ATX Metal Podcast

ATX Metal Podcast (00:01)
Hey, what's up everybody? Ryan ATX Metal Podcast back again with another episode. And in this episode, we have Cytera Side effects may include mosh pitting, head banging, circle pitting, crying, fetal position, maybe minimal slight slight diarrhea. But those are the only side effects that I can confirm from consuming.

one side Terra in an eight hour period. For those of you joining me, thank you for allowing me into your space. This is the fun one. We've got a three piece here out of Austin named Cytera like I said. They submitted their music via email to get on what is now the Texas Takeover. Sunday nights, eight o'clock, no control radio, 93.7 HD2.

Most cars come with an HD setting. You just have to turn it on. So if you find yourself on a Sunday night wanting to listen to a 100 % curated Texas metal playlist, I'm your guy. And No Control Radio is your place. You can find us on iHeartRadio, tune in, or you can just go to 93.7. You can Google No Control Radio Listen Live, and you'll go straight to the website. So there's many places you can go find this. But like I said,

Alex from Cytera emailed in their newest one called De-Throned. They have Others Out, Crave, and Alice, which we talk about in the interview. Their concepts, what's going forward. We also talk about them hitting the stage for the first time. Now, Tony and Aaron, the guitarist and drummer of the band, they obviously have been on the stage. But Alex has not, and they have not been together on stage as a three piece. We get into rehearsal and practicing.

practice makes permanent. So there's a little bit of a little bit of fun in there. And then obviously all the other questions about where they came from, know, influences and stuff like that, lyrics included. So other than that, really good show, really good time, a lot of funny stuff. Stick around, hang out. I'm gonna give a little shout out to the support of my microphone keeps going away from me. Stay here.

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RYAN RAYLE (03:56)
up, everybody? Ryan, ATX Metal Podcast back again with another episode. And today we have a band not called Ky-Terra. It's Cytera Apparently that gets, that gets, that's a thing that happens a lot. ⁓ I'm guilty of that as well, you know, but my bad. We'll make it up to you. And that's why we're here. This is actually, this is actually the makeup, but they got a new song out, De-throned.

It slaps. I didn't even know that some of these guys were in this band. This is going to be a good one. Go ahead around, go around the room, introduce yourself, who you are, what you do in the band and where you're from and we'll go from there.

CYTERA (04:38)
Hello, so I am Aaron and I play the drums and that's actually that's pretty much about it. What are you moving on? I'm Tony. I play guitar.

I'm Alex, I make noises into the microphone. Sometimes it sounds good, sometimes it doesn't.

RYAN RAYLE (04:53)
So one guitar, one drummer, one vocalist, no bass or other guitar. it, just the three piece.

CYTERA (04:58)
just a three piece.

RYAN RAYLE (04:59)
and you only scream, like no other instruments.

CYTERA (05:04)
not not live i mean i don't do guitar not at the same time i'm not like matt heafy that guy's awesome i can't do that shit

RYAN RAYLE (05:13)
He's like walking, chewing gum. Yes, we can do that. Singing, playing guitar? We're not there yet.

CYTERA (05:19)
Exactly. That's it.

RYAN RAYLE (05:21)
But Alex, you are the OG of the band. Go ahead and get everybody a rundown of the band when it formed. Just a little brief bio and then just catch everybody up to where we're at today.

CYTERA (05:34)
Yeah, so brief high level overview, know, formed in 2016, came out with about five songs over like two years with an old lineup. Tony's been involved for a while, kind of in the background. We took a hiatus for a few years and then came back last year with some new material and with these three, well, these two guys, three of us, right? So we're just there to kick some ass, make some new banging music and see where it takes us.

RYAN RAYLE (05:59)
Tony, how'd you get involved with Alex? Because I mean, I've known you for a minute. ⁓ I mean, you've been around the block, as they say. So what's been going on?

CYTERA (06:10)
I

guess

RYAN RAYLE (06:13)
What's been going

on in the, in the Lerma camp.

CYTERA (06:16)
⁓ So I've known Alex since like high school, but and so we go like back to those, you know that age but The way I got involved was it actually started So not only I know Alex high school, but we were roommates He was my first roommate right outside of high school at like 17 18 and we moved into the apartment together And so I got involved in the band literally one day. I just went into his room. It's like hey

What do want to do with your life? It was something like that, And he was working on music and think Villa Mora's EP had just came out, right? So I was doing that. ⁓ And he's like, well, I want to start a band. I was like, okay, come up with a name. And then that was it. I just went back to my room and I rolled up a joint and that was it. That was my day.

⁓ So I really I got involved around that time and I wasn't like a member like how I am now It was we fast forward a couple years and then I ended up being in D down and dirty, right? It was during that time when I was with down and dirty that Alex approached me and he's just like hey I'm like really ready to do this and I was like, okay Let me hook you up and then that's pretty much how it started I started as like managing them a little bit and just kind of them pointers on like getting them right on the

What's that like on the right steps or yeah on the right track right from the beginning? Yeah, just right from the beginning now. No bullshit. None of that nonsense and then some other stuff happened and Now I'm a member

RYAN RAYLE (07:46)
on the right path.

Man, you just breezed right through. Some other stuff happened and now I'm a member. It's like. ⁓ Listen, sir, listen, sir, you guys are allowed to talk about whatever you want to talk about. If you got to get some dirty laundry aired out, go for it. If you want to like, you know, put an olive branch out. So, hey.

CYTERA (08:02)
Well, I didn't know if you wanted to talk about that, but we could talk about it later.

Hahaha

Sometimes I forget. Sometimes I accidentally

pour my milk before my cereal.

RYAN RAYLE (08:24)
I, I look, man, look, bands, bands are like businesses, right? And, and, and if you don't, you gotta, you gotta have the right, the right people in the bit, you know, to make the business go, to make it work. And if, you know, some member, I have no fucking clue who you're talking to. I'm assuming the other guitarist left under, you know, whatever circumstances and now you're there. So whatever happened, happened, you know, doesn't, doesn't matter to me.

So I just care about the music and what the people want to listen to. Okay. We're here for some ones and zeros, breakdowns, some Weedley-Deedley's. Heard you guys got that. Aaron over there. Aaron, how'd you get into the band?

CYTERA (09:10)
well i'm glad you asked that before you answer let me try to get myself a little bit comfortable here it's gonna be a big buckle up and it's kinda gonna be more of a one-on-one type of situation so

RYAN RAYLE (09:21)
Yeah. Hold on. Let me,

let me, let me scoot. Let me scoot in here, dude. This is, let's get personal.

