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Rating: The Submersed were formed in Texas in 2004, they are part of Wind-up Records (or were part, as it seems they broke up in 2008 after the release of their second album "Immortal Verses"), a record label for established artists like Creed, Evanescence, Seether, and 12 Stones.
Upon first listening to their debut, I suspected that the guitar and drums were played by Mark Tremonti and Scott Philips, members of Creed and Alter Bridge. I was right: Scott played on many tracks of the album, and Mark crafted the intro to "Flicker." However, the indirect influence of Tremonti is evident, as the talented guitarist of the band exhibits much of his style, though lacking his technique and creativity. Thus, an absolutely derivative band that presents nothing new, but delivers an honest album, with no track that calls for a miracle, yet all are enjoyable to listen to.
"Hollow" opens the album, a track that more than Creed brings to mind Breaking Benjamin, and the same goes for "At Peace", featuring the same basic components, powerful guitars alternating with catchy choruses in pure mainstream rock style. The title track is slightly more metallic, although it repeats almost the identical formula of the initial duo. The pouring rain then introduces "Dripping", arpeggios borrowed from Tremonti, a vocal performance sufficiently expressive, a good modern ballad and not the first. The already mentioned "Flicker" is the second: in which, after Tremonti's intro, the effective guitar work that links the verses to the chorus is noteworthy, pleasant. The third is "Deny Me", perhaps the best, even if, as mentioned, the quality of the songs is quite similar, nonetheless Eric Friedman's distorted solo is well done. Fourth and last, "Piano Song", which has only the piano intro, decent. Slightly above average are perhaps "You Run", built between brilliant guitar phrases and with a noteworthy refrain, and the oriental-like "Divide The Hate", the rest is filler.
An unpretentious album, well-played, but lacking too much in originality.
Just another modern band.
Meteora.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Hollow (04:04)
To you
I'm all I've left undone
I'm all I haven't won
Lift me up my soul's so hollow
Lift me up
You take
The breath you didn't make
What's left you did forsake
Lift me up my soul's so hollow
Lift me up my soul's so hollow
You can make me scream internally
You can make me breathe eternally
Yeah
You see
The things I cannot change
The things that make me plain
Lift me up my soul's so hollow
Lift me up
We've made
All from the sum of none
All that we have become
Lift me up my soul's so hollow
Lift me up my soul's so hollow
You can make me scream internally
You can make me breathe eternally
You can make me scream internally
You can make me breathe eternally
Yeah
Fill, fill what's in me
Fill, fill what's in you
Fill, fill what's in me
So my soul's not left so hollow
You can make me SCREAM
You can make me BREATHE
You can make me scream internally
You can make me breathe eternally
You can make me scream
You can make me breathe
You can make me scream
You can make me breathe, me breathe
03 In Due Time (04:03)
Speak your mind
I just closed
Off my insides
Following, taking me
Where you're leading
I've come to see
This is me
What I need's
In front of me
Never to
To be free
Free from what you bring
Why do I follow
Letting you in front of me
To steal tomorrow, morrow
Yeah
Free my mind
In due time
I'll break this from me
Fear inside
I can't rewind
From the ending
I've come to see
This is me
What I need's
In front of me
Never to
To be free
Free from what you bring
Why do I follow
Letting you in front of me
To steal tomorrow
Why should I follow
Letting you overcome me
To steal tomorrow
Never to be free
Never to be free
Never to be me
Why do I follow
Letting you in front of me
To steal tomorrow
Why should I follow
Letting you overcome me
To steal tomorrow, morrow, morrow
Let me go
(never wanna be this, never wanna be this)
Let me go
(never wanna be this, never wanna be this)
Let me go
(never gonna be this, never gonna be this)
Let me go
(never gonna be this, never gonna be this)
04 Dripping (04:38)
Find me
Want to want
Never
What you see
Calling, calling
The depth becomes
Grab ahold of my face
So numb
Soar far fly away
I'm breaking through to you
Soar far fly away
I'm breaking through to you
Touch you
Feel the cold
Friendships
Grow so old
Difference, difference
Never to know
Clearing my mind
As I go
Soar far fly away
I'm breaking through to you
Soar far fly away
I'm breaking through to you
To you
Breaking through
Breaking through
Breaking through
To you
To you
Breaking through to you
Breaking through
Breaking through
You take away my mind
I'll take away your pride
Soar far fly away
I'm breaking through to you
Soar far fly away
I'm breaking through to you
I'm breaking through to you
06 Parallelism (03:47)
Floating vessel
Searching through time
Nothing left here
So far behind
Sacred pleasures
Spend in my mind
Broken vessel
