Subsurface
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Subsurface is the seventh studio album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 progressive metal
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

 band Threshold
Threshold (band)
Threshold is a progressive metal band, formed in Surrey, UK in the late 1980s.-History:Threshold began their career in 1988, initially playing covers of metal groups like Ratt and Testament. As they continued playing together, they began to write their own songs, and eventually stopped playing...

. The album was released in August 2004, and received an Album of the Month award in several European music magazines.

Songs on the album resume themes from earlier albums, including environmentalism and war, but also incorporating political themes.

Track listing

  1. "Mission Profile" (Karl Groom
    Karl Groom
    Karl Groom is a British guitarist and record producer, mostly known as founding member of the progressive metal band Threshold.-Work:During his career Groom also played in the band Shadowland, took part in the progressive rock supergroup Casino, and contributed to MyEarthDream by Edenbridge...

    , Richard West
    Richard West (keyboardist)
    Richard West is an English musician and producer, most widely known as the keyboard player and a songwriter for progressive metal band Threshold...

    ) – 8:15
  2. "Ground Control" (West) – 7:13
  3. "Opium" (Groom, West) – 6:48
  4. "Stop Dead" (West) – 4:21
  5. "The Art of Reason" (Groom, West) – 10:20
  6. "Pressure" (Groom, Nick Midson, West) – 5:17
  7. "Flags and Footprints" (West) – 4:54
  8. "Static" (Groom, West) – 5:07
  9. "The Destruction of Words" (Groom, West) – 6:14
  10. "What About Me" (Johanne James
    Johanne James
    Johanne James is the drummer for British progressive metal band Threshold. He joined the band officially, replacing Mark Heaney, in 2001, to record the album Hypothetical, which occurred after having toured with the band in support of the albums Extinct Instinct and Clone. He also fronts the...

    ) – 4:21 (bonus track on extended version).

Personnel

  • Steve Anderson – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Karl Groom
    Karl Groom
    Karl Groom is a British guitarist and record producer, mostly known as founding member of the progressive metal band Threshold.-Work:During his career Groom also played in the band Shadowland, took part in the progressive rock supergroup Casino, and contributed to MyEarthDream by Edenbridge...

     – lead guitar
    Lead guitar
    Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

  • Johanne James
    Johanne James
    Johanne James is the drummer for British progressive metal band Threshold. He joined the band officially, replacing Mark Heaney, in 2001, to record the album Hypothetical, which occurred after having toured with the band in support of the albums Extinct Instinct and Clone. He also fronts the...

     – drums
    Drum kit
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  • Andrew "Mac" McDermott
    Andrew McDermott
    Andrew "Mac" McDermott was a singer mostly known for his work in the progressive metal band Threshold. He was also the lead singer of Swampfreaks and the German group Sargant Fury.-History:...

     – vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Nick Midson – rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...

  • Richard West
    Richard West (keyboardist)
    Richard West is an English musician and producer, most widely known as the keyboard player and a songwriter for progressive metal band Threshold...

     – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

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