CYTERA (09:25)
Yeah.

All right. So basically what happened is ⁓ I had to take a step back from my life at my current job. My boss kept hounding me saying I wasn't getting good enough pictures of Spider-Man, but we we sell life insurance. I have no idea why that even mattered. Plus the guy who was taking better pictures than me, it's like he knew the guy. So I mean, I couldn't even compare. ⁓ And then after that went to Chili's and I always get the triple dipper, but then they stopped serving me the triple dipper.

because I would get multiple triple dippers and they're like, this is a party platter. You need to have more people. You shouldn't be ordering that. So then ⁓ I was like, okay, where are some cool dudes that can help me consume the triple triple dipper dipper? ⁓ Or I like to call it the tri-dye cubed meal. And then that's when I hit these guys up. no, actually, yeah, I saw that they were available and I was like, Chili's can't turn this down, especially if we make good music.

RYAN RAYLE (10:10)
I got you.

CYTERA (10:24)
So that's ultimately the plan there. And plus, I'm a little picky. It caught me at a good time. ⁓ I was...

RYAN RAYLE (10:40)
I'm sorry, They caught me at a good time. think that.

CYTERA (10:41)
I laugh if you want

That's cool, I'm only pouring, you

know, it's only my life, but...

RYAN RAYLE (10:52)
Dude, I am so sorry. did not mean to. My apologies. Keep going, man. I know you're pouring your heart out here. So sorry.

CYTERA (10:57)
No, it's It's fine. Don't worry about it. You

know, but yeah, so, you know, as you

RYAN RAYLE (11:09)
So the

try, so you called the homies to help you smash the tri cube, tri tricube? Tri di cube, tri tri di di cube. You're like, I got this, it's in the bag. Okay, I'm there.

CYTERA (11:17)
Yes. The try die, try try die die cubed. Yes.

Yeah.

And the craziest part about all this is we like collectively haven't all gone to Chili's yet.

See, I mean, these are just kinks that we have to work out. Every kind of band that's just going through has to work through their struggles and their issues. And this is just one of the hurdles that apparently we're gonna have to go over. So, looking forward to that.

RYAN RAYLE (11:47)
I mean, the Chili's

schedule is, that's a tough debate. know, like you got, actually, you know what? If you need, I'm here for you guys. I can be the moderator. I can be, you know, an unbiased check. You know, maybe he doesn't want the Arnold Palmer, right? Maybe he doesn't care about the Southwest deck rolls. But, you know, it is, this is going to be tough. got to, to. Right.

CYTERA (12:06)
Maybe, yeah.

Everyone has their own flavors, their own selective palette

and yeah.

RYAN RAYLE (12:17)
I mean, it's

tough. You know what? I'm glad you opened up, Aaron. I'm glad that's...

CYTERA (12:23)
Yeah.

I might know a guy.

RYAN RAYLE (12:26)
We're

breaking through today, guys. We're breaking through.

CYTERA (12:30)
Yeah, mean,

I think we're making some, you unzip me. I completely poured out.

god, okay that was a lot. What the fuck up is Chili's? wait, I said that wrong, I? We wanna play a show at Chili's, we're gonna hit someone up. that? What's up, Titties?

RYAN RAYLE (12:37)
⁓ man. ⁓

Dude, think, you know, I think

I think the Denny's, I mean, that's so iconic. There's been, you know, I've seen people playing Waffle Houses. I'm pretty sure I've seen Chili's. It's just a yeah. Dude, Waffle House will fight you. mean, Waffle House is its own is its own.

CYTERA (12:58)
You do Waffle House would be awesome.

Dude yeah, you imagine a show going on and like

you get the awesome food, you playing, the bands beating down, people in the mosh pit and then just like a couple street fights like right behind you.

RYAN RAYLE (13:16)
Dude, yeah. mean, that is... Yeah.

CYTERA (13:17)
Has

anyone has anyone done a nursing home though? Because I can get down with some fucking crutches, you know what I'm talking about

RYAN RAYLE (13:27)
I mean, if if we're trying to, I mean, that's a

CYTERA (13:29)
They're like, they're like

You know, and then they throw their walker out the fucking window. Just like that.

RYAN RAYLE (13:36)
Imagine throwing a show at a nursing home though. I mean, there was, speaking of nursing homes, there's this guy that was playing, ⁓ I forget what song it was, but it was a very raunchy R &B hip hop song, in more of a jazz style. So he's on the piano and he's kind of sexing it up. And some of the lyrics, you know, the lyrics are at the bottom like, like, yeah, I want to come over there and.

CYTERA (13:39)
I would do it.

RYAN RAYLE (14:03)
smash that or just something just very vulgar but because he's singing it so nicely all these all these retirement home folk people are just kind of like

They're just going along with it. And they have, it's like they have no clue that they're listening to, I don't know, trick daddy or, or Nicki Minaj or something. And yeah, don't, yeah, don't do that. uh, so Alex, you are the OG. You formed this in 06 obviously. So we're going on, we're going on 10 years now. Um, and you said that you guys took a little hiatus. Was that, uh, I'm assuming that was during COVID era?

CYTERA (14:21)
Better not be R. Kelly.

Not a nursing home. Well, maybe.

Yeah, honestly it all blurs together. A decade doesn't sound like a long time, but you know, when you're almost 30, it's like a 30 year life. ⁓ Yeah, it was mostly just finding the right people. Earlier you said a band is like a business. I fully agree with you, so I won't go into where I personally work, but I've been in the business, you know, finance sector for a while. And it's so funny to see the people that treat bands like a business are the most successful.

RYAN RAYLE (15:01)
cool.

CYTERA (15:05)
Now getting people that see that vision and want to stick around for it is the tough part, right? So I think these are truly the best guys that I've had the good fortune of meeting and they share that vision, right? But that's what the hiatus was. was, well, how can I find those people? What should it look like and what does the band actually want to do? You have a lot of bands that are online only or go play five million shows. We're somewhere in between trying to play our first and staying online, right? So just figuring it out.

RYAN RAYLE (15:32)
Where have you guys, not where have, when do you guys project that you will be playing a show? And obviously will it be somewhere local or is gonna, you guys gonna try to go out of town and work some stuff out?

CYTERA (15:49)
Probably depends. These guys might have some insight too since they've all played shows. I haven't yet, but we were looking at, oh, oh, you thirsty. He's a thirsty ass bitch, isn't he? Look at him. I'm just kidding. We were looking at maybe Dallas for our first one just because there was an opportunity. But honestly, I'd rather start in the hometown of Austin.

