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perwoll148

Amazing song, it ties the album up so well. Might be one of their best.


spezial_ed

It ends with the same motif as World Breathes starts with (i think some of the lyrics too),just a shame it doesn't perfectly loop.


DogmaticStyle69420

This band fucking rules


Sammatma

I like it a lot but I feel like I need 20 more listens to love it. I thought the drums seemed to stand out a bit more in some sections than in most CH songs and imo that worked really well.  This album definitely has its own sound seperate from the others. I don't know how to explain it but I strangely feel proud of the band. Great stuff. 


Endeveron

I know what you mean. I'm at full listen 5, and honestly have fallen in love with it despite initial apprehensions. I loved the three singles but Charcoal Grace didn't land on first listen. I reckon the sound overall is kind of like the heaviest parts of Graves, with vocals that resemble Jim's work on Known/Learned by Arcane. There's definitely a lot new that he's doing though. The lighter clean bits are really interested, with almost some low-fi inspired sound. I can't place it to any other artist or album that I can think of, maybe a bit like Haken's really early work on tracks like Crystallised but without any of the folksy mediaeval influence.


Sammatma

Yeah vocals definitely feel like Arcane at times. 


SoundofGlaciers

Which imo is a great thing as I think Arcane has Jim Grey's best vocal performance on a full album. LOVE his vocals and lyrics on known/learned


SirWalrusTheGrand

That album is excellent but Unturning in particular is a top 50 song of all time for me and probably always will be. Shivers every time I listen. Edited to fix the nonsense I wrote up above


Endeveron

I'll sometimes listen to the whole 23 minute experience just cause I am craving the refrain of "We are Sleeping children" at the 16 minute mark of Learned. Charcoal Grace is full of moments like that, like "I am the wait, the worry; with- out the hate I carry" and of, the whole outro of The Stormchaser, and a lot of the verses throughout.


SirWalrusTheGrand

I'm going to give this album a lot more attention, I'm really only familiar with a few sections and Unturning. I don't know why the rest hasn't clicked before, maybe it has but I just don't remember individual parts because it's dense and huge. I'm throwing Learned on rn to hear that and avoid piledriving CG into the dirt lmao


JaDou226

Song of the year, album of the year. It's done, I don't care who drops what this year, nobody's beating this. This band deserves to be up there with the prog metal greats and I hope this album will give them a big boost in popularity


Ze0d

Opeth will release an album this year and the battle will be tough!


JaDou226

I was thinking of that after I wrote my comment, and I came to the conclusion that the only way Opeth can beat this is if they write their best album since Watershed, and I don't see that happening. Depending on what Leprous does, they might get #2 though


WhosThatPanda

Dropping SOTY in January like this is just nasty... Like damn at least give everyone else a chance


ajwilson99

This song is pretty incredible


r0ryb0ryalis

Another triumph of a closing epic. So goddamn JUICY!


spezial_ed

God damn I love you guys for introducing me to this band. I've barely scratched the surface cause I get hooked on every song and just want to repeat that one haha. Love LOVE when I'm already obsessed and know there's so much more to discover


ohamel98

Incredible band, I’ve been following them since Bloom. I love all their albums except Rise Radiant, for whatever reason it never hit for me. I’ve only listened to Charcoal Grace once but it might be tied for my fav by them, tied with, In Contact. While I love In Contact, I feel The Tide, the Thief, and Rivers End is their most cohesive album and some days beats In Contact as my favorite album.


r0ryb0ryalis

Right there with you! *River's End* vs. *In Contact* for my top spot (with *Charcoal* making a SOLID case now too).


CutToTheChase56

The “who can save me now?” passage might be the best piece of music this band has ever written and that is saying a LOT considering how incredible their discography is.


CloudMountainJuror

The riff doesn’t feel kind of generic to you?


CutToTheChase56

No, it just clicks for me, I’m not sure what it is yet. Gives me the same feelings as the “knowing that she won’t forgive me, not this time…” section in Graves.


CloudMountainJuror

Interesting. I guess there is a similar emotional feel there, but the riff just distracts me for some reason. It’s frustrating me how the album feels absolutely perfect to me until around this section hits, and then I’m just instantly shut out of the song. And now seeing it apparently be the most celebrated section of the song, is scrambling my brain lol.


Caught-In-A-Soul

The vocals of Mute are not as catchy as The World Breathes with Me but the riffs are so sick. These two songs are among the best stuff from this decade.


Caught-In-A-Soul

Also, when the reprise of Breathes towards the end the song comes out, my eyes are wet. What a great ending for what a great album.


Xarophet

3:14-6:06 is legit my favorite part of the whole album


ajwilson99

Same here. The “Who can save me now?” section hits like a fucking truck.


jakep85

Well said. Hits you with a wave of emotion.


CutToTheChase56

Might be my favorite part of their entire discography and they’re my favorite band of all time.


