You Were Never Alone Explained

You Were Never Alone
Type:	studio
Artist:	Emery
Cover:	You Were Never Alone by Emery.jpg
Genre:	Post-hardcore, Christian alternative rock
Length:	41:08
Label:	BadChristian, Rude
Producer:	Matt Carter, Aaron Sprinkle
Prev Title:	We Do What We Want
Prev Year:	2011
Next Title:	Eve
Next Year:	2018

You Were Never Alone is the sixth studio album by the American rock band Emery, released on May 19, 2015. It is the first album to be released through band's own independent label BadChristian and Rude Records.

Recording, release and promotion

In March 2014, the band released a demo of two new songs.^[1]

The album was funded via IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign and was set to be released in mid-2014 but the release date was later pushed back.^[2] In addition to the album, the band was also going to release a music video, a re-recorded version of song "Anne Marie" and an acoustic EP/LP due to the achievement of the "stretch goals" during the crowdfunding project.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Starting with the March 23, 2015 episode of the Break It Down podcast with Matt Carter, Matt Carter, the host of the show and the lead guitarist of Emery, along with guest Toby Morrell, the lead singer of Emery, began a 12 episode series to premier one song from the album for each episode. Toby and Matt also discussed the process of writing and recording each of the songs on the episode on which it premiered.^{[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]}

On April 28, 2015 the band released a music video for the song "Hard Times".^[18]

An instrumental version of You Were Never Alone was released on March 20, 2020.^[19]

Track listing

All songs composed by Toby Morrell and Matt Carter

Personnel

Emery

• Toby Morrell – lead vocals, bass, screamed vocals
• Matt Carter – guitar, backing vocals
• Josh Head – keyboard, screamed vocals
• Devin Shelton – vocals
• Dave Powell – drums, percussion

Production^[20]

• Beau Burchell – mixing, mastering
• Brett Baird – engineer
• Chad Gardner – arranger
• Troy Glessner – mastering
• Andrew Nyte – arranger
• Aaron Sprinkle – additional production, engineer
• Alexander C. Sprungle – art direction, design, photography

Meaning and biblical allusions

In the first twelve episodes of Matt Carter's Break it Down Podcast, he and Toby Morrell went through each song and explained the process of creating them.^[21] Then in October 2015, Toby and Matt made another podcast further revealing that the album was a concept album where each song is a story from the Bible told in first-person.

!Song Name!Biblical Story

Rock, Pebble, Stone	The story of Jesus being baptized, going into the wilderness, and encountering the devil.
Thrash	The story of Stephen preaching his beliefs, being stoned, and then going to heaven.
Hard Times	Samson and Delilah.
The Beginning	Adam and Eve.
The Less You Say	Peter defending Jesus in the garden.
Pink Slip	Moses vs Pharaoh in Cairo
To The Deep	Noah and Abraham.
What's Stopping You	Mary and Joseph. Joseph's perspective on Mary and immaculate conception.
Go Wrong Young Man	Paul on the road to Damascus.
Taken for a Bath	King David and his affair with Bathsheba
Salvatore Wryhta	This song is about Jesus praying to the Father in the garden of Gethsemane.
Alone	Jesus alone on the cross, subjected to the wrath of God for our sins. Also the origin of the album title.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Emery. www.facebook.com.
2. Web site: Emery - You Were Never Alone. Indiegogo. March 30, 2015.
3. Web site: Emery - You Were Never Alone. Indiegogo. March 30, 2015.
4. Web site: Emery - You Were Never Alone (IndieGoGo Campaign). Sound In The Signals. May 1, 2016.
5. Web site: Emery adds Indiegogo stretch goals. RadioU. May 1, 2016.
6. Web site: Emery's "Rock, Pebble, Stone" from You Were Never Alone (S1 Ep1). Break it Down with Matt Carter. April 30, 2016.
7. Web site: Emery's "Thrash" from You Were Never Alone (S1 Ep2). Break it Down with Matt Carter. April 30, 2016.
8. Web site: Emery's "Hard Times" from You Were Never Alone (S1 Ep3). Break it Down with Matt Carter. April 30, 2016.
9. Web site: Emery's "The Beginning" from You Were Never Alone (S1 Ep4). Break it Down with Matt Carter. April 30, 2016.
10. Web site: Emery's "The Less You Say" from You Were Never Alone (S1 Ep5). Break it Down with Matt Carter. April 30, 2016.
11. Web site: "Pink Slip" from Emery's You Were Never Alone (S1 Ep6). Break it Down with Matt Carter. April 30, 2016.
12. Web site: "To the Deep" from Emery's You Were Never Alone (S1 Ep7). Break it Down with Matt Carter. April 30, 2016.
13. Web site: "Whats Stopping You Can't Stop All This" from Emery's You Were Never Alone (S1 Ep8). Break it Down with Matt Carter. April 30, 2016.
14. Web site: "Go Wrong Young Man" from Emery's You Were Never Alone (S1 Ep9). Break it Down with Matt Carter. April 30, 2016.
15. Web site: "Salvatore Wryhta" from Emery's You Were Never Alone (S1 Ep10). Break it Down with Matt Carter. April 30, 2016.
16. Web site: "Taken For a Bath" - With Beau from Saosin (Mixer) (S1 Ep11). Break it Down with Matt Carter. April 30, 2016.
17. Web site: "Alone" with Aaron Sprinkle (producer) (S1 Ep12). Break it Down with Matt Carter. April 30, 2016.
18. Web site: Emery unveil "Hard Times" music video - Alternative Press. Alternative Press. May 7, 2015.
19. https://music.apple.com/us/album/you-were-never-alone-instrumental-instrumental/1503374470 You Were Never Alone (Instrumental) [Instrumental] by Emery on Apple Music
20. Web site: You Were Never Alone - Emery - Credits. AllMusic.com. 1 May 2016.
21. Web site: Break It Down Podcast. SoundCloud. 2018-03-22.