RYAN RAYLE (16:10)
Ooh, you know what, you were talking, I was just thinking like, your very first show, would it be a benefit to actually not play in your hometown? kind of, in case some shit goes like terribly wrong and you're like, I'm glad no one saw that, that I know. But yeah, sign me up. mean, you guys, I mean, it's kind of a

CYTERA (16:31)
Yeah, we were thinking Japan. I don't know any Japanese people, so that might be good.

We'll just fly

over there.

RYAN RAYLE (16:40)
kind of an ex

it's just an expensive experiment but hey at least you got to play in Japan you know silver lining but so ⁓ man so so wow so this will be your first show did I hear that right

CYTERA (16:46)
That'd be cool.

Yeah, so I played, look, I'm gonna be honest with you, this is gonna sound really lame and then you realize how awesome it is. I played flute for 14 years, okay? So I've been on a stage in front of three people before. It's kinda cool. What are parents, right? When I was in high school. No, I jumped up on stage with Villa Mora for one song and that's the only time I've been on stage for metal and that was fuckin' fun. It was pretty cool, but yeah, it'd be first time.

RYAN RAYLE (17:08)
I'm done.

What would you just like do like a like a fill in on vocals or like a backup or something?

CYTERA (17:32)
Yeah, it was just like a fill-in on vocals. ⁓ I think they had just like a scheduling conflict, but it was pretty fun. You know, I don't even remember which song it was. Honestly, when it's your first time and the lights are on you, you kind of like out of body experience. You blink and then it's over. You're back at the merch booth, you know, fangirling over them. So buying some, some Villa stickers or whatever. That's how it happened.

RYAN RAYLE (17:53)
Yeah, dude, I have, like I've said a hundred times or a million times, I'm not a musician, but I have, even I get, I understand that nervousness, like whenever you get on stage and the lights come on and you're like, I just forgot all of my fucking lyrics. you're just like, Aaron, you seem to space out a lot. What do you do? How do you keep yourself in check on the drum kit?

when it's time to play.

CYTERA (18:25)
⁓ Okay, so actually I do think about this a lot and this was something that I struggled with ⁓ To get personal again ⁓ So I found that you know, you're just kind of viewing it if you're zoomed in too much on one thing you're using too much CPU and It's gonna take up too much of your mind and you're gonna forget other things, you know It's good to just to kind of like take a step back and assess your situation and then focus on what's you know happening in the moment rather than what's worrying about in the like

what's gonna happen in the future. And the biggest thing was trying not to perceive yourself by imagining how other people are perceiving you at that moment. You know, like, I see it. I think people are viewing me this way or this way. If you just get rid of that completely, and then you're gonna have that confidence up there, because you're just in the moment completely. And once you're in that moment, that's when you thrive completely. So that's what's helped me out.

a good amount when it comes to, you know, any kind of nervousness or forgetting what's going to happen. And also too, if you mess up, if you start thinking about that, it's going to haunt you. So you just got to really just, it's not about the mistake. It's about the recovery and then moving forward, you know, so sometimes people don't notice those things and it's just you and just got to get out of your own head a little bit.

That's how I deal with it.

RYAN RAYLE (19:48)
Yeah, I've seen,

I've seen just from going to, you know, enough shows and knowing the music well enough. I've seen you guys mess up, right? Like I've seen those little moments in time where it's like, that note. And for the most part, I see people just smile. It's almost like you're laughing at yourself. You're like, I can't believe I fucking missed that note. No one noticed.

CYTERA (20:12)
Yeah.

Yeah.

RYAN RAYLE (20:18)
And I think it's.

CYTERA (20:18)
Like if you see me play, almost

kind of excited. Like, you know, I just kind of shake it off. I'm like, like that's not what I meant to do. And like that's the healthy way. I mean, you're seeing a live show. Like if you want it perfect, go listen to the record. You know, like we're all human. And I think just so, you know, not taking it, take it seriously, but don't take perfection, you know, chasing that perfection in an unhealthy way. I think that's where people start getting in their own heads and messing up.

RYAN RAYLE (20:23)
Yeah.

Yeah

CYTERA (20:47)
But yeah.

RYAN RAYLE (20:48)
Tony, what do you do ⁓ to prepare whenever the lights turn on? Because I mean, you've been playing shows for a minute. Do you still get that, you still get them butterflies and like, I hope I've got that thing plugged in or patched right.

CYTERA (21:02)
Dude, I get butterflies like every time. Like, I thought I would get over it, you know, at one point. But no, it never goes away. I think it's just part of it. But I will say, once I'm on the stage, it's like different. It's like, I'm super comfortable. Even if I mess up, you know, I kind of just like, like what Aaron said, just kind of just like, whoops. Hopefully you didn't hear that.

RYAN RAYLE (21:05)
Haha.

Ha! Wha-

CYTERA (21:29)
But, nah, yeah, I get butterflies every time still. I think that will probably be like a forever thing. I know there's a lot of like professionals that, you know, they still get like butterflies all the time. And it just like, they say it never goes away and that makes me feel a little bit better, but. As far as prepare, once on stage, it feels like a rehearsal in a sense. I know it sounds weird, but like basically you should rehearse how you're gonna perform. So, you know, you should.

RYAN RAYLE (21:46)
Hahaha

Okay.

CYTERA (21:59)
If you're gonna move, you should move at rehearsal. That's not to say treat rehearsal like practice. Practice is at home. Practice is where you try to get permanent. It's not perfect. Rehearsal is with your boys. You shouldn't be learning your parts at rehearsal, please. It just wastes everyone's time.

RYAN RAYLE (22:15)
Ha

That's gonna be the name of this that is gonna be that ⁓ my god Prack say say that say that again rehearsal is not for practice practices for home

CYTERA (22:24)
Please don't do that.

Rehearsals not for

practice rehearsal is the time with the boys don't learn your parts at rehearsal, please

RYAN RAYLE (22:35)
Okay. Don't learn your parts

at rehearsal. That's right. Don't learn your parts at rehearsal. Fuck, do that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

CYTERA (22:41)
⁓ but with all that being said, when you get

on stage, some point, like probably within, after the heebie-beejeebies go away, you feel like ⁓ you're at rehearsal. And because you do that consecutively, you feel super comfortable when you're performing on stage. ⁓ The part that I say that like is still probably uncomfortable on stage would be like,

I guess like if you suck or something and the audience is just letting you know you suck, know, okay. But if you're rehearsing a lot, shouldn't, you wouldn't even be worried about that. I mean, if your music slams and you're badass, like the energy from the people is gonna feed your energy. I would say like the hardest show is the player, like the ones where like nobody's moving and you're you're giving all this energy and everyone's just like.

