OVERHAUL RELEASES DEBUT ALBUM
Alternative metal band Overhaul is set to release their debut album ‘Notes By An Unstable Muser’ in spring 2017. Three years after releasing their EP ‘Daybreak’, the band reinvents itself by replacing garish virtuosity with melancholic, romantic expression. The new songs sound more serious and heavier than predecessor ‘Daybreak’, an EP the band recorded at home and released in 2014.
The album’s ten songs are more compact and powerful in their delivery through a focus on layered guitars and vocals. The album will be preceded by the release of lead-single ‘Blue Box’, which is a song about the loss of love, displaying a fascination for the ephemeral and temporary nature of happiness. Other tracks on the record display a similar notion of romanticism that is often lacking in other complex music genres.
‘I’m a hopeless romantic’, says vocalist Samuel de Vries when he explains the album title. “‘Notes By An Unstable Muser’ is about the universal themes of love, loss and lust, and a flashy show-off of virtuosity doesn’t suit the melancholy with which I discuss those topics. It is a heavy album, but not without hope.”
In 2015 the band played Dutch pop-temple De Melkweg in Amsterdam and achieved critical acclaim by the jury of Emergenza: “A true festivalband with a charming frontman”. They also opened for international acts Leprous and Agent Fresco, and were called “new Dutch prog revelation” by Headway Festival.
Notes by an Unstable Muser tracklist:
1. Blue Box
2. Stone Intact
3. The Dance
4. Storm
5. My Heart Suggestible
6. Aeons & Life
7. Pastels
8. Heave
9. Broken Glasses, Torn Pages
10. Detour
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