I just realized something about this track. Everybody is all like "Yes, this is the starset I know!". Yes, of course this song features Dustin's amazing screaming, but think about how deep everything they do is: The song is based on "de-evolution", the fact that if a species becomes complacent they don't evolve forwards and in fact end up going backwards instead. Now consider the fact that this song is the most like the stuff from Vessels, as of now TWO albums ago. They've done a lot of evolving their sound and especially Dustin's vocals throughout and tried different techniques in Divisions as well as in Horizons. This song was a literal de-evolution. They went back to a previous style for it. That's so sick.
Those screams are insane, love how they’re only done where it matters the most on this record. Not overdone and it shows a mature progression. Another banger in our books 🤘
Everyone in the live chat wanted more screams but I feel like if they added more it'd just feel oversaturated and dull, compared to immersive and emotional like it really does here.
@@Ashect it wouldn't feel oversaturated. Vessels had screams in like..6 songs, and it definitely didn't feel forced in any song. Here I feel tunnelvision and alchemy could've used some screams.
"YOU STILL EAT STRAIGHT FROM THE PAW" mentions so many things that everyday happens, everyday man is making a fool of itself. and for some reason that they're aware of that , they just don't wanna abandon it which is kinda dark and scary.
Hello from Japan! This is such a cool song... When I hear Death Voice, it's so powerful that I feel numb! I'm listening to the album HORIZON. It's really cool that when the song "LEAVING THIS WORLD BEHIND" ends, it continues with "DEVOLUTION"! Thank you for the wonderful song! It's translated using Google Translate, so there may be strange translations. Even if it seems weird, I don't mean any malicious intent, so please don't worry about it...
This is emerging as my favorite song in Horizons on the merit of how *mean* it is. "So open up and say 'aah!' Let's spoonfeed on our own delusions." Listening to it feels like Dustin Bates repeatedly slapping you in the face. It's awesome.
For me it's the Darwin quote and the line right after it. I mean who would make a line like "from a Bargain, Darwin" and use a quote from Darwin as build up except Starset?
Finally got in to see them live in Columbus, Ohio. Had been going through withdrawals. This song and the breach were by far the best live! My heart thrives with Starset❤
I hear a lot of compliments about the song and the melody but can we take a moment to discuss those lyrics? I think they're a warning and Dustin's work on it is a masterpiece.
They are a warning to society. I been thinking about them since last night's release. We de-evolve, and then BMI will be more attractive. Luxury in the name of not using our brain.
I think the song is about society being so obsessed with comfort, safety and being shielded from anything remotely provocative to one's beliefs that people's mentalities stagnate and they stop being able to form new progressive thoughts.
The dillussions that this song mentions, It get me thinking about the blames we put on ourselves , poorness, racism, all or most of the human race's problems , who we "hunt "to blame instead of asking or wondering why , the blindness is scary... it's history repeating itself
To be honest, Dustins screams are freaking sick. Division only had a few, but very nice ones, but this album...its objectively great, and the songs wouldnt work well with much screaming, but I hope we will get to hear more from that on the next record.
Just found this band, first song I've heard. First time I listened I didn't really pay attention, ending blew me away. the second time I paid attention, whilst I'm not the most avid fan of the vocals the instrumental is more than genius. the third time I'm now listening to this I'm thinking this is some sort of black magic beautiful fuckery. Incredible.
Welcome to the STARSET family.. they have 4 albums and have been around sense 2013.... they also have a book called Proxs Transmission....and a Marvel comic book.
@@noodlesatemybaby start with -- The album TRANSMISSIONS 1. MY DEMONS 2. HALO 3. CARIVORE 4. DARK ON ME then the album VESSELS 1. RICOCHET 2. TELEPATHIC 3. MONSTER 4. FREQUENCY 5. DIE FOR YOU then the album DIVISION 1. PERFECT MICHINE 2. TELEKINETIC 3. TRAILS 4. OTHER WORLDS THEN THESE. That should give you a solid Vibes of what STARSET about.. Hope it helps
Same. I can’t wait to sing-shout along with this live. If it’s anything like “Rise and Fall,” it’ll feel even heavier in person. And I live for those opening synths!
It was great!! We saw them at the start of the new tour in Asheville, NC. It was great, pumped the crowd up so much!!! I loved every minute of it! ❤ Best concert I have been to, and it was great after the years we have been through. I and to happy and thankful they came to Asheville, western NC gets over looked alot, and we where so happy and thankful they came to see us, even if it wss a small venue! Fans from the beginning and now fans for life!
@@kyoko900 glad you enjoyed it, going to see them for the second time in Wolverhampton, hopefully if UK doesn't do lock downs. Vola is our support band and them and starset are my two fav bands of all time! Just a concert to die for!
When you make a song entirely calling out a group of brainlets who think they are "Wolves" and that they are actually creating a revolution only to be wolves on leashes being held by the same people causing all of their problems. This song is literally sublime, new starset favorite.