Like, you know, like, that's like probably the hardest show to play. But I gotta say, I have a-

RYAN RAYLE (23:36)
They're hanging out. They're hanging out with

people my age against the wall, just like, this is some good music, but my back says I can't get in that posh pit.

CYTERA (23:45)
I mean, they even like bobbing their head at all. I

like to stare at other drummers on stage like this. And that's me having a good time.

RYAN RAYLE (23:54)
Oh, dude, yeah, just, just like once,

once, once that drummer locks into Aaron's eye gaze, he's like, why is this guy fucking staring at me? And then he gets in his head and all of a sudden he's like, not even looking at the crowd or his kit anymore. It's just, he's just grooving. Aaron's looking at him and they're like this synergistic, like Aaron's like, yeah, homie flow, get in the pocket son.

CYTERA (24:12)
I live.

Wait, actually I had that

happen. This guy psyched me out. I was playing a show. I was playing a show and like, you know, I'm like looking at the crowd. ⁓ Cause you know, I just was checking it out. usually just stare at my drum kit. Like it owes me money, but I like, I look out and everyone's just like, yeah. But then there's this one guy who's like,

RYAN RAYLE (24:23)
dude.

Uh-uh.

CYTERA (24:40)
And I could not, I literally was like, huh? Like, that was my, I was like, huh? And then, but for some reason, I just couldn't like shake it out of my head. This is kind what I was talking about earlier, you if you start thinking about other things, takes up your CPU. And I was like, in my head, I was like, watch this be the reason I messed something up. And sure enough, it exactly, I like, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy, all because of a guy going.

So, dude, it's real.

RYAN RAYLE (25:03)
It's like in the movies

or it's in the movies like a show whenever there's like a very wide shot camera and it's like a crowded street and then it zooms in real tight and it's just one person in the opposite direction looking at the camera but everybody else is walking and you're just like. Yeah.

CYTERA (25:20)
Yeah, like I look like those Tarantino shots where it's like Yeah

⁓ I feel like now that I'm saying this like people who are gonna see me live now They're gonna actively try to do this. There's gonna be like a group of people just

RYAN RAYLE (25:32)
They're going to stare at you. Yes. Yes.

This. I've already I've already started. I've already started a subreddit as we've been talking about it.

CYTERA (25:39)
Let's go. ⁓

RYAN RAYLE (25:43)
It's called Eyes with Aaron, guys. Eyes with Aaron. ⁓

CYTERA (25:44)
Alright. Eyes are there.

Yeah, I'll do a blindfold now, you know, it's gonna be like bird box. I'm gonna shoot it like that. Wait, y'all gonna have to like guide me on stage like... You sit here. Yeah.

RYAN RAYLE (25:52)
Whoa, yeah, dude. Bird box drumming. Let's go.

Yeah. Yeah. They'll be like

they'll be like, what's wrong with the drummer? Why is he blind? Is he actually blind? And they're like, no, he just doesn't like people staring at him. There was an incident. There was an incident back in 20, 20, 25 that has like PTSD, but he's still but he's still a killer drummer and wants to play it all of a sudden. Like there's a Netflix documentary about all of this and maybe there's a GoFundMe for the PTSD or something. I don't know. I don't know.

CYTERA (26:11)
Yeah

This guy is just looking at him

God.

RYAN RAYLE (26:31)
I feel like we're going off on the...

CYTERA (26:31)
Help Aaron with his anxiety. It's post-traumatic stress drummers. That's exactly what it is. ⁓

RYAN RAYLE (26:38)
That's it. That's it. Post-traumatic stress drummers.

I write, I know, like what is anyway. Alex, Alex, you as the you as the front man, you actually have to look at people. ⁓ Let me rephrase that. You don't have to look at people. But you are. Yeah, it's it's I've heard different tactics from different vocalists. I'm just curious, when when since we're kind of going through everybody, what is what are are some of your things that you go through?

CYTERA (26:44)
laughter

⁓ I do? Shit.

I look at through them.

RYAN RAYLE (27:11)
before you get on stage. Actually, since you haven't really been on stage, what are you looking forward to to be scared of?

CYTERA (27:16)
keep rubbing it in.

Wow, I'm psyching myself up to prepare to be scared of... Honestly, I just think it's the... ⁓

RYAN RAYLE (27:25)
Yeah.

CYTERA (27:28)
Probably the switching from screaming and singing. ⁓ It's not so much like forgetting lyrics or having someone look at me funny like they do at Aaron all the time and, you know, pointing and laughing until he falls off his kit. It's more so just like when you're going up there and you got the hot lights, like everything I've heard from other vocalists is just you're going to be way more fatigued than when you're at rehearsal. So to prepare for it, I mean, I've been running like a lot. I haven't ran this much since I was in the army, but.

RYAN RAYLE (27:31)
Okay.

CYTERA (27:55)
I'm doing it again and I'm hoping that just prepares it. Agility.

RYAN RAYLE (28:01)
Yeah, man, you do. gotta get cardio is life, baby. I have been back, back into running for a few years now and I'm currently the goals for this year are to run, ⁓ a half marathon and possibly a marathon, but that I'm not sure. Definitely, definitely shooting for the half, but I could only imagine. And yeah, I've talked to other bands about, know, what, what they do to like, fuck talking to

CYTERA (28:18)
⁓ shit.

RYAN RAYLE (28:28)
John from Snake Father, that dude is just, I mean, the guy just takes up an entire fucking room. I mean, he's huge. And the amount of movement that that dude exerts on stage is like fucking phenomenal. And I was just curious, are some of the things that you guys do or that you guys are going to do to prepare for the first show?

I mean, just a shit ton of rehearsing and don't learn your shit at rehearsal, right?

CYTERA (29:02)
See, ⁓ it's like an oxymoron. It's like we want to have a lot of rehearsals, but if you're practicing at home, then you don't have a lot of rehearsals. So really it's just kind of like a sound check. There's the big room that we'll rent at the space, bring the rig and kind of mess around with everything to make it sound perfect. But from what I've heard from the guys, there's never going to be a perfect scenario. You're going to go to different venues and it's just not going to...

