BMP (Buffalo Music Players) BREAKING EPISODE: Morgue Terror

Hey listeners! Dave from Morgue Terror was at the BMP studio the other day and talked all things death metal. He's really trying to bring back the old-school days of metal lyrics, just absolute grotesqueness and straight from the brain. 

With a couple of dates already arranged for this summer, Dave hopes this summer will be the ultimate in metal. Take a listen here and check Morgue Terror out at @morgueterror716 on Instagram.

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SPEAKER_01 0:08

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SPEAKER_00 1:57

Hello, BMP listeners. I'm your host, Benjamin Joe. And I'm Max. And with us is a really great guest. His name is Dave. He's from the band uh Morgue Terror. Is that how you say that, Dave? Yes, that's how you say it. And um, well, I'm just gonna go let him introduce himself.

SPEAKER_04 2:10

Well, w Welcome to the pod. Thank you. I'm Dave, one of the co-founders of the Death Metal Band Morg Terror, right outside of this beautiful city of Buffalo. I also am the owner of my own website, Technical Music Review, and I am running my first Death Fest June 6th at Buffalo Ironworks called Buffalo Gore Fest, which is also another one of my entities. And I do have a second band in the works as well. So nice to be on the show. Appreciate you guys having me on.

SPEAKER_02 2:34

We appreciate it. Um now morgues are scary. What made you want to add the noun of terror and just make it even scarier?

SPEAKER_04 2:41

That was actually the biggest issue because the band was influenced by the terror fire movies, and the um big deal is the ending of the first going into the second movie where he was where he came back alive in the morgue from the first movie and rose in the second one in the beginning. So that was just the best adjective I could find without you know it sounding stupid or anything. Gosh. And there's actually other bands out there in the death metal community. There's a band called Morgue Dweller and a couple other ones, and Terror was just kind of like the best one that fit it. Gosh. So that's where our inspiration comes from in the first EP and five songs. And one of the singles we put out last year, Terror in the Morgue, is about that scene from the end of the first movie and beginning of the second one.

SPEAKER_00 3:21

Wow. Sounds like you guys have a lot of fun when we guys.

SPEAKER_04 3:32

Like so redundant, I'm not gonna lie, but I wanted to change up from what we were start what the name and band was based off. So we did a little change up with that for um just topic's sake. Stay fresh, and you don't want to put out release talking about the same exact stuff, but it's death metal. You can only talk about cutting up so many bodies and you know, molesting dead people so many times. So, you know, I figured we could talk about serial killers, not a fake serial killer this time. Some that existed. So we have a wide library of different things we've written about so far in our short two-year history so far, but we got a lot of messed up stuff for the first full length. We just signed a CDN Records in February. Nice congratulations. Yeah. Um, yeah. Stuff that might not be uh appropriate for the podcast. I can tell you off air if you want me to. But yeah, we're going for a deeper, darker, more offensive, more messed up lyrical structure, especially with our visuals. Whoa. That's what it's all about, man.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

How long y'all been playing together? Two years now? Were you uh you know the bands before that?

SPEAKER_04 4:33

Um I've played before, but uh my problem with the city, honestly, is I just haven't found anyone that's had my obsessive desire to start a band. So I've been playing guitar for 38 years old, over 25 years now. I started in like my preteens, like 12. Um, I've been trying to get into bands since I was basically a teenager, and this finally popped up. I had a couple basement bands that didn't really go out according to plan and kind of failed, and we got all for shows and just kind of crumbled from there. But my experience in the music field per se, I just haven't had a chance like I did until recently with this.

SPEAKER_02 5:08

Yeah. Have you always been into horror?

SPEAKER_04 5:11

Oh yeah. It's by far my favorite subgenre of movies. I like a lot of stuff. Except maybe rom-coms. I I don't know. I'd have to be pretty drunk with my wife to want to watch that shit.

SPEAKER_02 5:20

But check out the apartment. That was really good. The apartment? Yeah, Billy Wild or something.

