BAND NAME: Dividing The Masses
GENRE: Deathcore / Hardcore
STATUS: Split-up
LOCATION: Des Moines, Iowa
Last-known lineup:
Dustin Schultz - Vocals
Tyler Wright - Guitars
Drew Hemesath - Guitars
Kyle Flickinger - Drums
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Discography:
A Need For Change (EP, February 7, 2010, Independent) (Digital)
1. Unworthy 4:31
2. A Softer Hand 3:20
3. 65 Geneva Drive 4:19
4. Later T'mater 3:22
5. A Need For Change 3:46
More Than This (album)
October 25, 2011, Independent (Digital)
November 5, 2011, Independent (CD-R, Digital)
1. For Your Health 1:15
With age comes regret
But regret never changed a thing
When will I learn to grow from my mistakes?
2. Blink Theory 3:32
I've watched as my world slowly changes around me
And I can't seem to grasp that this is all out of my hands
Whether it be the constant desire to fill an empty void
Or hating my friends for living their own lives
I need to just accept that this is what it's like to lose my youth
Things will never be the way that they used to be
I have to find some sort of faith to overshadow my regrets
Faith in myself to know that this is the life I chose
No mater what it takes from me
I know I'm only human, but what more could I be?
All I want to know is how it feels to truly overcome
Spending my whole life with one eye pointed to the past
Has done nothing but hold me back
It's time to let go of everything that I've kept inside
I'll show this world my heart
Forever unbroken
3. More Than This 3:44
My words are anchors, they hold me back
My words are anchors, and I'm easily attached
They teach me every day how much I've failed to progress
I try to live my life in reverie
But those thoughts will never set me free
My childhood dreams cover these sidewalks in chalk
Will they ever be reached?
Or will the rain just wash them away?
Time keeps disappearing as I lose my youth
Every dream ends with a promise
A promise of something greater than this
Whispers of the past have traced an outline in my flesh
But there's nothing left to show
From the burden left around my neck
I just can't let my life be forgotten
If I can make it through these days of longing
Then I'll learn to sing a song of hope
But sentiment is all I have to remind me
That I was meant for more than this
4. The Good Life 3:53
Reflection
This is my conviction
Where am I drawing true inspiration?
What good are my passions if they aren't followed by action?
I know that I should be the one asking you what you stand for
Like I've got it all figured out
Some days it's so much easier to just hide from the guilt
I am no godsend
I am no walking saint
But they say we're supposed to be the change we wish to see
An endless search to fill our lives with purpose
I know that I have been selfish
But that's something we all can change
We all have the means to break our chains
We are supposed to be the change we wish to see
But I get so lost in my own reflection that I forget what lies inside
What does it take to make a man?
I've made my amends
5. Muskies Never Lose 3:26
Sometimes I lie in bed and pretend I can control my dreams
I try to fake reality, but my conscience reminds me that you were never mine
Love let me go, and this is what we've become
Now I won't hold my breath for a reason to give you praise
I never knew how I'd get myself over this
The way your lips spoke as they pressed against mine
Was so much more than a whisper in my ear
The coming fall air will be my best reminder
That what lies in the past was never meant to last
We were never meant to last
I opened my world up to embrace what we'll never know
And with all my hopes and dreams beating within you
You just walked away
But even with the lungs you stole from my chest
I found a way to breathe without you
6. Needless To Say 2:13
(Instrumental)
7. Three Years Deep 4:48
This is the end
I'll never look at you the same way again
You walk a path of shame, all the while bearing your father's name
Would he be proud?
Would he be proud of the woman you've become?
Do you find some sense of comfort filling your life with broken nights?
It's hard for me to picture what's been between those thighs
And really, it's not like I'm some golden boy
But this is all still nothing new for trash like you
We've been through this once before, yet here you are
Trying to convince me to lower myself to your standards
Do the world a favor and never sober up again
You play the victim so well
As if none of us can tell
That's no way for a woman to carry herself
That's no way for a woman to respect herself
You've spent the last three hours knee-deep in all your failures
Begging to get your fill from a man that means nothing to you
It's people like you who make me sacred to be a father
Because I would never want to call someone like you my daughter
8. Semis Passing Semis 6:28
Olé!