RYAN RAYLE (29:10)
dollar

CYTERA (29:28)
Right, so I think to answer your question, it's preparing for when shit hits the fan and just how do you recover to Aaron's point. So going through different scenarios, this guy gave me vocal homework right here. So he's like, you should play the whole set list, you know, in my hot ass garage. I live in Jarrell so it's higher elevation. It's like I'm touching the sun already and practically in Dallas and ⁓ waiting for the tornado to hit me, you know, and just, just take me off the planet. So I don't have to worry about the homework he gave me anymore.

RYAN RAYLE (29:35)
That's it.

Jarrell is a Nora desert. Yeah.

CYTERA (29:57)
But basically to do the set list with like no in-ears, do it with them, do it with one missing, do it with only drums, just 400 % volume in my ears and that's all I can hear is Aaron bleeding me. That's his mix. That's his mix. So that's how I'm gonna prepare. What about you guys? It's true, I did just give him like.

RYAN RAYLE (29:58)
Yeah.

Yeah, I

CYTERA (30:18)
No, no.

RYAN RAYLE (30:18)
was just going to say I'm curious, so you gave Alex like actual homework to prepare.

CYTERA (30:24)
Yes I did.

So this is actually fairly recent too as of like... How long has it been? Two days. Two days ago. 47 hours. I'm sorry my ADD is like popping off right now. I'm like... But yeah so I did give him homework. I just like I laid it all out and I like I put it in a PDF and made it look nice. It was like all my all my thoughts. Now I was just like look I've worked with like okay vocalists. I've worked with...

RYAN RAYLE (30:33)
Okay.

CYTERA (30:52)
probably the best vocalist I've ever worked with in my life. And then I was like, and now here's you. So I gave him a lot of homework. I'm like, I know what some of these guys struggled with and I know what some of them like wanted to get better at. So this is what you should do. And yeah, one of the pieces of advice I gave him was to literally rehearse in a bad environment. So that way whenever he's in a bad environment and hopefully we never are. But so for example, like some venues that just like

like super boomy, like he can actually hear or know what he's doing, tonality with his voice and actually sound on pitch. And I have to be like so reliant on what the two methods that I see people do, the first method being pitch correction ⁓ on their signal chain, right? Or this is probably the worst one, but I know people do it. ⁓ Actually putting their vocal from the master track.

as a backing track to make up for that they can't sing. Not just the harmonies, but like the actual vocal. but yeah, like so, and I get that, know, like if you got to do that, you got to do that, but I don't want him to have to rely on that. I also, the last band I was in, ⁓ you know, the guy did everything like raw and he was like super good. So it's kind of like, he just blew my mind. I was just like, you know, that's the new standard. Like I just can't.

RYAN RAYLE (31:58)
Oh, absolutely. No, no, no. The whole thing. Yeah, I've...

CYTERA (32:21)
I can't, it can't not be that anymore. I'll just be disappointed. I was like, know, I see the bands come through and like some of them do it really well. Like me and Aaron just saw volumes this Thursday or last Thursday and like my Terry sounds great, dude. And I was just like, wow, he sounds really good. Of course I never seen him live, but you know, part of me was like, I wonder how he is, you know? I wonder how he's going to be. And I was checking out their stuff and checking out what the sound guy, you know, was doing all that jazz. Cause I'm a nerd like that.

RYAN RAYLE (32:26)
No, I-

Dude, the sound guy, the sound guy, if the sound guy is on, then the sound guy is on, you know, like it, it not, I mean, you can take a good sound dude with a shitty setup and, you know, make some cool music, but ⁓ yeah, having your, having your stuff together to, give, to tailor it, like come and take it. He's super professional. I mean, you guys have worked with him before. He's a, he's a monster.

CYTERA (32:49)
but

yeah, dude.

RYAN RAYLE (33:18)
⁓ Whenever you guys, so I, we've been going for like almost 40 minutes and haven't even talked about the music. God almighty. Man, I was just sitting here thinking in my head, like, have we even talked about the music? No. So let's get into, let's get, yeah, like, I thought we were here to help Aaron with his, you know, with his like, you know, that,

CYTERA (33:26)
It's okay, this can be a two hour. Lots of clips.

We make music guys

RYAN RAYLE (33:47)
We're going to Chili's

CYTERA (33:51)
Shout out chilies the three for me combo this 1099 to get a smash burger house salad coke zero with no ice No, fuck you, dude. No, no, no, no sponsor us chilies, please the wings and then you You get another option, but I'll leave that one as a mystery for you to figure out yourself, you know

RYAN RAYLE (33:58)
Let's go. Let's go.

Hahaha

Here we go, we're getting it direct from the source.

CYTERA (34:11)
That's my homework for you, actually, is to see how you, for anyone listening, and you as well. Go to Chili, so save you money. We're not sponsored by them, but we may be in the future. Policies apply.

RYAN RAYLE (34:15)
for me?

Okay.

Please check the terms and conditions. man. Yeah. my God. Real quick. I speak in that. Sorry. That just took my brain to a real bad spot. You know when you get the when you're late when you're when you're hanging out late night TV and you get the infomercials that you know basically if you take this pill you'll die worse than if you don't take the pill or whatever injection. So we're trying to we're trying to do this little

CYTERA (34:27)
may cause balding.

Yeah

RYAN RAYLE (34:54)
We're trying to do this little side hustle called Side Effects May Include. And it's where we watch the, it's a reaction video to prescription drug commercials. But then we actually break down the video and try to figure out what they're trying to solve. Anyway, this is not music related. You just said something.

CYTERA (35:16)
This is a genius idea because

taking those things is almost like, oh man, it's like, but it have been a bit of a a of a a a bit bit of of of of of of bit bit of of

RYAN RAYLE (35:20)
Dude, dude, there's there's some out there. Yeah,

the disclaimer says that that my perineum is going to be inflamed. Do you know what your perineum is? It's not a fun thing to get inflamed. I'll tell you that much. Not that I've ever had an inflamed perineum. saying. Just saying.

CYTERA (35:41)
It does sound like a bad time. ⁓

RYAN RAYLE (35:43)
I don't know how we got here guys, but

I'm glad that we're here. Let's talk about some... Dude, you know what? Your name actually looks like a drug that could be...

CYTERA (35:50)
you

Wait my name? I was like I guess

RYAN RAYLE (35:58)
No, Cytera, that sounds like a drug name.

Not Aaron Huggins, no dude.

CYTERA (36:05)
You guys ever popped a couple errands

before in a back dark alleyway? No, I popped a Tony. I don't know about Alex though, that one gave me hepatitis.

RYAN RAYLE (36:14)
⁓ God. I was. ⁓ man. This is perfect. This is perfect. This is perfect.

