Rise Above This

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“Rise Above This”
“Rise Above This” cover
Single by Seether
from the album Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces
Released February 19, 2008
Format CD single
Recorded 2006 - 2007
Genre Alternative rock
Length 3:23
Label Wind-Up Records
Producer Howard Benson
Seether singles chronology
"Fake It"
(2007)
"Rise Above This"
(2008)

"Rise Above This" is the second single from Seether's album Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces. It is the sixth track on the album. Seether's vocalist Shaun Morgan has stated that the song is about his late brother, Eugene Welgemoed, and was written before his suicide. It has been released on the bands official MySpace page, as well as on their official website.

[edit] Music Video

The music video, which is directed by Tony Petrossian who also directed the "Fake It" video, debuted on MTV2 and MTV2's website on April 5th, 2008. It has a storyline about a depressed boy who decides to leap off a building. As he falls, his family falls with him. Through the course of the falling, they try to overcome the problems being faced, and eventually bouncing back up (like the title of the song). It has a Suicide Hotline at the end of the video on television airings; as well as a picture of Shaun Morgan's younger brother, and at the bottom of the picture, it says 'Eugene Welgemoed 1981-2007' in memory of his late brother. The video has reached Number 1, beating Puddle of Mudd's "Psycho", on Fuse's #1 Countdown: Rock. For a split second near the end, a tear can be seen falling from lead singer Shaun Morgan's right eye.

[edit] Charts

Chart (2008) Peak
position
Billboard Canadian Hot 100 83
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 92
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 2
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 1
Preceded by
"Psycho" by Puddle of Mudd
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single
May 3 - May 10, 2008
Succeeded by
"Pork and Beans" by Weezer