My Roots Will Remain (album, April 12, 2014, Independent) (CD, Digital)
1. Teddie Odd 1:08
I've buried these days under midwest soil
And I've felt the weight of a year spent cold
It's never been about trying to stay alive
It's about the struggle to feel alive
As discontent makes its place in my mind
I am nothing more than swallowed pride
2. Ideation 3:01
All I wanted was to be your escape
But my presence was never enough
To match the burden you created
Or all the times you'd been mistreated
Abuse made its way down the family tree
And you were the youngest of three
Who am I to talk of hardship when I don't know the half of what you've felt?
Who am I to console your suffering when my own worst enemy is me?
All I wanted was to be your escape
But some wounds will never heal
There is no easy way out
When the walls around your mind reveal an empty shell
I refuse to just sit back and let your name fade away
As if you were successful in taking your life that day
With every word withheld
And every uncherished moment filled
I have become the worst enemy of myself
Abuse made its way down the family tree
And you were the youngest of three
3. My Roots Will Remain 3:56
After digging every last bit of myself into this town
I know that the community I built will live on no matter the distance
It was always us against the world
We swore we'd never change
We swore we'd always feel the same
But each year it gets harder to keep from going our separate ways
As we are carried away by the dreams we aspire
Embracing change can be difficult
When my attachable heart can never let things go
The hardest part of leaving is knowing my roots will remain
Dug deep into everything I once took for granted
The place I used to call home
I never really know what it was I was leaving behind
Until I found myself lost in another life
I believe there is something to be said about where I've been
I will continue to give everything I have
To those who stand by me with every season's end
True friends share scars until they die
4. Wither Away 3:33
There is a message that rings in my ear
From voices built by fear
Condemning hell while refuting the existence of a God
Preaching acceptance while spewing hypocrisy
Where is the hope that once rang so prevalently?
Kids these days are saying that they'd rather be dead
Existing under a cloud of regret
Darkness is a comfortable shelter
But it is no place to call home
We all are broken, eager to just wither away
But there is more to life
There is more to life than death
Twelve months ago I lost myself
Buried somewhere beneath this midwest soil
But it takes more than one to raise the dead
Apathy has no place in the heart of a man
5. Know Your Season 2:30
I'd like to say that you were everything that I needed this winter
It's just I've grown so weary of the time lost, we dissolve
As I found comfort in nothing
Sleepless December left me to wonder
How I had fallen down to the rhythm of losing you
Yet I could still seek comfort in finding you
I don't think you realize the way your absent face plagued me this past year
It took me all this time to realize that I had everything that I needed right here
No longer will I drown myself in the cold
Attempting to feel less alone
By filling my nights with empty pursuits and empty apologies
If you had never left, I would have never known where to call my home
I would have never seen all that this place means to me
I know you know what it feels like to be broken
Because I put you through hell to cope with you leaving
I know you know what it feels like to be broken
Because sometimes love isn't enough
6. Discontent 3:07
What good is this voice if my words are never nough?
Have my actions done their part to bury all the guilt?
I chose to live the good life
And I'll wear it across my chest
Because a life struggling for passion is a misguided ship
I still am no godsend
But I know I'm better than this
I may never be fixed
But I know I'm better than this
Are my words empty?
Or can you feel my pulse?
7. On Leaving 4:38
Just like whole-hearted pursuits leading to severed ends
Some things when broken will never mend
There is a solemn feeling of acceptance
It rolls in with the changing of seasons
And the passing of time erodes away my mind
Until I can't see with my own two eyes
But it's not a vision we strive for
More so a level of contentness
In realizing that we aren't where we wanted to be
And never were in the first place
I was blinded by the thought that lust-built love
Meant something more than the passing of time
Reminiscence shows only occasional true colors
We see what our hearts choose to feel was real
All the while your face has been forever haunting
In every snowbank, as our leaves turn over
But this world was never meant for you and I
So after a year spent cold, I left it all behind
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