CYTERA (36:22)
We do have a song that's kind

of like, I guess about drugs in a way. It was called Crave. ⁓ yeah, Crave's about drugs. It was like the first one we released, I guess like official, official, you know, with like, I'd start, I'd do the marketing and all that jazz and the meta-ass and yeah. Alex, you should take it away. Was there a question in there, Tony?

RYAN RAYLE (36:26)
UGHH... No... Okay-

⁓ man.

Whoa.

Hey. Yeah, let's, let's get away.

Let's get away from from pharmaceutical pharmaceutical drugs and dying grandmas. ⁓

I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.

CYTERA (37:06)
⁓ my god, I fucking can't.

RYAN RAYLE (37:09)
⁓ man. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

CYTERA (37:14)
Who's Prabaha? Yeah.

RYAN RAYLE (37:16)
in and out. ⁓ music, Scythera. It's not a drug. Maybe it is a drug. Maybe you'll get hooked on Scythera for the new music that they're going to release. Alex, tell me about the new music. There, finally. God, I got it out. Woo. Man. Man. Okay.

CYTERA (37:30)
All right, you're okay there? Yeah, you took too many side terrors this morning. Are you talking about the music we have coming

out later this year or the stuff we just dropped?

RYAN RAYLE (37:40)
⁓ Both let's go for both

CYTERA (37:41)
Both.

All right, I'll talk about them at the same time. I'm just kidding. So the music we just came out with, Tony was right, we dropped Crave back in August. That was our first song ⁓ together and after that hiatus. ⁓ The kind of idea, when you look at bands, they always have this big overarching message for the name of the band and then obviously themed albums and EPs and stuff. The band name's always been about just...

RYAN RAYLE (37:44)
Yes.

CYTERA (38:10)
kind of social issues and things that in my opinion will never ever go away. We could live on Mars, we could have a billion people there and you're still gonna deal with the same shit. ⁓ So that's kind of what the name of the band meant. Cy being Cycle, repeating and Terra meaning of Earth. ⁓ But Crave was kind of about drugs, obsession and addiction. ⁓ Most bands in the metalcore kind of genre, I feel like I've had at least one song about this, is like how do we kind of do a take on it? ⁓

but we really wanted like an EDM kind of anthem, something where he can stare down other people in the audience and just beat the shit out of like a four on the floor beat. I'm a wook, so that's what got me kind of, I'm a wook, so that's kind of got me, you know, into this project here. I love EDM stuff, like give me a good wonky bass line and like some good tear out, like I'm head banging there, so that's what.

RYAN RAYLE (38:44)
Hell yeah.

I am also,

I'm also an EDM fan. love, I love some good ⁓ drum and bass. I love, really, really fell into the trap and, and, but go ahead. So that's good. Yeah. I like, I like that, that, that's starting to be more, I don't want to say socially acceptable, but you know, examples that come to mind like the Browning, they have, they mix a lot of EDM into their stuff. Yeah.

CYTERA (39:03)
⁓

is people

No,

Yeah, phenomenal.

My favorite honestly is Northlane. like talking about the music, we all have our own inspirations, mine for a long time. Recently it's been like Thornhill Boundaries, that's why I'm wearing their shirt. Jacob's a phenomenal vocalist. But for like curating and carving out the sound, first of all, we have an excellent producer, know, shout out Richie from Fire from the Gods. He makes amazing stuff.

We've been working with them since 2016. anyway, Crave is like an electronic track. Alice, that one also brings back like the floor on the floor vibe, right? So like the idea was these are bands we look up to and if we were ever in a position where we could play with them one day, it'd be sick to have a set list that kind of just all makes sense thematically. Alice is about, ⁓ it's actually really, really fucking dark. That one's about sex trafficking. So I wrote like a, exactly, I wrote a,

In my mind, it was gonna be like an anime of a girl named Alice that basically infiltrates one of those underground kind of areas and she just fucking kills all the perverts, the bad people, whatever. It was kind of like, if you ever seen the movie Sucker Punch, I was almost thinking of that theme mixed with any revenge storyline you've had, John Wick. I was gonna make an anime, but when you look at it, getting those artists to do that are like five, $6,000.

It's fucking expensive. So we were like, well, let's just make like a really cool visualizer and drop the song. And then the third one, dethroned, ⁓ if I want to be not as deep, I had a shitty boss. Fuck that guy, the song's about him. But it's about anyone in leadership that kind of takes advantage of the people that entrust themselves to follow that person. And I have a line in there, you'll die alone, you motherfucking bitch, right at the breakdown. That's kind of like my thoughts about those people.

⁓ You know, when people put trust in you and you kind of ruin that, you don't really deserve to have anything, in my opinion. So, anyway, that's it. And then the stuff we got coming out later this year, we have a surprise I'm not even gonna allude to here because they would kill me, but we have some, ⁓ we got a new song coming out that's gonna probably be our best one. And then some stuff later on in the year as well. I need some water, man. You making me talk about music. I'm getting thirsty.

RYAN RAYLE (41:33)
Okay, wow. That's ⁓

CYTERA (41:39)
I'm a thirsty as bit.

RYAN RAYLE (41:39)
we tend to, we tend to have conversations about, you know, frets and whatnot. Man, that's wow. So from drugs and addiction to trafficking to fuck your boss. That's, that's, I think everybody, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not in the literal sense, but

CYTERA (41:54)
Well not fuck your boss, they might get the wrong idea. Cause then it's like

now I have a problem with HR. Now that's a problem. The Karens and the Kevins that work remote from home, no offense to anybody that may be listening right here, inclusions do not apply. Do not take offense and do not take more than one Cytera per every eight hours. Just like that.

RYAN RAYLE (42:02)
Yeah.

I'm

That was actually, I think I'm going to have. Dude, what if, dude, what if, what if a song, what if the song, what if bands actually had to come with a fucking warning like that? Like, remember, I don't know the average age on the other side of the screen, but I lived through the era when they didn't have the TV 14, TV 7, TVMA ratings. Like I, I grew up 42, so I grew up through that.

CYTERA (42:17)
Songs may cause a deep offense and fuck you.

RYAN RAYLE (42:45)
And so then they started putting like the disclaimers on the I mean this was huge when they put the parental discretion ⁓ Advised on the on the CDs I wonder if they'd ever take it a step further and like put a warning on the mute like like you just said like Do not consume more than eight hours of this type of music because of blah blah blah blah blah blah. There's got to be a condition out there Maybe you should take some Cytera Maybe it'll help

CYTERA (42:57)
Yeah

You what's crazy? It's

like, they have all that stuff on there, but you meet like metalheads and like rockheads, and there's some of the nicest, most sane people ever. Some. I'm not saying all, but some. The other half are kind of nuts. But yeah, that's the craziest part. It's like...