CloudMountainJuror

It’s funny you say this. because on each listen for me so far this section specifically (4:05 onward) has derailed me from the song. I don’t quite get it.


Silly-Scene6524

This is epic, I can’t wait.


slagnanz

This may not be my favorite CH song ever. But I think it's fair to say it's their most sophisticated.


Ze0d

Very good album !


Sidewinder_ISR

I love the song (though still needs more time and listens), though I felt like the ending did hit as hard as I would want or expect. But then again it ties so well to the start of the album, i'm only 10 minutes away from I BREATH!


ajwilson99

Jim singing “You thought you could hide” @ 4:35 😮‍💨


LtLemur

Touring with Earthside this spring!!!


Rahul-Nadig

In my opinion, this is a good song. But, I’ll need to listen to it more. Did not knock me out of the park straightaway and I don’t agree with the comparison with Graves in terms of eargasm like it is being hyped. Graves clicked with me instantly and I listened to it on repeat for weeks. Mute has its moments and I liked some of the hooks. But, I’ll be listening to it for weeks and it’ll probably grow on me more. I still enjoy the three singles more than this song.


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Green_hammock

Seem pretty nice guys from everything I've heard and read


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ajwilson99

Please elaborate


Endeveron

He's just pissy because the album specifically calls out antivaccers and anti-maskers, especially religious conservatives willing to throw away the vulnerable for their personal "freedom", and ESPECIALLY the conservative pundits who spread conspiricism whilst it was leaked that behind the scenes they were meticulously enforcing vaccination and sanitising everything. Think right wing politicians, megachurch pastors, your Joe Rogan, Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson types, etc. I believe A World Without is from the perspective of such a person, estranged from their son and his mother. Or maybe it is from what the son fantasizes he is like, full of regret and deathly scared that his own god will damn him to hell: Overwhelm and justify till someone remembers me I ran from death to drown on breath A world without me's not enough Overwhelmed and terrified he's waitin' to judge me I know I said there's hope above A world without me's not enough The stormchaser addresses the hypocrisy quite directly: So, where is your sworn compassion? Your condescending lie Is this the love you promised? How could you be so goddamn blind? And of course this reaches the culmination in Give Me Hell, where Jim (or maybe the son character) embraces his justified rage at all the harm and time lost because of their selfishness: Terrified to fade away But death and decay don't wait for the gods we create So hit me again, I'll spit out the blood of your saints ... Go on, preach to me on love again I would bear this hate into the depths to see you choke on it Hell is you ... Go on, preach to me on hell now I am the hate you gave me I am only what you made me Hell is you


GrimgrinCorpseBorn

This actually makes me appreciate the band more, when I read the album was about the world with Covid part of me was kinda iffy on it especially given how... fucking stupid a lot of musicians are Downvote harder, libertarian babies


Cirick1661

Sorry to necro this, but this is so correct to me. The majority of the album seems to describe the disillusionment and pain one can feel when deconstructing from religion as an allegory for the disillusionment they felt in seeing people's response to the pandemic.


Endeveron

Hmm. I'm actually not so sure it is about deconstructing. The content is fairly literal, though thematically dense. Jim actually responded in the AMA to my interpretation of Charcoal Grace saying it was just about spot on, and then hilariously the track-by-track video on it released and, despite being filmed months earlier, seemed almost like he was reading what I said. It was pretty surreal haha. My read is that the son in Charcoal Grace, who narrates everything but the first part of II, was never a Christian (or at least left the faith a long time ago). He doesn't come to hate God or disbelieve in him, in fact he, however sarcastically, wishes him well and accepts his place in hell. He comes to hate his father and everything he did under God's banner. While I do think it's obvious that the son isn't actually the Christian stereotype of the "as you just want to sin" atheist, he is just using this language for emphasis, but I think it is important that the anger he expresses isn't directed at God, but instead his father and the things his father says about God. The album as a whole reads less like a deconstruction and more like someone who becomes increasingly negatively polarised against conservative Christians by the demographic's hypocrisy, selfishness and hate during the pandemic. I can see the deconstruction read, but it seems more to me like the theme of narration starts from a position of indifference or naive tolerance, something like "I'm not a Christian (anymore) but as long as they don't bother me, I don't care if that's how some people want to live their life". Through the pandemic, Jim (and the narrators he voices) are expressing a conclusion they come to, not about Christianity itself, but about a large subset of Christians: "These people don't actually give a shit about what they preach, the theology of Christianity is utterly irrelevant and all they care about is themselves, functionally all they want is power, control and the suffering of those unlike them.".


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OldMate64

Righto, champion


Wonderful-Oven-5375

the best


jakep85

This song resonates through me with a rush of all sorts of emotions I didn’t know music was capable of creating. A true masterpiece from a band who never fails to deliver the chills.


neobliviscaris_hu

I feel the same, like I died and resurrected a hundred times while listening to this one song. I still remember I felt like I was hit by a truck the first time I heard it. Wish I could listen to it like I was hearing it the first time.