SPEAKER_04 5:24

Yeah, there's a lot of cool stuff coming out, but unfortunately, like the last 15 years have been like a slop of shitty remakes. Like a lot of it. Although I did watch the newest um Nightmare on Almost Street without Freddie um Robert England as Freddie Krueger. It wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be. He's my favorite character of all time, next to Art, who's a new favorite of mine for years now. So to see him portrayed without Robert England as acting on him was pretty weird, I'm not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_00 5:54

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:55

But um, yeah, there's been some cool new horror movies the last couple of years, but nothing as great as it was between like the 90s and older than that.

SPEAKER_00 6:05

Just got a scream you a scream fan?

SPEAKER_04 6:09

It's it's not bad, but after like the third movie, it just kind of got very, very, very watered down. The first two were good. Yeah, there's like the newest one is like the 6'1. Is it really? Yeah, oh, it's been around, man.

SPEAKER_02 6:22

Oh, jeez. Are you kind of like a horror purist sort of like Wes Craven?

SPEAKER_04 6:27

No, not really, actually. But I will piss off the meeting and say I do not like Michael Myers and Jason Borees are boring. Gotcha. Well what uh they put out great movies, but like they just don't have a personality. Yeah. Like, it was not great to watch because yeah, you're like hacking up bodies and doing slasher shit, but like the I was attracted to Freddie just because that guy just he was fun, he was stupid. He was great, he you know, it's such a m mundane genre of movies that I don't know, it like it needs something in there, and his level comedy just like made it worth it for me, and that's why he's my favorite horror character of all time.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

That's very cool. What what got you into horror and like you know this whole genre? I mean, because there's a lot of it, I mean a lot of people do, but um what what do you think it did for you, especially musically? I mean what what kind of music were you into?

SPEAKER_04 7:19

Freddie was my favorite character, is like I just said, but like musically, like it taking it back over two decades. I was a typical teenager, I was uh 90 something, I was into new metal and classic rock and classic metal, and I was getting in after Sabbath, I was into like Maiden and Priest and all the classic heavy metal bands and thrash bands between Slayer and pre-Blackout, Metallica and Exodus and Testament and all those bands, and then I didn't get into death metal from graduate high school, 17, 18 until I was like probably 21, 22. My first show was with Obituary, then I saw Subvocation as my second show on the place in Main Street in Clarence. It was called Um Club Infinity. Probably two of the best shows of my life, and after that I wanted to see more of this gruesome shit, so it started from something very simple and it transformed into something extremely brutal, and loved everything about it. I got in uh like the new wave of American of American heavy metal metal core like Trivium and Lama God and Kill Switch and those bands in the 90s and 2000s, and between the bearing was a big influence for me on my other side. I love a lot of progressive stuff, like Opeth and Stephen Wilson and Raj and Old Genesis and Yes, and King Crinton and Zappa. And that's like my nerdy side of me, where the other side of me is just stupid heavy death metal, like that corpse suffocation, dying fetus style. And um, I transcend into that after loving the obituary show, and then I went to see Suffocation there as my second death metal show. And I got into all the legacy bands and all the bands that popped up in the 2010s until today, and it's been a steady obsession because they got messed up lyrics and they always look, you know, to poke the cattle, so to say. So, you know, gotta take that out and you know, make people feel uncomfortable just like horror movies do, and that's why the two styles mix together so well, and so many Death Mill bands have done shit with horror movies and characters, and um combine the two, that's why they go together so well most of the time.

SPEAKER_00 9:15

That's really cool. Thanks. I see like you you feel like a lifetime consumer. You got the hat, you got the shirt, like you've been like immersed in this culture. Like, oh yeah, that's me, man. I don't hide my shit.

SPEAKER_02 9:25

I'm no culture. Um, with the death metal stuff, do you feel like it's like a good outlet? Because you seem like a pretty calm person and whatnot. And I realize that a lot of the people that do like the hardcore stuff, yeah, like that's like their outlet, and they're they can kind of just chill for the rest of the time. They let all that stuff out that with their stuff.