I picked this up too, and I freaking dig this song for that reason. “Fake revolution” is the line that stands out for me. Hmm… I wonder which kind of people are doing revolutionary-like actions over an issue that was never that severe to begin with…
"One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, is multiply, vary, let the strongest live, and the weakest die. Eventually, a species can become complacent. At that point, a *devolution* can occur--a spiral downwards, signaling an end for that lifeform." 2:32
This song feels like the thematic opposite of "Trials," a song I interpret to be about victory and success being born only of an embrace of self-determination and personal agency. This song seems to be about surrendering that self-determination to some governing entity in exchange for comfort, a course leading to complacency and tyranny ("sheep becoming wolves, and you eat from the paw...the wolves take out their claws, you still eat straight from the paw"). The speech in the middle indicating that only species that embrace a system of the strong surviving and the weak dying off manage to avoid de-evolution seems to corroborate all this in a metaphorical sense. Human society can only avoid de-evolution when only those who work and strive and fight for success-the "strong"- achieve it, while the lazy and unmotivated-the "weak"-do not, not when everyone can gain success simply by surrendering the struggle and eating from the paw. If everything is provided freely without struggle, there is no motivation to embrace the trials of which "Trials" speaks, and the paw providing food can easily grow claws and turn corrupt on a whim. It's also worth pointing out that the name of the song is no accident. They could have easily called it "De-evolution" or something, but they intentionally chose "devolution," defined as the decentralization and distribution of power from a single entity at the top down to lower sub-entities. The implication seems to be that the only way to prevent de-evolution by a corrupt governing entity given all the power by a lazy, complacent people is to decentralize it, with every individual person retaking control of their own personal agency. Between these songs and the various dystopian "government all up in your business" music videos Starset has made over the years, methinks Dustin might have an issue with unchecked big government.
I completely agree. It’s honestly been on my brain a lot since the song came out and your explanation puts my thoughts into perfect words. Unchecked, tyrannical government from either side. We need to find a balance or we are dooming ourselves, I believe this is what he is getting at, and this goes perfectly with their own storyline too.
Trials is about the singers of de-evolution (if you add just 1 word to one of the lyrics), de-evolution is a warning to the sheep the trials goers sing to or against.
There's alot of us your not alone they don't show the people who trying to spread awareness most are lost we are not life gets harder for us when all you see is the lies and the games our nations play
I’ve heard some people hate the bridge of this song, and I completely understand, I mean it is VERY lengthy and doesn’t really seem to add anything to the song when you first listen to it; but even then, feel that this song would be nothing without the bridge. The very first time I listened to this song (and I wasn’t that big of a fan of it at first), I actually really appreciated the bridge, as it helped make sense of what the song was actually about. Afterwards, the more and more I listened to this song, the more appreciation I had for the bridge in a musical sense, as it helped immerse me in the song so much as to make the breakdown slap even more than it already did (and boy do I love that breakdown). All I’m saying is that this song is a perfect example of how you shouldn’t judge a song or any part of it so harshly the first time you listen to it. But hey, that’s coming from someone who listens to Orchestral Dubstep artists like Xtrullor or Talurre, so getting used to long bridges is a personal specialty of mine. So yeah, I hope that gives anyone who hates the bridge a different way to look at this song, because Starset’s soul objective isn’t to make a catchy, generic, overly simplistic song with mundane lyrics and instrumentals; no, it’s to tell the story of an entire universe that they created and to let us connect the dots left loose. That’s what the bridge of this song is for.
@@MrPatrickbuit I honestly do stand by what I said about the bridge, but I still respect your opinion on the. On the other hand, Devolution is more of a fierce contender for my favorite in this Album, alongside Disappear and maybe Something Wicked. It used to be my favorite without question, but I made the stupid mistake of listening to it I kid you not fifty times in less than a month, so I kind of got tired of it. Nevertheless, I loved this song so much for longer than I’ve ever seen myself love any song. So at any rate I still agree Devolution is an absolute masterpiece, but so is Disappear for me.
@@elkboy2538 The main issue with Starset that started to annoy me more as I got older is how much they repeat everything. When your album is full of songs that have 3 identical choruses and very little variation within the verses, the music gets stale quick. The bridge kind of encapsulates this problem in itself. It’s too long, instrumentally nothing happens and it’s 30 seconds of a text to speech bot telling us about de-evolution, which might be semi-interesting on a first time listen, but it really isn’t on repeated listens. Not to mention that I can’t believe they’re still using that exact same voice in 2021/2022 when all it is associated with are reddit stories.
@@ImaGenius40 The My Demons bridge is not perfect, but at least there’s no annoying text to speech voice talking to us in the middle of a song and there’s something happening instrumentally.
I looked at it and if you think about the logo of this song, one of the lines separates the eye from the brain, wich could mean something about current situation also, i was thinking that it could mean that people dont use critical thinking and just believe to what they see/read somewhere without making any research
@@dominic4661 I don't think it's about de-evolution specifically... I think it's about faux pas revolutions that cause the de-evolution of society, which I think is a better take
This is one of the songs on the album where you can hear the parallels between the "Starset Society", and the current state of events. Referencing witch hunts, trying to erase the truth, fake revolutions, etc. You can hear the same messages even clearer in Tunnel Vision
Keep coming back to this song and using it to explain to others what's going on in the world right now. People need to understand, this song is VERY direct. It's title references the Devolution of power but the actual lyrics are about de-evolution of species. It's intentional and it's where we are headed.