Wish you were mine
Wish I could find
I give to you
You give to me
The debt will fall for all in need
A simple way
For all to change
Realize our lives are one and the same
Broken whispers
Into divine
Open promise
Sinks in the time
Loathing hunger
Blistering unkind
Different feelings
Youth undermines
Wish I could find
I gave to you
You gave to me
The debt should fall for all in need
A simple way
For all to change
Realize our lives are all the same
I gave to you
You gave to me
The debt should fall for all in need
A simple way
For all to change
Realize our lives are one
Our lives are one and the same
07 Deny Me (03:34)
I see my life
Flowing dreams
With your eyes they see
The love in you and me
Peaceful dreams
Live in you
Besides the things we hold
Dear in our hearts
Fear it brings
Faith in unseen
Living in as one
The difference in you and me
In my eyes
Through the sky
You and I yeah
Don't deny
You will find
The time to unwind
Please your mind
It heals my love
Forever together you
Distant times
That bring me down
With your love I rise
Forever together you
In my eyes
Through the sky
You and I yeah
Don't deny
You will find
The time to unwind
Yeah
Yeah
You will find
You will find
The time to unwind
08 You Run (04:09)
Heavy thoughts seem to slip away
When you were here on my darkest days
I trust in you
Many debts I cannot repay
Too many clouds in my sky today
I trust in you
As if it really matters
You run
When I reach out for a hand to
Pull me through the storm
Pull me through the norm
I reach for you
Broken glass as the evening fades
Take another drink as the evening fades
I trust in you
Stealing rays from the sun so bright
Join a million people in the church tonight
I trust in you
As if it really matters
You run
When I reach out for a hand to
Pull me through the storm
Pull me through the norm
I reach for you
In my mind
I reach for you
Spread inside
My mind
You'll find
That you really matter
What's right
In this life
We must try
As if it really matters
I reach out for a hand to
Pull me through the storm
Pull me through the norm
I reach out for a hand to
Pull me through the storm
Pull me through the norm
When I reach, I reach, I reach
When I reach, I reach, I reach
I reach for you
09 Divide the Hate (04:27)
Father may I be shown
The man I have inside
Be shown the way to swallow my pride
I tried
To lie
For the last time
I cannot hide the state
Of my mind
I cannot free what's in me
It's hidden for all time
Mother may I be shown
The right I have to cry
Be shown the strength I have inside
I tried
To lie
For the last time
I cannot hide the state
Of my mind
I cannot free what's in me
It's hidden for all time
Break me
Shape and make me
Give me strength that makes me me
Break me
Shape and make me
Give me strength that makes me me
Break me
Shape and make me
Break me
Shape and make me
I cannot hide the state
Of my mind
I cannot free what's in me
It's hidden for all time
It's hidden for all time
10 Piano Song (03:56)
You curse me for the things I've done and said
You live your life in confusion fully mislead
You let the things that mean the most slip away
You let the questions inside grow instead of fade
I've been walking this road for far too long
To turn and walk away
I've been walking this road for far too long
Listen to what I say
Listen to what I say
You plant the seed that's inside me so deep
You shelter me so naturally and complete
I'll take all that you give to me you'll see
I'll give it back tenfold I hope you will receive
I've been walking this road for far too long
To turn and walk away
I've been walking this road for far too long
Listen to what I say
And you're taking my life
And you're taking my time
And you're taking my skies
That fill my nights with you yeah
In the end I could walk away
In the end I could walk away
In the end I will find my way
In the end I could walk away
I've been walking this road for far too long
To turn and walk away
I've been walking this road for far too long
Listen to what I say
And you're taking my life
And you're taking my time
And you're taking my skies
That fill my nights with you yeah
I've been walking this road for far too long
To turn and walk away
I've been walking this road for far too long
Listen to what I say
11 Unconcerned (05:16)
Take a step outside
The boundaries we live in
Get to know yourself
The real you, the real me
Join the hands of faith
That hold you, that know you
Let the love go free
It's in us, it's in me
Love lives in me
Love's free to be
Pain grows to burn
Lessons concerned
Unconcerned
Open the eyes of all
Who see you, who see me
Never lose sight of all
You stand for, you live for
Let go over the pain
That holds you, that binds you
Break free of it all
Around you, around me
Love lives in me
Love's free to be
Pain grows to burn
Lessons concerned
Dreams in you
Flow in me
When you come again
The time
Stands still
Inside
You feel me, yeah
Yeah
Love lives in me
Love's free to be
Pain grows to burn
Lessons concerned
Unconcerned
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
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