I interpreted one line different but it's hard to tell which one is correct. Cold soaked as I'm standin' in rain to Cold soaked as I stand in the rain and you got an extra o in "lose" at 2:40

@@Kobob_KC yeah that is hard to hear.. i even pulled the vocal track out of the tune and it didn't help much .. it's just too quick and in the mix

If you wanna hear something cool look at the song falling towards the sky from Red vs Blue and then listen to this song again..it really makes you think about some stuff lol

I'm pretty sure its endless stream due to all the water symbolism in this song because you know the flow of water and time and all that but I really love the implications of an endless scream. Never ending torment, terror, that feeling as you heart drops just forever. Its terrifying

Or every RWBY character summarized

@@Aurasoul. or any viewer who's caught up

I think that "rasp" you speak of might be her father Jeff backing her up.

@@anonymousgamer5771 that sounds nothing like jeff though

You love it? She is not lying. This is a true story. It makes you happy? You love it? The appropriate response is anger kid. Anger and hostility.

@@soulmechanics7946 Eh?

@@anonymousgamer5771 This music is a call to action. Hear the lyrics. Pay attention. Fight back.

Honestly, I'm not too surprised she's learned fry tones. But they sound super cool with her voice, and I'm not surprised if she's gonna use it in the original music she's doing now.

Wish the season was actually good though :(

@@theScarletFame Good thing it is then?

@@sassui90 nah 8 was genuinely crappy. More plot holes, character shifts, character ruining moments, asspulls, and timeline issues then any other season, probably due to a rushed timeframe but still.

@@NekoinaBox2000 Not really, i mean you can list issues you think it has but without examples it doesn't means much. 8 is far from it.

lmao saaamme

Everyone after V8

I was also thinking that this could be of the Silver Eyed Warriors as a whole. "Better cover up your eyes my friend the sky is falling." Salem was going after them and I'm sure plenty started hiding their heritage as their people were killed and/or experimented on. Their lives have been ruined forevermore and that's why I think it played perfectly during the hound chase as the prelude to the truth of what was hidden within.

@@zealousElement I think the rap is mostly Jaune's perspective on trying to move past Pyrrha's death, despite what people have said it arguably being Oscar's perspective. Given how a vast majority of it is about trying to move past the casket of a dead loved one, the video screen with Pyrrha's video to him, and given what he does at the end of the volume, it's sort of brought into retrospect.

"Better cover up your eyes, my friend" He's warning Ruby.

a bit late to the party , but i do agree "a curse that's never-ending" "no sudden death" "trapped in slow decay" he would probably want do be dead but the grimm using him would need him alive so he wouldn't let him die

also "let my demons live on trough my legacy"... i dont think this one needs explaining

No I think you might be right

As cat in 9 "who thought the set up of Atlas over Mantle was a good idea?" Rhetorical question it was a very bad idea. More accurate The Titans who controlled the world lost to the Olympians who took over as Titans had Greek style immortality the best kind there is no way to overcome it those with always returning to life no matter what you do to them or how powerful the being doing it. Some were imprisoned in Tartarus others like Atlas condemned to various tasks.

You say that but I remember hearing about it getting rollback recently

We didn't see them die so they're probably in the desert

Imo this is the first truly good soundtrack since vol 6 and the fact that Casey and the team still made this sound as good as it does after everything they went through is really cool.

@@LightSpeed-el9tx To each their own I guess. I like Friend and Awake but other than that I feel like the songs are just kinda meh. I think Jeff is overusing the same formula for his songs too frequently which is perhaps the issue for me.

In this song in particular the rap in the middle just ruins it for me. Love most of the song just lose it at the rap. The soundtrack is still good it's just got a couple rough spots in it.

@@silvereyes242 I should interject and say that Awake isn't a RWBY song; its a song by Ok Goodbye which is Casey's own band. Her Dad brought her band's song Awake to the RWBY soundtrack to help prop her band up. Its why Awake is both so musically and tonally different from RWBY music in general.

