The Quality of Mercury unveils stunning video for 'The Voyager', title track from new album

November 25, 2025

Alternative rock artist The Quality of Mercury has unveiled his debut video for 'The Voyager', the title track from his sophomore album 'The Voyager', a cinematic journey that explores overarching themes of distance, discovery and transformation, previewed by the singles 'Heaven's Gate' and 'Ganymede'.

Set against an infinite backdrop of silent galaxies and infinite star systems, the song follows a lone voyager drifting deeper into the unknown. As distant horizons stretch endlessly outward, the lyrics reveal a psyche slowly warping under the weight of solitude—haunting whispers, fading purpose, and the desperate craving for contact in a universe that never answers. Atmospheric and emotionally charged, the track captures the eerie beauty and psychological unraveling that come from traveling too far beyond the reach of anything at all.

The Quality of Mercury is Pennsylvania-based artist Jeremiah Rouse, who handles everything from writing and performing to engineering. Nine years since his debut 'Transmission' album, his new album is both anthemic and accessible, cinematic and catchy - a perfect blend of muscle and melody.

“With 'The Voyager', I tried to capture what happens when the hunt for purpose leads you past the edge of the familiar. It’s about the thin line between exploration and unraveling. Inspired by the grand, meditative science-fiction films I’ve always loved, it explores what happens when you travel so far into the stars that reality starts to shimmer," says Jeremiah Rouse.

"It’s a story of distance, of isolation reshaping the mind, and of finding a strange beauty in the infinite. My overall intention with this song was to capture the essence of the album as a whole and to bring the listener on the journey with me.”

The accompanying video was created by Italian multi-arts visionary Francesca Bonci, known for her work with Tombstones In Their Eyes, Federale (BJM's Collin Hegna), Philip Parfitt, The Dandy Warhols' Peter G. Holmström a.k.a. Pete International Airport and Slowdive's Rachel Goswell.

"'The Voyager' album is an adventurous journey that explores different terrains and sensations: exhilaration, anxiety, longing and introspection. This groovesome, graceful and grand music with space-rock atmospherics speaks to our deep need for connection. His ongoing search for meaning is woven into songs that range from bursts of excitement to moments of quiet reflection.

Jeremiah Rouse shares, "'This album is born from a deep place of longing -- for connection, for meaning, for something beyond the surface of everyday life. It’s about the desperation we often feel when distance, whether emotional, spiritual, or physical, gets in the way of our need to connect truly."

With majestic imagination and propulsive energy, Rouse's work is preoccupied with the thrill of the sublime universe, chronicling epic intergalactic voyages and the faint echo of cosmic transmissions from untold distances. Expansive and absorbing, each track a grand yet meticulously detailed aural landscape. Ambitious but simple, this music reveals something new every time it's heard. Tiny flourishes, subtle swells, and sound elements moving across the stereo field are placed with painstaking precision, often blooming unexpectedly or emerging decisively at the optimal moment.

With a background in film production and a lifelong love of sci-fi cinema, Rouse approaches songwriting with a distinctly visual mindset. Every song is imagined like a scene from a movie — framed, lit, and paced as though it were a short film. That cinematic sensibility, combined with a meticulous approach to sound design, results in music that’s as emotionally resonant as it is sonically rich.

'The Voyager' album is out now, available from fine music platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp.

CREDITS
All music written, performed and recorded by Jeremiah Rouse
Back up vocals by Violet Rouse
Drums performed and recorded by Mario Quintero at AudioMQ Studio
Final Mixes by Mario Quintero at AudioMQ Studio
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music
Album artwork created by Jeremiah Rouse
Artist photos by Matthew Hamm
Publicity by Shameless Promotion PR

The Quality of Mercury takes us to 'Heaven's Gate', teasing sophomore album 'The Voyager'

September 24, 2025

Alt-rock artist The Quality of Mercury presents his latest high-paced trip with 'Heaven's Gate', the latest gem revealed from his forthcoming sophomore album 'The Voyager'. Nine years after releasing his debut 'Transmission' album, he is back with new music that is both anthemic and accessible, cinematic and catchy - a perfect blend of muscle and melody.

'Heaven's Gate' shines with an unexpected lift balancing the expansive feel of space-rock with vibrant pop elements. A story about longing to transcend into enlightenment, the upbeat pulse gives it a sense of momentum, like you’re cruising through the stars with the windows down.

The Quality of Mercury is Pennsylvania-based artist Jeremiah Rouse, who handles everything from writing and performing to engineering. This groovesome, graceful and grand music with space-rock atmospherics speaks to our deep need for connection, both human and spiritual. His ongoing search for meaning is woven into songs that range from bursts of excitement to moments of quiet reflection.

"'Heaven’s Gate' is inspired by the real-life cult of the same name, but it’s not a song about tragedy; it’s a song about longing. I saw myself in their story: the endless search for something beyond this world, the gaze fixed on the stars, waiting for a sign, a savior, an escape," says Jeremiah Rouse.

"I’ve spent so much of my life looking up, hoping for divine intervention, for something greater to lift me out of the weight of this world. Whether that’s God, aliens, or something unnamed, 'Heaven’s Gate' is about the hope that there is something out there. Something bigger, kinder, more meaningful than what we know here on Earth. This isn’t a song about giving up. It’s about believing there’s more."

