A power trio of Duluth musicians, A M Herculis is simple rock by singer/songwriter, Chad Salmela. With his first band since college, Salmela is plugged in after recording and performing sparse acoustic material sporadically through the '00s. Backed by Tim Nelson (Gild, Boy Girl Boy Girl, Tryke, 550 Million Society) on drums and Josh Tesch on bass.
The band's self-titled, self-released 9-track album (five sample tracks above) is finished and available on iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon, Napster, and many other online music retialers. The CD is available online and distributed by indie band online distributor CD Baby--cdbaby.com/cd/amherculismusic--as well as locally in Duluth at everyone's favorite local record store, The Electric Fetus.
The album was recorded at Sacred Heart Studio in Duluth in early November 2008 with early Smashing Pumpkins and regular Ike Reilly sound man, Tom Fabjance, who recorded and produced Salmela's last