RYAN RAYLE (43:25)
There's

a few bad eggs out there, but there's more good than bad.

CYTERA (43:33)
I always thought it was crazy how society, especially Vigo talked to some boomers, like boomer boomers or something that just like, oh, you play metal? That's like devil's music. It's like, Bro, it's just hardcore. they're like, oh, you must be very unstable. I'm like, no, I'm fine. I'm living good. I work a job. know? I always just thought it was interesting how like,

the label around like, you know, having all that parental advisory and all that stuff just spread it like so much fear into into people. And when really like some of the nicest people on this earth listen to that stuff day in and day out, hardcore blasting it and they're fine. It's like, I don't know. I almost wonder like why they put all the stuff on the albums. It's not even like. It's not even really a threat to kids either.

RYAN RAYLE (44:28)
Yeah.

CYTERA (44:31)
That's all dependent on the parent and how the parent raises the child. Like straight up the same.

RYAN RAYLE (44:37)
No, dude, I've been taking my daughter to metal shows since she was ⁓ nine or ten. And one of the one of the very first shows that she went to was a hardcore show where Reign was was headlining. Yeah. And it's like, you know, people were looking at me like, like, hell, yeah, man, can't believe you got your daughter here. But then, you know, people just don't know. And it's almost like there's like this taboo.

CYTERA (44:53)
hell yeah, I remember Reign

RYAN RAYLE (45:06)
of bringing a child to a metal concert. It's like you take your kids, yeah, like you take your kids to the country. Yeah, like you're take them to the country, you know, the country show or, you know, the easy listening on the, the, on the, at the baseball field or whatever. It's like, it's just music. And I understand that there's words and, and, and, you know, ⁓ fuck themes of music that, you know, obviously aren't, aren't meant for, you know, like

CYTERA (45:10)
Yeah, like it's like not allowed or something. Like, they're going to grow up bad.

Now what almost?

RYAN RAYLE (45:35)
I'm not going to let her listen to like some grindcore and, and, ⁓ you know, like that's, that's yeah. Pornocore. Like we're not listening to that. We're listening to, you know, like she's listening to K-pop bands and, ⁓ fit for a king and Memphis may fire and yeah. And then like, you know, she's, she's a paramour fan. Like I love, I love being able to pass along, you know,

CYTERA (45:38)
yeah, what is it called? That porno core or whatever?

Take it down some BTS.

RYAN RAYLE (46:05)
songs that I love to my kid and then hear her like she'll come up with her with the phone and she'll be like, Hey, I got this new song for you and I'll listen to it like holy shit. Like this is good. Who is this? And it's and then I'll like, you know, reach out to him on Instagram. Be like, Hey, my daughter found your music. You want to get an interview in? And then, you know, but yeah, I'm not sure where we're going with this, but I think it had something to do with like parental discretion and warnings and whatnot. But the themes of your music.

Alex, I know that you know you're, is that going to be carried forward with the new music?

CYTERA (46:40)
Yeah, I think the idea was to have ⁓ each song is just like completely different slice of a theme, right? Like I've seen some bands successfully, like I'm going to use Thornhill as an example, right? Bodies. The entire album's theme is like sexy, seductive, kind of you read the lyrics and it's about guy going to a club, seeing a girl. And then it doesn't sound that shallow because his writing is so excellent, right? Instead of saying, hey, for our next four or five songs, we're going to pick one theme and then talk about it four or five different ways.

⁓ completely different, right? So we do have some depression ones kinda coming up, some that explore ideas of nihilism and feeling like, you ever met those people that you love them, they might be your friends or your family, but they feel like they have no purpose, they don't do anything with their lives? know, I have this fucker right here. No, Aaron. But he was pointing at himself guilty as charged. But no, so anyway, I got inspired by that.

Um, you know, and then also I had a close friend of mine, you know, take his life two years ago, you know, just, and so that was pretty, uh, pretty disheartening and difficult to deal with. So I definitely have a song talking about that. I appreciate you asking because I feel like this is something bands don't always get to talk about. People have to go read the lyrics and maybe we like that and they figure it out themselves, but I'm an open book. I'll be like, this shit was about that on that day at 107, 47 hours after Tony gave me the homework. Exactly like that.

RYAN RAYLE (48:06)
Yeah.

CYTERA (48:08)
Yeah, after he sent the demo and he mixed it down and he said, Yeah.

RYAN RAYLE (48:13)
I, no, yeah, I always, it's always hard whenever you're on this side asking questions because I don't, you know, I like to keep the interviews fresh, you know, and whatnot, but it is very beneficial to have the people that actually create the art to explain what they were going through or, you know, what they were thinking of because then, you know, like music is subjective so you can take it how you want it.

And I think that if someone knows where you were at headspace wise, whenever that song was written or however it came about, it just creates a tighter bond, you know, and then they can, you know, support a little bit better or, you know, maybe they'll get through something. mean, I think that's why I keep doing this, right? Like this is my therapy on Sundays is just to talk to you guys and...

CYTERA (49:08)
I love it.

RYAN RAYLE (49:10)
you know, get your music out and get your message out. And I did, can't wait to see you guys play. I've, I've seen these two, I've seen these two on stage. I've seen them do it. Hell. And for those that don't know, our lovely drummer here, Aaron was the, this is the guy behind the drums on the intro for the Texas Takeover. So just wanted to say, dude, that was

CYTERA (49:32)
that was such a blast. Thank you for having

me on

RYAN RAYLE (49:37)
Yeah. And, and, you know, now being able to, like I've said, carry the torch for the locals and being able to have people like Aaron and, you know, ⁓ Dylan on vocals and John and Nigel and Seth. Yeah. It was, really, it came out. It can't do. Yeah. It came out, it came out really good. the radio stations pumped to have it. we're on episode five, actually as of today at eight o'clock on no control radio.

CYTERA (49:50)
Yeah, it was a crazy super group.