'The Voyager' is an adventurous journey, each track offering a different terrain of feeling: exhilaration, anxiety, longing, and introspection. Lead track 'Ganymede' is an upbeat cinematic journey that reflects the album’s overarching themes of distance, discovery, and transformation, this song is about finding love and losing it, fulfilling Rouse's mission of exploring emotion and texture across vast sonic terrain.

Rouse's recorded works serve as a bridge to his audience —a suitably distant medium, given his songs about receiving transmissions emanating from the other side of the universe and epic, intergalactic voyages. For all its otherworldly sound and association with vastness and space, the intensity and intellect, depth and profound insight found here is a journey into the artist’s own inner space.

Influenced by such iconic bands as Hum, Failure, Starflyer 59, and Sunny Day Real Estate, The Quality of Mercury creates a vast, immersive world, each track built as a sonic landscape - grand in scope yet meticulously detailed. The goal is simple but ambitious: to create music that reveals something new with every listen. Tiny flourishes, subtle swells, and sound elements crossing the stereo field are placed with obsessive precision, often blooming unexpectedly or popping out at just the right moment. Every detail matters, perhaps to a fault, but that’s part of the craft.

With a background in film production and a lifelong love of sci-fi cinema, Jeremiah approaches songwriting with a distinctly visual mindset. Every song is imagined like a scene from a movie — framed, lit, and paced as though it were a short film. That cinematic sensibility, combined with a meticulous approach to sound design, results in music that’s as emotionally resonant as it is sonically rich.

'Heaven's Gate' is out now, available from fine music platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp. The full album 'The Voyager', which can already be pre-ordered via Bandcamp, will be released on October 24.

THE QUALITY OF MERCURY debuts driving indie rocker 'Ganymede', previewing first album in 9 years

August 26, 2025

Pennsylvania-based alternative rock artist The Quality of Mercury presents his infectious and upbeat 'Ganymede'. Building patiently and purposefully, it takes us on a cinematic journey that reflects the album’s overarching themes of distance, discovery, and transformation. It’s a song about finding love and losing it, fulfilling Rouse's core mission of exploring emotion and texture across vast sonic terrain.

Following the 'Transmission' album, released in 2016, this is the first offering from The Quality of Mercury's sophomore album 'The Voyager', which was conceived as an adventurous journey, each track offering a different terrain of feeling: exhilaration, anxiety, longing, and introspection.

The Quality of Mercury is the solo project of Jeremiah Rouse, whose groovesome, graceful and grand music melds space-rock atmospherics with indie rock. At its core, his music speaks to a deep and desperate need for connection, both human and spiritual. It’s an ongoing search for meaning, woven into songs that range from bursts of excitement to moments of quiet reflection.

"Ganymede is a love story told through the lens of science fiction. It follows two people who meet and fall for each other on a space station that’s orbiting in the golden atmosphere of Jupiter, a place full of warmth, wonder, and the thrill of possibility. He’s cautious. She’s fearless. And he follows her, chasing the gravity of her spirit," says Jeremiah Rouse.

"But when she persuades him to explore Ganymede, a cold, sterile moon, the warmth between them starts to fade. The relationship fractures in the isolation and cold environment, and eventually, she walks away, leaving him alone at the edge of an airlock. This song is about how love can start bright and beautiful, but lose itself in unfamiliar terrain. I want listeners to feel like they’re watching a film unfold in slow motion and to feel the quiet heartbreak of trying to hold on to someone who’s already gone."

Handling not only writing and performing, but also engineering, this music is a reflection of Rouse's sonic DNA. Influence by such iconic bands as Hum, Failure, Starflyer 59, and Sunny Day Real Estate, The Quality of Mercury creates music that is anthemic yet accessible, cinematic but catchy - the perfect blend of muscle and melody.

Rouse's recorded works serve as a bridge to his audience —a suitably distant medium, given his songs about receiving transmissions emanating from the other side of the universe and epic, intergalactic voyages. For all its otherworldly sound and association with the vastness of outer space, the intensity and intellect, depth and profound insight of this music is also a journey into the artist’s own inner space.

For Rouse, music isn’t just sound. It’s a vast, immersive world. Each track is built as a sonic landscape, grand in scope yet meticulously detailed. The goal is simple but ambitious: to create music that reveals something new with every listen. Tiny flourishes, subtle swells, and sound elements crossing the stereo field are placed with obsessive precision, often blooming unexpectedly or popping out at just the right moment. Every detail matters, perhaps to a fault, but that’s part of the craft.

With a background in film production and a lifelong love of sci-fi cinema, Jeremiah approaches songwriting with a distinctly visual mindset. Every song is imagined like a scene from a movie — framed, lit, and paced as though it were a short film. That cinematic sensibility, combined with a meticulous approach to sound design, results in music that’s as emotionally resonant as it is sonically rich.

'Ganymede' is out now, available from fine music platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp. The full album 'The Voyager', which will be released on October 24, can also be pre-ordered via Bandcamp.