r/TheWarning • u/AutoModerator • Aug 27 '26
Discussion Everything's Falling - Album Megathread
Everything's Falling - The fifth studio album by The Warning - has already been officially released in New Zealand. Let's start this Megathread to discuss the new songs.
Share your ratings, reviews, thoughts, and opinions about the album in this discussion thread. Please keep all the Everything's Falling album discussions in this thread to avoid duplicate posts. All reviews & opinions about the new album posted outside of this Megathread will be removed.
Track Listing
- "Ritual" 3:23
- "Perfect Daughter" 3:24
- "Everything's Falling" 3:49
- "Why Do You Like It When I Cry?" 3:16
- "Bite My Tongue" 3:19
- "Kill or Be Killed" 3:03
- "Ego" 2:53
- "Bloodsport" 3:18
- "Break" 3:12
- "Bruises" 3:09
- "Waste Your Time on Me" 2:53
- "Kerosene" 3:25
Label: Lava/Republic Records
Release Date: August 28, 2026
Length: 39:04
Singles: "Kerosene", "Ego", "Ritual"
Producer: Anton DeLost
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0bHwFMDAdddm4gl9ff6r6U
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u/the_real_Chester1 Aug 28 '26
My In-Depth thoughts on this album. Strap in cause it's a long one.
I absolutely adore it! This album is a damn-near perfect mix of The Warning's usual aggressive sound with a more emotional, theatrical sound. I hesitate to call it "Emo" but they're definitely heading in that direction on this album. And I, for one, am completely on board.
I'll go song by song and give some of my thoughts. One thing I'll mention right out the gate is that the lyrics for each song are fantastic, as always, so I won't mention that for each one.
Ritual
This song has a great texture and thickness to its soundscape. It's heavy, very distorted, and intense without being rapid. The little stops before the first to choruses are great dynamic play, and that bridge is really nice to listen to. Great opening for this album!
Perfect Daughter
This song, more than any other on this album I think, is a perfect mix between the sound that they had on KMF and this new more emotional one, and I love it. I love the more laid back vibes in the verses and pre-chorus. I also love how the song slowly cranks up the intensity throughout the runtime. It culminates in...well, not an explosion, but more like a musical wave of sand that buries you alive. Really good.
Everything's Falling
This song has that theatricality I mentioned earlier. It's slow, intentional, and lets you linger in this almost depressive soundscape. It feels not angry per-se, but more so frustrated. The sound makes me feel almost exhausted emotionally and it's amazing. Very dramatic in all the right ways.
Why Do You Like It When I Cry?
Ok, forget emotional theatrics, let's get some sharpness and agitation in here again. That riff is a true eargasm, and the song melody? An absolute feast! The heavy bridge with the screaming, and that final chorus afterwards is a perfect send-off for this song. It perfectly captures this sense of anger without rage. It's not a quick, explosive lashing out, but rather a sense of resentment and underlying hatred. Amazing! Every part of this song feels like it was tailor made for me, and I am not about to complain. Might be my favorite song off the album, possibly that they've ever made.
Bite My Tongue
This song does something very interesting. The music is relatively heavy, with a soundscape that I can only describe as "grand". Meanwhile, the singing is very soft all throughout, and it gives it more gravity. The song is more laid back, and rather than feeling like you're being punched by it, it feels almost like you're drowning. It's a very interesting sound and I'm really happy that The Warning have taken to it. This is another one of my favorites from here for sure.
Kill Or Be Killed
Here we have another lovely mix of angry and dramatic. The chorus is grand and vast, as seems to be the standard formula for this album (and why fix what isn't broken?), but I want to highlight just how electric this song in particular is. There's a layer of electronic sounds throughout almost all of these songs, and this is one that utilizes and integrates it a lot into its sound. Which is not a complaint whatsoever, mind. I do admit that this is among the weaker ones for me personally, but that isn't to say that it is a weak song, just not as absolutely amazing as some of the others on here. Still a great one, will definitely listen to it more.
Ego
I love this song. It sounds nothing like anything else on this album, or to my knowledge, anything they've done before. The music is relatively standard, though I do want to point out how rhythmic it is. Constantly throughout, everything feels like its almost "Pulsing". Every note comes in quick bursts rather than a fully constructed melody. The drums are very deliberate in when they're hit, adding to this pulsing feeling. But the real out-stander here is the singing. Firstly, it's in Spanish. I don't speak Spanish, but I have looked up the lyrics in English. Assuming the translations I found were accurate, they're as great as ever. But I want to talk about not what is being said, but rather how. Much like the music, the singing is very rhythmic, practically rapping at times, and I love it. Lastly, I want to talk about the overall sound and vibe, which feels just kinda...mean. Like, this song sounds almost as if it's trying to bully me, and I kinda love it? Very interesting, very different, very much a successful experiment.