This is one song I always come back to as well. It seems like every band since 2020 has spoken out against the current situation with government overreach and control and the people or “sheep” continuing to “eat straight from the paw” blindly following along without questioning anything for themselves. But on a much larger scale, we are devolving as an entire species because we are growing incapable of having civil discussion and understanding that it is okay to have different opinions and beliefs. Instead we’d rather cancel and eliminate all people who disagree with the mainstream point of view and this is further dividing people to a point of no return. Dustin is warning that if we don’t reverse this course it will be too late because everyone is too stuck in their own narrow minded views to see a bigger picture and unite, and it will be our downfall. There are so many “fake revolutions” on all sides and it’s all for no purpose other than a social and political pony show. Starset has been warning about all this since they started making music, you can see it all too clear through their videos. It’s truly scary where this world is going…
Both great singers. Lookup tillian Pearson from Dance Gavin Dance, specifically in Inspire the Liars and Man of the Year. His range and screams has been described as very close to chesters, he also has some solo work that’s on the pop/dance/soft rock spectrum
@@djmaydraws3862 So Jon Mess does all the screams as I'm sure you know but, It's a shame that Tilian doesn't even attempt to fry after Mothership because it could be a really good dynamic with Mess
God DAMN I love this song. The synth build up with the explosion of guitars and drums, the screams later on, the overarching theme...Bringing It Down and Telekinetic, step aside! While I love just about every Starset song, this one is my new favorite.
Hope so. Icarus just feels like it could work as a single like how Trials did. I would love to see a song with a breakdown get a music video let alone be a single (not really counting Bringing It Down 2.0)
For me, this song either has to tie with Monster or be the best Starset song (and really best song in general) I’ve ever heard. I just can't stop coming back to this song, it's so freaking good. The atmosphere, the storytelling, the instrumentals, Dustin’s voice and screams, the lyrics... They just absolutely nailed it with this song! Devolution is always getting stuck in my head and I can’t remember the last time I went an entire day without listening to it, I must have listened to this song like fifty times and I still almost nod my headphones off every single time. Starset really outdid themselves this time, and I hope this along with all of their other songs get the love that they truly deserve. Thank you for once again proving yourselves the greatest band of all time (at least in my opinion).
"Sheep becoming wolves, and you eat from the paw" Most clever line in my option. Wolves are generally seen as antagonistic figures, and they hunt sheep in stories. It's told in 2nd person, telling us that our own society is becoming wolves. And "Eat from the paw", Sheep don't have paws, wether we've become these wolves or not, we're letting them manipulate us.... Extremely clever, it speak's the song's message perfectly
I'm so glad the lyrics acknowledged that "devolution" is not pronounced "de-evolution". The phonetics Nazi in me was really annoyed when this was dropped last week. Superb track!
These songs are great. they sound amazing. what draws me in a lot more are the Lyrics. The Lyrics are so powerful and meaningful that you can't really miss what the songs are really saying
I feel like this album is a bit of a warning about tech like the Metaverse and Neuralink, corporate greed making these glamorous things inevitably terrible, and devolving as a species as a result. Definitely not putting any words in any mouths, but that's how my brain interprets some of the meaning from this album. Starset is fantastic at writing lyrics with layers upon layers of meanings.
It's about de-evolution in general. The concept that a species can become complacent and too easily appeased, resulting in a stagnation in evolution, and eventually evolving backwards. There's many factors to it besides a couple corpo endeavors, which are failing real hard and costing said corporations billions of dollars.
Dustin said in one of their shows that it's about when 2 sides of an argument are more focused on yelling at each other over half truths and delusions and shouting the other side into submission than figuring out what's actually true.
3:33 Starts to talk about belzebuth, if it's on purpose that's one of the greatest timing I've ever seen in my entire life, bravo STARSET, you guys are AMAZING
This song is absolutely FIRE The screams compared to the other songs are just amazing I seriously couldnt tell whether i was listening to Starset or something else
My comments about the bridge: It works. The song goes from fairly heavy and loud and then flattens out, the bridge plays and you know something good and heavier is about to come. The calm before the storm type of thing. The bridge builds up, Dustin starts singing again getting more intense, and then the scream drops. It's really well crafted in my opinion!
This is so fire even 1 year after i first listened to it. Also its insane how much of humanity this describes and how everyone will think that it doesn't describe them lmao.
Some of starset songs sound like it has a taste of traditional Eastern music because of the use of black keys, which is familiar sound to me (I'm Japanese) and feel like a mix of Eastern and Western nicely.
This Legit sounds like the Theme of a Villain who wants to Wipe out all of humanity and have earth start over from a clean slate, because he has grown tired of watching humanity destroy their homeworld with endless war and genocide, all in the name of progress. And he's willing to die just to succeed. As long as he wins, that's all that matters.
This is the telekinetic song of the album and I'm here for it! (Which reminds me, I'm sadden they didn't keep the trend of a song title beginning with 'tele')
What if Tunnelvision was a sort of transition into a new trend, it’s close to “Television” and the new trend could evolve into one song on the next two albums sharing “vision” in the title. Idrk what other words have “vision” in them, but I’m sure there are some! Lol
Wish he screamed just a bit more but I'll freaking it take it!! Telekinetic was my fav off of Divisions (and probably my favorite song by them in general) so this puts a huge smile on my face.
This album is truly something else. It’s not my favourite album but it is amazing. Different but original and the lyrics to every single song on this album is utterly beautiful and poetic. Smart and clever lyrics too.
We all need to repent together. Work together. The play is corrupted and falling to it ground we are evolving rn for what. Destiny, remember that. We will arise together my brothers and sisters.
This is it. This is my favorite song from the album! Holy crap guys! You hit us in the face so hard with this song! I can’t get enough of this song! Obsessed! (As is everyone I play it for!)
