SEEK MISERY: EVERYONE YOU LOVE WILL LEAVE ALBUM REVIEW
- Kirsty Shepherd
- 5 days ago
- 8 min read
South Australian Metal band Seek Misery have returned with their album 'Everyone You Love Will Leave', released in November 2025; following EPs 'Decay' (2020), 'Pain' (2022) and 'Let The Angels Take Me' (2024). If you are a fan of the Silent Hill and/or Call of Duty games you will find an extra level of connection throughout the album as "it represents my pasts darkest times, my battle with depression and how I perceived those moments, while I try and make it special and unique crossing those references to video games and how they helped me shape a better understand to what I was feeling." 'Everyone You Love Will Leave' hits the ever important factor for me within alternative music, that it does not shy away from difficult or uncomfortable subjects; instead diving head-first into them and providing and holding space for those who need to know that they are not alone while in turn channelling a healthy outlet for the emotions and feelings to be released.
"Mixed and Mastered in Italy by Simone Pietroforte at Divergent Studios (As Blood Runs Black, Signs of The Swarm & Distant), and Featuring guest vocal appearances from Dane Evans of To The Grave and Jesse Burr of Hate Complex, the record drags
it’s listeners through a cathartic storm of punishing breakdowns, dissonant riffs, and visceral vocals, and pays homage to the iconic Myspace Deathcore sound of
the early to mid-2000s, while forging a modern identity of its own." "Overall the album EVERYONE YOU LOVE WILL LEAVE is just dark and bleak. Dug up emotions and feelings of my past, moulded together into these 10 songs. These are my reminders of how unforgiving life can be, how it can beat you down, but its also hope from those ruins there is a chance of REBIRTH to turn those emotions and that life around."
The Album begins with the crushingly heavy and dynamic sounds of 'In My Relentless Dreams'. With the minute and twenty-two second intro setting the tone for what you are in for when listening to this album, you are met with warning sirens, wailing, eerie metallic sounds and buzzing flies, hinting at horror gaming inspiration. "My Restless Dreams, This is my Misery! What the fuck! Misery!"
Through the mist I hear my own cries of pain, Torturing me, Reminding me of all the weight, Bringing me down, It’s all my guilt and shame, Of the man I desperately avoided to be. 'Flesh and Rust' transported me back to early Suicide Silence (specifically Smoke) and Whitechapel which definitely lived up to the Myspace Deathcore descriptor. Having been on
the ground for that period of time of Metal history it gave me way too much joy to see these kinds of musical tones return. Crushingly heavy, oppressive and domineering are the three phrases that came to mind when listening to this track. You will feel like the walls are pressing in on you and isolated away from support. As these walls decay to flesh and rust, Twisted and contorted, Past Memories fade to dust, I watched my loved ones turn their back to me, Leaving me alone in this distorted dream, This is my LOSS, This is my REBIRTH.
Cursed to remember, Every wasted word, Tears that was shed, And all lies that you said, Left with sleepless nights, The blood still seeps, Onto these sheets, From these open wounds, I’ll never forgive any of my failures!I’m left to suffer, bleed and break!'Scars Bare Your Name' honestly had me stank-facing from the very first second. This song is the epitome of modern Australian heavy music. Drums so speedy it takes your brain a few seconds to catch up, chunky and unrelenting guitars all paired with vocals you will have to listen to a few times to realise everything you just heard. One last kiss, Poison seeps, Between your lips, Scars still bare your name, Every single word, A waste. The combination of Ryan's and Dane's vocals tickled my brain in the most pleasing way; they are filthy, well matched and dynamic. Two extremely vocally talented people in one song was definitely a delight to the ears. Check, Check! TTFG! Sydney City all the way to the fucking Murder Capital Baby!
All bark and no bite, You talk a lot of shit, When you’re out of site, Twisting and spitting lies, You can’t keep it straight, I’m living inside your head, Hate that I’m killing it, Hoping I would fall, Keep pointing it out, All your flaws. I couldn't tell you exactly what it was about 'Inside Your Head', but I had an overwhelming feeling of queasiness and tightness in my
shoulders while listening to this one. Maybe it was the looming feeling that the music invokes, like someone is standing over you, pointing out your flaws and how worthless your opinion and presence is. It made me uncomfortable but in all the correct ways that a song like this should. If you have someone live rent free in your head it will have side effects. You can’t keep it straight, I’m inside your head, Talk your shit boy, Why you so obsessed? You can’t keep it straight, I’m inside your head, Talk your shit boy, I'm inside your head, Now its on sight Mother fucker!
