Yesterday, Save Me, the latest single by Gradience feat. Cameron Humphrey from Love Is Noise was released. It is accompanied by a Chris Kreutzfeldt-produced video that grabs you around the throat with a velvet-handed glove. Brace yourself for a profound portion of courage, and a hook that will leave you amped the Hell up!
Gradience (Gavin Mistry on vocals and Jakob Harris on vocals/guitar) teaming up with Cameron Humphrey is an impactful match. This collaboration makes perfect sense, and it works beautifully on multiple levels.
This is not just because Save Me deals with painstakingly relevant feelings. Cameron Humphrey’s take on this, delivered by the sound of his distinct rabble-raising voice, emphasises the fact that, at some point, these feelings of a particular hellish place live everywhere in everyone.
But it is also clear that they are all very well-travelled in some of the same soundscapes and roam in the inspiring arenas of mutual musical heroes. I call them Brothers in noise.
On the making of the track and how this collaboration came about, Jakob Harris said, “With Save Me, we explore more of our shoegaze and melodic side of our sound. I wanted to write a song in our universe that drew inspiration from the melodic side of bands such as Title Fight, Loathe, Deftones and Love Is Noise when we wrote it – which mixed the more grunge-gazed sound into a Metal soundscape.
“I found Love Is Noise when I saw that Cameron Humphrey had done a cover with the YouTuber Nik Nocturnal. I told Andreas from CABAL that it would be great to have him on that track, and it turned out that he knew Cameron. I got in touch with him on Instagram, and, after hearing the song, immediately was on.
“We gave him an idea about the theme of the song and otherwise gave him completely free rein to write the chorus. I felt it made the most sense that he was given the opportunity to write the vocals in his own voice.
“We were stunned when we heard what he had sent. It took the song to completely new heights! It’s about losing one’s innocence, feeling hopeless, but finding the strength to reach out for help.”
The amalgamation of Gavin Mistry’s serene and unalloyed voice paired with Jakob Harris’ deep guttural screamings makes this Gradience track both hard-hitting and unequivocally honest.
To the point where I feel my nerve pathways hanging out of my back like an invisible cape of raw emotions. I was given a secret key to a tiny door into someone else’s mental habitat.
Save Me invites you into that place where despair thrives, and persuasive pain triumphs. A place so personal that it leaves me feeling like an impostor. That feeling does not linger for long. The harsh realisation of recognising those exact same mutilating feelings.
That normally goes like this: Cascades of disastrous shit hit the fan like an overwhelming landslide and slowly but steadily grabs and traps you in its unforgivingly nasty clench. Then comes the falling, crawling and sliding into a place so dark and grim that it seems like there is absolutely nowhere left to go.
Drive in, dive in, get stuck, back out or cut the cord.
At the lowest point in yourself, when you have got nothing left, what do you do? The screams never leave the tip of your lips. If you have lived a little, you will know what I mean. Hell awaits no one. Soul damaged and damned. Had you been once, you do not wish for a hasty return ticket.
Save Me is about being able to find that very last fibre left of your silky soul that grants you the strength to ask for help. Bravery in its purest form.
“The song is about being caught up in a situation you feel you’re not able to get out of,” Gavin Mistry says, “and the hopelessness you can experience by being a slave to something you hate but can’t do without. It is something we have experienced ourselves, each in our own way, but something we feel many can relate to.
Gradience and Cameron Humphrey take us to the worst place we can possibly go in order to gracefully show us the way out. Save Me manages most effortlessly to intertwine and embrace the complete darkness of relatable despair with a counterblast of victorious hope.
It transcends into something beyond powerful. An absolute game-changer.
Streamers, dreamers, creepers and nighttime screamers. This way, you are not going to lose your way. Because bravery shall prevail.
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Gradience & Cameron Humphrey Deliver A Haunting Anthem Of Despair And Triumph first appeared on
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