Hercules Morse release track by track guide for ‘Vita Boundary’

HERCULES MORSE have released a track by track guide for their upcoming new album!

Hailing from Southampton, since 2014, the British rockers have been building quite the buzz thanks to their fusion of FU MANCHU styled stoner rock, BEATLES-esque melodies and FOO FIGHTERS’ style of classic rock. Sounds good right? We certainly think so and with their debut album, Vita Boundary, set to drop this week we caught up with the band to give us the lowdown, track by track, of their forthcoming debut!

Everything Is Great

Everything Is Great kicks off the album at 169 mph. If there was ever a collaboration between FU MANCHI and Simon & Garfunkel; I’d imagine it would sound like this. I guess that makes it stoner folk? It’s instrumentally upbeat but lyrically dark. Hello there juxtaposition.

War Within

You know those sleepless nights filled with existential dread and fretful regret? If not, keep it that way. War Within is about the ongoing battle between rational thought and anxiety. On an aside; it took me several weeks to notice that our drummer, Gizmo had snuck in some military-style snare work to reflect the theme of war. #subtle.

Cuckoo

Someone close to me is in a very poor state of mental health. However, they are not well enough to be able to realise this. I believe, as a society, we are awful at addressing such issues. My approach, as with most problems, is either music or humour, and this song combines both. The message is: you’re not well, that’s OK, let’s do what we can to help improve your situation. I wish it were more articulate.

Talk Me Down

Sometimes it’s cathartic to just take a massive riff and build a song around it. This is probably the heaviest track on the album and was one of the most fun to record.

Clockwork

I see our current political systems domestically and globally as inherently unjust. However, I think most people are happy to accept that. I believe we need wholesale change, but (generally speaking) we’re too comfortable to make that a reality; instead being content with perpetuating the current situation. The chorus contains a pun on ‘revolution’. I love puns. The solo is one of our guitarist’s finest, and that’s saying something given his fine record of fine solos.

Resigned

The bridge section in this song is probably my favourite riff on the album. The outro then takes that riff and shifts its starting position, whilst maintaining the original starting point for the lead guitar line. That’s the kind of thing that no-one ever notices, but makes us as musicians feel well smug. Our counterpoint skillz are basically J.S. Bach level.

Can’t See The Sunrise

A lovely song about all-consuming negativity. One of the best things about recording an album is getting a chance to record tracks that don’t fit into the sub-three-and-a-half-minute radio friendly mould expected of singles and EPs. This is definitely one of those.

Still Singing

I wasn’t sure we should record this one; however, the others convinced me otherwise and I’m glad they did, because it’s one of my personal highlights of the album. Listen out for what is possibly the best drum fill on the album/in the world ever.

Story Goes

Warning: this song contains excessively dirty bass-lines. We hired a literal choir of angels to provide backing vocals on this song. They were very professional and unexpectedly cheap. We only had to pledge them the soul of our drummer, Gizmo as payment. They were pretty peeved when they realised that drummers don’t have souls.

Go For Broke

Check out the world’s worst pronunciation of the word ‘risk’ in this track. Following on from the fretful regret laid down in War Within, this song looks at how my impetuous nature often leads me to make terrible decisions. It was inspired by one particular incident, which I’m too embarrassed to talk about. Ooooh, mysterious…

Vita Boundary is set for release on May 4th via self-release.

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