SPEAKER_04 9:40

Yeah, I mean, you should see me on like a fucking pot of coffee or worse, man. I mean, I can get jacked up easily. But um, yeah, it is an outlet because I have such a messed up mind that you know it's where I can like you know compose music and compose lyrics and you know, talk about such messed up stuff. And I enjoy movies, but music has always been my number one. I loved it well before I even picked up a guitar. I just finally found it with me to ask my dad at 11, 12 year old, to like, hey, show me how to play Tranquil Tranco Little Star. Let's go from there. I got lessons and we're in, man. So Wow, you started from like really sweet though, really gruesome. Oh, yeah, exactly. I just wanted to play, man. I love music, I love the culture, I was understanding everything, like how labels were kind of like running and looking at the lyric sheets and everything. And no one would authority won't get this. They're called compact discs. They used to be made consistently in the 90s and before, but you know, I don't think they understand what it compact says. Let alone a taper or vinyl album. But I would always just browse the sheets and just like check out where show was recorded, where they were located, etc. etc. Checking out, you know, the thank yous and everything in an album as far as the covers go inside. So uh I was immersed in that and it just made sense to try a um instrument and guitar came easy. I know a little bit of bass, but that's because I know how to play a guitar, so I can noodle on a bass and keep a good rhythm, but you know, I don't know if you'll want me as your bass player. I can just play notes because I play notes on the guitar. I'm not a professional bassist. And those two in lyrics are what I excel at. And I have written melodies before, believe it or not.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

So you're the like the front man of the Mark Terra, you're like the guy who's out front or I'm the guitarist.

SPEAKER_04 11:23

Um we just our vocals just left the band, and we got a new drummer and bass player this past year. New drummer last summer and a new bassist in January. And we have a filled vocalist for all of our current shows right now, but not a permanent vocalist. So I am the one remaining founding member of the band.

SPEAKER_00 11:40

Wow, you're last one standing.

SPEAKER_04 11:41

Yeah. How does that feel being the last original? Badass.

SPEAKER_02 11:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:46

Yeah. Dave Mustaine was the only original in Megadeth, but that's been his band for over 30 something years in here. Oh, yeah. But I'm not the ass only is, so we're good.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

What's it like being up there on stage? Like we've talked to a lot of our musicians over the last couple episodes or so. It's just like, and they usually describe it as quite a rush. I'm just wondering, like, what kind of rush is it?

SPEAKER_04 12:07

Fucking rules. And yeah, rush is amazing. Thank you. But um, it's a stupid joke. Anyways, yeah, it's it's a fucking best, man. It's the best when you can put out your music there, don't give a shit, have fun. You see people having fun, you just lose your shit. It's great. Just want to see people have fun, forget about this shitty world for 30 minutes, 40 minutes when you're on stage, and just rule that shit. Have fun, see people have fun, throw down, have fun, no one dies, you have a good time, right?

SPEAKER_02 12:34

Does the fact that the world is so shitty, does that kind of help you with your writing process?

SPEAKER_04 12:39

Uh yes and no. I haven't read anything like that yet, per se.

SPEAKER_02 12:44

Um well, just like the I don't know how you feel, but like maybe like just the general malaise, maybe it's easier to get yourself in that mood. You know, that mood.

SPEAKER_04 12:52

Yeah, I mean, all we really gotta do is let a joint and start typing up messed up shit. So I've again, you know, if you want to hear any of this off air, you know, I'm down to tell you the plenty of lyrics I got for the first record. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:04

Okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_04 13:05

Good, good. I mean, if you want me to tell you right now, I'm down with that, but it's some pretty offensive shit.

SPEAKER_02 13:09

Have you ever oh let's let's kind of meet in the middle then. Have you ever written something where you're like, this is too fucked up or anything? It's never it's never crossed your mind.

