really well. Do you plan to you know, obviously
you're you're already thinking about or I don't know how
far you are in the process of the next Obviously
you've you've got more songs, right, so you're already. Yeah.
Speaker 9: I feel like through through this process we've learned a lot.
Speaker 8: We already kind of like from the beginning, we've Adam
has been recording our our live sessions. Yeah, and you know,
we've just kind of he's he's been honing his craft
on mixing and that on our you know, just our practices.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I feel like if we're gonna do like a full album,
we would maybe look to get that done under like
a maybe a label, someone paying for it, yeah, or
more likely just releasing singles ourselves.
Speaker 7: Yeah. It's you know, we live in a time where
you've got so many options as far as how you
how you release music. You know, you can put out
an EP, you can put out a full album. You
can do I guess you know. Now they're calling it
the waterfall effect, where you release you know, instead of
releasing an album and then singles, you release the singles
and then the singles eventually become an album.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's so many ways to do it now and
with Spotify and everything.
Speaker 8: Because I feel like the song is that we wrote
along with with the songs that are on the EP
kind of fit they would fit together as like a
full length album.
Speaker 9: Yeah, They're all kind of in the same vein, and like.
Speaker 8: You know, anybody that comes to see our show, we'll
kind of we'll see it's it's we worked to make
it kind of.
Speaker 9: Blowing.
Speaker 7: Yeah piece yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. Has I
assume that? I mean when the band started, was was
this kind of what you guys had in mind? Because
it's been a couple of years right since the.
Speaker 8: Band start, I mean, you know, working as you know,
a promoter and for me in the past that we
didn't even have an album until the very end and
we split up once. It was so it was like
we did were I wanted to do that the other
way around, like start with something that we could actually
like give the people instead of just like the only
way you can see us is the come is come
see us, right right? And uh so yeah, it was
it was it was pretty intentional to to get the
album done before we like, you know, we we weren't
really interested in just playing every dive bar every day
of the week.
Speaker 17: You know.
Speaker 8: The function was the house band at the Bomb Shelter,
and we played like three days a week at the
same Oh I remember the same bar.
Speaker 9: So that was not what we were looking to do
with this.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Now I think I think the way you're approaching
it is uh is excellent. Uh we wanna play? Uh
we can play another one?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 7: What should we what should we play?
Speaker 11: Let's do hindsight?
Speaker 7: We do We'll do uh, We'll do hindsight. Okay, And
if you are just joining us, we have Mercury Burns
first three of the guys from the band here with
us uh in studio and yeah, let's give this a spin.
This is from the EP the Self THAT'LDP. This is
called Hindsight.
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Speaker 2: Me busins long, it's not the long, go call live,
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Speaker 1: Walk again?
Speaker 2: And where our stands? The ways that was just do scals.
Speaker 5: It's starting on and be a choice car you b face.
Speaker 1: My naw far and grey places because I have to roll.
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lot don despite the world.
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Speaker 3: I'm always messed with same God.
Speaker 5: We're twenty twenty two.
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s seem credal sign.
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very cord there doing till my baseball.
Speaker 1: We were wes.
Speaker 2: Broke colt We all level one the other change because
I'm there a little scared what the soul tis as
the fust manifolds to.
Speaker 1: Stands always that won't be still.
Speaker 5: A full show.
Speaker 1: I'm a fool.
Speaker 2: Scars come wa wall m made a fuss and we're
on its water.
Speaker 1: And we won't be a world.
Speaker 2: The three eccon man, you tell some fay Ton and
small look till we're card doing the word change.
Speaker 1: We spol.
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the fuck small made of pos step aldays.
Speaker 1: That won't be store.
Speaker 7: That is cool. That is called hindsight. The band is
Mercury Burns first we've got three of the guys from
the band here with us in studio. I was telling
these guys off air, I think that would be a
very strong radio single, really really catchy. It's got a
cool vibe to it. But uh yeah, excellent, excellent job.
Speaker 11: Guys.
Speaker 7: Do you do you do you each have your own
favorite of the of these of these tracks? Do you
each have one that really stands out for you?
Speaker 8: I mean that comes around, like I keep I feel
like I have like a favorite, you know, different each
week is a different favorite. Like mine started out as Embrace, Yeah,
and uh, respond is our heaviest song, and that's you know,
like it's it's a different vein from the kind of
the few that we played, so like, yeah, it's hard.
It's hard to put that against like, uh, the song
we just played. They're they're apples and oranges. So like
I would say, like that's my favorite, like yeah, yeah,
but but respond is my favorite heavy song. Okay, Okay,
it's it's yeah, it varies, yeah, yeah, what about you Dan?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I had to embrace Thiss my favorite song. I
love that just kind of the more mellow vibe and yeah,
yeah it hops into you know, a lot heavier late
later on. Yeah, from playing I think Respond is one
of my favorites to play. I got a little bass
and drum break down midway for me and Joel, So
that's it's really fun to play.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Yeah, what about you, Adam? I mean for me,
it's basically all of them.
Speaker 10: I think it's just because we've we've poured so much
energy into them and just seeing like where they're, where
they're coming and going, and the overall development of the
songs themselves, and you know, especially when you have, like
you said, guys in one band and coming from the
concepts of where the song started in garage band, because
that's usually how we do it. We'll put the arrangement,
a quick arrangement together for everyone to listen to, yeah,
and then.
Speaker 11: To see it when unfold.
Speaker 10: That's why it's kind of like cool, this is great,
Like yeah, So I don't have a particular favorite, Okay, Okay.
Speaker 8: They were all really we're really proud of of each
theres they're all our children and they all have special
special too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Well, guys, the time goes
so fast. I think we'll probably close the segment with
respond because we were talking about and that is a
great track. That's the opener of the EP, and it
is it is good and heavy. But what should people
know about? Where to keep up with you online, everything
that the band is.
Speaker 9: We're on Instagram, We're on Facebook.
Speaker 8: We have band Campus where you can get our merch
or our CDs, our records, t shirts. You know, come
out and see us at the Gateway or at the
Middle East. The Gateways h February twenty second. Middle East
is March eighteenth. We'd love to see you guys there.
Come check it out.
Speaker 11: Excellent, thanks Mercury Burns.
Speaker 14: First on the Google machine, yes, yes.
Speaker 7: Yes, it's very googleable, which is important, which is important.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we have our the albums up on Spotify, iTunes, Pandora,
all you know, all the streaming services, all.
Speaker 7: Major streaming Yeah, yeah, excellent. Yeah, no, you guys got it,
got it well covered. And congratulations on the EP and
and everything that you're doing. And we'll we'll definitely have
to have you back in the future. But uh yeah,
I think we'll close out the segment with respond Again.
That's the opener and very very strong track, nice and
heavy and of course if you're listening live on Saturday.
We have Iron Jaw coming up in the next hour.
Those guys are going to be skyping in from Texas.
But we will close out with this. This is called
the segment with this, this is called respond. It is
the opener from Mercury burns first and guys, thank you again,
thank you great absolutely.
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