Direct Hit! just released their debut full-length, Domesplitter, via our good friends at Kind Of Like Records. PropertyOfZack is a big fan of the band and the album, so we thought it’d be a great idea to have Direct Hit! do a Track-By-Track guide for the album. Nick Woods was kind enough to do the write-up, so check out the meaning behind all the tracks!

Snickers Or Reese’s (Pick Up The Pieces) 
I wrote the words to this one about a former friend of mine who threatened to kill me and my girlfriend (now fiancee). There was a point where dude would call my phone literally non-stop for hours at a time, and send the most absolutely ludicrous notes about what he was gonna do when we ended up in the same room. It freaked me out a lot at the time, so I wrote a song about it, and seeing the words written down made me realize how ridiculous the whole situation was. 

Satan Says
A lot of the time I just pick topics for songs because I haven’t covered them yet. Demonic possession was one of them when I started working on songs for DH#5. The line “I’ve got 10 minutes, but that’s not for hours” was was rattling around in my brain for a while for some reason, so I kind of started with that and went from there. Metaphorically, I guess this song is about obsession, and how talking to the voices in your head tends to exclude the people around you. Literally, it’s about a dude whose best friend is Satan, and everyone else needs to fucking chill.

Monster In The Closet
Most of Direct Hit’s songs tend to have this whole vibe around humor in the face of hopelessness - Really upbeat tunes set to really depressing, violent shit. That was never really a goal or something, but this song kind of exemplifies that… “Monster” hits on suicide, depression, loneliness, a whole bunch of super downers. But when you consider it’s actually about an inter-dimensional beast coming into a dude’s room at night, it gets a whole lot less serious.

Kingdom Come
This is my obligatory “my job sucks” song. I wrote it while working at a call center in Madison about how I wanted to kill everyone there. Most of the people were actually pretty nice. But there were a couple of supervisors who took their jobs way too seriously. They’re the ones I’m gonna blow up.

Boredom Addict
I’ve written a lot of DH’s material just because I didn’t feel like doing anything else, so this tune is kind of about that. It’s written from the perspective of someone who spends all his time smoking weed and waiting for shows to come on the TV. A lot of people writing pop punk spend a lot of time doing both of those, so I thought it was kind of funny that so many songs still manage to come out of that mundane experience. “Boredom Addict” is sort of my tribute to that I guess.

Failed Invasion
I hadn’t written a song about aliens yet when I was working on DH#3, and the title of this song was what came to mind first. So I thought up this idea of a bunch of losers who sit around and figure out plans to thwart a takeover from space that will never come. It sort of makes fun of nerds like me, who spend too much time talking about dumb fantasy shit that isn’t going to happen, before realizing they should probably do something with their lives.

We Are Alone
When I first started writing Direct Hit songs, I thought it would be cool to write a concept album about a couple of dudes breaking out of prison and their adventures after getting out. It’s a testament to how lazy I am that this under-two-minute song is as far along that path as I got.

Living Dead
I actually wrote this song after “They Came For Me”, even though that song didn’t make it on an EP until DH#3. “Living Dead” was released on DH#2. The former was already about zombies, but I didn’t want to get rid of the whole “Hey, hey, hey / we are the living dead / we are the living dead” chorus because I thought it was catchy. So I just wrote a bunch of shit that doesn’t really make sense. I think I had some really cockamamie idea in my head originally about this agency that fucks over people you don’t like for you that was called The Living Dead Inc., but I don’t really remember, and that idea sucks anyway and is a ripoff of Dirty Work, that movie with Norm McDonald. I like the breakdown in this song a lot though! DH doesn’t have another song with a breakdown in it.

In Orbit
This one’s about as close as we’ve come to an out-and-out love song (unless you count “How, When & Why” off of DH#1, which sucks total ass and is embarrassing). My fiancee complained a lot about how depressing all of my songs were after she read the lyrics to “Snickers Or Reese’s”, and how I needed to write happier stuff, so I wrote this one to get her to chill out. The whole hopelessness thing works in to this song anyway, but I think girls like it because I use the line “tea for two”.

They Came For Me
This song is pretty surface level… Just a tune about zombies. I tried to write it from the perspective of a dude trying to rally a group to fight back though, or something. It’s super-egotistical, but a lot of the time, I have that image in my head when writing our songs: One dude with his fist in the air in front of a huge crowd of people screaming at the top of his lungs. Except usually I imagine my guy gets shot in the head at the end of it, and the bad guys end up winning.