SPEAKER_04 13:17

Nope. Although one, I will be honest, the first song we ever put out was called Chopped Up Chum, and it is from the first terrifier movie where he hung up the girl upside down, naked, still alive, and chopped her in a half.

SPEAKER_02 13:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:29

Um there was also a dedication to another favorite of mine, the Texas Chainsaw Horror. Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Wow.

SPEAKER_00 13:36

Yeah, there was no horror in it, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:37

So that was by far my favorite on the first one, and I wrote a song about it, and I was gonna use one of the expletives. I'm like, I did actually hold back, so I just went up with Chum, which is literally, you know, fish bucket.

SPEAKER_02 13:48

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:49

Since he cut up a fish, you know.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:52

Yeah. Gotcha. You know, the generals. Yeah. Yeah. Like I wasn't using expo funky, you know what is our first single? Maybe not, so I just went with something else.

SPEAKER_02 14:01

I gotcha.

SPEAKER_04 14:02

So someone makes a joke about Spongebob here and there, and I'm like, I don't really get it. I'm almost 40. I didn't watch that.

SPEAKER_02 14:06

So cheers. I gotcha.

SPEAKER_04 14:09

You from Buffalo? Yeah, from Hamburg. You're from Hamburg, no kidding. Yeah, that's where I was raised. Born in Buffalo General, raised in Hamburg, moved to Orchard Park, lived in Depu with my girlfriend, now wife, for a year. Then we bought a house right by the stadium, and we've been over there for about the last eight, nine years. Get out of here.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

That sounds cool.

SPEAKER_04 14:26

Thanks.

SPEAKER_00 14:27

What happens when those day days come?

SPEAKER_04 14:30

Sucks. I hate football. It's the fucking worst.

SPEAKER_00 14:33

You could probably get a pretty good resale um, like, for your house if you wanted to.

SPEAKER_04 14:37

Yeah, but that's the thing. I've moved a few times, but not too many yet in my story. But it's a pain in the ass to move, man. I don't know if I'd want to do it again, but like if push come to shove, but the market sucks so much right now that we got our house for 150, no, 149, but we could probably sell it for like two bucks.

SPEAKER_00 14:57

Like I bet you could. I mean, just because it's near the stadium, is what I'm saying. Like, and now like building.

SPEAKER_04 15:01

Do you want to go through that shit just to make 60,000 to buy a house of similar size for 205,000? Like, that's where my wife and I are at right now. Alright. So, like, we bought it well before COVID, locally, so we don't have like the crap, some of the guys and girls and everyone else that have been buying houses since then have paying $200,000 for like a two-bedroom house. Like, that's terrible. And it's not just in Buffalo, it's across the country. So we're like, do we want to make that 60-ish thousand just to pretty much get like a copy of the house we got now with maybe like just some modern upgrades? Yeah so we're just kind of we love it, we're not stuck there, but it's like, is it worth all that hassle?

SPEAKER_00 15:42

I'm just wondering how much of a hassle is it when like three tailgators like end up on your front lawn.

SPEAKER_04 15:47

Like, that hasn't happened yet, but we have had a lot of drunk jerk-offs, I will tell you that. We got people. So our street is a dead end against another dead end. It's literally around the corner. It's on Southwestern Abbott on the side where the animal hospital is. I know where the animal hospital is. Yeah, it's on the other side of the southwestern abbot intersection where O'Neill says. Our neighborhood is just right there. So we can literally walk there if we wanted to. Um, yeah. Uh, you know, just drunk shit just walking across our driveway. Don't know about like trespassing and going on people's properties, and like the last year or two, I've kind of become less old man is like I've yelled at kids. I'm like, dude, what the fuck are you doing? You're walking on my house. You're walking at my property, you just walk past my car. You know, I I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

Sometimes you gotta be that guy.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

Yeah, sometimes you gotta be that guy, but mellow out, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:35

Sometimes you just gotta be.

SPEAKER_00 16:36

So what do you think it is about Buffalo? I mean, you've been here your entire life, like like um, you know, what makes you stay here?

