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Notes by an Unstable Muser

by Overhaul

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1.
Blue Box 04:22
Our song is coming to an end My love are you still trying? It's time to walk away And in time we will heal our lonely hearts Oh our hearts... We'd rather fall back in time instead of far apart This moment spent together in one tick of the clock Our love's a relative dimension in space And my heart's a blue box You stole to fly away We fly away no more Fading, fading, craving Somewhere among grains of sand Waiting, waiting, craving In the end we’re all alone
2.
Stone Intact 05:54
Pure desire a giant stone Names I carve and cast a moan Their absence is a mineral Inorganic – beautiful And so I keep carving names Until nothing's left of the stone I found intact All affairs that make thee we bind to memory Feast on detailed dreams On the distant darkened line We dance towards the dawn Oh baby can’t you see? Blood in my veins Tears on my cheeks This is my gain Drawn from the rain Flesh on my bones Skin on my flesh Love moves alone Leaving us prone Within, I plant a tree At night I watch it grow In your farness
3.
The Dance 03:51
Take my hand Fall with me My feet are bound Make me see Tie me down and Dance with me Feverous Dignity Intertwined Rhythmic beats Tie me down and Dance with me From within these eyes of innocence A seed of lust is born This dance shall set us free Losing Failing Heartfelt endeavour Through burial mounds Of creeping guilt I tread The path of the dead This dance shall set us free
4.
Storm 06:51
Red sun glowing in your eyes Black engulfs fading minds Clouds impending Behind your silhouette I prepare for a storm Blinded senses yet I see We’re at its burning mercy Howling winds warm the core Inside we’re dying like before And I run Through the downpour Warm me to the core And engulf me And I run Through the downpour to you Howling winds warm me to the core And your every howl warms me
5.
Here’s to my heart suggestible to all the shades of pain a hymn to life and death and all states of being in between Here’s to my back against the wall fragile in the snow in a poem I will call upon the warmth of summer’s glow And in that warmth of heaven I gladly fall asleep for in my dreams I will return to hellish fields So once more to my heart welcoming the misery of each this hymn to life and death and love, the only remedy
6.
Aeons & Life 05:51
The vast stillness of a lake fed by no stream and out of which nothing flows The natives of the lake veiled by the palest mist were surprised by a people very much unlike themselves Descendants of humanity Some caravan of travellers Discovering remote debris Increasing their supremacy What mother Gaia gave to life The gift we all need to survive But a story has two sides And so one must leave the stage There can only be one race In this distant land eons blend There’s no compromise One will have to die Ruthlessly chased deeper into The inaccessible realm of broken memories Collision of eons and life The elder destined to die By the hands of delusions of superiority Remember the next millennium Seventeen temples cannot keep you safe
7.
Pastels 05:29
How long until leaves dry And golden apples rot? A whisper only felt in the rain Almost audible but escaping anyway Let’s regain the pastels we used To paint our roses red Some things should be in the dark To sustain our hearts lid Underneath unrealities We defy cosmic autonomy One drop, a harbinger of the rain Washing all our paint away Explain to me destiny’s Morbid sense of irony The threefold pain of realization We have ourselves to blame In the sediments of sanity We pray for redemption A remedy
8.
Heave 04:45
Chasing silver shimmers Words echoing in here Chasing Inflating Open-ended at all sides Made for none The ark has begun To take in millions of doubts Heave sails On the waters told Her light will saturate The dark beneath Stratify Layers on layers Of assumptions made Glistening It draws me in It drowns me in reverb Chasing Inflating Echoing Sinking
9.
I bleed poetry Poe could only write about I breathe wisdom Erasmus could only speak of I see patterns Pascal could only calculate And make connections Sherlock Holmes could only wish he made them too My thoughts are cold as the wind outside And the chords strengthen a sense of despair This is the time when I'm a cynic at best Written thoughts on paper Notes by an unstable muser It doesn't matter The glasses that should clarify are broken And pages that I so desperately read, Are torn apart by contradiction
10.
Detour 05:02
I am in no hurry To complete a tragedy Lips are reaching beyond the starlit wall When you fail to stay I am the errant Astray in a nebulous gallery We are wanderers for hope But the trail is growing cold Forlorn detour We are wanderers for hope But the trail is so cold… When you fail to stay Darling, a fly in the lamp reminds me

about

Five musicians from all around The Netherlands form progressive metalband Overhaul. With a heavy sound that reminds of bands like Leprous and Meshuggah they combine aggression with romanticism and complex rhythmical structures with melancholy. Through various shifts in style the band has built an eclectic repertoire that is collected on their debut album ‘NOTES BY AN UNSTABLE MUSER’, released september 23rd 2017. The record displays a notion of romanticism that is often lacking in other complex music genres.

In 2014 Overhaul self-released an EP called ‘DAYBREAK’. Only a few months later the song 'Three Judges', taken off this EP, appeared on the first physical edition of internationally renowned platform Progstravaganza, published by Prog Sphere. It brought the band the following critical acclaim: "With OVERHAUL, we are amazed by the diversity of the sound canvas that ranges from symphonic pop to heavy prog and to traditional hard rock and Chopin-like piano,"—Lucas Biela on progachives.com.

But now is three years later, and the band’s style has matured—away from the Dream Theater-esque flamboyance that was evident on ‘Daybreak’. Both instrumentally and lyrically the songs sound darker en sulkier, and the emphasis lies more on compelling song structures that are honest and convincing. “If you compare our demo EP with ‘Notes…’, then taking three years for this new release suddenly doesn’t seem so long; we needed the time to find our identity as a band, and to allow the new material to grow into that direction,” states vocalist Samuel.

But it’s not as if the band completely disappeared for three years. On the contrary, they have been working hard to establish their name by opening for international acts Leprous (NO), Agent Fresco (ISL) and Voyager (AUS) and playing Dutch pop-temple Melkweg. Doing this, they achieved critical acclaims such as “…new Dutch prog revelation” (Headway Festival) and “a festival band with a charming frontman” (Emergenza).

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released September 23, 2017

All music and lyrics by De Vries, except track 3 (music & lyrics by Sluijk), track 4 (music & lyrics by De Vries & Sluijk and track 7 (music by Bergmans, lyrics by De Vries).

Overhaul is:
Richard Sluijk - guitars
Samuel de Vries - vocals
Glenn Bergmans - keyboards
Gielian Meessen - bass guitar
Sander van den Broek - drums

Recorded and Mixed by Quintijn Verhoef and Bas Allein Richir at Independent Recordings. Mastered by Brett Caldas-Lima at Tower Studio.

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Four musicians from all around The Netherlands form alternative/progressive metalband Overhaul. With a heavy sound that's rooted in contemporary alternative and progressive metal, Overhaul combines aggression with romanticism and rhythmical complexity with melancholy. The band has built an eclectic repertoire that is collected on their debut album ‘NOTES BY AN UNSTABLE MUSER’, released in 2017. ... more

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