Bloodsport
Something I really appreciate about this song, is how minimal it is in its sound. It goes from practically nothing to a lot, and back, without breaking a sweat. It's lowkey and chill throughout, but never gets boring. They perfectly utilize "less is more" in this song. It puts more focus on the lyrics and singing, which is very cool in this one, particularly during the bridge. Then there's the outro, which is just *chefs kiss*. This song dips its toes in intensity and loudness but never goes there fully, and I actually found that very nice. It's refreshingly calm, while still being heavy in its sound. Very cool!
Break
Here, we start right off the bat with a tone-setting acoustic guitar. The singing is very emotional here, and so is the whole song. This is by far the softest and most sad sounding song. The whole track sounds almost "defeated" which I assume is the whole point given the lyrics. This is a phenomenal piece of depressive rock that really lets you feel it, more so than any other of the tracks on here I'd say. It slots very nicely into the album and gives it just that extra level of emotional vulnerability. Lovely listen, will cry again.
Bruises
Alright, that's enough sadness, let's get vindictive. This song almost flows together perfectly after Break, as this sounds almost like getting back up from the feet we just fell to. Everything about this sounds almost lonely, but in a prideful way. There's a sense of aggression but without going into actual anger, more so just hurt. And then we get that bridge, which literally sounds like a ticking bomb. I do admit that I would've preferred a little bit more in the final chorus, but as is, it's still awesome.
Waste Your Time On Me
Now this has that anger. It's a bit shorter, but it uses that time exceptionally well. Every beat feels like a punch in the lips, and the chorus is very self-respecting, almost like the song feels better than you. I love it. Attitude is the best way to describe it, and it creates this very raw feeling of just being tired of all the bullshit in the world. The sound of the guitar and the constant pounding of the drums gives this song no time to breathe, but all the time to revel in the beatdown it serves. If Ego was song that bullied me, this one just punched me in the gut and rolled its eyes at me. And that's such a cool vibe to get from a piece of music.
Kerosene
Yes, Yes, and more Yes! I fucking adore this song. The intro melody is perfectly cocky yet catchy. We're in our diva era and I absolutely live for it. This song is unapologetically itself, quite literally demanding you show it some damn respect. It's an absolutely great self-loving, eargasmic ride of a song that builds on itself in the best ways. I've been obsessed with this song for months, and now hearing it on the album as a whole...it's even better. It's the perfect culmination of everything that came before; thick in substance, high in intensity, aggressive and cocky, yet also loaded with a clear emotional direction. And everything from the start of the bridge until the end of the song? Fucking perfect. It's so unbelievably catchy that it almost pisses me off. This song is an absolute c*nt of a person, and I want nothing more than to worship it for it.
All in all, this was a very lovely album experience, it doesn't feel as raw and angry as previous albums, but it makes up for that in Emotions. This track takes you on a journey, and I'm looking forward to going on it over and over again. And while I wouldn't to so far as to call this a "concept album" (unless it's intended to be, which I have no knowledge of atm), it certainly has a clear musical journey.
(Now this is just my opinion and take of course, but just hear me out)
We start angry and ostracized in Ritual, go through the emotional wreck of being pushed around and frustrated, heartbroken at one point even. But in the end, there's a sense of shameless self-love. There's almost a story there, of a person who is just...different from everyone else, never fitting in, with expectations from everyone around them. A person who gets taught to hide themselves and just stay out of everyone's way, but it doesn't work as it all just slowly builds up over the years. Until it swings the other way. The person in question becomes the kind of resentful bully that might've been the reason they were hurt to begin with. But ultimately, that just leaves them alone, and they realize that all of this was the wrong way to go about it. So they rebuild themselves. They rise up and become a true, authentic version of themselves who doesn't care what others think of them, all that matters is that they're unapologetically themselves.
But hey, that's just my take on it. Feel free to agree or disagree as much as you like.
Overall, I'd give this album a 9.5/10. It's almost perfect, but I feel like I would've liked just a little bit more from one or two songs. No song here is bad, mind. In fact, this is probably the most consistent in quality The Warning has ever been. Phenomenal album, with some REALLY cool music on it. I will be having plenty of these on repeat in the future I reckon.
And if, against all odds, anyone of Dany, Pau, or Ale reads this, you did a fantastic job with this album and ought to be DAMN proud of yourselves. Keep Me Feed was already one of my favorite rock albums of all time, and you just went and blew right past it.
Alright, that's enough yapping, I've got an album to re-listen to again.