Just went to see these guys as an act yesterday and my god do these guys go hard, my entire chest was shaking at the intro then it hit and I was blown away, and when this song came on I’ve never heard it until yesterday and it was very unexpected but god was it good
I just realized something about this track. Everybody is all like "Yes, this is the starset I know!". Yes, of course this song features Dustin's amazing screaming, but think about how deep everything they do is:
The song is based on "de-evolution", the fact that if a species becomes complacent they don't evolve forwards and in fact end up going backwards instead. Now consider the fact that this song is the most like the stuff from Vessels, as of now TWO albums ago. They've done a lot of evolving their sound and especially Dustin's vocals throughout and tried different techniques in Divisions as well as in Horizons.
This song was a literal de-evolution. They went back to a previous style for it. That's so sick.
I think they de-evolved back to Vessels with Earthrise.
he in the zone! PREACH N*@@A PREACH! 😁
Just like how us as a species seems to be de-evolving... At least mentally anyways
@@lime-flavoredneo1062 hope we figure out before it's too late.
@@DonEBrooke32 with the rate it's going, most likely not. But there's always hope for a better tomorrow I suppose
Those screams are insane, love how they’re only done where it matters the most on this record. Not overdone and it shows a mature progression. Another banger in our books 🤘
hey WATE 👋 u guys should cover this song
Everyone in the live chat wanted more screams but I feel like if they added more it'd just feel oversaturated and dull, compared to immersive and emotional like it really does here.
@@Ashect Agreed. I prefer quality over quantity
@@Ashect I would've liked a few screams in Tunnelvision, but I agree.
@@Ashect it wouldn't feel oversaturated. Vessels had screams in like..6 songs, and it definitely didn't feel forced in any song. Here I feel tunnelvision and alchemy could've used some screams.
"YOU STILL EAT STRAIGHT FROM THE PAW" mentions so many things that everyday happens, everyday man is making a fool of itself. and for some reason that they're aware of that , they just don't wanna abandon it which is kinda dark and scary.
Hello from Japan!
This is such a cool song...
When I hear Death Voice, it's so powerful that I feel numb!
I'm listening to the album HORIZON.
It's really cool that when the song "LEAVING THIS WORLD BEHIND" ends, it continues with "DEVOLUTION"!
Thank you for the wonderful song!
It's translated using Google Translate, so there may be strange translations. Even if it seems weird, I don't mean any malicious intent, so please don't worry about it...
いや、日本人かーい！！！😮
日本人2りもいて嬉しいお
Death voice is one hell of a name for it, awesome.
I mean… this song is fine. Compared to other starset songs nothing in this one stands out.
This is emerging as my favorite song in Horizons on the merit of how *mean* it is. "So open up and say 'aah!' Let's spoonfeed on our own delusions." Listening to it feels like Dustin Bates repeatedly slapping you in the face. It's awesome.
ikr, it makes me questioning all my perspective of world
For me it's the Darwin quote and the line right after it. I mean who would make a line like "from a Bargain, Darwin" and use a quote from Darwin as build up except Starset?
To this day, I think Everglow is the best song but this is a frixken great song
Finally got in to see them live in Columbus, Ohio. Had been going through withdrawals. This song and the breach were by far the best live! My heart thrives with Starset❤
That chorus gets me every-time!
I am so obsessed. This is the PERFECT STARSET song. What a masterpiece.
Saammme
This is like the telekinetic of this album. I had to run this one back 🙌
I love how your channel’s name is “Calm Space ASMR” and THIS is your favorite song. A masterpiece it is, though
This song goes hard, just like every song
I felt free to screenshot
I never heard this band, they are awesome, I'll see them in November 12 in Daytona Florida
@@darrelfloyd9447 that’s nice!
This song goes so hard. Feel free to press repeat.
@@darrelfloyd9447 wait im in daytona are they coming here?
I hear a lot of compliments about the song and the melody but can we take a moment to discuss those lyrics? I think they're a warning and Dustin's work on it is a masterpiece.
They are a warning to society. I been thinking about them since last night's release. We de-evolve, and then BMI will be more attractive. Luxury in the name of not using our brain.
Dustin is one of my favorite lyricists of all time
I think the song is about society being so obsessed with comfort, safety and being shielded from anything remotely provocative to one's beliefs that people's mentalities stagnate and they stop being able to form new progressive thoughts.
That's Right 💯😎
"Bargain Darwin" is my new favorite roast.
Had the privilege of witnessing this song live at their recent St Louis show and HOLY CRAP. STARSET, never stop. You're way too special.
Holy shit congrats! That would have been a blessing to hear!! 🤟
This is a truly unique, special, different, and vastly underated band 🤘🏼
The dillussions that this song mentions, It get me thinking about the blames we put on ourselves , poorness, racism, all or most of the human race's problems , who we "hunt "to blame instead of asking or wondering why , the blindness is scary... it's history repeating itself
Because it's easier to blame others than admit your own failings.
This song is absolutely wild, and I’m living for it.
To be honest, Dustins screams are freaking sick. Division only had a few, but very nice ones, but this album...its objectively great, and the songs wouldnt work well with much screaming, but I hope we will get to hear more from that on the next record.
This album imo is better than both Vessels and Divisions
There are great songs on all albums
Divisions had only 1 scream in Telekinetic
This has 2, in Devolution and Something Wicked
No.. I like it this way I hate over screaming
It's better to be in the right line and right lyrics
@dalar I would die happily if starset became symphonic melodic death metal
Favorite band, im so glad they're still going strong with a 4th album
Facts
@Spiritset both are equally great
@The Horizon Blue rotoscope was awesome
Just found this band, first song I've heard. First time I listened I didn't really pay attention, ending blew me away. the second time I paid attention, whilst I'm not the most avid fan of the vocals the instrumental is more than genius. the third time I'm now listening to this I'm thinking this is some sort of black magic beautiful fuckery. Incredible.
