Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
Gothenburg metalcore quartet Grayscale Season have released a video for ‘mov‘, the final single before their new album “The Weight of Things We Cannot Touch” arrives on 20th November 2026.
Watch the official video for ‘mov‘ here
Stream ‘mov‘ here
Pre-order “The Weight of Things We Cannot Touch” here
‘mov’ is the main character problem written from the inside. It is self-delusion held alongside full knowledge of the fracture running through it, and other people stop being people entirely:
“Each corpse becomes a background figure in my shining light.”
The last line gives the whole thing away: “Can you hear me? I’m falling.”
Guitarist Richard Sörensen wrote the entire instrumental at home before showing it to anyone. The song is simple on the surface with more happening underneath than on most of the album, and it has the best drumming on the record, including a blast beat that costs the song no momentum at all. Producer George Lever liked the bendy breakdown enough that it now appears twice instead of once.
Richard Sörensen comments:
“Nuances and details in the guitar playing. It’s still pretty simple but there’s more going on than in some of the other tracks. The female vocal sample at the end kinda calls back to the first track of the album, ‘Strung Up’. This time it’s in English though.”
Grayscale Season have never sounded much like their hometown. Formed in Gothenburg in 2012 and independent throughout, the four-piece pair crushing low-tuned riffs with a fragile falsetto, because that is what it sounds like when someone performs strength while falling apart underneath it. They have toured the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, and played Helltown Festival in 2024. Press comparisons have run to Loathe, Deftones, Humanity’s Last Breath and The Acacia Strain. “The Weight of Things We Cannot Touch” is their most direct record and their least resolved.
The album takes its name from a Japanese word. ‘Yarusenai’ describes the sadness or anger you feel when you know exactly what is wrong and have no way at all to fix it, and Grayscale Season have built an entire record out of that condition. Across eleven tracks the narrator sees precisely what is wrong with him and stays in the wrong room anyway, conforms anyway, says the thing too late anyway. The album keeps looking for somewhere outside itself to put the grief, first in contempt for other people and then in the ground. Neither works. Only the closing track names something reachable, and what it grieves is not the loss of that thing but the years spent looking past it.
On the sound of the record, vocalist Eddie Lejhagen comments: “I don’t think we really had a specific reference for how the album would sound. Melancholy is probably what I wanted the album to have a lot of, and I think we managed to pull that off. As for the screamed vocals, Deafheaven is probably a major inspiration – the desperation in it, but melancholic at the same time.”
“The Weight of Things We Cannot Touch” was produced by George Lever (Loathe, Sleep Token), who worked with the band remotely while they recorded everything themselves, a first for them. The album was mixed by Buster Odeholm (Humanity’s Last Breath, Bring Me The Horizon) and mastered by Seth Munson (Teddy Swims), with additional top line production and piano by Aurora Karme Nord.
Grayscale Season are:
Adam Dahlman – Bass, clean vocals
Richard Sörensen – Guitar
Eddie Lejhagen – Harsh vocals
Johan Carlbom – Drums
