Track By Tracks: Hatchet - Leave No Soul (2024)

We wanted to avoid doing a full album. There's always at least some pressure at some point to differentiate your songs from one another. Getting to the end of the album writing cycle, or somewhere in the process I lose my fire a bit and it becomes a forced process. I wanted to avoid all of that this time around. Just put out a few good songs, all solid, and call it a day. That was really the approach this time and to not overthink it like sometimes can happen with an album. Also, all 3 strings brought in a song or song idea with structure ready to work on and finish out as a band effort. So essentially one song is my idea, one is Devin's, and one Clayton's. Ben was asked to work on them all at once and had much less direction from us this time around. We really wanted a band writing effort to its best ability.

Lyrically:

Leave No Soul - Is about mankind's sad pointless existence. His hard work in day-to-day life. Fight for his bread to eat all while keeping his head in the meaningless rat race. Just to ultimately die, return to dust, and receive no heavenly reward for the suffering or any virtues. And there is no soul that lives on.

1. Concealing Decay:

It seems everyone is falling apart. Especially these days. Whether it be mankind as a whole, countries, individuals, or groups. We are all putting our best happy face forward all the while we race toward our inevitable demise. We know it and we see it but we all try to conceal it from one another, Why? Because it is a social norm and not following that means ostracising the ones who do not follow. And we all WANT to be liked, So therefore we all conceal the same decay to one another that we are all facing. Kind of ironic and pointless.

2. Withering Minds:

Human dependence and devotion to trivial things ruin the innocent, human nature we are born with. It's so bread out of us at this point as we are so dependent on everything and anything. In addition, we constantly seek more validation in anything we slightly identify with; Technology, media, politics, and religion. We seek more validation of it everywhere and it is ruining the human mind.