An endless cycle of grief, They will leave, Pain that’s always there, A hollow ache I can not bare, Everyone you love, Will fucking leave you,
Everyone you love, Will die right in front of you. The title track 'Everyone You Love Will Leave' definitely feels like that song that a band writes to get the pit into an absolute ruckus at a show. It hits HARD with a tremendous crushing breakdown, intense energy from the off and enough chaotic energy to keep a circle pit going for the three minute length. E.Y.L.W.L has a beautiful flow to the energy, ebbing and flowing in a way that, even though the track remains heavy throughout the entire length, it doesn't stay stagnant in one style, but shifting between many. I was particularly blown away by the band's use of filling and holding silence. Thinking of all of this lost time, I try to hide the pain, I pull myself outta this shit, I will never be the same, I try to get a fucking grip, Before my mind slips, And I’m trapped in this endless fucking pit, (Before my mind slips) (Pull myself out of this) Everyone you love dies! Everyone you love Leaves!
I know I am a highly emotional person, who connects to music on an extreme level, but when 'You know you might die too' started I was hit with an overwhelming sense of sadness, to the point of unexplainable tears in my eyes. While the minute long interlude only says "You know you might die too", "That's fine, no one will cry at my grave anyway"
while a musical score plays, from the second the track started it hit and stayed so heavy in my chest. I was transported back to all of those moments in my own life when I personally felt like my time was coming to its end, and that it wouldn't matter to anyone if I was gone. For a one minute piece of music, it is a masterpiece of simplicity which had a long lasting and highly intensive effect on me.
Content warning: This track references self harm and suicidal ideations. A void where shadows creep, The dark whispers, and I cannot sleep. My body, The cage, Trapped in the ruins of my own mistakes. I was built to break, (As metal pierces through my skin) Bleed out every part of me, and see whats inside of me, Scratching at these walls until my nails rip, A hollowed soul, in a prison that is my own. 'To Vomit A God' threw me right back to Myspace again, hitting all those points you want from that era of foundational Deathcore. With casual death metal style lyrics, such as, 'In cryptic marks, I etch my hate, A testament to a fractured fate' you know you are in for a hectic time. This track feels like a downward spiral into madness and self loathing that leads into pleading for desired circumstances, while being cut open and laid bare. To vomit a god, See whats left inside, Bleed me fucking dry, And let me fucking die, I want to die, See whats left inside, To vomit a god, I’m reborn from my decaying remains.
What’s it like, To have a face, That changes every fucking day! I’m standing, Right here, Why don’t, You come and get it, Motherfucker!
'Ground War' features Jesse of Hate Complex, and immediately hits you with the gamer vibes of Call of Duty with someone talking over a static filled radio about moving into a civilian filled over. "Take Cover" and warning sirens pull you more heavily into the gamer atmosphere as the song progresses, coming to its finish as you are told to "Get your arse out of there". Just a coward of a man, Desperate to validate himself, Uncontrolled violence, It makes me sick. The track in general feels like a call out to two-faced, selfish and cowardice people who use their authority to abuse and intimidate those weaker than them. To scare the ones he’s meant to love (Coward) To scare the ones he’s meant to love (Coward).
Its chemical chaos, Inside my head, Ripping and tearing, At the thoughts I have left, Distorting, twisting, Bending and bleeding, Tearing apart, Tearing apart from the inside. I can't properly put my finger on it as to why, but 'Distorting, Twisting, Bending and Bleeding' feels like it sits outside of the realm of the rest of the album possibly like it is breaking the fourth wall and more directly targeted at the listener; or potentially more openly self reflective than the other tracks as if the exhaustion has taken oven and the band rots in the energy of just being done. Individually as a song it is great but it did pull me out of the listening experience a bit. Exhausted from a world that, Takes everything from me, Beaten and broken, As it takes everything from me, As it takes, Everything, From Me, As I slowly decay, stuck in my old ways, Distorting, twisting, Bending and bleeding.
Where do I begin, A life that doesn’t give, It only takes, I barely survive, Day by day, As I close my eyes, (What do i see?) What do i see? Endless suffering. 'All Of My Suffering' can only be described as cinematic and dimensional. The flow of the song reads like a novel, moving through the chapters like a ripple, building larger as the antagonist (in this case, in the form of who you believed you would be as a person, but aren't) comes into the view. Musically the song moves like waves, places of rest and peace hanging in the air before the wave crashes down in full chaos.
Suffering, Could you watch me die? Suffering, Rid me from this fucking earth, I will never be, the man I dreamt of being, As every part of me, Searches for meaning, All the fucking years I lost, The sleepless nights,
The blood I've drawn, All of my suffering. Not living up to your own expectations, in my personal opinion, is far harder than disappointing someone else's, and this song perfectly shows that. Finally begging to be set free from the torment. As I take my last breath, My body lays cold, Set me free, Rid me from this earth, Fuck you
For Fans Of: Emmure, Knocked Loose, The Acacia Strain, Whitechapel and Alpha Wolf
My Favourite Song: All Of My Suffering
9.5/10
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