I've been feeling that, too, and felt like I was going crazy. Mostly because in the show the songs for volume 8 sounded really cool and I was quite excited for them, checking almost weekly for news. Now that they're here? I've scarcely listened to them at all as much as I did with volume 7's soundtrack. I'm no musician so I can't place my finger on why, and I'm probably not qualified to do so even if I could, but it FEELS like bits of the music in the episodes got mashed together with an entirely different direction in actual soundtrack production that created a kind of amalgamation song? I dunno, I'm just rambling now but it's nice to see that I'm not completely crazy when it comes to the feeling that something is off. Edit: just to stress I'm not complaining about the way the soundtracks are made, the singers, or anything personal like that. I'm not out here to attack Jeff, Casey, Lamar Hall, or their team. I'm just stating what I (someone with no experience) think might have happened. Plus disclaimer, I'm aware music is subjective and some people really liked this volume's soundtrack. I'm just saying this because it seems like a lot of us met this wall and I was wondering why.

what

So, after listening to this a lot, I think it's just because it's not what we're used to since it wasn't like that in the show and also it's just a weird transition. Like, musically, you don't see a transition like that very often. I personally love it but it took a bit to get used to.

It's a very quick change in both tempo and time signature (unless i'm mistaken, it's going from common time to cut time, among a few other small changes). Given the context of the song, I think it's 110% intended.

Holy fuck, same!?!?! wtf

Always has been.

No,the song just adds more flavor to the volume

@@Kingreseyt The soundtrack makes the volume to suck a little less TBH.

I mean, opinions aren't facts (especially since the show's success and popularity speaks itself) but everyone's entitled to them. The song is absolutely banger tho, that's a fact.

@@theycallmebad Success and popularity built off of the earlier better volumes. Most people would agree the story direction has had a major downturn post-Fall of Beacon.

@@mauriceisaac3646 I can agree, I’m still invested mainly because I love the characters so much and because of the music but yeah the story direction has definitely gotten pretty mediocre, I wouldn’t say bad but it’s not as good as it used to be.

@@mauriceisaac3646 "Most" people, no not really. If anything past the earlier "better" volumes was as bad as you want them to be, the show would've been cancelled you know. If "most people" actually hated it, it would've been evident to the point that the show wouldn't go on. Clearly not what's happening. Just because you don't like it doesn't it's bad writing. We don't live in a world where just because you say it's bad, then that opinion becomes fact. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that's the truth. And no, I'm not saying RWBY is flawless, but ignoring the success and popularity by majority of people across the world, and say it's only because it's riding on the success on earlier volumes is honestly laughable. Like I said, the show is still beloved by millions of people around the world so the success and popularity is not something you can pretend does not exist. You don't have to like it and you're entitled to your opinion, but the whole "nah, I say it sucks and that's the general consensus" when clearly that's not the case since there's so much support and love for it, otherwise the show wouldn't be continued. It's been years and 5 volumes since the "better" volumes. Clearly people enjoyed them. Volume 5 was probably the weakest of them though and could've been done better, I'll give you that. Honestly, I will never understand why people go out of their way to hatewatch (or otherwise) stuff or feel the need to just bash it because hating it is their whole personality. You could've just said you liked this track and leave it at that, but nope; gotta bash the show for no reason. Sorry for the rant. I feel that we're not gonna change each other's mind about this, but I guess I needed to say my piece and leave it at that. I'll do me, you'll do you. Apologies for taking up your time by having you read this. Have a good one!

@@theycallmebad It being bad writing isn't dependent on my opinion, but based on legitimate writing flaws (plot holes/contrivances, iffy story direction, questionable character usage) that have been pointed out by fellow viewers (I recommend analyses from TheJudgemental Critter and Twiins iink about the past few volumes). It's okay to enjoy something you know is flawed. You shouldn't have to turn a blind eye to them, just be humble enough to acknowledge them. Maybe they don't bother you as much as it does others, which is okay, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Something that continues to be successful isn't always indicative of the current quality of the show itself, but just from how profitable their brand continues to be. That's why popular shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, Teen Titans Go, and Spongebob continue to be on, despite their subjective quality now. I'm free to express my distaste towards the show as I see fit, especially when emphasizing that the music is one of the few redeeming factors the show still has. You could've just accepted my take and moved on, but you chose to start an argument over it because I dared to say something negative. It works both ways.

I would personally disagree, I thought the rap interlude was a great way to divert to the darker themes while still retaining the tone