RYAN RAYLE (50:06)
will be episode five and then that's when I thought yeah, Dethroned is gonna play. God, or did play last week? I'm lost, last week, that's right. I was like what playlist did I have it in? This one? Nope, that one? I just, man, but I'm glad that we got to share it because when it came through in the email, was like, who's this? And played it, was like, wow, this is kind of spicy. And then once we started talking, I was like, oh shit, because they,

He's like, yeah, Tony and Aaron are going to join me. I'm like, wait, Tony and Aaron are in the band? Holy shit. This is OK. Great. Great. This is going to be a good time. Yeah. So yeah, surprise, motherfucker. Cheese, steak, and fries, motherfucker. But anyway, I've had an excellent time. I really appreciate you guys joining me. Sorry for the kind technical difficulties. But I think I look forward to you guys.

CYTERA (50:40)
⁓ Surprise.

RYAN RAYLE (51:03)
I know we mentioned it before, like timeframe wise, I don't care where you're playing, but like when did you guys say you might get on stage?

CYTERA (51:14)
Yeah, Erin said wouldn't you like to know?

RYAN RAYLE (51:16)
What do you like to know, son

of a bitch? Get out of here.

CYTERA (51:20)
We're aiming between May and June. I think that'd be an excellent time. Don't hold us to it though, right? Because things can change. But honestly, if there's any bands that come across checking this out, just hit us up. I mean, we'll play with pretty much anybody at this point. Just want to make some friends and have a fun time. But May, June, that's got to be it.

RYAN RAYLE (51:39)
Cool, cool, all right.

CYTERA (51:40)
and then

every single week after that in the same city. Wait, did I accidentally just burn some people? I'm just kidding.

RYAN RAYLE (51:43)
Yeah, same venue we're gonna...

We're going to establish residency and we're never leaving.

CYTERA (51:53)
H-Town,

RYAN RAYLE (51:54)
Well, all right, guys. Well, I appreciate your time. Any, what are all the ats where people can follow you? When, where can they ⁓ support you? Like website, can they get any merch or, you know, obviously all your links.

CYTERA (52:06)
So everything is at Cyteraband every single social media, everything. ⁓ I know like some bands, they have them like all over the place, but everything at Cyteraband and then most of our links, you can find them on, you can find like a central hub on like ⁓ Instagram, for example, or TikTok or wherever you're at, whatever social media. And that have.

RYAN RAYLE (52:30)
Where are you guys most

present?

CYTERA (52:32)
Most present? We are most present probably... Probably Instagram? I mean like it's more like an archive but like... That's a hard one. I say we're most present on Spotify. MySpace. MySpace.

RYAN RAYLE (52:47)
Dude, I'm

sorry. I've been holding this bet. For those listening, have to jump over to the YouTube channel and you have to go look at Tony. Tony is the poster child for MySpace and Emo music. The guy, you're gonna, like his hair is perfectly wafted and he's always, and he's doing the, like I'm telling you, if you're listening to this, if you're listening to this, please, please.

CYTERA (53:09)
There was a time. ⁓

RYAN RAYLE (53:15)
Watch this

episode just to watch Tony's hair just gloriously just shift.

CYTERA (53:18)
He did it, he did it. It just naturally happens. Dude,

believe it or not, there was a time I cut it all off without warning, just suddenly. Like, I made it short. Yeah, was like, it was during the D &D phase and like, I forgot who encouraged me to do it, but like, I just like, I chopped it and broke people spitting out their water when we went live. was like, I was like, I just committed the mortal sin.

RYAN RAYLE (53:34)
Mmmmm ⁓

I... yes. I know.

It's like whenever Ramy cut his beard. talk about looking like not who you're supposed to look like. My goodness.

CYTERA (53:52)
Bro.

Yeah, the baby face.

RYAN RAYLE (54:00)
man, such a cutie pie. Love that kid. Aaron, you got any ats or socials that you, I know if you do, you still do your playthroughs?

CYTERA (54:11)
Yes, so I took a pause on the playthroughs just for a quick sec because I am working on a solo project that I'm really excited about. So on my Instagram, for now it's gringo goblin, gringo underscore goblin, but everything's going to be through that. So that's just my, you know, plug there ⁓ for my drum content and stuff. But yeah, solo project about to be announced and it's crazy. It's genuinely nuts. So I'm excited for that.

Alright, but that's me.

I've got nothing to say.

RYAN RAYLE (54:42)
Any final,

I was going say any any final thank yous or like, you know, shout outs to your mom.

CYTERA (54:49)
Yeah, shout out to Aaron's mom. Hey, Hold on, let me see. Dude, my mom's the best, man. ⁓

RYAN RAYLE (54:51)
It's Alan Tarrant's mom. Alright.

I'm sure she's great.

CYTERA (54:57)
But shout

out to you, Ryan, for having us. we're truly grateful to be here. And this is podcast that, least speaking for myself, I've been wanting to be on here for a while now. So yeah, glad to be here finally. And yeah, just thank you, Shout out to you. Thanks to everyone who's streaming our music. It's going to be really cool to see your faces at a show. And thank you, Ryan, for having us. It was really fun.

RYAN RAYLE (55:01)
thanks, man.

Cool man, glad to have you.

Yeah, yeah, thanks man.

CYTERA (55:23)
Appreciate you, Ryan. Can't wait to get into the physical studio ⁓ once it's ready. I'm looking at the wood behind you and I'm like, I wanna touch it. Yeah, there you go, just like that. And I just gotta say, everybody, thanks for streaming our music. Also, if you stream it too much, know, select side effects may apply. Reach out to your doctor. Get a second opinion or a third and don't blame me.

RYAN RAYLE (55:28)
I know man, it's

play that guitar.

Remember guys,

only one Scythera per eight hours. Apparently that's the limit. Oh yeah, yeah, not just one song. We're talking front to back. That is the recommended dose. Anyway. oh my god, I'm so sorry.

CYTERA (55:48)
Yeah, the whole catalog parade hours, there you go.

Yeah

Next song's gonna be called Overdosed, because of Ryan, thanks.

RYAN RAYLE (56:10)
Wow, that's dark. All right, we're gonna end it there. You guys stick around. Again, my name is Ryan. Thank you for hanging out with us on the ATX Metal Podcast. This is Cytera They'll be on a stage near you soon, hopefully here in Central Texas sometime in the summertime. And obviously some new music. Go check them out wherever you get your listening pleasure from. Dethroned is the latest one now. What were the other two? ⁓ Alice and Crave.

CYTERA (56:35)
Crave.

Yeah, that's right.

RYAN RAYLE (56:38)
And ⁓ yeah, just stream them wherever you want to. This will be out, you know, pretty much. If you're listening to it now, you've already found the secret sauce. But again, thank you guys. You guys stick around for a little bit. We'll see you guys next time.