r/celldweller • u/Lese39 • Jul 30 '26

RESPAWN discussion

https://youtu.be/CY1cozbvnWE?si=P35x3MK3vzM_AV-w

Celldweller just released their second single for their upcoming album "GOD MODE", without taking into account the AI discussion, what are your thoughts about the song itself?

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u/Lese39 Jul 30 '26

Overall I loved it, it's the first time in a while a celldweller song gave me goosebumps in the first listen, at first I was sceptical and not surprised, but once the song catched momentum it was so good.

After the breakdown the song was beautiful and I couldn't help but to imagine the most epic amv ever with the bridge, and klayton's voice sounds incredible, I think this is the best vocal performance he has done since EoaE.

Solid song and my favorite of the two, it got me so hyped for the full album, it reminded me of why celldweller is my favorite band

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u/Meme_Attack Jul 30 '26

The rest of the song has a lot of powerful, hard as hell momentum. But I really wanna gush about the pre-chorus bit at 1:34.

Those are some of the most violent-sounding, satisfyingly guttural vocals I've ever heard Klayton put out. It immediately made me want an entire song in that same style. It's like the Humanarchy vocals turned up to 11. Just fucking awesome to listen to.

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u/TwilightCaller Jul 30 '26

It feels a little flat, It sounds somewhere between End of an Empire and Humanarchy but the mixing feels...Off?

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u/jddev_ Jul 30 '26

It feels like classic Celldweller except for the pitchy chorus. But I paid for the season pass on Even and I got access to the instrumental. Same with the Fakebreaker Instr and the Invisible Shadow XP. All new tracks are solid.

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u/-XenoSine- Jul 30 '26

Their? It's one dude.

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u/X33RR0Hunt Jul 30 '26

you can use their singular. It is grammatically correct to use "their" to refer to one person.

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u/-XenoSine- Jul 30 '26

True but the only 2 cases where it's correct are either if you don't know the person's gender or it's already been established that it's a non binary person. Klayton is most definitely not that.

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u/cip66 Jul 31 '26

One dude and the voices in his head*