Welcome to the STARSET family.. they have 4 albums and have been around sense 2013.... they also have a book called Proxs Transmission....and a Marvel comic book.
@@Anthony.Paris. what songs would you recommend I look into next? It's currently 3am but I'll check them out properly tomorrow :)
@@noodlesatemybaby start with --
The album TRANSMISSIONS
1. MY DEMONS
2. HALO
3. CARIVORE
4. DARK ON ME
then the album VESSELS
1. RICOCHET
2. TELEPATHIC
3. MONSTER
4. FREQUENCY
5. DIE FOR YOU
then the album DIVISION
1. PERFECT MICHINE
2. TELEKINETIC
3. TRAILS
4. OTHER WORLDS THEN THESE.
That should give you a solid Vibes of what STARSET about.. Hope it helps
@@Anthony.Paris. Appreciate you taking the time out to do that for me my man!
@@noodlesatemybaby no problem 😊
Dustin went OFF on this track those screams are insane
I think this one will be a certified banger live too. Even the opening synths get me hyped as hell for this track!
I garentee
Same. I can’t wait to sing-shout along with this live. If it’s anything like “Rise and Fall,” it’ll feel even heavier in person. And I live for those opening synths!
It sure was. They played it at House of Blues in Dallas. I lost my shit. The chorus is massive live.
It was great!! We saw them at the start of the new tour in Asheville, NC. It was great, pumped the crowd up so much!!! I loved every minute of it! ❤ Best concert I have been to, and it was great after the years we have been through. I and to happy and thankful they came to Asheville, western NC gets over looked alot, and we where so happy and thankful they came to see us, even if it wss a small venue! Fans from the beginning and now fans for life!
@@kyoko900 glad you enjoyed it, going to see them for the second time in Wolverhampton, hopefully if UK doesn't do lock downs. Vola is our support band and them and starset are my two fav bands of all time! Just a concert to die for!
This entire album is beyond perfection, holy sh*t.....
When you make a song entirely calling out a group of brainlets who think they are "Wolves" and that they are actually creating a revolution only to be wolves on leashes being held by the same people causing all of their problems. This song is literally sublime, new starset favorite.
Anti-SJW song from Starset.
This isn’t Sublime it’s Starset
@@dexter2392 or anti Trump supporter
you can call the wolves literally any group u don't like lol
thought you were talking about sigmas and alphas for a second
I picked this up too, and I freaking dig this song for that reason. “Fake revolution” is the line that stands out for me.
Hmm… I wonder which kind of people are doing revolutionary-like actions over an issue that was never that severe to begin with…
"One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, is multiply, vary, let the strongest live, and the weakest die.
Eventually, a species can become complacent. At that point, a *devolution* can occur--a spiral downwards, signaling an end for that lifeform."
2:32
you right! i cant stand why the lyrics says: ´ One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, is multiply.. therein´ lol
This song feels like the thematic opposite of "Trials," a song I interpret to be about victory and success being born only of an embrace of self-determination and personal agency. This song seems to be about surrendering that self-determination to some governing entity in exchange for comfort, a course leading to complacency and tyranny ("sheep becoming wolves, and you eat from the paw...the wolves take out their claws, you still eat straight from the paw").
The speech in the middle indicating that only species that embrace a system of the strong surviving and the weak dying off manage to avoid de-evolution seems to corroborate all this in a metaphorical sense. Human society can only avoid de-evolution when only those who work and strive and fight for success-the "strong"- achieve it, while the lazy and unmotivated-the "weak"-do not, not when everyone can gain success simply by surrendering the struggle and eating from the paw. If everything is provided freely without struggle, there is no motivation to embrace the trials of which "Trials" speaks, and the paw providing food can easily grow claws and turn corrupt on a whim.
It's also worth pointing out that the name of the song is no accident. They could have easily called it "De-evolution" or something, but they intentionally chose "devolution," defined as the decentralization and distribution of power from a single entity at the top down to lower sub-entities. The implication seems to be that the only way to prevent de-evolution by a corrupt governing entity given all the power by a lazy, complacent people is to decentralize it, with every individual person retaking control of their own personal agency.
Between these songs and the various dystopian "government all up in your business" music videos Starset has made over the years, methinks Dustin might have an issue with unchecked big government.
I completely agree. It’s honestly been on my brain a lot since the song came out and your explanation puts my thoughts into perfect words. Unchecked, tyrannical government from either side. We need to find a balance or we are dooming ourselves, I believe this is what he is getting at, and this goes perfectly with their own storyline too.
Libertarian Dustin be libertarian. I vibe with that.
This comment is a blessing
so does that mean this song is also against r/antiwork
Trials is about the singers of de-evolution (if you add just 1 word to one of the lyrics), de-evolution is a warning to the sheep the trials goers sing to or against.
Omg I would like to see more of Dustin's screaming, his screaming is amazing asf!
nobody talking about the lyrics and how important they are?
Like what
@@scrappermax9513 It’s about the overall political climate today.