SPEAKER_04 16:43

Uh I got a badass group of friends. I love the city, um, got a great wife. I've my bands are now, so I don't really feel like moving this shit. Oh yeah. I mean, it's a good place, man. You know, weather doesn't bother me. I'm not I'm water than mayonnaise, but I'm not obsessed with the weather. Like, it snows half the year. I okay. Doesn't bother me, dude. I just hate the ice. Yeah, ice is great. Food's great, you know. I'm no skinny dude, so you know it. Oh yeah. All of the food we got here, man, it's great. And the best shit is we don't just have the good standard pizza wings, but our ethnic stuff, we have so much Asian food. We've got like Ethiopian and African food all over the city and the neighboring towns, and we have different Asian cooking and like we have a lot of cool stuff.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:29

So outside of like, you know, we got beef on wagon wings and the stupid shit you see on the travel channel, we have a lot of good ethnic places. Too many Italian places, I will say that. Too many. They are too many.

SPEAKER_00 17:40

They're everywhere.

SPEAKER_04 17:41

Well, the beef on wagon here is pretty good, man. It is. It's word-originated, man, and you know, I can't tell how many times I've had that. But we just have a great, even in general, we have a great ethnic diversity in people in our city. You know, we got trans people, like, you know, many CDs, and we got a pretty good background of different, you know, generations and different cultures and different races, I'd like to say for the most part. We're not exactly too white dominant, but we have enough diversity there that makes it cool enough to hang out in, at least. Not everyone wants to live here, it's not perfect like any other city. Yeah, but I think it's cool that we have enough differences, which makes it sweet. It's cool to be different. It sucks to be the same.

SPEAKER_02 18:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:20

So, you know, I embrace our differences, and I think that's pretty badass. So, you know, love to learn about stuff I'm not educated on and educate me on something I have like a little interest in, and it's pretty cool. That's why the world sucks. We just judge each other because we have different skin, and we're young or old or fat or have a different opinion. But in the end, you can respect each other if you can respect each other. And that's what I like about our city. We have a lot of different things, different cultures, different backgrounds, and I think it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 18:47

Absolutely. What about music? What do you think of the music scene here in Boswell?

SPEAKER_04 18:50

Uh be honest, it's pretty trendy, man. Um think it's trendy? Yeah, it's there's some cool death metal here and there, you know, it comes in ways, but for the different music.

SPEAKER_00 19:00

I began really to sludge metal lately. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:02

It's got a lot of good groovy shit, like Crowbar and Kroosh and a conformity and the Stoner bands like Sleep and Electric Witcher. There's some good riffs there. Yeah. Um, cover band thing isn't my thing. I'm too old for that shit. Um but it's cool if you want to be a musician and like make money and play shows and play cover tunes, that's fine. I'm not knocking it, but I'm I'm not gonna go to a cover show and see bands play music that was written by someone else and play some rush. Yeah. Yeah, I haven't seen a butt. I've seen the real rush when um Neil was still alive. It was at the R42 at the arena. I had to go, I could care less what ticket prizes were, so I just paid whatever it was to get in the nosebleeds, and I saw that. It was pretty sweet. Probably 15 years ago, give or take.

SPEAKER_02 19:51

What does a normal what does uh the usual Mont Terror fan look like, or is it just all different types of people?

SPEAKER_04 19:57

Uh all different types of people, actually. Um that's what I like about it. I could care less how old or young you are. The same rant that I just went on.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

Yeah, as long as they're not crossing your yard in the middle of the night.

SPEAKER_04 20:08

I mean, yeah. I wouldn't know. I'd be snoring and drooling. How the fuck would I know? I I snore pretty loudly. My wife lets me know, so I wouldn't know. But we accept everyone. I don't give a fuck. You know, you're black, white, young, old, fat, trans, straight. I don't give a fuck. You're welcome to our shows, you're cool. You like us, we like you. I don't care what you are, you be yourself, and we respect that. Anyone's welcome into our show, it's guaranteed.