@@WlknTlknStvnHwkn glad to see someone else knowing the importance of there lyrics
There's alot of us your not alone they don't show the people who trying to spread awareness most are lost we are not life gets harder for us when all you see is the lies and the games our nations play
These lyrics are a prophecy
I’ve heard some people hate the bridge of this song, and I completely understand, I mean it is VERY lengthy and doesn’t really seem to add anything to the song when you first listen to it; but even then, feel that this song would be nothing without the bridge. The very first time I listened to this song (and I wasn’t that big of a fan of it at first), I actually really appreciated the bridge, as it helped make sense of what the song was actually about. Afterwards, the more and more I listened to this song, the more appreciation I had for the bridge in a musical sense, as it helped immerse me in the song so much as to make the breakdown slap even more than it already did (and boy do I love that breakdown). All I’m saying is that this song is a perfect example of how you shouldn’t judge a song or any part of it so harshly the first time you listen to it. But hey, that’s coming from someone who listens to Orchestral Dubstep artists like Xtrullor or Talurre, so getting used to long bridges is a personal specialty of mine. So yeah, I hope that gives anyone who hates the bridge a different way to look at this song, because Starset’s soul objective isn’t to make a catchy, generic, overly simplistic song with mundane lyrics and instrumentals; no, it’s to tell the story of an entire universe that they created and to let us connect the dots left loose. That’s what the bridge of this song is for.
The bridge is cringe and there's no excuse for it. Still the best song on the album.
@@MrPatrickbuit I honestly do stand by what I said about the bridge, but I still respect your opinion on the. On the other hand, Devolution is more of a fierce contender for my favorite in this Album, alongside Disappear and maybe Something Wicked. It used to be my favorite without question, but I made the stupid mistake of listening to it I kid you not fifty times in less than a month, so I kind of got tired of it. Nevertheless, I loved this song so much for longer than I’ve ever seen myself love any song. So at any rate I still agree Devolution is an absolute masterpiece, but so is Disappear for me.
@@MrPatrickbuit Nah bro no way. Does that mean you feel the same about the bridge for My Demons? Same boat but both songs are goated imo
@@elkboy2538 The main issue with Starset that started to annoy me more as I got older is how much they repeat everything. When your album is full of songs that have 3 identical choruses and very little variation within the verses, the music gets stale quick. The bridge kind of encapsulates this problem in itself. It’s too long, instrumentally nothing happens and it’s 30 seconds of a text to speech bot telling us about de-evolution, which might be semi-interesting on a first time listen, but it really isn’t on repeated listens. Not to mention that I can’t believe they’re still using that exact same voice in 2021/2022 when all it is associated with are reddit stories.
@@ImaGenius40 The My Demons bridge is not perfect, but at least there’s no annoying text to speech voice talking to us in the middle of a song and there’s something happening instrumentally.
Now THIS sounds like the Starset I know, best song on the album!!
yup
I liked otherwordly the most. Then annihilated love then this.
I think the entire album was fire.
Actually, Otherworldly sounds like the true essence of Starset.
Ohh easily. This slaps
Easily the best song on this album
Yeah honestly the back half of this album is not too interesting to me except for the closing track, but this is definitely my fav in the album
What a way to say SYMBIOTIC
Something wicked
Something Wicked tops every other Starset song in my opinion, although only by a very small margin.
No contest.
If this song doesn't perfectly describe the global situation I don't know bro. Just so good and relatable.
Literally thought the same thing tbh
I looked at it and if you think about the logo of this song, one of the lines separates the eye from the brain, wich could mean something about current situation also, i was thinking that it could mean that people dont use critical thinking and just believe to what they see/read somewhere without making any research
covid globalist socialist and corporativist dictatorship
@@dominic4661 I don't think it's about de-evolution specifically... I think it's about faux pas revolutions that cause the de-evolution of society, which I think is a better take
@@DavidVyzner loved your analysis,
This is one of the songs on the album where you can hear the parallels between the "Starset Society", and the current state of events. Referencing witch hunts, trying to erase the truth, fake revolutions, etc. You can hear the same messages even clearer in Tunnel Vision
I was thinking the same thing as I first heard the song live but more of how it fit sociologically rather than with the Starset Society
Destroyed my throat singing along to this at the O2 forum. Starset you are a blessing to this planet thanks for the performance
Keep coming back to this song and using it to explain to others what's going on in the world right now. People need to understand, this song is VERY direct. It's title references the Devolution of power but the actual lyrics are about de-evolution of species. It's intentional and it's where we are headed.
This is one song I always come back to as well. It seems like every band since 2020 has spoken out against the current situation with government overreach and control and the people or “sheep” continuing to “eat straight from the paw” blindly following along without questioning anything for themselves. But on a much larger scale, we are devolving as an entire species because we are growing incapable of having civil discussion and understanding that it is okay to have different opinions and beliefs. Instead we’d rather cancel and eliminate all people who disagree with the mainstream point of view and this is further dividing people to a point of no return. Dustin is warning that if we don’t reverse this course it will be too late because everyone is too stuck in their own narrow minded views to see a bigger picture and unite, and it will be our downfall. There are so many “fake revolutions” on all sides and it’s all for no purpose other than a social and political pony show. Starset has been warning about all this since they started making music, you can see it all too clear through their videos. It’s truly scary where this world is going…
@@frankieg9528 you do realize that this is about their lore, not ours right
Man, I haven't heard screaming like that since Chester, amazing job Dustin!
Both great singers. Lookup tillian Pearson from Dance Gavin Dance, specifically in Inspire the Liars and Man of the Year. His range and screams has been described as very close to chesters, he also has some solo work that’s on the pop/dance/soft rock spectrum
@@djmaydraws3862 Will do!