SPEAKER_00 20:33

It's very cool. It's very cool. Well, um, let's get to the time of our show where we pick out a song. Would you like one of your songs to be our showcase today? Or something like that?

SPEAKER_04 20:41

Uh sure, why not?

SPEAKER_00 20:42

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:43

What's a good song? Uh Feasting on the Dead.

SPEAKER_00 20:48

The name just says it like it is. It says Feasting on the Dead.

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SPEAKER_00 21:44

And we are back. Now uh Dave, I I know that you guys are performing some shows in the near future. Maybe you can tell us a little bit about that.

SPEAKER_04 21:52

Yeah. Um, first one back. We're playing April 25th, a Saturday at the Bug Jar in Rochester. We're playing with our new. Line up with our new bassist and drummer who joined last year. Logan Anthony joined bass in January, and he learned more than half our song so far. And Phil and Vocal, which I'm not announcing just yet. We're playing a benefit show with the Bug Jar with three other bands starting at 2 o'clock. It's a matinee show. Then after that, we're going on a three-day run. May 7th of Thursday in Erie with Lazerade, Crohnsis, Coronat Rhombosis, Us and Lasseray, another death metal band from here, Trio from Buffalo. They're all under 21, pretty heavy. Really good band. Then May 8th, we're playing the Lost Horizon with those same bands. Us, Lazarate, Coronet Rhombosis, Cronesis, Misanthropic Tendencies. I miss them too. They're playing May 7th. They're on this run.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

Cool.

SPEAKER_04 22:45

They're a PA band. Those five bands and When Skies Decide, Blood Desecration and Stone Lord are playing at the Lost Horizon. 6 p.m. start. Eight bands are playing Friday night. And then that Saturday, we're playing with most of the bill. Us, um, who else is playing? Blood Desecration, Gore Reality, Coronating Thrombosis, Misanthropic Tendencies, and then we're playing with a couple Connecticut bands and malignancy in Connecticut, May 9th, at the Cherry Street Station. So we attend Bandfest. Cool. Connecticut Corpse Fest. The venue we had here had some issues and isn't putting on shows anymore, so I had to scramble and put together a show. So I asked the bands that could make the drive to Connecticut, and we assembled a lineup with a promoter I knew from Connecticut, and it came together within four days.

SPEAKER_02 23:40

Oh damn. Wow.

SPEAKER_04 23:42

So it happened quickly, so I saved the day because my buddy is in court area from Long Island and Crohn's is from New Jersey. So I didn't want to screw over a Saturday for a band that was expecting a three-day run. So I got this together in four days with a promoter and got the promoter got the flyer gun, snap of the finger, and he got the other four five bands assembled pretty quickly. And then we are playing Buffalo Gore Fest, the first year of my fest, June 6th at Buffalo Ironworks, 2 p.m. start, $40 tickets day of. We're playing with us, Lazarate, Mental Anguish, another Buffalo Grindcore band.

SPEAKER_02 24:19

Yeah, we've been trying to get them on for a while.

SPEAKER_04 24:21

They're awesome. I can definitely DM them and try to get them on for you. They're pretty good friends of mine. Then Coronary Thrombos is playing. Marvel Decay from Connecticut is coming out, and they're pretty good friends of ours. We played with them last year at a fest. Slamology from Kentucky is coming out in a beta massive flesh. They're coming from Nashville. That's that squiggle. Yeah. Accursed is another Connecticut band, and then the three bigger bands are Scaphag from Ohio, Throne from Michigan, and Overlogate from Illinois.

SPEAKER_02 24:51

And Buffalo's never had anything like this before, right?

SPEAKER_04 24:54

Um, they did a little while ago. The last one was in 2011. It was called Day of Death. But the first one was in 1990. It had a lot of the great genre bands in there, like Suffocation Emolation, Cannibal Corpse, Ortician, Autopsy. A lot of great bands were there. I was only three years old in 1990, so I wouldn't even remember that. Gotcha, gotcha. But the promoter that did those fests, though, did a handful of them, and the last one was in 2011 or 2012. So um it's a pretty big deal, honestly. I've gotten a lot of attraction for it. I put up a ton of flyers. This is my second run of flyers. I had a couple changes in the lineup, but sorry. You're okay. Basically, most of the lineup is Ben and Ted, which I'm lucky for. Two months out. This is hopefully the final revision. But um I've had interviews with Channel 4, a couple other media outlets, New York State Music. Um, I put this out there, man. So I don't care about making money. I just want the bands to get paid well and everyone to show up and have a good time. And the old heads reminisce about the 1990s and 80s when I wasn't even, you know, born yet until 1987. The good old days and everyone to enjoy themselves, that's all I care about. We haven't had a Death Fest in quite a while, and we have a lot of good ones throughout the country, but nothing in the Northeast. There's like stuff in Texas and Florida, and even Canada has some ones every so often, but nothing in the Northeast, and I got people interested from Canada and Ohio, Pennsylvania, flying out from the West Coast. So I have people interested outside of Buffalo. It's actually kind of cool.

SPEAKER_02 26:27

How do you have all these connects? Just being in the scene and just being in the room.

SPEAKER_04 26:30

Yeah. Getting down and just messaging people and DMing people and agents. And I asked some of the bigger bands in the genre, even Internal Bleeding, I asked 200 Stab Wounds, I asked On Death, the Rochester band. They're pretty popular. They signed uh their label as soon as they put out their demo. So they've been striking pretty hot cold. They're they have already played Europe a few times.

SPEAKER_02 26:53

Right.

SPEAKER_04 26:53

Wow. And some other bigger bands in the genre that I don't care. I just ask everyone and hey, what's your guarantee? Can I afford you? Cool, let's talk. And then some people just ignored me. Some agents and bands kept talking to me or couldn't do it, or but you know, I don't care. It's a 450-cap venue, so I couldn't like, you know, bring on a ton of bands out, you know, have a 50 band 50 person show at a venue that can hold a lot of people. So I had to ask some really big bands to help bring people in there. Not as a money thing, but you know, you got a bigger venue. You don't want to have like 40-50 people there. You want to put in a real effort to it.

SPEAKER_00 27:28

Yeah, yeah. Awesome. So this is happening on the sixth. You have anything going on after that?

SPEAKER_04 27:33

Yeah, we're playing Desecration Fest with uh Blood Desecration. They set up this fest with Mental Anguish, ironically. Oh, cool. Adelphophegy, a bunch of other bands that are on that. Coronary Thrombosis is playing that too. Um Atera, I think that's the band from North Carolina. Crown Drop is playing that at Rochester band. And a couple other ones. Haha, I just save the new flyer. Knife. Um Order of the Dead is playing good friends of mine from Rochester, and that's it. A Ben Show. Uh I think it's like a 3 p.m. start, 4 p.m., forgot. But that's gonna be fun. They ask us to play in Photo City's great venue. They got air conditioning. We play there and they got good sound, good size, so you know I'm excited to go back there and play. Nice. Been about a couple of years.

SPEAKER_00 28:23

Alright, well, I guess that's all the time we got for today. But hey Dave, thanks for coming in, man. I really appreciate it. Thanks for having me again. Appreciate you guys.

SPEAKER_04 28:30

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 28:31

And uh we will be back uh next time. Uh, real briefly here, folks. Uh, you might know that one of our sponsors is the Buffalo Creative Workshop. Um, as of now, um, they are saying that anybody who hears about them through this podcast, the BMP podcast, Buffalo Music Players, get 15% off membership, and that's a pretty good deal. You can uh look them up on their website at uh Buffalo Creative Workshop.com. Uh be sure to go and put something down for the GoFundMe. It's a really great space, and that's that's all I have to say about that. Max, you have anything to say? Same thing I say every time. May the songs be with you guys. Alright, guys, thanks.

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