@@djmaydraws3862 So Jon Mess does all the screams as I'm sure you know but, It's a shame that Tilian doesn't even attempt to fry after Mothership because it could be a really good dynamic with Mess
@@lukusvieira6385 listen to inspire the liars or man of the year, Tilian does screams too
God DAMN I love this song. The synth build up with the explosion of guitars and drums, the screams later on, the overarching theme...Bringing It Down and Telekinetic, step aside! While I love just about every Starset song, this one is my new favorite.
The scream left me speechless. Holy shit
Hahaha i just bout feel asleep next thing i know he screams my mjbd was nope stayi g up
The timing and buildup was so perfect
The buildup to the screamo part got me. The suspense was unreal.
I feel like this and Icarus are going to get a Music Video
Hope so. Icarus just feels like it could work as a single like how Trials did. I would love to see a song with a breakdown get a music video let alone be a single (not really counting Bringing It Down 2.0)
@@koldbite2158 Icarus feels like it would work as an animated music video while this song feels like it would work as a live action music video
Breached for sure
Would absolutely love s music video for this song
@@koldbite2158 oh cmon that song slaps lmao
For me, this song either has to tie with Monster or be the best Starset song (and really best song in general) I’ve ever heard. I just can't stop coming back to this song, it's so freaking good. The atmosphere, the storytelling, the instrumentals, Dustin’s voice and screams, the lyrics... They just absolutely nailed it with this song! Devolution is always getting stuck in my head and I can’t remember the last time I went an entire day without listening to it, I must have listened to this song like fifty times and I still almost nod my headphones off every single time. Starset really outdid themselves this time, and I hope this along with all of their other songs get the love that they truly deserve. Thank you for once again proving yourselves the greatest band of all time (at least in my opinion).
ANOTHER BANGER CHORUS!
Bhai india wale yaha milenge socha nhi tha
@@v15h4l-hx69 mai bhi nahi socha tha, welcome here
@@ayushrai7379 ty bhai...waise kaha se ho
Hello fellow Indian bros 😂
Starset really released the rest of the album at once woah
Edit: Apparently I don’t know how albums work
HOLY CRAP
They actually streamed whole album like hours ago
They did the same to Divisions
That is usually how albums work
@@anseljames5531 I actually thought they were gonna release a song every 2 weeks like the first 3 songs, so this one caught me off guard
Man, this song is deep, but beyond that, just simply epic.
"Sheep becoming wolves, and you eat from the paw"
Most clever line in my option. Wolves are generally seen as antagonistic figures, and they hunt sheep in stories. It's told in 2nd person, telling us that our own society is becoming wolves. And "Eat from the paw", Sheep don't have paws, wether we've become these wolves or not, we're letting them manipulate us.... Extremely clever, it speak's the song's message perfectly
Very clever how someone else had the same thinking I did a while ago it’s great to think that we both had the same idea
Society;Dustin can't scream much anymore
Dustin:Hold my beer
What ?
HahahahahHaha so truethough
@@ultimatetrishbhatia it's a meme
@@ashofwinter8744 but it doesn't make sense here
“SHEEP🐑BECOMING WOLVES🐺”
🔥 🔥 🔥
“ITS ANARCHY ITS 🧬DEVOLUTION”
absolutely OBSESSED with this song. the whole album is amazing but this is just breathtaking
yes anna i agree
Easily the Best song on the album
Everything about this song is just perfection. No other band makes it like starset
This is the best song in the album. I have it on repeat. Well done Startset
hearing this live is something I'm never gonna forget.
Saw them at Danforth music hall in Toronto
Same I saw them in May of 2022
Tá ficando difícil escolher só uma música favorita desse álbum, TODAS SÃO PERFEITAS!!!❤❤❤
Sou fã da banda também amei todas mas tenho 3 preferidas das novas músicas
Minha banda favorita, tá difícil escolher a melhor música também!
Durante toda a trajetória da Banda, todos os Álbuns são Full bons, Não da pra escolher, tenho quase todas as músicas de FRENQUENCE e VESSELS.
4:28-4:32 i just CANT get out that battery break out of my head. Esa delicious.
I'm so glad the lyrics acknowledged that "devolution" is not pronounced "de-evolution". The phonetics Nazi in me was really annoyed when this was dropped last week.
Superb track!
I'm pretty sure devolution is supposed to be a play on "revolution" but like, the opposite
Where did they aknowledge it?
@@zayn1173 during the video, whenever the lyrics de-evolution come on, it's spelt de evolution rather than devolution as the title would imply
@@OffensiveGen oh ok I think I misunderstood at first xd
@@zayn1173 No worries! :D
These songs are great. they sound amazing. what draws me in a lot more are the Lyrics. The Lyrics are so powerful and meaningful that you can't really miss what the songs are really saying
I know I say every Starset song is great, (because they are) but THIS! Easily in the top echelons of Starset greatness.
I've listened to this song about 5 times and I've had around 9 seizures and witnessed the collapse of the galactic republic from start to finish.
Dude dustin really dropped his vochal chords here
This is my favorite new Starset song, it goes harder than any other song on the album
I just realized that this song actually describes the reunion movement in arknights almost perfectly. I love this band.
Being able to hear Starset's music Live at a concert was probably the happiest I've been while listening to music
I love how this song aligns with how I view this world. Humanity is evolving backwards.
What the hell was that. Oh My God ! i love it. The breakdown after the bridge is mad. Absolutely love the different variations done here. Love it.
I feel like this album is a bit of a warning about tech like the Metaverse and Neuralink, corporate greed making these glamorous things inevitably terrible, and devolving as a species as a result. Definitely not putting any words in any mouths, but that's how my brain interprets some of the meaning from this album. Starset is fantastic at writing lyrics with layers upon layers of meanings.
It's about de-evolution in general. The concept that a species can become complacent and too easily appeased, resulting in a stagnation in evolution, and eventually evolving backwards. There's many factors to it besides a couple corpo endeavors, which are failing real hard and costing said corporations billions of dollars.
There many ways to understand this song
Dustin said in one of their shows that it's about when 2 sides of an argument are more focused on yelling at each other over half truths and delusions and shouting the other side into submission than figuring out what's actually true.
@@WlknTlknStvnHwknwell we sure know _somewhere_ where that happens
@@_apsis The good ole’ US of A!
Those lyrics are true fire, specially when they can apply so good on our daily society.
This and Tunnelvision are just society today... honestly sad, but true.
Best song of the album. Symphonic stuff, screams and catchy melody
WHEN I HEARD DUSTIN SCREAM LIKE THAT I ALMOST SHAT MYSELF WITH JOY
Starset needs to do a metal album
I know right Dustin would nail it
3:33 Starts to talk about belzebuth, if it's on purpose that's one of the greatest timing I've ever seen in my entire life, bravo STARSET, you guys are AMAZING
This song is absolutely FIRE
The screams compared to the other songs are just amazing
I seriously couldnt tell whether i was listening to Starset or something else
Happy To See Indians Here.... I thought I am the only one
@@v15h4l-hx69 hah, nope
@@Darkendviper Who are the people in your profile pic?
@@tamarakeiml1380 will solace and nico di angelo from percy jackson
My comments about the bridge:
It works. The song goes from fairly heavy and loud and then flattens out, the bridge plays and you know something good and heavier is about to come. The calm before the storm type of thing.
The bridge builds up, Dustin starts singing again getting more intense, and then the scream drops.
It's really well crafted in my opinion!
This is so fire even 1 year after i first listened to it. Also its insane how much of humanity this describes and how everyone will think that it doesn't describe them lmao.
I would like to thank my best friend for having an obsession with this band, I love it too now
Just saw them live and this song went so hard live!
Some of starset songs sound like it has a taste of traditional Eastern music because of the use of black keys, which is familiar sound to me (I'm Japanese) and feel like a mix of Eastern and Western nicely.
Damn i love how heavy this song is!
3:58 ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥‼️‼️‼️‼️🔊🔊🔊🔊 HEAVY METAL YEAHH
This Legit sounds like the Theme of a Villain who wants to Wipe out all of humanity and have earth start over from a clean slate, because he has grown tired of watching humanity destroy their homeworld with endless war and genocide, all in the name of progress.
And he's willing to die just to succeed. As long as he wins, that's all that matters.
every time i practice guitar or any instrument, and get bored or want to give up, i always listen to something like this and immediately get hyped
I'm in love with this new Starset album 10/10
Favorite song on the album. Keep on rocking guys
This is the telekinetic song of the album and I'm here for it! (Which reminds me, I'm sadden they didn't keep the trend of a song title beginning with 'tele')
What if Tunnelvision was a sort of transition into a new trend, it’s close to “Television” and the new trend could evolve into one song on the next two albums sharing “vision” in the title. Idrk what other words have “vision” in them, but I’m sure there are some! Lol
You know it's great when you get goosebumps from every line and it's only your first time listening
Whoa, what a nice find. Great music, a new favourite to play in the shop.
Wish he screamed just a bit more but I'll freaking it take it!! Telekinetic was my fav off of Divisions (and probably my favorite song by them in general) so this puts a huge smile on my face.
The fact that a few years ago I named a species in the stories I write Devoluters makes this song fit so well with them-
I love it-
I LOVE HOW DUSTIN SCREAMING IN THE BRIDGE!!! 🔥🔥🔥 AND I LOVE THE CHORUS!!!
Best song of the album, it sure deserves an award.
Keep on rocking Starset
Wish you could see the smile on my face. Amazing!!!
Immediately when I heard this song, when they livestreamed it, this was my favourite song, mostly because of the msg.
This album blew me away, but the screams made me transcend realities.
This album is truly something else. It’s not my favourite album but it is amazing. Different but original and the lyrics to every single song on this album is utterly beautiful and poetic. Smart and clever lyrics too.
We all need to repent together. Work together. The play is corrupted and falling to it ground we are evolving rn for what. Destiny, remember that. We will arise together my brothers and sisters.
Love the screaming
Ok. Breakdown was brutal
Best bridge of the album so far imo, but I like heavy so that explains lol
Please do more screaming! I'm obsessed. ♡
The types of people of whom this song is about, will never realize it.
It doesn’t matter, because even if they knew, they would “still eat straight from the paw”😏
@@frankieg9528 nice play on words
@@frankieg9528 yess
Startset is Irreligious and Liberal
@@christiandauz3742 lol what?
My favorite band
This is it. This is my favorite song from the album! Holy crap guys! You hit us in the face so hard with this song! I can’t get enough of this song! Obsessed! (As is everyone I play it for!)
Every song of this album is like a travesy into the humanity evolution. The species, outer space/galaxy, who we are as mankind.
TFW he album is barely out and I'm already looking forward to the next one.
I can't get enough of this song omg. It's been on repeat all day
Just went to see these guys as an act yesterday and my god do these guys go hard, my entire chest was shaking at the intro then it hit and I was blown away, and when this song came on I’ve never heard it until yesterday and it was very unexpected but god was it good